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The First Avatar
Book 1: Mind
Chapter 38: Endgame Pt. 2
The Pro-bending Arena. A place that once glorified the talents of benders as they struggled to conquer each other. It symbolised everything Amon hated about bending, it was only fitting that it be the venue for his final speech of triumph. He appeared on his stage and was immediately greeted by the thunderous roars of his legions of followers.
"Thank you all for joining me on this historic occasion!" he called and the crowd cheered in answer, "When I was a boy, a firebender struck down my entire family and left me scarred. That tragic event began my quest to equalise the world."
"That's a lie, Amon!" a familiar voice echoed across the arena. The entire room turned toward the source of that noise, seeing four equalists standing on the referee's platform. They stripped off their masks to reveal Korra, Bolin, Silver and Lin Beifong, "Or should I call you Noatak?" Korra finished.
The gathered crowd were less than enthusiastic at the appearance of the Avatar and her allies, they booed and heckled, Korra ignoring them never taking her eyes off of Amon.
"You want her taken out?" asked the Lieutenant.
"No" Amon answered, raising his hand to the audience, "Everyone calm down, we have nothing to fear from the Avatar. Let's hear what you have to say." The audience immediately quieted down, eager to hear what Korra would say.
"Amon has been lying to you! The spirits didn't give him the power to take bending away. He uses bloodbending to do it." Korra pointed an accusing finger at Amon, "Amon is a waterbender!"
The arena burst into whispers and gasps, arguing over the truth in the Avatar's story. Amon was unfazed, "You're desperate Avatar. Making up stories about me is a pathetic last resort."
"Your family wasn't killed by firebenders. His father was Yakone and his brother was Councilman Tarrlok!" Korra yelled. Amon's lieutenant looked at his master angrily, doubting whether or not Amon was who he said he was.
"An amusing tale, but I will show you the truth" Amon didn't waste a moment in lowering his hood and untying the string that bound the mask to his face. The crowd gasped, Lin, Korra and Bolin all looked taken aback, Silver wasn't sure what to think. Behind the mask was indeed the face she had remembered from 17 years ago but it had been marked.
Spread across his face was a long burn, like a beast with claws of flame had slashed it. Silver was horrified by these scars but could not tear her gaze away from her old companions sapphire eyes. This was clearly reciprocated by the Equalist Leader as Amon had not stopped looking at Silver since removing his mask.
"What?" Korra stuttered, she hadn't expected an actual scar…
"The Avatar is lying!" a voice from the audience shouted, many others agreeing with them.
"I'm telling you! He's a waterbender!" Korra turned to her friends, "They don't believe me. It didn't work!" she cried.
"Forget it! Let's get out of here before Amon starts doing his energybending thing!" Bolin said, already edging toward the door.
"I wouldn't leave yet, Avatar" Amon taunted, replacing his mask and hood, "You'll miss the main event." The stage behind him began to rise revealing a frame and chained to that frame was…
"Tenzin! Kids!" Lin cried, seeing her oldest friend and his children bound and gagged like some kind of sick trophy, "They got away! I watched them escape, there was no one pursuing them!" Lin shouted.
"Did you really think I wouldn't be prepared? I had some of my men stationed on every island around the city, it was only a matter of time before they had to land and rest their bison! Tonight, I rid the world of Airbending, forever!" Amon announced, getting more cheers from his followers.
"Amon Let them go!" Korra demanded, but Amon just laughed.
"You're welcome to come down here and try to stop me." Korra began to move to the edge of the balcony, ready to jump to the Airbenders rescue.
"Careful Korra! If we rush in then we'll all be trouble" Bolin warned her.
"I don't care! We have to save them!" she said stubbornly as she tried to think of a way over there.
"The Avatar needs to be reminded of the power I possess." Amon taunted, moving closer toward the captive family. Tenzin could do nothing but watch as his children struggled in fear, only Jinora, who had experienced it before, stood unafraid of the masked man. Lin fired a metal dart from her sleeve, repelling Amon away from them, Team Korra then jumped onto the stage, using Water jets, airbending or earth platforms, ready to face Amon. Silver unleashed a barrage of fireballs, forcing the Equalists away from Tenzin's family while Bolin and Lin used rocks to cover Korra as she rescued them. Using a high pressure water jet from her finger, Korra made short work of the chains.
"Where are Pema and the baby?" she asked as she cut the last chain around Tenzin's wrist.
"In prison, I'm glad you found Lin, she worried me to death!" Tenzin said.
"She had lost her bending and been captured, we found her at the Air Temple." Korra said, just as the last chain binding Tenzin snapped. He wasted to time in using a tornado attack to push back the Equalists and Amon, knocking them of the stage.
"Follow me Kids!" Korra ordered as she turned tail, the three mini airbenders following close behind. The group reconvened in a hallway, "Get them out of here. We'll create a diversion. Lin, go with them." Korra ordered. Lin nodded and Tenzin ferried his kids away to find their mother.
"Korra…" Silver mumbled.
"It's fine Silver, you get out of here too, Let Bolin and I defeat Amon- Noatak." Korra answered. Silver didn't say a word, but smiled before running away down a hall way.
"This'll be harder without her." Bolin warned as he kept an eye on the way they had come.
"We couldn't ask her to do this, she still loves the man"
"Doesn't she also love you?" Bolin asked, raising an eyebrow. Korra smiled a little.
"Yes, but I think we all misunderstood it. Her experiences with Males caused her to misinterpret any strong feelings for other girls as being in love. We do love each other, but It's more like how you love Mako. Sibling Love" Korra explained.
"You've been spending too much time with Tenzin!" he laughed.
"Nah! More Kirin then Tenzin. That spirit is just full of little bits of wisdom. Come on, we need to hide!" Korra ran down the hall a short way and entered a storage room, Bolin right behind her. The earthbender his behind some crates while the Avatar ducked down below a covered table. Amon soon entered the room, having seen the door flapping as he passed.
He walked into the room and stopped at Korra's Table. One wrong move, one sound and she would be doomed. Amon continued walking past and Korra foolishly sighed in relief. Her body was overtaken with pain as the masked equalist bloodbent her out of her hiding place.
"Are Korra. So nice of you to join me. Tell me, where is Avatar Silver?" Amon asked.
"Let her go!" Bolin roared, bending several junks of the floor as a threat. Amon was uninterested and simply bloodbent him with little effort, knocking the boulders to the ground.
"Now, tell me where Silver is. Or I will equalise your friend." Amon threatened, forcing Bolin to kneel and standing menacingly behind him.
"I don't know where she went! We told her to run! Go and find her yourself, maybe if you beg her forgiveness, you'll stand a chance of being with her again!" Korra yelled, struggling against the painful blood hold.
"Uncooperative even if it causes harm to your friends. This is why there is only one worthy Avatar, only one worthy Bender! Any last words, Earthbender?" Amon asked, placing his hands on Bolin's neck and forehead.
"Yeah, just one. Surprise!" Amon barely had time to escape as a series of metal spikes came piercing out from Bolin's shirt. Standing up and rushing to stand before Korra, Bolin ripped off his shirt, revealing a tight black vest and several small Metalbending Police wire spoils.
"And it's not just Earthbender, it's Metal and Earthbender!" he moved to fire a metal coil at Amon only for it to be stopped once again by Amon's bloodbending.
"That was very impressive, you managed to bend even while under my influence, I must commend you on that. As a reward, I'll let you watch as I remove your friends bending first." With a swift motion, Bolin was sent crashing into a wall, forced to watch as Amon took his position behind Korra.
"No!" she cried as Amon out a hand on her neck and raised the other high above himself.
"Korra!"
"This is the end of you, false Avatar!" his hand fell on her forehead and Korra could feel the effects begin to take hold. Before they did however, both Amon and Korra were enveloped in a blinding light.
They opened their eyes to find that they were still in the same position, but had moved to another world, Korra knelt on an odd Stone podium, engraved with the symbol of Yin and Yang, while Amon stood behind her, his hands still in place but doing nothing. The sky was enveloped in an orange glow, like a great fire in the distance and the floor beyond the podium was coated in mist. Just as Amon was about to speak, a figure stood up in the mist.
It was someone that neither Korra nor Amon recognised, but Korra could not deny a certain sense of…familiarity. The figure was an airbender female, then next to her appeared another person, this time a man in water tribe clothing. More and more figures rose from the mist, thousands of them, each dressed in the clothing of the four nations, Air Nomad, then Water Tribe, then Earth Kingdom, then Fire Nation. The clothes became more and more ancient looking the further away they got. Four figures appeared directly around the podium.
Behind Amon, stood a man with a stocky build and white fur decorating his water tribe clothing, Avatar Kuruk. To their left was another Avatar, the last Earth Avatar, Kyoshi, face paint and all. Opposite her was a firebender, old and wizened, baring the crown of the fire nation prince, he was Avatar Roku. And standing directly before Korra, dressed in the same robes as his son, was Avatar Aang.
Aang smiled at Korra before turning hard eyes on Amon. All the Figures eyes began to glow, the arrows of the Airbenders doing the same. They spoke with one voice:
"WE ARE MANY YET WE ARE ONE, WE ARE THE EARTH, THE FIRE, THE AIR AND THE WATER. WE ARE THE BALANCE AND WE ARE THE ONES THAT PROTECT IT. AVATAR KORRA IS ONE OF US, SHE IS US AND YOU MAY NOT TAKE HER AWAY!" Aang punched forward with a fist of wind and sent Amon flying from the podium.
He opened his eyes to find he was back in the storage room at the Arena, Bolin slumped against the wall in shock and before him stood Korra. Her eyes were glowing.
Korra wordlessly conjured a sphere of wind around herself and tackled the equalist out of the room, the Avatar following soon after with Bolin on her tail. The Avatar state Korra, released blades of wind to slice Amon, but he expertly dodged each one. She then flooded the hall with a tsunami but yet again, Amon avoided it, using his bending to flow the water around him and out the window. Korra wind milled her arms to coat the walls, floor and ceiling completely in flame, forcing Amon off of the ground, she then followed up with a wind blast and sent Amon crashing through the window and into the ocean.
Amon's mask floated way and he felt something odd on his face. Realising he would drown before he could resurface, Amon had no choice but to waterbend his way out, creating a water tornado.
"Did you see that!"
"He's waterbending!"
"He's a bender!"
The crowd was glaring angrily at him as Amon realised the dye had washed of his face, revealing to the world that the scar was a fake.
"The Avatar was telling the truth! You lying traitor!" the watching lieutenant roared, throwing his electrified Kali Stick at Amon's water tornado. The bloodbender braced himself for the shock but it never came, instead Korra just floated out the window in her air sphere and with a wave of her hand, sent the stick back at its sender, hitting the lieutenant between the eyes and electrocuting him into unconsciousness.
"Poor moustache guy, he just can't catch a break." Bolin sighed, poking his head out the window.
Korra raised her right arm and pieces of rock and sand began to coat themselves around it, creating a sword of razor sharp rocks, right on her arm. She then rushed forward, ready to slay Amon once and for all.
The part of Korra that remain conscious was rapidly trying to reclaim her body, she did not want to become a killer, she wanted to find a way to bring her mentor and this man back together, she couldn't let herself commit murder and betrayal in the same day, whatever Silver would think.
"Stop." A kindly voice echoed in her head. Her body ceased it's advance, the stone blade mere inches from Amon's gut. Korra's body remained there, frozen in time.
"That's enough…rest now." The voice said. Korra's body obeyed it, silently touching down on the water's edge and allowing her rock sword and air sphere to dissipate and her eyes to slowly return to normal.
"Noatak!" she called "The Equalists won't follow you now. It's over. Go and find Silver." Korra told him.
"I- I don't know where she went." He yelled down to her.
"You know her better than anyone alive, if anyone can find her it's you. And take this!" she scooped up his mask and threw it up to him, Noatak catching it easily.
"Thank you…Avatar Korra." The man gave her an earnest smile and dove into the ocean, rapidly swimming away.
A short time later, Team Korra reconvened on Air Temple Island and exchanged stories, Hiroshi was with Asami and both she and her other teammates vouched for him.
"I can't believe you let him get away" Lin scolded, lecturing Korra on her actions.
"It was the right thing to do. Whatever she said, I know Silver didn't want him dead. It's up to her to decide his fate, not me." Korra smiled, not caring that Lin was angry.
"Hey at least I got to see you in the Avatar State! And even Airbending! You were awesome!" Bolin grinned.
"I was wasn't I? Oh that reminds me!" Korra grabbed the jovial earthbender and pulled him towards her, kissing him deeply. Bolin was surprised but eagerly returned the kiss.
"That was for saving me back there. Who knew you got so good at metalbending?" Korra said, smiling happily, her cheeks tinged red to match Bolin's. "Also…Sorry guys but Bolin wins the award for best kisser."
"Ahh my little bro is all grown up." Mako smiled.
A huge air horn echoed across the bay as a United Forces Warship pulled up.
"YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOO!" a crazy looking man on the ship's deck cheered as he hopped down onto the docks.
"Hiya Pops! Heard you killed Amon, good job!" he cheered as he approached the,.
"Uncle Bumi is here!" Ikki cried and immediately went to hug him along with her siblings.
"Uncle Bumi, why did you call Korra Pops?" Jinora asked.
"Well she's the Avatar, my pops was the Avatar, so she must be my Pops! Duh, use logic Jinora, you're the smart one!" Bumi answered, blowing a raspberry at her.
"Er actually, I let Amon go…" Korra mumbled, a little weirded out.
"AHHH POPS, did you at least keep his mask?"
"No…"
Bumi threw his arms up, "You always were a fuddy-duddy in battle. Oh well, how's life been treating ya Pops.?" he asked.
"For Spirit's Sake Bumi! She is not our father! She is less than half our age and is also a female!" Tenzin shouted, already growing tired of his brother.
Bumi walked right up to his younger brother and flicked him in the arrow, "Tenzin! Be more respectful to our father! Just because he got shorter, younger, grew some hair and got boobs does not mean he isn't our father on the inside."
"Are you really that insane?" Tenzin sighed as Team Korra looked on, completely bewildered.
"Does someone need a noogie?" Bumi threatened, his face completely serious.
"What! No get way! GAH!"
The island echoed with the sounds of Tenzin's cries, Bumi's crazy giggling and Team Korra's laughter.
Korra herself laughed too, she had finally stopped the Equalists, but she still had one last choice to make…
Mako, Asami, Tahno or Bolin?
The Fate of Amon has been narrowed down! I know what will happen but it might not be what you think. His fate is in Silver's hands know!
The Amon Vote is CLOSED
The Pairing Vote will close tomorrow!
What did you guy's think? Korra's avatar state, Bumi being Bumi and Bolin's metal bending. I tried to make it have action, be compelling and have some humour. I hope you enjoyed it!
Next Chapter: Korra's Choice: Amon and Silver come face to face, Korra recieves some unlikely relationship advice and ultimately, makes her choice.
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