Chapter Seven: Back to forest

Hours later into the night, the door to Kai's room opened. He poked his head a little bit around the door to see if any one was there. Luckily no one, but the candles lighting the hallway were out. There was only fate lighting coming from the snowstorm outside. Kai walked out and close his bedroom door. He didn't knottiest a sleeping Asami next to his door as he walked past. Asami then woke with a start, She then scrambled onto her feet when she sour Kai walking round a corner down to the stairs.

"Oh my spirits his emerged" she whispered, then ran after him.

Kai wondered down the main stair case down to the main hall. After that shouting contest with Korra, Kai slept for a few hours. But his stomach woke him up, so he got out of bed and head for the kitchen.

"I wonder where the kitchen is?" he wondered aloud.

This place was so huge it was very easy to get lost. Especially at night when you could hardly see anything. Kai also wondered why the place didn't always have light shining from a candle and/or from the light outside. Maybe because Korra didn't want anyone to know she was alive and what she looked like now. These made Kai feel sad, but it pushed out of his mind when he reached the kitchen.

Inside Mako, Tenzin, Pama, Izlee and Bolin we're reminiscing about tonights earlier events. While a Bagger mole women with gray hair was putting the kids to bed,

"Come along children you need rest" she said while they followed her up stairs to servants chambers.

"Thank you Lin" they all said together to the Bagger mole (Lin).

Tenzin sighed with tiredness and sadness "It's been a rough night for everyone" he said.

Mainly because everyone else was thinking the same way he was. Mako on the other hand was convinced that the fault wasn't all Korra's

"If you ask me he was just being stubborn, I mean Korra did say please after all" Mako said with a tone of the obvious in his voice.

Pama poked a hole in the logic "Mako if Korra doesn't learn to control her temper she'll never….."

before Pama could finish her sentence the kitchen door opened and in came the last person everyone expected to see.

"Kai?" Bolin asked.

He nodded to Bolin and walked in followed by Asami. Bolin and Mako straightened up and introduce them selfs

"Hello I'm Mako head of the house hold and this Bolin my brother" Mako said and he and Bolin both bowed to Kai.

He was a little surprised by this, That he was being treated like royalty then Asami walked up to Kai and shook his hand

"Hello I'm Asami and this Izlee, Tenzin and Pama who you've already met I guess" Asami said with a bit of a giggle.

Kai shook Asami's hand warmly then Izlee said "is there any you want? or anything we can do to make your stay more comfortable?" She asked him bowing,

They heard a growl coming from Kai "well I am a little hungry, If it's not to much trouble I was wondering if I could have some food?".

Everyone beamed at Kai then hurried around the kitchen. Pama grabbed rice, water and boiling pot. Tenzin sliced up meat and vegetables. Izlee lit the stove with fire bending and Pama placed the boiling pot with the rice and water in it on to the burning stove. When the rice was boiled Tenzin place the vegetables and meat in with the rice. They stured it around for fifth-teen or so minutes then place it into a bowl and headed it to Kai with some chopsticks.

"Don't you all remember what Korra said" Mako protested as he always did, They all ignored him because weren't going to let Kai go hungry,

Kai finished his meal and cleaned his bowl "That was delicious" he thanked everyone.

"Well I guess you'll headed back to bed Kai" Lin asked.

Kai was to wide awake to back to bed "Well I couldn't possibly go to bed now, it's my first time in enchanted castle" Kai explained with excitement.

Mako froze with fear saying "who said anything about the castle being enchanted, It was you two wasn't it" Mako said rounding on Asami and Izlee.

Kai put Mako's worry to ease when he explained that he already figured it out on his own.

"I would like to look around if that okay" He asked,

Asami then suggested "would you like a tour of the palace?" she asked but then Bolin protested at this idea

"I'm shore thats not a good idea Asami. We can't have him going to certain place's if you know what I mean" he whispered. "We'll show him around then" Mako suggest.

Kai was given a short tour of main parts of the palace. He went through the dining hall, The armoury and the portrait gallery of Korra's family and past lives. Kai wasn't really listening to what Mako was saying about the design about the hall way they where going down. He was interested in the stair case leading to a darken hallway. He started walking to it until someone pulled him back, He turned and saw it was Asami and Izlee who were doing it

"Whats up there?" Kai asked

Asami looked and said "Nothing" her voice going a bit high.

"Are you certain" Kai asked suspiciously

Then Mako said "There's nothing interesting at all in the south wing" He said before he could stop himself.

Bolin and Asami planted there palms on there four heads, Izlee rolled her eyes and said "nice going genies" nudging him in the ribs.

Kai asked "I wonder what she hiding up there?"

Izlee tried but failed to quash Kai's curiosity "Korra's hiding nothing up there"

This just made Kai continue walking up the stairs "then why would it be forbidden?" Kai asked.

Then Bolin said "would you like to see something else like the library perhaps"

This made Kai stop in his tracks and turned "you have a library?" he said excited.

They all smiled and nodded, then started going back down the stairs but Kai was still to caught up in his curiosity with the south wing. He quietly sneaked away from the others and started up the stairs to the south wing.

Kai came through a very disordered hallway, nearly everything was broken and there was cracked mirror hanging on the wall. At the end of the hallway was a huge door with a door nob in the shape of wolf bats head. He reached for it and pulled, inside was recked room of broken chairs, ripped drapes and a bed that looked half broken. He then saw a torn portrait hanging on the wall, it looked like someone slashed it. He walked over to it and picked it off the floor, It was a picture of a young women but Kai could figure out who it was. Then a light shone in the corner of his eye. Thats when he saw a glowing lotus on a table near an open window. He walked over to it lifted the dome covering it and was about to touch it when Korra flew into the room and caught him. She then ran over to the lotus and placing dome back on it, she turned to face Kai

"Why did you come here" She demanded.

Kai backed away slowly and said "I'm sorry" he stammered.

Korra started to get angry "I warned you to stay away from here"

Kai was really starting to get scared "I didn't mean any harm Korra" he explained.

Korra raised a clawed hand and shouted "DO YOU REALISED WHAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE, GET OUT, GET OUUUUUT" She yelled.

Then Kai ran with his super speed not looking back. He had to get away from here as fast he could. He blurred down the stairs and out the front door. He sandalled up Comet and they were off in to the snow storm fill forest.

It was snowing so hard it was impossible to know where to get out. Comet was panicking and Kai was doing all he could to clam him. That is until he saw snow leopards and wolfs heading his way. He pulled at the rains and Comet ran away from them as fast as they could. Thinking they may have lost them Kai and Comet were them ambushed by more wolfs. Comet panicked and threw Kai off, Kai shook his head and got up from the ground, Comet was able to kick a few wolfs away. But one of them jumped on his back but Kai was able to grab it by the fur a threw it aside. Kai punched every wolf who was jumping at him to get to his neck but there was just no end to them. Then suddenly a wolf had Kai pined down then another was about to go for his neck when

"ROAAAAAAR"

Kai looked up and saw Korra who had come to his rescue. She swung one claw to the left, then other to the right and every time she did a wolf would be knocked away into the snow. Kai watched in Horror as Korra was putting her life on the line for him. Seeing as they wanted to escape with there life's the wolf ran away with tails between there legs.

Korra then turned to Kai breathing heavily. Her left four arm was wounded and bleeding badly, she then past out into the snow exhausted from the fight. Kai was about to live her there when he stopped, He couldn't just leave her to die in the cold it wouldn't be right.

"Come on I owe her my life" he thought to himself.

He then walked over to her and picked her up bridle style it was then he truly looked at her for the first time. She may have horns on her head but once you saw past that she was quite beautiful and she was strong to fight all those wolfs on her own. Kai then carried her back to the Palace and all the while holding her close and never taking his eye off her.