AUTHOR'S NOTES: You just never know with District 6. You really just never know.

CHAPTER 4

Aang switched from ballista fire to the elements, shooting them in every direction, and simply hoping that Korra would not get caught in the crossfire. There was always a way to break the hypnotism. He was miraculously able to hold off most of them, but eventually, he got chased to the roof after a successful shot from Zhao's fireball blasted the ballista right out of the side of the tower.

Aang scrambled onto the roof and utilized the mounted crossbows, rapidly firing them faster than the ballistae. One of them hit Long Feng in the hip, another hit Iroh in the arm, while Korra was also accidentally hit in the arm. Aang knew that it'd be easier just to exterminate Korra given that she was now a puppet of the tributes from District 6, but even in a death tournament, his unwillingness to actually kill anyone was going to cost him—perhaps there was another way though. Perhaps he could remove their power.

The solution for this struck him at just the right moment. A projectile from Long Feng hit Aang squarely in the back, triggering his avatar state. However, just before he could go ballistic, Azula appeared out of hiding, and hit him squarely in the back with a lightning bolt, which shattered his spine, and sent him tumbling off the tower where he hit the ground with a crunch, and similarly, a cannon's boom.

Once Aang was dead, the tributes besieging his tower dispersed. Iroh collected Jun and headed north towards the air temple and the Northern Water Temple. Toph and Zhao took off south to go find and slay some more tributes, Azula disappeared back towards her East Air Temple hideout, and the District 6 Tributes followed Iroh. However, turning away form Korra was just enough time for her to muster willpower to resist Joo Dee's trancelike voice, and she struck. Joo Dee's astounding reflexes saved her life again, and her electrified staff served as her defensive weapon. Korra landed an uppercut on Joo Dee's lower jaw, breaking it cleanly. Korra pumped her fist for a second as she reveled in the moment.

However, a broken jaw was not enough to deter Joo Dee. Within the few seconds that Korra had let her guard down, Joo Dee had jammed the electric rod clean through Korra's neck, penetrating through the other side, and then surging electricity through her body. She wrenched it back out and Korra's lifeless form hit the ground in a heap. Joo Dee took off after Long Feng as a cannon boomed, though her mouth was leaving a trail of blood that would lead right to their hideout, should they choose to search one out. Luckily for them, the Career Alliance was not about to hide. They were out to kill.

Bolin and Mako from districts 11 and 12 were quick to team up with each other, as Suki was dead, and Asami was nowhere to be found. She, Mai, and the tributes from District 3 had disappeared shortly after the gong had sounded, and it was only a matter of time before one of them showed up. They were suddenly knocked down by a rushing blast of flame. They spun around from the source where it had come, and realized that no one was there. After hearing screaming, the spun around and saw that it was Sokka. He dove into a nearby stream to put himself out, and upon resurfacing, he found himself face to face with Mako and Bolin.

"Truce," he asked sheepishly, knowing in his torched state and being outnumbered 2-to-1, that the odds were currently not in his favor.

"Give me one good reason," Mako challenged.

"Because 5 of the Careers have allied with each other, and recruited both tributes from District 6" he replied, "Basically, they're going to kill everyone that's not one of them."

"The alliance will have to end sooner or later though," Bolin argued, "but for now, I don't see a reason to leave you behind. The South Air Temple is just over there."

As they approached it, however, they realized that some ugly things were happening there. Ozai and Ursa had put aside their differences and were fighting against Tenzin, Asami, Zhao, and Toph, the latter two of which were infuriated by Ursa's early betrayal. Ozai had a white-hot flaming battleaxe, and Ursa was armed with electric flaming nunchucks. By the time Bolin, Mako, and Sokka reached the temple, most of it was in flames.

The Cornucopia Bloodbath was over, but the aftershock bloodbath was making its way through the remaining tributes. The reckless firebending from Ursa, Ozai, and Zhao was lightning more of the structure ablaze, and Toph's destructive earthbending was knocking it down even faster. It did not help that Asami was armed to the teeth with explosives of every kind, and had rigged the entire temple up even further with them (with the help of Tenzin's expertise) before the careers had arrived.

By the time the temple collapsed onto the 1st floor, leveling it and making the 2nd floor the new 1st floor, the fight had reached its zenith. Huge streams of flaming rock and metal were exchanging sides, and grenades and land mines were going off about every second. Some of them were not even Asami's doing, as the structures had been rigged by the gamemakers to start out with.

"I WILL BURNINATE YOU!" Ozai roared, continuing his roaring rampage of burning stuff. He jumped into the air and spewed mighty flames at Toph, his battleaxe in full swing. However, Toph was too quick, and evaded the attack. Her tactic was ultimately a setup to let Zhao disappear, reappear behind Ozai, and launch a massive fireball at him from point-blank range.

"AW YEAH," Zhao roared, "THE BURNINATOR GOT BURNINATED!"

Nothing was left of Ozai's upper half, and his legs crumpled to the floor in a burning heap as another cannon boomed.

Ursa was much harder to take down, given that she was not deranged the way her male counterpart was. She was calm and collected, and her reflexes rivaled those of Joo Dee. Even in a 4-on-1 situation she kept her cool, and she was able to badly hit Toph with a barrage of strikes from her nunchucks, which had devastating effects. Not only was her chest and arm burned, but the electricity surged through her body, paralyzing her left side. Given that her right arm was the burnt one, she was effectively out of commission. Zhao and Tenzin were too strong for Ursa to get past and finish the job, but this didn't faze her as she made her escape. She knew that once a tribute was injured, their chance of death increased dramatically—and Toph was one of the few that was going to be next.

SURVIVORS:
District 1: Ursa
District 2: Zhao, Toph
District 3: Tenzin, Lin
District 4: Iroh, Jun
District 5: Azula
District 6: Long Feng, Joo Dee
District 8: Sokka, Katara
District 10: Mai
District 11: Bolin
District 12: Mako, Asami