Still don't own LoK or Anastasia.

Again, thank you to my reviewers.

Iroh had jerked awake with the premonition that they were under attack. he jerked the blankets off of him and immediately ran to Korra's room and woke her up. she was groggy and furious with him, but after he explained his premonition she grudgingly agreed to follow him to the bay just to make sure that Anastasia was all right.

As it turned out, she was missing, which Bolin had discovered using the seismic waves that he had so recently learned how to use from Lin. Iroh had charged ahead with firebending, and Korra had joined him, both on their way to the only nearby boats in the bay. The one that Korra landed on was a merchant's, which she profusely apologized for interrupting his work and explained that she felt as though something were amiss in the bay.

The boat that Iroh landed on was bereft of any and every living creature, and he was alert as he scanned the area around him. He heard a weapon, only to wheel around and find himself being electrocuted by one of the projectile trapping methods that equalists used.

He was dragged downstairs, where he was then stripped of the vast majority of his clothes, and then presented like a trophy to who he recognized as Lightning Bolt Zolt, the leader of the Triple Threat Triads, one person that he'd heard a lot about from Bolin. He was silent as the man drilled him about Korra's whereabouts and the information that the vagrant had received, but was soon electrocuted by a chi blocker's glove as a result of this.

"Put him with our other… guest," the man sneered, and Iroh was bound in chains and locked in a room below the deck.

"I should have known," Iroh groaned as he got up only to find a terrified, and mostly naked, Anastasia writhing in her own chains. "What are you-? Never mind, that. Did they ask you the questions about Korra?"

"Pipe down!" a man yelled from upstairs, and Iroh's eyes narrowed at the sound of his waterbending soldier that he'd put over Anastasia.

"Filthy traitor, I'll burn him alive," Iroh hissed as he managed to crawl over to Anastasia, who was now writhing as she tried to get away from him. "No, I won't hurt you. Just calm down, I'll have us out of here in a few minutes."

She shook her head and looked up over at the door and then at him, trying in vain to communicate with him. A loud banging was heard, and then more yelling for the two of them to be quiet, this time with an added threat of rape directed at her. She flinched, and looked to him for a clue as to what they were talking about.

"You don't want to know," he promised almost silently into her ear. "I'll have you out in no time, but I'll need you to use firebending to break the chains around my wrists when I get you out."

The waterbender stormed down and began using bloodbending on the two of them, and Anastasia screamed and began crying in pain. Iroh was silent, although in just as much pain as her as his wrists were twisted until they were almost at the breaking point. He realized his mistake, and closed his eyes as he tried to think of an escape outlet.

"Not so strong now, are you, general?" the waterbender sneered, "I may not be an equalists, but I know enough about you to know that you're at your weakest on the full moon, which is when us normal waterbenders all turn into bloodbenders."

Iroh grit his teeth as he tried to keep the pain in, but his former soldier was making it too difficult for him to do so. Anastasia was trying to scream as she writhed in pain, but it was to the waterbender's pain that she used accidental firebending that landed on his arm. With a cry of pain and outrage, he threw her onto Iroh and began bloodbending the two into horrible ways that caused them so much pain that Iroh thought that he was about to die.

"Stop!" Anastasia yelled as she burnt through the rag that had been in her mouth. "stop, please!"

"Too late," he sneered, "You should have obeyed me when you had the chance, your royal snootiness! If you're going to survive the night, which neither of you will, then you'll both be so scarred for life that nobody will ever think of you as what you look like now!"

Iroh clenched his teeth as he did the only thing he could think of to do – lightningbend. He shot a bolt of lightning at his former waterbender, who was struck down in pain. But the lightning wasn't aimed at his chest, it merely hit his arm, which only seemed to make him even more angry.

"So that's how you're going to play it," he rasped as he finally got up. "So be it, General Iroh. Both of you two won't have graves to mark your bodies aside from the waters that we're floating on right now. You won't survive tonight, you'll be drowning inside the boat after I capsize it."

He stormed off and Iroh quickly made his move, knowing that they didn't have much time at all if he was going to get them out of there.

"I know you don't trust me, but I need you to," he said as he went behind Anastasia. "I'm going to destroy the chains on your wrists, and I'll need you to do the same for mine while I use firebending on the chains around your ankles."

But they had no time to use firebending as the boat was capsized, with Lightning Bolt Zolt still on it with them. Iroh almost panicked as the fellow lightning- and firebender stormed in, but almost relaxed when the chains were unlocked for Anastasia. Lightning Bolt Zolt grabbed her by the wrist, at which point she burnt his face just as Ozai had to Zuko, and then grabbed the key and began unlocking Iroh's shackles.

"That works just as well," Iroh commended. "Well done. Let's go."

But as he was about to open the door for them to get out, a leak appeared, and he realized just how bad off they were now. Anastasia was getting dressed as quickly as she could, although terrified, and Lightning Bolt Zolt was getting up as well. Iroh was normally a calm and stoic man, but this time he went for getting the three of them out of there and the gang leader was no exception, even though he was no longer a bender.

The foolish once-bender jerked the door open to release a rush of water, and Anastasia's eyes again became dilated as Iroh struggled to help her towards the exit.

Oooh! what do you think will happen?

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