Chapter 14: The Fairy of Airbending

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4 weeks later

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Morning in the woods.

Four weeks after Femke had joined the Red Lotus.

In the morning, Femke came out of the grotto they hid in first, stretching before she walked to the campfire and poked it back to life. She got the cooking pot out and started to make breakfast. When she was done she walked to the entrance of the cave.

"Everybody! Breakfast!"

Femke called with a smile on her face as she shook P'li carefully to wake her up, who opened one eye in a teasing way, before she opened her eyes fully.

"I'm up, I'm up."

She said, yawning as she sat up and looked at Zaheer, who was lying next to her and still asleep as Femke tapped Ghazan on his head lightly to wake him up. Ghazan moved his hand up over his shoulder in reply and patted her back, which earned him a firm smack on the back of his head.

"Get up, Zaheer 2.0!" Femke scolded him as she went over to Ming Hua and rubbed her over her back gently to wake her up as well. Ghazan groaned in reply and turned around, acting like Zaheer did every morning and patted with his one hand on the head of Ming Hua, who was just waking up as well and didn't like it to be slapped.

"Ghazan!" She therefore growled, which made Ghazan snap his head up immediately, turning pale at seeing it had been Ming Hua he had been slapping and not P'li.

"Not again!"Ghazan exclaimed as he dashed off, followed by a angry Ming Hua.

"Well, that woke Ghazan up. Now only zaheer is left." P'li commented with a smile on her face as she stretched and got some things to wash herself in the river.

"Yeah, that's your job. I have breakfast for you afterwards." Femke said as she left the small grotto now, stirring the soup as she heard Ghazan wash up by the river as he was being scolded by Ming Hua for slapping her on her head while he knew she didn't liked to be waken up like that. Before he walked out before her to the main camp, ignoring Ming Hua as he sat down.

"Good morning, Femke."

Ghazan said as he looked up at the brunette with a smile on his face and he rubbed a towel over his ear to get the water and the soap out. Ming Hua grumbled something and sat down as well, giving Ghazan a firm prod before she sat down at Femke's other side.

"Morning. Breakfast is all set."

Femke said to him as she handed him a steaming bowl, which he accepted soon after him, Ming Hua followed, who just took over the bowl then started to use her water arms to eat.

"How's Combustion Bending coming along? Any progress?"

Ghazan asked Femke with a smile on his face which earned him a glare from Ming Hua who always liked it when things were quiet, especially after just waking up.

"I created three explosions in a row before fainting last morning. P'li still needs to get Mister Sleepyhead out and get ready herself. I presume we're going to head to training after that."

Femke said as she pointed to the entrance of the cave where P'li was talking to a still sleeping Zaheer, trying to wake him up.

"We most likely go train after she..."

Femke started, but stopped as she heard a firm explosion followed by a yell.

"That was just a warning! Next time I'll hit! Now get up, you lazy ass!"

P'li's voice called out after which she came out of the cave, half bending over as she came through because she was rather large, before she sat down with Femke and accepted a bowl of food from her.

"Wow, you almost hit him this time, by the sound of it."

Femke joked to P'li. The past four weeks she had seen her use her Combustion Bending to wake up Zaheer if he didn't feel like it a couple off times, but it hadn't sounded like the hit was THIS close to Zaheers feet before.

"He deserved it. He hit me with a pillow."

P'li joked at femke as Zaheer exited the cave, rubbing a towel over his bald head as he smiled at his team.

"Okay guys, we're far enough from the world of the living and Aiwei has had some time to get away as well, so I'm going to try and contact him tonight."

Zaheer said as he sat down and got a bowl of food from Femke who also sat down with her own bowl. The food Femke had brought from Zhaofu had ran out by now, but Femke knew where in the woods all kinds of herbs and fruits grew they could eat. In this way Femke had made herself useful in the group, and they had two grown quite attached to her.

"I am certain the Avatar will try and follow him. I will ask him for the location he is in and I will try and pass it along as I stay in the spirit world to keep the Avatar talking." Zaheer said, lightly tapping Femke on her shoulder when she didn't seemed to pay attention. This was something femke didn't do on purpose. She just hadn't felt like she had been part of a team for a long time that she had to get used to it again. By now it had started to work.

"Femke, if you like to, you can come along to the spirit world."

Zaheer told her. Femke now looked up at him with a surprised look. Sure, she had started to Airbend soon after she started her training with Zaheer, but the spirit world, through meditation. You had to be very spiritual to get that done.

Femke's POV

"Do you think I'm spiritual enough to meditate into the spirit world?"

I asked as I looked at our leader with a shocked look.

"Yes. I have watched you closely during training and I think you would be able to and. I talked it over with the rest. We all believe in you."

Zaheer said as he placed a hand on my heart. as he did so, something strange happened. My medallion, the medallion of my past life Feria, started to glow. A sign I found yet another Voortrix fairy.

'Why? I have been here for six weeks by now and this isn't the first time we touched. So why does it only reacts now?'

I thought as I took my medallion in both hands and looked at it with a pondering gaze.

To access the power the connection with the power and the connection of the heart has to be strong as one.

A voice called from out of the medallion, sounding like Feria's voice as the glowing stopped, because Zaheer pulled back his hand looking at the medallion with a shocked look.

"Why was your necklace glowing like that?"

P'li asked with as she looked at my medallion that now lied in my hands calmly.

"It's Feria; my past life. She is warning me that another Voortrix is nearby. I think it pointed out Zaheer. He's the new Voortrix."

I said as I looked at my new friend and our leader with a smile on my face.

Zaheer's POV

"It's Feria; my past life. She is warning me that another Voortrix is nearby. I think it pointed out Zaheer. He's the new voortrix."

Femke smiled as she looked at me, before she held out her hand for me with the small stone in her palm.

"Me? Why? How?"

I asked, unable to comprehend that her medallion had suddenly started to glow because I touched her, which somehow proved I was a Fairy. Just like her.

"This has to be a mistake. I touched her many times before and nothing happened then. Now all off a sudden this happens?"

I told Femke, who smiled and nodded.

"I know. But Feria just said; to access the power, you have to have a strong connection with your powers and your fellow Voortrix members."

Femke now calmly explained.

'A strong bond in the heart and with the power.So that's what it was. That's what I felt all this time.'

I thought as I reminisced about the past four weeks in which Femke had grown as a member of the group quite strongly in a very short time, while the others had to slowly adjust to each other as the group we now know formed itself, especially P'li had gotten a hard time, since she knew so little about love and care by the time she got into the group and Ming Hua can be quite harsh with her words, though she almost never means it that way.

'It was her magic at work that made that we got attached to her so fast. That has to be how it went.' I thought as I looked at the black and white medallion in Femke's hand.

"Okay, so he is a fairy. So?" Ming Hua asked, breaking my trance.

"Nothing, I mean, yeah I can train him but Zaheer must be willing to. The magic won't show unless he is willing to accept his powers." Femke said as she looked at me with intriguing eyes.

"So, if I accept you're going to teach me how to be a fairy." I asked now as I raised a eyebrow at her.

"Exactly. If you refuse, well… I'm not going to force you to do something you don't want to." Femke calmly said. "But I might bring up the subject from time to time to make sure you won't forget you are a fairy. That's a power you were born with."

Femke said, which made me look at her with widened eyes.

"You mean to tell me I was born with these special powers and no one except you can see them?"

I asked, since I never heard my parents say anything about special powers or the simple fact that I was special except for the role they chose me for.

"Well after age seven or eight you mostly start to show signals that you're a fairy. Your parents never told you?"

Femke asked. I shook my head as I thought back at my youth. Yes, I had always gotten whatever I wanted without any protest, but that was because my parents were rich. But they never told me I had made strange things happen. Things they couldn't explain.

"No. They never mentioned anything about me making strange things happen and I haven't noticed anything strange myself as well. So there must be some mistake here." I said, not sure what to think of this whole Fairy thing.

"I don't think so. The medallion wouldn't react on just anyone and if you want proof, just lightly place your hand on the medallion."

Femke said as she stretched out her hand with the medallion in it so that I could place my hand on it. I looked at the others with a hesitating look on my face, before I nodded and placed my hand on hers, after which I felt everything spin around me.

I was in a village, everything and everyone in it looked happy, people in strange old-fashioned clothing were living their daily lives. Some of them had wings. Others had a strange green skin. What was this place? The Spirit Realm?

All of a sudden, a dark cloud appeared above the village and a man with strange wings came from out of the sky.

"Give me the Voortrix power and you will live!" It exclaimed.

"Over our dead bodies you monster!" A group of eight winged creatures, all of them not looking older than twenty called, as they stepped out of the crowd and in front of the innocent people. Of them a woman with black hair and green eyes caught my eyes. I gasped at her as my mind somehow zoomed in. Seeing she looked like me! And the one next to her, I gasped again, was Femke! Only her hair hung partly before her face in a long ponytail, which covered one of her eyes.

"This is going to be a dangerous one, Feria. I can feel the dark energy in him. Its strong." The woman who looked like me told the other Femke, who now seemed to listen to the name Feria, at which Feria looked up, making me raise an eyebrow, since I could now see why her ponytail covered one side of her face; she missed one eye.

"I know, but we can't let him win. The Fate of the world rests in our hands."Feria said as she gave her friends a very stern look before they started to fight the Dark Lord.

People were shouting things, the Voortrix tried to keep up, but the Dark Lord was way to strong for the young and unprepared Fairies. Besides, no one seemed to be believing in the Voortrix. From the place I was still standing I saw the girls give each other a nod, before they held their hands in the air, as they said something in a strange language, a light flashed and I heard the creature they had called Darkar scream before everything went black.

I gasped as I retrieved my hand from the medallion and looked at Femke with a shocked look in my eyes.

"Do you believe it now? That was us just now, fighting for the Fate of the world and lose. Our bodies were destroyed. Darkar was defeated for the time being but it was foretold that he would return, and if the Voortrix wouldn't be ready to face him by then, all would be lost."

Femke said with a solemn voice, at which I looked at her sternly.

"What do you mean, all will be lost? If you fail we can still fight!" Ghazan said with a stern voice, not willing to give up, just as much as I wouldn't give up, and I knew if that this Darkar was as bad as Femke made him sound, nor would Korra and the other benders of this world.

"I mean it. If Darkar gets his hands on the Voortrix power, nothing, not the Avatar, not even the great Dragon Flame, which created the magic universe, can stop him." Femke said as she sat down and made a platform appear before her with several pieces, holding it up at two corners and only one piece holding the up at the other two corners.

"It's the balance of the world. In Magix there is a very stable balance. More than one planet has inhabitants there and together they keep their corner of the balance up, with one destroyed..." With this Femke took one of the pieces from the corner, which didn't affect it at all "The whole thing keeps stable because the others catch it for the lost. Like when the Voortrix home planet named Voorfield was destroyed." Femke explained "And even the loss of another planet named Sparks made it that the balance there was barely affected." Femke said as she took another piece away, the whole construction kept itself stable still.

"But the Avatar world only has a single inhabited planet. A single world that keeps the construction going. Something Darkar knows by now and if he destroys us here..." Femke said as she took away a single piece now, at which the whole construction fell apart.

"All the worlds will be doomed." Femke said with a dark voice, which made all of us look at each other. Knowing that if even the avatar, the protector of our world wouldn't be able to stop Darkar, that person or thing meant bad news.

"Though we will fight! All of us will fight! I'm sure of that! And it has to have a weak spot, right?" Ghazan asked now as he made a pose as if he wanted to fight.

"I'm sorry, but with the Voortrix power in his possession he will be invincible. I'm sure everyone will try and fight, but they will lose." Femke said as she looked down with a sad look, which made us all silent.

"Then it's settled. Tell us what to do and we will all do our thing to defeat that monster before it's too late." Ghazan said with a firm voice, and we all nodded in agreement, we all believed the natural order was disorder, but what Femke told was something even us, the Red Lotus couldn't allow to happen.

"Well, for the time being we can't do anything, so we best finish this mission. For now." Femke said as she nodded at me with a small smile on her face.

"Anyway, like I said, we need to contact Aiwei in the Spirit World in Xai Bau's grove at sunset." I said as I rubbed the back of my neck, before I looked up at the sun, seeing to my big shock we had been talking so long that it was already somewhere between Eleven and Twelve o'clock, meaning we have been talking for two or three hours.

"So we still have time. I will explain to you how to get into the Spirit World after your training with the others." I told Femke with a smile on my face, happy she still wanted to be with us and finish the mission, despite me being a Fairy now.

Femke's POV

"So we still have time. I will explain to you how to get into the Spirit World after your training with the others "

Zaheer said, at which I gasped. I couldn't wait to meditate into the Spirit World. I had seen Aang meditate into the Spirit World a couple of times before but I had never been able to do so myself. Mostly because I thought I wasn't spiritual enough for it. The remainder of the day seemed to crawl by, doing my usual chores and ever since they had all told their stories (except Zaheer for some odd reason), I started to mother over them a little. Which caused Ming Hua to be annoyed and the remainder of the group to accept it. Anyway, I'm getting off subject now. The last part of the day was hard for me since we all had nothing to do anymore, and where I normally started to do some sewing work, I was now nervously waiting for Zaheer's call to go into the Spirit World.

"Femke, are you coming? It's time." Zaheer finally called. I got up and put my sewing work, which I had started on anyway to pass the time a little faster, to the side and walked to where he was sitting, sitting down across him in the lotus position.

"Close your eyes and relax. Concentrate on nothing but my voice. Let your spirit split from your body and float free." Zaheer said. I tried to do as told, emptying my mind and concentrating on his voice only and letting my spirit roam around freely. But as I did the long buried memories of the past started haunting me again.

"Let it play out." Zaheer's voice sternly said, noticing I was haunted by old memories once again.

"I can't." I mumbled, breathing heavily as the memories started to get more intense.

"Yes you can, just like when we started your Airbending training, Femke. Accept what happened to you, don't fear what might have been." Zaheer's voice said wisely. I now frowned, trying to concentrate on what I had learned during my Airbending lessons. But it was very hard, that was until I felt several hands on mine. I opened one eye and peeked at my hands, but there was no sign of other hands on mine.

"That's odd. I could have sworn I felt them." I thought and just as the thought left me I felt the same sensation again. This time I just enjoyed the feeling as in my mind all of us stood together and hugged each other and when I opened my eyes again, I was standing before Zaheer in the Spirit World.

"Welcome to the Spirit World." Zaheer said with a teasing smile as he motioned to the amazing looking place that looked mostly like a massive forest with little and big spirits floating all around us.

"It's amazing." I gasped as I took a few steps and looked at the sky. It was bright and blue and more spirits were floating up there.

"You can explore the forest while I deal with Aiwei, but stay close, I will be under the big rain tree if you need me." Zaheer said before he disappeared from sight. I nodded and started to wander around the forest a little, before I climbed into a tree and jumped from branch to branch, until I heard Aiwei and Zaheer talk.

"What happened back in Zhaofu?" Zaheer asked with an angry voice which made me gasp a little since I hadn't heard him angry before. Ever since I joined the team, really. "You told me we wouldn't have any problems getting the Avatar. Because of you, we've all been compromised." Zaheer said firmly, at which Aiwei took a step backwards, obviously scared of Zaheer.

"No, any evidence was destroyed when my library burned." Aiwei defended himself as he raised up his hands in a defensive way, clapping them together when he said the word 'burned' signing to me he must have used some sort of explosive to burn everything.

"How is the girl you held captive before doing? Femke." Aiwei asked, trying to change the subject. At this, I jumped down from the tree and walked up to Zaheer and Aiwei, looking at Zaheer with a small smile.

"As you can see, she is doing well. She joined us and is helping us in our cause now." Zaheer said as he pointed to me, at which I nodded in a proud way "So, where is your physical body now?" Zaheer asked as he stepped up to Aiwei in a threatening way.

"At the Misty Palms Inn. But there is no need to worry, I was not followed."

Aiwei said as he looked at Zaheer with a stern look as a sign he meant it, but as he did so I saw something move behind a nearby tree, and as I looked better I saw it was Korra. I looked at Zaheer with a shocked look, telling him with my eyes something was up, before I went back to my physical body, not wanting Korra to see me.

"Back already?" P'li asked with a smile on her face "How did it go?" She continued as she leaned in on me in a interested way.

"Yeah, it was great. Though Korra must have followed Aiwei somehow. I came back earlier to avoid her seeing me I want to keep my presence in the team a secret until the last moment, as an element of surprise" I explained with a small smile on my face and after that I started to tell about everything I had seen and heard in the Spirit World. Which was harshly interrupted as Zaheer started to mumble.

"Avatar…Korra…. Misty…Palms… Inn…Find…Her…" Was what we heard him say after P'li and I had moved close to listen closely.

"Wow, that's awesome. I haven't seen that power before." I mumbled as I looked at P'li with a shocked look, who just shrugged. "Ghazan, you and Ming Hua go retrieve the Avatar. Femke and I will stay here and make sure Zaheer's body is safe." P'li said as she nodded to the water and lavabender, who got up and went out without saying a word.

"Aw. And here I thought I was getting to knock in some heads today." I called out teasing, at which P'li smiled and ruffled my hair.

"That's for later, alright? You have to stay out. Element of surprise, remember?" she smirked at me teasingly as I stuck my tongue out at her.

"Yeah, you're right. But sitting here and watching Zaheer mumble to himself is going to be boring. So I think I'll take a nap. Wake me if something interesting happens." I said as I lied down close to the fire and looked into it for a while, before I dozed off to sleep.

P'li's POV

"Aw. And here I thought I was getting to knock in some heads today." Femke whined in a childish way at which I ruffled her hair with a teasing smile.

"That's for later, alright? You have to stay out. Element of surprise, remember?" I smiled at her in a teasing way, at which femke stuck out her tongue at me in a childish way. I smiled, having learned more of these childish things over the past few weeks then I had EVER learned with Mogui.

"Yeah, you're right. But sitting here and watching Zaheer mumble to himself is going to be boring. So I think I'll take a nap. Wake me if something interesting happens." Femke said, before she lied down and closed her eyes. I nodded smiling as I made sure she was warm enough as I stroked her hair, looking from Femke to Zaheer with a pondering look. I felt Femke didn't actually went to sleep for the first few minutes, before she gradually slipped away.

"I sure hope Zaheer's lie never has to be revealed. I love having her around. She's like the mother I never had and she is bound to hate us if the truth comes out." I thought as I looked at a sleeping Femke with a small smile on my face and for one moment I felt guilty about what we had chosen to do to get her on our side, that I moved my hand up to Femke's back to wake her up and tell her the truth. But I changed my mind when I thought about all the possible outcomes of her discovering the truth.

'It's for the best she never finds out. She would be heartbroken if she did.' I thought as I got up and walked to the entrance of the cave, looking at the stars and then at the forest with a dreamy look in my eyes, looking up shocked when I heard shifting behind me. At first I thought it was Femke who had woken up, but when I looked up I saw it was Zaheer who had come back from the Spirit World.

"Hello, Love, how did it go?" I asked him in a whisper so Femke wouldn't be woken up

"Good." Zaheer replied with his usual tone of speaking, which made me shush him and point at Femke, who gratefully didn't wake up by the sound of his voice.

"Good, Aiwei is in the Fog of Lost Souls and Korra has fallen for our bait, Ming Hua and ghazan went to get her I see?" Zaheer asked me as he looked around, noting the water and earthbender weren't here.

"I sent them to get Korra, leaving Femke as our element of surprise for the final battle, which is bound to come." I smiled, looking up as I heard two sets out footsteps and the sounds of groaning. At first I thought Ghazan and Ming Hua had taken another hostage along with korra, but I gasped in surprise when I saw they had two boys instead of the Avatar.

"The Earth Queen's army snatched up the Avatar before I could." Ghazan spoke up as we looked at the two boys with a puzzled look.

"But we figured you could find a use for these two." Ming Hua said with a smirk on her face.

"Load them in the truck." Zaheer said as he looked from Ming Hua and Ghazan to me with a smile on his face. "We're taking a trip to Ba Sing Se."he said as he grinned down at the boys. Obviously he had found a good 'use' for these two boys. I was wondering what it was as Ming hua and Ghazan loaded the prisoners in the truck, I placed Femke down in a corner of the cabin, not wanting to wake up our new friend just yet. As the truck started to move, we were on our way to Ba Sing Se.

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And with that I end the fourteenth chapter of the story. I hope you liked it! Were going through season three of Legend of Korra fast now! And I hope you all like the small additions I made during my second favorite episode of the series! My favorite was "Enter the Void" because of the awesome battle and the oh so bittersweet death. Though it broke my heart to see P'li go…

A/N:

So, yeah. Zaheer is a fairy; the Fairy of Airbending. The name of his past life is Zedinia which means 'Flying Warrior' in the language of the people of Voorfield were all the Voortrix fairies originally came from and adds up perfectly with Zaheer as well if you ask me. He isn't going to use any magic until after the end of Season Three, but keep in mind that he knows and is a Fairy

In the little flashback we saw Lord Darkar fight the Voortrix, but fail to get the Voortrix Power, now we all know the Winx defeated Lord Darkar in Winx Club season two, but I thought that could be a temporary defeat. He could find a way to come back (just like the Trix seem to be able to break out of any jail somehow.) and go after the Voortrix Power yet again.

Well that was all for now. I sure hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading! And thank you paranoidgirl for doing such an amazing job as a beta reader! Please Review!