The Revelation
I don't own Digimon or Legend of Korra
"What's the big idea of having me train so early in the morning again? The morning is evil." Korra asked still half asleep as Bolin tossed a heavy medicine ball to her and she caught it then tossed it back to the Earthbender who tossed it to Mako.
"We're the rookies, so we've got the worst time to train. But things are better now that Princess Sora is feeling better and is here helping." Bolin said with a grin as Sora who was in her training clothes slapped him on the back of the head playfully.
"My friends call me Sora, Bolin. So, call me Sora, you as well Mako." She said smiling at the brothers, Bolin grinned while Mako blushed and looked away before he tossed the ball to Korra. "By the way Korra, before Gran-Gran and Gramp-Gramp left after their visit they told me that they have set up an account for me. So, if we need to get anything we can use my account."
"That's awesome!" Korra exclaimed throwing the ball hard at Mako who caught it but was sent flying back not expecting it to be thrown so hard.
"Korra be careful!" Sora scolded her friend running over to help Mako stand up. Korra sheepishly scratched her cheek before the gym door opened and man wearing an expensive suit and hat walked into the gym.
"There's my team of underdog street urchins." He said with a smile walking towards them. "Pleasure to meet you Avatar Korra, and you as well Fire Princess Sora." He greeted taking Sora's hand and giving it a gentle kiss, Sora smiled at the man, but she was very disturbed by his greeting which Mako noticed and he glared at the man slightly.
"And you are?" Korra asked as he took his hat off and bowed slightly.
"Butakha, I own the whole Pro-Bending shebang in Republic City." He introduced himself before taking out a wad of cash from his pocket which he placed in Mako's hand and the Firebender grinned. "You're winnings from the last match." He told Mako before he began taking the cash away slowly. "Minus expenses for the Avatar's new gear, Gym and equipment rentals from last month, rent on your apartment and a personal loan for groceries." He said and soon the money was all gone and Mako glared at Bolin at hearing the last expense.
"What? I'm a growing boy." He complained patting his stomach while Sora winced at seeing her friends lose all their money so quickly.
"And one more small item of business. The Fire Ferrets need to ante up thirty-thousand yuans for the championship pot." Butakha told them.
"Thirty-Thousand Yuans!?" Bolin, Sora and Korra exclaimed.
"You know we don't have that much." Mako told Butakha who patted him on the shoulder.
"Sorry kids, you've got until the end of the week to come up with the dough, or you're out of the tournament." He told them before leaving and the four friends sighed.
"How much do you think is in that account of yours?" Bolin asked Sora who shrugged.
"No idea. But knowing my parents and grandparents they probably made sure there would be enough. I'll check when I've got a chance." She answered with a smile.
"Alright. Until then, I'll think of something to help." Mako said gathering his stuff.
"I've been teaching Pabu to do circus tricks, people will pay good money to see that." Bolin said happily as the Fire Ferret sat on his head and squeaked making Korra and Sora giggle.
"Yeah, and one day you'll have your own travelling circus of Fire Ferrets doing tricks." Korra said.
"Ya think so?" Bolin asked happily making the Avatar sweatdrop.
"She was kidding about the circus Bolin." Mako told his brother with a smile.
"Uh…sure…I knew that." He said chuckling. Soon Bolin was outside the train station sitting in front of a large statue of Daisuke and Zuko and both had flames coming from their hands. "Come one come all, witness the fantastic Fire Ferret Pabu cross this very high bridge!" he exclaimed as Pabu who was dressed in a cute outfit stood on his front paws and walked across a small ladder that was being held up by two cans and he finished with a flip. "Ta-da!" the Earthbender shouted as a spectator tossed a gold coin into a jar beside Bolin. "Thank you very much sir, I'll be here all week." He said before looking at the jar. "One down, now only twenty-thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Yuans to go."
Pabu squeaked and perked up as he and Bolin heard a Satomobile stop in front of them and a ma with a goatee and wearing a suit got out and walked towards Bolin. "Bolin, fancy seeing you here." he said with a smirk.
"Oh…hey Shady-Shin." Bolin greeted.
"I heard you're a big time Pro-Bender now, how'd you like to make a little extra on the side. Lightning Bolt Zolt is looking to hire some extra muscle." Shady-Shin explained.
"I don't know. Mako told me to stay away from the Triple-Threats." Bolin said nervously avoiding Shin's gaze.
"You're brother's not the boss of you. It's just a little protection work, easy money." Shady-Shin said tossing a wad of Yuans into the jaw making Bolin's eyes widen at the amount of money. "So you interested?" Bolin looked at Shady-Shin and then at the wad of money.
A couple of hours later as the sun began setting, Mako arrived back at his and Bolin's apartment. "Bo, you home. I bought your favourite dumplings!" he shouted into the apartment before sitting on the couch. "I found some work at the power plant, they pay pretty well." He continued tossing a dumpling in his mouth. "Bo? You here?" he called out, but Bolin didn't answer. He frowned before looking out the window at Air Temple Island. "Maybe he's visiting the girls." He thought walking off.
Meanwhile at Air Temple Island, Sora stood beside Jinora and Ikki as they sent a gust of wind at the Airbending gates again and Korra moved through the gates this time without hitting anything. "That's the way, light on your feet!" Jinora praised the Avatar who smiled at the young Airbender before she gulped down a glass of water Sora handed her.
Jinora and Ikki looked behind the two older girls and saw Mako walking towards them. "He's cute, Sora is that the handsome Firebender boy that makes you blush a lot?" she asked making Sora look behind her and see Mako and her cheeks went bright red.
"Does he make you blush in a good way because you like him?" Ikki asked with a teasing smile.
"Korra!" Sora shouted, and her friend smirked and stomped the ground sending both Airbenders flying into the air via Earthbending and both girls turned to face Mako.
"Hey Mako, what brings you out here?" Sora asked him with a smile as Jinora and Ikki landed behind them gently thanks to their Airbending.
"Have either of you seen Bolin?" He asked them.
"Not since practice. What's wrong?" Sora answered.
"I don't know. My brother has a knack for getting himself into dumb situations, see ya." Mako said walking off but Sora and Korra followed him.
"We can help you look for him." Sora said.
"Nah, I've got it." Mako replied before Sora grabbed his arm and stopped him.
"Hey cool guy, let us help you. We can take Naga since Mushu is just getting over being sick." She said.
"Who is Naga?" Mako asked.
"Korra's best friend, and she's a great tracker." Sora answered and soon the trio were riding Naga as she walked through Republic City.
"The Avatar's best friend is a polar-bear dog. Somehow that oddly makes sense." Mako said as he sat behind Sora while Korra held Naga's reigns.
"I'll take that as a compliment city boy." Korra told him. Soon Naga walked towards the train station and Korra looked up at the statue and smiled. "Sora take a look." She told her friend who looked at her grandparent's statue and smiled.
"Wow, haven't seen that in a while." She said as Mako climbed off Naga and he helped Sora and Korra off.
"This is his usual hangout." He said as his hands rested on Sora's hips for a second longer making her blush while Sora chuckled to herself before she saw a group of kids fooling around nearby and she walked towards them.
"Hey, you kids seen a guy named Bolin around here?" she asked them politely as the kid wearing a hat who was obviously the head of the group wiped his nose with his finger.
"Maybe, what's it to you?" he asked rudely.
"He's a friend, now have you seen him?" Korra answered.
"I may have seen him, but I ain't telling you anything." The kid replied holding his hand out showing he wanted to be paid for any information he had before he yelped as Korra grabbed his ear.
"Nice try squirt, now tell us what you know about Bolin." She told him as Mako and Sora watched on amused.
"He was hear around noon, with some monkey rat thing doing dumb tricks. Then Shady-Shin showed up and flashed some serious cash and he and Bolin left in his hot rod. The Triple Threats, The Red Monsoons and Agni Kais are all gearing up for something, but I don't know anything else I swear." The kid told Korra who nodded and let him go and he ran off rubbing his ear.
"Sounds like a turf war is brewing." Sora said.
"And Bolin is right in the middle of it." Mako said, the three climbed back onto Naga and took off heading for the Triple Threat Triad's hideout.
"Let's hope we get there in time before Bolin gets into trouble." Sora said as Naga veered off and began chasing after something which climbed up a lamppost and they saw it was Pabu.
"Pabu!" Mako shouted as Naga tried to grab the Fire Ferret.
"No Naga, Pabu is a friend, not a snack." Korra told the polar-bear dog which stopped trying to eat Pabu and sniffed him and Pabu squeaked and jumped onto Naga's head before climbing onto Sora's shoulder and she smiled.
"If you're here that means Bolin's close." She said, Naga walked off and soon stopped outside the Triple Threat's hideout.
"Something isn't right, usually there's a couple of thugs at the door." Mako said climbing off Naga and he snuck towards the door followed by Sora and Korra who nodded and kicked down the door together and walked inside and saw the hideout was ransacked, tables and chairs were all flipped over. "Bolin, you here?" Mako asked looking for any sign of his brother before they heard something out back and Korra kicked open the door and they saw several men dressed in weird outfits with identical masks climbing onto motorcycles and a truck pulling away and before the door closed they caught a glimpse of Bolin bound and gagged inside along with other members of the Triad.
"Bolin!" Sora shouted launching a fireball at one of the masked men before he got onto his motorbike and he was knocked down while another two tossed canisters at the trio and they exploded releasing green smoke covering their escape.
"Naga!" Korra shouted and her polar-bear dog rushed over and she, Mako and Sora climbed on and Naga took off after the motorbikes and truck as Sora and Mako threw fireballs at the motorbikes trying to knock the riders off.
"Who the heck are these guys?" Sora asked tossing another fireball which missed again.
"No idea, but they've got Bolin and we need to stop them." Korra said. Naga continued to chase the masked men until they made it to a large empty square and one of the masked men tossed a pair of bolos at Naga's feet and she was tied up and tripped sending Korra, Mako and Sora into the air, Sora used her firebending to stop her fall while Korra and Mako slid across the ground.
Sora tossed a fireball at one of the masked men which he flipped over and ran towards Sora, she blocked his punch and threw a kick sending a stream of flame from her foot, but the masked men dodged and hit her side and right arm with some jabs and she gasped at the pain she felt.
"Chi-blockers!" she shouted flipping back before taking out one of her new swords and she coated it with her bending with her good arm and sent an arc of flame at the Chi-blocker who flipped over it and kicked her sword out of her hand and he jabbed her other arm and kicked her down and she skid across the ground. Before the two Chi-blockers could go after her some more or turn on Korra and Mako a loud roar echoed through the quiet night sky.
"What the?" Mako asked looking up to see Mushu flying towards them and the dragon landed and swung his tail knocking both Chi-blockers away and he roared while standing in front of Sora, Korra and Mako. Wisely, the Chi-blockers got back onto their motorcycles and sped away.
"Sora!" Korra shouted running over to her friend who sat up.
"I'm ok." She said grabbing Korra's hand as the Avatar helped her up. "They blocked my bending but it'll come back soon."
"Now I wish I learned that at the compound." Korra muttered, Sora smiled before she noticed Mako holding his head in his hands.
"I can't believe Bolin would get himself messed up in all this again." he felt an arm on his shoulder and looked at Sora.
"Don't worry, we are going to find your brother." She told him with a determined look before she climbed onto Mushu who walked off and Korra and Mako got back on Naga and followed. They kept looking for signs of Bolin well into the early hours of the morning with Naga and Mushu showing signs of exhaustion.
"We've been searching for hours, and still no sign of Bolin," Korra said sadly.
"We have to keep looking," Mako replied wiping the sleep from his eyes before Korra and Sora shared a look.
"I think we've got an idea," Sora said and Mushu walked off and Naga followed, soon the dragon and polar-bear dog arrived in the park and stopped at a fountain to drink with Pabu sitting on Naga's nose to do the same.
"The first day we came into town we say an Equalist protestor around here. We don't know how well he knows any Equalist but it's our only lead." Korra explained and Mako nodded slightly, soon they sat under a tree with Naga, Mushu and Pabu with Sora sitting between Mako and Korra.
"So why was Bolin even working with the triads anyway?" Sora asked Mako who looked away.
"We…kind of used to do some work for them." he answered, seeing the shocked looks on the girl's faces he added. "Nothing serious, I just ran numbers for them. We were orphans on the street and I did what I had to do to protect my little brother."
"We weren't judging you." Sora told him gently. "Can…I ask what happened to your parents?"
Mako sighed and looked at her before tugging at his scarf. "They were mugged by a Firebender, he cut them down right in front of me. I was eight."
"Mako…" Sora whispered pulling him into a hug and he hugged back.
"Bolin's the only family I have left," he said, Sora continued to hug him for a bit longer until they all settled down for the night. The next morning Korra was the first to wake up, she yawned and stretched before noticing Sora was still asleep with her head in Mako's neck while Mako had his arm around her protectively.
"I so wish I had a camera." Korra thought with a chuckle.
"Equality now, equality now, we want equality now!" the quiet piece of the morning was shattered by the loud obnoxious ranting of the protestor waking Sora and Mako up and they saw Korra smiling at them, both blinked before noticing how close they were to each other and blushed.
"Argh, sorry!" they both yelped scooting away from each other. Both then saw the protestor and Sora frowned.
"There's the guy come on." She said walking over with her friends following and Mushu decided to follow his partner. "Hey loudmouth!" Sora shouted stopping the protestor's ranting and he looked at the princess of the Fire Nation. "My friend was taken by Chi-blockers last night, where'd they take him?"
"I have nothing to say to the likes of you. Go back to your palace and continue to oppress your country's non-benders!" the protestor shouted before his megaphone was slapped out of his hand by Sora.
"Shut your yap. I'll have you know that my father is a non-bender, he is the son of Sokka of the Water Tribe. And our army has entire regiments of non-benders, some are even generals. Now tell us what we want to know, or my pet dragon will have his morning snack." Mushu stepped forward and sniffed the protestor and licked his lips hungrily.
"ARGH!" the protestor screamed before he fainted.
"Well…that could have gone better." Mako said, Sora sheepishly giggled and scratched her cheek. "Now what do we do?" Mako asked as Korra grabbed some flyers from the table and looked at them.
"Witness the revelation tonight at nine o'clock." She read off the flyer which had a picture of Amon front and centre on it, turning one of the flyers over she saw a red dot. "What do you think this dot is for?"
"Maybe it's a key to the location of wherever this thing is happening," Mako said. "Let's get out of here before we're caught with an unconscious protestor." The others nodded and ran off before Sora stopped and saw Mushu was sniffing the protestor.
"Mushu! What have I told you about eating people, besides he's too skinny not worth it." she said grabbing her dragon's reigns and pulling him off while Korra and Mako smiled. Soon the group were by a tram stop that had a map of the city on it. "Maybe the flyers are a map of some kind." She told Mako and Korra who shared a look before Mako took the flyers and held them up to the map until he found the part of the map they matched.
"Bingo. It's going down there tonight." He said making the girls smile. That night ten minutes before nine o'clock Mako, Sora and Korra walked towards the location of the mysterious revelation and saw several other people walking into the building.
"Let's go." Korra whispered as she, put on a beanie as did Sora while Mako put on a hat, Sora also had Mako's scarf around her neck and wrapped her arms around Mako's arm making him slightly blush while looking at her.
"What're you doing?" he whispered.
"We'll draw less attention this way." She whispered back as they approached the guard at the door.
"This is a private event, nobody gets in here without an invitation." The guard told them crossing his arms imposingly.
"Uh…invitation?" Sora asked innocently before Mako pulled out a flyer.
"Ya mean this thing?" he asked the guard who took it and looked at it then at Mako and Sora and smiled.
"The revelation is upon us my brother and sister." He told them stepping aside allowing them to walk past.
"Oh, she's my sister." Sora said looking back at Korra and the guard eyed the disguised Avatar closely as she handed him a flyer and he smiled and allowed her to pass. They walked further into the building until they stopped on and saw a large crowd of people standing in front of the stage.
"I knew a lot of people hated benders, but I've never seen so many in one place." Mako whispered.
"Let's find Bolin and get out of here, I'd rather not be caught by Chi-blockers and be forced to fight in a crowd like this," Sora whispered, Korra and Mako nodded and they walked down some stairs and began moving towards the stage through the crowd.
"Please welcome your hero, your saviour, Amon!" a voice shouted as lights shone down on the stage and seven people rose up onto the stage, the one in the centre with the mask and hood was clearly recognised as Amon.
"So that's him," Sora whispered as she held Korra's hand tightly to calm her friend as the crowd applauded and cheered Amon who stepped up to a microphone.
"My quest for equality began many years ago. When I was a boy, my family and I lived on a small farm, we weren't rich and none of us were benders. This made us very easy targets for the Firebender who extorted my father. One day my father confronted this man, but when he did that Firebender took my family from me. Then, he took my face." Amon said with the crowd gasping at that last part.
"I've been forced to hide behind a mask ever since. Most of you know this, recently the Avatar arrived in Republic City, along with Fire Princess Sora." The crowd booed loudly at that with Sora hiding her face with Mako's scarf. "And if they were here now, they would tell you that bending brings balance to the world, but they are wrong. Bending has brought nothing but suffering, it has been the cause of every war in every era. But that ends today." Amon continued.
"You must all be wondering, what is the revelation. You are about to get your answer. Since the beginning of time, the spirits have acted as guardians of our world and they have spoken to me. They say the Avatar has failed humanity. That is why the spirits have chosen me, to usher in a new era of balance. They have granted me a power that will make equality a reality, the power to take a person's bending away…permanently." Korra and Sora's eyes widened in shock at hearing Amon's statement and held each other's hand tighter while Mako held Sora's hand gently giving it a reaffirming squeeze.
"He's bluffing, he has to be." Korra whispered in denial, Sora nodded when she noticed several Chi-blockers pushing people onto the stage one of which was Bolin.
"Now for a demonstration. Please welcome Lightning Bolt Zolt, leader of the Triple Threat Triad, and one of Republic City's most dangerous criminals." Amon said as the crowd booed.
"Ah go boo yourselves!" Zolt told the crowd.
"Zolt has amassed a large fortune by extorting non-benders, but his reign of terror is about to come to an end." Amon said. "In the interest of fairness however, I shall allow him to fight to keep is bending."
"We need to get up there and get Bolin away from Amon," Sora whispered.
"Any ideas?" Korra asked looking at her and Mako as Zolt was untied by one of the Equalists and began throwing fireballs at Amon.
"You're gonna regret doing that pal," he told Amon who quickly dodged the fireballs as he made his way towards Zolt, he then dodged a lightning bolt fired by Zolt and caught his wrist before he turned Zolt around and forced him to his knees and then placed his thumb on his forehead as the crowd watched on and saw the lightning turn back into fire then stop entirely.
Amon stepped back as Zolt fell to the floor, he got to his knees and tried to Firebend, but nothing happened making the crowd gasp. "What did you do to me?"
"Your Firebending is gone, forever." Amon answered and Mako saw Sora and Korra's eyes were wide with fright. "A new era of equality has begun!"
"I've got an idea." Mako told the girls who looked at him as he looked over at some machines. "Those machines over there are powered by water and steam, if you make up some cover I can grab Bolin and get out of here without being seen."
"Works for us, be careful," Sora told him and Mako nodded and they split up with Sora and Korra sneaking through the crowd towards the machines while Mako made his way closer to the stage. Sora and Korra walked through a doorway and towards some valves and began turning as steam began hissing out of the release valves.
"Hey! What're you two doing back here?" both gulped and saw the guard from before walking towards them.
"Uh we're looking for the bathroom." Sora answered with a smile. "Do you think you could help us find it?" the guard however frowned and pulled a wrench from his pocket and swung it at both girls who dodged it and began moving around the guard. Sora took her scarf off and wrapped it around his wrist and swung him into the pipes destroying them and releasing a large cloud of steam.
"Thanks, this will be enough." Korra said with a grin as she began to bend the steam and sent it out into the main area where it blew apart the machine with a loud explosion making the crowd scream as steam began filling the room, Amon looked around before he stepped back into the steam and vanished.
Mako ran onto the stage and he threw a Chi-blocker away who grabbed Bolin from behind. "Bo, you ok?" he asked his brother.
"Mako! Yes, I love you!" he cried and his brother smiled and both ran off, they kicked open a door and began climbing down a ladder when an Equalist ran out after them and took out two sticks that crackled with electricity, before he could hit the ladder with them however someone tapped him from behind and he turned and was punched by both Sora and Korra sending him to the ground below where he landed on a dumpster with a thud and was knocked unconscious.
"As if we're letting you electrocute our friends." Sora said as she and Korra climbed down the ladder after the brothers, both then whistled and Mushu and Naga came running down a ramp and Sora climbed onto her dragon and pulled Mako on and Mushu took off while Naga ran off with Korra and Bolin on her back as Amon and several more Chi-blockers walked out of the building.
"Let them go, the Avatar and Princess are perfect messengers to tell the world of my power." Amon told his followers.
Soon Sora and Korra had dropped the brother's off at their apartment and then returned to Air Temple Island where they found Tenzin speaking to some White Lotus Guards. "Thank goodness, I was just about to send out a search party, are you both ok?" he asked but both girls shook their heads. "What's wrong? Did you find your friend?"
"We did, but there is something else. We were at an Equalist rally, we saw Amon." Korra answered.
"What?" Tenzin whispered.
"He can take people's bending away, for good." Korra added.
"But…that's impossible, only my father has ever had that ability." Tenzin said.
"We thought that was the case too, but we saw him do it. He took away the bending of three Triad members." Sora told him and Tenzin looked at them.
"I believe you." He said softly looking towards the city. "I don't know how he achieved this power, but this makes the revolution more dangerous then ever. No bender is safe." He said grimly as both girls shared a worried look.
The end of the chapter
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