Chapter 5: I'm a Waterbender!
AN: Hi guys! Sorry I took an abnormally long time to post this, but I worked really hard on this Chapter. This is mostly a chase scene, but who doesn't love those? Some bonding and stuff.
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Legend of Korra
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Korra POV:
I swung the firebender around and around, my muscles straining, and let him go, so that he was flying in the air. I had a moment of satisfaction. Ha, take that you filthy thug!
As he was about to smash in the glass of an innocent building, I saw a guy with the normal waterbender attire and wild black hair run from the building with haste. A moment later the firebender smashed into the glass, sending shards and pieces of metal flying everywhere, knocking down the clocks that were hanging innocently, including where the guy who ran was just standing. As he came running out, my eyes widened with surprise. Was he eavesdropping? Who was he? Was he another hooligan, or a police officer? No not that, he doesn't have a uniform. I narrowed my eyes and put my hands on my hips. I examined him further.
He was standing to the side of the building, he was in a slight defensive crouch, and I saw his hand flitted to his pocket for a millisecond before it came right back out. He seemed to be about 17, my own age. He was about my height, and he had a loose-fitting light blue tunic on, with baggy white pants, and a belt. The pants were tucked up in brown fur boots, like mine. He had an olive skin tone, and had unruly windswept locks of black hair, sticking up in random directions. I looked up at his face, and couldn't deny that he was handsome. Hey, it's not like I found him attractive, it's just that he was in the group that people generally clarified were handsome. His tanned face was chiseled as if he was carved from a statue. A strong jaw, high cheekbones, thick eyelashes, the works. I saw that his swirling sea-green eyes were wide with curiosity.
I crossed my arms at him and accused,
"Who are you?" The guy suddenly widened his eyes even more, and a far-away look compassed him. He suddenly jerked back to reality, and he was shaking in panic, his eyes wild and vulnerable. Mentally I drew back. How could one question cause so much strife in a person? I became suspicious again. Unless he didn't want to be known. He stuttered in a quiet, hesitant tone,
"I-I don't-" He was suddenly cut off when I heard a screeching of tires coming from my right. I glanced to to the sound as the guy did, and my eyes widened at the bright red Satomobile zooming towards me at incredibly fast speeds. The guy yelled,
"Watch out!" I thought, Oh Crap. But before I knew what was happening, I felt a searing pain in my gut, and I was thrown into the air. I landed with a painful thump, and was left groaning there on the road. Everything was sore, and I couldn't move a single part of my body. The last thing I saw was the hoodlums rushing toward the offensive car, and the angry roar of the guy with sea-green eyes, before I blacked out.
Percy POV:
I blanched as the question was asked. Who was I? I didn't know. I tried to think of anything. Anything at all. But I couldn't. This wasn't normal. What was normal at this point anyway?! I snapped my gaze back to the Avatar, I could bet that my emotions of panic were showing clearly on my face my the bewildered expression that adorned the young woman. I whispered reluctantly,
"I-I don't-" Suddenly I heard A screeching sound, and stopped what I was saying, grateful of the distraction.
I looked towards the sound, and saw the red Sato-mobile from earlier zooming towards Korra in incredibly fast speeds. I saw what was going to happen a second before it actually happened. I shouted to the Avatar,
"Watch out!" But she didn't react fast enough. I tried to rush towards her, but I heard a painful crunching sound as the Sato Mobile collided into the Avatars side, flinging her across the road. She was lying to the side of the road, groaning in pain. I gasped and took several steps back in shock. The car stopped for a moment, and the firebender ran to clamber inside, its occupants were the other two people who Korra had beaten.
As the Satomobile was taking off, My vision tinged red, and I roared in anger. How dare they just run off after smashing into a person full speed with a vehicle and threatening an old man! I may not know who I am, but I knew that I wouldn't stand for this kind of injustice.
I spared a glance at the stirring body of Korra, before running after the vehicle. I couldn't let them get away. I yelled angrily.
"Where do you think you're going!?" I off-handedly noticed that by now most if not all the citizens had cleared the area, in fear or safety, I dunno. They were about to turn the corner, and all I could think was, they're not getting away! I didn't know what I was going to do, but I just stared at the vehicle as hard as I could, just willing something to happen.
Suddenly I felt a tug in my gut, and a wave roared in my ears. I couldn't think or see clearly. There was a small rumbling in the ground, and then several nearby sewer caps on the road were launched into the air on a powerful geysers of filthy water. The water was spraying everywhere, drenching everything, flooding shops, and filling outdoor markets. A large spurt of water hit the escaping Satomobile hard, and it flipped over on it's side and was kept moving by the geyser. It got pushed into an unsuspecting shop, and broke the glass display. I heard a lot of crashing, and the car stopped moving. A large dust cloud erupted, and I coughed until it cleared out. As I assessed the threat was eliminated, I finally allowed rational thought to come.
I was shocked. What.... What was that? I looked around at all the destruction and noise. The shops in the area were all trashed and windows broken, shards and merchandise littering the streets. Many Sewer Caps were blasted from their holes, and there was brown murky water flowing back into the sewers or just hanging about in large puddles. The offending Satomobile was crashed on its side in a shop, and the doors were hanging from it's hinges. Everything in sight was dripping wet. Water... Filthy Sewer water, but still water.
A crooked grin was spreading across my face. I was a waterbender! Awesome! I can do stuff!
"Well, that was pretty cool."
I whirled around to face the voice. It seemed that the avatar had regained consciousness, and was now standing up yet heavily leaning on a shop wall. She was trying to appear uninterested, but was failing since she was clutching her side from where the vehicle made contact. I could see strakes of blood trailing on her fingers and staining her clothes. Her dark hair was messy, and her pants were grimy, yet she still ignored it and raised her eyebrows at me. With some effort, she pushed herself from the wall, and walked over to me. She cocked her head and said,
"Well, hello waterbender. What's your name?" I froze for a millisecond, but then covered up my unease with a lopsided grin. I replied,
"Well, hello avatar. What's your name?" She narrowed her bright blue eyes, and crossed her arms. I could tell she was sizing me up, so I tried to look as intimidating as possible.
After a few seconds, she sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Well, since you already know I am the avatar, since you apparently spied on me-"
"Hey, I wasn't spying, I had just happened to walk past, and I was observing-"
"Whatever. Anyways," She stepped forward and extended her hand, "I am Korra, the Avatar. And you are?" I was becoming annoyed. Ahh come on! Why did she always have to mention that? I took a deep breath, and tried to make up a name that I liked on the spot. I stammered,
"Umm... My name is... Uh-" Suddenly I heard very loud alarms, and I jumped in surprise. As I looked around for the source I thought, Saved by the bell. The Avatar, now dubbed Korra, bit her lip and looked worried. Her polar bear dog thing clamored over, and started howling over the incessant blaring of the alarm. I resisted the urge to cover my ears.
Korra then looked up, I followed her gaze and nearly fainted in fright. Above us, there was a humungousaur blimp that was colored gray, And had many beams and metal poles. My second reaction was to think, how could people stand being that high in the air? My third thought was, RUN RUN RUN RUN THIS IS BAD!
I heard over a megaphone that came from the intimidating blimp,
"POLICE! Freeze where you are!" For some reason I had an urge to defy his orders and flee. I didn't want to get caught. Something about explaining myself, and them not being able to understand? I tried to share a panicked glance with Korra, but she was just looking at the thing with awe.
I glanced back up and nearly had a heart attack when three people jumped out of the limp, unaided with the exception of wearing this gray metal armor and helmet. Why in the world would they wanna commit suicide? But then the three guys reared back in the air, and shot black chords from devices on their wrists, and with lightning speed, the attached themselves to the sides of the buildings. Then the guys eased themselves down with the cords as if they were bungee diving. I heard Korra say,
"Cool, Metal Benders!" I mentally smacked myself in the head. Of course they were Metal benders. I learned that the Police force was mainly made up of those guys, and that the chief was the daughter of the first Metal bender herself. When they went ahead and announced themselves so loudly, I should've made that inference.
The Metal benders then landed on the road, and retracted the metal cords back into their devices. They all had very mad looks on their faces, and I couldn't help but flinch away on the inside.
As the officers started walking- no marching towards us, Korra put her hands on her hips and gestured to the wrecked car, where the now incapacitated Triple threat Triads meandered out of the wreck. She said cockily,
"I caught the bad guys for you officers." I whipped my head to her and elbowed her in the ribs. Korra winced back and rubbed where I made contact. She grinned sheepishly back at me, her bright blue eyes gleaming with mischief. She rubbed the back of her head and amended,
"Oh sorry, I caught the bad guys, with the help of this guy over here. " She gestured to me with her elbow. Then as an undertone she grumbled, "Who for some reason refuses to tell me his name." I gave her a pointed look, but she just shrugged.
The Police boss gut firmly pointed to the 'hoodlums' and said sternly,
"Arrest them!" The two other officers shot their cords to the Triple Threat Triads, who were now cowering in fright. Not so tough now, are ya? The cords wrapped around each of the guys, and forced them to fall to the ground. The two officers gathered up the guys, and hauled them to their feet. Then the boss guy walked up to me and Korra, and pointed a finger at our faces.
"You both are under arrest too!"
Korra POV:
"You both are under arrest too!" I gasped in horror. Then that horror turned to anger. How dare they arrest me when I caught the bad guys! I was helping them! The guy withe the sea-green eyes and wild black hair seethed in anger, and yelled,
"What?" I couldn't help but agree. Although I was still irked with him for not telling me his name. He must be hiding something. But anyways, back to the current issue. I yelled at the stoic officer, both me and my companions faces showing unbridled anger.
"What do you mean I'm under arrest?" I gestured to the tied up hooligans on my right. "Those are the bad guys over there, they were smashing up a shop!" The officer gestured around the drenched and trashed street and said,
"From the looks of it you two smashed up a lot more than that." Two officers came at us, and shot metal coils at us.
I dodged the coil, and held onto it, and I saw from the corner of my eye the guy, (wow, I was getting tired from calling the guy 'guy', how about, hmm... Water-boy.) had ducked under the cord. My musled were straining against the pull of the cord, but I yelled at the officer who was struggling to react it.
"W-wait, you can't arrest me, Lemme explain!" He replied,
"You can explain yourself all you like, down in headquarters." He then yanked his hand back, and the cord flew from my grasp. The officer then lunged at me, and whipped his three wires at me, I quickly rolled under the attack and popped back up. Then as the officer tried to regain his balance, Naga charged right into the guy's back, and he fell forward. Water-boy was fighting against the other two police officers, as two more had come down from the blimp to aid in the fight. He was rolling and dodging like me since we had no type of weapon- oh wait, I completely forgot about my bending! It looked like Water-boy had forgotten too. But he was getting overpowered, and I saw Naga who was sitting on her haunches, waiting for me to get on. I snatched the opportunity of escape. I ran to Naga and leaped onto her. I snatched up the ropes and yelled to my companion.
"Hey, Water-boy! Come on!" He turned to me, and shot a look at me that said, Seriously? Then he ran and jumped onto Naga, as if he had practice jumping onto large creatures. I was ready to help him on, but apparently he didn't need any. I narrowed my eyes at him for a second, until the black coils lashed out at us once again reminding us where we were. I decided we would talk about this later. Naga took off, and Water-boy yelped and held on tight to Naga's fur.
I glanced back and saw that there was three officers on our tail. I tugged Naga's rope and she suddenly stopped, I turned to the side and extended my foot, catching an officer in the face with my boot. I launched him off into a wall, and turned forward again, guiding Naga through the streets. I dodged three wires by making Naga take a sharp turn.
An officer was coming close to Naga, but then Water-boy extended a fist and it made contact with the poor guy's stomach, and in the process dented the metal armour. I widened my eyes at the scene. How hard did this guy punch to make a dent in metal? The officer collapsed in pain and was clutching his stomach on the road.
We turned another corner trying to lose the last police officer. We went on a bridge, and were midway across it when I felt an extremely hard tug on my ponytail, almost yanking myself from Naga hadn't it been for Water-boy's body preventing me from toppling back. I gasped and yelped in pain. My hands came from Nagas rope and went to my head to try and get the offending coil from my hair. Then suddenly I heard a large whoosh of water and crackling, then a thunk, and the pressure on my hair was released. I rubbed the tears from my eyes and looked back, only to see a large rugged ice wall extending from behinds us on the bridge. There was the officer silhouette against the ice, and cracks extending from where the man and the wall came contact. I glanced back at my companion, and I observed that his arms were raised. I smiled briefly in thanks at him.
"Thank's Water-boy!" He rolled his eyes and said,
"Why Water-boy?" I gestured at the now distant wall of ice as we turned the corner, now police free. He followed it and chuckled.
"Fair point." In the distance over the water, I saw the majestic Figure of Air-Temple Island flitting past. I stared at it in awe.
"What is that?" I looked back at Water-boy, he was looking at the temple, his wild raven black hair flying everywhere and his sea-green eyes glittering with curiosity. I smiled and leaned back, my dark hair flying in his face as he swatted it away.
"Oh, that's Air Temple Island, home of the air benders. I'm going there to train in my Air-bending and spiritual connections." He looked up at me with an almost childish curiosity.
"Wait, the home of the air-benders? I thought that they were almost extinct or something?" I felt sadness well up in me, and turned away. I said,
"The air-benders who live there are the only ones left." It was silent for a second, then I heard,
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Are you close to them?" I smirked.
"Well, by close, if you mean that the airbenders who live there are the descendents of my past avatar re-incarnation Aang, then I guess we're pretty close." That stunned him for a few seconds.
"Well." I chuckled at his response.
As we went into the more crowded part of the city, we went onto a street, and a bunch of cars swerved out of our way and some people yelled at us. Then I saw four more police officers drop from the sky and were riding the building. A highly irritated voice muttered behind me,
"Seriously? More?"
I gritted my teeth and swerved onto a different street charging through civilians. On a bridge over the railroad I saw the train and got a stupid idea. I turned Naga, and we launched off the bridge onto a speeding train car. Water-boy made a high pitched shriek and practically was hugging Naga. I rolled my eyes. We landed with a large thud, Naga almost lost balance, and she was teetering. I caught my breath, but thankfully she steadied herself. I breathed a sigh of relief, and Water-boy chuckled in embarrassment behind me. I steadied myself and glanced around.
I heard more sirens and looked up to the the blimp again. I looked around and saw my target. An apartment building. I braced myself and Naga for another jump off the train. I heard Water-boys breath hitch. He said nervously,
"I don't think that-" But I was already jumping. He shrieked again. Naga was soaring through the air and I felt the wind rushing through the air. As we neared our destination, Water-boy said hopefully,
"We're gonna make it!" Almost immediately after he said that, black cords extended from the blimp and wrapped around Naga's legs and lifted her from the air, carrying us to the blimp. I tried to reach to the cords and untie them from Naga but then more wires came and painfully wrapped around my arms and midsection, leaving me immobilized. I looked down and noticed we were very high in the air about 600 feet, and was floating above the harbor. I saw that there was wires reaching for Water-boy too, but he summoned some water from the harbor and was making ice shields around him, blocking the coils from reaching him. Now he was standing a top of Naga and moving his arms to stop the paths of the coils. Then one got too close to him, and he instinctively backed away. He stopped it, but it left him too close to the edge of Naga. He was spreading his arms out like an airplane to regain balance, but then another cord snapped at his head and he ducked from the capture, but at the cost of his balance. He started to lean back, and his arms were trying to grab at anything solid to steady itself only to find none. His eyes widened at the same time as mine, and I shouted,
"No!"
And he fell.
AN: Finally! I'm done! How was it? Next time I will probably check in on Earth, but I'm not promising anything. Remember, I have nothing planned! I'm just following the flow. Please Review! Anyways, I love you all! Peace Out.