She's lying down on her back. He eyes are close. She doesn't know what else she should be doing other than wait for the inevitable to happen. You know what's the brighter side of this? She gets to be with her loved ones. She gets to be with her parents. She gets to be with Korra.
She should be thanking this person. She should be handing her a freaking medal for it.
So, here she is, waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Time seems to slow down but then she gives it another second or two but nothing. Nothing happens or that's what she thinks. Maybe this is what death feels like. She hears a clanking of metals though that brings her out of her thoughts and her eyes shot open by the sudden sound.
She doesn't know what cause it but the woman in front of her was now unarmed. She had her attention to something or someone else and the look on her face made it seem like she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
Asami dared to look at what was occupying her killer's attention. She turns slowly to see azure eyes and they were staring right at her. Those familiar azure eyes, they were intense but soft at the same time. The woman gives her a crooked grin and a wink. Asami's heart couldn't help but beat faster.
"What do you think you're doing?!"
Rylai cried out at Korra. Instead of answering, Korra throws another dagger right at her and catches it right on the blade. She grips it so hard that her palms begin to bleed from the force placed on it.
"Who gave you the order to interfere!"
Asami begins to kick her off and immediately gets up into a fighting stance. Rylai stumbles back. Asami begins to give her a cross and it hits her square on the cheek. She spits out blood and begins to wipe her mouth with her sleeve.
She looks at her opponent in shock as she sees Asami burning with fire. New found motivation was found in Asami. It was a proper motivation this time and she couldn't help but scowl at her opponent when Asami gave her a smirk after Korra's remark.
"Go get her, tiger."
The chopper had crash. They had to run behind cover to avoid any parts flying or heading their way from the wreckage. Did anyone survive? They don't know. They would have to check if both bodies were accounted for in the crash.
After the explosion subsided, one of them takes a peek out from the stack of boxes they were hiding. Fortunately, she makes notice of a movement a few feet away from where the chopper hard crash. She narrows her eyes and sees a figure limping away from the scene.
"He's still alive." She hisses.
Before the two of her companions could say anything, she jumps over the stacks of boxes and ran towards the limping figure. Without any question, she immediately tackles the man to the ground. She flips him over but the man kicks her off of him and begins to crawl desperately away.
She grabs hold of his feet as he tries to stand up but he gives her a good kick to the face that got her letting go and clutching her nose from the pain. He tries to get up but found himself being pulled up effortlessly by someone.
His eyes were greeted by a sly grin from another woman and he immediately gets a hard cross on to his cheek and he falls back down. The woman shakes her hand and blows on it to help get rid of the pain she felt.
"Glad you're still in one piece, Amon." Lin smirks and knees so that they were on eye level as she spoke. "I was afraid that I couldn't get any action off from you."
He wipes the blood off of his face Lin and he spits at her face.
"Just get it over with."
Lin, who wasn't too happy that she got spat on, was about to throw another cross but someone taps Amon from behind. He turns around and was immediately met with another cross that sent him back on the ground.
"That was for breaking my nose." Su says.
Su begins to pick him up by the collar and began to drag him towards a wall nearby to get him to lean on. He coughs out a few blood and wipes it off with his sleeve. He was feeling lightheaded and Lin gives him a small slap to wake him up from his drowsiness.
"We're not done with you. We want answers."
Korra was surprised when the door behind her burst open and in came two men who were rolling on the floor. One of the men pins the other down and was about to hit him but Korra tackles the guy before he could throw punches off to the other guy.
"Took you long enough."
"I had to entertain our guest, Korra."
Korra could hear the man chuckling and she turns to offer him a hand. He smiles at her in return and takes hold of her hand to pull himself up to his feet. He pats her on the shoulder when the sound of a gunshot echoes in the entire room.
Korra was about to rush towards Asami, afraid that she was the one who was shot but the empty feeling of a hand on her shoulder told her otherwise. She turns to see Mike smirking and he was lowering his revolver down.
She catches Joe in time as he falls back to the ground. He's grasping his shoulder from the shot and Korra was relieved that the shot wasn't fatal. Suddenly, Joe grabs her by the collar and brings her ear closer to his mouth so no one else could hear.
"I don't care if he was your family, take this bastard down."
Korra was hesitant at first, she didn't want to leave her friend behind but he nods her off. So, she complies. She gets up to her feet and turns towards her most trusted friend who seems to be ready to fire revolver at her.
"Before you fire, just tell me why."
Mike narrows his eyes at her and his grip tightens on his gun.
"What do you mean?"
"Why are you doing this?"
Mike shrugs his shoulders.
"They needed someone to get to know you and I volunteered. Those bullies you saved me from? I paid them to do what they had to do."
Korra takes a step forward and he immediately fires towards her direction and she sidesteps in time. Mike fires another but it turns out, he had fire his last shot.
Rylai gives an elbow jab towards her opponent and swings her leg down towards her opponent's foot. Luckily for Asami, she was able to block and step back from the attacks. Asami gives a kick of her own towards her attacker and Rylai stumbles back for a bit.
Asami begins to slide down towards her opponent and lands a kick on to Rylai's stomach. Rylai begins to swing her own crosses at Asami who easily blocks it off with her raised arms. Rylai begins to corner Asami into a wall.
Asami was able to duck out of the way in time from a cross and gave her own elbow jab to the side of the face of Rylai. She then pushes her off from her to get some space in between them. Rylai takes the chance to pick up her own dagger from the ground.
Rylai brings the dagger down towards Asami but she catches her attacker's wrist while giving a head butt towards Rylai's face. Rylai stumbles back and goes at it again to Asami who quickly catches it again and gives a cross right to Rylai's left cheek.
She begins to twist Rylai's wrist and she yells out in pain. Rylai immediately flicks the sword off of her hand and towards her left hand. She catches it and begins to swing right at Asami's face who quickly ducks out of the way.
Asami begins to twist Rylai's other wrist as they struggle for the dagger. But Rylai quickly redirects the edge of the blade towards Asami's face and she uses her other hand to pull down Asami's hair as she tries to bring the dagger down onto Asami's exposed neck.
With Asami's quick thinking, she does the only thing she could do. She bites the arm of Rylai holding the dagger and she drops it towards the ground. Asami quickly flips over her opponent and pushes her towards the wall.
Rylai lands with a loud thud and a grunt of her own. She tries to get up but fails as her headache seems to worsen as she tries to move. She was able to get herself into a kneeling position and looks up to her opponent with a bit of dizziness.
"…Asami?"
Asami looks at her before giving a hard cross on her right left cheek, making Rylai fall down to the ground and unconscious.
Korra gives a hard kick towards his head and he twirls back towards the ground. Mike clutches his head and sees he's bleeding slightly and he shakes it the dizziness off. He turns around to smirk at the woman in front of him.
"Is that the best you could do?"
Korra answers him with another kick towards his face and he falls back to the ground in a pile of barrels nearby. Mike lifts his head and sees a barrel near his foot and he kicks it with all his might towards where Korra was standing.
Korra quickly flips over the rolling barrel and lands perfectly on her two feet. During the distraction, Mike was able to get back on to his feet.
"Let's do this."
He throws a cross and Korra deflects it away with her arm. He tries to throw another cross with his left but Korra blocks it from connecting to her with her other arm. He was able to give her a kick towards the stomach. Either Korra doesn't feel it or she's not complaining because she was still holding her ground.
Korra begins to aim for Mike's thighs with her kicks but he retaliates with another cross towards her which she blocks off but he redirects it and lands a punch straight to her chest and she loses her balance for a bit.
Korra tries to throws two crosses at him but he holds her arms in place. He tries to elbow jab her towards the face but Korra evades it with her other hand with perfect timing and precision. He, however, was not pleased with the results and he brings Korra over his head and lets her land on the ground face first.
He gets her up and lets her lean on a table. He raises his leg up high as Korra tries to get her breathing and begins to lower his leg right on her. Korra lazily rolls off from the table which immediately broke in half as Mike's leg connected with it.
Korra throws a cross right at him and he ducks out of the way in time and leans towards her, getting her off from the ground and he flips her over him again. Korra lands on the floor with a grunt. She was at a slight disadvantage with the difference of their heights.
"If you think I'm going to say anything to you, you're wrong."
Amon immediately gets a cross right to his cheek from Lin. He was about to spit blood at her direction but a look that she's giving him is telling him that it's not a good decision to do. So, he spits his blood out where no one is standing. He was about to say something again but Lin cuts him off with another cross.
Su gives her a look and Lin shrugs it off as he pulls Amon back into a sitting position.
"You're not getting anywhere if you're just going to keep hitting me, you know."
"He's right, Lin. We're not going to get answers off of him this way."
"Then, how about if I do this?"
Lin draws out a knife, twirls it around before slamming it right down on to Amon's thigh. Su couldn't help but flinch as she saw it happening. Amon, on the other hand, was screaming and yelling out in pain as it happened.
Lin begins to twist the knife and pushing it deeper into his thigh. Amon was trying to get her to stop but Su had a hold on him that made it impossible for him to move. He tried his best to keep his mouth shut but with Lin twisting the knife around, he just couldn't stop screaming.
"Had enough?"
"Stop! I'll tell you what you want to know!" Amon exclaims. "Just please, stop…"
Lin, however, leaves the knife on his thigh just in case things don't work out the way she wants. She turns to her sister and gives her a stern nod.
"We want to know where the Red Lotus members are at."
Amon widens his eyes at the question and begins to try to push himself towards the wall to hide himself which was impossible to do. He begins to shake his head vigorously.
"No…no! I can't…They'll kill me."
"Well, THEY aren't here. We are."
Amon seems to search around his surroundings, as if his looking for someone that could help him.
"They're watching…I know they are."
Lin and Su look at each other and Su lets out a sigh and that's the signal Lin only needs. She was about to grab another knife out from her when Amon halted her actions.
"No, wait! Please!"
Amon seems to swallow a lump that was in his throat before he spoke up but it was just a whisper that may only be heard by the two Beifong sisters.
"There's one…I'm not sure if that person is still there but I know one…"
"Where?"
"Republic City…She's…."
Gunshot. Just one gunshot right at his heart. Lin and Su turn to look at where it originated but they didn't need to look far because Kya was standing right behind them with a gun drawn out. How they haven't notice her was beyond their knowledge. She throws the weapon away and slowly puts herself in a sitting position.
Lin and Su were stunned at what their friend had done. Su, however, snaps out of it sooner than Lin.
"What…What did you do that for?!"
"He's lying and I'm tired of hearing his lies." Kya tells her. "And I wasn't going to watch you make the same mistake again all those years before. I made sure he was not walking out on us again."
"He wasn't going anywhere!" Lin hisses.
"You sure about that?" Kya raises an eyebrow and turns to look at Su who shrugs at her gesture.
"Come on, let's find the others."
She quickly makes her way towards an area where it looked like it didn't have enough room for Mike. She was right when Mike walked into an area and his forehead immediately connected with a steel pipe. Korra uses the pipe to hoist herself up and shove Mike on the head with the use of her feet.
She gives him a roundhouse kick which got him stumbling and ducking backwards. She gets him again with two more kicks to the side of his head. She lets herself down as Mike throws a series of punches at her but Korra just ducks and blocks all his attempts.
Out of frustration, Mike tries to kick her to stop but Korra redirects his kick and his leg lands perfectly on another steel pipe which leaves his family jewels open for her to hit. He holds it as he grunts in pain and Korra throws a jab right into his face as he scowls.
He stumbles back and the back of his head immediately hits another steel pipe with a loud thud. He ducks out and tries to comfort the pain on the back of his head with his palm. Korra holds his head in place as she throws a series of punches towards his already disfigured face.
Korra kicks him backwards and she pulls herself up with the use of pipes above her and she wraps her legs around his neck and got him into a choking hold. Mike tries to pull the legs apart but Korra had already locked in on him.
An idea comes into his mind as he moves backward which got Korra in an uncomfortable position and she feels herself loosen on her hold. Mike immediately breaks free from it and was now smirking at her. He immediately grabs her by the shoulders and smashes her back towards the steel pipes and making her yell out in pain.
Soon, the air was knocked out of her completely as he finishes his work. She was now being hoist up in the air by Mike and he was smiling in triumph as he was about to let Korra's back meet with his thigh to break her back.
Silence. Silence was all it needed. Mike looks down on his chest and sees a dagger on him. He loses his strength immediately and Korra falls to the ground as blood oozes out from him. He looks around to see where it could have originated and a person stands out.
Asami was pretty damn lucky to have thrown the dagger with such precision and perfectly hit his heart without practice. Mike walks over to where she is standing and pulls the dagger out from him. Blood seem to seep out faster than before and he clutches his chest to try and stop it.
His movement begins to slow down as he then falls to his knees then onto his stomach. He tries to grab hold of Asami's boot but when he was able to touch it, all movement halted. She might have been able to hear him draw his last breathe as the light in his eyes dim out.
Asami slowly removes her foot from the fingertips of Mike. She drops on one knee and proceeds to check his pulse on his neck then on his wrist. No signs of life. She then stands up and dusts off the dirt on her knee when she was suddenly tackled towards the floor.
She closes her eyes and raises her arms to block of any attack that was about to go on her but she feels herself being straddled upon on her waist. She slowly opens her eyes to see a smirking Korra on top of her.
She felt herself resign to the ground, arms spread out on the floor and she lets out a heavy long sigh of content. Korra kisses the tip of her nose and then her forehead before speaking.
"How're you holding up?"
"Good, now that you're mine again."
"Jealous, were you?"
Instead of answering, Asami stuck her tongue out at the woman sitting on her. Korra shakes her head before getting up and offering a hand to help Asami up. As Korra pulls Asami up, she immediately screams from pain.
Korra immediately lets go of Asami as she falls down to her back and clutches her thigh which now had an arrow pierced through it. She screams in pain as Asami tries to steady her down as she tries to cut the arrow in half.
"Holy crap…Korra!"
Korra quickly looks up and scans where the voice originated and sees Kai and Wei with stun expressions on their faces. Wei immediately drops the bow from his hands and raises them in surrender.
"God damn it, Wei!" Korra yells as Asami was able to pull the arrow out. "What the hell was that for?!"
"Uh…"
Wei scratches the back of his head and lets out a nervous chuckle and Kai answers for them.
"We…thought you were hurting Asami from our point of view…Sorry."
"When I get back on my feet, you're both going to get it!"
Korra tries her best to get back on her feet but she wobbles and perfect for her that Asami was able to support her with the help of a nervous Kai. Korra mumbles as she was guided out while Wei helps out Joe.
"I really hate you…"
One Month Later
Korra and Asami are sparring with each other in the field with swords drawn out. One by one, each attack Korra lands on her was easily blocked off by Asami. She couldn't help but smile at how better she had gotten in the past month.
Korra ends with the sword pointed on Asami's throat and she smiles in triumph but Asami had another thing coming. Knowing Korra, she was already letting her guard down and as soon as her grip on her sword lessens, she quickly smacks it with her sword and the sword comes flying down on to Asami's other hand and she draws both swords towards Korra's throat.
Asami begins to smirk at Korra's shock expression.
"You cheated." Korra pouted.
"Never let your guard down, Korra."
Asami slowly pulls the sword back down and throws Korra's sword back at her.
"Ready for round two?"
Lin and Su are supervising the renovations and the rebuilding of Zhao Fu. It requires a lot of work but they're slowly getting there. They even made some adjustments and improvements with the area with the help of Asami.
Lin wipes off the sweat that was forming on her forehead as she grabs a bottle of water. She begins to look around. She sees Bolin and Opal with Naga out for their usual morning run. She sees Tenzin supervising the patrols. In the distance, she also sees Pema and Katara talking.
"You're going back to Republic City tomorrow right?"
Lin turns around to see that her sister had joined her for a break too. She gulps down the bottle before answering.
"Yeah, the whole knowing that there might be a Red Lotus member there has made me think about a lot of things that has happened there before. They might have eyes and ears there and I need to find them."
"If you do need help, you know where you can find most of us." Su pats Lin shoulder. "Has Bolin and Joe decided if they're staying or leaving with you yet?"
"I'll find out later tonight." Lin gives out a sigh. "Has she spoken yet?"
"No, she hasn't but we'll get her talking soon enough."
"The sooner the better, I suppose."
A woman walks up into a dark hallway with a two guards posted at the side of a door. She stops and nods at them. One of them opens the door for her and lets her in. She continues to walk down the hall and soon stops in front of a door.
She lets out a sigh before turning the knob and walking in. In front of her sits a woman, tied to a chair. She clears her throat and the woman in front of her looks up. The sitting woman begins to smirk.
"Kya."
"Rylai.
"Do they suspect?"
A sly grin appears on Kya's face before she answers and Rylai starts to laugh as she hears her answer.
"As far as I'm concern, they do not."
A/N:
The...end?
Oh God, NMAT is this Sunday. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's an entrance exam for getting into Medicine. Wish me luck, guys. I'm going to need it. Yes, I've been studying and this anxiety, man, it's getting out of control.
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