"Leave them alone," Kai yelled as she stormed over to the rape that was about to happen.
"Oh ho ho," the nasally voiced man chuckled, "Ain't yew a pretty little thing?"
"Heh, heh, she sure is boss," one of the men standing behind the nasally voiced, shorty said.
"Shut up Mickerson," Shorty snapped at the large man that just spoke. The man then snapped his fingers and the two larger men that had been standing behind shorty restrained the two girls.
"Why don't I cut you a deal, sweetheart?" shorty offered. "You give us what we want, and we'll let the little ones go free." He smiled a slimy grin, his eyes raking her body perversely, his hand going to her waist.
"No!" The older of the two quivering girls called out.
"Don't do it!" the younger one agreed with her sister.
"Wasn't planning on it," Kai grunted out and stomped her foot. With the movement a rock column shot up and nailed the nasally voiced man in the nuts.
"You're gonna pay for that, bitch," he wheezed as he dropped to his knees grabbing himself.
Within moments, she had entered a fight with the two larger men, which she quickly learned were an earth-bender, like her, and a fire-bender. Way to start fresh, Kai…
X
It had been three hours since Korra had come to her and Tenzin with the news that Ikki and Jinora had walked off. "I'm so sorry Tenzin," Korra repeated, "I don't know how I'll ever make up for this."
Lin heard Tenzin sigh, "Right now, let's just find Jinora and Ikki." Korra nodded and they continued down the street quickly.
"Jinora!" the group of three called out, "Ikki!"
"No!"
"Don't do it!" Lin heard two different people yell desperately.
"That was them!" Tenzin exclaimed and they took off towards the voices as fast as they could.
Coming around the corner that led to their destination they saw a group of Triple Threat Triad members fighting a girl in traditional Earth Kingdom colors. By the looks of it, they had come towards the end of the fight. The group's waterbender was already down, and the earthbender was getting there.
Lin watched as the Triple Threat earthbender heaved a boulder from the street and sent it towards the girl. The girl brought her arm up, stopping it in the air, showing that she was an earthbender. The girl let it hover for a moment before sending it back at the earthbender. He dodged the rock, and it went sailing into the window.
The man went to take a step towards the girl, and just as his foot was about to touch the ground the girl stomped her foot and a thin rock column shot up underneath it. It caught the man's foot and sent his leg up into the air, and the man toppling backwards. The girl stomped her foot again making a rock pop up right where the man's head was going to land. His head hit it, and he was knocked out.
Tenzin went to run to his daughters, but Lin stopped him by erecting a rock wall in front of him. The girl did the same thing in front of Ikki and Jinora, who had been holding each other in fright, just as the firebender sent a blast of fire at the two young girls.
"Your fight is with me," she sneered, digging the inside of her foot into the ground. A trail of rocks popped out of the ground and shot its way towards the firebender, making the ground look like a badgermole had begun to burrow underneath it. Doing the same movement with her other foot the trail doubled in width and speed. A quick, short, jerky slicing movement of her hand split the trail in half, sending them to each of the man's feet. The man didn't notice them until he had fallen over onto his face.
Before he could reach the ground though, she bent her arm at a ninety degree angle, held it in a horizontal position, and pulled it up making a short rock wall shoot up from the ground, this one nailing the firebender in the forehead.
Lin brought down the wall that was blocking Tenzin, and allowed him to run to his daughters to make sure they were okay. Lin went to walk over to the girl, but stopped when she saw her turn a quarter of a circle, her left side now to the wall of the alleyway that Tenzin and his daughters were in. She made a downward slicing motion with her left hand, and a ramp popped out of the wall. This caused a group of rocks that had been on a course to crush Tenzin and his girls to roll off the ramp, soar over Tenzin and his daughters' heads, and land right in front of the Triple Threat earthbender's head, a medium size rock hitting him on the back of his head knocking him out once more.
Tenzin turned to the earthbending girl, "Thank you," he told her.
"These men will be tried and arrested for their crimes," Lin told Tenzin easily. "What's your name young lady?"
"Kao," she replied, "Kai Kao," and Lin could tell she was uncomfortable.
"Next time," Lin told the girl harshly, "Leave the police work to the police. I don't know about where you come from, but I don't tolerate vigilante justice in my city."
"One, last I checked you were no longer the Chief of Police here, Ms. Bei Fong." the girl crossed her arms across her chest and cocked her hip, "And two, I was just supposed let the two girls get raped?"
Lin opened her mouth to retort, but was cut off by the girl continuing her rant. "I guess I was just supposed to leave it to the officers to find the culprit after you found the two girls with their clothes torn, bodies bruised, and their innocence ripped from their bodies? Yes, because that makes total sense."
"Watch your tone with me, young lady." Lin spat out.
"I really can't thank you enough," Tenzin cut in, his face morphed into a look of as if he had been stricken, "If there's anything I can do for you, you let me know."
"Yes sir," Kai replied with a nod.
"Let's get you two home," Tenzin told his daughters after he was sure the two of them were as okay as they could be. He then lifted Ikki up into his arms and took Jinora by the hand.
"Where are you staying, Kai?" Ikki asked the girl as she began to walk in the other direction. The earthbender paused in her step for a brief second.
"You don't have anywhere, do you?" Jinora asked at the girl's pause in her step. Kai turned around embarrassedly her cheeks flushed red, not making eye contact with any of them, and shook her head.
"Then you are more than welcome to stay with me and my family on Air Temple Island, my wife would love to have you." Tenzin spoke. Lin glanced over at the man, masking her shock.
"Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't take the offer," She sighed resignedly, her cheeks still red, "but I really do need a place to stay. Thank you."
"Let's go home, Daddy." Ikki spoke tiredly, wrapping her arms tightly around her father.
"Yes, let's." Tenzin agreed with his youngest daughter. Lin felt a sudden rush of grief take over her body at the sight. Something she almost got mad at herself for, she locked those thoughts away in the far away crevices of her mind almost immediately after it happened. Why was she all of a sudden feeling strange feelings of regret now?
She shook the feelings away and continued to escort her old friend, his children, his children's savior, and his student to the ferry docks without another thought on the subject. She watched the boat they boarded until it was half way across the body of water that separated Republic City from Air Temple Island, before turning on her heal and heading home.