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** Submission
"What are you going to do now? You're all out of water, pal." Korra tries to sort through her clouded, racing thoughts. She approaches the helpless councilman crouching on the ground. Something inside of her snaps before she can calm herself down and fire is burning her insides. A mix between a scream and a growl rips through her throat and her arms combust into flaming torches. She charges toward the powerless Tarrlok.
Blood turns solid in her veins. The fire disappears as she looks up into his face with horror written on hers. What? Korra groans out in pain as he forces her limbs to move like some kind of sadistic puppet show. The blood chortles inside of her and she can't help but liken it to a million needles pricking at her skin. She cries out again as the pressure inside of her forces her knees to bend. She falls to the hard ground as Tarrlok rises.
"You're in my way, Avatar, and you need to be removed."
The struggling Avatar gawks at her forced up arms. She groans again as he forces them to move. "You're-you're a bloodbender?" she manages to gasp. She doesn't understand.
A ghost of a smirk crosses Tarrlok's face, but it vanishes so fast Korra isn't sure if it was there at all. "Very observant."
Korra struggles against her invisible restraints. "It's-" she can barely get the words out. "not a full moon." Korra fights against a scream as her own blood betrays her and forces her backbone to arch backwards. She cries out, "How are you doing this?"
Tarrlok's eyes narrow at his blood-bound slave. "There are a lot of things you don't know about me."
Korra screams as the blood moving to the wicked man's accord turns to glass in her veins. It forces her up to her feet and already the pain is making her vision flash in and out of darkness. The next thing she is aware of is flying through the air until she makes contact with something hard and cold.
She has heard of bloodbending. It is a dying art that her waterbending-master said was more a nightmare. Katara had asked her if she wanted to try it, but Korra refused after seeing how much it pained her teacher to even think about it.
As her blood starts to move on its own through her body, the light around Korra begins to fade. The Avatar lets one last moan escape her sore mouth before slipping into oblivion.
This is set after ep... 8? I think? Whatever, I'm tired. It's past 2 AM and I have work in the morning. I'm only awake because I've started sleepwalking again and it scares me lol. At least I get more time for writing?
omg, I miss sleeping already.
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