A/N:This is my first time writing something non-PJO. And my first time writing something Makorra. And my first attempt at humor. What could possibly go wrong?
"Mako!"
The said fire-bender dropped the rice and lentils he was holding and rushed up the stairs to where his fiancé had called out his name. Avatar Korra wasn't someone who would simply scream.
Wait, that wasn't right. She wouldn't scream unless it was something major or life-threatening. Or she was angry. Or pumped up. Or just feeling like screaming.
Mako looked back ruefully at the small puddle of stew scattered with balls of fluffed rice on the kitchen floor. Breakfast would have to wait.
Halfway through the wooden stairs, Mako wondered whether it would be good to continue up or head back down and surprise Korra with breakfast. He decided on the former. It was Korra, after all.
Mako quickly mounted the steps, the dull clacks increasing in intensity. Mako had a fireball in hand, read to help Korra, in case. You never knew.
"Korra!" Mako yelled, as he swung open the door into their room. "Are you alright?" he held up the ball of fire as he scanned the room for threats.
There was nothing but the usual. Their bedroom wasn't the greatest, but it was theirs. With pale blue curtains over a window that had a beautiful view of the garden in front of the house, and two nightstands and a dressing table, besides the large and currently-unoccupied bed in the center, nothing seemed out of place.
Well, except for Korra.
Korra was curled up on the floor, clutching her mouth. "M-Mako. It hurts!"
"What? What hurts?" Mako asked, rushing towards his girlfriend. Fiancé-he reminded himself giddily. Korra had said yes.
Mako stared at Korra's cerulean eyes as she sniffed. "My tooth. It hurts. I think I had too much rice candy yesterday."
Mako rolled his eyes. Of course. Korra and Bolin had their annual stuff-yourself competition yesterday and that had included rice candy. And Korra had a really sweet tooth.
Uh oh.
"Let's get you dressed up and headed to the dentist's." Mako said, curling an arm around Korra, who sighed and leaned into him. "We need to hurry, what if-"
"Okay. Fine. Stop worrying so much." she replied, touching his forehead.
Mako allowed himself to smile, before leaning down and pecking her lips. "I'll try. No promises though."
"Sure thing, hot shot."
"This has to go."
Korra glanced at the dentist- a Mr Woo- who was currently examining her mouth.
"Wha?" she exclaimed, her mouth still open.
"Your tooth- it has to go. Looks like you had too much candy." clucked his tongue, as if he was disappointed in the Avatar. "Too often everyone overlooks their teeth and this is what happens."
Korra shook her head frantically. "No! I want my teeth. And I'm not sure how much it will hurt if you remove it."
"It's only one tooth at the back of your mouth. In fact, it might make chewing easier for you. If you are not sure of the pain, I can give you our latest medicine." the dentist grinned- maniacally, Korra thought- before holding up a can. "This is laughing gas!"
"Laughing gas?"
"Indeed. It should help. But there are a few side effects."
Korra waved her arm. She was a sucker for trying anything new. And this laughing gas seemed cool. "Go ahead. I want to try this out. Maybe Bolin will like it."
Mr Woo nodded enthusiastically. "Excellent, Madam Avatar. Then I shall start immediately!"
Mako paced in the lobby as Korra entered dentist office. He wanted to go in with her, but she had shot him down, saying that she wasn't a child and that she could take care of herself. Of course, he couldn't argue with that, so he settled for pacing down the lobby, ignoring the repeated annoyed stares from the receptionist who was trying to balance some dental records in one hand while slurping tea and reading a Nuktuk Returns! Comic in another.
"Ahem." the receptionist cleared her throat, and Mako glanced at her irritably.
"Yes?"
"Whee!"
Mako yelped and the receptionist dropped her cup of tea when the dentist's door shot open, revealing an-excited?- Korra.
"Makoo!" she shrieked, and Mako winced. The receptionist mumbled angrily.
Mako didn't like the way Korra was running towards him. In fact, if she didn't stop-
Korra didn't stop. Mako found himself on the floor with Korra lying on him. His face turned red, but Korra was oblivious. And talking to him like it was a perfectly normal thing to do. "Heey Mako! I got the tooth out! And I got this cool gas- He He!" Korra burst into a fit of giggles.
Mako swallowed nervously as the receptionist smiled wryly and explained- "Ah, that would be laughing gas." He quickly grabbed Korra's arms meaning to prop both of them up. Korra suddenly decided to stand up ram-rod straight, and she easily took Mako up with her, he almost falling onto her now.
"Wha-what is laughing gas?" he asked the receptionist, frowning. Korra giggled again.
What was wrong with her?
"Nitrous oxide. It's a breakthrough in modern science! Now our patients no longer feel pain when we operate on them." Mako glared at the dentist who entered the room.
"So they end up like this instead?" Mako asked, pointing towards Korra who was currently walking on the ceiling, reading the receptionist's Nuktuk comic.
Mr Woo scratched his head. "The effects should wear off in less than a day. Of course, I have never operated on the Avatar before and-"
Mako grabbed the man's shirt. "You mean you don't know what could go wrong?" he asked, glaring down at the bespectacled doctor.
"Oh, nothing at all!" Mr Woo replied, swallowing hard. "She will be fine in a few hours. In fact, she should fall asleep for a bit first."
As if on cue, Korra feel asleep while walking on the ceiling. Mako rushed forwards and just managed to catch her in his arms. The receptionist looked ruefully at her Nuktuk comic that flew out a window. And at the tea stain covering the rug in the lobby.
"Alright. Thank you, Mr Woo." Mako said, through gritted teeth, before paying the bill and leaving.
Who in their right mind would drug the Avatar Korra? With laughing gas?
Fortunately, Mako got Korra back home without any incident-mostly because she was still asleep. He carefully rested her on their bed, before kissing her forehead. "Alright, Korra. Have a good rest and don't wake-"
Her cerulean eyes shot open.
"-up." Mako finished and sighed. Korra giggled and shot up, throwing Mako off the bed.
"Maakoo. Wheere are we?" she asked, throwing her hands out and running around like some bizarre imitation of an airplane.
Mako sat back on the bed. "We're home, Korra."
"Home? Hooomee. Yes! I want food, can I have some food? Let's visit Tenzin. I want to see Pabu. Where's Naga?"
Korra was out before Mako could respond.
Mako ran down towards the kitchen, when Korra was crying.
"M-Mako. The rice. It-it's dead!'
"Uh.." Mako couldn't say anything, so Korra decided to grab him and cry into his chest. He rubbed her back comfortingly. "It was a-uh- good bit of rice?'
Korra nodded, eyes welling with tears. "Mister Rice was the best. We must bury him."
"Him?"
Korra nodded before getting up and throwing Mako a shovel-which he caught over his head just before it almost knocked him out.
"Dig a hole in the garden."
"But- but we just planted-"
"WE MUST BURY MISTER RICE! DO IT NOW!" Korra screamed, and Mako covered his ears, before heading towards the garden, followed by a sad Korra and a bowl of rice.
"Korra, are you sure-"
Korra glared angrily at him. "If you will not help me I will go to Pema. Or Asami. Or Bolin. Bolin will bury Mister Rice- they are cousins after all."
"But.."
"That's it!" Korra screamed in rage, before blasting Mako back with a powerful gust of air.
When the dust cleared, all Mako saw was a very determined Avatar flying towards Air Temple Island with a bowl of rice.
"Oh Spirits." he muttered, before jumping into a Satomobile and driving as fast as he could towards the island, hopping onto a ferry as soon as he got to the docks.
Mako glanced around at Air Temple Island. The stately trees that always calmed him down seemed in one piece. The Air Temple itself wasn't in ruins. So far so good.
He remembered Bolin telling him that Asami and him would be babysitting Rohan today so Pema and Tenzin could take a break.
Baby.
Bolin.
Korra.
Mako sprinted towards Tenzin's home.
Sure enough, he heard the sounds of a destressed nature coming from house Tenzin and Pema shared. When he entered, he saw Bolin, carrying Rohan who was giggling in some way only babies could, running away from a very determined Korra who was chasing him with a bowl of rice. What was scarier though was that a tendril of each of the four elements followed her. Asami was already knocked out at the back, seemingly from a small rock. Rohan was laughing at Korra, who laughed back.
"Little Roro. Auntie Korra won't let big bad Bolin take you away."
"But I wasn't even trying to-aah!" Bolin screamed as a tendril of water caught him by the foot and lifted him into the air. Rohan flew upwards, and Mako's heart leapt into his mouth.
Fortunately, Jinora flew up from-somewhere-and caught Rohan. She was joined by Meelo and Ikki who looked down curiously as Korra glared at Bolin, who was being held upside-down by the whip of water.
"BOLIN YOU ARE VERY BAD. ROHAN CLEARLY WANTED TO BURY MISTER RICE!"
"Who in Ba Sing Se is Mister Rice?"
Mako sighed and hurried to check whether Asami was okay. By the time he reached her, she winced and rubbed her head, where a rock had clocked her.
"Asami! Are you okay?"
"Wha-what happened? I remember Bolin and I were feeding Rohan some stew and then-" Asami closed her head and sighed, trying to remember- "-then the wall broke and there was rice or something all over the-" Asami gasped as she looked past Mako. "What is Korra doing to Bolin?"
Mako face palmed. "Currently, she is feeding him lentil stew."
Indeed, Bolin, who was struggling against water binding was being force-fed Lentil stew.
"Korra! I-umph"
Korra simply stuck a spoon of steaming hot stew into Bolin's mouth.
"What are you-umph"
Another spoon.
"Mako! Help-Umph. You know, I'm getting really tired of thi-umph."
Asami glanced at Mako. He offered a hand and pulled her to her feet. Glancing at Jinora, Ikki and Melo who had joined them, he sighed."Korra went to the dentist who gave her some kind of drug to ease her pain when she had her teeth pulled out. Now she's like this. The effects should wear out in a few hours."
"A few hours! My power doesn't last that long!" Meelo shrieked.
Jinora nodded. "She should try meditation."
Rohan was busy staring at Korra feeding Bolin, who had given up and was eating lentil stew. Ikki was standing behind Jinora who had taken out a book and was scribbling something.
'What are you doing, Jinora?" Asami asked.
Jinora ignored her and focused on her writing. "Patient received nitrous oxide. Symptoms clear. Now trying to wear her out."
"Are you- are you recording what happens to Korra?"
Jinora nodded. "So that I can use it on- er, for science!"
Mako didn't have a chance to respond as Rohan began to cry. Almost in slow motion, Korra turned from Bolin towards Rohan. Her water binding fell from around Bolin as she began to run towards Rohan with a bowl of rice in one hand and a spoon on lentil stew in another.
"Avatar alert!" Meelo yelled, before he just managed to whisk Rohan out, before Korra got him, and she screamed, her hands closing onto dry air.
"YOU BAD BOY! COME BACK DOWN!"
Meelo shrieked and leapt up into the air. Korra followed.
"COME HERE!" she screamed.
"I don't want to die!" Meelo yelled back, before tossing Rohan to Ikki.
Korra turned towards Ikki who swallowed nervously. She slowly walked over and handed Rohan to Mako.
"She's your girlfriend."
"He's you brother, Ikki."
"But Korra's gone mad."
"You think I'm scared of Korra any less than you are?"
"Can't you kiss her or something?"
Mako face palmed, something he felt he was doing too much lately. "That's not how kissing works", he explained while Bolin made kissing sounds in the background.
"ROHAN!"
Mako yelped and ran towards the Air Temple, Korra behind him.
Thus began the sport of baby bending.
Mako quickly swapped Rohan to Jinora behind a column in the Temple before running out. Korra sent a whip of air that tripped him, before landing on him. Mako grinned and showed his empty hands.
"UGH! YOU ARE A NAUGHTY BOYFRIEND!"
Korra screamed before heading towards the Temple. Unfortunately, Jinora chose that moment to come out.
Rohan giggled. Jinora paled. Korra giggled back at Rohan.
"I WILL LET YOU JOIN US IN BURYING MISTER RICE IF YOU LET ME HAVE ROHAN."
"Korra, dear, we can't trust you with Rohan when you're like this-" Mako began.
Korra whirled around, tears in her eyes all of a sudden. "Yo-You don't trust me?" she asked, before bawling her eyes out.
Rohan laughed real hard this time.
"If you don't trust me.." Korra said, drying her eyes and chuckling, "THEN I WILL TAKE ROHAN BY FORCE!"
She chased Jinora, two air scooters bouncing all over the Temple walls and floors. Asami waited towards once corner, where Jinora quickly tossed Rohan before leaping into the air.
Korra screeched as Asami hurriedly weaved in between the columns, resulting in Korra almost running into them, before she decided to wait till Asami reached the end of the column.
Mako sighed. Of course. Hyper as she was, Korra was still smart.
"ROHAN! GIVE ME!" Korra said, looking at Asami expectantly.
"What's that?" Asami asked, pointing towards the clouds.
Korra whirled around. "Huh? Where?"
Asami deftly handed Rohan to Bolin, who quickly ran towards the house, while Mako joined Asami.
"Er.." he scratched his head. "Oh, uh, look- I can see Mister Rice's family."
"WHERE?" Korra screeched.
"In the clouds, see, uh…" Mako stuttered.
Asami continued, "There are all big and white and -er- fluffy. Like..rice! Yeah! Like rice! Why don't we just sit down and watch the clouds?"
Mako exhaled in relief as Korra, bowl in hand, settled down to the ground.
"I guess you are right." she said, her nose scrunched as she thought hard. She leapt up. "I should take Mister Rice to his family! They will bury him!"
Asami's face palm could be heard all around Air Temple Island.
Korra grabbed her bowl and quickly leapt upwards, going dangerously high up. Not even the most experienced air-benders went too high up without some means of controlled descent. And Korra wasn't even an air-bender.
Mako decided it was time to take desperate measures.
"Jinora! Ikki! Meelo! Report!" Mako commanded.
The air-bending trio stood to attention before Mako. Meelo dropped a salute.
"Alright air-benders! It's time to do your duty!" Mako tried to convince the three in his best military impersonation, knowing it was the only way Meelo would do anything. That or a glorious fight to the death and he was trying to avoid just that.
"Rescue the rice bowl from Avatar Korra and get it out of her sight!"
"On it!" the three benders replied, grabbing their air-gliders and soaring towards Korra.
"You think they'll be okay?" Asami asked, turning towards Mako.
"I really hope so."
These air-bending kids were annoying. First, they tried to tell her not to meet Mister Rice's poor family- that was bad.
But now they were trying to take Mister Rice away from her. That was unacceptable!
"NO! MISTER RICE STAYS WITH ME!" Korra yelled, waving the bowl carefully but defiantly at the two benders in front of her- Meelo and Jinora.
Korra realized too late that the whoosh behind her was Ikki stealing the bowl.
"GIVE THAT BACK!"
"Nuh uh." Ikki said, before hurrying away. Korra chased her around Air-Temple island, air bending from one mountain to another while Ikki glided in front of her. Just as they passed Mako and Asami on their second run of the island, Ikki had a bright idea.
"Mako!" she yelled. "Catch!"
She dropped the rice bowl and circled around Korra before disappearing into thin air.
Mako watched helplessly as the rice bowl tumbled in the air, its blue ceramic making it nearly invisible in the sky. The rice was floating all around it.
The bowl hit the earth and cracked into a thousand pieces. The rice spread over a yard around, coating the place white.
"MI-MISTER RICE!YO-YOU KILLED HIM!"
Mako turned. Korra's eyes were brimming with tears.
"Wasn't he already dead?" Meelo asked.
"Now, Korra." Mako said, bringing his hands up to pacify her. "I didn't kill-"
Korra entered the Avatar state.
Things were hopeless now. It was all Mako, Bolin, Asami and the kids could do to hold on for dear life while Air Temple Island experienced a miniature earthquake.
Korra was in a trance. "You have killed Mister Rice. You will-"
Fortunately, the Avatar state and her nearly ripping the island apart had tired Korra. So she decided to fall asleep again. A hundred feet in the air.
"Meelo! Ikki! Jinora!"
"Yeah, yeah." Meelo countered, before the trio air-bent a powerful gust of wind that slowed Korra's descent. Mako took her into his arms as nodded his thanks.
"Once again, Meelo saves the day!" the mentioned air-bender said enthusiastically.
"Uh Mako?" Bolin said, looking out through a window holding Rohan. "I think Tenzin's chinaware is broken."
Korra opened her eyes, but was unable to get up. When she looked around, she saw that she was in one of the rooms at the Air Temple. How had she gotten there?
And Mako was sleeping on her chest. Which was why she was unable to get up.
"Mako!" Korra whispered, face turning red.
The fire-bender snapped awake. "Huh? What? Rice?"
"Rice?" Korra asked him, before noticing several scratches on his face and uniform. One of his eyes was black and his black-and-burgundy clothes looked like they had passed through a hurricane.
"What happened to you?"
"Uh..are you normal?"
Korra glared at Mako. "What kind of a question is that? Of course I am. If you won't answer me, I'll ask someone else!" she got up from the bed and stomped to the door.
"Korra wait! You need to-"
Korra opened the door and it seemed like time froze. She saw Bolin, Asami and Tenzin's kids- all four of them- playing under one of the trees. The moment they saw her, they froze.
"Hey guys!" Korra chirped happily. "How are-"
Bolin screamed and ran with Rohan into Tenzin's house, quickly followed by Asami, Meelo, Ikki and Jinora.
"Even a man knows when to retreat!" she heard Meelo call out, and she frowned, puzzled.
"You see?"
Korra turned towards Mako who was smirking, though the fact that he had a black eye ruined it. "It's a long story."
By the time Mako had finished explaining what had happened to a very embarrassed Korra, Tenzin and Pema had returned. Korra, blushing, was apologizing to the affected benders. Pema was confused. Tenzin had already entered the house.
"KORRA!" he shouted. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY CHINAWARE?"
A/N: Please review or I'll politely request Korra to have more laughing gas.
Is the humor good enough?