My first Korra fic so bear with me. Something that popped up and took a bit to actually write up.
Back to Work
Lin gritted her teeth as she faced an old foe, paperwork. The councilors were adamant on re-instating her as the Chief of Police when she, Tenzin, Korra, and the others returned to Republic City. Sadly, the position came with the backlog of paperwork that culminated during Saikhan's time as Chief. Saikhan, who returned to his position as her deputy, offered to help, but Lin initially embraced the thought of throwing herself back into her work. After a week of paperwork and very little actual policing, Lin was quickly regretting that decision.
A knock at her door came as a welcome interruption to the small tower of paperwork. "Come in," Lin said sitting back in her chair. Officer Song, who recently had his bending restored by Korra, opened the door, "Chief, Councilman Tenzin is on the phone for you."
'What does Tenzin want now,' Lin thought was she dismissed Song and grabbed the small phone on her table. "Tenzin, I am pretty busy right now. Can this wait until later," Lin said as she prepared to get back to work on her paperwork.
"Well, I have been waiting for about twenty minutes and lunch can't be put off until later," Tenzin stated in his ever calm voice. 'Crap, I forgot about lunch with Korra and Tenzin,' Lin thought as she apologized to Tenzin and hung up the phone. Grabbing her coat, Lin rushed out of the station to and headed to City Hall.
Lin entered Tenzin's office nearly knocking into the young Avatar, "Sorry, I got distracted by paperwork and didn't realize the time." Korra's smug look made Lin want to hurl the waterbender out of the window, "Told you Beifong would forget our appointment because of work." Tenzin sent a scolding look at the Avatar which Lin followed up with a jab to Korra's arm. "We were thinking that we could go to Narook's since it is in walking distance," Tenzin said as he headed towards to door with Lin and Korra in tow.
An hour later, Narook's Seaweed Noodlery
"So, how is your airbending training going, Korra," Lin asked as she paid the bill.
"Fine," Korra muttered quickly.
"She still needs to practice," Tenzin stated holding the door open for Lin and Korra. Lin stifled a laugh, "So rumor has it that Aunt Katara and Kya are headed here to Republic City." Tenzin stroked his beard, "We were hoping to surprise you, but it seems that you have eyes and ears around the city again." Lin shook her head as they approached City Hall, "Tenzin, you of all people should know I hate-"
Lin was cut off as the earth began to shake violently. 'What is spirit's name is happening here,' Lin thought as the facade of the Police station fractured sending the statue of Toph crumbling to the streets below. Several metalbenders ran up to Lin as she used her seismic sense to track the source of the earthquake. "Chief, we have reports that the Metalbending Academy is under attack," One of the officers shouted over the screams of civilians, who were searching for shelter from falling debris.
"Equalists," Korra asked praying that the Equalists hadn't obtained deadlier weapons since the defeat of Amon. Lin shook her head, "No, it feels like... it's an earthbender! Tenzin-"
"I am coming with you," Tenzin said pulling out the whistle used to summon the air bison. "Me, too," Korra said, "And before you say no, we need as many hands as possible if this earthbender is capable of taking on the Metalbending Academy."
"Fine," Lin said as Oogi landed in front of the trio. "Whoever this is, they're going to regret attacking the academy," Lin growled as Oogi took off towards the mountains that held the Beifong Metalbending Academy.
The sight of the once glorious building made Korra cringe. The Beifong crest that sat atop the doorway laid shattered on the ground. The doors themselves were flung in separate directions, one fell several trees while the other caused a giant hole in the roof. What was left standing slowly crumbled as several slabs of earth collided with the remaining walls.
Oogi hadn't even landed when Lin jumped off his back, heading for the source of the destruction. Tenzin and Korra followed suit running up to the first injured metalbender that they saw. The injured metalbender coughed up blood as more blood flowed freely from the numerous wounds on her chest. "These wounds... couldn't have been caused by an earthbender. A waterbender maybe or even-," Tenzin stopped himself. 'It can't be,' he thought as he felt the air around him stir violently.
Lin sprinted past many of the fallen metalbenders, her angry bubbling the closer she got to the earthbender. Using her earthbending, Lin sent several boulders at the attacker, only to have them bended back at her. Lin evaded the boulders and bent her cables to fly at the bender. The cables froze in mid-flight as Lin got a clear view of the attacker, "Mother?"
AN: Well this is something that popped up when the rumors about Book 2 and the Spirits came out. I will try to update the next part tomorrow. Please review