Winding Legacies: A 'The Legend of Korra' Rewrite

Episode 6: And the Winner Is... Part 2

"Well, if the Wolfbats are gonna fight dirty, then so should we," Korra argued, taking a glance back at the Wolfbats behind them.

"No, we can't! The refs have it out for us. If we're gonna win this thing, it has to be fair and square," Mako nodded, his hands tightening their grip on his teammates' shoulders. "So...let's go do that!"

"Argh, that's no fun but, alright, Mako," Korra sighed, her smile widening at the thought of slamming Tahno in the face.

Bolin grinned at all of their excitement and shook both Korra and Mako's shoulders. "You got it, brother! Let's kick some Wolfbat as-" The bell rang and round two was called in time to interrupt Bolin's words, the Fire Ferrets jumping right into the fray with the Wolfbats. Shaozu blocked a fire stream from Mako, the Wolfbats blocking another bending attack as Ming evaporated Korra's slug of water with some fire. Bolin launched an earth disk at Tahno, the waterbender shattering the disk with a wall of water and then sending two water bullets at Korra which she dodged.

"The opening salvo is a brutal call as both sides give it their all, but once again, Tahno sneaks in a little ice to get the upper hand." Korra pushed herself up onto her elbows and wriggled her previously iced foot around, glaring at Tahno who didn't spare her a glance even after he brutally kicked her back with waterbending. Bolin knocked Shaozu back with a mound of earth, Mako following his brother's suit by knocking Ming back with a fire arc. Dodging three firebending shots to his head, Mako's ears pick up on Shiro Shinobi gasping into his microphone. "Wowzers! Those look like illegal headshots to me!" With Mako's head ducking under another blast to the head, both teams stopped their movements at the sound of this round's finishing bell.

The ring announcer's eyes scanned the ring, noticing how all the players were still on the ring floor. "Round two will be decided with a tie-breaker!"

Walking out onto the ring, the referee tossed up a coin and pointed right at the Ferrets. "The Fire Ferrets win the coin toss. Which element do you choose?"

"I'm taking this one. Let's go! You and me, pretty boy!" Korra seethed as she stepped forward with a determined grin in the face of Tahno's smug one.

"Thought you'd never ask," Tahno snarled. Their teammates strayed away from the center of the ring as Korra and Tahno were lifted up on the ring's center platform. Korra and Tahno moved around each other on the circle platform as they prepared for the strike of the match, Tahno choosing to halt his steps in order to taunt Korra with flimsy hand waves. "Come on, little girl. Give me your best shot."

Korra narrowed her eyes, flicking her wrist at Tahno with a bullet of water following her hand. Tahno dodged this initial attack, but Korra smirked and kicked up her foot during his momentary pause of arrogance, a stream of water hitting him under the chin, extending from the place where her foot briefly passed his pasty face. Quickly losing his balance, Tahno collapsed out of the ring with flailing arms as the winning bell rang.

"Hmph, chump," Korra snickered, crossing her arms as she felt herself lower back down to the ring to join her team.

"Round two goes to the Fire Ferrets!" Landing back on the flat ground of the ring, Korra ran over to Mako and Bolin and gave them both simultaneous high fives.

"Nice one!" Mako congratulated, patting her back.

"That's the stuff. You are my herooo!" Bolin laughed as he gave Korra a bear hug.

"We might actually be able to win this thing!" Mako exclaimed, hopeful.

Being helped to his feet, Tahno shook off his team members' hands in a fit of emotion and angrily fixed his messy strands of hair. "Let's send them to a watery grave!" he growled.