Foad U'Pad

Displaced Person Thirty Five

I don't own LOK & don't earn anything from this fiction
This story is rated M for adult language, adult themes, and possible sexual situations. If that's not enough there will be torture, sexual violence and just flat out nastiness, you have been warned! I made some spelling, grammatical and format changes, if you read it, review it. I haven't gotten to the issues I wanted to, but felt it was a place to stop. I promise to hit those issues in the follow on, "Stateless Man". If you're looking for a cookie, it's in the sex…

As I watch the Team leave with the blind Varrick being guided by Zi Hao, with a shaky Zhu Li hanging on to Asami as they head towards Air Temple Island, it's not hard to guess what happened to those two. I sigh, following the tunnel towards the surface. When I exit the tunnel into the dimly lit lobby of an office building I notice a nude blood stained male body lying on the ground under a hook tied to a rope rising into the darkness, a shinai, a chair with no seat and 2 sets of torn clothing nearby. As I gaze on this I can only hope that the young couple can find some happiness to offset the pain they are in now. Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.

Guang Ci comments "True wisdom is usually painful."

"Fuck!" is my only response.

"Inelegant, but oh so true" replies Guang Ci.

As I clear the building the tunnel exits into, I break into a jog as I approach the Spirit Cannon, hearing the sounds of battle. When I see the full scope of the conflict the 14 Benders I sent are badly outnumbered by some 60 odd Earth, Fire and Water Benders. I think to Guang Ci "Even using Time Bending I'm not sure that can change the balance here."

Guang Ci observers "With my assistance you have enough chi to change the course of the battle, let me guide your chi."

"So," as I draw Guang Ci and let it take control of my chi my Time Bending moves to 3 time's normal speed, "let's dance." As I move in and around the Republic forces, a mix of uniformed Police, Soldier's and garishly dressed civilians. At Guang Ci's direction I begin wounding them in ways to disrupt the chi flow. A sliced hamstring here, breaking arms there, a leg over here, making short work of some 50 of them. At this point the team has been able to overpower the remaining 10, bringing the battle to an end. I bring myself out of Bending next to Bolin, "So, Kid you got enough juice for the cannon?"

I answer Foad "Juice no, lava yes!" as I pull a stream of lava from the ground into the barrel of the cannon, increasing the temperature in the barrel as high as I can.

As Bolin focuses on his Bending the Spirit Cannon begins to get an orange glow the Metal Benders, Korra going into the Avatar state to assist, begin to twist the platinum tube into a loop and then Bolin sinks it out of sight into a pool of lava.

As the team breaths a collective sigh of relief, a Platoon of Republic Army Benders appears 100 meters away, near the Spirit Portal.

Foad yells "Avatar Korra its time to withdraw!" Agreeing with him, I yell "Fall back to the rally point." As I throw up an earth wall in front of me to cover our withdrawal. As we pass unseen in to the building that is our entrance to the tunnels I grin at Foad, I see the face of a pained man. As we follow the team into the tunnel I collapse the entrance blocking potential pursuit.

At the rally point I find the some of the team in shock, Bolin to one side on his hands and knees vomiting, Bumi by his side rubbing his back, saying "get it out kid, just get it out..." Su is holding her twin boys to her shoulders, shock and fear on all 3 faces, while the White Lotus teams are stone faced, as is Tenzin. At the center of this is Lin kneeling next to the body of a bound man, his head and one arm lying to one side, next to the blood stained axe that did it.

I stand up barely able to contain the anger boiling up inside of me at this brutal murder I growl out "Foad, what's the meaning of this! I thou...", as he cuts me off.

As I watch Lin kneeling by Raiko's decapitated body becoming the screaming teapot as she begins to shout "Foad what's the meaning of this!...", as I talk over her "Bumi search in that maintenance closet for some type of tarp to carry him back in. Use the White Lotus to help you. Chief, Tenzin, Avatar on me please." as I a few meters away from the body.

"Damn the Spirits," Lin angrily starts, "what happened here? We did not sanction murder!"

I reply to Lin's question, "Zhu Li happened."

Korra gasp's "Zhu Li? Why?" Tenzin whispers "Spirits no, that poor girl...", while Lin's face pales as she remains silent.

As I look at the senior leadership of the team in various stages of shock and dismay, I begin to explain what I think happened.

"Lin, Korra, Tenzin! I know that this is horrible; I've got the blood splatter to show that. Focus and let me run through what I think happened, ok?"

I get nods from the 3, as I begin. "How many of you looked around at the lobby we went through?"

Lin replies "We all did. I thought it was where Raiko used Zolt; he was the head of the largest Triad in the City, to get Varrick and Zhu Li to tell how to use the Spirit Cannon. Then they killed Varrick and Zhu Li and dumped the bodies. It looked like Raiko and Zolt had a falling out and Zolt lost"

"That's a good theory Lin, but Zhu Li killing Raiko changes the ending. In that lobby was a seat less chair that a nude Varrick was tied and beaten across the thighs with a shinai. Zhu Li's hands were tied and hung from that hook that was there. At some point Zolt started to rape Zhu Li, but that brave woman had enough force of will to get Zolt to drop his guard. When that moment came, she was able to wrap her legs around his head and lever herself high enough to get her hands free of the hook. Then she threw herself, thighs clamped around his head, to one side snapping his neck."

"Did any of you recognize that halo device?" I ask and Lin nods. "It means that after being beaten Varrick had to watch Zhu Li's rape, he could not turn away; he could not even close his eyes!"

"After that Zhu Li stripped Zolt's body of his clothes, using his shirt to cover herself, while Varrick got the pants. They hid in this maintenance closet for hours, possibly even before we were going in." As I look at the three, Tenzin is looking paler than I've seen him in the last day, Korra is silently crying and Lin looks like she's about to become a Lava Bender, I decide to finish this later.

"Bumi, did you find a tarp?"

"Ah, yes Foad."

"Alright people let's move out, we're not out of the city yet!", as we form up the White Lotus teams covering the front and rear. Bumi, Bolin, Tenzin and I carrying Raiko's body move down the tunnels.

End of Displaced Person.