Hey everyone, this is my first official Legend of Korra fanfic, and so far I think it's turned out well. I hope you all enjoy this!

Shana coughed up water as she pulled herself onto a pier. She stood up and immediately fell back to her knees from a jolt of pain. Her hand went to put pressure on the area and she looked down to see an open wound on the side of her abdomen.

Hey dark eyes scanned her surroundings; the pier was empty and so was the street beyond it. "I have to find Iroh," she murmured quietly to herself.

She willed herself up, keeping pressure on her wound. Her feet began to move slowly, building up speed, her worry increasing for the General. The last thing she had seen was him being blasted from the crows nest of the ship, when she had tried to retrieve him another underwater bomb had gone off, blasting her in the opposite direction.

After running for what felt like hours, Shana stopped in front of a small house. Her body ached and she felt as though she was going to pass out at any moment. She leaned up against the wall of the house, attempting to be silent.

Her head fell as she applied more pressure to her wound. The only thing in her mind was finding the General and stopping Amon. Suddenly a child's voice broke her from her thoughts, she looked up and saw a little girl, dressed in traditional water tribe clothing.

The young child looked up at Shana with shining blue eyes, "are you alright miss?" She asked, slowly approaching Shana.

Mustering up her strength, Shana nodded and was about to speak when another voice broke though the silence, "Kaniya, lunch is ready."

An older lady came out of the house Shana leaned against, her eyes immediately widening at the sight of the young woman. Shana didn't blame her, her own hair was tangled and wild, many tendrils now hanging loose around her face from where that had fallen from her ponytail. Her clothes were still damp with a large rip on her abdomen, blood soaked Shana's hand along with her white uniform pants.

"Are you alright?" The woman asked walking towards Shana, the young soldier nodded before her strength finally failed.

She fell forward towards the ground both her hands going out to catch her. She heaved as she felt her wound staring to hurt more than before.

"Mommy, what's wrong with her," Kaniya asked, tugging at the skirt her mother wore,

"Sweetie, go and get you dad and brother, we need to get her inside."

Kaniya obeyed her mother and scurried away quickly into the house. The older woman came and knelt next to Shana. She started telling Shana to hold on, and that she would be fine. The last thing Shana saw before her world was engulfed by darkness were the feet of two others, rushing towards her, along a pair of smaller feet still standing by the doorway.

Kaniya smiled as Shana showed her some waterbending skills. Shana laughed at how entertained the young child was by simply swirling a bit of tea around in the air before letting it fall back into the porcelain cup.

"That's so cool, I wish I could do that," the young said, looking at her own tea.

"Thank you very much Kaniya," Shana said sipping the warm liquid.

Just then Kaniya's mother, Jin, came in with a tea pot. She made her way over to Shana and slowly filled the cup once again. Shana nodded her head in thanks, it was they only thing she could since Jin had told her to stop thanking her.

After Shana had passed out, Jin's husband, Lee, and her eldest son, Harook, carried the young woman into their home, laying her down on their small sofa. Jin, being a nurse, immediately began working on the wound that had been clearly visible through the large hole in her uniform shirt.

"Shana, do have somewhere to go for the night?" Jin asked as she sat next to her.

She shook her head, "no I don't live here in the city."

"Then I'd like to invite you to stay here for the night."

Shana's eyes widened, "no I couldn't intrude like that, besides," she trailed off and looked down at her cup.

Jin laid a hand on her shoulder, "what is it?"

"I have to find someone," she took in a breath and looked at Jin, "I need to find the General of the ship I was on."

"I understand, but you can't go running around the city. Please stay here and you can go searching tomorrow."

Jin looked at Shana dead in the eyes, the woman bright blue eyes showed wisdom and love. The young waterbender didn't want to have this woman worry about her. So she gladly excepted the offer to reside with Jin and her family for the night. But the next day, she would be off, looking for Iroh.

I hope everyone likes the story so far. Please read and review. And please let me know via review or pm if there's anything you think I can improve on.

P.s. I'm sorry about any annoying grammar mistakes, I wrote this chapter on my iPad, and sadly it doesn't do well on correcting mistakes.