Sheer Force [Isikiro]

After San had left to go deal with Tzekel-Kan, Lau and Chui sat atop of the mountain that overlooked Makapu Village. Lau continued to complain how boring it was just watching Makapu being wrecked by the Spirits and Chui continued to complain about Lau's complaining. Due to this and because of how far they were from the village, the two did not see Isikiro as she approached the town.

The Dark Spirits did notice her presence however. Consumed by the evil that tainted them, the Dark Spirits charged Isikiro without a second though and the intention to tear her to shreds.

The Dark Spirits were frenzied and had no sense of intelligence. Nothing more than vicious beasts, they continued to charge Isikiro no matter how many rocks she launched at them. The only Spirits that stopped charging her were the ones that were incapacitated or killed. The Dark Spirits only rose in numbers as more began to join the fight and soon, they began to become an almost endless that continued to close in on Isikiro.

In the meantime, Lau watched up on the mountain as this mysterious Earth Bender was taking on all of the Spirits alone. Chui had left to go deal with another problem, so that meant nothing was stopping Lau from going down and getting involved in fights with the Earth Kingdom army. Lau had decided that if the mysterious Earth Bender showed some skill, then she would personally go down and deal with them. After all, Lau was itching for a fight.

When Lau saw from high up on the mountain the mysterious Earth Bender was using Lava she was overjoyed. This was too much of a tease for her to not fight this Earth Bender. Lau was going to finally fight something since the attack on Makapu began. Using a mixture of Earth Bending and Lava Bending, Lau created a large landslide that began to roll down the mountain. She rode down the on a Earth Platform and as she went down with the landslide, she began super heating much of the rocks in the earthen avalanche, turning much of it to lava. The lava landslide was heading for Isikiro with a very amount of destruction and force, tearing through whatever spirits and buildings stood in Lau's way.

When Lau realized she was fighting Isikiro, the same person she fought back during the Invasion of the Fire Nation, she was overjoyed.
"I truly feel sorry for you," Lau laughed as she called out to Isikiro, "You were lucky I had to leave early last time we fought and you got to live a bit longer. It seems luck has abandoned you on this day and you've once again encountered me. I'm afraid this as long as you'll get to live!"

Lau manipulated continued to manipulate the lava even after the downhill rolling stopped. She created a large wave to give her landslide attack more height and power. She directed its full strength at Isikiro with every intention in burying the Ex-Miner.

"Confidence isn't bad, but I hope that isn't all you brought with you, Isikiro, because it'll take more than that to defeat me. Let me tell you something back, just for you, I'll increase the Lava Bender population to 21. How you ask? Me," Lau laughed, "and you in 20 different pieces!"

Lau didn't actually carry around a weapon as she was too confident in her own abilities. As a result, extremely close range combat was definatly one of her weaknesses.

Much to her distaste, Lau would have to put some distance between the two. She didn't like doing so, it almost felt like retreating. She only got more pissed.

"You're being a real pain, you know that?" She called out Isikiro.

Bringing both of her hands in motions around her, Lau rose the earthen platform she was standing on with lava that was rising. Soon, the lava directly under her began to spin and continue to rise, continuesly raising Lau Earthen Platform up into the air. The lava turned into a vortex, spinning rapidly spraying small bits of lava in all directions. Once Lau reached a height of 50 feet, the lava vortex stopped rising (Though it did continue spinning).

Knowing this probably wouldn't be enough to stop Isikiro, Lau dislodged 6 soft ball sized rocks from her Earthen Platform and super heated them into 6 molten balls, ready to use them as projectiles or some kind of shield if need be.

[OOC: Lets see how destructive we can get this fight to be, lol]

Not too bad Lau thought to herself as Isikiro cooled and hardened the Lava Vortex. Hardening Lava moving at such a speed took a decent amount of skill.

Suddenly, Lau felt as if her platform began sinking. From what she gathered, it seemed Isikiro only hardened the outside, leaving the interior as liquid. Lau knew this was no good and had to abandon it. Fighting to save would take more effort then it was worth.

Leaving the platform, Lau stood on the solid edge of the Lava Vortex which was now hardened. Lau punched out a thin Surfboard sized platform out of the side of the hardened vortex and jumped on it and began to slide down the side of the cooled vortex. She had to put some more distance between her and Isikiro.

Lau still had the three small Lava Balls with her and upon seeing Isikiro off in the distance, she launched three of them in the ex-miners direction.

As intense as the battle was before, things were suddenly kicked up a knotched and things became even more fast paced. 'Lava Surfing'. The idea amused Lau. It was hardly as fun as it sounded. Sliding down Lava rock at extreme speeds down to lava witch surrounded her from all sides. Falling off of the board would mean falling falling into the sharp lava rock and being torn to shreds. On top of that, there were lava and rock projectiles being fired at her.

Lau was controlling her decent down the slope using Earth Bending but continued to go fast enough to where Isikiro would probably have difficulties catching up. The intense screeching of rock grinding against rock from Lau's board against the surface of the slope was deafening and kicked up many small shards of Lava rock. Lau had to steeply veer left in order to avoid Isikiro's incoming projectiles.

Lau created walls behind her as she continued sliding down. The walls would become both a shield for herself against incoming projectiles and obstacles that Isikiro would need to avoid or overcome somehow or else she would crash into the sharp rocks.

Being in air was usually only either a good thing, or a bad thing. Sure, being up in the sky left you open, much room to move around with and dodge, but it also came with a downfall. Being up in the air, you have no cover. Not to mention that unless you can fly, your maneuverability would be crap.

Isikiro was coming down on Lau, sending a shower of Lava her way, but at the same time, the ex-miner was up in the air. Lau first created a small handle on the right side of the deck of her board with Earth Bending. Crouching down and grabbing the handle with her right hand, Lau then began to heavily lean left. The handle she created would keep her from falling off.

Due to the shifting of the weight, Lau's board would begin to veer left. Lau knew it wasn't enough however and used lavabending to direct herself to left. This caused Lau's board to cut sharply left. She wasn't over though, and she kept going left until it came to the point where was creating a circle. Her speed was enough to carry her a bit up the slope she had just come from to behind Isikiro. All of this happened intstantly before Isikiro would hit the ground.

As Lau came up behind Isikrio, she shot up a shower of Lava towards Isikiro.

Upon seeing the massive boulder coming in her direction, Lau used the Lava below her to further propel herself. Her goal was to quickly pass under the giant rock and out of its area of damage.

Lau was soon skidding along across the surface of the lava atop her board and everything to her side was a blur. She had make quick small movements left and right in order to avoid obstacles that lay in front of her. Lau watched as the boulder passed directly over her head.

Lau was going to fast to turn around and see the boulders impact, but she heard it. There was a loud boom and the boulder sent a large wave in all direction and splashed lava in a circle around it. Lau further sped herself, going at a dangerously fast speed now, in order to avoid the shower of Lava and the Lava tidal wave.

Lau was going too fast to attack Isikiro at the moment, but she was quickly putting distance between the two and leaving the area of the boulders impact.