Ok now get to the violent bit, well violent bit number two there will be more so I guess i should say one of the violent bits. Anyway enjoy this thing I wrote when I was both tired and a bit drunk.
Disclaimer: I don't own the legend of Korra or any of the character's involved in it. If I did you would notice because the clouthing would be more reveiling.
Chapter 4 – Hot Air
"Thank you," Nam said accepting back his his goggles from Korra. He held them up to the faint light coming from the broken windows, examining the cracked lens, "these were hand made and expensive."
Korra just rolled her eyes at him, "Ill get you more goggles just..." she was interrupted by another loud shock wave from above them. This one was much larger actually shaking the floor beneath her, "what the?"
"We have to move," Nam said fixing his goggles I place and walking past her down the corridor, "try to keep up."
She was about to ask what he meant when he suddenly jumped forwards making a wide circle with his right arm. A sphere of swirling air appeared next to him which he threw down and landed on. She gaped at him as Nam air scootered around down the corridor and around the corner, laughing slightly to himself.
"Catch up if you can," Korra called to the confused looking Metalbender standing behind her.
Creating her own air scooter Korra raced after Nam-kha. It took her a bit but she finally found him about two floors up where he stopped win the middle of some metal cubicles. For some reason he was shifting around staring striate upwards.
"There on the roof," he explained as she came to a stop next to her.
"Then what are you waiting for?" she yelled incredulously preparing to blast through and have at her.
"Wait!" Nam said grabbing her shoulder, "listen closely."
"Ok," Korra said impatiently, she was tired of talking and wanted to fight.
"Chen will be carrying a metal Airbending staff," he explained quickly, "Get it from her!"
"Why its just a staff?"
"It's not just a staff," he insisted, "get it from her and we can take her down. Let her keep it and she will rip this building apart trying to get at you!"
Korra felt a small twinge of fear in her chest as she thought that over, "Get the staff...got it," she mumbled, "how exactly?"
He grinned wickedly at her, "This is the part where you will love being on my team, Avatar Korra," she should have guess she was not going to like this next part.
Instead of blasting through the roof like she had wanted Nam had convinced her to take roof access up. Though she did want to smash her way up and get the jump on Chen he reasoned that it would not work well with his current plan.
Still wanting to give her entrance some impact she kicked the door to the rook open instead of just opening it. What she saw out side made her blood run cold.
The police head quarters' metallic roof had been ripped apart. Two dozen Metalbenders lay unconscious either in large crater like dents in the roof or in piles heaped around the larger gashes in the metal plating. Only Lin, Mako and two Metalbenders were left up and fighting against one opponent.
Chen, for it had to be Chen, move at incredible speed. She was like a tornado, a tornado that jumped around you like a canon ball. It was clear even from a distance that she was dominating the fight. Korra watch as one of the Metalbenders got to close and smacked under the chin by a six foot long metal staff. The poor man was fired into the sky a full twenty feet before falling landing hand on the metal decking.
"Hey Chen!" Korra called not wanting to waist time with Mako so close to her, "missing something?" she through Nam down in front of her. As per his instructions she had bound him round the legs and arms. She had also punched him again, that had not been in his plan but he had complimented her ingenuity.
Hearing her Chen finally stopped for a moment to see what was going on, this finally gave Korra a good look at her. Chen was a tall, slim woman with chin length black hair. From what Korra could see her face had an impish quality to it but she could not be sure as her eyes were covered by a pair of large green goggles. She was dressed in a form fitting grey jacket along with black trousers and pointed leather boots.
Chen's eyebrows shot up at the sight of Nam on the ground in front of Korra, "Nam!" she screamed sounded both angry and horrified.
Following Nam's plan Korra knelt next to him and started a powerful fast burning flame in her hand and held it close to his neck, "Put down the staff!" she ordered praying this would work. Lin, Mako and the last remaining Metalbender formed a circle around Chen blocking her any chance escaping.
"Are you ok?" she called over, her voice was oddly girlish and concerned sounding. It made Korra feel a little guilty, she must have really cared about Nam before all this.
"Im good Chen," Nam replied in an oddly cheerful voice that Korra thought would give the game away. However this seemed normal for them because Chen just laughed at him.
"I was so worried," she sobbed happily pulling down her goggles to wipe tears away from a pair of the largest green eyes Korra had ever seen. They were almond shaped and made her look like a cat, she was surprisingly pretty.
"I know girly I know," Nam called back maintaining the same cheerful tone, "we'll sort this out ok."
"Ok," she sobbed taking a tentative step forwards toward them.
"You didn't have to do all this," he continued in a more serious tone, "weren't we all happy together away from all this?"
Weren't we all? Korra thought to herself, how many Airbenders have these people been hiding? She would have to get the truth out of him after this.
Chen looked a little ashamed with herself, "I didn't want to keep hiding," she said through clenched teeth, "I'm an Airbender, were Airbenders! Were not meant to sit on a mountain and wait for the world to be ready for us!"
Nam pushed himself into a sitting position, "And stealing is the way to do that?" he asked angrily.
"Better than sitting around and waiting for you!" she cried back, this felt like a very old argument and even Korra, who had next to no romantic sense in her, could tell that Chen was not just talking about the plight of there people.
"We were waiting for the perfect moment, when there were enough of us to become part of the world again!" Nam explained franticly.
"We can't just wait!" she cried, "We have to take back our place in the world!"
"NO!" Nam shouted so loudly it sounded like it had been magnified and making Chen take a fearful step backwards. Nam sighed at the fear on her face and smiled warmly at her, "just come home Chen," he said pleadingly awkwardly getting to his feet, "everyone misses you. Come home with me and we can make all this right again. Everyone will know about us now, we can be free! Come with me."
A fresh wave of tears began to fall as Chen shook her head, "It's not that easy," she sobbed sounding almost heart broken, "why can't you just come with me?"
To Korra's surprise Nam began removing the cords she had placed around his wrists, "Sorry Chen," he said taking an offensive stand, "I can't come with you and I can't let you make our people the enemies of the world!"
Chen's face hardened, she pushed her goggles back over her eyes and pointed her staff at Nam, "Your coming with me no matter what!" she said defiantly and swung her metal staff up in a sidewards arc and then down in there direction. A blast of air hit both of them sending them flying backwards.
"Korra!" Mako shouted, she saw him leap at Chen's back his fist igniting as he brought it down. However to her horror Chen had some how sensed the attack coming. She flipped side ways out of Mako's way letting him land next to her before spinning on the spot and hitting him square in the back. The air shook around her as Mako when flying in a high arc towards the street bellow.
Korra was about to run to try and save him when she saw Lin jump after him, cables springing from her arms and catching Mako just as her was about to fall out of sight. As she sighed in relief she saw what looked like a streak of grey flying past her. Nam had gone on the offensive.
Chen raised her staff defensively pointing it at Nam as he charged at her. As soon as he was in range she swung her staff around in a wide brutal swipe that caused a wave of air so powerful Korra had to duck under it. Nam however seemed ready for the attack for at the very moment it looked like he was about to be hit by the staff he bent backwards sideways pushing himself under the swing with Airbending before spinning on the spot and kicking her legs out from under her.
Chen did not go down however, she landed perfectly on the tip of her staff and flipped back down sending another wave of air at Nam which he dodged by flipping backwards. As he landed he charged her again this time not dodging the swing of the metal staff. Instead he blocked it with his bare arm.
As staff met forearm it caused a colossal shock wave that almost knocked Korra off her feet and echoed strangely in her ears. They exchanged several more harsh echoing blows an till Nam swept the staff to one side with a well placed kick. It seemed Nam was about to win, an till at the last moment Chen used the momentum of the kick to jump up and deliver her own to the side of Nam's head sending him spinning across the roof.
Korra knew she had to get into the fight, Nam had been right with that staff she was just to dangerous. She spotted the last Metalbender save from Lin who was still dealing with Mako slowly approach Chen drawing her attention. Of the two of them she knew he had more of a chance to get the staff away from Chen so she had to be the bait.
Tacking a running jump Korra brought be leg down in a fiery downwards kick blasting Chen with a wave of fire. The girl looked a little shocked, she had obviously not guess that Korra was the Avatar with her focus on Nam.
Chen deflected Korra's fire with a swing of her staff smiling at her as if to say "Is this all you have?" Korra did not for once let her anger control her. She would not let Chen resume the offensive. She hit her with a complicated series of fire blasts that Mako had taught her, twisted the shoots so that they would strike at her from all angles.
She slowly drove Chen back, the Airbender working hard to deflect all of her blasts of heat. Seeing the Metalbender waiting for the perfect moment Korra decided to take her chance. Breathing deeply she kept up her barrage of fire blast keeping a little bit of the change from each inside her.
Just as Chen swept aside one of her blasts a sideways swing leaving her chest momentarily exposed, Korra released the charge of heat inside her. With both airs she sent a massive burning hot stream of fire striate at Chen's chest.
Chen flinched, instead of taking the blast head on she dodged wildly to the side and landing clumsily on the ground. As she landed her staff was suddenly wrenched out of her hand by the Metalbenders cords.
She was not going to waist a moment, charging the girl Korra tackled her in the stomach forcing her hared onto the ground. As they landed however Chen somehow got her feet onto Korra's stomach and kicked her hard in the stomach with both feet and flinging her back across the roof with with a hard blast of wind.
Rolling back to her feet rushed to rejoin the fight just as Chen pulled her staff from the now unconscious Metalbender. Seeming to want her at a distance Chen swirled her staff around her body creating a series of whipping gusts of air that forced Korra to repeatedly roll out of the way to avoid them.
She forced her way through however meeting wind with wind where she could. Getting within a few metres Korra blasted her with a few shoots of fire which at such close range forced Chen to back up a little swirling her staff to repel the flames.
Taking her chance Korra darted forwards ducking low and spinning on the spot producing a large wave of fire which she sent straight at Chen's feet. Unable to block the attack Chen leapt high arcing over Korra's head.
Korra fired three fire blasts at her trying to knock her out of the air. As she did however Chen twisted in mid air extending a metallic looking fan from from one end of her staff and batting away her flames with easy. Korra readied herself for a new attack but as Chen was about to land Nam appeared out of nowhere kicking her with both legs in her left side.
With a blast of air Chen flew across the roof skidding across the metal plating an till she collided with a ripped up chunk of roof. The girl staggered quickly to her feet and glared angrily at both of them.
This time they attacked together. Moving in sink Korra let Nam take the lead breaking Chen's defence with three air shacking kicks before ducking to the right allowing Korra to leap forward striking her with a blast of fire that hit her in the chest knocking her off her feet.
Rolling to her feet Chen used her fan to hit them both with a massive wave of air. Korra let herself be blown backwards landing on the ground and rolling to her feet. Nam however hand swirled his arms creating a spinning circle of wind around his body allowing him to roll over Chen's attack.
As Korra advanced again Nam was already on the attack going air on air in a dance like battle of the winds. With Chen distracted Korra was able surprise her with her own blast of air which almost knocked her off the roof.
"Arrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhh!" Chen screamed as she charged them leaping high and bring her staff up to attack them. At the last second however there was a whipping sound and Chen suddenly changed direction and being thrown down hard onto the metal plating.
Lin had re-entered the battle and would have ended it if Chen had not quite suddenly extended a blade from the end of her staff and cut the metal cord like it was string.
The three of them bared down on Chen backing her into a corner of the police roof. She glared with hatred at all of them but none more than Nam who she looked at like he had betrayed her at the deepest level.
Korra did not see anything wrong so if Nam had not suddenly shouted, "Get back!" she might have come off worse. Slamming her staff into the roof and let off an ear splitting wave of noise and air knocking her off her feet ripping some of plates off the roof.
Pushing herself back up she only just caught sight of Chen running for the edge of the roof and extending an odd series of large fans along her staff. She had never considered that it could have been a glider, it was made of metal for one.
"Stop her!" she shouted as Chen launched herself into the air riding her glider like a surf board.
Nam charged right by her racing to catch up with the other Airbender but just as he leapt from the ground he was caught in mid air by Lin's cables, "Not so fast fly boy!" she said commandingly.
He thrashed around trying to escape his bonds, "What are you doing, she's going to get away!" he shouted at Lin.
"And your going to stop her alone are you?' she asked pedantically.
"No I thought Id give her a kiss and some congratulations on an excellent attack on a police building," he spat back at her sarcasm dripping from every word.
Lin ignored him, "Korra go check on Mako and the others," she said shocking Korra out of her distracted state.
She rushed over to find Mako unconscious but still breathing. He had a nasty cut on his forehead but he did not look to bad. Kissing him on the lips to comfort both him and herself she checked on all the other injured people on the roof. No one was in a life threatening position so she just checked them all over as they waited to for help.
It did not take long for medical crews to arrive and air life the Metalbenders and Mako off for treatment. She had wanted to go with him but Beifong had asked her to stay behind to help her with Nam who had not stopped trying to get out of his restraints.
It took a while but she was able to convince him to come with them down into the station to wait for Tenzin who Beifong had call to come and help her figure out what to do with him.
"So he has no idea?" she asked him as they sat in a now heavily guarded waiting room, Nam had been freed from his bindings but still looked like he wanted to bolt.
He grinned half hearted at her, "Sixteen years of keeping the biggest secret in the world and I get outed by one of the people I was trying to protect..." he sounded very bitter.
"How many of you are there?" she asked thinking back to what he had said as he tried to talk Chen down.
He looked at her untrustingly, "I'll tell you when Tenzin gets here," he said at last, "I would rather only betray by people once."
"Isn't Tenzin technically your people too?" she pointed out and regretting it when he glared at her for it, "sorry but your all Airbenders."
"Were not monks!" he said bitterly, "were Nomads."
"Is that why you kept it a secret?" she asked tentatively, he nodded, "I don't think Tenzin would force you to become monks."
"It's not something I like to risqué..." he sighed hanging his head.
Wanting to get his spirits up she slapped him hard on the back, it worked on everyone else, "Hey don't be so down," she said cheerfully.
"Wow?" he said slowly like she was an idiot.
She had top think for a bit before it hit her, "Think how happy the world is going to be that there are a bunch of new Airbenders out there!"
"Well done your trying to cheer me up by reminding me I have failed in my life long mission to remain a secret," he said sarcasticly, though he did sound a little more like he had before.
They sat in silence for a while waiting for Tenzin to come chew Nam out. During that time Korra learnt one important fact about Nam, he could not stay still for more than a minute. While they sat there Nam did eight laps of the room, did a weird Airbending trick with some marbles that Korra made him show her and randomly annoyed the officer by the door by flicking things at different bit of his armour to check how the sound carried. A concept he said he explain later.
Wanting to keep him occupied Korra decided to ask something that she had wanted to asked since the crime scene, "Why was Tenzin so protective of you?" she asked, making him stop on his ninth rotation around the room.
"What?" he asked sounding a little confused.
"At Future Industries," she explained, "Tenzin sent me over to make sure you stayed safe."
"Failed," he said grinning wickedly at her.
Korra glared at him, "I just want to know what has him so sweet on you?"
"He told you about the little sub Nomad commune thing we have up north right?" he sat down next to her and leaned forward on his knees.
"Ye," she said then remembered something weird, "what did you call it before in the cell, you gave it a weird name?"
"Project Nomad?"
"Ye that," she agreed remembering the way he had said it, she had payed it so little notice before but now that she did it sounded so strange to her, "weird name for a town."
"It's not a town," he chided, "it's more like a small community on a mountain."
"And Aang stared it?" she asked wanting to get all of the facts striate.
"Avatar Aang," he corrected raising a finger as if it was a mistake she should not be making, "if you feel the need to be called Avatar Korra then he was Avatar Aang."
"Hey its my choice how I choose to call him!" she said angrily.
He smiled a little, "We'll I knew him better that you did so I don't expect you to understand."
"What do you mean knew him better, I am him!" she complained.
He gave a look up and down that made her feel a little uncomfortable, those eyes of him looked right through you. "Your cuter," he said at last catching her off guard. So much so in fact that she almost forgot his comment about knowing Aang better than her.
She was about to ask Nam about it when Tenzin walked into the room, his stern "I am so disappointed in you" plastered all over his facer.
Nam did not seem to recognise this as at the sight of Tenzin he cracked a wide grin and leaned casually back in his chair, "Tenzin," he said joyously though she felt she could hear a note of panic in his voice, "lovely for you to come, did you hear the news Korra broke my goggles."
"Why?" he asked sternly, he did not seem angry just...she did not know what really.
Nam's smile faded into a rather cold look, "You know why!" he said darkly.
"No I don't," Tenzin said sadly, "I can't understand why you would have kept this hidden from us."
"From who?" Nam asked a note of anger creeping into his voice.
"Us!" Tenzin bellowed in anger his robes air whipping around them from his anger, "your people!"
Nam stood angrily sending a wave of wind at Tenzin which almost nocked him over, "You are not my people!" he yelled furiously, "And if Chen had not gone and done this you would never had known about us!"
"Nam!" Korra yelled running after him as he walked towards the door, she stopped him with a hand on his shoulder, "this is not helping!"
He looked back at Tenzin who still seemed to be in shock that someone had just Airbended at him that was not one of his children, "Get me out of here Tenzin," he said coldly, "there are children in the North I need to save." and with that he walked out pushing past the officer at the entrance.
Korra walked over to Tenzin and put a hand on his arm, "Come on," she said comfortingly pulling his arm a little to get him moving, "he's leaving already."
He looked down at her sadly, eyes full of pain, "I don't know what to do Korra," he said, "I never believe it could really happen..."
"Well it has," she said bluntly making him smile a little, "do what I do, roll with it!"
"Roll with it?" he questioned raising an eyebrow at her.
"He's an Airbender," she said simply, "we can't change that. I'm guessing you don't want to change that so..." she trailed off shrugging a little.
"I know your right," he admitted sounding tired, "I just..."
"Are you two coming?" yelled Nam from outside, "You did hear me when I said there are children in danger, right?"
"We heard you!" Korra shouted back hoping he had not ruined her progress with Tenzin.
There was a pause before he called back, "Remind me later to tell you what a rhetorical question is, now bring out the old guy and lets get moving!"
"I'm coming now," Tenzin said at once his tone dignified once again and his back straitened, he looked down at Korra and smiled slightly, "come on before he causes more problems."
Yah Im done with this bit, good because now I get to the fun bits. As always reviews are apresiated and enjoyed and for those of you wondering were Bolin is that will be addressed next chapter. He would have appeared sooned but having him and Nam-kha in the same room seemed dangerous. By the way tell me if you want to know what Nam's name means it took me ages to find a name that fit him.
Next Time: We see the fall out of Chen's attack on Police Headquarters and Nam reveils more about the new generation of Airbenders!