Bombs and explosions (which were stolen from Asami's shipment to the Fire Nation) were the only noise heard from the basement (At least they thought it was a basement) they were chained in. Korra and Mako's hands were tied behind their backs with a metal chain that cut deep into their flesh.
"What're we gonna do?" Korra whispered almost inaudible. Her throat was ran dry from all the screaming and begging for desperate help. Her sagged eyes from the lack of sleep starred into her husband's eyes, hoping that he'd have some type of plan.
"I don't know, but I-I hope Aruna's okay." Mako replied, sadness obviously filled with his topaz eyes. He saw Korra nodding her head and tears on the edge of her eyes. She shouldn't be crying. That wasn't like her. She was a joyful, surprising girl. He wanted to wrap his arms around her, telling her everything was going to be okay, and that they were going to get out of here, but when he tugged his hands against the metal chain, it just cut deeper into his skin.
Korra couldn't help it, but the thought of losing Aruna, or even Mako made tears run down her cheeks. She was sobbing loudly, and Mako was surprised that nobody heard them. They didn't even know where they were, but obviously in a middle of a war. He tried to look around, but the basement was pitch black.
"Daddy? Mommy?!" Aruna yelled from her family's apartment. It wasn't like them to be gone early in the morning, the only person that was once gone in the morning was her dad, but the only reason for that was an emergancy. She remembered Naga, and how she could track Korra.
Aruna made her way outside, finding Naga waiting patiently.
"Naga! Hey girl!" Naga licked her cheerfully which caused Aruna to giggle, but remembered she had to find her parents. "Do you know where Korra is?" She asked, hoping they weren't too far for Naga to sniff out.
Naga sniffed the concrete ground and started to take off, showing that she knew where her owner was. Aruna jumped onto Naga's bare back. "Go, Naga go! Show me where mom and dad are!"
"Are you okay?" Mako asked, still tugging against the chain.
Korra nodded. "Yeah, just...just a little worried is all."
Mako gave a worried look. He managed to tug his way over to his wife.
"It'll be alright. Someone will find us," He reassured her, kissing her forehead. Mako looked deeper into the blackness. "Hopefully..." He mumbled to himself.
"Sorry! Excuse me!" Aruna yelled at the citizens Naga was crashing into. "Watch out!" Naga ran around the people the best she could, but being the large animal she was made it quite difficult. Aruna looked behind her as she saw fruits and veggies from a foodcart roll on the floor. "The avatar is missing, did you hear?" She heard.
Naga halted at iron bars that stopped her from swimming in the water. She gave a look at Aruna, and then at Aang's statue.
"If you think that's where they are, then go ahead and jump in." Aruna said, a little nervous. They wouldn't have trouble breathing, thanks to Korra's waterbending lessons, but she never had to actually use it.
Naga took the permission granted and jumped over the bars, swimming in the sea (which caused a lot of attention towards them). Aruna quickly used her arms and hands to form an air bubble for them so they could breathe.
When Aruna and Naga were proceeding their way over to Aang's statue, Aruna saw an underwater bomb go off, causing her to yank Naga back.
"Naga, careful!"
Her parents must be at Aang's statue, and no wonder nobody knows where to look, they can't see the underwater bombs in this deep sea! Aruna pulled Naga up higher, so they wouldn't get hit by the bombs that were going off on the surface of the sea.
"Faster girl, things aren't looking good." Aruna said, worried. She was only seven! How was she suppose to stop this...this secret war?
She felt another bomb go off with her waterbending. Good thing though, Naga rose up and landed at the island where Aang's statue was. Aruna got off of Naga and looked around carefully. She felt Naga's nose bump into her back.
"Right right. Show me where they are." Aruna whispered. There might be enemies here, and if there were, she didn't want to attract them. She sneakly followed Naga, watching out for people and her parents.
Naga stopped at (I don't know what to call it!) a darkened room with a marble floor.
"Mom? Dad? Are you...there?" Aruna asked carefully into the dark room. Sometimes she wished she was a firebender to lighten up this pitch blackness.
"Did you hear that?!" Korra asked Mako.
"Yeah...it sounded like, Aruna!" Mako replied, almost happily. He tugged against the chain. "Aruna?!" He yelled as loud as he could.
As Aruna catiously stepped into the room, she felt someone approaching her. Aruna saw flames and someone in nothing but black.
"Get away from me!" Aruna yelled. She bent water from the sea and held it mid-air. She looked around, waiting for an attack. She felt heat behind her and saw the masked person. Aruna froze the water and sent the shards towards him/her.
"What do you want from my parents?!"
Both Korra and Mako saw flames and a little girl...their little girl! They tugged against the chains that were holding them back. "A-runa!" They both cried.
Aruna looked around, she heard them, but she couldn't see them.
"I can't see! Someone is attacking!" Aruna yelled back. She bent some more water as the enemy came back with tears in their outfit. They shot a blast of fire towards her direction, but she did a (sweet) back-flip to avoid it safetly. She sent the stream of water hard towards the person. Aruna saw as they fell down, maybe even passed out, and she took the advantadge to look for her parents.
"Mom? Dad?!"
"Over here, follow our voices!" Mako yelled.
Aruna carefully followed the walls until she found them chained up. They looked terrible. Tears filled up her eyes as she hugged them both.
"How do I get you out?" Aruna asked, shaking.
"Cut the-the chains with your bending. Go get some water from the water back outside, but please be quick!" Korra whispered to her daughter.
"I will!" Aruna said. She ran as fast as she could. Once she approached outside of the room, she saw Naga guarding the man. "Good girl, good girl Naga." She said, patting her head. Aruna bent water and carried it mid-air to where her parents were.
"Be careful okay? If you don't do this right...well, just please be extra careful. Make sure your accuracy is precise!" Mako said, he didn't his hands chopped off!
Aruna took a deep breath and seperated the water into half. She eyed her mother's hands and the chain. Aruna bent the water towards it and snapped the chain right off. Korra quickly got up and hugged her.
"Thank you so much! Now let me see the rest of the water, I'll set dad free, okay?" Korra reassured, which led to Aruna nodding. She bit her lip as she watched her snap the chain off of her dad.
Mako did the same thing when the chains were off, hug his daughter tightly.
"Are you okay? How'd you find us?" Mako asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. And Naga helped me, she smelled you." Aruna smiled.
"Naga? Where is she?" Korra asked, joining in on their conversation.
"Just outside."
The family walked outside of the dark room and found Naga, who was still eyeing the man who attacked Aruna. Korra walked over to him and pulled off his mask.
"Who is he?" Korra asked towards Mako, but he just shrugged. She dug through tha man's pockets and found a bunch of remote controllers.
"I think these set off those explosions we heard." Mako said.
Mako grabbed some handcuffs he kept around (just in case) in his pocket and snapped them on the enemy. "Let's go get Bei Fong."
Korra wrapped her arm around Aruna, holding her close.
"Thanks for saving us. You're so brave." Aruna smiled as Korra planted a kiss on her forehead.
"We love you."
A/N: I know it wasn't exactly a war, but it was...a start of one that never happened? I hope you still like it. Not very fluffy of course, but I enjoyed writing it!