Author's Note : The Fourth chapter is here, so enjoyed the story, and don't be shy to voiced your opinion in the review. Every opinion helped me to be better in writing this story. Still don't know to make Korra and Asami a couple.
LEGEND OF KORRA, STAR WARS, NARUTO, TRANSFORMERS AND EVERYTHING THAT APPEARED IS NOT MINE, EXCEPT ORIGINAL CHARACTERS, SETTINGS, AND PLOTS !
So here is the story
Chapter 4 : Different Start
She woke up suddenly by the sound of loud roar in the outside. She quickly ran out of the house and looked up. In one of the cliff wall, a dragon roar once again, waking the inhabitants of Sanctuary in the process. She looked to the street and watched two troopers passing by.
"Hello!" she shouted to two troopers who stopped in their track. They turned to Kuvira, who stand in the house terrace, from the street.
"I want to asked something, does that thing happen every morning?" she asked pointed to the dragon in the distance. Both trooper looked to each other and shrugged.
"Yes, Blackburn always roar to signifies the start of the day, no need to worry about," one of the troopers said. Kuvira sighed in relief that nothing happened. This is her new start, her new life, and the last thing she wanted was a dragon to eat her alive.
"Thank spirit, thank you for the information," she told to the troopers.
"You are new here I assumed?" the second trooper asked.
"Yes, I'm new here, Kuvira by the way," Kuvira replied simply.
"Oooh! You are the White Lotus agents are talking about, invader or dictator or something," exclaimed one of the trooper not noticing the slightly flinch from Kuvira. "Well, enjoy yourself, then," he finished as they walked again, leaving alone in the terrace.
"Right," she said to herself. She enter the house back to the bedroom and saw that it was 7 in the morning. An hour before Nilo picked me up. She went into the bathroom with towel and take a shower. Walked out of the bathroom, she opened the wardobe and choose a brown t-shirt and short pants, different from yesterday. Kuvira walked to the kitchen and opened the fridge. Kuvira eyed the food in it and took a rice and piece of roasted duck alongside several fruits and vegetables. She also picked up a glass of chocolate milk. Felt the foods still cold, she saw a device named microwave and went there, warmed up the foods by following the instruction in it. Technology in this house is more advanced even than entire Zaofu has. She though. After the foods warmed up, Kuvira went to the dining room and started eating.
After breakfast, she returned to the bedroom and opened the wardrobe. Her eyes caught a small notes says : Wear This, with a chibi Nilo on the side.
Under the notes there is a clothes and she wore it. She looked herself in the mirror. This is comfortable. The clothes is a white long sleeve t-shirt underneath an indigo half sleeve tunic with turtleneck. The lower part consisted of grey belt in the waist which hold a holster and indigo pants with blue shoes. The whole outfit looked like a White Lotus outfit without cloak, pauldron, and headwear. She rubbed her hand to the outfit and found several hidden pockets, in the upper arms, chest, and abs, one on each side. There are also four more pockets in the the side of upper thigh and in the rear.
She looked to herself once again and sighed deeply. This is the start. She looked to the clock that shows 07:40, then walked out of the bedroom into the living room. The living room has an English sofa placed in front of a wooden table with a single sofa on its left facing the table. In front of the furnitures is a brick fireplace with Alliance and White Lotus plate on top of it. Between the plates and fireplace, there is a simple sentence written in the gray metal crescent ribbon :
United Through the Stars, Protecting the Cosmos
She read it for a minute before her eyes traveled to the manual book set on the table. "Bungalow Manual". She read the book as she stand up and traveled through the house, checking and trying everything the book says. Kuvira catched up quickly for most of the manual instruction. But that not mean she didn't any help or guidance. Some devices has a more complicated instruction than the other.
"'The hologram is a device that displayed a projection of someone or something, to use it, you need to push the red button and type the dial number...'" she trailed off as she didn't understand the next words. Her reading interrupted by the sound of knocking door. She closed the book and walked to the door. She opened the peephole an saw through it, has read it in the manual just right now. It's Nilo, about time.
She opened the door and come face-to-face with Nilo, "Good Morning Kuvira, how are your morning?" she asked happily as waving her hand.
"Morning, Nilo. It's fine. Better than the last few weeks, though," she said stoically.
"Good, are you ready to go?" asked Nilo again.
"Yes," was her only answer. Nilo nodded.
"Alright, closed the door and locked it," Nilo said as Kuvira closed the door then stood there. Nilo watched it and confused and realized it.
"You don't know how to lock it?!" she asked shouting the most obvious question. Kuvira blushed in embarrassment.
"I-I just read the manual not long before you came!" she exclaimed, still blushing. Nilo giggled and nodded. She opened the door and exited again.
Confused by the action, Kuvira asked, "What are you doing?"
She showed the key card and said, "This card is the key for the door, it control the electricity and locking. You put it to the scanner here..." she trailed off as sliding the card to a silver platform in the wall beside the door and the green light above it turned red with a beep, "...and it locked already," she finished the explanation.
"Right, thank you," she said after watched and heard the explanation.
Nilo gave the card to her. "Your welcome," she said. Kuvira's hand moved to received it, but the card moved backward, raising her brow by the movement. She looked up to Nilo who face turned stern serious, "Do not lose it, keep it because by only this you can enter the house," she stated seriously.
"I will keep it, now can I take it from your hand?" she asked uninterested. Nilo nodded and gave it to her as Kuvira put it in one of her pocket.
"Now let's go, Master Trell wants to meet you," Nilo turned around and walked to the street, followed not long by Kuvira who now walked beside her.
They walked in silence as Kuvira looked around and saw the starting of the day in Sanctuary. A group of soldiers exercising, troopers in full armor are exchanging in the post through the street. Must be the guard. And animals roaring in the morning as they headed outside the base. The Jedi and former Great Uniter stopped at the entrance of the command center. The command center is located on the right side of the wall, near the entrance. Nilo gestures Kuvira to followed her as they walked inside it, entering the wall. Kuvira noticed there are the window in the right entrance, facing the corridor, just like one in her prison. Security post. Entering the lobby, she saw various people passing by and realized that the hall was colder than the outside . Nilo told her to followed her again and she complied. They walked through the corridor and stopped in from of a double sliding door. Above the door written : Control Center.
"Beware of what you will see," she asked in a sing song. Kuvira confused by what she referred want to asked but cut off as the door slide opened. They walked inside and Kuvira wide-eyed in amazement. The control center was a massive chamber, almost as massive as her chamber in the prison, even bigger. The different is this room was full with activities. Screens that displayed various thing such as statistics, movers, and other unrecognized display. Staffs and soldiers passing by, talking to each other. Computer, Nilo informed her about the screens. There also sound of typing in the room. But what mostly caught her attention is three big screens on the wall. The middle screen, seemed to be the main screen, is a rectangle screen divided into 20 smaller screens with 4 bigger screens in the center with other 16 circling the bigger ones in the side and edge. The other two screens shared the same pattern with 10 split screens with two bigger ones and 8 other smaller. These screens displayed various thing such as weather reports, intelligence files, wanted poster, mission stats, maps, diagrams, and other things she doesn't recognized. Another thing caught her attention is much smaller than the screen but still bigger than man, which is a hologram display of globe with dots in it, seemed to be indicating agents, events, or vital things. Position or status maybe?.
"Hey, Kuvira, come on," Nilo said as she descent the stairs.
Kuvira followed her and she realized they walked to the hologram table. Around the hologram table is Ka Trell and several people, some using armor like Vort, another wore White Lotus uniform, another using dark blue or white tunic. Officers. They seemed to be discussing or briefing something. Kuvira heard the last part, though.
"...informed our agents about this development. Dismissed!" he exclaimed to people in front of him. They nodded and dispersed with their respective affairs. Both Nilo and Kuvira waited for them to complete away. Vort walked to them and gave them a nod. Both woman then approached the admiral who talked to one of naval personnels. After the personnel left, Trell turned and faced them.
"Good morning for you," he said warmly to them.
"Morning, Master," Nilo said first as she bowed.
"Good morning, Admiral," Kuvira said with a nod.
"How is your first night here? Everything fine I assumed?" he asked Kuvira raising an eyebrow.
She sighed. "It's better than this last few weeks, I need to read and understand the manual instruction though," she confessed, still confused with mechanism in the bungalow.
"Well, later Nilo can show you the basics. Now, we need to talk," he replied.
"What do you want to talk about?" she asked really confused by it.
"Follow me," he said as he exited the control center. "you accept our offer for your redemption, now we talk about how you redeemed yourself," he stated while they walked through the square and street.
"And how I do it?" she asked again.
"You see, we conducting missions, secret missions, to ensure the continuity of the nations," he stated.
"What kind of mission?" she narrowed her eyes as the question escaped her mouth.
"Protection, rescue, community service, that kind of mission," he said simply. But Kuvira do not buy it, even she know Trell hiding something from her.
"There is more than that," she said.
"Yes, and you know it already," he replied. "Demolition, assassination, black ops, capture and detain gangs, thugs, bandits, and pirates. Stopping illegal trading, human trafficking, and slavery, destroying black markets, eliminate crime syndicates and crime networks, hunt down criminals before they can reach and harm innocent people. We send our agents and operatives throughout the world, transcend beyond borders and lines. We protect the world from the darkness. We work in the dark, to serve the light," he ended dramatically.
"I have a question," she stated. Trell looked to her, motioned her to continue. "Why you people don't stop us from invading the Republic? You even could stop us months ago!". She finished angrily.
"I know you going to asked it sooner or later," he sighed, "anyway, it is true that we could stop you from invading Republic City even before you reach Zaofu. Even Grand Lotus Daizan proposed the idea for the attack, but I said no because it will make thing more complicated with our presence in the surface. Besides, the White Lotus will be the target if we appeared in public."
He paused for Kuvira to absorb the words. Kuvira understand now, even if the Alliance stopped her months ago before her attack to Zaofu, it will only make thing worse. Kuvira will still hotheaded woman and determined to formed her Earth Empire. She and Earth Empire will dug their own grave if they dare to challenge the Alliance. Not to mentioned many innocent people will killed, starting another open war in last 70 years.
"Some people need something to happened to them to make they realize their own mistakes. Those mistakes will be intropection to be better, to be helpful, and of course, to protecting who we cherished most," he stopped as he saw Kuvira's expression became sad by the last part. Trell have a small smile with Nilo who during whole fiasco happened only followed and remained silent. He put his hand on Kuvira shoulder as the woman looked up by the gesture.
"But we will help you in every way to fix and make things right. It will difficult and will face many challenges up ahead, but its not impossible," he finished sagely. "We have arrived,".
"What?" she around and saw that they now inside a training area. There she saw 3 people who looked back at her. Trell walked to them as they bowed, respecting the admiral. Kuvira walked behind the admiral and recognized one of the people.
"Mole?" she asked surprised.
"Kuvira?" he replied. Then his lips formed a cheeky grin. "I don't expected we will meet again this soon," he said.
"Me neither," Kuvira sighed.
"It seems you have met before," Trell joined the conversation as the male earthbenders laughed nervously.
"Hehe, well you see, sir, we.. uummm, w-we..." he trailed off as Kuvira answered it for him.
"We have a spar yesterday," she answered simply. Mole gulped in preparation for what is coming. Kuvira watched him differently, yesterday he is a fierce earthbender, now in front of the admiral, he just like a turtleduck chased by an eagle.
Trell sighed. "I know you must be up to something. I guess it was your idea?" he asked to the earthbender expectantly.
"Yes, sir," he said in defeated tone.
"And you let Kuvira fight? In her first day here?" The admiral turned to Nilo who let a small unheard shrieked.
"Yes, master," she confessed to her master. Though she is the one who encouraged them to spar.
"I will let it slide for now," the Admiral said brighten Mole's mood.
"What is that all about?" asked Kuvira curiously.
"You don't want to know," Nilo answered.
"Hey! Don't forget us here," said a feminine voice. Kuvira saw two other persons approached them, Kuvira noticed three of them wore White Lotus uniform. A young woman and a young man. Both of the almost the same age as Kuvira and Mole. The young man spoke.
"Yeah right. We are here sir, now right to bussiness, what is this all about? And what is Kuvira doing here?" said the young man uninterested.
"Former," Kuvira whispered to herself.
"Well, this is your fourth teammate," Trell said all of sudden. All four others, except Nilo, wide-eyed in shocked surprised.
"WHAT!?" three of White Lotus agents shouted.
"That's...Unexpected," said Kuvira still in mild shock.
"I will give you a brief introduction, this is Kiala, she is a waterbender" Trell said gesturing to the young woman who smiled to Kuvira. Then he went to the young man. The young man wore the White Lotus attire, a blue tunic with white line, red pauldron with black trim on his shoulder, indicating he is a White Lotus firebender. He has a spiky black hair and a uniquely red eyes.
"This is Meza, he is firebender. He is the team leader. These benders are several of the best in our ranks," said Trell to Kuvira. He now turned to Meza,"Now, I leave this to you, Meza, get along," then he left with Nilo in tow. Then the four benders stood there in awkward silence. Meza sighed and looked to each member of his team.
"Follow me," he ordered his team to followed him until they arrived at one of the stone table in the training area. There are several more of these table functioned as resting place after a team of person finished their exercise. But this stone table they choose was Team Meza's favourite table, becaue the table is exactly located under a lush and greeny oak tree.
Kuvira realized that they located underground and she still amazed by the structure of the base. She looked up and saw how high the ceiling so one of the highest tree can grow high and even dragons and many flying creatures can fly freely in the air, still under the ground. They arrived at the stone table, sat in two pairs, Kuvira and Kiala sat across from Meza and Mole. Meza started the conversation.
"Alright, I thing introduction is in order. Tell us about yourself," he told to his team, but his eyes to Kuvira. The other two members also looked at Kuvira.
"What do you want to know?" she asked stoically.
"Where you from, likes, dislikes, dreams, skills, something like that," he shrugged.
"Why don't you go first to show me how it is?" Kuvira asked with a smirk. Meza glared to her before sighed deeply.
"Right I'll start first. My name is Meza from Fire Nation. My likes are campfire, dragon, and Sozin's Comet. My dislikes are stupid people, carelessness, and Fire Lord Ozai. I'm good at firebending and lightningbending. My dreams are to be able to travel to the stars. That's wrapped it up," Meza finished in monotone as he nudged Mole's arm to continued.
Mole fixed his sitting position and nodded with a smile. "Right, My name is Mole from Earth Kingdom. My likes are roasted chicken, training, and Avatar Kyoshi. My dislikes are the last three years happened in Earth Kingdom – not I blame you, even you are guilty – ," Kuvira looked down at the 'last three years' part but looked up again in surprised at the last past, Mole smiled, "people who looked other people down, and a long time to roast a chicken. I'm excellent at earthbending, including seismic sense, metalbending, and lavabending. My dreams is to achieve the same level as Toph Beifong!" he shouted at the ending. Kuvira's ear cannot believed what she just heard, another lavabenders here on Sanctuary, and she become even more curious about the benders true ability here.
"It seems my turn now," said Kiala nicely to everyone, "My name is Kiala from Northern Water Tribe. My likes are waterhealing, penguin sledding, and acrobatics. My dislikes are, uummm, nothing particular at the moment. Anyway, my skills including excellent waterbending, icebending, and of course waterhealing. My dream is able to help heal as many people as possible." She finished with a warm smile.
Now all eyes turned to Kuvira who closed her eyes and sighed deeply as she opened it again. "My name is Kuvira from Earth Kingdom. My likes are training and honing my earthbending skills. My dislikes are chaos, judging people, and my own action towards the Earth Kingdom. My skills are mastery over earthbending and metalbending. My dream is..." she wanted to say 'unite Earth Kingdom', but hold her tongue, instead she said, "to make things right and redeemed my mistakes and errors." She ended.
All other three unconsciously had a small smile appeared on their face on Kuvira's acknowledgement of her own acted. Meza saw a new light in Kuvira and wanted to help her. Kiala smiled warmly to Kuvira as she was a strong woman who need attention and love from her cherisehd one, ability to read people emotions payed after those years of training. Mole as the earthbender even still has small dislike to Kuvira, but it washed away with a determination to help Kuvira in everyway, or as she said, 'to make things right and redeemed her mistakes and errors'.
They were told the Earth Kingdom citizen was proud, strong, and enduring. And Kuvira in this state was not more than a scared little child hoping for attention and affection. Even she put a strong and stoic facade in front of people, the Jedi and most of White Lotus agent understand her pain and suffering all this years as they watched the events occured fromt he shadows. With that in though, the original Team Meza will help her along her journey, not only them, but the entire Lotus Alliance.
"Alright, that quite an introduction, now you are part of this team, this little family. We will conducting missions and operations and we will training together to become stronger to protect each other's back," the member of Team Meza nodded.
"The day is over, tomorrow meet here at 8 o'clock, full armor, dismissed!" he exclaimed as three of them vanished without a trace, leaving Kuvira alone in the table.
"So tomorrow we will start," she said to herself as she went to her bungalow to rest of the the day and for tomorrow.