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The First Avatar: Legend of the Star
Book 1: Earth
Chapter 14: Wings of Light Pt. 2
Haiumi felt her heart speed up as she noticed Kyora's eyes glowing and her completely changed demeanour. Gone was the shy and easily frightened Kyora and in her place was left a very intimidating copy of her. The way she stood, her expression and the dark tone of her distorted voice all oozed confidence and a silent promise that people were about to be in a lot of pain.
Everyone was holding their breaths, waiting impatiently for the girl to make a move. In a flash, Kyora darted forward and buried her small fist into the Leader Shadowbender's gut, winding him so badly that he was knocked unconscious. She quickly bent the earth around her, creating a pyramid of earth to stop the incoming shadow tendrils before jettisoning the defence, sending the four pieces of it at several of the surrounding enemies. Two lightbenders were hit, knocking them off of the platform, their lives only saved by the harnesses and cables they still war. Haiumi immediately began to assist the Avatar State Kyora, using her water to choke someone into unconsciousness before releasing them again. The small group of Light and Shadowbenders were quickly defeated, but Kyora would not calm down.
The young Avatar floated into the air with a sphere of wind before flying off, beginning her hunt for the other enemies that had been dropped around the temple. While Haiumi recovered from the stress caused by generating water, the rest of Team Avatar convened around her, Korra and Silver were both heavily injured but slowly recovering.
"Where is Kyora? They didn't get her did they!?" Asami asked worriedly, not being able to see any sign of the girl. Team Avatar looked around and noticed the unconscious Shadowbenders that had been left behind by Kyora's battle.
"What happened here?" Silver asked, panting as she was supported by Noatak and Will.
Haiumi looked at the ground sadly, "Kyora heard that the shadowbenders had badly hurt you and then she went into the Avatar State. She defeated these guys and then flew off." She explained.
Korra raised her eyebrow in disbelief, "She couldn't have…I sensed her power spike but then she completely vanished. I can't sense her anywhere." The Avatar said, looking very worried. A loud crash from a short distance away drew the group's attention and caused the two Immortal Avatars to scowl.
"Korra, let me take over! I can heal your body much quicker if I'm in control and I can help fight!" Tsukiyomi yelled. Korra didn't like relying on her too much but if things were as bad as they looked, she had no choice.
"Okay, but be careful not to attack Kyora! She can't control the Avatar State!" Korra said aloud before entering the Spirit Form, her body physically transforming into Tsukiyomi's, complete with an outfit change to the Moon Goddesses' preferred kimono. During the last ten years, both Silver and Korra had advanced their spirit forms to the point that they could transform into the physical form of their divine partner, this gave them incredible power but they were still barred from accessing all of the divine's power.
Tsukiyomi took flight, gliding gracefully through the air until she found Kyora flying around the Council Meeting Chamber. Desna and was commanding the guards on the platform to fight back the Shadowbenders on one side while the Valkyries fought the Lightbenders on the other. Tsukiyomi watched for a few moments as the small girl danced through the air, using a much larger version of her bullet sand to almost bury her enemies in small stones, a few times she actually seriously injured them!
"Korra, something is wrong here…I can see her but still can't feel her presence! She isn't like a normal human or spirit…it's like she doesn't exist!" Tsukiyomi muttered urgently.
"Impossible, if we can see her and she can touch things then she must exist! Maybe the Avatar State is just hiding her presence for some reason." Korra theorised.
"Or maybe…maybe this new Avatar State has too much raw power! She's still connected to you and the other Avatars so maybe she's able to harness the power of myself and Amaterasu! The two of us would be so powerful combined that our senses would ignore us, tricking us into thinking it's a force of nature. It's the same thing that stops us from always sensing the Spirit World and my father." Tsukiyomi said, fearfully watching Kyora.
The little Avatar suddenly turned to face Tsukiyomi, glaring darkly at her. "Stay out of my way!" she screamed in that distorted voice before spewing a bright blue fireball from her mouth, easily hot enough to incinerate someone and aimed it right at the divine.
Tsukiyomi brushed the blast aside like it was nothing, just because Kyora had a lot of power within her didn't mean she could use it properly. Tsukiyomi quickly responded by generating a large ball of water to ensnare Kyora in, hoping to make her pass out by bringing her to the brink of drowning. Kyora wasn't so easily caught however and immediately blasted the ball into steam with intense fire. Yomi frowned and followed up her attack with a forceful gust of wind, Water and Air being her strongest elements.
Kyora's air sphere was disrupted by this powerful gust and resulted in falling rapidly towards the bottom of the ravine, only saving herself at the last minute. "That was too risky Yomi! What if she hadn't saved herself!?" Korra scolded.
"Relax, I would have been able to Chi Flicker in time." The goddess said with a cheeky grin. Korra would have scowled if she was in control of her body, instead she had to use an overly exaggerated sigh that echoed loudly inside their shared mindscape. Yomi giggled and stared down at Kyora, who was still in the Avatar State. "Why do you think she attacked us? We were only watching her until she shot a fireball at us."
Korra didn't answer, not really having something to answer with. The Avatar State Kyora flew up at high speed, stopping dead in front of Tsukiyomi, looking the goddess in the eye.
"Stay away from me Moon Caller" she said in her distorted voice. Yomi gasped slightly, not having been called that since the days of her very first Kami.
"Looks like some of the old Avatars have it out for me. I don't remember meeting any other than you and Jada." She said, talking to Korra.
"It doesn't matter. Even with the Avatar State, we can still win. Knock her out gently so we can stop this fight!" Korra huffed, getting bored of not being in control of herself.
Tsukiyomi nodded and raised her leg up high, hoping to slam it down on Kyora's head to disorient her, however the girl Chi Flickered behind her. "Leave now, this cycle has already failed, you must-" She was cut off by a powerful beam of light that sent her crashing into one of the pillars on the Council Chamber platform. Tsukiyomi spun around and saw the cause of the attack; a lone Lightbender that was standing on the edge of an airship.
Unlike the other lightbenders, she wasn't wearing a mask or any face coverings, revealing her face for all to see. She had white hair that came down to her hips, red eyes and a set of White Valkyrie style armour that was partly covered by her loosely tied white cloak.
"Angels! Retreat!" she bellowed. Almost instantly, seven other airships, each with lightbenders boarded on (or in some cases, dangling from cables). Once the other airships were a short distance away, the woman turned her eyes to Tsukiyomi again. It was an odd glare, like she was looking past Tsukiyomi's face to the Avatar who was watching from within.
"We are the Lightbenders of the Angel Feather Order. It is our goal to destroy all evil, corruption and darkness in the world. We will return for the Avatar, you have been warned." The woman said harshly before turning away and signalling for her pilot to take off. Tsukiyomi growled to herself at the woman's arrogance.
"Who does she think she is? Talking to a divine like that…"
"Wow Yomi, who thought you'd be someone to get upset from not getting respect." Korra joked. The goddess just huffed and transformed back into Korra, giving the Avatar control over her body again.
"Time to see if Kyora's alright." She said, chi flickering over to the girl. Kyora was unconscious, the Avatar State cancelled and it seemed she was fine. Korra sighed in relief and picked the little girl up and returned to the others.
Both girls received a hero's welcome, and Kyora, who had regained consciousness, looked downtrodden for some reason.
Maruka was the first to notice this and hugged her friend. "You were great! Thanks to you, the bad guys were sent packing! No more shadowbenders or lightbenders for a while now." She said with a grin. Kyo looked at her sadly and pulled away from her grasp, instead walking over to the Matriarch of the Temple, Jinora. Standing before the woman, Kyora got on her knees and lowered her head, bowing to her.
"I'm very very sorry!" she yelled, tears beginning to swell in her eyes. Jinora's looked surprised and the others had their mouths hanging open in shock. "If it weren't for me, they would never have come here! Because of me, your temple and home is all smashed up! And- And!"
Jinora quickly pulled the girl into a hug, holding her tightly. "Oh child, there's no need to be sad, it isn't your fault. The damage may look bad but we can fix it easily." Kyora took no comfort from her words, but instead began to sob hard, crying out her sorrows and making even Kirok feel a twinge of sympathy for her.
"It's not just that! I hurt people, I almost killed some, even Miss Korra!" she began sobbing even harder. Jinora shifted the girl so she was holding the young Avatar like a baby, using her arms as a cradle and gently rocking her and rubbing her back.
"You are so innocent, you never meant to fight at all. If it weren't for you, a lot of people could have been really hurt! Haiumi was just telling us that she wouldn't have survived the fight without you." Jinora said quietly, soothing the girl. Kyora was entranced by Jinora's scent, it was a perfume or incense or possibly just Jinora's natural scent but whatever it was, it was sweet smelling and made Kyo think of her mother, how she used to be before Kyora was revealed to be the Avatar.
"Kyo, I know that fighting a real battle is scary, especially when you've only been training for little over a month but you need to try and be brave. It's a lot to ask, but can you be brave and continue to help protect your friends?" Jinora asked gently.
Kyora opened her closed eyes and sniffled, looking guilty and ashamed. "No." she said shakily, surprising the others yet again.
"I-I don't want to be the Avatar, I don't want to be in a war, I don't want to be fighting. I never want to fight or bend again! I want…I want Miss Silver to take my bending."
Silence fell. Team Avatar stood frozen, surrounding Jinora with Kyora still sniffling in her arms. All of a sudden they were hit with an unfortunate reality, one they hadn't wanted to acknowledge.
Avatars were thought of as the wisest and most powerful mortal beings in the Mortal World. But here was Kyora, a little girl that has been thrust into this life by nothing but chance. It had ruined her home life, turning her happy family into a boot camp marred in her parents' desperate grabs for power. It had stopped her from having friends, taken away her chance at a normal childhood and tried to make her something she wasn't.
She was the Avatar but she was also a little girl that was being used for war and battle, trained to fight for the purpose of the world that wanted to use her to sustain itself. Korra suddenly felt how Tensa must have felt and understood what had made him turn to what he was. Korra and Silver, heck the entire team had thought themselves better than the Valkyries and those other teachers but in the end, they were just giving her a choice between a hard training scenario where she was inevitably made into a weapon and a softer, more friendly version of the same scenario. Sure she would still be their friend but would they have cared about her if it weren't for her Avatar Status?
It was not a real choice, just the easy way or hard way routine. None of them had even truly considered her feelings and what she really wanted…did Kyora want to train and learn? Or did she just want a normal life?
In the face of these decisions, Silver was left with a hard choice: Respect the choices of this girl or turn her into the weapon that they needed in this war.
Silver took a breath and made her choice.
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Avatar Extra:
Paragons Pt. 2: Jonan Magnus
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The legendary first Kami of Susanoo. After Susanoo was trapped within the Star Sabre, Jonan discovered the blade after he defeated the alchemist that had captured the Divine within the blade. With no way to truly free the Divine, he instead transferred her into himself and the two became allies. His twin younger siblings, Raine and Toror, stayed beside him for the rest of the war in which he had faced the Alchemist. It didn't last long after Jonan acquired Susanoo, as she lent him her power and with it he ploughed through his enemies with ease.
Shortly after the war came to an end, a giant meteor wreathed in flames threatened the world. The Meteor was dubbed the Sun Stone because it looked like a second sun whenever it was visible in the sky. With the power of Susanoo, Jonan was able to destroy the meteor, leaving only a tiny piece left, which later became known as Sozin's Comet.
It is unknown how or when Jonan died as he disappeared. He was known to have met fellow Paragon, Jerik Taiyo but what happened on this occasion is unknown.
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Avatar Trivia:
Book 1 Chapter 14
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This chapter highlights what I meant when I said I wanted to create a different kind of Avatar. Kyora is not like the powerful Silver, the tough girl Korra or the fun-loving and clever Aang. She is really just a little girl in a fate she can't control.
The Lightbender leader is the first major antagonist we get to meet face to face. She'll be revealed more in-depth in Book 2. The Shadow bender leader, Akuan, has already been mentioned.
In the current pairing polls Maruka is in the lead. Kirok is second place, Lyrae is third, Regulus is fourth and Yanos is fifth.
Dragons are cool.
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I ran out of trivia ideas near the end...
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