Chapter 3

Kyo was back in Amon`s room, sleeping on his bed. Rolling over on to her back, she opened her eyes. She was face to face with Mr. Masked Man himself. He leaned so close to her that the guy was practically laying on top of her.

Amon lifted the bottom half of his mask up and breathed in to her ear "Now that your here, I don't ever want to let you go..." he whispered before kissing it, then kissing her cheek, and finally he planted one on her lips. Kyo kissed back and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him down against her.

Once he was on her, Kyo flipped them around so that she was on him. Pulling away from the kiss she grabbed the edges of his mask. Amon's arms lay still at his side and he made no movement to stop her as she pulled then mask off his face.

Kyo opened her eyes and squinted as rays of sun shone through the blinds in her window, right in to her eyes. That had been the most disturbing dream ever. The thief sat up and shuddered at the memory of it. It had been a week since she had seen Amon. The weird thing was that she had only actually seen the man once in her life, not counting the times where he would appear in a big crowd at a distance. Why on earth would her apparently sick mind come up with such an idea?

The woman flipped her blankets off of her and sat up on her bed, with her feet hanging over the edge as she recalled that night. Or morning. Depending on what you considered 2:00 AM to be.

Amon had so generously told her that she could leave if she wanted to, without bothering to show her the way out. It took her longer then she would have hoped for, but she did finally find the exit. But not after stumbling upon some sort of little office thing. And being Kyo, which she was, she decided to snoop. What she ended up finding was what looked to be some important plans on some sort of new weapon for those equalists. She also found a key on top of those plans. So Kyo happily swiped both the plans and the key and was merely on her way.

Kyo may have been neutral in this little battle going on in the city, but those weapon plans where for equalists that would use them against benders. She imagined she could make quite a bit of yuons off of it.

The woman looked towards the top drawer of her dresser. Sitting in there was her 'yuon maker'. Along with the key. She was rather surprised that she hadn't seen Amon recently. Maybe those plans weren't that important? Or maybe he didn't notice yet? Or he y know where she lived to get her back for steeling them and then steel them back himself. At least, Kyo hoped he didn't know where she lived.

The thief pushed herself off the bed and got dressed.

As much as she liked the thrill of steeling, that was what you could call her, Nightime Career. And really, it was probably not to most reliable job to depend on. That was also why she had a day job. Shitty as it was. But some one had to get those newspapers out to people.

Unless you are some sort of extremely stupid being, then it doesn't take a genius to know that she was a 'paper girl' or whatever you would like to call it. Despite the largeness of the city, it really didn't pay that good. Just enough to get food in her stomach and just barely pay the rent of her trashy apartment. The money she got from selling her stolen items was a back up. In case one day, which would definitely happen, she ended up being kicked out. The land lord and herself didn't get on good at all. He was always complaining about her coming in late at night and never locking the door behind her.

Locking the door really did nothing. Kyo had seen people crawl in and out through the winows plenty of times. Once some guy even came through the floor boards. Awkward moment when you come in late at night and step on someone's head. And the stupid thing was that the guy tried to sue her for assult. People would do anything for some yuon these days.

Anyways, paper delivery. Unlike most people around here, Kyo had no motorbike or automobile. So she was stuck with walking her route. Thankfully she wasn't an overweight, lazy person.

Kyo was doing the last of her route when she noticed something unusual. Every so often, the woman would stop and adjust the strap of her bag or look to see who was next and out of the corner of her eye she swore that she saw someone peering around a corner at her. Someone wearing one of those equalist masks. That or she was starting to go insane from her lack of sleep. But Kyo was sure that someone was there.

Normally she would be wondering, 'What would equalists want with me?' but Kyo was pretty sure she knew why they where there. That is, if she wasn't going insane of course. The thief looked over her shoulder quickly and just in time to see an equalist duck back behind a dumpster.

Yes, she was pretty sure it wasn't insanity. Kyo checked her bag. Only two more places to go. Naturally, the fire bender quickened her pace and finished her job as quickly as she could.

Would it be a good idea to go home? Probably not. She didn't really want Amon knowing where she lived. Instead Kyo sped walked all the way to that one park. The one with the crazy old bush hobo. She sort of liked him and, as gross as it sounded, his weird dumpster soup thing he seemed to make a lot. Who knew garbage could be appetizing.

Kyo walked there without even looking over her shoulder once. She already knew that they where following her. The fire bender sat on the grass and restlessly tried to watch the water. It didn't take long though before, about five chi-blockers surrounded her.

"Where going to have to ask you to come with us miss." A female spoke in a blank sounding tone of voice.

Kyo tilted her head back to look up at the woman, putting on a, 'I'm innocent and don't have a problem in the world because I'm just that good.' kind of face. "Whatever for? I don't recall doing anything wrong..."

Kyo almost expected the woman to cough out some sarcastic remark. "Come with us please." The chi-blocker repeated. Well, it didn't look like there was going to be a sarcastic remark.

"Since when are equalists polite? I really don't think I want to go with you. I don't even know why I'm talking to you." Kyo crossed her arms and continued to stare up at them. "My mother always told me never to talk to strangers."

One of the male blockers finally spoke up. "This isn't a request." Then two of the, grabbed an arm and pulled Kyo to her feet.

She made an attempt to pull her arms out of their grasps, but they held on tight. "There's the inner equalist we all know and love."

Still being held in their grips, Kyo swung a kick at one of the men in front of her and successfully kicked him in the gut and had him doubled over. She hardly gave him even a chance to breath before kicking him in the jaw and knocking him flat on his back.

The blocker that had been standing beside the one Kyo had just attacked watched him fall and then snapped his head back to Kyo. She was pretty sure that, that guy was giving her some sort of dirty look. They usually did. Blocker #2, the one probably glaring at her, made a move to punch Kyo in the face. As the fist swung, the used all her strength and pulled Blocker #3, the one grabbing her left arm, and swung him in the way so he got punched in the neck.

In surprise, and probably pain and lack of breathing, Blocker #3 let go. Kyo used her free arm and swung it at Blocker #4, the right arm guy. He got it with his free hand though.

From behind her the woman used her little tasor glove and grabbed Kyo by the shoulder. Pain shot through her body as it went in to convulsions and she fell to the ground.

Kyo's vision was blurry, and out of the corner of her eye she saw the woman's hand going down to electrocute her. She also saw water from the lake, fly up and splash in to the equalists, knocking them away. There was some sort of battle going on. And she doubted it was Amon coming to save her.

Groggily she pushed herself up, on to her knees as her vision slowly went back in to focus. What she saw made her quite annoyed. It was Korra, fire ferret brothers, and rich, princess woman. By the time Kyo was on her feet, the chi blockers where gone.

"Are you ok?" Korra turned to face Kyo and was surprised with what she saw. "Kyo?" The fire bender just stood and glared at her sister, who was completely oblivious to the look she was getting. Korra ran up and gave her a tight hug.

Kyo did not appreciate it, to say the least. The thief pried her little sister off and scowled at her. "I didn't need your help." She spoke bluntly, pushing Korra away from her. "I was perfectly fine on my own."

Korra looked shocked, but it quickly turned to an angry look. "Yeah right, you would have been toast if we hadn't come along and saved your sorry ass."

"Well then, let me be toast. The last person I would want to be saved by is you and your little gang of idiots." The thief started walking away from the group of teenagers, who were staring at her with their mouths open.

"Korra... who was that?" Bolin asked dragging his eyes away from the angry figure walking away from him.

The Avatar sniffed and glared at her sisters back. "My darling, big sister."

"Well, she certainly looks like a cheery kind of person." Someone said. Korra didn't know who.

Kyo walked straight home from there. When she got to her apartment, the woman marched straight in to her room and slammed the door shut. With the condition of this entire building, she was surprised that the roof didn't cave in on everyone. Sitting on the edge of her bed, Kyo looked up at the clock on her wall. It was already almost six. Time certainly flied, didn't it?

"Well now, Kyo...You really are trouble, aren't you?" She heard someone say from a corner in her room.

Kyo didn't even look to see who it was. She already knew. "Following me, where you?" She questioned in an emotionless voice.

"That was quite a fight you put up. And then the Avatar came and saved you... Do you two know each other?" Amon asked, stepping out in to the light, so you could actually see him. Nothing had changed since the last time she saw him. He still wore the same mask... and it looked like he wore the same clothing. Anyways, Kyo wasn't going to answer his last question. It wasn't any of Amon's business.

The fire bender looked up from the floor and glared at Amon. "What do you want?" Stupid question there.

"I'm pretty sure that you know." He answered taking a step closer to herself and the bed.

Kyo smirked. "And what if I say that I don't?"

Amon took another step forwards. "Then you would be lying, wouldn't you?" To true.

The woman leaned back and continued smirking. "What if I said that I don't have it anymore? That I sold it to the Avatar for some good Yuon?"

The masked man loomed over her, looking down at Kyo with narrowed brown eyes. "Then I would say that you're in trouble.