Mako flamed into the council room with his usual annoyed expression on his face. He couldn't believe his brother anymore; Bolin was getting on the young god's last nerves.
Mako was sporting his usual Fire God attire: a red cloth wrapped around his waist – about knee length – being held together by a simple knot, two gold bands – with red flame insignias on the sides – on each of his upper arms, a thinner gold band on his right ankle, and a red scarf wrapped around his neck.
He could feel his body heat up from anger.
"You're starting to steam." A strong famine voice said in a sing-song voice. Mako turned to see a watery silhouette of a female sitting on one of the arms of one of the stone chairs in the council room. "Even though I do find it cute sometimes, I hate it that it makes me evaporate whenever I touch you." The water had soon darkened to reveal the Water Goddess, Korra. She was wearing a draping blue dress that showed off her strong, mocha colored back. Her arms and hair was decorated with gold bands that were held together by blue fabrics in between.
Mako looked at the Water Goddess for a moment and then turned away and went to his rightful seat in the council room. "Not now Korra." He slumped in his seat and cupped his face in his hands.
Korra rolled her eyes and jumped off the arm of her council chair. "What wrongs?" She walked over to Mako and rested her head on her arm on the back of his chair while playing with his hair with her free hand. "Come on, even your hair is warm."
Mako shook his head and brushed Korra's hand away. "It's Bolin. I found out he got another human pregnant."
"Again? What will this one be, his fiftieth child?" Korra asked sarcastically.
"Korra," Mako said seriously.
"Sorry, I was only kidding." She walked over to the arm of his chair and sat down. "But, if you really think about it Mako, Bolin's actually doing his job." Mako raised a critical eyebrow at her. "Come on Mako, think." Korra jumped off the arm of Mako's chair and stood in front of him. "Bolin's the Earth God. What does Earth do?"
Mako shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, I work with fire remember."
"Just think Mr. Hot Head." Korra snapped.
Mako through back his head and groaned. "I don't know, grow stuff?"
Korra rubbed her eyes and groaned. "Close, but no. Earth is the symbol for life. It gives and takes life when you really think of it. Right now, Bolin's in the stage of giving life, by having child after child. I'm sure after a while; he'll begin taking life by causing earthquakes and famines. I'm sure if you just leave him alone – and let him do what he wants – everything will be fine. Besides, what Earth God do you remember that did not have a kid or two with a human?" Mako went silent. He knew that the Goddess before him had a point and it slightly annoyed him. "Come on Mako, you know I'm right." Korra crossed her arms and leaned down in front of him and formed a smirk on her lips.
Mako focused his gold eyes on the dark skinned beauty. "You seem to be supporting Bolin a lot lately." He reached out his hand and grabbed her's. "I'm not going to lose you to him, am I?"
Korra smiled and leaned down to wrap her arms around Mako's neck. "Like the Water Goddess before me, I will always stay the God that balances me out. Without you beside me, I would be flooding every town and ship that would slightly piss me off." Korra received a smile from the Fire God. "Besides, it's like what the humans say: opposites attract." Korra leaned in and lightly kissed Mako on the lips, but instantly pulled back and gasp in pain.
"What?" Mako asked surprised.
"You burnt me!" Korra snapped as she angrily stared at him while covering her burnt lips. There was a little bit of steam floating upward from behind her hand.
Mako leaned back in his seat and crossed his arms. "I didn't burn you, I can't burn water. Besides, you need to stop thinking that you're the only one who gets hurt when we touch each other."
"Well, excuse me then. I'm so, sorry to not think about your feelings." Korra said sarcastically. "You should just learn to cool down."
Mako sighed and grabbed Korra's wrist. He pulled her into his lap and wrap and arm around her torso. "Maybe you just need to learn to warm up."
Korra was already slightly cringing from the pain of sitting in Mako's lap and having his arms wrapped around her. It was when he decided to attack her neck that Korra screamed in pain. A white cloud of steam began to form and float upward.
"Mako, stop." Korra begged as she tried to push him away. Mako pulled away from her neck and saw that it wasn't the dark skin color that it used to be anymore. Around where he kissed her, Korra's neck was a layer of rushing water with some trails going down her neck to either her chest or back. Korra touched her neck and was annoyed. "Great, now look what you did." The Goddess hated it whenever her lover turned parts of her back to her element. Some think that it would take her a short amount of time fix herself, but they're wrong. Korra would spend weeks – sometimes months – to fix the damage to her skin Mako would cause.
"Here give me your wrist." Mako said as he reached for Korra's right wrist.
"What are you doing?" Korra snapped as she tried to pull away.
Mako tightened his grip around her wrist. "I don't anyone to steal you away from me. So, I want to leave my mark on you. That way, when people see it, they'll know you belong to me. And, if you go to Earth, and anyone touches you without your consent, they'll get burned."
Korra looked at him from the corner of her eyes and then to her bare wrist. She then looked worriedly at Mako out of the corners of her eyes. "Is it going to hurt?"
"Not if you're a Fire Goddess." Mako joked to try to clear the worry out of the Water Goddess's mind, but it didn't seem to work. Mako sighed. "I'm going to engrave it in your skin with fire. Yes, it's going to hurt."
Korra looked at her wrist once again. She then buried her face into Mako's neck. "Just make it as quickly and painlessly as you can. Okay?"
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A/N: I have a question... How do you get a story into a community? I found some really good MAKORRA communities and really want to get some of my stories into them. I just don't know how and I really don't want to send an e-mail asking. Thank you for your help, if you help.