Chapter 10

2 Weeks later

Kai got up from his seat at the tea table that over looked the courtyard and sauntered over to the two big fluffy bison that had just landed, and the 6 smaller ones surrounding them, that he cared about out of the large group that had just landed.

"Hey buddy" He rubbed his hand on Lefty's nose and then looked over at Pepper who was busy dealing with babies which would not calm down. "Congrats" Lefty gave a tired grunt, no doubt he had carried them for most of the trip to the Fire Nation.

"Are those baby bison?!" Jing asked excitedly

"Yeah, if you want to see them let me do something first." Kai walked over to Pepper and made some motions and grunts, then Pepper went over to the grassy area where Lefty had laid down and curled up beside him. "Ok all good now." Kai hollered as he sat down among the baby bison.

"Whoa they are so fluffy." Jing stated in awe as she felt one.

"I never thought they could be soft." Mako stated, his hand around Jing's shoulders. His relationship with Jing had gone from knowing each other, to friends, to dating in the matter of 2 weeks; and over that time she had opened him up and made his softness reveal itself.

"Hey where are Korra and Asami? Or Opal and Bolin? They would love this!" Kai stated

"Uh…Korra and Asami went on a lunch date and I have no clue where my brother and Opal are." Mako stated dryly, but there was a mutual understanding between the guys that if one went off with his girl without saying where he was going then you shouldn't go looking unless they hadn't come back by the next breakfast.

"Ok" Kai rolled his eyes knowing what was up.

They sat out in the courtyard having a lazy day admiring how the sun's rays shined down and feeling a cool breeze blow by, at least until a messenger ran up and disturbed the peace.

"Sorry for the disturbance Master Kai, but Master Tenzin and Lord Zuko request an audience with you." The messenger stated

"Uh is-is ok to bring these two?" He pointed to the couple who were undoubtly about to play kissy-face.

The messenger looked at them and then back at Kai. "Yes"

"You heard the man let's go lovebirds." Kai stated in a Mako like tone.

"Look at what I have done." Mako told Jing as they walked to the throne room. "I have rubbed off on him too much."

"We're here." Kai stated as the trio walked into the room to see lots of people sitting around a table, most of them Kai didn't know.

"Good now we can start." Zuko stated "Over here" He motioned for the trio to sit down next to he and Tenzin.

"Bumi you're up." Tenzin stated, as much as he didn't like his brother he was a great resource to have in times of need.

"Ok so to start…hmm…ah here" Bumi muttered to himself. "Here" He pointed to a location of a map. "Is where we will be going, as you all know the Dai Li have this place locked down tight. Our scout crew barely got out of there alive, but we will be going in in larger numbers and with more naval support. Here is Alpha beach, where the main force will land to distract the Dai Li while the Imperial firebenders will land on Bravo beach to flank them, the Knighthawks will go to the volcano directly. from above, and find the prisoners." Bumi said the plan confidently

"How do we know that the prisoners are even there?" Asked a general.

"The scouts went in and found them. Sadly they could rescue them on their own and nearly died on the exfil."

The room remained silent as people mulled over the plan in their heads, and then Kai spoke.

"Do we know the numbers of the Dai Li?" To him it didn't really matter, he'd fight the whole damn world if it meant getting Jinora back, but knowing the enemy never hurt.

"At least 300 of them." Bumi answered, several older generals, who had served as soldier in the hundred year's war, knew three hundred Dai Li were more than capable of holding off an entire army, but the doubt was pushed out of their thoguhts.

"They should have been disbanded after the Hundred Years War." Muttered one person

"Well if we do this right there won't be any Dai Li roaming free." Kai stated firmly

The military leaders looked over at Kai, he was right and they all knew it, but they could see something in his eyes, determination, the determination they needed so they could be sure this would be a win for them.

"Any more questions?" Zuko asked and looked out at the table, no one made a motion. "Dismissed"

"That was short." Mako muttered, having sat through police briefings he was expecting something long and drawn out.

The military staff walked out of the room having discussions about how many troops to have land in each location, and how effective the "Knighthawks" were.

A/N: Things are heating up... Apologies for it being so short, but I had to get something out this week so you guys would know that I was still here and working.

Sorry for not uploading a chapter last week, I was busy to all hell, and I barely got this one up today as I woke up at 4:30 yesterday, worked hard all day, and didn't get to bed til a little past midnight.

Thank-you for reading!

Have a Nice day!