Yuck Factor: 3 of 10

Katara's body arched off af the ground as she dug her hands into the dirt. Seering pain was coursing the length of her body. Her blood stung her veins and every breath she took had to be swallowed with a great deal of force. Her heart was going to jump out of her throat, and her insides were going to explode where they sat. She tensed up as another wave of fire tore through her. She clamped her teeth down on her lips as she fought the urge to scream. Tears ran down her face as her body jolted. The pounding in her head dulled the sound of her blood rushing in her ears.

Zuko and Aang watched as Sokka held his sister's head in his lap. They watched her lurch and claw the dirt, feeling a little more than useless. Zuko froze as a chilll trickled up his spine all the hairs on the back of his neck immediately standing on end. The smell of sulphur filled his nose. He turned and stared with narrowed eyes as Kuiodio materialized behind him.

Her orange eyes were narrowed as she looked at Katara. Zuko turned around and brought flames to his hand.

"What are you doing here?!" She turned her eyes down to look at him with out moving. Her eyes moved back to look at Katara.

"Remove yourself from my path." Aang jumped over besdie Zuko and frowned.

"You! Leave! Now!" She turned her hard glare to look at Aang.

"Very intelligent Avatar. Try forming a sentence next time." She took a step forward but they didn't move. A shrill scream broke through the woods as Katara finally let the noise spill from her mouth as she arched again. Zuko and Aang both looked back at her. Zuko shivered violently as Kuidio stepped through him. He watched her fire red hair sway as she walked over to where Katara was laying in pain. Toph frowned.

"Hey Spooky Spirit, you really have done enough!" Kuiodio looked over at the blind girl briefly then back to the writhing teen. She snarled her nose and looked at Sokka.

"Hold her still." Sokka kicked the demon's hand as she went to touch Katara.

"Get away from her!" He hissed. Kuiodio glared at him. She threw her hand out and sent him flying backwards. She hissed and turned to look back at Zuko and Aang. She bared her teeth her face becoming primal and something out of nightmares.

"I'm going to help." She growled. Before either of them could protest or move she jerked down and drove her hand through Katara. Katara's body archced as the woman's hand jerked back out. As she pulled it out a black dripped from her hand, with thousand of tendrils hanging from her fingers. She held the black up and watched as the tendrils began to move. Suddenly the creature was alive. The thousands of tiny black legs thrashed about, and a sound much like that of a child's scream broke through her hand. She crushed the thing in her hand until the legs quit moving. She looked down at Katara's wide blue eyes as they stared up at her.

"You should be more cautious when you move between worlds. You picked up a parasitic demon." Katara narrowed her eyes.

"All demons are parasitic." Kuiodio snarled her nose and turned, only to come face to face, with the three boys. Zuko narrowed his eyes.

"Why did you help her?" Kuiodio shook her head.

"I didn't help her. I helped me. I couldn't care less if she were to live or die. But once a mortal is under my spell, I don't like other demon's interuppting. It's rude." With that said she disappeared in a puff.

She frowned as she walked over to her throne. She wasn't happy with herself. She had let her regality disappear during her little chat with Katara, previously. She didn't come off as she had wished, instead she showed her temper. She sat down on her rock throne and ran a nail down the armrest. She frowned. She needed to shake things up a bit. The kiseichu demon didn't help things. He could have very easily brought the baby demons to full potential. She couldn't have undeveloped demons running amuck in the mortal world, she would have avatar's past breaking down her walls.

"Yel-dei-yic." She called flatly. The slimly black imp cralwed on his belly over to her, his face to the floor. In under a week she had killed four of his commrads, being that he was not about to push her anger.

"Yesh." She bit her nail as she thought. She turned to look down at the creature and frowned.

"I am in need of assistance." He looked up at her with one of his five eyes then back to the floor.

"Who I summon for yous, your greatness." She thought for a moment then a smile curled over her lips showing her sharp teeth.

"I have the perfect three in mind." Yel-dei-yic jumped up and stared at her. He clasp his grubby hands together and shook his head violently.

"No. plesshe not them. They eat I." She shot a glare at the imp causing him to cower back down. She stood up and smiled.

"That will not be their purpose here." She took a few steps down to the center of the cavern. She held her hands out in front of her and closed her eyes.

"Siadon, Shurinere, Sliyar." She whispered. The names echoed through the cavern and seemed to fill it. Yel-dei-ic jumped as the thick poisonous fog began to cover the ground. He lept up onto the wall and watch Kuiodio. She opened her eyes and looked at the floor in front of her. Through the fog three black spots appeared. She smiled as the three demons began to rise up out of the floor. She looked over each of them as they materialized. Flowing black tattered cloaks billowed around them. Capes and hoods covered their bodies, and only the metal that covered their hands could be seen.

"Beautiful." The three looked up at her. The center one took a step forward. Kuiodio smiled at the demon warmly. "The most beautiful wraiths in the spirit world."

"We're not wraiths. You know this, Kuiodio. You have summoned us, but we do not come cheap." She nodded.

"I know this."

"What is it that you want us for?" She took a step back and sat on her throne crossing a leg over the other.

"Get right down to the nitty gritty don't you..First show me your faces." She couldn't help but feel the poison grow thicker as the three stared at her. She shivered as the metal over their hands scraped as the brought their hands up to pull back their hoods. She stood up and looked over them in awe. A pair of solid white eyes stared at her as Shurinere took a step forward.

"Waste our time no longer. Give us the mission you ask of us or we will take our payment in blood." Kuiodio. She nodded.

"Very well. I have impregnated another human with my demon children. She has three male guardians that need a little time off." Six white eyes blinked at her.

"Do you want them dead?" Sliyar ask, his voice material and velvet, even if it were thick with death. Kuiodio fought the urge in her loins. What she wouldn't have given to ravange the three of them then and there. She shook her head casting the thought away from her.

"No. Not dead and not hurt. Other than that surprise me." The three demons looked at one another then back to her.

"The mission is acceptable." Saidon hissed. "Now payment."

"There is a blind girl traveling with them, you may have her as yoru payment."

"What use do we have for a blind human?" Sliyar growled. Kuiodio stood up and wlaked over to the three.

"She isn't a normal human. She is a master Earth Bender. " The three looked at each other.

"She would be ours..?" The three ask, the three different voices melting to one.

"Yes. "

"Very well then." Shurinere stated flatly. With the clank and hiss of metal rubbing together, the three were hooded again. They melted back into the floor and Kuiodio fell back into her throne. She rubbed her forehead. Yel-dei-yic jumped down from the wall and waddled over to her side.

"Something wrong?" Kuiodio giggled at the statement. She let out a puff of air and looked over to the imp.

"I am just contemplating on how I could shake the hand of their creator."

Katara walked briskly. She had absolutely no lingering pain since that, whatever it was, was pulled out of her. She stopped. She grabbed a tree and took a few deep breaths. Zuko and Aang were at her side in a heart beat.

"What's wrong?!" Zuko growled. Aang psuhed Zuko's hands back and grabbed Katara's shoulders.

"Are you okay?" She laughed and pushed them off of her with one hand.

"Yes. I'm fine but Fwui and Uihni are having a fight I think." Zuko and Aang frowned at one another then looked back to Katara.

"The babies?" They both questioned. She nodded as she stood back up. Zuko shook his head..

"What kind of names are those?" She msiled as she started walking.

"Fwui is the firebender, Uihni is the airbender." Zuko's eyes widened.

"What!? You are naming the firebender FWUI!? What kind of name is that!? Absolutely not! My child is not going to be named Fwui!." Katara turned and cocked her eyebrow at him.

"Okay, but my child is. Considering that Kuiodio is actually the father." She hissed and turned around. Zuko stammered and narrowed his eyes.

"Katara, think! Think about what you just said!" Katara nodded as she continued to walk, forcing the two of them to start walking to keep within earshot.

"I know very well what I said Zuko. I may be pregnant, but I'm not stupid."

"Now I didn't say that."

"No but you insinuated it."

"I did not."

"Zuko, actually you did." Aang piped up siding with Katara. Zuko shot the young avatar a dirty glare.

"You stay out of this!" Zuko snapped.

"I can't stay out of this, this is my business too." Aang growled.

"How do you figure that?" Zuko hissed back. Aang stopped and crossed his arms over his chest. Zuko stared at the boy just daring him to say something stupid.

"I am the last Airbender. And Katara is carrying an Airbender. I am the only one who could have given her those pieces. Any firebender that touched Katara could have been the donor." Aang smiled.

"You little bastard!" Zuko growled and droped down knocking Aang's feet out from under him. Aang jumped up and started to retalliate when Sokka jumped in the middle.

"Whoa whoa whoa. Calm down. Who hungry?!"

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