"What?" I exclaimed. "Who would take Bolin?"
"Amon," Korra said, getting to her feet.
The name sounded familiar. "Isn't he the man with the mask? Equality for non-benders or something like that?" I admit, I should have been paying more attention to the news, but my mind has been on focused on the family I never knew. "What would he want with Bolin?"
"That's what we're about to find out," Mako said, speaking for the first time.
He shoved past me, walking towards a man on a table screaming in a megaphone, "Equality now! Equality now! We want equality now!"
Mako turned to Korra. "Is this the guy."
"Yeah, that's the guy."
I followed them as the man on the table continued saying, "Non-benders of Republic City, Amon calls you to action! Take back your city! It's time for the-" He stopped when he saw Avatar Korra with a gasp. "It's you again!" He spat, pointing a finger. "You cannot silence me Avatar!"
Korra, her face straight and serious, smacked the megaphone out of his hand. The man squealed. "Shut your yapper and listen up. My friend got kidnapped by some Chi-blockers, where'd they take him?" Korra demanded. I stood beside Korra, purposely avoiding Mako to make things less awkward then they already were.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." The stingy man crossed his arms. He had side burns that pointed out the side of his face and a dark grey hat.
"Oh, I think you do," Korra said, kicking her leg around and slamming it into the ground, bending the earth and knocking the table and the man over. Fliers that sat on the table flew into the air, drifting back to the ground all around us. The man on the ground began picking the paper up.
"Witness the Revelation tonight, nine o'clock," Mako read from one of the fliers.
"What's this Revelation?" I asked to the man.
He looked at us, his face pinched in anger. "Nothing that concerns the likes of you!"
Korra started to go for him, but I stopped her. I knelt on the ground next to the man. "This thing is for non-benders right?" I asked. He nodded. "Well, I'm not a bender. So, I have every right to know what is going on with this Revelation. I mean, equality for all right?"
He shook his head. "You're just as bad, hanging out with benders! So this doesn't concern you either!"
Korra grabbed the man by the shirt, lifting him off his feet and above is in the air. "You better believe this concerns us. Spill it."
"No one knows what the Revelation is," he said in a rush. "And I have no idea what happened to your friend, but if he's a bender then my bet is he's getting what's coming to him."
"Where's it happening?" Mako asked, just as an officer blew his whistle.
The officer asked what was going on, and the man ratted us out saying we were repressing him and yelling for help. "Let's scram," Korra said, and we took off on Naga.
We sat at a bench at the train stop, a pile of fliers on the ground in front of us. Korra held one up, asking, "Why didn't the Equalist put a location on these?"
"Probably because they don't just want anyone waltzing in to their big Revelation, whatever that is." Mako said. He still hasn't said a single word to me, or even looked at me. He peered at the paper. "I bet the information is hidden on here somehow."
"Maybe it's a puzzle," I murmured, half joking. We've been here for a while as they filled me in on how they needed money, and a whole lot of it, in order to compete in the championship by the end of the week. Apparently, the Triple Threat Triad found Bolin and offered him a wad of money for some work. The Triple Threat Triad isn't a gang to mess with, I've known from experience. Some Chi-blockers had kidnapped them, taking Bolin as well. Mako and Korra thought it would help finding Amon if we asked the little man with the megaphone a few questions, and they waited for him in the park until I found them.
Mako thought for a moment. "Look on the backs." He picked up the paper. "There are four different images."
"So it is a puzzle?" I asked.
He picked up four pieces of paper with all four different images, putting them together. "Yeah," Mako said, finally looking my direction with a smile of hope, "of a map."
He walked over to the map on the wall next to us, moving our own piece of map around until he found a spot where it fit on the larger map. "Bingo." We all looked at the red dot on our piece of the map. "That must be where it's going down."
We went back to the Pro-bending arena to wait at their place until it got dark. After that small moment of hope, Mako didn't look at me. Korra and I sat on the couch in their home while Mako paced back and forth. Korra frowned. "That's not going to make the time go by any faster," she said.
"If they hurt him, I swear..." He mumbled, not listening.
"We're going to find him," I said. He stopped and stared at me. "He'll be alright." I don't know where these words of sympathy came from, since I've never been a comforting person. Maybe I was saying everything I wanted to hear at the moment.
Mako walked up to me. "What makes you so sure?"
I shrugged, not having an answer.
"Exactly," He said.
"She's just trying to help," Korra said. "We are all worried."
He turned his back to us. "I don't need her help. She doesn't know Bolin, why does she even care?"
Despite everything, the words stung. I stood up, saying, "He's my brother too!" I didn't realize what I said until after I had said it.
Mako turned on me so fast I had no time to react. He was inches from my face. "He is not your brother." He stormed up the stairs to his bed without another word.
After a few minutes I finally let out a breath. I was shaking, and to hide it I shoved my hands in my pocket. "I'm going to wait outside with Naga," I said, my voice weak.
As I was leaving I heard Korra ask, "Shai? Are you really not a bender?"
I hesitated, but didn't answer her. Then, I too rushed out of the room, leaving Korra alone.
I was leaning against Naga, my eyes closed and almost asleep when they came outside. Korra handed me a coat and a hat to wear as a disguise. "Just in case," she said. We decided to take a train to the where the Revelation was going to take place since a polar-bear dog would probably make us stand out.
We started walking towards a run-down building. "This is the place," Mako said. We all put on our hats. Korra held onto Mako's arm gently, like a couple. "What are you doing?" Mako asked.
"We'll attract less attention this way," she said under her breath as we approached the guard at the door.
The guard crossed his arms. "This is a private event," He rumbled. "No one gets in without an invitation."
"Uh.." Korra said. "Invitation?"
I elbowed Mako. "Yeah, our invitation."
He reached into his jacket pocket, grabbing a flier. "You mean this?"
The guard looked at the flier and moved aside, saying, "The Revelation is upon us my brother and sisters."
We were inside. We were on our way to saving Bolin.