How does it feel

How does it feel 63

Notes: Home stretch. Stay tuned. 

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Korra is blind with rage. Her wife, her children, her world had been destroyed right before her eyes and she was powerless to do anything about it...yet again.

"Let…me…go!" The infuriated Avatar growls and yells to her captors as flames erupt from her mouth. Katara was right above her. The murderer, the thief, the betrayer, the bane of her existence, the cause of her pain was right there…

Katara lowers her eyes seeing the sorrow on her student's face. "Korra, look around. Do you see where you are?"

The Avatar starts to choke and gasp. The Mothers slowly crush the life from her body.

Katara creates a force field around Korra's body. "Great Mothers, have mercy! Please. She doesn't understand what she's done."

"Silence! Our word is law. Our law is eternal. We are absolute. Defiance will not be tolerated."

"She is not to blame here! Mizu is!" Katara shouts.

The four titanic deities turn to her.

Korra coughs and hacks as she catches her breath. "Liar! This is your fault! You killed her! You killed them al…" Ice materializes over her mouth.

The mature water tribe woman takes a deep breath. "It wasn't just Mizu. We all played our parts in this."

The Mother of Minds speaks up. "Does your conceit know no bounds? You dare accuse us…"

"Yes." Katara says quickly. "You neglected your children. They rebelled against you and we in turn rose up against them. Korra wouldn't have been able to accomplish any of this if Mizu hadn't told her how to neutralize your powers. And for my part, I encouraged Korra to use her abilities so she could go beyond the choices you forced on us. We all created this situation."

Before the other mothers begin to speak, the Mother of Plexus lifts Korra up and examines her. "Katara of the water, you are just as impudent and ignorant as the rest of your species. The fact that you believe our presence was neutralized is evidence of that." Katara furrows her brow. A smile comes to the deity's face. "We have watched over you from the very beginning."

"Foolish children." The mothers grumble to themselves.

The Mother of Plexus taps Korra on the forehead and watches her body light up with Raava's energy. "I never would have imagined that one of my creations could have taken things this far. It's…amusing."

The other mothers turn to her. "Blatant disobedience amuses you?"

As the creator of the spirit essence, the Mother of Plexus felt a strange sense of pride knowing that her child had manifested a being like Raava. Never in all of creation had any entity managed to produce such a magnificent debacle. "It does. Is this not what the humans call excitement? How long has it been since we've interacted with them on this level?"

She waves her finger removing the ice from Korra's mouth. "Tell us Avatar, how would you have us deal with your acts of defiance?"

Korra looks up at her mentor for a moment then lowers her eyes. Her heart was heavy with grief, but she also understood that her mentor had brought her to the only ones who could fix what she'd done. What they'd all done.