Book Five: Resurrection

Chapter Six: Standoff

As Mako and his brother stood in front of the portal with their backs turned, Mako sighed with concern. "It's been too long. I'm going in there"

"No wait. We were given orders." Bolin protested.

"My main priority is helping Korra. I promised her that I'd stay by her side in battle. And I'm not going back on my word! I don't care what happens to me….as long as she's safe..." He begins to towards the portal.

"Wait! Mako…." Bolin called. Mako turns to his brother. "You're not the hero I thought you were….you're more."

Mako smiled and nodded. As he drew close to the portal, a figure emerged from the portal right in front of him. Mako smiled and sighed with relief. "Korra! You're ok…" His smile instantly disappeared as soon as he had a closer look at exactly who walked from the portal.

Alpha chuckled. "Don't insult me."

He grabbed Mako by the neck and threw him down next to Bolin. "Mako!" He cried as he kneeled down to check on him.

Mako held his neck and grunted. "I'm fine...what hit me?"

Bolin looked at the spirit portal and saw the man who hurt his brother. He watched in shock as another person approached from behind the attacker. "What….the heck...is that!?"

"Oh that's not very nice." Alpha pouted. "He's just my brother. He's had a rough childhood...who could blame him? After all….the Avatar did kill our father!"

Bolin helped Mako up on his feet. "What have you done with Korra!?" He shouted.

Alpha laughed softly. "Let's just say...she belongs to me now."

"Over my dead body" Mako shouted as he extends his hand and shoots a burst of flame at the dragon. Alpha waves his arm and deflects the attack turning it to smoke.

Omega growls and clenches his fist, causing Alpha to smile. "Ah ah ah. Shouldn't have done that, my boy" He scoffed.

Bolin was quick to attack by shrouding him in an earth prison making sure he doesn't move. Alpha raised his hand and slowly bent his fingers allowing the ground below Mako and Bolin to crack and rise from the ground. A huge chunk of earth was lifted in the air carrying them both. Bolin smashed it with his fist causing it to crumble.

Mako blasted fire from his hands and feet as he safely touched the ground. He began to throw an assortment of punches and kicks, firing small but powerful flames at Alpha.

As the dragon fights back and launches attacks of his own to even the odds, Bolin throws his hands out, splitting the ground and raising waves of lava. He clenches his fists and thrusts them toward Alpha, making a huge flood of lava engulf the dragons. He wipes the sweat of of his head and takes a deep breath of exhaustion.

Mako looks over at the now dried lava encasing the enemy. "You couldn't do that before?" He sighed.

Bolin was quick to reply. "Hey I never said lavabending was easy." Mako shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

Just then the lava began to deteriorate and was blown off of Alpha and Omega. It shot at Mako, leaving him dazed and confused. "Look out!" Bolin screamed as he shoved Mako away from the blast. He fortunately had enough time to raise up a shield of earth to protect himself, but the lava burst through and knocked Bolin against a building behind him.

Alpha pointed his finger at him. "Omega! Finish him!" As if something clicked in his mind, Omega shattered the earth prison surrounding him and roared furiously. He looked at Bolin, still trying to get to his feet and snarled. He charged at him with his full speed. Bolin noticed and placed his whole body flat against the building, encasing himself in earth like armor.

Inside was a young couple sitting on a couch and giggling to themselves. They smiled at eachother as they leaned in close.

Just then, Omega and Bolin crashed through their wall and fell to the floor with a thud, causing the couple to scream in panic.

Bolin, still struggling to keep Omega off of him, glanced at them for a second. "Listen! I just wanna say that I give out my sincerest apologies."He grunted as he punched Omega's jaw. "But you gotta get out of here...NOW!"

The young couple whimper as they nod their heads and take off screaming.

Omega tries to slash at Bolin's stomach, knocking a bit of earth off and leaving his skin exposed and several claw marks. "Ahhh! You…." He screamed as he turns his earth armor onto the dragon keeping him still.

Mako and Alpha are now caught in a battle of skill fire. Mako tries to roundhouse kick Alpha with a blare of fire. Alpha ducks and sweeps Mako's leg, tripping him over.

As Mako lands on his back with a thud, Alpha engulfs his fist in fire and throws a straight punch, aiming for his head. Mako rolls out of the way and Alpha strikes a hole in the ground.

Mako charges at Alpha and kicks him in the face. Alpha growls and unleashes a fury of inferno from his mouth. Mako crosses his arms out in front of him, protecting his face from getting burned. The flames rip apart his arm sleeves and send him skidding across the ground.

Alpha yanks his arm from the terrain and chuckles. "Nice shot, sport!"

Mako trembles in pain, gritting his teeth as he glares at Alpha with pure distain. "Wh...why!? Why are you doing this!?" Mako pleaded.

Alpha crossed his arms and replied. "We are here to destroy everything the Avatar cares for! Starting with you. You should consider yourself lucky, Mako. At least you won't live long enough to see it."

Mako tried to catch him by surprise by shooting a bolt of lightning from his fingertips. Alpha puts two fingers out and catches the lightning and redirects it toward him. It sparks as it hits the ground right in front of him and an explosion erupts, blowing Mako away.

Bolin, straining to keep Omega at bay, sees his brother in trouble. "MAKO!" He screams.

Just as Bolin took his focus off of him, Omega grabs him from the back the head and throws him outside. Bolin flips backward to his feet and stomps the ground, creating a pillar of earth and sending a nearby car sky high. It lands on Omega as he walks towards Bolin. The dragon slowly lifts it off of him and roars as he throws the car at Bolin.

The earthbender jumps to the side and avoids the car crashing onto the ground next to him. He then quickly overwhelms the car with lava, melting the cars metal.

Omega walks towards him again, this time Bolin was ready. "Just...one more chance!" Bolin yelled as he plunged the lava mixed with molten metal onto Omega.

Omega grunts as he tries to free himself. Bolin wasn't taking any chances, he kicked a fire hydrant next to him and shot a stream of water all over Omega, chilling the metal and lava to a solid barrier around Omega's body.

Bolin smiles a sighs. "Finally..." He sighed as he dropped to one knee.

Suddenly, he heard a crack and gasped. He whipped his head up to see Omega's arm twitch. The dragon ripped his arm free and blasted Bolin with a hurricane of air. Bolin falls. Omega bends the water from the fire hydrant to his advantage.

As Bolin staggered to his feet, Omega whipped him in the chest several times. He wraps the water around his entire body and freezes it, trapping him. The dragon growled as he swung Bolin onto the top of a nearby unmanned food stand. He pulls him close and tosses him back into the building.

Bolin stood on one knee, beaten and broken. He threw a weak punch in the air, shooting a small rock at Omega. It bounces off his chest, leaving no scratches on him.

The dragon mercilessly grabbed him by the head and threw him against the wall and pounded him with a enormous gust of wind. Due to the impact Bolin's head whips back and bangs against the wall, knocking him unconscious.

Alpha laughs as he drags Mako's unconscious body across the street and into the room with Omega. He throws him next to Bolin. "It was fun while it lasted, gentlemen. But all good things…" The dragon brothers walked outside the building. Alpha raised both of his arms and began to pull the building in on itself in attempts to crush Mako and Bolin. "...do indeed come to an end!" The building collapses on top of the former pro-bending brothers, crushing them.

Alpha laughs hysterically and claps. "My, my. What a show. Wouldn't you say brother?" He looks at Omega who appeared to be saddened by the sight. "Oh don't get yourself worked up over it. This all for dad, remember?" He brushed off dirt from his shoulder. Now let's find...the nearest air temple."