Hello there, welcome to the next chapter of Avatar: Immortal Dragon.
Hope your going to enjoy it, and now on to the review.
yummuyyogurts: Happy you like it. The Lucifer reference was a bit of nod to the original concept for this story (In which Genji was a sort of Lucifer like figure) but then I already had a story with an actual Lucifer and I thought it would be too much of the same. I will keep it in mind.
And now story time.
Night had started to set in, over Republic City, as Varrick in his study, looked out of the large window behind his desk, giving him a magnificent view of the pro-bending arena where tonight the big final of 'Nuktuk: Hero of the South' would be played.
And it was the place where his plan would come to fruition.
"Sir." Zhu Li said poking her around the door, "You have a call."
Turning away from the view, he turned to the phone on his desk before picking it up, "Shoot for Varrick." he said holding the horn to his ear.
"Hello Varrick." a irritated voice came from the other side.
Looking at the phone as if he was talking to a ghost, he spoke back into it, "Genji!? Shouldn't you have a prison husband by now?"
"You think Gang and Lu could actually catch me?" Genji said with with a dry laugh, "Then your even stupid than I thought."
"Hey, come on. Don't be like that. There is no need for name calling, your better than that." Varrick said sitting in his chair, "No hard feelings, Genji. You were getting too close to the truth and I needed you out of the way. It's just business."
But a silence followed between them before Genji finally spoke up, "Varrick?"
"Yes?"
"Did you ever hear the tragedy of Sojiro Aizen?" Genji said.
"What?" Varrick said confused, "No."
"I thought not. It's not a story the Water Tribe would tell you. It's a Shashou legend. Sojiro Aizen was a Shashou of the Dragon Qiyue Ren, so fast his reflexes bordered on precognition. So wise he could look into your soul. So powerful that not even entire army of monsters could bring him down. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing the woman he liked, which, eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he was betrayed by his fellow Shashou, they took his woman away from him. He slaughter them all before they could catch him."
"Where are you going with this?" Varrick said confused.
"I'm going to pull an Aizen. I'm coming for you and I'm going to kill everyone who you put in my way." Genji growled into the phone, "So you either give yourself up or you can die screaming along side them!"
"You have nothing to threaten me with!" Varrick suddenly snapped standing up from his chair, "Your Shashou gear is locked up, you haven't gotten your swords nor your elixer's and I have an army to throw at you!"
"Like it's going to make a difference!" Genji shouted before hanging up.
Slamming the phone down, Varrick took a moment to compose himself. After a few deep breaths he took a last deep sigh before calling out to his assistant.
"Zhu li." Varrick said with a deep sigh as he placed his hands on the table, "Task the men."
"How many?" Zhu Li said with a clipboard in her head.
"...How many do we have?" Varrick said.
Once night had set in at the Pro-bending Arena, where a large poster of Ginger and Nuktuk hanging above the main entrance. At the doors a crowd of people had gathered as a Satomobile limousine arrives.
Bolin and Ginger step out of the limo, arm-in-arm as the two walking into the arena. As president Raiko and his wife step out of the limo as their being approached by Varrick.
"There they are, my two most honored guests." Varrick said, kissing Buttercup's palm before the trio walked forward, "What do you think? No expense has been spared, I brought in the finest entertainers from Ba Sing Se, and the best food from around the world. Heck! I even had this red carpet imported from the Fire Nation! They make the best red stuff over there. Fact!"
"I can see that." Raiko said, noticing the increase of Varrick's personal security, "But you didn't have to do all this for us."
"I wanted to." Varrick said, "Mister President, I took one look at your wife and I..." but his eyes widen when he caught a glimpse of amber serpentine eyes staring at him.
But just as suddenly, he had disappeared into the crowd.
"Varrick?" Raiko said at the businessman who seemed to snap out of it, "Everything alright?"
"Y-yeah. Let's get inside." Varrick said recovering, "I know you're gonna love this mover!"
At the side of the arena, Toza took a step outside and pulled a cigarette from his pocket. He put it in his mouth, but before he could lit it, he felt the tip of cold steel being pressed against his side.
"Good evening, Toza." Genji said casually.
"Evening, Mr. Chirayus." Toza said afraid.
"Did you lose weight?" Genji said tilting his head, "I think you lost weight."
"Y-Yeah, over thirty." he said nervously.
"Impressive, not bad." Genji said with an approving nod, "Not bad at all."
"Are you here on business?" Toza said, beeps of sweat dropping from his head.
"Afraid so, Toza." Genji said as he stopped pressing the knife against his side, "Why don't you take the night off?"
"Thank you, Mr. Chirayus." Toza said with a nod.
"And quit smoking." Genji said, picking the cigarette out of his mouth, "These will kill you."
Inside of the arena, where the playing area has been fitted with speakers and a giant screen. At one of the open booths where President Raiko and his wife were seated. On the left were two more VIP booths; Mako, Bolin, Ginger, and Asami occupy the left booth, and Naga and Pabu are in the right one.
In the playing area where Varrick is standing in the darkened arena, with a spotlight shining on him.
"Thank you all for coming for the finale of 'Nuktuk: Hero of the South'!" Varrick said in the microphone, "You know, when I first started this project there were a lot of naysayers out there. 'You can't make pictures move' they said. 'You can't take some knucklehead earthbender and make him a star' they said. 'You can't teach a polar bear dog to speak' they said. Well, they're wrong! My hope, is that their words, and this epic mover, will inspire a real life hero to rise up, and help against the injustice that is happening in the Southern Water Tribe right now."
The screen lights up, revealing Nuktuk held by a bird on the shoulders.
Meanwhile outside in the hall, Lu and Gang where slacking off, with Lu licking the icing off of a Varri-cake, with their backs to the window.
"I like to eat the top of the Varri-cake first." Lu said as he licked the cake.
"I just try to shove the whole thing in my mouth at once." Gang said as he attempted to stuff the cake into his mouth.
They turn and see four soldiers in the window. The soldiers knock the detectives out and bind and gag them in a locker, leaving the icing and saliva from their Varri-cake on the floor.
But suddenly, a knife was thrusted between one of their ribs. As the soldier drops to the floor, Genji removes the knife and with his sudden appearance he stabs the second one in the throat.
Before he could stab another, his arm was gripped but Genji struggled and smashes him against the wall, flipping him on his back. While holding on, he breaks the soldiers arm before jamming the knife through his skull.
The first three swipes where evaded, but it closed the distance enough for Genji to grab him with his free hand. The soldier held up his hand to stop the blade from piercing his eye, but it was sprayed with his blood.
Removing the knife, Genji slid his throat before throwing him through the window to the waters below.
Cleaning his blade on one of the soldiers, Genji fixed his hair before standing up. It seemed he had caused too much of a commotion as he could hear footsteps come running towards him.
With a manic grin, he tossed his blade so he was now holding it in a reverse grip.
Inside the presidential box, Raiko and his wife are both pulled backward by unseen figures who have their left hands clasped over their mouths in order to restrain them from making a sound. The figures turn out to be the Northern soldiers, who are now busy tying up the already gagged couple.
The president's guards are slumped unconscious against the wall next to the door. As the soldiers finish their job and turn to guide the presidential couple to the door, it was kicked open and Genji with a bloody knife was standing there.
"Hello there." Genji said.
One of the soldiers sends a water blast in Genji's direction, who acrobatically flips out of the way. As he lands, he uses his momentum to jam his knife into the Equalists eye, blood spilling out as he screamed in pain.
Jumping up to evade an attack, he retrieved the knife from his eye and slicing another one's throat. Blood filled it as Genji evade the second soldier, grabbing her arm, breaking it over his knee as he forced her arm back so he could stab her through the chest.
The last soldier got the knife stuck in his shoulder before being kicked out of the booth. He lands with heavy thuds on the metal bridge which allows access to the playing field from the players' locker.
"Fuck, it's the only knife I had." Genji said looking over the edge before in the other booth, where Varrick had caught his eye, "Your next!"
At the same time as Genji pushes himself off the railing and turns around to come over to their booth, Varrick had stood up and began to run out of his booth.
Bursting out into the hallway, a waterbender attacks Genji with water, but he manages to dodge the attack. With a single punch, he decks the waterbender in the face knocking him out.
Varrick was pulling out all the stops to save himself but his security force couldn't even slow him down.
The remaining two waterbenders continue attacking. Genji dodges one of the waterbender's attack, but as he gets closer, he is thrown aside by a water hose by the other bender. Smashing into a window, glass shards showered over him. With a growl, he took two of the larger shards before changing course to avoid an attack.
When attacked on the other side, he stops at the center and throws the two shards right into their eyes.
Stalking Varrick down to the garages below the pro-bending arena basement, Genji found a crowbar laying on top of a pair of crates. Coming around the corner, he used the crowbar to trip a soldier over before bashing his head in with a swift strike.
The other soldier waterbends and prepares to attack Genji, but he dodges the attack and breaking his kneecap before knocking him out.
Down in the garage, Varrick is attempting to open his car in a panic as he heard footsteps slowly approaching him.
Turning around he pressed his back against the car as he saw that it was Genji, the bloodied crowbar in hand, and who was much closer than he had thought.
"Hey buddy!" Varrick said with an uneasy laugh.
"Where do you think you're going?" Genji growled.
"I'm not going anywhere... Okay, look. What do you say about letting bygone's be bygone's." Varrick said with a grin, "I did somethings, you did somethings. There are good people on both sides."
Genji dropped the crowbar, "Look, Varrick. I'm tired, I haven't eaten all day and I'm pretty sure I'm sobering up." he said, "And I'm not in the mood to argue." before running forward and slamming his fist against his nose, dropping him to the floor with a single punch.
Outside the arena, where the police force had gathered, where a bloodied nose Varrick, crying like a bitch, being led into a police truck along with Zhu Li.
"Varrick's plan was to kidnap you and blame it on the North." Beifong explained to the president, "Then Republic City would have no choice, but to join the war on the side of the South in full."
"I can't believe Varrick would do something like this." President Raiko said, "And no one saw it coming."
"Actually someone did." Beifong said, looking to the stairs of the arena where Genji was sitting with Mako and Bolin.
"You got a great father." Raiko said.
"I guess..." Beifong said softly.
"I can't believe my mentor is a real life hero!" Bolin said throwing an arm around Genji.
"Wouldn't call myself a hero." Genji said with a grin, "I would call myself a raging lunatic, who is really good at killing people."
"Just happy your on our side." Mako said, shaking his head.
The trio turned around when Asami clears her throat, "Hey..." she said softly.
"Hey." Genji said, standing up smoking his cigarette in one go, before flicking it away.
Looking between the two, Mako taps Bolin on the shoulder gesturing for him to follow him. Bolin eyes widen before following him and giving Genji and Asami some space.
"Hey Genji..." Asami began.
"Just shut up, I have to tell you something!" Genji said a lot louder than intended, "When I broke up with Toph and when I finally awoke fifty years later and so many of my friends gone, there was a hole in my life that I tried to fill with anything I could find. Partying, sex, violence... Sometimes a weird combination of the three. But none of that worked... None of that ever made me feel alive like you did. And the look you gave me when you thought I'd betrayed you made me realize..."
Genji would have continued but, instead Asami pulls him into a hug. She places her hand on Genji's cheek to guide him in for a soft kiss on the lips.
He wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her up a little, their mouths moved in sync and taking advantage of this to explore the inside of her mouth. As they kissed Oogi the sky bison, carrying the airbending family along with Korra and Ichiro, descending to the Arena.
"...The fuck?" Ichiro said as he jumped off the bison and noticed the act of intimacy's between Genji and Asami, "How long were we gone?"
"President Raiko!" Korra said, "Sir, I know I've asked for your help before, but things have changed. Unalaq doesn't just wanna take over the South anymore. He wants to destroy the whole world."
"The fuck." Genji said as he stopped kissing Asami, a string of saliva still connecting them.
"Unalaq is going to destroy the world?" Bolin said, "He really does have a doomsday device?"
"What?" Genji said as he approached them as he held hands with Asami.
"Nuktuk movers." Asami told him.
"He's trying to release a powerful dark spirit during Harmonic Convergence, which is only a few days away." Korra explained, "If he succeeds, the world as we know it, is over. Sir, we desperately need your help."
"I'm sorry, Korra." Raiko said, "But my answer is still no."
Korra and Aang's children widen their eyes in shock.
"Are you insane! There are lives on the line!" Ichiro shouted in anger, "My little sister among them!"
"I'm aware that lives are on the line and that's precisely why my troops are staying here." Raiko explained, "If the world is going to be thrown into chaos as you claim, I need to protect my citizens. I'm sorry."
"No, your not." Ichiro said with a growl as the president walks off.
"I'm not voting on you next time!" Genji shouted before turning to the airbending family, "What happened."
"We went into the spirit world to try and close the portal, and Jinora got kidnapped by Unalaq." Korra explained, "Her spirit is still there."
"...Okay, not paying me is one thing." Genji said, "But even a Shashou knows children are off limits."
"Unless it's to accept them as payment and train them into more Shashou." Mako pointed out.
"Exactly!" Genji said gesturing to him.
"So what's the plan?" Asami said, "We got Iroh and his fleet, but that might not be enough. We'll need an army."
"I know a place." Genji said with a knowing look, "It might not be an army in a traditional sense, but it will be sufficient."
"What do you mean?" Korra said.
"I'll explain later." Genji said, being annoyingly vague, "I am going back to my place, get dressed then I'm off and I'll meet you at the South Pole."
"I'm coming with you." Asami said, softly squeezing his hand, "It's the least I can do. So where are we going?"
He turns to look out into the vast ocean, "I'm going home." Genji said.
Chapter 19, which basically ended with Genji and Asami in a relationship.
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