Khuzo, mercanary

Khuzo's group, enroute to the island

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The small boat floated quietly through the ever thickening fog. After three days of sailing, Khuzo had managed to find and get to the island.

Ridge stood up, looking out from the watchtower that stood over the massive mast of the ship. He pulled out his bow, and looked around carefully. Something, some ever present force of almost physical energy crawled down his spine. He shivered.

"Khuzo. I don't like this," he said loudly, so Khuzo could hear him down on deck. Khuzo grabbed two knives from his chest and held them out. It was no use using swords if they would attack from off the boat. He grabbed several more and slipped them in between his fingers.

His father's words crawled back into his mind.

"Remember Khuzo, flick the wrist..."

"Flick the wrist..." Khuzo mumbled. Rain overheard him.

"What?"

"What?" Khuzo asked. He hadn't even known he had said it.

"Something really strange is going on guys, and I can't do anything up here. There's no earth," Shungo said uneasily.

"Don't worry, we got it, kid," Devan said, and pulled out his greatsword. Moans could be heard over the mist.

"Khuzo...I'm scared," Reika said.

"Why are YOU scared?" Shungo interrupted. "You can still BEND," he said.

"Shut up, both of you!" Khuzo whispered. Reika came closer to him, taking comfort in the fact that he was carrying extremely sharp throwing knives.

Sorrow backed into the center of the ship and merely stood there, quivering slightly.

Moans began to come up around them again, but this time-it was closer.

"Son of a...Whatever is out there is surrounding us!" Khuzo whispered. Rain began to waterbend, slowly dragging water up around the sides of the ship.

"No earth...nowhere to run..." Shungo mumbled quietly as he backed up behind Devan.

"What do you want me to kid? I do fine without it," he mumbled back.

"Yeah I know but I can't-"

FABWOOM!

The ship rocked around and Reika screamed and nearly jumped out of her skin. She tripped, and tried to get up. Suddenly the ship began to rock again, and she slid to the side of the boat.

"Khuzo!" she screamed. He jumped down and grabbed her, pulled her up, and then pushed her away.

"A waterbender afraid of landing in water? Are you serious?!" Khuzo demanded from her.

"I couldn't help it!" she yelled in defense, but this time massive, sweeping tentacles arose from the water through the mist, interruping their conversation.

"KHUZO!" Ridge yelled, and he fired an arrow at a tentacle coming towards him. It exploded, and the tentacle was pushed back, and a screech was heard.. "WE GOT COMPANY!"

"WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Rain yelled, and she formed defensive blades of water around her.

"KRAKEN!" Khuzo yelled, and he slipped the knives away and grabbed a grenade from his waist. He lit it with the glove on his hand, which created friction when you rubbed the fingers together. It lit, and Khuzo tossed it immediately. That one had a very, very short fuse. It twirled in the air and exploded the second it hit a tentacle, causing a massive explosion of purple appendages and blood, which showered over him. A screech was heard again, and this time it was much louder, in proportion with the bigger size of the explosion.

"SCARECROW! BLOW THE CRAP OUT OF THIS THING!" Rain yelled as she fended off two massive, writhing, suction cupped, bladed, puss spewing, purple tentacles. Each individual suction cup had a large claw in it the siz of Khuzo's fist, and they all spewed what looked like toxic puss.

Scarecrow bolted out of the cabin with a long, slender tube that had a lit fuse bomb sticking out the back end. He bent down, and took aim. Three tentacles attacked Devan, but the explosion that the tube made was enough to rock the boat, and made everyone completely deaf for several seconds. A blinding light was seen from Scarecrow's direction, and all three tentacles were destroyed instantly. Blood showered over everyone.

Khuzo tossed another grenade as two more surrounded him. It destroyed one, and Reika finally got herself under control and used the ocean water to surround and freeze several tentacles over or around the boat. They retreated back underwater, and Rain kept up with her. Eventually, seeing the situation became less grave, Sorrow managed to do a little waterbending of her own. Ridge fired several arrows at one, and each time it repelled back a little more. He pulled on out of his mouth and shot it, and it exploded, and the tentacle was blown to pieces.

Devan sliced one in half with one strike, and then another.

"COME ON, YA SLIMY, PUSS SPEWING ABOMINATIONS! LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THIS BLADE CAN DO!" he yelled, and Shungo stood underneath him, trying to stay alive.

In between explosions and screeches, he screamed.

"THIS! REALLY! SUCKS!" he shouted, and Devan laughed.

The kraken's tentacles submerged all at once, and then the actual creature came above the surface. It's massive, gaping mouth opened all the way, revealed rows upon rows of extremely large, sharp teeth. Two tentacles came up around it, and everyone was deafened and paralyzed by it's loud, horrible screech. Scarecrow and Khuzo both tossed grenades at it at the same time, but a tentacle bounced them back.

"CRAP!" Khuzo yelled, and he kicked his back at the creature, where it exploded right in it's face. Scarecrow followed through just in time, and the creature screeched again. Rain, Reika, and Sorrow unleashed a massive attack of water, smashing the creature's body with massive waves of water. Rain jumped forward, and sent water high into the sky. Khuzo screamed.

"EVERYONE WHO CAN'T WATERBEND, GET TO COVER NOW!" he yelled, and he jumped over the side and swung below deck. Shungo followed Scarecrow back to the cabin and Devan made a jump over the side like Khuzo. Ridge landed hard on the deck after jumped 40 feet, rolled, and then headed for the cabin.

"GIRL POWER!" he yelled as he ran. "RUN FROM THE GIRL POWER!"

Rain swung her hands down, and the water that had disappeared from view came down in nearly transparent, extremely tiny blades that sliced and dug in everything. Each of the waterbenders were covered by an ice shied, but the rest of the deck was smashed to insure every part of the creature not submerged was hit completly. The tiny blades rained down for what seemed minutes, and underneath the ice rain the creature screeched and bellowed, and soon became a torrent of puss and blood. After the rain stopped falling, nothing of the creature's skin or outer muscle remained. It had all been shredded away from the long standing rain, which was constantly refueld by the seawater around them.

The entire deck had been shredded as well, and there was nothing left of the sails or anything more easily cut.

Reika stood dumbfounded. She had never seen such an incredibly destructive technique before. Rain was panting heavily, her power drained from constantly feeding the rain. She grabbed onto a rail for support, and everyone else came back on deck.

The cabin door swung open, and Khuzo jumped back over the side onto the top. He pulled out his swords just as Scarecrow popped out of the cabin door with another blast waiting from his shoulder cannon. It struck the creature and it bellowed and swerved back, no longer capable of withstanding so much force. Khuzo ran over the deck and then jumped off it, with his sword high in the air. He lunged it deep into the creature's face, just above the mouth. It screeched one last time, and Khuzo jumped all the way back to the deck in one swift leap. As it fell, it's tentacles writhed above it, one last time. Khuzo turned and sheathed his swords once again, and walked back to the others.

Rain began to collapse from the stress, but Ridge caught her. She looked up and saw his smirking, perverted face staring at her, with one eyebrow raised. Then she passed out.

"What...what did she do?!" Shungo asked.

"That's why we call her "Rain"," Devan said.

"Yeah, it is," Khuzo said.

As the group took one deep breath, a tentacle suddenly burst out of the water. It slammed onto Khuzo and picked him up, swinging him high into the air. He shouted, and the tentacle writhed around him. As if in slow motion, he looked down at the group one last time. Then the tentacle pulled him over the boat, and everyone stared.

Khuzo said two short sentences.

"Dead ahead. Good luck," he said and Shungo turned and saw the approaching island. Then he turned back. Everyone tried to grab a weapon or bend the water around them, but in the same instant, the tentacle reached up, and went straight down.

In less than a second, Khuzo was pulled underneath the water, down, down, and down, into the deep, dark murky abyss from where the kraken had came.

Reika ran to the side of the boat, but it was too late.

Khuzo was gone.

Nice post secondsign:

The Kraken roars at Kuzo spitting out mucus and assorted bones.

Kuzo strings an arrow to his bow and faces the kraken's fangs

"Hello beastie."

'Ello Chad. I spent half of your vacation unable to post, or I would have done more. It's moot. You made something out of it.

Back to business. *yawn* What's next? I left it open, as always. Two or three more towns, a week or a month of travel. Although, I've got some business in "Tao-Lin Bay" when we get there, it's pretty loose.

Good to have you back, anyway. Liked the post.

*clears throat* TLG! GODDAMN YOU LAZY BASTARD! I told that new girl, bunibender, that she couldn't post until she was approved! Do so, or do not, but for the love of the sweet baby Jesus, do something!

Do you realize just how much I hate you? Can you fathom it? Is it beyond your mental faculties?

I vote coup. All hail Dafoose. *inhales advil*

Name: Talon

Age:17

Height/Weight:5'9 125lb

Bending: Water bending Pref using Ice

Special Moves: Ice Claws( covers hands in ice and tips are very sharp) Ice Dragon( This move is not yet complete the basic idea is a dragon made of ice through bending make it appear to be alive)

Eyes: Icy Blue

Hair: Snow White

History: Before Talon was born his mother and father were going through some tough times. They lived in a poor district of the city. His father was a low ranking soldier and his mother work in the healing huts. After becaming pregnant they knew they needed more money so his father bought a cheap boat and became a fisher man for some extra cash. 9 months later the fateful day was here but sadly during birth Talon's mother went through some complications and past.

After the tragic passing of his wife Lee(Talon's father) went into a deep session of greif. He would spend hours looking into his new son's Big brown eyes that reminded him so much of his wife's. To pass the hours he would rock his son and tell him stories of the northern water tribe.

Talon being a baby would just stare blankly at his father when he did this but after hearing one story he strangely began to giggle and smile at his father. The story that did this was about one of the "Tribes Protectors"... It is said that there is a Mystical Ice Dragon that lives under the ocean around the Northern Water Tribe that protect its people from danger. They also say that its serves as a Gate Keeper of the "Spirit Oasis" which is believed to be a point where the spirit world and mortal world overlap. This Legendary Ice Dragon goes by the name of Haru.

After about two weeks Lee needed to get back out on the sea to make some money. Not having anyone to look after Talon he was forced to take him along. While out on the sea an unexpected rogue wave came crashing into the boat sending the young by plummeting into the unforgiving ocean. Lee not ready to lose the last part of his family quickly dove into the frigged water after his son but Talon was no where to be found. The sobbing father Thrashed at the water in desperation. After two minutes in fear of freezing to death himself he climbed back into the boat. While sitting there Lee heard a splash and the unforgettable giggle of his beloved son. When he looked over the side he saw what looked to be like a Serpents Tail. Lee picked up his son was shocked to see His big brown eyes have turned a Icy Blue and his deep Black hair has turned a Snowy White... To be Continued

Name: Hung Ta

Age: 22

Height: 6' 2"

Weight: 180 lbs.

Hair: Short, black hair; think Zuko mid season 2

Eyes: Green

Bending: Earth

Special move: Can lower himself belowground and send tremors throughout the terrain surrounding him.

Personality: Reserved, mostly without companionship, lonely unless a partner suits him.

Backstory: When he was seven, his small town was raided by Fire Nation soldiers. His father was killed in the poor attempt to defend the town, but Hung Ta knew nothing of the attack at all. He was playing in the woods around it, at the time, and his mother, who tried to find him, gave up and ran from the town. He returned not long after the raid to the site of burnt corpses. After this, he traveled around the Earth Kingdom for years, stealing food with his earthbending. Around the age of 15, he had bought a small home in the lower ring with stolen money. The Dai Li noted his earthbending talent and engaged him in a recruitment course. For the next two years, he trained to become a Dai Li agent, where he refined his earthbending talent. Around the age of 18, he discovered the Dai Li was corrupt, and attempted to leave. The Dai Li discovered his treachery and imprisoned him. He was left alone in Lake Laogai for a week. During this week, he became somewhat spiritually enlightened, and escaped the prison at the end of the week. Over the course of the next few years, he gave up his material belongings and became an almoner.