"Wait!" They heard someone yell but only Korra stopped. She motioned for everyone else to keep going but Naga sat down. She would wait for her as the snow started to fall.
Korra turned around to see Asami covered in blood with a gun in her hands shaking. She walked up to her and put her head right up against the barrel of the gun. Asami gasped before falling to her knees.
"Why?" she asked as she looked at the gun. "Why? It wasn't suppose to go like this. I wasn't suppose to meet you." She said looking at Korra as she kneeled in front of her.
That's how Korra noticed it was the real Asami. She also noticed the ripped shirt and the ticking time the metal sticking out of her displayed.
"Kill me" Asami said. "If you kill me then the bomb won't go off. Then nobody else will have to die by my hands. It can't be anyone else. I won't let it." She said pleading into Korra's goggles since she couldn't see her eyes.
But Korra said nothing. She didn't need to see her eyes to know she was struggling with a decision. So she brought her gun up to Korra's head.
"Kill me." she said again.
But she was met with nothing again.
"Korra if you don't shoot I will!"
Still Korra said nothing only bringing Asami into her chest. Asami fought against it trying to push off.
"Do it!" She screamed again as she cried.
She pushed even more into the chest trapping her. She choked a sob as she steadied the shaky gun in her hand.
"You're always like this stubborn as hell." She said smiling sadly into the shoulder.
She pulled back and cupped the cheek she wished she could of kissed and smiled brightly.
"I would be your girl in another world." She said looking at her reflection in the goggles that held her gaze.
She raised her gun again and put it back against her temple and closed her eyes at the feeling of cold metal against her own temple.
One
She opened her eyes again.
Two
She squeezed the cheek a little harder.
Three
At the last second she turned the angle of the gun firing.
Both guns sounded off but only one body fell limp. Korra's goggles fell from her face bouncing off a head before landing in the snow that was piling up.
Korra's gun dropped to the ground as she started to shake. She grabbed her hair as tears started to roll down her face and a scream ripped through her throat.
Korra screamed as flames surrounded her and Asami's body. She heard people scream her name but she didn't care. Her life was dead on her chest leaving just an empty shell behind.
Everyone watched as Korra emerged from the flames carrying Asami's body. They watched as she took slow and steady steps with her head down. Naga returned to her side as she passed her. Together they continued to walk until they reached the tent set up by the white lotus army. They parted enough for her to walk through. She placed Asami's body down on a table. She turned around not looking back and walked over to a another table to reload everything. Nobody said anything as she silently continued to stalk up. When she was done she walked back over to where Naga was waiting patently.
Bolin couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't stand there in the silence not knowing what was going on.
"Korra" He said taking a step forward. She didn't say anything so he tried again. "Korra" He said placing his hand on her shoulder.
When she turned around he flinched back gasping with everyone else. Her eyes were no longer the ocean blue that they knew. They were the same red as the blood splattered on her. Her gaze was unwavering as she slowly looked over them. She turned back around heading towards the front of the tent. She stopped just before the entrance.
"I'm leaving." She said as the wind picked up.
"But-" Mako tried to say.
"I have no attentions of coming back." She said looking up at the falling snow. "I can't."
"Kor-" Bolin tried.
"I've had this dream for as long as I could remember. I never told anyone about it. Not even Asami. I mean who would tell their soulmate they had this kind of dream about them. Everything was always blurry and hard to make out. It was always snowing and I would chant something over and over again before it would happen." She exhaled as a helicopter landed and lotus soldiers ran out of it. Surrounding it waiting for her. "I would scream this lovely bloody cry into the night time sky and it would all be over. That was it and I would wake up. Today was the last day I think I will ever hear that scream again. Since I'm now trapped in a nightmare."
"Why can't you come back?" Tenzen asked confused.
She stepped from under the tent. The snow crushing from under her weight. "Because of that empty shell on the table. I'm going back with the white lotus and try to fix what I can." She said calmly making her way to the helicopter with Naga in tow.
"Avatar." the solders nodded as they made room for her and Naga.
The gang watched as her red eyes landed on them once more before turning away with the helicopter as it flew away.
"This is all bullshit!" Mako screamed kicking over a chair.
"Mako." Opal said wryly.
"He's right." Bolin said making everyone snap their head to him. He turned looking at Asami's dead body. "You had to be blind not to see that they loved each other. It's not suppose to work like this. You're suppose to find your fated person and live happily ever after. So yes this is bullshit!" He said banging his fist against the table as he hunched over screaming. "This whole situation is bullshit! Asami's life was bullshit! Korra's life is bullshit! They way things are now is bullshit! An- and now Asami is dead! And she took my bestfriend with her!" He crumbled to the floor crying.
"Bro Korra is not gone." Mako said laying a comforting hand on his shoulder.
Bolin mumbled something through his sobs that his brother couldn't understand. "What?"
"That wasn't Korra!" Bolin yelled shaking off his hand. "That's what's left of her." He whispered. "The avatar. When Asami died Korra left to. I know it! You know it! Everyone here knows it!"
No one said anything else because it was true. They knew their friend was telling the truth when she said she wasn't coming back. They knew it would be useless trying to follow her. They knew it wasn't her fault of what she had become but that didn't make it hurt any less.
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I never would have thought a bloody cry would be so wanted as it is now. God how I wish I could hear that lovely sound again.
