THROUGH THICK AND THIN

CHAPTER 1: My little baby girl

Tonraq's POV

My heart sank as I watched my little girl slowly falling to the ground.

My feet were already operating and running towards her body without any commands as my mind tried to process what just happened.

I could feel the footsteps of Korra's friends running behind me while the two Beifong sisters locked Zaheer in a giant earth pillar.

All sorts of thoughts and images flashed before my eyes, I felt as if my feet were moving but never reaching my little girl although she was less than ten feet away.

I leaned down beside her and placed her head in my arms seeking comfort of her blue shiny orbs that I aged watching boil with determination and life, but they weren't there, instead they were white and glowing, cold, she was still in the avatar state.

The world froze around me, I couldn't hear Zaheer laughing, air benders switching their happiness to concern, I couldn't hear her friends gasping, I couldn't hear anything at all, and my eyes were focusing on her everything else was a big blur of darkness.

My lips started to move and hum words that even I couldn't hear, maybe meaningless, but they felt like all the lull bays I sang her as a kid before we knew who she truly was.

"Korra sweetheart... It's me... Your dad, please... Hang on..."

I didn't know what to do, I was so scared, I failed, I am the worst father on the planet, what kind of father am I? I couldn't even protect my little girl while she was standing in front of me.

I had no idea if she was hearing me or seeing me, if she would hear me or see me ever again, my world came crashing down in front of my eyes, it started to rebuild and a gleam of hope shone in my eyes as her hand reached up to me, but it came crashing back again when her hand fell down without knowing who I am.

My heart pounded as hard as ever in my chest, it seemed as if it was trying to shatter the poor bones in my ribcage, my blood froze in my veins and my body stiffened at the horrible feeling of losing her washed all over me like the tides back home, I couldn't help but cringe as I rested my eyes on her tired face.

My eyes fogged with tears and in a matter of seconds and I raked through my memory to the times she was like this.

Never, sometimes was she over trained, sometimes she got sick, sometimes she fell down in the icy water, but it all seconds before she woke up and hours before she started to bounce up and down again.

Those were the only times I felt weak and helpless, but this... This was way beyond what I knew.

Even as the avatar was this really the only way?

Did she just pay her life to help the air benders, to help this world?

I could feel Zaheer watch me from the corner of his eyes, I knew that he was saying something, but I couldn't make the words.

I hated that man; I hated him with every ounce of my being.

Tenzin's oldest girl Jinora ran towards us, she looked at Korra and then at Suyin,

"You can save her, the poison is metallic."

Suyin rushed to Korra side, she started to perform a Kata, I was scared and I hoped that my little girl would be fine, I prayed to La and Tui, to Yue, to Oma and Shu, to Agni, to anyone listening to anyone there that she would be fine.

Seconds passed, they felt like hours, like daggers breaking through my heart and killing me slowly.

Did I care? No. Did I care about my injuries? No. I only cared about my little girl, about her being okay.

Finally something got out of her mouth, pitch black and rather huge, Suyin bended it to the far side as Korra coughed and opened her beautiful eyes, relive washed all over me, my daughter was fine! I was the happiest man in the four nations!

"Dad? You're alive!" She said in a low whisper, joy filled my heart and my world came building back up at the sight of her small smile.

I hugged her as careful as I could without causing her any pain.

"I'm here for you, I'm never gonna let you go."

She was fine! Thank you!

My baby girl was fine, all what I wanted in the moment was to hug her until the end of time, I was hugging her as if I was holding to dear life, I'm never going to let her go, never.

Of course I knew that this was just another biginig, we still don't know what did the poison do, we still don't know what will happen in the earth kingdom, but we knew one thing, Korra was fine, and that was all I needed to know.

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Okay, I couldn't help but write that.

If Mike and Bryan think that I will wait to next year they're dead wrong, but I gotta give it to them, now they got everyone as excited as ever.

This was like a small prologue by the way.

This month I will be very busy, school starting, books, uniforms, and above all family obligations, so I am writing these short chapters about each character and how will they deal with this, updates will be whenever I get a good amount of reviews because I have it all written, next update is when I get 7 reviews please.