Aang lowered his body onto the island. He felt his mind coming out of the Avatar State as the air aphere dissolved around him. He landed lightly on the wet, dark ground. The whispers of his past lives faded away.

Aang looked around to appreciate the island he had just made. He was impressed with the mass of land that he had conjured up from under water. He walked towards the edge of the island. He looked over the steep cliff to see a man in the water, it was one of the men he had thrown in just minutes earlier. He was splashing around, until he clambered to his feet as he came ashore. Aang could feel his anger returning. The man fell to his knees again as he gasped for air. Aang felt no sympathy for him. He jumped off the ledge and stomped on the ground next to the man, and bent earth shackles to restrain his arms and legs. "Stay here," Aang warned.

Aang made his way around the shore of the island. He stomped once with his foot to feel for any new vibrations. He felt another man walking ashore a a short way around the island. Aang raced to meet the man. He found the man on his back, his arms and legs spread out as he tried to regain his breath. He recognized the man as the bloodbender, the sick man who forced the woman to do things that she did not want to do. Aang bit his tongue as he wanted to hurt this man, but knew he shouldn't. The man looked at Aang, turning his head tiredly. Aang bound the man's arms and legs to the ground. However, Aang felt somewhat unsatisfied, the least he could do was make sure this man was uncomfortable for atleast a few minutes. He quickly bent a crescent-shaped piece of earth over the mans stomach and connected it to the rocky shore, pulling it tight until the man began to wheeze for breath.

Feeling no other vibrations on the island, except for the two men, Aang knew the other three must still be in the water. A sudden tremor of fear ran through his body, "what if one of the men drowns?" He wondered to himself. They were horrible men, but did they deserve death. No, they didn't. Aang took a deep breath.

Aang walked back towards the cliff face, with the help of his Earthbending he launched himself back onto the main part of the island. Aang walked towards the center of the island and then turned back to the edge of the cliff again. With a running start, Aang leapt into the air over the rough water. He spun himself around, pulling a vortex of water into the air to meet him. The water spun around him, suspending him in the air.

He moved forward, examining the water for the men while keeping the water vortex around him. He quickly spotted one just a few meters off shore. He watched as the man made his way onto the island and turned to look at Aang. As Aang moved forward in his water vortex towards the man he saw fear come over the man's face. He was holding his pants ups, because they were clearly undone, this was the man that the woman was forced to service. The man turned to run away, but did not make it more than three steps as Aang shot a deluge of water from his water vortex over the man, and then froze the man in place.

Aang scanned the waters from above for a few more minutes until he found the other two men together, they were trying to swim away from Aang and back towards the rest of Republic City. Aang was able to catch up to and freeze the men in the water in seconds.

Aang bent the men, still frozen in a block of ice, towards the island, where he collected the other men and restrained them in an encasement of earth.

As Aang approached the docks of Republic City, with all five of the men suspended in a different elemental jail, he noticed that he had attracted a crowd. He turned his head to see that as far as his eyesight could go, there were people who were watching Yue Bay. Once he got within jumping distance, Aang jumped out of the water vortex and onto the docks as the people let him through. He could here the water, which had just been let free of his grip, converge with the rest of Yue Bay in a splash.

With the men still suspended in the air, Aang walked off the edge of the dock, feeling slightly uncomfortable as everyone watched him, and onto the pier. Unsure of where to go from there, Aang dropped the men onto the ground, still wrapped in a personal prison of the Avatar's making.

Aang suddenly felt very self conscious, he had no idea what to do now. He turned to the side to see that people were coming in closer from their view of the bay to get a look at the scene. "Uhm," Aang began nervously, "can someone call the police?"

He looked around, waiting for someone to answer. They had formed a circle around him. An elderly man began to clap from behind in and suddenly the rest of the crowd erupted into applause. Aang heard cheers and thank you's, and other generally positive reviews. Aang felt himself blush as he put up a hand and tried to silence the crowd.

They continued to clap, until they parted in the middle and Aang could see men dressed in green uniforms riding on ostrich-horses making their way through the crowd.

As they approached Aang, he could see the expressions on their faces change. "Are you," one of the younger man began to say, "are you the Avatar?"

"Yes." Aang announced confidently.

The men seemed to relax, once they had learned of Aang's identity, all except for one of the older men. He had a stern face, accompanied by a large mustache. He made his way to the front of the police men and said in a strict voice, "what happened here?"

Aang was taken aback by his voice, he was treating Aang as if he had done something wrong, as if he were in some sort of trouble. Regardless Aang answered back in the most manly voice he could muster up, "I caught these men," Aang began, gesturing to the men laying on the ground encased in cubes of earth or ice. "Sexually assaulting a woman. So I —"

"So, you attacked and nearly killed them?" The man interrupted.

"No, I—" Aand tried to say, feeling annoyed.

"This city, does not need your vigilante justice." The man interrupted again.

"As the Avatar, it is my duty to protect anyone who needs protection," Aang said, feeling his anger come back to life. "You, sir, are not in charge of me."

"Your title of Avatar cannot and will not make you exempt from the laws of this city." The man countered. "Men, take him into custody."

No one moved, the men all began to look at each other. They were clearly unsure of whether or not they should arrest the Avatar. Aang, stood still, waiting for something to happen, prepared to defend himself. But, before anything could happen, Aang heard a rumbling come from behind him. He turned to see people jumping to the side as they saw what was behind them. Once a clear path had opened up Aang could see Toph, riding on a mound of Earth, speeding towards Aang.

When she had gotten somewhat close, she leapt off, abandoning the earth wave, and landed next to Aang. "Don't even think about it Lang." Toph warned, not even bothering to look at Aang, who she had just seen a half an hour ago. "This man just saved a poor innocent woman. You, like me, know what these sick-o guys have been doing." She said pointing a finger sharply at the men. She stepped closer to Aang, put a hand on his back and used her other to poked him in the chest hard. "This man, just saved that woman's life, and caught the rape gang. You should be treating him like a hero, not threatening to arrest him." She stared at Lang for a second.

"Fine," he said through gritted teeth.

Toph turned and guided Aang out from the way she came.

"Thanks for that Toph," Aang said.

"No problem, baldy. Lang's a dumbass anyway." She said smugly, dropping her hand from Aang's back to her side.

"How'd you know how to find me?" Aang wondered out loud, as people nearby watched them walk.

"Well, even with the crappy amount of funding the metalbending force is getting, we were still able to get metal cables hung up over the city so we can slide along those in a chase. Anyway, I was riding on one of them, on my way home, when I felt a crazy gust of wind. I had to slow down 'cause I didn't wanna fall off, and while I was riding slow I heard people gasping and heard people saying 'the Avatar!'" She faked an excited, high-pitched voice, "Then I jumped down, and followed the crowd to the bay, which by the way, what funny business did you full in the water, I could feel some crazy vibrations coming from under the bay."

"Oh," Aang said, looking out over the railings of the pier to catch a glimpse of the new island. "I kinda created an island for me and Katara."

"What?" Toph said loudly, stopping in her place.

"Yeah," Aang said, stopping to talk to her, "Republic City is too messed up for me to not be here. I need the citizens to know that their Avatar is here, and he won't allow this stuff to go on anymore," he finished strongly.

"Hmm," Toph said, walking again, "Maybe you can create me and island too." Toph joked.

Aang chuckled lightly, until he saw her.

The woman who had been raped. She was sitting on the edge of a first-aid carriage. A woman draped in white, was tending to a wound on her knee that she must have gotten before Aang found her. Aang hadn't even noticed that she was sobbing into Katara's arms. Katara must have found the girl after Aang went off to deal with the men.

Aang walked over to them, he could hear Toph trailing behind. Katara looked up as Aang walked over. The woman's sobs seized as she shuddered and looked up at Aang.

Aang looked to Katara, and then back to the woman. He began to speak, "miss, are you—"

Suddenly, she jumped up and threw her arms around Aang's neck. She began sobbing loudly again. Aang could just barely make out the words she muffled into his chest in between sobs. "Thank. You. So. Much. They. Would've. Killed. Me." She continued to sob into Aang's chest for a few more moments until she pulled away to catch her breath. She looked into Aang's eyes and said, "thank you."

Aang couldn't think of a response. He just looked back into the woman's eyes and smiled lightly.