CHAPTER 2
It was cold. Neither of the girls knew much about what had happened or where they were after the ambush, but they knew it was cold, and dark. There was no point for Toph or Katara to try escaping as they were bound by chains. Nothing seemed to exist near them save emptiness. No light penetrated this encapsulated cell. One of the girls woke up. Toph was exhausted from many days without nourishment, and she felt a grinding hunger in her belly. It felt like sometime in the late-morning, but she wasn't sure. Toph remembered waking up usually around this time of day and it felt natural. She looked around, as if it was possible to see. The floor seemed to be made of metal.
Smart way to limit my earthbending…Thought Toph. Turning to her side she ran her hand along the ground, hoping to "see" anything, or anybody, nearby. Her fingertips brushed across a lock of familiar brown hair. Toph's spirit rose as she crawled to the hair's source. Her chained ankles rattled noisily on the floor. Toph hoped no-one would hear, but the heavy links made noise that went far out into the metal void they were imprisoned in.
"Katara…please wake up…I'm scared…" Toph called out with fear on her voice. With a groan, katara groggily raised her head up. In the darkness, all she could she was the barely-there outline of Toph's face.
"Toph…are you okay? Where are we?" Katara's head hurt and her vision was blurry.
I think we're in a cave or something. I can't tell. Please tell me where we are!" Toph was noticeably stirred from the current state of events. Katara didn't know what to say, but wanted to comfort her blind, earthbending comradess.
"Don't panic. I'm sure Aang will save us. I bet he is on his way right now!" Said Katara with artificial cheerfulness.
'You really think so?" Toph truly believed it. This made Katara feel somewhat like she lied to Toph, but perhaps it was true. Aang was experienced with life in the wilderness and was a good scout. It would not be hard for him to follow the tracks of the fire nation troops who seized his friends. Katara urged herself to believe this as it provided her peace of mind. It had, for her and her friends' sakes, better be true.
"Aang, where are you?" Katara said aloud, hoping he would suddenly appear and free them. Instead, a voice from the hall answered almost as if waiting to respond.
"Nowhere to be found." A recognizable voice said followed by a sinister chuckling. Both girls looked in the direction of the voice. Katara's eyes had adjusted a degree to the darkness, and thus saw a figure appear at the gate of their cell. The figure moved an arm to whatever it was holding and summoned a sphere of fire inside a lamp.
Katara gulped as she looked at the now illuminated person in red, robed armor.
Azula, Princess of the Fire Nation, mastermind of the Earth Kingdom's capture, hunter of the Avatar, had been gracious enough to visit her captives in a dark, lowly cell. She strode up to face Toph and Katara. Her appearance made the water bender shy back.
"Well well well! It looks like you've caught quite a pair of vagrants!" Said Azula to the fire-nation guard standing beside her. "These two will prove useful, possibly offering us some unexpected benefits."
"What're you talking about, Princess?" Inquired the guard.
"Their loved ones will come looking for them, no doubt." She said with an undertone of sinister glee. "It's likely that the Avatar himself will be on the search. These two will lead him right into our clutches." Azula chuckled to herself evilly.
"where's Sokka?" Demanded Katara. Azula smiled.
"He's in another part of the prison. In the male quarters, to be exact. My goons are probably "working" on him right now!" Katara became angry.
"You won't get your way. Aang will save us before anything happens, so give up already!" Toph spoke in an effort to heckle her oppressive warden.
"Ooohhh! Looks like we've got a feisty one on our hands! A feisty one that needs to learn her place that is. I can tell from your green garb that you're an earth bender. You've probably had a run-in or two with the Dai Li since you are from Ba Sing Sei. Needless to say, they're secretly under my command. They should have kept you in line, but apparently you are still a rebellious little twerp. They will suffer dearly for their failure to do their jobs. You, on the other hand…" Azula paused in the middle of her speaking and handing the lamp to the guard. She opened the cell-door and walked in. Toph, furious at the taunting, lunged at her in anger. Azula planted her metal boot on Toph's face and kicked her back, breaking Toph's nose. Katara could only watch as her hope for escape or freedom plummeted.
"You will suffer worse than any of them, especially after what you just did. Guard! Rape her." Commanded Princess Azula emotionlessly. Toph's eyes widened in terror when she heard this word. She knew what it meant, and it terrified her to the core. Toph whipped her head towards the sound of Azula's voice and began to shout through her gag. The blood from her ruined nose splattered about the room as she shook her head in denial. The guard standing next to Azula was also shocked. He had been a fire nation guard for mere days when, by chance, he was randomly selected to be one of Azula's closest guards. Despite his duties to her, Azula barely trusted the man. She was extremely paranoid when people were near, especially those whose duties it was to be around her constantly. Ironically, without these people Azula felt like any run-of-the-mill hoodlum could assault her. Azula felt like this new body-guard could turn at any moment. She often feared that he was not true to the fire nation cause. To test his resolve, she would have him commit a good old-fashioned war crime to see if he truly was loyal to his homeland.
"W…well….I'm…a virgin….." Said the guard sheepishly while entering the cell. Azula pushed him in, nearly making him fall.
"Well, then this will be a special moment for you! You become a real man today, and with such a fine specimen to break in to boot!" Azula looked deviously at Toph's vagina and licked her lips. She wanted a piece of it too. Perhaps later.
"But…I don't want to hurt her; perhaps if I ask polite-" Azula interrupted him. She was seriously beginning to question his dedication to the imperial cause. She exploded in a rage.
"DO AS I SAY YOU COWARDLY BASTARD, OR I WILL HAVE YOU FED TO HOG-MONKEYS FOR BETRYAL OF THE FIRE NATION!" The infuriated Azula brought the back of her hand across the guards face, making him whine like a little bitch.
"Ow! Okay Azula…I'll do it…just don't hurt me again please!"
"You're already on super-thin ice! Do as I say and punish this traitor to the Fire nation! I might feel generous enough after getting off to spare your pointless life!" Being bossy like this turned Azula on quite a bit. She was often like this to those around her, but in this situation of torture and interrogation, it made her moisten slightly like the sadistic fiend she was. The guard stood above Toph's squirming body, her heart-beat became hard and rapid underneath her small chest as she contemplated what was about to happen. Katara felt helpless as she was forced to witness her friend of only 12 years get defiled.
"Toph, listen to me. I can't help you. There's nothing either of us can do to escape or bend. Please, let him do it. If you resist, they will only torture us further. Do not forget that I had you first; not this man. His advances are full of hate and anger, not love and kindness like mine were. I'm sorry Toph…I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. Please try to be Strong…."
Katara tried to give Toph some words of inspiration but the despair on them made them seem token and meaningless. The guard was looking forward to doing it with the sexy little Earth Bender, even if the circumstances were far from romantic. After removing his and her pants and lowering himself down, he inserted his penis into Toph's defenseless hole. Her labial lips gave way as she winced in anticipation when he went further in. Toph screamed for help, but the rag in her mouth turned it into a low droning noise. Even though her virginal hymen had been breached already, her vagina was not yet accustomed to such a large member.
"Ah wow…oh man! that's…really good! Azula, I can't believe I've been missing this! She's so warm and tight! Toph felt her vagina being stretched and moaned in pain. She tried to shout for help, but with no avail. It was impossible for her words to travel out of her gag, let alone outside the thick metal walls of the isolated, underground dungeon.
"STOP IT! YOU'RE HURTING HER! OH TOPH, NO! MY LOVE! STOP IT! PLEASE!" Katara's pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears. Toph too cried out with all her might for the assault to stop. The guard continued to violate Toph and pound her nubile pussy. Azula, rubbing herself through silk panties to the sight of the brutal rape, took this moment to torment Katara further. She dragged the water bender over to Toph's writhing frame and put a foot on Katara's head, forcing it against Toph's belly. It shook with each thrust from the guard, whom moaned more often, signaling he was nearing climax.
"Do you know why the Fire Nation attacked your pathetic little tribe in the first place?" Azula said to the sobbing girl. Katara did not answer. The Fire Princess raised her voice over the sound of Toph's howling. "When we learned that you were that last of a certain breed of Water benders, we just had to capture you. The fact that you are suffering within our grasp will send a message to all nations of the Earth: Those who disobey the Fire Nation…will die..entire cultures and races...will die…the lasts of rare tribes…will die…to make room for the strong, superior nation… OF FIRE!."
Azula's little monologue of genocide and mass murder got her stirred up so that when she ended it she made sure to shout the word "fire" into Katara's shamed face to give her a clue about the world to come: a world of fire. Katara was more concerned about Toph's circumstances and how to relieve her anguish. She looked into Toph's face, which was streaked with blood from her shattered nose. There was also a visible sheen of sweat forming on her forehead. That was it! She would bend any available sweat as water and attack the guard! There was no other choice; Katara had to be quick though, or her plans would be foiled. With as swift a movement possible, she whipped her arm, summoned the sweat up, and shot a needle of hardened sweat-drops into the face of Toph's assailant.
His face was pierced similarly to being poked with needles. This caused him to scream and flail back. Thankfully, this got him out of Toph moments before he ejaculated. He grunted in both pleasure and pain. Katara hoped with all her heart that Toph would not conceive any sperm she may have been tainted with. In the same motion as the first waterbend, Katara swept her arm across and hit Azula's ankle, knocking her to the floor. Katara nabbed the key hanging from Azula's belt before shambling up to her feet and making for the door. The key-ring was chained to Azula's belt. Conveniently, the chain was just long enough to get to the door, but even if she got it open, she still had to unbind her foot from the chain. Katara's heart raced as she fumbled with the lock and key in her shaky fingers. Behind her, Azula cursed and damned Katara, saying she will kill her. Katara didn't doubt it.
Hurrying faster than ever, she turned the key in the lock. She shoved the door open. Now to undo her chains! Only moments until Azula regains her standing! She was already shambling toward Katara, flailing her arms in a mad flurry. Katara now dropped down to open the lock on her ankle-bind. She was so excited that it was hard to insert the key. Katara shook and rattled it fruitlessly in an attempt to escape. It fell open! Katara tried to bolt out of the cell, and would come back for Toph soon once she got some water to bend, but this was not the case. As soon as Katara lunged forward to escape, she felt Azula tug her hair. The pain ran through her head, causing her to cry out, as Azula threw Katara back into the cell and made her tumble and roll on the metal floor. So close to freedom, to safety, only to be pulled back in deeper. Now, she was almost certainly doomed.
Katara glanced up just in time to see Azula's gauntlet-clad fist connect with her face. A white flash of pain overtook her vision. The Fire Nation Princess sat on top of her. Azula grabbed Katara's hair and repeatedly slammed her head into the metal floor, eventually knocking her unconscious. Azula screamed savagely all the while, thrashing her head about in pure, blinding, consuming rage, causing her hair to fall in wild strings on her furious face. Toph lost all hope as the only person in the world who could help passed out under Azula's fists. It felt as if the whole Fire Nation had come down on her.