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Welcome to the next chapter of Avatar: Duality.
Hope your going to enjoy it and now on to the reviews.
SuperSaiyajin4Vegeta: Yeah, it does that doesn't it. That quote from Vegeta comes from Dragon Ball Abridged by Team Four Star. Though I think I wrote it down wrong.
Haro654: You smelled that right.
ABEBOABDU: You got your wish.
Anon3874: Yeah, I might have made Korra a bit too unsympathetic for drama reasons... Don't worry, Soshi isn't going to be happy either.
NinjazNeverDie: Very soon, and yeah I liked the idea of Akira having a special fire color, like how Azula had blue fire. Believe me, Soshi isn't going to be happy when he finds out.
Actually I was just looking up Asian boys names and I liked Akira the most because as you said, it means 'bright' or 'clear'.
Spartan 108: Maybe he will return.
chadcalebt: Yeah, as you might have realized, English is not my first language. As for why they went to the mansion... Uhm, free breakfast?...
And now on to the story.
The following morning, with a groan, Soshi woke up in his bed. Sunlight was shining through the window with the open curtain as the doorbell rang again.
"Mitsuzo!" Soshi groaned, pulling the blanket over him, hiding his face under it to block out the sun, "The door."
But after a few minutes, Soshi opened one eye when he heard the doorbell again.
Groaning again, he stood up and wrapped his body in a nearby bathrobe. Taking the walking cane next to his bed, he began to walk out the room with a pretend limp..
"Mitsuzo?" Soshi shouted confused as he walked down the hall, looking around the house as he walked down the stairs and into the entrance hall.
The doorbell rang once more before Soshi finally opened it, revealing Asami standing there, a newspaper under her arm.
"Answering your own door?" Asami said, sounding both confused and surprised.
"Yeah..." Soshi said, stepping aside to let her inside and closing the door behind her, "I like your new hair cut."
"Thanks. Loving the beard." Asami said, holding up the newspaper so the front page could be seen, "So you can walk again and back in action. Nice new suit by the way."
On the front was a large picture of Dark Avatar evading over a baulder of earth, with big letters written above:
The Dark Avatar Returns!
Soshi attempted to take the newspaper, but Asami pulled it back, "No. You get washed and dressed right now." she said sternly, "You can read it in the car on the way to Kwong's Cuisine."
"Why are we going to Kwong's?" he asked.
"For the food of course." Asami said dryly with a roll of her eyes, "It's time you and Korra meet again."
"K-Korra is here? In Republic City?" Soshi said, a hint of happiness in his voice, before looking a bit sad, "Why wouldn't she have visited me?... No, that doesn't matter. She is here now."
He dropped his cane and rushed up the stairs, "I need to get dressed, maybe something fancy... Maybe something not so fancy." He began to mutter quickly to himself, "Can we stop by a flower store? Oh, Who am I kidding, I'll give a quick call and have them delivered at Kwong's just in time for us to get there."
"Soshi! Just hurry up!" Asami said, a hint of a smile at how he was reacting.
Later at Kwong's Cuisine. Korra, Mako, Akira and to their annoyance prince Wu.
"You know Avatar, I am the rightful heir to the throne" Wu said, poking Mako in the chest with his elbow, "This guy's boss. I bet he's told you a lot about me."
"Nope." Korra said, "Not a thing."
"Then we have so much to talk about." Wu said, putting his arm around Korra's shoulder, much to her surprise, "You are going to love the food here, I know the chef personally."
A small growl was heard, and they turned to look at a scowling Akira. "Get your hands off my mom!" he ordered the prince.
To Mako and Korra's surprise, Wu complied, holding up his hands as if surrendering.
"Damn, Akira is one scary five year old." Mako mumbled, as the young boy turned back to his piece of paper and continued to draw.
"He got that from his dad." Korra said with a small chuckle, leaning towards her son, "Thanks Akira. What are you making?"
"A drawing of Vigil." he said, before showing the drawing, which showed a crude drawing of the Dark Avatar shooting fire from his fist against the crude drawing of Kuvira Loyalists, "I want to give it to him next time we see him, as a thank you for rescuing me."
Before Korra could say anything, she spotted Asami followed by someone she had been both excited and dreaded to be seeing again.
"Soshi Shuang!" Mako said happily.
"Hello Mako." Soshi said with a smile, an arm behind his back, turning to the love of his life. His amber eyes staring into the sky deep blue eyes of Korra, "H-Hey."
"H-Hey." she said, staring at him, "...It's good to see you again, Soshi.",
"Yeah... it's been too long." he said, leaning on his cane, "You uhm... Look nice. I like the... hair."
"T-Thanks." Korra said, gesturing to his upper body, "Love the... suit and... cane."
Soshi cleared his throat, "Thank you... Uhm..." he said, suddenly removing his arm from behind his back to reveal a large bouquet of different flowers, "I-I got you this."
"Thanks..." Korra said with a faint blush, accepting the bouquet, "I am saying that a lot lately..."
The entire time this conversation was going on, Akira was looking confused between his mom, who had gone a bit red in the face, and this weird man with a cane.
"What just happened?" he asked.
Soshi turned to the young boy, and he nearly froze in place as his eyes widen in shock. "Uhm... Hallo." he said, a bit of a weird smile as he extended his hand, "Who are you?"
"Akira." he said, shaking hands, "And you are."
"I am Soshi Shuang, nice to meet you Akira." Soshi said, letting go of the smaller hand before looking to Korra, "Can we talk outside? Alone?"
Walking through the kitchen, Soshi walked into the alley way, Korra behind him. Once the door closed, he turned on the spot to face her.
"That boy... Talk." Soshi said, having to do his best to keep in temper in check.
"Akira is my... No, our son." Korra admitted, "I wanted to write you but... I guess... I didn't know what to say."
"What about, 'Hey Soshi, your a dad'!" he yelled sarcasticly, turning away from her.
"I'm sorry I didn't stay in touch, but I had already put you through so much and..." Korra tried to explain, but even she thought she had acted very stupid, "But I'm back now, and you can get to know Akira..."
"Well that makes everything better now, doesn't it?" Soshi said, turning back to her with an unnerving smile, before yelling at her in anger, "But that doesn't change the fact that you took five years away from me being in my son's life!..."
"Your right..." Korra agreed apologetic, tears rolling down her cheeks, "I should have..."
"You don't get to disappear for five years with my son and then act like your so sorry." he interrupted her, "You know I would have wanted to be there... For him, for you... You had no right keeping his existence from me!"
He turned away from her, before walking out of the alleyway. "Soshi! Wait." Korra said, running after him.
But once she get out of it, she spotted Soshi sitting in Asami's Satomobile, slamming the door shut and drives off with screeching tires.
Mako, Asami and Akira run out to check on Korra, who was standing there, tears still running down her cheeks.
"Hey, is everything okay?" Mako said, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"No..." she mumbled sadly, her throat feeling very dry, "Everything is not alright..."
"Mom, are you alright?" Akira said softly, hugging his mother's leg, "Did Mr. Shuang hurt you?"
"No Akira." she said, kneeling down to pull him in a hug, "I hurt him."
Mako and Asami looked at the mother and son, before the CEO of Future Industries realized something.
"Did Soshi just steal my car?" she said, still feeling her key in her pocket.
Down the road towards the leading out of Republic City, Soshi was waiting at the side of the road. On the radio had the news reported that Kuvira's army had gathered outside the city of Zaofu.
A cop stepped off his motorcycle and approached his window.
"Ah Mr. Soshi Shuang." the cop said, "Do you have any idea how fast you where driving?"
"Too fast for this road?" Soshi said irritated, "Just give me a fine and I will be going."
"Please step out of the car, sir." the cop said.
"I have no time for this... I just had the love of my life betray me, I found out I am a dad. I just want to go home." Soshi said, finally turning to the cop, "And if you don't get the hell out of my way, I swear by the Spirits I will use this car to run you over and then back up again just to make sure it did the job!"
Some time later, the Dark Avatar was flying his new fighter jet towards the city of Zaofu and over the valley where the army of the Earth Empire is stationed.
"I hope I'm not too late." he thought, activating it's hover mode to land his jet in the city of Zaofu where the Beifong family, along with Opal and Jinora where waiting for him.
"I can't believe it..." Jinora said with wide eyes as they walked into the house, "Dark Avatar? I can't believe it, where have you been? You disappeared; everyone was so worried!"
"Long story, will tell you about it later." Dark Avatar growled, "Right now, I want to help you stop Kuvira. What can I do?"
"Go into the Avatar State and demolish her entire army." Suyin said, "Remove Kuvira from power once and for all."
"I will, if Kuvira does not see reason." Dark Avatar growled.
"Kuvira doesn't listen to reason." the elder Beifong said.
"I hope so." he growled, "I really want to punch something."
"Oh, the Earth Empire is fucked now!" Opal said, blushing when everyone stared at her surprised with what she said, "Sorry."
"Well your right about that." Dark Avatar growled, turning around whispering before he left to Jinora, "We will talk later."
Down in the encampment, in Kuvira's tent, where the woman herself standing at a round table with a map of the area with two soldiers at her side.
A small device was thrown into the tent, and what followed was multiple flashes of light.
She used her arm to protect herself from the flashes, but when her sight returned to normal, she found her two soldiers beaten on the ground and the Dark Avatar standing among them.
"The Dark Avatar, it's such an honor to formally meet you." Kuvira said, "The last I heard, you had disappeared."
"I am only telling you once, Kuvira." Dark Avatar growled, straight to the point, "Take your army and leave."
"I think we both know that's not going to happen." Kuvira told him, "I understand you're just trying to do Su a favor, but you can't come to me as I am on the verge of reuniting my nation and tell me to stop. The world was descending into chaos while you were gone. In order to fix it, I had to make some tough decisions..."
"What? Am I suppose to sympathize with that?" Dark Avatar growled, taking something from his belt, "You have six hours to leave, before I demolish you and your entire army."
He threw a smoke pellet to the ground, covering the entire tent in smoke and once it disappeared, she saw that he had disappeared.
It had been two hours since them, Dark Avatar was crouching on the roof, giving him a view of the valley, where Kuvira's army was, it had shown no sign of moving. He heard someone land on the roof behind him, but he didn't turn around as he spoke, "I wondered how long it would take for you to come to me."
"Is that really you under that mask?" Jinora said, approaching him. He turned to her, lifting up his mask to reveal Soshi under it, "It really is you!... When did you..."
"A few weeks ago. I had Noatak used his bloodbending to fix my back." he explained, putting the mask back on, "I have been training since then, getting back into shape."
"You used an illegal art of bending?" the young airbending master said, "Are you sure that is wise?"
"It was the only way..." Dark Avatar growled, "I'm sorry for how things turned out five years ago. When I pushed you away. But I couldn't let you go out on your own just yet... You weren't ready. I wanted to protect you."
"I am an airbending master now, you where there at the ceremony." Jinora said, sounding bitter, "For what wasn't I ready?..."
"Taking up the mask." he growled, this came to a surprise for her, "One day, I might not be able to be the vigilante Republic City needs. If that day comes, I want you to be the heir to the mask."
"Me? I can't be Vigil the Dark Avatar..." Jinora said, "There must be..."
"That's just it. There is no one else." he told her, "You wanted to protect Republic City. You would be the only person I can think of to be my successor. The only other person that could come close is the next Dark Avatar."
"The next Dark Avatar... you mean?" Jinora said.
"Since when do you play the pronoun game?" Dark Avatar growled dryly, "But yes. Like how the Light Avatar Spirit causes the Avatar to reincarnate. It only stands to reason that the Dark Avatar Spirit will make me reincarnate... When that happens, I would like for you to be my airbending master."
"I... I would be honored." Jinora said with a smile, "Maybe you should create an special group to guide the next Dark Avatar. Like how the Light Avatar has the White Lotus."
"Something like the Black Lotus? I'll have to look into that." Dark Avatar chuckled a bit, "But we can look into that..."
He was cut off mid-sentence as he felt two arms wrapped around him.
"I missed you, Vigil." Jinora said softly.
To her surprise, two arms wrapped around her as well. "Missed you too, Harrier." he whispered softly.
Four hours later, down on the valley floor in Zaofu, where Kuvira's army stands ready for battle, their banners flapping in a brisk wind. The Dark Avatar, flanked by Jinora and Opal walk toward the front line, where Kuvira, detached from the rest, stands waiting for them.
"Are you ready to hand Zaofu over peacefully?" Kuvira said determent.
"You call bringing an army to threaten our city 'peaceful'?" Opal said, looking around the crowd, "Where's Bolin? I know he would never go along with this!"
"Bolin is with my fiancé, working on something very important." Kuvira said to the young airbender, "But, I assure you, he's on board with my plans. You two haven't been close enough, have you? What with him being in love with Soshi Shuang's insane half-sister... Now turn over Zaofu."
"I can't just let you take the city." Dark Avatar growled, "Last chance, stand down."
"Dark Avatar, you are interfering with internal Earth Empire business, and letting your personal feelings get in the way of reason." Kuvira said sternly, "Zaofu cannot continue to rule itself. They have been hoarding their riches and technology too long. I'm here to distribute those resources fairly throughout the nation. This is about equality."
"You sound a lot like a certain Fire Lord." Dark Avatar growled, "This isn't about equality. This is about control."
"Just take her down!" Opal advices him, "You know it's the right thing to do! You have to stop this!"
"She is right. The only way you're going to keep me from marching into Zaofu is if you physically stop me." Kuvira said, turning to the Dark Avatar, "Now what are you going to do?"
Kuvira smirks, turning to address her troops, "I want you all to know that I would never ask any of you to do something that I'm not willing to do myself." she spoke, walking in front of the lines of infantry, "So, rather than risk your lives, I will fight the Dark Avatar one-on-one."
She turns to the Dark Avatar and she continues to speak, "Dark Avatar, if you win, then you can do whatever you want with Zaofu. But after I beat you, I want you out of my business for good. I'm the one who brought peace to the Earth Empire, not you, not the Light Avatar and defiantly not Suyin Beifong. You're not relevant here anymore."
"You want to fight the Dark Avatar?" he growled, "Fine. Let's finish this."
Jinora speaks to him, making him glance down, "Are you really ready to fight her?"
"Just stand back and watch." Dark Avatar growled, "It's been a while, but I got a lot of pent-up rage."
"Don't mess around!" Opal said, "Kuvira is too good! Just go into the Avatar State and get it over with!"
"I won't be needing it." Dark Avatar growled, about to step forward but Jinora puts her hand on his arm.
"Be careful." she said concerned, before she and Opal left Dark Avatar, retreating to a safe distance.
Dark Avatar steps forward, his cape floating after him as Kuvira steps forward to challenge him.
"Use whatever you want: all the elements; the Avatar State; anything you need." Kuvira said, smirking as she takes up battle stance, "I know you must be a little rusty."
"Tell me something, Kuvira." Dark Avatar growled, taking his own battle stance, "Do you bleed?"
He suddenly fires two jets of flame at Kuvira, who sidesteps the first and ducks under the second, slightly off guard. She spins back around to face the Dark Avatar, who had already closed the distance and delivers a heavy punch to her face.
"Never mind." Dark Avatar growled dryly, holding up his fist to see that he had some blood on his glove.
Kuvira use the back of her hand to wipe the blood away, jumping toward her opponent, flinging an arc of earth towards him, which the Dark Avatar dodges as he bends a stone up at Kuvira's face.
But she swings her head out of the way barely in time, but leaving her open for a fiery punch to her stomach.
As she stumbles back, she flings two metal clasps at Dark Avatar's extended wrist and ankle and uses them to fling him tumbling through the air.
With a loud thud, Dark Avatar crashed to the ground, tumbling to a stop and momentarily unmoving. The soldiers in Kuvira's army cheer loudly, Kuvira straightens up, laughing as she resumes her fighting pose, "Is this the legendary fight against the Dark Avatar?"
"Legendary fight for you." Dark Avatar said, as he recovered, "Normal fight for me." he launches a fissure at Kuvira, but she rolls out of its way and also dodges his airbending attack.
The Dark Avatar launches himself into the air and shoots an air blast at Kuvira, which she dodges once again. Dark Avatar shoots fire, but the metalbender moves the earth under him, causing him to lose balance, but Dark Avatar retaliates by knocking her down with a rock to the chest.
Kuvira shoots a couple more rocks at him, but Dark Avatar dodges them all and traps Kuvira's foot in a fissure before blinding her with a metal band of her own arm and hitting her with a air blast.
"You won't ever beat me, Kuvira." Dark Avatar growled, "You know why?"
Tearing the metal from her face, Kuvira looks up just in time to find another fist to the face, sending her thumbling to the ground.
The Great Uniter dodges a couple of blasts from Dark Avatar, before shooting a few metal plates at her, all of which miss Dark Avatar through his own bending.
Kuvira shoots a few rocks, but Dark Avatar throws up a wall for cover; the two opponents push the wall back and forth in an attempt to knock the other down, to no avail. While Kuvira is holding the boulder at bay, close to herself, Dark Avatar disintegrates the rock, causing Kuvira to fall to her knees.
"Because I will always be one step ahead of you." Dark Avatar growled, slowly stalking towards her.
Kuvira growls shooting rocks, but Dark Avatar turns the ground under her's feet, so that she faces the other way. Kuvira recovers and bends a boulder at her opponent, but he bends water at her, freezing it around her ankle.
"It's... Only a matter of time before I beat you!" Kuvira yelled, breaking the ice and lunging for him.
"You know when that will happen?" Dark Avatar growled, stopping Kuvira and blasting her away with airbending, "Never."
The Great Uniter gets up again, only to find the Dark Avatar floating above her as he ride an air spout. He launches himself after the metalbender, blasting her even farther away.
Kuvira's hair untangles in the process; as the Dark Avatar takes an enormous boulder with her, preparing to crush Kuvira. She pulls herself to her hands and knees, slowly raising her head to face him.
"It's over Kuvira. I have the high ground." Dark Avatar growled, his voice echoing with power, "Now yield."
Kuvira stands back up, she let out a defiant yell as she shot two plates at the Dark Avatar, who merely deflected them and locks them around her wrists.
The Great Uniter looks shocked as she was slammed into the ground and encasing all but her head in a mound of earth, trapping her.
"It's over." Dark Avatar growled, send simultaneous blasts of air at Kuvira; she flies through the air, landing hard on her back in front of her troops.
Rising to her feet with the help of two of her soldiers, she angrily cries out "It's not! Attack!"
The army charges forward, but the Dark Avatar rises upon his air spout in his Avatar State, combining his fire and airbending to create a fiery tornado. Several soldiers are blown away and set on fire as the rest are rendered unable to do anything but brace against the raging, scorching wind.
"Zaofu is under my protection." Dark Avatar's growling voice echoed being carried by the wind, "Now begone!"
The fiery tornado pushed back, forcing the army of the Earth Empire back and away from the city of Zaofu.
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Also here's the Extra:
Back inside the small café somewhere in downtown Republic City, at a booth close to a window giving a view of the street.
Soshi and Jason are sitting at their table, Soshi still sitting in his Dark Avatar suit, with a cup of coffee in his hands.
"Why are we doing this again?" Soshi asked.
"Because your story is almost over, so we need to cast the protegonist for the next Avatar story." Jason explained just as the third judge entered.
The young man had his black hair unkempt at the front, his bangs covers his right grey eyes. He had a light build, he was shorter than average for his age. He was dressed in a navy blue and white T-shirt, black skinny work pants and navy blue shoes.
"What up muggles?" Clark said, sitting down between them.
"Hey Clark." Jason greeted him.
"Who is this?" Soshi asked.
"Only the third most populair OC of Skyguy." Jason said, "He's from the Potter Verse."
"Can we get this started already?" Clark spoke in his British accent , "I have a few more chapters to star in, because Skyguy want to finish my story before the year is over."
Some time later, Jason is reading a paper, Clark is looking grumpily at the person across the table and Soshi is looking down and rubbing his temples.
"So in your resume. You list your previous experience as, 'Beating up an one-dimensional British villain', 'fighting... Not-Thanos', and... 'World Record Holder for highest R-rated movie premiere records'..." Jason finally said, "But I was interested about this section you included, 'Recommendations for merging the... cinematic universes?' What does that... even mean?"
"It means that my franchise probably only has enough steam for one more movie, and I want in on this little shindig of yours." Deadpool said.
The three say "No," in complete unison.
Deadpool remarks as he's leaving, "Stupid fucking 'no X-Men for a few years' bullshit..."
"Okay, next..." Jason began, but suddenly heard someone yell his name, "Oh god, Danvers... Be right back."
Standing up, he rushed outside.
"So Clark, I have been thinking." Soshi said, turning to the shorter man, "Why don't you become the third protagonist? I mean, your a lot like me. Dark, brooding, smart, a bit of a Sue and you already have a built in back story."
"I don't know, my back story is 117 chapters long." Clark noted.
"Jason's story is still longer!" Deadpool shouted as he walked past the window.
"Piss off Wade!" Clark shouted.
"I think I am missing something..." Soshi said as a loud explosion was heard in the streets behind them.
"Was that a personal attack or something!?" a female voice shouted.
"Carol! I punched you in the face!" Jason's voice shouted, "How more personal can it get!?"