Aqua was having a hard time calming down. Believing she failed to protect Sora brought up all kinds of guilt and shame in her. Luckily, she didn't have to feel that way for long. Within half an hour or so after he was taken, Sora came walking out of a portal in the very same spot. Aqua had been waiting there for him, so she was the first to see him and rushed up to him.

"Sora! You're back! A-are you okay baby?" Aqua said. She then noticed the barely breathing form of Azula he held in his arms bridal style. She saw Azula with flesh burned off, paled faced with blood caked on her lower body and bruises on her face. In fact there were bruises on every visible part of her body that wasn't burnt or obscured by blood.

"Aqua. I'm glad you're okay." Sora replied with a weak smile. He looked blankly down at Azula. Her eyes were half open, but there was no life in them. He had done worse than kill her.

"I am. The rest of the group went to run damage control for Aang and tend to whatever wounded they could find left alive. Yuffie is with them as well." Aqua informed him.

A mirthless laugh calmly fell out of Sora's throat. "There won't be anything left to bury. Yuffie knows this, so she is probably there to keep our own troops safe from any possible friendly fire if they get too close."

"I guess so then. At any rate, this world is free of the war now. We can focus on sealing the keyhole and finding the golden heart." Aqua said.

"I guess there is still work to do." Sora said half-committedly. "And that door to the realm of darkness."

"Sora, what's wrong? Do you feel bad about what we've done?" Aqua asked, trying to ignore the trail of thick white she could now see running down Azula's legs.

"I...I don't feel bad about the killing. Killing is easy now. Once they are dead, they can't feel anything anymore and you can just move on. But I…" Sora said, refocusing his gaze on the silent Azula.

Finally Azula looked at him, not through him. She slowly willed her eyes to focus on his face, and her entire body stiffened painfully in fear. She tried to speak, to say anything. But only dry rasps and noises came out. She tried to ignore the warm liquid she felt in her throat, but she could not lie to herself. Sora had destroyed her throat, and anything that was in it. She couldn't speak.

Aqua looked at Azula and saw the fear and damage. She forced herself to admit to herself what she knew Sora had done. She expected to feel disgust, but to her surprise she simply grinned.

"For Yuffie?" she asked him.

"Yeah. For Yuffie." he answered simply.

"Okay." Aqua said. "Pain comes in all kinds of forms. Anything unpleasant is just another form of pain. You hurt Azula because she hurt Yuffie. Azula should have expected nothing less." she finished.

Sora looked thoughtful for a few moments before nodding his head. "Anyone who hurts either of you will be paid back tenfold. It's the least I can do for failing to protect you."

Azula wondered if they would kill her then. There was no way to play the sympathy card with Sora now that he doesn't feel any guilt for assaulting her. 'All's fair in war I suppose' she thought to herself grimly. Despite her mind being rational, her body still quaked in fear of the pain Sora did and still could inflict on her. The damage was deep and personal. It wasn't as if he simply cut her arm off in battle. He made sure she knew it was personal, and she did, and she feared him.

Wondering what to do with Azula, Sora tossed her roughly on the ground and she let out a painful cry. "Aqua, would you be a dear and take care of this enemy? I think I got my point across."

"I don't mind. I have a special skill I want to try out." Aqua said.

Aqua kicked Azula over so she was on her back. She saw the full extent of the damage and smiled sweetly. She summoned her modified keyblade and held the tip over Azula's heart. The tip of the blade glowed brightly as it dug into Azula's chest. She gasped out in silent horror and her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Aqua took her heart from her body, and Azula died on the spot.

"Here Sora, eat this heart." Aqua instructed him.

"What?! Eat her heart? That's...can we do that? I mean she was an evil person but a heart is always pure, it's just a blank canvas we paint on with our own choices and personalities." Sora said, hesitant to actually eat someone's heart. It felt inherently wrong.

"At first I thought the same thing, but when that old water bender hurt you I got so upset I ended up eating her heart. It gave me a huge power boost, and I was able to manifest Void Form from it. It will make you stronger, and with how powerful you already are it might be the only way for you to power up at this point." Aqua explained.

Sora looked at the bright light Aqua held at the tip of her keyblade. 'More power means I can protect my friends better' Sora thought to himself. With a nod, he took the heart from her and bit into it.

"Hm, tastes kind of...lemony? Why is it so chewy?" he asked as he worked on the piece he bit off.

"Right? I coated my teeth with darkness and it helped me get through it pretty easily." Aqua said.

Deciding to try it, Sora willed a thin film of darkness to cover his teeth and found he was biting and chewing it much easier now.

Finishing it, he paused to feel for any changes. Suddenly his stomach and chest exploded in pain, a heat growing inside of him until it was unbearable. Sora let out a violent scream and a torrent of violet flames sprung forth from his mouth. He lurched forward and the purple flames encroached on him spilling out from his mouth until he was completely covered in the flames.

Aqua looked at the scene nervously, wondering if he needed help. 'He's on fire, of course he does' she chided herself.

As she moved to get some water on him he held his burning hand up to stop her. He stood there a few moments longer before the fire started to fade. His skin once cleared of the fire revealed that no damage was done. He now stood in vivid purple armor not unlike Aqua's keyblade armor in style. It was almost neon in color and had black accents outlining every crease and points where plates met. Heat seemed to coat the armor giving it a slight distortion when looked upon. Aqua looked appreciatively at the get up.

"Heart of Flame." Sora spoke confidently. He summoned his keyblade, and it was now back to it's typical form. As soon as he firmed up his grip it flared up in purple flames and transformed.

Sora's keyblade was slightly longer than its base form. It's hilt was an overlapping hexagon of angular shapes with a keychain that was the fire nation symbol. The blade was an extended violet flame in the vague shape of a sword's blade. Despite not having a solid form Sora was sure it could cut through anything. Overall Sora was pleased, and felt his affinity for fire skyrocket.

"Well, that did have a kick to it." Sora chuckled. "Might make a habit of eating the hearts of especially strong opponents."

"That's good. We should probably head back and regroup. The battle is won but there's still work to be done to end it." Aqua said.

"Yeah, then we can finally focus back to the reason we actually came here in the first place!" Sora said excitedly. With that they both walked out towards the screaming in the distance.


Sora and Aqua walked through the destroyed streets of the fire nation capital. There were no people, just ruined buildings and the occasional fire. Sora marveled at the destruction. In addition to just erasing the people from existence, it was as if he went out of his way to destroy everything he could along the way. Even the most mundane things, like benches in a park or a lamp post, were demolished.

'Aang was serious about wiping them out, even the memory of them as best he can' he thought to himself.

"It's gotten quieter. Aang must be finishing up with this city." Aqua mused out loud.

Suddenly a bright light caught their vision, and they saw it shoot up into the sky. It was Aang. He had indeed finished with the city, from the buildings to the rat in it's sewers. Now he was going to envelop the Fire Nation in a great flood of fire to destroy miles of it at a time. Fueled by a raging Avatar state, he took a deep breath and drew from the sun's energy. He started pouring fire into the palm of his hand and kept it compressed with air. He kept building it up until it weighed too much to hold even with his boosted bending. He took aim to a section of the land a few miles away, and with a primal scream unleashed the built up energy, using air bending to help feed the flames even more.

What followed was one of the most spectacular explosions Sora had ever seen. In an instant, at least from what he could tell, miles of land was enveloped in a fiery hell storm of pressure and heat. The earth shook in protest but the Avatar did not care. He did not wait for his attack to subside before flying through the air and unleashing more of the same attack as he went. In short order he was too far for Sora to see, leaving only fire in his wake.

"That...was shockingly brutal." Aqua said, a bit put off by the power Aang had displayed.

"Well, that's genocide for ya. At least he has the sense of mind to not hit friendlys." Sora said casually.


They continued their walk until they finally came upon their group down the road. Katara was weeping on her knees with Sokka holding her in consolation. Toph sat on a stone seat with her scarred face pale white and shaking. The rest of the invasion forces were not there.

"Sora!" Yuffie said as she leapt from a nearby rock, wrapping her legs around Sora's face.

"Where is everyone?" Aqua asked, completely ignoring the urge to do that to Sora herself.

"Oh, once we caught up with the Avatar and everyone realized there was no stopping him, most went back to the fleet to head home and plan for what's next. Some dumb brave few thought they could try to stop Aang, something about genocide being wrong or whatever, but quickly found that a pissed Avatar is an impatient Avatar!" Yuffie said petting Sora and he calmly enjoyed the scent she was gifting him with. "You can add them to the body count."

"They should have known better." Sora said, however muffled.

"My father should have known better?!" Katara suddenly yelled at Sora.

"Oh…" Sora said, still muffled.

"You bastards! You all did this! You corrupted Aang! You made him kill, and you are the reason my father is dead now too!" Katara said.

"I understand Katara, believe me I do. I lost dad too. But he shouldn't have tried to attack Aang to stop him, what did we expect?" Sokka said softly to her, crying quietly himself.

"Get off me! You're just like them! You all are!" Katara said as she became hysterical and her mind broke at the perceived betrayal of her brother.

Without realizing it, Katara bloodbended Sokka off of her, throwing him to the ground roughly. Everyone was quiet as they waited to see what Sokka would do. Then Toph screamed.

"SOKKA! Sokka no! Katara what the fuck did you do!?" She hollered, thrusting a stone pillar up from the ground and into Katara sending her a few feet away.

"Geez this has turned into a shit show…" Sora said to himself, but Aqua heard it.

"What can you expect? They are just kids. They should have never been put in these situations." Aqua said, sadness coating her voice.

"I was a kid too ya know." Sora said back to her, though there was no annoyance. Just resignation.

"You don't count." Aqua giggled.

Katara was able to shake the dizziness away after a minute and got up to see Toph cradling Sokka's body as it lay motionless.

"You too Toph?! What was that for!?" Katara said, ready to fight Toph seriously.

"I felt what you did Katara. His heart...you made it explode." Toph replied, her voice barely above a whisper.

A cold sensation gripped Katara as she heard Toph's words. In that moment of blind hysteria, Katara had bloodbend Sokka. But she was very inexperienced, and there wasn't a full moon out so she had no control over it. She remembered now how she forced the blood in Sokka to squeeze in order to make the muscles contract. She remembered one particular muscle she squeezed too hard. She remembered feeling it pop.

There was no reconciliation for Katara. She had unwittingly killed her brother, her own family. Sora saw the panic in her eyes as it set in, and her breathing as she began to hyperventilate. She took off like a bullet in a random direction. She was out of sight in seconds.

Toph still held Sokka's dead body, and Sora still heard the explosions off in the distance from Aang. Sighing, he took Yuffie off of his head and held her. He kissed her tenderly in the way only a lover can. She blushed into the kiss and returned it. Aqua helped Toph get up and slung Sokka's corpse over her shoulder. They all began to make their way back to the shore.


A few weeks had passed before Aang made his way back to Ba Sing Se. Sora and the group had returned there shortly after Katara ran off, foregoing looking for her. In that time they held a proper funeral for Sokka and organized the people to help return proper infrastructure. Well, Yuffie did. She was the most experienced in these sorts of things. Aqua tagged along to support her efforts.

Aang walked into the room where Sora and Toph were currently lounging. Upon 'seeing' Aang, Toph shot up and rushed to hug him.

"Aang! You're back! Toph said, happy to see him after so long.

"Yeah, I'm back Toph." Aang replied tiredly.

"So...does that mean…" Toph began, eyes flicking to the floor.

"Yeah. The fire nation will barely be a footnote in history now. All but Iroh have been cleansed." Aang answered her unspoken question.

"Oh. Yeah...Well, since you've been gone, we have really managed to turn this place around. Everything's on the up and up, especially reconstruction efforts. A whole city filled with earth benders made it a cinch. Yuffie Aqua and some of the others are travelling now, helping set up order." Toph finished.

"Yeah. That's good." Aang said. The whole time he and Toph were talking he was staring at Sora, who was consciously avoiding his gaze.

"Sora." Aang said.

"Hey Aang. How goes restoring balance and all that good stuff?" Sora said, still not looking at him.

"We need to talk." Aang said, ignoring Sora's inquiry.

"No, I don't think we actually do." Sora said.

"Outside. Now." Aang said, turning around and walking outside.

Sighing, Sora got up and made after him.

"Sora, what's going on? Is everything okay?" Toph asked concerned.

"I don't know. But Aang is giving off a very confrontational vibe. I think it's best if you stayed inside mudpie." Sora said, ruffling her hair as he walked past her and through the door.

"No no, I can't lose anyone else." Toph said to no one. She promptly followed Sora outside.


KH was currently beside herself with fury. So much so, that she ignored her better judgment and went to the world Sora was at. She hovered over the atmosphere and pondered how to rip the stolen hearts from him and Aqua. She focused her gaze into the world and found Sora standing in front of Aang, the avatar of this particular world. She smirked as she imposed her will onto Aang. Aang was swirling with darkness. Having recently received so many hearts from this world she knew exactly why.

In worlds like this one she set up the Reincarnation Protocol. That was so the hearts could keep being recycled, without having to come to her. But Aang destroyed their souls, so the anchor that held their hearts was no more which drew the hearts back into her. She could feel the anguish and regret in Aang for the mass genocide he had commited. It was the perfect garden for darkness to bloom. She looked as Toph Beifong walked up behind her. She noticed a dull golden light inside of her.

"Meh, probably nothing."


Aang stood with his back to Sora. Sora stood tense, ready for anything. Toph was switching her visionless gaze between them nervously.

"Sora." Aang began. " As the avatar, it is my sworn duty to maintain balance in this world. You are a foreigner, a non-native of these lands, aren't you?"

"I am." Sora replied.

"What did you come here for then?" Aang asked, turning slightly to face him.

"I am a keyblade master. Much like you, it's my duty to keep balance. Particularly between light and darkness. I came here because there was a door to the darkness here. I came to shut it. As well as find a tool that would help me fight the darkness better. A heart made of pure gold." Sora explained.

"You speak of balance, but I know all about you." Aang said now facing him fully.

"Somehow, I sincerely doubt that." Sora said back.

"I've had a vision about you. In my vision, you flood this world in darkness. It destroys everything and everyone." Aang said, his fists balling up tightly.

"Well get your spiritual eyes checked, I know what is at the end of that road and it's not a destination I want to arrive at." Sora said bitterly, remembering his illusion of killing Kairi. His mood was quickly souring. "Get to the point."

"Fine. That vision is all I have thought about these past few weeks. What good would cleansing the world of the fire nation be when a threat like you is around." Aang said.

"What are you saying, Aang?" Sora spat with a scowl.

"You must be eliminated." The moment Aang finished his sentence he dashed forward in a blur, spinning into an axe kick covered in bright orange-yellow flames.

Sora batted the foot away only for Aang to jerk up in a twist and throw a fist blast of air that blew Sora back a bit.

"No! Please don't do this!" Toph cried out, distraught that she was about to lose someone else.

Aang landed lightly on his feet and immediately accessed the avatar state, greatly increasing his power. He felt as Sora touched the ground after an air recovery, and bent the earth to shoot up under his foot. Sora quickly evaded it but found that where he tried to set his feet down spikes of earth instantly shoot up trying to impale them. He kept dancing around to evade the spikes and pushed his will into the earth to try to overpower Aang's bending. To his surprise, he didn't even feel the earth respond.

Aang spoke in the ominous layered voice of the avatar state. "I am the avatar, the representation of the physical and spiritual realm. You are an outsider, this world will not respond to you over me. I am the will of this world!"

Sora had to throw up a reflect spell to stop a multitude of earthen spears from shooting right through him. Aang sent scores of them and Sora poured more energy into the barrier. Eventually the barrier cracked, then broke with an explosion that shot outward. Aang was unfazed and gathered lightning in his hand. He then reached out to the moisture in the air and used it as a conduit for the lightning, making it even faster than before as it flashed into Sora. He tried to twist away from it but the air was saturated with electric charge now and it simply followed and crashed into him.

Sora spun out when hit and crashed into the floor wheezing. "Wow, I'm so used to darkness blasts that I forget regular attacks actually do a lot of damage."

Aang stalked over to him and stood above him as he twitched. Aang grabbed Sora's temples with both hands and lifted him up to eye level. "I will now erase you from the great consciousness." Toph looked on in horror as Aang began to focus.

"Geez Sora, stop fucking with him already. It's gonna cost you. You aren't the only one with a stake in this fight." Wonder said while appearing next to Toph.

"Quiet spirit!" Aang commanded. Because he turned to look at Wonder, he didn't see Sora's eyes flash brightly. Aang was suddenly hit with a purple explosion that blasted him away from Sora. He landed painfully a few feet away.

Sora now stood in his recently acquired form, Heart of Flame. It disturbed him somewhat as he could feel Azula fighting and throwing all manner of curses at him, but he knew it was a moot point for her. She was a part of him now. He stood in his armor and pointed his sword towards Aang.

"I was going to let you off easy for attacking me. But you really are set on killing me. I'm sorry, but I can't die. Too many people are depending on me. Please, just stand down." Sora said, hoping Aang would stop once he realized he was outclassed.

"NO! You have to be destroyed! Balance must be maintained!" Aang said.

Sora sighed and almost looked like he was about to cry. "Another good soul, lost to the darkness. Come Aang, I'll set you free from your pain."

Aang charged him, a drill of air earth and fire swirling madly on his outstretched right arm. Sora readied his flaming sword, and used Zantetsuken to finish Aang in one clean cut. Aang felt weak all of a sudden. He still stood in his attack position but found his body too heavy for his legs. Just as he was about to collapse his world turned black.


KH sat casually in Aang's dive to heart. She looks at the multicolored glass with depictions of previous avatars with Aang in the middle in a meditative position. She was waiting for the moment Sora defeated Aang, because she knew he would. She was going to link this world's door to the realm of darkness to Aang's heart just as he started to die. In those moments before death the heart is at its most malleable and accepting, desperate to cling to anything to stay alive. Honestly she's never done this before and was interested on what would happen by putting a Door inside someone's heart. She was sure it would be spectacular.

She felt the glass shake and saw cracks begin to form. She smirked. "Show time."


As Aang was falling, he felt something stir deep within him. Then, there was darkness.

Sora braced himself as a tidal wave of weightless darkness washed over him and the entire city. Toph felt icy cold cover her in the darkness and curled up into a ball. The walls of the city acted like a bowl, covered by the darkness and containing it. Aang caught himself and stood up straight. His skin was black though his tattoos still glowed the ethereal light of the avatar state. On his chest was the telltale hallowed cavity of a pureblood heartless. From the hole cracks of different colors branched out. Reds and blues and browns and grays. The elements. Aang stood for a moment, examining himself. Then he looked to Sora. Sora met his gaze, and noticed something particular about the hole in his chest. It seemed to call out to him, to his keyblade. Maybe he could…

Sora was brought out of his musings by a rush of black flames that came towards him. He spun around it and quickly brought his flaming sword up to guard. Aang moved so fast it was as if he teleported right in front of Sora. Aang kicked Sora deep in his stomach, and landed a stone-fist uppercut meeting where his jaw would be. Aang shot out the rocks that lined his fist in one smooth motion in a seamless transition and they hit Sora like bullets as he recovered in the air. Sora's armor turned the rocks into ash, but he still felt the impact of them.

Sora rushed Aang with a flurry of attacks that were easily evaded. Aang's airbending training was on full display now as he weaved and snaked himself along Sora, landing element enhanced attacks whenever possible. Sora picked up his tempo and went for more powerful attacks seeing he needed to step it up. He had Aang back peddling with a supercharged Ragnarok, and followed up with a shocklock. His new form sent 25 spears of violet flames to Aang at breakneck speeds. Aang was just too damn good at dodging however, and evaded them all. Showing off, he went out of his way to dodge the last spear by letting it pass through the hole in his chest.

"Really?" Sora said in annoyance. Aang just seemed to smirk in response.

Sora figured Aang was just too fast to hit, so he needed area attacks. His light abilities were the best for that sort of thing, plus it'll weaken his darkness. Reaching into his heart to pull out the light Sora called out to it and...nothing happened. Alarmed, Sora reached out to it again, calling louder but nothing responded. Sora was so preoccupied with his crisis he didn't notice Aang encasing himself in dark flames and rushing him.

Aang's fist crunched against Sora's sternum, and he followed it up with multiple left and right hooks that staggered Sora back. Sora finally got his bearings and parried a haymaker, snaking his hand through it and around Aang's arm. He turned with a twist and brought Aang to his knees. Aang willed spikes of darkness to shoot up and impale Sora, but they all burnt away as they made contact with Sora's armor. Sora used his body weight and leverage to break Aang's arm in three places while dislocating it from the shoulder.

Aang let out a howl of pain but was forced into silence when sora rammed his sword into his mouth and out the back of his throat. Sora yanked it out and Aang fell forward. The darkness that shrouded the city began to recede back into Aang.

"That...worked?" Sora spoke aloud. He was surprised he was able to put Aang down with such a direct approach. "I guess being stabbed in the head would kill anyone."

As the darkness came into Aang it was drawn into the hole in his chest. After a minute of compacting itself, it exploded upward and the darkness faded to reveal a ten foot opulent door that was already cracked open. Sora could clearly see the dark sides and shadows that formed mountains of darkness on the other side.

"The door to darkness! It was inside Aang?" Sora wondered to himself. "Well, no time to waste either way."

Sora deactivated Heart of Flame and brought his naginata keyblade to bear. He shut the door and sealed it away with the power of the keyblade, and it vanished into nothingness. There was no darkness around now. Toph got up and shakily made her way over to Sora, tightly gripping his robes.

"H-he's dead, isn't he?" she asked.

"Yeah sweety, he's dead." he replied softly. Toph just sighed sadly against him and cried.


"What the hell does it take to kill this guy?!" KH said to no one in particular as she floated invisible above the city.. Though someone did respond.

"Well mother looks like there's nothing for it, he's just too damn good." Wonder said.

"YOU!" KH said, instantly latching her blue grip tightly on Wonder's throat.

"ME!" Wonder said, completely unbothered. It wasn't as if she had to breathe or anything and the pain was something she was used to.

"Actually...you didn't do anything annoying this time. Must be a force of habit."KH said as she let Wonder go.

"Yeah, being a bitch is just in your nature. That and being a slut!" Wonder said joyously. This earned her the choke again.

"Ah there it is. Anyway, my sweet lovely mistake of a child. Why do I see you here, instead of with Kairi like I told you?" KH demanded.

"Honestly? This seemed more fun. I even got to see you in action! It's not often you get involved like you did. Perhaps you're pissed you're down two hearts?"

"Shut your whore mouth! How dare those children of dust trap my hearts! If it wasn't for your father, I would have ripped them out of them immediately!"

"Aw afraid daddy dearest will spank you for being bad? I thought you liked being spanked!"

KH grew furious at her daughters disrespect and snapped her neck. She dropped her on a non existent floor at her feet. Wonder twitched as her neck fixed itself again and after a few moments she stood back up.

"That fucking hurts!" she yelled at her mother.

"Not enough, you're still yelling" KH replied. KH took a moment and just stared at Wonder.

"What? Do I have some cum on my face? Wanna lick it off?" Wonder sneered at her.

KH simply sighed. "You're going to do whatever you please, aren't you?" she asked.

"Obviously. That is what I am" Wonder stated proudly.

"Fine then. I give up. Do what you want. I'll get your older sister to help me. Don't worry about it anymore." KH said, turning away from Wonder.

"Wait, that's it? That can't be it. We're not finished. I'm not finished!" Wonder started, but KH just slapped her sending her across a couple galaxies.

"I guess I should have expected nothing less from her. Little bitch. Her father was always the most troublesome as well. Well, they closed this world's door to darkness and sealed it's keyhole. I've been playing with my food for long enough. Time to eat it."

KH waved her hand and reality shifted around her. It settled and she was floating in front of the four doors she had opened. She looked at the first one in disgust, then to the second with indifference. She turned to the third and smiled sweetly.

"Jisma, child of being. Come, your mother needs you."

The door she was looking at burst with energy before a tall tan skinned woman jumped out of it. She was just over six feet, with short black hair. Her hair was in short curls and spikes that settled as they reached their end at her mid-neck. She stood in black chest wraps and short black tights. Her body was toned and cut, every muscle under her skin was forged in titanium and looked as such. She was lithe and tight with almost no body fat anywhere. Her lips were full and pink, and her eyes were hazel and focused. Her eyes burned into her mother.

"What." Jisma said curtly. It held too much malice to be taken as a question.

"Glad to see you too dear. Mommy needs you to collect her Power of Waking from a child of dust." KH told her.

"Again?" Jisma asked, surprised that it happened again. Or maybe that her mother had expected anything different.

"Yes. Will you help me?" KH asked sweetly. Like the blood of a diabetic on halloween.

"You know I do not have a choice!" Jisma yelled at her, the force behind it blowing KH's hair as if a strong wind had hit her.

"Oh I know you don't, it's just fun reminding you."

Jisma wordlessly faded into nothing, off to fulfill her mother's wishes. KH chuckled in amusement at the current situation.

"As if I'd ever free your father no matter what you did."


Days passed and everyone that had left the city made it back. Yuffie and Aqua hugged Sora the moment they saw him. Everything had gone smoothly. Anything that didn't go smoothly, became smooth in short order thanks to Yuffie and Aqua. But then people started asking about Aang. the locals were not too pleased at what Sora had answered them with.

Hodaka was the one to speak for everyone. "You killed the Avatar?!"

"Like I said, he attacked me first! He wanted my life! Also, I thought you were dead!" Sora defended.

"I get that but with as powerful as you are you couldn't subdue him or something?!" he shot back.

"Aang was strong! He had given in to the darkness and was in the avatar state the whole time. And again, why aren't you dead!?" he spat back.

"Still, he was the avatar. What are we supposed to do now...he was supposed to lead us. And the Avatar did not kill me, I was just knocked out. I was found by some townsfolk and managed to regroup with everyone on the road."

"I'm sorry, but I have too much to live for to die for anyone. By the end of the war Aang was changed. Whoever you thought was going to lead you, he wasn't him. You will have to find your own path now." Sora told him.

"How do we guide ourselves?"

"The main reason the avatar is so important is because he is supposed to keep balance. But he only needs to do that because you are all lazy!" Sora accused the group.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" someone yelled.

"The nations are divided because they want to be. Instead of learning about each other and accepting your differences, you are all stubborn and justify separation. If everyone was a little more accepting, there wouldn't be a need for the avatar to begin with." Sora explained.

The group fell quiet in reflection. At this time Toph walked up to him, and looked up to him. "Will you help us?" she asked.

"I...we can't. We have a bigger mission that is nowhere near close to being finished. I also have some personal issues that need to be handled…" Sora said, trailing off.

"Then, can I come with you? I promise I won't be deadweight, I'm a great fighter!" Toph said, trying not to come off as begging.

"But Toph, this is your world." Yuffie said. Sora and Aqua immediately glared at her.

"My world? Of course this is my world, I live on it. So do you. Weirdo." Toph said. She noticed the increased heart rates of Sora and Aqua and narrowed her eyes. "We will talk later." she said as she left the group.

"Anywayyy, yeah Aang is dead. Find your own way. You get it right? Good. Sora Vanish!" Sora mumbled out and vanished in a puff of smoke.

The group looked bewildered then looked to Yuffie and Aqua.

"He just stuck us with the leg work again didn't he?" Yuffie said dismayed.

"Yup." Aqua said, a slight tic mark on her forehead.

"Alright. Here we go." Yuffie said with a sigh, walking up to the group of people.

Sora was so going to get it later.