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Chapter 1: A Forbidden Love
Kyoshi was taking the last of the bread out of the oven when Azula stormed in knocking over a stack of baskets. “Our mother is a whore!”
Kyoshi paused for a moment and looked at her right in the face. She set down the tray of bread gently and took off her gloves, then she walked right up to Azula and shoved her making her slam right into the wall. Fighting was a daily occurrence in their household and Azula and Kyoshi never held back their punches. They were in the midst of punches and kicks when the third of the siblings, Korra, came in and separated them.
“What’s going on?” Korra cried. “Why are you fighting?”
“She called our mother a whore!” Kyoshi growled ready to pounce again.
“Well she is!”
Kyoshi lunged again but Korra stopped her. “Azula what the fuck! Pema is our mother! She took us in and raised us when we were alone on the streets."
“I went to the supermarket to go get her cause she goes on Wednesdays for supplies,” Azula said. “When I arrived I didn’t find her anywhere. Suki told me that she goes every Wednesday but doesn’t shop. Instead she gets in a fancy car with some rich man and doesn’t return for several hours.”
Kyoshi tensed and pointed an accusing finger at her, “so now you believe the gossip of the town? These people like us live in shacks and can barely feed themselves. Gossip is their only amusement!”
“Yeah come on Azula,” Korra said with a sigh. “Pema would never do that. Plus even if she did, I think she's more the old enough to choose her own mate."
“Oh is that so?” Azula said lifting up a card. “Us three as alphas have a responsibility to keep our omega mother safe from vicious alphas! And if it's true that she would never do anything like this why does she have a room key for the great Republic City Hotel penthouse in her room.”
Kyoshi yanked herself free from Korra and took the card from Azula's hand.
“It’s the most expensive hotel in the country and she has a key to the penthouse after finding out that she leaves in a very fancy car with some guy on Wednesdays,” Azula said. “Is that proof enough for you?”
“Maybe this is a misunderstanding...” Korra tried.
“Misunderstanding my ass,” Kyoshi said knocking over a pan in anger. “We’re going over there right now. I won't let any Alpha take advantage of our mom just like all the alphas from our backwater village."
“Wait!” Korra said blocking their path. “Let’s just wait until she gets home to talk to her. Maybe she's with a beta or maybe this alpha is actually a good person."
“You just don’t give a shit that’s why,” Azula growled pushing her aside. “You’re too busy spending all your nights drinking and drooling over that bar singer, Opal.”
“She’s the love of my life,” Korra defended.
“So you love a whore, of course you don’t care if our mother's a whore too,” Azula snapped.
Korra shoved her hard against the table and yelled, “shut up!” Korra was the pacifist of the group. She grew up in a more calm and peaceful side of their old village, unlike Kyoshi who lived in the criminal areas and Azula who lived in the rich stuffy parts. But still if she did end up fighting with either Kyoshi or Azula it always turned into a brawl.
“Hey!” Kyoshi cried stepping in between them to stop a disaster. "We don’t have time, we need to go. Azula and I are going to that hotel, go or stay Korra.”
“Of course I’m going!” She said shooting Azula a dirty look then following them out of the bakery part of their small shack into the living room. It was a small living room with badly painted green walls that didn’t hide the decay and mold. Their small kitchen had many rats and roaches but they did good in keeping them out most of the time. The hallway led into two bedrooms and one bathroom. The large master bedroom was shared by the three alphas and the other very small room one belonged to Pema.
They stepped out onto the street where people were walking in and out of the street market also full of vermin and home to many homeless people that slept near it in the hopes to keep old or rotten food at the end of the day. Their raggedy red truck that they had found in a junkyard and made functional was their lifeline. They made bread deliveries in that truck and it got them everywhere. They all climbed in the front seat immediately and started driving the hour-long trip to Republic City.
...
The Republic City Hotel was bustling with life. People dressed in fancy clothes walked in and out to their high-class cars and looked at the red truck in disgust. When they actually got out of the car the looks got worse. The three of them wore wrinkled dirty wife beaters with ripped up, faded old jeans with various stains all over them. Kyoshi didn’t seem to mind them at all and just walked right through, but Azula and Korra blushed in embarrassment as they trailed behind.
They walked straight through the elevator and pressed the button for the elevator. When the elevator beeped in denial Azula pointed at a small slot. “It’s for the key.”
Kyoshi slid the card in the slot then pressed the button for the penthouse. The elevator closed and started going up.
“Look whatever happens with this guy, don’t kill him okay,” Korra said. “We’ll get Pema out of here and go home.”
“That depends,” Azula said.
“Guys...”
“Korra you’re either with us or you go home,” Kyoshi said shoving her lightly. “Pema is our mom! When our village was destroyed and we were the only survivors; scared and alone little kids, it was Pema who took us in and raised us. As the eldest it's my responsibility to watch over you and I will not let some rich man take advantage of our mother.”
The elevator dinged open and Kyoshi walked straight to the door and inserted the key. The door clicked open but didn’t swing all the way open because the top lock was on. She saw what she needed to see though, the two of them rolling around in bed together.
“Mom!” Kyoshi yelled. “Get off of her you son of a bitch!”
Before Kyoshi could do anything else Azula slammed the door hard with her foot and sent it flying off its hinges. Korra tried to grab them but they both ran in before she could even touch them. She ran instead for Pema who was screaming at them not to hurt him. Korra ran to her side as she quickly put on her clothes and ran towards the alpha, who was getting wailed on by Kyoshi and Azula.
Korra pulled her back. “You’ll get hurt mom.”
“Stop them Korra! Please! I love him!”
Korra ran in and pulled Kyoshi and Azula away then put herself in front of the man. “Stop! Enough!”
“Mom how can you let this alpha take advantage of you!” Azula cried, “What the hell are you thinking!”
“I love him!” Pema cried. "He's not just a random alpha."
“He's a stranger," Kyoshi pleaded grabbing her wrist.
“No! Don’t hurt her!” The alpha said standing up weakly wiping the blood off his lips and quickly putting on his pants. “I love her and have every intention of marrying her.”
“Marrying her?” Kyoshi growled. “But you reek of another alpha! You've been marked!"
“I’m pregnant with his child,” Pema shouted pushing past Azula and running to the man’s side. “He mated before but she died long ago and now he's mated with me." She turned her neck to show her mate mark. "We were gonna tell you about our engagement tomorrow.”
“Engagement?” Azula scoffed. "But mom you deserve to mate with someone that you can mark back! This guy is..."
Korra lifted a hand to stop her from continuing to talk. “Mom,” she said gently. “You know we are only concerned because we love you so much. You raised us since I was 5, Azula was 6, and Kyoshi was 8. You gave us everything and stayed unmated until we reached adulthood. And now that I finally reached 18 and you choose a mate, you choose a guy who is already mated? You deserve better."
“Please,” the man said lifting a hand. “I love this woman and I will take care of her and our baby and of course of you guys, her daughters, too.”
“If you think—“ Kyoshi started but Korra stopped her.
“Let him talk.”
The man took one more step forward and said, “my name is Tenzin Beifong. I am 56 years old and I live on a large ranch on the outskirts of the city. I live there with my… sister and her children. I have many business and franchises here in the city and that’s when I met Pema. By accident. We’ve been together for nearly a year now and I sincerely love her.”
“How can you,” Kyoshi said narrowing her eyes. “As a mated alpha take an unmated omega and tie her to you knowing that she could never do the same back to you!”
“I don't care that he was mated before," Pema insisted. "His former mate is dead and he loves me. I don't need to bite him."
“Look I will buy you a house and cars,” Tenzin said. “I’ll take care of her and you too. I have hundreds of companies where you can have jobs.”
Kyoshi stepped forward menacingly. “You think you can buy us? We don’t want your filthy money.”
“Now hang on, hang on,” Azula said raising her hands with a greedy smile. “You’ll marry and care for our mother and you’ll get us a house and cars?”
“Azula,” Kyoshi said in warning.
“He impregnated our mother Kyoshi,” Azula said smirking with ambition. “Only seems fair.”
“No!” Kyoshi snapped. “Look what I care about is that you take care of my mom and her pups, but we want nothing. But listen here old man, if you are lying and you hurt my mother, I don’t care if I spend the rest of my life in jail, I will kill you.”