Ok its been a while since I was last writing this but Im back and its time for more Namilious action. I though I would take a moment to point out where this story takes place. Im thinking of it being after the up and coming book 2 that i know were all itching for. Anyway enjoy the lunitic based on myself.

Disclaimer: Don't own Korra or her legend so please dont sue me.

Chapter 5 – House Arrest

Korra was hardly surprised when Beifong decided that Nam-kha. A formerly secret Airbender from Temple City and public menace. Was to be confined to Air Temple island an till further notice.

They were all told this during their police escorted drive down to the docks after which they had to endure no less than seven escape attempts by Nam. The last of which ended with him being tied up again. Much to his annoyance and Korra's as she was stuck sitting next to him.

When they FINALLY got to the docks Korra left them taking a glider from one of the Air Acolytes on their ship and took flight heading towards Republic Central Hospital and she knew Mako.

As she flew over the city Korra was struck by the number of fires she could see. She guessed that everyone had heard what had happened over at police head quarters and many were taking advantage.

As she approached the Hospital district she began her decent passing by several apartment windows. What happened next happened almost faster than she could react. Just as she was passing the eight floor of the apartment building opposite Central Hospital one of the apartments exploded .

The force of the blast was so great that it sent her flying sideways almost colliding with the building across the street. She managed to re verse the air flow behind her creating a momentary cushion to stop herself in mid air. It was only then that she noticed the destruction the blast had caused.

Not only was the fire from the blast seemed to be quickly spreading throughout the complex. But even Korra who knew nothing about building construction could see that the upper floors were destabilising.

She did not even have to think about it, Mako was in no immediate danger but the people in that building were. Using both fire and Airbending Korra shot herself into the building, landing in at the source of the blast.

Bending water from the pipes that ran through the building she doused all the flames in the ruined apartment. It was quick work but she knew it would not be the end of it. She quickly dashed into the corridor to see what other work she had to do.

As she entered the flaming corridor however her ears her pieced a horrible sound, like metal and stone grinding together. She looked up and had to catch her breath, a huge crack had appeared across the ceiling above her and seemed to be slowly spreading.

She could not worry about the building now. She had to get everyone out of here and an quickly as possible.

Running to the end of the corridor and leapt up the stairs bending her way up more than anything. The damage was even worse up here with several of the doors blocked by falling debris and people stumbling dazed through a ruined corridor than was beginning to catch on fire.

"Everyone out!" she shouted and began push what people she could towards the exit. When they were on their way she began lifting and bending the debris from in front of peoples doors. It was slow work and she knew there was another floor above this one possibly in worse condition.

It took maybe ten minutes to get everyone off the ninth floor and that was time she could not spare. When she came to the tenth floor stair case she felt her heart drop into her stomach. It was almost completely gone, there was no way she could get anyone off the top floor and...the top floor.

With a new idea forming in her head she leapt the gaping hole that used to be a stair case and landed on the top floor almost colliding with one of the four dozen people clustered in a panicked crowd in the corridor.

"Everyone quiet down!" she yelled over the crowd enhancing her shout with Airbending. It took a moment but finally she got them to shut up and listen, "the stair case is down and..."

"We know that!" shouted someone from the back of room, unhelpfully.

"...and it's not safe to take you down one by one." a small ripple of panic went through the crowd, "SO!" she continued, shouting to be heard, "I'm going to take you to the roof, were going to try and get the attention of an airship but if that does not work I will take you down individually."

More panic from crowd, "That's too dangerous!" some shouted.

"Why can't you just take us down the stairs?" someone else.

"Who's the handsome Airbender?" this one came from...right next to her!

Looking to her left she felt herself jump out of her skin. Nam was standing next to her, grinning smugly in his big grey coat and his cracked goggles hanging around his neck. He had a large glider hanging on his back on a thin strap.

"WHEN DID YOU GET HERE!" she shouted at him so loudly she was scared she had damaged the building further.

"I followed you," he replied that stupid grin still plastered all over his face.

"But..." she was almost at a loss for words, "your under house arrest, they had you tied up!"

For some reason he seemed to find this funny, "Really. That's what's important to you right now. How I escaped?"

Feel a knot of pain start in the centre of her forehead Korra pressed her palm against the spot hoping that would ease the pain more than punching him again, "Ok, ok let's just get these people out of here then I can deal with you."

"Oh so you did notice the crowd of terrified civilians being slowly cooked in front of us," the pain in her forehead seemed to tighten somehow.

"Shut up," she said actually clapping a hand over his mouth, "and follow my lead."

"As you command Avatar Korra," he fell in behind her as she began making her way through the crowd.

The roof access was away from the main apartments, positioned down another smaller corridor off to the side out of sight. It was locked shut but it was nothing Korra had not broken down before. Surprisingly Nam was actually quite helpful in getting everyone out of the top floor and onto the roof, even using his newly stolen staff to Sheppard them out, though he seemed to enjoy it too much.

Once she had made sure everyone was safely up on the roof, which was as stable as she had hoped it might be, she turned back to check on Nam. Who for some reason was now heading back into the building.

"What are you doing now?" she asked grabbing his arm to stop him, she was surprise momentarily at how soft the fabric of his jacket was and how sharply it contrasted with the hard muscle she could feel in his upper arm.

He look down at her impatiently, "I'm going to check if anyone is still inside their apartments, some people may have been too scared to move."

"That's my job!" Korra protested, "I'm the Avatar, you should stay up here and try and get the attention of an airship."

He raised an eyebrow questioningly at her, "And how do think I should do that do you think? Firebending? Earthbending? Or seeing as I can do neither of those very flashing forms of bending I could stand over there and shout really loud?"

Seeing the sense in his argument, though not in his sarcasm, she released his arm and glared at him though she could not help the small smile that spread across her face, "You know there were a lot of shorter was of saying that," she said trying to match his amazing ability to mock peoples very existence with just a few words, she failed.

"Indeed," he replied grinning at her, fixing his cracked goggles to his flushed face, "I rejected them all!" and with that he vanished back down into the crumbling building, "Come on then!"

Face palming at how ridiculous one of the last Airbenders in the world was. She turned away from his direction and back to the innocent people in danger.

She searched the cloudy smoke streaked sky for a sign of an Airship, police or otherwise. She felt herself relax a little when she spotted the fog lights of a civilian cargo ship slowly making their way through the clouds not too far away.

Spinning quickly on the spot twice over she used her right leg to churn up a good hot flame and with an upward thrust of her arms sent it near on a hundred feet into the air. If they did not see that then no one did, but to be on the safe side she kept on sending up similar blasts to really get the message across.

It worked. The ship seemed to get the message because it began to descend out of the clouds...on fire. For one wild second Korra was scared she had accidentally set the poor ship alight when she was signalling. But a quick reality check made her realise that one she ship had been too high and too far away and oh TWO the ship was on fire and slowly descending into a nearby building.

"What did I miss!" cried a familiarly annoying voice from behind her. She turn quickly to see Nam running over, dumping the poor mother and two child unceremoniously on the roof as he went.

"Is that all of them?" she asked running to meet him.

"I hope so because we seem to have an even bigger problem right now," his face was covered in soot save for a patch were his goggles were. This made that wide eyed look of shock and what she could only guess was amusement seem really funny to her, despite the situation.

Shaking herself again to bring her back to this ridiculous situation she looked wildly from the people she had to help and the slowly crashing airship. She could not do both and she was running out of time.

She turned desperately to the lunatic she had been saddled with, one that she had punched multiple times over the last few days. He was her only hope, "Nam..." she pleaded hopelessly feeling the weight of the situation finally crashing down on her.

He looked her seriously, the change in his features when he did this was amazing. There was a feline quality to his features that made him look just that little bit alien and his eyes...no normal person should have those eyes. Iron grey and focused that bore through her like a drill.

"This building will collapse soon and only you can save everyone," he said giving her a small reassuring smile, "I've got the air ship."

As he darted past her unfurling his glider she called out to him, "What will you do?" she was surprised by the worry in her voice.

He turned back to her for just a second and gave her his usual absurd grin, "Drop it in some water no one using," and like that he was gone, flying faster than anyone she had ever seen away from her and towards the flaming air ship.

She watched after him as long as she dared before turning here attention back to the people than needed her. Reaching into herself she called on the power and wisdom of a thousand ages. Every life she had live, every will bent towards helping people she summoned it now.

Separating the roof cleanly from the rest of the building she lifted it, herself and the crowd of people she had saved high into the air. She could barely hear the sound of their panicked voices over the roaring winds that encircled them keeping everyone fixed to the roof.

They floated slowly away from the slowly crumbling apartment building and down onto the street bellow. She felt the power slowly reseed from her body as she let it flow back down into the ancient depths of her being.

She sighed wearily to herself and gave herself a smug mental pat on the back. She began moving among the crowd of civilians many of whom had made their way out of the building from the lower safer floors.

Fire fighters were getting the building under controlled it seemed, throwing up earthen supports to keep the building stable and the searched for the people Nam missed. Nam...she hoped the idiot was ok. She had never tried to fly an air ship and she had a feeling Nam had not either.

That would have to wait however as with the police now arriving, in what she learnt was a reasonable time of two minutes. She had an injured boyfriend to visit.

Find Mako was no problem, when you're the Avatar people tend to run around making sure you're well informed. A kind old Waterbender that looked like a decrepit version of master Katara pointed her in the right direction.

Mako was on the officers' floor, reserved for the police force and the army. When she got there however she was shocked to find Mako was not alone.

"Korra!" Bolin cried running over to her from a disgruntled Mako's and gripping her by both arms, "Help he please! Mako has brain damage, he thinks he was attacked by an Airbending ninja and was saved buy some kind of Airbending pirate!"

"I did not say that!" Mako complained gripping his bandaged covered head, though probably not because his injury hurt.

"Oh thank bending his mind is coming back," Bolin finally let her go and flopped tiredly onto the room's leather sofa. He was dressed in his training gear so she imagined he had run over here from the gym.

Mako shook his head in exasperation, "No Bolin they were Airbenders but not a ninja or a pirate!"

Bolin groaned loudly, "But that's what you just said," he replied petulantly, "listen brother if you're going to go crazy then please do it consistently!"

"All I said was she came at us like a ninja, I don't know where you got the pirate thing from!"

Korra laughed a little at the two of them, relieved Mako was ok, "To be fair Mako," she cut in playfully, "Nam does look a little like a pirate."

"You're not help helping," he said in a moody voice but his expression said he was happy to see her. She walked over and gave him a brief kiss as Bolin processed what she said.

"Wait, wait, wait," he said waving his arms in a stop that right now motion, "are you saying there was a pirate and a beautiful ninja assassin. WHAT DID I MISS!"

"A lot really," she said laughing at the image he had created, "and sorry Bolin no ninjas, no pirates. Just Airbenders."

He sat there with his mouth wide open and his face stuck in a shocked expression. Finally he turned on Mako peevishly and cried loudly, "Why could you not just say that? All that stuff about ninjas and flying pirates, I thought you had gone mad!"

Choosing to ignore him Korra returned to her infirmed boyfriend, "You alright?" she asked trying to keep the worry from her voice.

"Ye just a bad smack on the head," he said giving her arm a reassuring squeeze, "there just making a big deal out of all this cause of how it happened."

"Ye," she replied, "I couldn't believe it when I saw her, both of them, Airbending. How do you think they were able to keep themselves hidden so long?"

"Is this the magic Airbenders again?" asked Bolin unhelpfully.

"Ye Nam and this girl," she replied going over the details in her head, "Nam even said there a load more in hiding up at Temple city."

"Who's Nam?" he was looking really put out that he seemed to have missed all the fun.

"The Airbender on our side," she said at once smiling a little.

"That's a little debatable isn't it," Mako cut in, she gave him a questioning eyebrow raise which must have looked a lot fiercer than she had meant it because he threw up his hands in defence the second she did it, "I'm just saying he has a bad rep and one good act does not make up for it."

"He just helped me pull a bunch of people from a burning building!" she cried a little angry.

"What!" Mako yelled in surprise.

"Seriously what did I miss?" Bolin cried.

"Just one of the most brilliant things you have ever seen!" ok this voice was new.

She did not know why she turned her head to check, only one person she knew sounded that naturally smug. Nam-kha had walked in, coat gone, half blackened by soot, half soaking wet and looking like he had recently been on fire.

"The ship is safe," he proclaimed theatrically, "and all it took was the loss of my coat, the goggles you broke, some of my hair (which was still sticking up), the home of some now very angry turtle ducks and a bush which I think had a hobo living in it. He has what's left of my coat..."

With that tirade over with Nam keeled forwarded and collapsed unconscious on his face.

Bolin, speechless again was looking from Nam, to her, to Mako, to the window where she could just make out the now no longer burning building and back to Nam who she was now worrying looked a little dead.

"Seriously what did I miss!"

Next Time: More friction between Tenzin and Nam, can Korra help...doubt it really.