<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5a/KorraAAA01.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Korra<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 22nd<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>Afternoon<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Memphis Rift Zone<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>The recon team, the coalition members… the enemy.<br/><hr/><br/><br/>There in the dirt Korra laid for a few moments after emerging from that Rift, her body feeling the undue stress of being ripped from her dimension and into this one. She draws herself up onto her hands and knees, her hands in fists, her long dark hair dangling down around her head. Her head is swimming, and not in that good way. In the way that indicates you’ve just been clobbered by a very large clubbed object. Her bright sky blue eyes blink a few times and now her head lifts as she groans softly… and those eyes widen with.. well with horror. Her ears are still ringing, and she has to doubt exactly what it is she is seeing. What it is she perceives.<br/><br/>The world around her is chaos, there’s some kind of.. lightning being projected all around her. But it’s not like lightning she has ever seen. It’s like short bursts, short powerful bursts. But the things Bending it.. they aren’t like any Firebenders she’s ever seen, nor are they even human! There’s some kind of device they’re using to do it.. cripes she’s starting to hate technological. What was it Bolin said? How do they have time to constantly invent more evil machines?! And other beings… they look like goat dogs, or polar dogs.. or a little of both, but they’re standing up like people. Even using weapons like people, some kind of blades.. The sound of an engine getting closer takes Korra’s confused attention from the Dog Boys and the Skeletons… the person on it is wearing some kind of armor. She can’t see the face of whatever it is… he looks like he might be reaching for her, but her ears are still ringing. Or maybe her head just hasn’t cleared. And when Korra doesn’t know what to do, when she thinks she’s in danger, Korra does what Korra does.<br/><br/>Korra acts.<br/><br/>She glares at Owen as he approaches her, as he offers her help, as pulse blasts ring through the air around her. The Psi-Stalkers.. for only the briefest of moments.. would feel a sudden surge of incredible power emanating in this dark skinned girl. Unconsciously she taps into a fraction of the Avatar State, the need to defend herself simply overpowering. She doesn’t even realize she does, but she does. She has for a long time, though she hasn’t known it. That’s part of how she is able to Bend so easily, so powerfully. Still staring at the oncoming Owen, she moves into an Earthbending stance. Her fisted hands move to next to her hips, her feet about shoulder length apart. A powerful stance. Korra draws in a deep breath and draws one hand back as her opposite foot shifts back, and she lets out a grunt as she slams that fist into the ground. It’s as if the earth itself under her were water, and she had just thrown a rock into it. The impact of her fist ripples outwards, the earth upturning in a rolling wave away from her, travelling almost 100 feet. She’s hoping that’s enough to make him think twice about attacking her! Now this gets the attention of some of the others. And that’s fine with Korra.<br/><br/>Now some of the Coalition forces (who have noticed her by now and after that) turn their attention to her. First one of the Skelebots turns his pulse rifle towards her, but Korra is aware of it. She’s been watching them also. She hasn’t been training for literally her whole life in combat for nothing. Her stance moves so she’s now facing the Skelebots, and her arms sweep back, and then up in front of her. And as she does, the Skelebot fires. Luckily, it doesn’t come close to hitting Korra. As she sweeps her arms up, the ground in front of her slides upwards impossibly, forming a shield in front of her. The pulse blast explodes against the upturned stone, and then Korra draws her arms back, the earth receding once more. But she’s not done. Seems like she’s never done. The rest of her body still in that rigid, powerful stance… she now draws one foot up, and then slams it against the ground as she lets out a loud  “HAH!”  Her foot hits the ground, and the ground under that Skelebot suddenly shoots upwards, sending it flying, easily 300 feet into the air. Now it was the Dog Boys turn to try.<br/><br/>5 of the Dog Boys now see her, and see her as a threat to their masters. As a group they start towards Korra, but she sees them coming. And instead of running or standing her ground, she sprints right towards them. She gets within 20 feet of them, and she bends her legs at the knees, her fists jamming downwards, and then she sweeps them upwards, moving outwards from her sides. The ground under her shoots upwards and at an angle, launching her right towards the oncoming Dog Boys. She does a graceful flip high in the air, and as she comes down (she is coming down awfully fast, isn’t she?) her fists thrust towards the group. By this time the Dog Boys figure she’s about to just come to them and be a snack, but of course Korra has other plans. From her fists and forearms massive pillars of flames explode downwards towards the Dog Boys, causing them to yelp and scatter as a group. And that little Firebending has also slowed Korra’s descent, luckily. Immediately she is in motion once she hits the ground, and she sends her foot right at the side of the head of the nearest Dog Boy, brilliant orange and red flames dancing around her extended foot. He falls, the fur along his face sizzling a little. 2 of the Dog Boys charge at her from her side, and in a fluid motion she turns to face them. Her stance moves from a Firebending duel stance to an Earthbending defense stance, rigid and powerful once more. Her upper body twists as she sweeps her arms upwards, one of her feet shifting towards the Dog Boys. The ground in front of them explodes upwards, a sudden 10 foot wall erected in front of them. Korra then thrusts a fist towards the wall, and it explodes towards the Dog Boys, it basically crumbling on top of them. Not enough to kill them (she hopes), but enough to take them out of the fight.<br/><br/>But as she moves, she can feel a certain energy in the air. Something wasn’t right, and she doesn’t know how she knows that.. she just does. Perhaps her extra sensory perceptions are detecting the unstable Rift energy, or perhaps the Spirits of this world are trying to tell her something. She can simply not hear them. That 5th Dog Boy is suddenly upon her, as her concentration had slipped for only a moment. She hears him way before she sees him, coming up behind her. He swipes his clawed blade at her, but she is suddenly not there. Her body has shifted to one side of his strike, of his whole body, moving fluidly and rapidly. Like water flowing down a mighty river. The Dog Boy follows her movements, trying to match her. She ducks or sidesteps each swipe of his very nasty looking claw, waiting for her opening.<br/><br/>Oh, and there it is!<br/><br/>She sees a break in his offense, and she is on him instantly. Her fists connect with his temple and nose in 3 rapid strikes, causing him to back pedal just a step or two. And Korra presses the offense. She spins around and kicks the Dog Boy right in the side, and then she moves back just a step from him and spins around a second time. But this time as she spins, a torrent of fire shoots forth from her heel. If you were standing back and seeing this, it would almost look like a miniature tornado made of pure fire. And that’s enough to convince the last Dog Boy to take off.<br/><br/>She spins on her heels then, moving into a Firebending defensive stance, her big blue eyes watching for other dangers. Or challenges, whichever. Her chest rises and falls as she breathes a little heavily, her long dark hair and blue Water Tribe gear swaying gently in the billowing winds around her. Her stance is a lower stance, her feet wide apart, her knees bent, one of her fists thrust out in front of her, the other held back and up above her head. Flames flicker and dance along her fists as she tries now to think about this.. about where the hell this is. And just what she has gotten into…<br/>