Chapter 14

Dashing throw the snow, on a one horse open sleigh...

For some reason, that was what Kyo was currently humming. It was for no reason, stuck in her head. The woman wasn't even dashing through the effing snow! She was dashing through a forest. A very green and lush forest, to be exact. And it wasn't on a horse either. It was on foot. Kyo would never get on a horse, not even if you paid her. Especially after the first time she ever road Naga.

You see, Korra had insisted that Kyo went with her, the first time Naga was big enough to ride, and the older sister of the two hadn't been paying much attention to what was going on, do to it being about six in the morning. Kyo was NOT a morning person. Anyways, she didn't get a chance to hold on, when the polar bear dog, literally, jumped in to action. Kyo fell off and broke her tail bone. That had made it, extremely difficult to get around.

Now that she thought about it... the only bone Kyo was sure she hadn't broken was her spine. And she supposed, all those little bones that could paralyze you for life... but those shouldn't count!

Anyways, why was she 'dashing' through a lush, green, forest? Because on the other side of that forest was a small town. It was right up close to Winter and his family's farm thing. If it was a farm... she hadn't actually seen any animals... The reason that she was headed there was quite simple, and I am sure more than half of you have already figured out why she was going there. But if you didn't, Kyo will enlighten you.

You see, around the same time that Amon and that one creepy council member guy, Tarlock or something like that, 'exploded', apparently a man washed up on shore here, much like Kyo had. And she was desperate to find out who it was. And it better not have been Mr. Tarlock guy, otherwise she was going to fire bend down his throat and roast his innards. Yum, yum right?

As Kyo hopped over on final, mossy log, she could see the buildings of the town. Don't get the idea that she was completely healed though. No, she was aching from being stiff or something like that... but Winter had gotten her all riled up and she could feel nothing! Except maybe a platypus-bear rupturing her spleen with an almighty swipe of its paw. Right after it sliced her in half and made her guts spill all over... But enough with the images!

The used to be, and always will be, thief pulled a twig out of her shot hair as she got closer and closer to it. And after an agonizingly long, twenty seconds. She arrived. Most people would have found the view of the sea in this area to be breath taking. But not Kyo. She didn't even look at it, and even if the woman had, she wouldn't have given a shit about what it looked like. That was just the way her wonderful personality made her.

Now where exactly, did that big harry man say that this 'man' was staying at? And how come he knew that much, but didn't know the bloody name of the person? Stupid life and its horrid suspense. And damn her memory. Had Kyo even been listening when he said what the rumors had told him? She couldn't even remember that... so obviously not.

Spotting an old lady walking by, Kyo couldn't help but roll her eyes as she pitifully made her way towards the woman. "Excuse me..." She called over to her. The woman kept on waddling by. Kyo rolled her eyes again at the stereotypical deafness of the old fart. "Hey!" She tried a bit louder. "Excuse me!"

The little old lady snapped her head towards Kyo and evil eyed her. "Quit yelling! Do you want to wake the dead that badly?" She yelled, equally as loud. That really just depended on who the dead was.

"Can you help me for a second?"

"Do onions make you fart?" The lady raised an eyebrow at Kyo as she spoke.

"Umm...Wait, what?" That lady was... odd. And deprived of a little, snarky dog or something.

Old lady shrugged. "I don't know either. Never paid attention." Now it was Kyo's turn to pay attention. This wasn't what she needed to know... At all.

"Can you help me, or what?" Kyo finally snapped crossing her arms and glaring at the horrible bag of bones. At least that was how she saw the poor old lady in her rude and obnoxious mind.

The old lady glared right bag. "That depends..." Her grip on her walking stick/cane, tightened as if she would jump in to action and attack the fire bender at any given moment, with it.

And the glaring contest continued. "A couple weeks ago, a man washed up on shore, just barely alive. I need to know if you know where he is at this moment."

The old lady blinked up at Kyo. Up, being a very surprising thing, considering that the thief was rather on the small side. 5"1 wasn't really what you would call tall, unless you where a little elf or something. But that was beside the point. "Does he know if onions make you fart?"

Kyo glared and glared and glared. "That's not even funny. What does it have to do with anything?"

The old lady ignored her. "Yeah, I know where he is. Good looking boy too." She let out an over dramatic sigh. "If only I where young again." Then she started babbling about, 'the good old days'.

That woman was really starting to bug Kyo. Very, very much. "Where is he then?" She asked, interrupting the supposedly, 'horrid old bat of a woman'.

The lady evil eyed her again. "If you must know, he is living in that house over there, with some family..." She pointed to an older looking house down the road. It wasn't super huge but it wasn't small. It was normal enough looking.

"Thank you!" She exclaimed, breathing out in annoyance. That was all she had wanted to know, but this lady was making things extremely difficult for Kyo, with her ridiculous and unfunny question. If Kyo was a murderer she would have rid the world of that horrid being. But she wasn't. So she would leave that job for someone else to do, rather by accident or on purpose. Or accidently on purpose. She really didn't care.

Kyo sped walked all the way down the road, and she felt a rush of excitement, and anticipation as she reached the door. But what if it wasn't Amon? If it wasn't then she was going to kill herself. Or at least attempt to again. She wondered if Winter had something extremely sharp and deadly... Or some sort of poison.

As she raised a hand to knock on the door, she was listing off ways in her mind of how she could possibly rid the wretched universe of herself.

The fire bender waited for a minute. And she was about to knock again, when she heard footsteps walking towards the door. Life seemed to go in a ridiculous, slow motion as the door was pulled open. A short and pudgy looking woman stood there, peering out at Kyo.

"Can I help you?" She asked, looking Kyo up and down,

The thief gave a nod. "A couple weeks ago, a man washed up on shore... I was told he was here?"

The woman nodded slowly for a second. "Yeah, come on in." She spoke, shutting the door behind them as Kyo stepped in to the rather dark house. Apparently someone hadn't heard of light. She really didn't mind or care all that much though. Especially at this moment. "Come with me."

Kyo followed her up a creaky stair case and (not very) soon enough they found themselves in front of another door. The pudgy woman knocked loudly before pushing it open just enough that she could see inside the room, but Kyo couldn't. She desperately wanted to kick the woman in the back side and burn down the door right now. "Someone here to see you." She spoke stiffly and then pushed the door open, motioning Kyo to go ahead and step in.

The twenty-five year old took a breath and walked in, pushing the door a little bit wider open. Her eyes where momentarily blinded by the sudden light shining through the window, but quickly enough they adjusted and she saw the figure of a man sitting beside it, looking outside...

Yes, yes... I know this chapter is a short one . But if it wasn't, then I wouldn't have any room for this suspense! Who do you think it will be? o.O

I feel like such an evil bitch doing this and I want to slap myself xD Until the next chapter!