Avatar The Last Airbender and Prototype crossover.
Book I – Water
Chapter IX – Blood Bath
Aang woke up from his journey to the spirit world. He gasped in a breath of fresh air and tried to get up. But he couldn't because he was tied up.
"Huh?" He sat up and saw Zuko standing there.
"Welcome back."
Aang glared at him. "Good to be back." He blew a wave of air at him causing Zuko to slam to the wall and Aang to fly out of the cave.
The avatar tried to crawl away like a worm but Zuko stepped on his back, having recovered quickly. The scarred prince grabbed him by the collar.
"That won't be enough to escape." Zuko growled but Aang saw Appa flying over head.
"Appa!"
Katara got off Appa and got into her fighting stance. Zuko threw Aang aside and got into his own. "Back for a rematch?"
"Trust me, Zuko. This is not gonna be much of a match." She blocked his attack and bent some ice to raise the prince up and send him crashing down, subduing him.
Sokka came up and cut Aang's ropes. "Hey, this is some quality rope." He smiled at his loot and Aang got up.
"C'mon, we gotta get back! The spirits are in trouble!" They were about to leave when Aang looked back at the unconscious Zuko. "No, we can't leave him here."
Sokka scoffed. "Sure we can. Let's go."
"No, if we leave him, he'll die." Aang got off Appa and began to drag Zuko with him.
"Sure, this makes a lot of sense. Let's bring the guy who's been constantly trying to kill us." Sokka said with a river of sarcasm and Katara bonked him on the head.
"Appa, yip-yip!"
In the oasis, Twi and La were swimming as per their relationship until a hand snatched La away and placed her in a bag.
In consequence, the moon lost it's color and became red as blood. Zhao looked on at this with a smile. He had won.
Water benders began loosing their powers and were quickly overwhelmed. Now defenseless, they were doomed.
Yue groaned and held onto her head. "Are you okay?" Sokka asked worriedly.
"I feel faint."
"I feel it too." Aang looked at the moon. "The moon spirit is in trouble."
"I owe the moon spirit my life." Yue said.
"What do you mean?" Sokka asked as he sat closer to her.
"When I born, I was very sick and very weak. Most babies cry when they're born, but I was born as if I was asleep. My eyes closed. Our healers did everything they could. They told my parents that I was going to die. My father pleaded with the moon spirit to save my life. That night, beneath the full moon, he placed me in the pond. My hair turned white, I opened my eyes and began to cry. And they knew I would live. That's why my mother named me Yue. For the moon."
Zhao and his men stood at the oasis and the admiral held up the bag containing his spoils.
"I am a legend now. The fire nation will for generations tell stories of the great Zhao who darkened the moon. They will call me Zhao the Conqueror. Zhao the Moon Slayer."
This one made Jake bust a gut. "Zhao the Invincible!" In his moment of triumph, Momo jumped on his head and began pulling on his side burns.
"Get it off!" Momo bit his nose and Zhao punched his own face. "Get if off!" His men tried to get the lemur off but he flew towards Aang.
Sokka, Katara, and Aang prepared for a fight bit Zhao just smirked. "Don't bother." He brought his hand up towards the bag and Aang dropped his staff.
"Zhao! Don't."
"It's my destiny. To destroy the moon and the water tribe."
"Destroying the moon won't hurt just the water tribe. It'll hurt everyone, including you. Without the moon, everything would fall out of balance." Zhao didn't looked convinced and Iroh decided to make himself known.
"He's right Zhao." They looked to the left and saw Iroh there.
"General Iroh. Why am I not surprised to know your treachery."
"I'm no traitor, Zhao. The fire nation needs the moon too, we all depend on the balance." Iroh said and Aang smiled.
Zhao gritted his teeth in anger and Iroh pointed at him. "Whatever you do to that spirit, I'll unleash on you tenfold! LET IT GO, NOW!"
Zhao was good but Iroh was far better than him and he knew it. Sighing, he knelt down at the pond and released the moon spirit. Then his eyes narrowed in rage. This was his moment and not the avatar, and not Iroh was going to take that away from him!
Everything seemed to slow down as Zhao raised his hand to blast the moon to ash. Iroh and Aang watched in horror as Katara and Sokka launched their water and boomerang at him.
Just before Zhao could kill La, a black serrated spike impaled him through the chest.
"Gaach!" Zhao screamed in pain as the spike slowly inched its way into him, tearing his flesh away.
His men were horrified at this as were Aang and the others. Yue hid behind Appa's saddle in fright, covering her ears as to not hear Zhao's screams.
Before the fire benders could react, dozens upon dozens of serrated spike tore them apart. Their bodies dangling by a few strands of meat. The once majestic oasis was now a slaughterhouse.
"Sh-show y-our-self, m-mon-ster!" Zhao coughed up blood and from the center of the pond, rose a mass of wriggling tendrils.
"Heheheha." The darkest of chuckles that sent shivers down everyone's spines sounded as the mass took the form of a male body.
In the next few seconds, there in the pond now stood Jake with a smirk that even the devil would fear. "I've not had a single meal in days." He grinned at Zhao who was glaring hate at him. "You'll do just fine."
All throughout the battlefield, water benders and fire nation soldiers alike stopped once they heard a terrible scream of pure agony. And the most vile laughter neither man nor spirit would dare do.
Zhao's entire flesh and those of his butchered men were melted down and absorbed into Jake's being. And those behind could only watch.
Sokka held a clearly terrified Yue close while he too looked away in fear and disgust. Katara and Aang looked away, trying and failing to block out those horrific sounds of liquid flesh being slurped up.
Jake laughed gleefully as the spikes finished their jobs and receded back into him. Rolling his shoulders, he turned to the others.
"M-monster." Yue whimpered out and Jake raised an amused eyebrow.
"Hehehe, what gave me away?" He looked at her up and down and smiled. A tasty morsel.
Sokka saw this and moved Yue to his back and glared at his monstrous companion. Jake grinned and turned to Aang who looked at him with trembling hands.
Before he could say anything, the pond began to glow. "What the..." Jake mumbled confusedly as two figures rose from it.
One was a slender woman with a body of blue glowing water and the other was a man fish thing with a body of black water.
Yue bowed down at the moon and ocean spirits while the others watched.
Jake smirked and crossed his arms. "Hehe, so who are you again because I got about two thousand men to butcher and eat." The spirits grimaced slightly at his claim but kept a straight expression.
"We thank you for saving me, Lord Zural." La bowed before a much more powerful force.
"And in return, we will grant you what you so desire." Twi said, also bowing. They were no fools, even they know not to anger the supreme being of destruction.
Aang had a bad feeling about this and Katara felt it too. Jake was not to be trusted with anything but they couldn't do anything. How could they?
Jake though about it for a second. Immortality, he had that in spades. Ruling over a nation, he would rather destroy it. Bending however...
Smiling, Jake turned to the spirits. "I want all forms of bending left. Water, earth, and air."
Aang was horrified at this. Jake was already impossibly powerful with only fire bending but with all four of them?!
The spirits hesitated and Jake crossed his arms. "I'm waiting."
La stepped forward. "We are very sorry but we can only grant you the ability to bend water."
Aang was relieved but it died when Jake said, "Do it."
The spirits brought their hands up and beams of light engulfed Jake. When it died down, the spirits went back into their aquatic forms while Jake stood there examining his hands.
Aang and the rest took cautious steps towards him. Iroh had long since left with Zuko, not wanting to face the monster's wrath.
"Jake, we need to..."
"You know, blood is water right?" Jake smiled and looked at them sweetly.
Katara and Yue looked at each other before realization dawned on them. No, he can't be serious...no one was that monstrous!
"Jake, no!" Katara yelled but Jake stopped her with a look. Her body felt like stone as she couldn't move. Like her blood froze up and her body along with it.
"Katara!" Sokka tried to pounce Jake but he too was subdued with a look from him. The boy groaned in pain as he and his sister were sent flying back to Aang.
"Yes. Now enjoy the show." He sprinted to the city, leaving Aang with a feeling of dread as he helped his friends up.
The city was slowly falling, the charred bodies men women, and children littered the streets. Fire nation soldiers were killing everything in sight.
Pity no one told them about Jake.
Looking over at the destruction, the virus couldn't help but feel ecstatic. He loved causing mass genocide and murder and he especially loved making others suffer. Why not make this special.
Raising his hands, every fire nation soldier and water tribe moron unlucky enough to be in his range lifted up into the air and Jake's eyes burned with insanity.
He slightly closed his hands and the bodies of three thousand men were compressed to a ball. The fire nation fleet and what's left of the tribe looked on as the ball of men hovered in the air.
"Jake!" Aang shouted in desperation as Appa landed behind the monster. Jake turned his head sideways and gave them a toothy grin.
"Hi, came to see me work?"
"No, stop this, Jake! They don't have to die!" Aang pointed to the sphere of men. "Please, Jake, they're just soldiers following orders."
Jake chuckled and shook his head. "I've heard that excuse many times before, Aang." He looked at his creation and smirked. "You're right they don't have to die."
Aang and the others breathed a sigh of relief. "But that doesn't mean they wouldn't." And just like that, the most horrific scene anyone could endure unfolded.
Slowly closing his fists, thee ball began to compress. The many screams of pain echoed throughout the land as their blood was literally squeezed out of them.
"NO!" Aang tried to attack him but tendrils shot out of Jake's back and swatted him away.
By the gallons, blood gushed out of the mass of mangled and squished bodies. Soaking the land and sea in crimson as Jake smiled sadistically and gleefully.
He fully closed his fists and let the bodies fall, they were no more bodies, more like jello after what he put them through. Thousands of dead partially liquified bodies splattered on the ice below.
It was a horrid sight that no one would ever . The land was silent, no one dared to say or mutter a word save for the devil himself laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Jake laughed uncontrollably at what he has done. This is what he was made for. This is what a monster was born to do!
Seeing their comrades be reduced to sludge and the disturbing scene of a literal blood drenched sea, what's left of the fire nation fleet withdrew.
Jake snorted. "Hmph, chicken." No back bone at all to face him. Turning around, Jake saw the people look at him in fear and hate.
"What? Never saw a monster before?"
News spread of the barbaric slaughter of the fire nation's 3rd Expeditionary Fleet. Two thousand men were lost in just one night and twelve ships were sunk.
All because, not of the avatar, but something more fearsome and has no problems with killing by the thousands.
Fire Lord Ozai sat on his throne and judging from the flames, he wasn't happy. "The invasion was a failure and the one responsible runs rampant."
A person bowed before him, smiling in anticipation of what's to come. "I have a task for you, Azula."
A young face of a teen rose up and she smirked at her next hunt. "Whatever you wish, father."
