Tuesday
My Father personally dropped me off at school today, afraid that I would skip school again but after what happened yesterday I want to be off the streets as much as possible.
I walk through the halls and all eyes are on me. I get to my locker, and put in my combination when I notice someone hovering over me.
I grab my textbooks and close my locker.
"Asami" I get up from the ground and place a fake smile on my face at the sound of my table partner.
"Hello, Opal" she doesn't return the smile just looks concern
"I heard about what happened yesterday" she says as we walk through the halls. I would ditch her but we're heading to the same class Algebra.
"Really?" I ask just to sound engaged in this pointless conversation
"Yeah, and I want to know if, you're alright" I tilt my head back in disbelief
"Of course I'm fine, I watched my best friend be attacked by benders for no reason, and I just stood there helpless"
She puts her hand on my shoulder
"But really, I'm fine Opal"
"You don't sound fine, you're using humor to disguise the fact you're hurt, and I would be too, but not talking about it won't fix your problem"
"I appreciate your concern, but this really is none of your business"
"I'm sorry, if you feel that I'm not being truthful, but even though we aren't really close, I do care about you and Bolin"
Hearing Bolin name, I realize that I'm sort of being a jerk to Opal. She's just trying to help me, and I'm pushing her away. I need to make an effort if I want to be friends with her.
I stop walking and look at Opal and I guess she's taken back by me looking at her so personally.
"I'm sorry Opal, for being so rude, it's just a lot to take in right now, and I don't want to talk about it right now, I have a lot of questions that honestly I don't think anyone can answer"
Opal gives me a warm smile "Then answer them yourself"
"How?" I ask as we continue walking
"When the times is good for you, talk with someone about how you're feeling, because sometimes talking it out can help you find the answer you need"
I laugh alittle "You really are quite deep Opal"
She laughs too "That's what happens when your Mother is the school's counselor"
"What's your Aunt's excuse" I tease
"Well let's just say Aunt Lin, takes physical education seriously"
Tuesday Noon
I havent slept in hours but I can feel my body getting ready to shut down on me, and put me in a long snooze.
As my head is up against the window. The train suddenly stops, I lift my head and see the conductor get up.
"There is some type of protest going on and they're blocking the railing" he says
"Why type of protest?" I ask
The conductor rolls his eyes
"Some type of bender equality bull shit, so we will be sitting here, until the situation is resolved"
The train erupts with moans and groans. I can't be waiting here, I have to get to the next safe house soon!
I get up "Can't you run them over or something" another guy calls out
"I thought of that, but that would damage the train" the conductor says with a laugh
Ugh these people make me sick
"I have somewhere to be" I call out
"Listen sweetie don't we all, unless you want to walk through the riot, I suggest you pipe down and go back to sleep"
I had enough of these people and this train, I refuse to let the situation affect my objective, which is to get to the safe house.
I make my way to the front of the train and put my hand on the handle
"What are you doing?" the conductor asks
"Walking" I open the door and hope down and start making my way in the direction of yells. The conductor opens the window.
"They're benders, they will kill you" he calls out
"Better than being on that train!" call back I can't see how many people are there but I do know it's a lot and someone is leading the chanting.
I'm wearing an outfit similar to something the blue spirt would wear minus the mask. I couldn't afford, anyone recknoizing my outfit.
I'm just so tired, all I have is a sack and a note with an address on it. I don't even know, if the place I'm going to is still there.
I get closer to the crowd and turn around and can no longer see the train. There is a woman with a megaphone in her hand.
"The movement of Amon, is not just disgusting but wrong, he wants to make all these laws to limit us from our gifts!"
The crowd continues to cheer as I get a closer, I see a glimpse of the woman leading such a protest.
She has arched eyebrows and a metal suit on. She must be a metal-bender, I always wanted to learn how to metal-bend.
I stand behind the a few people hearing this woman's gospel.
"As an orphan, I remember not feeling special, when I realized I was a metal bender, I got a sense of purpose, something like, I was a somebody in this world"
The woman speaks as if she's talking to just one person. She would just take one glance at you and you can feel the connection.
"Amon and his army, are trying to take our feeling of purpose away, and I don't know about you but I refuse to go back, being some orphan looking for herself…"
The crowd gets louder
Kuvira smiles "Because I found myself, say it with me"
"Because I found myself"
"Because I found myself"
"Because I'm proud of myself"
"Because I'm proud of myself"
"And because I'm not myself without bending, us benders must unite to fight the prosecution of our brothers and sisters, so today we're making a step to end that, by stopping all transportation of goods through the Earth Kingdom to be received by Amon"
The woman throws her fist in the air
"We will no longer, be the victim because we never were!"
The crowd breaks out in chants and elements are thrown in the air while the woman claps and bows while hopping down metal podium.
"Who is she?" I ask the man beside me who looks like an sandbender
"Her name is Kuvira the Great Uniter, and she been leading this movement for years, she's a legend she did so much to help us as benders. She put her life on the line multiple of times, I don't know whats the big fuss about the Avatar because Kuvira been in action when the Avatar wasn't"
I thank him and walk through the grounds. Seeing events like these reminds me that I'm doing nothing to prevent this war Amon is causing. I'm the master of all elements and the balance between the world and spirit world, yet I'm doing nothing to help.
Aang was gone for 100 years but he did help fix the mess that was cause and from the looks of it, I don't have time to waste.
Someone taps my shoulder and I turn around.
"That's a funky get up, what do you bend?" I'm starring at the woman who just made her speech and she looks intimidating.
"I'm a waterbender" I answer
"Hmm what tribe?"
"Southern, I would show you but, there is no water around" I say panicking
"I have some" Kuvira then opens her flasks
I laugh "You don't believe that I'm a bender" I tease
"I didn't say that, it's just you didn't bend after my speech, something that is done at every one of my protests"
"Well this is the first time, I been to one" I answer back
"I'm quite popular on the news, everyone knows it's my signature closing" she steps closer to me.
"You're quite the leader, and I must admit I'm attractive to that but" I say stepping back trying to keep my cool because I do not like it when someone underestimates me and tries to make me feel weak.
Maybe it's the water tribe in me, but that's something you just don't do. She takes a step closer and puts her hand on my should and grips it with force and I bite my tongue trying to not let her get to me.
"I just made contact with you, what are you going to do about that" the oooohhh Great Uniter says
There is a circle formed around us now and that's the last thing I wanted
" I don't want to hurt you" I answer back
Kuvira laughs along with the rest of the people
"Did you hear her, she thinks she's going to hurt me" she looks me up and down
"She can't hurt a fl…" before she finishes I put my right hand on my shoulder where her hand is and flip it back then knee her in the stomach and shes on the ground clenching her stomach. The crowd is silent and Kuivira still has her head down but raises it and a creepy smirk is on her face.
"Great self-defense move for a non-bender" I bend the water on the ground from the flask
"Yes it was, but you havent seen my waterbending yet, oh Great Uniter" Kuvira gets up and puts her guard up some of her guards I belive come out
"NO I got this" Kuvira says as they back up I bounce up and down. Okay Korra just use water, no other element there is a crowd. I take a deep breath
"I don't want to fight you" I call out
"Well too late" she charges at me and I send a whip of water towards her but she jumps and spins in the air to avoid it.
How can she move so fast? She lands on the ground and sends a bolder at me and I move out of the way transforming the water into ice and shoot it at her and she uses her fist and blocks them.
"That's all you got, maybe Amon should get rid of you, I would hate to have a weak bender on my team" she says while throwing a jab sending a rock at me and it catches my arm.
I smile trying to brush it off Kuvira winks at me. While I try to walk off the pain.
"Aww not in front of a crowd honey" I say back while sending a hook and a jab of water at her and the jab misses her but the hook gets her right in her side and she hits the ground.
I hear cheers and I'm not going to lie, I feel pretty good.
She's still on the ground and I walk towards her and offer my hand.
"I respect you, let's call it a truce" she grabs my hand then suddenly we're pulled under the ground.
Tuesday Mid-Day
We're walking the track when a football lands right infront of Opal and I.
"Sorry" Iroh the school's quarterback calls out while jogging towards us.
"Ohhhh he's coming our way" Opal tease
"He's totally your type" I tell her
"Oh, you know who I like, Iroh has your name all over it,shhhh he's coming"
I pick up the ball. He uses his tank to wipe the sweat off his face. I know it was just some excuse to show off his abs.
"Sorry about that, the boys and I got carried away, didn't mean to hit two beautiful girls" he says
I push the ball into his chest "Next time watch where you're throwing" I say while contuining to walk but he follows
"I wasn't throwing, I was catching, I would never throw such a terrible play"
"Hmmm" I say while Opal tries not to laugh
"Wait do you think, I'm not good at football?" he asks
"I never said that, I don't care about the sport enough to voice my opinion on it"
He jogs infront of us
"Well maybe you should, come watch us play"
"No thanks, I almost died and I wasn't even watching you play" he laughs
"You're funny, I like that maybe we can.."
"Iroh the ball!" some of his friends call out
"Wait a sec" Iroh calls back
"You should go back with your friends, they want their quarterback" I suggest having enough of his attempt to get with me.
he shakes his head with a grin
"This is not over" he says while jogging back to the game.
When he's gone Opal squeils "The hottest guy in the school almost asked you out" I roll my eyes
"I'm not interested"
"How can you not be!"
"I don't know him" I answer back
"You can get to know him silly, you two would make such a cute couple"
"Puppies and sea turtles are cute, doesnt mean they're meant to be together" I answer back
I lock my p.e clothes back into my gym locker so I can go to my last class when I hear someone call my name.
"Yes" I lift up my back and turn around and see Ginger standing in front of me holding her bra in place. I start to feel my face heat up.
"Yes Ginger?" she laughs nerously
"Can you hook the back of my bra I would ask someone else but since you're the first one dress"
I look around and I was in fact the first one dressed. Actually to think about it I'm always the first one dress. I bring my attention back on Ginger.
"No, it's totally fine, it's perfect, I mean I can do it, no problem, I hook bras for people all the time, yeah" Ginger laughs again
"ooohhkay" she turns around and no one in the locker room seems to care they're just doing their own thing.
As I approach her I take a glance at her back. Ginger is the lead in all the theater plays, she even has an audition to be in some new mover soon. She's defiantly going to get the job because she has the talent and body for it. I mean body as in not a weird way, you know like a body like most female leads have, what am I thinking.
I hook the bra and Ginger turns around and pulls me into a hug "Thank you Asami" she then heads back to her locker and I smile and nod awkwardly. That wasn't so bad, I just over think too much, I was simply helping out a friend.
I look up and see that Opal watched the whole exchange
"You ready to go?" Opal asks and I nod
"Yeah sure"
Tuesday Afternoon
I get up from the ground and Kuvira stares at me intensively.
"Come on, bring us back up" I say nervous by the ways she is looking at me
"Something is off about you" she says walking around me
"I could say the same about you"
"The way you bend" I laugh nervously
"I didn't know you studied waterbending" I tease
"Oh I did, and you bend like an Earthbender"
"How, if I was an earthbender, I would have been on top of the ground and look I'm still under it"
"Your stance, you separate your feet too far"
Kuvira raises her hand and we go futher down the Earth's surface
"Stop Kuvira, before we hit lava, and I doubt you can lavabend" as we move futher down she smiles
"Trust me, I can't" my eyes go wide
"You do know you will die too" she shrugs
"Doesn't matter to me" she says with a smirk as we go futher down
"Only you can stop, this" Kuvira calls out my feet can feel the heat and we're getting closer to the core.
"What's wrong with you?" I yell out
"Nothing" the bottom of the surface color changes and we're almost there. My feet starts to heat up even more
"We're almost there" Kuvira calls out
a small opening of Lava pours in and I just lose it. I push us up two levels and bloodbend Kuvira down to the ground so she can't move her body anymore to take us back down.
I get in her face and stare at her with fury as I catch my breath while She just smiles in disbelief
"Nice to meet you Avatar"
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