They had totally nailed that match, Bolin thought happily as he headed out for the gym. The past few weeks had been a little ruff to say the least. With Mako and Korra kissing, finding out that he does not have a chance with Korra, and than them nearly losing matches because of all that drama. Despite all of this they had managed to get things together and where heading to the championship. From Bolin's point of view all was right with the world, and he was going to celebrate.

He had thought briefly about going out with Mako and Korra, but with everything that had happened he didn't want things to start falling apart again. So it was just going to be him and Pabu. He was going to go to one of his favorite restaurants, this nice little restaurant near the docks that served the best Fire Nation food in the whole city.

He was right at the docks when humming a tune, he had made up in his head, when he noticed someone following him.

"Who's there?" Bolin called looking over his shoulder, then he saw Tahno and the rest of the Wolfbats walking up to him. Bolin glared at them.

"Well, well, well," Tahno said with a smirk on his face. "Look what we have here guys. Its little Bo Bo from the Fart Ferrets."

"That's Fire Ferrets," Bolin corrected.

"That's what I said," Tahno said walking up to Bolin and throwing his arm around his shoulder. Tahno held a tight grip on Bolin's shoulder so that he could not get away.

"You see Bolin, we have a little problem," Tahno said.

"You lost your hairdresser," Bolin said with a nervous smile on his face. "I know a great one who works on the Eastside."

"No, that not it," Tahno said. "My problem is that there is a new referee for the match in a few days."

"How is that a problem," Bolin asked not likely where this was going.

"You see Bo Bo, we have been paying the referees off so that the matches will go in our favor. This new referee is not going to go for that."

"So this will give you a chance to win on your own merits," Bolin said.

The smirk on Tahno's face only grew and he pushed Bolin forward toward the rest of his team. Before Bolin could even begin to defend himself he was hit by a fireball thrown by the Wolfbats firebender, then he was hit by a rock thrown their earthbender. The Wolfbats kept this up for a while never letting Bolin get a chance to defend himself. Finally, it was over when Tahno hit Bolin with a water whip with such focus that Bolin was sent to the side of the dock where he hitting his head hard on the dock's railing, knocking him out.

"Win on our own merit," Tahno said shaking his head, "Why do that if we can simply take out the competition. If a team doesn't have three benders they can't play."

"Come on guys," Tahno said turning to his teammates, "We should not be here when he is found. You know there is this great Fire Nation restaurant near here that I want to try out."

With that the three teammates headed out leaving Bolin where he was.

Across town at the Probending gym, Mako was busy training for the big match. He was sending a fire blast at a pictures of the Wolfbats that he had hung up to practice with, when he was focus to send the blast in another direction. Pabu had ran right in front of it.

"Pabu, what are you doing?" Mako shouted. "Bolin come get your ferret."

Mako was surprised to get no response.

"Bolin," Mako said again. Bolin never went anywhere without that ferret of his. It was than that Mako noticed that the ferret was pulling on his pants legs.

When Pabu got Mako's attention he ran to the door and turned around to make sure that Mako was following him. Realizing what the ferret wanted Mako ran after it.

Pabu took off.

The further Pabu went the more worried Mako became. His gut was telling him something was wrong and he was not going to calm down until he saw that Bolin was okay.

When they got to the docks and Pabu ran up to the beaten figure laying on the edge of the docks, Mako felt like his world had collapsed on itself.

"Bolin!"

Mako ran to his brother and could not believe his eyes. Every part of Bolin that he could see was covered in bruises, left arm appeared to be broken and there was blood coming out the side of his head.

Wasting no time Mako picked his brother up and ran. He needed to get Bolin help.

Mako knew that there was a hospital a few miles from where they where, so he headed in that general direction. He was half way to the hospital when he ran into a polar bear dog, one that had the Avatar sitting on it.

"Korra, help," Mako said once he was in earshot.

Korra turned and gasped when he saw Bolin.

"What happened?" Korra asked.

"I don't know," Mako said, "Pabu just lead me to were he was laying on the docks. It appears that someone attacked him."

Korra jumped off of Naga and took Bolin from Mako.

"Here let's get him on Naga and head to Air Temple Island," Korra said getting Bolin onto Naga. "We have some of the best waterbending healers there."

Mako nodded and followed Korra onto the polar bear dog. Korra got Naga going quick, but now that he was not the one primarily in charge of his brother's care Mako could not help but worry. Once he had lost his parents Bolin became the only family he had. He could not lose him. Along with this worry came something else. Mako was angry. How dare someone attack his brother. When he found out who did this they were going to pay; they were the ones who were going to needed a healer.

The trip to Air Temple Island was mostly a blur to Mako, so much so that he was also surprised when the got there and Bolin was taken to the healers' rooms. After that Tenzin questioned him and Korra about what had happened. Once that was done Tenzin went to send word to Chief Beifong to report the assault.

Now it was a waiting game.

Mako refused to go very far from where he knew that his brother was being treated. He sat down by a tree that sat in clear view of the healer's door that Bolin was in. Korra, however, could not sit down, continuing to pace back in forth in front of the room.

After a few hours of this the healer came out of the room. Mako and Korra went to meet her.

"He will survive and most of his injures will heal in time," the healer said answering their unanswered question.

"Now we can focus on finding out who did this to him," Korra said with a determined look in her eyes.

"Wait a minute," Mako said, "What do you mean most of his injures?"

The healer sighed.

"He took a bad hit to the head. This hit had caused damage to his optic nerve. He will never see again."

Mako felt like a bucket of cold water had been dumped on his insides. His little brother could not be blind; he just couldn't be.

"Isn't there anything that you can do," Mako asked is eyes pleading with the healer.

The healer shook her head.

At this Mako scared sending fire out of his mouth.

Korra having heard all she needed to know was already on Naga and heading off the island. Mako on the other hand had more important things to worry about.

"Can I see him?" Mako asked.

"Of course," the healer said, "Just don't wake him up, he needs his strength to recover."

Mako nodded and opened the door. Bolin was laying sound asleep on the bed in the middle of the room. He had a bandage on his forehead and a cast on his arm. Before Mako could take a step into the room however Pabu ran past him and jumped onto the bed with Bolin.

"Bolin you can't stay out of trouble for one minute can you," Mako said taking a set next to Bolin's bed.

"I'm so sorry, this happened bro. When Mom and Dad died I made a promise that I would protect you." Mako said. He than reached down and took Bolin's good hand into his.

"I will help you through this and we will get the people who did this to you," Mako continued, "They will not get away with this.

Mako than turned to Pabu and reached out to scratch his ears with his free hand.

"And thank you, if it wasn't for you we might not have found him in time."

Pabu licked Mako's hand in response.