Well, here is another chapter. Things should start to get more interesting soon, I promise!

This chapter is going to mostly explain how Korra is still alive. I hope it is to everyone's liking.

Chapter 10: Questions and Answers

"Now let's see the rest or are you farther behind in your training than when I was your age." Was what Tal heard. In an almost exact copy of how Tai fire bended, Tal held out his arms and two good-sized flames sprouted from his hands. The flames were still smaller than Tai's flames were but he was straining to make them bigger. He did however have flames that were much more intensely burning and were much hotter. Everyone else had to shield their eyes from the heat.

Korra smiled at him knowing why he had stopped. "Don't worry about starting any fires around here. My husband uses this place to vent off a little steam when he gets angry. Just last week he had a fit because he found out that our daughter was going on a date." She gave out a laugh at remembering that incident. She returned her attention to Tal as he just stood there with his arms folded across his chest. He could fire bend somewhat, but his sister was still ahead of him in that department. At least he made up for the lack of training by creating a mini inferno in his hands. Not many fire benders could get their flames that hot. "Anything else you would like for me to see Tal?"

He obliged her request by sending two small gusts of air from his hands right at her. It really did was move her hair like in a breeze, it didn't even push her back at bit. The gusts were still small, but Tal thought they were getting bigger since the previous times he had tried air bending. The airbending seemed to have surprised her a bit though, she wasn't able to air bend until her late teens. She was said to be too connected to the physical side of bending and had completely ignored the spiritual side of it. When she was a little girl down at the South Pole, she had the ability to water/fire/earth-bend almost effortlessly. Some had said that this was rare even in the case of the Avatar. She asked him, "Can you also waterbend?"

She saw him assume the correct stance to bend, and he moved his arms in all the right motions. He was trying to replicate what Tay had done earlier with the water in the culvert. But the water did not move at all, not even a shake or a ripple. He was straining at just trying to make the water move, even just a little. It was just like her when she was trying to learn airbending, just that now it was him trying to get waterbending.

Then something hit her in the back of her memory, Tenzin. Aang's airbending son. He helped her get a hold of airbending. He had passed on a few years ago and now his children were in charge of resurrecting the culture and also the blood line of the Air Nomads who were nearly made extinct by the Fire Nation during the Hundred Year War. She saw that this meant that she would have to teach the boy everything that she knew about waterbending, and help him master fire, and air as well. He seemed like he could already do almost anything with earthbending.

She walked over to him and shake his hand to formally recognize him as the Avatar, or a Avatar. Somehow, when their hands touched, that caused a flashback. Korra watched as Tal's eyes flashed for a second and then passed out right on the spot and fell down on his back. Everyone else rushed over to see what had happened.

It was the night she was almost killed by that assassin. The bullet pierced her left lung and she was bleeding a lot . Tenzin flew her and the rest of the team on Oogi, Tenzin's sky bison, back to Air Temple Island. Asami, due to her training, quickly stopped the bleeding. Korra was told by Mako later that after they had landed and rushed her to the island's infirmary, she went into shock due to the loss of too much blood and her pulse dropped to near death levels.

Tenzin had to resort to airbending to keep her lungs full while the Air Acolytes tried to stitch her wound. Bolin, who was the only one who shared the same blood type as Korra, give her a transfusion of his own blood to help her body replenish her dwindling reserves. Asami, was monitoring her pulse via Korra's wrist alerted them that it was getting weaker and weaker.

Then her pulse stopped.

Mako was lost during all of this. He could only stay back and watch as everyone else tried to help Korra, and he couldn't. He had no medical training like Asami or Lin. He did not have the same blood type like Bolin so he could help give blood to Korra. He couldn't airbend to keep her lungs supplied with air. He was a firebender, and he was useless.

His anger began to get a hold of him. He closed his eyes, not wanting to see his friend/love die in such a way. Then his hands began to tingle, he was creating sparks and lightning. He rushed out the window and released a large lightning bolt. It arced across the sky and momentary turned day into night.

Then he heard Asami scream that Korra was not responding. Her heart had stopped beating. Korra was dead. Then something weird happened, he heard some voice. It was of an old man. Actually, it sounded like that Aang guy Korra kept talking about and had named her first son Aang.

"Use the lightning! It can restart her heart!"

Make rushed over to the bed Korra was laying on and yelled for everyone to step aside. He made a much smaller lightning from in his hand and then zapped Korra's chest. Asami rechecked Korra's pulse but didn't get one. Mako tried again, only more power and right on her heart. Asami went again to check for a pulse and looked at Mako with wonder.

Korra's pulse was back. It was back after 90 seconds of her technically being dead.

One of the Acolytes put her ear to Korra's chest. "Her heart is beating!" She checked again and informed everyone that the beating was getting stronger.

Bolin, kept by her side for a while longer and continued to offer his blood to her until he had to be disconnected and taken to another bed to rest from his offering. Tenzin went to give the news to his children that Korra might be okay. Asami kept checking Korra's pulse every few minutes, and it was indeed beginning to rise to a safer level. Mako even saw her begin to breathe deeper and he could see her chest begin to raise and fall at a safe pace. She was still unconscious for what seemed like a day or two but then she woke up in the middle of the night to see Mako laying in a chair next to her bed fast asleep. Her stirring somehow managed to wake him up.

"Korra!" Mako yelled as she flew out of the chair and rushed to her bedside. "Spirits! We thought we had lost you!" She couldn't see very well at the time but she later vaguely remembered him beginning to tear up as he just stood there and looked at her. She was able to roll her head from side to side but winced in pain as she tried to move in her bed.

"Try not to move Korra," Mako asked her as he took her hand and held it. "You were stabbed by an Equalist. We rushed you back to the island. You flat-lined on us and we had just about given up hope when some voice told me to restart you heart with lightning." He saw Korra's big beautiful blue eyes widen in surprise to such news.

She tried to speak but her throat was too sore to let her talk. Mako helped her drink some water before he told her he was going to get everyone else. She didn't want him to leave her alone but she knew that it was important for everyone to know that she had woken up. Mako return minutes later with his and Korra's firstborn son Aang in his arms. "See Aang," Mako said to the boy as he show him to his mother. "Mommy is going to be okay." The others began to enter the room as well only minutes later.

Asami, and Tenzin's two daughters Jinora and Ikki were the first to arrive. Bolin, who was able regain his strength from his donation of blood only hours earlier, rolled himself into the room in a wheelchair. Korra had no clue as to what had happened to him until he pointed to his and her arms. Tenzin, his wife Pema and their two sons Meelo and Rohan were the last to arrive. All Korra could do was lay there as everyone kept trying to tell here their version of what happened and how scared they were of almost losing her and how she was going to be better soon...

Tal was awaken from this little unofficial history lesson by a water jet to the face from Tay. He found himself on the ground and everyone was surrounding him. The first thing he saw after regaining consciousness was Korra's face. She was checking his pulse. And told Tay that she over did it on the water but it did work to get Tal back into the real world.

"What happened," he said as he rubbed his head and sat up . "Did anyone get the license plate of that Satomobile?"

"You passed out." Korra said , "Did you have a vision or flashback as well?"

"Yep, it was when you were stabbed and how Mako and everyone else saved you."

"Then this confirms it," Korra said as she walked over to Asami. "Tal here is the new Avatar. The power of the Avatar was released from my responsibility when my heart stopped for that short time. But the transfer was not completed because Mako brought me back. That is why I have only been able to waterbend since that day and that may also prove why he can't waterbend at all, because I still have that part of the Avatar's power with me."

Well, there you go, how I try to explain how she is still alive. I also helped out that MakoXKorra camp out by pairing the two of them up and already with a kid. That should draw lots of readers to this. You will see that kid, and his siblings later on in the story.

Also, yet another very sincere thankyou to those who have been reading and favoriting this story. I also would like to thank those who leave reviews, I would like to here more feed back about my writing style and everyone's response to my writing. More chapters are going to be posted very soon.