On the third night, Korra was almost hesitant to call Aang. All she could think of was blood bending and the first time she had come into contact with the lethal skill. She was twelve at the time, two years away from completing her water bending training under Master Katara when it happened. She had just been taught that water benders drew strength from the full moon and was elated with how much greater her skill became under the moon's soft glow. Sometimes, she thought it looked like a beautiful white haired girl was looking down on her from the night sky.

But one night, as Korra used the moon to practice more advanced techniques with Katara, she mentioned hearing on the radio how Lin BeiFong had become chief of police following the recent death of her mother Toph. The young Avatar was curious about how metal bending was possible and if the Order of the White Lotus had neglected to tell her of other elements she needed to master. Katara simply chuckled and explained how metal bending was merely an earth bending skill that Toph developed years ago. She then went on to mention how fire benders had a similar skill in the ability to generate lightning. The old water bender could still remember laughing out loud at the horrified look on the face of Korra's fire bending master when she asked to learn this skill a few years later.

But the mood quickly changed when Korra asked if water benders also had such a skill. Katara actually looked scared for a brief second and hurriedly tried to change the subject. When Korra pressed the matter, Katara became angry and actually snapped at the younger girl before curtly ending their session for the night. The next night however, Katara apologized and explained about her training under Hama.

Korra was sympathetic but that didn't stop her next request: "show me." Katara was horrified at first but when Korra passionately argued her need to aware of her native element's dark side, if only to never be tempted to use it herself, the old master agreed. Korra found herself twisted in ways more painful than she could imagine but she was wiser for it when Katara ended her demonstration. "Never be tempted to use blood bending no matter how angry you may get" the old master replied "I have seen what it can do first hand in Hama and I often feared becoming that same way if I ever used it again. I would hate to see someone as strong as you go down such a dark path."

Korra remembered this day and then remembered how she saw a young Katara had blood bent the Red Moons with no sign of indecision. Somehow, she knew it had taken every reserve of courage her old mentor had to do what she did. When Korra summoned Aang before her that night, she told him this and he replied "you have no idea how right you are. Katara openly wept after we defeated the Red Moons and even admitted to having used blood bending out of anger when pursuing her mother's killer. I think that she somehow blamed herself for the Dark Elements knowing about blood bending and I always hated being unable to convince her otherwise." For a moment, Aang's face contorted into one of guilt over being unable to help his beloved wife then he once again showed Korra visions of the Yakone incident. As her vision went white once again, she steeled herself for what was to come.

AN: Boring chapter right? Yeah, I know but the whole idea of blood bending being a widely known art never made much sense to me so I had to make another explanation for how Korra knew about it. The real story resumes next chapter, I promise. Special thanks to awesome authors, Silver Omega 01,thestorywizard,jonesman2007,and anyone who reviewed,alerted,or faved. R/R.