Chapter 78 - Omashu

The eelhounds go double-time for the final stretch to Omashu. They finally arrive late in the night. Nuwa hasn't had sex for some time, but she finally has Aiwei to cuddle and spoil with her physical body, so she's fine for now. Plus, her perversion is fully satisfied by teasing him with nip slips and rubbing his crotch.

Azula has to stop Nuwa from pulling Aiwei's face into her pussy. Since Nuwa mostly goes bottomless with skirts and dresses, he would have gotten a good taste. Unfortunately, Aiwei is still not of age and there has to be some limits, according to what Nuwa herself had decided some time ago. So even though she was sad, Nuwa relented and stopped when it went too far.

Poor Aiwei, on the other hand, came at least twice inside his pants. Nuwa had waterbent them dry, but the smell of dried sperm was quite embarrassing for him. Not that he was complaining. He loves his big sis' generosity the most!

Omashu was built by ancient earthbenders over centuries of effort. It was carved out of a massive rock pillar. Due to this fact, the city walls drop off directly into a deep abyss at least 500m deep. The only access point into and out of the city is a single stone bridge that leads across the abyss in front of the city gate.

In the olden days, Omashu would have been a powerful defensive stronghold against enemy benders, particularly other earthbenders, but with modern weaponry, Omashu residents are basically sitting ducks. The Fire Nation isn't even taking the fight for the city seriously. They'd much rather take over the surrounding territories for their natural resources than a barren rock.

In reality, so long as it's protected on all sides, Omashu can be a superb forward base for the Earth Kingdom's counterattack to work from since it is between the resistance hotspot of Gaoling and the colonies. This is the main reason that the Fire Nation has no choice but to take Omashu. Moreover, if they want free access to the lush fields of Gaoling, they can't have threats on their back.

Nuwa looks down upon the city. She sees various candle lights from houses and dimly lit chutes that carts periodically slide down. In other areas she sees a pulley system for pulling empty and full crates up to a central exchange with rocks as counterweights. She comments, "Not too shabby."

Appa lands in front of Bumi's palace located at the highest point of the city. Waiting there are Bumi and the five elite guards. Aang jumps into Bumi's arms to give him a bear hug. Bumi was one of Aang's childhood friends from 101 years ago, so he holds a special place in Aang's heart as the only still living connection to his past. They've already met before Nuwa joined Team Avatar, so it's not as emotional of a reunion as the first time.

The elite guards walk up in their full Fire Nation armor and kneel before Nuwa, with one kneeling before Ty Li. It seems they have divided loyalties.

Ty Li recognizes Sadboy from the tears leaking from his helmet. She's originally holding Dan's hand, but she lets go to pick up Sadboy off his knees and gives him a hug. Sadboy cries even harder at the opportunity to feel Ty Li's boobs squish against his chestplate. He cums in his bottoms, but no one other than Nuwa and Dan notice because it's buried under so many layers of cloth and armor.

This is Dan's first time meeting the elite guards, even though he heard about them, so he is somewhat mad at how lecherously this degenerate is simping on his girl. Soon however, Dan realizes that the poor guy only has lustful thoughts about her boobs and nothing else, not even Ty Li's face, pussy, or ass. Sighing up at the sky, he admits that Ty Li is right to pity this particular degenerate.

Nuwa knows these guys are from a version of Earth so she pulls out her dildo staff and "knights" each elite guard by tapping the phallic staff on each of their shoulders. "May it be known henceforth to all peoples, you shall be the five Peaknights! You will report directly to me and your eternal labor and pride will be to serve the lineage of Pea!"

The elite guards are deeply touched and feel like they have been tasked to a great purpose instead of nominally enslaved. Of course, Nuwa can't let them go unrewarded otherwise, so she pulls out her [Smartphone] and sends them Azula's panty shot from her spar with Iroh. Assboy creams his pants soon after he opens the attachment on his helmet's chat HUD. Nuwa chuckles without a care towards Assboy's worship of Azula's ass. She says, "Very good. I've heard about how much help you have been towards the resistance from Bumi and I'm proud of all of you for sticking your necks out for us. I always take care of my people, so keep up the good work, and there's more where that came from."

The biggest problem in Omashu is the lack of running water. Each citizen has to pick up the day's water from Earth crates that deliver it to their city level. Smartboy's recent contribution was to revamp their public water delivery system to use a series of pipes with negatively pressurized pipes, capillary systems, and rock weight pulley systems to bring a stream of running freshwater into Omashu.

Most of the entourage split at this point. The former Joo Dees could travel to wherever they want from Omashu and many want to stay in Omashu, finding that they like the people and culture here. The orphans who want to start a new life have already found foster mothers with various former Joo Dees. Several earthbender orphans have become fans of Toph and want to join the Dai Li or military to make contributions for the Earth Kingdom. They are allowed to do so but they'll have to undertake the training in its entirety, which means they'll miss out on the end of the war most likely. The Dai Li agents are still under Azula and will join the war effort.

Leaving the eelhounds in the stables, the gang enters the much smaller Omashu palace. Bumi welcomes them to an extremely minimalist throne room with no offer of food or refreshments. Nuwa facepalms and thinks, 'He's clearly been living in self-imposed poverty for some time without a care. I guess I shouldn't have expected much from Bumi. I can't be bothered with this stone age situation.'

Azula catches onto Nuwa's displeasure of the hospitality and orders a few Dai Li agents to buy/hire labor, food, and other necessities. Nuwa latches onto her arm with a happy smile. "You're too good to me, babe!"

Azula smiles dotingly, "I'm not the one getting you stuff. You'll have to thank my underlings."

Nuwa giggles and says, "Nah uh, only you know me well enough to know what I need!"

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Once they unpack and get settled, the gang, Bumi, and the newly anointed Peaknights sit down for a war meeting. Sadboy pulls out a top secret map of all the nearby territories, militias, armories, supply points, surrendered nobles sympathetic to their cause, and projected distribution of Fire Nation troops. Smartboy starts explaining, but he can't talk so he's just pointing and nodding his head.

Bumi says, "He says that we have the south territories under control, but the north territories are shaky at best."

Nuwa deadpans at Bumi. 'Somehow he can understand what my own Peaknights are saying without sign language when no one else can. Maybe his Earth sense is so advanced that he can interpret body language into words? That's utterly ridiculous.'

Smartboy nods and points at two particular Fire Nation garrisons one located along a river and another at a crossroads trading town. Bumi translates, "He says those are important enemy outposts that, if we take, can cripple any non-aerial offensive on the city for the next few months. He also wants to mention that the Fire Nation military is heavily manned at these areas to unofficially allow for noble families to make their private conquests and thin the field of bandits and resistance before swooping in."

Bumi then adds, "Haha! Pounding those noobs sounds like fun!"

Toph slams the table and says, "Bahaha! Finally someone who speaks my language! Let's compete on who can take down the most noobs!"

Bumi whips his head to look at Toph with a sharp gaze. "Kekeke, little one. Your body is quite hard, but you are decades too young to challenge I, your grandfather!"

The whole gang gives Bumi a weird look and Nuwa chides, "Shut up old man! No one's gonna understand the trash talk you learned from the Peaknights."

Toph mumbles, "How's him claiming he's my grandfather supposed to be trash talk?"

Dan whispers, "It's a cultivation thing. Basically, idiots kill other idiots nonstop, forever. The end."

Toph widens her eyes in excitement, "What a life!" She pats Dan's shoulder hard, enough that Dan needs to reinforce his own shoulder with bloodbending, and asks, "Tell me more about this cultivation thinger!"

Dan matter-of-factly says, "Cultivators don't exist in this world."

Toph starts tantruming in anger at not being able to have her fill of fun and cracking the floor with stomps, which Bumi fixes in a split second. Then Bumi walks over, picks her up by the back of her collar, and scolds, "Oi, take your hissy fit out of my palace, little one."

Toph had actually attached herself to the ground and increased her weight by supercharging chi into her Root chakra and the muscles on her feet when she noticed Bumi approaching, because she wanted to get a feel for how strong he was. Unfortunately for her, she was pulled off the floor by Bumi with one hand like a baby. Even while dangling from his hand, Toph feels like she is pressed down by a mountain! She almost feels despair at the sheer weight of his Earth chi and soul pressure upon her, until her instinctual battle-thirst takes over and she resolves to train harder than ever to take down this damned old man! She grits her teeth, clenches her fists, and kicks her legs as she struggles against the weight.

Bumi's control is so good that to the onlookers it looks like Bumi had somehow disabled Toph's bending and now she was acting like a toddler. In reality, Toph is spending all of her chi to reinforce her Root chakra, and therefore her body, to resist against Bumi's tyrannical chi. There's no chi left to bend and none of her chi could make it through Bumi's foreign chi weighing down her metal links if there was.

Only Nuwa and Azula, who are of higher soul tier than the others, sense what's going on. Sighing, Nuwa can only hope that Toph can take all these consecutive losses in a mature manner. She estimates that Bumi is a fair bit stronger than Iroh, which makes him likely the strongest man alive. Azula has it worse because her soul is strong enough to sense Bumi's soul force, but weak enough to feel his mountainous pressure above her just like Toph. The air feels heavy to Azula and she's forced to take deep breaths due to her brain being influenced by her soul. Nuwa puts her arm around Azula's neck and uses her own soul force to share the pressure, which only makes Nuwa feel heavy.

Azula feels the pressure lighten and her breathing stabilizes. She sighs internally at how Nuwa is once again stronger than her and also resolves to train harder. She heard from Nuwa that she has to work on her comprehension and look for spiritual enlightenment to make a breakthrough.

Even Aang is blissfully unaware of the true strength of Bumi. All he knows is that Bumi is stronger than he is, but he doesn't know by how much, mainly because he is still mostly out of tune with earthbending.

Once things have calmed down and Toph is back to her seat looking extremely grumpy with her arms crossed, Nuwa calls for them to take the war meeting to the Spirit Realm. Bumi, Azula, Aang, and Nuwa pull the others who are unenlightened into the Spirit Realm into the Spirit Oasis in the North Pole.

There they meet Sokka, who hugs Katara and Aang tightly. Katara tears up because she hasn't spent much of her life away from her big brother until now. Sokka also tears up in happiness seeing Katara so heavily pregnant. Sokka and Nuwa have both been training swordsmanship under Piandao, so Pakku brings Yue and Sokka into the Spirit Realm regularly for this reason. Aang and Katara haven't gotten a chance to meet up with him due to being busy.

Yue isn't pregnant, but she seems a bit jealous of Katara, Mai, and Nuwa, so Nuwa assumes she must be trying. That's nothing a few daons of sex can't fix! Nuwa whispers to Yue to meet up in the Spirit Realm tomorrow for advice on how to get pregnant. Yue blushes in embarrassment and accepts the offer.

Sokka and Pakku explain the preparations made by the militant faction of the Northern Water Tribe. The isolationist faction, on the other hand, is still resolute in ignoring the outside world. They have made contact with some Southern Water Tribe survivors including Sokka and Katara's dad, who leads them. Both Water Tribes are working together capturing small smuggler vessels to steal supplies from the Fire Nation with minimal risk of counterattack and getting themselves more boats for the upcoming invasion.

Nuwa knows what her sisters are doing approximately, but not perfectly. Although Nuwa knows that the Fire Nation is usually complacent about counting the smuggler vessels according to her sources, she doesn't know that her sister, Ty La, would have notified her superiors about the issue if she wasn't transferred due to Mord Zata. Indirectly, the Fire Nation would have had a great chance to wipe out or capture a lot of waterbenders if Mord wasn't so useless. Ironically, the fact that Nuwa's own sister would have been responsible would have a harsh effect on morale once discovered.

Nuwa immediately discourages continued operations against smugglers because the benefits do not outweigh the risks. The waterbenders have enough combat training and they don't necessarily need the odd assortment of luxury and niche goods they steal from the smugglers. There's also no excellent quality smuggled weaponry outside of military hands. Whatever they get from the Earth Kingdom is much better than the contraband they find.

Although Sokka is not enthusiastic about convincing the vengeful Southern Water Tribe, particularly his own father, to stand down, he has to give it a try. Pakku also agrees to put in a word to help Sokka. Although there are no more waterbenders among the Southern Water Tribe militants, they still respect Pakku as the current strongest waterbender in the world.

In reality, Huu is the current strongest waterbender in the world, but he has yet to join the war effort. He's currently exploring the wartorn Earth Kingdom witnessing the devastation wrought by the Fire Nation firsthand instead of in a detached state of pseudo-enlightenment through the World Tree. He probably wouldn't have entered the war until the tree itself was threatened if he hadn't been convinced by Nuwa (non-canon).

They wrap up their war discussion and Nuwa calls the gang to hang out and catch up with Sokka and Yue. It'll also give them some time to introduce and icebreak those who haven't been around the gang much like the Peaknights, Yue, Aiwei, Haru, June, and Gunner.

(A/N: Welcome Penis! I mean.. Peaknights! Oh boy.. Nuwa's excited. It's finally time to hang out and catch up on everything she missed during the trip!!)