Rival
*All characters belong to Bryke*
AU Amorra. Avatar Korra travels to republic city for the first time and is introduced to the strong headed Non Bending council man Noatak. Will she be able to bring peace between non benders and benders with Noatak's forceful ways? M for some Romanceeee.
Chapter One "New World"
"The city is undergoing many issues right now Avatar Korra, we do not think this is the appropriate time for you to leave." The members of the white lotus had gathered to watch Korra take her final Fire bending test.
"I'm ready! If the city needs help then I'm definitely the person for the job! Tenzin tell them!" Korra blurted out looking over at Tenzin and pointing her finger towards the Lotus members. "I'm the Avatar, I need to learn how to air bend, and plus maybe I can help the council bring some balance to the city with whatever is going on!"
"Korra, you have lived here the majority of your life, bringing you into Republic City on such short notice could be very dramatic for you. The city is having major problems with gangs and politics, they are not simple things that can be solved quickly." Tenzin said walking up to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry Korra I just don't think that it is a good idea right now."
"I think it is." Katara spoke up standing on the side. Everyone turned and gasped looking at her.
"Mother?"
"Master Katara explain your thoughts please." One of the white lotus members asked rubbing their temples in frustration.
"See!" Korra jumped up in excitement.
"Calm down now Korra. Tenzin, members of the white Lotus, Korra has been here most of her life. I worry that keeping her here too much longer will damage her progress. Aang wanted to ensure her safety and prepare her for the world, not lock her up until there were absolutely no troubles. I think it's time for Korra to see the world and journey to Republic City with Tenzin." Katara smiled over at Korra, she then bowed and walked away leaving everyone with their mouths hanging open in shock.
"Well I can't say we all agree completely but Master Katara makes a point. Tenzin, Avatar Korra is to go with you and begin training in Republic City." The white Lotus members all bowed and walked off. Korra jumped up in excitement and began running off to her room.
"WOO YEAH! SEE YA IN A BIT TENZIN!" She yelled back as Tenzin watched a slight smile on his face.
"Korra, wake up we are almost at the city." Tenzin called back from the reins guiding the bison. Korra slowly opened her eyes sitting upright and looked out over the saddle. They flew over a peak of mountain tops surrounded by water and there it was. Faintly lit up by morning rays of sun Republic City sparkled as the ocean caressed its outskirts.
"There is Air Temple Island, where you will be staying with me and my family." Tenzin said pointing to the right. Korra begrudgingly moved her eyes away from the city's dazzling lights and looked down at the Island.
"Everything is so beautiful…"She practically whispered. She stared in amazement as they gently made their way down to the Island. They landed in a giant court yard and Korra could hear the cries from Tenzin family running to meet them.
"KORRA!" Three voices yelled in unison. Korra glided off the Air Bison and into the eagerly awaiting arms of Tenzin's children.
"Hey guys! I've missed you! Hey look what I learned!" Korra squatted down and all three of the kids surrounded her. She ran her fingers gently across the ground beneath them and small lines started to appear where she had touched. She lifted her hand and the rocks rose out of the ground slightly forming a picture of all four of them in the stone.
"That's so cool!" Ikki squealed, Meelo poked at the drawing with his eager fingers in amazement. Jinora smiled watching her two younger siblings.
"So I see we are already making messes." Pema chimed in behind them. Korra shot up and stamped her foot down on the pavement, erasing the drawing.
"What…no…us we weren't…Pema." Korra smiled guiltily and shrugged.
"Oh its fine Korra, come here." She said opening her arms for a hug.
"Now not too tight Korra, Pema is very pregnant." Tenzin said watching closely.
"Oh I'm fine, don't mind him Korra, come on I'll show you around." Pema said grabbing Korra's arm and leading her into the house. Pema leads Korra through their home slowly as she waddled down the hallway she opened the door to her new room.
"Thank you so much Pema for welcoming me into your home." Korra said walking into the room placing her bag down onto the bed.
"You will always be welcome here Korra. Need anything?" She responded smiling and started walking towards the door.
"When do you think I can go look around in the City?" Korra said anxiously. Pema laughed and began to close the door behind her.
"You'll have to ask Tenzin that, dinner is at six!" She said leaving Korra in the room by herself. Korra hung out her lower lip in frustration and imminently wiped the look away spinning around in a circle. She began unpacking her things happily dancing along with the music on her radio. Once she had gotten everything into the closet she made her way to the large round window in the center of the wall. She opened it up and stared out over to the city.
"GET READY REPUBLIC CITY! This year's first pro bending match starts tonight at 8' o clock! Will these new comers the Fire Ferrets be able to stun the crowd with their first match against the Makapu Moose Lions?" Korra looked over at the radio in excitement; she had heard of Pro-Bending matches before but never experienced one. She ran from her place at the window to look for Tenzin.
"TENZIN! TENZIN TENZIN TENZIN!" Tenzin looked over his shoulder and saw Korra running out of the house towards him.
"Yes Korra?" He asked once she had reached him. She was jumping up and down in excitement.
"Can we go please, please, pleaseeeee." Korra said still jumping with energy.
"Go where Korra?"
"To the Pro-Bending match duh!" Korra said widening her eyes in shock. "It is the first one of the season everyone is going there wi-"
"I don't think that's a good idea." Tenzin cut her off holding up his hand. "You need to be focusing on your air bending right now. Pro-Bending is too violent and does not promote the peace and balance of air. Air needs all of your attention, the arena will not be a place for you to experience-"
"Yeah ok fine…" Korra slumped off in defeat back to her room. Tenzin watched after her.
"This is going to be interesting."
"So Korra, do you know anything about air bending?" Pema asked sitting down at the dinner table.
"No, I've never been able to air bend. I don't know why." Korra said while picking at her food.
"No problem Korra we will figure it out and you will be air bending like a pro before you know it." Tenzin said optimistically.
"Yeah…pro…" Korra glanced over at him. He frowned getting the hint.
"I'm sorry Korra, maybe once we have gotten a bit of progress we can catch a match later in the series." Korra huffed and continued picking at her food. Pema crossed her arms and gave Tenzin a look.
"AIR BENDING MASTA!" Meelo suddenly shouted. Korra got up and walked out nodding to Pema before she left the room.
Korra gently closed her bedroom door and crashed onto her bed. She hugged her pillow close to her chest and stared out the window as music played on her radio.
"ARE YOU READY REPUBLIC CITY?" The radio announcer yelled out interrupting the music.
"No."
"BECAUSE THE FIRST PRO-BENDING MATCH OF THE SEASON STARTS IN LESS THAN AN HOUR!"
"Yippy…"
"ONLY THE BIGGEST LOSERS IN REPUBLIC CITY WILL MISS THIS! ARE YOU GUYS LOSERS?"
"I'm not a loser."
"SO COME ON DOWN TO THE BENDING ARENA TO WITNESS THE FIRE FERRETS TAKE ON THE MAKAPU MOOSE LIONS!"
"YEAH I'M GOING!" Korra yelled back at her radio. She quickly flew her hand over her mouth realizing Tenzin might have heard her. She waited a few moments listening closely for any approaching footsteps. When none came she crept over to her open window and slipped out.
Korra swam herself across the Yue Bay over to the dock the bending arena stood on. She gracefully splashed her way onto the dock and landed inside one of the windows. She looked around cautiously and began walking down the hall. The arena was much larger then it looked from far away.
"Hey! You!" Korra spun on the spot to look at an old man approaching her. "Where is your ticket?" He said getting closer.
"I…uh…well I was-"
"Heeeeyyyyy there you are!" Another voice sounded from behind her. The old man didn't move his eyes off of her as the boy approached.
"Oh hey yeah, you found me…" Korra said eyeing the guy up.
"Don't worry she's with me!" He said wrapping his arm around her shoulders. "See you later Toza!" They slowly stalked off nervously looking over their backs.
"Thanks a bunch!" Korra said sliding his arm off her shoulder.
"Sure thing! You know if you want you can come watch the match from my special box…" He said giving Korra a sly smile.
"Oh awesome! I'd love to!" Korra said as he lead the way down another hall way.
"This place sure is big." Korra said glancing around.
"You have no idea." He said as he opened a door. They stepped through and Korra was over whelmed. The arena stretched out before her; one large circle platform hung over a pool of water. There were stands of people all around it.
"Bolin! Where-Who is she? What did I tell you?" Another boy started shouting as he saw the two enter.
"Relaxxxx…it's cool." Bolin said walking away from Korra as she made her way to the edge of their viewing box. She held onto the railing and looked around taking in the size of the crowed. She looked back at the others now behind her whispering loudly.
"You guys are the fire ferrets!" She said looking them over pointing at their gear.
"Nice observation." The taller of the guys hissed out. He turned away back to his locker as Korra started him down.
"Oh don't mind him…My name is Bolin by the way. Is this your first match?"
"Yeah actually-"
"Well you couldn't get better seats!" He said as he lifted his arm out towards the arena. "Oh they are about to announce everything. Wish us luck!" He went to stand next to the other guys at a platform as three figures appeared in the center of the circle stage. Korra slid closer to where they were waiting.
"Who are they?" She whispered over to Bolin.
"Well that guy on the right is the announcer, one in the middle is Butakha he owns this whole place. The-"
"WELCOME REPUBLIC CITY!"
"Ohhhh shh shh they're starting." Bolin cut off and turned back to look at the three figures in the center of the stadium.
"Mr. Butakha and Council man Noatak are here to welcome you to this year's first PRO-BENDING MATCH!" The announcer handed the microphone over to the largest of the three men.
"I welcome you Republic City to my stadium, as always I wish everyone a year of excitement throughout the season. Tonight's honored guest would like to say a few words to welcome you as well." Mr. Butakha didn't sound nearly as thrilled as the announcer had when he handed over the microphone to the council man next to him.
"Here we go…" Bolin muttered next to her.
"Huh?" Korra said confused. Bolin looked over at her slightly surprised.
"You'll see."
"Republic city, it is with great honor that I speak with you tonight on the eve of such a highly anticipated match. I am here to remind all of the Pro-Bending sponsors that their votes to allow non-bending teams in their prejudice games are due by midnight. And if such votes were to vote unfavorable then Pro-Bending future looks very dim. We all want to continue enjoying the games don't we?" The council man smiled and without moving his eyes off of the audience he handed the microphone back to Mr. Butakha.
"Enjoy the games!" The large man said shoving the microphone back to the announcer and storming off with the council man.
"What's his problem? Non benders would get killed out there." Korra said staring at the council man's retreating figure.
"You're asking me." Bolin said. The announcer shouted out their teams name in the mic and Bolin waved to Korra as they were propelled forward. Korra crossed her arms and waited for the match to begin.
Once everyone was in their spots the referee raised his arm and the teams crouched into positions. A bell rang once and the stage came to life with fire and dirt. The crowd roared with excitement as the teams danced around the stage. Everything was moving so fast it was hard for Korra to keep her eyes in one place. She clutched onto the railing watching as Bolin swerved around oncoming blasts of water. He narrowly dodged a wave and punched a fist forward sending a round tile straight into the chest of the water bender on the opposing team.
"YEAH! NOCK 'EM OUT!" Korra burst out as the water bender flew over the edge and crashed into the pool. Bolin amazingly heard her scream of joy and turned to wink at her. To his misfortune a tile came slamming into his chest and he too went flying off the stage. Korra gasped feeling bad and looked back up at the ring when he began swimming over to the lift. She watched the rude guy from before use his fire bending. He moved as a fierce fighter. Evading disk after disk he punched his arms forward releasing a stream of fire at the remaining team mates of the Makapu Moose Lions. Both of them went flying into the water and the crowd erupted in cheers once again.
"YEAH!" Korra shouted out as Bolin rejoined his team on the stage. "ROUND TWO YEAH!"
"Ahem." Korra spun around at the unexpected cough from behind her. "Shouldn't you be with Tenzin?" A woman in a solid uniform with short grayish black hair had entered the room behind her.
"Uhhh…hmm well you see I was-"
"Uh huh. I know." The woman stepped forward to the railing and looked at the ongoing match. "I understand what Tenzin is like. I am Chief BeiFong, head of Republic City's police force." The chief said holding out her hand to Korra.
"Wow, its' great to meet you!" Korra said grabbing her hand and shaking it in response.
"Same. I'm glad you're enjoying the city. We take very good care of it, and are mindful of all the laws set in place to protect it." She paused looking at Korra. "Following rules are important to keep things in order." She paused again.
"Ohhh…yeah. Yeah I'll just go follow rules…Tenzin's rules…" Korra said stalking over to the door staring at the match as long as she could.
"Good. I'll see you around Avatar Korra." Chef BeiFong said watching her go. Korra slowly walked to the door still staring at the ring.
"Yep…see you…around." She said closing the door trying to look at the match. "YEAH!" She yelled out as Bolin's team knocked the others off in a defeat. "Oh yeah…bye!" Korra yelled and ran out of the Arena.
"This is going to be interesting." The chief said smiling as she watched Korra run off.
Once Korra reached the island she sneaked back into her room and changed for bed. She looked out her window staring at the glowing lights from the city. This was going to be the most amazing part of her life. Until Tenzin woke her up early for practice in the morning.
A/N: Thanks for reading the first chapter guys! I really hope you enjoy this series. Not exactly sure how long it's going to be just yet, but you should be getting updates AT LEAST every other day if you have any questions or comments please voice them! And thanks again!