Greetings, one and all! And welcome to Avatar Heroes and the final installment of Book 2. I hope you enjoy the... Arc finale? I guess, and now on to some reviews.
Pacjr13: Nope, Jason is dead, he has moved on to a better place... Just kidding. Just wait until Book 3.
mpowers045: You'll see it in this chapter.
And now on to the final battle against Unavaatu!
Tenzin is trying to console Korra, but to no effect. "No one can help me now.", Korra said, making Tenzin look slightly hurt. A bright light appeared at Korra's side and she saw Aether walking up to her. "The other Avatars may not be able to help you anymore, but, perhaps I can.", Aether said, "There may still be a way for you to stop Vaatu and save my Jason.".
"How?", Korra asked, her eyes widening at the thought of saving her friend. "Let go of your attachment to who you think you are, and connect with your inner spirit.", Aether told her, a motherly smile on her face, but Korra only became angry. "News flash, spirit! But Raava is gone. I'm not connected to her spirit anymore!", she vented her anger at the spirit, who calmly listened to her without interrupting her.
"Korra, I think she is not talking about Raava.", Tenzin said, looking at Aether who gave him a thoughtful look, "Raava is not who you are.".
The spirit nodded, telling them to follow her. Korra turns to look at Tenzin dejectedly, but still follows him. The trio walks up to a large, gnarly, old tree. "Why are you showing me Vaatu's prison?", Korra asked.
"This tree had a history long before it held Vaatu. This is the Tree of Time.", Aether explained, "Back in ancient times, when there was only one World, its roots bonded the spirit and physical worlds together."
"And, you think this tree can help me somehow?", Korra asked, Tenzin suddenly remembered something, "I have read that long ago, the ancients would meditated beneath this tree and connect with the great cosmic energy of the universe.", Tenzin said and once again, Aether gave him a nod.
The trio enters the hollow of the tree, and as Korra enters, various memories appear, ranging from her adventure regarding the Equalists to Wan's past. "These are my memories.", Korra muttered.
"The Tree of Time remembers all.", Aether said, looking around nostalgic before turning to her, "Korra, like Jason, the most powerful thing about you is not the spirit of Raava nor your bending, but your own inner spirit. You have always been strong, unyielding, fearless.", she explained, waving her hand making Korra's memories fade off, with an image of Avatar Wan replacing them, "Before he fused with Raava, Wan was just a regular person."
"But, he was brave, and... smart, and always wanted to defend the helpless.", Korra argued before suddenly becoming silent, "Just like Jason..."
"That's right. He became a legend because of who he was, not what he was. He wasn't defined by Raava anymore than you are.", Aether continued and with another wave of her wand, a memory of Unavaatu laying waste upon Republic City emerges.
Korra gasp while watching the memory, "Everyone in Republic City is in danger. I have too help them.", Korra said but not sure how, she was half-way around the world and she couldn't fly.
Tenzin puts his hand onto Korra's shoulder, "Do as the ancients once did. Connect to the cosmic energy of the universe. Don't bend the elements, but the energy within yourself.", Tenzin adviced. "You really think I can do this?", she asked, eyeing Tenzin and Aether. The two nodded, giving her a smile. "We have no doubt."
"Thank you for not giving up on me.", she said and the two walked out of the Tree of Time, as they exit, Aether disappeared in a flash of bright light, Tenzin turns around to see Korra seated in a meditative position, they exits the tree, leaving Korra alone to meditate.
"I am having these weird thoughts lately... Are they real... or not?...", those words echoed around Skywalker, as he felt himself drift through a never ending darkness. "Each one's power is limited... Yet, they all reach out to you. What you have in your hands is the power of the Universe... Nothing is outside the realm of possibility for you now.", Skywalker slowly opened his eyes, but closing them again as the voice continued in his head, "You must accept your destiny, Knight Of The Wind. For if you fail, we leave the fate of all Worlds to chance. You cannot lose, you must not fail."
Suddenly, his eyes flared opened, a look of determination in his eyes. Looking to his right was the only light spot in this never ending darkness. Making his way over there, he saw that it was Raava, but she was kept in place by tentacles. "Raava!", Skywalker shouted, as he started to run towards her.
It seems the tentacles where hurting her, and the moment he came close, a apparition of Unalaq appeared between them. "It seems that I failed to absorb the Avatar.", the apparition said, before his eyes started to glow orange, "I will take care of her alien instead.", suddenly he lashed out with a stream of water which Skywalker manged to doge.
"Give up, filthy alien. The same rules apply in the Aria Of The Soul as in the Spirit World. You don't have access to your abilities here.", Unalaq said as he slowly walked towards him, as if to intimidate him.
"So I don't have my powers like when I entered the Spirit World the first time.", Skywalker said, and the Dark Avatar confirmed it but Unalaq was surprised that instead of looking afraid, Skywalker was smirking at him. "We'll, than its a good thing I didn't enter your Aria Of The Soul without my body.", he continued with a smirk, shooting a Heat Blast at Unalaq forcing him to dodge the attack, but he tripped slamming into on the ground.
Looking up, he saw Skywalker standing over him, a cocky smirk on his face. Unalaq retaliates with a water blast, but Skywalker deflected it back at the attacker, who dissipates it. Unalaq turns, only to be knocked down by a kick to the head. Skywalker dodges the water attacks, retaliating with close counter punches of his own. Unalaq shields himself from another attack before bending a massive stream at Skywalker, who stops it with an ice breath.
In the mist, Skywalker attacks Unalaq with a massive upper cut, throwing him some distance. "Just give up, Unalaq. I'm too strong for you.", Skywalker said as he looked at Raava, trying to think of a way to break her free, "Beside's while you are throwing everything you have at me, I am not even trying."
Enraged, Unalaq charges at Skywalker with waterbending, only for his momentum to be stopped by another swift kick to the jaw, sending him flying once again. Speeding up, Skywalker grabs Unalaq's leg, slamming him into the ground.
Reaching out, Skywalker grabs Unalaq bends the snow beneath him, slamming Tonraq against an ice wall. Unalaq bends out a stream, which Skywalker catches and sends it into the ground. As Skywalker charges, Unalaq uses the stream to form ice structures, which Skywalker merely breaks through. Unalaq bends out a large stream, which Skywalker dodges at the last minute before protecting himself with a wall.
Behind the wall, Unalaq rides an ice sheet and charges toward Skywalker. Before Unalaq can attack, Skywalker knocks him off with an Heat Blast. Skywalker smirks in victory while Unalaq closes his eyes, bracing himself for the attack. Skywalker unleashed a massive Heat Blast, disintegrating the apparition.
"All too easy.", Skywalker said, quickly running to Raava. "Hey Raava, I am here to rescue you.", with a few quick Heat Blast, he cut her lose quickly catching her. "T-Thank you, friend of Korra.", the spirit of light said weakly. Skywalker could feel her life force slipping away, "This place isn't good for you...", he said concerned about the once powerful spirit. Thinking of a way to bring her vitality back to acceptable levels, he suddenly got it from her title.
"Raava, would it help if I let you have my light?", Skywalker asked, she was small enough to fit in only one of his hands. "I... I suppose... but it might destroy your soul, your very being.", Raava said, but Skywalker didn't care. Holding Raava in both hands, Skywalker placed her over his chest, granting her access.
A surge of power coursed through him, his eyes began to glow. "Take as much as you need Raava, you need to be strong when you rejoin with Korra.", Skywalker said, speaking with both his own and Raava's voice. Floating off the ground, he reached out with his hand, creating a small white rift, similar to one when he first entered this World, leading back to Republic City.
"Say Raava, if you and Vaatu have the same fight every ten thousand years, why hasn't one of you destroyed the other?", Skywalker thought as he walked to the portal. "He cannot destroy light, anymore than I can destroy darkness. One cannot exist without the other.", Raave said back as they exited Unavaatu's Aria Of The Soul.
In the skies high above Republic City, its buildings surrounded with vines; an emergency alarm blares. Down below, Unavaatu was standing in the bay, his arms stretched toward the water as he controls the vines that are overtaking the city. Moving on instinct, Skywalker raised his hands and a gigantic stream of fire came out of the palms of his hand, striking the unprepared Unavaatu, knocking him back, ricocheting over the water's surface.
"How!? How are you still...", Unavaatu spoke, but Skywalker silenced him by blasting him with a tornado out of the pal of his hands. "I am never going down to the likes of you, because I am so much better. None of us are going to follow your rules. Let's go just me and you, lets go just one on two!", Skywalker spoke, his and Raava's voice amplified, echoing through out Republic City and it's surrounding area.
Unavaatu rises up from the water and prepares to battle Skywalker. Both entities fire out their respective energy beams, but Skywalker focuses his beams to overpower Unavaatu's, eventually knocking him back.
"I am going to break you, like a Kit Kat bar.", Skywalker declared as he charges forward, calling upon earth, fire, air and water encircle him taking the form of four wings, but Unavaatu shoots out tendrils toward him, which he catches and uses to immobilize and grab him before slamming him toward a nearby mountain. Skywalker flies upwards, flapping his fake wings, he rains down a meteor strike of, a inferno of fire, a tornado of air and a tsunami of water, causing heavy damage to the monster.
"How... Who... WHAT ARE YOU!?", Unavaatu shouted, firing a close range energy beam at Skywalker, who counters with his own energy beam, the two attacks colliding in mid air, once again, he forces it to overpower Unavaatu, knocking him back into the ocean.
"Do not ask the sparrow how the eagle soars! You aspire to no more than the shallow thoughts of a commoner! I will not allow ANYONE to beat me at my own ambitions! My will is absolute! Unavaatu, you are my enemy and I shall make you bow to my will!", Skywalker declared as he charged forward, slamming into Unavaatu's stomach, sending him flying.
"I am stronger than you!", Skywalker declared, his attention was drawn to the skies, which started to illuminate, and a blue orb slammed into Unavaatu sending back into the ocean. The orb took on the form of a gigantic blue Korra, who looked surprised at seeing her friend flying in front of her, sensing Raava from with in him. "Jason... Your alive.", Korra said relieved, happy to see her friend well and alive.
Unavaatu stumbles from the attack, "How about you and I take this fucker out?", Skywalker said, as Unavaatu fires another energy beam at them, but they managed to doge the attack.
Back at the Spirit World, Team Avatar is forced to retreat to near the Tree of Time as they are under attack by the Dark Spirit. Bolin attacks the spirits with earthbending, but a spirit drags him away, though before it could attack, the entity was destroyed by a water stream. Near the portal, Desna and Eska attack the dark spirits.
"Leave my Bolin alone!", Eska shouted. "I am so done with spirits." Desna added. Bolin slides over to them, "Eska! I love you!" he said giving Eska a kiss and bends a rock, "Let's face the end of the world together!"
"You're so romantic.", Eska said as the trio attack the spirits.
Skywalker and Korra charge forward and punches Unavaatu before the two raise their hands, trapping him into a hurricane of water. Skywalker held it up, "All yours, Korra!", he spoke. The blue giant nodded and she started to purify Unavaatu, who dissipates into the sky in a golden light. Korra bows in respect, "Go in peace."
"Harmonic Convergence is nearly over.", Skywalker said, looking from the sky back to his friend, "You must return to the Spirit World so we can fuse once again.", Skywalker offers his hand hand, Korra touching it with her index finger, before they teleport away.
Back at the Tree of Time, where everyone was forced to retreat into the hollow. The spirits soon swarm the hollow, darkening the interior. A beam of light descends from the center of the Spirit Portal, illuminating the Tree of Time and dissipating the dark spirits.
Skywalker and Korra looked at each other for a few more moments, before they both close their eyes. Skywalker places his hands on his chest, extracting Raava from himself, as she left his eyes returned to his normal ones. It seemed to have worked, he had given enough of his light to return Raava to the same size as Vaatu had been. She then floated back to Korra, Skywalker smiled before closing his eyes and falling to the ground.
But Korra catches him in her open palms, before the projection dissipates and returns to her body. Korra walks out of the Tree of Time, carrying a unconscious Skywalker out of it in bridal style, to find her allies and Raava waiting.
Korra reaches out for the portal, which releases yellow bolts of energies from the overlapping portals. As Harmonic Convergence passes, the portals separate again and now stand upright. Korra, who glows blue with a white imprint of Raava on her chest. "The Avatar Spirit has returned.", Tenzin said with a smile
Looking at Skywalker, he slowly opens his eyes, smiling at them. "It's over.", she said softly, as she placed him back on his feet, still supporting him to make sure he can stand on his own. Mako, Bolin, Tenzin and Bumi run up to Korra. "I don't even know what to say.", Mako said, happy to have his friends back. "You were amazing."
"You were good!", Bumi said, but Bolin interrupted him. "Good? They were all great! And the way Korra turned all gigantic like that, wow! And Jason bending the elements like some sort of god! I just wished Varrick was here to film it! It would be the greatest mover ever.", he said waving his arms around, "After the Nuktuk chronicles of course.", Bolin quickly added.
"Of course.", Skywalker said with a laugh, his friends joining him, he then turned to Desna and Eska. "I'm sorry about your father. But he was already fused with Vaatu. There was no way we couldn't save him.", he said sincerely.
"It seems Ser Skywalker is under the impression we're saddened by our father's demise.", Eska said, turning to her brother, "But I will not miss him at all. In the end, he became a deplorable man.", he added. "Agreed. But how will we explain this to mother?"
Bolin then walked up to Eska, both discussing what to do with their relationship, but both agreed that they both weren't for a long-distance, but Eska wasn't going to move to Republic City, she had to turn home with her twin. "But, you will always hold the special place in the organ that pumps my blood. I will remember you fondly.", she said placing her right hand to her heart, while smiling, "My turtle duck."
Meanwhile Skywalker and Korra where walking to the northern portal, him now being able to walk on his own. "Now that you're bonded with Raava once again, are you also reconnected with your past lives?", Skywalker said but sadly, she couldn't, the link was gone, forever.
"I see. Why don't you close the portals, and we'll go home.", Skywalker said. Korra walks up to the portal and stretches out her hand, but as she reaches for the portal, she relaxes her palm.
"Maybe I shouldn't.", she said, making him look surprised, "What if Unalaq was right when he said the Avatar shouldn't be a bridge between the two Worlds? What if Avatar Wan made a mistake when he closed the portals?", she clenches her fist as she look at Bum-Ju fetches a stick for Bumi, who in return strokes its head. "What if humans and spirits weren't meant to live apart?", Korra theorized before turning to her best friend, "Well, what do you think I should do?"
Placing his hand on Korra's shoulder, he smiled at her, "I think you should trust your instincts.", Skywalker said, "You are the Avatar. Whatever your decision, I will always support you.", making his friend smile as they look at the portal.
A few hours later at the inside of the palace, Mako approaches Korra. "Hey, can we talk?", Mako asked softly, Korra giving him a nod. "There's something I've been wanting to tell you about that fight we had. I know I said it wasn't that bad, but, that's not exactly true. I, um... I-I broke up with you.", Mako continued but Korra told him she remembered, surprising Mako, as he thought he had lost part of her memory.
"I did, but being inside the Tree of Time brought it back. I'm sorry for blowing up at you.", Korra said, but Mako told her it was okay, as both of them had said things they regret. "Was that the reason Jason was angry with you?"
Mako nodded, "Yes, and he was right, I should have just told you, but ... I didn't wanna hurt you all over again. I guess part of me wanted to forget about the break-up too.", he continued before adding, "And I said Jason doesn't have a family... which isn't true, at least not anymore..."
The two agreed that as a couple, they just didn't work, so they broke up, for real this time but remained friends. Korra then walked to the balcony of the palace, overlooking the plaza where a large crowd had gathered, Korra is making a speech, with her parents, and Avatar Aang's family standing behind her with Skywalker standing right at her side.
"The war of the Water Tribes is over. Unalaq has been defeated, and the Northern fleet is returning home. The Water Tribes will always be allies, but the Southern Tribe is now independent, and the Southern Council of Elders has appointed my father, Tonraq, to be your new chief!", Korra said as Tonraq walks up to greet the audience, he is greeted with thunderous cheers, "I've realized that even though we should learn from those who came before us, we must also forge our own path. So that is why I've decided to keep the portals open. Humans can now physically enter the Spirit World, and spirits will be free to roam our world. I will no longer be the bridge. Humans and spirits must learn to live together. My mission will always be to use Raava's light spirit to guide this World toward peace and balance. Harmonic Convergence has caused a shift in the planet's energy. I can feel it. Things will never be the same again. We're entering a New Age."
After the ceremony, Skywalker had asked Korra, Asami, Bolin, and Mako to meet him at the cliff where he and Korra had been talking when they first decided to make the trip to Republic City. He was waiting patiently for them, and when all four of them arrived, he began to explain why he called them here.
"You might be wondering why I called you four here... The reason is... well... I am going back to my World.", he said, turning his gaze to the ground as all four of them looked shocked. "But why? We still need you...", Asami began but he shushed her. "Its not that I do not want to stay, but I have responsibilities in my own World.", Skywalker continued, doing his best to not cry, he was never been good at saying goodbyes.
"I know we have only been friends for a short time, but I am going to miss you all.", he muttered reaching into his pocket and pulls something out, he showed them a star-shaped lucky charms, he gave a blue one to Korra, a red one to Asami, a green one to Bolin and much to their surprise, Mako got a orange one.
"I get one too?", Mako asked surprised, Skywalker told them of course, they are friends as they hold them out, close to the other charms in a circle. "Somewhere out there, there's this tree with star-shaped fruit and the fruit represents an unbreakable connection. So as long as you and your friends carry good luck charms shaped like it, nothing can ever drive you apart. You'll always find your way back to each other.", Skywalker explained as his friends studied the charms, "Technically, I think you're supposed to make them with seashells, but I did the best I could with what I had.", he said.
"Sometimes you are such a girl.", Korra said with a smile but Skywalker still didn't get what that mean. "We will meet again. I promise.", he said before raising his hand and opening a white rift. "Wait, Jason.", Mako called out, making him stop in his tracks, "I just wanted to say... I am sorry for what I said to you... so... friends?", he offered Skywalker a handshake. But Skywalker slapped it aside, and gave Mako a brotherly hug, surprising the firebender. "Water under the, Mako. All is forgiven.", Skywalker said and with one last goodbye to his other friends, he left through the portal, a single tear dripping from his face.
Aaaaaand that is the end of Book 2! How am I gonna top the next one?... I already got some idea's. Many thanks to everyone who read, reviews, follows or favorite this story, you beautiful bastards! I hope you have a fantastic day and I will see you ladies and gents, next time and stay tuned for Book 3!