A/N: Hey everyone! So sorry about the late update, but here is the next chapter, hope you enjoy. Now the story is drawing to a close, I expect about 22 chapters. THANK YOU ALL SO MCUH! IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE! R&R!

Chapter Fifteen

To my death we go?

Part one

And he listened. Patiently. Calmly. Every single word. Tenzin just sat and listened, taking it all in like the calm air bender he is. Me? I paced, I wrung my hands, and I nervously twirled my hair. I am losing my cool and I hated it, but this burden has been eating me up, and I had not realized until now just how much it consumed me. I let out a long breath after my story, and anxiously waited for his reaction.

"And how long have you known this Kida?"

"Two days." I reply, waiting for the anger and surprise.

"And why did you not tell anyone!" I jumped stunned.

"And you're not mad?" I ask, shocked.

"About what? Blood bending? You saved our lives! My family! Of course I'm not mad! You did whatever you could, and if that was the way to save the island so be it! The only thing I am worried about is you! Kida you met a dangerous criminal and if what you say is the truth, then this Jia is a dangerous as Amon!" My heart swelled more and more with each word.

"I just thought-"

"No! You didn't think, and that is the issue." I heard Tenzin mumble some comment about hotheaded girls being the death of him.

"What are we going to do?" I ask him, as he fingers his beard.

"You are going to stay here; I will take Korra and Lin for help beating Jia."

"NO! I am-"

"Yes you will!"

"Surprise is the only advantage we will have against Jia. You haven't seen her fight. You haven't fought her! You'll need me, and if we tell Lin, Jia no doubt will be long gone." Now, I thought that was a pretty good argument. And the best part was that it was all true. No lies or half-truths, but what I actually thought.

"Kida-"Tenzin began, but I don't let him finish.

"No! Too much of my life I have had no control over! I want to help!"

"What I was going to say was you're right." Tenzin replied.

"huh?"

"I agree with you." Tenzin sighed and rubbed his eyes. "You are so much like Ayla, I have to try not to call you by mother's name." I cast my eyes down.

"What was she like?"

"Ayla was like a flame, when she is angry she burned bright, but her heart was always kind." I nod, picturing a mother I never knew. I felt strange, talking about my family, I hastily change the subject.

"Alright Tenzin, we have a manic to catch." I say, brushing my hair back from my eyes.

"I will go inform Korra and the gang, you are going to grab something to eat." I start to protest, but he interrupts me again. "You need to keep your strength up."

"Fine." I trudge off, my thoughts whirling. I try to eat, but my stomach will not stop churning. I sit down in the kitchen and stare at the table, thinking back to what I know. Jia kills me. I am going to try and help arrest Jia. And I may not come back. So lost in my thoughts I did not hear someone walk in through the door.

"Are you sad?" Came Meelo's little kid voice.

"No I'm fine." I say, hoping to feign happiness. Of course, I am not, but he doesn't need to know that.

"You look sad."

"I'm alright." I say tiredly. Meelo apparently didn't agree because he reaches up and squeezes me into a hug. Surprised, I carefully hug him back.

"Kida." I glance up and see Korra and Asami in the door. I stand up, ready to leave, but Meelo is still hanging on me.

"Thanks kid, but I gotta go." But Meelo just wouldn't let go.

"Meelo let go of Kida now!" Korra orders.

"Awwww." Meelo protests but eventually let go.

I refuse to look at Korra's and Asami's eyes as I leave the kitchen. We head outside and meet Mako and Bolin.

I listen quietly as Tenzin quickly recounts what I had told him and what we plan to do. I tense when we reach blood bending and blackmail, but beside eyes widening, my friends took it in stride.

"Jia is supposed to meet Kida tonight, and so when Kida arrives, we will be waiting." Tenzin says. "But a word of caution, Jia is supposedly as dangerous as Amon. From what I gather she is no bender, but fights with duel knives. And we should be able to suspect a talented fire bender, Onyx."

"Is that everyone we are going up against, why don't we have the police?" Mako asked. Of course he did, is police. Forgot about that.

"Jia has spies in the police force. If we do that, we will tip her off, and she will be long gone."

"And why didn't you fight her? I mean you didn't hesitate to attack us." Bolin wondered.

I bit my lip as I gathered my thoughts. "… Because I knew her. A long time ago, when I was kid in the streets. She was always different, always in fights, and when I got older she and I… worked together on occasion. I was twelve when I realized how… unstable she was." I lift my head stare them all in the eyes. "Jia kills… for fun. And if you get in her way, she will kill you without a second thought." I need them to understand how dangerous she is, and so I lift my jacket to show them my scars. The four large knotted slivery lines on my right side, tracing over my ribs.

Their eyes harden. Good, now they understand.

"I refused to help her kill someone, so she thought it was fair to kill me." I meet Korra's eyes as I say this to her.

"When I was first coming to air Temple Island and I escape to help that family. I got an infection, in two of the gashes and I was dying I was so sick. So Tyla and Benji found me and fixed me up."

"Oh." Asami said.

"If we fight her, we cannot lose; because of all us will be dead." I say.

"Let's do this. " Korra replied, determination in her eyes. And so it begins.