It's been a crazy week since that night and Zero had realized it was all in his head in the form of nightmares which he couldn't controll no matter how hard he tried becuase with shard that were lodged in his head seemed to mess with his brain, but lucky thanks to a few water benders and one metal bender they've managed to remove the shards. Ever since then the nightmares had gone away for good Zero had finally stopped wandering up the ceiling in his sleep, and the scar had faded away.
Both Jinora and Zero had told everyone what happened in Zero's past, about the facility he had grew up in, the clones, and the event that lead to all this. Zero adimts it wasn't his most proudest thing he has ever done, but felt he had no other option. After coming clean of what he did, it didn't changed the minds of Korra, Tenzin, Jinora, and the others that he was part of their family now. It was all in the past now and Zero felt he can finally move on with his life now.
Ridding down the streets of Republic City on Naga the polar bear dog, Korra has finally gotten the chance to take Zero out to the busy capital city. It's Zero's first time to actually see the place even though he was free to vist the city anytime as long he brought someone with him, but Tenzin was a bit over protective as would a father would be with his children. Zero has only got to watch the city from afar, he loved how the city lights up at night and the sounds it makes in the morning.
Korra wanted Zero to have the same experience when she first came to Republic City, she had shown him the downtown area, the bay, the bridge, and the farmers market. Zero had to put on a different set of clothes to go out, he wore a dark brown shirt with light tan edges, black boots, and a farmers hat to hide his face. While heading to the park they ran into Mako at the farmers market, "Hey Mako, what are you doing here?" said Korra, "ohh, hey Korra, I was just on patrol, what are you doing?" "I was just showing Zero around the city, can't have him cooped up on the island like I was growing up on the Southern Water Tribe Compound." Mako looked at Korra a bit puzzled, "uhh, Zero is... where exactly?" "what are blind, he's right-," Korra looked behind the saddle where Zero was sitting and found him missing and Korra then turned pale.
"where is he!? WHERE IS HE!? WHERE IS HE!?" Korra said in panic finally realizing the missing passenger, "I'm so dead." "whoa, Korra calm down, I'll help you find him." Naga was sniffing the air around her to seach for Zero, "how can you lose a six year old kid?" Mako asked ridding along Korra, "hey, don't blame me, the kid's like super quiet, and sometimes he just wanders off." Naga has followed the scent to the park, they followed the path first hopefully he will be walking down it.
Eventaully they both spotted Zero, "look there he is," Mako pointed out to Korra making her relieved, but somthing was up though because from afar they saw him picking flowers out of a bush. "What is he doing?" instead of confronting Zero on why he wandered off Korra and Mako decided to follow him, with a few flowers in hand Zero left the park and on to the streets. Korra and Mako kept their distance from Zero so they can see what he was planing, but so far they've passed a couple of city blocks and they start to find the area very familiar. Finally after a few minutes of walking down the sidewalk Zero has walked inside a restaurant, Korra and Mako immediately recognized the restuarant, it was the same place where they all met Zero.
Inside Zero seemed to walk through the restuarant unnoticed, it was like he was invisible so he decided to take one of the small vases on an empty table and put the flowers there. He then walked past the double swinging doors and into the kitchen, he was looking around the busy kitchen passed the ovens, counters, and pantry, but he finally found the person he was looking for at the sink.
Zero walked up to the man, setting the flowers down on the ground, then turned to the man and tugged on his apron. The man felt his apron being pulled on then looked down to see what was pulling it and saw a boy in a farmers hat, he didn't recognize him at firts until he saw his green eyes. Chen yelp in fear realizing it was the kid who threw him into the street. He was about to run, but Zero held his hands up to stop him and presented him the flowers. Chen slowly took the flowers off his hands feeling a bit hesitant at first. It seemed to calm him down though, "sorry. For throwing you onto the street. Hope you can forgive me." Chen looked at the flowers in his hands and glanced down to Zero.
Korra and Mako were looking through the window of the restuarant and saw Zero coming out of the swinging doors with the man they saw in the back of the ambulance. Zero waved good bye to the man with a smile and walked out of the front door where Korra was waiting for him, "Zero, why did you just ran off like that, you nearly gave me a heart attack," Korra concernly told to the boy, "sorry Korra. I just wanted to say I was sorry. To the man that I hurt," Zero pointed to the bus boy who waved to them.
Korra looked at Zero sternly judging the situation, "Your lucky nothing actually bad happen, c'mon let's just go- BAMM!" out of no where a block rock smacked Zero on the back of his head sending him to the ground. Suprisingly Zero just shook it off he was a little dazed, but he was alright, Korra and Mako turned in the direction where the rock came from and saw a little girl.
She was standing a few yards away with her legs spread apart and her first on her hips, she wore a long pale green shirt with with a white undershirt, a dark green sash for a belt running along the middle, making the bottom half of the shirt look like a skirt, she wore black baggy pants that hugged around her ankel, geta sandels, and her hair was black and tied into two buns, and she does not look happy. "So you're the one who hurt my big brother huh," she said pointing a fingure at Zero while he was steadying himself up, "and now with you here I'm gonna kick your butt."
She charged at Zero for the attack, Zero didn't know what to do, he froze into place seeing the angry girl charge at him until the door to the restuarant swung open and the bus boy standing between his little sister and the other three to stop the fight before it began. "NO! Ju stop," Chen intervened putting his hand up to stop his earth bending sister, "but Chen, that's the boy who beat you up, and threw you all the way up to the mountains," Ju protested. "Now you're just over exaggerating, but everything is alright between me and him, he came here to apologize," Chen informed trying to convince his little sister.
Zero felt something tickling his head so he picked it out and saw it was a piece of straw, Zero heard a quiet crackling sound on top of his head and more pieces of straw start to fall. "Korra! My hat," Zero whispered, Korra turned to Zero and saw the hat falling into pieces, "quick, get him to the alley, no one will see him there," Mako said and in a flash everyone ran into the alley to hide. Zero sat between a stack of crates and some trash cans holding the two halfs of what remained of his hat, while the three young adults try to think of a way to sneak Zero out of the city Ju was peeking behind the tash cans.
She started to find Zero interesting, she never saw anyone quiet different as he was. "Umm, I'm sorry I broke your hat... are you alright?" Ju apologized with her hands behind her back and made little circles on the ground with her right foot, "yeah. I'm alright," "why's your hair like that? is it made of gold or something?" "no. It's just how it is," there was a moment of silence between the two, "can I touch it?" "what? That's weird," "pleeeeeease."
Zero thought for a moment and finally he gave in, "fine. You can touch it," Ju came closer and brushed her hand into his hair, to her it felt soft and warm, "thanks," "your welcome," "where you from anyway?" Zero wasn't sure how to answer that question, "Air Temple Island," "you're an air bender," "no," "but you just said-" "I know what I said. I'm adopted," "ohh, so you can't bend?" "I can do this," Zero showed her his powers by lifting a set of trash cans that were on the otherside of the alley, "wow, how are you doing that?" "I can move things with my mind," "that's amazing."
Mako had ran out of the alley to find Bolin who was on patrol driving a police car around the city, he eventaully found him and picked up Korra and Zero and sneaked them on a boat to the island. "So, how's your head Zero?" Korra asked while checking the back of his head, "I'm alright," "you're a lot tougher than you look," "I can manipulate the molecules in my body. To make me stronger," "ohh... that's... good to know." They carried on with their calm boat ride home, but Zero's mind was somewhere eles, he was thinking about Ju, the girl who threw a rock to the back of his head, sure they might've gotten off on the wrong foot, but Zero thought she was kinda of pretty and hoped to run into her again sometime soon.