hey! inudigifan201 here! and welcome to my first ever Avatar story!(even thou I've been a fan for like... ever) it's a little idea that I've had since I first watched LOK. if you ask me... there's no way Korra could be an only child! anyway... hope you like!

about this chapter: Korra's take on that fatefull day.

happy Holidays! i probibly won't post anything till after new years... so... see ya'll next year... maybe i'll have time to write, never know when you get a free moment around my house. anyway... if i don't, see ya'll next year!

ps. I loosely based Kassidy off of Harley Quinn from Batman... long story. and Azula... can't get any crazier than these two.

and Konna loosely off of Flutter-Shy and Princess Luna from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. and yes, i watch MLP:FIM. And you gotta deal with it! and a little off of Rose/Huntsgirl from American Dragon: Jake Long. and Zuko...

Ch, 21. Ghosts

Korra watched the snow fall as she sipped her hot tea. 'It's all my fault.' The thought crossed her mind. She shook it off. It was late, her mind was messing with her.

Konna and Bolin were still out on their date. Korra began to wonder how it was going. Konna didn't seem too thrilled about going out. Korra worried. 'It's all my fault!' Her thoughts got a little louder. 'If only I wasn't sick, if I could have gone after her. It's all my fault.' They began to take over her mind.

She was pulled out of her depressing thoughts by a slight knock on her bedroom door. "Come in." she found her voice.

Tenzin opened the door and walked in. He looked her over. A confused look found itself on his face as he opened his mouth to speak. "Are you all right?"

Korra became confused herself, but she jumped up and looked in the mirror anyway. "I'm fine." She looked back at him.

He walked over to her and put his hand on her forehead. "You have a slight fever. Are you sure you're ok?" he put his hand down.

She shrugged. "I'm fine."

He rolled his eyes. "You're worrying yourself sick."

She raised an eyebrow. "Who said I'm worried?"

He rolled his eyes again. "No one, it's written all over your face."

She rolled her eyes, sat back down and looked back out the window. "It was a night just like this." She stared off into space.

An 8-year-old Korra looked out at the moon from the small window in the igloo. White Lotus guards were stationed at the door. She was ill, no one knew why. One minute she was fine, next, she was puking her guts out all over the clean white snow. Master Katara was out teaching the other kids how to water-bend. She wasn't her only student. They were at the North Pole. This was before she was moved to the south permanently.

Korra and Konna's cousins Desna and Eska had visited earlier that day. She always thought they were a bit weird. But, they were family.

Korra heard her sister barrel in, coming back from practice. Korra liked being an older sister. She liked it as much as being the Avatar.

A White Lotus agent came in, heated a bowl of soup and handed it to her.

"Thanks Lee." She looked up at him and saw konna out of the corner of her eye.

"Master Katara said she'd be over as soon as she can to see if she can heal you." Konna sat down beside her.

"Konna, I'm sick, don't get so close or you'll get what I got." She scooted over away from Konna.

"Sorry Korra." Konna stood up and walked to the door as the sick Korra slid back into place and smiled as she drank her soup.

She didn't know.

Soon Master Katara was in the room fallowed by the agents that were guarding the door.

Katara was soon at work using her healing powers.

"Master Katara!" Konna called out from outside. "Could you come here?"

"Konna, I am in the middle of healing your sister!" the master water-bender called back. "Can it wait 2 minutes?" she asked.

Before anyone could say kidnap. Konna screamed.

Korra bolted up and ran to the door. She caught a glimpse of the man.

"Konna!" she yelled as she tried to catch up to him, but was held back by Katara.

"It's too dangerous! Let the White Lotus handle this." Katara held her back.

"But she's my little sister!" Korra protested.

"And you are only 8 and a half years old, you're too young to be chasing after bad guys." Katara started to cry.

And so did Korra. Tenzin had left the room some time ago. So she was alone again.

"I will never let that ever happen again." She buried her face in her knees.

"Well, I had fun." Konna's voice came to her ear. She looked down to see them.

"I did too." Bolin smiled.

Korra smiled and closed her window. 'She's safe.'

She sat up on her bed. Naga was asleep on the floor. She decided to walk out and see if she could catch Konna before she went to bed.

She opened her bedroom door and saw konna waking down the hall.

She smiled. "How was the date?"

Konna looked up at her. "fun." She nodded.

Korra rolled her eyes. "What did you two crazy kids do?" she joked.

Konna stopped walking. She looked Korra square in the eye and had a grim look on her face. Korra's smiled faded.

"What do you do when you like someone, but liking them puts them in danger?" Konna asked flat out.

Korra thought for a moment. "Bolin is a big boy, he can handle himself."

Konna sighed. "Not against my enemies."

Korra shrugged. "Nobody has heard anything from them in months, maybe they've given up."

Konna smiled and rolled her eyes. "Wishful thinking." She started walking to her room again. "Good night big sister."

Korra sighed. "Good night."

Kassidy watched the island from a tree on the mainland. She saw Konna and Bolin together. In fact, she had fallowed them on their entire date. She had been watching Konna for a while now.

She held up a small hand held radio up to her mouth. "She's not giving any indication of coming back." She spoke.

"Give her time." Noahtok came through the other end.

He stood over a tall desk. A radio was on the edge. It was clean for the most part.

Hiroshi Sato sat on the other side. He didn't look too thrilled. "Why am I here?" he asked.

Noahtok looked over at him and smiled. "To do what you do best, invent."

Hiroshi rolled his eyes. "Not after what you pulled." He leaned back in his chair. "I should be rotting in jail right now." He looked back up at Noahtok. "Besides, you already have everything you need… and more."

Noahtok rolled his eyes and grinned evilly as he sat down and put his hands under his chin. "Not since Future Industries was taken over by your daughter. I am now left with nothing." He leaned back. "Besides, most people think I'm dead or I'm a ghost." He joked.

Hiroshi seemed madder by the minute. "That stunt you pulled at Asami's fashion show should have clued everyone in that you are alive."

"I only wanted to get Konna's attention. Nothing more."

Hiroshi lifted an eyebrow. "That poor girl you treated like dirt?" He thought for a moment. "Why don't you just leave that poor girl alone?"

Noahtok grinned. "Because, apparently, the Avatar is not the only one who can bend all four elements."

Hiroshi became confused.

"After I took her water-bending, like her sister and air-bending, she showed that she can bend the other three. Korra, of course, gave her back her water-bending. I looked into it. Turns out there has always been two." Noahtok explained.

"Then why have we never heard of a second Avatar?"

"Because they are not called the Avatar, they're called the Antitar."

"And you want her on your side because?"

"Who better to take down the Avatar than her own sister?"

It seemed to click with Hiroshi. "So do I have a choice in helping you?"

"Not this time."

Tarrlok listened in through the door. He held up the radio that the Blue Spirit gave him. "Hello?" he asked.

Konna had plopped herself onto her bed. She soon heard a faint "hello" coming from her wardrobe. She opened the large cabinet and picked up the plank of wood that was meant to be the bottom. Underneath was her Blue Spirit costume and the radio.

She picked it up and cleared her throat. "Yes." She answered in a deeper voice.

"Noahtok is planning on using Avatar Korra's sister against her." Tarrlok spoke back.

"And Hiroshi Sato?"

"He wants him to invent new machines to use against the Avatar as well."

"Thank you." She cut the radio off.

"Blue Spirit?!" Tarrlok called out.

"Blue Spirit?" Noahtok's voice came from above him. Tarrlok looked up. There he stood. Grinning. "I thought that he was an old wives' tale." He almost giggled. "He doesn't exist."

Konna put everything back together and got ready for bed.

Her mind wondered as she laid there in the dark. 'They're coming after me, Bolin is going to get in the way. Their way. What should I do? I can't let them hurt him.'

She stood in a dark place. Black as far as the eye could see. She looked around. She soon came upon who seemed to be Bolin.

"Bolin!" she smiled and ran over to him. She turned to face him, but he had no face to face. She gasped. "Bolin?" she started to cry.

The faceless Bolin waved at her as a rope lassoed around his neck and pulled him up. Snapping when it stopped.

"AH!" Konna bolted up from her slumber. She looked around her room. Light came in from the moon. She stood up and headed out the door. She soon found herself at the boy's dorm. She started knocking feverishly.

Mako answered the door with a groggy look on his face. "Konna, do you know what time it is?"

"Is Bolin ok?" She blurted out.

"I'm fine." Bolin called out from behind his brother and then yawned.

"Oh good." She sighed in relief; especially when she saw he had a face.

"Are you alright?" Mako, half-asleep, looked her over.

"I'm fine, just a bad dream." She faked a smiled and waved the thought on.

Bolin gulped. "A bad dream about me?" he started to panic.

Mako groggily looked over at his brother then back at Konna whom was smiling like a fool. He sighed. "Come in and tell us about it please." He stepped away from the door and opened it wider.

Konna snapped out of her daze as she realized he was letting her in. she looked herself over. She was still in her blue slick pajamas. And, she wasn't a boy.

"Are you sure I'm allowed?" she scratched the back of her head.

"I'm letting you in, we're just going to talk. I don't think Tenzin…" Mako started to fall back asleep as he stood there.

Bolin held out his hand to her and she took it. A chill went down her spine. She soon found herself inside the boys' dorm. She looked around. It was very similar to the girls' dorm.

Bolin opened a door that led to a small sitting room. "You and sleepyhead can wait here while I make some tea." He let her enter.

She sat down on a pillow on the floor as Bolin walked out and left the door wide open.

Mako walked in half-asleep and found himself a cozy little corner to curl up in. and he was out.

Konna smiled a little. It was the first time she had ever seen Mako this tired. She giggled a little. 'Must be tiring, being the older sibling.' She thought.

Bolin was soon back with a pot of tea and three cups. He poured two. One for him and one for her.

"So, what happened?" he handed her the cup.

She looked at him as she slowly grabbed the cup, trying not to wake the sleeping Mako snoring in the corner. She hadn't realized it before, but Bolin was topless. He was just wearing a pair of comfy looking pants. She noticed his muscles.

"Um…" She lost her voice and started to blush. She couldn't help but look at him. She knew he was strong, but not buff too. It must have been all that earth-bending training with Lin. "Um…" it was the only thing she could say. She started to feel sick. Sick to her stomach.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"I'm fine." She lied. Able to say more than "um".

"alright, so, what about that dream?"

She took a deep breath. "I was in this very dark place. I was alone. And then I saw you. So I walked up to you. Your back was turned to me. And then I walked to your front side. You had no face. then, as a rope roped itself around your neck you waved to me. And someone then pulled the rope and you were hanged."

"What happened next?" He gulped in fear and grabbed his neck.

"That's when I woke up screaming." She fake smiled. He could tell.

"I was killed?" He almost screamed. Mako tossed around in his corner.

"yes." She looked away from him to the nearest wall she could lay her eyes on; too embarrassed to look at him.

Mako started to snore.

Bolin looked over at his sleeping brother. "maybe we should move him." He thought out loud.

She nodded, still looking at her wall.

They both got up and walked over to Mako's corner.

"Here, I'll lift his heavy torso, and you can lift his feet. But, if you don't want to I won't make you…" He started to ramble.

She looked Mako over. "I have an idea. Show me to his room."

"What?" He didn't understand.

"I'm going to blood-bend him there." She looked back at him.

He became nervous. "doesn't blood-bending hurt?"

She smiled. "Most blood-bending does hurt, but I found a way that doesn't." She frowned. "please don't tell anybody, especially Chief Beifong."

He smiled. "your secret is safe with me."

She smiled back. She then looked over at Mako. She raised up her arms and soon he was floating in mid-air, still snoozing away.

Bolin walked to Mako's room and opened the door. "His bed will be fine." He looked back at Konna with Mako sleeping in mid-air.

Her movements were calm as she lowered Mako down to his bed. As soon as his body hit the mattress she released him from her grip.

She looked over at Bolin. "How was that?"

He smiled. "Perfect… I think. I don't know a thing about blood-bending." He closed the door behind them as they started to walk back to the sitting room. "so how did you do that without hurting him and, more importantly, waking him up?" He sat down on a pillow.

She sat down as well then looked up at him. "after I mastered blood-bending, I was afraid to use it. I had seen what it could do. I thought, maybe, that there was a less evil use for it. So, one day, I came across a traveling team of water-benders. I watched them. Their movements were calm and peaceful, while blood-bending is quick and violent. I started to mimic their movements after a while. I did what they did. I tried it out on water. I didn't have any problem with that. But I had to test it out on something with blood. At first, I found a dead animal on the side of the road. I bended it's blood just like the water. The movement was smooth, calming. Then I found a living rat. It didn't squeak in pain, so I took it that it worked. I then used it on a few guards that had been posted out my door to keep me in and not eating. A couple of harmless pranks. They seemed fine. And that's how I learned how to blood-bend people without hurting them."

"wow." He crossed his arms.

"I don't like hurting people." She added.

"and how long did all that take?"

"a few days. I seem to be a very fast learner."

"wow." It was all he could say.

She stared at his chest again and blushed. "I should probably go." She stood up trying not to show him her face. "goodnight!" she rushed out.

"good night." He became confused.

"good morning." Korra walked into breakfast still in her nightgown. "Who screamed last night?" she sleepily looked around.

Pema sighed. "why are you still in your nightie?"

Korra flashed her a fake smile. "I didn't feel like changing."

Mako and Bolin walked in. Bolin dragging his feet. "good morning." They both spoke.

Tenzin counted heads. "Where's Konna?" he looked around. "she is usually here by now."

Bolin seemed to sober-up. "What? Where is she? Is she missing? Is she ok?" he started to bounce around.

Tenzin sighed. "Korra, could you please check on her? And while you are there, change clothes? We have air-bending to do today."

"Alright." Korra got up and walked out. A few moments later she returned, still in her nightgown. Huffing she cried, "She's gone!"

"What?!" everyone stood up and exclaimed.

Asami walked in with a hot cup of tea. She looked around the room. "What's going on?" she finally asked.

"Konna is missing." Korra looked her square in eyes.

Asami dropped her cup. "What? Where is she?" She almost shouted.

"I don't know." Korra shook her head.

Bolin walked up to them. "She was still here at 2 in the morning."