The moment we landed it was pure chaos. Thanks to my heightend senses the sounds of panic and the rushing of feet was nearly deffening.
"We need all doctors to the emerency rooms imediatly. I repeat all doctors to the emerency rooms."
The rushing of people running throught the halls of the hosptial was making me a bit uneasy. Espically now since my sight was seeing nothing but a series of blurs since I could only see outlines.
"Tenzin where's mom?"
"Down the hall." we made our way down the frantic hallway and into one of the main healing rooms. The inside was nearly as busy as the outside. Doctors and nurses were rushing from patiance that were all over the room, I could hear the mulptile groans and moans as well the rushing of water for the waterbenders.
"Kya, Lin, I'm really glad you two got here."
"Mom what's going on? This place is a madhouse."
"As you know the raid was an ambush and now the city seems to have turned into a battleground. I just heard from Toph and Su not to long ago. It seems like mulptile gangs are fighting amongst themselves. Most officers are either busy dealing with their attacks across the city or lying in one of these beds with various injuries. The others are hold up at the station trying to defend it."
"So they're okay then?"
"You know how stubburn Toph can be. She said that she could handle whataver was comming but with less then thirtey able officers her chances aren't great."
"Then we'll..."
"Lin I know what you're about to say and the answer is no. This city is at war and you are in no position to go tearing through it."
"Katara we both know that we need every officer we have to battle this."
For the longest time I could feel the intensity of her stare. As a doctor her first instict was to make sure people didn't get hurt. If she had her way I'd stay here but we both knew that I was going to find a way to the precient.
"Fine you can go but only after we heal some of these officers. Their injuries aren't bad and like you they're wanting to leave as soon as their heald. They'll be your escort."
"Thanks."
"Just make sure you stay safe out there."
Just before Kya and Katara got started healing she pulled me just off to the side. "Lin I'm going with you when I'm done."
"No you're staying here."
This city is at war and I'm not going to put you in danger.
"And tell me Lin what are you going to do if you get there? You can barely see and you can't bend. So what use are you going to be?" I hated to admit it but she was right.
I was so determined to save my mother and Su that I had failed to plan ahead.
What was I going to do? Hope that my bending came back along the way I guess.
"Look Kya I just don't want you getting hurt."
"And I don't want my blind girlfriend going into a warzone. Look Lin I know you want to protect me and I love that about you, but the opposite is also true. And if you're going somplace dangerous then I'm going to."
I knew she was right. I was even touched by her sentemint, not many people would say something like that to me, and even less of those people could get away with it. But Kya was far different from those people. She was perhaps the one person I cared for most.
My mind was racing, my heart was about to burst from what I was feeling. But in those few seconds I let my heart take control of my body. My arms reached out and pulled her into a kiss before quickly pulling back.
"We'll protect each other then. Now go heal who you can I'll be waiting."
"Okay." as she moved away a few murmers went out from a couple of the officers recovering.
"What are you whispering about!? If you have time to stand around then you should be helping!" they quickly ran off in a mad dash and started helping wherever they could.
As the docotrs ran about doing what they could I made my way to Katara's office and took a seat on the floor to get some peace and quiet.
As I sat down I tried focusing my senses, if I could then maybe I could see how mom and Su were doing.
I was getting better at focusing and soon I was able to relax enough to focus. It wasn't easy or even specifif but I could manage to see certin things. Fires going on in various parts of the city. The panic crowds running about.
Now if only I could see the...
My vison suddenly showed me the prescient. Officers had erected a barrier at the door. Su was bandanging her arm and mom was drumming her fingers on her arm while she spoke on the phone.
"How long untill our officers are healed Katara?"
"I'm going as fast as I can Toph. Even with Kya helping me I'll only be able to get a dozen or so of your officers sent back into the city. The rest have injuries far to severe to release."
"Just heal who you can Katara." she hesitated for a moment then rasised the phone back up. "How's Lin been doing lately? I've been a bit to focused to ask."
"She's better. Kyas been helping her move foward. It seems she might have also gaind a new ability. She insisted on comming but I insisted that she have escort."
"She's nearly as stubborn as me sometimes." Before she could say anything else my vision shifted to an allely about half a mile away. There were a few men gathered there. From what I saw most of them were carrying weapons.
"Is everyone ready for this?"
"Almost, I still have a few men comming. They've been waiting for a day like this for a long time."
"Good because we won't get a chance to destroy the prescient again. From what I've heard they're low on man power. It won't be easy to take down the cheif but if we do we'll run this city."
My vision came to an end and I rushed to find Kya. My heart was beating through my chest as I was overcome with worry. When I finally found her she was sitting in one of the waiting rooms.
"Kya please tell me you finished."
"Yeah a few minutes ago, why?"
"I just saw that there's about to be another attack. I'm not sure how many but it's going to be soon."
"I'll go tell the officers that it's time to go."
Rushed by the impending attack everyone gathered in less then a few minutes. It was hard to tell from just their outline but I had a pretty strong feeling that these officers had just barely regained their strength.
They're in no shape to go batteling through the city best if we take another route.
"Look I know it's been a rough day and most of you could use some rest but the city doesn't have time. But the good news is we won't be trudging through the city, we'll be taking the underground tunnel system right to the prescient."
Sighs of relief filled the room as I expected. Their spirit may be willing but their flesh was battered and bruised.
"Alright everyone lets move out." The door to the underground tunnel wasn't hard to find. Kya and I took our positions in the middle. She'd been pretty adamant that I not be up in front.
By my estimate it would take at least ten minutes on foot to reach the prescient. Hopefully the tunnels were still clear otherwise we'd have to deal with whataver criminals or creatures had made their way down here since the last sweep a few months ago.
"It's really dark down here."
"These tunnels are only to be used in case of emerencies so they're not a priority. We sweep this place maybe once ever six months or so. Usually we find some vermin that have broken through a wall."
"You could at least put a few more lights down here."
"Just stay close to me, I'll make sure you don't trip over anything."
"My hero."
"Always but we can disccus this more when we're alone." It didn't take long to reach the door to the precient. We opened the door carfully using the hidden switch behind a false brick. We didn't need the alarm going off and being attacked by our own officers.
We went up slowely and carefully. As soon as we opened the door we were surronded by every able officer.
"Stand down everyone that's our back up." I heard as another outline marched in front of us. "Glad to see you guys are still holding up."
"Yeah well we're bunch of metalbenders in their own headquarters with all their equipment to relay on. Mom made this place into a fortress over the years. Honestly I'm glad you guys are here, most of these officers are running on fumes and could use a break."
"Well these guys aren't much better but we'll need to do the best we can for the attack."
"Attack?"
"Yeah I saw that ther's going to be a large group attack soon."
"Lin I'm going to need you to explain everything very slowely. Because I'm pretty sure that my blind sister just told me she saw we're about to be attacked again."
"Su I know it's confusing but you're going to have to trust me on this."
"But how can you..?"
Before we could explain there was an explosin just outside followed by screams of rage.
"Look like we got here just in time."