"What? Are you angry about what I did to this whore? Well, don't be, she is a prostitute. She deserves everything that happened," Narlon let out a loud huff of annoyance, as if what he did was a matter of fact that the woman deserved.
Zuko turned from the women to Narlon with a slow head turn. Bright orange flames lit up on his fists as smoke shot out from his nose. Narlon clenched his fist, swallowing his saliva as his temple started to sweat.
"Zuko, I am gonna take the woman out of here. She doesn't deserve to see his face a second more." June walked past Narlon, spitting on the floor along the way as she gently pulled the woman up to her feet and took her out of the room.
Narlon gulped, anger burning his whole body at the way June continued speaking of him. But he didn't dare take his eyes off Zuko, who made him feel as if he was facing a Dragon.
Silence took over the scene, at least for Narlon. The moment he blinked once, the only thing he saw in Zuko's place was a pair of burned footprints on the ground, as if the devil walked there.
"What! Come out of hiding, you cowardly, traitorous son of a father!" Narlon spun around in panic, his heart beating out of his chest like drums as he looked around like a frightened child.
"I will dismember you first in a way that will not kill you," Zuko's voice was cold and distant as he circled the General with such speed that he couldn't see.
The moment the General turned to the place where Zuko spoke, he was already across the other wall, right behind the General. Zukjo's hand lit up with bright flames, and he slashed towards Narlon's left leg.
Splash!
"ARGHHH! MY LEG! YOU CUT OFF MY FUCKING LEG!" With a cry that sounded more like the squeal of a pig being slaughtered. Narlon fell to the ground in pain, the smell of burnt meat lingering in the air.
Blood spurted out from his severed leg, while the stump on his body was bound to prevent the blood flow out. Zuko stood over Narlon, not a hint of pity in his cold golden eyes.
"Y-YOU'RE DONE FOR! YOU'RE DONE FOR, YOU HEAR ME! The Fire Lord will get revenge for me- ARGHHH!" Before Narlon finished his rambling, Zuko stomped on his left leg, crushing his bone into two and turning the flesh into pulp.
Zuko leaned down and, with his body enhanced with Chi, tore the already torn leg, hanging on by a few strings of skin, off with a sickening sound. Narlon screeched, blood flowing out of his mouth as his throat was torn from his shout.
His eyes widened, and blood red cracks appeared in his whites as his blood vessels exploded from the amount of pain flooding his senses; it almost made him pass out.
Splash!
"ARGHHHHH!" Right arm.
Splash!
"STOP IT! PLEASE STOP! I WILL DO ANYTHING YOU ASK!" Left arm.
"What I wanted of you was something else. I wanted you to help me bring this country back to its best, but what I found from you is that you turned into the same type of maggot that ate away at the nation," Zuko said coldly, and with trembling hands.
Even he was sick as he looked at what he had done to Narlon. The General was left as a nugget, all his limbs cut off brutally, and burned so he wouldn't bleed out.
Narlon could not even reply anymore as he tore his throat from the shouts. His eyes were twitching, and his ears were twitching as well. It looked like he tunred retarted, his mind damaged as it tried to find a way to shut down.
Turning away from the disgusting sight, Zuko walked out of the room, only pausing for a second to launch a beam of Eternal Flames at Narlon, who let out his last shriek before turning into a pile of ash after being brought for 10 seconds.
Meanwhile...
"Are you okay? Wait, stupid question. Instead, I have a proposal for you," June quickly shook her head as she chuckled at her stupid question. The woman, named Chiyo, looked up.
"P-Proposal?" Chiyo questioned with trembling limbs, and June smirked as she nodded. Chiyo was silent for a few seconds, pondering... Nothing went through her mind, so Chiyo nodded absent-mindedly.
"I want you to be our informant. You work at a brothel. Right? If you can get every brothel in the country under your control, it would really help us," June said with a serious look, her teasing tone vanishing.
"Me? But I don't even know how to fight?" Chiyo replied with a conflicted look on her face. She really wanted to repay June, but she knew she couldn't do that on her own.
"No, I know you can do it. All it takes is the first brothel, and then it will start to become easier and easier," June said with a confident tone, trying to hype Chiyo up. Who, weirdly enough, suddenly gained a bright light in her eyes.
"If... If I could do that, would I be able to continue seeing you and that man?" Chiyo asked, and June smiled as she hid the pity in her eyes. Chiyo did not look a day over 20, and she was already in this situation.
She also looked very pretty. Black hair that went past her hips, and bright golden eyes. Her skin was fair and pale, smooth, and she had a pure and naive air around her.
"Of course, in fact. If you manage to control your first brothel and turn it into an information-gathering spot. You could even live with me, and Zuko," June said, and Chiyo clenched her fist as she stood up from her knees.
Chiyo started breathing fast, a weird heat coursing through her veins as she suddenly felt something explode inside her. Chiyo was always a kind but naive girl, doing whatever people told her to.
That's how she got into this spot in the first place. Her good nature caused her to never feel the need for violence, and she never had a massive surge of anger.
It's why she never had the will of Firebending.
But today, she finally does. But it was not a moment of anger that awakened her Firebending or her will; it was the need to prove herself and to be with June and Zuko.
"What are those flames?! I thought Firebending is orange flames..." June looked at Chiyo with shock and surprise as purple flames appeared on Chiyo's pale arms.
The flame suddenly sped up, and in seconds, it covered every inch of Chiyo's pure skin. Under June's astonished eyes, her bruises healed, and her thin frame filled out as if she had never been malnourished, even her lower body and hymen healed.
"Healing flames? Now it looks like you are even more important ~," June chuckled as the flames faded, leaving a tired and sleepy Chiyo, stumbling in place.
June walked forward, taking Chiyo into her arms and placing her on her back. Just then, Zuko walked out of the base, and June quickly took Chiyo into her arms as she turned to walk away.
Swoosh!
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Do we like Chiyo's character? I cooked it up on the spot. We need a badass girl who is the leader of an information-gathering organisation, after all.
Leave a power stone!