Chapter 10

Next day, Noatak woke up early as he started practicing all the bending skills he knew since he decided to fight the local crime and to help the neighborhood with his extraordinary water bending skills. The man stood in the yard as he kept raising the water, sending it in many directions, creating large ice balls, taking the water from the grass and using it as water whips among many other techniques he knew. Noatak felt proud; he would use his great powers to help the less fortunate to fight the crime.

Soon, young Korra woke up and saw that her father had already began his morning water bending practice. The girl went outside and started repeating many of his moves. The man smiled. "I am so proud of you, Korra. Soon, we will begin to help our neighborhood to fight crime" spoke the man.

He was correct as later during the day a group of five benders attacks one person's house, one of the benders in the group set the house on fire. "Where is the money?" asked the leader Earth bender as he threw his leg on the ground, which resulted in a small rock avalanche that dropped the victim on the ground.

"Leave him alone" spoke Korra as she faced the criminals. They laughed. "O, a small water bender thinks she can take us all. Why don't you go cry to your parents?" asked the Earth bender leader before he saw Noatak appearing right behind Korra, facing all of the criminals.

The people began fighting. Korra used the water from a nearby pond and took down the fire that destroyed half of the roof. She then helped Noatak in fighting the five criminals.

"You are good, but I don't think you are a match to all of us" spoke one of the villains, sending his water wave at Noatak, who easily dodged it.

"My name is Noatak, you all better learn my name as I will destroy all of your Triads and restore this neighborhood." Spoke Noatak arrogantly as he sent a large water wave at the five benders who became backing of.

Korra used her bending and created a mini ice armor, which helped the girl to defend herself from the attacks, in particular from fire. She then used a number of water whips, which in air turned into ice, and fought a few villains by herself.

As the time went on, it was clear that Noatak and Korra were winning. The two bent the nearby water and sent it at the five criminals, who soon got stuck in a rather large piece of ice and could not get out.

Saikhan went to get his morning tea from a nearby teashop when he saw a large ice ball with five thugs in it. A note was attacked to one man's shirt, "Take care of these five criminals," read the note.

Many people in the neighborhood saw that Noatak successfully helped them to defeat their oppressors. From that day onward, Noatak fought the local crime before delivering them to the local police station. Saikhan was frustrated at those activities but decided that Noatak's actions were all right since he received a very warm local response from Noatak's neighbors and decided that it could not hurt if Noatak helped the neighborhood before delivering the criminals to him.

It seemed that both Noatak and Korra's lives once again changed for the better and that Noatak found meaning to his life. The two helped the neighborhood and soon cleared many of its streets from the gang activity, further helping in their image.

Life seemed nice for the family for a few weeks. Noatak and Korra fought the local crime before sending them to the local police station, where the officers took the criminals and put them in jail. However, all good things often come to an end, and eventually, the Triad leaders had enough with Noatak's activities.

Once during late evening, five mafia bosses met in a small café, to discuss their recent losses. "This Noatak had proved to be a major pain to my organization" spoke one man

"True, he cost me many good man as well as much expected revenue" spoke another of them.

"What should we do about all this hero Noatak nonsense? It is clear that the public likes him; he might inspire some benders to join him and fight back. That could produce even a greater backlash on our operations" spoke the third criminal.

"I think we need to make an example out of him, so that neither he nor anyone else would bother any of us any longer. The police can't do much as they have a lack of metal benders to deal with all crime in the city. I propose to make a large full frontal attack on this Noatak's house and fully destroy him" spoke the second man

"I agree" spoke one other man, as the three others nodded. The five major crime bosses would pull their resources this once to finally get rid of Noatak, the crime fighter before they would resume their normal competitions between each other within the Republic City.

Meanwhile, Noatak and Korra sat at the table, eating the noodles that Noatak recently bought at a local store. Korra ate the food with great enjoyment as Noatak smiled at his daughter.

"I think we did a good job of helping the people in our neighborhood" spoke Korra as he took another spoon of noodle soup into her mouth.

"I agree. I am so proud that you decided to help me fight these criminals. I think that soon we will be able to clean not only our neighborhood but also the entire city from the crime" spoke Noatak with a slight smile on his face, not realizing that he just spoke of a rather arrogant and an ambitious statement.

The family enjoyed their dinner together as they thought how they would continue fighting the local crime in the future. They would soon realize that their hopes were so wrong as the next day would fully destroy not only Noatak's ambitions to clear the city from the crime but also split the family in two, driving them into extremes, eventually making them into enemies.

Not everyone in the Republic City had a peaceful night. Councilman Tenzin sat at the table, talking to his wife Pema, who held their quiet and beautiful two-year-old daughter Jinora. "Councilman Tenzin" spoke a White Lotus Guard as he quickly entered the dining room, "I just received a report from Master Katara. Your mother discovered the settlement where the rumored Avatar had lived but the village is completely destroyed." Spoke the guard as Tenzin looked at him, sighing deeply.

Meanwhile, a young girl sat on her bed, looking at the wall. She greatly missed her mother, who she lost to some evil fire bender. The girl was sad as her father practically abandoned her, placing Asami under great surveillance; the girl lost any sense of privacy as the mansion was full of guards. "I wish Korra was here; I could share all my troubles with her" the girl thought, looking out of the window.

A/N:

I decided to marathon the last chapters of Arc 1: Water

Next Chapter from two part finale of this Arc: The Triad attack on Noatak's home

The Chapter after that, the second part of the finale of this Arc: The aftermath of the attack, and the decisions the characters make as a result of that