Author's Note: Since you're so fancy, review and follow! If I owned Legend of Korra, I would have Meelo save the world a couple of times. But sadly I don't, so sorry Meelo.
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Oh and first fanfic XD
CHAPTER ONE: ROCKS TO THE FACE
HIGHTON
Getting knocked out with a rock can sometimes get a little old.
Like, you know you won't be awake for a while when a stone flying at the speed of sound is about to hit your face, so adrenaline floods you. But when you're a non-bender like me, it can get a little boring.
Especially since this is the 14th time.
The name's Highton, Highton Kiro. My friends call me Hight, probably as a joke because i'm terrified of hights. anyways...Let's get back to the present. Because now might not be the time for introductions.
"HIGTHON! FOR BUMI'S SAKE WE WILL NOT GIVE YOU AND YOUR LITTLE CLUB FOOD!''
"But-"
"ENOUGH BUTS! Do you want another rock to the face?!"
"If it means getting food for my group, yes."
"I'll give you one anyway!"
Furo ( I call him furry) stamped his oh so mighty feet into the ground (yes,INTO the ground, like five feet deep)and a rock the size of my face came flying toward the very thing I just compared it's size to. I dived out of the way in time, but I ended up on my chest, getting the wind knocked out of me.
"HIGHTON! WE WON"T GIVE YOU FOOD!"
"I know that!"
He and his gang stopped bending at me, giving me enough time to stand up and brush myself off. I looked up at their skeptical faces and said "Now I just want water!"
I don't think that wisecrack was worth five hundred rocks to the face.
When I came to, I found myself in a hurt daze, on the ground a good distance away from where I just came out of. I felt my forehead and instantly regretted it. I think I might've had five hundred lumps there. Looking up, I saw the words 'Food For Charity' written in wood on top of the little building I was just thrown out of. Food for charity? I thought. Yeah right. I began my walk back to my...well...home, slipping often due to the fact that it was raining. It would have been a dramatic scene, one to remember for ages, an eleven-year-old boy clutching his torn jacket and brushing the black hair from his eyes, the rain making it seem as if the boy was crying, but the lumps on my head wiped all thought except for walking back home from my mind.
Right turn, left,left,right,straight, cut across this fence, in fact I knew the walk so well I could have done with my eyes closed, or, rather, with five hundred lumps on my head.
I arrived at a small hut with the door wide open, clinging on one hinge. Home. Entering the hut, I opened the latch of a trapdoor in the middle of the hut, climbing own the ladder. The smell of mouldy bread and sawdust seemed welcoming after a hard days work of being bended at.
"Highton! Hey! Oh, no food?"
As soon as that sentence was finished I felt horrible. IM the food getter. I looked down and saw my friend Sato looking up, his black eyes narrowed because of the fact that smoke was drifting down the hatch.
"They only support ''registered charities." Can you believe that?! You know how much money it costs a group to register?"
"Ugh. Anyways, Diosh is waiting for you. Says he has wisdom."
Oh boy.
Diosh is almost 87 years old, and well, he's kinda loony. He constantly expresses his so-called "wisdom" and I think he's just,well,loony. Catch my drift?
I stepped down from the ladder and followed Sato through the tunnels of the place. Since it was so narrow, we had to walk in a line. Everything was illuminated in orange light because of lanterns hung up in these tunnels, reason being that we've lived here for a long time. We came to a small door the colour of earth (probably because it was made out of dirt) and Sato paused, looking me straight in the eyes.
"Your sis is here."
Your sis is here.
Your sis is here.
Michi.
I burst open the door with my foot and ran inside. There were people clustered everywhere, eating bread scraps and talking, all in the room that just looked like an expanded tunnel,but all movement ceased when I came barging in. I looked around and found the familiar red and black get-up with circle earrings. Michi also wore a sleek black glove on her right hand for some reason. "Michi!" I exclaimed.
"Highto!" (Yes, highto, don't judge.)
I ran and met my sister with a hug. She gave me a noogie and I asked her for and update.
"Thieving business going well?"
All of a sudden her face turned grim. I frowned in puzzlement.
"That's why I'm here, little bro. I'm on the run."
I laughed. "Michi, they can't catch you!"
"You don't understand," she replied. "I'm on the run from the president."
I fainted. I couldn't help it. Don't worry, Michi seemed to be expecting that and slapped me awake. As soon as I came to, I barraged her with questions. Or, rather, the same question.
"President Raiko? President Raiko? President Rai-"
"YES! I mean,yes, President Raiko."
"How? You stole from him?"
her expression said it all.
"ARRGH! I'm harboring a fugitive! How could this have happened?!"
I had totally forgot about everyone around me. I felt their eyes burn into me, and I took a deep breath.
"Michi, I-
"It's alright. Its my fault in the first place. The window was open, it was so tempted,"she explained dreamily.
"How did you get caught?"
"You should have seen me, Highto. I was a ninja cat, prowling. I had the first lady's jewels clutched in the fingers. But that WRETCHED gardener thought he say a racoon on the wall. Instant alert, foot chase- or atleast, foot for me, Sato mobiles for them. I got away, obviously."
"You know they'll find you. this isn't the Shryise family, or Future Industries."
Michi tugged at her black ponytail, a sign of stress.
"I know, Highto, that's why, well-"
"What?"
"I'm, for lack of a better word... moving, to Ba Sing Sae."
"What do you mean?" Alarm was climbing up my stomach, making me feel like a mixomatic, the product Verrick industries made to mix ingredients.
"I'm planning to stowaway on a ship there."
Before I could reply, I heard a shout of: "THERE! A DOOR!"
Michi and I locked eyes for an instant, and I yelled to everyone-
"We'll handle this! Just hide!"
I was worried it was the President's forces, or worse, Furro, deciding he wasn't done with me.
The door bursted open, and in came pouring men who looked (and smelled) like bulldozers. Hired muscle.
"Alright! Which one of you is the airbender?!"
I almost fell over. I heard that there were new airbenders from the radio at the radio shack, but did they honestly think one was here? And why were they acting so harsh? I thought that they finding new airbenders was a good thing, and that they would take them to the avatar and her friends for training.
"Woah!" I yelled. "we don't have airbenders here!"
"Capture them." the man in the lead uttered the two words. The men came in groups,holding sacks, stuffing people in them.
"Woah,woah! Stop! I said we don't have airbenders! Look somewhere else!"
I couldn't see the man, he hadn't stepped into the light, but I could hear the smile in his voice.
"We're looking for airbenders. We don't find them, we capture everyone."
"WHAT! Who told you to do this!"
"All you need to know, little crip, is that you'll never see your friends again."
I was shocked. I couldn't move, and I watched as all my friends were stuffed in sacks, no resistance because we were all non-benders. Then I saw Sato, the terrified look in his eyes visible through the mesh of the sack, and something about that (maybe the fact that he was about to get abducted by strange bulldozer-like men) brought me back to my senses.
"STOP! DON'T DO THIS! WE DON"T HAVE AIRBENDERS!"
The men said nothing, but I saw some of them grin. That's when I saw a man heading towards me with a sack. "STOP!"
The man didn't. He just quickened his stride towards my terrified self.
'STOP! STOP! I SAID STOP!" And I ran forward to punch the man. I missed.
"STOP! STOP DOING THIS!"
That's when it happened.
A blast of air erupted from my hand, smashing into the man and throwing him against the wall, knocking him unconscious. My mouth dropped open.
"Get him! He's the airbender!"
I felt someone grab me from behind and pull me towards the back exit.
"Get off me! I'm not an airbender!"
"Really? 'Cause it seems like that to me, Highto."
Michi! What a relief! "We have to rescue the others!" I saw Michi raise here fist above my head.
"Michi, what are you do-
And that's when I blacked out.
Author's Note (because I can)
Tell me whatcha think! Now if you'd excuse me, I have a fanfiction about Meelo saving the world to write. Ahem.
