Thank you so much for the reviews they really mean a lot to me. I'm looking for a beta for this story so if you're interested in helping me out let me know. I don't own Legend of Korra or The Hunger Games, if I did Makorra would still be together.


The great walls that used to surround Ba Sing Se were mere rubble that was barely able to keep out the forest at bay. Tenzin climbed the boulders in a low spot, his natural lightness caused him to look like he was merely skating the top. Bolin looked up at the sound of rocks moving and grass crunching. Tenzin sat down beside the earth bender and handed him a wrapped steamed dumpling. Oogi game a rumble of hunger and Tenzin got back up to get some feed from the packs.

"I was able to sneak back and see Korra for a moment. I'm sorry I didn't have time to come back for you." Tenzin walked to Oogi's front and pet the sky bison's nose as the animal ate.

Bolin tried to hide his disappointment. "It's ok, did you talk to Mako?" It wasn't Tenzin's fault he didn't get to see Mako. Still, just being in the same city gave him a feeling of wholeness he hadn't felt since the reaping two weeks ago.

Tenzin paused before speaking, wondering how exactly to go about telling Bolin what happened during the interviews. "Only for a moment. He got a score of 9 so that's good."

"Yeah that's good." Bolin repeated to himself. "Is that all?"

"Bolin," Tenzin sighed. "I'm not sure how to tell you this but Korra was exposed."

Bolin only needed to catch Tenzin's sad eyes to know what happened. "Mako's not going to make it is he?"

"No, most likely not." Tenzin put the bag of feed back on Oogi's saddle.

Bolin nodded and hoisted himself up onto the saddle, trying his best not to cry. Mako had always been the strong one of the two, always looking out for Bolin, now it was his turn to be the man. Tenzin climbed onto Oogi and with a sad Yip-Yip the two grieving men began their journey back home.


Korra tossed and turned in bed to full of restless energy to sleep, when she knew that was the one thing she needed most. After the interviews the tributes had gone to bed without saying anything. Korra didn't even see Asami come in after her walk. She still couldn't get that look Mako gave her that evening out of her head. It was the look of someone who was looking at the cause of his death, but not in an angry or bitter way, but solemn. The solemn part is what bothered her. Mako should be angry at her; angry for lying to him and Asami, angry for taking his chances of winning away.

She groaned in frustration and pulled her covers back. She didn't care how late it was or what she'd be doing tomorrow. She knew, as she put on her shoes, that if she didn't get out of this room, this prison, she would explode. She opened the door and checked to see if the common room was empty, it was. She walked across the room to the door that held the emergency stairs and prayed to whatever spirits were listening that there wasn't an alarm attached to the door. Korra sighed in relief when the door opened in silence and she walked up the stairs until she found the door to the roof already propped open by a rock.

"Make sure that rock keeps the door open, unless you want to be stuck up here." Ugh, Korra thought, Petra.

The spiky haired boy turned around to see her, his golden eyes like fire in the faint glow from the street lamps below, and his signature smirk on his face. "Here to push me off the roof sweetheart?"

"I wasn't planning on it." She said walking to where he stood leaning against the half wall on the edge of the roof. "But now that you mention it. That could make life a lot easier."

Petra laughed but seeing her serious expression stopped abruptly. "Hey, don't do anything hasty. I'm not your enemy."

"Why would I believe that? You've been nothing but horrible to the rest of us." Korra looked out at the satomobiles rolling down the road. The sounds of protesters outside the old pro-bending area where the interviews were held could still be faintly heard.

"Well I may have been your enemy before, but I'm not now."She gave him a confused look. "You're The Avatar. I'm not going to fight against you."

"Because you know you'll lose." She said plainly.

"Well there's that yeah, but you're the only hope the world has of ending this, all of this. Without The Avatar, the equalists will still control everything, benders will still be treated like second class citizens, the games will still happen year after year. In fact it will probably be worse. If The Avatar can't beat them what hope do a bunch of regular benders have?"

"Thank you, you've really taken some of the pressure off me."

"I get you don't like me ok? I don't blame you for it. But whether you like it or not I'm on your side and I'm going to die helping you if it means there is even a little chance that things can change for the better."

"You don't get it though." Korra turned her head to look at him, frustration coursing through her. "I don't want anyone to die for me. I don't want anyone protecting me. I can't solve all your problems so don't expect me to."

"I get that, if I were in your place I'd feel the same way. I'm still going to do everything in my power to help you, Korra. I have little sisters at home, all benders, and if helping you, even if it doesn't solve the world's problems, sparks something I want to be a part of it. Not for you, but for them. I still think you're a whinny tear bender."

"Ok so, now it's about three and a half against 21."

"A half."

"I have a feeling Asami isn't sacrificing herself for anyone."

Petra contemplated this for a moment. "You're wrong. You'll see once everyone wises up it'll be 24 against the whole freaking equalists army. You're a symbol, baby, get used to it." Korra laughed despite herself "Well this has been a lovely chat, but I need my beauty sleep to keep lookin, this good." He pushed himself off the ledge and walked to the door. Korra followed, unsure if he would remember to keep the door open for her.

When she got back into her bed Korra dreamed. It wasn't like her normal dreams. Instead of being the monk boy, she talked to him. Only he wasn't a boy, but a man. He introduced himself as Aang, the last great avatar who died over 100 years ago. He apologized for not coming sooner but she wasn't ready.

"I don't feel ready now." She said, the two were taking a walk down a path in the jungle. Spirits mingled around them, not paying any attention to the two.

"It's true you aren't. You're painfully untrained but I fear that you may never be ready." She caught his eyes full of concern and looked back down at the path.

"I'm going to die aren't I?" She said solemnly. She was more concerned about letting down the world then the actual process of dying.

"I cannot tell the future, but I know it will not be easy for you. Yet to give up now would to admit defeat before you even started. "

"Do you always sound like a fortune cookie?"

His laugh was a deep rumble. "It comes with lifetimes of wisdom."

"Oh." She blushed.

"Don't feel embarrassed."

"How am I supposed to win this if I feel sick whenever I do anything besides water bending?"

"You feel sick because you're fighting your inner spirit. Let the energy flow through you. I know it's easier said than done, but you must not fear your power."

They were quiet for a while as Korra contemplated his words. "Why me? Why pick me as The Avatar, I'm nothing special, I'm just Korra, small, timid little Korra."

"Ah, so you believe the lies they've told you?" He looked pained. "It is time to put those thoughts to rest. You are strong, you are capable. Besides, the best Avatars are the ones who didn't want the power. It means you respect the responsibility."

"How do I just change like that? You act like it's just that easy." She turned towards him blocking his path.

He looked her directly in the eyes. "But that's the hardest part, it's that easy. Take the fire I know is inside of you." She raised her eyebrows. "How do you feel when Jinora was being picked on for being an Airbender? When people told her the equalists would come in the night and kill her family because they were the last of the element?"

"I wanted to bite their heads off." Korra eyes glazed over in anger at the memory. She had grabbed Jinora and the two hurried back home. Korra cried that night in frustration while Jinora slept in her parent's bed afraid that the equalists would come for her.

"Good, now take that energy, channel it." Korra closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Now bend." She punched out and a gust of wind came from her hand. Aang laughed. "Good, well done."

"I did it." She smiled. "I did it and I don't feel sick."

"Good, now when you feel those emotions; anger, frustration, fear let that energy come out in your bending. Not as a way to hold onto that negative energy but to force it to leave you." Korra tried again, this time thinking about Tenzin's betrayal. Once again her bending was stronger than it had been in practice.

"Aang, why didn't Tenzin ever tell me I was The Avatar?"

"I know as much as you do, but I suspect it was because he didn't feel you were ready."

"Why wasn't I ready?"

"Korra, I know you as well as you know yourself. If you had known you were The Avatar at any other time you wouldn't have been able to stop yourself to go blazing into the Equalist's head quarters and try to overthrow them. You wouldn't have been properly trained and you would fail."

"I guess you're right." They spent the rest of Korra's dream walking and talking. She asked him things about his life and he told her all about his ending the 100 year war, marrying the love of his life, getting to raise three beautiful children.

"It's time to wake up." Aang said. "Let me give you one last piece of advice. I wouldn't have been able to accomplish anything if it wasn't for the help of my friends."

"Will I ever see you again?"

He smiled warmly at her. "I will come to you every time you sleep as long as you need me." Korra wrapped her arms around him for a hug before he disappeared into the mist.

"Korra wake up," for a moment Korra thought it was Pema's hand lightly shaking her awake and this whole situation was just a terrible dream. Yet, like many areas of her life recently, she was disappointed to see Asami's irritated face looking at her. "You missed breakfast and if you don't get up right now I'm afraid Hiroshi is going to come sit on you."

Korra bolted up. "I missed breakfast? Why didn't you wake me up?!" She flung her covers back and dressed herself quickly, she didn't have time to feel subconscious about Asami staring at her body while she changed.

"I did, I knocked on your door and told you to get up. I guess you didn't hear me." Great, Korra thought, if Asami is on my side she's definitely not going to make things easy for me.

With her hair up, wearing the same black jacket, t-shift, and black pants as Asami she was ready to meet her death. When she opened the door Mako and Petra nodded at her and Asami had taken a place next to Mako. Iroh and Hiroshi looked irritated but the rest of Republic City tributes watched her as if they were ready for their marching orders.

"well then, if everyone is ready follow me." Iroh said turning around and walking out of the apartment.

Like on the day she arrived in the city Korra walked through the never ending labyrinth under Ba Sing Se. Turn after turn they made until Korra was convinced Iroh was lost but soon they were walked up a flight of steps and through a trap door into sunlight. When her eyes adjusted she found herself on a landing strip where bunches of tributes lined up by twos in front of an airplane. Iroh gestured to the line and the tributes of Republic city walked across the landing strip to join the others.

In any normal situation Korra would have stared in awe of the aircraft, having never seen one in real life before. Unfortunately this was the aircraft that would take her to her death, as was the theme of the day. Her tummy grumbled in protest of having missed her last guaranteed meal. Tahno winked at her when they reached the end of the line.

"Good morning Uh-vatar." He said.

"Lovely one isn't it." She said. He opened his mouth to reply but was interrupted by an equalists who injected Tahno with something and then told to go take a seat in the airplane.

"Next, arm please." The equalist said coldly.

"What's that?" She asked while he stuck her arm.

"A tracking device." He pushed her on ahead.

Inside the plane the tributes fell silent while Korra took her seat. Some looked at her in awe, others with contempt, as she stole their small chance of living through this. She did her best to ignore them and took a seat next to Tahno.

"Do you hate me now too?" she asked softly, hoping the others would hear.

"Well I would say something but it looks like your body guard has arrived." Mako sat down beside Korra and she felt a shiver run though her. She hoped with all her being that this didn't mean Petra was wrong she had enemies in the arena. After the last tribute was seated the plane lifted off. It felt odd to Korra with her new heightened senses to feel the air currents sweep all around the outside of the plane and still feel heavy. How, even though the equalists have found their own type of airbending it was still wrong. With a thud the plane landed and the tributes were ushered through another trap door into another series of tunnels, each of the tributes dispersed to their own small rooms where they received their final preparations.

Korra was pleased to find Haru waiting inside. "You're not here to dress me up are you?" Korra asked. Haru laughed.

"No but I will give you this." He took something small wrapped in cloth out of his pocket he opened it to reveal a small pin with four odd symbols on it Korra had never seen before. "This was given to me by my support for my games and now I give it to you." He pinned it onto her jacket. "It is the symbols of the four elements; Fire, Air, Water, Earth. I feel it's appropriate." Korra thanked him.

"Any advice?"

He thought for a while "Stay Alive." A timer dinged in Haru's other pocket. "Ah it's time." Haru turned her towards the clear tube on the other end of the room Korra had noticed for the first time. "Good luck Avatar Korra, if I could bet, I'd bet on you." A clear glass panel sealed off the tube and soon she was rising.

Win ran through her hair as she looked at her surroundings, a lake surrounded by forests the field full of podiums like the one Korra now stood on with the metal structure known as the cornucopia in the middle, filled with food, and medicine and some weapons for anyone brave enough to go near it. It was common knowledge that the cornucopia was a bloodbath that only the strongest tributes survived.

On either side of her Mako and Asami stood with Petra on Asami's other side. She looked around the field to see Tahno but the water bender was purposefully not meeting her eyes. Over the loud speakers the countdown began. 30 seconds… Korra tried form a quick plan of how exactly she was going to get everyone to listen to her. 20 seconds… she looked to her right to see Mako's soft reassuring smile. 10 seconds… Asami shot her a nasty glare. 5 seconds… she prayed to the spirits that this wouldn't end in total disaster. 3... I don't want to die 2… oh please 1… The tributes were off.

It took a moment for Korra to realize that the scene before her was real life. Already fires were blazing from the fire benders and tributes were pushing each other down to get backpacks full of medicine and food. Korra ran to join the fray.

"Hey!" She yelled at one of the Fire Nation tributes, he pushed her down.

"Stop!" She tried again this time with a small earthbender girl she ignored her.

"Korra over here!" Mako called from the other side of the field a pack already in his hand, ready for them to make a run for it.

Korra shook her head and went around the back of the cornucopia. She wasn't sure it was possible but she scaled the structure at a run trying to use her airbending to give her a boost. When she made it to the top she took a deep breath "EVERYONE STOP!" She yelled everyone turned to look at her. Some of the tributes were already on the ground, not death but possibly close. "Um." She said having not planned on making it this far. "Stop fighting each other, we're not the enemy they are."

"Uh huh, sure." Said a fire bender boy, about Korra's age, sarcastically.

"I want to go home and I don't care if you're The Avatar I will kill you if I have to in order to do that." Said an Earth bender.

"Yeah, who made you the boss anyways." Said the small Earth bender girl

"Let's get her." Said the fire bender. Korra looked around to find and escape when about 15 of the tributes walked in front of the cornucopia making a human shield, soon her fellow Republic City tributes were at the front making 18 in all, of the five left opposing her Tahno was one of them.

"Should we just take care of them?" Asked a water bender Korra had never talked to before.

"No, if they don't attack us we should leave them, I want as few lives lost as possible." Korra got down from the cornucopia and her supporters followed her inside of it. They picked out some food, and tents. When Tahno and his group got close Korra shook her head at a fire bender who had a ball of flames prepared. "Let them get supplies." The tributes did and Tahno along with his four supporters walked into the woods.