Revenge

Part deux

In the land of the blind One-eye is king...

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OK, first chapter down, and I have to say: Mrs. Aang, I'd love to have a you as a beta, just promise me you'll keep reviewing, and tell me how to get you as a beta.

That said, Let's get it on. We finally will find out wheter it were the criminals or the D.L.A. who showed up first. Enjoy and review.

Chapter two: the reaction

"Yeah, what's up?" Sokka asked annoyed.

"D.L.A., I'm Hurio Tamal, this is my partner Ronin Fang. We apologize for the late hour of our visit sir, but we've come to take you in for questioning."

"Questioning? About what."

"The murders of Lee Ataki and Pepin Mil."

Sokka's eyes twitched, which didn't go unnoticed by Hurio. Toph shot up from the sofa. "What?" was what she asked.

"Don't worry." Said Fang. "It's just a questioning, he's not being charged with anything. Let me explain..." He walked inside but was stopped by Hurio who gave him the 'keep your cock in your pants' look. He was a good agent, but whenever this Casanova met a beautiful girl, involved in a relationship or not, whether she was related in any way to a case or not, he couldn't control himself, he had make his move. Fang nodded but went to sit next to her anyways comforting her by telling that she didn't have to worry. Toph didn't listen though, she wondered how they could have gotten so close to the truth, and was afraid that Sokka would be blamed. Meanwhile Hurio took the two swords lying in the corner.

"And you'll have to come to, I'm afraid..." Finished Fang.

Fang offered to help up Toph but she refused. "I can take care of my self sir."

Toph stood up and walked over to Sokka, she grabbed his arm and he led her outside towards the chariadge of the D.L.A. officers. The evening was cool and the last bits of sunlight disappeared behind the great walls of Ba sing se. In the darkness lured two men, determined they walked towards the foursome.

Toph rose her head, two men were coming, and their footsteps didn't seem friendly. "Trouble..." she whispered to Sokka and the two agents. She slightly nudged towards the two broad postures slowly moving in on them.

"How do you know?" Asked Fang.

"Believe me. She knows" answered Sokka. "I'll need my sword back."

"Right, over my dead body."

A huge wall of stone rushed towards them and Toph could only just split it in half bending it around them. "You just might get your wish!" She yelled out.

Sokka was quickly handed the two swords while a boulder was shot right at him, crushed right before it hit him by Hurio. The two-some stopped firing projectiles for a second and the foursome divided themselves. Toph and Sokka faced the right one, the two officers the left one. Toph had two more rocks flying at her, before she could react Sokka broke each one with one of the two swords, this gave Toph some time two break a piece of ground and devided it into smaller rocks. She send them flying towards their foe, he used his bending to let it fly by him and turn flying towards it's sender.

Meanwhile Fang bended earth around his arms and ran at the man on the left, who moved the earth beneath his feet trying to brake his leg but Fang created a wave of sand catching his friend and sending him towards his enemy. With this speed Fang punched the gangster right on his face. Blood and teeth were still flying around as the bandit fell on his back. Hurio and Fang looked over to Toph and Sokka.

Sokka was running towards his enemy who kept shooting rocks at him which Toph shattered one by one. Less then one metre away Sokka stopped bend back to the left and swung his and Toph's sword at the bad guy. He missed however due to the bad guy jumping up by creating a tower of earth and projectiling himself with it. He landed right in front of Toph and grabbed her neck with one hand, lifting her in the air and choking her. Her head was becoming fuzzy and she couldn't breathe, she felt weak.

In a last attempt she concentrated all her metal-bending-forces on the swords Sokka was holding. They flew out of his hands towards the man choking her one pierced him in the back of his leg which made him fall down, and the other got stuck in his back. Now she could hear him grasp for air, she felt the heartbeat of the hand on her neck weaken. She breathed in and sent the sword in so deep that the blade exited through the stomach. The once dominant hand was now grabbing her clothes as to hang on to life, to ask for mercy of Toph. She used her metal-bending to let the sword fall out of his body and blood splattered out through both holes, creating so many bloodstains on her nightgown that it nearly completely turned red. The man fell down, no more pain, no more tears, no more pulse.

Hurio and Fang were shocked by what they just saw, so paralyzed by the absence of emotion Toph had when she took the man's life, that Fang didn't notice the man he knocked out getting up behind him an piercing him in the chest with a dagger. Fang tried to scream but couldn't, he couldn't make any noise. His warm blood dripped on the murderers hand. Who whispered to him "I'll rip you apart, like I do all my victims." He stabbed again and this time Fang found his voice and screamed it out. Hurio turned his head. He froze for a second, then he picked up a rock and richoted it directly at the assassins head.

The snap of his neck was heard to both Sokka and Toph. They ran towards the downed agent and found Hurio already sitting there. Fang was in shock, a bloodstain growing steadily on his clothes, he was shivering, white as a ghost and had a scared look in his eyes, his blond locks dirty with earth and his hands covered in the red fluid that is life. Hurio supported his head with his hands pressed on the two wounds. Fang grasped his clothes and looked him in the eye.

"I'm dead, T... I'm dead." Were his words

"No Fang you're not, you're going to be OK, I promise." Hurio couldn't suppress the tears in his eyes and he didn't want to.

"Hah, aah... hehe, you... never were a... good lyer T... Aaah!"

"Easy now, spare your breath... please for me."

"Hey T... guess wha-ah-t..."

"Easy Fang, save your strenght."

"That guy... you killed... Was the... Was the murderer ... of that... fa...mily." Now the blood was spreading on the earth, Fang was draining dry. "He... He, he... told me. ... he ripped his, his victims apart T."

"Shh, please just hang on."

Fang started to smile slightly and tried to reach something non-existent in the sky. "We got him T. ... We got him... we ... him ... we got him ... T we, we got him... T..."

"Fang? Fang? Fang! Don't leave me." But it was no use, the life in his eyes had disappeared.

Toph hugged Sokka as she started to cry in Sokka's chest and Sokka ran his hands through her hair and kissed her fore-head as they stood there over the man hugging his best friends corpse crying, screaming and losing it. And they slowly realised that this chain of events was partly their fault.

A/N: See you in the next chapter, and don't forget to review, if I get enough I promise to drop the next chapter as soon as I get back from rock Werchter, otherwise I'll rest a day or two. Its up to you, so review!