Chapter 2

Start of an Adventure

"What do you mean they let her escape..." Suyin's voice was eerily calm, not an explosion of anger, but something else entirely.

The guard was simply shaking, he was unlucky that he was the one that reported the news. He was not only standing in front of the person he respected the most, but also the leader of Zafou.

Suyin remained silent for a moment before looking out of the window, Zafou...her city was still being repaired, still being fixed from the markings of...her. It was obvious it was a mistake to let her live despite Korra's wishes.

Suyin frowned as she turned back to the guard who was shaking, honestly at this point he would have rather her be screaming in anger rather that the emotion she was showing. "How many people know about this?" it was a blunt question as the guard stiffened.

"Um, we believe that she escaped this time last night. I believe word has already reached the White Lotus, I assume the Avatar will find out soon as well, we will get right to it making wanted posters. Omashu was near the prison she was located in have caught wind, if she is still in the area she will most likely be found,"

Suyin sighed, even if Kuvira was still there she doubted any of the local authorities would have been able to deal with her.

"I'd like to keep this to ourselves for the time being, you are dismissed," Suyin then smiled as the guard nodded and left the room.

The moment he vanished she bit her lip, she would have to erase Kuvira for good.


"Hey Chun, do you not think we have stayed here long enough? We do have a criminal with us..." Zhen sat on her bed as she glanced over to Kuvira, the duo still didn't even know her name.

Chun simply laughed as he opened the blind, the sunlight piercing the room. "You worry about pointless things too much, if she was important then someone would have came crashing in by now!" It was a small inn after all, probably had three rooms at most with 2 bed in each.

"Anyway, what are you going to do now miss frown?" Chun asked as Kuvira glanced over to the waterbender.

"I mean, you don't seem to have anywhere else to go? Do you want to go home? We can drop you off if you want, or you can keep traveling with us!"

Kuvira thought about it for a moment, home...she certainly didn't have one of those anymore. She had no guide, no plan, what was she going to do? She could rebuild her army, but she had no influence. Any tools she had to recreate anything was gone, and she was wondering if she should even bother doing so.

"...I guess you're traveling with us form now on huh!" He took her silence as a yes as Zhen continued to grumble.

"Anyway, we should buy something for the trip. It is a long way home, our next stop is Republic City," Zhen lifted herself from her bed as she walked to the door. However the moment she did she flinched, instead of opening the door into the lobby she simply cracked it open. There were a few guards standing in front of the counter speaking to the owner. They had a piece of paper in their hand pointing to it. Zhen could already tell that it was most likely a wanted poster.

"Darn it... I think some guards found, very well," Zhen turned to face Kuvira. "I do hope you enjoyed your brief freedom, we shall be turning you in now..."

Kuvira remained silent as Chun glared at his relative. "What?! Don't be stupid, we went through the trouble of breaking her out! We just can't give her up!"

"No, this was your idea. I wanted no part of it, I do not wish to pick a fight with the local authorities. Not in Omashu, if this woman has a shred of decency, she would walk out on her own and not even mention us," Zhen glared at Kuvira once again.

Honestly she was tempted to do that, she still didn't know why she even bothered sneaking out or anything like that. There was nothing for her, at least not anytime soon, and just like Zhen said she was just going to end up dragging those two down.

Chun simply glared, "no, I say we let her stay! I don't care about the the police force!" Chun said that so casually as if he was a child as Zhen simply shook her head.

"You fool, things are not that simple, you are putting more weight on the people around you with that attitude," Zhen pointed that out as she peaked back over to the door. The guards were coming closer and closer.

"You should know me by now, I do what I want!" Kuvira's eyes twitched the moment Chun said that, he then turned his attention away from the firebender and back to Kuvira.

"Are you okay with that?! Are you okay with going back without doing anything?!"

A moment of silence filled the room, Kuvira got up from her seat her eyes narrowing. "We need to find a way out of here..." It was blunt as Chun smiled.

"Yeah!"

Zhen simply grumbled again, there was no use going against it as she noticed Chun checking the window.

"W-woah, what the heck is with the massive drop?!" Chun pointed out, it was like they were on the steep side of a cliff a few miles up. Zhen simply sighed.

"You idiot, you are the one that picked this inn, you said the view was amazing!"

"Oh yeah, you're right!" Chun laughed as he checked the distance between the next platform. He could use his waterbending to create a rope of some sort to fling them over. Though he didn't know how effective it would be, before his thoughts could finish the door was torn down as guards in both earth and metal armor shouted.

"Stop their Kuvira, you are under arrest!"

"So that's you're name!" Chun smiled as Zhen flinched.

"W-wait, you don't mean..."

Before anyone in the room had time to even comprehend what was going on Kuvira pushed Chun out of the window, before Zhen could even have time to scream Kuvira dragged the girl by her collar and jumped out the window.

"What are you doing, are you trying to take us with you?!" Zhen shouted as they fell, she simply closed her eyes expecting the last thing she felt to be the harsh ground. However that feeling never came, she slowly opened her eyes and noticed they were on a large stone platform sliding down the side of the mountain. Chun sitting next to them.

"Oh, very nice...Kuvira was it?" Chun smiled as Zhen held her chest, her heart was still racing from what had transpired as she looked back up. The guards were glaring down at them as she grabbed her hair.

"You idiots! We could have died, plus what are we going to do now?! We can not use any of the trams to get out of the city now, not with the guards chasing after us!"

"Hahaha, you're right, we'll worry about that later!" Chun was still rather relaxed about the whole thing as Zhen patted her own body down before breathing a sigh of relief. The box was still on her person despite everything.

After a short ride down the mountain they were in the lower quarter of the city. Every looked at them the moment they landed as Chun grinned. "We should do that again sometime, anyway lets hurry up and head to the city gates. I don't think they sounded the alarm yet, so it might still be open!" Chun cheered as Zhen bit her lip.

They made a dash through the lower part of the city. They most likely were ground level at the moment as in the corner of Chun vision one of the guards came running up beside them.

"Hey sto-" the man didn't even finish his statement as the tips of Chun's fingers split open and red liquid wrapped around the man. Chun was bending his own blood as he casually tossed the man away, causing Zhen to glare at him.

"Fool, do not do that so casually, it is just going to make it easier for us to be identified!"

"Sorry, but I didn't have any regular water on me!" Chun said as Kuvira made a mental note of what she had just saw. It was obvious that the two weren't normal benders.

Their eyes narrowed, they could see gate leading out of the city. It was made out of metal as Zhen face dropped it was already starting to close, there was no way they would have been able to make it in time.

Kuvira looked down to the ground, it was still stone as she looked over to Chun. "Do you have your sister?"

"She's actually my cousin, also yep, are you okay to get out by yourself?"

Kuvira simply nodded as Chun pointed to his back, "hey, Zhen, jump on my back!" Zhen really didn't want to, but she really couldn't say no at the time like this. She jumped on her cousin's back as he took a deep breath. His arms started to split open and bleed as he made a rope of liquid, extending it to the sides of the gate. It latched on freezing itself as Chun flung himself forward Zhen screaming the entire time. They two narrowly slipped pass the gate as it shut.

"Darn it, those two got away!" One of the guards standing on top of the tower grumbled before smiling. "I guess it doesn't matter, we got what we came for..." He looked at Kuvira who was still running towards the gate despite it being shut.

She took a deep breath as she jumped off the ground and stomped, she launched herself with the stone underneath her foot right towards the metal gate.

"I-is she an idiot?" The guard eye twitched as Kuvira twisted her body slightly in the air...and tore a hole straight through the gate.

The guard flinched, he had completely forgotten that she was a metal bender. He cursed himself for his own stupidity.

"Hey Kuvira you made it!" Chun said with a smile on his face, Zhen was still gripping him her eyes shut tight.

"We shouldn't stay here for long, they will probably chase us until we reach the outskirts of the city. Plus there isn't a lot of room to move here," Kuvira made note of the thin bridge leading out of the city as Chun put the firebender down as the three started to make a dash for it.

"I...I can not believe we just did that, we are criminals, our faces are going to be on wanted posters..."

"I know...isn't it great!" Chun grinned as Kuvira sighed.

Still, she couldn't help but smile ever so slightly.