Only you- Rangi & Kyoshi

Chapter 39

"Kenna close the portal." Rangi said firmly.

But she didn't move, didn't say anything. "Kenna close the damn portal, it should be fine now so please just do it!" Rangi pleaded as she approached the waterbender.

Tears started streaming down Kenna's face, as almost a maddening torn smile crossed her features, but she still didn't move.

"I can't." She cried out at last. Although it almost sounded like a laugh.

Rangi's eyes went wide. "What do you mean you can't? It should be fine now" She demanded.

Kenna pulled her arms around her middle. "Do you have any idea what position I have?"

What was Kenna talking about? Rangi thought as stood guarding Kyoshi's limp body. "You better start explaining right now." Rage still settled in her chest from Kyoshi's actions.

"My sister Wren is the prodigy child." She said almost mockingly. "And Narulok..." She took a second to look at her brother's dead unmoving body.

"The one who took all the credit for my idea which I was fine with, I didn't want anything to do with the spirits. I just wanted to help people to prove myself" It sounded like a plea.

"You still can, close the portal Kenna and everything will be fine" Rangi argued, still trying to figure out what was going on.

"But I don't want to be in last place forever, I was always the weakest of the three and now I could say I'm the one who bested the avatar"

"So now what? What do you want?" Rangi said.

Kenna still looked very conflicted. "I don't know, for a while I worked with Narulok. I thought that could put me ahead, I needed to get ahead"

"What do you mean you worked with him?" Rangi asked desperately.

"Well for one they always had your location, it was just a matter of preparation. And I tried to prolong the Avatar's recovery for as long as possible so they could prepare, but she's so stubborn, and you were always watching her. I never made any progress of the sorts towards my goal, it was basically useless" there was a sound of sparrow to her words.

"We trusted you, I trusted you" Rangi muttered when something clicked in her head. "So did you even try to help Kyoshi close the portal?" 

"No." She suddenly looked guilty. "I couldn't betray them, because if I could prove myself as helpful then I could maybe be considered something other than the worst"

"So what are you going to do now?" Rangi asked, a part of her felt bad for Kenna. To feel like you were always the worst, she almost could see the reasoning for the water bender's actions.

"I don't know" the tears continued down Kenna's face. "All I wanted was to prove myself, to prove I wasn't the weakest and now my brother is dead."

"Then you're free now Kenna you can do whatever you want. You don't need to prove yourself" Rangi tried to offer.

"That's not for you to decide," Kenna snapped back.

In any other instance Rangi would have been furious that someone spoke to her that way but she still needed Kenna to close the portal, otherwise everything Kyoshi did, everything she had sacrificed would have been for nothing.

"I won't try to kill you if that's what you're worried about, I'm not that much like my brother." She smoothed her hair over. "Just walk away and turn a blind eye to everything here. Sounds good?" Kenna almost sounded like she was pleading.

Rangi's eyes widened. "I still don't understand"

Kenna sighed. "At first when I first came up with the plan, I was going to take the Avatar out if Narulok didn't first. But then at that moment she was working on the portal, my golden opportunity, I couldn't. You guys grew on me as pathetic as that sounds. I really hoped that you would have given up, so that we could have remained friends." She continued.