The White Lotus War

Chapter 13: Advice From A Doctor

Gao jumped out of his speedboat and onto the sand with his men riding their speedboats toward the island just a little ways behind him. Gao inspected the forest and estimated it to go several miles; not as big as other islands in the area, but definitely not small. He was actually interested in why no one ever bothered to claim this piece of land. Perhaps it was because of the vast forest area and it would just take a lot of profit in order to cut it all down.

Still, that wasn't the main issue. Avatar Hitomi was somewhere on the island and he promised the Boss that he would have her delivered to him by the following day. Of course, now he was far off schedule and he would be lucky to bring the Avatar to him at all.

When the other speedboats arrived on the shore, Gao commanded, "Search the entire island and do not rest until Avatar Hitomi is once again in our custody."

The large squad of fire benders bended small balls of fire in their hands to shine through the darkness of the extremely late night, and proceeded through the forest with Gao's lead.

His advisor, Batar, approached him with his clipboard in hand and said, "Sir, the forest is too great for a squadron of this size to affectively seek out the Avatar, especially in the dead of night."

Gao glared and him and angrily said, "Well then, you must have a more efficient way of finding the Avatar. I would be thrilled to hear it."

Batar gulped and replied, "No sir, it was just a comment, a stupid comment!"

Gao warned, "Keep your comments to yourself. We have to find her before the Boss becomes too impatient. I don't care if we have to search every centimeter of this island; our task is to bring him the Avatar as soon as possible."

"But sir, where do you intend to begin looking? It could take a few days to search the entire island, so where should we start?"

Almost in answer, they heard the sound of a tree being knocked over. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and from about a mile away, they heard and saw several more trees being knocked down rather quickly and in a path. Gao turned to his advisor and pointed in that direction.

[Yuko]

The monster quickly absorbed water from the grass below her and blasted Yuko with it, sending her crashing through three more trees! Yuko was really getting beaten up and she just barely found the strength to keep fighting. Yuko grabbed the broken tree next to her, yanked it from out of the soil, and threw it at the monster! The monster quickly bended more water from the grass and sliced the tree to pieces with it! Yuko was out of breath and could feel that she had one or two broken bones in her body, but she wasn't the person who called quits when it came to fights.

She charged at the monster, dodged a quick blast of water, and punched her right in the jaw! This sent her flying a few feet back, but she got up like it was nothing! The injury on her chin was still their so Yuko did do some damage to her, but the monster's face was so full of anger, she wondered if the monster even felt it when she hit her! Her black eyes were full of rage and they had a predator-like instinct to kill whatever was in front of them. Yuko could definitely understand why Yao called this girl a monster.

Yuko yelled at herself to stay concentrated and focus on defeating her opponent. She charged for another attack, and was blasted with another whip of water that sent her about a yard back! When Yuko got up on her feet, ready to defend herself, the monster had vanished! Yuko looked around but couldn't find the monster anywhere she looked!

Yuko laughed and said, "Must've scared her off."

Yuko then saw Hitomi walking toward her, and she was injured! Yuko raced toward her friend and was about to embrace her, but Hitomi suddenly evaporated into water, formed into an ice spear, and the spear plunged itself into Yuko's chest! Yuko gasped and fell to the ground, screaming and forcefully trying to get the ice out of her body. It was in pretty deep, but it didn't seem like it did too much damage, or at least not anything life threatening.

As Yuko struggled with getting the ice out of her body, the monster came out of hiding and slowly approached her, preparing another ice spear. The monster looked at her with a devilish smile, enjoying the time building up to her victim's death. Yuko, despite her fear and pain, continued to pull on the ice spear in her body, determined that she could still win the fight.

As the monster prepared to deliver the final strike, a rock smashed into the monster's face and sent her flying yards away! Yuko was hoping that it was Hitomi, but it was Yao; Yuko wasn't disappointed that it was Yao who had come to help, but she wanted it to be Hitomi a little bit more.

Yao bent down beside her and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Yuko said, still obviously in pain, "But you could've gotten here just a little bit sooner."

Yao apologized and tried to help Yuko pull the ice spear from out of her chest. The spear was tightly inside her body though, and they couldn't seem to get it out. Before Yao could do anything more, the monster came back and blasted Yao with water! Yao got thrown back quite a bit and the monster chased after him.

Yuko continued to struggle with the ice spear in her chest, until an unlikely source arrived to help her. It was Gao and his squadron. Gao ordered his squad to go and help Yao fight off the monster while he bent down over Yuko, turned the ice back into water, and then used the water to start healing her wound.

Yuko angrily said, "I don't need your help."

Gao wasn't interested in her complaints and asked bluntly, "Where's Hitomi?"

Yuko smartly replied, "Dead, so you have no business here."

Gao at first was shocked to hear that Hitomi was dead, but Yuko saw Gao start to figure out her lie and said, "I'm in no mood for your humor! Tell me where the Avatar is!"

"Why should I? You think healing my wound is going to be enough to sell out my best friend?"

"I'm just healing your wound because I need you both presentable for the Boss."

"So healing me is your form of rewrapping a gift?"

"In a way, yes."

Yuko remained silent in disgust for a while until she asked, "So are you about done?"

Gao answered, "I stopped the bleeding and healed everything else, so once the bruise goes away, yes."

"Good enough." After saying that, Yuko quickly jumped up and kicked Gao hard in the stomach, sending him crashing through a few trees over the course of a few yards! Yuko then raced toward the tar pit to check on Hitomi. Once at the tar pit, Yuko found Hitomi unconscious and in the same position as she last saw her. She tried shaking her awake and calling out her name, but it did little good.

"Hitomi," whispered Yuko, "Please wake up."

[Hitomi]

Hitomi was standing in the middle of the tiled circle, listening to the desert wind calling out her name, in Yuko's voice.

Hitomi called back, "Yuko? Is that you?"

Hitomi tried to think of a way back into her world, but she couldn't think of anything. She came up with the idea of meditating her way out of the domain, but she was unsuccessful when she tried.

Hitomi then realized that she only knew one other way out. She had to travel across the electrocuting sand. She wasn't sure if it could actually send her back, but it did work last time, after she met that insane lab coat guy. Would she meet the lab coat guy again if she walked across the sand?

Despite all of the unsure questions, she knew she had to try. She ran across the sand, red electricity shooting up at her and sending watts of shrieking pain throughout her entire body! After going a slightly longer distance than before, she sank into the sand and landed on grass this time.

"Hitomi?" asked a familiar voice, "How nice it is to see you once again!"

She looked up and saw the man in the lab coat, seemingly unchanged since their last encounter. He was sitting on the grass and looking up at the night sky.

Hitomi stood up and asked, "Who are you?"

He simply continued staring at the stars and moon as he replied, "My employees refer to me as the Doctor. I specialize in hypnosis, chemical reconfiguration, and the study of the Spirit World."

"Odd fields for a doctor." Hitomi replied.

He chuckled and said, "Yes, quite; though you'll quickly learn that I'm not your everyday doctor. I am far more than that, I can assure you. So, what brings you here?"

Hitomi had several questions, but right now, it was super important that she got back to her body. She demanded, "I need you to send me back to my body. I'm not sure how you did it the first time, but I need you to do it again."

The Doctor stood up and said, "Oh I see, Camero must be giving you trouble."

"Camero?"

"Yes, she's an old pet of mine who just loves to fight and kill. I had high hopes for her, but I messed up somewhere with her, so I originally ordered her to be destroyed. However, she was very strong and skilled at water bending, so simply keeping her locked up was quite the challenge. So I decided to have her be stranded on a deserted island and strongly tied to a rock, far away enough from the forest so she couldn't absorb water from the grass and trees. My guess is that she was able to use her spiritual domain to overpower yours and take control of your body."

"She has a spiritual domain of her own too?"

"Yes, every being that I put through a Deletion gets his or her own spiritual domain conveniently placed in the right arm."

Hitomi quickly put one and two together and asked, "You created the spiritual domain that only I can access?"

"Very good; soon everything will become clear to you Avatar, but I'm afraid that I must cease giving you tips for the moment."

"No!" Hitomi ordered, "Tell me everything you know!"

"In due time," the Doctor assured her, "Now, as for your current situation, my suggestion is to go into the Avatar State to break another barrier around your Deletion. When Camero used her spiritual domain to control your body, she linked her spiritual domain onto yours. This means that all you have to do is break another barrier and her connection with your spiritual domain will be shattered, causing her to go into a comma. How long the comma will last is beyond my knowledge, but I'm sure it will give you enough time to escape. Goodbye for now!"

Hitomi's eyes shot open and she accidentally head-butted Yuko. While Yuko asked Hitomi if she was okay, Hitomi concentrated on what the Doctor had told her. So he was the reason why her spiritual domain existed and he also created this monster he called Camero. Hitomi had several more questions rattling through her brain, but she brushed them aside to help with the fight at hand.

She looked and Yuko and asked, "Where's Camero? I mean, the monster. Where is she?"

Yuko replied, "She's attacking Yao and Gao's forces. We need to get out of here while we still can."

"Gao?" Hitomi asked in shock, "He's here?"

"If you want to get some payback, don't worry. I gave him a good kick to the gut for you. Now we have to get out of here before things get worse."

By the sound of fear her voice, Hitomi could tell that Yuko knew that the situation was bad and a lot of people were going to get hurt. At first, Hitomi wanted to listen to her and get out of there as quickly as possible. But she was the Avatar. Friend or foe, she couldn't let Yao, Gao, or his men die at the hands of Camero. She had to fight.

Hitomi said, "Yuko, I have to save Yao and the others. I have to fight!"

At first, she though Yuko would try and argue with her and try to talk her out of it. But instead, Yuko nodded in understandence that she wasn't her best friend who worked as a slave for Midori. She was now the Avatar, and as the Avatar, she had a duty to protect the world from those trying to destroy the world.

The two girls charged into the forest and saw Yao and a squad of fire benders being blasted repeatedly by water whips and small ice shards formed by an extremely enraged Camero! Hitomi couldn't allow Yao or any of the others to get killed. Hitomi closed her eyes and began to breath, attempting to go into the Avatar State.

Inhale…exhale…inhale…exhale…inhale…exhale…

As Camero was preparing to throw an ice spear at Yao, who laid defenseless and injured in the dirt, Hitomi's eyes glowed so bright that it practically turn night into day. Camero looked at Hitomi and roared in a furious flash of anger at the blinding light. Camero threw the ice spear at her, and Hitomi dodged it simply by swatting it away with her hand! Hitomi stomped on the ground and clenched her fists, causing four rock walls to form around Camero. She quickly jumped out before Hitomi crushed her and she began bending ice shards at Hitomi! Hitomi formed a rock wall in front of her, causing all of the ice shards to be blocked, and shot the rock wall at Camero, sending her crashing through dozens of trees and finally into the boulder she was originally chained to! As Hitomi walked toward Camero, some of the fire benders tried to run up and blast her with fire. Hitomi simply waved her hands and air bended them into the sky or so far away that they landed on the beach or even in the ocean! Not all of the fire benders were handled by Hitomi; some of them were knocked unconscious thanks to Yao's rocks and Yuko's strong uppercuts and roundhouse kicks.

Hitomi approached the extremely injured Camero and water bended a spear of ice, ready to be plunged into her body. As Hitomi lifted the spear to deliver the final blow, her eyes once again glowed red and red electricity shot across her body! But this time, red electricity also began shooting through Camero's body and she shrieked in pain as well! The word 'DELETE' glowed red on both Hitomi's arm and Camero's arm! After what seemed to be an eternity of pain and torture, the red electricity faded away and Hitomi and Camero went into unconsciousness.

"Good work Hitomi. I just knew you'd win. I would expect nothing less from the Avatar."

[Yuko]

Yuko just finished knocking out the last fire bender and went to check on Yao. Yao stood above his opponents and claimed that he never felt younger or stronger than he did that night. Yuko approached the only remaining man left, the advisor with the clipboard. He was stuttering in fear as Yuko approached him and stared him down.

He gulped and said, "Allow me madam." He then proceeded to continuously smack himself in the head with his clipboard until he passed out.

Once Yuko was done laughing at him, she and Yao quickly went to check on Hitomi. She seemed to be alright, but they should probably get here to a medical facility to be safe. Yuko picked up her body and Yao chained the monster to the boulder.

"Come on," Yuko told Yao, "These guys probably came here in speedboats. We'll take one of them to the EarthKingdom tonight."

Yao agreed and they both proceeded to where they assumed Gao's boats to be based on the tracks left by their boots. They found the speedboats and saw that the EarthKingdom was still in sight. Yuko placed Hitomi in the boat and Yao drove the three of them toward their destination as the sun just began to rise from across the sea.

[Gao]

Gao was woken up by Batar and a handful of his other soldiers. They informed him that the Avatar had escaped and several of their men were incredibly injured. Gao got up and asked about the monster they had been fighting. They led him to the boulder where the monster seemed to be in a comma due to the intensity of the battle.

"Hitomi must've given her quite the fight," Gao acknowledged as he looked at the hideous water bender. He ordered, "Bring her to the ship and strap her down tight. I think the Doctor may be interested in this woman's capabilities."

They unchained her and carried her toward their speedboats, unaware of how dangerous this monster with extraordinary water bender prowess could be when she was surrounded by a vast ocean.

Chapter 13 has been completed! Yea! I hope you love this story so far and there is more fun to be had in the future! Please leave me a review telling me what you think of the story and what you would like to see happen next! Until next time!