Chapter 3
Korra watched as her parents were loaded into the vehicle with Unalaq by her side. The car drove off and Korra turned to Unalaq saying. "You're making a mistake." He turned to her and responded, "I wish it hadn't come to this, but your parents held meetings with the rebels, right here in their own home." "I can't believe you're doing this to your own family!" "Rest assured, I've appointed judge Hota, he's the most fair and honorable man I know." "Uncle, my parents had nothing to do with the men who attacked you!" "I'm sure your right, so we should have nothing to worry about." Korra looked to the direction the car went and said to herself, "I hope so." Just then, Onmyō ran up to Unalaq and started shouting, "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?" Unalaq turned to him and said, "I'm sorry, but why are you so worked up?" "Wasure is in prison! She didn't do anything wrong!" "She is under a few charges for attacking the Avatar, helping Varrick, and Bloodbending." '"She attacked Korra because she doesn't think clearly when it comes to her home being threatened, she didn't help Varrick, he used my sisters speech to create that group of rebels who attacked you, the Bloodbending was used to stop the rebels while they carried your white-snow powdered butt to who knows where!" Onmyō shouted creating a small crater around him.
"I'm sorry Onmyō, but since the charges are put up, my trust in that she is found innocent resides in the judge's decision, I could not ignore all the charges, especially the Bloodbending." Unalaq said before walking away. Onmyō tensed up for a very long time as he watched Unalaq walk away. He stomped his foot on the ground and a spear of impure iron rose from the ground and floated for a little while. His facial expression was twisted with rage more and more as Unalaq took every step away from them. "Onmyō, stop; what if he arrests you too, or you kill him?" Korra said stepping in the way of Onmyō. "Out of my way…" Onmyō said before pushing Korra out of the way and did a kick that sent the spear flying past Unalaq's head, just by an inch. "It better be a fair trial, or that spear will be felt, not seen." Onmyō said before heading off in the other direction.
"Where's Varrick? We should've closed our deal an hour ago." Asami said waiting for Varrick in a room. "Would you relax? This place is great, and the best part is, Eska doesn't know I'm here." Bolin said right before the doors opened to see Eska, Desna and a few guards entering. Bolin got up and put a smile on and said "I wasn't hiding, hey, hey." "I'm not on the hunt for you… yet…" Eska said slightly squinting. "We search for Varrick, our Father wishes him to stand trial." Desna said. "What did he do?" Asami asked. "He is a traitor to the water tribe, along with our aunt and uncle." Eska replied. "What?" Asami asked. "Korra's parents were arrested?" Mako said surprised. "Yes, your powers of deduction are impressive." Desna said sarcastically. "Yeah, he's a cop." Bolin said not really noticing the sarcasm in Desna.
The guards stopped searching and said "Varrick's not here." "Very well, Desna let us look somewhere else." Eska said before heading back to the hall with the guards. She stopped and turned to face Bolin and said, "Slave, I mean Bolin, take care my sweet turtle-duck." She then walked away while Bolin got shivers down his spine. The doors shut and Asami spoke first, "She doesn't seem that bad…" "Oh, you have no idea how bad she is! I would break up with her, but Mako gave me bad girlfriend advice!" Bolin said as he stopped shivering. "Wait, how are your girlfriend problems my fault?" Mako asked. "Bolin, you need to be honest with her; tell her how you feel." Asami said with her knowledge of girls and what they want to hear during this.
"Honesty is for fools' kid!" A muffled voice said from somewhere. "Varrick?" Bolin said looking around. "If you wanna ditch this girl, then make yourself scarce and disappear like I did!" Varrick's voice said. "Where are you?" Asami asked. "Somewhere Unalaq would never find me…" He said before the platypus-bear's mouth opened up to reveal Varrick was inside the stuffed animal. "… Inside Ping-Ping! How we doing?" He added. They walked up to Ping-Ping and Mako said it was all clear. "No way mister, not until I know it's absolutely 175% safe." He said before a tea cup was handed to him inside Ping-Ping. "Ah, thank you Zhu Li." He said grabbing the cup and taking a drink before spitting it out. "Zhu Li, this tea is too sweet!" He said. "Sorry sir, but it's harder to make tea in the dark with your legs on my shoulders." A female voice said from inside the animal's stomach. "Then light the lighter!" He said before Ping-Ping's stomach glowed a soft yellow with the silhouette of Zhu Li holding on to a tray. "HOT, HOT!" Varrick said before the glow went out. "I'm going to see how Korra's doing." Mako said walking off. "Bolin, I've got a little something for you, round back." Varrick said before the tail of Ping-Ping lifted and money was deposited.
Bolin picked it up and Varrick said "Now listen up, Unalaq's ridged the trial somehow, I need you to make sure my trusty rebels stay out of prison." "What's this for?" Bolin said as he held up the paper for him to see. "Bribery of course, there's always someone who will look the other way!" Varrick said with a slight chuckle. "Oh, I get it…" Bolin said.
Everyone was at the court room that would be holding the trial for the rebels. "Hey Onmyō, what are you doing here?" Bolin asked taking a seat next to Asami as Onmyō walked by them. "I'm here because not only was I a part of helping Korra, but because of Wasure and her ability to bloodbend." He said. "Well you have nothing to worry about, I gave a couple of guys some money and told them to "take care of it"." He said. Onmyō closed his eyes and let out a sigh of relief and Asami looked at where he was pointing to. A couple of men had the money that Varrick had giving Bolin, smiling big. Asami did a face-palm. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to stand next to Korra and the others before we begin." Onmyō said walking off to stand next to Korra and Mako. A hammer hitting the podium sounded and the trial was beginning. "This trial has now come to order, Judge Hota residing." A voice said, as the judge took his seat. Bolin straightened up and said "Man, I should've paid that guy!" Onmyō tensed up and his eyes went big from hearing it halfway from the room.
"I was asleep when the rebels attacked. They overpowered me and then the next thing I remember is waking up on the cold floor while Onmyō and Wasure walked away after helping Avatar Korra safe me." Unalaq said giving his point of view during the night.
"According to Unalaq's testimony, you attended a meeting where Wasure tried to start a war. Is that true?" The judge asked. "To my knowledge, yes." Korra responded "And were these men and woman present at that meeting?" He asked. "Well, yes but-" "And where exactly was this meeting taken place?" "…My parents' house." "And who led this meeting?" Bolin got up and said, "Your honor, if I may." "May, what?" "May I declare a mistrial?" Bolin answered with a sheepish smile. "Sit down." The judge said as Bolin did as told. "Your father and Varrick led the meeting didn't they?" The judge asked. "My parents are innocent!" Korra protested. "I've heard all I needed from you; bring forth, Pyu-Pyua…" The judge said trying to pronounce the name. "Just call me Onmyō your honor." Onmyō said as he took the center of the court.
"According to the report that Korra and the rebels have giving about Wasure is that she can bloodbend and forced down the rebels using it, even though she was the reason for them to rise up anyways. Is this correct?" The judge said to Onmyō. "Partially, she did bloodbend the rebels but did not give any ideas of capturing Unalaq, it's not like her. She deals with those that actually do something by herself, like with Korra when she stopped a fight in the street. But my sister wasn't thinking and rushed in not knowing what she was going up against." He said in response. "That's another thing; several witnesses later that day people kept talking about the Southern Water Tribe woman, bending both fire and water. They also reported that you bended Air and Earth, even though you are from the Northern Water Tribe and Airbending is only available to Tenzin and his children who are currently at an air temple, the only other airbender is Avatar Korra. Care to explain how you two can bend two elements at the same time?" The judge asked.
Onmyō gave a sigh and said, "I have held a secret all my life that no one else knows about, and I hope to keep it that way till I die."
Onmyō's POV
I was no more than the age of eight when it all happened.
"C'mon Wasure, it's about to start!" I said dragging a very shy little girl by the name of Wasure into a large area filled with people from all over. Avatar Aang had come to visit his wife Katara and meet someone who had some very important scrolls from Wan Shi Tong, which have been in my family for several years. Though he found these while looking through some incredibly old ancestor looms, he never did know of the origins. Of course, I just thought it was just a visit for Aang and my father who was a great success in other nations was going to meet him.
But since my father was as stupid as he knew about the scrolls, he should've have thrown those scrolls down into the cold water where they should stay forever. "What were on these scrolls?" The judge asked. "On the scrolls were the instructions to control a different element of one's choosing." I said recalling more memories. Father tried the instructions on the scrolls and was successful every time. He could bend air, water and fire since his natural element is earth. But he would have to read another scroll to change back to earth. Little did I know he had reasons for that I did not know about.
Father stopped us in our place with his smile that he always had on. "Son, I forgot something that is very important. Do you think you can run back home and grab a couple of scrolls? There on the table in the kitchen, you might get to hand them over to Avatar Aang if you hurry." He said as a big smile drew on my face. I never was one to question father's logic; he was the nicest and most assured person in the North. He adopted Wasure after her parents were killed by a rouge military leader of the North who was put on trial and executed one week later. But that's the thing, the man wasn't alone, and he heard about the scrolls.
Aang was my idle and I always wanted to be an airbender like him, well I got my wish, permanently. Wasure was in love with a Firebender from Republic City, who moved to the South, where we currently were. She wanted to be a Firebender like him so they could have more things in common. Now I know what you're thinking, how could a boy no older than eight be able to read something that sounds so complicated? It wasn't, what was on the scroll were pictures that gave possess instead of words. Those images are seared into my mind like the burn mark on cattle. When I reached home, I grabbed the scrolls and headed back out.
I made it all the way back and saw Avatar Aang, waiting for me along with Father and Wasure. As I walked up to Aang and held out the scrolls for him, only to get them whipped out of my hands and into the snow by a Waterbender. Exactly 1/4th of the group was the military group that went rouge. I and Wasure were knocked back and towards the scrolls that were now open in the snow for all eyes that wanted to see them. I didn't pay much attention to the scrolls at first, but when my father who had used Earthbending during the fight started to lose, he wanted me and Wasure to be the only ones that were able to complete another bending.
"DADDY!"
He died trying to protect us and told us to follow the movements on the scrolls from start to finish would allow us to control a second bending of our choosing. But we or my father knew nothing of the consequences of not having four people to complete the process. Each move was different to that of another's, each four represented that of an element and needed at least three non-benders to complete it. But since we were kids we didn't know any better, we completed half the required stuff before a Waterbender broke our concentration. It completely threw off our wanted elements, but gave them to us. It increased my natural strength and knowledge of element Earth to that of a master bender while giving me half that with air, Wasure's waterbending skills were increased to that of Bloodbending air bison and increased the speed and heat of her new firebending skills.
I went in a full rage when I found out the meaning of "dead" was, I thought father was just taking another nap in the snow. Wasure lost the one she had a liking to and hated any Northern Water Tribe member that meant to do harm to the South. We then traveled the world, seeking answers to get rid of the curse we had put on ourselves that day. This curse was one of trust and hope, if one of us dies, so does the other. Normaly we fight to kill, those rebels should count themsleves lucky that we didn't kill them by just pure habit or common nature.
General POV
"Explain how if one of you die, then the other dies to?" The judge said. "The scrolls were that of what the Avatar can do; take away the power of bending, but different. It changed the power by changing the soul of the user to that of another, which is what my father did. What I and Wasure did was on a much higher scale, our souls are connected due to that mess up with the Waterbender that broke our concentration. We found this out from an old air temple that is most likely still uninhabited today. The fact is, if Korra or any other Avatar takes away our bending, we both die from no soul." Onmyō said looking at Wasure, then to Korra, then to the judge. "What happened with these scrolls?" He asked. "We destroyed them after finding out that what we did could not be reversed back to normal." Onmyō said before he was giving the ok to sit to the side and let Judge Hota make his decision.
Bolin left for something with Eska and wasn't seen again at the court room, though crying could be heard in the distance. The decision for the rebels, Wasure, and Korra's parents was upon them. "Senna, please step forth." Hota said before adding, "I have found you… innocent. You are free to go." With that, her shackles were released and she ran to Korra and hugged her. "On the charge of treason, you are all found… guilty." All the rebels, Korra's dad, Wasure and Onmyō all tensed up. "The punishment for this crime… is death." He added before getting up. The entire building shook slightly, but barely anyone noticed. "You can't do this, if you take their lives, I'll take yours!" Korra said in anger. "Hey now, if anyone is to kill him, it will be me with my dying breath." Onmyō said cracking his knuckles.
"Both of you calm down, I'll talk to him." Unalaq said walking up to Judge Hota. "I know I promised to respect whatever decision you made, but I must ask you to reconsider. Show these men, and my brother mercy." He added before looking at his brother. Hota was silent for a moment, before he spoke, "Very well I will change their punishment, your lives will be spared, but you will live them out in prison." With that, the rumbling lessened, but did not stop and everyone relaxed. Korra, her mother, Onmyō, and Unalaq watched as Korra's father and Wasure walked away. "Thank you, uncle." Korra said glad it wasn't the other answer.
After Korra was able to see her father and learned that she couldn't do anything without starting a Civil War and end up destroying the South under the North's boot, she decided to find Judge Hota for a "change of heart". She got on Naga and followed Hota in his automobile all the way to the mountainside. She sped up and made Naga lash out at the car and made Hota crash into the snow. Naga roared at Hota before ripping the door open with a single paw. Korra pulled Hota out of the car and placed him against the side of his car. "What do you want?!" He asked scared. "It's not what I want, it's what Naga wants and she would like you to release my father out of prison." She said. "I- I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do, I was just following Unalaq's orders!" He said after seeing the rows of sharp polar-dog fangs.
Korra got angry and asked, "What are you talking about!?" "I- I've said too much." Hota said, not keeping eye-contact with her. Korra grabbed Hota by the scruff of his coat and put his head inside Naga's open mouth and said, "It's almost time for Naga's afternoon snack, and I'm all out. Start talking or I'll have to clean up the mess later. Shouldn't be that bad, she likes to eat the bones." "Unalaq bribed me and wanted me to give them all death sentences and then change it to prison for life! Please, I don't want to die and that's all I know!" He said before getting thrown to the side. "Uncle…" Korra thought.
"Unalaq's a liar and a traitor!" Korra said to Asami, Mako and Varrick. "I've been trying to tell you that, from the get-go!" He said. "What happened?" Mako asked. "Unalaq bribed Judge Hota and made it look like it was a fair trial all along! The trial was just a setup to make me stay on his side. I'm busting everyone out of jail, and I'll need your help." Korra answered. "If you do this, there's no going back." Mako said to make sure if Korra really wanted to do this. "I know will you help me?" She asked. They all agreed before the doors opened to show Bolin in a Water Tribe coat, a necklace with a skull on it and his hair flat, before a part of it stuck back up. Same thing went for Pabu but no necklace.
"You should know that me, and Eska are getting married!" Bolin said unhappy. "I thought the guy was supposed to give the necklace?" Korra said with a smile. "I guess Eska didn't get the memo…" Bolin said. "Look, the only way to get rid of crazy women is to lie big and run fast. Lucky for you, Varrick's got your back now; gather around Ping-Ping…" Varrick said about to give his plan.
They went into the prison to rescue everyone, but found out that Unalaq had moved everyone to a Northern ship. Though, he did not pay the barbarians to attack the South like Korra had originally thought. They managed to get onto Varrick's ship and saw a single ship far in the distance. But they had to go through a blockade of ships first. Just then the boat shook like crazy and they soon saw a pile of earth above the water rushing towards the barricade, on the moving pile of dirt was Onmyō and he looked mad. The ships opened fired on him, but he moved his arms outwards and the boats were thrown into the air and capsized, leaving an opening for Korra and the others to pass by. They followed him to the lone North ship. Onmyō jumped off the pile of earth as it crashed into the boat and landed on the deck with his katanas drawn. He metalbended the deck and used it as a shield and weapon by actually throwing some of the deck at the soldiers. He actually got blood on his blades and had the ferocious fighting style ever known. He left only one alive and bound him to the wall and said "One word, prisoners." "You don't scare me! I won't tell a traitor like you!" The soldier said in a tough voice. Onmyō laughed and whispered in his ear, "You are really something you know that? But I already knew where they have the prisoners, but now I want to see if you really aren't scared of me." Onmyō gave a sinister smile and a chuckle.
After Onmyō did whatever he did to the soldier who curled up in a corner and rocked back and forth, he handed Korra the rebels who would fight with Tonraq. Korra had to get the Republic Forces to help them. All the while, Eska was getting closer and closer and she looked MAD. Varrick would've needed a bigger boat if Wasure and Onmyō didn't slow her down.
What's up everyone? I know that I said I wouldn't upload soon in the first chapter with chapter 2, but I couldn't handle there being just one chapter. Anyways, I am pretty far in to the story, I just need to upload them, but I wont. Why? Because I 1, like to have the entire story finished before uploading them; B, I have want to increase the length of the time it is one of the more recent updated ones, and 7, I like to keep you guys that are the first readers (Today and this week) guessing. But this story will get much more change in the next one. Trust me. Also, the whole killing part, I tried to shorten it as much as possible. Onmyo was in a rage and killing is second nature to him. Anyways, I have to finish one of the chapters now. LATER AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
