Hey Doods, sorry it took like five thousand years to bring you this chapter. My cousins moved here so all that mushy bushy relative stuff. But without further ado, read! I don;t own Legend of Korra but if you thought I did i like you XD
CHAPTER THREE: HIGHT?
KAI
I looked over at the kid lying on the bed for the hundreth time, trying to recognize him. How did he know my name? Who was he? The questions burned in my head. Meanwhile, everyone else was out buying food for our next stop: Some place in the Earth Kingdom or something. But none of that was on my head at the moment. What was were the those two questions. And his ninja sister. Somehing about the pair seemed vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place them anywhere in my memory.
"Michi,no," I heard a faint moan escape the kid's lips. "Kai...why..."
Two things: 1)that last fraise ryhmed. 2) That last fraise was Kai...why... He knows me. Like, before there was the possibility that he had said a different name, but now there was no possibility that this was a misunderstanding. I put my head in my hands. Gosh... This was confusing. How? And he's an airbender? All of a sudden the kid snapped awake, his hands raised as if he was about to fight someone. Well,before he was fighting me, but he lost (no problem guys). He noticed me on the stool beside him and the first thing he said was:
"Where's Michi?!"
Kind of surprised that that was his first thing he said, I pointed to the bed beside him, assuming this 'Michi' was his sister. He looked over at her and grimaced. "Is she okay?"
"I don't know, ask Korra, she was the one who threw the blast." I realized what I was talking about and mentally kicked my face. "Who are you? You're and airbender? How do you know my name?"
"What?" He replied, apparently shocked. "You don't remember me? Well, it was a long time ago." He sat up and smoothed his black hair out of his eyes. "I don't have my spectacles, so I don't blame you, but imagine me with round spectacles."
I did. And I almost fell over.
"Hight?!"
He smiled.
When the others came back, they found me and Hight talking like crazy, telling each other about their life after I left.
"Kai? Did you figure who he is?" Asked a bewildred Korra.
"YES! Highton! Long lost super-buddy!"
"Kai, calm down." But Hight was smiling as he said that. "Umm, hi, you probably now how I airbended, and,well, broke into your airship! Well,mm... I... Long story..sorta."
Korra's eyes darted from me to Hight. "I'm used to long stories."
Then Hight explained so fast that I knew this guy ate too much candy from whatever candy stores Republic City has.
"Umm. So I... am homeless and then one day I was asking for food and then they bended at me and I made a wisecrack at the cost of five hundered rocks to the face and then I went back to my group and my sis was there to visit but not to actualy visit she just came because President Raiko was hunting her down then guys came and said they were looking for airbenders and then they took all my friends and threw them in sacks when I told them we didn't have any and then I got mad and I airbended but I don't know how then they started chasing me and then Michi and I escaped to Ba Sing Sae on a smuggling ship and then we came here and then some guys tried to kidnap us and then we found your airship and broke in to camp for the night and then here we are."
I heard Asami drop her fruit basket.
"Oh, so you don't know how control your airbending?" Said Jinora.
Everyone stared at her. "Hey,when you live with Ikki, you get used to people talking that fast."
"Anyways..um, Highton," said Asami, "We have dinner. Lamb chops with fried rice. Earth Kingdom specialty. Mabye you'd care to explain everything then, and not as fast."
"Yeah," said Hight. "I'd like that. And call me Hight, please. Sorta my nickname."
'Hight, I cannot wait to teach you in the arts of the extroardinary gift of airbending," drawled Tenzin.
"Yeah right, you basically have to teach yourself, all he does is give the books," I whispered to Hight. He grinned. "I figured as much."
But then Hight looked over at his sister and he frowned in worry. "What about my sister?"
"Oh, don't worry, I didn't hurt her, I just made sure she wouldn't be awake for a while," said Korra.
Hight grimaced. "Look, I- I'm sorry I attacked you guys, I really am. But when my Michi fell to the ground, I guess I snapped, you know."
"We completely understand," soothed Tenzin.
Highton got to his feet and my breath hitched. His scarred and heavily bruised skin was visible due to the fact that his clothes looked like rags on a scarecrow. " What happened to you?" I asked, tentative.
He followed my eyes and grinned despite himself. "Food for Charity," he said in a false cheery voice. I slapped my forehead.
"You're still asking them for food?" I half yelled.
"Hey, you get desperate after a while," he replied.
"Um,sorry if I'm interrupting but, dinner...soon... you can wash up, we'll be in the room the the hall," lamented Korra.
Everyone left the room but I dawdled at the door. "Hey, Hight?"
He looked around. "Yeah?"
"Nice to have you back."
The corners of his mouth twitched. "Nice to be here."
I stepped out and shut the door slowly. Walking down the hall, I stepped on to the room fifth from the back, pushing open the wooden door. Inside I crashed in my bed, trying to give my mind enough time to soak this all in before dinner came around. Hight was here. He was an airbender. His clothes reeked. My nose was on fire. Right now.
My stomach gurgled, a sure sign that I wasn't going to skip dinner tonight. Not that I ever do, though. I washed up and headed down the hall, yawning from the lack of sleep. Ever since I escaped the prison of Ba Sing Sae it's been a yawnfest. The second room from the back was where we were instructed to go to. Strange, I've never been here before. I looked around, making sure the coast was clear. Korra wouldn't mind a if I looked around a little, would she?
I pushed open the door and sighed in defeat. Everyone was there, including Hight. "Glad you could join us, Kai," said a smug Mako. He didn't say anything, but the look in his eyes told me that he knew what I was up to. I took the only available seat next to Arrow Tatoos, picking up a fork. But before anybody could eat, talk, breathe, or even blink, we heard a crash from upstairs. I had a feeling I knew who it was. We all looked at Hight.
"Looks like Michi's awake," he said with a grim smile.
Next Chapter's gonna be from Michi's perspective!