Chapter Twelve: On the Run

Kai wondered through the snow. Wind stinging his face his hands turning pink from the cold. But he had to keep going if he was to get more of those buns. Not only that but the rewards he would receive once he told Kuvira where his family was.

"I'll show you Korra. How can they say all that stuff about Kuvira? She was nice to me" He thought

But then again maybe that might have been a ruse she was playing on him. He could't really be sure about when he was being lie to. But that was driven out of his mind when thoughts what he would become afterwards. He would become king and all of Narnia would be his.

"And if they want to stop me, Kuvira will turn them into metal" He thought

"Is that really what you want?" came a voice from in front of him.

He looked up to see him self sitting on a tree. Kai ignored it and continued, knowing full well that it was his conscience. So this land had more then just magical creatures. He kept trudging through the snow while Conscience walked with ease.

"I said do you really want Kuvira to turn them into metal? And I don't just mean Korra" It asked.

"I didn't say that I wanted them turned into metal" Kai answered

Conscience shook his head. Finding it frustrating that Kai could never say what he wanted to say and never admit that he was in the wrong.

"You know she wants to capture them. If not that then what will she do" it asked.

"I don't know, Why should I care what she dose to them. Whatever she dose it'll serve them right" he answered "Any way she was nice enough to me, Nicer then Korra was"

Conscience then facepamed itself. It couldn't believe what this boy was saying, he had to be the biggest Idiot for thinking that he was going get anything from betraying his family.

"Are you serious. Dude you said yourself she's just playing you to get to them" Conscience said flabbergasted "Can't you see she's a witch"

Again Kai stubbornly refused to listen to him and continued on his way. While doing so he spoke without looking back.

"She's queen of this country and she gonna make me king. So do yourself a favour and disappear" he shouted

"Daylights almost gone, dark soon" Conscience shouted back before vanishing.

Kai then continued on stomping through the snow. Walking towards he thought was his glory when in reality it was his doom.

—

Korra banged the table with her fist in rage. Lucky for them her hand wasn't on fire other wise the table would burn. Asami tried to comfort her but she shook her off.

"Why, Why would he do this to us. Was it because of me. How could he be so STUPID" Korra shouted

"Honey you can't put the blame on yourself" Asami said.

Korra then kicked chair in rage and began pacing up and down running her fingers through her hair. She then began punching the wall. The noise frightened Pabu and Momo which made them hide in Asami's coat pockets.

"Whats that going to achieve?" Asami demand

Korra looked back at her girlfriend enraged. Like she couldn't possibly understand what she was feeling right now.

"I'm Sorry. Is This Too much for you PRINCESS" She yelled.

"You don't have to go bite my HEAD OFF" Asami yelled back

"ENOUGH" Aang shouted.

So loudly he made everything around him gust. Like a wild storm was in doors. He made the candles flicker, the earth shake and the liquid in their glasses ripple. He calmed him self down by taking a deep breath in and exhaling out of his mouth.

"Us fighting isn't going to get Kai back" he said.

"He's right, we must leave. We haven't got a moment to spare" Said Mr. Beaver.

He and Mrs Beaver began grabbing sacks and any bit of food they could lay there hands on. Asami and the others joined in to help.

"You think this will be enough?" Korra asked

"For?" Mrs Beaver asked.

"Well we don't know how far he's gone. You sure this will be enough when we find him?" She asked again.

That was the moment Mr. Beaver stopped packing and gave a long and pitiful sigh. He looked up at Korra with saddened eyes.

"Their's no point in going after your brother daughter of eve. Because we all know what will happen once he reaches her" He answered.

Korra knew Kai wouldn't do anything unless if there was something in it for him. Kuvira must have given him something worth his wile to betray his own family.

"I didn't want to say it, him being your brother and all. But from moment I laid eyes on him I thought territories. Cause he had the look of someone whose been with the Uniter and eaten her food" Mr. Beaver explained.

Aang should have known, Kai was acting strange when they found each other that day. He was looking sickly and would hardly eat anything else. Not to mention his attitude had gotten worse then had ever been before.

"But why would Kuvira want Kai alive" Asami asked.

"Because she needs him alive so she can use him as bait to catch the rest you. To stop the prophecy from coming true, To Kill You" Mrs. Beaver answered.

All of them stood their in silents, What was the right thing to do? They couldn't go after Kai at the risk of being caught and could't stay know Kuvira would send people back down here.

"I guess we have no choice" Aang said breaking the silents

They all looked at him, he then grabbed five empty bags from the shelves he had seen earlier. He gave each of them to everyone.

"Grab what food you have, We have to leave for the stone table immediately. Aslan's our only hope now"

—

Kai pushed on and on through the snow. He was beginning to regret leaving the warmth of the dam when he finally came onto an opening within the woods. This lead to an open land like river meeting the ocean. He found the valley, within it stood a giant castle made interlay of metal with icicles hanging from the buttress. Getting closer to building made it look scary in the moonlight but Kai didn't care just as long as he got some more mooncakes he could walk through the gates go hell for all he cared. Once he came to the gate he saw dwarf on one leg. From what he could see it looked like he was running from something. Kai tried to get the dwarfs attention but he looked like he could't see him. Kai then came closer and almost had a heart attack. Behind the dwarf was a massive lion looking like it was ready to pounce. Kai looked around for a place to air bend to and hide but then he noticed something. Both the lion and dwarf had a vast amount of snow on them and neither of them looked like they were breathing. He came closer and saw his refection in the Lions main. He ran his hand across it to discover.

"They're made of metal" He whispered.

He then looked further in. Statue among statue covered the court yard, most were animals like dogs, foxes, wolfs, cats and various birds to name a few. Others were fauns, dryads, niphs and centaurs. All that had expressions of fear, pain or anger on their faces. Kai could've have sworn he saw something that looked like a giant with a club. He wondered if one of the fauns he past was Aang's friend Miss Tumnus

"Don't you see. These are all her victims. Still think she's good now" his Conscience

Kai ignored it and continued on. He came to steps where something large was lying in his path. He stretched over it and was about to head in when his feet was knocked out from under him. A giant wolf paw pinned him to the ground against his chest and he felt claws dig into his coat.

"Lay still stranger" The Wolf growled with fire in his eyes.

"Or you'll never move again. Who are you" He demanded.

"I'm Kai the Son of Adam the Great Uniter met the other day. She was the one who wanted to see my family" Kai explained.

The wolf then considered for a moment and moved of Kai, he then backed away and bowed. He then headed for the front door.

"My apologise fortunate favoured of Kuvira. Or else not so fortunate" he growled.

—

Kai followed the wolf down the main hall. Every where they turned he saw another statue or two waiting around the corner. They came to throne room with was a metal chair deck out with shapes of ice. Also it looked as though it was made by a thousand weapons or spears, swords and arrows.

"What here Son of Adam, if you value your life" Said the wolf.

Kai was left alone in the cold throne room. He approached the throne and touched it surface. He immediately withdrew his hand. It felt as though he had been burned, the metal was so cold he wondered how anyone could sit upon it. He then heard foot steps and turned, he saw Kuvira and Azula come out of the darkness, he immediately stepped away from the throne. Kuvira didn't smile at him, instead she had a look of bottled anger and looked as though she wanted to kill. Kai then lowered himself on one knee and bowed low to her. She sat on her throne and looked down upon him.

"You have nerve boy. A quality I find useful in a person. But that doesn't change the fact that you dare TO COME ALONE" She yelled.

She got up and kicked him on to his back and pointed her arm sword at his throat. Kai took unsteady breaths and he felt the metal cut into his skin.

"I brought them down as far as I could. But they wouldn't listen to me" He pleaded.

"I asked so little of you and yet you still failed to bring them here" She growled raising her sword over her head.

"Wait, their in the house at the dame with the beavers" He explained.

Kuvira lowered her sword and turned away from him. Kai sat up brushing some of the snow off his knees. He then remembered something else.

"They also said something else. Something about Aslan" he explained.

Kuvira looked back at him. She looked as though her worst fears had come true, all the colour had drained from her face.

"What? Where?" She demanded.

"I'm only repeating what I heard" Kai answered.

Kuvira passed up and down, trying to figure out a plan of action. She then looked to servants and summoned them forth to ready her slay. Also to fix the harness without bells.

"MORGRIM" She shouted.

The wolf Kai had met before came to Kuvira's side. Kai was liking this less and less, he was beginning to think he wasn't going to become a prince after all.

"Summoned the swiftest of your pack and head to the house of beavers" She ordered.

"And if they are already gone?" he asked.

"Then head make hast towards the stone table, I will join you once I find a way to cross the river" she answered.

Morgrim bowed and was ready to leave when Kuvira summoned him again. She leaned into his ear so Kai couldn't hear.

"If you manage to to intercept them, you know what to do" She finished

"All Hail The Great Uniter" Whispered Morgim

He then galloped away howling. About twenty or so wolves followed him snarling. Kai was beginning to feel awful in the pit of his stomach, he didn't feel so hungry for those sweet buns any more. Azula then took him by the scruff of his neck and was thrown into a dungeon cell on Kuvira's orders. Upon the flour was a plate with dry bread, bowl of plain rice and a cup of water.

"Eat up Son of Adam. It won't do any good to have faint along the way" she sniggered.

Kai crawled towards the food and began eating it. The rice was cold, the bread dry and the water almost frozen. But that was all he got.

"Be glad of it. For it will be a long time before you taste food again" She said before leaving him alone.

Kai pulled his knees to his chest and held them tightly. By the spirits what had he done, He betrayed his family, turned a innocent into metal and for what? Stupid sweets and lies of glory. He felt his tears fall down his face while he chewed.

"Well, heres your reward for your betrayal. Locked in a cell alone with no one coming for you. You'd do anything to be with the others now. Even Korra" whispered his Conscience

Kai couldn't hold it back anymore. He let it out but kept quiet so the guards couldn't hear his cry. His conscience he would do anything to be with them now. He could only pray for their safety and pray that if he ever saw them again he would beg for their forgiveness and hopped they would forgive him.

—

Morgim and his hunting party raced down to Beaver dame, Once there he waited in case they were still there. For a minute there was no movement.

"Take Them" he order his pack

They search the place top to bottom, tore it apart. Unfortunately for them the Beavers and the children had already left.

"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAA" Morgim roared.

He sniffed the air for any sign of a sent, made his pack sweep the area for anything that might give them a lead. But they all returned with nothing.

"Do we follow them Captain" Ask his officer.

"No, new snow has covered their tracks and the sent is cold. Away Men, To The Stone Table" he ordered.

—

Never in all his life had Aang walk as much as he did then when he was Narnia. His coat was covered in snow and his face was half frozen. He wanted to use his fire bending but felt it would draw attention to them. Asami was staying ahead with Mrs. Beaver and not talking to Korra. Mr. Beaver gave her Parka and tug to get her attention.

"Something troubling you human" He asked.

"I never once though that Asami could get this mad at me. I really over stepped it with that princess insult" she explained.

"She got you in the polar bear dog house now Korra" Aang joked.

Korra made the snow from the trees fall on Aangs head with her bending, he was able to stop the first wave with air but the second came out of nowhere. Mr. Beaver laughed at Korra's situation, he two had been in her place few times with his wife.

"Yes she is mad but not just because of that, she just worried for everyone thats all" He explained.

Korra knew that, she herself was still tarring herself up about Kai. Maybe she wasn't so crewel to him he would still be with them. It was all her fault that he ran off and betrayed them. Asami was only trying to take the pressure off and how did she repay her by pushing her away and insulting her.

"Believe me I've been where you are and the best thing you can do is give her some space. Then the moment will come when she'll need you to lean on" Mr. Beaver advised.

"He's right" Aang said.

He came up to Korra and patted her on the shoulder. He had the stretch out a bit seeing that she was taller them him by a few inches.

"If I know my sister and I do. Is that she never holds a grudge for long" he explained.

Korra smiled at him and tussled his brown hair and loosening the last bits of snow with in it. They finally came to small hole in deep in the ground. It was lined with tree branched, dry and big enough for all of them to fit into.

"This is a place made for Beavers in bad times. It's not much but we could all use a few hours sleep" Mr. Beaver explained.

They all gathered within and piled onto each other and kept warmed by the fur of their coats like a litter of puppies. Momo and Pabu snuggled beside each other to keep warm. Though Asami was keeping her distance for Korra she slid and laid down beside her. Korra moved her arm to give her room to sleep. Asami faced away from her not wanting to talk. Korra didn't push it cause she knew that her girlfriend needed space right now.

"Night" Asami whispered.

"Night" Korra answered.

Then without another word they all gradually fell into a uneasy and dreamless sleep. Hoping that tomorrow would bring better times then today.