Chapter 13
She was a failure. That was all she was good for. Kyo laid on the cliff, behind the bending arena, with her feet dangling over the edge of it. "Damn the entire bloody world, and it stupid mother f****** everything." She spoke out loud, to the sky.
Kyo really should have expected that Korra and her stupid, special little everythingness would be able to somehow recognize her. Call her a sadist, but she really hoped that she hit that brat over the head hard enough to give her some sort of brain damage. But chances of that happening where slim. The stupid spirits wouldn't let that happen to their precious, Avatar. But they had no mercy on Korra's sister.
What did she even have left in the world? She was a disgrace to the family that really hadn't ever given her the time of day, because they where to busy being proud of Korra. The only person in the world that she really liked, no, loved was blown up. She had never ever been able to get a decent job, because she was too impatient, to bad tempered, wasn't qualified... There was always something. And she was tired.
Tired of living, tired of everything. Kyo sat up and looked down at the water and rocks below her. She was tired of everything having recently reminding her of her times with Amon... Kyo didn't want to remember those. They made her feel like someone was crushing her heart. But it could all end soon enough, couldn't it?
Standing up slowly, Kyo looked at the mask in her hands with an emotionless expression on her face. Then she brought it up and tied it back around her head. Looking down at water, she breathed in and then looked back up at the darkened sky.
"So long bitches." She said, before allowing herself to fall forwards in to the water and rocks. The wind blowing in to her face felt nice, but it didn't really last long enough for her to enjoy it. A sharp pain went through her head and everything went black.
Things didn't go the way she had hoped for though...
Kyo heard voices... children's voices... And birds chirping. Had she ended up in heaven or whatever that happy afterlife place was? Because, personally, she doubted that any, 'happy afterlife place' would let someone like herself in. And she especially doubted, that you would feel pain in a place like that... Because trust me, Kyo definitely felt pain.
Slowly she cracked her eyes open, and was greeted by the brightness of the sun. That seemed to make her head hurt even more than it already did. Damn, she hated that sun. Her eyes adjusted and she saw the trees and a blue sky. And the face of a little girl, looking down at her with worried eyes.
"Quick, Genji! She's awake!" She called out. That also didn't do much good for her head ache. She heard footsteps on the soft grass and was greeted by the dirty face of a little boy. The two kids definitely had to be siblings. They both had dark hair, the same shape of face, and nose and eye shape...They both had tanned skin. They were almost identical. The only difference was that the girl had grey eyes and the boy had hazel.
The little boy crouched down and poked Kyo in the cheek. The fire bender tried to swat his finger out of the way but she felt pain shoot through her shoulder and let out a cry in pain. She tried to muffle it by shutting her mouth, but it didn`t help much. It was dislocated... She could feel her shoulder out of place.
The boy, Genji apparently, looked surprised and then glanced back up at his sister. `Cheza, go get mommy and dad! I`ll stay here and protect her!" He ordered, trying to put on a tough man look. Both the kids looked about six or seven... If anyone was going to need protecting, then it didn't look like it would be happening. Kyo hurt too much to move, and what was a six year old boy going to do? Through pebbles at the enemy?
'Cheza' nodded and ran off, in what direction, Kyo didn't know. Nor did she care. Memories of what happened, who knows how long ago, came flooding back to her. The woman closed her eyes to keep herself from crying. She was supposed to be dead! And here she was, laying in someone's back yard... Obviously not dead! She hated life, and apparently the feeling was mutual.
Call her over dramatic, but Kyo could practically hear the breeze laughing at her. And taunting her. It wasn't fair. A few minutes later, she heard more footsteps coming back towards her.
"Good work Genji." She heard a deep voice speak. The boy looked so proud of himself, that if Kyo didn't feel like she was being tortured to death, she would have laughed. A large and rough looking man with a dark goatee and hair crouched down beside her. He had the same hazel eyes as the boy. "Hey, can you hear me?" He called out. Kyo gave a slight nod.
"Yeah." She spoke in a weak voice. Another thing she hated. How weak her voice currently sounded. The man nodded, and then looked up from her. "Hana, go get a bed ready. She is definitely going to need it." Footsteps ran off from where ever they had came from, and the man looked at the two children. She was seriously considering that they where twins. "You two go and help your mother. We are right behind you."
They both ran off too. "I imagine this is going to hurt like a bugger." Kyo was warned. What was going to hurt like a bugger, that wasn't already? She felt his hand grasp her arm and shoulder and then he did some weird pushing thing. There was a loud pop, and Kyo felt excruciating pain shoot through her... well everywhere. The woman let out another cry of pain. This one being a bit louder. "I'm sorry." He spoke.
Kyo wanted to swear and curse at him, but honestly, she felt too tired to do that. And it most likely would hurt even more if it was just left hanging there. It probably would look nasty too. SO in away, she was almost sort of thankful. Keyword being almost.
His muscular arms slid underneath Kyo, and she was lifted off the ground, and they began their short trek back to whatever house these people had come from. It was not even a minute long walk, but Kyo was still in a lot of pain and she was freaking tired, and once again, everything went black. Again. And Kyo welcomed it with open arms.
A couple times, the thief had woken up to beautiful woman, with long dark hair and blue yes, checking her temperature, or lifting her head up slightly to pour water or some sort of delicious soup down her throat. But those times had always been brief and she kept falling back to sleep. And she always felt so sick and way to warm when it happened. The nausea always got in the way of her enjoying water in her parched mouth or the amazing food. That stupid nausea could go to hell. It was odd because, even when the woman knew she was awake, she would never say anything. Just smile and that was it.
The next time she had woken up, she was in the world's second comfiest bed ever. If she remembered right, not that she wanted to remember, Amon's was still comfier. And she felt very stiff. Very extremely stiff. But at least it wasn't pain. With her eyes still closed, she suddenly remembered something. Where was that mask? Despite not wanting to remember any memories of Amon, she bloody well loved that mask. Especially because of who it used to belong too. And if it was lost... then she didn't know what she would do. It definitely wouldn't be dying, because she had already tried that, and the world was stupid and didn't let her.
Turning her head towards the door out of the room, she could hear those two little kids... Cheza and Genji bickering about something. Then she heard footsteps go towards the voices of the children and they stopped. "Sorry mommy..." They both spoke in regretful tones of voices. Nice kids. She and Korra would have kept on fighting. But she really didn't want to think of Korra right now. Kyo sat up and pushed the blankets off of her, swinging her feet over the side of her bed. She wanted to know where her...mask was... Conveniently, it was sitting right beside her on a bed side table. Well she had worried for nothing. And gotten up for nothing too. While she was very stiff, Kyo still felt sore in her, used to be dislocated arm.
Well, there was no point in going back to sleep. She really didn't feel like doing that right now. The fire bender got the feeling that she had gotten more than enough sleep. Slowly she got out of the bed and started to make her way to the door. Crawling would have been easier though. As she wobbled most of the way and tried to keep her balance, she felt another wave of nausea wash over her. Well, all Kyo had to say was f*** you nausea.
She grasped the doorknob finally and just stood there for a minute, happy to have regained her balance. She did eventually open the door though. And when she did, she came face to face with the beautiful woman holding a tray. As expected, she didn't say anything. She just smiled and then leaned back slightly, using her head to motion someone over to where the two women were standing.
Kyo blinked in realization. This lady was mute. It would make sense. Otherwise, she was sure that she would have said something by now. The man who had helped Kyo before, came up behind her. "Well, then it looks like your finally awake, you lucky, lazy ass." He teased, flashing her, a grin. The woman gave a silent chuckle and shook her head at his language.
"Unless your some sort of creepy sadist who likes to be in pain... Then believe me. Nothing to be lucky about." Kyo spoke, giving the two a slightly smirk.
The woman stepped out of the door way and motioned, again with her head, for Kyo to follow her. The woman and man started to head in to another room and Kyo followed. Still wobbling slightly. But not as bad as when she first got out of bed.
The house was a cozily decorated one. Much better than that shitty, rundown apartment she had been living in before.
Moments later, they had made it to a room with a table in it. The woman pulled out a chair for Kyo, and she more than happily sat down in it. "Thank you." Silent woman smiled and nodded again, before putting the tray of food down in front of her. And it smelt amazing. Kyo didn't realize how hungry she was until now. The woman sat beside her, and the man, across from her.
"So, who are you, and where exactly did you come from?" The man asked, leaning forward on his elbows. Out of the corner of her eye, the woman saw those two kids peep around the corner, looking curiously towards Kyo.
"Kyo... And I'm from Republic city." She answered, using a spoon on the tray to start eating the soup.
The man's eye brows rose slightly. "Republic city?" He repeated. Kyo just nodded and continued eating. "That... is sort of far from here... How did you even end up here?"
The fire bender put the spoon down and looked up at the man. "I don't know." She lied. What was Kyo supposed to say? 'Well guy, I tried to kill myself, because I'm really a convict from prison and I decided to get revenge on my sister, who may I add is the Avatar, because she practically blew my boy friend up and she found out, so I got upset and jumped off a cliff.' Yeah, that is definitely the kind of person that people want their kids around.
The man just nodded. It was silent for a couple minutes before he spoke again. "Well, I'm Winter. That is my wife Hana," He gestured with his hand towards the two little twins in the doorway. "And those to ragamuffins, are Cheza and Genji. It's nice to meet you Kyo."
Kyo looked at the twin and gave a small smile. In return she was given two huge grins, before they giggles and ran off.
Winter suddenly snorted and gave a short laugh. "You city people are odd." Kyo raised an eyebrow and looked over at him with a rather confused expression on her face. "You are the second person we have had, end up in our village from the city in terrible condition."
What? Kyo couldn't help but feel a bubble of hope in her stomach. Or something like that. "... How did they get here?"
Winter shrugged. "Don't know. But he was found on the sea shore, badly injured. Didn't look like he was going to make it. But he did pull through."
It was a he? "How long ago was this?" The large man though for a moment. "I don't know... A couple weeks ago maybe?" She knew that she shouldn't be getting her hopes up, but could that man be who she thought it was? Kyo must have had a funny look on her face, because both Hana and Winter where giving her odd looks, as she sat there with a spoon half hanging out of her mouth.
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