Hello, I'm the Lady of Gaia and I hope the last chapter was to your liking.
Last time, Bolin decided to play matchmaker between his brother and the Avatar. Unaware that he sent them towards Equalists.
But the question is will Korra and Mako come out of this, alive?
Enjoy as you find the answer to the question.
Also, please review.
Chapter 3
Korra and Mako lied on the ground, stunned from the impact of hitting the stone ground. Pain rang though Mako's body was so painful that he blacked out from it, unaware of the worried state that he was putting Korra in. Feeling sharp pain from her hands, she ignored the pain as she saw Mako faint from his pain before her eyes. Panic and worry filled her as she looked for injuries on his body; the panic and worry feel sharp like a knife that was cutting into her skin.
She could barely breathe like someone was choking her from the inside; her heart felt like it could barely keep her blood flowing in her veins. But when she found no injure on him, the relief was so great that she couldn't hold back the tears that filled her tears.
That's when she realized that Naga had been growling at the Equalists that were coming towards her slowly like a pygmy puma stalking a meadow vole. But this meadow vole had bite that would make the pygmy puma think twice as anger bubbled to life inside her.
Korra let out a breath of fire in her angered state, the Equalists quickly backed away so not to be burned by the intense fire of the angered avatar. Moving to stand, Korra bended the stone ground into a dome barrier around them to protect Mako and Naga. Korra pulled out a jaw blade from the saddle to cut the rope of the bolas away from Naga's hind legs.
"You stay here, girl. You have to protect Mako, okay?" Korra told the polar bear dog, who whimpered in protest of being told she had to guard instead of fight. Korra rubbed the polar bear dog's ears in reassures, before looking down at Mako one last time. Her anger bubbled like the lava in a volcano towards the Equalists and herself for letting Mako get hurt.
Without another thought, Korra bended a doorway into the dome and walked out before closing it to protect Mako and Naga, unafraid of the danger awaiting her outside. The Equalists waited outside for her, wary of what she would do. Korra ran at the closest one to her, bending the water in the air as she ran. She encased the Equalist in ice before noticing a few of the Equalists moving towards the dome, she created a wall of flames.
"You're not going anywhere near that dome if you want to live through the night!" Korra growled in an inhuman growl. A sweat broke out in the group of Equalists, fear for their lives made them wish to run away.
Until the Lieutenant moved to stand in front of her.
"You don't belong in this world anymore. You and every other bender in this world aren't needed anymore!" Korra bended the earth to create an earthquake, want to get him to lose his balance but he didn't.
"You don't know me; you don't know all the benders in this world so you have no right to say we don't belong, that we aren't needed! You're one man who thinks only of himself and what he doesn't have. You want to be equal? Then do something that wouldn't end people's lives! Because benders will always be born in this world, no one can stop that." Korra told him before he came at her, his electric kali sticks in hand. She barely dodged when three knives from nowhere cut into her upper right arm and left thigh. The last one had cut into her back, barely missing her lung and heart.
Korra wanted to scream aloud but didn't, she refused to give the Lieutenant the joy that that would bring him.
But she did scream a bloodcurdling scream when he hit her injured arm and thigh. The pain made her scream like a dying animal that was slowly being cut into pieces.
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Mako awoke to the sound of a bloodcurdling scream. The scream made him felt like his skin was being burned away from his body and burning away his soul as terrifying memories played in his head until the screaming stopped. Tears came to his golden eyes as he lied there in the darkness, listening to the silence hinder by his and Naga's breathing.
He wondered if he had died in the fall and gone to the spirit world until he bending fire in the palm of his hand, he sat up and looked around him. Mako saw Naga whimpering as she nosed his leg, worry clear in her big black eyes.
Suddenly the screaming began anew; Mako got up, unwilling to listen to it again even as his body protested the movement. Naga barked at him, happy to see him on his feet before running into the dome. The dome came crashing down, he and Naga walked through the gaping hole to see a horrible realization. Korra was the one who had been screaming...was screaming, and it sickened him to the core of his very being. For a moment he just stood there, staring at the blood that was slowly pooling out of Korra's body and onto the stone ground. Her screaming didn't sound human to him; even Naga and the other Equalists stared at the young avatar and listened to the inhuman screaming that filled the air.
The screaming only stopped when the Lieutenant took his kali sticks off her body. The lieutenant looked at Mako and smiled.
"Good riddance." The Lieutenant said aloud, causing Mako to look at him.
He didn't hesitate to throw fireballs at the Lieutenant and the other Equalists as something inside of him snapped, something that he had no control over. The Lieutenant dodged the fireballs, he was slowly being forced back by the young firebender. It wasn't because he was afraid of being burned...no, it was because of the look on the young firebender's face that made the Lieutenant draw back and away from the avater.
It was a look of a man who wasn't afraid to dual out pain and death, but what made the Lieutenant retreat from the fight wasn't the look on Mako's face. It was the white fireballs that Mako was attacking with that made them retreat. But Mako continued to throw the white fireballs at the retreating backs of the Equalists, like he couldn't stop.
When he finally stopped, he turned to see Korra was no longer on the ground, bleeding to death...she was gone. Mako could barely breathe as he tried to keep calm and think, his mind screaming at him that he had fail to protect her like she had protected him. When he noticed that Naga was barking, he turned to see her chasing something in the sky. He immediately realized that Tenzin had taken Korra when he looked up to see the flying bison, relief filled Mako as he breathed in the air that was laced with Korra's blood and the scent of smoke. He stared at the blood on the ground and the burn marks on the ground before he looked at his own hands.
White...his fire had turned white in his mindless rage and it had scared him that he had been like that. He didn't understand how that had happened; he couldn't even remember much of the fight. He remembered Korra bleeding on the ground in front of him and the white fire that came from his mindless rage and desire to protect Korra.
Mako looked away from his hand and started walking, follow Naga and Korra.
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Tenzin hurried, he couldn't let the young woman in his arms slip away to the spirit world yet. He had his sky bison, Oogi fly as fast as possible back to Air Temple Island. Korra lied in Tenzin's arms, barely breathing as her blood continued to flow despite the airbender's best attempts to stop it.
"Ten...zin is...Mako...okay?" Korra whispered, Tenzin had alway missed it if he hadn't seen her blue eyes were open and looking at him. He didn't know what to say so he simply nodded, tears spilled from Korra's eyes from the relief of knowing that her friend was okay. She didn't see the look that flashed across Tenzin's face. Tenzin had been amazed by the white fire that Mako had produced in his mindless anger, he remembered the story that his father, Aang had told him about how he and Fire Lord Zuko that travelled to the Sun warriors' ruined city and found two dragons.
Tenzin had always believed that the different coloured fire was a story and nothing more until he saw Mako bending the white fire. Fear still griped him as he wondered about the young firebender.
"That's...go-" Tenzin looked down at Korra to see that she was unconscious again but they had reached Air Temple Island. He picked the young woman up and gently held her in his arms, Tenzin jumped off of Oogi. He bended the air so that they would land carefully ran to the temple.
"I need a healer! Now!" Tenzin shouted at the top of his lungs, White lotus sentries came running to him along with his wife struggling to follow them. They were shocked at the sight of Korra in his arms, both covered in Korra's blood. The White lotus sentries stood there, staring at the young avatar bleed to her death. Pema pushed her way through to see the horror in front of her eyes, but unlike the White lotus sentries, she moved to her husband to help.
"She's lost too much blood...her skin is like ice, thank the spirits that you didn't remove the knife in her back yet." She muttered as she carefully examined Korra and her wounds. Pema turned to glare at the White lotus sentries that still stood there, being useless.
"Move it, I need a waterbender healer or a firebender now! I also need my herbs!" Pema shouted, angered be the useless of the White lotus sentries. They quickly snapped out of their shock and ran away to do as told. Pema lead Tenzin to Korra's room, where they set her down on her bed, lied her on her stomach Pema set to work to better examine the wound as they waited, hoping that they could save the young avatar's life from the hands of death.
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Cold, wet and tired from the sea water, Mako got off of Naga's back when they got on the dock of Air Temple Island. He ran towards the temple to see White lotus sentries at the door.
"Where is Korra? Is she okay?" He asked, bent over as he tried to catch his breath. His lungs wanted to explode and his limps screamed in agony as he waited for an answer from the White lotus in front of him. After waiting a minute or two, there was still no answer, he straightened up and looked at the White lotus sentries. They stared at him and he stared back, growing up on the street had given him the talent of reading people and he could tell that they want him to leave.
Without a second thought, he moved to walk pass them but they grabbed his arms and threw him back. Hitting the ground hard, Mako lied on the ground as pain rang through his body again. 'I just can't catch a break,' Mako thought before moving to get up with he heard a horrifying roar from behind him. He saw the White lotus with their hands up in the air and fear on their faces; confused, Mako looked behind himself to see a very angry Naga. She walked over to him and checked him over to see that he was alright before licking his face to show the White lotus sentries that he was a friend.
Tenzin heard the roar from the top of the temple; he looked down to see Naga and a small figure that he could barely see. He turned to his wife to look at Korra for a moment before jumping out of the window. Using his airbending, he landed as if he walked down stairs to see Naga caring for Mako like he was Korra.
"Mako...thank the spirits that you're here." Tenzin said as he walked to the young man. Before Mako could say a word, Tenzin grabbed his arm and airbended them up to the window into Korra's room. Pema looked at her husband and the young man in confusion.
"He is Korra's friend, Mako the firebender on her team." Tenzin told her, Pema's eye lit up brightly at learning this little bit of knowledge. Pema removed the knife in Korra's back, causing the young avatar to scream in pain but still didn't regain conscious, worried as she was Pema cut away Korra's shirt and binding. Tenzin moved Mako closer to the bed, letting Mako see that they hadn't bandaged up Korra's wounded body. Mako felt his throat become dry, realizing what they wanted of him, he waited as Pema carefully rubbed oils into the wounds before looking at him. Mako wasn't sure if he could do this but he refused to let her die.
"It's alright...you can do it." Pema encouraged, Mako looked at Pema before looking at the wound on Korra's back and touched it with two fingers. With his firebending, he burned the wound on her back and Korra scream almost sounded inhuman but he didn't stop until the wound was sealed closed. He felt sick for causing his friend pain but continued until all her wounds were sealed closed.
"What do we do now?" Mako asked Tenzin as Pema pulled a blanket over Korra.
"Now, we pray to the spirits that she makes it through the night." Pema told Mako in a calm voice.
