Anger and Chaos {Discord}

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The long halls seemed surprisingly empty as Zuko strolled down in search of his room, the number of which was written in a crumpled piece of paper that he carelessly tossed over his shoulder. Dorm number one; it wasn’t hard to remember.

He muttered under his breath as he adjusted the travel bag that was on his shoulders. It was lightened from several days’ worth of scarce provisions. In fact, the only weight to it seemed to be his Dual Dao swords strapped on to the back of it. He probably should be thankful that the suits hadn’t confiscated them from him, but right now he was just frustrated at being placed in a strange environment and having somehow lost his ability to firebend. What was going on here?! He had never lost his firebending before! In fact, he hadn’t even known that that was possible. Was this entire town cursed, or was it just some trick played on him by those strange men dressed in black? He would get to the bottom of this eventually. The banished prince hadn’t come all this way just to get his firbending ability stolen from him!

The boy halted at the door marked with the number one. So, this is what they assigned him. It had better be worth it for all the trouble he had already gone through. Zuko fished the key out of his bag and unlocked the door. It swung open with a slow creaking sound at first, but then he kicked it the rest of the way open and caused it to slam unnecessarily hard against the wall. Well, when you couldn’t firebend to express your anger or punch someone, slamming things just seemed like the next best option.

[Darwin Daugherty]

Darwin walked up to the first dorm room, which wasn't all that far from the front entrance he came in from. I mean it was the first Dorm. Numbers, at least right now, were pretty much as Twilight liked them; In order. How droll. As he spotted where he was to sleep and reside until he could wreck havoc on the world at whole, he saw somebody slamming the door open. Walking up with his own bag, he quietly walked in behind the kid. His light body and dragon like agility took advantage of any openings to slip in past him and make it seem like he was there first. Moving into a chair in the corner, He sat back. "Howdy partner. Pretty nice door throwing arm you have there."

As he stood up he took a look around the room with a casual glance. Bunkbeds, two dressers, two desk, a couch, television, kitchen, and refrigerator. The curtains were pretty much bland. Oh he is definitly going have to redecorate.

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In Zuko’s inward ranting, he hadn’t even heard anyone behind him. He did however, notice when someone was slipping past him, because it was kind of difficult not to notice them trying to go through the same small doorframe. “Wha-?” He rose up his fists as if he were about to start swinging at what appeared to be an unusually tall person, but the boy was too quick, and before Zuko could even react, he had already taken a seat in the room in front of him. “Who are you?! This is supposed to be my room!” Zuko demanded as he shifted into an even fighting stance; knees bent and his fists raised in front of him with one pulled back and the other pointing at the boy threateningly. The black clothed men hadn’t mentioned that anyone else would be sitting in his room. Was this yet another trap? Whatever it was, he wasn’t in the mood for dealing with another stranger.

“I’m warning you; I am a skilled firebender, and unless you want to be roasted alive then you should leave my sight immediately!” Zuko commanded with a narrowed glare. He doubted that the stranger knew that his firebending ability was taken, and he wasn’t going to let him know either way. Besides, he may not be able to fire bend, but he was still skilled in martial arts and of sword wielding. That should be more than enough to get one stranger out of the way.

[Darwin Daugherty]

As Zuko stood there flabbergasted and looking like he had just let the Avatar slip through his grasp again, Darwin took a sheet of paper from his bag and started to fold it up into an airplane. It took him a while and just managed to finish it when the kid said Firebender. He just leaned back in the chair and propped himself on one arm while the other aimed the plane. "A Firebender? You don't say, I prefer bending straws myself." At that moment he let the paper float across the room towards Zuko's head. It wasn't fast so anyone could catch it. The paper was the housing assignment form listing the two as dormmates.

Darwin gave him a little time to read it, toss it, or what ever, before standing up and giving an exaggerated bow. "Greetings, My name is Darwin Ivor Sawyer Carlton Oliver Reginald Daugherty. I am the Avatar of Disharmony. We will have such wonderful fun together. I just hope you don't snore. I need my five to six hours of beauty sleep a night."

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“Bending straws?” Zuko raised an eyebrow on his scowled expression, though not breaking his stance until the paper plane sailed its way over to his head. He lashed out a hand and clenched the piece of paper into a crinkling ball before tossing it back toward the other boy, not even bothering to read it. He thought that this boy might be trying to fool him, and catch him off guard with his antics. His amber eyes were guarded as he tried to read his expression and somehow put together what the trick was. Surely there had to be one!

He looked a little thrown off by the bow though. It was clearly overdone, but he didn’t think a enemy would even waste his time showing respect to a prince, whether sarcastic or not. “That… is the worst name I have ever heard. Surely you don’t think I actually believe you? If you’re going to make up a name, you should try something shorter and less strange,” Zuko remarked. At this point he was sort of losing his motivation to attack the boy- not because he didn’t want to, but because it seemed like too easy of a match. How much satisfaction would he have in beating an already senseless person… senseless?

“An Avatar? Now I know you’ve lost your mind.” Zuko sighed in exasperation and placed a hand to his forehead before continuing, “There is only one Avatar, and I already know who he is, and he certainly doesn’t look like you. He is a young bald monk with an arrow on his head, and… Disharmony isn’t even an element!” What was WRONG with people in this town? First he had a purple haired girl who had no idea who an Avatar was or what elements were, and now he had a boy who thought he was the Avatar of an element that didn’t exist. The waters of this town must be infected with some sickness that he had not yet heard of. He made a mental note to steer away from it for a while.
“What do you mean, snore… you don’t think you’re staying here, do you?! You’re crazy if you think I’m going to let you live here with me! Now, get out and go live with the other crazy people in this town! I’m sure they’d love to welcome their ‘Avatar’ into their homes!” The dark-haired boy shouted and moved beside him to attempt to push the other boy roughly out the front door.

[Darwin Daugherty]

Darwin frowned a little as his playful way of giving Zuko the housing assignment letter was tossed aside like a ball of garbage. Then came the arrow through the heart when he said that his name was stupid. Well not those exact words but an arrow sting no matter what the head is made of. The word Avatar seemed to spark a greater reaction in the kid. Then came the monolouging. Was this kid a villian or something? Then he was coming closer and to his side. Darwin just stretched an arm out to intercept the foot shorter kid with hi longer arm and lean against him, theoretically holding him in place.

"You seem like a smart kid so lets go about this in...order. Bleh what a disgusting word. Can't stand it what so ever. If you think my name is strange and made up, you are right. Take a moment to think about my name, then take just the first letter of each part and put it together. That is my real name. Second, it appears we are not from the same world. I mean you don't look like you were once a pony, buffalo, cow, dog, dragon, or griffon. Monkfish maybe. You do have that permanent frown on your face. An avatar is a being that embodies a higher concept. As such I have the title Avatar of Disharmony because I am the embodiment of Disharmony. Finally of course I think I'm staying here. Read the paper, it's a housing assignment from Tenebrae."

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Zuko narrowed his eyes as he contemplated the lengthy name. “Discord? Why would your name be a riddle? What is this- some kind of joke? Is it a trick of some sort? Are you a spy?” He eyed him suspiciously, clearly not understanding his odd ways. The people who used fake names were always the ones with something to hide. He should know… given that he had used quite a few of them lately.

“Well, I’m not from the Earth Kingdom if that is what you’re asking.” Zuko replied, though that should’ve been obvious from his threat of firebending. “An no… I was not any of those creatures… I’m just a firebender.” He wondered what in the world the boy meant by that. Did he believe in reincarnation of creatures or something? Zuko didn’t think he would ever understand some of the strange villagers’ ways and beliefs in other kingdoms. Aside from that, he had never heard of any of the ones Discord had listed either.

“The Avatar of Disharmony? You mean… like a shadow version of the Avatar of Elements? An opposite, and one of darkness?” He placed a hand through his shaggy brown hair as he tried to figure out what in the world he meant by that. There had been no legends to his knowledge of such a thing existing. He was about to just dismiss the boy as being crazy, refusing to believe that the power was even a slight possibility. False claims and stories would just get in the way of his quest.
“You are definitely not! I don’t care what the paper says!” As if to illustrate this point, he picked it back up and tore it in half before tossing it back at him a second time.

[Darwin Daugherty]

Darwin just grinned and leaned against the door frame. The boy definitely seemed to have issues. Issues he could exploit oh so brilliantly. "You know what, you are right. I mean what was I thinking. I mean someone like you could not possibly want help getting their powers back from someone like me. I mean I'm just a dragon horse spirit in a human body after all."

Cleaning his nails on his shirt he let that tidbit sink in before he continued his assault. "You've been here, what a day? They will probably have you go to school like me. But I tell you this. I may not be from your world, but we do have something in common. We are both in a chaotic state, mentally that is. I know chaos, I lived in chaos, it molded me, it made me who I am today. You seem to have control over your environment at all times. Of course it would frighten you to have someone as a roommate you never met before."

As he walked up to Zuko, he just stood there, a grin on his face as he towered over him. "However I think one thing that separates the two of us is I've looked into a mirror." He then motioned to a mirror on the wall. He would just wait until he could see who he was before he would start mind bending again.

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Zuko’s scowl turned to that of a look of surprise, and he raised an eyebrow before glaring in suspicion at the other boy. “How did you know that my bending wasn’t working? Wait- were you responsible for this?! Because if you are, you’re dead!” He kicked a nearby trash bin as if to prove his point, before raising his stance to face the boy again. Of course, that hadn’t worked the first few times due to the boy’s unfortunate taller size, but Zuko was determined not to let him humiliate him. He would probably spend all day lashing out at him if he had to, even if he got nowhere in the process.

Still, it didn’t change the fact that Zuko DID need help getting his bending back, and he would do anything to be able to firebend again. Regardless of whether or not Discord had anything to do with it’s disappearance, if he knew how to get it back then Zuko needed that information. Just the idea of it angered him, as he was someone who hated needing anyone for anything and was much more content doing things his own way. “You say you know how to get it back, but why should I believe you do? Why should I believe that you are the reverse Avatar, a spirit trapped in human form, and that of a dragon horse? I haven’t seen many spirits, but most are able to at least prove that they are what they seem, through some sort of ability,” The boy crossed his arms as if waiting for the evidence to be thrown in front of him. He didn’t fully believe the boy, as his tale was a bit odd and none of it seemed to make any sense at all.

“I am not frightened of you!” Zuko objected in growing and immense irritation. “You just think you are so powerful, don’t you? You are hardly scarier than a Turtle Duck! I have fought soldiers who would last longer in a fight that you would,” He gestured to the boy’s appearance. He didn’t seem very trained for battle to what Zuko could see. His last comment made him clench his fists and growl. He was very close to just forcing the boy to leave himself, if the boy didn’t decide to leave in the next few seconds on his own.

[Darwin Daugherty]

Darwin just walked twoards the door and stopped as Zuko went through his questions, threats, and accusations. He just folded his hands behind his back and stayed right in the threshhold. "And what sign should I give you? We are but words transcribed through measured strokes of the fingers. Gathered together to form thoughts on a community page that paints a vivid image it the reader's mind. What sign could I give you? What does fire want from Chaos? What does one prisoner want from another prisoner stuck in the same cell? Should I spout information from the nether realm, information I could not possibly know. Shall I instruct the lovely lady writing what you do to just beleive me and not make me think this hard? Should I ask for direct assistance of Fate to solve this? There are many things I could do, but I won't because all that would be cheating."

After turning around he walked back to his bag and pulled out a water balloon handing it to Zuko. The small piece of rubber was bright red. A very mundane item. "What I shall do to show you a sign is show you the first stage of gaining our powers back. Please, go fill that up with some water and join me at the window." regardless of if he did as asked or not, Darwin would make his way to the large window they shared and looked towards the street. First dorm meant ground level, and at the corner. This was an ideal spot for harassment. There were even other students coming in from classes.

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Zuko merely stared at the boy as he rambled on in a strain of riddles, his face contorting from frustration to that of slight confusion. Nothing this boy said was making any sense to him, and Zuko was never one for listening to riddles. No, he much rather preferred being told the answer straight up right then and there, to save himself some time. A lady writing what he did?! Now, that was just completely ridiculous. Only he controlled what he did, no one else! And even if it were true (which is definitely wasn’t), then he would have to have a discussion with her on why he didn’t have his throne back yet. “Well, do something, I haven’t got all day!” He muttered in reply and sighed in exasperation. The sooner the boy could prove that he wasn’t a spirit world being who was also an Avatar, the sooner Zuko could kick him out and return to his hunt of the real Avatar undisturbed.

Zuko held the red balloon in his hand with surprise. What WAS this thing? He had never seen anything like it before. “Fine,” Zuko said, and made his way towards their sink. It took a little while for him to fill it up completely, but soon the red balloon had grown rather large and weighted with the amount of water filled inside of it. As he carried it over he held the mouth of it with one hand to prevent it from spilling, and held up the heavy bottom with the other. “There, now what?” He paused by the window and looked out. It didn’t seem very interesting; ground level and hardly any view, except of other civilians and a paved street. Ugh, how he hated this place.

[Darwin Daugherty]

Darwin took the end of the balloon and tied it off so the liquid contents were securely held by the thin rubber lining. Once he let it go he just pointed out the window with his thumb, giving Zuko a clear sight. Outside were a couple kissing under a tree, a cat chasing butterflies, the grounds keeper pushing a lawmower with his cap on backwards and headphones blarring music in his ears. A muscle bound guy chatting up a few others about how sweet his car was with the hood open and engine going. A group of three girls returning from class with overloaded backbacks. Two boys playing frisbee. And a couple men in suits walking away from the doors of the dormatory buuilding.

"Next you shall see the first stage of regaining your abilities. Becoming a mind for your element. You can toss it at anyone you see out there. You can toss it when ever you want. However, only one of those targets will bring on a chaotic sceane when hit with that water balloon. The Groundskeeper. Please, feel free to smack him in the face." This should give him a sign that he was at least on the stage that he was going to teach Zuko on. Bringing chaos by guiding someone else's hand. Literally.

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Become a mind of your element? What did that mean? Well- whatever, he didn't really have time for pondering that one. Zuko scanned the lawn as he looked at one target to the next. They were all very tempting; especially the suited men whom he was convinced had ambushed him and brought him here. He didn’t really know what throwing this thing at any of them would do, other than irritate and anger them, but as usual he didn’t mind taking that risk. Of course he would aim at the groundskeeper, if only to see if this other boy had any proof that he was some spiritual reincarnation of chaos. Even if he wasn’t, if he knew anything about getting firebending back, Zuko demanded to know that as well. He would just have to see whether or not “Discord” was to be trusted, or considered a fraud and a spy.

He narrowed his eyes at the oblivious groundskeeper as he took aim and raised his arm back, before quickly shifting forward and flinging it as hard as he could in an arc out the window. It was lucky that Zuko was heavily trained in martial and combat, as it nonetheless improved his aim. The balloon soared in the air before smacking right into the man’s face and instantly bursting into a heavy onslaught of water.

[Darwin Daugherty]

As the baloon smacked the groundskeeper in the face, it caused him to fall back some, bringing the lawmower up on the back wheels. With the engine going, the cat, ran right next to it and got the sock of his life when the engine noticably increased in sound. With terror in his heart, the cat ran down the sidewalk and right between the legs of the girls, knocking one of them into the men in suits causing all five of them to fall on the ground. The muscle bound guy on the street started laughing at the sceane and bumped his hip against the hood's support rod, causing it to fall with a loud shut. This sudden sound caused on of the girl around him to fall backwards over the curb and land on her rear. One of the boys who was running to catch the frisbee tripped over the now stopped lawnmower and missed said flying disc, allowing it to smack into the back of the head of the girl making out with her boyfriend, which caused him to hit his head on the back of the tree.

Darwin just applauded as the chaos ran it's course, as short as it was. "Congratualtions. You managed to strike them all with a single orb of hydtartion. Are you sure you don't bend water?"

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Zuko had watched intently as the balloon had made its course, but what had followed after it had smacked into the groundskeeper’s face was more than he had expected. First the machine he had been on started running wild, which wasn’t as surprising, but then out of nowhere he just barely saw the streak of fur and suddenly everything was breaking loose. Suits and girls fell, people fumbled and shouted, and just about everyone in the vicinity seemed to be affected by some sort of invisible explosion of force, one by one. At least, that was what it appeared to be to Zuko, who couldn’t see all the parts in motion and only saw all of chaos erupting in one moment. And all of this was caused by throwing something small at that one man? He blinked and watched in surprise, almost unable to believe how much was happening in such a large range. It just never seemed to end.

“No, of course not,” Zuko replied as he still faced the window. But, since he wasn’t a water bender, and all of that chaos continuously erupting below seemed impossible, that could only mean that what the boy said had been true; he did have the powers of chaos. Chaosbending? Was that the right term for using it…? Whatever it was, it seemed pretty powerful, and unheard of before in his world. “So, it seems you really do have the power of chaos, or know about it. But- how does that get me my firebending back?” He eyed the other boy skeptically, though not nearly as disbelieving as he had before, no after seeing a small amount of the power of 'Chaosbending' in action. If that had all happened with just a small object, how much damage could be done with something bigger, or in a different setting?