Okay, it's been a while but it's here! Things are still really hard, but I've done my best. Forgive me if my writing seems a bit off in places, I'm dealing with delayed affects.

Also, I got a review stating how it's impossible for Korra to imprint on Asami because they're both girls and blah, blah, blah. I'm not trying to sound mean, but I'm not making this like Twilight! Yes, there are parts here and there inspired by it but it's still my story and I can do what I want with it. So if I say a girl can imprint on another girl because they're in love then they can!

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~Korra~

I'd seen Asami worried before. Plenty of times before. But this time, I couldn't just see it. I could feel it. It was a cold, haunting feeling. Heavy and overwhelming. It didn't sit well in my chest. My teeth grinded against each other as I looked around the yard. Naga sniffed the bushes and pawed through the leaves. My ears twitched in every direction, picking up nothing but sounds of the night creatures that roamed around. Chirps of the crickets, hisses of the weasel-snakes, rustling of...clothing? I jerked Naga's reins back, but she was already ahead of me. She turned completely around and growled loudly. I saw the bushes move.

"Come out!" I demanded.

The rustling stopped the second I spoke. I heard movement behind me and wheeled Naga around. Someone crashed into me and I fell off of her, grunting at the impact and my back slammed into the ground. The person that rammed into me rolled on the ground and jumped to his feet. Groaning, I forced myself to my own feet to meet the attacker face to face. Surely enough, it was an Equalist.

"So, you're the one creeping around my girlfriend's house." I said. He didn't say anything.

Instead, he crouched down and sprung himself towards me at surprising speed. I ducked under him, grabbing him by his ankle and flinging him against the wall. At that moment, I heard Naga bark and yelp. I turned around in time to see her collapse to the ground. "Naga!" I ran to her, only to be jabbed in the side by another Equalist. His fists traveled up my side without missing a beat and my whole upper left side went numb. In a vain attempt to stop him I swung my right fist around at him, a rock in its wake. He dodged it and came at me again. I created a ball of fire in the palm of my hand, but he worked around me and struck my forearm. The fire died out immediately.

"What the-?!" I said, trying to relight it.

He aimed for my legs and got me in my knee, forcing me to fall to the ground. A second Equalist came out of nowhere and towered over me, raising his hand up to strike me. I wasn't going down like this. I opened my mouth and felt the fire grow within me. It came out with a rush of endorphins cascading through my system. The fire sent him flying backwards and he hit a tree. Two arms grabbed me by mine and pinned them behind me. I cried out when I felt another blow to my spine. Not strong enough to break it or cause any damage, but I felt something disconnect me spiritually. I realized what he had done.

He disconnected me from my wolf.

I gritted my teeth and tried to yank myself free, but two more blows made my arms fall limp. Another Equalist came forward and laughed, picking me up by my chin and forcing me to look at him.

"You just don't know when to quit, do you, Avatar?" he said.

Why was this guy everywhere? The first fight, the second fight, now here. He had to be the one running these ambushes. I growled at him, trying to call more fire to my throat, but I had no luck. He laughed again. "Don't fret." he said, standing up. "We have a nice place for you. How does a kennel sound?"

An Equalist stepped out from behind him and two of his fingers struck me near my neck. I collapsed to the ground and everything went black.

~Asami. During the fight~

"Why are you still freaking out so much?" Kuvira asked me, sitting down on my bed. "She's fine. I just saw her pass the window a second ago on Naga."

I believed her, of course. I knew Korra was capable of anything. She was strong, she had her bending and her wolf. She'd be fine. But no amount of convincing could shake the sense of panic that filled me. My heart skipped, my arms felt heavy and my imprint tingled again. I glanced at the window and heard Naga bark, then yelp.

"Naga!"

There were bright flashes outside the window, behind the curtain. Kuvira noticed to and jumped to her feet, already running out the door. "Stay here!" she yelled.

"Are you serious?!" I said as I ran after her. "There's no way I'm staying inside by myself!"

She reached the bottom of the stairs, where Mako and Bolin were already rushing out the door. Kuvira turned and looked at me. "Asami, whoever these guys are, they're after you. You have to stay inside."

"But Korra-" I began.

"We'll get her." Kuvira said. "Just stay in here and don't come outside."

With that, she ran outside. I stood in the foyer of my home, alone. While outside, Korra, Kuvira, Mako and Bolin fought to keep me safe. It didn't sit right with me. Why should they risk their lives for me because I can't fight my own battles? My father had raised me to believe that I needed to do what was right. My hands curled into fists at my sides and, before I knew it, I was running out the doors and around the corner of the house. The scene I was met with made me stagger back on my feet.

There were Equalists everywhere. I remembered hearing the name over the news. Kuvira was taking on two of them, Bolin and Mako surrounded by four. Flashes of fire lit up the sky, skimming the trees. Rocks flew all over the place. And Korra...

Korra was being dragged into a van, unconscious.

My heart picked up in panic and my knees went weak. I couldn't take seeing them like this. They were my friends, not my bodyguards or whatever. I needed to end it. Closing my eyes for a brief second, I stepped forward.

"Asami!" Kuvira yelled.

"What are you doing out here?!" Bolin said, ducking under a bola.

"You were supposed to stay inside!" Mako said. He threw a fistfull of fire at an Equalist.

I ignored them. I wasn't going to let them talk me out of this. "Hey!" I cried. All the Equalists stopped mid-fight and turned in my direction. It was eerily quiet. "If I go with you all...will you leave my friends alone?"

"How noble." A voice chuckled. An Equalist stepped forward, but I already knew who it was. It haunted me that he was everywhere.

"Asami, what the fuck are you doing?" Kuvira whispered at me angrily.

"Shut it!" the guy said, turning to look at her. "Unless you need persuasion." His electric rob buzzed in his hand. Kuvira gritted her teeth, but said nothing more. He turned back to me.

"Please, let them go." I pleaded. "They're just trying to protect me."

He laughed. "As nice as that would sound, they're still in the way. And her," -he pointed to Korra's seemingly lifeless body in the back of the van- "she's interfered more than anyone here." He took a few steps closer towards me and I took a step back, only to be grabbed by my forearms. I twisted around, glaring at my captor.

"Hey!" I said, trying to pull myself from him.

That triggered a series of grunts and more flashes of fire. One by one, my friends were taken down to their knees with their arms pulled tight behind them.

"What the hell?!" Kuvira growled.

"Throw them all in the van!" the man ordered. "He will know what to do with them when we arrive."

"He?" I said. "Who's 'he?'"

"You'll find out soon enough." the man said with a laugh.

A single Equalist went around, two fingers out, jabbing them in my friend's necks. They each fell to the ground, motionless. Last, he came to me. I looked up at him, knowing that fear was evident in my eyes, before I was taken out.

~time skip~

~Korra~

My head throbbed when I came to. I could feel the pain all the way to the roof of my mouth. I groaned and lifted my hand to my head as I tried to sit up. Even with my eyes closed, I still saw dizzying colors. I opened my eyes a slit, just enough to see, and gasped.

I was in a cell. It wasn't very big, and there was nothing in it. The bars were thick and dulled and rusted but not to the point of falling apart. I was laying on a cot. I opened my eyes all the way to take in the sight. There was nothing great about it at all. The whole thing looked like it had been sloppily carved with earthbending. There was no one else in it with me, causing my panic.

"Asami!"

I jumped to my feet, only to be blinded by more colors and I fell back onto the cot. My head was swimming. When I could open my eyes again, I evaluated the rest of my surroundings. Looking across the hall, there was another cell across from me, with someone in the bed. Slowly, I got to my feet. I approached the bars, encircling my fingers around the cold bars. I stood on my toes, trying to get a better look. All I could see was a mass of messy black hair.

"Asami?" I whispered, hopeful. The person didn't move.

I gazed around my cell and spotted a small rock the size of my fingernail in the corner. That's when I wondered if my bending was back. Tentatively, I stretched my hand out and tensed my fingers. To my utter relief, the rock lifted off the ground. I brought it forward and looked back at the person in the cell. I calculated (okay, more like guessed) the trajectory that the pebble should take in order to gently hit the person's head and let it fly. As I'd hoped, it tapped just under the person's ear. They jumped up, ready to fight and gasping for breath. It wasn't Asami, but-

"Kuvira!"

Kuvira looked at me, her eyes full of fright until they recognized me. "K-Korra?" she said, standing up and moving towards the bars. "Where the hell are we?" She gave me a strange look. "And why do you have animal ears on your head?"

My hand flew to my head, touching my exposed ears. I looked down and realized that I was only in my tank top, my black hoodie was gone. "That doesn't matter right now, where's Mako and Bolin?"

Kuvira shrugged just as we heard another voice call out to us. "Korra?"

"Bolin?!" I said.

"Guys!"

"Mako!"

"Oh, spirits, it's good to hear all of your voices!" Bolin said, sighing happily.

"Where are we?" Mako asked.

"We're trying to figure that out now." I said.

"Is Asami here?" Kuvira said.

We were met with nothing but silence, confirmation that Asami was wasn't there. My panic level rose and my hands tightened on the bars. That's when it came to me. My eyes opened and I sat myself down on the ground, folding my legs in and overlapping my hands in my lap. I took a deep breath and focused intensely.

Before I knew it, I was hovering over a room that was something resembling an office. There were two guards in it, standing side by side behind a chair. I could see the top of her black hair, slightly ruffled like she'd just gotten out of bed.

"Asami..." I said quietly.

She was still unconscious, her head falling forward. She was handcuffed to the chair, but her feet were free.

Almost immediately, my eyes snapped open. I looked up and Kuvira was staring at me. "Korra, what did you do?"

"Asami's okay." I said with relief, getting to my feet.

"How do you know?" Mako asked

"I'll explain later." I said. "Right now, we need to get out of here. Any ideas?"

Kuvira scoffed, feigning like I'd offended her, and put her hands on her hips. "You're kidding right? You're looking at a metalbender."

"Uh, no offense, Kuvira, but you're just a trainee." Bolin said.

"Doesn't mean I can't get us out of here." Kuvira said, glaring in the direction of Bolin's cell. She stepped back and linked her fingers together, stretching out and cracking them. She took a deep breath and her hand shot out.

The metal bent to the right and she grinned. She took another deep breath and spread her arms out, the metal following suit. She'd created a hole big enough for her to slip through. With a satisfied smile, she stepped out of the cell and approached mine. On instinct, I stepped back. The bars were split and I leapt through, patting Kuvira's shoulder and we ran to the nearest cell, Bolin's.

Last, we let out Mako. We gathered in a small huddle.

"Alright, we gotta get out of here and find Asami." I said. "We can split up and-"

"Hey!"

There were guards coming from both ends of the hallway. We readied ourselves to fight.

"Korra, you go with Kuvira down that hall and find Asami." Mako directed. "Bolin and I will head this way and try to get some answers."

We all nodded and split up, running down the hallways towards our hopeful destinations, going head to head with the Equalists that were coming our way.

~Asami~

The tingling of my imprint made me stir. I squinted my eyes and blinked, my vision hazy. I moved my hands, only to find that I couldn't lift them up. I opened my eyes all the way and looked down. My hands were restrained by cuffs to the chair I was sitting in. My hands opened and closed as I tugged at them fruitlessly.

"Stop squirming." an Equalist said from behind me. I looked up, trying to angle my head to look, only to be startled by the door opening slowly. I half expected to hear the same voice of the guy that captured me. Instead, who I saw made my blood run cold and my heart skip more than once.

"Hello, Asami."

"Dad?"

~To be continued...~

Weee, part 2 of 4 is up! Yeah, there are only two chapters left, including an epilogue. But! There's still the sequel ;)! Sorry it had to be revealed this way, but all good things have to come to an end!

Thanks for reading!