Into the Night
That girl or demon just told Asami to go home right after saving her. She was alone on her moped and she still couldn’t move. But she willed herself to after a while. She certainly didn’t imagine her night going like this.
She’d remember the stories her mom told her about demons when she was younger, but she thought they were just a myth. Apparently not anymore after tonight.
She quickly made her way to the Sato Estate and once she was there, she went up into her room and got ready for bed. Her nerves were on an all-time high after what she just went through. Glad that her dad was asleep already so he wouldn’t worry.
When Asami looked at her, she didn’t look like the 3 demons who approached her. This girl wore blue like she was from the water tribe and looked like her from behind since she only saw her backside. She saw everything that she did though but couldn’t agree if it scared her or intrigued her more since she saved her.
On the other side of the city, back with all the lights and flooded streets which were now empty due to the time, Korra was returning back to Naga who was asleep. She gently woke her up and gave Naga some well-deserved head pats.
“Alright girl, time to head off!”
They rode around near the water for a bit trying to figure out how she was supposed to get to the island until she spotted a dock with a ferry. She made her way there and boarded. Thankfully the ferry was free because she spent her last yuans on food. Someone on board yelled that they arrived and that brought her out of her deeply regretting thoughts.
She yelled thank you and her and Naga were up the stairs leading to Tenzin’s house.
Wandering back to her thoughts, she hated it a little that she had to rely on eating so much food to gather energy and strength. She was very against eating humans for herself but there had to be something she could do instead that didn’t feel wrong for her.
Bringing her out of her thoughts, Naga started to bark and that bark was targeted towards Tenzin who quickly threw his head into her direction. His eyes seemed to almost bulge out of his head as he realized who he was looking at.
He was stomping over to her rather quickly and all she could do was throw him a sheepish smile. “What are you doing here! Republic City is big and dangerous for you!”
She let the reigns on Naga loosen from her grip and stared back at Tenzin with a somber smile, “It’s not dangerous and I think we both know that,” she sighed before continuing, “the city is big but I’m the dangerous one.”
Those words had hit Tenzin like a truck. He felt bad immediately even though he never thought of Korra as dangerous even though she was a demon. However, the white lotus had treated her quite harshly back at the compound so he could see why she would say that.
He smiled at her and gestured for her to follow him to the front door.
“I suppose your airbending training can start tomorrow night, Avatar Korra.”
She left Naga outside to sleep as she walked into the house and followed Tenzin to her room.
Very plain and empty on all four sides but with a nice window that led to a view of the bay. She bowed to thank him and gave him another sharp toothy smile. Before he went on his way to his room with his wife, Korra softly yelled out, “Your mom told me to tell you that she says hi and that you should chill a bit.” The last part being very much a lie however, Tenzin did need to relax a little.
He chuckled and bid her good night.
She closed the door to her room and deposited the bag of clothes and items she had stored on Naga. She put her clothes in the closet and put her empty bag to the side.
Finally, being taught to airbend was on her mind now. She’s been waiting for ages to start training and hopefully it would be easy peasy. She laid in her bed and slept till it was the night.
Easy peasy is what she thought…however nothing was happening. After she met the kids the next night, they brought her to the training grounds there and there was this old “relic” that Tenzin liked to call it and she had to move through it gracefully and be the leaf. Neither of those things were happening.
She was getting whacked left and right and thrown out. It was really starting to infuriate her to the point she would growl lowly baring her teeth at the contraption.
“HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MOVE LIKE THE LEAF TENZIN?” she practically yelled out with gritted teeth. She was at this for a couple hours and it was tiring. Thankfully Tenzin called for a break. All she wanted to do was lay flat on the ground and that is what she did.
She slammed down to the ground on her back whilst the airbender kids went inside and Tenzin sat next to her.
“How bout we catch a pro bending match huh Tenzin? Whaddya say?”
“Absolutely not! It is a mockery of noble traditional bending.”
Korra took a deep breath and sighed. She would try her luck once more. “It’s only about 9, we won’t miss the later matches if we leave now.”
She could see Tenzin say no with just the look on his face right now. “I’ve always dreamed of watching it Tenzin ,come on!”
Her airbending master was just not budging so she got up and stared across the bay where the arena was at. It was shining so bright in the distance with gold lights hitting its exterior. It looked so big and a fun place to be at. She was used to simple and not flashy things ever since being stuck in the compound. But Korra herself was a flashy and head on person. The only person that was coming to mind who allowed her to do what she wanted and to be herself was none other than Muzan. She was brought out of her stupor when Tenzin said something.
“You will remain on this island until you master airbending.”
She could feel her eye twitch at the words “remain.” Hasn’t she done that all her life. Airbending was to be free and what it felt like instead was suffocation. She sighed dejectedly and bid Tenzin a good night as she left to her room.
She was going to watch the match tonight whether he liked it or not.
Once she got into her room, she took off her boots and her top. Leaving her barefoot and bandages wrapped around her chest. She left everything else on including her arm band. She looked out her window and saw white lotus guards around due to Tenzin’s “remain on the island” agenda.
When she saw her chance, she gave Naga a quick kiss to her snout and stealthily slipped out.
Once she was getting toward the cliff of the island she leaped into the water while water bending an opening into the water for her. To be in the water was free for her, her natural element.
It took a couple minutes but when she arrived, she had the eyes of a child who had just seen a group of otter penguins. Her head out the water, looking up at the big arena which lights were so bright up close.
She bent the water upwards to land on solid ground.
Now where to watch the match?
She didn’t have a ticket, nor did she have any money on her to go inside legally so she opted for maybe a nicer seat than anyone could get. The top of the arena is where she would watch.
Making sure there was nobody around, she quickly gathered enough momentum to launch herself up to the top and landed quite gracefully.
She was light on her feet since the top was glass. Right beneath her was the very arena that these matches she heard on the radio took place. Hopefully next time she would get to see it even closer. She could hear the announcer clearly from where she was so when she heard him announce that the Fire ferrets were up in this match, she was excited. She had a big grin on her face and felt lighter than she did earlier.
That match was one of the most intense matches she’s ever seen. Their water bender? SUCKED. The earth bender? Extremely good and light on his toes. The fire bender? STIFF and somehow managed to pull a hat trick the last minute and won them the match. Korra would call it luck but man as good as they were, their water bender dragged them.
That was the last match of the evening and Korra watched people leaving the arena from the top. She stayed like that for a while till it was empty. She surveyed the area around and took in the city. It was big, bigger than the south and far more advanced. Different but it was nice.
As she was about to leap off the arena, she heard the familiar sound of a temari bouncing. She looked down to see which direction it could be coming from but saw 3 people exiting out of the arena and heading to a car. Two boys and a girl...she recognized the girl from the other night. She observed them and noticed they were being chummy with one another. She noticed the taller guy was hitting on the girl just by his movements.
And then she heard the sound again. Susamaru, where are you?
She saw the trio look around assuming they heard it too and then she saw the temari hit the car putting it out of commission. She laughed at the trios shocked expressions. Sometimes it was fun to watch the expressions humans made when something out the ordinary happened to them.
Susamaru finally made her appearance which caused a smirk to form on her face. She was bouncing two temari’s, one in each hand, she was inching towards the three. Her coming near the car and them backing away from it.
Korra watched as she was about to throw it once again but in the direction of hitting the car once more. As she pulled back, Korra decided to make her entrance.
Quickly appearing to the four of them on top of the out of commission car, her eyes donning her rank, claws out, she had grabbed Susamaru’s arm as she landed.
“Su~sa~ma~ru~” she said in a sing song voice, giving the startled demon a toothy grin, “care to indulge me on what’s going on?”