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Part 4 of KPop Demon Hunters
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We may not want to be here (but we want to help you)

Summary:

Huntrix was the title of a very skilled group of bounty hunters who traveled throughout nations for different jobs. At least until Ozai sent a small militant force to "persuade" them to work for him. And after seeing their skill, why shouldn't he send them off with his daughter and her little team?

 

Huntrix becomes the older sister version of Uncle Iroh to Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Chapter 1

Chapter Text

Huntrix is a small group of Bounty Hunters who keep to themselves and have gathered a very well-known reputation of being swift, professionals, and very, very uniquely skilled in multiple capacities. Able to complete any job, but they're fairly picky about what jobs they take in the first place. Not much is known about them individually outside of the fact that all of them are fiercely protective of each other, and they aren't ever far from one another.

Additional details:

Rumi isn't a bender, but Celine made sure she was skilled in almost every other regard. She's skilled in most common weapons, but she prefers to use her sword. She also has the best martial arts skills of the group, mainly because she was training much longer than the others, and she is also very adept at first aid.

Mira is a firebender, though she doesn't use her fire very often. She prefers not to be associated with her element because of how often it leads to others being mistrustful of her. She also knows martial arts, but weapon-wise, she is very partial to staffs and spears, but she mainly uses her Gok-do.

Zoey is an earthbender, and she definitely uses her bending regularly. She isn't the most skilled in her bending; she didn't have a teacher and instead just taught herself the things that she knows with support and suggestions from her friends. She is the most agile out of them though, and obviously was also taught martial arts, but for her she prefers throwing weapons, including darts and her shin-kals.

The girls are in their early 20s and have been together since their mid-teens. They were raised and trained by Celine, Rumi's adoptive aunt who also can't bend but she was very knowledgeable about bending and fighting. (She'll be covered more later)

Chapter 2: Prologue

Notes:

I apologize in advance for this attempt and all my future attempts at fight scenes.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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“I really wish we didn’t have to come back here…” Mira trailed off as the girls casually walked through the streets of the Fire Nation Capital.

“Wasn’t it you who wanted to track down Tozo? You said that he was exactly the kind of scum you wanted to get before we went on our next break.”

“Well, yeah, obviously I would rather get someone like him sooner rather than later. I just didn’t think he would be so bold as to hide out in the capital.” Mira was practically scowling as they searched for the familiar face of their target. Tozo happened to be known as a local assailant, commonly harming women and children as he traveled between islands to lose any tails. Unlucky for him, Huntrix weren’t known for losing someone once they found them.

“From what I can tell, it seems like the capital is a great place for him to escape to. He probably fits in perfectly.” Rumi finally spoke up, breaking the silence she had held for most of their time since they arrived at the capital. Mira’s jaw set before she pointedly stared to the right, acknowledging but not feeling happy in the fact that she knew how right her partner was. That was one of the biggest reasons she hated being back in the Fire Nation at all… the morals of the nation were twisted, even to the point that “smaller crimes” weren’t seen as too problematic and were allowed to thrive in too many areas.

Zoey slightly bumped her shoulder after they continued to walk in silence for several moments, and Mira closed her eyes to try and stop her dark train of thought. It didn’t matter anyway; they would do this job and then probably head to Ba Sing Se or somewhere else where they could just relax and pamper themselves for at least a few weeks before getting back to work.

“You’re right, but we’ll find him.” Mira smiled at the shorter girl, only to watch as her face shifted from happy to narrowed focus.

“Did you see-?”

“He saw us and ran!” Zoey took off running, easily slipping between and around other folks who seemed surprised at the sudden figure speeding through them. Neither Rumi nor Mira hesitated to take off after her, doing the same.

It was a simple chase, though they did take notice of the man trying his hardest to throw them off with multiple diversions and distractions, including knocking over crates and even throwing people into their direct path. He seemed to get more distressed as he realized none of his efforts were working before he literally ran himself into a corner.

The man glowered at the three girls as soon as he realized he was cornered, but they couldn’t bother to hide their own amusement.

“So, looks like someone hasn’t checked out a map in a while,” Zoey smirked as she stopped right in front of the man, Rumi and Mira barely out of step right behind her. Rumi chuckled while Mira just glared right back at him.

“I haven’t done anything wrong.” He spat the words out with his guard up, but Rumi rolled her eyes.

“Coming from a guy who’s wanted on several islands, I doubt that. But you can discuss that with local authorities if you want.” She stepped closer, only to stop in place with a rather blank expression, the same second that Zoey quickly erected a dirt wall to block the blast of fire he aimed at her with.

That was apparently all Mira needed to charge the man from around the dirt wall as Zoey lowered it. The taller woman promptly ran up on him and proceeded to kick him in the gut, making him slam back into the stone behind him. That wasn’t enough for her, even as he gagged and stumbled, as she then lifted him by the shirt to quickly slam him onto the ground. Her teeth were bared down at him, but the grown man gave out a loud whimper and held up his arms as if it could somehow stop her from doing more.

Mira stared at him for a few more seconds, genuinely expecting more fight from him, but this wasn’t worth it. She rolled her eyes before lightly tilting her head down at him while giving a glance to Zoey.

The younger girl nodded and then shifted the dirt beneath the man to cover both his hands completely as makeshift cuffs.

“I wouldn’t try anything if I were you,” Mira mumbled as she then grabbed him by the shirt to make him stand again, not caring as he tried to crumble again in pain. He let out another whimper, but seemed to realize the girls weren’t going to show him any pity, and he took to trying to fix his labored breaths while being dragged along.

—-----

It happened the second they left the enforcement facility. Not a single civilian in sight.

“Well, isn’t this a nice reception?” Mira drawled out as the three girls took in the crowd around them of at least 20 Fire Nation soldiers, all of them seemingly ready to attack at the drop of a copper piece. Next to her, she could peripherally see Zoey tense up as her hands sneakily reached for her shin-kals at her sides. She sucked in a breath before looking to Rumi to determine if she should go for her weapon as well.

Rumi groaned as she nudged her elbows into both of their sides before raising her arms in surrender. She heard twin sighs behind her and knew they both were copying her, which made her lose a significant amount of tension.

“Huntrix, Firelord Ozai has requested your presence.”

Rumi just knew her partners were suppressing a groan, mainly because she was doing the same.

Notes:

Someone asked a very relevant question I totally forgot to address on the last chapter.

Rumi does still have patterns, and they mark her as a "cursed one". Rumi was never cursed, but her father was cursed by a dark spirit named Gwi-Ma. The curse was for him, but Rumi was born with it as well, though on a much smaller and less painful scale. They are heavily frowned upon because it implies that someone has incurred a spirit's wrath. Rumi, Zoey, and Mira have actually confronted Gwi-Ma in the past about them, but the dark spirit didn't care about her or the problems his marks cause her. They cover most of her upper torso, but haven't reached her legs or face yet, they haven't even climbed up her neck yet.
This does mean Mira and Zoey know about her marks and her "curse". It will be explored more later in the fic.

Chapter 3

Summary:

Just a short little transition chapter. Our girls get to be menaces to the Fire Nation.

Chapter Text

“So, why exactly did we have to go along with them? I know we could've taken the soldiers, but now we have a direct order from the Firelord to work for him.”

“The same reason we are working for the Firelord right now. We shouldn't risk being wanted by the Fire Nation. Especially with how they're still expanding… who knows if we would ever get a break running from them. Even if we can fight most soldiers, I don't want that to be our everyday.”

“Well, I don’t want anything to do with the Fire Nation… especially not to work for such a-” Zoey and Rumi stared at Mira, making the taller girl roll her eyes. “Whatever.”

“We aren't really going to act like any other soldier, though, right, Rumi? No matter the reason, I don’t think I would feel comfortable with… anything the Fire Nation does, honestly.”

Rumi was quiet for a few moments, but she slowly nodded. “And we won't be doing anything we aren't comfortable with. We were told to work for him… but who says we have to be good workers?”

Mira let out an amused chuff before smiling along, “That is true, we could just be reallyyy bad at our jobs.”

“Detrimental even.” Zoey perked up to add, and Rumi gave a conspiratorial laugh.

“And what are they going to do? Fire us? Arrest us? Attempt to kill us? At that point, we just leave anyway or go into hiding for a bit.”

“So basically, let's just mess with them until we leave?”

“Yep.”

“I can work with that plan.”

-----

“Um… you three really shouldn’t be messing with the controls like that…”

“Sorry, we were just curious and wanted to know which button would release the water.”

Just as she said that, Mira pressed another random button and the dam they were all standing in front of opened and started to flood.

“Found it.”

-----

“So you want us to fight these guys?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“Because those are your orders.”

“But they're all pretty old. It looks like they would fall over if you blow on them.”

“These are very dangerous earthbenders who should be contained immediately, and if you refuse to cooperate, I will be forced to-!”

The man yelling in their face stopped and crouched quickly in fear of the collision that happened right next to his head. He looked back up at the three girls slowly before looking back down at the rock crumbled next to him.

“A-Are you threatening me?”

“Nope, I just saved you from getting your head bashed in by one of those ‘dangerous’ earth benders.”

The man looked behind him and could see the fight that the other soldiers were having with the rouges, and as soon as he made eye contact with one of them, another rock came speeding towards him. In the same second, a rock came flying at it from beside him and crashed into it, making it crumble directly in the same place as the last one.

“Told you.”

“How about we run a bit of defense while you guys keep doing what you're doing. We'll protect the carts.”

“Y-yeah, okay.”

-----

“You let them get away!”

“Did we?”

“I didn’t notice them.”

“We were watching the ship, sorry.”

~~~~
“I know it was you three who were tripping my men every time they went after those kids.”

“That is a very serious accusation. I hope you have some proof?”

The older man growled at them, “You three are the only ones who don’t want to be here and keep actively working against us!”

“We would never do that. We're under direct orders from the Firelord to participate in military expansion.”

“What do we gain from stopping you from getting a few kids?”

“But also, it's not like that would go against our orders if we did.”

“True. We weren't told we would have to harass random kids.”

“Those kids are criminals who don't respect us or the Fire Nation.”

The three girls gave polite smiles but didn't say anything. The man glared at them harder, but knew there wasn’t much he could do.

“Make sure it doesn't happen again.”

-----

“Scale of 1 to 10, how much more do you think we can get away with before they send someone after us?”

“I think we're pretty safe, actually. Even if everyone assumes we're working against them, there's no proof. Maybe they'll try to send someone to scare us straight, but it won't work.”

“I am getting really bored, though. We were supposed to go on break almost 2 months ago.”

“Can't be helped. Besides… I do feel a bit better about being able to help where we can.”

“That is true.” Zoey hummed before glancing at Mira. She had been unusually quiet for a while at this point.

Mira folded her arms as she glared at the ground instead of looking back at her partners. “I don't feel better knowing the lengths these guys go to keep others down. It's even worse than I originally thought.”

“Well…” Rumi started while pulling up beside the taller girl and taking her hand to make sure she was listening, “We do what we can. But you're right, staying around this too long wouldn't be good. Let's do a few more jobs and then maybe we can request either to get displaced to another Nation and then sneak away, or maybe we could work out a deal somehow to be done with this place.” She gave her hand a small squeeze at the same time that Zoey came around to Mira’s other side and took her other free hand too.

“Okay.” The oldest let out a slow sigh, but she appreciated how much lighter her chest felt with the knowledge that her feelings were being taken seriously. It felt like an extra weight was placed on her the longer they stayed in the Fire Nation, but the reminder that her girls would always listen to her was so soothing.

“You got it, Rumi.” Zoey lightly nudged the taller girl in the middle which finally brought out a small smile, soon leaving the three girls grinning at each other as they continued to walk.

Notes:

I wonder how many war crimes Huntrix will end up participating in by the end.

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