A Night of Bonding

She had felt it constantly. Screams. She didn't hear them. She felt it and this made things all the more unbearable. Their bodies twisting in agony. As starved and parched as THEY were, it was her who, the wide-eyed blind fool who couldn't realize what awaited the path of mastering earthbending.

To her parents, she is weak and helpless and even if caught by surprise by the Avatar, she knew that it was anything but that.

She was strong.

She is strong.

'I'm strong...' the frail girl's shoulders shivered. Tonight wasn't anything different. The screams crawled over from the base of her foot and traveled through her skin to make her feel disgusted. Of course, the easier option would be to throw her legs over her mattress. But it would be wrong. It was right under their feet. As her family slept peacefully, the consequences of their actions cried in pain, rage, and despair under them.

Someone had to stare at it without blinking. Someone had to...

That's how she made herself feel less twisted, or maybe more. Maybe she was just frustrated and wanted to batter herself to punish her parents. Despite their twisted and strained relationship with one another, they cared for her. It made her feel sick in the stomach when they petted her head with such love but were capable of doing something so horrifying!

Well, she didn't know if her mother was on it but something like this wouldn't happen without her father's approval.

But a pair of footsteps stopped Toph from punishing herself with the torturous sensation instead of her family and she stood up. Silently, she opened the door and felt the familiar presence once again, this time, without the added fragrance that she could smell around her mother.

"Avatar..." Toph's hollow eyes peered through from the darkroom as only one lamp illuminated the front of the hallway. He was here instead of his room where Michi waited for Poppy. What she wanted to do was something Nik didn't care for enough to question. He just trusted Michi, in all her current mischievous vigor, would manage to make things enticing no matter what she decides in the end.

"Hmm," Nik exhaled and hummed before entering Toph's room. Lao's room wasn't far but again, the man really didn't intimidate Nik and he had made him Toph's security detail until the Blind Bandit had been caught. So that's what Nik was doing right now. Catching the Blind Bandit.

Stepping in, Nik brightened the room by sparking up the wick of the nearest oiled lamp and sat down on a chair while Toph returned to her mattress and sat above with her legs crossed.

"So?" He questioned after a few seconds of silence while Toph continued to blankly stare in his direction.

"What?" Toph frowned, "Don't expect me to believe a liar like you."

"Oh, and you're the saint, right?" Nik retorted, "Why did you steal all those rations?"

"You know why," Toph squinted and pursed her lips.

"Let me phrase it again, who are you feeding with all that ration and where?"

She fell silent and then shook her head, "There is no particular location... I never took food. I just sent them down."

Hearing her admit that she was indeed the Blind Bandit, Nik raised his brow and looked at the ground. He could understand what she was trying to say. Or at least, he thought so. But there were a few things he wanted to ask of her.

"How did you learn earthbending?"

Humming in response, and placing an index finger over her chin, she looked aside, "I accidentally entered a cavern within the estate. When I was young, the estate wasn't really complete. There, I encountered a badger mole, or in this case, it discovered me. Call it fate or whatever nonsense, I would stumble into the cavern quite often. Badger Moles are the animals that can earthbend but they can't see easily. I could just... emulate them. I can't see and they can't either, but they can bend the earth.

Once I learned that trick, everything became simpler," a smile touched Toph's lips as Nik looked thoughtful.

"Actually, I'm not here just for what you think I am," Nik muttered, "I am looking for an earthbending master—"

"We leave the next second you rescue them. The prisoners. They are here, Avatar. I..." she finally brought her feet to the ground and shuddered once again, "That's the trick. I 'see' from the ground. the reverberations passing through it. But this trick has... shown me too much. You want to learn earthbending, and I want to leave this place. But... how can I make sure you aren't lying?"

Toph had already emphasized this point a few times.

"Why do you think I'm lying?"

"I can tell someone is lying or not by the sound of their body that I can sense from the ground," She replied, "And when you lied about giving up, I sensed no deception."

"Hmm, oh, that's because I'm a big-breasted whore who'd been fucking your father and your mother and plan to fuck you, too."

The sudden statement sent Toph into a daze. She processed it and blanched. Her face fell slightly as she muttered, "Oh... you're good..." after all, whatever Nik just said was registered without an ounce of deception to her.

"So?" Nik smiled, "Can you describe the layout of the prison?"

Toph looked thoughtful and relented, "You promise to help them?"

"Tell me something, why didn't you help them if you could sense them?"

"I did. I still am. I would send food and water to many prison cells through careful tunnels but... you've seen my family. Once they find out what I did then what? I just don't..."

Toph was speechless by her own emotions.

While she was guilty of letting the prisoners continue living in their anguish and had only recently begun to feed them, Toph also wanted to look out for her parents. If it is because of her that her family enters the bad side of the Phoenix King then she wouldn't be able to forgive herself. Toph felt that if she had been a tad younger and not introduced to the cruelty of wars, the prison underneath being the very example of it, she would have... thrown caution to the wind.

She still wanted to throw caution to the wind but she was aware of her limits.

She cannot handle the number of Firebending guards that were manning the underground prison.

At this moment of guilt where she couldn't even express her emotions, a hand patted her head and ruffled her hair, "Hey, it's alright. I wouldn't expect you alone to save them all."

Finally baring her teeth for the first time as if offended by his comment, Toph shocked Nik by cursing, "Fuck off! I may be the perfect little daughter to my parents but don't you go treating me like a kid!"

"Well... how should I treat you then? Like your mother?" Nik questioned in amusement. Mai would feel pity for Toph. She had experienced quite the amount of 'yo-mama's' categories of jokes before eventually doing the same man her mama did. It would seem like it's Toph's turn to brace herself.

Clicking her tongue, Toph scoffed, "Don't worry, she'd replace you in a few days."

"We'll see," Nik snorted and then pressed forward, "Come on, tell me. If we want to save them, I need to understand the layout of the prison."

"Fine!" Toph groaned and then stood up before spreading her hands above the ground and suddenly, the floor began to rise in various shapes, and soon...

A 3d model of the prison was right on the ground as Nik gazed at it speechlessly.

Hands akimbo, Toph grinned, "See that? That's what you will learn from me. Pure badass earthbending skills. Oh," sliding her foot, she suddenly sent Nik smashing against the wall, "And this is for throwing a blunt knife at a lady. Spirits, I knew you were a rude man with how roughly you treated my mother but to attack a blind girl, tch, tch," she shook her head.

She could hear his annoyed huff as he stood up while brushing off the dust on his armor.

*Pah*

"Eeh!"

Toph yelped, jumping over toes in shock as a soft blast of air smacked against her butt.

The Air Boomerang.

"Hey!"

"What? It must have been the wind."

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Toph was surprisingly... fun. She did curse, yes. But she had a fun energy around her. And despite what her parents claimed, she was physically sturdy as heck once you feel the punch through her soft skin. Her bones... truly hurt!

Nik could feel his abdomen going slightly blue by it. Whether it was her bending skills or physical strength or even emotional strength due to what she had endured over the period of time, made sure she was, in her phrase, a certified badass. But despite her bravado, Nik knew fully well that what she may have seen in the prison had traumatized her... not as much as seeing her mother with different men.

After a couple of hours, Nik had returned to his quarters. Now that the Blind Bandit would only strike alongside the 'Avatar', Nik could sleep peacefully.

But peace was never an option...

As he entered his dim quarters, the soft and hurried breathing alongside a playful giggle made his brows arch in surprise.

Thinking for a second, his fists heated up until flames emerged from them without burning him, of course, and he found the orange shade of his flames reflect from Poppy's fair and full thighs as she gazed deeply into the flickering flames with her hands wrapped around Michi's neck who had a gentle smile. Michi's own hands only hugged Poppy's waist and Mai's mother cooed, "My warrior, look, who came searching for you. If it isn't the lady of the estate herself. But... she seems to want to give herself to her daughter's savior and submit to you fully. Her heart and soul laid bare for you."

Nik blinked. Would Toph toss and turn over her bed if she realized their lie had sent her mother straight to his bed? Probably. But Nik's abdomen finally heated familiarly until the flames in his hand glowed even wilder. A short look of terror emerged in Poppy's eyes as she misunderstood the greater burst of flame as his anger. She has had been made to take men from fire nation before and although passionate, they lacked the sheer drive with which Nik fucked her.

Slowly, Nik reached for his mask. He wasn't breaking it. Poppy's gaze glittered and she understood it.

This man wasn't angry. But excited. Excited at the prospects of having her.

"So, I've been told that once your daughter was born, your husband began to trade your body for nights to sweeten many deals with proficient men," his muffled voice echoed as Poppy's body shuddered. But Nik didn't stop, "The most beautiful woman of Gaoling marrying the wealthiest of it had to offer... poor girl, you just got used by him.

Many commit the same trades in the higher society of the Earth Kingdom, right, Michi?"

"They do, darling," She mewled and nibbled Poppy's ear. She had to admit that Poppy certainly packed a punch. She has features that make her look so innocuous but her body is one of the lewdest she had ever seen.

'Darling?' Poppy was stunned. That wasn't the dynamics of the relationship she had been expecting but her thoughts turned erratic as Nik took off his mask. His face brightened by the flaming fist as his violet orbs flickered under the raging flames. Smitten at first sight as she slowly began to put all of his actions, including their sexual intimacy together as if he was a great puzzle, Poppy breathed hotly as if the room wasn't already warmed enough.

But what she didn't expect next was that grin.

That smile again.

One of the brightest yet most wicked she had seen that attempted to turn all her defenses into a mush.

"I don't mind," with the next second, his clothes disappeared and Poppy finally recalled the news of a violet-eyed devil that had been a pain in the Phoenix King's royal tush.

Yet, seeing his flaccid cock slowly turn monstrous at the sight of her body made her push all those thoughts behind.

With her gaze twinkling, Michi giggled, "Do I get a reward for being such a pleasant mistress, Ma~s~ter~?" She called him as such with a playful tone and noted that he could get around being called as such, especially by the usually dignified Michi who had just prepared this wondrous gift for him, Nik couldn't help but nod.

"Yes, you would. Both of you would," Nik resisted the urge to bring everyone out. He was sure that he could persuade them to an orgy but... he felt that giving half the effort for all the girls wouldn't be as satisfying as focusing on the two women in front of him.

With that, Nik slipped onto the bed while making another mental note to start physical training with even more vigor to increase his stamina to include more and more girls.

His lips leaned down and as Poppy raised her head expectantly, he leaned away and locked his lips with Michi, making Poppy, in the middle of parting her lips, feeling shocked. After all they had done, Poppy still hadn't kissed Nik yet but seeing him still deny this pleasure, she couldn't help but pounce forward, her lips firmly suckling on his neck almost possessively. If there weren't any hints that Poppy had become twisted after her experiences so much so that she began to wholeheartedly love the only thing that came out of her with love— Toph, Nik felt her hands on his shoulders, her nails threatening to dig in while Michi soothingly brushed her hands through his jaws and hair.

Just like that, resolving himself to break this possessive spirit of Poppy, Nik slipped his cock into her slick folds. Her breath shuddered almost instantly while Michi then lowered her hand to play with her large breasts. As they spilled out of Michi's hands, Nik pulled back from the Mistress' lips and growled at Poppy, "Come here."

And more than happy to finally get the treat she wanted for being a good girl, not as her husband had trained but what she wanted to do for Nik to have him reciprocate, she pressed her lips against his passionately.

Her heart felt relieved as she slowly pulled back and whispered, declaring with all the Warth Kingdom pride she had left remaining, "From now on, I'm yours to order... Nik," she mewled, ascertaining that she now knew of his identity, "I will sleep with anyone if you ask me to, just like Lao did but..." her shoulders shuddered, revealing what had happened once Toph was given birth to before starting the spree of turning her over to other greedy and wealthy men, "Don't... don't abandon me..."

Her voice turned to soft gasps and sobs as Nik grew silent for a second.

He wouldn't go as far as to call Lao a son of a bitch... after all, that's what his harem was essentially. Others accepted it and he didn't abandon them, that's different. But he couldn't just blame someone's decision just because he wouldn't do them. Of course, that wouldn't also stop him from doing what he wants so displaying the perfect paradox he had within him with the name of Mokshi, he scoffed, "Making you sleep with others? Abandon you?" His rough growl made her walls contract in excitement as Nik began to thrust harder.

The tip of his cock pushing and fucking till her cervix as her back arched only to be hugged down by a lascivious Michi, "Don't compare me to that Son of a Bitch! You're not fucking anyone else but me from now on. Got it?"

She moaned, her arms latching around his neck as she experienced a satisfying orgasm.

"Say it if you understand," Nik remarked knowing full well how much she loved the sensation of being pressed down. Parting her lips into a gleeful and lustful grin, she repeated, "I'm yours~! I'm yours to plow! Please, right there, deep inside me~ Let it all out!"

'Oh, well... if she is insisting,' Nik shrugged.

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For the sake of listening to what was going on, Toph hadn't dug too deep of an underground chamber. Her hazy eyes flashed for a second. Many things felt clear to her. All she knew about her mother and father was their strained relationship and how her mom would bring some men to her chambers at times. Toph didn't mind. She had grown up seeing this... or particularly, sensing this.

But hearing all those confessions... gave her a sense of understanding and she hummed in response.

Even she had heard of Nik. He was right to wear a mask because he was truly famous but...

'How can he also bend air?' Toph felt puzzled. She knew it for a fact that Nik had bent air. The short gale she experienced made that clear but isn't the Avatar named Aang?

So many questions... but...

'Should I move away from under them?' She thought for a second.

This skill to watch through the earth hadn't just shown her the state of the prison but also many things around her. But hearing the muffled moans of her mother being plowed made the very demure daughter of the Beifongs bite her short lips in frustration.

"Fucking hell!" She cursed again, a habit she gained from sneaking into the streets and entering into skirmishes, "All of them keep treating me like a child..."

She complained while fully knowing that all she had to do to change that was either dig deeper and break free the prisoners, dig upward and show a real woman fucks... or, well, finally let her family have it that she has had enough of them!

Why should her mother get to fuss over her but then find herself in depraved situations such as this?

Why should her father get to do so many cruel things to people around him?

Since they are free to choose, it's about time she got the same choice, right?

She had heard legends about the Avatar so that's why she asked for his help. Sure, given what she'd heard of Nik made him an even more suitable candidate, didn't change the fact that she wouldn't have the same respect for the man having his way with her mom... well, alright, she had a tiny bit of respect for that. Toph has been very open-minded since her early years. It was because she was things that even eyes couldn't view.

Still, she wouldn't just roll over for Nik. He wasn't the Avatar. He is Nik. Just that. At most, she'd treat him as a useful ally and then maybe teach him earthbending as he'd wanted to. But that's all!

She leaned back and slipped into the ground before the underground tunnel was filled easily while others remained unaware of her presence.

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