Chapter 7 part 1

LOK

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Korra had done it.

She had managed to get herself in deep trouble this time. And this time she wasn't with Mako to help her. Here in the middle of the park she was surrounded by dark figures, though this time they were not her White Lotus guards. No. These were the real deal, the ones who had been snatching up Earthbenders for the past few nights. They had almost caught her unawares if not for a call of a turtleduck...

"Cuakoo Oook."

Causing her to turn around at the last second to come face to mask with a man holding a damp cloth in his gloved hands. Both lept backwards, Korra sending a volley of earth pellets as she did so and the masked man gracefully flipped, acrobatically dodging each clump of dirt sent.

Her fists clenched as she sent another rock flying at a goggle masked man in black. The man dodged it only to be sent backwards by a larger rock. It was during this moment that three others seized an opening and wrapped their arms around her. Korra could not help but gasp, though at the exact moment that she did so a cloth was placed over her mouth, the same damp cloth the other man was holding. She felt rapid pulses down her arms simultaneously and at that moment knew she would no longer be able to bend.

She struggled against the men for what seemed like the better part of a half hour, more and more hands fell upon her. The sleeve of Bolin's shirt was torn and she gained bruises all over her body as they tried to beat her into submission while the chemicals in the cloth were late in slowing her down.

Thwack!

Finally came one good blow to her skull to knock her out. Korra's form slumped over in a heap in the arms of now seven men. A thin, tall young man stood over his masked face looking down upon her, seemingly frozen as he held a rock in his hand. A large truck backed up into park entrance, and Korra's body was hoisted into the back.

"Good job, rookie." The men filed into the back one by one in almost military fashion. The last one, the rookie, looked back at the park silently and then into the truck, sitting near Korra's body.

...

Korra awoke to a searing pain in her head, and just about her whole body ached. The room was a brightly lit office that favored a tacky color of red. Her hands were bound behind her back, binds she could not escape from no matter how much she struggled.

This was not the kind of place she expected to wake up at and she felt her chest tighten. Did they find out she's the Avatar? Her heart quickened

"Hu-hu-hu-hu..."

Her attention was grabbed by that ear grating sound of a laugh. Her head was suddenly forcefully lifted, her expression instinctually formed a snarl as she was brought closer to a large man's face, whose hand held her by the chin. He had on Fire nation armor, it reminded her of the kind she saw in pictures of history books. He lowered his face to hers, the not scarred part held a sickening grin that Korra quickly feared and dispised. It was the kind of look only powerful individuals gave when they cornered their prey and were going to enjoy their meal. It was a look of lust and evil.

"Who ever you are, you wont get away with this..." She growled as the man's puffy fingers tilted her chin left and then right. He was inspecting her like a trainer does a new mongrel.

Her statement only earned another nasty chuckle from the man, his calloused hands caressed her skin. "I am the Warden, my dear. You certainly are lively and for an obvious half blooded earthbender you have quite the skill of a master. I heard it took nearly seven men to take you in."

The man leaned in close and his scarred skin barely brushed against her cheek, his huffed breathing disgusted Korra even more than she was with the man at how he looked at her. She felt bile rise in her throat, gritting her teeth she held it in with thoughts of mind over matter. She was not going to show any weakness to this man. She kept scowling at him, and shortly said, "I've had wonderful teachers."

The Warden's grin diminished into a hardened expression and his eyes narrowed. Korra stiffened slightly, again she feared she may have been found out; but when a metal ring was placed around her neck and hands, painfully snapped into place, the warden began smiling like a devil again. "Such a disappointment, a beauty like you could be used for much more enjoyable purposes. It's truely a shame that your talents are more suited for the pits, your skin color is exactly what our customers desire most."

Korra sucked up a wad of saliva and spit at the man's face.

"Ugh!" The man grimaced and backed away with his hand rising to wipe the dripping wetness from his high balding forehead. He growled angrily at the awaiting guards, "Take her to those rat holes, both the work shifts are ending by now. A bowl of slop will change her demeanor quickly enough. Her designation is seventy-four, get this dirt-grubber out of my sight."

Korra screamed and struggled as two guards grasped her from under her arms with a third following. She screamed as they started to drag her away, "I wont let you get away with this! You'll pay for what you're doing here!"

Her words echoed in the cavern as she struggled and one of the guards hit her face, she could feel her cheek one who hit her was bilt like a tank and could handle her single handedly in her weakened state. The other two had the same slim build, for agility and speed assuming. The one beside the larger man threatened, his voice came out quite clear despite the mask, "Quit it or you'll get the nerve treatment!"

"I don't care!" She tried to swipe at them with Earthbending but faltered when the cavern wall did not bend to her will. She gasped, horrified. "What did you do to me?"

"Stupid Earthbenders, every time too. This is getting dull quick, eh bud?" The one guard that spoke to her before did not address her now, but to the guy behind the man that bruised her up. "You're the real quiet type I've noticed, rookie. Not that I care to each his own I say But I like to socialize.

The slim young man only stared at him, expression hidden and undiscernable from under the mask.

The guard that talked a lot spoke again but this time to Korra as well, "A word of advice kid... Watch out for Hun. He's a mean son of a gun, an asshole, and is not afraid to kill a man for his 'exepriments'. Yeah, the freak thinks he's some sort of scientist, goes on about how his research will please the one true emperor. Puh-lease. The guy just wants to be recognized, he was an architect before this. An architect! "

"You just don't shut up do you Fritz?" The man doing the beating finally spoke up. "All I hear from you is blah blah this and blah blah that! The only time you shut up is in front of the Warden, I swear you say one more word on they way down and I will make sure you end up like our lady here." He made a point with another punch to the face. Pain seared above her left eye and warm liquid trickled down over it, she had to squint as red tinted her vision.

"The Warden will be mad if you break her before we get there."

"Grrr! That's it!" The brute tossed Korra aside as he lunged at the smaller fast talking figure. Korra, her arms still restrained behind her back, landed on her stomach and air expelled from her lungs. She could not see but she could hear the angry man yelling curses and by the sound of it someone was trying to keep them both from fighting. Probably the silent one, during all that time she did not hear him speak. She grunted as she used her legs to slide down the stairs on her stomach, each ledge she ran over felt as painful as the last as the metal threatened to stab her through her shirt. Nonetheless she had to get past this and move quickly, use the distraction to get away to find Bolin. Crawling catapillar style made her abs burn as much as her face did, the blood had dribbled to her chin too making the task a little harder.

Her face finally planted on a flat platform when she felt herself being lifted up by her bound hands, she hissed in pain when her shoulders stretched beyond their limit as she was raised beyond the reach of her feet.

"Ngh! Let me go!"

It must've been the brute who noticed her trying to escape them, cause it was he who lifted her up, "You in a hurry to meet your fate? So be it."

The next few second went by so fast it seemed like a blur. Korra felt herself go flying as she was tossed over the handrail and a scream escaped her throat.

End chapter 7 pt 1

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