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Avatar Crossroads: Winter: Part 1 Chapter 9

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“So this was where the girl was kept?” Beck asked, slowly, the man at his side(Kal’s assistant) nodded.
“Yeah.” The assistant’s name was Rowe, he was a researcher in his late twenties, nonbender, “Kal did everything he could to try and make subject XVI- er… Kara, happy.”
“Kal’s gone, you don’t have to refer to her as Kara.” Beck replied,
“I know… old habits, I guess.” Beck was silent, nodding.
“I never met the girl, it was against regulation, but Kal would never stop talking about her.” He reminisced, stepping around the apartment. It was mostly empty, there were a couch, and some books, all relating to studies for the girl. In another room was a bed, it was messy…
“This girl was a teenager.” Beck muttered, “Looks like my bed back in college.” He muttered, Rowe shrugged.
“Is this all, or is there more you want to see?” Rowe was a tad bit impatient, Beck was here for sentimental reasons, because he felt he owed Kal this much…
“…What do you know about Kara?”
“Not much, we have rumors she came from a long lineage of bloodbenders, but… Only Administrator Freeman and a couple others knew the full story.” Beck for one, didn’t know anything about Kara except what Kal told him.
‘He promised her mother he’d look out for her…’
“So, you don’t know the mother.”
“She was born in captivity, that much I know, but there was never a file over the mother.”
“What about a father?”
“None that we know of…” Rowe replied. Beck eyed the side of the living space, noticing something… a bunch of picture frames that had fallen to the ground, and some frames with ice over them, frost. Rowe noticed this, “Kara was likely unhappy, with what Kal was told to do.”
“What was he told to do?”
“Hand her over to Compound Omega.”
“He talked about that… with Maya.” Beck murmured, Rowe remained focused on the earthbender. “Still… impressive to see her pull water right out of the air, just to freeze a picture frame.” Looking to the side, he also noticed a broken glass pitcher of water, staining the ground.
“You gave her water?”
“The girl had no interest in escaping, and she could already pull water out of the air… we needed to be careful that Administrator Alrick never saw it during her inspections.” Maya absolutely hated bloodbenders, according to a myth, she actually knew Sonya personally before her status as a bloodbender was revealed, word was she was close friends with Mona.
“Ever look at any other subjects?”
“…I’ve just seen Kara, but Kal was familiar with the rest of the Kalros family, Kanan was XI, Sonya XIII, Iris and Kaleb were XIV and XV.” XII was just some random subject.
“Kaleb died in the attack.”
“You don’t have to be alive to be a subject…” Rowe explained, Beck nodded. Koza would have been subject XVI, but he disappeared.
“What about Mona, and her remains?”
“She was buried, she was a nonbender and not a subject.” They didn’t need Mona and her blood, they had Sonya, likely one of their best specimens, only outclassed by Kara who they raised since birth.
“…Is Kara a Kalros?”
“…” Rowe looked down, “I don’t know.” It seemed likely somewhere along the line she shared a line with Yakone, The Kalros were distant cousins of Yakone’s family, many generations apart. While Yakone’s family left the northern water tribe, the Kalros remained. All he knew, was that Kara had to be a relative of Sonya… her face was too identical for it not to be a coincidence, maybe she was a cousin… It wasn’t any of Beck’s business, but this was important to Kal, so it made it important to him.
‘…could Kara be her daughter?’ Sonya hated children, but… Kara was sixteen years old, they had Sonya for seventeen years, it could have been possible. But if it was, wouldn’t Sonya have said something?
There had to be more to this.
“…” There were a few broken frames on the ground, one was a picture of a girl with light brown hair, she had a gentle smile. Beck crouched down, noticing the frame was cracked, he twitched his fingers to shift the glass away(via earthbending), and then he picked up the picture.
“This her?” Rowe nodded.
“Age Thirteen.”
“…She’s beautiful.”
“They all start out like that…” Rowe replied, he obviously seemed fearful about Kara escaping, “So was Sonya.”
“Oh I know…” Sonya used her looks to manipulate people, she had almost escaped Beta twice on her own, by making a guard(who didn’t know any better) fall in love with her… two separate guards, so instead Beck became the one who would enter her cell to actually feed her. “But Kara seems to gentle a girl, to be like that.” The girl actually looked a great deal like Sonya, obviously some kind of relative. Finally Beck took another turn, noticing something on the bed, another photo. Beck picked it up, eying it.
“…They look happy.” Kal was in the frame with Kara, they were smiling.
“He was her only family… it was her fifteen birthday.”
“So she has a birth date?”
“No, that’s classified… we just gave her one to make her happy.” To make her happy? How invested in this girl was Kal?
“She and Kal were close, I know Kal didn’t have family, but-“
“Administrator Freeman never talked about his own family… I heard they died years ago, and when he took on Subject XVI… he refused it at first, but came into it slowly… the one thing he does not regret was raising Kara.” Beck sighed.
“Because he got to raise a daughter.” Rowe looked down.
“Yes… when she was younger, she’d call him dad.” This story kept getting more and more sad. It was terrible to think of all this, and realize…
Kal was dead.
Beck eyed his friend in the frame, eying his smile, It must have been a very happy memory. When Beck met Kal so many years ago, he wasn’t exactly happy, that changed over the years.
Atleast he died happy, afterall, he got something he thought he would never get… he got to be a dad.
“He had no regrets…” he looked to Rowe for a moment. “Do you mind if I keep this?”
“We have copies, don’t worry.” Beck pocketed the photo, he needed it if he was to find Kara. “Are you done here?”
“Yes I-“ Beck quickly turned, as the door opened. A woman with a red ponytail stepped in, she wore a black condensed OWL uniform. She walked with fluid movements, each action was intentional… she walked like she owned the place. Rowe noticed Maya, and quickly nodded.
“Administrator, what brings you-“
“He brings me, you may go.” Rowe nodded at that, hurrying out, while Beck remained standing there… he scowled, disapprovingly.
“You didn’t have to scare the kid.”
“Yes I did, apparently.” Maya replied, eying the room.
“…It’s shabbier then I remembered.” The woman had this ridiculous air of superiority, being the one to take down Sonya Kalros likely had a great deal to do with it. She glanced to the side, noticing a broken pitcher of water, “So they were giving her water.” She remarked, Beck was quiet.
“I know I’m not someone you’d exactly like to see at the moment.”
“That’s an understatement.” Beck replied, Maya rolled her eyes. “You killed him.”
“I did my duty.” Maya replied, hand facing to herself, “If it was your job, you better hope you’d do the same thing.”
“What kind of threat did Kal even pose?”
“With his connections, he could have continued to protect the girl, it’s obvious XVI was important to him, and it’s something we could not risk.”
“We or you?”
“We… we’re on the same team here, Ventin.” Beck scowled at the use of his first name, something Kal used to always joke about. “We all want the same thing,” Maya added, “But really, if there’s someone to blame, it’d be you.” Beck raised an eyebrow, “You allowed Sonya to get away, and with it, she came here and took the girl… really it’s you who killed Freeman, not me, and not the phantom.”
“…” Beck looked away, with a heavy scowl.
“But hey… it’s okay, you can make up for it.”
“What do you want?”
“I want you in charge of the investigation in finding the girl.” Maya explained, Beck raised an eyebrow, “As well as finding Sonya… with the tracking device the phantom planted, it only approached a few areas, the vehicle was moved, but we have a small handful of locations… I want you in charge of selection, and finding leads to find the girl.”
“Why me?” Maya raised an eyebrow, “I know back in my private life I was a detective, but-“
“There’s nobody better than you, and despite what recently happened… I trust you.” Beck was as by the book as they went… his detective work was what led him into becoming a member of the White Lotus.
“Kal was my friend, what makes you think I wouldn’t look the other way for Kara?” Maya smiled, she hoped he’d ask this.
“Because you won’t… you know the threat the bloodbenders pose to the world, you’ve seen it yourself.” Beck looked away, “What’s your answer?”
“I don’t have much of a choice, do I?”
“No, you don’t.” Maya smiled back, looking away. The woman slowly stepped back towards the door, before pausing. “And if you do betray us… expect the same greeting Freeman got… except this time you’ll actually have loved ones to receive a body.” Kal’s body was just taken to the grave he was set in when he agreed to become Alpha’s administrator, it was the same for the admins of Zeta and Delta as well, with Maya also being a public figure(she would attend meetings in the white lotus in the director’s stead).
Beck scowled there, quietly, in his hand he eyed the photo he picked up from the bed, the man sighed.
He needed to find that girl, eyes were on him enough already… like they were for Kal.

MEANWHILE

“Is it me… or is Shiro acting kind of strange lately?” Minami asked, Mika shrugged.
“I think I’m noticing it too.” The four girls of the group were stepping through the apartment complex, they had decided it was time to meet the rest of the Akira family(or as Aimee liked to call them, the Akira clan). Aria was relatively silent over shiro, she noticed he was off, but it wasn’t any of her business, Aimee glanced to the side.
“He seems fine to me.” Minami turned.
“That’s just because he’s putting on a show for you.” Shiro tried hard to not seem disturbed when talking to Aimee, the only one who wouldn’t notice a thing(because she’s Aimee).
Aimee was not the best at reading people, especially men who were interested in her.
Hideki, was an equalist who tried to murder them, but Aimee was in love with him. Ronin was a warlord who tried to murder them… but Aimee thought she understood him. Ryuu was a purist striker who also tried to murder them…
Aimee had no idea what happened to him, frankly none of them had any idea whatsoever. The fur reached the bottom floor, stepping into the lobby. From there, they could see something, a grown man in a cheap suit sitting next to some teenager, they were eating from a cheap buffet. Minami was instantly surprised from what she was seeing.
Rham had found a friend.
“You know, this isn’t too bad.” The friend replied, taking a bite out of what appeared to be eggs. “I mean this has spent too long on the fryer, but I like the texture, also this seal chicken is very well done… frankly I love having something warm to eat.” The teen explained.
“I know, they claimed the eggs were expired, but the technique I find is… expiration dates only exist to tell stores to stop selling the product, so I get my products when they’re at their cheapest, three days before expiration, it’s perfectly legal.” Rham explained, Minami studied the two, the friend was some kind of teenager who was their age, and he had brown hair, at his side was some kind of brown beanie… Aimee eyed it for a moment.
‘That would actually look kind of cute on someone I know.’ Rham continued.
“So that’s what I do, get the product and use it as soon as possible, my chef does well with it.”
“You have a chef?” Minami asked, curiously, Rham shrugged.
“By Chef I mean employee who can cook… not very well, but he’s good at masking taste.” Aimee glanced at the food, curiously… she was a vegetarian, so the only food that interested her was the eggs.
“Have any celery?”
“Nope.” Rham replied, Minami remained focused on the man.
“How’d you escape the cops?” Rham looked up, eying the girl. “I mean… they got you, and-“ Rham shrugged.
“They had nothing on me… Krios has been trying to shut me down for years, no luck.”
“Who’s this?” Minami then asked, glancing towards the stranger, Rham smiled.
“This is Hachiro Omura, he helped me out with the cops, so I’m just repaying the favor.” Hachiro glanced towards the group, before scowling.
‘Shit, it’s them…’
“Er… hi.” Rham grinned,
“He’s only gotten here recently, so that’s how I know him.” Minami crossed her arms.
“Right… probably a customer.” Hachiro could tell Minami didn’t like him, Mika had a gentle smile while Aimee still seemed curious over the eggs, and aria was just distant. Hachiro sighed, slowly standing up.
“I should get going-“ Rham raised an eyebrow.
“This soon? I really wanted to pay you back for what you did for me.”
“It’s fine, don’t worry” Hachiro explained, with a sigh, “The cops will probably come looking for me at some point, and this’ll be the first place they’ll-“
“You’re a criminal?” Minami asked, surprised, Hachiro scowled. “Why do you want him here?” Rham groaned slowly, eying Minami.
“Back in the south, we have something called southern hospitality, he’s my guest.” Hachiro shook his head.
“I should really get-“
“You’re not going anywhere, sit down and eat.” Rham ordered, Hachrio scowled, before sitting back down. Rham then glanced to the group again, “Where are you four off too? The college?” Aimee shook her head.
“No, we called Sifo, no lesson today… we need to visit my family.” Rham raised an eyebrow at this, “We’re kind of short, and-“
“I thought you didn’t want your parents finding you.”
“Why do you care?” Minami asked,
“I don’t, but still.” Aimee sighed.
“We just need to see if they can do anything for us, they both don’t have that big of houses, so I doubt we’ll move in with them.” With that, Rham’s eyes calmed down, that’s what was troubling him.
“Alright… well go on ahead, I intend to hear about it at some point.” The group nodded, stepping away, with Minami eying Hachiro oddly. They left the building, with Hachiro sighing.
“I have a feeling she doesn’t like me.” Rham smirked.
“Don’t worry, she was like that with me too.” Hachiro glanced towards Rham, eyebrow raised, “Still is.”

MEANWHILE
FIRST PERSON POV

The room was silent… that was the first thing that came to my mind. It was quiet, peaceful… oddly disturbing. My eyes had slowly opened, to eye the inside of the room, it was a simple looking room, looked like a cell. The floor was carpeting, and looked much more comfortable then the bed I was sleeping in. Inside the room were a few other things, a desk, a lamp resting on the desk, an overhead light had turned on, I realized that that had woken me up.
It was strange, I felt like I would be thinking something right now, but… nothing, nothing was on my mind, like I forgot something, important, like…
“Good morning.” I heard an unusual feminine voice reply. My lips trembled as I looke dot see a woman in a gray jacket leaning on the wall, her hair was jet black, she also seemed familiar. Her icy cold eyes bore into mine. “You didn’t have any nightmares, did you?” I scowled…
“I dunno…” I replied.
“You can talk… that’s good.” She replied, “Makes this a lot easier.” The woman stepped towards my side, eying me… before nodding, “You still have the look… that’s good.”
“…” What did that mean?”
“It’ll help you.” She replied, stepping away, while I stared up at her.
“…Who are you?” I asked, the woman rolled her eyes.
“you really don’t remember… Silas sure knows what he’s doing.”
“…” Who was Silas, who was this woman? Who was…
“The real question you should be asking is… who am I.”
“Who am… i?” I mumbled. The woman with the black hair nodded.
“Yes, we all have our identities, even you, Sixteen.”
“That’s not my name.” I replied… I didn’t even know whether it was but…
I couldn’t remember.
“Then what… what’s your name?” she asked, almost as if she was twisting a knife, I glanced away.
“I I… I don’t know.” A thought immediately came to my mind… what if I didn’t have a name? If I did… why wouldn’t I remember it?
What the hell was going on?
I felt myself shaking, I was in a confused stutter, I had no idea what was happening, who I was, where I was… I… I didn’t know anything. The woman simply chuckled, eying me.
“You are adorable… reminds me of someone I used to know.” She mumbled to herself, “Use to be family to me… now she’s nothing more than a bad memory.”
“…” Who was this woman talking about? I reminded her of this person? “I’m sorry.” I replied, partly confused, she nodded.
“Good, you should be… XVI.” I looked away, “I know you don’t like me right now… but we’re going to be best pals, just you wait.” She eyed me, rather focused. I could myself shaking, eying this woman, she scared beyond reason, I didn’t even know her name. Before I could say anything, I heard a knocking.
“Sonya!” the voice from the door began, it was a young voice, a little older than me, she scowled.
“I’m busy.”
“Silas called for you.” It added.
“How’d you even find me?”
“Silas-“
“Silas told you… right.” The woman scowled, looking back to me.
“Son…ya?” I asked, the woman scowled, before immediately striking at the side of my face, I fell back to the side, feeling a red mark across my cheek.
“Ga…” I groaned, in pain, she eyed me, paying close attention.
“Not even crying… you are a big girl, a lot like my friend was.”
“Why’d you do that?” I asked, confused, the woman shrugged.
“I don’t exactly like my friend, it’s nothing personal… just old wounds.”
“…”
“Sonya, what’s going on in there?”
“Nothing, Makoto.” She replied, before I could detect anything, the door slid open, a teenager years older than me stepped in, he had orange eyes with jet black hair, a look of confusion enveloped his face.
“What the hell is-“ Sonya stood up, a few inches shorter than the teen, yet still as frightening, as she eyed him.
“Keep your mouth shut, rat.” She ordered, moving past him and out of the room. I sat there silently, looking up to Makoto, who was eying me, strangely.

NORMAL POV

Connor remained focused on the girl, Silas had sent him here to tell Sonya, but he hadn’t known about this girl. She sat there, with a red mark over the side of her face, she had an immediate look of confusion.
Silas hadn’t said anything about there being some girl in the room, Connor honestly thought this was simply Sonya’s room…
The weirdest part, was that Connor had never seen the girl before in his life, and suddenly she’s here, as some pet for Sonya to bully. The girl eyed him with a confused expression, as Connor turned away.
“Are you okay?” he asked, she was quiet, looking away. “I’m sorry Sonya disturbed you, I’ll get going.” With that, he stepped out of the room, with a sigh… Sonya hurt that girl, and he didn’t even know why, wasn’t the point of taking in Kalros to scare the world? And instead, it’s being focused on petty crap like this? He didn’t even know this girl, but already he was getting bad feelings over this situation.
They lost Ryuu to acquire this woman, and suddenly there’s all this trouble with this girl? He glanced to the side, seeing Sonya walking through the hallway, she was instructed to not meet with any of the members apart from a select few, even Connor didn’t know what she was up to.
There were a lot of things Abhik didn’t tell him, did he just expect Connor to figure things out on his own?
He glanced back towards the door, noticing it had a lock on it, inside the room was a keyhole, while the manual lock was on the outer side, Sonya had unlocked it when she visited the girl. Slowly his hand fell to the lock, as he readjusted it, locking the door. Maybe the girl inside had a key to it…
Maybe…
Then again, who would make a lock if everyone else could come in, while the girl inside couldn’t? His eyes then noticed something, a man leaning against the wall oppositing the door, he seemed a bit bored, but he had his arms crossed. The two focused on eachother for a quick moment, when Connor eyed the door.
“Why’s this door locked?” Connor then asked.
“To keep whatever’s in it… in.” Obviously this guard didn’t know what was in the room.
“There’s a teenager girl in there.” Connor added.
“That explains it, teenagers are evil.” The guard explained, “Can never trust them.”
“I don’t think that’s the issue.”
“You sure?” the guard added, while connor sighed.
“Why was that woman let in to see the girl?”
“I reckon someone told her she was here… showed up a couple hours ago, demanding to see her, kind of scary, but…”
“Do you not know who that woman is?” Connor then asked.
“…Should I?” Connor found himself looking to the side, noticing Sonya was way down the hallway, she was nearing a turn, the woman had a slight slowness to her walking, it might have been because she was confined to a room for the past days(that, Connor knew), and just now Abhik was allowing her more roam of the safehouse.
Why was Sonya here to bully some girl? It wasn’t any of Connor’s business, but it oddly disturbed him. He was about to follow, when a hand caught his side.
“Connor.” He noticed a hand on his shoulder, as he turned surprised to see a girl with blonde hair, she had a gorgeous smile(He wasn’t one to disrespect art).
“Kimi I…” He glanced back to the side, to see that the woman had taken her turn, disappearing… she was off to see Silas, but seeing her go had broken what was left of Connor’s confidence in approaching her.
“Something wrong?” Kimi then asked.
“…No, nothing.” Connor turned back, facing her. “What is it?”
“I just… um…” Kimi noticed the guard standing there, she sighed, with a slight cough.
“Hack…” She bellowed, with Connor eying the guard.
“Look, I’m pretty sure that teenager girl can guard herself, go take a break.” The guard nodded his head quickly, hurrying off, Kimi smiled.
“I’m impressed, you can actually order people to do stuff.”
“Comes with the territory, I have been doing this for five years afterall.”
“A very illustrious career, do doubt…” Kimi mumbled, Connor sighed, he and Kimi weren’t exactly friends, what did she want? “What was that about a teenager girl?”
“Ask your brother… all I can say.” Kimi scowled.
“But this is Abby we’re talking about.” Kimi liked to sometimes refer to her brother as Abby, it was a fun way to piss him off. “He won’t even tell me about that former bloodbender who just walked away.”
“And you think he tells me all about it?” Connor then asked.
“I would think he’d tell someone, besides you know… Silas.” Kimi was very public about how she disliked Silas, and Silas equally hated her, especially despite helping to support her and her brother for several years.
It pissed Abhik off to no end.
“Apparently not.” Connor replied, scowling, “Something you need?”
“Yeah, you.” Kimi then added. Connor took that in slowly, confused.
“Um, Kimi… I’m pretty sure you know how your brother feels about the mixing of the races-“
“No not that.” Kimi scowled, “I know you’re too busy with that Shiki girl to even try to make a move on me, that’s not why I’m here.” Kimi assumed way too much, “I was told if I ever left the safehouse, I needed supervision, and it was kind of Ryuu’s job to watch me.”
“…Okay?” Connor asked, “So what?”
“With Ryuu’s injuries, you inherited his responsibilities, and his problems.” Connor scowled.
“Awe come on, I don’t have time to babysit you.”
“What, already scheduled time to go sulk in your room?”
“…?” Connor eyed the blonde girl, while she quickly smiled in surprise.
“I was right… damn, I am good.” She loved to hear herself talk, an aspect Connor hated.
“You know, your brother doesn’t like it when you cuss.” She rolled her eyes.
“Well, you’re not my brother.” She sassed back, Connor felt like cringing, but that would she a sign of weakness, “If he doesn’t like it, he can tell me, same as if you don’t like ‘hanging out’ with me, you can complain to my brother.”
Complaining to Abhik was definitely out of the question.
“Fine, fine… where do you wanna go anyways?” Connor then asked, the girl smiled.
“So good of you to ask.”

MEANWHILE

About what I said about water? I’m starting to like it more”
“You said if they enter that desert, they’re dead.”
“Well, you go in there, and there are two outcomes… You either die, or come out there, capturing the group on my orders, and I’m a hero…”
“You’re looking at this from a great perspective Javik.”
“Exactly, it’s a win-win situation.”

I felt myself rolling in my sleep, trying to assess what I was seeing, it felt like a mix of all my memories over the past seven months jumbled together. It felt so fluid, so real, at one moment I was on some kind of bay, watching fireworks with a girl, while another I’m standing in some sort of camp, talking to a man with darkened skin… then finally I was looking at a completely different girl.
“I’m Naava, you can leave that Fox crap at home.” Her hair was raven black with piercing green eyes, she had a rather attractive quality that was very different from the other girl.
“What do you know, about Ronin?”
“That you should be… as afraid of him as I am.”
. I could feel the fear falling off of her, it was so strange to think of, looking back at her. My vision grew darker, as I could then see the same man who had ordered me to enter the desert, facing off against goons in black coats. A younger member of them was on the ground, looking up to the man with the tan skin, Javik. He held a knife in his hand.
”Ronin wasn’t the only one who escaped that slave camp.”
“Javik who are you, exactly?”
“I knew him, and the people who would later become his lieutenants.”
“You were all slaves?”
I could recall the pained expression on his face, as he went into this subject, I could also recall Naava looking away, twiddling her fingers at the notion. Before that I could recall another girl, a water tribe healer girl, with a blue scarf,
”I’m Kokoro, it’s nice meeting you.”
The next parts in my memory was a mess, as I watched a city catch on fire, burning. I could taste the ashes in the air, there was this man, who stood in the fire, in the black coat. He faded from my vision as I found myself inside a dark cave, eying a girl with brown hair, the one that stood with me on the bay.
She wasn’t happy…
“I love you.”
“But I don’t love you”
She spat back at me, unhappy, her sick eyes told it all, she was dying. The next memories went by fast, when we were suddenly on some sort of ship, in the sand. It immediately collapsed for some odd reason, with my vision blurring out.
You knew who Na-Fox was, didn’t you?”
“…Wolf, that’s not important”
“To think I trusted you.”
I recalled being angry because everyone knew who Fo-Naava was, but me… since day one Javik had been going out of his way to give me as little information as possible… especially later that night when he betrayed me.
“Javik… YOU TRAITOR!” I could recall screaming, while he remained focused on me, with that glare I had always known him to have.  The image changed away, back to Aria, as she kissed me.
”Ryuu I… I lo-“
“You don’t have to say it.”
“If I’m going to die today… I’m damn well going to do something.”
“That’s my girl.”
It all changed suddenly… as I watched an even take place from afar.
“You… you saved me.”
“Of course I did, Aimee.”
I specifically remembered walking away, as she died.
By the time she had finally died, I stood alone, while Kokoro was angry with me, for pinning all of this on Javik.
“My own dad was murdered! And nobody ever helped us… nobody… now all of a sudden, you think you’re high and mighty because you lose people, and you think you’re doing something about it? Well you’re not! Yumi’s death was your fault, your parents were murdered because of it, Aria’s death was not Javik’s fault, hell it wasn’t even Ronin’s fault… it was yours! Because you’re the one that cared so much.”
“If you didn’t chase them, they never would have come here-“
“You don’t know that-“
“I don’t care! All that matters, is this stuff is here, and it is happening now… If you don’t get your mind on what’s actually important, instead of wanting to please your bloodlust… you’ll get us all killed! That’s why your squad was taken from you… because you didn’t care, and now all these people are dying, but do you care? NO. This whole time… you blamed other people, when all you had was yourself… why can’t you just let it go?”


I never could let it go… even now I couldn’t.

“I couldn’t care less about Ronin! I had to watch her die all over again!”
That’s what broke the camel’s back, what I saw… what I was forced to see, losing Yumi was hard, but losing Aria?
Then she came back and it was like nothing happened? It was all too fast, too sudden, I hated it so much.
I just wanted it to stop…
My eyes shot open, immediately not adjusted to the light of the room, it was all a bright yellow, with what looked to be tiling. The room I was in became more and more apparent, I hadn’t moved my head around, but I could tell some quick things… one, there was a needle in my arm, leading into some IV, two… I could feel that I was in a lot of pain, and three…
I wasn’t alone in the room.
“So good of you to wake up.” Abhik stated, my eyes turned, while the dark blonde man eyed me. “The nurse said you’d probably be up around now, good to know she wasn’t lying.”
“…” I stared at the man silently.
“Don’t have much to say? That’s good… it’s a nice change of pace.” Abhik replied, crossing his arms. I remained focused on him, quietly, for the most part I was confused why he was here, and among other things…
Why was I on a medical bed?
Looking down I noticed not only was I not wearing a shirt, there was a massive bandage covering my front side, like something had-
Oh wait… something had hurt me, it was a knife, as I remembered. I looked back to Abhik silently, as he scowled in my direction.
“How are you feeling? Champ? You look like crap.”
“…What do you want?” I then asked, he couldn’t have been here just to see how I was doing.
“Ryuu, there are so many things I want… the separation of the races, the destruction of these weak governments that claim to run the world, the extermination of those rats who call themselves airbenders(he was very vocal about his distaste for the new airbenders in the world).… but most of all, I want my men to not lie to me.” Abhik explained, glaring. How could he… no, he was just bluffing, he couldn’t have known.
“…Lie?” I then asked,  “What would I have to lie about?”
“Well… what happened in The Shen Jing for one…” Abhik relied crossing his arms, I stared in disbelief, did he mean… no, he couldn’t have, “I know, about that lie…” Or he did… but how? “You didn’t kill the princess because she was special to you, same reason you didn’t kill Angel’s little sister.” They were my friends, I didn’t have it in me to do it. “You’ve grown soft, as I expected.”
“Without either of them, the situation in the Shen Jing would have-“
“You don’t know that… and you can’t claim that to be the reason you spared them, I know too much.” Abhik explained, I scowled, “Among… other things.” I glared at Abhik, there was only one way he could learn about this.
“So what… you had Silas come down?”
“I did, and he told me everything you wouldn’t…” the man replied, “Every little secret.” I sat there in disbelief, while Abhik practically growled.
“How’s Aria? Have you seen her recently?” I was quiet at that moment, “No you haven’t… you haven’t seen her in three months.” This was a common tactic Abhik employed, with some agents who had been at fault, he would use Silas to delve into their memories, and find their wrong doings, it was a perfect system, and Silas was more than happy to comply…
I was so angry that not only did Abhik do this to me, he was threatening Aria.
“Leave her out of this.” I replied. “She’s done nothing wrong-“
“No, she hasn’t, apart from mixing in with a firebender, but you have… we have rules for a reason-“
“I know that, I wasn’t thinking straight!” Abhik stared at me, not buying a word I said, he valued Silas much more than any of us.
“Wasn’t thinking straight for months?”
“…”
“You knew exactly what you were doing, and you will be punished.” I raised an eyebrow, eying the man, “Just not yet…” I stared in confusion, while Abhik looked away.
“She’s here, in this city, as you know…” Abhik continued, “Along with your brother, I actually saw him the other day.”
He saw Shiro?
“He’s the only thing that can save you.” Abhik then added, “I’m sure you’d like to live to see your punishment.”
So I was dying, that made sense. I frowned, looking away,
“What do I need to do?”
“Stay in line… and keep Ghost in line.”
“Ghost?”
“He’s obviously working to save your life there’s little to no doubt, I’ll allow him to play this game, but you tell me everything for now on, who he works with, anything he tells you, because I guarantee he’ll tell you everything.” I scowled, looking away, Connor was a good friend, if it was him here, I’d probably do the same.
“Is that it? Anything else?” I then asked… like I hadn’t taken anything he said seriously.
“For now, that’s it… tell Ghost nothing, you wouldn’t want him to get into any more trouble trying to save your life.”
“…” I glared towards him, what was he planning?
“Do I make myself clear?”
“…Yes sir.” I replied, Abhik nodded.
“Good, I should be off then.” He stepped towards the door slowly, before looking back to me, “If I see Aria again… I’ll be sure to give her your regards, that is unless… she goes and pulls a Yumi.” He winked, before looking away and exiting the room. I could feel my blood boil from pure anger… that Abhik not only knew about that, but he’d use it against me… that he’d use it against Aria.
I edged upwards, before falling back with a groan, it was so hard to move, and my head felt so light headed… I needed to rest, the wound the phantom inflicted was worse than anything I had ever imagined, Ronin broke ribs, but this guy?
That guy in the white hood, the winter phantom.
He managed to break me… Literally
I sighed slowly, feeling a sense of uselessness come over me,
Maybe it would have been better if I simply died.
Better for everyone.

“This whole time, you’ve been defending him, and whatever the hells he’s been doing… while the whole time, he’s given you NO reason to do so.”
“You wouldn’t understand.”
“What is he, your fucking dad? Because this whole time you’ve been protecting him, while he couldn’t care less about you-“
“He saved my life!”
“Well, maybe it would have been better if he didn’t, for all the good that did!”


I felt sick… realizing I had said that to someone else. And it was because of my failure, that her life was still in danger… they all were, and it was all my fault.

MEANWHILE

“I’m so bored…” Tooru complained, leaning back on the uncomfortable bed, the others felt his pain. “Seriously, we’re gonna sit around while the girls go meet Aimee’s family?” Tooru then asked, it wasn’t like him to have opinions over things, but someone needed to say it.
“I know…” Josa moped, “This is boring, but I have no idea what to do.” Shiro was relatively quiet, sitting on the floor, he had been quiet the whole time, only giving a few remarks over things, Dai was finally awake, but he didn’t really have much to say.
It was unfortunate for the boys group that neither Shiro nor Dai were in charge at the moment, so they were pretty much at Josa’s mercy.
Atleast Josa was bored too, so they still didn’t really have much to do. The room was quiet, and frankly a good bit boring.
Shiro glanced over towards Dai a few times, before looking away, one topic was on his mind, that guy they saw the day before…
Who was that? Apparently his name was Connor, and Dai knew him from probending, Minami had actually went to a great extent over Connor(being a fan and all). Now it seemed kind of like Dai wasn’t in much of a mood to talk about it, he was perfectly happy with staying quiet… figuring he could talk about his past later on.
Shiro would ask him, but now didn’t seem like a good time, especially with Josa and Tooru in the immediate vicinity.
‘We need to leave this apartment… that’s for sure.’ Connor’s words about Ryuu truly disturbed him, he needed to find him, figure out what was going on…
Hell, this was his brother they were talking about… every second he spent not doing anything was a waste of time.
Tooru glanced back towards the others, before eying the small unit on the table, a television Rham had acquired for the apartment.
“Wanna see what’s on?” Tooru then asked, stepping closer to it, Shiro rolled his eyes.
“We already know what’s on, crap we don’t care about.”
“So can I?” Tooru then asked, Shiro shrugged.
“Go nuts.” The earthbender smiled at the order, as he quickly flipped the dial. A black and white picture immediately overtook the screen, it was the same program as the one that was always on, Viktor Khan’s talk show… he was sitting there with some sort of bald man.
“Elder Ameck, it’s good to meet you.”
“Thank you Viktor.”
“I understand you are an air nomad from the northern air temple?” Shiro raised an eyebrow.
“Air nomad? I thought they all died out.” Dai sighed.
“They kinda did… and kinda didn’t.” A lot of history seemed a bit jumbled up, airbenders existed in the world again though not exactly to great effect, they still made up a small population of the world. Ronin’s interest in Aimee back in the Shen Jing was based mostly on her being a classically trained airbending master who had been an airbender longer than anyone, Tenzin and the new airbenders had steered clear of the Shen Jing desert, aware of the political situation. Anyone in the desert who was an airbender either hid it, or left the moment Ronin came into the picture.
The bald man nodded to Viktor, with a smile.
“In a sense… technically I am.” The host raised an eyebrow, while Ameck sighed. “I worked as a fisherman mostly, then a few months after convergence, Tenzin found me, and here I am.”
Dai sighed, he actually recognized Ameck’s story, he was originally a fisherman in the colonies who gained airbending after harmonic convergence. Tenzin discovered him, and Ameck became one of his greatest disciples, fully embracing the way of an air nomad… Ironically, he wasn’t yet a master of airbending, so he lacked the arrow, but still he was on the northern air temple’s new council of elders(that were actually air benders).
Mostly it was a story of luck and timing, as he had heard that Ameck was originally an alcoholic, and his life was falling apart, becoming an airbender was likely the best thing the universe could do for him.
“So are you a master, or-“ Ameck shook his head.
“No, not at all… I’m still learning about my abilities, and about our heritage.” Viktor nodded.
“That’s right, someone told me you were put in charge of the inspection of that crater in the Shen Jing desert… a bunch of relics were found in there.” Ameck smiled.
“Yes, I was coming to that-“ Tooru flipped the dial, the picture blacked out.
“Boring.” He muttered, while Josa turned.
“I was almost kind of not really interested.” He rolled his eyes, while Shiro sighed.
This really was a waste of time.
“Shiro?” Josa asked, curiously.
“I think we should go find something to do!” he stated in a sudden panic, his friends stared, while Shiro breathed, “Right?” And with that, Josa nodded.
“Sure um, but… but what?” Shiro shrugged, eying the room. Their bags and other things took up the corner of the room with all of their other stuff spread across the apartment. “We kinda have no money.” Josa muttered.
“I know, how about… um…” His eyes caught a pamphlet based on touring the northern water tribe, on the front of it, was a picture of a large glacial temple…
The Palace.
“How about we go there?” Shiro asked, pointing towards the pamphlet, Josa rolled his eyes.
“Silly Shiro, we can’t enter books-“
“No, you idiot… the temple.” Josa raised an eyebrow, before nodding.
“That would make more sense.” Shiro sat up, while Dai and Tooru studied it.
“It looks important.” Tooru replied, Dai nodded.
“And it’s government funded, which means entrance is free to the public.” Shiro smiled.
“So… we gonna go or what?” Everyone looked to eachother, before nodding.
Despite everything, it was definitely better than sitting around in their apartment.

MEANWHILE

“Well, it’s been great having you, Elder.” The airbender smiled at that, while Viktor then turned away, eying the camera. “We’ll take a short break, and then be right back.” He smiled, the camera stopped rolling at that moment, Viktor quickly rubbed his head, with Ameck raising an eyebrow.
“Something wrong?”
“No, nothing… thank you for coming on.” Ameck casually nodded his head,
“I’ll just get going.”
“Yes, go ahead.” Khan replied. The elder exited the stage, with Viktor rolling his eyes.
‘Those ‘airbenders’, do absolutely nothing, but I have to interview them anyways…’ This was such a heavy topic five years ago, it had waned partly, despite everything… it was still a boring topic.
Some people claimed Viktor was just jealous, while some people became airbenders, he simply remained the same, but it wasn’t that, he was happy to be a nonbender… he was unhappy that his producers made him bring these ‘airbenders’ on to talk about their projects when it had no connection to what was going on. The Mirage incident was impressive news, but it was in the past, all that mattered currently was the madness going on in the water tribe, the murders… both Talos Kyor and Uroq Seltin were on his show the day before they died, and obviously nothing would happen to this Ameck man because he wasn’t connected to anything.
It wasn’t just that… airbenders were really boring, there was nothing interesting about them, and Ameck was such a stick in the mud… He did not have the patience to wade through this crap for the sake of his producers.
“Sir.” A man yelled, Viktor turned, raising an eyebrow, it was his assistant.
“What is it?”
“You’ve gotten a call from Sifo Werrick.” Viktor stared, before immediately heading over to the phone in the back of the room, he picked it up instantly.
“This Viktor, if I say it, it’s the truth.” (his stupid catchphrase).
“It’s Sifo…” Viktor nodded.
“I know that… what is it?”
“I was thinking about your offer to come onto your show.”
“…” Viktor focused intently.
“I’m interested.”
“Well that’s great, I don’t have an open slot today or tomorrow, but-“
“How about Saturday.”
“The day after tomorrow… yeah, I think that could work… anything specific you need to come in to talk about?”
“I wanna talk about the attacks, I know a few things, and I need to publicize a charity event.”
“…That sounds wonderful.” That actually did, it was connected to the events currently happening in the northern water tribe, and it was a good way to get the white lotus off of his back(ever since Talos got away with saying what he did, everyone’s been talking, Sifo was a patriot of the white lotus, viewing them as a historical society, and not the root of the problems.
“So I’ll see you then?”
“Yes, I’d think so.” Viktor replied, with a sigh, “Any reason you take until now to want to talk to me?”
“No reason at all, I’m dealing with some old friends, and I figured I should settle this before I get ahead of myself.”
“Well, thanks for your call.” At that, Sifo hung up, and Viktor turned away. He set the phone back in place, quickly turning to see his assistant approach.
“Argo, strike the interview with the CEO on Saturday.”
“Why?” Viktor smiled.
“There’s been a change in the schedule.” It was definitely for the better.

MEANWHILE

Rham sat back in the chair, observing as Hachiro finished, he had this distinctly loner quality to the way he acted, wouldn’t even dare to look Rham in the eyes.
All in all Rham liked Hachiro, he was a loyal customer, but something did seem off about him.
“So why were you shadowing that group?” Hachiro raised an eyebrow.
“What?”
“I know I noticed you following us, atleast at one point…” Hachiro shook his head.
“No I didn’t, it was completely random.”
“Right.” Rham rolled his eyes, Hachiro scowled, before finishing his food, he shook his head.
“Look, it’s none of your business, alright?”
“I’ll decide what’s my business or not.” Rham replied rather stoicly. “I thank you for saving my ass, I wouldn’t have lasted long in a cell, but I atleast expect some kind of explanation.” Hachiro rolled hi seyes.
“What do you want me to say… I was hired, by someone to follow that group?”
“Were you?” Hachiro scowled instantly at the remark, because he was.
“…” Rham eyed him, before sighing.
“On second thought… I don’t wanna know.” He looked away.
“Good… less awkward for both of us.” Hachiro responded, he was finished with his food, it was about time for him to go anyways. No doubt the police would be here soon, eventually… maybe. Hachiro was about to sit up, when he heard sudden walking. Rham looked to the side quietly, to see four boys walking through the apartment complex, likely on their way out, Rham smiled.
“I wondered when you four would get out of bed.” Josa frowned.
“Your beds didn’t help at all.” Rham smiled.
“Good, helps you stay awake, ever vigilant.”
“Sure, that’s what you intended.” Dai replied, while Rham simply smiled. Tooru glanced to the side, noticing the earth kingdom teen sitting at the table with Rham.
“Who’s he?” Rham turned eying Omura, before smiling.
“Uh, this is Hachiro Omura… he’s-“
“Just leaving.” Hachiro replied, standing up from the table, he grabbed his dishes, a sink was nearby.
“OH…” Tooru replied, detecting a note of animosity from Hachiro. “So you’re from the earth kingdom too?” Hachiro paused, slowly, This earthbender spoke with an earth kingdom dialect, he was from the earth kingdom too?
“Yeah, I am… came here a few months back.”
“Well, we just got here a few days ago.” Why was Tooru telling him this? “Seen any cool places here?”
“…I might have.” Hachiro muttered, “Where are you from?”
“Omashu, you?”
“Heping.” Tooru’s mouth curved instantly into a smile.
“Ooh, I’ve actually been there a few times. The summers are so beautiful.” Hachiro slowly began to smile, nodding.
“I know, it just gets that perfect amount of sunlight, I haven’t been home in a while, but that’s probably what I miss the most.” Shiro watched in shock, as Tooru and Hachiro quickly hit it off, talking about the earth kingdom. It was actually very impressive how Tooru could talk to this guy. Rham sat there surprised by this.
‘Oh, so he’ll talk to the earthbender, but not to me?’ Rham wasn’t personally offended, it was just so sudden. Josa also seemed interested in the conversation, smiling to Tooru.
“Seriously, has there been a place you haven’t been to?”
“Not that many places, really the only place I haven’t seen much of is the firenation.” Hachiro shrugged.
“I haven’t been there, but it doesn’t seem that special-“ Josa turned.
“Oh someone’s jealous it seems.”
“As if.” Hachiro replied, “I just don’t care that much.” Josa rolled his eyes, while Rham continued eying them.
Hachiro could get along with people his own age… it was surprising. As the three continued chatting amongst themselves, Rham looked to Shiro(who seemed a bit quiet).
“So where’s your lot heading off to?”
“The palace.” Shiro replied… “I think.”
“Don’t know where it is?” Shiro shrugged at that, while Rham observed with a slow nod. “I see… well I’m too busy to babysit you kids… but I’m Hachiro isn’t busy.”
“What?” Hachiro asked, hearing his name. “What does that-“
“He knows this town pretty well… hey, how about Hachiro go with you guys to the palace, I’m sure he’d love to show it to you.” Shiro glanced over to HAchiro,,
“Would you?”
“Um… well…” Rham shook his head.
“C’mon, it’s not like you have anything better to do.” And with that, Hachiro sighed.
He didn’t have anything else to do, and following this group was kind of his job at the moment… besides, it was just the palace, nothing big.
“Sure… lets go.” Hachiro edged towards the exit, while Tooru smiled.
“You lead!” he smiled. Shiro glanced back to Rham, as his group began to exit the complex.
“By the way… I thought the cops got you”
“Nope.” Rham smiled, “at the attack we got our chance and left… Hachiro actually helped out.”
“Wait, he’s a criminal?” Shiro then asked. Rham’s look didn’t change.
“Weren’t you? Running from the police?” Shiro’s scowl increased immediately, as he grumbled, looking away.
“Nevermind.” He edged out of the room, while Rham smiled.
“Good seeing you too.”

MEANWHILE

“Okay, so what’s the plan?” Minami asked, casually. Aimee was currently leading the four as they were stepping through what appeared to be a giant suburb. It was situated in the north western edge of the city, Aimee continued leading, turning her head slowly.
“Well… the way I see it… if we’re going to convince our family to not go after us, we need our relatives to stay quiet over us.”
“Okay…” Minami replied, agreeing, Mika paid attention while Aria simply sauntered beside them, quietly. “And how do we do that?”
“Easy… we’re not going to see our entire family and get it over with… we’re gonna see our grandma.” Mika raised an eyebrow.
“Grandma Kana lives here?” she asked, excited.
“Unless she’s moved recently, yes.” Aimee replied, smugly. Aria sighed, disinterested.
‘Those sisters love their grandma with a passion…’ Aria never met Kana, but she understood enough about the woman. She had a husband named Alok, and together they had three children, Kaleb(Aki, Aimee and Mika’s dad), Maka(Manu, Malena, and Makario’s mother), and Feiko(Joshua and Lufi’s dad).
Overall, between the three sets of parents, there were Eight kids… and only two of them weren’t benders.
Grandma Kana(or Gran-Gran as Mika sometimes called her) wasn’t a bender… she actually spoiled her grandkids, being the ideal grandmother, Aria was kind of jealous that her grandmother was so strict while Aimee and Mika got the fun grandma.
“So you remember where the house is?” Mika asked, Aimee smiled.
“Like I was here yesterday… you sure Sifo has no problems with this?”
“Oh Sifo’s fine, as long as I come in for practice tomorrow and take twice as much time training.” Mika was very excited for the fundraiser she agreed to take a part in, and Aimee was happy about it to…
As long as they could keep her identity a secret from their parents. If Sifo could keep quiet, so could their grandmother… possibly.
Aimee continued to lead the group, until slowing down as she looked towards one of the houses, it was a medium sized place with icy walling. It looked older than a few of the newer buildings, using materials other than ice…
This was the place.
Aimee smiled, eying the building, while Minami crossed her arms.
“Looks kinda cold.” Aimee turned.
“It’s like with igloos, keeps all the hot air inside.” She explained, Aria casually looked away, disinterested.
“Think she’ll feed us?” Mika smiled.
“I bet she would…”Aimee turned,
“Gran-Gran’s a great cook.” Aria sighed.
“You know, you’re not water tribe… you don’t have to call her Gran-Gran.”
“Yes I do.” Aimee replied, arms crossed, Aria sighed, looking away.
“…Whatever.”
The group of four was settled at the front door, it was very well kept and nice, Aieme eyed it slowly, with a frown.
“Maybe we… we shouldn’t-“ Mika scowled.
“Yes we do… no getting around it.”
“Right.” Aimee looked away, towards the door. Her hand slowly edged to the wood of the door, before softly knocking.
.
..

Minami looked over to Aimee, sighing.
“You know, should probably knock harder.”
“Oh, right…” Aimee immediately followed up with a tense smack on the door, easily making a sound.
“Who is it?” they heard a voice erupt suddenly from the door, it sounded very much like any old woman. Minami was surprised from such a sudden reply. Aimee glanced back at the door, practically trembling, she looked to Mika, who nodded.
“Go ahead.” She whispered.
“It’s Aimee…” the airbender began, “Your granddaughter… Mika too.” Aimee stated. With that, she heard a sudden silence, as a woman rushed towards the door, opening it slowly. Behind the door was an old woman, standing around Mika’s height… she had the gentlest light blue eyes possible.
Minami and Aria made sure to be in the back of the group, as the old woman eyed her granddaughters… they actually looked a good deal like her… apart from the old woman’s skin being rather pale, it mixed in with her incredibly white short hair. She wore usual water tribe clothing, a light blue dress which complemented her age.
Her eyes darted towards Aimee, then to Mika, then again and again. A look of confusion stained Kana's face.
“Mika… Aimee…” She muttered, these were her grandkids who actually ran away, Aimee froze, looking down(she was that nervous), while Mika smiled, still a bit unsure.
“Hey… grandma.”
This is a Fanfiction I wrote for the OC's of :iconardnemla: and :iconquackylu: And myself.

It took me a while to get back into writing this, but breaks over, I'm back to writing for Winter. I'll just say not much stuff will happen over the next few chapters, it'll be a lot of talking(like it always is).

Anyways, we learn a little bit more about Beck, before he was in OWL, he worked as a private detective, his full name is actually Ventin Beck(he prefers just Beck). I like having him go through Kara's apartment, and learning more about her and her friendship with Kal, it's terrible knowing that Kal literally died hours ago, and now he's going through his things. I liked having Maya enter, telling Beck to get his shit together because he has a job to do.

I really like the notion of Kal Freeman dying happy, getting to be a dad, that's something that makes this even sadder, because Kara would be the most affected by his death, but she doesn't even remember who he is.

We have Aimee's group officially meet Hachiro, and Minami naturally doesn't like him, Rham does. I especially like how Hachiro instantly hits it off with the boy's group, and Rham forces him to go with the because it's likely dangerous for Hachiro to hang around the complex for the moment, and Hachiro should spend time with the group he's following around.

Also ryuu finally wakes up(I like the montage of scenes from Spirit and mostly Mirage). And abhik is waiting for him, deciding that he needs Ryuu to re-examine his loyalties. I especially like having Abhik know about Aria, and through the most convenient and logical way possible, Silas figured it out. I don't know if Silas has this ability in the comic, but I think it would make him especially useful as interrogation would be so simple.

Kara wakes up to Sonya being a bitch, and naturally Kara doesn't remember a single thing, so she's struggling. I like having her meet Connor through him getting Sonya to go see Silas, they'll definitely see more of eachother. We also see more of Connor interacting with Kimi, which is funny. I like the notion that Connor acknowledges that Kimi is attractive, and probably a little into him, and yet he does nothing with it, it makes it seem like she tried to pull something a couple years ago and nothing happened. (If anyone would break the rules, it'd be Kimi, because she is the only one who could get away with it).

And finally, the Akira sisters get to meet someone from their family, their GRANDMA! wooh... glad I can finally start dealing with this problem. I really like how Aimee doesn't know what to say, while Mika's all "Hey Grandma"

Also, the scene with Viktor Khan mostly existed as exposition to explain two things, that he's going to meet with Sifo on the show, and... the current state of airbenders.

I watched the leaked episodes from season 3, despite them being the best Korra episodes I've ever seen, I realized I needed to retcon the airbenders, since they're a part of the world right now... obviously it seems kind of crummy like I added that in the last minute, but frankly a lot of my writing is uneven because I'm missing so much. I'm really afraid of what'll happen in Korra season 3 and 4, and if it'll mess up any more things, the re-introduction of airbenders frankly ruined the entire premise of Mirage apart from the need for the key into Shiloh.

Though I think it's cool to see airbending's subskill is... leaving your body like a spirit? Apparently it's called Astral Projection.
I dunno, that seems kind of silly, because why would only airbenders be able to do that? That seem like something any spiritually inclined person could do, not just people with airbending abilities.

Anyways, so far E3 is going well, I'm really disappointed with Sony's press conference(no vita games... seriously, what the hell? I didn't buy a PSV so it could play friendly with my ps4(which I don't even own)), Nintendo's was great, though I'm disappointed they didn't announce and HD remake of Mario sunshine, or Majora's mask coming to 3Ds. I'm also interested in the new assassin's creed, because a couple years back I was ina  one act play called Marat Sade, and it was centered around the French revolution(also I played the lead, the Marquis De Sade). I think I liked ACU's cinematric trailer the most, probably because I really liked the song they used in it, really catchy, www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzCEdS…

Next chapter we'll see Aimee and Mika with their grandmother, Josa seeing Kimi again, Sonya meeting with Silas who wants to help her, Kokoro with Yuri, and Shiro spending time with Dai, and meeting with Connor again.
Also we'll get an explanation for Hachiro, and him leaving home.

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It sad that Kal died but it's even sadder that Kara doesn't remember anything and if she gets her memories back that she'll have to find out that her father figure was killed.

I glad that Ryuu is awake though I'm a bit confused. If he lost so much blood that he needed a donor, how come he woke up? I like Abhik knowing about Ryuu and Aria and I wonder what the punishment is going to be and what Aria and Shiro have to do with it.

It's nice to meet the 'Akira clan' Grandma Kana seems nice. I like that Mika isn't that shy anymore at least with family. I like that Mika I guess because of her training crawls more out of her shell.

I read the comments here and it's nice to see you're enjoying OUAT! At which season and episode are you know? HTTYD2 finally came out here yesterday and my friends and I went to watch and we absolutely love the movie.