Wooo! Yay! Always wanted to have a LoK OC ^^ and well I did but never expected her to get a story lol so here it is. It's my first time writing this kind so please be gentle QwQ
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN LEGEND OF KORRA OR ANY OF IT'S CONTENTS! I ONLY OWN MY OC'S!
Warms rays of the sun pierced through the window bathing the once dark room in a golden glow. Small footsteps tip-toed towards a sleeping figure careful not to make so much noise. Once the small figure was close enough to the sleeping one it leaped as high as it could and landed on the sleeping body.
"WAKE UP LEAF!" the small child yelled with a wide grin, she still lay on top of the sleeping person whom seemed to have not been undisturbed by the child's act.
"Leaf! Leaf! Leaf! Leaf! Wake up! Leaf! Leaf! Leaf! Leaf! Leeeeaaaaaffff!" the child continued getting closer to the persons' ear in hoped of waking them up.
"Mmm…." Was the only reply the child got.
"Mommy said to wake up already!" the child replied grinning. "Oh! I also lost another tooth! See?"
A bright green eye peeked through the covers, the young female had no other choice than to see what her baby sister was talking about. Sure enough there were now two gaps in the child's mouth, the one's where her teeth were supposed to be at.
"Now Ming let me sleep" pulling the covers back over her head the girl tried to get to her slumber.
"Lifen!" Ming retorted trying to pull the covers off of her sister. "Get up! Mommy said we had things to do!"
"Mm-hmm" was the only reply Ming got yet again, suddenly a bandaged arm slipped out from under the covers and wrapped around Ming's small torso. She was pulled under the covers and her head landed on the pillow.
"Now sleep"
"But you have to get up!" Ming replied poking the bridge of Lifen's nose white her arm restrained her down.
"….no"
"Now get up!" a new demanding voice sounded in the small room, this one much older than the two. The covers were flung off the two bodies and they landed on the ground.
"I tried to tell her to get up mommy"
Lifen opened an eye and stared at her younger sister with a I'll-get-you-back-for-that look. With a small push, Lifen's arm slid off of Ming's torso and she got up on her feet.
"Lifen get up!" with a shake on the shoulder Lifen's mother "woke" her up.
"Ow! Ma!" Lifen bolted up and held onto her shoulder. "They still hurt!"
"I'm sorry dear" the woman leaned down and placed a kiss on her daughters' forehead. "I forgot."
"It's fine" Lifen assured with a rather sleepy nod. She ran a hand through her messy brown hair giving a long loud yawn.
"Li, get ready we don't have much time to waste, I don't want you to be late again."
"Yes….ma" Lifen replied nodding again, her eyes closed half way and she yawned yet a louder one than before. Ming ran out of the room giggling, her mother soon followed. Once they were out of the room Lifen got up stretching her arms up making her bones crack.
"Oh…joy…work" Lifen thought rubbing her eyes yawning. She walked out of her room and into the bathroom with her eyes closed, not even opening them to see where she was going. "I don't want to deal with the people….Ugh!" she shook her head opening the tap of water placing her hands under it, feeling the cold water run through her fingers.
"I just want to…sleep….right now" Lifen thought getting ready to start the day. After she washed herself and got dressed the only thing left to do was brush her hair. Still half asleep she made her usual two pig tails.
"Alright….i'm done" she looked at herself in the mirror with a frown, blinking a couple of times she stared at her image feeling something was not right. She tapped her finger on her chin running her eyes over the mirror at herself.
"Ah!" Lifen swooped her hand up to her bangs and placed a hair aside. "Now there, I'm done."
"LIFEN!" at that moment Lifen ran out of the bathroom and out of the house.
"I'm here!"
Lifen's mother shook her head with a sigh, "Let's just get going" she took Ming's hand and locked the door to the house. Lifen blew some of her bangs aside looking at her mother before she turned away. That was the routine every morning, of every single waking day, of every month. Getting up early to go to work, it wasn't as if they didn't want to. They did want to and had to, since they had to support the remaining family. Lifen's father had been in an accident in the factory he used to work at, sadly he didn't walk out of it and since that day Lifen had to help her mother and to provide Ming with the best of things that they could afford. They began their walk towards Republic City, it wasn't far from where they lived, only a couple of minutes of walking. Avatar Aang and Firelord Zuko created Republic City long ago; the reason for it was to create a nation of harmony, sure enough there was harmony, benders and non-benders could live together without a care of chaos. But in the last couple of months problems had begun to rise in the City.
"See you later today dear, be careful alright?" Lifen stopped at her mothers' voice. She looked up and around and noticed they were in the place where they parted ways, she had been so distracted that she hadn't even noticed.
"oh yes mom" she gave her a hug and then crouched down to Ming to give her one as well, Ming took the opportunity and placed a kiss on her sisters cheek.
"Don't get into trouble Leaf!" Ming said poking Lifen on the cheek causing her to laugh.
"Aye Aye ma'am!" Lifen ruffled her small pony tail. "I'll bring you some dumplings tonight if you want to"
"You will?" Ming's eyes sparkled at the thought. Lifen nodded.
"Yay!" Ming clapped her small hands together happily giving her toothy grin.
"See ya then" Lifen waved and walked off.
The day wasn't as bad as the others, which were at times too hot or cold. It was rather cool but nothing too extreme, perfect day for a walk, to those who had a day off. Lifen walked through the city towards her work which was a small restaurant, it wasn't anything fancy, it was rather a "low class" restaurant but well known too. She passed some shops and peeked inside through the glass where the displayed things the individual stores had. She would always stop for a couple of seconds to look inside the bakery where a delicious smell would always fill the air in the morning. The smell would make ones' mouth water; today's was a chocolaty one, so warm and sweet. Lifen stopped and stood watching what were they doing today that was causing that sweet aroma, she couldn't see much so instead she scanned her eyes over the display sweets. Her eyes landed on a chocolate cake that had fruit ontop of it. That must've been it; no other one's were chocolate.
She smiled to herself and continued on her route, if only she could get something like that. With a shrug to herself Lifen looked up to the sign that said "Tsing Tao's Restaurant" and stopped. With a deep inhale and a rather sharp exhale she stretched her arm and opened the door.
"30 seconds more and you've would've been late!" she had barely stepped a foot inside when an old man's voice scolded.
"Good morning to you too Mr. Tao" Lifen thought forcing a smile on her face. She walked towards the back door of the restaurant. Not saying a word to the old man.
"How many times do I have to say that time is everything? Eh?" the old man said while he cleaned a table.
"Yes, I know, you've told me quite too many times" Lifen replied trying to not roll her eyes.
"But when will you get it through your head? When you grow up you'll remember my words Li. You'll see how valuable time is."
"Mm-hmm" Lifen replied putting on an apron.
"Ah, kids of today! You don't even understand them! They don't even listen ter ya!" old man Tao ranted while he walked to the back room. Lifen finally couldn't help herself and shook her head rolling her eyes.
"Right, time is everything, sure, whatever" ridding her head of these thoughts Lifen got ready for when costumers would come in.
Soon enough people began to walk in, settling down and began to order. The day had gone by steadily, calm, and slow. Until night was when things began to get busy. Lifen was still working until late hours, rushing back and forth bringing people their food and such. Reason for this was that one of the semi-finalist matches of the Pro-bending would occur tonight. As time ticked by people began to make their bets and the restaurant began to quiet down, everyone did in order to listen to the radio where the match was being podcasted by.
"Who was going today?" Lifen asked as she rested her arm on the bar of the restaurant, her gaze towards the radio waiting for the match to begin.
"Ehh, I think it was eer…Fire Ferrets against…eerr…." Old man Tao scratched his head trying to recall the other team.
"Fire Ferrets against the Buzzard Wasps" a man said that sat on the table next to the bar.
"Yeah those!" old man Tao clapped his hands. Lifen looked from the man to old man Tao.
"Well….this gotta be good" she looked back to the radio as the announcer announced the match about to start. The restaurant went dead quiet, if a needle would have fallen on the other side of the room it would've sounded like a boulder crashing on the earth.
"Let's see who comes out of this one" Lifen sat down on one of the stools. Once the bell rung signaling the match had officially begun the restaurant exploded into a commotion of cheers.
"I bet on the Ferrets!" old man Tao yelled throwing fist in the air, Lifen smiled and shook her head rolling her eyes. Sure, most of the time he was grumpy, but when he was in a good mood it was certainly a sight to see.
The match continued and once it was past the first two rounds the boo's and the ah's began to fill the restaurant along with the hooray's. According to the announcer, the Fire Ferrets weren't doing so good, this caused the ones who had betted on them to Boo and throw their fists in the air, thankfully no fists flew to each other's faces. Old man Tao also booed since he cheered towards the Fire Ferrets.
"GET YER ACT STRAIGHT!" he would yell towards the radio pointing at it. "Yer causing me ter lose!"
"Get those Yuan out" a man said that stood next to old man Tao. "I want them right after the match is done" he added, his voice was filled with nothing but confidence. He cheered for the Buzzing Wasps, and since the Ferrets weren't looking so good, he most likely though he had the Yuan secured in his pocket.
Lifen rested her chin on her palm listening to the commotion around her as well as trying to listen to the announcer; she didn't really pick any side, whomever one was okay for her. It wasn't until the announcer announced the Ferrets turning the tables and began to take control of the match that the restaurant went deadly quiet yet again. The conclusion to the match was the Ferrets won just barely with a shocking knockout. When the Ferrets were announced as the winners of the match the fans of the Ferrets broke out in cheer, old man Tao danced in place laughing as well.
"Up yours Xeng!" he sang pointing at the man to his right, the one whom had been so confident. He didn't have a happy look on his face much less when he got the Yuan out and handed them over to old man Tao.
Lifen got up from the stool to pick up the plates and cups from the people that were leaving the restaurant. She quietly stacked them up on her hands and arms taking them to the kitchen to be cleaned.
"it's funny how even old people get entertained by pro-bending" she thought returning to pick up more plates. As she passed by a table she overheard a conversation.
"The Ferrets only won because they have the Avatar in their team, bet ya they cheated!" a man said shaking his head before taking a sip of his drink.
"I still find that "sport" rather...uncivilized dear" the woman sitting next to him replied while throwing some air to her face with a fan.
"Yeah, yeah. But you heard! They couldn't just won like that!"
"Yes they could've" the man and woman turned their heads towards the voice, Lifen stood there with plates and cups on her hands. She picked up the plates from their table not looking at them.
"What do you mean?" the man asked.
"Well, the Ferrets have this…thing were they work together. They understand each other's moves and move as if they knew a dance routine or something like that. Point is, they know when and how to do things; they'll get you down before you know it and most other teams don't have that. They just attack individually. It's not because they have the avatar that they always win, but because they are talented and good at what they do" Lifen said while putting the plates neat on her hands so they wouldn't fall. The woman stared at her with her mouth open she didn't move her fan. On the other hand the man looked rather annoyed.
"How would YOU know? Have you gone up against them?" he said looking up at Lifen with a glare. Lifen blinked glancing at the man, without saying a word she walked away from the table.
"That's what I thought" the man nodded drinking his drink.
When closing time finally came around Lifen was more than happy to go home. She and old man Tao stood outside the restaurant closing the doors.
"Good night Mr. Tao, I'll see you tomorrow" Lifen smiled about to walk away when.
"Take care kiddo" old man Tao waved a hand at her walking his own way home. Lifen nodded still with a smile and began to walk back home. Her mother and sister would most likely be there already, since her mother got out earlier than her most of the time. As Lifen walked home she noticed how lonely and dark the streets seemed, they weren't usually like this especially on days after the semi-finals of the Pro-bending matches. She felt a shiver run up her spine looking around the street she saw no one.
"This is weird." She thought frowning. Coming to a stop she stood in front of the dumpling shop, a sign stood on the door saying, "CLOSED"
"Darn!" not wasting another minute Lifen began to pick up the pace and head back home as fast as she could. She would only stop to get Ming's favorite snack but other than that she wanted to get away and out of the lonely streets. From the corner of her eye she thought she saw a shadow pass by. Quickly turning her head she ran her eyes over her surroundings but there was no one.
"It's just my imagination most likely" Lifen shook her head and kept on walking. But then again she felt the presence of someone following.
She didn't quicken her face in order to look normal; her head didn't turn in any direction either. All of a sudden bolas were flung at her Lifen's eyes widened though instead of getting her they got a boulder. The boulder crashed with the ground, Lifen's arms were held up in fists looking around.
"Who's there?" she yelled. No one answered. "Answer me!"
No one answered, instead a skinny figure emerged from the shadows. It wore a gas mask and a dark colored suit. It had some bolas spinning in its hand ready to be flung again. Lifen wasted to time and she stomped the ground bringing three boulders up, flinging her hands forward she threw them at the person who easly dodged them with amazing speed and agility.
"What?" Lifen's eyes widened. The person neared and hit Lifen's arm, to her surprise and rising fear her arm went numb and immobile. She then swung her leg trying to hit the mysterious person but that also failed when the person hit it and caused the same that had happened to her arm. Lifen now began to get really scared her heart beated fast against her ribs making her chest ache. Before the person could strike again Lifen lifted her working arm up and made a whole on the ground causing her to fall in. Once she was in the while she covered it securing her underground. It didn't matter to her if it was awfully dark and an enclosed space. All that mattered to her right now was to be away from that mysterious person.
She held onto her immobile arm resting her back against the wall of rock, "Who was that?" she thought looking up despite it being dark. "What did they want anyways? I never got into anything bad, ever!"
Lifen slid down until she sat on the ground, her beating heart still didn't ease, her fear that had began to rise didn't go away either. She had a feeling that wasn't going to be the last time she was going to come across this. Her gut told her this was going to get worse.
Cliffhanger? Yeah I don't think so either xD lol
There might be some errors but it's late at night and i'm sleepy, I said I was gonna get this up today so here it is XD worked too many hours and till late at night.
It's only the first but it gets better :D
Please tell me what did you like :)