Last Straw

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She went straight to the Sensoriums. Her feelings were all over the place, and she had to get away from people right now. She remembered all too well what happened to Alex when he lost Luna: she knew she had to find a way to take her aggression out. There was pain and self loathing and unspeakable things she was sorting through, but right now it was nothing but anger she was feeding on. She closed her eyes when she entered, concentrating on the enemies she;s fought while she'd been on the ship.

The Terminators. The T-Rex. The Nightmare King's monster minions. The traps Hal had laid for them. They came one at a time but Katara was ready, steeling herself to calmly maneuver out of the traps, to find a way to take down the terminator most efficiently, and those alone took more than a few hours. It was when she got to the nightmare King's minions, however, that Katara stopped being cautious. Now she ripped into them, stabbing at them with ice shards and freezing them on the spot before blowing through them, and slowly her determined face gave away to that of rage. As she started to remember their fights, their hugs, their talks, she switched to the Bene Gesserit fighting style, her hits were starting to get more serious, leaving many injured in her wake, though she received a few cuts herself. When she was done an hour later, it faded, all of it, and she was left in water, where she had heard Sokka once talk to Toph about how she'd been like a mother to her, and she couldn't stand it anymore. She let out a scream, primal and pained.

"WHY?! WHY BRING HIM HERE JUST TO TAKE HIM AWAY?! ALL THIS TIME, JUST TO TAKE HIM AND NOT HAVE AANG HERE AND MAKE ZUKO FORGET WHAT WE ALL DID?? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?"

And she dissolved into tears here, the sun sinking into the clouds and leaving a dark, lonely pond.

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[morphitudinous]

"Yeah, that's why we're here. We want you to be happy, and if that means shouldering your pain for a while? Then that's what we'll have to do," Billy decides, curling around them momentarily. The blanket really helps here.

Speaking of which....he grabs another fluffy blanket and tosses it at them. Just to see their reaction.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara catches it easily: being a waterbender also means having the reflexes of a cat at any given notice. She fluffed the blanked and stretched it around the three of them. To the people who came to help her, she was grateful: they all cared enough to come, to try and make someone they might not know that much feel better, and she was happy. But when it came to these two, who she shared feelings and laughed and was protective over, it was just different.

"I don't fee alone anymore," she admitted, "at least not when it comes to friends. Thanks to you, I know I never could. Whatever brought us here, we have a gift, all of us. I'll never let you guys be alone like this either. I promise."

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Heee. Eey-ess. Is trrroof, Tarrr-Tarrr."

And then the blanket-toss/wrap? Well, first things first. To both of the Humans, Renne gives a snuggle, not once letting on his evil little plot. Well, aside from a prehensile foot slooooowly sneaking to find a pillow.

It's on now.

[morphitudinous]

"Hey!" He protests weakly to being wrapped in their little cocoon, but hey. It's comfortable here, keeping him nice and warm.

And suspicious of that foot. Billy feels it moving, Renne. You wouldn't dare, would you?

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara wrapped herself in the blanket and laughed. She couldn't help it: they made her happy, the both of them. She didn't feel the foot at first, then saw Billy's expression.

"Um...what's going on?"

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, he does dare, Billy, he does dare. Plastering on his most innocent Phear-the-Adorableface, his foot sloooowly sneaks out until a toe finds a pillow. At which point, said prehensile foot grabs hold and brings the pillow back in a quick almost-toss.

Yep, it is on now.

Pillow fight initiated.

[morphitudinous]

Being swaddled up with them significantly hinders his ability to dodge, so Billy is beaned in the head with a pillow and his glasses are knocked askew.

"Renne!" Cue the struggling to escape and grab a pillow. He prays Katara doesn't decide to conspire against him too.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

While torturing Billy was always something Katara had a guilty pleasure for, she was going to be merciful: almost. She had a pillow at her hands and knocked them BOTH upside the head. They had protected her, after all.

Might as well pay them accordingly.

"Come on boys!" She said, grinning. "Let's go!"

Pardon the slow!fail

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Eee!"

Oh yeah, that's a yip followed by a playful growl-chirp. Wriggling away, the beastie moves into his Pillow Fight position and snags a pillow. Put 'em up!

"Rrrrraowrrrr, Rrrr-enne ge-t yeu."

[morphitudinous]

Katara! Billy growled, finally rolling his way out of the cocoon and snatching up a pillow.

"Don't forget me either!" With that, he dives in for a strike at Katara. He'll never catch her no matter how fast he gets, of course, but principles say he should try.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

And Katara, just as ready for two very able siblings of, fights back with gust. No one can ever say that Katara of the Southern Water Tribe backed down from a fight!

"I'll get you both!" She shrieked, for the moment forgetting her woes.

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Yeu trrrry!"

Blowing a raspberry at them both, the Renne chucks a pair of pillows in rapid succession toward their voices. Double-whammy? He expects it, so he's giving it ahead of time. Pre-emptive strike, maybe. Either way, he's giggling up a storm amid finding another pillow.

[morphitudinous]

"Hey!" Billy pivots on one foot, abandoning his pursuit of Katara to block Renne's pillow.

"You're not the only one with tricks up their sleeve," Billy taunts, rolling through the area and sweeping at Renne from the side.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a poor choice Billy, and Katara was going to prove it. With her normal martial arts and bending, she was a bit faster than Billy. With her Bene Gesserit learning in how to will the body to move with a faster speed however, two pillows get the back of his neck and her hands come up, aiming a pillow throw at Renne.

She'd show them for underestimating her!

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Eeeee, Rrrr-enne get yeu!"

Squealing amid his giggling, the oddity snags a pillow, then puts on the speed. Why? Hi, Katara. have a bluething blazing by you with full intent to whap you with a pillow. Billy, don't look now but you're next.

Why are you next? That pillow grazing his left side, of course.

[morphitudinous]

"Ack," was Billy's response as he was sent tumbling to the ground. He rolled onto his back, swinging a pillow upward on his way to his feet.

He was certainly not going to win.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it wasn't about winning, was it Billy? If it were, when you tumbled and then got up, you would have noticed that your pillow is gone: Katara had snatched it up and was beaning it at our blue little friend.

Take that Renne!

"Revenge!" she called out, grinning.

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Eeeep!"

Whap. Tumbling with the fluffy projectile, the beastie soon gets back up. And hey, a little pile of pillow ammunition. Nice!

"Rrrr-enne ge-t yeu ba-ck, Bee, Tarrr-Tarrr!"

Chitter. And yep, here's Machine Gun Rennie lobbing pillows two-handed.

[morphitudinous]

"Attacking an unarmed man? How sly," Billy commented, grunting as the pillows kept hitting him.

Finally, his fingers found some of his own---and they were lobbed in both directions.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara, believe it or not, is not one to leave even a potential enemy to get hit mercilessly. So she can't stop the initial onslaught, but she does get in front of Billy to get the latter half, laughing but still a little dazed.

"Good, you're up," she said to Billy and whopped him good before retaliating at Renne again.

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Rrrrraowrrrr, heee!"

Oh, drat. Out of ammo! Putting on a mock-display, the oddity appears to turn and run. Alas, he's getting a good whoopin' via a rain of pillows.

[morphitudinous]

Aww, how sweet of Katara---he thinks for the second before she whomps him again, leaving him to half-block. Then he smiles faintly, charging forward again.

"Payback time!" he calls to his favorite imp with a swing of a pillow.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"NEVER forget!" She yells, hitting Billy again. "I don't favor either!"

And Renne still gets another one right after Billy. Billy just gets hit first for thinking she would let him do what he liked. He'd better consider them BOTH enemies.

[bluebrassmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Eeeph!"

Whomp-fluff. Hi, pillow. Meet a Renne. Giggling until he's nearly breathless (even with that huge lung of his), he's got another pillow coming your way, Katara. And then you too, Billy.

"Heee-heee-heeee! Rrrr-enne ge-t yeu!"

[morphitudinous]

"I---I won't, I'm sorry!" he yelped, going down yet again. Was he pathetic at this? Oh yes.

He tried to go after Katara with a swipe---key word, tried. He'd just hesitated to chase her because he stood no chance and knew it.