Avatar: Legend of Korra Fanfiction - Korra x OC Male Reader.
(DISCLAIMER’S: I DON’T OWN THE LEGEND OF KORRA IP OR IT’S CHARACTERS! & THIS IS A NON CANON FANFICTION THAT ISN’T CONSTRAINED BY THE LIMITATIONS OF THE OFFICIAL AVATAR LOK CANON & ANY ATTEMPT’S TO SILENCE THIS FANFIC IS A BLATANT VIOLATION OF MY FREE SPEECH RIGHT’S!)
Book: 2 Chapter: 2 Secrets Taken Out Of The Shadows.
Hours later - Zhu Li’s POV:
I’m sitting in the back of Republic City Raid SATO Truck with Chief Beifong & her Metal Bending RAID squad prepping their Non-Bending members with their repurposed Anti-Bending Equipment for the upcoming raid, everyone is nervous about taking on the two most wanted & dangerous criminals in recent years, the truck driver tells us through the dispatch radio “We’re almost there, everybody get ready.” We all ready ourselves & as get my equipment ready Chief Beifong asked me with concern “You know that you don’t have to be by our side to provide tech support we got this from here, are you sure you’re up for this? Your Husband will kill me if you don’t come back from this.” “If we fail to apprehend these criminals more innocent people will get killed. So yes, I need to ensure that my assets are properly maintained on the field.” “Alright then but stay behind the group & keep your head on a swivel.-” (*STATIC!*) “We’re arriving, get ready!” We all lined up ready ready to swarm the building. As we looked out through our truck door windows we saw a wrecked warehouse storage building that was long abandoned due the massive overgrowth of Spiritvines I then said “looks like your tip came good after all..” the Chief then shouts “INCOMING!..-“ *BLASTS!* the SATO truck gets tumbled over due to the blasts & once everyone recovers Chief Beifong groans as she’s rubbing her forehead & asks “Is everyone alright?!” “Yeah.” “Yes ma’am!” “Roger” “Roger Roger!” That last last non bending officer shouted over enthusiastically “Good man, alright everyone get ready to breach the truck doors & make our way to the front door in three.”- “Finally, some action!..” the non bender officer said excitedly “Two!..” “Alright, I’m ready for this here we go!” “Oh my Spirits SHUT IT OFFICER KILLCRAZY! *SIGH* ..ONE!”- she metalbends the truck’s metal back doors open then ‘OFFICER KILLCRAZY’ mindlessly charges forward while shouting “LET’S GO KILL SOMTHING! YEEEEAAH!..”- *BONK!* ..& just like that he’s out cold from banging his head against the top of the Truck Doorway leaving a giant visible red bruised mark square on his forehead. A metalbending official checks his pulse “He’ll live.” Then Chief Beifong says “Alright then, everyone let’s move out!”
Chief Beifong’s POV:
We then charged out of the truck to be met with a small army of Mercenaries of both Benders & Cyber-enhanced Non-Bender alike creating a wall between us & their base entrance, i metal bended the wrecked SATO Truck behind us apart using the pieces form a massive makeshift barrier. Whilst the non-benders activated their retractable metal riot shields & the rest of the metal benders in my squad provided cover fire protection with nearby metal debris shards creating an unstoppable force of endless onslaught of metal metal shards raining hell down upon the Mercenaries swiftly overpowering & pushing back the enemy forces. With their backs literally up against the wall they attempted to retreat but Chief Beifong & her Metal Benders earth ended around all of the Mercenaries ankles then sinks into the ground until they were neck deep into the ground completely restrained.
We then took up positions at the entrance for a breach & clear then on my mark after hand gesturing “3,2,1, GO!” Me & my squad slightly Earthquaked the building foundations to disorientate the hostiles inside then metal bended the steel doors into the building Entrance & we rushed into the building only to find- “..Nothing?!” I said confusingly. We then heard a noise coming from the next room, we then charged into the room saw someone tied up & hunched over on his knees, he then looked up at us to reveal that it’s Bolin! “Bolin! Zhu untie him!” Zhu Li Varrick then quickly untied him & helped him up onto his feet then he removed his gag to breath properly & say with shaky voice “Thank the Spirits you guy’s showed up, Miss Varrick what are you doing here?!..” “I’m here to save the young man who helped my Husband come back to his senses years ago.” “Well thanks for the save & all but ‘you’ shouldn’t be here..” “What do you mean?” I then asked him cautiously “What’s going on here Kid?!” “I-I’m sorry about this, I don’t want to do this but..”-
Bolin *ROARS* with a multilayered demon-like voice. We all took a few steps back & watched on in horrid disbelief as we bare witness to his body quickly being completely enveloped in eternal darkness, like a thick layer of fog of corrupted never ending nightmares made incarnate with a slight tinge of Purple atherial light mist outlining his figure has washed over his agonising figure with bright white illuminated demon eyes eclipsing his dark vestige like form. This enraged shadowed figure of what used to be Bolin attacks with seemingly endless amounts lava bended magma to surround & trapping us all in a ring of fire!
Zhu Li Varrick: “Mr. Bolin this isn’t you!”
Chief Beifong: “Kid calm down, Who’s making you do this?!”
Then his glowing eyes pierced through his ring of fire & in a *FLASH!* The ring of fire completely dissipated & all the light from the room faded away went pitch black dark the glowing eyes appeared again like twin stars in the infinite void of nothingness then the twin Stars both divided into 4 stars, then to 6 & then 8 stars orbiting around all of us in pairs for several seconds.
The stars then grew brighter then the glare from the stars started to form the shadow silhouettes of four people. They all came into focus revealing themselves as Bolin, Tokuga, Zaheer &.. The Phantom Bison?!.. I then grabbed Zhu Li shouting “GET BEHIND ME!” We all protectively surrounded her realising that we’re surrounded. “IT’S A TRAP!” One of my men shouted in fear! Then one by one they morphed into Phantom Avatar’s kyoshi, Roku, Aang & Korra!
Then all four Avatar Phantoms slowly start closing in on the Metal Bending Squad & suddenly everyone else started panicking out of nowhere & collapse onto the floor crying & screaming out in agonising pain. Zhu Li appeared to be unaffected though then she turned to face me with a twisted grin then I watched her face morphed into ..AMON?! Then suddenly he kicked me onto my knees, grabs the back of my neck with one hand & raises his other hand out to take my bending away & I’m absolutely terrified as he lowers his thumb down towards my forehead I plead “P-Please.. don’t do this, PLEASE DON’T MY BENDING AWAY! I BEG YOU!.. ..NOOOO!..”
Hours later- Korra’s POV:
Me, Asami & Tenzin arrived at the battle torn warehouse to find nothing but ruins & a single Republic City Officer who is still knocked out with a massive red mark on his forehead & is moaning in pain whilst he’s still unconscious. The medics swiftly picked him up & took him away to the nearest hospital, then we headed inside to the building entrance only to discover it filled with smashed rocks, shards of metal fragmented everywhere with charred burn marks covering the walls & the entire floor of the building was soaked in a layer of water that reaches up to just below the knees. The colour drains from Asami’s face as we decent further into this hellscape only to find a room filled with RCPD officers with Chief Beifong lying in the centre staring blankly up at the ceiling with tears streaming down her cheeks muttering “T-They they took her. I-I couldn’t stop them.. *GASPS!* This is our fault, ..It’s all our fault!” Tenzin tries to pick her up from the ground but she then immediately grabs his arm & shouts “W-WE ..DID THIS!” “Calm down Lin, what are you talking about?!” “HE SURVIVED TENZIN! HE’S ALIVE, HE’S ANGRY, ..H-HE’S COMING AFTER US!..” Lin then fell unconscious from the stress & exhaustion this made the colour drain from his face as his eyes widened & now for the first time i truly see him genuinely afraid, I didn’t even think that was possible. I then asked “Okay guys I’m officially done with this pronouns game, who is HE?!” “Korra this is NOT the time for jokes..” “-& I’m NOT JOKING, ..who is HE!” He picks Lin up & says with regret in his eyes “There’s something we should’ve told you.” “We?!” Then I look over at Asami to see guilt in her eyes as she looks down.
We then brought Lin to the medics outside & immediately call Oogi over from Airtemple island & before he arrived Asami says “I never wanted to keep this from you but when I learned about what happened. ..what I saw.” *gasps* I hold Asami close & gently pat her back to comfort her & say “It’s okay..” & wait for her to eventually calm down before she finishes with “No matter what happens please promise me that you won’t hate me for keeping this a secret from you.” “I promise Asami.” We then shared a tender kiss before we set out to Raava knows where..
Over the course of the night while flying to our destination Tenzin was seemingly lost in thought & was very distant not even letting himself take a break to rest & or eat & let Asami take the reins. I then ask him “With everything that we’ve been through why didn’t you just tell me about this Phantom Bison? Why all this secrecy?” A couple strand of Tears falls down his face & simply answers with a trembling cracking voice “Be-Because this is all my fault..”
we then see the clouds start to part & fade away to reveal a horrific sight of the ruins of a destroyed war torn ghost town littered with wrecked war machines, burnt improvised fortifications & trenches. As we descended closer to the ground what seemed like rubble & shredded red fabric was revealed to be a horrific scene of skeletal remains of the Town’s Population mixed with the remains of the dead RED LOTUS SOLDIERS?! *GASPS!* “OH.. MY RAVA..”
As soon as we landed I immediately hopped off Oogi & just took in the horrific scene, following the trail of bodies into the town. The deeper I traveled in this nightmare of horrors I saw not only dead Red Lotus soldiers I also saw women, children & men who were wearing improvised armour & weapons with Ratsnakes & Roachslugs burrowing through their skeletal remains. I had followed the trail of bodies to a specific wrecked building that had looked like it used to be a restaurant of some kind, as I stood at what remained of the entrance I hesitate to enter having a feeling that there’s no turning back if I go inside. But I take a deep breath &- *COUGH! COUGHS!* *VOMITING!* “Argh shit! Okay.. okay, that was really fucking stupid of me to breathe in toxic fumes of rotting dead skeletons!” I carefully breathe out while covering my face “Okay, here we go..” I mutter to myself as I take my first steps towards the dreaded truth.
The entrance hall was filled with wrecked tables & chairs with photos of an old man with a man wearing a White Lotus Uniform holding an infant child in his arms, I reach the remains of the restaurant counter where I see a skeletal remains of the Old man from the photo *COUGH! COUGH!* I covered my mouth to catch myself from vomiting again “Oh Rava.. that poor ..poor man..” I then see huge aqua blue & yellow Ratsnake with red eyes sitting in the middle of a wrecked open doorway behind the old man’s remains. The way it’s staring at me in the eyes I suddenly get the feeling that it wants me to follow it, it starts to slither away in the ruined stairwell halls behind the doorway. So I follow it upstairs into a dark room where it disappears into the darkness. I reluctantly enter the dark room only for the illuminated Doorway behind me to completely disappear into this seemingly endless dark void, I instinctively try to reach out to the darkness where the lit doorway once was with my right arm only to be hit with the most intense mussel tearing pain in my life as I feel my arm being pulled by some unknown force unlike anything I’ve ever felt. It was like my arm was chained up on a otherworldly stretcher, I could literally feel & hear my bones breaking under the pressure of the this relentless pull as I see my arm start elongating from my shoulder & start deforming into masses of rocks before cracking & breaking apart into piles of rocks that immediately start disintegrating into sand. I tried to grab the piles of sand that used to be my arm with my left arm but my left arm started heating up causing massive amounts of unbearable pain as I was feeling the blood in my arm literally started boiling, before literally catching fire & I loudly cried out for help in agonising pain as my arm began going numb & crumbling into ash. In a panic I tried to run to where the entrance once was hoping that this was some kind of illusion but as soon as I started to run I felt my legs falling through the floor before completely vanishing in a massive wind tunnel that ripped apart my legs in a vacuum of air. At this point I felt defeated & just gave up trying to run & accepted my fate. As soon as the tears started pouring down my face I felt my body pours out a lot of sweat that covered my body from top to bottom then I felt myself starting to sink into the floor as I started melting into water. As this was going on my lungs started filling up with own blood, sweat & tears as I eventually started drowning & as close my eyes one last time I see own spirit fading away from existence but just before the last slither of life was about to disappear into the void I see my life flashing before my eyes from that game of tag with a street kid, starting my avatar training, training with Tenzin to learn Airbending, Stopping Amon, Defeating Vatu in the Harmonic Convergence, being poisoned by Zaheer, Stopping Kuvira’s Spirit Canon to saving Asami from being kidnapped by a Spiritually mutated Tokuga as if it’s all happening for the first time then in a flash of light I hear a familiar yet distant voice simply telling me “..Don’t Give Up, Just Go On.. Korra ..For Me.” in a fit of primal rage & stubborn determination I willed myself back into existence. Bit by bit, atom by atom. (I know that Science stuff doesn’t belong in the Avatar Universe but it’s for the sake of painting a very vivid picture of what’s going in everyone’s heads.) I forcibly put myself back together, my life force was shining even more brighter than the sun itself in this infinite Void, my body started taking shape again & regenerating back to normal, then once I was whole again I opened my eyes & lit up the darkness & somehow something else was taking shape in the distance.
A small very familiar figure was walking towards me, as he he closer the figure revealed himself as a kid?! Then as he came closer the kid came into focus & I recognised him as the kid who I had played tag with & had disappeared, then he started changing, growing, aging into the the guy that I bumped into at the Earth Bending Fight Club I started smiling at the blast from the past only for the that smile to fade & contort into absolute terror as the boy she just watched grow up in front of suddenly changed into the shadowy hooded monster who kidnapped Bolin & Zhu Li. He became.. the Phantom Bison!?!.. & suddenly the world went dark again & all I could see was the reflection in his eyes of the massacre that took place at this very town, hearing the suffering of countless innocent people all dying around us. ..& then nothing.
He disappeared into the darkness then the void cleared up & I was back in the ruins of the old building where the shadow room was now clear as day. I saw the remains of the photos of the man who would become Phantom Bison with the same old man who was the first photo down stairs. I then saw some rusted Metal bending equipment with the same White Lotus Uniform from the photo. & an old letter “Hey M/R, if you’re reading this Happy 18th Birthday son, I don’t want to get ahead of myself here but here’s to hoping you’ll be an amazing Earthbender just like your old man. Even if you turned out to be a Waterbender like your Mother I hope you can still find use for these metal Grapplers I designed. Love Dad. X0X0” a tear drops on the paper as I finished reading it, I gasped trying to hold back the tears as I take a long hard look at the room around me.
Seeing the discarded moldy work aprons, photos of M/R working at the shops evening Rush & an old Pot Plant with something carved into it covered by a thick layer of dirt, I wiped the dirt off to find the carvings that reads “Love Always Prospers, If You Let it Grow.” carved onto the side & while the plant looked dead I could still somehow tell that it is still just barely alive. At this point stopped holding my sorrow back & just started balling out into tears as my heart was breaking for this man who’s been through soo much death & has fallen soo far from the sweet innocent little boy I met when we were kids. I take a breath & tried & failed to calm down when I heard Asami behind me saying with a broken voice “I am soo terribly sorry for keeping this from you. I-I had no choice, Tenzin he-he made me swear never to tell you..” “but you did have a choice, ..a choice to respect me enough to decide what I can & can’t handle ..but you chose to keep this from me!” “But I didn’t want to keep this from you Korra, I wanted to tell you everything the second I found out about what happened.. but Tenzin!”- “I KNOW ASAMI! ..I-i know.. it’s just after what I’ve just seen, everything I’ve learned i-I can’t help but think that if learned about this sooner.. i could’ve helped him. I COULD’VE SAVED M/R! & PREVENTED ALL OF THIS!.. *GASPS!* Oh Spirit’s.. I just feel like a I’ve failed him Asami. I should’ve looked into his disappearance when he first went missing all those years ago!” Asami grabbed my shoulders & looked me in the eyes & softly said “Hey, don’t do this to yourself. You can’t blame yourself for this, it’s not your fault Korra. You didn’t know, you were just a kid..” “A kid who should’ve fought harder for her friends but ..I just accepted what my father told me without question, I got too caught up with getting to be the Avatar-“ “KORRA! THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT, it’s NOT your fault, ..it’s not your fault. Could you have helped him back then? Maybe or maybe not. You were just a kid who’s just learning how to be the Avatar. If you did try to step in what would have done?” “I would’ve been.. I-i could’ve.. ..I-i ..don’t know.. ..I just can’t imagine that someone as sweet & innocent as him could ever be capable of doing anything like this..” I gestured to the skeleton riddled streets outside the window. “I know what you mean. You know that we’ve had this exact same conversation years ago when we first found out about my farther being apart of Amon’s Equalist’s. & when we confronted him you were there for me & helped get me through it. ..You were always there for me Korra. ..just like I will always be there for you & help you get through this along with whatever else comes our way..” Asami said as she gently took & held my hands into hers while tenderly looking into my eyes which brings a warm smile onto my face before it shifts into sorrow as I whispered to her “..but despite everything we’ve been through ..you still lied to me. While I do understand that Tenzin made you keep this a secret ..I-i just.. can’t seem to get past it.” Asami’s eyes well up as she asks “..So where does this.. leave us?..” “…I-i ..I don’t.. know Asami.. I don’t..- I-i ..I think I.. just need some time alone.. just to process some things..” she quietly nodded with tears streaming down her cheeks as much as my tears were streaming down my cheeks & she quietly exits the room & go back outside to leave me alone to my own thoughts (Oh Spirit’s!..) I think to myself as I just quietly sit there in the middle of dark empty room trying to hold myself back from sobbing before I decided to finally take my leave.
As I’m about to leave the room I quickly looked around & I Decided to take the Cactus Plant, then take the letter from M/R’s Farther & the rest of both M/R & M/R Farther’s Possessions including the photo from down stairs but before I left I saw an old ragged White Lotus Prisoner Uniform, they’re usually grey or brown but this one was blood red. Like it was dyed with real blood. I take a quick sniff &- “YEP! That’s definitely Blood alright!” I awkwardly said to myself out loud & took the blood uniform with me.
As I was arriving back to the others Tenzin’s face was full of shame & guilt, “How long did you know, how long did you know what really happened to him, what they DID TO HIM?!.. ..SAY SOMETHING!-“
“SINCE ZAHEER! ..SINCE!- ..Since Zaheer had originally escaped from his old prison where he got his air bending..” my expression was a mixture of betrayal & disappointment, we hoped back onto oogi & we began our trip back to Republic City I asked him “So “I!.. *SIGHS* -was still picking up the pieces of my fathers Airbending legacy since he passed, juggling the responsibilities of being a father while also mentoring my children to master their Air bending abilities, helping govern republic city & still coming to grips with uncle Sakka’s death while a young water tribe child was being accused of murdering of his own mother. At the time I left the affairs of water tribe child to the water tribe councilman unalaq, your uncle swore to me that he would never let the poor kid go to prison. I couldn’t have possibly known that he would send him into the exact same prison where Zaheer was locked up. He had framed the kid to be able to send his red lotus double agent to infiltrate Zaheer’s prison to break him out when they were the most vulnerable. M/R’s father had figured it out and was able to thwart Zaheer’s escape attempt but not before giving his own life to save his son who he never knew was sent to the same prison. In the aftermath Unalaq & I tried to council the teen prisoner who I had not realised was the same kid who was framed for murder. He was soo traumatised when I tried to talk to him he was in shock & didn’t even talk or at any us. Unalaq told me he would take care of him to help him recover from this traumatic experience. ..I was soo foolish to believe this but he never showed any signs of malice when it came to taking care of members of the water tribes. By the time he revealed his true colours during the Harmonic Convergence it was too late to make things right with him. The damage was done & the poor kid was already long gone. Soon after we stopped Kuvira’s invasion we had received a distress call from a local town nearby Zaheer’s old prison where remnants of the Red Lotus attacked.” He said gesturing towards the town behind us “..by the time we arrived it was too late, everyone was already dead including the red lotus invaders. ..& the boy your uncle unalaq sent to prison ..was gone. & The monster only known as the Phantom Bison was born..”
END OF CHAPTER!