Asami stepped down the stairs to the floor level of the mansion, with Iroh at her heels. Her face expressed a higher level of shock with each step she took, growing closer to the sounds of chaos echoing from the indoor pool.
"Oh my god," she said aloud. "What the hell is going on down there?" The general followed the heiress in silence. The couple finally entered the room.
The band had stopped playing and abandoned the stage to make way for the five brawling benders that had claimed the area as their own. The once dancing socialites were gathered around the new entertainment, some members of the crowd cheering on the drunken fight. Bolin and Mako were attempting (and failing, miserably) to stop the fight. An enraged earthbender used his bending to hurl a lionturtle statue at Bolin, who punched through the obstacle, turning it into a dusty powder.
Asami started forcing her way through the crowd, with the general still close behind. She made it to the stage just in time to watch Mako take a block of ice to the gut and hit the ground with a loud thud. Bolin used the shards from the lionturtle statue as ammo, shooting tiny fragments of earth at the offending waterbender.
"What the hell is going on here?" the hostess angrily questioned the group on stage. The earthbender who had thrown the lionturtle statue propelled a platypusbear statue at Asami, who ran up the floating statue and jumped off it, landing on the ground in front of the earthbender. She stood up and punched the surprised man square in the temple, effectively knocking him out. Bolin ran up to a second drunken earthbender who had turned towards Asami and knocked him to the ground with such force that he, too, fell into unconsciousness. A firebender shot a fireball at Bolin's back, but Mako had jumped back up and deflected the blow, countering with one of his own. The firebender hadn't expected this, and was knocked to the ground after taking the blow to the chest. Another waterbender began aiming stakes of Ice at the hostess and her friends, but Mako melted the icicles with fire blasts before they had the chance to strike any of them. He fired a powerful fireball at the waterbender and knocked the man off the stage.
The waterbender who had hurled the block of ice that knocked Mako to the ground turned to the bending brothers and lassoed them together with a stream of water, throwing them into the crowd. He then gripped the heiress' ankle with another stream of water. He pulled up, effectively taking the nonbender's legs out from under her and sending her crashing to the ground. Before she had time to jump back up and knock the sorry asshole to the floor, the waterbender was hit with a fireblast so powerful that he shot off the stage and flew across the room, slamming into the stone wall 50 feet away. Asami glanced over to the source of the bending attack, her eyes falling on General Iroh, still in his battle stance. He walked over the hostess and offered her his hand. She took it and he helped her back up.
The crowd stood in stunned silence as Mako and Bolin slowly got back up and helped Iroh gather the unconscious group of rude party guests. Then, the police finally arrived, storming the room and crowding the stage. A large portion of the young socialites started to leave the party as soon as they saw the authorities. One of the officers approached Asami.
"Good evening, Miss Sato," he said calmly.
"Hello, officer. Thank you for coming, but I think we have everything under control now," the heiress responded. "If you just want to take these five unwanted guests away that'd be great."
"I'm afraid I have to do more than that, Miss Sato," the officer stated, looking out towards the crowd. "Since this is the third reported violent incident to occur in the mansion within a two month period, I'm going to have to shut the party down." Asami's heart sank.
"Surely you must be joking," she hoped aloud.
"I wish I were. Maybe you should be a little more picky about who you let in your estate, Miss Sato," the officer said, narrowing his eyes slightly. "So, you have the choice. You can inform your guests that they all must leave, or I will." Asami held her eye contact with the police officer as she stood firmly in front of him before walking past him and grabbing the microphone off the stand.
"Uh, sorry about that, folks," she said awkwardly, taking a step to the side. "I'm also sorry that the police are shutting the party down." She paused to hear the disappointed groan from the crowd. "But thank you so much for coming, and hopefully I'll see you all next time!" She placed the microphone back on its stand and walked back up to the police officer with her head hung in shame. She'd never had to end a party like this before!
After asking a few questions and conducting a short investigation, the police left the estate with the offending guests in custody. The heiress and her friends stood on the stage in the empty room, discussing what had just happened.
"So, are you never allowed to throw a party again?" Bolin asked curiously.
"No, but my business partners are going to be upset with me. I probably won't be able to throw another big bash for a few months to keep them happy," Asami answered, looking around the empty room, adding, "Maybe next time I should have a stricter guest list."
"That'd probably be a good idea. Maybe if you would have listened to me when I told you to do that, this wouldn't have happened," Mako droned in his motherly tone. Asami rolled her eyes but didn't say anything. She didn't want to make herself look bad in front of her friend in the United Forces. After a brief moment of silence, Bolin decided to address the elephant-rhino in the room.
"So… you were the one with Asami when I came up to tell her about the fight," the earthbender pointed at the Fire Nation prince, who turned a light shade of red.
"Bolin!" Asami interjected.
"I thought you were supposed to be doing stuff on your boat right now, anyways," Mako stated coldly, glaring at the general. Asami took a deep breath. Why didn't she have more girlfriends?
"I actually had my quarterly meeting with the council of Republic City today," Iroh said coolly. Mako raised an eyebrow.
"And you decided to come check out the party afterwards?" he questioned.
"Miss Asami has a reputation of being the hostess of great parties. I wanted to experience one for myself," the general calmly responded.
"Don't you have more military stuff to do in the morning?" Mako interrogated further.
"That's enough, Mako," Asami asserted. "All the other guests have left. Maybe you should do the same." Asami and Mako shared a moment of angry eye contact before Mako started to take his leave.
"Come on, Bo," the firebender called out to his brother. The earthbender hugged his friend goodnight.
"See ya later, 'Sami," he smiled and followed his brother to the exit of the house. Asami let out a sigh of relief.
"Wow, sorry you had to deal with all that," she said, turning to the general. He put his arm around her.
"It's quite all right, Miss Asami. I was expecting to deal with much more than one man who was jealous of my escort for the evening," Iroh said calmly. "Plus, I got to see you hold your own in a fight." He pulled her closer to him.
"Did you like what you saw, General?" she asked, eyes full of desire.
"I think you know my answer to that," he responded, mirroring her gaze. He pressed his lips to hers and they shared a heated kiss.
"Shall we go back upstairs?" the heiress suggested after breaking their exchange. The general smiled and nodded, offering his escort his arm before leading her back to her room.
Author's note: sorry, no smut in this chapter, but I figured the action makes up for it? Also, sorry Mako lovers, but as I am an Asami fan, I kind of hate him and like to portray him as a dick. There shall be some sexy time in the next chapter though! Please read and review :)
