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Jinora: Out of the Blue

Jinora couldn't have gotten out of bed fast enough. As she threw the covers off and snatched on her nearby robe, all her thoughts narrowed on the three rooms down the hall from hers.

"Kids!" she called, tying the robe around her and feeling Kai right on her heels as she dashed out their bedroom. "Nima! Rama! Taani!"

Nima beat her to it and was already out of her room, grabbing Rama from his. Both of them looked and sounded like they'd sprung out of bed as fast she Jinora did.

"Mom, what's going on? Why're the sirens going off? What's everybody yelling about outside?"

"I don't know, but time to go. Where's your sister?"

"Jinora!"

Kai had scurried past her into Taani's room and Jinora's heart made a very sharp drop when he came out with no Taani.

"She's not here," he said, looking as fearful as she felt.

"What do you mean she's not there?" she asked incredulously. "Where the- Where is she?"

"The noise probably scared her. The sirens and the people yelling-" began Rama, his voice small from his place next to Nima. He looked like he wanted to panic, but stuck like glue to Nima's side, her hands firm on his shoulders.

Kai rubbed his face brusquely.

"All the noise made her panic-"

"-and she went out the window," Jinora finished his sentenced and peaked into Taani's room. Just as she feared, the window was left ajar in the dark. She went up to the window and pushed it open.

"Taani!" she called. "Taani! Sweetie, are you there?"

When no little girl popped up, Jinora could have leapt out of the window to look for her daughter in the trickling crowd of people.

"Jinora we have to go," he gently grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the window. "She probably went to the greenhouse to hide."

He was being very abrupt, but Jinora understood him perfectly. Nima and Rama needed to get to the temple basement for safety. Only spirits knew why the emergency sirens were going off in the middle of the night, but whatever the case it could not be good at all. They needed to look for their youngest daughter in the midst of the chaos. Nodding in agreement, she walked away from the window and left the room.

Kai ushered the kids down the hall where they could all leave the building.

"Come on. You two need to get to the temple basement. You'll be safe there," he said.

"What about Taani?" asked Rama, clearly worried

"We're going to get your sister, son, but you two need to be safe so we can worry about that, okay?" said Kai, pulling on Rama's hand.

Reluctantly, Rama nodded.

Out the building and into the open they went, people all scurrying in different directions. Nima looked around, biting her lip and looking like the sky might fall apart any second.

"Mom-"

"I know, sweetie," said Jinora, trying to sound soothing. She squeezed her daughter's hand briefly, but kept an eye out. Something wasn't right. These people were running from something. Was it a something or a some-

A dart of ice flew past Jinora's head, taking strands of her long hair with it. In a reflex, she twisted around, her leg cocked out. She brought her fists together in a circular motion, a shield of air being summoned where her arms met. Several darts flew out of the way as they met her air currents, but she didn't wait to find out if anything else was coming. In one fluid motion, she brought her torso back, her arms going with it, and thrust her whole upper body forward to release a powerful gust of air.

She could see her target roll out of the way in the dark, but Kai pulled up the rear and released another gust of wind with a roundhouse kick. This time, the longer range of the blast hit and their apparent waterbender flew back, hitting a tree. Jinora only took a quick look at them before pushing her children forward.

"Go! Go right now!" she cried at them. Neither of them hesitated and Nima grabbed Rama's hand this time, running ahead with him. Kai beside her, Jinora followed closely seeing the temple in view. As they got to the temple, she could see her father standing on top of the tall set of stairs ushering people inside where they could reach the basement.

"Dad!" called Jinora.

Her father looked down at them, in a similar disheveled state himself and even his beard left mildly uncombed. When they finally climbed the stairs and reached him, Tenzin's eyebrows furrowed together at the sight of only two of their children with them.

"You haven't seen Taani, have you?" she asked, the rattling in her chest rising at the look on his face.

"She's not with you?" he asked, frowning. "What happened?"

"The noise," said Kai, shaking his head. "All the people yelling probably scared her off. We need to go find her-"

"Say no more. I'll take these two. Your mother's already in the basement with everyone else. As soon as I get as many people in I'll need to go check the others to make sure everyone's safe. We've got them. You two just go."

The three of them shared a curt nod. They wouldn't say anything about what was happening - especially with the children with them - and incite futther panic among the people. However, they were certain that there were probably other fights between airbenders and whoever was invading from the look of things all over the island. As they were about to leave, Nima reached out, grabbing her father's arm.

"Mom, Dad-"

"We're going to be fine, sweetie," said Kai, pulling her and Rama into a quick hug. Jinora swiftly kissed both of them on the forehead as well.

"Promise? Taani too?" asked Rama.

"Of course. Nothing's going to happen to us or your sister. We have to go find her now though. Okay? Go inside and see Grandma," she said, trying to keep her voice calm.

The two let go and did as they were told, disappearing into the building with everyone else. Without another word, Kai and Jinora ran off as carefully as possible. Their earlier assailant had been dressed in black, covering their hair and the bottom half of their face. Whoever these people were obviously didn't want to be seen. Yet, they were outright attacking people. That made another red flag go off in Jinora's head. What if there was someone among the crowd of people being steered to safety? There was no way to know, but she had to trust the airbenders who were most definitely down there helping.

As they reached the bottom of the stairs and into the open, she could finally see that they were definitely being invaded. To their left, the training circle had turned into a small battlefield. With no hesitation in their step, the two of them rushed forward.

"Uncle Bumi! Meelo!" called Jinora.

Neither her brother nor her uncle heard them, Meelo himself too focused on a rather slippery firebender he was going toe to toe with. The firebender rolled, coming back with a handful of flames for Meelo, but he twirled around and met the flames with a deflecting wall of air from his palm.

At the center of the conflict, her uncle was fending off multiple opponents. He sent swirls of air to bat at several of them at once. Completely focused, into the air he went and propelled himself out of the circle of foes. He landed with purposeful impact, sending a few of his opponents flying as they met a strong blow of wind.

Joining the fray, Jinora rushed to her brother's side. She circled her hands around each other and hurled a large ball of air at the firebender. Seemingly anticipating this, the firebender jilted to the side, their feet pacing around to circle her. In tandem, Jinora moved as well, the two circling each other now.

"Jinora, you know who these guys are?" her brother asked, coming to move right next to her.

"I have no idea, but I don't have time for this. Kai and I need to go find Taani," she said, gritting her teeth. She kept having to force herself to look at her opponents waist, torso and face instead of the movement of their feet.

"What?" he asked, mildly surprised though he never took his eyes off their opponent.

"She probably panicked and ran off. You go help Uncle Bumi and Kai. I've got this."

Meelo moved one of his feet out of rhythm to dash off.

"You sure?"

"Yeah, they're really ganging up on him over there. Hurry!"

In a spring, Meelo dashed off and threw himself into the fight on the other side of the circle. Meanwhile, the firebender never stepped out of rhythm. In turn, Jinora never said a word. No taunting, no challenging. She was fighting a firebender wearing black in the dark. On one hand, she wanted to know who was attacking them. On the other hand, it hardly mattered and all she wanted to do was to incapacitate these people and go find her daughter.

Jinora couldn't see the firbender's eyes this far away, but something told her this person was going to move and, just as she predicted, they hurled a fireball at her feet. Backing up, she protected herself with a blast of air at the fireball. The fireball met her air with an small explosion from the two elements meeting, but she didn't stop to watch. Her opponent charged straight for her and Jinora stepped to the side, circling behind them. Without stopping, the firebender twisted on the ball of their toes, fire rushing after their feet and ready to hit Jinora right in the face like a whip. Pushing her palms forward, she thrust a wall of air at them, sending both foe and flames away. Still, the firebender came back, hitting the ground with a slap and rolling right back onto their feet. Not a second to wait, they pushed off to meet Jinora head first.

Jinora herself pushed off into a jump, bringing her fists together and landing on a large ball of air. She surfed the air scooter around the firebender, making circular motions with her arms and ready to trap them in a vortex. The firebender didn't relent and shot a blast of fire ahead of the scooter. Realizing what they were doing, Jinora leaped off the scooter as calm as can be. As she did, the air scooter became a large fire ball before it had time to dissipate and the firebender nearly hurtled it at Jinora. Instead, however, they took the flames and brought it across the ground between them.

The two stood across from one another, each on one side of the flames. Jinora didn't have to be a firebender to know what message her opponent was sending her: 'fight me and you'll burn'.

But the only fear in her heart was for that of her children, her husband and the rest of her family and friends. Unperturbed, Jinora launched herself into the air right over the flames. The firebender shot flame after flame into the air at her, but she came back down with wind from her palms dissipating the flames as they flew at her. Realizing this wasn't working, the firebender sidestepped again, but by now Jinora had already landed and they were thrown off balance by her air loaded impact with the ground. With a final determination, she took that opportunity and brought her leg around in an air sweep. This time, the firebender was thrown back.

Though they were thrown back, the firebender got up without hesitation. This time, however, they were joined by two other persons. On the left, the bender lifted a slab of nearby rock and on the right, the new challenger wielded a water whip. Preparing for the next round, Jinora conjured a ball of air between her arms.

As quickly as they'd armed themselves, the firebender turned and fled. Confused, Jinora still never took her eyes off her last two opponents. The waterbender released a few darts, but they went clear past her. Even the earthbender threw pieces of their rock slab, but missed her by a yard. Now, she heard it and just as she turned her head for a moment, a large eel hound came riding up beside her. It's rider, a young man clad in dark blue with long hair and amber eyes, turned the eel hound around and the hound swung it's large tail at the assailants. It landed a hit and the two benders were thrown against the trunk of a tree.

"Nuka?" panted Jinora, surprised to see him. "You're here too?"

"Hey, Aunt Jinora," grinned Nuka, letting out breath. He looked around."Yep, Mom and Dad got the distress notice and here we are. We just got here, but what the flameo is going on?"

Looking around as well, Jinora could see Korra on the other side of the fight, waterbending someone into the air from her saddle on Naga. Nearby, Mako was throwing firebending punches at someone trying to drag her from her saddle.

"I have no idea, but have you seen Taani?" she asked, her mind going back to her original focus.

"No, she's not with you?" he asked, his face faltering.

"She ran off from all the noise we think. We have to go find her now. Kai thinks she probably went to the greenhouse, but I'm not sure how many of these people are around."

"You and Uncle Kai go. We can wrangle with these guys. Naga and Kanane here are two fighters all on their own" nodded Nuka, patting his panting eel hound. "We've got this covered."

"Are you sure you're going to be okay though?"

Just then, a chunk of rock flew past Nuka's head. In an instant, Kanane turned around and leaped in that direction.

"Better than okay!" he called. "Don't worry! We got this!"

With that, Jinora narrowed her focus again. She went around, running past the fight and only stopped when she caught sight of her husband in the fray.

"Kai!"

He finished pushing an opponent away with air from his palms and looked over at her, glancing over his shoulder every few seconds.

"We have to go find Taani now," she called.

"Go do whatever you have to do!" Korra jumped off Naga and charged at an earthbender aiming sharp rocks at Nuka and Mako. "We've got this under control!"

Still looking over his shoulder just in case, Kai nodded, running off to join Jinora. On their way to the greenhouse, they witnessed several battles between airbenders, other benders and, to Jinora's surprise, the occasional chi-blocker. Knowing just how much trouble chi-blockers could be, they tried to make any helpful interventions wherever they could. Thankfully, when they arrived at the greenhouse there were no enemies in sight.

"Taani?" called Kai as they burst in, "Sweetie, are you in here? Taani!"

"Please be in here, please be in here..." Jinora kept muttering to herself as she passed by tall rows of flowers and vegetables. She got to a row of flowers near the back of the garden and let out an audible sigh of relief when her little girl was, in fact, sitting next to a flower pot, knees up to her chest and hands over her ears.

Taani's blank eyes flicked up. Her face hardly looked scared or showed any emotion at all, but Jinora knew far better than that and got down on her knees, pulling Taani into a hug. Immediately, Taani clutched onto her and Jinora took a moment to rub her back before she pulled away.

"Okay, sweetie. We have to go, alright? I know it's really scary for you right now, but I promise Daddy and I are right here," she pulled Taani onto her feet. "Just stay close to us, understand?"

Without hesitation, Taani nodded. Though fear didn't come through on her flat expression, her hand squeezed Jinora's.

Her daughter's hand tight in her own, Jinora pulled Taani along now.

"Jinora, you found her?" she heard Kai nearby.

"Right here, I've got her!" she called back.

They nearly ran into each other turning a corner and Kai pulled Taani into a quick hug.

"Thank the spirits," he said, kissing the top of her head. He pulled back. "Okay, time to go. We need to get you to the temple basement right now."

Jinora held Taani close as they made their way back to the temple, Kai offering no reluctance on anyone who even looked like they might try something. They finally got to the temple, urging Taani to climb the tall stairs ever faster. Inside, they led her down into the basement where a large group of people had been packed and they were talking urgently between each other.

"Taani!" Nima, having spotted them, squeezed her way between people. Rama's hand in hers, she and her brother launched themselves at Taani and held her tight. "We were so worried about you! Are you okay?"

"Yeah, you're not hurt, right?" asked Rama eagerly.

Taani shook her head and patted Nima's back. Pulling back, the twins moved away, more comfortable now that they were with each other.

"You three stay here, okay? Your father and I will be back. We need to go up and help," said Jinora.

They barely started turning when Nima stepped forward.

"Wait! I'll come with you! I can help-"

"Absolutely not," Kai cut across her. "You stay here where it's safe, Nima. Your mother and I will be fine and a lot less worried if you're down here."

Nima frowned.

"But I can help-"

"This isn't a discussion. You stay here, understood?" interrupted Jinora.

Obviously trying to suppress a scowl, Nima looked away.

That didn't satisfy Jinora. She had to be sure that her daughter would stay exactly where she was supposed to this time.

"Nima, do you understand me?"

Nima looked back now, eyebrows knitted together.

"Yes..."

"Okay..." said Jinora more gently as she and Kai turned to leave. "We'll be fine and come back for you as soon as this is over. We promise."

With that, they left the basement and exited the temple in a hurry. Outside, there was still fighting going on and out of the corner of her eye, Jinora spotted Opal and Bolin fighting a couple enemy airbenders.

Bolin raised a large chunk of earth with a stomp of his foot and sent pieces of it flying punch by punch. Beside him, Opal spun as she dodged blasts of air, releasing her own with every full spin. One of the airbenders caught a gust Opal threw at them, knocking them to the ground. Meanwhile, Bolin sent half his piece of earth flying, breaking a nearby lamp and the last one actually landing a hit on the remaining airbender who too was knocked away.

"Man, Tenzin is gonna kill me for that!" whined Bolin.

"Opal! Bolin!" called Jinora as she and Kai ran up to them.

"Hey," panted Opal. "You guys alright?"

"Just fine," said Kai. "What about you two? Kids safe?"

"They're safe at home with Suna in charge," nodded Bolin. "But these guys won't quit. They just keep coming. You guys have any idea what the heck is going on around here?"

"Not a clue," Jinora shook her head.

"Well, we might not have to deal with them much longer. Look!" cried Opal, pointing up.

Floating above the island, a decently sized airship with a gear logo on the side moved across the sky. Even in the dark, with all the lights around the airship you could easily see a ladder descending to the ground.

"Oh, that's awesome," sighed Bolin, a grin on his face. "Asami's brought reinforcements."

Just as he'd claimed, men and women suited up were sliding down the ladder and Jinora easily recognized them in their copper red accented uniforms as Asami's Future Industries security detail. No doubt, Asami had come and brought the the cavalry.

"We should go. It looks like most of the fighting is taking place over there," said Jinora.

The other three chimed in agreement and they raced back to the training circle where the open field had erupted into what looked like a full scale battle. Ikki and Rohan were fighting back to back, almost looking as if they were playing tit for tat with their ring of opponents. One of the fighters, a metalbender apparently, caught Ikki by the leg with what resembled a handcuff and dragged her off her feet. Her back had just met the ground when her attacker was knocked over the head with a decent sized rock, Huan quickly going over to help his wife back up.

"Thanks, but Huan, please go back inside. Just go back inside with Cho and Shang," pleaded Ikki, clearly worried, but not taking her eyes off their opponents.

"I'm not going anywhere," he said curtly.

"But you're not a fighter!"

"In case you hadn't noticed, I kind of have to be right now!" he stomped his foot and cracked the earth beneath one of their attackers, leaving an opening that Rohan took to send a good air swipe at them with his staff.

Frowning, she quit arguing with her husband and went back to focusing her attention on dodging and fighting back.

Without another word, Opal dashed off to help them out, Bolin right behind her. All of them knew that if Huan Beifong was forced into being involved then this fight was getting ugly fast. Down the way, Jinora could see her father fighting side to side with Mako and an apparently recently arrived Lin Beifong. The police officers Mako had brought along and Asami's security detail were mixed in the fight as well, Asami herself having just used her glove to electrocute a chi blocker trying to get at Korra and Nuka from behind.

"This is getting out of hand," said Jinora, looking over at Kai.

"I know..." he said, frowning worriedly at her."Let's get in there."

Nodding, Jinora moved forward and immediately spotted a group of enemies fending off a group Meelo was leading. Seeing her opportunity, she circled her arms around and concentrated her air currents around the enemy group, trapping them in a vortex.

"When I let go, let them have it!" she told Kai as he ran off to be with Meelo and his group.

From her position, she could see Kai relay the message to Meelo and, after a moment, they gave her the thumbs up. She let the vortex dissipate and their opponents were hit with a barrage of airbending. Moving on, she spotted Ikki again, but she'd been pushed back and isolated from anybody else. Her new opponent, a chi-blocker, crouched down and pushed forward. They pressed their knuckles up and under her arm in a series of jabs and her arm went limp. Before she could turn around to counterattack, the chi-blocker had brought out a knife, slashing her under her and up into her chest.

She yelped, kicking herself away and grabbing onto her side, her face screwed up in pain. Jinora's eyes widened and she raced off before she even knew her feet were moving.

"Ikki!"

Without so much as a second thought, she came flying in with a powerful air blast. She knocked the chi-blocker against a boulder only to come back with another air blast from her opposite hand.

Looking over her shoulder to make sure they didn't get up, she quickly went to Ikki's side and tried to help her on her feet.

"We need to get you to a healer right now," she said, supporting her sister's weight with an arm over her shoulder.

Ikki shook her head.

"No! I'm fine, I have to stay!"

Free from their assailants for the moment, Huan quickly came over and took her from Jinora.

"Ikki, you're bleeding! It's seeping through your clothes! You need a healer now!" argued Jinora.

"No," protested Ikki. "I can stay. Huan-"

"If I take you away then I'll be away from the fighting," he said, trying to bargain with her. "You're bleeding way to much to be out here. Come on, we need to go before it gets worse."

At the prospect of Huan getting off the field, Ikki nodded reluctantly. Jinora waded behind them in defense as they maneuvered away from the training circle. When they got inside of the nearest temple, Huan put Ikki down on the closest surface and took off his shirt.

"This is going to hurt a little," he said, focused yet gentle.

"It's fine," she said.

He wadded up his shirt and pressed it up under her arm. Biting her lip, she obviously tried not to yelp again.

"Now, hold you arm there," he said.

"I'll go see if there's a healer in the basement," said Jinora.

She tore herself away from her sister, doing her best to keep her mind off the worst case scenario. Down into the basement she went, looking around at the group of people talking amongst each other.

"Is there a healder down here?" she called urgently. "I need a healer right now if there is one!"

Immediately, a salt and pepper haired middle aged woman raised her hand near the back of the group.

"My sister's hurt and she's bleeding bad," Jinora gestured for the woman to follow her. "Please."

The woman pushed her way through the crowd, the calm but no nonsense face of a medical professional on her face. Wordlessly, she followed Jinora up and immediately moved to Ikki's side where Huan was watching over her.

She carefully moved Huan's shirt and inspected the wound through the cut that had been made in Ikki's pajamas.

"I need water, alcohol, bandages needle and thread stat. Towels if you can find them as well. This needs to get closed up as soon as possible."

"I'll go get the needle and thread," said Huan, running off without waiting for a response.

"I've got everything else," said Jinora, turning to leave.

Nearly an hour later, though her shirt was bloody, Ikki's wound had been stitched up neatly. Sighing in relief, Huan pulled her toward him and kissed her temple.

"I'm fine..." she said weakly, a tired smile on her face.

"I can see that," he said, not taking his lips away from her temple. "Still."

"I'm going to go outside and see how things are going," said Jinora quietly. "You all should get back in the basement."

Ikki nodded.

"Careful..."

"I will," Jinora smiled at her.

With another nod to her, Huan scooped Ikki up and followed the healer back down into the basement. Jinora left and found her way back to the training circle where she could see all the people she knew getting themselves together, but no more fighting.

"There you are!" Kai walked up when he spotted her, embracing her. "I got worried when I couldn't see you."

"I'm fine. Ikki was the one who got hurt, but she's okay," she said, hugging him back. "A healer stitched her up and Huan took her to safety. What happened here though? Where'd they all go? And is anybody else hurt?"

"Some bumps, bruises, a few scratches and your dad has a backache now, but everyone's otherwise fine. Whoever those people were just kind of... well, they ran off."

"All at once? To where? They had to be after something after all this. Why would they just run off suddenly?"

"Great question," Korra walked up near them, frowning. "We can ask him perhaps."

Over Korra's shoulder, Jinora recognized the chi-blocker who'd hurt Ikki. Still unconscious and still sitting up against the boulder, Meelo and her uncle were tying him up as they spoke. Looking around, everyone looked more or less okay just as Kai had said. Aside from Asami's security detail and Mako's officers in the mix, Asami looked as if someone hand yanked her hair rather hard and Nuka was sitting against a tree panting nearly as hard as Kanane and Naga sitting next to him. Across the field, Rohan and Opal were helping Bolin onto his feet, her father was talking to Lin, rubbing his back with one hand and Mako, walking into the center of the field, was bruised near the side of his lip.

"Okay!" he said above everyone, his voice booming so they could all hear him. "We need to do a sweep of the island and make sure there's none of those guys left hiding out! My squadron, sweep this ground for evidence immediately! Everyone else, move out! We can't let anyone out of those basements until we're sure it's safe and clear!"

"I'll see you guys in a second," said Korra, frowning and eyebrows furrowed, seemingly thinking real hard. When she walked over to talk to Mako, Asami and Bolin, Jinora turned to Kai.

"Let's go. The sooner this gets done, the sooner we can get back to the kids."

Kai grabbed her hand and squeezed it lightly. Jinora winced and hissed a little, realizing she hadn't noticed a rather stinging cut across her palm. Mildly surprised, Kai pulled back his hand a little.

"Sorry, sweetheart," he said, smiling apologetically.

As he pulled back, Jinora grabbed onto his hand again mid-retraction.

"No," she shook her head, squeezing his hand tighter this time. She tried to keep the quiver out of her voice. "I'm glad you're the one that made me notice it."

Hell everyone!

This chapter set off with a bang and then the battle just ended so suddenly. Fishy fishy. This chapter marks the appearance of several character including Nuka all grown up (he's 17 here), Ikki Huan, Bolin and Opal as well. Also mentioned are Ikki and Huan's children Cho and Shang. I actually quite enjoyed writign all the action in this chapter and I wanted Jinora to have the spotlight for a moment fighting that firebender. Though this chapter turned into a family event too with Nuka fighting alonside both his parents. I actually didn't intend for so many people to get involved, but it just made sense to add certain people and I'm glad I did ^_^

Well, not much to say here. I don't want to spoil anything this early in the game. You're going to have to read about the aftermath and where this is all leading to next chapter!

As always, I really loe it when you guys drop those reviews! Getting those notices that I have a new review, even if it's just you pointing something out or wanting to give some constructive criticism, really encourages me to keep writing and keep going! Thank you for reading! Tune in for next chapter!