Another Dead Hero- What's up ya'll, ADh is here to give you all another ass kicking chapter of my fanfic. Might be a quicky update, but it's something at least. Last chapter had the Ty-Zula lemon which i promised and delviered. Now we're at the part of the "Ember Island Players" episode were the Gaang is gonna see the play, guess Reaper will have to tag along, why? Don't know, will think along the way. Also Azula and Ty-Lee are finding out more on Reaper and his kills, ain't this fun. Enjoy and R&R people!
Predator/ATLA: Shattering The Skys Above
Chapter 7: Drag The Waters
After getting Sokka back up and going 2 hours after him seeing Reaper's face, the group had to get into their Fire Nation....Except Zuko who was already in them. They got their tickets and got in their seats waiting for the play to begin. Aang tried to sit next to Katara, but Zuko took his seat (Denied! Ha- ADH)While in their box, Toph noticed something. "Hey, wait a sec-" She looked over to the right of their box to sense Reaper's cloaked form there. "What are you doing here? Never thought you would be a play guy." Everyone else looked to see his form there.
"I-I'm only here cause' i wanted to know some more about these play's you human's....Enjoy." Reaper's electronic voice said. Then he shurugged a bit. "P-P-Plus i didn't feel like going on the hunt tonight anyway. Nothing good to hunt."
"Okay...."Aang said little weirded out that the deadily Predator who took out a guy they thought they defeated 2 times would be watching a play.
"Shut up, it's starting." Sokka whispered to the two as the lights dimmered.
The curtains opened up to show a small set made to look like the South Pole and there was two actors in a canoe that looked like Sokka and Katara. Both brother and sister looked at the stage waiting for their actors to start. "Oh i hope the world can be saved from the evil clutches of the Fire Nation! I hope, i hope, i hope!" The actress playing Katara said in a long winded sort of way.
"I hope we find some meat soon, i love meat, it's all i crave about!" Sokka's actor said in a dumbfounded tone. (I forgot most of the actor's dialog, haven't seen this episode in a long time, sorry. But i'm too lazy to watch it on youtube- ADH) Both Katara and Sokka were shocked and embarssedat their actor's poorly done acting. Toph was having a ball listening to this.
"Oh man, these two got you good." Toph said to which Katara and Sokka both sighed. Zuko only shook his head.
"It's gonna get worse." Reaper looked at the actor's and then looked at our heroes.
Reaper's POV
"Huh, i know nothing of these "Plays", but i can tell this isn't gonna be good." Reaper thought then noticed the actor's "freeing" Aang's actor from the ice. When Reaper seen that it was a woman playing Aang, he shook his head. "Scratch that, it got worse."
In some other part of Ember Island.......
Azula and Ty-Lee walked though the camp of a local army regment, seemed the witness of one of the murders was a private. Alogn with them was the captain of the group. "Now i must warn you, after the experence, Private Tadanobu has been....Iffy at most."
Azula shook her head. "Maybe just shell shock or blow to the head from the killer." She said as they got close to a tent. "Maybe just messed up his poor fagile mind."
"I don' know, sensing a...Weird Aura about him and i haven't even seen the guy." Ty-Lee said worried.
"Well guess we'll get our answers soon." Azula said as she and Ty-Lee entered the tent to find a Fire Nation solider sitting on a chair with his hands on a table. Seems he was a big and old fella, enough power to rip a man's arm off, but he seemed to spaced out and had dried mud on him which didn't help out. The two girls found this.....Off.
"So, you...Girls wanna know about what i seen, right?" Tadanobu said in a raspy tone.
"Yes, seems this killer you seen has been around this Island for a while. What can you tell us about him?" Azula asked in a tone that seemed like a small request, but at the same time seemed like a order.
That's when Tadanobu's got pale and semed to have drifted off. "The....Demon-"
"You mean killer." Ty-Lee said interupting Tadanobu who shooked his head in a scared way.
"No young girl, this...Thing i saw wasn't just a killer. He was a demon." Tadanobu said as the memory of what he saw came back and freaked him out.
"Demon, oh please. There's no such thing." Azula said beliving the man to be insane. "This man is--"
"Insane? No, Listen here Princess, i've seen many horroric things in the line of duty." He said interuppting Azula who was about to tell Tadanobu to be silent, but Tadanobu stopped her. "I've killed men, women and children with my bare hands and my firebending, but what i saw 4 days ago made me in no way insane." He then pointed at the other chair. "Please sit down and i'll tell you everything i seen." Azula sat down on the other side of the table as Ty-Lee stood.
Azula who was now getting curious nodded. "Okay, please tell me."
"All right, i will." Tadanobu said as he remembed where it all began.
4 days before (Meaning the day before Reaper met Aang.)
Tadanobu was with his 4 fellow soilders over near the town of Ember Island. They were employed to check out a murder of a known wife beater. They got to the scene and seen the man's body. His head was crushed and his leg was missing. "What in the name of the spirits?" Tadanobu said looking at the body.
"What did the wife say?" The leader said as he checked out the body. Tadanobu looked at the body then at the wife who was holding her child and she was freaked out. She was also talking to the 3 other soldiers.
"Well Soun Li said...This thing killed him. Blew his leg off with some form of cannon, then the Husband tried to attack he killer, but the killer picked the man up and crushed his head with his bare hands.
"Did she say what he looked like?" The leader asked to which Tadanobu shurgged his hsoulded confused.
"She did and it's fucked up." Tadanobu said before shaking his head. "She said it was like some demon who wore a red mask that had parts of a skull on it and he seemed all tribal looking."
"There may be spirits, but there's no such thing as no demons." The leader said unconvinced.
"I know, but i've seen fear in people's eyes before and that fear she has, it wasn't caused just by any human." Tadanobu said shaking his head. "I'm not saying it is a demon, maybe it's a superhuman bender, don't know. But this guy is bad news."
"Anything else?" The leader asked.
"Well the woman seems to have got the killer's...Alias." Tadanobu said picking up a piece of bone shard. "He called himself Reaper."
Back to present time.......
Tadanobu shook his head as he drank a cup of water. "But i was right and wrong. The guy was bad news, but this thing was indded no human. No human could have spread that type of fear in that woman."
Azula who was now interrested at this story. "Huh, seems so. But i'm still waiting to know by what you tell me if this "Reaper" is a demon. Cause it seems he might be as you said a superhuman bender."
"Azula.." Ty-Lee whispered into Azula's ear. "Remember that aura i mentioned, it's rising and it's not good."
"Huh...." She said nodding before getting back to Tadanobu. "May you please contuine."
"Yeah, as i was saying, the killer seems to be known as Reaper and that we needed to find him. But i wished we didn't." Tadanobu said before getting back to remembering those scary thoughts.
Now let's get back to the flashback......
Tadanobu, the leader and the rest of the soliders were walking back to town. As they walked, one of them noticed something pointing at his arm. "What the fu-" The solider said before the pointed thing which revieled to be 3 red dots got on his head glowed there. Then if by all of a sudden, a weird metal object fired and a weird metal blade shot into the man's forehead killing him on the spot.
"Everyone get together!" The leader said, as the group got together. A claoked hand grabbed one of the other soilders head and pulled him into the trees. Tadanobu, the leader and the last solider looked up to see blood pour down from the trees as the solider's screams were heard. "Spread out!" The leader went one way and both Tadanobu and the other solider ran another way.
"Oh please, don't let us--" The other solider said before running into a sharp metal pole. Tadanobu looked to see it started to rain hard and the pole started to revile that a cloaked figure was holding it and the soldier up in the air. The firgure then uncloaked thanks to the rain to show a huge familar figure doing the killing.
The figure turned his head to look at Tadanobu. "Y-You'll see the afterlife." Then as fast he could, Tadanobu ran away from the scene. As he ran, he tripped and fell down a hill and fell into a bunch of mud which mostly covered him up. He was in pain from the fall, he tried to get up, but then noticed the leader starting up his firebending.
"His foundation lies in the holy mountains. Selah!" The leader yelled before rushing towards something. Tadanobu couldn't see what was happening, but he could hear grunts and it's. Soon he heard the sound of a knife going into flesh.
Tadanobu tried to get up, but then seen the leader's body flown and land on the hill where he just rolled down. The leader was barely alive and noticed Tadanobu. He tired to reach out to him, but the leader mouthed "Be quiet". That's when Reaper appeared and grabbed the leader's head before ripping it off along with his spine.
Tadanobu wanted to scream, but knew it would draw the Predator's attention. He sat there shocked at what he saw, then the Predator pointed his laser at Tadanobu like he was gonna kill him there, but he didn't as Reaper grunted before dragging the body and head away.
Back in the present......
Tadanobu just sat there, blank faced at remember that awful night. Azula and Ty-Lee were shocked at what they just heard. "What happened after that?" Azula asked wanting to know more.
"I stayed there for 5 mins before running away, never looking back. The demon didn't go after me afterwards and i came here." Tadanobu said before putting his head down. "I try to get the memories out of my head, but they won't go away."
He then got back up with a knife up to his neck, ready to cut it. Both Azula and Ty-Lee were shocked at this motion, but Azula's went away. "Trying to escape the thoughts huh, pretty weak way to deal with it."
"Azula, don't provoke him." Ty-Lee said trying to make sure nothing went wrong.
"Don't worry, he won't do it." Azula said with a smile which went away when Tadanobu started to laugh.
"Take it you've dealt with Death before, oh wait. There's your mother, former Fire Lady Ursa." That remark got Azula stone-faced.
"Don't you dare--"
"So i'm right, huh?" Tadanobu said snickering with the knife still up to his neck. "Well let me tell you something." He then got close to Azula's face which was still emotionless. "You can't see the eyes of the demon, until him come callin'."
Then in a swift motion, Tadanobu sliced his neck with the knife in hand, causing blood to spray onto Azula's face, then before he fell down, he did a gargled laugh before dying from his wound. That left Azula and Ty-Lee freaked out. But Azula got back to her stone faced mannor. "Get some soldiers in here, tell them we have a self-inflected death." She then started to walk away, but Ty-Lee stopped her.
"You ain't freaked out by just what happened?" Ty-Lee asked concerned, but Azula gave her a long kiss.
"I'm fine, but i wanna know more on this "Reaper" demon." She said before walking out of the tent leaving Ty-Lee alone with the body."But why didn't he kill you?"
Back to our heroes......
The Gaang and Reaper were walking away from the theather, still freaked out from seeing the play.
"Y-Your human's use of these "Plays" were...Bad." Reaper said little bothered by the play.
"That...Wasn't a good play." Zuko said as everyone else shook their heads.
"I'll say." Aang muttered.
"No kidding." Katara said.
"Horrible." Suki also said.
"You said it." Toph said nodding her head.
Sokka just shrugged a bit. "But the effects were decent."
Another Dead Hero- All right, another chapter done and gone! Decided that with this one, i'd fill out some empty spaces. While the Avatar characters of course made appearences, this was more of a OC chapter as it focused on an OC's encounter and after with Reaper. But added some Azula and Ty-Lee in there. Fun to do, the last words for both the leader of Tadanobu's group and Tadanobu himself were "Predator 2" quotes and i thought they fit in the story. How is the next chapter gonna go? Read next chapter and see. The chapter was named after a Pantera song. R&R and peace ya'll.
