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"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Blackspeech"

Kori watched as Bard left his house with the large, metal arrow. She didn't know what he was up to, but she hoped it would help. "Is he going to be alright?" Kori looked over at Bard's son, the boy seemed worried and looked all too young.

"None of us are fine." Kori muttered before looking back at Fili. "Ready for another round?" She asked as she stepped back into her stance. The blonde gave her a nod and she began bending his blood once more. Despite how much she had removed last time, there was still a large amount of that black gunk in his blood.

Fili thrashed around a lot more compared to last time. "Hold him down." The two remaining dwarves held down their friend as Kori worked on making it as painless as possible. When she finally pulled the blackened blob from the wound Fili had passed out. She dropped the blob into the bucket with the other blob. "The infection is spreading faster than I can remote or purify it. And it's making it's way towards his heart."

"Can you stop it?" Oin asked as he continued his work on something to bring down Fili's fever.

"Not without rupturing a blood vessel somewhere." Kori stated as she reapplied a wave of soothing water over the dwarf's skin. "Right now I'm just working in the larger veins. And it's already hard enough trying not to cause any damage as is."

"We done yet?" Everyone let out a small breath at Fili's comment. "Is it suppose to feel so strange afterwards? I've never been so aware of the blood moving around my body."

"It's one of the many reasons why blood bending is banned in my world." Kori explained as she shook her hands of any remaining water. "To control someone so completely, no one should have that power." She noticed the others nod in agreement with her words.

"Da?" The four turned to the door as Sigrid took a step outside. The girl looked around, swearing she heard something.

Time seemed to slow around Kori as a large hulking form of an orc fell in front of the girl, scaring her back into the house. A needle of ice formed out of the bucket at Kori's feet and shot at the creature, burying itself in it's skull. Another orc broke through the thatch roof as more came in through the door and broke through other parts of the roof.

Kori pulled water out of one bucket and the black gunk out of the other. Both swirled around her as she danced around the orc's weapons and hands. She could see Sigrid and her siblings huddled under the table, trying to hide from the attacking creatures. She kept the orcs busy with herself and ignorant of the other non-combatants in the house. She could see the dwarves doing something similar, but the only weapons they had were just things they randomly picked up around the house.

She pulled a long stream out of the toilet behind her and froze the water as much as she could. "Here!" She tossed the makeshift blades to her companions, they seemed to be working better than what they had had previously.

'How many of these things are there?' Kori asked as another orc fell down through a hole in the roof. But this one did not stand back up. Instead a lithe figure jumped down into the room and started helping them. Only once the figure stopped did Kori realize it was an elf. Another elf had arrived at the door and had also entered the frey, red hair whipping around with her movements.

All at once the orcs abandoned their plan of attacking the house and ran off. Kori followed the woman to the door, finding Legolas looking out at a group traveling along the rooftops. "We must follow." The blonde stated before taking off after the group.

Kori wanted to go after him, but one look back and she could see Fili was not looking well. She frowned seeing the red headed elf looking at the dwarves as well. The sound of heavy breathing at the bottom of the steps stopped her from asking the elf her question. Bofur was out of breath, but he had a fistful of a plant with small white flowers.

"Athelas." The elf whispered almost reverently as she took it from the dwarf.

Kori looked form the elf then to Kili and his brother. "What are you going to do?"

The elf looked her in the eyes with a small smile. "I'm going to save him."

Kori returned the woman's smile. "Then I leave them in your hands. And you can leave Legolas in mine." They exchanged another nod before Kori pushed herself off the banister and through the air with a push of air bending. She would have flown over the town if she had had her glider, but pushes of air and running were doing the trick.

She found Legolas easily, the grunts of pain made it so. She jumped down on top of an orc and knocked it down. Using the metal wires wrapped around her wrist, she wrapped them around the monster's neck before slicing it off.

"Look out!" Kori ducked just as a blade passed over her head, missing her entirely. She moved out of the way of a secondary swing, but she missed the fist that followed the blade. She stumbled back into a pillar, spitting out a mouthful of blood from her now broken lip. She noticed Legolas was a bit dazed, his nose also bleeding. His eyes met her's in an instant. "He is dead."

"No kidding." Kori pulled some water out of the lake and purified it, just to be safe. She took a mouthful of it to wash the blood out of her mouth and spit it out. "But first, let's take care of this." She brought the small ball of water up to Legolas' face, washing the blood off and healing the broken blood vessels and skin.

Legolas stared at the glowing water that was healing him, he had never seen anything like it. "You are unlike anything I have ever seen before."

Kori felt her cheeks redden as she finished healing the man. "Is that a bad thing?" She dropped the used water back into the lake. A hand came up under her chin, tilting her face up. She felt her breath catch in her throat as she met Legolas' ocean blue eyes.

"No, not at all." Legolas didn't understand what he was feeling. He knew of attraction, he had experienced it with Tauriel. But this woman was unlike anything he knew to exist. She could make water glitter like starlight and could make the most delicate flowers out of ice. And he was drawn to her, more drawn than he would ever think he could be to a mortal.

Kori felt her blush flare up as she picked up on the mood of the situation. She had been in situations like this before and it usually ended with either a kiss or a punch to the face. And it was leaning more towards the kiss side of the spectrum. So as Legolas slowly leaned closer to her, she did the same and gravitated towards him.

But now wasn't the time, and the roar of a dragon pulled them back to reality. "We should get back." Kori said as she and Legolas took a step away from each other. She turned away from the elf and started making her way back to the house, hoping to be a lot more calm once she reached it.

"I'm going to track that orc." Kori looked back at Legolas. "That scouting party has to report back to someone. I'm going to find out who that is." Legolas looked from the ground up to the icy blue orbs that fascinated him. "I will come back, I promise."

Kori gave him a nod before he turned and left. She did the same, praying he would come back.

Shorter than the other, but still good to me. I apologize for the inconsistency of the length of my chapters.

Let me know what you think. And random question, what element would you bend, and why?

I would be an earth bender, because I am very calm and stubborn, but I can also be hot headed(lava bending) and very emotional(swamp bending).