Here is the latest chapter on time as promised. A quick note to those who read this I have just finished typing this story (day this chapter was published) though i will still be loading it weekly. Next week I will begin work on Book 2. I have the whole book planned out (it will be shorter) and I am aiming to have it finished by the end of August. There is a Book 3 in the wings but it's only got a rough concept as of yet. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: As usual I do not own either of the great works of fiction.
Chapter 6
Foggy Swamp
The assembled men, along with 2 women, sat around a carved wooden table on low benches in the heart of the Foggy Swamp. They came from all over the world and represented most of the world's nations with the exception of the Southern Water Tribe. There was one thing they all had in common; they were all benders and for the most part talented ones at that. All were highly connected, rich and/or influential. They all wore black robes with the hoods pulled up and skull shaped masks to hide their identities. Ostensibly this was done to protect the individuals from being identified by the authorities but in reality was a protective measure to prevent them from turning on one another if one was to be caught. That had happened in the past and cost several of their fellows their freedom and/or their standing and been forced to run and hide in the Swamp.
At the head of the table sat their leader, Lord Voldemort, a self appointed Dark Lord and the self proclaimed savior of the world, protector of true balance and preserver of purity. Possibly the greatest waterbender ever born Voldemort was also only the 4th person in the history known to have mastered non lunar bloodbending, the 3rd known to master psychic bloodbending and the first to not be related to Yakone, as far as anyone knew but some thought he could be the former crime boss's grandson. His mother was a poor swampbender from the Foggy Swamp Tribe and his father a minor earth noble from one of the neighboring states. His father had left his mother when he found her to be pregnant and she subsequently died in child birth in a forgotten village in the Earth Kingdom at an orphanage, where he was raised until he left for schooling in the Northern Water Tribe. However few in the world knew of the Voldemort's history or childhood, they just knew him for what he had started 25 years ago, even if the world had tried hard to forget about him over the last 14 years.
"The time has finally come for our order to return to the world." Voldemort said, "For the last 14 years the world has thought me dead and the Death Eaters disbanded and either in hiding, in their false prisons or dead. It is time we proved them wrong. It is time for our plans to restore purity and balance to the world to resume. 14 years ago Korra died as a result of defeating me, my final statement on her legacy was to unleash the remaining poison in her body and take her down before she entered the Avatar State and earthbent me into the sky. The world thought I had died from the fight and Korra had ultimately sacrificed herself to stop my righteous crusade but it was only Korra who was mortally wounded by the fight. Now the moment I have waited for since that day has arrived. The new Avatar has been found and we can use him. We must send an envoy to the Avatar at the Elemental Academy to try and pursued him to join our righteous crusade to restore the balance of benders ruling while nonbenders serve and restore bending purity to the world, the job he should be doing anyway but that Korra, Aang and those who preceded them all failed at."
"And what if the Avatar does not see the light and join us on the side of balance and purity." One of the two female followers said. She was a black haired beauty sitting at Voldemort's right hand with nothing but love and devotion in her eyes evident despite her mask.
"Then we take him alive and keep him here until he sees the truth." Voldemort said without emotion, "or we hold him and prevent him from interfering and maintaining the imbalance of the world. Once we have restored balance to the world we can kill him and scourer the Fire Nation to find the next Avatar and raise that one from a young age so that they aren't corrupted by the false teachings prevalent in the world today."
"So what is the plan my lord?" The woman asked the eagerness to serve him clear in her voice.
"Wormtail" Voldemort barked addressing a watery eyed man seated at the far end of the table.
"My lord" the man called Wormtail said the fear evident in his voice. "The Avatar is the son of my former probending teammate James. This gives me a unique inside into the family and the Avatar himself, they will never suspect me. All I need is a team of benders to smuggle into the Academy. I cannot be a part of this in order to protect my identity as one of your spies and as you all know my firebending is not great."
"My lord I volunteer to lead the assault team." The woman said the eagerness still clear in her voice. "It would be my honor to bring the Avatar to you. Remember I was one of the handful whose identities were compromised by that traitor Karkaroff so if I get caught it won't compromise one of my brothers who have yet to be unmasked and thus preserve their stations and importance in this abominable society that perpetuates imbalance and impurity."
"Very well Bellatrix that is a good idea." Voldemort said to the women. "I agree. In order to preserve those of us who are in power and are poised to be of great assistance when the Purity War resumes. Only 4 Death Eaters who have already been compromised by the traitor will be sent. Bellatrix will be the leader and the waterbender of the team though don't try to bloodbend unless you absolutely have to, you can't really do it well without the moon and this will likely be a day raid. Travers you go as the earth and metalbender, Dolohov you will be the airbender and Rookwood the firebender."
What is our mission my lord." The man called Rookwood said, his eyes were mean under his mask.
"You will go with Wormtail the Academy." Voldemort said, "there you will wait for the right moment and confront the boy. Try and convince him of our righteous cause, if not then take him by force. If his friends are there then you can eliminate them though spilling one drop of bending blood more than necessary is a travesty, even if they are blood traitors."
"How pure is the Avatar?" Bellatrix asked.
"Wormtail" Voldemort ordered, "How pure is the boy?"
"Both of his parents are earthbenders." Wormtail said cringing in fear. "His father's side of the family has historically been earthbenders however his mother is a mudblood, a first generation bender."
"He may not be as pure as many of us." Voldemort said, "but at least both of his parents can bend. So long as he knows that those of us who are purer than he is are his betters we will all get along. You have your order now execute them."
Voldemort rose and left to table to retire to a private area of the Swamp to meditate on his upcoming plans. He left his minions at the table to follow his orders to the letter. It may take a while given the nature of the Academy but they would find the time to confront the Avatar. They had better not fail him.
Elemental Academy, 5 weeks later
It had been two months since he had been discovered that he was the Avatar and life had been hectic for Harry. Whenever he had free time from classes and his intensive training with Master Albus Harry was doing more additional firebending training with his friends. In those two months Harry had progressed from a beginner to almost advanced in firebending, much faster than average especially given he had only had 5 weeks of intensive training. There was a month left in the semester and Harry was determined to reach the required level take his mastery test and achieve master status by the end of the semester.
Harry found firebending easy, though not as easy or natural as earth had been for him. However the general principle of the need for power behind the bending was the same for fire as it was for earth. Fire required more control to keep restrained than earth did because earth was rigid and stable while fire was fluid and alive. Other than that there were a few downsides to living in the Fire House.
The first and most obvious was the bossy bitch that was Hermione. He had had the displeasure of meeting her on his very first day in the Fire House and she had done nothing to improve his opinion of her, if anything she had gotten worse. She had a clear superiority complex and loudly flaunted it in front of everyone and threw her perceived intelligence into everyone's face, though Harry found her to be book smart and not naturally smart. She didn't have any real friends but she did have several followers and sycophants. They were the disenfranchised, the social outcasts, those of mediocre skill, those who came from poor backgrounds and those who were the children of nonbenders. Basically mostly those people who had been bullied and put down by rich bending elites and had flocked to Hermione because she proposed that they should be the elite and not the other way around. She loudly sprouted her "correct, infallible and tolerant" views and insisted that they were the only views that should ever be followed and all other disagreeing views, especially those that disproved or contradicted hers, were ignorant, wrong, fallible, racist and intolerant to all. Basically anything that offended her was racist, wrong, oppressive and intolerant. She spent every opportunity she could trying to put down Harry and prove him wrong and oppressive in front of the entire Fire House and failing every time. Harry just refused to rise to her bait and whenever he did disprove her she would storm of claiming he was racist and not trying to disprove his point, she would just insult his character.
Speaking of intolerant rich elitist bender supremacy bastards that was the other main downside living in the Fire House, a firebender in their year called Crabbe. He was one of Draco's two main bodyguards and sycophants. A short, thick, brawny guy with a pudding bowl brown haircut Crabbe hailed from a noble bender supremacy family in the central Fire Nation. Crabbe practiced the Zhao school of thought when it came down to firebending. That was the style that involved extreme uncontrollable fire and fire balls that was used for pure destruction, it was fueled by anger. Harry wouldn't be surprised if the Crabbe family had a history of supporting Sozinite organizations that wanted to restore the Fire Nation to its supposed glory during the 100 year war. Harry had faced Crabbe in the arena the year before when he had been part of Draco's bending team and got the feeling that the guy was all brawn and no brain and now Harry knew that to be true. He was just a big bully who felt his bending made him superior to nonbenders.
There were a few good people as well. Harry met some of Neville's dorm friends like Seamus, Dean, Parvati and Lavender. They were all nice people who enjoyed bending and life at the Academy but weren't as serious about being the best at it as Harry and Neville were, they were content with being masters in firebending. Harry was a little wary of Dean because he was, as far as the boy knew, a 1st generation bender from a common family in the Fire Nation Capitol and could be a fan of Hermione's bullshit but he never appeared to show it. That didn't make Harry less suspicious though, he remembered the tale of Aiwei from Su when he was in Zaofu. He had been part of her inner circle and one of her most trusted advisors until he revealed he had been a sleeper agent and traitor for the Red Lotus and he had let in Zaheer and his team to try and kidnap Korra so it could be easy for someone like Dean to be an agent for Hermione and her cause. It was always better to be cautious just in case.
Finally after 5 weeks of almost non stop work a moment had arrived for Harry and his friends to have a bit of peace and relaxation amongst themselves. The Academy had a long weekend, which meant 4 days off on the weekend rather than 2, and as expected Harry and his friends had decided to take the time to get together and train for the bending tournament this year. The group stage had already happened and Harry's team had cruised through it undefeated. They had won last year and they wanted to be the first team to repeat as champions since his parents' days at the Academy almost 20 years ago.
Harry had booked the training arena for the afternoon so that they could all practice. The training arena was an exact replica of the one used in the Academy's bending tournament, minus the seating to conserve space, and was located in the central united part of the Academy just next to the main arena. They had it for 2 hours every day of the weekend. With 5 of them on the team it meant that one of the two waterbenders would have to sit out during the matches. That was Ginny as Ron was significantly better in probending style of waterbending as well as in general combat while Ginny was an expert healer and served as such for the team. Therefore in training Ginny would always serve as the opposing team's waterbender, making water the element they were best against. The others would rotate so the team could practice against the other elements. Now that Harry was the Avatar though it had opened up a whole new area of training as it allowed them to train 3 on 2 and face up too all the elements, once Harry had mastered firebending and learned airbending, as well as earth and water whenever Harry was on Ginny's side for practice. It would make them even better. Soon the only thing they couldn't train for would be Harry verses and earthbender.
Harry at Ginny were on one side of the platform while Ron, Luna and Neville occupied the other side. All were in full protective gear, precautions were a must. With the addition of airbending a 4th section was added to the arena to make it 4 section for 4 elements. Keeping the instant win rule when all competitors were knocked out the back the 4th section had no railing and the last section was a triangle that connected the corners of the 3rd section. It made being forced into the last section the hardest to fight in as there was no protection. While Harry could firebend he had decided to stick with earthbending in this sparring session as his firebending wasn't good enough for what they would expect to face in their next match.
Harry was sending earth disks at Ron and Neville while dodging their respective bending attacks. This was because a tactic Ron liked to use was to overwhelm the best best bender on the other team in the first moments to try and take out the biggest threat on the board, so in this case Harry. While Harry was doing this Ginny was engaging Luna with a series of short sharp water blasts. Luna was responding in kind with her airbending. Harry was weaving to avoid the fire from Neville and the water from Ron while Harry was trying to desperately send earth disks at them. Finally Harry saw an opening when Neville interrupted Ron's attack while dodging a high earth disk aimed at his shoulder. It was poor teamwork that they would have to work on. Harry used the distraction to send two high speed earth disks right into Ron's chest back to back. The force of the blow sent Ron backwards two sections where he landed hard on his ass and skidded back somehow managing to turn his body and fall down and keep one hand within the section. As he was doing this Harry was too busy celebrating his victory that he barely managed to dodge Neville's fire blast and not in time to avoid a jet of water from catching him in the gut that Ron had sent from his side in section 3. The force of the blast sent Harry back a section. Just then the buzzer sound to end the simulated round.
"Good one Harry" Ron said getting up gingerly the chest protection had protected him from broken bones but not from the bruises developing on his chest. "Your evasiveness has improved but you do get a little cocky when think you have the upper hand that's why I was able to catch you off guard like that. It may not have won the bout in the long run but it could have prevented a knockout or even forced a tiebreaker face-off."
"As have you" Harry said walking to the center of the arena so they could evaluate the simulation. Luna and Ginny's bout had ended in a stalemate. Ginny's waterbending was more fluid than Ron's so it did make for a difficult style score a hit on in the arena. "Your accuracy and power is getting better as you managed to catch me from so far away, now that's an impressive achievement and one to keep in the playbook. And Neville you've gotten better working as a team but you still need to work on your special awareness, that was how I was able to land the blow on Ron because you distracted him."
"Yes Neville very well done" A cold mocking female voice said interrupting their conversation.
As she spoke a water vortex with a woman clad only in black shot up from below. The hood of her robe was up and a her face covered by a skull mask. She landed lightly on the platform and the water drained away. Instantly the 5 friends huddled together in the center of the arena. They all took fighting stances to deal with the surprise intruder.
"Your parents would be so proud of you, oh wait that's right me and my fellow crusaders for balance and purity raped, tortured and killed them 13 years ago ." the woman said with clear joy and pleasure in her voice. "They were blood traitors anyway who I felt had information I needed. They deserved it and now I get to complete the set unless you are wise enough to see the truth."
"Who the fuck are you?" Harry demanded wary and unnerved by this sadistic woman. Harry knew Neville's parents had been murdered but knew little details of the attack as Neville didn't speak of them.
"My name is of no significance to you." She said, "But why I am here is. I am here to take you to your new home and to your new teacher and mentor. I represent a true visionary and savior, Lord Voldemort."
Harry had heard the name before. Some madman who had tried to take over the world and instill a new world order with benders on top and nonbenders as second class citizens. He had been killed by Korra 14 years ago in her last great battle a month before she died but there was little known about him or the war he waged against the world, it was all too recent and fresh to be covered. All he knew was that it had been a long and brutal war.
"The Dark Lord knows what true balance should be in the world." The mad woman continued her voice tinged with religious zeal. "The natural balance of the world is the strong must dominate the weak. We as benders are the strong ones and the nonbenders are the weak inferiors. We deserve to be on top by the right of our birth with bending abilities. We are the ones who should rule. The Equalists proved that nonbenders have been allowed too many freedoms in the world and how stupid nonbenders are as they were duped by the second greatest waterbender of all time. Shame Amon was a traitor to benders everywhere when he used his incredible skill in bloodbending to strip his brothers and sisters of their gifts. Purity is the key, the more benders in your family the stronger and better you are. We must preserve that purity in our bloodlines. I am here to take you to him and your friends as well if they also see the light of our cause, so long as you all swear your loyalty to Lord Voldemort and abide by his noble and righteous teachings."
"Benders are not superior to nonbenders" Harry said angrily. This was the same bullshit he had heard from people like Draco and he never subscribed to this racism, it was the exact thing that fueled extremists like Hermione and both sides played off each other further polarizing the world and continuing the imbalance. "All citizens of the world are equal regardless of nation, bending talents, or station in life. We are supposed to live in peace and harmony. My job is to maintain that peace and balance in the world. All your doing is throwing the world into imbalance."
"How dare you accuse the Dark Lord of creating imbalance Avatar." Bellatrix yelled the madness clearly evident in her eyes. "Lord Voldemort is the only being in recent history to know what true balance is in the world. All the recent Avatars have done is perpetuate the current imbalance in the world but don't you see you have a chance to change this. The voice of the Avatar travels far and so does your power. With our teachings you can learn to be a great Avatar, the best ever and the first in generations to restore balance, true balance, and purity to the world. With you at the Dark Lord's side espousing his righteous and perfect views we can make the world a better place. More will listen to our just cause with you on our side."
"No" Harry said taking a combat stance getting ready for a fight that seemed inevitable. "I do not side with extremists, with murders, with those who pervert nature and balance and that is exactly what you and your so called lord are doing. This is exactly what Zaheer and the Red Lotus did with their view on chaos being balance or Amon and the Equalists believing that bending caused imbalance. You are too extreme and extremes, no matter what they are, cause imbalance. There is no proof that bending heritage leads to better benders nor is it even know if bending is truly hereditary as many are born without it too two bending parents or vice versa. Now I will take you down like the rabid bitch you are. You just confessed to two murders so I suggest you surrender now and maybe the Azula Institute for the Criminally Insane will have a bed for you to occupy. After all Voldemort was killed 14 years ago you must be all that is left of his warped and twisted legacy."
"Fine have it your way." The woman said before breaking out in cackles of laughter. "And the Dark Lord is not dead, he is very much alive and we, his loyal followers, his Death Eaters, are still at large and stronger than before. Soon the world will realize the truth and be restored to true balance, purity will finally be protected and nonbenders will be returned to their rightful place. Seize the Avatar. Kill his friends we don't want any witnesses, they're blood traitors anyway they deserve no less for their crimes against balance and their own. We don't have time to use the girls for our pleasure, even if they are pretty little things."
As she said this 3 more black robed, hooded and masked individual jumped over the water and onto the platform. One shot in from the shadows on the side on fire jets, a second swooped in on an old school Air Nation glider and the last repelled in from the ceiling on metal cables.
"No surrender." Harry ordered his friends, "I will not become some madman's prisoner or puppet. Catch these terrorists if possible but if necessary kill them or we die trying."
With that Harry slammed his foot down on the platform and called up a series of earth disks from the nearest holder and began sending them at the waterbending madwoman as fast as he could. Harry was going to rely solely on earthbending and its sub-bending styles unless he absolutely needed to use fire. She was instantly forced on the defensive and began to dodge and weave to avoid the disks while trying to send water and ice shards at him that he easily avoided. Harry recognized the woman's style as Northern Style waterbending. It was elegant, fluid and full of flair just like the Northern Water Tribe. It was also the best defensive style of waterbending. She was very good, clearly skilled and well trained. Harry couldn't fault her abilities but it was clear that she had never learned probending style and the arena was built for the style. Besides Harry still had a few tricks up his sleeve. Sending one disk at the woman's head to distract her while she dodged it Harry sped up the next disk to super speeds until it became a lava disk. It was similar to the favored weapon of the inventor of lavabending for a pure earthbender, Ghazan. Harry send the lava disk at the woman. Harry say the look in her eyes as she realized the full command Harry had over his element as she began to dodge the fast spinning lava disk. The fluid nature of it made it more mobile in the air than an earth disk and thus harder to evade.
The woman dodged the disk but barely. Harry could smell the singed cloth of where it caught her robe. As she dodged she lost her footing on the platform and crashed into the wire metal wire cables that surrounded the sides of the arena. Acting on the advantage Harry dropped the lava disk, which fizzled on the stone platform, and bent the cables so that her arms and limbs were tied up leaving her trust up like a chicken pig on the side of arena. With the leader of the terrorists caught Harry turned to help his friends only to realize that they had the situation well in hand.
Ron was fighting the earth and metalbender at the far end of the platform. There was a trail of water on the platform and the hooded man's wet robes showed that Ron had landed a good shot on the man to send him away from the others. Now Ron was avoiding a series of metal shuriken the man was sending at him. He was doing so effortlessly while slowly leading his opponent towards one of the metal grates holding the water they used in the arena. Harry could clearly see the master tactician in Ron turning the tides of the fight on his opponent by leading him into a trap. Once the metalbender was over the grate Ron cause a geyser of water to erupt from the grate and engulf the man. Ron instantly froze the water as soon as it was over the man. He only left the man's head free so that he could breath but not move and thus not bend.
Harry felt his hair stand on end from a jet of air. He looked up and saw the airbender gliding around and sending air blasts at Neville and Ginny. Harry watched as Neville dodged a particularly violent blast. Crouching Neville extended two fingers on his right hand, his left pointing at the ground, and sent a bolt of lightning at the airbender. Harry assumed he was aiming for the man and was a little off as the bolt tore through the fabric of the glider and set what was left on fire. The airbender bailed from the glider while he was over the water surrounding the platform. That was a mistake. Ginny sent a water spout into the air to catch the falling man and then froze him in place the same way Ron had with the metalbender. Harry was glad to see that the woman had not rattled Neville with her earlier comments about his parents.
The last fight was between Luna and the firebender who was trying to incinerate her. As she dodged the intense fire balls, clearly this man was a fan of the Sozin era style, Harry was getting ready to get involved by metalbending the wire cable of the barrier Luna had forced him against. However before he could get involved he saw Luna do something he had never seen an airbender do before. She created a huge bubble of air around the man the completely cut him off from the others. As Harry watched Luna began to use the air bubble to siphon off the air from around the bender using complex and likely improvised arm movements. The fire in his hands flickers and died as the oxygen was removed from the air around them. The firebender fell to his knees clearly struggling to breath. Luna's brow was furrowed and beaded with sweat from the concentration of keeping the large air bubble under control, it was clearly a taxing move and Harry had no idea how she had thought of it, let alone created it. He knew an airbender could create a bubble of air to breathe in but removing the air from such a large area was unheard of, at least in his own limited understanding of airbending moves. However as soon as the bender passed out and collapsed from the lack of oxygen she dropped the vortex and fell down only to be caught in Ron's arms.
"My hero" Luna said weakly as she looked up into Ron's eyes from her position in his arms and kissed him full on the lips with an intense passion that Ron responded in kind.
When they broke apart Luna was able to stand but stayed in Ron's arms. It was about fucking time that they finally got together. It took a near death fight with terrorists but at least it had finally happened.
Harry had no time to focus on his two best friends finally finding each other. Instead he rushed to the last captured terrorist to make sure he was still alive. As soon as Harry confirmed the man had a pulse and was breathing normally he bound him with the metal cable he was going to before Luna's move took him down.
"No" the woman shouted from her tied up position. "You will not win."
Harry watched as he pupils contracted from concentrating really hard. Harry knew the look as indicative of psychic bending, a really hard talent that only the most skilled benders could do and something he couldn't do it yet though earth was harder than water to bend that way given its consistency. At least that's what he was assuming she would do. That was until he felt pressure all over his body increase to painful levels he had never experienced before. Harry felt himself being forced to his knees and could barely move, not fully incapacitated but still almost immobilized. Harry couldn't turn his head to see his friends and whether or not they were effected as well. There was only one thing that could do this to a person.
"She's trying to bloodbend." Ron grunted as if speaking was hard. This confirmed what Harry was feeling, only bloodbending could do this. "Psychic bloodbending is hard enough to do during the full moon let alone without it or during the day like now. Only Yakone and Amon have ever been recorded doing it but I wouldn't doubt that Voldemort can do it as well, he was known to be a bloodbender who didn't need the full moon to bloodbend. At least based on the little I know about him from my parents."
As he was speaking Ron was walking towards the woman who was clearly struggling with the strain of the bending she was trying to do. The bloodbending would explain her madness. Harry watched as Ron walked towards the other master waterbender as if he was walking against a strong wind, slowly and deliberately. Ginny was a pace behind him struggling a little more than Ron.
"Waterbenders who are stronger can overcome a bloodbender's hold on them." Ginny said gritting her teeth as she was struggling to speak. "Though this bitch is clearly strong given that she can even bloodbend a little like this, all tied up and during the day. If she was free and it was the full moon we would stand no chance against her hold at this point in our training as we haven't even begun to deal with bloodbending. The Academy only allows 7th year waterbenders to do any study in it because of the madness side effect. A side effect this cunt clearly suffers from. We wouldn't have been able to overcome her hold under most other situations."
"No you can't stop the Dark Lord." The woman yelled, "We will not be defeat…"
She didn't get to finish her sentence. Ron had reached her and using all his willpower he summoned up a glob of water to surround his fist. He froze it into a spiked ice ball around his fist and proceeded to punch the raving bitch who giving Azula a run for her money in the insanity department if the side of the face. There was a loud crack as her jaw broke and she slumped unconscious in the metal cables her mask askew but still covering her face.
Immediately Harry felt his body return to normal and he fell forward bracing himself with his hands so he was on his hands and knees. He had hated the feeling of being bloodbent, the feeling of being powerless, of his blood feeling like it wasn't moving. He never wanted to feel it again but Harry had to put those feelings into the back of his mind now, they had to act quickly.
"Damn I've never punched a woman like that." Ron said, "But fuck she deserved it."
"I doubt she really classifies as a woman anymore." Luna said as she walked over to embrace her new boyfriend. "she's certifiably insane, no doubt from abusing bloodbending and likely a fucked up childhood given her clearly twisted views."
"Anyway guys we have to act now whilst they're all still out cold and/or immobile." Harry said to get his friends attention. "Luna use your spirit projection to contact Master Jinora right away and tell her everything that happened here. We need the White Lotus right away to take these terrorists into custody. The rest of us will stand guard to make sure these monsters don't try anything funny."
"And ask her who the fuck is Lord Voldemort." Ginny said, "Cos I've heard the name and I know he was a bloodbender terrorist who died about 14 years ago shortly before Korra herself died but that's about it."
"I'll repeat your message verbatim Ginny" Luna said as she assumed the lotus position not noticing the cringe on Ginny's face at her words. Harry knew Luna was serious about that, language and all.
Harry and the others formed a circle around their airbender friend and looked over the 4 would be kidnappers and terrorist that they had just caught. It had been their first battle with a real enemy to the world and Harry felt that they had done well in it. They had caught the attackers without killing any or suffering an injury, let alone a fatality. None of them noticed a watery eyed man in the shadows around the side of the training arena slip away to report the failure to his master and face his wrath.
As expected Voldemort will be the antagonist in this book and this chapter serves as Harry's introduction to his followers and views. As usual the next chapter will be uploaded in a week's time. Read, review and enjoy.
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