Chapter 2: stories confessions
Normal POV
after a while of riding, the group of 5 reached the small harbor in the oast coast, this was the last place they would look... and so their best change of smuggle korra out of the south pole...
so... what are you names... you didn't told me..."
korra asked after they had exited the truck and entered the small town they would use until their boat would arrive.
"My name is zaheer... i'm the leader of our group...These are my friends... P'li... is the combustion lady and my girlfriend..."
He said with a smile pointing to the combustion girl standing into the doorway to their small living room.
"The armless waterbender over here, is ming hua,... don't underestimate her... she's very skilled... even without her arms..."
Zaheer said with a smile, which made Korra beam at her brightly, remembering the white lotus members had told her that her old past life aangs best friend had been a skilled bender too, even do she had a handicap...
"and this is Ghazan... he is a earthbender with a unique skill... he can namely bend... lava..."
zaheer said while he pointed too the black haired man who was smirking at her brightly. Korra beamed back at him, amazed by the fact that he could bend lava.
"amazing...and... combus... combusion bending... I heard that before... didn't my past life fight someone like that?"
Korra said with a pondering look at P'li. The combustion lady now looked at her with a uneasy look, before she nodded and placed a hand on her tatoo with a sad look.
"yes he did, but that combustion bender... as we all know, worked for a evil man... just like all world leaders are... ore so we believe..."
Zaheer said with a smile to the little girl that smiled up at him, before she nodded.
"But... why are they evil then? what did they do?"
Korra asked now with a pondering look, which made zaheer looked at her with a suprised look, since he hadn't expected that question to pop up so early, since korra was still very young...
"well... they... they did nothing... and thats just out problem... they didn't do anything to help us... when we had problems that a world leader should be solving..."
Zaheer said, wanting to keep it as simple as he could for the five year old.
"like what?"
Korra curiously asked now. Zaheer looked at Ghazan now with a unsure look, Ghazan now nodded and gave him a signal with his hands that korra couldn't understand, wanting to tell him that the older non bender should tell her his story as a example, since that would be the easiest way to explain to her...
"like... when the people of the earth kingdom get really, really ill... the earth queen of ba sing se just closes the gates that are the closest to the palace so no one can get to her... she let the people who are sick die..."
zaheer said with a stern look, which made korra look at him shocked, before she angrily balted her fist and gave a growl.
"that woman is so mean! if I will ever see her, I will kick her ass so hard... that she can't sit for a week..."
Korra said with a angry look on her face, which made Zaheer smile. She was already willing to kill... good...
"lets say we first teach you HOW to kick butt... then you can kick her butt... okay?"
zaheer asked with a wide grin. Korra now looked at him and nodded eagerly, liking the idea of learning how to kick someone butt..
"when can we start?"
she asked with a wide grin, eager to learn now she knew she was allowed to use it to kick someone butt.
"we start tomorow, first your gonna get some sleep, since its already late.."
zaheer said while he pointed to the stairs, were a small bethroom would be waiting for her.
"i'm now sleepy... I wanne start now..."
she said stubborn look, before she yawned loudly.
"I think you are, and as the wise Guru laghima once wrote: A night sleep is the warriors best friend..."
Zaheer said with a grin. Korra looked at him with a puzzled look, wanting to argue, but then decided it would be better if she indeed would go to sleep now, this man was right, she was very sleepy now, and she wouldn't be able to concentrate if she was sleeping.
'Okay hen, but only because I want to sleep!"
Korra said stubborn as she was. Zaheer now smiled as Ming Hua stepped foreward and took her by her arm up the stairs and towards the bethroom they had arranged specially for her.
"Ming Hua,.,... who is... who is Guru laghi... laghi... thing..."
Korra asked while the armless waterbender helped her into her pyama's and then into her beth.
"Guru Laghima? some old death airbender zaheer is a big fan of, you will hear him use his old lines many times from now on..."
Ming hua said with a smile, knowing how match their friend enjoyed quoting Guru laghima.
"well... then it's too bad that he isn't a airbender himself... i'm sure aang would have liked it if he would have been..."
Korra said with a kind smile, which made ming hua looked at her shocked, since she couldn't believe how fast the little girl had grown attached to them...
"yeah... he sure would have been happy to see a new airbender... too bad all airbenders are wiped out... except a few that is..."
Ming hua said, remembering aang had one kid who was a airbender just like he had been, who now had a few kids of his own, 3 if she had heard correct...
"well... I think you better go to sleep now... tommorow your gonna learn how to kick butt, and then you don't wanne be sleepy"
Ming Hua said, wanting the five year old to get to sleep now, so she could go down, since she wasn;t very good with kids and didn't wanted to tell the little girl things she would later be sorry about.
"aaawn, i'm not sleepy... can't you stay for a bit... tell a bethtime story ore something?"
She asked with a cute pout. The armless waterbender signed as she got up and walked to the small bookshelve in the corner of the room, were they kept some childerens books .
"what story would you like to hear then?"
She asked while she scanned the titles and the back of the books, looking for a title that she record-iced.
"well... do you know that story of cinderella..."
She asked with a smile as she looked at the back of the armless waterlady as she was looking at the books in her shelve.
"No... i'm not familliar with most of the childerns stories korra..."
She replied as she kept looking at the sides of the book, looking for the cinderella book.
"why not? didn't you mom and dad read you a bethtime story?"
Korra askes as she sat up again, looking at the woman with a not understanding look, since she had thought every parent would read their kids a bethtime story when they were still kids.
"well... no... it didn't worked like that when I was young..."
MIng hua said after a moment of hesitation, not wanting to remember the dark times she had been threw, thanks to the simple fact that she had been born without her arms...
"thats horrible... every mommy and daddy normally reads their kids before bethtime..."
Korra said with tears in her eyes. Ming Hua smiled at her now and scooped her up, rocking her in her waterarms to confort the little girl, before she would go crying, something she didn't liked to match...
"well... I got used to it... and i turned out pretty well after the red lotus got me... as you can see "
She said with a smile as she held her before the bookshelve so she could pick out a book herself, since she most likely remembered all the stories... But korra wasn't paying attention to the books anymore, since she looked at Ming Hua with widen eyes.
"The red lotus... don't you mean the WHITE LOTUS?"
she askes with a stunned look, since she had heard from her parents that the people that wanted to take her were called the members of the white lotus.
"No korra, the white lotus is the clan that protects world leaders and corrupt nations... the RED lotus... are the ones that want to bring freedom and happiness... "
Ming Hua simply explained, so the 5 year old wouldn't get to confused.
"why don't the white lotus want that? I mean... if you guys would all work together... we could make SOOO many people happy...and you guys could train me... and I could go back to mommy and daddy whenever I wanted..."
She said happily, liking the idea of the the 2 clans already, even do she had no idea that she would never be able to return to her parents because they were death...
"well... that would be good... but... I'm afraid that will never happen... we tried... but their not listening to us..."
Ming Hua said with a smile.
"then I go and talk with them... i'm the avatar! they HAVE to listen to me!"
Korra exclaimed while she tried to wriggle free from the armless waterbenders grib to act on her word.
"korra no! they will only take you from us... listen... when your older... and able to kick their butts when their not gonna listen... your allowed to talk with them... okay?"
She asked while she held her firmly, not wanting to drop her on accident.
"NO! I wanne go now! they have to listen to us! they have to!"
She said struggling firmer as she said this. Ming Hua had to hold her firmly as korra tried to struggle her way out still.
"whats going on here..."
Zaheer asked when he entered the room when he had heard the commotion.
"Korra wanted to go and talk to the white lotus about helping us raise her and doing the RIGHT thing... do we all know how thats gonna end now..."
Ming hua said with a stern look on the older man, who nodded in return.
"Korra, we will help you talk to them when the time is right, for now... you have to trust us..."
Zaheer said with a smile. Korra now stopped struggling and looked at him with a sad look.
"But... I wanne see mom and dad again soon... and I can't as long as their held by those evil people..."
Korra stammed with a sad look on zaheer, who looked at his friends now with a sad look, because they all knew full well that she wouldn't be able to see her family EVER AGAIN...
"korra... trust us... we know whats best for you... and... were not sure of we should tell you already but... your mom and dad... they... their not gonna come back... ever..."
zaheer said after a moment of thinking, making the 5 year olds eyes widened in shock, realizing what that meant...
"No... No! they can't be death! they can't be..! your lying!"
Korra said, screamed, kicked... not wanting to believe that her parents were gona forever. P'li now carefully stepped up and hugged her, kissing her on her cheeck as she carefully rocked her.
"Korra... it's okay... you still got us... and were gonna care for you... your gonna be the best avatar ever... promise..."
She smiled as she tried to calm the screaming and kicking 5 year old down. But Korra didn't, she didn't wanted to believe that her parents were death... that she wouldn't be able to see them ever again...
"Korra... try to understand... we had no choice... If we hadn't killed them..."
Zaheer started, but he better hadn't said that THEY had been the ones that killed them, because the 5 year old now looked at them with a shocked look, before she attacked them.
"I HATE CHU! YOUR BAD PEOPLE!"
Korra exclaimed as she bended smale flames at them, before she ran off. For a moment, the red lotus members were unable to do anything... to shocked by what the little girl had just called them, before Ming Hua moved first, using her water arms to hold the girl in a firm grib, moving her back to them. Korra was struggling in her grib as she was brought back to the group, Ming Hua holding her in a firm grib as she was put in a seat.
"Korra... your parents were on the side of the baddies... if we hadn't killed them we wouldn't have been able to save you from them,..."
P'li said with a calm look as she brought her face so close to that of the young avatar that the 5 year old could see the bags under her eyes from the lack of sleep she had gotten during her time with the warlord...
"Like the wise Guru laghima wrote: New growth cannot excist withoutr first, the destruction of the old..."
zaheer wisely said, which made korra look at him with a not inderstanding look.
"how do you mean? Who is Guru... Lag... Lag...hira"
She asked now, for a moment forgetting she was mad at him.
"Guru Laghima, he was the wisest airbender who ever lived, and the only airbender that ever learned to gain un-asissted flight"
Zaheer said as he showed the young girl a scroll with a picture of the wise airbending Guru whom he admired so match. Korra looked at it with a wrinkeled nose, not liking what she saw at the picture at all... but the idea of learning how to fly.
"how... how did he do that?"
Korra now asked interested. Zaheer smiled as he took the little girl on his arm up the stairs to the room that would be hers until the ship would arrive to take them to the earth kingdom, were chances of hiding her for the world were bigger...
"Guru laghima let all his earthly attachments, everything that binds us, humans to the earth, like jewels, love for another human and stuff go... and lived his final 40 years without EVER touching the ground"
Zaheer said as he put away the scroll and sat with her in his lap on the side of her beth. Little korra looked at him in awe now, as p'li and Ming Hua got her behind a dresscreen and helped her change into her pyama.
"But I'm not tired... and still mad!"
Korra said with a angry look as she kicked p'li for her anckle. P'li looked at her irritated, but just before she could say ore do anything that could endanger the mission, zaheer stepped in and gave her a stern look, meaning she had to get down to cool down.
"Korra, I understand your mad at us for killing them... but you have to understand that it was for the greater good... the good of the people..."
Zaheer wisely said. Korra looked at him with a cute pout now, wanting to know what good could be greater then her parents being able to be with her and love and care for her.
"you wanne be the best avatar the world has ever known right?"
Zaheer asked her now. Korra nodded eagerly, wanting to be the best avatar the world has ever known and impress her past life had been her big dream ever since she heard she was the avatar.
"Well, we can help you become that avatar, but for that... you need to accept that we HAD to kill your parents... in order to help you archief that goal"
Zaheer wisely said. Korra looked at him with a overthinking look now, having to think about that for a moment, since she didn't fully understood all the adults stuff yet. She was just a little girl! why had everything to be so difficult already!
"will... Will I ever be able to see were they burried them?"
Korra now asked with a small pout. Zaheer looked at his friends for a second. The lavabender gave his friend a small shrugg while the armless waterbender looked at him with a look that, if looks could kill, would defaintly have finished him off.
"Maybe we will someday, but for now... were gonna sleep, tommorow Ming Hua will start to teach you waterbending"
Zaheer said as P'li tucked the young girl in. Korra yawned now, the excitements of the day finally had started to take their toll on her. So they had no problems tucking her in and leaving her in her room to sleep, quitly closing and locking the door behind them...
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"That was almost TOO easy"
P'li said as she sat down in a chair around the kitchen table after they had brought young korra to beth.
"Yeah, she almost ate out of your hand... its like... she is hiding her true nature for now"
Ghazan said as he sat down as well, gulping down a glass of water. Ming Hua was standing next to him and looked at them motionless. She was worried as well, but she never liked showing her emotions, so even now, she chose to hide them.
"I understand your all worried, but believe me, that she is already starting to trust us is only a good sign... as the wise Guru Laghima said, every sign of wanting to help is a good one"
Zaheer quoted as he always did, making the others look at him confused for a second, then shrugged it off, since most of the time they didn't understand what he said when he was quoting his favorite airbending Guru.
"I think Zaheer is right, we have to trust her if we want HER to get to trust... if that is what he meant..."
P'li said with a smirk to her boyfriend, who smirked back at her with a evil smirk, making the 2 others gag behind them.
"Thats not EXACLY what I meant, but thats true... we need to make her trust us by trusting her..."
Zaheer said with a smile after he and P'li had broke away from their kiss.
"Then its not very helpfull we locked her in her room"
Ghazan said with a joking face as he looked at Ming hua with a serious face. MIng Hua nodded as well and held up the key. Zaheer looked at P'li for a moment, then noded and looked at them with a serious face.
"we best leave it this way for now, we don't want her to try and escape until were sure she's on our side now... But in the future we WILL need to leave her room open..."
Zaheer said, before he took P'li with him to their room. The Red lotus members all went of too sleep. Not knowing that far away, in Korra's home village... everyone mourned the death of the parents of the avatar, and it was feared that the avatar itself ... also was no longer alive...
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That was the end of my second chapter, I hope you all liked it...
A/N
I hope the Guru laghima Quotes I made up made sense... I'm not good at quoting acnient airbending Guru's...
Korra was very shocked and mad about the death of her parents, but was easily disreacted by something else, like most 5 year olds... but i'm sure the topic will be used later in the story, since it IS gonna be a big deal later on.
well, that was all for this episode, I hope you all enjoyed it, keep reading and don't forget to
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