9 Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Vs Amon (2)

"Am I now?" Jiran pursed his lips with a smile at the man's response. His smile puts off a creepy feeling.

Amon's eyes remained locked on Jiran's cold and icy gaze, only then did his eyes were taken off when the latter proposed.

"Let's change venues shall we, let's take our fight elsewhere. I have some secrets too that would be troublesome if people find out" Jiran said to Amon as he thrust his fist towards the masked man propelling a wave of wind that pushed the masked man outside the abandoned warehouse after bulldozing through the walls.

Korra, Mako, and Bolin were still occupied fighting the chi-blockers so they didn't notice this.

"I must say. Thank you for giving me free rein in this fight, now that no one is looking, I can fight you in earnest." Amon said with a menacing voice as he took his stance, but this time it was not a melee stance but a bending one.

"Oh so you're not going to bother hiding it anymore" Jiran chuckled.

"What's to hide from a dead man?" Amon said equally, chuckling at Jiran which made the latter laugh.

He knew that no matter what he did to hide, Jiran's

ungodly sense and instinct will make that effort obsolete, so he just didn't bother anymore.

"Dead man… funny words." Then as if a bipolar person, Jiran's expression went from smiling to pure menace.

Jiran thrust his fist once again at Amon, this time it was not ordinary wind. He made the wind spin at a rapid pace, containing even more rotational motion than a normal tornado. And what's more, he made the edges of the tornado much sharper making it far more deadly than a conventional airbending attack.

Noticing the impending danger from the attack, Amon lowered his stance as well as both of his hands as if pulling down a curtain, and suddenly Jiran's fist was slammed down into the ground making the razor tornado off trajectory.

Seeing that Jiran's attack would miss, he smirked under his mask.

However, what he didn't take into account was the sudden twist of the tornado. The tornado bent like a snake and curved in direction until it successfully hit Amon.

"ARGH!" He was assaulted by the attack and if it were for the last-minute water shield he conjured from the puddle nearby, he would've been completely shredded.

'That was dangerous.' Amon muttered in his mind, looking at his bleeding arm.

'This guy doesn't follow the Air Nomad way, despite being an Airbender he doesn't refrain from using deadly attacks…'

"You can change my attack's trajectory all you want but rest assured, it will all arrive the same," Jiran said with his eyes glinting in danger.

'Tsk! It seems that I have no choice but to fully blood-bend him!' With that conviction in mind, Amon stood up and his posture and bending stance changed.

Jiran knew what was about to come, fully aware of the latter's ability, he let down his arm and slumped his shoulder and body.

"Bloodbend me. I dare you." Jiran said with his eyes piercing through Amon's body. The bloodbender feels his hair stand up and his body suddenly feels chills.

"Then I'll grant you your wish!" Amon spread his arms wide with his finger apart from each other resembling that of a tiger's claw in martial arts.

Suddenly Jiran was lifted from the ground as a cracking sound reverberated with his body. Jiran felt his body being overridden by a foreign force, his blood being manipulated to such an extent.

Seeing this phenomenon, Amon smiled. As he thought, Jiran's confidence was nothing but a farce. A sense of superiority washed over him making him smile more as he felt the sense of absolute control over the latter.

However soon, he suddenly felt something inside of him furiously beat. It was his heart, his vision suddenly started to get blurry as air became more difficult to access. He looked at the source and saw Jiran; still suspended in mid-air but there was no look of fear within but absolute confidence.

"You think you're the only one that can manipulate the body?" Jiran laughed, and then Amon's blood bend was released making Jiran slightly land on the ground with poise.

"I have stopped air from coming inside of your lungs and manipulated the small strand of air within your lungs to disrupt the flow of your heart." Jiran smiled as he walked slowly towards Amon, his step sounding as loud as a drum's beat.

Amon's body started to shiver, the sheer fear of this man's capability made him even hesitant and afraid.

"Not only that, I have full reign over your life right now. Do something again to me and I'll make the air inside of your lungs explode." This man was completely different from Air Nomads, he was more reminiscences of Avatar Yang Chen and Avatar Kyoshi because of his ruthlessness.

Who in their right mind uses air inside the lungs as a weapon? No one in the world and the four nations! And not certainly those peace-loving monks of the Air Temple. Yes, air bending can take away the breath of a person but not make the air inside of their opponent's body into a weapon of pure menace.

'Wait! If he can kill me internally then he could commit a traceless murder! That's!….'

"The Night of the Killerless Massacre…" Amon suddenly muttered and seeing Jiran's unsurprised eyes, Amon's body shivered.

As the unexpected revelation gripped him, a surge of adrenaline coursed through his veins, igniting physiological responses akin to an ancient survival mechanism.

His heart, a wild drummer in his chest, quickened its pace, orchestrating a symphony of urgency. His eyes widened.

Muscles, once at ease, now tensed in anticipation, ready to spring into action at a moment's notice. A subtle sheen of perspiration surfaced on his skin, a testament to the silent conversation between body and mind.

"You… you're the one who caused the massacre…" Amon said; his voice shaking.

Two years ago, there was a tragic event that shook the entire city, not just the city but the entire world.

The night where three hundred and eight people were killed in a single night brought the city into chaos.

People began to shake in panic and fear, some even started to migrate out of the republic city. The sheer number of those corpses laid that night made even the most strong-willed churn.

However, the number of deaths wasn't the most fear-inducing in this incident. It was the traceless death they all suffered.

There was no sign of bending within them, no burn marks, drowning, air deprivation, earth piercing. None. Just pure nothingness, as if all of them decided to commit mass suicide.

The thought of mass suicide came too but that was later proven wrong when the faces of the people were revealed.

All of them wore an expression of pure fear, primal and unadulterated fear, that it seemed that they saw their killer's menacing face before death. And that's not all, all of those who were killed were influential people with power all over the world.

People sympathized with them at first but the council released the news that all of those killed were involved in a human trafficking business in an underground market.

To this day the killer has yet to be found making people still fear the night.

"You know too much…" Jiran said, then he gripped his hands as if crushing, making Amon scream in pain but he suddenly stopped. A thought comes into mind.

He released his air control over Amon, and like a fish in the desert finally getting water he started to savor the air he almost lost. He leaned in closer to Amon whispering something before pulling his head back and saying.

"Go." He commanded, then Amon stood up from the ground and shouted at his chi-blockers who were inside.

"LET'S GO!" The chi-blockers heard Amon and came right to his side, then with them in tow Amon ran away with his henchmen.

Korra, Mako, and Bolin saw this, they saw Amon's retreating figure and Jiran's triumphant posture suggesting what just happened.

"Come Korra, let's go back to the Air Temple." Jiran turned his back and said to Korra, making the latter unconsciously nod at his command.

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