Here is the 23rd full chapter in Book 5, released a day early due to potential WiFi problems. This is the second of three chapters in the current arc and this one is going to focus on the actions of a few of the people Luna has sent off into the Temple to help out and what they did during the battle. As such, this chapter is back to my usual 6k average length and the next one is going to be longer. Anyway, that is all I have for here though so I will leave this pre chapter note off here and as there isn't anything to respond to that means that it time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 23rd full installment of Avatar: The Tale of Harry. Book 5: Duty.
Disclaimer: As always I own nothing related to these two great works of fiction.
Chapter 23
Ron slammed his hammer into the face of a Northern Mercenary as he pushed deeper into the Temple to where he'd likely set up a forward command center if he was attacking it, the giant Pai Sho room. Along the way Scorpius and Rose had been separated from him by the cries of young noncombatant being attacked and had gone to help them out. That was ok as other volunteers had joined him and helped him get this far before splitting off to face their own small skirmishes in the Temple.
Now though, it was just Ron, and he knew that the commander of the Northern Mercenaries had to be in this room. There would be a few guards standing outside that had given it away, but he'd take care of them with ease and now he'd face the commander and take him out. That would help turn the tide as they wouldn't be able to function cohesively without their leader giving orders.
Ron quietly slipped into the room and grinned. He'd been right, the leader was here, and it was better than he could have hoped for. Standing in the center with a portable radio barking out orders and surrounded by a few bodies of volunteers and Kyoshi Warriors, along with plenty of broken earth was none other than Blaise, the leader of the Northern Mercenaries itself. Ekrizdis must have sent him personally to ensure victory. All this would do would damage them though as Ron would kill their leader and give them an advantage in the war once they repelled this illegal attack.
Near Blaise was a burly earthbender with his eyes closed and no shoes so he was using seismic sense to see the battle and relay it to Blaise to give orders to his field commanders. There were also 3 guards around him, all clearly waterbenders as they had water out and ready to act. Well, Ron acted without hesitation before they could realize that he was here.
He dropped his hammer and before it hit the ground he'd flicked his wrist for a throwing knife and hurled it at the earthbender. He must not have been focused on the near area but the further battle because he never saw the end coming. He'd just opened his mouth to say something when the knife reached him and went into his mouth before exiting the back of his head. He fell to the ground dead before he hit it as the guards turned to see Ron there.
Ron already had another knife in his hand and had thrown it as they turned, taking the lead guard in the throat, and sending him down with a gurgle. The other guards had reacted by this point however and sent out a blast of water each at Ron. They had no chance against the Red Wolf.
Ron raised his hands and took hold of the water and bent it around himself. However rather than keep it as would be expected, he sent it right back at the two guards faster than they had sent it at him, freezing it at the last second into narrow spikes.
One guard took it in the chest and was thrown back with the ice impaled in it. The other managed to partially deflect it but took a long cut on the arm for his efforts. As he yelled in pain Ron redirected the water that had passed him back at the guard. The spike hit him in the base of the neck and exploded out of his throat thus ending his yell as he collapsed to the ground dead.
"Not bad traitor." Blaise said calmly drawing a Northern style machete from a sheathe on his back in a fluid motion. "You live up to the name of Red Wolf. I expect no less from a pureblood even if you are a blood traitor."
"I see you still hold Purist views Blaise." Ron said as he used the water in the hammer's handle to return it to his hand before he slowly began to make his way into the room. "Not that I expected any less from you. I'll admit, we thought the NMC was done for until this war when you reemerged as the Northern Mercenaries, so you surprised us."
"What can I say, after the Avatar dumped dad in that volcano prison I had to go underground and rebuild slowly over the decades." Blaise said with a shrug. "But then again who was going to miss me. I was an obsolete former water noble and convicted Purist. Once my parole ended I went underground and into self-exile because of the usurper in the North and the dislike for those with my convictions there despite what we made the North into when we held power. That said, I know that Draco renounced his views before he died, and Scorpius is a blood traitor so as far as I am concerned I am the best to be Chief and restore the old ways but all in good time."
"You will never get that chance." Ron said simply. "I'll kill you before it. With you dead the Northern Mercenaries will be in disarray, and we will have an advantage. This little ploy of yours will backfire. The war is ours now."
"Not if I kill you first and we hit all of our targets then we will control the narrative." Blaise said. "I'll kill you, Pansy will take out Luna, Ginny will die as well, as will all your kids that are here though your line won't die here unfortunately. The Avatar will likely survive but we have planned for that. He'll be too devastated to go on though seeing as the rest of his team will be dead and we will have 3 of the 4 Temples. The war will be ours by the end of the day."
"We shall see." Ron said. "Because only one of us is walking out of here alive."
"Agreed." Blaise said giving Ron a formal salute with his machete. "A fight to the death between warriors, as it should be. Let's end this."
With that Blaise charged and Ron pulling water up from his water skin as he did. Ron ran at him in return, water coming up and forming a shield of ice on his left arm as the two waterbenders reached each other and clashed in a battle to the death as was expected between water warriors of their standing in a battle like this.
Blaise swung his machete at Ron, but Ron easily deflected it off his shield and swung his hammer aiming for Blaise's arm. The spiked hammer slammed into a thick barrier of ice that was encasing Blaise's arm and Ron had to leap back at the last moment to avoid a stab from the ice spike at the end of the barrier as Blaise was going for a dual wield rather than a sword and shield approach like Ron. Well, hammer and shield in Ron's case but same thing.
"Not bad." Ron grunted as he intercepted another sword stroke with the haft of his hammer and pushed it away before sending out a series of small ice spikes from the ice covering his left fist.
"Years of training." Blaise grunted as he took the small spikes to the chest, but they were more a distraction than anything else as they were too close for Ron to get any momentum behind them. "One thing the Battle of the Elemental Academy taught me was that bending won't always win."
"Odd for a Purist to acknowledge that." Ron said sweeping the hammer forward and shattering the tip of the ice spike but missed Blaise's hand. "Few of you lot understood that back in the day hence why many of you died by weapons and not bending."
"Adapt or die, that's what my father told me before he was arrested." Blaise snarled as Ron deflected another sword strike with his ice shield and hammered again at Blaise's own ice. "It's why I am one of the few true Purists left alive, one of the few who still acknowledges what Lucius and Voldemort stood for."
"That number will be down by one today at my hand." Ron said as he again deflected and countered impressed by the thickness of the ice Blaise was using and needing a new strategy quick. "You slipped through the cracks because of how pathetic you were in the Battle of the Elemental Academy, and we never tracked you once your parole ended, not anymore."
"I was wise unlike the others you fucking blood traitor." Blaise roared as he used his machete to deflect away Ron's hammer with a clang as the blade hit the hammer's head and Ron saw a crack form at the impact point before Blaise used the surprise deflection to prepare and overhand strike. "Today you die cocksucker."
"No, I won't." Ron said raising his shield to block the strike and grinning as he had it with the angle his shield was currently at. "You die, you are outmatched against me."
Before Blaise could retort or his machete could hit the shield Ron melted it so that the blade passed through the water that suddenly splashed to the floor. Blaise's eyes went comically wide as his momentum carried him forward a step and Ron swung his hammer with all his might at Blaise's head.
Blaise managed to get his left arm up in time so that the spiked head slammed into the ice there but after taking several blows and the force Ron had just used the ice shattered, sending it flying away and the hammer head continued to hit Blaise's arm. It wasn't enough to break it thanks to the ice absorbing most of the force, but it did puncture his skin and Ron saw the blood flow out as Blaise reactively stepped back. Ron pressed his advantage by stepping forward and swinging the hammer down aiming for Blaise's head again.
At the last moment Blaise got his machete up so that the hammer hit the flat of the blade, right where the crack was. Platinum was useful as a metal because as far as the world knew the only known metalbender who could bend it died over 20 years ago. However, the metal wasn't the strongest out there and it was only useful in battle because everyone used it, well with one major exception.
Ron's hammer head was made from meteorite metal not platinum and was denser than iron or steel. A standard sword wasn't meant to take a blow from it to begin with and a platinum one just didn't have the strength to withstand such a direct blow on an already weakened point.
Blaise's machete broke at the point of impact sending shards of metal everywhere and now Ron saw the defeat in Blaise's eyes but he was in the middle of a sequence so he couldn't stop. Ron used the momentum of the break to spin with the hammer and slammed it into the side of Blaise's right knee as it was now low, shattering it and causing the mercenary to yell in pain as he fell to his ruined knee. At the same moment Ron used the water on the floor to form a dirty ice spike that shot out and impaled Blaise in the gut holding him there as blood began to run down the ice spike from the wound it had made.
"Looks like I wasn't a match for the Red Wolf after all." Blaise coughed out, blood running down his chin as he looked up at Ron without emotion in his old eyes. "I'm done for, on your honor Ron, end it quickly."
"I'd rather take you in alive but that wound in your gut is fatal and this is a true battle of warriors, so honor dictates I take your life." Ron said without emotion. "I will grant you this honor Blaise. Goodbye."
With that Ron swung his hammer and slammed it into the side of Blaise's skull. It cracked like an egg and the force broke the ice right where it had impaled the Purist so that Blaise's lifeless body fell to the side. It hit the ground with a thud and lay there.
Ron turned, there was no need to look at the mess he'd caused. It wasn't pretty but he'd done it, he'd killed the leader of the Northern Mercenaries and one of the last true Purists in the world to give them an edge in this battle. It was time to rejoin said battle and Ron knew that he had to find his wife and protect her. She wasn't a warrior, and she was their leader, she needed him more than ever right now. As Ron ran to find her he couldn't help but wonder how the others were doing in the battle.
Rose and Scorpius burst into the room they had heard the screams coming from that had caused them to branch off from helping Ron and instantly they saw red. In the room were a bunch of young airbenders, no older than 10, who had been rounded up into a corner by some of the mercenaries.
There were about a dozen airbenders of both genders in the corner with twice as many mercenaries present. On the floor were the bodies of a 5 older airbenders who had tried to defend them, along with two Kyoshi Warriors. They had fought valiantly and killed at least 15 mercenaries, who's surviving companions had dragged them away, but they'd been overwhelmed by sheer numbers in the end.
"Orders are to not kill them." One of the mercenaries, a woman who was likely their leader by the sounds of it, said. "But that doesn't mean we can't have some fun, eh boys. I don't know about you, but I could use a release and these young'uns can help with that, I do like 'em young after all, it's so much fun to destroy their innocence. Let's have our fill and break them, they'll be ripe for Pansy when this is…"
The woman didn't get to finish her disgusting rant when Scorpius sent an ice spike through her throat. The mercenary gurgled and collapsed. Before the others could turn to see what was going on Scorpius had leapt into their midst wielding his sword, the same design Albus used to have as that was what he'd gone for as a replacement to honor his dead brother after his own sword had broken in the Second Siege, and a water whip. Before the mercenaries could realize Scorpius had already cut one down with his sword and used a thin water edge to open two more's throats from ear to ear taking them out as well.
"Rose, get the trainees to safety." Scorpius said as he turned his water into a shield to deflect a blade and stabbed another in the gut, the upward curve of the blade doing a lot of damage as he yanked it out, taking some guts with him as he did. "I can hold them off for a moment."
"This way." Rose said and Scorpius saw her use as blast of water to take out two more mercenaries and clear a path for the airbenders to get to safety. "Follow me."
Scorpius didn't need to look to know that Rose had them safely away. He trusted his wife and knew that she'd do the right thing. He had a battle to win and as a sword came for his side he froze all the water in the special suit he wore to create the ice armor. They didn't have many of these suits left but all skilled waterbenders had them. It would protect him and allow him to fight off the remaining 17 mercenaries int the room. Well 16 as he took the arm off the would-be attacker at the forearm and removed him from the battle as he fell away screaming as the blood spurted out of his arm.
There wasn't a moment of rest as the remaining mercenaries all attacked at the same time. Scorpius pulled the ice up and over his face so that he had a see-through helmet of sorts and abandoned bending and defense all together to go for offense and evasion.
He started with the latter as he avoided a shard of metal that took another mercenary behind him in the chest. Scorpius responded with a slash that cut the attacker across the neck and face removing her from the battle as well.
Scorpius twisted away and got his sword up in time to catch and overhead strike in the straight middle part of his blade and they locked blades. The mercenary was grunting as he tried to use height and strength to overpower Scorpius. It would have worked had Scorpius not been expecting it and used the proximity to knee him in the groin before dropping him with the slight curve at the base of the sword as he slammed it into the man's jaw rendering him unconscious.
At the same time Scorpius felt something sharp and heavy slam into his back. It had to be a mace of some sorts and while the ice armor stopped it from killing him he felt a spike punch through it and hit his back. It wasn't enough to be a problem and with the adrenalin in his body he didn't feel it. He just turned and slashed the attack across his chest surprised he didn't have any armor there and dropping him.
As the man fell Scorpius caught the mace on his left hand and swung around using his momentum to extend his arms and become a brief whirl of death for a moment. He took out 3 more who were too close to avoid him, two with slit throats and one with a caved skull from the mace. Scorpius stopped the spin to avoid getting dizzy but as he did he threw the mace into the chest of a waterbender who had been holding back crushing her chest and sending her back and into a wall where she slumped to the floor out of the battle at least.
Scorpius came to a stop and assessed the situation as the others had backed off. There were now only 8 remaining but they all had enough sense to step back. Scorpius wasn't sure if the others were alive or dead and didn't care, he had to focus on the ones still standing and able to fight.
One was a firebender based on the flame daggers in his hands and was clearly holding back to avoid hurting his friends. Two were metalbenders based off their armor and the metal projectiles they had around them and one was a pure earthbender based on strong stance she had and the cracked stone at her feet. The remaining 4 were likely nonbenders as they had a variety of weapons out from a pair of short swords to standard swords to an axe.
It wasn't going to be easy, and Scorpius needed something drastic and surprising to change the dynamics of the battle. Fortunately, he knew just the move. It was insanely risky, but it was worth it. With a grin behind his ice helmet, Scorpius blew it up with his bending sending ice everywhere, ice he bent into spikes as they flew at the shocked mercenaries that were surrounding him.
The results weren't as good as Scorpius had hoped but it still worked as the enemies hadn't seen it coming. The firebender took a shard to the eye and went down his fire extinguished. One of the metalbenders had been too close and a shard took out a chunk of her neck though her companion got his metal in the way to block them. Likewise, the earthbender pulled up a slab of earth to block the attack. As for the nonbenders, the two sword wielders went down with ice in their throats and the axe user fell back wounded and out of it with a shard in her right shoulder that made her drop her axe.
Only the dual wielder avoided it with an impressive acrobatic display, but it distract her, and Scorpius pounced while the benders were occupied. As the nonbender came down from her spinning leap to avoid the ice, Scorpius cut her down with a slash that thanks to her spin disemboweled her.
It wasn't pretty and Scorpius turned away from the gore and viscera that was sent all over the room, a turn that allowed him to see a shard of metal coming for his face. He managed to get his sword up and deflected it, but it did cut him along his temple, barely missing his eye and took out the top of his ear but he just ignored the pain and blood running down the side of his face.
At the same time a rock shot out of nowhere and took his legs from under him sending him up and into the air and judging by the crack he heard and the pain he now felt it broke his left ankle. This was followed by a metal spike that hit him in the left side. His armor absorbed the blow, but the force broke a few ribs before Scorpius hit the ground hard.
Still, he wasn't out of it yet. Pulling a knife from his belt, he tossed it at the metalbender who tried to bend it away, but it was made of ivory from one of Scorpius's kills not metal. It missed his outstretched hand and took him in the throat. He fell back as Scorpius rolled painfully away from a sudden explosion of earth spikes and slowly got to his feet.
Scorpius ignored the pain he was in as he stood, barely putting any weight on his left foot. The earthbender looked at him in shock that he was still standing. Scorpius used that shock to throw his sword at the bender. It flew end over end and then imbedded in her head with the curved end of it and she dropped dead to the floor.
He sighed in relief that it was over. It was a foolish thing he did, and he was out of the battle with his injuries, but Scorpius was glad he'd done it. He'd taken out two dozen mercenaries, saved several lives from being traumatized at least and done his part for the battle. He just needed to wait for Rose to return so that he could get patched up with her healing and then find someplace safe for the rest of the battle.
"You know, just because I use a weapon doesn't mean I'm not a bender." A voice said causing Scorpius to turn to the axe wielder, one of the few survivors he'd removed from the battle with the shard of ice in her shoulder to see that she was now sitting with her back against the wall, blood running down her right arm and her left arm raised as she clenched her fist. "Just like you, cunt."
Suddenly Scorpius felt a tremendous amount of pain as if he'd been stabbed all over his chest, abdomen and back. He looked down, his eyes wide and saw that his ice armor had been turned on him and used to stab him all over with multiple ice knives. They weren't deep but they were numerous, too numerous to deal with and several had hit vital organs, he was sure of it.
"I am a Northern Mercenary, most of us are waterbenders bitch." The woman laughed as she pulled back her clenched fist. "You were very good, I'll give you that, but you made a mistake and will die for it blood traitor. I know who you are son of Draco, I'm glad to be the one to kill you."
The blood covered ice flew out of Scorpius's body and shattered on the wall. With him unplugged Scorpius felt himself bleed freely as he collapsed to the ground, blood pooling around him.
"NO!" A voice wailed and Scorpius saw a spike of ice take waterbender in the face and impale her to the wall.
Scorpius smiled. He knew that it was Rose as she came over to him and knelt down by him, lifting his head into her lap and turning him over onto his back so that she could turn his face and look at him. Good. The last thing he'd see in this life was his love's face.
Rose had tried to get the young airbenders to safety quickly but had run into a small unit of Black Airbenders who tried to kill them all because that's just what they did, they didn't mind committing war crimes and were always disavowed after the fact by Ekrizdis to prevent the World Leaders from using their crimes as justification to intervein. Thankfully, it didn't take long for her to dispatch the 5 evil airbenders, with some help from the younglings she was saving, but it held her up a little and that was important. It would end up being the difference between life and death.
That was because after she got the airbenders to a safe zone that the Kyoshi Warriors had established nearby she hurried back to where she'd left Scorpius. She got there in time to hear the strained voice of a woman in pain and saw the wounded mercenary clench her first.
Instantly Rose knew what the woman had done, she could see the ice spikes in Scorpius's back from it and the shock rooted her to the spot. Then the woman expelled the ice and she snapped to it, deflecting the bloody shards that came for her with her own bending and letting what she'd just seen fuel her rage.
"NO!" Rose screamed as the man she loved, and the father of their children fell to the ground and she acted instantly.
She sent all the water remaining in her water skin out and formed a massive ice spike that took the mercenary full in the face. It destroyed her smug grin and exploded out the back of what was left of her head and into the wall. She was dead in that position, but Rose didn't care as she hurried to Scorpius and lifted his head into her lap, turning him onto his back to look at his eyes as his blood began to stain her clothes and hands.
"Come on Scorpius, we can get through this." Rose said as the tears fell from her eyes as she looked down at his handsome face.
"No, we can't." Scorpius wheezed out, blood burbling out of his mouth showing that his lungs had been punctured. "The damage is shallow but extensive and hit a few organs. Not even Albus could have saved me."
"Don't say that." Rose said crying. "I can help."
"It's ok, I will die like my father, in the arms of someone I love." Scorpius said with a weak smile as he took her hand with the little remaining of his strength. "I'm going to see him and my mother, and Albus now, it's been too long. I'll see you there in time my love."
With that Scorpius closed his eyes and let out a slow, final exhale as he died in Rose's arms. Rose cried for a moment as she cradled Scorpius's head in her arms before she gently lay her love out on the floor. She bent down and kissed his forehead one last time before she got up, ignoring his blood that was all over her, and looked around the room.
Scorpius had died a hero's death, there was no doubt in that. He'd saved the airbenders and killed what looked like at least 20 mercenaries if not more doing so. She'd make sure to survive to tell his story and ensure that he was buried in the Hall of Northern Heroes as he deserved to be.
"Goodbye my love, until we meet again in the next life." Rose said as she wiped her face clean, picked up her machete, and ran out to rejoin the battle.
She was going to help defend this Temple so that no closer to her died and that they held it against the invaders who had started this stupid war in the first place. If they did, they could end this war. All it would take is all of them giving it their all and Rose knew that the others were doing just that.
Sirius was running to the point where he could get up to the cliff and best help out up there. There was so much chaos down in the Temple thought that it was hard to find a point that would help him. He needed a large open area with columns so he could see up to the plain above and know he could earthbend upwards without a problem.
The good thing was that he knew of a small meditation area that was open and would work for him. The problem was that it was a fair bit away and near the south end of the Temple. That meant running through several battles and taking out a handful of mercenaries along the way, but Sirius was well trained and no longer holding back, he easily cut through every enemy in his way as he made his way to the point he needed to get to.
Of course, the moment he reached it he came upon a major problem. There were at least 20 mercenaries there and there had been more, but the rest had died in a fight with several ANDF soldiers and Kyoshi Warriors. Judging by the number of bodies strew across the floor, Sirius judged that at the very least more mercenaries than the other forces had died here though all the defenders had died due to the numbers they had been facing.
"Boss, we have set up a southern landing platform for reinforcements." The commander was saying into the receiver. "Boss?"
"If he's not responding then Ron has likely found him." Sirius said to the unit as he walked up to them, hands raised, he did this because he noticed all had platinum swords or spears and a plan was in his mind already. "Do you think your boss, whichever pathetic commander Blaise sent here to lead you seal fuckers to the slaughter, can beat the Red Wolf?"
"Freeze." The commander of the unit said as Sirius did in an area free of bodies though not blood as that was everywhere. "Surround him."
Instantly 19 armed mercenaries all surrounded Sirius with weapons drawn and pointing their business ends at him. Clearly they were going for this approach as Sirius was wearing the uniform and insignia of a Zaofu volunteer on Luna's side of the war and was wearing platinum grieves and standard detachable armor denoting him as a metalbender. They were sticking with platinum weapons to counter him. Usually that would be clever but against Sirius, well they'd soon learn their folly the hard way.
"I doubt General Blaise would fall that easily." The commander said with a snarl surprising Sirius with the revelation that the overall commander of the Northern Mercenaries had personally overseen this mission but that didn't matter to Sirius, he was likely dead now which was a great boon to their side. "Even the legendary Red Wolf would have a problem."
"Maybe but I have seen Ron in action, I made the hammer he uses, and I know he's good with it." Sirius said not showing his surprise as he spoke. "He's 50 years my senior and beat my ass with it, I doubt old man Blaise could match him. He's probably already dead which means that you've lost your leader. Add in that you will lose the battle here and attacked during a ceasefire thus breaking the laws of war that are preventing the other nations from helping us, and, well, the war is ours now. There's no way this isn't against the rules. Course you won't live to see the end of the war."
"Even if Blaise has fallen we are better trained than that." The commander said with a grin. "We will still win and take the Temple. After that the World Leaders wouldn't dare go against the winning side, especially after we make it clear that this attack was perfectly legal, it will cause multiple civil wars. No, I'm afraid it is you who has lost and will die. Kill him, he may be a metalbender, but he can't stand against you."
"That's the thing." Sirius said with a grin as the spear wielders, 9 in total, charged ready to skewer him from several angles. "You ain't ever seen a metalbender like me."
As the platinum spears reached him they suddenly curled in on themselves causing their wielders to come to an abrupt stop staring in amazement at the metalbending. That amazement was still on their faces as Sirius detached the metal, unfurled it, and sent it flying into their throats.
"You can bend platinum?" The commander said fear in his voice as 9 of his men fell dead to the floor. "But, but that is impossible. Only one man has ever had that ability."
"I do take after my father." Sirius said with a grin as he clenched his fists, and a pair of platinum blades were bent out of his gauntlets. "Name's Sirius and I am the son of the Princeps."
With that Sirius leapt at the commanding officer and cut him down before he could act. As his body fell, Sirius turned and attacked the still stunned mercenaries. They didn't stand a chance as he dispatched all of them with brutal efficiency, the few who were able to resist finding their platinum blades bending and being used against them. It was a true display of Sirius's inherited power, but he did make sure to make all the kills quick and clean as he didn't take pleasure in the slaughter he was unleashing on his enemies.
It was over in less than a minute and Sirius retracted his bloody blades not looking forward to cleaning them later. Had they been other types of benders, or had they used bending he would have had a problem, but the surprise had helped him.
Walking over to a nearby pillar, Sirius placed his hand on it and closed his eyes as he sent vibrations through it. He saw the battle unfolding on the plain above and it was brutal, but he couldn't tell who was winning it. They could use a hand though and it would allow him to make sure that it was going well for them.
Stepping away from the pillar, Sirius found a clear area of floor and stamped his foot. A column of earth shot up from beneath him and sent him to the ceiling. As he reached it he punched through it with his bending to get to the top. It was time to help the militia repel the attack. Hopefully, everyone else was doing as well as he was.
I think I will end this chapter here as the focus of this chapter was to focus on the actions of the non airbenders sent out by Luna to deal with the Temple, though not Ginny as her actions were simply to go to the medical wing so nothing to report there. Here it was to tell the tales of Ron vs. Blaise, Scorpius's final battle before his unfortunate death in this battle, and to see Sirius unlocked once in a fight. Anyway, that is all I have for this chapter, the next one is the final of the Battle of the West arc and will address what Lorcan and Luna are up to as it finally comes to a close. As always any questions in PMs or reviews will be answered before the start of the next chapter (as well as replied to if possible). Please follow, favorite and review, all are greatly appreciated. Until next week.
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