Revenge

Part two

In the land of the blind one-eye is king

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Chapter nine already, it's not much further now. I haven't written it, but I think about three more chapters. So if you haven't reviewed yet, do it now, your running out of time :).

Chapter nine: Rude awakening

Hurio burst through the door, in a second time Toph and Sokka woke up and jumped out of the bed, Sokka (who had put his pants back on after the sex), fell down in pain as he jumped out. But Toph (with a blanket wrapped around her body) stood in a defencive position.

"You bitch!" Spoke Hurio in his drunken rage.

"Hurio?" She wanted to say more but she didn't get the time. Hurio charged at her. Because he had been drinking so much it was easy for Toph to block his punch and send one flying to his chest herself. He stumbled back, losing his balance a bit. Sokka who was lying on the floor found the bottle they had drunk and used it to smack against Hurio's legs as she stumbled backwards. This made him fall to the ground. He was knocked out immediately.

Toph left Sokka to tie up Hurio as she searched whether there were any more Dy lee agents in the bar downstairs. Not finding anything she went upstairs again. Hurio was tied up in a chair, still unconscious, Sokka sat on the bed.

"There's nobody else Meat-boy."

"I didn't think there would be." He told her as she sat down next to him.

"What do you mean."

"He reeks of alcohol."

"So, so do we."

"Yeah, but he also had this." Said Sokka holding up something.

"Oh wow that changes everything." Said Toph in a sarcastic voice.

Sokka started with "Yeah, it proves that..." But then interrupted himself, realising her sarcasm came from the fact that she couldn't see what he was holding. He placed it in her hands. Her fingers ran around the object, and soon she realised it was a key.

"It's a key... big woop!" Were her words.

"It's a key to a room here." Explained Sokka "He probably got drunk and rented a room here. Perhaps he heard us or something"

"So what do we do with him?"

"We'll take turns keeping watch. And in the morning when he wakes up, we'll find out why he hates us. He attacked us so he has something against us."

"Perhaps he blaims us for his partners death. I kind of am responsible."

Sokka embraced Toph and kissed her on her forehead. "You're no such thing. Now rest, I'll take first watch."

She didn't get much sleep that night, eventually she got up and told Sokka to try and get some rest, he needed it more and she couldn't sleep, besides it was nearly her time anyway. Sokka didn't take such a long time to fall asleep. But hey, you know Sokka.

She took a stool and placed herself in front of Hurio as soon as Sokka fell asleep. She listened to his breath, regular and at ease. It reminded her of a all to familiar scene. The first of the rapists she hunted down had also been in this position. Unaware that he was about to be interrogated, waking up with her next to him. Flashbacks and dark fantasy's came to the surface of her mind. The unreal dreams mingled with reality and Tophs mind played all the bad thing of the last year all over again. Her blood started to boil and her grip on reality started to fade. Unaware of what she was doing she got up and went for her sword. The sword of the priest, the last one of the four who had fallen, the one she was unable to kill but unable to forgive, the ones who's sorrow she got and the one that got her sorrow, but who was destined to pay for his deeds. The one she hated the most, for he had changed and disabled her the chance for revenge. Before her sat not Hurio, but the rapist. The fat swine that had been an animal to her. That hat to be bled dry like a pig. She pulled out her sword and tightened her grip on it. She grabbed his collar and lifted it up. His head fell back and uncovered his neck. Her fingers slided over it, leading her to his coronary artery. She wanted to make the man suffer, but more then all she wanted it to end quickly. The blade ran through his neck, ripping open his neck and blood splattered out all over her, him and the room. The man calmly moved his head facing her. Toph was petrified and couldn't move.

The man spoke in the priests voice as he said "Thank you, I've accepted this for a long time." The rest of the room disappeared, she couldn't sense any of the objects or Sokka. She was scared and fell on her back as she tried to walk away from the man in the chair. She crawled backwards, screaming for help. The man turned into the priest, the ropes that tied him disappeared and he raised his hands to the sky, he yelled in a demonic voice "Thanks for setting me free!". He clapped his hands and the next thing Toph knew she was tied up on a chair. The priest had gone but she sensed someone else walking in front of her, steps all to familiar. Buy walked up and down holding a dagger. Toph tried to get loose but failed. "Trying to get loose pretty?" He asked. His cold fingers touched her warm cheek and she shivered. "Sorry," he continued, "being dead makes you cold I guess. But you know all about that don't you, you have been dead for a year, ever since ... my fun shall I say." Tears formed in Tophs eyes as he threw the dagger away and ran his hands over her arms and legs. "I'm in the mood for some fun Missy..." He roughly grabbed her down there and bit her right breast while his other hand ran over her bottom. She tried to scream but her mouth was gagged. She heard an object flying through the air and the next thing she knew. Buy's own dagger hit him right in the chest.

Sokka ran at her and untied her she grabbed him close and hugged him tightly, he whispered that she'd be ok, that everything would be ok. Her hands moved to his face to hold him, to kiss him. She also touched the eye-patch. She stoke her tongue in his mouth and he replied in kind. At first she felt good about it. But then his kiss changed. Her hands didn't touch Sokka's face anymore, his eye-patch disappeared and her index finger fell into a whole where an eye should have been. She tried to back off from the stranger, but he blocked her, held her in a dark hug, immobilizing her. When he spoke she heard Lee Ataki's voice say "I knew you'd warm up to me dear." she gasped for air. In all her effort she wriggled herself loose from him and fell, fell into the darkness. She landed hard and awoke from her nightmare.

When she woke up she came to the conclusion she had fallen asleep, then fell from her stool and dreamt the whole thing. When she tried to get up however she noticed that her left wrist was hurting and her sword was pretty close to her right. Her right hand crept over her arm to the sour spot where she found a rather deep cut, bleeding. She immediately ran to the bathroom and cleaned the wound, then she put bandage around it. As a shock the possibility of her killing Hurio came to mind. She walked to him, slowly, because she was afraid of the possible answer to her question. She got close enough to hear him breath, she sighed in relief. The next thing she did was put a little rug over the small blood pile and put her sword back after cleaning it. Somewhere she heard a bell ring six times, six o'clock. Soon she'd have to wake Sokka, and Hurio. She used her time to find an excuse for the cut on her wrist.

She woke Sokka an hour later. He got up all sleep drunk, but claimed that he felt a lot better, he could walk on his own and he even did some push ups. The only awkward moment was when he tried to reach for his brush that he missed, because of his eye missing, messing up his deptpersicion. The best story Toph could come up with for the wound was that she cutted herself by accident when she was brandishing her sword. She didn't know whether Sokka believed her, which he didn't, but he let rest for now anyway. Sokka went downstairs to get breakfast for them and told her that she should awake Hurio now. As soon as Sokka left the room and closed the door she started saying Hurio's name to him, telling him to awake and slapping him on the cheek. After a minute or two, three Hurio opened his eyes. Finding himself in a corner of a room, tied up, gagged and Toph staring at him with her blind eyes. His first reaction was panic, he struggled to get loose and tried to scream for help. Both attempts failed as Toph didn't move a muscle.

When he calmed down Toph placed her hand on his wrist and asked him. "Are you going to be quiet so I can un-gag you? Grunt once for yes, twice for no."

"Uhr!" Hurio grunted.

Toph could feel by his pulse that he was 'grunting' the truth. She ripped the gag from his mouth.

"What the fuck is going on here?" He asked, with a normal volume voice that did express his inconvenience and fright.

"I could ask you the same question. What do you remember of last night?"

"Not much, I guess I've ... been hitting the bottle a bit to much."

"You charged in here, trying to kill us or whatever."

"I remember speaking to Tori. And blaming you for all my problems. Blaming you for Fang's death..."

At that moment Sokka walked in with a tray of sandwiches. And a can of water. Fang looked over when he heard the door open.

Toph spoke, and Hurio turned his head back. "I do feel sorry for that happening. But I didn't kill him."

"No, you killed and wounded two other of my colleagues!"

Sokka dropped the plate and ran at Hurio, holding his collar with his two hands. "For your information, they were going to rape her and then send her to the mob like they did me!" He said with an uncontrollable anger in his voice and eyes. The truth burning along.

Hurio dropped his voice and said ashamed "So, I guess they really did turn over."

Toph got between the two men and calmed Sokka down enough to make him back of of Hurio.

"How did you find us?" She asked quietly.

"Coincidence I guess. Tori, the bartender, told me a couple fitting your description checked in. He doesn't know who you are." As it remained silent for a while he decided to continue. "How did you loose your eye."

"Some psycho cut it out." Answered Sokka.

"I'm sorry." He said.

"It isn't you fault." Argued Toph.

"Actually, if I had paid more attention maybe smuggling him out would have been impossible."

"There are a lot of ifs in the past..." Began Toph.

"...But now its the future that counts most." Finished Sokka. "And our future is somewhere else, we'll need to get out of Ba sing se."

"You are kidding right?" Laughed Hurio. "The boss of the mafia seems to be quite interested in you, they won't stop hunting you, and believe me, I've seen it to much, they'll find you, wherever you go."

"So what do you suggest?" Asked Toph.

"I've got no clue, You're screwed."

"Maybe we can take them down?" Suggested Sokka.

"Don't make me laugh boy, if the leader is who we at the agency suspect it is, you've got no chance boy."

"You know who it is?"

"Yeah, well we think we know."

"Then tell us!" Demanded Toph.

"Fine, why not, we think its..."

a/n Ok, mayor cliffhanger, but I guess you may already know who it is. Guess! And for those who want to find out, the more reviews I get the sooner I post. Muhahahaha, I'm evil I know, that's my new evil laugh. Like it? I've been working on it. Muhahahaha!

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