Authors Note: Just a little heads up, I should have stated this more but Johnathon Porter, and the rest of his team are mastmind123's characters not mine! I don't own Legends of Korra but wouldn't that be awesome! Alright here's another chapter, enjoy!

Triad House, Khai

In my understanding of what had happened earlier, I was kidnapped from a man who looked like me. As creepy as he was, he was clever. I had awoken in a chair, my arms tied behind my back, and packed in a cramped wooden room. They hadn't been big on torture, but then again I wouldn't have been conscious to feel any of it.

Not a single day I can't go without being kidnapped, I thought.

As pissed off as I was, I had a feeling that they wouldn't keep me here long. That's not saying they wouldn't let me go, I've handled myself in situations like this and I think I could manage. I had no idea on what these guys would do to me but knowing I came from an Equalist family, they wouldn't go good cop on me. The Triads, just a bunch of misfits who can't cope with the law so they go and do whatever the hell they want, funny that's how they think considering their faction is quickly diminishing. That's probably why they started a turf war, to forcibly recruit more people.

Assholes, I thought, trying to pull free of my restraints, but no luck. There was nothing in the room other then a box, a lit candle, and hay had completely covered the floor. I squirmed even more, trying to regain the freedom of my arms, my whole chair rustled within the hay and that had probably alerted the Triad members outside the room.

"Keep it down you Equalist fuck!"

Well I guess I'm not alone, I thought, still trying to shift positions.

"Where am I?" I asked, not sure who directly to.

No answer. I had expected none, but these guys weren't really the intimidating type. Not after the things I've witnessed anyways. I scooted my chair back and forth, increasing the rustling of the hay. A slot in the door shot open only to reveal a pair of furious brown eyes.

"I swear, make another fucking sound and burn every one of you limbs!"

The slot of the door slammed shut and by the way he spoke, I could tell he wasn't Jay. He seemed more hostile but less creepy. His actions were a little unorthodox but I guess that's what you get from a gang member of the Triple Threats.

"Not very hospitable are you?" I jokingly said. He seemed like the person who couldn't control his anger and would lead to his own downfall. However I was tied up and sitting in a chair so I guess I should be the one who better be careful.

The slot of the door shot open again but this time it was a pair of blue eyes and by the sound of her voice I could tell she was female.

"You'd better watch yourself asshole, your in the house of the Triads!"

"So that's what's making that horrendous odor, I thought it was the cattle." I said.

The door slammed open and the man with brown eyes stormed in, smashing his heel into my stomach. It hadn't hurt as bad because I had been expecting it and I was already flexing but it still hurt. Letting out a subtle moan, I looked up to see that girl, who was probably in her late 20's pulling away the muscle bound brown eyed man. He looked like he was in his 40's, he was built strong but not very bright, as his attack on me had been sloppy.

"What gives Pema!", The man shouted. He was answered almost immediately by the women called "Pema".

Pema shut and locked the door but I could perfectly here everything they're saying. Pema was a tall women who wore, fire bending attire. She wore a red shirt and over that was a crimson studded jack, that I had assumed to be fake rubies. Her black hair was tied in a ponytail and her black cargo pants were held up by a jewel incrusted belt, which I assumed to be once again, fake.

"Because Shu, Tak told us to keep alive! We don't want another incident you idiot!", shouted Pema

The man called Shu didn't respond. However a lot of irritating grumbling was coming from his direction. He was very tall and well built, he had worn a dark green cargo pants, a torn and sweaty khaki T-shirt. He was also bald with little bits of stubble on his chin. They hadn't been dressed as classy as the inner city Triads were but they did their job. Who knows, maybe this Tak guy was one of the inner members, Jay seemed like one of them to.

"He said "don't use bending!", he never said keep him comfortable!" Shu shouted back.

"You big dunce, he meant don't hurt him at all! Stop being so literal you stupid giant!"

It was obvious they had hated one another, being on the same side must've killed one another on the inside. Seeing as how well they communicated, they would never go anywhere with their lives. I couldn't move anywhere, being in the same position I was in earlier, rusting in the hay didn't seem to be a good plan. Even now since they new I was awake, they would probably ignore me, that was saying if Pema had taken over Shu's guarding post.

Pro Tak

The Triple Threats always gave one another nicknames, depending on their reputation, just as all other gangs did. There was Shinny Shin and Lightning Bolt Zolt, who had mysteriously vanished during a holdout in a hidden recruiting house. That was said after his disappearance and so far none of the Triads new his location and talk about bad timing for the start of a new turf war.

Pro Tak had gotten his nickname for defeating, what he claims to be "a whole platoon of metal benders". He was instructed to go a retrieve some counterfeit yuan's outside one of the city districts, where cargo ships would usually go and unload their possessions. Luckily for him he had been an earth bender so fighting off the metal bending police force, would be an even match. Although he claims to have killed them all, all that mattered was that he came back with more then 50,000 counterfeit yuan's which could not be told from the real thing.

Tak had been sitting at his desk, enjoying a nice glass of litchi juice and not enjoying reading people bitch about their which was their turf. He had received Intel that the Red Monsoon Triad's gang was getting ready for an all out attack and it was his duty to make sure that didn't happen by sending out new strategic defense reports. This was more of a pain then he imagined. He was more the fighting and assault type of person, not sitting behind a desk.

Pro Tak had on a pressed grey suit but wore in unprofessionally. He wore the suit unbuttoned and his collar was flipped upward, the usual Triad style. Wearing grey matching pants and a black belt, nobody ever assumed he would be with the Triads but merely a lone business man. Some claimed that since there was no metal bender retreated to report Tak's appearance, that he had in fact killed them all but others said he lied about the numbers. The bodies were never found.

His most prized possession was a 14 karat gold watch that he had retrieved at the same mission from one of the captain's of the cargo ship. His watch however hadn't been the only jewelry he wore. A ruby incrusted ring, rested nicely on his pinky finger and a classy gold chain hung around his neck. He had brown hair which had been mostly covered by a black Cordoba.

His office was decorated quiet nicely. A mahogany table, paintings of Republic City, and a window that has a perfect view of Avatar Aang Memorial Island. Red gilded tapestries hung from the walls, with the Triad leader's name on it.

Just as his was about to finish his report, Shu had entered the room.

"Sir, the Equalist kid is awake. What do you want me to do?" He said. His bulky voice, disturbing Tak's concentration.

"That's Jay's problem, I couldn't give more of a shit about this kid then you do!" Tak barked.

"But sir, he's an Equalist. They're bad." Shu muttered.

Tak let out a long, dissatisfied sigh, "Shu, ya know we're Triads right?"

"Uh.. yea."

"There's no such thing as good and bad when your already workin' for the enemy you idiot!" Tak shouted.

"Uh, sorry sir but Jay thought you might've wanted to know. So uh. What'a we do?"

"You giant lug, it wasn't even my..", Tak couldn't stress to Shu that this wasn't even his plan. Tak tried hard not to send a stone through Shu's incompetent brain so instead he decided to follow, since there was no way of reasoning with him. Violently shoving passed Shu, they both walked out, meeting up with the others.

Khai

They had moved me from the small room I had been in, to the middle of the room. The whole building had been a barn, which answered the question of the stench of cattle but none had been in there. The barn had been emptied all along but the stench had been left behind.

Pema had been watching over me from the top loft in the barn accessible from only a single ladder. Being the fire bender she is, she could probably lower herself down, shooting fire out of his fists that acted like jets.

"So what exactly am I here for?" I asked politely, hoping to receive some answer.

"Shut up!" Pema yelled back.

I tried to shrug but since my hands were tied behind my back, it didn't look so good. I guess trying to be polite wasn't an option here. I still saw no sign of Jay, who I still had a bone to pick with.

"So how long you've been with these assholes?" I asked. She was pissed off now, sending off a burst of fire going right by my head. Nearly singing some of my hair but the thing was that I didn't see them a threat at all. Not the smartest thing to do, underestimate an enemy but something was off with them. They lacked cooperation.

Actually she was more helpful then threatening. The fireball she through had passed closely behind me but enough to catch a bit of the rope that tied my hands. It hadn't been all the way through but enough for me to pull it apart. I just needed to wait to where I wasn't a sitting target, she had her eyes locked on mine. empty stables, surrounded me, and I'm guessing the small closest like room I had been in was where the farmers put their tools. Other then the mounds of hay, the room was completely deserted.

The front doors to the barn began to open and in front was an unknown man, that I had guess had been Tak, followed by Shu who was towering over him from behind.

"So this is the guy? Doesn't look so tough, why the hell do we hav'em?", Tak asked.

Before anyone could answer I spoke out, "Because some asshole who looks like me, wants me dead but he said he's a reasonable person and was going to let me go. Apparently that didn't happen, Jay was it?"

All it took was a short flick of Tak's wrist, and I still didn't see it coming. The stone tore through the air like a knife on butter, not even slowing down. Passing by seconds later, it connected with my left knee The . Sending off ripples of pain throughout my body, I wasn't able to hide the pain. I hunched over, letting out a single grunt of pain, which had left a permanent smile on Tak's face.

"Watch yourself fucker, your in the house of the Triads now! Do you know who I am? What I've done?" Tak asked.

I didn't answer. There was no point in getting hurt like that again, the pain hadn't stopped but was slowing down. Tak bent down, putting one of his polished brown shoes on my injured knee.

Dammit, this hurts!, my mind was drowning in pain. Even as Tak leaned in, he could see the pain that hid itself within my eyes.

"What? Silence? Cat got your tongue? Well then we'll just have to break your will now won't we? You will address me as Pro Tak, and anything you say will be attached to your life, so once again, watch yourself!"

A small noise made its way from under my breath, Tak's shoe had been purposefully digging in to my wound. I was just lucky the small stone hadn't been there. After releasing his stance, he turned back to Pema.

"Where the hell is Jay? I don't wasn't some Equalist asshole tied up in my barn!" Tak barked.

"I don't know, Pro. He said he would come back, I'm not sure where he's off to." Pema replied, it was obvious she was holding in her fear of Tak.

Good for nothing, prick, Tak thought. He started his way back to me, hands in his pocket, and pretending to be calm. However I had noticed a few bullets of sweat, running down his forehead, and it hadn't been because of the heat. It was fairly cool in here.

"Maybe we should ransom him back to his father? And if he doesn't respond we could send him back, piece by piece." Shu took quiet a lot of pride in himself, for thinking of such a plan but it was quickly shot down.

"Idiot, you heard his father over the radio, he doesn't want him! Why the hell would a ransom work?", Pema asked.

"Well you come up with a plan, self absorbed bitch!" Shu exclaimed.

Their arguing caused a great headache for Tak, constantly rubbing his head as if he had a fever. He was definitely stressed beyond recovering to his calm state, after a quick glance at me he turned around to the others. Stamping his foot on the ground he sent of two columns of stone, when reappeared above ground, slammed into Pema and Yu's chests, sending them back into the side of the barn.

"Shut up! For one fucking second would you to stop fighting and let me deal with this guy! Jay is nowhere in sight, once again, and I don't need the both of your bitching to add onto my stress, so shut the fuck up!" Tak's face was steaming, his voice was so loud it had almost cracked.

However besides the fear struck dead in Pema and Shu's heart, it had also sent a spike of fear through mine as well. Although I hadn't been impressed much with these pitiful little gangs throughout the city, my opinion for them was about to change. Pema and Shu, brushed themselves off. Struck with dead silence and fear in their eyes, they remained calm with one another.

"So Tak, since Jay isn't obviously showing up, wouldn't it be in your best interest just to let me go? You don't have a problem with me and keeping me here's only putting on a lot of stress for you so wouldn't be better just to let me go." I asked.

Tak looked back at me with the most hysterical look in his eye. I could feel them piercing through mine.

"You call me Pro Tak, and I'm sick of your disrespect! Your right, I have no need for you.. time to die."

Tak pulled up a slab of stone from the ground, one of which worms and bits of dirt had been falling from and launched it at me. My heart raced, my blood sped up, and I knew that I was going to die if something didn't happen. Closer and closer by the second, I would be crushed instantly with my brains covering the hay floor. Suddenly, a tearing sound blasted through the air, and soon the slab of stone was reduced to mere pebbles and dust.

Debris hit the side of my face, along with a nice coating of dust. My life was sparred but only in the way that Jay had destroyed the boulder with his lightning. A course of blue flickering lightning retracted back into his finger tips. As annoyed as he looked, his quickly became calm but not when he spoke to the rest of the Triads.

"Idiots, ah told you not to use bendin'!" Shouted Jay. "Mah apologies Khai, ah hadn't instructed them to do this to ya but in a sense, you must know how incompetence feels right?"

"Go to hell you lying prick!" I exclaimed.

He laughed as his brushed the remaining rubble off my shoulder. How I would loved to have snapped his arm but not wasn't the time. I would have preferred it to be a non bender. So far Shu hadn't shown any signs of bending at all, he could've been hiding it or he wasn't one. Either way, I had picked out my target,

"Now Khai, let's save that hatred for ya execution alright? I know I'd said ah would letch'ya go but, things change. Emotions grow and bonds are strained. I'm talking about our bond Khai."

"What the fuck are you talking about, what have I done to you?"

Now his eyes had been the only thing that hadn't matched mine but I could tell I had stirred up a lot of painful memories in him. His face tensed and he sighed, trying not to keep anger within himself.

"The one person in this damned city and ah gotta look like ya? Your a wanted dead, Khai. So many people hate you, for abandoning the Equalists, and so many people hate you here because ya were one of'em. Now ah can barely go out without getting mistaken for ya, and I constantly have those damn metal benders on mah tail. And workin' for the Triple Threats, well.. that's not gonna work not won't it? Ah got people starin' death in my face because they can't get yours out of theirs. I can barely get a cup of fuckin' coffee without havin' to be interrogated first, it's terrible!" Jay said furiously.

Those people. All their faces and their hatred is towards me. What am I worth anymore? My head was betraying me. The force upon depression made my blood boil. It was true though, ever since I've arrived here my life's been nothing but hell. Was I really to blame? I was never on their side, the Equalists? Bastards, all of them! Even some of the metal benders hated me. I will prove to them I'm on their side. Even if that meant to force it upon them.

My blood ran icy cold through my veins, my hatred towards Jay grew so much I had to keep myself from trembling. I didn't know how to prove myself to people that I was good but taking out a member of the Triple Threats must be a start. Or it could show people the violent part of me, which was one of my greatest fears, final judgement.

My head hung, and from my position I was in I could hear Jay snickering get closer to me.

"What's the matter bud? Afraid ya might prove that you're just'a truer demon then you could imagine? Your pathetic!" Jay spat his last words onto my shoes.

His head was close to mine but his ranting wasn't even close to being finished.

"And the worst part of it all is that your..."

Before he could finish I had slammed the top of my head into his chin. My head was numb but anger was my medicine. A thin trickle of blood ran in between my eyes and started down my noes. My blood lust thickened and I struggled even more in my chair, nearly tipping it over. I wanted to explode, my blood turned from ice to what seemed to be fire.

"You call me a demon, I show you hell! I don't care what others think of me, I WILL PROVE THEM WRONG! Your opinion doesn't matter, what are you compared to me? The amount innocent people you've killed doesn't even compare to my life! And I swear if you do anything to affect my life or those it involves, I'll fucking kill you!" I shouted.

My anger was overwhelming, half of the stuff I had said had just come out without even knowing. It felt like someone else had shouted it from inside me.

"Interesting choices of words there bud, threatening me when ya claim your not that type of person. As for the "killing the innocent" remark, it's either kill or be killed, use or be used Khai. Only the strong survive. No matter though, after ya public execution, no one will be mistaken us again. Only one of us will live on Khai."

"I intend to." I said, a bitter darkness had entered my voice. Sometimes I didn't even know who I was anymore.

"Funny, ya don't even have your sword anymore and ya act like you have'a chance." Jay replied.

Jay turned around, signaling for Shu. My chance at freedom was coming, soon I would fight him and I can promise myself I would win. No matter how many bones I break. I assumed Shu was coming to hoist me over his shoulder like he did when he brought me out of the tool shed. He may be strong but still, everyone has a weak spot.

He barely struggled to pick me up. His grasp wasn't on me but the chair only. I had act now or else it would be to late, however I'd knew I'd regret it. With my face starring towards the ground, my sight was directly behind him. I tugged on my restraints, pulling harder I could feel the rope dig deep into my wrists but I could feel the fiber start to tear.

My next advantage was unclear but it seemed to be on the enemies side. I fought free, still hanging onto the ropes that had once been around my wrists, I dropped backwards. Shu was to slow to move, he probably hadn't expected it. I dropped back with my feet digging into his back and my hands using my restraints as a garrote. Since I hadn't been on the ground I pushed my feet deeper into his back, making me pull harder on the rope. Shu choked and gasped for air, saliva sputtered from his mouth.

Everybody turned around to see the problem. Pro Tak was the first to speak.

"Shu!"

"Dammit Shu!" Exclaimed Pema

Jay was the only one that smiled, Khai, ah've underestimate you.

Now I didn't really want to kill Shu. For a large guy, he seemed misunderstood and didn't really know where his life was going. Looking past his shoulder, I could plainly see Jay smiling, he was basically laughing at me.

"Only the strongest survive?" Jay, you should've never messed with me!