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Last Time: On a ghost ship, young Korra was separated from the rest of the Stardust Crusaders. Locked in the boiler room —her left arm's muscles twisted apart by her own Stand— she faces the Captain of this bizarre ship: a molesting monkey named Forever! (🚨Trigger Warning 🚨)
With the incredible power of her Stand, she forced countless pascals of pressure into her flames and unleashed a wave more explosive than any ever bent under Sozin's Comet!
But Forever seemed unfazed?! What sinister secret does this simian's Stand hide!?
Find out NOW…
-[Track 5: BUG a BOO]-
Blue!
Absolute pale blue light stretched a deep dark doppler streak behind the monkey's box. Her fire boiled metal, bursting pipes into slag. Wet splats unheard under the thunder shrieking roar! Giga-gallons of flames raced past her shaking hands, both Stand's and flesh, until its overwhelming thrust rocketed her back against the far wall.
But the flames kept rushing out, because she would incinerate every speck of the orangutan and burn the stain for good measure! The walls glowed, greedily lapping up the heat until their bellies bulged. Melting dripping boils spread between their frames through every inch of the room until one grew behind Korra's back.
She screamed and cut off the flames, dropping to the floor. Her Stand's hands sunk up to their wrists and the heat ran up their arms, but her Stand held. All she felt was the pain.
Just pain! Nothing more. Far better off than that Monkey! She spat a phlegmy loogie and watched it sizzle on the warped black floor. Everything had become a twisted Burton dream of slag and ash surrounding… a brass box?
A Pristine Brass Box.
…no …No! No! How?!
It was twinkling bright. Sharp lines carried the light across a frame that sat above sludge, unbothered.
ゴゴゴゴ
One by one, orange tarantula leg fingers grew out of its plexiglass window, bringing out a flab-swinging trunk of an arm and that rotten cavity filled smile. Forever the Orangutan pulled at his captain's sleeves and rubbed it "clean". Satisfied, he flashed Korra a thumbs-up and phased back inside.
"You…! Don't Mock Me!" She ripped her Stand free and dropped to the still smoldering floor. Ignoring the pain, she smashed her hands together with a great*KLANG!*. Fire leapt from hands and squeezed to a bright blue dot with the hiss of pins.
The monkey soundlessly laughed through the window. Korra screamed and everything went blue again.
The boat shook, throwing the crusaders off their feet. Even the sailors with decades of life experience were knocked face first on the deck. Li landed the worst, breaking his nose. But all he did was noncommittally touch the blood leaking out.
"What the hell was that!?" Joseph yelled.
…
…
"Korra!" they all cried.
Joseph tore the ship map off the wall, brushing off the protective broken glass. "Kakyoin, give me your buttons".
"…eh?"
Joseph was already moving on, snatched buttons in hand. He took out several children's coloured markers and pulled the cap off one with his teeth. "Ok, Avdols got those little squiggly lines… Kakyoin's got the superman curl. Jotaro, are you more hat or hair?"
"JiJi!?"
"It's important! The more accurate I draw, the better this'll work. Screw it, 40:60 ratio it is…
There!" he proclaimed and proudly presented the buttons drawn, surprisingly well, with the likeness of everyone. "「HERMIT PURPLE」". Thorny vines sparkling with sunlight dove into the map, looping through the plane like sea serpents until they pounced on the buttons. Each flew across the paper, mapping their location.
"Look! Korra's in the engine room," Kakyoin exclaimed.
"Let's Go!" Joseph said and they raced off! And in their haste, none noticed that Korra's button was burning out…
FIREBALL! FIREBALL! FIREBALLS flew from Korra's hands, pelting the box. Her limp arm flopped along too, flinging sparks.
WHY🔥WON'T🔥YOU🔥DIE?!"🔥
Forever blew a wet raspberry which splattered on his glass.
"RHHAAAAAAAAGH!"
Ash rained down from the ceiling. It flew down her throat and she hacked, doubling over as her 5 hands weakly sparked. She looked to the vents at the top of the walls. Any second, they would pump back in fresh air.
Any second now…
The ash flakes dropped like stones. The vents shook, but made no sound. Her hands couldn't make flames. They clutched at her throat. The Air?! HE WAS SUCKING OUT HER AIR?!
She tried to airbend—she had to airbend!
Nothing happened. Her hands clawed at dark spots emerging from the walls. They multiplied across the room, dining on its colour. Already some bit into the brass box.
That box!If… if she could just reach it—Her feet sunk into slop. The metal was suddenly a runny bog, splashing and sucking up her limbs. One wet splash reached and grabbed her Stand! Runny fingers wormed their way through its groves and hardened tight. Her torn tendon arm twisted as she tore it free.
…
Heavy footfalls splashed sludge that no longer made sounds. She buckled as each Stand limb burst into raw light. Pain hammered her chest for release and she fought with everything to keep one finger present! It reached for the box past the black spots, but they had already invaded inside her mind, walking down its corridor in crowded lines, each unpassionately flicking off the lights as they went.
Korra dropped soundlessly on the floor and her Stand unspun.
…
…The large box glid over Korra and opened wide. Pale light bit into the room. Forever, wearing scuba equipment, stepped out and breathed in the air of victory.
The "prize" below him twitched — He smiled at that. Fat hands slammed next to Korra and his breathing became almost too much for his respirator.
Then, the room shook from the top down. Fast feet hit metal and raced down through the lower decks. Forever whipped his head up and snarled. Hollering and hooting he marched to a wall and drove his fist through!
Out with his fingers came a boxlike machine with large dials and dozens of widgets hooked up to a gigantic paper roll. A needle blurred across, marking the tremors in bold sweeping jagged lines hawked by Forever's eyes. They zipped where the strokes zagged while he punched away at a calculator which grew from the ground.
A light shone behind his eyes. A sickly yellow glow that flashed bright as his eyes crinkled up.
The ship came alive beneath their feet! Fire hoses twisted and struck at them like snakes. The stairdoor grew teeth and chomped off three of Joseph's metal fingers. Bolts shot at the sailors plunging deep into their thrown up arms. One rusty screw shot itself at Li's eye, caught at the lashes by Star Platinum!
"「MAGICIAN'S RED」". The walls melted in a perfect circle out to the ocean. "Get the sailors out there!"
Startled shouts and panicked shrieks came from the three picked up by the invisible strings of Kakyoin's Stand and thrown out the hole.
"Good job Kakyoin!" Joseph exclaimed. "Now let's fi-
"Um, Mr. Ghost-Guys… Thank you, but we're still in Octo-Shark waters! …And Li's covered in blood…"
"SHIT! New plan—Kakyoin, with me now". He didn't give him any time, grabbing him with his vines and leaping off the ship.
And not a moment too soon. Gargantuan fins cut through to the sailors!
"HAMON OVERDRIVE!" Joseph touched the water with pure sunlight. It rippled and pulled the sailors up into the air and away from gnashing teeth!
Kakyoin hit the pane face first.
"Look alive Kakyoin!" Joseph called, standing on water. "If they can't snatch us from the sides they will adapt and strike from above and below". His arms pretzeled, looping down at the diving tentacles, and up as the sailors crashed back down with wet thuds.
"I'm sending my vines down as tripwires but don't take your eyes off the ones up to—!"
Rows and rows of foot long serrated teeth interrupted him! Above, slitted blood-red eyes shined with hunger!
—And then the eyes were green!
"EMERARUDO SUPURASSHU!" Kakyoin called, his right foot stretched far along the water plane with its heel pivoted up. His hand followed it, twisting up as well as he looked back over his shoulder. His Stand grew from his torso, running their hand along his cheek with a finger outstretched.
"Bullseye," he said as the emerald riddled tentacle head fell.
"Great shot Kakyoin!" Joseph praised.
Kakyoin smiled. "Avdol—Jotaro, find Korra please. We'll protect the sailors".
Both took off, feet pounding the decks. Jotaro punched through the snarling stair door and one set of feet struck the stairs…
…"Avdol?"
…
"AVDOL!?"
He raced back up the well as its tight walls banged back his tramp, when midstep, the ground curled away… and dropped him into darkness!
ゴゴゴゴ
ゴゴゴゴ
ゴゴゴゴ
ゴゴゴゴ
Forever's machine was a beautiful work of art —Not of his own design, ofcourse— but copied from the world's most advanced seismograph, courtesy of the Geological Institute of Ba Sing Se.
Breaking that apart to dissect its inner workings was child's play. The only challenge being keeping all the tiny pieces out of the growing pools of blood.
He pulled his tube lips back in a sneer:Disgusting! Where were the janito-
Oh!
…
Under the ship which pierced through the institute's west wing roof was an arm still clutching a mop handle.
Weeeeell… sacrifices had to be made.
He chuckled at the memory and pulled the paper readings from his machine: Subarashi! SU-Ba-RA—SHI!
Almost all the pieces were gone from his board. Just 2 remained, the Magician and the Star, and he'd already hoodwinked the Magician.
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Rows and rows of identical doors leading to identical engine rooms boxed Avdol in. Korra could be behind in any of them!
And—?! Was that GAS he smelled?He quickly doused his flames and the corridor went black.
Immediately, Avdol heard dozens & dozens of high-pitched scrapes. The doors had swung wide open and in the dark, child sized things moved.
"Korra?"
The loud tapping of tiny [but heavy] feet raced at Avdol. He stumbled back.
"KORRA?!"
Brass hands grabbed him!
◎⃝⃘
'SU-Ba-RA—SHI!' Forever gnashed his teeth happily. 'Now…' Tracing his long chintinic finger across the scroll, the readings, if correct 'And they always were,' showed the Star of the show still sprawled where he crashed down.
'DIO, was your caution misplaced?' He clapped his meaty palms, rocketing the room with his raucous cheer, but then paused: …Could the "Star's" big role be a possum?
He smirked and curled his fingers in one… two… three… four… Five! 5 pipes broke off from the walls above Jotaro and skewered the floor where he was! Forever's machine jumped, picking up all five thuds and …and …and? Nothing!
No racing of feet. Not even a slight pitter-patter. Nothing moved.
'SU-Ba-RA—SHI! SU-Ba-RA—SHI!' He swung his arms wide, danced on his tippy toes across the room. It was now just him,
…and her.
He knelt down and put his scuba respirator on her face. Her chest immediately rose: One breath… Two breaths…Each with a sharp:
*Hisssss!*
Korra's blue eye slackly lifted, then widened! Awful putrid light crept over her, dying her skin yellow. A glowing door stretched wide above her and from within, hairy worms tainted in the colour, wriggled through the light. They twisted into one another, overlapping by the hundreds until two monstrous trunks were formed, each with five long digits. The floor shook as they galumphed by her side, dragging behind them a black rotting grin with beams shining out its holes!
*HISSSSS!*
Wave after wave of fat yellow layers rolled above her head and hot muggy breath splashed her prone form!
*HISSSSS!*
Dark sounds were dredged from the deepest depths, warped like a funhouse mirror on the journey up: A carnival of laughter.
*HISS— ackK!* The monkey took the mask, because he knew from experience that'd been just enough. Oozing scabbed fingers worked fast to unhook the last two buttons on his coat. One flew off and smacked the wall with the stitching still stuck to it.
His own mask was now too fogged to see. Fingers fumbled over the last button, snagging it on the opening.
Almost…. ALMOST!
His fingers tugged and twisted at the button, the fabric began to tea, Korra spasmed below, and-BOOOOOOM!
The far wall blasted apart letting light rush in. Forever threw his hands before his eyes, but between the finger cracks he could see it.
Blue!
"Good," Jotaro said. "I hate being late".
Forever snarled and flung spit everywhere.
"Disgusting". He growled, then looked down by the monkey's feet and clenched his fists.
Korra's chest shot up and down, gulping in the fresh air. Heavy lidded eyes swam but she forced them to land. Opening wide, she saw the monster's fingers, a hair's width away from stroking her jugular. But behind them was JOTARO!
Bridal carried by his Stand, pointing at them both!
…
What?
Forever's fingers stayed by Korra's neck, shaking! But then, he retracted them and flashed Jotaro a smile, buttoning up his coat.
Star Platinum punched the box.
"I understand it now," he said and pulled out a chunk of the wall, showing it off. "You put a vacuum in the metal. So when Korra burned through the first layer, her flames hit nothing and died".
"SU-Ba-RA—SHI!" Forever signed.
Jotaro leapt out of Star Platinum's arms, 80 ban¥ leather shoes crunching soot as his trench jacket swung around in a grand sweep. "But you goaded her to keep firing flames; burn away any air rushing in to fill the vacuum".
Forever looked all too pleased with himself.
"Congratulations, you tricked an 11 year old," he said and Forever's smug look fell to the floor, leaving behind an ugly glower of cracked and crusty leather with its pores oozing hate.
Jotaro calmly walked over. "Your Stand's the strongest I've fought so far. But can it hit harder than mine?".
Forever stomped his finger-feet and raised his arms. The room *Crunched* — Pipes and rods burst through the floor! Razorsharp pieces of wall broke off and flew. Everything shot towards Jotaro!
"Bang." he calmly said and the ape's head rocked back! Bloody drops flew from a quarter-inch disk lodged in his forehead.
Star Platinum's hand rolled a brass button between their fingers. Jotaro's lapel was missing two. It rolled to their thumb where they flipped it high.
"ORA!" The button punched through its twin.
"Mine Hits like a Bullet".
Forever's throat locked up and all he could make was wet hacking sounds. He tried to look up but only one eye made it — the other rolling left, back into his head. The room went runny, dripping its metal down in splashes. Forever ripped his jacket off.
"So it's true. An animal threatened will show its belly as a sign of surrender. Is that what you are, just an animal acting on instinct?". His Stand's fingers clenched down like pistons one-by-one.
Forever viciously shook his head, cheeks smacking into one another. He flung his arms, trying to sign as more blood spurted out of his head.
"Yare yare daze…". His shoes kicked up ash as he walked forward. The monkey stumbled back, tripping over the warped room, signing furiously on the ground, flinging his arms in large looping pleas.
—Until they snapped inward at crooked angles!
Jotaro whirled around and saw?!
"Harmony is… Harmony is… Harmony is NOT with us," Korra repeated the bending mantra with harsh whispers, inching forward, her hand outstretched in a claw grip.
"Korra…?!" He whispered.
"So… Not responsible for yourself, huh?".
Throbbing veins bulged through skin as her snarling lips curved up.
"That goes for your water too?". Forever's body was jerked on red strings. Pulled to its tippy toes, if a single muscle moved, they would shred it!
"Did ya know… 70 years ago, Master Iroh did a BIG Nations wide No-No and bent fire like a waterbender.
Crazy thing to get mad at, right? But after the war, the world wised up and now, Masters from everywhere are all pooling their bending knowledge…". Something metal grew through her lame arm, bulging out of the bruises. Burning ash fell from the whirring pistons forcing her hand up. "-and there's no greater Master-Melting-Pot than at the Avatars compound!".
"Korra, what are y–". And then, the monkey SCREAMED.
Jotaro slammed his hands over his ears! It was a rank, god abandoned shriek of octaves. Shrill and wet, like razor wires pulled across bone. He could feel their hooked barbs dredging in the shriek - Swimming just under the skin before being ripped through the creature's throat!
First its fingers bubbled, then its toes. The densest nerve clusters in the body were pulled over massive boils as they grew their way through its body, shoving apart organs and pressing them against bone. One the size of Jotaro's head swelled beneath the left kneecap! Hairy orange balloons which wriggled within. Six engorged its right arm, snapping the bones into tiny shards.
No one heard them shatter…
Not under its scream…
Teeth gnashed! Head thrashed side to side as blister boils danced up its face. They tugged and shoved at the hole in its head, tonguing the two lodged buttons. One fired out with a spurt of blood, while the other was quickly crushed between a knurling whelk mass which drooped down its face.
Star Platinum blocked a drop of blood from hitting Jotaro's face. His question - Why'd they do something so trivial - fell when his hand burned!
In his Stand's palm the monkey's blood sizzled.
"Harmony is not with us! …Harmony is NOT with us!". Her hands writhed into one another as on the walls, their shadows flickered and grew. Jotaro stared — Korra's fingertips were popping flames!
The ape fell, flailing its bubbling fingers. He saw their skin stretch apart until it burst in red clouds dripping burnt coagulated masses. They sizzled on the floor. Its one good eye looked up, brandishing its stumps at Jotaro who took a step back, away from the growing pool of boiling blood.
Skin, hair and flesh melted and glued itself to the floor. The walls threw back wails in different keys while its body wrenched, tearing apart and spraying more blood.
"Korra!"
More boils popped, jerking it around in a bad dance. The fat was oozing out now, broiling. A disgustingly sweet smell. And then the screaming stopped, because it couldn't anymore. Bubbling blood leaked out blister holes dotting its throat. It thrashed! One mad eye swelling lopsided.
And it still tried to scream.
Then meat exploded and Korra threw up her hands, catching the geyser of blood. Star Platinum disappeared from their protective stance in front of both and Jotaro could stare at what was left of the monkey.
Cooked organs floated in the red. Its chest rose once… twice… and never again.
…
…
…
"Good work team!" Korra flashed him a thumbs up.
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Korra : Destiny's BIZARRE Child!
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AUTHOR'S Note:
I really hope this chapter doesn't inspire cruelty to animals like "Jaws" did. Orangutans in the real world are nothing but loving Loraxs who speak for the trees. Octopi are harmless and sharks, you'd have a better chance winning the lotto than getting attacked while swimming with these chonky fishies. Those who swim with them know them as "Ocean Ubers", if you hold onto a fin :)
What I do want to demonize is Forever (the character). I hated writing for him: H-A-T-E-D! Going into his headspace and plumbing his grotesque actions made my stomach plummet.
He's a MONSTER!"No If, Ands, or Buts". My condolences for how dark he made the chapters. We need a time jump to Republic City to really help us put some distance between us and him. There, Korra can now fight the Equalists: A gimp-clad group led by a man who can break Korra's spirit by… touching her.
Oh Come On, Canon!?I have to write around your SA implications AGAIN!?
*Sigh*
…I'll figure something out.
Speaking on "figuring out", none of the g-Aang ever thought, "Hey! Humans are 80% water, let's bend that!". No, they had to be told, and told by a villainess, because twisting nature for exploit is antithetical to everything Bending stands for!
But a Stand user…
They bend, break, abuse and exploit their power until it's cracked. In their hands, the power to spin your nails could bring down Kyoshi! They'd have thought of blood bending on their first day and figured out a way around the full moon by Day 3.
Poor Tenzin, he's in for a migraine — and maybe a stroke — when Korra needles him with questions of the exact amount of pascals she has to bend away to pop her opponent's eyeballs out.
ゴゴゴゴ
"But how'd Korra do it? How did she beat the Moon?!"- Find out next time on Korra: Destiny's BIZARRE Child
Simp Shout-Out: See Sonic Movie 3! I'm sorry I couldn't get this chapter out in time to tell y'all to see it in theatres. The third act needed to be seen on the biggest screen possible! Not even the games have done what the film just DID in 30 years, but I hope they do now! Though, maybe film is the best medium for that moment…
GO SEE IT!
YIP-YAP(where I yap about things): Back on the Sonic Movie – and Spoilers🚨– I've heard some chatter that people didn't like how the Eggman/Gerald fight was handled. They didn't like how over the top and unserious it felt. And as someone who just wrote a serious dark chapter, and has an even darker story they write - "What if Ruby was VENOM…" - please check it out (ू•‧̫•ू⑅) - I have one thing to say about axing its buffoonary:
It's not the right call, y'all.
There is a dead serious live-action DBZ fight going on and people want the Eggmans to fight just as seriously? It would be instantly overshadowed by the much better fight outside. It'd be a hat on a hat, with the Eggmans' being a raggedy mothridden hat.
So embrace the buffoonery! Be what the fight outside can't! And don't you DARE waste Jim Carey when you've got two of him!
Reviews: Every response I get (positive, critical, and beyond) means more than I can describe!
Toni: I love the way you write! It reminds me of Stephen King. Intriguing first chapter!
Ok, putting me up there with the GOAT!? I don't have words. Thank you! ️
Monster King: Very good job please continue the story I wonder how Tenzin will handle everything with the Stardust Crusaders
I will! It's gonna get wilder and even more Bizarre! Now, how will Tenzin take it?
Not well… Not well at all ૮₍Ó﹏Ò ₎ა
RedHumanX: You did surprisingly well, could have made the first part of the chapter a bit shorter with less puke, but overall you did good.
Side note: the stand is much more creative than I thought it'd be.
Glad I could surprise you with the quality ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
Korra's Stand has been such a fun creative endeavor to write. I think it fits her soul to a "T" and offers such unique and surprising twists for battles while working in tandem with her elemental powers. Buuuuuut… She's a bit too much like Okuyasu Nijimura, doubling down on the direct approach, to take full advantage of it.
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