Okay you know when I said that the chapter 4 was the tough one to write….. well I was wrong…so, so wrong… this one took much longer than I thought but better late than never. Plus I have been brainstorming on other fanfictions for LOK (more info at the end of chapter below.)

I do not own Legend of Korra, only my OCs and the change of selected scenes that are not in the real episodes.

Enjoy!

Legend of Korra Season 1 Book: Air - Episode 5 - The Spirit of Competition

It has been several weeks since the Water Tribe siblings had their encounter with Amon, Korra has taken liberty of leaving the Task Force, much to Tarrlok's dismay, but much more to Kovu's liking, Big Brother 1 Councilman 0.

It was not long that Korra started to train with the Fire Ferrets again, Kovu started attending them too, seeing how that he proved quite the opponent that one day, thou he did got hit pretty hard by an incoming Earth Disk to the knee, even though Bolin felt bad, the Waterbender reassured him that he can heal it.

After finding out about this, he became the Fire Ferrets personally healer.

As of now he is reading the newspaper on one of the benches, Taka and Pabu are playing not too far from where his feet are, he looks up from the paper to see Korra training with Mako and Bolin. He is glad to see that Korra is giving her all, after not attending past training sessions.

At that moment Bolin gets knock back by his brother's fire shot, Korra get hit by Bolin's earth disk and Mako is knocked over by Korra's Water blast. With all three on the floor, they laugh merrily.

Mako stands up and removes his helmet.

"It's been great having you at so many back to back practices Korra," he says.

"Feels good to be back," Korra replied after taking off her own helmet. "Although Tarrlok isn't too happy about my leave of absence."

"Hey, you joined the Fire Ferrets before you joined his Task Force," says Bolin pointing out the truth.

"Okay, come on, team huddle time!" says Mako.

Kovu sees the three huddle together, before going back to reading.

"Um… It's our first match of the tournament tonight. I know the three of us hasn't been a team for very long, but even so, the Fire Ferrets have never been this good. Are we ready?"

"We're ready!" Korra and Bolin sync.

"Not quite," a feminine voice says.

Kovu looks from his papers to see Asami, holding one of the Fire Ferrets new uniforms.

"You'll need these!"

"Hey, Asami," Mako greets her as he walks towards her.

"Good morning sweetie," Asami greeted back.

Kovu closes the paper, folds it up and walks to his sister, watch Mako taking a closer look at the uniforms.

"These new uniforms look great!" said Mako.

"You look great, champ!" Asami commented.

The two eskimo noise kiss, making Korra cringe, Kovu gently nudged her in the ribs with his elbow, snapping her out of it before the young couple spot her.

"Well, teammates, healer, I'll see you before the match tonight, Asami and I have a lunch date."

"Okay, we'll check you guys later, you know, we'll see you when we see you," Bolin says the couple as they leave.

Kovu gathers his bag as Taka climbs up to his shoulder, he gives Pabu a scratch behind the ears as his way of 'see you soon little guy.' On the way to the exit he turns to see Bolin talking to Korra.

"So, Korra… there they go, here we are, all alo-"

"Korra hurry up where going to be late," Kovu called out.

"Sorry Bolin we got to get back to Air Temple to train with Tenzin. See ya!" Korra says, then running out of the gym.

As the sunsets for the day, snow is falling, the water tribe siblings are wearing the hoodies, the winter in Republic City does not compare to the South Pole but still cold. Korra and Kovu are helping Ikki and Jinora feeding the flying lemurs, one of them is sat on Kovu's shoulder, while taka is on Jinora's, once Korra placed the food in the metal cage, several Lemurs appear and wasted no time and dived right in.

"So, how's it going with the tall, dreamy Firebender boy? You're been spending a lot of time together lately," Jinora asked the Avatar.

"Ooh, yeah, tell us all about the magical romance," Ikki asked as well but with hype.

"What?" Korra chuckled. "Listen to you two, I'm not interested in Mako or any romantic stuff."

She clears throat.

"Besides, he's all into that prissy, beautiful, elegant, rich girl. But let's just pretend for a second I am interested in him, what would I do?"

"Yeah 'pretend'," Kovu says while making the air quotes with his hands.

Korra gave him a death glare, only making him chuckle not knowing he is only teasing her.

"Ooh, I just read a historical saga, when the heroine fell in love with the enemy general's son, who's supposed to marry the princess. You should do what she did," Jinora suggested.

"Tell me!"

"She rode a dragon into battle and burned down the entire country, then she jumped into a volcano. It was so romantic."

"Uh…" Korra baffled.

"No, no, no!" Ikki interrupted. "The best way to win a boy's heart is to brew a love potion of rainbows and sunsets that makes true lovers sprout wings and fly into a magical castle in the sky, where they get married and eat clouds with spoons, and uses stars as ice cubes in their moonlight punch. For ever and ever and ever!" the middle child Airbender says as she airbends high above their heads.

"The volcano is starting to make sense to me now," Korra says as Ikki gently lands on the ground.

Pema's giggling alerted the group.

"Wow for pregnant woman she sure does walk quietly," Kovu said in his head.

"Oh hey, Pema. Uh, how long were you standing there?" Korra asked self-consciously.

"Long enough. But trust me, I know what you're going through," Pema says as she walks towards them. "Years ago, I was in the exact some situation with Tenzin."

"Daddy was in love with someone else before you?" Ikki asked.

"That's right."

"So what did you do?" Korra inquired.

"Well, for the longest time, I did nothing. I was so shy and scared of rejection… but watching my soul mate spend his life with the wrong woman became too painful. So I hung my chin out there and I confused my love to Tenzin. And the rest is history."

"Wow!" Korra, Jinora and Ikki sync.

Kovu looked at Korra, seeing an idea form in the Young Avatars head.

The start of the Pro-bending finals has gotten underway, the trio where not the only ones to get new uniforms too, seeing how Kovu is technically part of the team, he too wears the white uniform, thou his style is suited for a healer, the sleeves stop just above the elbows, he has removed she arm bands, his shirt tucked into his white trousers, he still wears his water tribe boots.

The match between the Future Industries Fire Ferrets vs Red Sands Rabbaroos, was an easy victory for the Ferrets, Kovu is packing up his things that he brought with him that he didn't need, but when you have the mind of a Healer you bring what you think might be needed.

"Wow, we were really connecting out there in that ring!" Mako says as walk walks to the lockers, Korra not far behind him.

"Yeah!" Korra agreed. "You know, I feel like the two of us have been connecting really well out of the ring, too."

"Uh…sure."

"So, I was thinking we should spend some time together."

"We've been spending lots of time together."

"I mean, outside of the gym. And not while searching for kidnapped family members or fighting Chi-Blockers."

"I don't know. Asami and I ar-"

"Look, I really like you, and I think we were meant for each other."

Kovu heard all that as he still packs up, his back facing them, and the silence it all, kovu closed his eye wincing quietly at his sisters confession to the Firebender.

"Korra, I'm really sorry, but… I just don't feel the same way about you."

"Forget I ever said anything." Korra say and walks away from him.

It was not long for Asami to enter the room.

"Congratulations, guys!" she says and walks to Mako to hug him. "You were so amazing out there."

"That just added salt to the injury," Kovu thought to himself.

Bolin walks up to Korra.

"So, Korra, I was thinking… you and me, we could go get some dinner tonight… sort of a date situation," Bolin offered.

"Oh… that's really sweet, but I don't think so. I don't feel very date-worthy."

"Are you kidding me? You're the smartest, funniest, toughest, buffest, talented-est, incredible-est girl in the world!"

"You really feel that way about me?" Korra says after she lightly chuckles.

"I felt that way since the moment I saw you. Trust me, I know we're gonna have so much fun together."

"You know what? I could use some fun. Okay, sure."

"Yes! Who's the luckiest guy in the world? Right here, Bolin."

The two leave the room.

(I don't know if the second match takes place in the same night or not just go with it ^^')

As the others went off doing their own things, Kovu got out of his uniform and back into his Water Tribe getup, he had a wonder off to kill time and made an pitstop at one of the food-stands with his animal companions.

After having their fill they head back to get ready, as he waits for the match to begin, he notices that Korra and Mako are not on good terms as they both walked in, but knowing he has no time to ask about it, he leaves it for now.

Not long the Fire Ferrets and getting ready to go up against the Black Quarry Boar-Q-Pines.

Shiro over to you.

"Eight teams have been eliminated and eight advance into the quarterfinals, which get under way tonight. The rookies are about to take on the former. Youth clashes against experience in a battle for the ages, or rather, of the ages."

DING! The match begins.

"Korra dodged and…oh! Slams right into her teammate! Down goes Mako, and Bolin and Korra!"

The Boar-Q-Pines win the first round.

From afar Kovu my not be able to read lips but he can tell Korra and Mako are arguing, Bolin soon talks some sense into them.

At least the Earthbender is keeping up the team from losing the match.

"Bolin lets fly a flurry of attacks. He's a one man bending battalion."

The Ferrets win the second round by the skin of their teeth.

But the third round was no better, to put it bluntly, so I'll let Shiro say it.

"Not sure what's eating them, but this not the same team who took out the Rabbaroos."

Kovu had his hand over his eyes seeing the team getting hit. As he hears the bell go off, round three is a tie, one the refs flips a coin, it shows red. Bolin knows that Mako is off tonight and he take on the Boar-Q-Pine Earthbender and the Ferrets win.

The Waterbender sighs in relief, mental thanking the young Earthbender for keeping a level head while Korra and Mako… well… not so much.

Korra stood at the pier of the Arena under the gazebo back in her Water Tribe getup, Kovu walks up to her, he too back in his Native clothes.

"Something tells me that you should have brought a dragon tonight," he says. "But the way you two where arguing, you both would literally spit fire."

"Kovu if you are trying to cheer me up, you are failing, big time," Korra replied in a annoyed tone.

"Hey, chin up, what's got your wolf tail in a knot?" he asked with concern. "Something happened between you and Mako before the match."

"I don't want to talk about it," Korra replied. "Not now anyway, I just want to been alone for a while… Ok?"

"Alright, but we need to head back to the island soon," he says before walking away.

He walks to Naga and Rama, waiting for what seems to be a hour, as he gets his pocket watch to check the time, he knows Tenzin would start to get worried if they are not back at a certain time, still a bit shaken by what happened with Amon weeks ago.

Before he could even put the watch away, Korra gets on Naga and heads off fast.

"What the?" he says. "Hey Korra wait up!" he calls out, as he gets on Rama quickly follow her.

When they get to Island, Korra head straight to her room, Kovu thought it would be wise to wait till morning to talk to her.

The following morning, after a very quiet breakfast which is differently out in the ordinary compare to most mornings, and keeping up with the training on the beach, the siblings are in Waterbending combat, Kovu gathered the water around him, and then shoots it straight at Korra, knocking her on to her back.

"Korra you okay?!" he says as he hurry to her, thinking he went too far.

"Yeah I'm fine," she says getting back up.

"You sure?" he asked.

"No," she sighed.

"Take a break, I'll be right back," he says before he walks off.

Korra sits down on the sand, listen to the sound of the ocean, have the quiet moment to herself, Kovu returns with tray of two cups of tea, teapot included. He then places the tray down next to her, sits down cross legged himself,

"Here," he says after pouring a cup and offers it to Korra.

"Thanks," she replied, taking it.

After he pours his own cup, they stayed in silent, enjoying the tranquillity.

"I messed up Kovu," Korra says.

"Yeah you pretty much did," he replied before sipping his drink.

"Wow, thanks for making me feel better," she says sarcastically.

"But there is still a chance for you to fix it."

"How?"

"That's for you to solve."

"You make it sound like it's easy, you have no idea what I'm going through."

"I think I do," he replies after taking another sip. "Because I know what is like to be in love."

"What! Wait you had a girlfriend!?"

"Yep."

"When?!"

"A couple of years ago" he says as he raises his drink to his lips, Korra doing the same.

"Really!?" Jinora and Ikki squealed, appearing behind them.

In shock Kovu and Korra both spit take, they quickly turned around to see the two out of three Air kids.

"Spirits you kids need to have a bell on," Kovu says after coughing, clearing his throat. "How long have you two been there?"

"Long enough to know you that Korra asked Mako she has feelings for him," Ikki says quickly.

"Like mother, like daughter," Korra mumbled so the kids could not hear.

"How did you meet her Kovu?" Ikki says as she sits in front of the male Waterbender.

"Yeah who was the lucky woman?" Jinora asked as she too sits next to her little sister.

"Yeah who?" Korra asked.

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you lot," he says as he refills his cup. "It was around the time when Korra was about to start her Earthbending training. I was improving on my healing abilities, Sifu Katara told me that a young Waterbender in the White Lotus from the Northern Water Tribe was going to stay at the compound to complete her training."

"At first I didn't take notice of her till one day we meet in the library."

"Oh, did you two grab the some book at the same?, that is so romantic," Jinora asked.

"Uh…well it did involve a book, but I was not holding it, it landed on the crown of my head," he says as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "You see she was on the ladders putting some books away on the top shelf and the heaviest one just had to fall."

The girls giggled, picturing a younger teenaged Kovu with a massive bump on his head.

"What happened next?" Korra asked once she stopped giggling.

"Well after that she apologized, saying it was not the best idea, so after helping her, I got to know her and she got to know me. We trained together, studied together and before you know it, we became an item."

"Wow!" Jinora and Ikki say in aww.

"Are you two still together?" Ikki asked.

"Sadly no, months to years later, she completed her training and become a Master Healer like Sifu Katara and me, she had to return to the North, we wrote for some time, but we took different paths and I've not heard from her since."

"How long where you two together?" Korra asked.

"Four years, she left just before you started Firebending training," he answers his sister question.

"Do you think you'll see her again?" Jinora asked, with wonder in her eyes.

"One day, we may be on separate paths now, but some paths do meets down the road."

"Aww," Jinora and Ikki sync.

"Jinora! Ikki! It's time for your training." Tenzin calls out to them.

"Go on you two," Kovu says and the Air kids leaving the Water Tribe siblings.

"What's her name?" Korra asked curiously.

"Nita."

"Did Mum and Dad knew about it?

"They did but I didn't introduce them to her, the white lotus up North wanted her to focus on her training," he replied.

"You really think you two would get back together?"

"Yeah," Kovu says with a smile.

He put his empty cup on the tray, Korra doing the same.

"Korra whatever is going on with you, Mako and Bolin, this is something that you have to fix yourself, course tonight in not going to go well, you have to pick up the pieces and work from there."

"Come on," he says while he stands up offering his hand to her. "Let's carry practicing before tonight's game?"

"Yeah," she says feeling a bit better.

She grabs his hand and pulls her up, and they start training.

Night has fallen upon the City, Korra and Kovu walk into the changing room of the Fire Ferrets, they see Mako near the lockers and Bolin sat on the bench looking blue. The silence was so uncomfortable, as the siblings got changed, once Kovu had the uniform on he see to his medical equipment on the bench. He looks at Bolin noticing he is not looking so good.

"You okay Bo? You're looking a bit green."

"My stomach hurts pretty bad," he replied with a groan. "Don't suppose you have anything to help."

"Yeah," he says, then goes through his bag and gets out a small glass vial filled with amber coloured liquid.

"Here," he says passing it to the Earthbender. "Drink it now and you'll be good as new in no time."

"Thanks Kovu."

The match between the Fire Ferrets Vs Bau Ling Buzzard Wasps soon, the team gets ready to the head to the ring, Korra is the last to go, before she does, she looks at her brother.

"Remember Korra, a clear mind keeps a clear focus," he speaks in wisdom.

"Alright," she replies with a nod, then puts her helmet on.

"Good luck."

Shiro what do think?

"You can't find two teams more evenly matched in age, size, and strength than the Fire ferrets and the Buzzard Wasps. Believe me, I've looked!"

"This should be a pulse-pounding semi-final, folks!

DING! the match begins.

"The Buzzard Wasps open with a flawlessly executed combo! All three Ferrets take an early visit to zone two! And Mako's knocked all the way back into zone three! The fire ferrets have been struggling to stay alive since the opening bell. All three players are totally out of the sync tonight."

Bolin gets hit in the gut by an Earth disk hidden from the dust cloud.

"Ooh, that has got to sting!" Shiro.

"Ouch!" Kovu hissed.

As Mako and Korra carry on fighting, Bolin slowly moves to the side of the ring, removes his helmet and….. well.

"And Bolin loses his noodles. Literally! Which reminds me, this match is brought to you by our sponsor, Flamey-O Instant Noodles in the United Republic!"

"Oh Spirits," Kovu gagged a little. "That has put me off noodles for some time."

Korra is the remaining Ferret in Zone 2, she holds her ground till an earth disk knocks her back to Zone 3.

"The Buzzard Wasps fly deeper Ferret territory."

In a tight space the Ferrets are doing their best to stay in, Mako dodged a fire attack but gets hit by a Earth Disk.

"And Mako plunges into the pool! Can the Fire Ferrets hold on? The Wasps have the Ferrets backed up to the edge now."

DING! DING!

"And the Ferrets are bailed out by the bell! They had better pull themselves together, folks, for round two, otherwise they can kiss the finals good-bye!"

"No kidding" Kovu says.

DING!

Round two is just as bad as Round One, Mako gets knocked into zone 2 by another Earth Disk, once back up he hits Bolin by mistake. The Waterbender Wasps strikes at Bolin after he yelled at Mako, he is knocked all the way to Zone 3 and off the ring into the pool below. Korra gets anger and roughs up the Firebender Wasps player with Waterbending.

Ref blows the whistle.

"Unnecessary roughness! Move back one zone!" one of the Refs called out.

"I'll unnecessary rough you up!" Korra spat back while throws water at him.

The water hits the bar near the Ref, making things worse for the Ferrets his gives them the yellow fan, giving the second round to the Wasps.

"Korra calm down you are going to make it worse than it already is," Kovu mutters to himself. "You guys need a knockout to win."

He sees that Korra is trying to encourage her teammates, only to fall on deaf ears, as Mako and Bolin walk to the centre, Korra looks back to Kovu, he nods his head once, hoping to caught his signal.

DING!

Round three is underway.

"Bolin is knocked into Zone two, followed quickly by his brother," Shiro narrates.

The Earthbender Wasp fires two Earth Disks and Bolin he misses the first but gets hit by the second.

"And Bolin takes a zinger to the shoulder. Looks like it's a clean hit."

Mako sees Bolin in pain before being knock off the ring by the Firebender Wasp.

"Mako's in the drink and out of the match. And Bolin keeps playing with one good arm! I got to hand it to him, this kid's got grit. But how long can he keep it up?"

Bolin get a swipe-kick by an Earth Disk and then blasted off the ring by Waterbending.

"Apparently, not very long. The Ferrets' dream of making it to the finals now rest in the Avatar's hands. But with three on one, I don't like her odds."

Kovu grabs a nearby bucket of water, places it by the bench, realising that it lukewarm, he chills it with a simple slowly rotation of his hand, grabs his water skin, and uses the water from it to create ice cubes for an added measure.

Once Mako and Bolin made it to the top, he and the brothers witness Korra's progress in the match.

"What an unbelievable effort here by Korra. She's dodging every element the wasps throws at her."

Korra knocks the Firebender Wasp into Zone 3.

"The Avatar finally gains some ground, but with only 10 seconds remaining, it might be too little, too late."

The Wasps are in a line one in front of the other, Korra gathers the water and shots it at them, knocking out all three in one shot.

"It the big kabosh! What a knock out!"

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!

The crowd roars with cheer, Kovu and the boys cheer as well, Mako and Bolin joy up and down their arms raised up in the air, Kovu make cheering whistles with his fingers .

"It didn't seem possible, folks, but the Fire Ferrets are headed to the finals!"

Kovu calmed down while the brothers are still celebrating, Mako picks up Bolin and hugs him.

"Shoulder! Shoulder!" Bolin squealed.

"Sorry!" Mako apologies after letting him go.

Korra has made it back to the Box.

"That was pretty much the coolest thing I've ever seen," Bolin says to Korra as she walks up to them.

"Thanks, Kovu taught me that move," she replied.

"You're welcome," he says.

"Thanks for not giving up on us," Mako says. "We never would have made it this far without you. I owe you. Big time."

"You're welcome. So… I know things are confusing right now. But I hope we can still be friends?"

"Definitely."

Tahno and the White Falls Wolfbats walk into the room.

"You boys smell something in here?" Tahno says while walking to the platform to the ring. "Wait, I know what that is. Yeah, that's the scent of losers," saying the last part looking at the Ferrets.

"I hope we see you in the finals. Then we'll see who the losers really are," Korra threatened.

"Yeah. I'm peeing in my pants over here," Tahno replied sarcastically.

As the announcer call out the teams for the next and final match, korra tightens her fist, wanting so desperately to punch that Waterbender jerk to a pulp, Kovu places his hand on her shoulder.

"Save your anger for finals little Sis," he says calming her down. "On a side note, you did good on final knockout, glad you got my signal."

"Give me some credit bro," she replies happily.

At that moment Asami walks in.

"Great job!" she says as she hugs Mako. She then turns to the Avatar. "What a comeback, Korra! I've never seen a hat trick like that."

"Thanks. But if it hadn't been for you and your father, we wouldn't have had the chance to play. So, thank you."

"Uh, if everyone's done with the little thank you party, I need some medical attention over here!" Bolin points out while holding his arm.

Kovu kneels down in front of the Earthbender, he exams his injury, it has gone red, he places one hand on the top of the shoulder and the other hand behind the upper arm, moving slightly. Bolin makes a high squeals.

"OWWWW! What was that for?!"

"I was testing to see if it was dislocated, good news it's not," Kovu replied as he stands up.

"How can you tell?" Bolin asked.

"You would be in a lot more pain than this, trust me I know."

"Ooh, let me help!" Korra asked.

Kovu moves from the bench for Korra to move closer to Bolin, she places both hands on the injury, making him yell out.

"OW! GAH! Haven't you hurt me enough, woman?" Bolin snapped.

"Relax, I'm a healer too. Kovu and I learned from Katara, the best there is," she says as she gathers the chilled water from the bucket over Bolin's shoulder.

"I thought you were the healer," Mako asked Kovu.

"We both are gifted with healing abilities; but I have done further studies in healing, besides, it gives them two to talk things out," Kovu says, saying the last bit in a whisper so Korra and Bolin would not hear.

The two look at their younger siblings, knowing that things are back to normal, that is until they find out the Wolfbats have won their match quickly leaving the other team they were against to be carried out by medics. Spirits have mercy.

There you have it chapter 5, I was going to have Asami as the love interest for Kovu but after trying to get my head around on how it would work to little success, then I decided to have another OC instead and you will see her buuuuutttttttt…. Not till Book 2.

In the words of Bugs Bunny "At, I a stinker….." ^w^'

So as I mentioned at the start, I've been brainstorming for other LOK fanfictions, one that involves Kovu and a few others with different OC's. But they will have to wait for the time being until I get it planned out a bit more and once I'm done with Book 1. (just like I'm doing with my RWBY Fics)

Plus I've been getting more ideas for other fanfic's for the last couple of weeks. And while I'm re-watching the episodes, I like to set up a timeline for my OC's so I don't forget what to put for the future chapters. But if any of you have any suggestions with LOK or any of my fanfics I would like to hear them.

Anyway hope you enjoyed the long waited chapter, hopefully I'll be posting more soon.

Stay safe and take care of yourselves.

So, till next time. X