Blinking I felt my eyes throb in pain, struggling to focus as I groaned and shifted. I was on hard wooden floor, very uncomfortable and I had my hands tightly bound behind my back. Gritting my teeth I moved, slowly dragging my body into a somewhat upright position before then looking around. I was still at the air temple though I was locked in a room which had been cleared an empty. "Damn it." I hissed, dragging myself over to the wall where I arched my back and tried to untangle the ropes but to no avail. There was no water nearby, however I doubted that I'd be able to bend it even if there were any. That masked freak has probably already taken it away. Oh well.
Outside I heard footsteps so I growled, narrowing my eyes as I watched the door warily as it was opened by a chi blocker who glanced inside to make sure I wouldn't attack before he stepped back. Then Amon entered. His presence was unnerving, as if he knew that he had the edge and that whatever I tried to do, he'd always come out victorious. I shouldn't be surprised that I lost to him, considering what he was. "I see that you are awake. Leave us." Amon ordered and the chi blocker promptly left. "I hope that you are…comfortable."
"I know what you are, Amon. You're a lying coward!" I accused him, stamping my foot on the floor to push myself up into a standing stance. "You've got all these people fooled, but my grandmother is Katara. I know blood-bending when I see it, or feel it." I wanted nothing more than to take him down but I was in no position to do so right now. "That's how you've been taking away people's bending, you're bending the chi in their body through their blood."
"Very clever. I should have known not to have been so careless around you. Even though you are no prodigal water-bender like your mother and grandmother, you are at least intelligent." I'll take that as a backhanded compliment. "I suppose, in that case, there is no use in hiding from you." With that he pulled back his hood and I blinked, staring as he removed the mask from his face and pulled it aside, revealing a perfectly ordinary face behind it, though the eyes were dark and stormy, full of anger just like the waves. "Very few people are able to take me by surprise, let alone land a hit. I was impressed with your courage at the arena, as well as your wisdom to not engage in a fight."
"Flattery will get you nowhere, where's Lin? Where have you taken her?" I demanded to know however he merely smirked. With a growl I charged forwards however he easily stepped to the side and my head crashed against the wall instead, making me curse in pain as I dropped to my knees and hunched over, pressing my head into the floor to try and push away the pain.
"Though perhaps you still take after that young Avatar that you seem to be so close with." Amon mused thoughtfully as I shot him another care. "Are you not going to ask me whether or not I have taken away your bending?"
"Don't care to be honest, I'm fine without my bending since I never really used it for much. If anything I'd feel better off without it. Only thing is, I know you didn't take it away from me." I answered him as I slowly rose back to my feet. "I can still sense the ocean, the water in the air and in your body and considering my lineage, simply taking away my bending right here is pointless for you. You're going to make a spectacle of it, a show. It'll be in front of everyone so that everybody will see you take away the bending of Avatar Aang's and Master Katara's granddaughter, daughter of Kya." Pouting slightly I rolled my eyes. "Not that hard to work out, if I'm honest."
"Very good." The condescending praise made me scowl further. "Even if your power as a water-bender is lacking it is good to know that you at least have a functioning mind up there, more so than that no account Avatar friend of yours." Amon rapped his knuckles against my head and I struck out with my foot however with a simple lift of his hand I felt my entire body freeze and my blood start to pulse within me, throbbing painfully as if it were being redirected to flow in reverse. Blood-bending. "Or perhaps not." My eyes widened as he manipulated my body using my own blood and water. It was a horrifying and rather terrifying experience, being forced to move at someone else's will without any way of fighting back and the more you struggled the more it hurt.
"S-Stop it, you've made your point." I flinched at the sound of my own pathetic voice but I couldn't help it. Gran-Gran had told me all about blood-bending and how when she had used it for the only time in her life to save Aang and Sokka, she had felt utterly barbaric and monstrous to take away someone's free will. Amon did this just to feel power and it was more frightening than anything else I had ever experienced.
"Now, I cannot have you running off to try and find your friends and neither can I have you revealing my secret, so you will have to simply remain asleep for the time being. Until the final show, that is." Suddenly I felt faint and the blood seemed to rush around me before my vision began to blacken. He could even knock people out with his blood-bending? Just how strong is this guy? "Sweet dreams, little Kanna." Those were the last words I heard before my body hit the floor, completely unconscious and unmoving, unaware of the danger I was going to be facing very soon.
