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Akira takes a few breaths, collecting himself as the medic wraps bandages around his head.

"I'm putting you on rest for the remainder of the day." He says.

"Alright."

"You Wild Fire fools. Always going gung-ho on the battlefield. I'm surprised we haven't had more casualties than we already do."

Akira grunts as the medic finishes the wrapping.

"Alright. Off you go. Rest, now."

"Got it."

Akira walks off to his hut and sits down on the bed, closing his eyes, feeling exhausted. It had been a difficult week. After their successful raid, the North launched a counter attack. There were very few casualties, and the North suffered the majority of them, but it was still exhausting to deal with.

Skip to a few days later and both sides are engaging in a skirmish. That is when one soldier got lucky and send a slab of ice ramming into Akira's head while he was protecting a Chi Blocker. Luckily it was colder than usual, so he was wearing a fur-lined helmet. If not for that, the damage could have been far worse.

Before Akira can properly fall asleep, Apollos enter the hut.

"Oh, sorry to disturb you." He apologizes.

"It's fine. Something up?" The younger occupant asks, sitting himself up.

"Yeah, I got a wire from the Avatar. She'll be arriving at the fort tomorrow."

"Good to hear."

"She's also bringing along some reinforcements. Tenzin and his family, and Amako."

Akira grunts in acknowledgement.

"I'll let you get your rest."

"Thanks."

Now free of distraction, Akira lays on his bed and falls asleep. He manages to sleep through the rest of the day into tomorrow's morning.

He wakes up feeling better, the headache now a dull throb.

A commotion outside draws his attention, making him get up and step outside. The sight of Korra brings a smile to his face, but quickly disappears upon seeing the situation.

Korra, upon seeing her boyfriend once again, rushes to his side and embraces him.

"It's good to see you again." She utters into his shoulder.

"You too, Korra."

After stopping the hug, Korra looks up and notices the bandages.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah. Just got a slab of ice to the head yesterday. I'm feeling better already. More importantly, what happened to Jinora?"

Amako steps in and says, "I can explain it, Korra. Why don't you go check up on the others."

The young Avatar nods in agreement before jogging off.

Amako explains the past events, including the trip to the Spirit World and losing Jinora.

"This isn't looking good." Akira sums up.

"Nope. We're going to storm the portal and prevent Harmonic Convergence. You up for this?"

"You know me. I'm game for anything."

"Good. Remember that." Amako says, running her hand along his cheek.

The two then return to the group and come up with a plan.

"Unalaq's got the Southern portal surrounded." Tonraq states, everyone gathered around the War Map.

"Harmonic Convergence is only a few hours away." Korra states.

"Then we need to act fast." Apollos responds. "I can gather a hundred of my men in half an hour. In the meantime, Avatar, you and your team should go on a preemptive attack. Buy us time and soften them up."

Korra nods in agreement.

"Tonraq, while I'm away I'll need you here to watch over camp."

"What!? You can't just ask me to stay here while my daughter is off to prevent a global disaster!"

"Please. We need you here in case Unalaq sends an attack, and you need to help keep things here under control. I trust you to do this."

Tonraq stands in thought for a minute before reluctantly nodding his head. Apollos then excuses himself to prepare his soldiers, hopefully shortening the time before they leave.

"Akira, are you sure you're alright to fight?" Tonraq asks.

"Yes, sir. Just needed to rest, I'm copasetic."

The designated team on the plane is Asami, Mako, and Bolin. Everyone else is on Oogi. Coming out of the clouds, they all see a circular defense around the portal, made up of bunkers and mecha tanks.

From the ground, the North launches sharp icicles at the plane. Luckily with Asami's masterful piloting capabilities, they manage to evades the attacks. Mako then lets out a stream of fire and attacks a close bunker.

Bolin uses new remote explosives, stuck to a disk, and triggers them. This also assists in demolishing the bunkers and mecha tanks.

To add to their problems, there isn't an opening for Oogi to travel through. The spirits guarding the portal begin to attack, dragging Oogi to the ground.

"Get off of him, you sticky, nasty, little blob of goo!" Bumi shouts at the spirit attached to Oogi's tail. He suddenly loses balance though and grabs onto the spirit. "Whoa! If I go, you're coming with me." Bumi then pulls the spirit off Oogi and falls into the snow with it.

Kya shouts out her brother's name as he falls, but soon focuses on their imminent crash. With a hard thud, Oogi hits the ground. Everyone is thrown from the saddle into the snow a few feet away from the Sky Bison.

Sometime later Akira returns to the land of the conscious. He looks around and sees everyone else tied up.

"Akira? Are you ok?" He hears Korra asks.

"Yeah. Head's still in one piece."

She lets out a sigh in relief.

A moment later and Asami, Mako, and Bolin are thrown into the tent.

"We tried." Mako says remorsefully.

Unalaq and his children enter.

"Congratulations, everyone. You've all got front-row seats for the beginning of the new world order."

"You don't know what you're doing, Unalaq. Freeing Vaatu won't make you powerful, it will only make you a traitor to everything good that's happened for the last 10,000 years."

"You think what Avatar Wan did was good? Driving almost all the spirits from this world? The Avatar hasn't brought balance, only chaos. You call yourself the bridge between the two worlds, but there shouldn't be a bridge, we should live together as one."

"Even if Vaatu escapes, I'll put him right back in his prison, just like Wan did."

"It's true that when Wan fused with Raava, he tipped the scales in her favor. But this time, I'll be here to level the playing field. When Harmonic Convergence comes, I will fuse with Vaatu." Eska and Desna's eyes widen, seemingly surprised by this revelation. "And together, we will become the new Avatar. A Dark Avatar. Your era is over." Unalaq turns to his children and says, "Keep them locked up. After the Harmonic Convergence, I will come for Korra."

After Unalaq leaves, Akira says, "He's playing right into Vaatu's hands, or tentacles? Either way, this isn't good."

Outside the encampment, Apollos and his army arrive at the scene. They were lucky enough to find Bumi playing the flute to a spirit.

"Hello, Commander!" Bumi greets, saluting.

"At ease, Bumi. What's the situation?"

"Everyone's captured, sir. Harmonic Convergence is in a few hours, so we're running short on time."

"Alright. Watch how Wild Fire handles things." Apollos cockily replies. "Charge!"

The mass of soldiers surge forth. Apollos uses his Combustion Bending to decimate the remaining mecha tanks while his troops kill the Northern Soldiers taken by surprise.

Apollos, from long range, wreaks havoc on the North, laughing like a madman all the while. After the carnage ends, he takes a calm breath, turning to Bumi. "As you can see we're pretty effective."

"Yeah, I'll say."

Apollos and Bumi find the tent their companions are in. Eska and Desna managed to escape during the commotion though, obviously knowing they didn't stand a chance if they were caught.

With the defenses gone, Wild Fire surrounds the portal while the others make a plan.

"Unalaq and the Twins are through the portal. We're gonna need to come up with a plan, fast." Akira states.

Apollos speaks first, saying, "Wild Fire can hold the ground here. If you can manage to get Unalaq out of the Spirit World and through our portal, we can kill him."

"Wait, hold on." Korra interrupts. "I don't want to kill my uncle."

"This is war, Avatar. There are always going to be deaths."

"But can't you just restrain him? At least long enough for us to close the portals."

"And risk the lives of my men even further?"

"How about we do it this way." Amako speaks up. "Apollos and I will stay here. We'll guard this location. Also, Asami, do you think you can get some of the mecha tanks back up and running?"

"Maybe. They look like they took quite the beating."

"So a maybe."

"Yeah, maybe."

"Good. You'll stay with us. Give us an edge if possible. With Kya, Bumi, and Tenzin finding Jinora, that means Mako, Korra, Bolin, and Akira will deal with Unalaq."

With the plan in place, everyone moves into position. Apollos stands with his soldiers and watches the teams step into the portal.

"Good luck." He mutters.


Inside the Spirit World, Akira notices how spacious it is. From a distance, they see Unalaq.

The adults leave to search for Jinora while Team Avatar engage in combat.

Unalaq rides a spirit over to them, but with a large wave of Airbending, Korra manages to blows the spirits away. Unalaq swiftly recovers though, making an ice ramp to turn his fall into a slide.

Korra then goes to close the Spirit Portal while Mako, Bolin, and Akira fend off Unalaq. The three put in great effort to fend off the skilled Waterbender.

Despite all their efforts, Harmonic Convergence arrives. Korra is thrown back by the force of the portal bursting open with power. The two beams then cross in the middle, and for a moment things go dark. A burst of light reveals Vaatu, free from his prison.

He lets out a long evil laugh as he lowers himself down to speak with Korra. "Raava, nothing could stop this moment. Harmonic Convergence is upon us again."

"I'm not going to let you fuse with Unalaq. You're going right back in that prison."

The spirit moves to fuse with Unalaq, but after a well struck blow from Akira it backs off. Korra then uses her Airbending to send Unalaq through one of the portals. Unfortunately it's through the Northern Portal.

"Don't let Unalaq back in the Spirit World!"

"We're on it!" Bolin shouts.

The brothers run off into the portal to pursue Unalaq.

"Want me here, or should I help them?" Akira asks.

"I won't turn down extra help."

"Alright. Let's get this son of a bitch and put him back in that prison."

The two rush Vaatu on both sides, launching fire and other elements at the huge spirit. At one point Korra holds herself in the air using flame propulsion and blasts a chunk of Vaatu away. She flies through the opening using Airbending and evades a tentacle swipe, only to be knocked away by a beam of spirit energy.

Akira uses the same propulsion idea and lightning bends at the spirit. This temporarily stuns the large being, but it manages to grab Akira out of the air and slam him against the ground. He struggles for a moment before collapsing, passed out.

While Akira is unconscious, Korra manages to capture Vaatu in an elemental bubble. Just before she can get him in the tree, Unalaq appears and knocks Korra away, releasing the spirit. Unalaq sends another blast of water at Korra, sending her to the ground stunned.

Seeing Akira nearby, he takes the unconscious Firebender hostage and waits for Vaatu to fuse with him. A second later and the spirit enters Unalaq. The Chief then touches a spirit beam and melds with Vaatu.

"Now a new era for spirits and humans will begin, and I will lead them all as the new Avatar." Unalaq utters.

"Well, I'm the old Avatar, and my era's not over yet." Korra retorts.

As Akira regains consciousness, he witnesses the two clash. It's an impressive display from them both, despite Unalaq not being able to bend anything other than water.

Korra is just being crushed by Unalaq in the ice ground, but before she can be completely crushed the young Avatar blasts through with a torrent of flame. She rises into the air using Airbending and announces, "You cannot win!" The two once again engage in heated combat.

Akira forcefully lifts himself up and walks towards the fighting Avatars. One his way he meets on with Mako and Bolin, who help him move along.

The three of them manage to arrive in time to see a grotesque blood red and purple thing erupt from Unalaq's mouth and ram into Korra's face.

Suddenly, it retracts and hovers in the air. It then chucks Korra away and she lands near her allies.

"What…what is this? Where is Raava!?" Vaatu's voice screams out in rage, returning to Unalaq's body.

"Her and Avatar Wan were bound forever. She gave up her sentience to become one with Avatar Wan." Korra states. "We cannot be separated."

"No. NO. NO!" Vaatu screams, moving to attack once more.

Team Avatar evade the wild water whips and launch multiple attacks. Bolin raises earthen walls while Mako and Akira throw flames at the Dark Avatar. Korra uses her Air and Waterbending to stonewall Unalaq. Within an hour he's on his feet panting and nearly spent.

"It's over, Unalaq." Korra says, keeping her guard up.

Before he can attack, two sonic poundings can be heard cutting through the air. Two explosives impact Unalaq, knocking him unconscious. The four look to see Apollos and Amako standing nearby, guards up.

"You were taking your time. Thought you could use a hand." Apollos says.

Taking the opportunity with the stunned Unalaq, Korra seals her uncle in an elemental ball.

"No! You can't do this!" He protests.

Korra stops the transportation, replying, "You're right." While maintain in the ball, she begins to bend water around her uncle. Within moments he begins to glow and afterwards disintegrates into golden specks.

Korra releases the ball of elements and lets them fall to the ground with a clutter.

"Is it over?" Apollos asks.

"I think so." Korra answers.

Everyone seems a bit…stunned. An opponent had just been defeated, but all anyone in Team Avatar can feel is exhaustion. The two beams break into two once more as Harmonic Convergence comes to an end. At least Bumi is reunited with Bum-Ju, an adorable bunny spirit.

"I guess we should close the portals." Amako utters.

Korra nods her head and approaches the Northern Portal. As she reaches her hand out, she stops. "Maybe I shouldn't."

"What do you mean?" Tenzin asks.

"What if Unalaq was right when he said the Avatar shouldn't be a bridge between the two worlds? What if Avatar Wan made a mistake when he closed the portals? What if humans and spirits weren't meant to live apart? Well, what do you think I should do?"

"I think you should trust your instincts. There is nothing else I can teach you; you are the Avatar. Whatever your decision, I support you."

"There'll always be something for you to teach me, but thank you."

In the end, Korra decides to leave the Spirit Portals open.

They all leave through the Southern Portal and get to work on the post-civil war arrangements. The first thing Korra has to do, is give a speech. She stands in front of her people and makes the announcement.

"The War of The Water Tribes is over. Unalaq has been defeated and the Northern fleet is returning home. The Water Tribes will always be allies, but the Southern Tribe is now independent. And the Southern Council of Elders has appointed my father, Tonraq, to be your new Chief!" The gathered crowd cheers as Tonraq steps forward and waves. "I've realized that even though we should learn from those who came before us, we must also forge our own path. So that is why I've decided to keep the portals open. Humans can now physically enter the Spirit World and spirits will be free to roam our world. I will no longer be the bridge. Humans and spirits must learn to live together. My mission will always be to guide the world toward peace and balance. Harmonic Convergence has caused a shift in the planet's energy, I can feel it. Things will never be the same again. We are entering a new age."

After Korra gives her speech, Apollos gathers up his men and sails back to the Fire Nation.

Amako returns to Republic City earlier than the others to let them know about the victory.

Team Avatar takes a moment to join the celebrations in the South, enjoying the feasting and good company.

Taking a moment to themselves, Korra and Akira sit on a cliff overlooking the city.

"I can't believe we actually won." She remarks.

"I know. It's been an odd journey, with spirits and portals and such."

"I hope the next big thing to come around at least gives us enough time for a proper vacation."

"Agreed." Akira responds, chuckling. "For now, I'm glad to be spending my time with you."

They both let out a sigh, happy to be able to relax in each other's arms.


Deep in the frozen wasteland of the North, a lone occupant in an underground cell lets out a deep breath. A thick metal clamp is held tight around his forehead.

"Hmm…something has happened."

He stands up from his spot and feels the frozen chains tug at his gloves. He looks at them and nods with satisfaction. Over time, he'd been dripping liquid on the chains, causing them to freeze and rust.

With one hard tug they groan in protest. It takes a few more hard pulls, but eventually they break. The man removes his metal clamp and takes a deep breath. A second later and the lock on the door breaks. The man gives it a few solid kicks before the door swings open.

After cracking his neck, the man finds his way out of the abandoned prison. Stepping outside, he lets the sun's rays warm his body.

"Ah. Now, time to visit family."


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