Chapter 7

Nope. The last thing that was going to happen to Kyo was getting captured and brought to Amon by chi blockers. With a gang boss! Kyo was pretty sure that he hated her already, but imagine what he would be like if she were to be brought in with a gang boss? And then have his little equalist cronies say that they found them in Kyo's house? That would probably not sound very good. She supposed that it could be a lot worse though. Like them saying that they found Kyo and Tadao in bed together. The image of that made Kyo shudder. Disgusting. Sure, Tadao was a good enough looking man... Piercing blue eyes, black goatee and short messy hair... Muscular build. He was very fine featured, but on the inside he was a disgusting, slime ball. And he was obviously stupid. No thanks, the prostitutes could sleep with him if they wanted. Anyways, why did she even care about what Amon thought? Kyo didn't like him either.

Tadao jumped to his feet. Himself and Kyo both got in to fire bending positions Briefly, the woman glanced over her shoulder at the gang boss. "Oh, so now you decide to fight them off?"

The man, who unfortunately wasn't Amon, mimicked her, with a twisted, sour expression on his face, and never answering her question.

One of the blockers darted towards them. But instead of fighting, Kyo turned, grabbed Tadao by the back of his collar and ran for her bedroom. Slamming the door behind her, she quickly dashed to the other side of the room and flung the window open.

"Ok, sir "She spat at the man. "I, personally, am not a rich man bitch like you." No disrespect meant there. "But I don't care if there are chi blockers after you. We are not fighting them in my house and burning it down, seeing as it is the only one I have, crappy as it may be." Kyo walked over to the man and dragged him over to the window. "So out the window it is then."

Tadao poked his head out the window and looked down. "What' are you crazy? I'm not jumping that far! I'll fricken die!"

Kyo rolled her eyes and shoved him out of the way. "Then you can lose you're bending for all I care." And with that she hopped out the window, like she had so many times before. There really was no point in having a door for her apartment, was there?

As she hit the ground painfully, Kyo heard a loud bang, probably her door being knocked off it's hinges. Then she heard a 'manly' scream and a crash from behind her. Turning around, she saw that Tadao had jumped out the window and landed on his ass.

"See? It wasn't that hard." Tadao said nothing and followed her as the two ran out of the alley and to the other side of the street. A couple seconds later, Kyo looked over her shoulder and saw Amon's cronies darting out of the alley towards them. Somehow as they ran across the street, the managed to dodge on coming automobiles with grace. Kyo sort of wished she could do that.

The woman did a spin kick and sent fire towards the chi blockers. Most of them dodged it, but one in the back wasn't lucky enough to miss it. Beside her, Tadao punched the air four times and sent blasts of fire at the equalists.

One of the equalists quickly jumped up and tried to do its fantabulous chi blocking on Kyo, by poking her in the arm. But she seemed to have dodged it no problem.

Tadao on the other hand, was on one knee with a limp arm and still shooting fire at them. Until one of them came and poked him somewhere in the shoulder.

Kyo narrowly dodged another blow from the, now two, chi blockers she was fighting. While the where close, she managed to do another spin kick and send more fire at them. Glancing at Tadao, she saw that he was motionless on the ground. And all six blockers had their attention focused on her.

Kyo felt something hit her behind the knees and she sank to the ground. Growling in frustration, she turned slightly and sent more fire in the direction of who ever had done it to her, successfully hitting them and making them cry out in pain.

A couple more hits from around her soon had Kyo laying on the ground too. "Tadao... I hate you." She growled towards the unseen man the she knew, lay somewhere behind her. As expected, he didn't say anything. The thief felt her limp form being lifted up and slung over one of the blocker's shoulders. Currently two things disgusted Kyo. One was that she was being taken the Amon now. Though not that deep inside she, for some reason almost wanted to see the man, but not at the same time. The second thing was that, surrounding the blockers was a cheering crowd of non-benders.

Kyo hadn't actually seen Amon yet. She and Tadao were sitting in a cell with their hands and feet tied together, both laying sideways on the floor.

Even though the woman did somewhat want to see Amon, she dreaded it at the same time. Would he take her bending away? And what would he say to her? If he said anything at all... He probably hated Kyo. Amon had admitted that he felt something for her and she just kicked him out. She was really starting to feel even more terrible about that now.

Letting out a loud growl of frustration, Kyo rolled over and sat up, facing Tadao. "I really, really, really, really hate you!"

Tadao, who was now sitting and leaning against the wall, rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I got that sister. I don't think that I'm that fond of you either."

"That's good to know." Then they went back to ignoring each other.

The two of them had been sitting in silence for probably about two hours before they heard the door being unlocked and opened. Both looking up they saw Mr. Masked Man himself walk in.

Even though the cell was somewhat dark, and Amon was wearing that mask, Kyo could see the look of surprise on his face, when he saw her laying there in the middle of the floor. His eyes narrowed slightly though, and he turned to Tadao.

"Tadao was it?" He asked, walking up to the man, his boots clunking on the metal floor as he walked up to him. The angry gang boss simply spat at Amon's feet. "Charming. Well, it seems your time has come. Someone will come to gather you very soon." Then he turned and started to walk away.

"Hey!" Tadao shouted. "What about her? She is a bender to!" He motioned to Kyo with his head.

Amon didn't even look at the thief, who was easily right in his line of sight... If he looked down a bit. Instead he just looked back at Tadao. "What about her?" Then he just turned and left.

Kyo sat up from her, oh so comfy position on the floor, hence the sarcasm in that, and shot a death glare at Tadao. "What about her? She's a bender to!" She mimicked in a ridiculous voice. "No duh!" Then she laid back down, carefully trying not to do something weird to her rib. If only she had gone and seen a healer. Maybe then she wouldn't be here.

Amon meant it when he said that Tadao would be gathered up soon. The door opened about ten minutes later, and Amon's second in command walked in and grabbed the shouting and struggling Tadao. Whom he simply took one of his fancy zapping sticks to. The door shut again and she was alone in the dark.

Kyo almost felt sad and somewhat depressed for what was about to happen to that stupid man. And as much as she didn't like Korra, she hoped that, that brat would find a way to fix all those unfortunate ex-benders.

Another hour and a half went by before the squeaky, metal door opened again. During this time, Kyo had managed to painfully, wiggle her way to a corner and doze off, uncomfortable as it was. When the woman opened her eyes, Amon stood at the door way, staring at her for a brief second. Reaching back, behind him, the masked man pulled the door shut behind him and then clunked his way over to where Kyo sat.

"I didn't realise that you where... Involved with street gangs." Really? What a conversation starter.

"Yeah, well..." Kyo let out a sleepy yawn and tried her best to stretch, with her hands tied behind her back. "People don't realise a lot of things about me."

"I suppose though, you do sort of look like the type." At that, the fire bender gasped and glared up at him.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" She snapped. All Amon did was give a small chuckle, and almost silent chuckle. But Kyo caught it. "So, what are you here for? To tell me that in a few seconds you are going to take away part of my life, perhaps?" She questioned in a mockingly cheerful voice. Throwing in a fake, sugary grin. You had to love sarcasm.

"Hardly." Amon snorted. Yes, snorted. That wasn't something Kyo would imagine him doing.

"Then what?"

Amon crouched down to Kyo's level and reached a hand out and gently brushed it across the bruised half of her face. "Who did that to you?" He asked in a surprisingly gentle, but gruff tone of voice. Kyo wouldn't have thought it to be possible to use a gruff and gentle tone of voice at once. But in her mind, Amon had managed to do it quite well.

"It doesn't matter. I suppose I had it coming." Kyo answered sharply, turning the bruised side of her face, away from the man. "But, why are you here talking to me? Aren't you mad?" She looked up at Amon suspiciously. "You said what you said, and I told you to leave." If that happened to Kyo she would have been humiliated and furious.

"What's there to be mad about?" He asked, standing up again. "I told you how I felt, and you didn't feel the same. I can't force you too. Somewhat humiliated, maybe. But not really mad." Amon turned and left the cell, locking the door behind him. Kyo stared towards the door and blinked as she felt her eyes start to tear up. In a few seconds tears started to cascade slowly down her pale cheeks and she sat there sobbing silently.

She was really starting to feel like that wasn't true at all.