A Dancer's Heart

Chapter Sixteen: The Pain

Alessia found herself out on the meditation porch. Meelo, Ikki, and Jinora were with her. They sat in a perfect circle together. Alessia was in the lotus flower position. Her hand went to touch her necklace before inhaling deeply. Exhaling. Some reason she could never get connected with the spirit world. Frowning a little as Jinora spoke.
"Alright. Finished here. Wanna practice movements?" The young airbender asked as they all nodded. Alessia even stood up to join. She enjoyed learning about the other element movements. Maybe someday she could put them into use. Airbending movements were a lot like waterbending. She smiled as she was able to pick it up so quickly. Breathing deeply as she followed Jinora through the movements. She then stopped as it felt like she was dancing.
"I'm going to go and take a break." Alessia wrote in her book, she smiled and bowed to Jinora who nodded. She left to the kitchen to find Pema. The woman was leaning against the counter and breathing deeply. Alessia felt concerned and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm alright dear. Just some pain at the moment." Pema spoke as Alessia nodded. She helped the poor woman take a seat on the cushion. Alessia left to put the kettle on the stove and made some tea. Not long after, she brought the kettle and a couple cups.
"Thank you dear. Just the baby is being extra fussy today." Pema groaned as Alessia gently rubbed her back. Pema looked like she was having extra today. She wondered if it was the baby. He was due anytime now.
"I got it from here now. Thank you." Pema spoke as Alessia nodded. She finished her tea and took it to the sink before walking back outside. Making sure her cables were on her belt.

There were sirens blaring everywhere. She ran over to the ferry and saw several police cruisers speeding everywhere. Why wasn't she called in? Korra skidded next to her and was just as confused.
"What's going on?" Korra asked as Alessia shrugged. Tenzin was nowhere to be found. Suddenly a bison landed next to them.
"I went to city hall and the other council members didn't show up. They were abducted." Tenzin explained.
"My men are all over the city. We are spread too thin." Lin's voice came as they all turned to see the chief of police jogging up to them. Alessia felt her heart drop as they were now hearing screaming from the citizens.
"Lin. Please stay and watch my family. I trust only you for this." Tenzin spoke.
"Where are you going?" Korra asked.
"I need to get to the police station and contact someone." He spoke as he mounted Oogie before taking off. Alessia sighed and looked at everyone.
"Okay, we need a game plan." Mako spoke. Alessia shook her head. There was too much going on right now to be planning anything straight out. Then the air went silent. Alessia gasped as all eyes were on her. She turned in time to see a bomb get dropped from an airship. Watching the building explode as it crumbled down. That was the first of many.
"Oh no." Asami spoke softly.
"We have to go after Tenzin!" Korra shouted.
"Didn't he want us to stay put? It's too dangerous!" Bolin spoke. Several more airships had made their way into the sky. Alessia's blue and green eyes met Lin's green eyes before taking a deep breath. Everything started to blur around her as Alessia took off running. Not caring how much trouble she would get into.
"Alessia!" Korra's and Lin's voices both shouted at her. She wasn't going to sit back and watch. She jumped over the edge and started ice bending a bridge across the water. Now was the time for being stupid or not being useless. Grunting as she waved her arms as the ice was weak. She had to move quickly. Flicking her hand forward as she shot a cable up to grab the rail and flung herself up and away from the water. Looking around as she was now on the street. Several sato-mobiles have crashed into each other. There was a loud explosion not far from her as she turned to see the bridge get blown up.
"Alessia!" Korra's voice spoke through the chaos. She saw her sister landing next to her.

They ran towards the police station just in time for a bomb to get dropped on top. Feeling the building crumble above her. Alessia was quick. She managed to get the building pieces moved to the side. Coughing as the smoke was filling up their lungs. Alessia pulled Korra to follow her. They made their way to the war room in time to see Tenzin speaking on the radio. She found her uniform and metal bent it on.
"Who are you contacting?" Korra asked as Tenzin was shocked to see them there.
"The United Forces." Tenzin replied as there was a hissing coming from the vents. There was some kind of green smoke coming through the vents.
"Poison!" Someone shouted. Tenzin was quick to use his bending to prevent them from inhaling the said poison. With an air bubble protecting them, Tenzin had led them out of the building. Once outside, Alessia looked around. A lot of the city was now up in flames or smoke. Frowning at the sight as more bombs caused the ground to shake.
"Let's head back!" Tenzin shouted. They mounted Oogie and quickly made it back to the temple. Seeing Chi-Blockers had already made their way. Alessia quickly jumped off and helped finish them off while catapulting the last few into the air and watched them go into the water.
"Children! Why aren't you inside?" Tenzin shouted.
"If it wasn't for them, I would be toast." Lin spoke.
"Daddy! Mommy had the baby!" Ikki shouted. Watching everyone run inside. Alessia stayed outside with Lin. Soon as everyone was gone, Lin rounded onto Alessia as soon as she saw her.
"That was reckless!" Lin shouted. Alessia gulped. She had never seen the chief this angry before. At least not to her. She frowned as Lin was now in her face.
"You could have been hurt! I can't lose you again!" Lin spoke as she had Alessia's face in both of her hands. 'Wait. What did she mean by that?' Alessia raised a brow and opened her mouth.
"W..?" Was all she could say.