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Chapter 16

Creator's Request

~Asami's POV~

Azula talked to me again at school today. She enrolled at Republic City High yesterday, which really puts me on edge. Now she'll probably never leave me alone. I figure that Ozai is having her keep a watch on me, if Tahno isn't already. I'm still suspicious of his niceness toward me. I was in the bathroom and she walked in.

"Hey Asami, pretty dress." She said walking in the girls' bathroom, where I was fixing my hair in the mirror. She was referring to the black dress I had on that had blue straps and bow around the waist, it was pretty plain besides that.

"Uh, thanks..."

"I think we should hang out for some girl time, I started school here and don't know anyone. You seem like a nice girl, we should be friends." She said innocent-like. I looked at her like she was insane.

"Oh, alright. I know you hate me so I'll just get to the point." Azula said, seriously this time. "I have a present for you. Anna, come here." She said cracking the bathroom door open, a girl came in. Anna was holding her neck and the scent of blood ran over me. I looked again and saw her hand was bloody as well as her neck. I felt the veins around my eyes come out and knew my eyes went red. I willed my face to go back to normal and then growled.

"Why are you doing this? We're at school." I said looking around, there was another girl in the bathroom and she was staring at what was happening before her. I could tell that she was scared.

"Because I know you want it. Don't you want a snack?" She said pushing Anna towards me. I felt my vampire side betray me again and noticed my red eyes in the bathroom mirror, Azula continued talking. "Oh and don't worry about that other girl, I already compelled her to only watch and not to scream or tell anyone about this."

I stared at the blood on Anna's neck and it was like Rachel, the girl I killed when I changed, all over again. I wanted her blood. I needed it. I had to get out of there.

"No, I dont. I don't need to drink from her." I told Azula, but I was also telling myself that. I looked Azula in the eyes. "Make her leave."

"Why? It's obvious you want her blood. It's driving you crazy. Afraid to drink from a human? You know you don't have to kill, just bite, drink, and let her go." I had tried to compel her, but it didn't work this time. Probably because I was hardly in control of myself, and that made me unable to control someone else.

I shook my head and backed away. Even if I did what she said, I wasn't sure I'd be able to stop. I never wanted to kill again, killing Rachel was still haunting me. I still felt the guilt eating at me from time to time. The blood smelled so good, I held my breath.

"Fine, more for me." Azula said shrugging and she bit Anna's neck. I made my eyes go back to normal and took that moment to run out of the bathroom, hoping she wouldn't kill her. I walked out of the school and to my car as fast as I could. I drove myself home and locked the front door when I got inside.

I heard someone talking in the kitchen with my dad. I didn't recognize the voice so I walked in there. I froze in my steps, Ozai was leaning against the counter. My day was just getting worse. My dad noticed I'd come in the kitchen and paused in their conversation.

"Asami, this is Ozai. Ozai this is my daughter." He said introducing us, I just stared at Ozai, wondering why he was in my house. "He dropped by just before you got here. He says he wanted to talk to you about college." I resisted the urge to scoff. He obviously hadn't told my dad anything. I cleared my throat.

"Hello." I said stiffly. I wanted to keep my dad out of this. I wished he hadn't let Ozai into our house. It's unlike my dad to invite strangers in, but he probably was compelled to do so, considering he was standing across the kitchen from a who knows how old vampire. I tried to come up with a way to get my dad to leave the kitchen, I didn't want Ozai near him. I couldn't think of anything so I had to do it.

"Hey dad, " I said looking him directly in the eyes when he turned to me, "You have something important to do at your office today, remember?" He blinked.

"Oh yeah, I have something important I need to take care of. You can stay here and discuss your college ideas with Asami here." He said to Ozai then picked his briefcase up and walked out the front door. It was second time today I'd purposely used compulsion on somebody, I hadn't expected it to work, especially since I had failed using it the first time. I listened till he had started his car and left our driveway. I sighed internally, at least I had my dad safe now.

I turned my attention to Ozai then. "Why are you here in my house?"

"Ah, I had something to discuss in person with you. Since you probably wouldn't take an invitation to my lair I decided to come to you instead."

"What do you want?"

"I want you to take care of someone who's been causing trouble. One of my newest creations is no longer fit to live in my lair because he is leaving bodies all over the city, making the law enforcement suspicious. He'll come to you and when he does I want you to kill him and burn the body in the woods outside republic city. You need to do it before the homecoming dance ends tomarrow night."

"Why are you asking me to do this? Why don't you just send Tahno or Azula?"

"I need to make sure you know how to fight, because I need you to be strong. I will be expecting news of you completing this simple task. Until then, goodbye." Ozai left me standing in my kitchen and I heard the front door open and close. There was no way I was going to kill somebody, even if it was another vampire. I didn't even know who he wanted me to kill.

I thought about it while I made some dinner for myself. I eat normal food still, even though I no longer really need to. Blood suffices normal hunger and thirst as well, but I still like to eat normal stuff. I wondered if Ozai had told Azula to torture me at school, and then remembered what Tahno had said the other day. He'd said that he was helping me of his own accord, and not because Ozai had told him to. I wondered if that was true still. I suppose Azula would enjoy making me miserable either way, I already know she doesn't like me being more powerful than she is.

~Korra's POV~

I told Asami all about mine and Mako's date this morning. I also told her that we all needed to go next time, me, Mako, her, Iroh, TyLee, and Mai, and maybe some of their friends as well. It would be a blast to go paintballing with everyone. Asami agreed and we decided we'd have to make a time for the whole group to go. She told me about hers and Iroh's as well, dinner and a sunset, how sweet.

I met up with Mako today and suggested that he and Iroh join me and Asami for lunch. The four of us sat outside in the school courtyard outside the cafeteria since it was a nice autumn day. The leaves were falling off the trees and the sun was shining a little, it was pretty warm out too. We discussed the homecoming dance tomarrow and decided that Asami and I would get ready at her house and the guys would pick us up 15 minutes before the dance. TyLee and Mai would let their dates know to come to Asami's house to meet them.

After lunch the four of us went to the rest of our classes for the day and then I headed home. My mom wanted some family time with my dad and I today. She decided we were going to watch a movie after dinner and made us all our own big bowl of popcorn. I love movies, so I didn't really mind the whole family night thing. We usually don't have them but my mom insisted that we spend time together since I'm hardly ever home and my dad works a lot.

Half way through the movie we were watching I got a text from Asami.

Ozai came to my house.

My eyes widened.

My mom cleared her throat and scolded me, noticing I had my phone out. She told me no phone while we were watching the movie. She put her hand out across the couch to take it away.

"Mom, It's important. It's Asami, she's upset. I need to call her."

"Korra, we're watching a movie. It's family night, you can call her after the movie is over." My dad said. My mom still had her hand reached out. I deleted the message from Asami and handed my phone over, fustrated.

When the movie finally ended, I took my phone back from my mom and went upstairs to my room. I called Asami and she answered on the first ring.

"Sorry, my mom confiscated my phone because we were watching a movie and its family night and ugh...anyway what happened? Ozai came to your house? "

"Yeah, I walked into my kitchen to see my dad talking to him like they were old friends. I made my dad leave with compulsion, I really wish I hadn't needed to but I couldn't have him here with Ozai..."

"Yeah, what did he want?"

"He wants me to kill one of the others, one of the other vampires he made. He said he'll be 'expecting news' by tomarrow night when the dance starts. I can't do that."

"Remember what he said before? If you don't listen he'll-"

"I know, but I can't kill another person, vampire or not. I still can't deal with thinking about what happened with Rachel."

I sighed. She was right. It's not that I wanted her to kill someone, its that was worried about what he would do. I thought about what we could possibly do and couldn't come up with anything.

"Korra? You still there?"

"Yeah, don't worry we'll figure something out. You don't have to kill anyone."

Asami told me about what Azula did after school in the girls' bathroom. I was disqusted and mad that she would dare do that. Asami said there was another girl in the bathroom who witnessed the whole thing. She said Azula compelled her to not scream or tell anyone. I figured it was just another way of hers to inflict pain on others and from what I'd seen and heard about Azula so far, she enjoys making others miserable.

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