Orbus

Orbus is a firebending master, inheriting the qualities of a phoenix in his arsenal of power, and one of the Three Blades, who serve Fire Lord Arkan directly. Able to enter a partial and full-fledged phoenix form, using an ability called transformation, Orbus is the only currently known firebender to possess the potential to enter this form, and one of few who can at all enter another state.

## History

### War of Expansion (582 AG)

Some time during Orbus' service as a General of the Fire Nation, the Foggy Swamp Tribe began its attempt to expand further into Earth Kingdom lands. An army was sent under Chief Hoinker and General Kisang, who led the force only to encounter a garrison of allied Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom troops, beneath the command of Marshal Soren and General Orbus. Orbus, despite being unable to gather aerial or vehicular support, believed that the small invasion force could be easily put out by the might of their combined forces. An exchange of fire began on the order of Orbus, and the two sides traded damage.

On Orbus' side of the field, large tree golems flanked the army, seeming impervious to all fire attacks which pelted them, including an attempt to burn one down with flames by Orbus himself, who was forced to enter his partial phoenix form in order to destroy one. The General tore into it and engulfed it in an inferno, completely finishing it off. Hoinker had begun to brawl with Soren in a battle which caused the whole area to rumble. Just as Orbus was done obliterating another golem and readying to aid Soren, preparing to devastate the other golems with one final move, General Kisang intervened, kicking Orbus straight into the ground.

At around this time, more Tribe men emerged from the artificially formed forest located at the entrance of the valley which the entire army had seemingly come from before the battle. This revealed that the small amount of troops had been an illusion all along; In reality, there were many more to bolster the assault. The Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation began rapidly losing troops due to the sheer numbers of the Foggy Swamp Tribe, with their enemies now having well over twice their original count of men. With Orbus and Soren busy with Kisang and Hoinker (respectively), the defenses began to falter.

Kisang began by clashing with Orbus, whose phoenix flames had grown in intensity, allowing him to overpower Kisang. Orbus pierced the Tribe General with his talons, engulfing the wound in flames using his wings after digging into his flesh. Huge vines sprang forth from the water and grabbed the unsuspecting Orbus, whose flames were doused and partly nullified due to the vines being coated in water, pulling the Fire General into the river behind him.

With Kisang beginning a meditation, presumably to finish Orbus with a final move, the phoenix General surfaced from the depths of the river, and unleashed a fiery blast that absolutely devastated Kisang's body, burning it severely. With the capacity to finish the battle, Orbus tore through Kisang like a spear, transforming into his full phoenix form in order to pierce him and crush his body with pure heat and speed, only leaving an arm and a leg.

Meanwhile, the combat between Soren and Hoinker was coming to a close. Soren had fired a devastating crystal beam, viciously wounding Hoinker, who was preparing to use his signature move, Emerging Forest. However, just in time to put an end to the catastrophe, Orbus arrived, drop-kicking Hoinker into the ground from above.

Acting quickly, Hoinker shot a constant haze of poisonous gas from his mouth all around him, a special poison that caused the two commanders to become dazed and lose control of themselves. Hoinker then sprouted a massive tree that towered over the battlefield, wrapping around both Soren and Orbus with its vines. Soren easily escaped its hold using sharp crystal daggers to cut himself free, but Orbus was fading out and appearing to be done for.

Suddenly, Orbus hears a voice inside of him, telling him to continue, as he sees a bright flame. Orbus snapped out of his near-unconsciousness and achieved Will, skin turning scarlet as he burned away the vines holding him with ease.

Both Soren and Orbus attacked Hoinker with a spear of crystal and an aerial tackle, causing Hoinker to fall to the ground, defeated, as Orbus exited his phoenix state. Hoinker, before succumbing to unconsciousness, asked a simple "Why...". With the loss of morale, the Tribe's remaining army was easily defeated. Orbus and Soren later became best friends after the battle.

Eventually, when all of the armies had gone, Hoinker's tree shrunk, transferring its absorbed energy into its master, who rose and went back to being the Foggy Swamp Tribe's Chief once more.

#### Aftermath

Following the conclusion of the short-lived War of Expansion, Orbus befriended Soren and became best comrades. The two went on to save each others' lives countless times. It is unknown what happened later to tear a rift in this.

### Arrest of Sedarias (584 AG)

One year before the Reformed Black Wings revealed themselves to the world, Orbus was part of the group of, at the time, the greatest three commanders of the Fire Nation, who accompanied the Fire Lord (Oberyn) and his brother (Arkan) to apprehend Sedarias, a criminal who had been guilty of several accounts of murder as well as illegal experimentation on women and children, particularly experiments on the human body.

When the group of five demanded that Sedarias tell them the location of the kidnapped women and children from a recent series of disappearances, Sedarias refused. When they persisted, Sedarias revealed a bag, with mutilated limbs of innocents inside. Disgusted, the group announced that they were placing Sedarias under arrest.

Sedarias resisted, and instead continued making snarky comments about Saint Serena, until Arkan directed several fireballs at him, which were redirected. Rywell, Orbus, and Serena all combined their attacks and slammed Sedarias into a mountain. The criminal was swathed in black and red flames, swinging his sword and injuring all five of them simultaneously.

Sedarias endured one more significant hit, being a devastating beam of holy light from Saint Serena, before being tethered by a cage made from flames conjured by the other four, with the fire wrapping around him as Saint Serena added light and lightning to the cage. Oberyn took out an orb specifically designed for either dangerous situations or the dangerous criminal himself, and absorbed Sedarias into it, turning his entire body into energy. The orb was placed in a high security prison, one of the best in the Fire Nation.

### Unnamed War (586 AG)

Not much has been confirmed about this war, but it is known that a Fire Nation army, led by Saint Serena and Orbus, aided an allied Earth Kingdom army beneath Kane, the Chief of the Earth Kingdom military against a Water Dominion force led by Prince Aurelius, and an Air Nation army headed by Marshal Fujin. Fujin was accompanied by Jianke, a mercenary, assassin, and swordsman working for the Air Elder.

Orbus was known to have aided General Arghast, whom was also present and commanding the Fire Nation, in his duel with Jianke, leaping into the fray before having his breath suddenly taken from him. Not expecting this, Orbus wheezed and fell over onto his back, catching some more air for his lungs.

### Riverlands Rebellion (592 AG)

The first time Orbus was involved in the Riverlands Rebellion, triggered by Arkan's murder of the Water Dominion royals, was when, as one of the Three Blades, Orbus followed Saint Serena (Another of the Blades, and in a relationship with Orbus) to an island in the southern Fire Nation, where the three remaining Union Council representatives (Thunder, Earth, and Water) awaited them. Saint Serena quickly disposed of all three using her elemental powers, and Orbus, disapproving of her extreme methods, reprimanded her for showing off and getting carried away.

#### Battle of Ba Sing Se

Soon following these events, Saint Serena was put in command of the army which was to assault the Earth Kingdom capital of Ba Sing Se, though the Blade fell asleep for a significant duration of the battle, which carried on into the night. Orbus, worrying for Saint Serena (They had been expecting Ba Sing Se's fall within a single day), made his way to the battle, and aided her in fighting the remaining commanders. He used a swirling blast of fire to incapacitate the Union Hold General present at the city.

In the time after the failed siege of Crystal Abyss, Arkan ordered Orbus to start preparations on a defense force for both Carcosa and Ba Sing Se, to protect them from the allies regaining them.

Orbus was briefly seen in a coffee shop with Saint Serena, on a date with her as they drank and laughed to their hearts' content.

#### Keahilani's Campaign

Near the end of the campaign in the northern Si Wong island led by Lava Warlord Keahilani, Orbus made his way to the other two Blades, whom were engaging the Warlord at the time, with mere seconds to spare in order to save them from a lava attack generated by the simultaneous eruption of eight volcanoes, the blasts directed toward the two. Orbus, however, flew in the way, taking all of the hits and healing his body using his phoenix powers. He escaped with the two for an emergency meeting in Heliseum, immediately after performing Wrath of the Three Blades along with his two counterparts. He flew with them back to the Fire Nation capital, where Arkan was waiting for them.

Arkan, though seemingly irked that the three had taken such a long time, ordered all of the Blades to go and destroy Union Hold due to its status as the world's Headquarters, as a message of their power.

#### Destruction of Union Hold

Though Orbus did not participate in the large scale destruction of the world's capital, likely due to his powers being tailored for matches, he was present for the devastation primarily caused by Rywell and Saint Serena. When Saint Serena prepared to annihilate the castle, Orbus told Rywell to stand back, as the elemental Blade turned into her dragon form and fully wiped out the structure with a single beam of power, infused with every element. Saint Serena, losing her ability to bend for the time being and reverting back into her human form, traveled with Orbus and Rywell back to Heliseum.

#### Failure in the Thunder Empire

As two of the three Blades, Orbus and Saint Serena were put in charge of the Thunder Empire invasion army a week and a half after the White Lotus' humiliating failure at the city of Haishan. Bringing along tanks, infantry, and even wheeled, metallic laser cannons invented by the Fire Nation for the war, the Rebels closed in on Stormfall (the capital of the Thunder Empire). General Hisao of the Air Nation was also present, in command of the Air Nation troops.

Orbus immediately ordered a barrage from the heat cannons on the city from afar, the destructive laser beams tearing through the Thunder Empire ranks and setting fire to Stormfall. Soon after, with Serena busied with a young Imperial General who later turned out to be the brother of Shira Ishi, Orbus commanded another rain of fire from the cannons, causing even more destruction.

Many of the defending and offending troops had begun to engage in a fierce melee duel, as Orbus relayed his plan to Hisao; The three commanders were to get close enough to the city where they could fire one massive combination attack to completely ravage it and finish off their defenses quickly and easily, afterward taking the city for their own.

The Second Blade started toward the leading commander of the Imperials, Marshal Ryu, because of his immensely destructive lightbending power, which had already allowed him to fry three of the heat cannons with ease, but he was interrupted by another ongoing fight, with Saint Serena against General Hairaki Ishi. Seeing Saint Serena being attacked and harmed, Orbus dove down to kick the young Ishi into a wall of rock.

Between the chaos of the heat cannons (Which had dialed up to a higher power) firing at Emperor Saiko and the General, and Saint Serena grappling General Hairaki with water from the river behind him, attempting to pull him in and drown him, Orbus prepared to fight Emperor Saiko. Finally, Serena solidified the water into cold ice, shattering it and turning Hairaki into hundreds of shards floating in the river.

Instantly after Hairaki Ishi's death, Marshal Shira Ishi descended onto the battlefield, appearing sane and calm after being seemingly reformed. However, spotting his dead brother's ice shards in the river triggered an emotional, angered response inside of him, knowing Saint Serena to be the cause of his death. In response, he created a colossal barrage of white lightning which completely and utterly obliterated a huge section of the Fire Nation's attacking army as well as some unfortunate Imperials. Orbus, unprepared for impact, was launched across the battlefield by Shira Ishi, who grabbed him by the head and punched him at astounding velocity, imbued with lightning.

Orbus was once again hit, a second time, by Shira, who punched the Blade in the gut and caused him to cough up blood. Two spears of metal impaled Shira, sent by Serena, who aided Orbus and protected him.

Shira kicked and threw around Serena multiple times, before sending several lightning bolts at her, which she redirected. Orbus urged them and their men to retreat as Saint Serena restrained Shira using the power of storms, fire, and air, while Orbus transformed into a phoenix and carried Saint Serena away. The berserk Imperial commander tried to teleport to them until Serena created three massive chains (of an unknown element) to tether him to the ground, sapping away his teleporting powers.

Now angered beyond comprehension, Shira entered his godlike state as energy began to course through his form, teleporting behind the two retreating Blades and unleashing a barrage of punches and kicks to Saint Serena, who combated him in melee. Orbus, however, was unwilling to prolong their defeat and instead released a blast of phoenix flames, accelerated by an explosion of light and fire made by Saint Serena. The Second Blade leaped in front of Shira's next attack, a bombardment of white lightning, healing the damage with his powers, and again attempted an escape with Serena.

After yet another attack from Serena, this time a barrage of hundreds of lasers imbued with every element, Shira Ishi appeared in front of Serena and attempted to grab her neck. Saint Serena transformed her body's state into magma, the sizzling hot fluid burning Shira's hands. Turning to her normal form while Shira was hurt, even causing him to scream in pain, Serena encased herself and Orbus in spheres of air, allowing them to safely retreat with a portion of their soldiers from the battle.

Orbus and Serena contacted Hisao over the radio and yelled for him to leave as well. Hisao diverted from his battle with Marshal Ryu in order to retreat along with the entirety of his and the Fire Nation's forces.

#### Release of Sedarias

Orbus and Saint Serena returned home with their demolished army. Arkan reacted negatively to this, releasing steam from his body and nearly entering his Overheat mode before stopping himself and calming down significantly, due to the fact that the two did not fail because of stupidity, but rather circumstances beyond their control. Arkan called Rywell into the palace and went with all Three Blades, speaking of releasing "him".

All of the three commanders present, particularly Serena and Rywell, rejected the idea, but were silenced by the Fire Lord, who believed that their defeats as the Fire Nation's three greatest commanders led to this happening. Marching through a ten-layered gate inside a prison, deep underground, the four made their way down to a chamber, a cell, where a single orb lay on the floor. Arkan picked up the orb and released the energy within, which formed into a human.

The human, named Sedarias, asked why Arkan had freed him, to which Arkan responded "war". Sedarias tested his sword against the titanium wall, which cracked open instantly from a single strike.

#### Unnamed Battle

Orbus arrived in the midst of a battle between an ensnared Earth Kingdom - Lava Realm army commanded by Warlord Keahilani, Hirro, and General Yatzen, and the pursuing Fire Nation - Sun Realm army, with Sedarias, Saint Serena, and Mikhail at the head of it. Accompanied by Rywell, he was sent to assist his fellow blades in dealing with the already rampant Lava Warlord. The four of them commenced with a relentless bombardment of Keahilani, and after evading a searing eruption of magma from Keahilani, entered a formation, allowing them to form a massive, glowing orange barrier of light around the Warlord, successfully trapping him and preventing escape. Warlord Keahilani, however, destroyed the 'cage' with a massive tower of lava, freeing him from the grasp of the Four Blades and causing hot, molten liquid to rain over the battlefield.

The terrain around them permanently altered into a volcanic, desolate wasteland after the show of Keahilani's true power, the Blades fended off against him, with Orbus attacking in conjunction with the others, utilizing a blast of bright flame to subdue the Warlord, but to no avail. He then proceeded to enter his True Pheonix Form - a state which turned Orbus' flames blue and gold, and enhanced his power greatly. Despite not having mastered this mode, Orbus, using his Will along with it, went toe-to-toe with Keahilani, holding him off for long enough to allow Rywell and Serena to impact him with a devastating combination of an atomic energy blast and a five element bombardment.

#### Unnamed Battle

On the outskirts of Mirkella - vs Avatar and Beric

#### Battle of the New World

With the weeks of preparation beforehand, Orbus and the other commanders of every Rebel nation set out to assault the New World, making passage through a strait. They found the strait blocked off by a huge strip of earth and two small islands, all housing hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers waiting for the advancing Rebels. Soon, combat ensued, and Orbus, along with the other Three Blades, engaged in a heated duel with Valyrius.

Rywell and Saint Serena went on the main offensive, creating explosions and elemental chaos until Valyrius transported himself using storm clouds and lightning behind Orbus, slamming into his back and causing significant damage, which Orbus was able to heal with ease using his regenerative flames.

#### Battle of Heliseum

Not much is known, except that at this battle, Orbus was finally killed by Shira Ishi.

## Trivia

* Orbus is the only one of the Three Blades to have Will.
* Orbus was born in Brimstone Castle.