Water.
Earth.
Fire.
When I was 16, I learned that I could control all three elements, and that it was my duty to keep the world in harmony and balance.
But before I could do that, I had to learn to control the final mystical fourth element: Air. But those who know of it died a long time ago.
The chief of my tribe told me that someone still lives who knows the art of Airbending, but he lived in Republic City, where crime and hate for the benders grow strong.
So I journeyed to the city, hoping to find the last piece of my destiny.
I am Avatar Korra, and I am ready to take on the world.
Tenzin felt alone in his cold cell.
With only the floor to sit and sleep on, and a tiny window showing the tall buildings of Republic City to entertain him.
It was night, and all you could see were fires from the riots in the streets.
He looked around, and saw that he was probably the oldest inmate of all the cells of the prison.
New people were coming in every minute, young and old, all of them benders. They were each kept in a specially chosen prison, to make sure they couldn't escape by bending their way out.
It felt like a Fire Nation prison.
With nothing else to do, Tenzin sat on the floor, and began to think. He was now on a prison populated by benders, the very thing he despised all these years. After running from it all his life, he was now categorized with everyone else with the religion of his father.
Despite being amongst equals, he felt completely alone.
"Battle stations!" yells the Field Commander.
Tanks, cannons, and hundreds of Republic City soldiers and police line up to the main entrance of the city.
Mr. Qiang, in full battle gear, heads towards a ramp to talk to his soldiers.
"Listen everyone! The recent outbursts of bender violence in our city after we passed the Bill was nothing compared to what will come from the benders that are, at this very moment, heading towards our city."
Some soldiers look at each other and gulp.
"These benders are dangerous, skilled, and past offenders. We also have information that one of them is the Avatar himself."
Some soldier's feet crumble.
"So get ready. We will not lose this battle today. We will stop them right here, and we will apprehend them, and we will defeat them! They will not enter this city!"
Korra and the gang enter the city.
Mayor Sho sleeps soundly in his room.
"XAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"
Sho wakes up from the fright.
He looks around, everything is fine.
"Huh, must have been a nightmare." said Sho, and immediately went back to sleep.
The soldiers and police wait at the Main Entrance of the city, waiting for the benders to come.
Mr. Qiang looks around with his binoculars, wondering where they are.
A soldier comes up to him.
"Hey, Boss, how long are we going to be here?"
"We are here to protect the city, we won't leave until we get those benders." says Qiang.
Korra and the gang walk through the city streets. They can hear riots happening blocks away.
"This is scary." says Di.
"The police are raiding homes, capturing every registered bender in the city." says Meelo.
"We have to go and free them." says Xiao.
"No, first we have to get the Mayor, and convince him to stop this." says Korra.
"And then what, Korra?" says Meelo. "We run up to the Mayor's Palace, using our powers to get rid of any opposition, and capture him? That isn't going to work."
"He's in charge, he is the only one that can change it." says Korra. "If we can convince him to change his mind, we can stop all of this."
"You better hope your Avatar skills of negotiating are good enough Korra, because it sounds like we are going to our doom." says Meelo.
Tenzin waits in the prison...
He is sitting on the floor.
He's getting angry.
"This should not have happened. I should not have let her in my apartment! Why did I let her in?" says Tenzin to himself.
"Because you are a good person."
"What? Who said that?" says Tenzin out loud.
Other people in neighboring cells start to think he is crazy.
"You are a good person, Tenzin. You were raised that way."
Tenzin gets up and looks out the window. There's no one there.
"Who is this?" asks Tenzin.
"Chaos is falling to Republic City. They are scared, and hateful of people who are different..."
"You better tell me who you are..." says Tenzin.
"What do you want old man!" yells a guy from another cell.
"Not you!" yells Tenzin back.
"...but you weren't like that, Tenzin. You were nice, and let that girl and her friends into your home for the night."
"Well, actually just the girl, but..."
"...you let the girl stay in your home for the night, despite she being from the kind that you have tried all your life to separate yourself from."
"No, that's not it all, I did not..." continued Tenzin out loud, apparently to himself.
"...yet you still showed that you cared. You kept relics from your heritage in your home, and you cared very much for them."
"Well, I didn't really..."
"You cared very much for them, even if you had to put on a face anytime something happened to them. You tried to convince yourself that these things were fantasies, that they were not real."
"They weren't..."
"..and you succeded." said the voice. "You succeded in convincing yourself to believe it was all a lie."
Korra and the gang come up to a corner.
"Wait!" whispers Li.
They all go back and hide.
"What is it?" whispered Meelo.
"Look." whispers Li.
He points at the hundreds of soldiers and police lined up at the Main Entrance.
"Are those there for us?" asked Korra.
"Looks like they are trying to keep us from entering the city." whispered Meelo.
"They didn't realize that we could enter through other parts of the city, like we already did?" whispered Korra.
"Guess not. Let's get rid of them while we still have the element of surprise!" whispered Meelo.
"No wait, I have a better plan." whispered Korra.
"XAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH"
Mayor Sho wakes up again.
"What is going on here?" says Sho to himself.
"So what are you saying?" asks Tenzin.
"Think about it, Tenzin. Think and look back at your whole life, all you have done, especially at what has happened in the past few days."
"And then what?"
"Then do what you decide."
"I can't do anything, I am in prison!" yells Tenzin.
Then there was silence.
No voices, nothing.
Tenzin looks around.
The people in the other cells are seemingly terrified of him.
"Hey, I am not crazy! Don't look at me like that!" says Tenzin.
They all quickly turn around.
Tenzin breathes, and sits down.
After all, he can't do anything, he's in prison.
Then he starts to think.
"Wait, no!" yells Tenzin, as he snaps himself out of it. "I am not going to listen to some voice in my head!"
Tenzin looks at the other people.
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!" yells Tenzin.
They all turn around again.
"Hey, old man, shup up." yells a prison guard down the aisle.
Tenzin breathes, and closes his eyes.
Korra, Xiao and Wei Tung Earthbend a tall wall surrounding all the soldiers and police at the Main Gate.
"What is going on!" yell the soldiers.
"How could I have been this stupid?" says Mr. Qiang.
Korra jumps to the top of the wall, and looks down upon the hundreds of soldiers stuck inside the perimeter.
"Well, look at all of you down there. You look like ants!" yells Korra.
All the soliders, police, and Mr. Qiang look up at her.
"Who's that?" asks Mr. Qiang. "Is that a girl?"
"I'm Korra, you yo-yo. I'm the Avatar." she says.
Meelo, Wei Tung, Xiao, Li and Di jump on top of the wall and line up beside her.
"And we are Team Avatar!" yells Meelo.
"And we are going to take back this city." says Korra.
"XAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Mayor Sho jumps out of his bed.
"That is enough! I can't take this anymore! Who is there!" yells Sho.
He grabs a baseball bat to use as a weapon.
"Come out!" yells Sho.
"Look in the mirror." says a voice.
Sho looks in the mirror, and screams.
"Who are you!" says Sho, terrified.
"I'm you, Sho." says the reflection. "Or, I guess it's best to say, you are me."
"What?" asks Sho.
"You are nothing but a trojan horse, Sho. You are my vassal, my vessel." says the reflection.
"Who are...I?" asks Sho.
"I'm Shoxah."
The mirror breaks as Sho collapses to the floor.
A gust of wind travels throughout the city.
It flows across the streets, skimming the building sides, eventually hitting the prison.
A gust of wind enters through Tenzin's prison window.
Tenzin opens his eyes.
He feels the wind flow around him.
Tenzin thinks about this.
"What have I been doing?" he asked himself.
He remembered everything his father taught him, with vivid memory. He remembered the feelings he hurt by leaving his family. He remembered the anger he wallowed in for the vast majority of his life.
"What have I done?"
He remembered practicing with his father at the Southern Water Tribe, doing Airbending steps. He could never get anything to work, but his father never lost his patience. He then remembered doing the same steps with Korra on the rooftop of his apartment.
But he could not remember what the steps were, it seems he momentarily forgot it during the commotion.
"How did it go again?"
He got up, and got in his stance. He breathes, and moves his feet like the heavy treads in a big truck. He moves his hands into a circular motion, and creates tremendous momentum with the circular energy, moving with ease. He unleashes that momentum forward with a large grunt!
He felt a gust of wind.
He looked, but it came from the window.
"Of course, how could I think otherwise? It's obvious."
Tenzin thinks himself to be a fool, and sits down again, unaware that the gust of wind did not in fact come from the window.
