AN: Some info will be dropped in this chapter, mostly on things that aren't clear in canon. This is just my interpretation but all of it fit with what we are shown in canon.

There will be some clarifying info in the closing AN along with another Vote.

Also I think one of the reasons people complained that the MC learned the superionic ice so fast was that while i said it took two months, I didn't really show or mark the time. I did something different this chapter let me know what you guys think.

Chapter 3

-Midnight 95 AG, June-

I died.

There's just no ignoring that and pretending it didn't happen. I was given an incredible new chance at life... and nearly died again within the first few minutes. I don't think I can keep flying around from one extreme to the other pretending I'm OK and that everything is just fine. I'm not and it isn't. But maybe that's OK. After crying myself to sleep in Hama's arms, I woke up the next morning feeling... lighter. Nothing had been fixed or solved but it felt... freeing just to acknowledge that there was something wrong in the first place. It felt good to stop lying to myself.

The next two days saw a lot more crying. I finally started grieving for my death and the person I used to be. I'll never be her again. I've been through too much and have a whole new set of memories just as real as hers. I didn't choose drop-in for a reason. I wanted to bury my death behind years of someone else's memories... Even if I wasn't ready to consciously admit it. And it worked, I'm no longer that person, not truly... but I still died, and it still hurts.

Hama has been a blessing from the spirits these past two days. It was hard to reconcile the image I had of her before coming here with the kind old lady that's been dutifully comforting me. I know she's not a great person, that she keeps people trapped in a mountain to get revenge for her and her people's own imprisonment. But she also gives really great hugs when she lets you cry on her shoulder. It's confusing, I don't understand how she can be like two different people.

"Do you think you're up for talking about it today dear?" She was sitting by me in bed stroking my hair hair while my head laid on her lap. This has been the longest I've gone without crying in the past few days... maybe I should talk about it?

"I... I'm not sure where to start." I can't tell her about the jumpchain, or my past life. Not yet. Maybe not ever. I... don't know what... part of me wants her to come with me after I leave this world... to enjoy her amazing hugs forever but... she's Hama. She's just so... crazy.

"Why don't we start with something easy, tell me about living in the Norther Water Tribe." In what way is that easy lady? Well I guess it's the only real safe place to start isn't it? Fine lets talk about life in the tribe of backwards ass spiritual cocksuckers.

"It sucked. I constantly felt trapped and restricted. Everything about me felt like it was outlawed by the tribe. My waterbending, liking other girls, not wanting to be a healer stuck in the tribe serving everyone who hates what I am. I just... I'm not sure how much longer I could have stayed there without running away or killing myself. Even my family refused to understand me. Well there was my uncle Yako-"… Holy fuck.

"What is it? What about your uncle?" My uncle's name is Yakone. He's what, 22 now? That would put him at roughly 55 by the time that trial happens in republic city... that's about the right age isn't it? Holy fuck, he even kind of looks like the 3D version of what I could imagine a young Yakone would look like. My uncle is a psychic bloodbender? Wait... I'm from a family of psychic bloodbenders! Holy shit, I can't even process...

"Nothing it's just... I think my uncle Yakone might have been a bloodbender. He was always talking about teaching me secret family arts when I was older and it was safer. I really thought he was just trying to placate me you know? But maybe bloodbending runs in our family? Maybe that's why I picked it up so easy?" I mean I know I picked it up so easily because of perks but... is that the in universe reason for my insane talent? I come from the bloodline of secretly the most talented waterbenders in recent memory.

"A whole family of bloodbenders, and here I thought I was special... getting out done by a 12 year old girl..." she shouldn't feel bad. If this is true then... I mean Tarrlok was able to take out the avatar and a couple of master benders with a few hand gestures. And he was by far the weakest. Yakone, my maybe uncle, bloodbent a room full of people, while hand cuffed. Including a fully realized adult Aang, and adult Toph. Let's not even get started on Amon, dude legit found a way to permanently take away bending.

"Hey you're probably the first bloodbender from the Southern Water Tribe, and you taught yourself how to do it in a prison, that has to count for something right?"Considering the fact that she doesn't know healing it does. Northern Water Tribe bending, in addition to including healing, is also just more spiritual. And because spirituality is the easiest way to control and direct your chi and the chi of others, it's amazing she actually managed bloodbending on her own.

"Ha, I guess it does...but stop changing the subject, we were talking about you not me. While I'm sure you hated it there, and it does sounds so horribly boring, I doubt that's why you spent last two days crying and clinging to me." She might be underestimating how much I hated it there. How much I hated everything before my in universe and out of universe selves merged. That's how I'm choosing to think of it.

"Maybe you just give the best hugs, you ever thought about that?" They really are the best hugs I've gotten in either lives... though that my say more about the families I had in both my lives so far. I mean if your hugs are getting out shown by someone who kidnaps and imprisons random people out of revenge for a decades old trauma...

"..." She's so not buying it. The unimpressed deadpan and quick swat of my butt tell me that much. Ugh now I gotta go talk about my feelings and shit!

"OK fine! I... I snuck into the chief's vault to study waterbending scrolls. Everything was great for a few months but then the guards were just where they shouldn't have been. I... panicked. I sent ice daggers at both of them, I took the scrolls I was holding an ran. I had to attack four more guards just to get to the wall, I tried not to kill them but... I sent ice daggers into them as well, in their lungs so they couldn't call out for help and so it would look horrible to whoever found them."

"I was trying to do it so they didn't die, and I don't think they did but... I don't know. I got over the wall, made a massive ice tunnel, but there were just so many guards. They tried to tear apart the tunnel, and they were close so... I, well I exploded the walls into ice daggers and shot them at the guards. I think... I think I must have killed some. On my way down I got hit and crashed feet first into ice. My legs broke, got shredded really."

"I looked up back at the wall and there was just a wave of hundreds of ice daggers. I raised a shield of Ice over me and bent myself away as fast as I could. I could barely think through the pain. All I knew was that if I stopped they would kill me, I also had to bloodbend my legs to try and keep as much blood in them as I could. I managed to eventually encase them in ice before passing out... but I just... I knew I was going to die."

I really think I might have killed some of them, I... It would have been one thing if they were Fire Nation, I was preparing myself to kill Fire Nation soldiers my whole life... but they were just guards doing their job. People I probably passed on the street everyday... they didn't even attack me. Not until my stunt with the ice daggers. I wounded at least six innocent people and possibly wounded or killed a few dozen more.

"You're strong. The strongest waterbender I've ever met and definitely the strongest 12 year old! If your tribe couldn't accept who you are, then they were never you tribe in the first place. You don't owe them anything. If they tried to kept you trapped in a cage then they deserve anything they got while you had to break out. Never apologize for being free." ...She's not wrong... If I was caught I would have been imprisoned or killed. As soon as I sent daggers into the guards in a panic, my choices were pretty much, escape or die. Still...

"I'm glad to be gone... I miss some of them but the tribe was never my home. Never where I belonged. I just wish that I could have left things differently. The things they must have told my family about me..." I know it broke my mother and Gran Gran. The thought of me hurting anyone, ever. My dad would be so disgusted in me if I killed someone after all the lessons on valuing life. They must hate me by now.

"It sounds like you were never a Northern Water Tribe girl in the first place. You belong to the south, your father's blood made sure of that. And if your family believes whatever the northern chiefs tells them, if they don't see your actions for what they were, If they've never really seen you, then they were never your family." I... that sounds too much like a cop out. You didn't betray anyone because at heart you were never really a part of them. It sounds nice and all but...

"Great so I don't have a tribe or a family. You suck at cheering people up." They were still my family and tribe. Even if I would have been happier in the south. Honestly this is just giving me something else to be confused about.

"It's like you weren't even listening. You aren't unique girl. You may be stronger, but I've known so many waterbenders just like you in the south. Spirits, besides liking girls and your need to stuff yourself with ice, you remind me a lot of myself. You would have been at home in the south. Loved and cherished for your strength, you would have had the best teachers. Girls would have lined up to be protected by such a powerful bender... whether they liked girls or not."

"That sounds like a dream... way too perfect to be true." I remember seeing the Southern Water Tribe raids. They had just as many female as male waterbenders and they seemed to be equally trained. Hell the last one standing, and likely the strongest, was Hama... so maybe she isn't completely wrong?

"Oh really? Well if you were around back in my day you wouldn't have had to worry about all those girls swooning for you, I would have snatched you up up in second. With that thing you keep in you I'm sure I wouldn't have missed men too much, beside you're certainly tall and muscular enough for the role. You kno-"

"Stop! Please just... I can't. I'm sure you were a knockout back in the day but... Eww." Brain bleach! I need the brain bleach, oh spirits I can't unsee that metal image. I knew she liked torturing people but this is just too much!

"I'll have you know little missy I was more than just a knockout back in my day, I had boys lining up to get a piece of me! I had them all wrapped around my finger. Even the the ones with wives. There was this one tim-" I get that she's trying to lighten the mood but I so do not need to know like.. any of this!

"OK! I get it, you were hot and had all the dicks you wanted, I'm sure you enjoyed the daily igloo orgies or whatever the hell you did with all those guys but the last thing I want to think about is someone who could be my grandmother having sex! If you promise to stop talking about it, I promise I'll go in the village and hire a few guys so you can relive your glory days. Just make sure you leave a sandal on the door knob so I don't accidentally walk in on you getting pou- hey watch it old lady!" she gave another swat on my butt causing me to jump up off her lap and to the safety of the other side of the bed.

"Who're you calling old! I'm not too old to bend you over my knee little lady!" I threw a pillow at her when she tried to crawl over the bed with mock offense on her face. She dodged it and I had to scramble back from a water whip that looked like it came out of nowhere.

"I thought you weren't into girls! ….hey what happened to no ice daggers in the house! Stop... OK fine you want some come get some granny!" After dodging a few more Ice daggers from Hama, I took control of the dildo I kept in me, started using it again after I fixed my hormones, and sent it hurtling at her. She ducked under it but that put her in the perfect position to take a water whip from the pouch on my hip

"That was never a rule!" She pulled more ice from somewhere... ah thats a lot of dead flowers, and sent it at me in a spinning disk. I jumped over it, spinning horizontally in the air and sent another ice dagger at her, she twisted away but my dildo came hitting her ankles and swept her off her feet. We both landed at the same time, me standing up, her on her back.

"Well it really should be! You could throw out a hip shooting them at your age!" She did a spinning move from her back, almost like break dancing. The water on the floor around her whipped in a circle as she rose then fired it at me. I took control of it and sent it right back at her, with a thought my dildo also hurtled at her back. Not surprised, she took the water back from me again, and spun before swing her arms downward freezing my dildo in a block of ice.

"I'm surprised you know how to shape ice into anything but something to stuff inside yourself." Hey... I'm a super talented bender! I make lots of cool stuff... dildos are more fun! Taking the last of the water water in my pouch I form it into a lighting fast splash ball, just named it, that hit her square in the stomach. I made sure the water wasn't hot enough to to actually scald her but it hit with enough force to knock her over.

"Hey, kink shaming is just crossing the line!" I hoped over the bed and went to straddle her to get her to surrender.

"You started it little miss 'daily igloo orgies'." I had one hand pinned when suddenly a block of ice crashed into my back. That so unfair, you can't hit a girl with her own dildo! That has to be against some kind of convention... Geneva probably. Spinning off her I heat up my dildo and pull it from the block of ice, shaping it into a sword, She's had time to get up while I bend.

"Oh I'm sorry, do you prefer the term gangbang? Maybe... hey! Maybe you like to think of it as cumbending! I bent you bent all he cum in the tribe didn't you, you old slu- not the nipples!" She bent the melted ice bock into steam and sent it my way. As I was getting ready to protect myself and trash talking her, she squeezed down on the ice on my nipples a second before a blast of water hit my face. Oh it's on now granny!

…

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"Spirits I needed that. Thanks for helping take my mind off things. For just... everything really." I won the fight... spar... playing around or whatever, I subtlety froze her foot to the ground so she couldn't dodge when my dildo swept her legs again. I used the ice on my nipples to to bind her hands in cuffs before her body even had time to hit the floor. It may not have been a real fight but she's good I felt my combat speed and reaction times getting significantly better as things kept going.

"You're a strong girl Kala, but you're just a girl still you don't have to do everything by yourself, you don't have to keep everything buried inside little one. It's OK to feel things. To lash out and take what you deserve form this world, take back what's been taken from you, from our people." Lash out at the Fire Nation she means. I... I've always planned on killing them, on ending this war before my two selves merged and I learned the future of this world. Knowing everything would workout... I kinda lost my purpose.

"I just... I guess I never had someone who was willing to be there for me like that. Who wouldn't tell me I was wrong or needed to change. I've always been the problem in my families eyes. I know they loved me but..." Neither set of parents I had accepted me. They never abused me or mistreated me... which was worse. If they were horrible people that hated me, I could hate them back. It wouldn't hurt so much to look in their eyes and only see disappointment.

"But they didn't understand or accept you. They can't call themselves your family if they refuse to see who you truly are. They didn't love you Kala, they loved the obedient little girl they wanted you to be. They would never have accepted the strong and brave bender you are. I know I'm not your family, but if you're planning on sticking around... I can be that person for you Kala. You don't have to hide who you are from me." For some reason that sounded so much better than having a family.

-Midnight 95 AG, July-

She's a different person. This just isn't Hama. She looks like Hama sure, she even sounds like her. But this isn't the person I know. This isn't the woman that took me in and made me feel whole for the first time in my life, that made me feel wanted. She's acting like the Hama from the TV show. Even her chi feels different... agitated. As soon as the moon was full in the sky it was like a switch was flipped, there was an unhinged look in her eyes.

"It's just a little further now dear, soon you'll see my work." I really don't like the tone of her voice when she says that... not because it's scary but... it's just not her. I'm trying to understand how she can so suddenly just shift... it's like she's bipolar. Like as in actual bipolar disorder. I glance up at the moon, the spirit shining down on us bright and filling me power. Something I both loved and hated. The power feels incredible, almost addictive. Which is the problem, I hate being so dependent on a spirit for my power.

"I... how about we just practice some more tonight instead. You're getting incredibly close to being able to use your bloodbending outside of a full moon, maybe comparing the difference in feel will help?" I really don't want to have this confrontation tonight. Like at all. I don't overly mind what she's doing. After hearing the full story from her over the past few weeks of what the fire nation soldiers did to her and the other women prisoners over the decades she was locked up... I get her hatred.

After having to live through constant raids on your village and fighting to protect it time after time, each raid taking more and more protectors with it until she was the last one standing facing an army by herself... I get it. Having to surrender like that took something from her that I don't think she ever got back. The years of hell after... I mean they took her bending! Not like Amon or the Avatar, but by taking water itself from her.

After finally finding another source of water, our lifeblood, ironically in the lifeblood of rats, and feeling the all powerful moon spirit radiating through your chi I get how she got addicted to bloodbending. I get how mixing her addiction to bloodbending with the well deserved hatred she has for the Fire Nation produces someone the kidnaps and imprisons Fire Nation citizens every full moon, just like she was.

I do think that she should stick to Fire Nation soldiers, it may actually impact the war, but... I get it. The Fire Nation didn't attack and kidnap Southern Water tribe soldiers. They didn't really have a military back then. They attacked and imprisoned the citizens so she's doing the same. From what I saw in the episode, none of the people she imprisoned were children so it's somewhat safe to assume it isn't random, that she's targeting the people who either most vocally support or benefit from the war, from the raping of our people and culture.

It would probably be better to just kill them, I'm not one for torture or leaving things hanging over me... but I get it. I'm sure there were countless times when Hama wished for death, for the mercy of a swift death while she was locked in that prison and suffering under the guards cruel attention. It never came. Why should she give them them the mercy their country denied her?

I don't have a problem with what she's doing, not really. I don't like how she goes about it but... I can only work up so much sympathy for her 'victims' everything considered. No my real issue with all this is that I just can't reconcile this woman, this hate filled avenger who is probably mostly right in her actions, with the woman that holds me and makes everything better. I don't think she's crazy, she's sane far too often, can go far too long for it all to be an act.

I think she's sick. From what I know about bipolar disorder, thank the spirits that 21st century combat medic training includes mental health, and trauma induced conditions. One of them is bipolar disorder. It's not entirely trauma induced, you have to have the right brain for it, there are actual physical differences, but trauma can be a stressor and there are few things more traumatic to a teenage girl than being kidnapped from her home, imprisoned, having her only ability to defend herself being taken away , and then raped repeatedly.

The symptoms fit. The periodic mood swings, manic episodes, the addiction to the full moon. Hell even the full moon is a clue to what's wrong with her, it's pull has been known to induce episodes in people with bipolar disorder. And that's for people from my past life where the moon was just a rock, when it's actually a powerful spirit and you're a waterbender that gets empowered by it... all bet's are off. She's bipolar and suffering from a major addiction... but I think I can help her.

"Here we are. This Kala is my greatest work, this is what I hope to pass on to you." I stayed silent as she opened the metal door and led me to a chamber. A little over a dozen Fire Nation citizens were chained to a wall in fear as we approached. One young woman, in her early 20's, looked up with a mix of fear and hope at seeing me. She must be new.

"Please you have to help us! This woman is insane she going to-" Hama looked ready to bloodbend the woman when I walked over to her. She stopped when I grabbed the woman's face, ignoring the dirt and mucus on it.

"You're Fire Nation right? Born in the Fire Nation? Tell me how many water tribe men and women have you helped free? How many times have you helped someone that looked like me from someone that looked like you?" I don't hate people in the Fire Nation. I actually have a soft spot for a few of them... and some aren't even good people. But this lady is crazy if she thinks I would side with her over my own people.

"I-"

"It was rhetorical! I think we both know the answer, I think everyone in this room does. It might be the right thing to do. Freeing you. Treating you better than you treat people that look like me, doing more for you than you would me... but I'm not that selfless. No one asked your Fire Lord Sozin to start this war. No one asked him to commit genocide on an entire group of innocent people. No one asked his son to rape and raid the southern water tribe for all it's culture and benders."

"No one asked for nearly one hundred years of constant death and pain. No one asked your soldiers to ever even leave your fucking Islands. Now you can say that isn't you that it wasn't your fault, hell maybe you don't even support the war, but whether you're shouting your support from the roof tops of the Fire Nation capitol, or implicitly giving it through your silence, you support every atrocity your Fire Lord, your military, your nation ever visited on mine."

"If you don't like that you shouldn't have stayed in the Fire Nation. Who knows, maybe you can even escape, that insane woman over there was able to. Maybe when you do you can go tell your Fire Lord. Maybe he'll listen. Maybe he'll care when it's his citizens that are being raped, tortured, imprisoned and murdered. Maybe when every person in the Fire Nation knows the fear in their heart that the Southern Water tribes have had to live with for decades! Maybe then this war will be over."

"Either way, you won't be around to see it." Before I could think on It further I reached to the blood in her body and took a hold, a half second later and all the blood vessels in her brain burst, her eyes exploding out of their sockets, every orifice on her face leaking blood. It took every bit of control in my body to not throw up at the sight, at the hot blood painting my face, at the smell of iron stinging my nose. I kept it together long enough to make it outside the cave before throwing up everything in my stomach.

"It's going to be OK sweetie. You first kill is always the hardest. But you didn't even hesitate, you just did what needed to be done. I'm so proud of you." That should have made me sicker. She's proud that I made someone's head explode... but it didn't, I couldn't help but feel better. It's the first time someone's ever been proud of me.

"If I do this, If we do this... It can't be like this. I can't... they have to be over 21. no kids. No one that hasn't had a chance to know that what their country is doing is wrong. No one that opposes the war. We don't keep them imprisoned, we kill them. No torture. We do the job and we're done." I tried breathing through my mouth so I didn't have to smell the blood and puke. Hama's soothing hand rubbed my back while I tried to get my nerves under control.

"Do you think they cared if they took kids? Do you think they cared if our brothers and sisters wanted any thing to do with a war? Do you think-

"I care! You want, no you need me to carry on your work. I need to be able to live with my self while I do it Hama. I can't... I won't become like them. I won't become like the the Fire Nation soldiers that raped and imprisoned you, please don't ask me to be." Turning to face Hama for the first time since we came out here, I let her see the tears running down my face and don't bother trying to hide how devastated I'm sure I look.

"I... OK. No Kids. No one against the war. We kill them. I can live with that sweetie." She starts bending the blood, puke, snot and tears from off me with one hand while the other strokes my hair. I can't let all those people that know about bloodbending and Hama live. As soon as she captured them they were dead. I can't instantly heal Hama of all her trauma or cure her likely metal disorder. I can leave her but... I just don't want to.

What I can do is be there for her like she's been for me. Give her the open love and acceptance she's given. Help heal her the way she's been helping me. I owe her that much. I owe myself that much. Spirits know we both owe the Fire Nation that much. I didn't know I had that speech in me until after It all came out. I didn't realize how much frustration and hatred I'd been suppressing until faced with it. I honestly can't bring myself to take back a single word or disagree with a single thing I said though.

"If you're feeling better now, I'll go ahead and start getting rid of the others. I understand if you aren't up to it just yet. Get some rest." As she walked away I had a thought. One I immediately hated myself for. Not just because it was horrible, but because I knew I had to do it. I needed to learn and it was better to visit my needs on people that were already marked for death than to visit them on others who may have a full life ahead of them.

"Wait, they don't need to die just yet... I... we could use them." Spirits what am I doing.

-Midday 95 AG, August-

I heard news of prince Lu Ten's death in town today, I have to cover my birthmark when I go out but it's nice to stretch my legs a bit and get away from my work. I spend most of my time in the cave, working and learning... It's not the easiest work, from the actual bending perspective, or from the emotional and mental one. Still I know in the long run this is going to do some good, a lot more than harm... besides they were already dead anyway. I just have to keep telling myself that.

-Evening 95 AG, September-

Hama had a breakthrough today, She finally bloodbent during the day when the sun was at it's peak and us waterbenders are at our weakest. She had bloodbent outside of full moon before today but this was a milestone, if she can do it under these conditions, she can do it anytime. I've been having a lot of success in my work as well. Using my bloodbending and healing to fully map the human body, and chi paths has been beyond difficult. I'm nowhere near done but I'm making progress faster everyday. Hama is excited by some of the results so far.

-Noon 95 AG, October-

I've been so consumed with my work that I missed Fire Lord Azulon dying and Ozai's coronation. I only found out when Hama came back from a little errand I sent her on. I needed benders, to study the difference in the brains and chi paths of benders and non-benders. I'm so close to a breakthrough I can feel it. If this goes right... and I think it will, it'll go a long way to ending this war on my terms and helping Hama heal.

-Midnight 95 AG, November-

I did it! I had to have Hama find a couple dozen more benders, but I did it! She really has gotten into liking targeting benders, soldiers, more. She says that they look more devastated when she forced their bodies to act against their will and that because she can take people at any time of day all the soldiers in the local bases are terrified they'll disappear at a moments notice. Still it was all worth it. I finally learned how chi, bending, and the body interact. I learned more than what Amon must have discovered.

Chi pathways, run incredibly close to the circulatory system, so close that in most places they're intertwined. Bending is a part of your chi and everyone has it. And I do mean everyone. There wasn't a single person who's chi I examined that didn't have bending. So why weren't they benders? It's for the stupidest of reasons really. They couldn't actively control their chi. The part of the brain that actively controls chi wasn't being connected to.

It's all thanks to a small little vein really. Well, really the chi path that intertwined with that vein. It's all a quirk of birth, if the vein connect to the brain in this spot, then the chi pathway is in contact with the right part of your brain and you can actively control your chi, thus bend. If it's over just a little bit in either direction you can't. Simple right... well no because it's so much more than that. From what I could find you can control and you can strengthen and weaken that pathway throughout your life.

For each individual this doesn't mean much, through careful practice you may get a bit more control. Over countless generations of meditation and spiritualism the chi path in that area can be born large and thick enough that no matter where the vein it's intertwined with connects to your brain, it's always in in a place that allows active chi control. This is what I believe allowed all air nomads to be born benders, while the overall least spiritual population, the earth kingdom, has the lowest percentage of benders.

Of course, you don't need spiritualism to control your chi thankfully. You also don't need it to manipulate the chi of others, even if that's how it's taught in the Northern Water Tribe, the bunch of backwards spirit cock sucking pussys. You can do it through raw effort. Then practice and more practice, well as long as you can actively control chi in the first place. The way I see it, spiritualism is just a crutch.

The important part in all this? I can sever someones connection to their chi. I can even sever someones connection to the specific chi paths that their bending is in. From studying myself and the fire benders, I discovered that there are different chi paths for each element. And the chi paths for the element in your chi is what connects to the chi path that is intertwined with the vein that is near the area that allows you to actively control your chi. Again it's complicated.

Like Amon, I can sever the chi paths, using the veins around them, for your bending element. Unlike Amon, I can sever the later chi path in the chain, that lets you actively control chi in general. If he had been able to do that then even with Korra activating her unsevered air chi paths, there just would have been nowhere for them to go. All of this is different from energybending, which to my knowledge is about taking the actual bending element itself out of your chi.

None of this is the exciting part. Well no, being able to take someones bending is exciting don't get me wrong. Being able to use bloodbending in conjunction with chi manipulation to reposition a vein and then strengthen and thicken a chi path... well I can effectively give bending to 'non-benders'. It took a few tries leaving the prisoners brain dead, but I did it! I gave someone the ability to bend.

In time, once the stage is ready and I'm confident enough in my skills, I'll give the whole Southern Water Tribe the ability to bend. Then we'll be the ones raiding the Fire Nation. But I did a lot more than just learn how to give people bending. Chi is such an interesting subject after all.

-Midnight 95 AG, December-

I convinced Hama to leave. It wasn't easy but I made her realize that we had drawn too much attention with all the people we had been taking recently. I also had to bribe her with my latest discovery. You see I had an Idea. If through the art of healing I can infuse my chi into water, then that water into someone else to control theirs... then surely I could do more right? Surely while I can make their own chi heal them thats not all I can do with it right? If I can move my chi in and out of their body, then surely I can do the same to theirs.

And so I did. I learned how to slowly draw the chi out of a person, along with their chi pathways, and permanently take them. You have to fuse the chi pathways into your own in the area around your gut that produces chi in the first place. You also have to make sure not to take the area of their chi or chi pathways that relates to bending in any way. I learned that out after four exploded bodies. This sadly means that you can only take roughly half of a persons chi safely.

The influx of extra chi, and chi pathways has an incredible result on the body when directed properly. It revitalizes it almost like turning back the hands of time, except you also get stronger. After giving her the chi of two separate people, Hama had her youth back. It's not immortality, she'll grow old again It's also not fast at all, each person taking a full day to extract and integrate, then it kills them. The recipient is also left pretty vulnerable and unable to manipulate chi for about a week after.

Sadly I only had time to do it to myself four times due to the time constraints. I cheated though, I added the chi to another body so I then could add it all at once and only have to go through the recovery period once. I'm not entirely sure if it was worth it to be honest, for me. Sure I have more chi now, but that was less than a 1 percent increase. I would need to do this to entire cities, to notice a real appreciable difference. Or do it to the most powerful benders in the world but... that sounds like a horrible idea, very suicidal.

At least Hama's happy to be in her 20's again. Well physically. It's honestly disturbing for her to have suddenly gotten hot. There was awkwardness for like a day but then she just called me an idiot and hugged me, it's been pretty cool since. Still a bit weird.

"Are you ready to go?" Spirits I'm still getting used to her not sounding like a grandma. We had packed everything of value and sold the inn, before the chi transfer. The last few weeks we've been camping out in the cave. Hama's official excuse for leaving was that with all the disappearances in the area, no one was coming through to stay in her inn so she was looking for somewhere new to reopen.

"Yep, let's head to the sub, I'll have to make it a bit bigger to hold both of us and the stuff, but the trip to Shu Jing shouldn't take that long." We made our way to the beach where my ice sub was sunken and anchored. I quickly had it resurface, ten started adding ice and changing it shape. It took a few minutes of revisions but I eventually had an 16' long boat, with extra ice to completely encase so I could submerge it. At 5'4 even with the ice roof up, I could stand without crouching, as could the shorter Hama.

"What are those?" I was in the process of unfreezing my old storage area to then refreeze it with the new stuff added when Hama spotted my master bending scrolls. I hadn't forgotten about them, I've just been uninterested, from what I remember of the look I got at them before my other self inserted in this world, they were just high level scrolls with advanced forms based on all that spirit worshiping bullshit the Northern Water Tribe loved to guzzle like cum. Well I guess I should say the Water one, never opened the other, it's not like I can Firebend.

"I told you I got banished for stealing scrolls remember? Well here they are. Just a bunch of move diagrams and explaining how the spirits really like when you do the moves this way or that, gets em off or something." Chuckling at the image of Northern Waterbenders giving spirits handjobs for power, I tossed the scrolls at Hama, Maybe she'll get something out of them. She's way more into the spirit orgy side of things.

"Uh Kala... are you sure you opened this scroll?" Hmm? Turning back around to look at her holding the scroll up for my inspection... what the... this is not the scroll from my memories, snatching it from her I start reading out loud.

"Everything you have been taught about waterbending is a lie. The Moon spirit will be your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness. Only through the rejection of the moon can you ever come to master the secrets of this scroll. Step one, clear your-" What the actual fuck is going on? What...

-Midday 95 AG, December-

"Can I help you?" I knocked on the large gate for a while before getting an answer. We only just got to Shu Jing and Master Piandao's castle. It was a relatively quick trip from Hama's island, only 4 hours, but we ended up leaving later than expected.

"I was hoping to receive training from Master Piandao." I think. Part of me wants to dive head first into that scroll but the other part of me knows it's better to take a step back and really resonate and think on it's contents and the myriad of implications... spirits the implications.

"You should know the master turns almost everyone away... what did you bring him to prove your worth?" As I listened to the butler, fat I think, and then saw him stick his hand out I remember this part. I kinda forget what with the earth shattering information dumped on me last night... I probably should have read the scroll sooner... Stupid memories of the past. Still what exactly did I have?

"Uhh... gratuitous nudity, quick wit, a charming personality, and a can do attitude?" Possibly Fat's deadpan told me my joke missed the mark, but at least Hama's chuckle proved someone appreciates my humor.

"...Let's just get this over with."

AN: so clarifying info, I'll go mostly in order. We don't know where Yakone is from, it's probably the Northern Water tribe, as It can't be from the southern and he implies that he comes from a bloodline of powerful benders so it doesn't make sense for him to have been born in another nation unless it was a unique area like the waterbenders in the foggy swamp, but we aren't shown a place like that. Also in 128AG at his trial, he looks to be 50-60, I made him 55, so 22 in 95AG.

Hama, personally I do think bipolar disorder fits what's shown of her, with a healthy mix of fully justified anger and hatred but I'm not a psychologist so who knows. As for he guards in prison raping her, it happens to female inmates in prison and it happened in times of war that combined with her comments of cruel treatment, well I think it's likely.

Also people have stated that she left her fellow waterbenders in prison when she escaped, but I don't believe that. I think they were already dead. She was the last waterbender taken, and she was in prison for decades before escaping. It's very likely they all died before then. For anyone who thinks Hama gave in to easily, she only went psycho when Katara completely rejected her offer and bloodbending, she was relatively calm, if impassioned, before that.

Chi stealing. No this isn't an instant power up. Yes it's somewhat canon compliant as apparently stealing an avatar's chi can grant immortality. This is just a much more scaled down version where the MC uses the massive influx of chi to revitalize the body with a mix of bloodbending and healing. Hama will have more chi than before, but as stated in the chapter, compared to the MC's chi level's its marginal. Relatively to her past amount though Hama's chi has doubled.

Vote:

1. Hama: It's been a while since Hama has kidnapped anyone that wasn't a Fire Nation soldier. Should she:

Relapse – without the MC's careful eye Hama just can't help reverting back to her old ways.

Recovery – she has a new outlet for her revenge and and hatred, killing Fire Nation soldiers, and a second chance at life, she's not going to compromise that.

2. Weapon: the MC needs to think about her fighting style and what weapon to use, when combined with her bending.

Guandao – wide single edged blade curved towards the tip, roughly 18 inches long on a 6 and a half foot pole. 8ft overall length. Made of black ice, MC will be able to use it one or two handed, or throw it like a spear and recall it with bending.

Katana – Standard Katana made of black ice, will mostly be used one handed and for quick strikes against chi blockers.

Twin hook swords – 38 inch swords with a hooked tip and bladed crescent hand guard made of black ice, must be used two handed, swords can be linked by the hooks for a slash at extended range. Will only be able to bend psychically while using.