Chapter 1: #76: Lightning
She watches from a distance as he begins to create the energy that only few fire benders can actually create. Lightning.
He holds his left arm out with two fingers extended, then moves his right arm to the exact same position and runs his right hand down her arm, towards his stomach then back out to his right.
Korra watches a little more intensely as Mako now moves his hands down to his side, takes in a deep breath, and moves his hands in some sort of circular motion. That's when she sees the lightning generate. He smoothly keeps moving his hands in that motion for a few more seconds; without hesitation he bends down and then moves his right arm out and lets the lighting fly. It strikes the top of the practice space, but doesn't leave a burn mark at all.
Korra begins to lose her balance behind one of the small tables she is hiding behind and as Mako is getting ready to practice the exact same move again, she falls and lands on her backside.
"Korra?" Mako says a little startled.
"Oh hey Mako," Korra blushes as she rubs her lower back, "What are you doing here?"
"I could be asking you the same question," he says with a smirk.
"Well, I was just going to ask you if you could maybe uhm teach me uhm…" Korra stutters as she rubs the back of her head with her hand, trying to distract herself from the slightly awkward situation beginning to form.
"Teach you how to redirect lightning?" He says with another small smirk. Korra blushes deeply as she slowly nods. "You know all you had to do was ask," Mako says with a smirk and waves her over.
She slowly walks over to him and he makes her take a slight crouching stance with her feet spread shoulder length apart.
"Now hold out both of your arms and only point out your pointer, and middle finger from both hands." Korra does as she is told and looks up at Mako for approval. He smiles and nods. Korra smiles back and looks out at the point where her right hand is pointed.
"Now move your right hand over to mirror your left," she moves and waits for more instruction, "move your right arm down your left, down to your stomach and back out to the right of your body," Korra, again, does as she is told and now waits again.
"Like that?" She asks and Mako nods.
"Now, just move your left over to mirror your right and perform the exact same movement." Mako keenly watches as Korra performs the same movements over and over again. As he is watching he easily gets lost in his own thoughts and suddenly becomes easily distracted.
"So when do I get to actually redirect lightning?" Korra asks breaking Mako out of his daze.
"What?"
"Come on Mr. Hat Trick, shoot some lighting at me," Korra playfully says as she makes her hands into fists and lightly jumps on the tips of her feet.
"Excuse me? I am not shooting lightning at you do you know how dangerous that is?" Mako quickly responds as he walks over to the bowl of water not too far from him and splashes water onto his face.
"Oh come on Mako, I'm the Avatar I can deal with it," Korra says as she puts her hands on her hips.
"Deal with what?" Bolin asks as he walks in on the two arguing.
"Korra wants me to shoot lightning at her, after I just taught her how to redirect it."
"Woah Korra, lightning isn't something you really want to mess with. Mako even showed me how to redirect it in case I ever get into a sticky situation where I need it, but you should never ask someone to direct it at you," Bolin replies as he gives Korra a very concerned look.
"Look, I'm the Avatar and…." She is quickly cut off by Mako interrupting her.
"You aren't even a fully realized Avatar, Korra! That's why it absolutely baffles me as to why you'd want me to direct lightning at you! There is no saying that you will successfully redirect it! One wrong move, one misstep and you're done for! You can't let it pass through your heart Korra. It's too dangerous," he yells in a tone that Korra knows all too well. It's time to let the conversation go and move on with practice before Mako gets too hot headed and refuses to. She knows never to ask something like that of him ever again.
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