Only you- Rangi & Kyoshi

Chapter 40

"Rangi tell us how she's alive right now, how is she alive? You said she was dead" Wong demanded, though you could hear the relief in his words. Kyoshi was still alive.

Rangi tried to explain what Kyoshi had done, and the reasoning for her plan, until it was clear that some stragglers were still trying to see what had happened above.

"What do we do now, we need to get Kyoshi out of here" Kirima said urgently.

Little did the members know what was waiting for them at the top, a dead leader, shut portal, the crumble of their dreamt nation.

"Let them come." Rangi declares as she stands over Kyoshi's body.

Slowly members finally reach them on the platform, wearing wired looks of anger and confusion.

"Watch her for a minute, will you Kirima?" Rangi asks as she begins to approach them.

The members yell at first, seeing the mess in front of them. Rangi briefly tells them what had happened. Their leader had messed with the peace between not only the other nations but the spirits as well, and had paid the price. The portal was merely caught in the crossfire. Though it wasn't the exact truth it seemed more than they deserved.

With her words this angers most of them, acting out sheer hatred they charged at Rangi without thinking, without considering the possibility of what would be instored for them.

The only thing on Rangi's mind wasn't the swarm of people charging at, or that her group was outnumbered. It was the fact that Kyoshi was behind her, completely vulnerable to the world around them. She would be Kyoshi's first and last line of defense.

Seeing the determination in the members eyes, Rangi hardly felt like her mind was in control anymore, it was all nearly reflex.

Inhaling sharply she produces a massive flame wall shining of pure white light. Her team members behind her stared in awe, the flames were as pure as Rangi's honor to protect the avatar, to protect Kyoshi.

"Touch her and you're dead," Rangi says from behind her firefly wall. There was a tone of desperation in her voice, she would not fall. It sounded as angry as it did broken.

Most of the people had been caught in the flames, ending with them stumbling back over the edge. When Rangi was sure they had a minute before anything else could get in their way she rushed back to Kyoshi's side.

The only thing now in her mind was undoing the damage that Kyoshi had inflicted on herself. She hesitantly reached out over Kyoshi's body before Kirima yanked it away. "You can't do it like that," She said firmly. "She's probably hyperthermic by now, humans are meant to hibernate or whatever the hell she did to herself." Kirima said.

"Don't you think I know that?" Rangi replied, ripping her wrist out of Kirima's grasp.

"Then you know that we can't heat her up as quickly as we can, her body would simply go into shock." Loa ge explained. He didn't have to say the consequences, they all already knew.

Eventually Rangi realized that she couldn't help Kyoshi not now, but they had to get out of here. Wong and Lao Ge get to creating a bridge across the trench that Kysohi had created, using large slabs of earth to make it strong enough to cross. 

When they were first done, Rangi tried to start and lift Kyoshi, as if she would carry Kyoshi all the way back home. But her body simply wouldn't stop shaking, as frustrating as it was she realized she couldn't do anything here either.

Wong ends up doing it instead, Kirima helping him get Kyoshi on his back. As they did so Kyoshi's fans fell from her sash and clattered onto the ground. Rangi picked them up quickly, her hands were still trembling but she just tried to tighten her grasp as they began to leave.