Foad U'Pad

Displaced Person Thirty Four

I don't own LOK, or earn anything from this fiction. Rated M for possible adult language, violence and sexual themes. I made some spelling, grammatical and format changes, if you read it, review it.

As I begin to awaken the first thing I notice is the Varrick's slow steady heart beat beneath my ear, his scent filling my nostrils, making me feel so warm and safe. As I open my eyes and, in the flickering light of the lantern, I see the maintenance supply room we hid in hours earlier. The fear comes back, but I keep the panic at bay, "I need to keep my Iknik safe, no one else will!" I think to myself.

I stand up and hearing voices near the door I quietly lift an axe from the rack. Nearing the door I hear a man's voice "Asami..." on hearing this I know we've been found and open the door to hear, "...Raiko back to the island." On seeing the man standing across from Asami gesturing towards the covered figure of a man I can tell is Raiko. As the rage washes over me I hear a voice scream "Raiko, you elbow leech!", as I feel the axe lift over my head and striking one side of Raiko's neck and exiting under the opposite arm. Then everything goes black.

As the Team reaches the Phase Line I turn and say "Asami, I want you to send Kai ahead of you to let Jinora know that the fire control center has been destroyed and using...", as I notice the door to maintenance room begin to open, "...the Water Bender to help you get Raiko back to the island.", gesturing towards him.

At I begin to turn towards the doorway I see a bedraggled woman, showing dirty, dry tear stains down her cheeks, wearing an oversized pastel red shirt, sleeves rolled up to above her elbows, and a knotted strip of cloth around the waist to tie the billowing shirt down, hearing her scream "Raiko, you elbow leech!", as she swings the axe overhead striking the side of his neck and slicing through his body until the axe exits under the opposite arm. Asami and I are soaked with Raiko's spraying blood as his lifeless head hits the floor, followed by the rest of him.

As Foad is telling me to babysit Raiko back to the island, I feel my anger begin to rise when I hear Zhu Li scream "Raiko, you elbow leech!", turning I see Zhu Li's rage filling her eyes above dirty tear stained face wearing a pastel red man's shirt tied off the remains of breast bindings, as she swings an axe slicing his head off from neck to arm pit, soaking me with blood. Hearing Raiko's muffled scream as Zhu Li struck him shook me to my core as I turn and vomit my breakfast.

As I turn towards this woman, the axe slipping from her fingers, I catch her as she falls forward. "Damn," I mutter "I didn't see that one coming."

I notice a thin man, with a pencil thin mustache and a blind look in his eyes, his bare chest showing the bruising of a recent severe beating above the clearly oversized pants crawling on his hands and knees mewling "Zhu Li? Where are you? You need to do the thing." I say to him, "Varrick, Zhu Li is alright, she just passed out. I'll have Ms. Sato and some Benders get you both back to Air Temple Island."

"No," Varrick replies, "You don't understand, Raiko's going to use the Spirit Cannon to destroy the island! I...told him how, I did it to save Zhu Li, but it didn't work. He had Zolt hurt herrr...," as the man collapses, bringing his face to his hands on the floor, weeping quietly, "Zhu Li I'm sorry!"

Still holding the collapsed Zhu Li, I turned to Asami and say "Asami are you alright?", as she turns and straightens from her bend over position, wiping the mouth of her ashen face nods in the affirmative, "Good, change in plans. I need you to take Zhu Li and Varrick back to Sifu Kya, they both need her help badly. And Asami you need to let Kya know what Zhu Li said and did here. Take the Team with you. I'm going help put a stop to this."

TBC