It was another beautiful day in Republic Cirty, the skies were clear without a cloud in sight to block the warm sun, the birds high in the air, and city coming to life with the sounds and movement of satomobile engines rumbling, the factories are booming, and the people normal and bender alike moving on with their daily lives and headed off to work.
At a small restaurant within the city a man was routinely cleaning his fine establishment to be ready for the day, he was wiping down one of the tables down while his most trusted employee and nephew is in the kitchen cleaning the dishes.
Seeing that he and his nephew was the only ones here the owner asked his nephew to do a chore for him, "hey Chen can you take out the trash? someone forgot to take it out last night." Knowing that no one else was here yet the bus boy decided not to argue, "sure uncle."
The young man walked out to the back alley where the trash can were at and dumped the bag of waste into the can, as he was about head back inside he heard a strange thud sound repeating over and over again. Giving into his curiosity Chen looked for the source of the noise, he heard it become louder and louder as he approached a pile of wooden crates. When looked behind it he came to the sight of a small child, a boy banging his head against a brick wall, Chen started to feel nauseous at the sight of splattered blood sliding down the wall and down to the floor making a fairly large murky red puddle.
Chen was so focus on the blood that he failed to notice that the boy had stopped banging his head on the wall and is now facing directly at him. Chen only saw his big dark green eyes and beady pupils staring straight through him and before Chen can do anything he was blown out of the alley and into the streets by some unknown force and lands on top of a parked satomobile knocking him unconscious.
Korra along side with Asami, Mako, and Bolin were walking down the streets of Republic City for Korra was exhausted from her air bending training and was bored from sitting around the temple all day and just wanted to take a break. So Korra decided to take a stroll down the bustling city streets with her friends.
"Thanks guys for coming with me I really needed this," said Korra showing her gratitude to her friends as they passed the park, "don't mention it you know we're here for ya, and besides it's a beautiful day out," Bolin expressed by spreading his arms out and spinning himself around in front of his friends to empathise how nice it is today.
"Hehe, yeah you've been through a lot already it's the least we can do," Asami chimed in, "you would've think meditating would make feel more relax and refreshed, but man does my butt feel sore for sitting all day on the floor an-" "whoa! guys look over there," Mako interrupted. Korra has spotted a couple of police cars parked outside of a restaurant.
"Man what do you think happened," Bolin said, speaking in a more sincere tone after seeing a man who was being lifted into the back of a ambulance by paramedics. Korra then spotted the chief of police talking to someone that was out of her view behind a police carrier.
"Hey look there's Lin, let's just ask her what's going on," Korra pointed and as they ran across the streets and when Korra reached Lin to see what was up she saw who was behind the carrier. "Tenzin? what are you doing here?" questioning her air bending teacher, "I received a call from Lin here about an "incident" that happened behind this restaurant here," the air nomad explained to the young Avatar and her friends while he stroke his beard. "What happened? because that guy does not look like he's having a good day," Mako commented on the poor bus boy who was being shipped off to the nearest hospital.
Tenzin and Lin glanced at each other to exchange looks for a second, "it's probably best if I just show you kids, follow me," Tenzin and Lin guided the group into the restaurant passed the dining area and passed the double swinging doors and into the kitchen. There the gang spotted an elderly man with grey hair, a thin mustache, and glasses who is the owner of the restaurant who stood along with several officers standing in a circle around a metal table and the whole gang were surprised to see a little boy sitting on top of the table. He just sat there motionless, his head tilted down, and his eyes wide open staring continuously to the clean tile floor.