OK, everyone! This is it! It's the last chapter! I want to thank you all soooo much for reading this to the end. It's been a wild adventure for me, since this is my first of many stories, fanfic and original, that I will be writing. It's been super, super fun to write this, but I wouldn't have been able to if it weren't for you guys coming behind me and reading it all! So, here it is! The big finale!

The battle went on for a while, and after about thirty minutes, me and Aang are pretty tired and ready to be done with this. It seems that Nupira is also.

She uses a hand gesture to call over a masked man, but me and Aang make no move to stop her. She whispers something to him and he whispers a response, nods and bows, then rushes off.

"What did you send him to do?" I ask.

"I've sent him to get me some backup. This is taking longer than I anticipated."

Just then, a flaming blur shoots into the ground between me and Aang and we jump back. I quickly pull out my glider and blow into the side, causing it to open to a full glider, then I toss it into the air in front of me and jump onto it like a surfboard. I surf through the air right above Aang and smile down at him. "C'mon Aang! Try it!"

In a few seconds I see Aang grinning at me from on top his glider on the other side of the clearing. For a few minutes, me and Aang avoid Ikasa's arrows and send them in other directions with air blasts. Then I spot something. "Aang!" I shout.

Aang turns his glider around in the air and looks at me alertly.

I point. "She's brought more backup!"

Aang looks down at Akunia, then looks back up at me and nods.

"Hey, airheads!" she shouts teasingly.

"Airheads?" I call back. "Is that the best you have?"

She sends a fire blast that misses me by a few inches, then does the same for Aang. "Oh, yes, that's definitely all I have," she says sarcastically, "I just thought I'd come here to say a childish insult and leave."

I roll my eyes and send an air blast towards her. She jumps out of the way. "You'll have to try harder than that. Though, if I were you, I would just give up. You couldn't even stay conscious long enough to notice that your people were all being killed. How do you expect to beat us?"

Me and Aang freeze. That was way out of line. "Aang." I look over at him. "Don't listen to her."

Aang's breathing quickens and before I can react, he enters the avatar state and his glider falls to the ground. If we're gonna do this spirit form thing, we have to do it now. My wings form and my and Aang's eyes glow and I fly for Aang. A flaming arrow whizzes past me, then a shot of fire, but I avoid them both. Before Aang can react, I stop in front of him and grab his hands in mine, causing an enormous blast of blue light.

It's just like last time. I'm floating in mid air inside this giant person like thing. The left half is blue, and my half is white. This time, however, I notice fiery orange arrows. Where last time there was a black sphere, Aang now hovers beside me. He looks around confusedly and fearfully. "Elian?" he asks. "Are you OK?"

I nod.

He looks down at himself and lifts his left arm in front of his face, and the left arm of the spirit copies him. I look down at myself as well and lift my right arm, but the spirit doesn't follow.

"I think Han's controlling my half," I say.

"I am," Han says. "Are you sure you can control it? I know you had that dream, and-"

"What dream?" Aang interrupts.

I hear whispers and I know that the three sisters are planning their next move. "There isn't time right now, I can handle it."

I feel myself gain control of the right half of the spirit. "Let's just try walking before we try and fight."

Aang nods, then carefully steps his left foot forwards, and the spirit moves with him. I do the same, with the same results.

"Aww, look! The babies are learning how to walk!" Akunia exclaims sarcastically.

I grin. "We're learning a lot more than that."

Kuzon jumps back and narrowly misses a chi blocking shot from the masked man. He screams out as another masked man tries to hit him, but only hits his hand instead.

Soon, he's surrounded.

"Guys? I could use some help! Someone?!"

The masked men close in on him, and begin falling one by one. When the circle clears out, Kuzon is faced with Shalia and Ty Lee.

"She's on our side now," Ty Lee says excitedly.

Shalia nods in agreement. "I never trained them to defend against attacks on their head or neck."

Kuzon grins. "Got it."

We haven't been fighting for very long in the spirit form, but we haven't needed to. It's clear that even Nupira, her sisters, and the masked men are all no match against us. But it hasn't been super easy, either.

Multiple flaming arrows fly past the spirit form. The spirit form steps back from a fire blast and lunges for Akunia, who jumps out of the way just in time.

Me and Aang carefully control the spirit to bend a strip of water out of a nearby pond and begin using it as a whip. We crack the water whip beside Ikasa, causing her to stumble and shoot her next arrow into the ground.

Searing hot pain shoots through my legs and, judging by Aang's reaction, he feels the same thing. The pain causes us to drop the water and we look down to see Akunia grin at us, then turn and grin in confirmation at Nupira.

All three of them immediately attack us. An arrow whizzes past the spirit's head and I feel a warm pounding in my right ear.

The spirit steps back it's left foot, Aang screams, and Nupira pulls her sword back.

"Aang!" I shout.

I can't react further before a strong fire blast causes me and Aang to make the spirit stumble and fall back. I feel a sharp pain in my side and I instinctively swat my hand, sending Nupira skidding across the ground.

Me and Aang struggle to overpower the sisters, but it's no use.

"We can't do this! They're too powerful!" I shout while the spirit rolls onto it's side to avoid Nupira's sword.

"Han, Diak! We need help!" Aang agrees, helping me inch the spirit further from the sisters.

Han and Diak must have heard, because they take control of the spirit and me and Aang watch them fight in amazement.

The spirit jumps up and shoots it's hands into the ground, propelling the sisters into the air and letting them land with three thuds. Before they can do more than stand, the spirit sends three simultaneous air blasts from it's mouth and hands. They stand again, but Han and Diak are already three steps ahead of them. The spirit gets a water whip from the pond and cracks it. Nupira isn't willing to give up so easily and tries to get close, but the spirit whips her, causing her to stumble back. The sisters are soon forced to fall into the pond and the spirit bends over them.

"Take 'em down," says the combined voice of Han and Diak.

Me and Aang regain control and slam the spirits fists into the bottom of the shallow pond. The impact sends water out of the sides and earth straps them down over their feet, legs, hands, arms, and chests.

There's a bright blue light and the next thing I know, me and Aang are standing next to each other on the ground, our eyes still glowing. We both grin. "We did it, Aang."

We join the others, only to see that a masked man had seen Nupira's defeat and that they had surrendered, pledging their loyalty to Zuko, and celebrating being free of Nupira.

Shalia grew a great interest in the Kyoshi warriors and Suki allowed her to join and become a warrior herself. As for the other three sisters: Nupira was sent to the same place as Azula, and Akunia and Ikasa had to begin rebuilding the palace immediately.

Once the battle was over and the bad guys were taken care of, the new team avatar met up at "Kyro's" tea shop.

I step out onto the balcony and watch the sunset.

Nupira has been defeated. Everyone is safe. My twin and his friends can return to their lives and I can begin living a new one. But I think the best thing of all was that I was able to meet Kuzon. I love being around him. I love his voice, his laugh, his occasional sarcasm, everything about him.

As if on cue, Kuzon steps beside me. "Hey, Elian. Are you alright?"

I nod. "I'm just glad it's over. What are planning on doing now?"

Kuzon shrugs. "I love my dad and I'd like to go back and see him, but after that…"

"What?"

Kuzon blushes and tries to hide it by looking down. "I kinda want to hang with you."

I tilt my head. "Hang with me?"

Kuzon turns to look at me, and we stand facing each other. "What did you mean when you told me I think I made a mistake saying was?"

I feel my cheeks grow warm, then hot. "You said that since I said was that I wasn't… wasn't in love with you anymore. I shouldn't have said was. I didn't mean it. There's no was here."

Kuzon smiles gently, his face glowing with relief. "There's no was here either."

I smile back and slowly we grow closer and closer together. Kuzon places a hand on my shoulder and I in turn place a hand on the back of his neck. We stare at each other silently until our lips gently press together and we both make a silent vow to remember this night for the rest of our lives. Not as the night we won the battle against Nupira, but as the night we finally confessed to each other and ourselves that at some point during our wild journey… we had fallen in love.

My name is Elian, and I'm an airbender. This was the story of how I saved a world I was destined to save from the very beginning.

I will be posting a revised version of this fanfic on my deviantart profile, and on my ArchiveOfOurOwn profile. My deviantart profile name is FandomsUnite325, and my Ao3 name is FandomsUnite17. Thanks for reading!