Chapter 7: Inner Power Pt. 1

Frankie flew across the ocean as fast as he could, his face hard and his eyes reflecting anger as he did so. As he continued to fly, his thought reflected back to what happened yesterday.

(Flashback)

Frankie awoke in a small part of the cave. He looked himself over and found himself wearing a strange robe of some kind that was similar to the garb that the villagers wore. He felt a dull pain overtake his body and saw the scars across his midsection and tried to remember the events of last night. All that he could remember was the feeling of fury and blood lust overtaking his body as he began to change. After that, all he could see was his target, Iguana, surrounded by the color red. At one point, however, his vision cleared slightly, and he could see himself holding Aang in a vice-like grip. Part of him wanted to let him go so as not to kill him. However, another part of him was wanting nothing more than to see him suffer and die. The sad thing was, he enjoyed that feeling...that desire to see others in pain. The rush he got from his lust for blood. Why? Why did he enjoy the feeling so much?

"Morning," said a voice. He quickly turned to see Katara with a bowl of water and a wet rag. She reached out with the rag when Frankie flinched back a little, "it's okay, it's all over. I just want to wipe some of the sweat off of you."

Frankie complied with a small sigh. He looked into Katara's eyes and knew she felt the same thing he was feeling: complete confusion.

"How are the others?" he asked.

"Aang is still unconscious, although Dante said he wasn't too badly injured and should recover," Katara said, "other than that, everyone else is fine."

"Good," Frankie said, although Katara knew he was upset, and he couldn't blame him at all for it. She knew that he knew he was responsible for most of the island being completely destroyed.

"It's not your fault," she said in an attempt to console him, "you couldn't have known what was going to happen, none of us could've--!"

"IT IS!!" Frankie shouted as he coated himself in a thin layer of Ki which dissipated as quickly as it came, "PEOPLE COULD HAVE DIED AND I WOULD'VE JUST KEPT ON KILLING AND KILLING!!"

He then turned to Katara and grabbed her shoulders to make her face him in the eye.

"I wanted to kill him," he said in a grave tone, "I literally had Aang in the palm of my hands!! I wanted him to die Katara!! I wanted him to suffer!!"

"Frankie please," Katara said as her eyes showed the smallest of hint of tears, "It isn't your fault! You weren't in control--!"

"I saw him!! In that blur...I saw him in my grasp!!" Frankie saw, making Katara go wide eyed, "I wanted him dead...I wanted to kill everything! To just destroy it all!!"

"So now you admit it huh?"

Frankie and Katara turned to see Aang who looked rather worse for wear as he had wrappings around his midsection and on his arms. What was really unsettling was the expression he had. His eyes reflected pure anger that was directed toward Frankie, who looked away in shame.

"What the hell are you?" he asked in a low tone. Frankie found himself unable to answer as he couldn't come up with one. In his fear-stricken mind, answers were practically dead.

"You nearly killed all of us last night!!" Aang shouted.

"Woah buddy relax," Sokka said running up to him, "everything's fine! We don't need to start killing each other...again."

"So you did want to kill me huh?" Aang asked in a slightly mocking tone, "Tell me, after you killed me, who were you planning on killing next huh?! Sokka, or even Katara?!"

"Aang stop," Katara said. But the Airbender kept on.

"I thought we could trust you," Aang said as his hands shook with anger, "But it turns out that you're no different than the Fire Nation! You're nothing but a heartless monster!! JUST GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!"

"AANG!" Katara and Sokka shouted. Frankie uttered no sound. He reached out for his Zanpakuto and stood up. Aang looked slightly confused as to what he planned to do, with Katara and Sokka following suit. He raised his head slightly and Aang saw a single tear streak down his face before his Ki shot out to the top of the cave, creating a massive hole. He then shot high into the air as his Ki swirled around him like a violent flame as he shot forward across the island and towards the ocean.

"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

(Flashback end)

It had been about at least an hour and a half since then, and by that time, all the rage had left him and was replaced with angry brooding.

To be continued...