WARNING
WARNING
WARNING!!!
I'd say this chapter may be rated M so be warned.
Toph's eyes snapped open and she immediately pressed both hands into the hard, frozen ground. She gasped and leaped from her spot on the ground, her head colliding painfully with the top of her earth tent with a loud crack. Toph shook her head and hurried out of her tent.
Katara and Aang had woken up when Toph's head smashed into the top of the tent and the looked at her curiously.
"Someone's coming." Toph said, answering their silent question. Katara shot up from her sleeping mat and started shaking Sokka urgently while Aang airbent Appa's saddle onto the animal as well as the bags.
Toph was still burying her feet into the ground, trying to see farther but she realized that she didn't need to.
"WATCH OUT!" She screamed, right as fire bolts burst from every open spot between the trees surrounding them. Toph earth bent shields around the now fully awake Sokka, Katara and herself while Aang, who was up on Appa, deflected them with his staff.
Katara leapt from the shield and swung her arms out, drawing water from her pouch and the supplies at Aang's feet. She lashed the water out at a row of Fire Nation soldier that were advancing from the trees and spun the water around her, making two whips that lashed out behind her as well as in front of her. Sokka jumped onto Appa and aimed his boomerang at the soldiers in the trees, not hesitating to through it again when it came back. Aang had jumped off Appa and airbent each soldier in sight into the air, some landing in trees while others landed on their comrades. Toph repeatedly shifted the earth around her, making the dirt spin so that any fire bender that shot at her turned and shot in the opposite direction.
The firing stopped momentarily as every soldier fell to the ground.
"Let's go!" Sokka yelled, sitting on Appa's head. Appa had tried to flee from the fire that flew around him, making Sokka's job a little harder. Aang jumped up onto Appa and held his hand out to Katara. Just as she was about to grab it, fire whipped snapped out, whipping Katara across the back. Katara cried out in agony and recoiled, away from Aang's hand.
Aang and Sokka immediately leapt down to her and Toph stepped in front of her. More and more soldiers where coming, probably three times more than what they were originally fighting. Toph sent out a shock wave through the earth and it spread out in a large circle around her, knocking fire bender after fire bender to the ground and any that weren't were knocked unconscious by the boulders pelting them a moment later.
Sokka's, Aang's and Katara's vibrations couldn't be felt by Toph and she assumed that they were now on Appa.
"Toph, come on!" Aang shouted from Appa and Toph turned towards the beast. She was about to earth bend herself up when she felt agonizing pain biting at her feet. She fell to the ground and gritted her teeth as she felt the skin burn from her feet. The pain was too much and the last thing she heard before she blacked out was a furious yell.
When Toph woke up, she was surprised to find herself in a lavish gown. She was on an actual bed in a very fancy room. Her hair had been combed out and was up in an elaborate hairstyle that gave her a head ache.
She sat up and placed her feet on the floor, but they were covered by thin, silk slippers. Toph was about to take them off when someone said, "I wouldn't do that. It can get awfully cold in this place."
Toph jumped and faced the speaker. "Where am I?" she demanded.
"Just a little place I call home." The man said kindly. Toph could hear a twinge of bitterness in his voice but decided to ignore it. "Why am I here?" She said, scooting farther away from the man.
"The avatar was treating you unkindly. I hated seeing such a pretty young girl being forced to do things in such a. . . barbaric manner." He said, walking closer until her was at the foot of her bed.
"What are you talking about?" Toph snapped, glaring at the man. "I loved being with them."
"Tsk, tsk, what have they done to you." The man said feigning sympathy, tracing her jaw line with a rough, calloused finger. Toph threw the hand away and said, "Let me go or so help me, I will wrap every metal object here around you and sink you into the ground!"
"Oh, I see we have a rebel." He cooed, leaning closer to her. Toph stood up, stumbling backwards, the silk slippers making her slip and messing up her vision.
He followed her slowly and soon her had her pressed up to the metal wall. "What's wrong?" He asked, a smirk on his face. Toph scowled and clenched her fingers into the metal wall and swung her fist out, smashing the metal into the side of the mans head. He let go of her and Toph ran to the door, throwing it open and sprinting down the hallway, ignoring the burning pain in both of her feet. She turned a sharp corner, the slippers making her slid a bit before realizing she wasn't the only one in the hallway.
"Get her, she's escaping!" One of the masked men yelled. The other four charged at her and Toph dunked to the floor and yanked at the metal, pulling it our from underneath the soldiers like it was a carpet and they fell to the level below. Toph had no choice but to turn back and started running again. That's when she felt something collide with the back of her neck.
"Admiral Zhao, we've captured your prisoner." One masked man said, walking into a room shrouded in red, holding the small girl in his arms.
"Good," Zhao said casually, not looking up from the letter he was writing. "Set her on the bed."
Toph woke up to a sharp pain in the back of her neck and a soft, fuzzy blanket around her. For a moment she thought she was on Appa but then she remembered what happened and she bolted up, only to have something push her back down.
"Why hello there." a voice hissed in her ear and she recognized it as the voice from before, only this time it was cold and cruel.
Toph struggled and kicked but Zhao had her down and he wasn't about to let go.
"Hey, I tried being nice." He said, sounding slightly defensive. Toph was struggling slightly to breath, her breath only coming in short bursts. She could feel her eyes sting and she shut them. She was pushing against his chest, and trying to kick him but her legs couldn't bend enough to kick him and he had her wrists in an iron grip. His breath was warm and putrid on her face.
"Now, let me ask you something." He hissed, pushing her arms down and across her chest. "Where is the avatar hiding?"
Toph didn't say anything, just squirmed her shoulders, trying to free her hands.
"I asked you a question!" He snapped dangerously, shaking her violently.
Toph whimpered and Zhao smirked. "Am I hurting you?" he whispered in her ear.
Toph gasped slightly, trying to catch her breath and stop the tears from running down her cheeks.
"Good." he said.
Zhao moved both of her tiny wrists to one hand, still managing to keep his hold on them, noting how strong the fourteen your old girl was, and moved his free hand down to the sash around her waist and started pulling at it. "Now I'll ask you one more time," He said softly. "Where is the boy?"
Toph shook her head and twisted, trying desperately to get the man off of her. "No answer?" he said harshly, pulling the sash from her waist completely, the kimono falling open and revealing her under wrappings. Tears were now pouring freely down Toph's face as she struggled and twisted. She was scared, she was truly scared.
Then she felt the need to gag as his lips pressed against hers and she tried to pull away, but he was now completely on top of her. His warm tongue slipped imbetween her lips and she bit it.
"Argh!" Zhao pulled back glaring at the girl. He reared his hand back and slapped her across the face, ignoring her gasp of pain.
Zhao gritted his teeth and started pulling at her chest wrappings and Toph beat his chest. "No, no, please. . ." She panted, hitting him with all her might, which wasn't much anymore. The chest wrappings were half off when Toph managed to knee Zhao in the groan and he moaned, only collapsing on top of her.
"You bitch." He spat, know kneeling over her. Toph gulped and shot up quickly, head-butting him in the stomach. Toph then rolled form the bed but Zhao grabbed onto her collar and tugged her back and she fell to the floor, gasping for breath and massaging her throat. Zhao picked her up and slammed her into the wall, kissing down her neck. Toph grimaced as his tongue touched her skin, all the way down to the top of her wrappings. His hands her roaming her curves until they came to her chest and started pulling at the wrappings again. He pressed his lips hard to Toph's, hard enough to bruise her and continued to viscously kiss her as his hands pulled her chest wrappings away.
Toph let out a sob and Zhao looked at her. Her placed a hand on her face and wiped at her tears with his thumb. "Sh. . . it's ok." He said and Toph gritted her teeth and closed her eyes tightly. He eyes snapped open furiously and she slapped him across the face and punched him in the gut, sending him backwards. Before Toph could get away, he grabbed onto one of her burnt feet and she fell to the ground. He dragged her to her feet, looking into her tear stained face before throwing her into the wall and watching her fall down into a crumbled heap.
"Useless garbage." He spat. He called for the guard, who stood outside the room and the man walked in, looking at Toph's still form with horrified surprise.
"Take her to a cell." Zhao said bitterly. The man nodded quickly and carefully picked up the small girl. He was about to leave when Zhao said, "And get her ready for her scourging tomorrow."
Well, I feel mean. Yes this is part one of yet another 2 or 3 part series. Yes this will be Taang, who do you think cried out in fury when Toph blacked out the first time? And yes I will actually finish this. im the worst procrastinator evr. . .
Complaints, joy, hate, challenges, ideas? pls tell me! i mostly want a challenge pls!