Authoress Note(s): I really, really, need to learn to finish things before starting new projects...that aside. I'm kind of surprise there isn't a fic for Yakone, I mean sure he's a horrible person/father but those people create great ideas! Such as this one.
Because I don't know his age, I'm just gonna guess he might be a few years older than Aang. Maybe around, 45 or damn there 50 at the time of the trail. He looked that old...anyway. I've never get the chance to do something like this and I wanna try. So don't be so harsh. I think it's obvious where I'm getting my inspiration from. Enjoy, and R&R please and thank you.
Ps. I know we don't have enough information, but is it safe to assume he was leader of the Red Monsoon? ._.;
Disclaimer: I don't not own anything from the Legend of Korra. At all, nor do I make any money from this, no matter how much I wish I could.
Republic City, a city that's meant for the unity of benders and non-benders alike. Bullshit. All of it. This city, this, suppose city of peace, nothing more than an opportunity. An opportunity that's waiting to be in the hands of someone powerful and worthy enough to claim it.
Beaten. Bloodied. Bruised. Another fine work, another lessoned learned. He cracked his knuckles a few times brass rings around each finger. He hated to do the dirty work, always messed up his clothes. He took a few steps around the man tied up to the hook. Well not so much as tied to the hook, rather more as the damn thing stuck in his shoulder like the useless piece of meat he is, no different from the rest of the dead animals in this place. Not to kill him, no, that would be useless and a waste. They were in a meat freezer, owned by some local man who let the members have their 'conversations' here. It was cold that so the firebender couldn't breathe or bend his element. Yet if they wanted to, they could.
This was another time; the leader had done work with the Agni Kai members. It went swell the first time; they lowered the numbers of the damned earth benders gang. The leader proposes some more work with them. To kick out the Triple Threat gang, what a joke they were. And
"I'm not gon' ask you again," he spoke with a calm tone.
He spat out blood, "I-I...don't kno'. I-" he was punched in the side.
The mid-thirties year old man, stood face to face with the firebender, "I do business with your kind and this is what I get in return? This is the respect I get?" He punched the man again. "You know, I have a very high tolerance for most things. But you fuck with my business, my work, and I ain't backing down."
The plan was to shut the Triple Threat, outta business, but it was a set up. The Agni Kai jumped and killed a few of his men. They were trying to gain control of this dump of a city. However, this native water bender wasn't going to sit down and let it happen. No. He waterbent the ice around his fists. Then punched the firebender again, they manage to catch this one trying to get away. What a puss. He grabbed the fire bender's face, "I know, that you know, that your boss had this set up from the start, I just want to have a little talk with him. That's all. So, where is he?"
Blood frozen to the man's bare skin, oh yes, they removed his clothing. Dangling there in nothing but the suit, he was born in. His wrists bound together. Repeatedly he struck the man with water bending. Either whipping him with water or freezing a part of his body to the point, he receives frostbite. He screamed every time. "Alright, alright!" He finally yelled, there were tears in his eyes- his bruised blacken eyes. "He-he's at tha warehouse, in tha one near the docks, waiting for more members to come from tha Fire Nation, to go after you." He spilled, "please...please spare me."
He smacked the man's face, "that wasn't so hard now, was it?" Wiping his hands off with water bending, he signals his men to release the firebender. They did and cut him free. He fixed his collar and shirt before throwing on that jacket that had the Water Tribe color. They walked outside into the night air, pass midnight he suspected, his men dragging the fire bender on the ground. They threw him his torn clothes. "Now get the hell outta my sight before I decide not to be generous." Taunting him.
As he gather his clothes he stumbled off with what strength he had, in minutes he was gone. The boss order his men to send a message out to get to the docks before the snitch did and to give the Agni Kai boss a message, one that should teach 'im a lesson in double crossing the boss of the Red Monsoon. He and his right hand men headed to a closed restaurant, Kuang's Cuisine. It was he and a few others, his advisor, second in command, lieutenant, a foot soldier, and an associate he paid to give him information on rival triads. Explaining to his men the problem and how to resolve it. That any Agni Kai member was to be taken care of and not to step foot on Red Monsoon territory. When he dismissed them all, he had the one associate stay.
He seemed nervous.
"Can you please explain to me, what I pay you for?" He asked, nicely.
"T-to spy on the other triads?" He answered very uneasy.
Nodding to his answer, he stood up and looked out the restaurant window. "I'm glad you know your job, though I'm confused, why is it that fifteen of my men died. I pay you to get my information so things like this don't happen. So, tell me when-"
"I didn't know!" He interrupted, "I had left after they were talkin'... I guess they weren't finish..." after he finished his last word, his heart sank. He wanted to hide underneath his chair.
Ice blue eyes gazed over at him, "was I finish?" The associate shook his head, "did it look like I was finish? Did I even direct you to speak?" He slammed his hands on the checkered tablecloth. "I'm starting to think, I don't need you around anymore. You don't do your job and you think that piss ass of an excuse is gon'a get you off the hook?" He still kept his demeanor cool and collected.
"I promise, I won't slip up again, Yakone, I didn't mean any disrespect. Honest."
Standing straight up, he adjusted the sleeves on his jacket, "there's a funny thing about second chances," he paused and started to walk towards the exit. The man sigh a breath of relief, "I don't give 'em." In seconds Yakone bloodbent the man enough to kill him. He opened the door and was met by two of his men, who were about to report in. Yakone told them to dispose of the body. With no questions or hesitation, they did as their boss commanded.
When I was a boy, I watched as my parents lived in poverty. Struggling to make ends meet. The moment I learned I could bloodbend, was the moment I wasn't going to live the sad life my family did. I was going to gain power, respect, and wealth. I was going to earn it all. I knew I achieve it all when...Yakone gazed up at the night sky-a moonless night sky- he gave a crooked smile. Soon Republic City will be mine and there's nothing no one can do about it, not even the Avatar.
The time morning rose filled the radios and eventually the papers filled with news about the body count. This was big news, as fast as they could report it on the radios; they were already printing them on the newspaper. Police suspect the triads doing, finding bodies of both water and fire benders. While the questioned the gangs and neighborhoods no one was talking. The Chief, Toph Bei Fong, could sense they were lying but were also scared. And while she wanted to knock some sense into these people, that wasn't the right thing to do.
The police had been out all morning, by now it was in the late afternoon. She walked pass Kuang's and spotted Yakone. She stormed in, without her backup. "I know you're behind this, Yakone!"
He glanced up from his afternoon meal and paper, "I don't know what you mean." He spoke coolly, so much it gave Toph a sickening look on her face.
She couldn't read his body with her ability and it pissed her off. "I know it was you! And believe me, the moment we connect you to these crimes-"
Yakone gave a chuckle, "The longer you talk to me, the longer the criminals are getting away." He teased and went back to eating. He watched her leave and gives an officer a small talk before walking away. He chuckled this wasn't the first time that he was accused. A few weeks ago, the police waltz in here about a blood bath of those earth-bending triads. He was arrested though never charged; they could not place him at the scene of the crime. They couldn't even place him within inches of the crime scene. No matter how much evidence there was, nothing psychically tied him there. Yakone picked up the paper and instructed the radio be change to a more upbeat music. A delightful little jazzy-sounding music came with horns, drums, and light male singing. Yakone nodded to the music as he continued to read about the deaths of the Agni Kai, then he cheerfully ate a small mouth full of a sweet pastry as he came across a small mention of a body brutally beaten and the limbs twisted in an inhuman way. "Turn it up, I like this part."