Chapter 28
Korra's Successor
FIRE!...AIR!...WATER!...EARTH!
150 years ago, my great-great-grandmother Toph Beifong helped Avatar Aang defeat the Fire Nation and end the Hundred Year War.
77 years ago my grandmother, Airbending Master Opal Beifong, helped Avatar Korra defeat the Earth Empire dictator Kuvira.
But like all before her, Avatar Korra passed away. That was years ago. Then like the passing of the seasons, her spirit was reincarnated into me on the day that I was born, which was the day after she died.
I am Avatar Sierra! And now it is my destiny to master all four elements and bring balance to the world!
Earth 38, DEO Headquarters
Third person point of view:
Arthur Haff was waiting for his fellow magicians to arrive.
A breach then opened. Through the breach came two people wearing the uniform of the esper.
"Everyone," said Arthur Haff, "allow me to introduce to you my mentor Alastor Moody, and my Apprentice Dudley Dursley."
Harry Potter and his fellow witches and wizards looked at them with surprise.
"Alastor Moody, and Dudley Dursley are your mentor and Apprentice?" asked Harry Potter.
"Yes." said Arthur Haff.
Harry walked up to the alternate universe doppelganger of his cousin.
"You are Dudley Dursley?" asked Harry Potter.
"Yes." said Dudley Dursley matter-of-factly.
He did not look like Dudley. He had a superficial facial resemblance, but he was thin. Healthy weight. Not the overweight cousin that he had come to know. And another thing that just seems so out of place on his cousin was that this doppelganger looked...smart. There was way too much intelligence in his eyes.
"The son of Vernon and Petunia Dursley?"
"Yes."
"Petunia Dursley, maiden name Evans?"
"Yes."
"Sister to a Lily Evans?"
"Yes."
Dudley was extremely curious about this line of questioning.
"And is she still alive?" asked Harry, thinking of some version of his mother still being alive in some form.
"Yes."
"And married to a James Potter?" this time this question came from Severus Snape.
"No." said Dudley. "She's not interested in men. She's a lesbian."
"Oh." said both Harry and Severus in unison, half disgusted half curious.
Alastor Moody's doppelganger was also different on accounts that his face was immaculate with not a single scar, and of course he had 2 real normal eyes.
"In our universe he was a member of the Order of the Phoenix." said Hermione. "But he was killed by Voldemort."
"Interesting." said Arthur Haff. "And I'm sorry for your loss."
Arthur then turned to Alastor Moody. Alastor Moody spoke first.
"What is the situation?" asked Alastor Moody.
"Renesmee Cullen." summoned Arthur.
Renesmee Cullen then walked up to Alastor Moody and placed her hand on his face and gave him her memories.
"Interesting." said Alastor Moody. "Dark Sorcerers are not something that we usually deal with. But he must be stopped."
"Did you bring the item that I requested?" asked Arthur Haff.
Alastor Moody then reached into his pocket and pulled out what appeared to be a hazy milky semi-transparent yellow Crystal.
"We still need to prepare it." said Arthur.
"What is that?" asked Severus Snape.
"This amulet," said Arthur as he held up the crystal, "is the containment vessel for the Fiend Specter. We are going to cast some very powerful spells on it in order to prepare it, ultimately in the end what it will do is it will act like a human host for the Fiend Spectre to inhabit, only we will simply need to keep it safe and lock it away."
"Would the Fiend Spectre ever be able to get out?" asked Harry Potter.
"Should the Amulet at some point in the future be destroyed, then the Fiend Spectre will reincarnate in an unborn baby somewhere."
"Also, I think I know how to make all of you significantly more formidable in a fight against the dark lord." said Arthur.
"How?" asked Severus Snape.
"I would like to teach you all wandless Magic."
"But our wands are the source of our power?" said Ronald Weasley.
"That is where you are wrong Ronald Weasley." said Arthur.
"Your magic does not come from your wand." said Alastor Moody. "Your magic is inside you. Your wand is only a tool. It allows inexperienced novices to be able to cast fairly simple spells more quickly."
"But if you can master magic without a wand, you will find that you'll be able to cast Spells significantly more powerful without the need of incantations. Ultimately it will make your wands obsolete."
"Is that possible." said Hermione.
"Only if you believe." said Arthur.
He then turned to his Apprentice.
"Dudley, myself and Master Moody will begin the preparation of the containment vessel. You take our magical guests through the instruction on how to use wandless Magic."
"Yes master Haff." said Dudley.
It was then that another person was escorted into the room by some of the DEO agents.
"Excuse me." said the voice of a teenage girl beneath the hood. "I was informed that this was the place to come if you are a Multiverse refugee?"
Supergirl then walked up to the girl.
"That is true." said Supergirl.
She then took off her Hood.
"Well, about a month ago I came through what you refer to as a, breach, and I have been stuck here ever since."
Agent Winn Schott then waves a sensor device over her body.
"Dark Matter radiation signature. She's definitely a Multiverse refugee." said Winn.
But then it was Benjamin that recognized her.
"She works for Voldemort!" said Benjamin in anger. "I fought her during the battle! She possesses the ability to manipulate Earth!"
She raised her hands in surrender.
"Wait!" she said in a panic. "Please! I wasn't myself then."
Benjamin fired a fireball at her without thinking or waiting for further explanation from her.
But the girl that held out her hand and dissolved the fire before it hit her. In retaliation she did a high spin kick which fired a fireball out of the sole of her boot at Benjamin, but Benjamin held out his hand and dissolved the fireball before it struck him.
They were about to continue their fight when Supergirl and Jon Jones stepped between them.
"Please don't fight in here." said Jon Jones.
"Benjamin." said Amun. "Let us hear this woman out."
Edythe Cullen however reading her mind then spoke first.
"She was mind-controlled during the battle. Voldemort was using some magic to pull her strings."
"The Imperius curse." said Severus Snape.
Bella and Renesmee then stepped in front of the girl.
"Who are you?" asked Bella.
Before she can answer, Renesmee placed her finger on the girl's temple and gave her her memories.
The girl then answered Bella's question.
"Sierra Beifong." said the girl. "I am the Avatar." she stated matter-of-factly as though it was something anyone would know.
They fit her with an armband that would scan her subatomic structure to find her true Universe within the Multiverse.
"That title, The Avatar, doesn't mean anything to us." said Barry Allen.
"How did you escape Voldemort's control?" asked Harry Potter.
"I was put under his control when I first arrived here a few weeks ago." said Avatar Sierra. "Ever since then my mind was sort of in a haze and I just kind of did whatever he commanded me to do without me thinking. But then he disappeared through breach a few hours ago and the moment that he was gone all of a sudden I had my mind back.
"I busted my way out of his headquarters escaping his goons and I found my way here when I heard about the Multiverse Refugee crisis."
"You escaped a horde of Death Eaters?" asked Draco Malfoy in disbelief.
I am very powerful. stated Sierra matter-of-factly.
"Tell us your story?" asked Bella.
Flashback
The Avatar the Last Airbender universe,
Sierra's point of view:
My name is Sierra Beifong. I was born in the metal bending city of Zaofu, home of the Metal Clan.
I live in the Beifong Mansion within the city. The city has grown into quite a metropolis. Skyscrapers and spreading suburbs everywhere within the densely mountainous region. My parents are the son and daughter-in-law of the Airbending Master Opal Beifong, and the lavabender Bolin.
I spend my days talking to my friends on my cell phone, and playing games on my laptop computer as well as looking up information on the United Republic database.
At about age 4 one of the metalbending Masters was teaching a class of basic earthbending for young novices. The first step in the class was to determine whether or not the young earthbenders who had never earthbended before were in fact earthbenders. After the earthbender aptitude test was done on all of us, I passed, I was an earthbender and therefore capable of bending Earth, (though I had in fact already earthbended many times before that). Many of the students in the class turned out to be non-benders and therefore could not bend Earth at all, while all the kids in the class that were actual earthbenders demonstrated earthbending ability with varying degrees of success. I myself showed extraordinary ability with earthbending. The first step in the class was to simply try and levitate small rocks with our minds. That was the bare minimum basics, in order to move larger heavier Earth we needed to become like Earth. Earth is the element of substance. It is sturdy. It is hard. It is unyielding. We took the standard stance of bodily position in order to be like the Earth. Within a short time I was lifting large boulders and hurling them telekinetically. I could shape rock and dirt to anything I wanted it to be. I got better every single day. My parents were so proud of me, both of which were metalbenders.
By age 10 I was an earthbending Master.
Then they began to teach me metalbending. This was difficult. Many non-metalbending earthbenders say that only one in every hundred earthbenders can learn metalbending, but for nearly two centuries now some metalbending Masters claim that any earthbender can learn metalbending with proper instruction. And in Zaofu it was proven true; every Earthbender in Zaofu has successfully learned to metalbend.
I was not only capable of bending Earth, but I was able to use the earthbending technique 'seismic sense', to create a sort of radar sense to be able to close my eyes, and see with earthbending by feeling the vibrations in the earth and walls around me.
Metalbending was hard, but with instruction I began to get it. I did after all come from a long line of metal Benders all the way back to the first ever metal bender. I was handed a piece of Steel where when I touch it, close my eyes, and then with earthbending sense the minute traces of other elements in the piece of Steel in the form of impurities. This made my Earthbending believe that the metal was Earth. We learned a variety of different techniques with metal bending, one technique that I became good at was metal bending with a spool of Steel cable.
One year later I had the full nack for metalbending. And since metalbending is so hard, those who Master it become exponentially more powerful with regular Earth.
Shortly after I turned 12 years old, I was in a metalbending class that was testing aptitude. There were Auditors there from each Nation. A firebending master from the fire Sages. The waterbending master from the Order of the White Lotus. An elderly airbending master, Guru Meelo, from the new Air Nation. And an Earth Kingdom Bishop from the earth Earth Kingdom City of Ba Sing Se. Why they were here observing this class?, no one knew. But they had us do all kinds of unusual things. They had us practice meditation. They walked up close to each of us looking each of us in the eyes. They asked us some questions about our lives. They had us stare at fire, and at water, and at a feather, all while they observed us doing it. It was strange, boring, and tedious.
This went on for nearly a month.
Then one day at the end of one of the classes we were all lead outside to where a percentile of the city was congregated together.
Then the four spiritual leaders of the four nations stepped forward and spoke.
"Each and everyone of you is an extraordinary earthbender." said the Fire Sage. "Many of you have been wondering why we are here?"
"As you are aware," said Guru Meelo, "12 years ago Avatar Korra of the Southern Water Tribe passed away. She was our Avatar for 75 years. After a significant amount of time had passed we began conducting aptitude tests throughout the Earth Nation on all children who were born on or around the day that Avatar Korra had died. And the results of the aptitude tests have lead us here and has been narrowed down to a single individual, for we are here to announce be identity of the next Avatar."
There was a murmuring of curiosity among the crowd and my fellow classmates.
My eyes open wide I was astonished, what could it be? One of my classmates is the Avatar? That has to be it. One of my classmates that is standing beside me right now is the Avatar.
"When we reveal the Avatar's identity, please show respect." said Guru Meelo.
Guru Meelo walked up to me. Me? Why did he walk up to me? The other three spiritual leaders then walked up beside him and they all looked at me.
"Sierra Beifong?" asked Guru Meelo.
"Yes." I acknowledged.
"It is a joyful privilege and a humble honor to serve you...Avatar Sierra." said Guru Meelo.
The four spiritual leaders then got down on their hands and knees and bowed to me. And then several at a time in quick succession everyone who was there who could see me bowed to me as well.
I was overwhelmed. I had never imagined this. How could this be!? How could I be the Avatar?
I had always taken pride in the fact that I was an earthbender, but the idea that I could bend fire, or water, or air, this is overwhelming. I was speechless.
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