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"I don't understand how someone could be so…evil. Why? Why is there so much evil in this world?"
"It is the same reason night exists."
"I don't follow."
"It is a balance in this world. To us it seems cruel, but would you know day if not for night? One cannot exist without the other. That is the harsh reality of our world and it is not just a balance we find in the world around us, but in our own hearts which we must battle."
"Well some people seem like they've already lost the battle."
"Sometimes people try to cure evil with evil."
Korra's heavy eyelids slowly lifted open. Everything was so blurry, she couldn't even make out any shapes. Where was she? She knew she was laying on her back but what she was laying on didn't feel…real. There was a sound in the distance. No, not the distance, it was close by. Too close. She closed her eyes an focused her mind on the sound.
'Oh no, Kajuq!'
She immediately sat up and found she was already clutching the wailing infant in her arms. She wiped away the blurriness in her eyes so she could actually see him.
"Hey, there there. Mommy's here." She cooed the infant while gently bouncing him. When that didn't stop his crying, she found his pacifier bundled somewhere in the sling and put it in his mouth. He tried to continue fussing but he was defeated by the soothing suckling of the pacifier. She exhaled a breath she didn't realize she was holding.
"What did you do?!"
Korra swiftly got to her feet as soon as she heard his voice. She turned around to see Amon a few feet from her with anger glowing from his eyes. "I-I don't know what happened."
"Where are we?! I demand you take us back to the swamp immediately!" He started advancing towards her.
"I don't know how! I-I.." She started backing away from him, too terrified to attempt to bend anything at him. She failed to see the bag behind her and tripped over it. Kajuq started crying again as his mother landed on her behind.
"Why do you even exist? You don't do anything but cause trouble for everyone else!" He grabbed Korra's shirt and yanked her to her feet, earning a small yelp from her. His eyes glared into her terrified eyes that threatened to spill tears.
"Please, I didn't do anything, I swear. I don't want to do anything but raise my son. I'm sorry, I just-" She felt pathetic. Here she was, pleading and apologizing to her rapist. She couldn't even bring herself to fight him. Where was that confidence and anger she had earlier? She couldn't even look him in the eyes. She squeezed her eyes closed instead, not caring about the tears streaming down her cheeks. Kajuq's wails grew louder and more distressed. Without thinking, she landed a punch in the middle of his mask. It forced him to let go of her shirt and stumble back in shock. Seizing the opportunity, Korra turned around, grabbed her bag and started running. Only a few seconds after she started running did she hear his footsteps following behind her.
As she ran, she finally took in her surroundings. She was in some kind of forest but it felt strange. The trees were black and had no leaves or flowers blooming on their branches. There was luscious, bright green grass beneath her feet. It had felt so soft when she was laying on it. It reminded her of a fur rug. There were no animals in this forest. She didn't even think there were bugs but at the moment, there was more pressing matters, although she could have sworn she felt someone or something watching her.
He was gaining fast on her. She clutched her crying infant close to her chest as she ran faster but he was already so close to her. Suddenly, the ground beneath them began to rumble and shake. It sent them crashing to the ground. The ground seemed to have a mind of its own, for a circular portion of it began to descend rapidly down into the Earth like an elevator. Korra watched helplessly as she went down into the Earth with her worst enemy.

Bolin finished cutting Tarrlok's ropes that were wrapped around his arms and torso. "There you go. Man, how lucky is it that Korra had a knife in one of her bags." He said while turning his attention to Asami and Mako, who were too busy looking at the forest.
"Hey, where's the sun? It's bright but I can't see the sun." Asami asked. "Where's the light coming from?"
"That is strange. I have no idea. Do we even know where we are? Bolin what happened?" Mako responded.
"Well, see, I found Korra and we went to go look for you guys but then we discovered he captured you and he was being all mean and evil-ish and demanding Korra to cooperate with him. Then the baby started crying and he blood bent us before we could bend anything at him and then he started walking towards us and Korra's weird necklace started glowing and then we ended up here and I have no idea where here is but it gives me the creeps." Bolin took a deep breath. He said that pretty quickly.
"Wait, what baby?" Mako's eyes narrowed.
"Oh, right. Korra had a baby and he is the cutest thing. Seriously, you should see him. He has a cute tuff of hair on his head and he's all chubby with blue eyes. I think he looks a little like her."
"There was a rebellion going on in Republic City with lives in danger and Korra was too busy making babies to help?" Mako could feel his blood boiling. The thought of Korra even kissing someone else didn't sit right with him. Before, she was talking about having feelings for him but she leaves to go have a baby with someone else?
"Mako, calm down. We don't know anything about the situation. It'd be foolish to assume things right now." Asami put her hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down. It didn't seem to work.
"We'll have to worry about why she ran off later. We don't even know where we are right now and I get a feeling this forest isn't exactly a normal forest." Tarrlok interrupted. "If Korra's necklace brought us here, then we need to go find her. The sooner, the better. Noatak might be here as well and I don't know what my brother's capable of anymore."
"Right. We should stick together, but what direction should we start in? Everything looks the same. The trees, the grass, there's no landmarks or anything." Asami approached one of the black trees. The bark didn't feel rough like it was suppose to. It was smooth and soft, almost like it was made out of flesh. "What kind of forest is this.." She whispered.
"Bolin can make some kind of mark in the ground, maybe an arrow so we'll know if we're going in circles. If Korra finds it, she'll likely follow them as well and end up finding us." Mako said.
Bolin nodded and put his arms out to form an arrow in the ground. Only it didn't work. He blinked and tried it again. Nothing. "Uh, guys. Something's wrong, I can't bend."

"What do you mean you can't bend?"
Korra winced at Amon's harsh voice. His usually calm and reserved voice was filled with anger and irritation. It was making Korra shake.
"I'm trying but nothing's happening." She had been trying to bend the weirdly lit walls of their enclosure into stairs or some kind of ramp but nothing worked. What's worse was her son's crying was making her even more stressed.
'So she can't bend either.' "Of course. The Avatar seems to like getting people into messes. What good are you, anyway?"
Korra turned around to face him. "What did I ever do to you? What could I have possibly done that made you so angry and hateful? Why did you.." She found herself choking on her words. "Why did you do what you did to me? Why did you rape me?"
Kajuq's crying started to die down. Amon didn't answer her, but instead just glared at her.
Tears flowed down her face. "I've spent over a year trying to figure out what I did to deserve being raped and impregnated by my worst enemy. Why? Why did you do that to me? Am I that bad of a person? I- I still have nightmares.." She covered her mouth and sobbed quietly.
"Quit your whining. You sound so pathetic. If you can't get over it, you're weaker than I thought you were. As if you're the only one to suffer in life. I'm not going to stand here and listen to you complain."
Korra wiped her tears as she sniffled. "Are you..Are you Tarrlok's brother?" She said quietly.
"So it was you, using your Avatar powers to get inside my head." He took a few steps towards her, causing her to back herself into a wall.
"Please, stay away from me."
"Hmph." He didn't take another step towards her. Instead, he leaned against the wall so they were opposite each other.
"I'm sorry that happened to you and your brother."
"I don't need your pity."
"I just want you to know that despite everything you did, everything you did to me and everyone else, I don't believe you deserved to have all that happen to you. Neither you nor Tarrlok deserved that."
"Shut up."
Korra stared at Noatak for a few seconds before her eyes fell on her infant. He was busy staring at her. "I'm sorry sweetie. I bet you're hungry." Her eyes glanced over at Noatak again, who was staring at her as well. She kneeled down and opened one of her bags to pull out a small blanket which she laid on the grass. Then she pulled Kajuq from the baby sling and set him on the blanket. He started fussing again but quickly turned his crying into giggling when he saw his mother pull out a small spoon and small jar of mashed orange fruit and vegetables. Korra's eyes glanced over at Noatak again, who was still staring at her. It made her feel uneasy and nervous. She was afraid he'd try to attack her again, or worse, attack her son. She had to push down those fears though. Panicking wasn't going to help her in this situation.
"Do you.. want some food or maybe some water?" She asked while glancing over at Noatak.
"No."
Korra sighed as she took off the jar lid. "Right.."

"I don't mean to pry but how'd you figure out Amon was your brother?"
Asami, Bolin, Mako, and Tarrlok had been wandering around the strange forest for about half an hour. They discovered that neither Bolin nor Mako could bend. They concluded either the strange place doesn't allow bending or Amon had taken their bending away while they were unconscious. Either way, Mako and Bolin had a bad feeling in the pit of their stomach.
Tarrlok turned his head to Asami, who was walking next to him. "I recognize his blood bending. Each blood bender has their own unique style you can feel. I never forgot Noatak's."
"So Tenzin was right. He uses his blood bending to take away other people's bending."
"I'm not sure how but yes, he does. How did Tenzin know he was a blood bender?"
"We think Amon, er, Noatak may have blood bent Korra before. I think that's what scared her off in the first place." Mako said.
"Did something happen between you and your brother? It sounds you two weren't keeping in contact with each other." Asami paused for a moment. "I hope I'm not getting too personal."
"Oo, I smell a backstory coming." Bolin said.
"I suppose I should start explaining who we are first and how we came to be. We're the sons of Yakone, infamous mobster, crime lord, and one of the best blood benders who ever walked this world. At one point, Yakone attempted to murder Avatar Aang but instead had his bending stripped. He escaped Republic City, altered his appearance and moved to the Northern Watertribe where he met my mother. She was so warm and kind. How she ended up with someone like my father, I'll never know."

"What was your mother like?"
Korra turned her attention from her infant nursing under a cover to the man sitting across from her. She waited for a response from him but didn't get one. He had eventually stopped staring at her and was now carving something from a chunk of what looked like the bark of one of the black trees with a knife he had hidden somewhere on his person.
"What are you making?"
She was met with silence again.
"Do you blame the Avatar for the abuse you suffered?" She said quietly.
"Stop trying to make small talk." He finally said.
"Quit telling me what to do."
"Most people don't make small talk with their rapist."
"Most people don't go around raping people."
"You'd be surprised." He didn't take his eyes off his carving as he spoke to her.
Those last words put an uneasy feeling in her stomach. "All I want to know is why. What did I do that made you such a hateful, abusive person?"
"You got what was coming to you. That's the end of it."
"Don't sit there and tell me I deserved it without telling me why I deserved it. It's just not fair."
"Fair? Fair?! You want to talk about fair? Is it fair for a child to be born a monster? Is it fair for him to watch everything he knew and love crumble before him because bending exists? Is it fair that…" Even with his mask on, Korra could tell he was about to break. "Don't talk to me about fair."
"Okay, you know what? Fine. I deserved it. I deserved to be raped by the likes of you. It was all my fault. I hope for whatever it was worth, it made you happy. I hope it made all the pain in your life go away and you can sleep much easier at night."
He didn't say anything. He just went back to his carving.
"Well did it? Did it make you happy?" She half-yelled, not wanting to fully yell in fear it'd upset Kajuq.
She flinched when she saw him slam his knife on the ground. "Nothing in this life is going to make me happy. My days of happiness are over thanks to you. The only true pleasures in life are watching benders get exactly what they deserve and seeing the world slowly stripped of its inequality."
"Do you honestly believe benders deserve the type of abuse you went through?"
"Nothing good ever comes out of bending." Noatak stared at his hands and whispered. "Not even my own."
Korra pulled Kajuq from underneath her breastfeeding cover. He had fallen asleep, so she laid him down on the blanket. "I don't believe you're a monster."
"What?"
"You're just as human as the rest of us. Your life was filled with pain and hurt. You didn't have anyone to turn to for help, did you? Your mom and brother were suffering the same abuse. You probably felt so alone and isolated from everyone."
There was a thick sadness lingering in the air. She didn't need to see his face to tell he was crying.
"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked quietly.
"What is there to talk about?" He choked. "My father beat me, my brother, and my mother. He raped my mother numerous times and let an old pervert touch me and my brother. But he was the only father I had. Despite everything he did, I loved him. I still do. Before we learned we were benders, he used to be so loving. We'd laugh, spend time together. We were happy. He used to tell us that he loved us, but that quickly stopped. He grew worse over the years. It used to be he would just hit me and Tarrlok but one day he lashed out at my mother. I'll never forget her face or tears."
"Your mother seemed so sweet."
"She was. No matter what my father did to her, she stuck by him. She did so much for him. For us. She didn't deserve any of it but I was too weak to protect her.." His voice trailed off.
"None of you deserved that. No one does."
"Perhaps I did. I'm just like my father, after all. His plan was for his sons to take over Republic City and avenge him. Like a fool, I followed in his footsteps and convinced myself it was for the greater good of the world. You want to know why I did what I did? For years, my father talked about how the Avatar took away his bending. He made it his life's mission to teach his us the curse of blood bending, so we may avenge him. We were no longer his sons, we were just his tools, his property. I want to believe it was the Avatar who drove him mad and forced him to do what he did. I want to believe if he still had his bending, we could have still been a family. Maybe even happy. I never.."
Korra watched him remove his mask and pull down his hood. Tears were streaming down his face as he looked up to the surface. "The Avatar made my father the man he was. I wanted the Avatar to suffer just like I did. I guess it didn't work like I thought it would. The worse of it is, I'm starting to believe he was born a monster, just like I was."
"You're not a monster."
His eyes fell on Korra. "You're only saying that because you don't want your son to be a monster."
"No, I'm saying it because I believe it. At one point I believed you were, but as I sit here listening to you, I realize you're hurt. You're the result of torture and cruelty. It's scary, but you're as human as anyone else. You were brainwashed into thinking I was the enemy, that I needed to suffer as you did. I don't want to be your enemy anymore. I only want to help you now."
"You're a fool, Avatar, to try and help your rapist. The man who sent an entire city into war, let innocent die, allowed my subordinates to force people into slavery and torturous experiments. There's no helping a man like me. There's no way to get rid of the pain, not when it's turned into poison."
He squeezed his eyes shut as more tears shed down his cheeks. He never imagined he'd break down in front of the Avatar. His father must be laughing in his grave right now. He didn't know what compelled him to be so open. He was usually calm, collected, and distant from everyone. He failed to notice Korra moving closer to him, until he felt her arms around his shoulders. It took every ounce of her courage to go near him. He still terrified her and made her feel uneasy, maybe even sick, but she was determined to push past her fears. She was tired of all the negative feelings that had been dwelling inside her.
"Why? Why are you acting this way towards me?" He asked, not bothering to open his eyes.
"If not me, then who?"
"That's not how it's suppose to work."
"Maybe it's time it did work like that."

"That's really horrible. I'm sorry Tarrlok, I had no idea."
The group had stopped walking half-way through Tarrlok's story. Mako didn't know what to say and Bolin was busy sniffling and blowing his nose in a handkerchief.
"Please, Asami, I don't need anyone's pity. I've learned to cope with it."
"That explains so much. He really does think bending is the source of evil in this world." Mako said.
"Noatak always wanted people to be treated equally and fairly. I fear for him, that includes having everyone feel the same pain he went through. It seems neither I nor my brother could escape our father's grasp. In the end, we were both fighting to do exactly what he wanted us to do. My father would be happy to know that Noatak won."
"That man, Kunikpa..did he actually..?' Asami was having trouble forming the words. She was unsure if she should be asking such a question but the situation was an entire shock to her. Suddenly what her father did wasn't so bad.
"He always tried to, with me. Noatak always protected me, though. He sacrificed himself every time, offering Mr. Kunikpa favors so he wouldn't touch me. I hated myself for years for letting it happen. I still do. If I had just.." Tarrlok sighed and closed his eyes. "Maybe Noatak wouldn't be doing this, this whole rebellion."
"No, you can't blame yourself for what other people did. You were a kid, what could you do?" Asami said. "It wasn't your fault. You shouldn't ever feel like it was."
"It doesn't stop the guilt. I always think of what I could have done differently. Somehow, I find comfort in thinking I could have done something differently, maybe even stopped it. It makes me feel like I at least had the potential to have some power during my childhood."

"Here."
Noatak looked up from his almost-finished wood carving to see Korra handing him a waterskin and a cloth tied to hold its contents, likely food. Kajuq was behind her, sitting on a blanket, playing with his toys, and babbling in his baby talk.
"No thanks."
"Take it anyway." She insisted.
"No." His eyes dropped back down to his carving.
Korra sighed and dropped them on his lap anyway before returning to Kajuq. She sat a few inches from him and began meditating. Kajuq started squealing from the presence of his mother and decided to throw a wooden mobile of a satomobile at her head.
"Ah!" She rubbed her now sore head. "Please don't throw things at mommy, especially when she's trying to meditate." She pinched his cheek before returning to her meditating state. He stared at his mother then turned his attention to the strange man on the other side of the enclosure. After picking up a wooden block, he chucked it at the man. It landed right on his forehead.
Korra opened her eyes when she heard Noatak grunt. She saw Kajuq's toy near Noatak, who was rubbing his head. "Kajuq, if you keep throwing your toys, I'm gonna take them away." Who was she kidding, he couldn't understand a word she was saying. "I'm sorry, he likes throwing his toys for some reason."
"So I've noticed." He replied.
"Pssst, Korra, are you down there?"
Korra immediately stood up. "Bolin? Is that you?" She saw Bolin's head peak down from the top of the hole.
"Oh, thank goodness. I heard strange noises and was afraid it was some kind of flesh-eating whale-bear monster but you are much better than a whale-bear monster. Is that Amon?"
"Yeah, he is. Listen, can you Earthbend us out of here?"
"Well…about that. Neither Mako nor myself can bend for some reason. Oh, wait a minute." Korra saw Bolin disappear. "Hey guys, I found them! They're in this hole! And Mako, you owe me 5 Yuans! Amon is actually pretty good-looking." He reappeared at the top of the hole. "Don't worry guys, we'll get you out of there."
The ground started to shake again, almost causing Bolin to fall into the hole. Suddenly, Korra and Noatak found the ground they were on rising up rapidly. Korra quickly grabbed Kajuq, who didn't seem to mind the ride at all. Within a few seconds, they were back on the surface.
"Well, that was pleasantly convenient. Less work I have to do." Bolin said. "By the way, can I hold the baby?"
"Yeah, sure." Korra passed her son over to Bolin, who was grinning with delight.
"Hello there, I'm Uncle Bolin. I'm gonna call you Little Bo from now on. Has a nice ring, doesn't it?" Kajuq stared at Bolin before glancing over at his mother.
"Korra!" She turned to see Asami, Mako, and Tarrlok walking towards them.
"Hey, are you guys alright?" Korra asked.
"We're fine, but how are you? We've been worried sick about you." Asami hugged Korra.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry anyone. But don't worry, I'm gonna get us out of here, alright?" Asami released her hug on Korra and nodded.
"And how exactly are you going to do that?" Tarrlok asked while crossing his arms.
"I uh…I have no idea." Korra noticed that Mako was glaring at her. She quickly adverted her eyes from him.
"Do you even know where we are?"
"….No." Korra sighed.
"We're doomed."
"Well, the necklace got us into this mess. Maybe it only responds when she's scared." Bolin gave Kajuq back to Korra and turned to Noatak. "Maybe you should put on another scary mask and try to scare her. Or dress up like a vicious man-eating whale-bear. No, that's way too scary."
"Perhaps I can help."
Everyone turned their attention to the sound of the voice. Before them stood a grotesque, ape-like beast with long arms and white fur. Its eyes were small and yellow and it had a giant grin that showed off almost all its sharp teeth.
Bolin jumped into Noatak's arms out of fear. "W-What is that?!"
The beast spoke again. "I am Mongshou."
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