Avatar: The New Era [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 13: Accident

The riots reached the Metalbending Police Headquarters and Mako stood in front of the wild crowd.

"EVERYONE PLEASE CALM DOWN!" a crumpled paper hit the Chief's cheek

The officers behind him gulped and ran towards the crowd to contain them. Mako gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. A blast of flame erupted from where he was standing. Everyone stared at the fire and silence filled the air.

"THE FIREBENDERS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THESE EVENTS!" he shouted, anger and frustration building up in his eyes

He calmed down a bit "As you may not know, there is a serious threat that is terrorizing the city. Several crimes have been linked to this group. They call themselves the Xhu Fu and this chaos you people are doing, is what they want to happen. So please, let us do our jobs in protecting the city and leave the innocent firebenders out of this."

The crowd slowly dispersed and everyone helped out in cleaning after the mess they all made.

Mako sighed and went back inside the HQ. A rather uneasy Kurana was waiting for him in on of the benches.

"Sifu! Can we go now?! T-they might need s-some help! Do you know w-where t-they are?" she said, worried about her friends

"Calm down, little one. I already sent a search party down there." a huge man walked towards them "Oh look, someone came to drop by"

"Kurana!" Bolin hugged her and a small womanly giggle came from behind him

"Hey Bolin! Who's with you?"

Opal stepped out and reached a hand out "Hi there, I'm Opal. This guy's wife"

The woman had airbender tattoos on her forehead and the back of her palms. Kurana shook her hand.

"It's nice to meet you!" she smiled

"We heard the news and we somehow thought to lend a ha-"

"Can we butt in?" a light voice came from down the HQ's entrance

2 people walked towards the group. Kurana ran to them and hugged the Tokku, who usually blushes.

"WHERE THE HECK WE'RE YOU GUYS?!" the Avatar said

"We kinda tracked off a bit" the young man smiled scratched his nape

Kurana noticed another person behind the siblings. The person wore black clothes.

"Oh! We found a new friend!" Lu Mei spoke up and held the woman by her arm

"This is Syv! She helped us out of the underground hideout!" the woman smiled and reached a hand out for Kurana

"Hideout? What hideout?" Syv was about to speak when she noticed the earthbender walking towards her.

"Is that you, princess?" Bolin asked

"Don't call me that, dad. Looks like you brought mom with you, huh" Syv replied

"It is you! Honey! Come here! Its Syv!" Opal broke her conversation with Mako and ran towards the Beifong. She hugged her daughter, who pulled away instantly.

"Where have you been? It's been 2 months since you left. We were so worried" Opal brushed the teen's hair

"And that's why I had to leave! You were all too worried! I can handle myself.." Syv trailed off and silence filled the air

They didn't notice Mako walking towards them until he spoke up

"Uhh...sorry to break the reunion but there's a call from my Delta squad that flames and smoke started to fill the western area. Bolin and Opal, stay here and help out with HQ and you kids, you're coming with me. Let's move. Fast!"

With that, Kurana, Tokku, Lu Mei and Syv followed the Chief towards the Sky Bison. When they got there, civilians and the metalbending officers were trying to fight off the incoming attacks of the Xhu Fu. The Xhu Fu had several vehicles filled with henchmen and behind them was a giant brass tank, driven by non other than Hakoro. They were burning everything and the fake-benders were attacking the innocent people inside the buildings.

The new Team Avatar landed and Mako told his plan to the others.

"Okay, this is a very critical situation. The burning area is too wide for the civilians to evacuate. Lu Mei and Syv, guide the people to a safe place protect them at all costs. Kurana and Tokku, you two come with me. It's time to show them what the Avatar is made of."

Syv and Lu Mei ran off and helped the people out of the buildings and guided them into a small park. Mako was punching fireballs towards the incoming Xhu Fu fighters. The same with Kurana and Tokku. The Avatar was launching earth and fire consecutively through the horde of Xhu Fu. Metalbenders and other civilian benders helped out too.

Tokku was hit with a burst of fire on his chest. A part of his clothes turned into ashes and revealed his burned chest. A fighter was walking towards Tokku and he held a huge fire from his hands to throw onto the waterbender. Luckily, Kurana quickly saw what happened and tackled the man. She encased him in earth and knocked him out with an elbow to the face.

"Are you okay?! You're chest! It's bu-"

"Its okay. This is gonna make a really cool scar" the waterbender smiled and stood up

Kurana nodded and fought again. Earth, fire and water can be seen exploding through the dust of war. With all the fighting, the duo was separated from each other. They were now 20 feet away from each other. Tokku was trying to keep an eye on the Avatar and fought at the same time. He suddenly heard a bloodcurdling scream from a distance and saw Kurana was pinned down by 8 men. Her arms and feet were being held and was preventing her to bend any element.

Fear crawled through the waterbender's veins. He threw a large wall of water to freeze towards the incoming fighters. Then he proceeded to run towards Kurana.

"Kurana! KURANA!" he was screaming as she was being beaten up by the men.

It hurt him more to see Kurana being kicked and punched by his enemies. As he was reaching the earthbender, the screaming stopped and her hand fell on the ground.

This...th-this can't happening...WHY?!...all she ever wanted was to help! THEY COULD HAVE PICKED ME! I can s-save her...I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU DIE!

Thoughts filled his mind as he dropped to his knees and screamed at the blank air. One by one, the men slowly lifted from the ground and choked on their own blood. Cracks of bones and gushes of liquid can be heard from the Xhu Fu henchmen's bodies. Tokku came to his senses and released his grip from the men.

NO. DID...DID I J-JUST...B-BLOOD..BEND?!