Earth

Fire

Air

Water

Only the Avatar master of all four elements can bring balance, however, something unprecedented occurred, two Avatars exist at the same time. Wan and Korra, Wan, however, lost his memory and must relearn what it means to be the Avatar at this time and find who he is.

Book II: Spirits

Chapter III: Civil War of Water and Mind

Two days, two days he's been out and this is what he has to deal with? Wan barges into Unalaq's throne room, opening the large doors with his airbending. The doors close back with their own weight. Unalaq sits in the dark, awaking from his meditations. "Wan, you're awake."

"Northern troops are in the Southern water tribe's land!?" Wan thunders, and his voice echoes throughout the palace. Unalaq is taken aback by this new tone. "I am their chief. I'm uniting, not invading."

"Well, we have very different views on uniting. Last time I checked, an army equals war," Wan sasses as he points at the chief accusingly, "You are not telling me the whole truth, are you? I've kept myself silent about you but no more!"

Unalaq stands from his throne, "Tell me, Wan, why did you collapse after opening the portal?" Wan hisses, as he takes a step forward, "As if I'll tell you, I don't trust you-"

"And," Unalaq interrupts him, "Are you really an Avatar?"

Wan gasps and looks up and down at him with disdain. "I can bend all four elements!" He retorts, Unalaq hums then walks down the steps. "True, but that is not enough to verify, besides, never in history have there been two Avatars." Unalaq circles around him, Wan glares at him, clenching his teeth.

"Who's the fraud? The one who is born to it or the one who appears out of thin air?" Wan clenches his fists, as Unalaq continues his interrogation. "I am very suspicious of you," Unalaq continues, "If you can't handle the energy of the portals, what makes me so sure you are truly an Avatar and not some mentally ill man who can hear and see things?"

Wan's eyes are downcast, he clenches them, ignoring everything that the older man throws at him, yet he is slowly starting to believe it.

"However, I have my suspicions of you. I'm sad to tell you that your memory loss... is permanent. I tried to find anything I could to help you by talking to the spirits, but it's gone-"

"No! I saw something, I saw me!" Wan clenches his shirt at his chest, Unalaq deeply sighs, "It's only an illusion, you were seeing things. I'm afraid you have gone mad."

"I saw it, you're lying!" Unalaq sits back on his throne, "I suppose, you need time to reflect on this, I'm afraid no one can help you." Wan turns away and walks out of the throne room, but before he exits, he hears one final thing from Unalaq. "And if your memories are unrecoverable, then you might have committed a past sin to the spirits and this is their punishment for you."

He walks out, then runs as fast as his feet can take him. He runs to the hill in the far east, then he begins to break down weeping, hugging his knees, and he stays there for a couple of hours. He doesn't believe Unalaq, but the chief made it seem so real.

"Wan?"

Wan doesn't know how long it's been, but he wipes his tears dry and sniffles, "I'm okay." Of course a lie. Korra sighs, sitting next to the male Avatar. "You're not."

"I am," Wan says, his voice wavering, as he tries to hide his tears. Korra rubs his back as Wan wails, "Unalaq said my memories are gone...forever."

"What?!"

"I've been hearing and dreaming, I think I'm going crazy!" Wan throws his hands out in front of him, Korra sighs, then she admits, "Unalaq says that an Avatar shouldn't faint from that energy… he says-"

"That I'm a fraud, and a part of me believes him. I tried everything Korra!" Wan chokes up, "Mediation, healing, everything! I can't even help you face the spirits! Maybe I did something so terrible that I deserve this."

Korra looks at the sky, "I don't believe him." This makes Wan peak up and look at her. "I won't let him insult you, or anyone I love. Once this is over, we are going back to Tenzin. You being hurt almost every day by him isn't worth this light show." Korra gives Wan a hug, as he sobs his pain away. "Don't let him take your spirit, with or without your memories, you're still the best Avatar partner."

Wan gives a small smile as he wipes his tears, Korra then stares at an aerial view of the Southern water tribe, Korra offers her hand and smiles. "Let's try and prevent a civil war, together." Wan takes her hand.


While Mako and Korra are on a date, along with the most strange couple in existence, Wan takes a walk, though Korra's reassurance earlier helped him. It didn't ease his doubts about who he was though- maybe Unalaq was right…he's an evil person in punishment.

Wan closes his eyes, feeling the cool southern breeze on his skin. His eyes snap open as he hears the same little girl voice, giggling. Wan looks around frantically, the fog starts to pick up on the frozen streets. The amnesic avatar tries to decipher where the voice is coming from and he finds his answers as a little girl walks out of the fog. She holds a purple fan, hiding most of her face. She wears a purple and white hanfu. Her skin is dark bronze, and her eyes are closed.

Grinning, she begins to sing,

Rumors, Rumors

So many Rumors

Secret legend come forward

Shall I tell you, This Secret Legend?

How about shaking someone's hand?

To make it go away.

Rumors, Rumors

Shall I tell you the truth?

She holds out her hand, Wan grabs it, and images flood his mind once more. Once Wan recovers, the little girl then speaks, "The truth will always unveil itself." with that she walks away, disappearing into the fog once more, leaving Wan shaking in fear. "Was that...real?" He asks himself, he rushes to the house and shuts the door. He grabs a notebook and tries to draw what he saw.

"The portals, the portals!" Wan repeats over and over, he draws a somewhat detailed drawing of two portals coming together and a tree in the middle. Wan clenches his hair, as he draws the planets aligned, as he saw when he opened the southern portal. "What does this mean!" Wan screams. He draws and draws until it consumes him and he falls asleep on it.

Korra rushes in to see Wan asleep over scattered pieces of paper. Korra manages to pick one up with him still sleeping, and looks at it the one with the portals. "Woah."

Wan awakens, he sluggishly saunters to the main room. Korra separates from her father and looks at Wan. "Is he alright?" Senna asks, Wan rubs his eyes and nods. The door is kicked open, Korra is on her feet in an instant.

"Tonraq, Senna, you're under arrest and will stand trial," Unalaq says, as four northern soldiers step into the room, surrounding them and preparing themselves.

"What did they even do? They're both innocent!" Wan yells.

"For what crime?" Tonraq asks.

"For conspiring to assassinate me."

"This is outrageous!" Wan argues, walking towards the chief, as fire engulfs his hand. "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Wan."

"I know you're hiding something in regards to the portal, even though I may be a fake Avatar and insane to you, I can assure you I will find out the truth!"

"You can't do this!" Korra proclaims, "They did nothing wrong!"

"It's alright, Korra," Tonraq says as he stands up. "Wan, calm down." Wan stops bending and exhales, Tonraq then turns to his brother, "We'll come quietly"

A waterbender steps forward and freezes Korra's parents' hands, then leads them out of the house. Korra stands silent for a moment, in disbelief. She breathes heavily then tries to rush out of the house, "No, Please!" Wan hugs her, holding her back, she fights him for a moment then breaks down into sobs.

"It's gonna be okay," Wan says as he hugs her, stroking her back. Korra wails into Wan's chest, "It's not fair!"

"I know, I know." Wan hugs her tight, Unalaq then glances at Wan who seethes at the man, his eyes narrowed. "Rest assured," Unalaq says, "I have appointed judge Hotah to oversee the trial. He is the fairest and honorable man I know."

"They had nothing to do with the rebellion!" Korra sobs, facing her Uncle, streams of agony rolling down her face. Unalaq faces Korra trying to 'reassure' her, at the same time completely emotionless. "I'm sure you're right. Then we should have nothing to worry about. The trial will be held tomorrow at dawn. I hope this matter will be settled then."

Wan comforts the female Avatar as Unalaq leaves with the rest of his soldiers. Wan feels Korra's sobs grow even stronger and he holds on to her tighter.

After a while, Korra's sobs grow weaker and she looks up at Wan. Her light blue eyes are wet from tears, it breaks Wan to see her like this. "Tell me it'll be okay," Korra whispers.

"It will," Wan holds her hand tight, "We've got to stay strong, take deep breaths." They both inhale and exhale, shivering. Korra begins to finally calm down enough, to where she stops crying. Wan smiles, "There we go, take nice deep breaths."

Korra wipes the stray tears from her eyes and face, "Do you think Unalaq is lying about the portals?"

"I saw a little girl and when I touched her hand, I saw...me." Wan holds Korra's hand and leads her into the room where all the drawings are. "I saw this," Korra mentions as she picks the drawing from the floor up. "What I saw wasn't a hallucination, it looked real. Unalaq is hiding something and I need to find out."

"Unalaq is not telling us everything."

The trial that was held, to no surprise to Wan or Korra, was a hoax from the start. Wan is honestly trying not to hurt Unalaq, his leg bounces as he tries with all his soul to not retaliate. The questions are incredibly generic, Wan can't help but get the feeling that an idiot wrote them.

Every time Korra or Wan answer a question they get dismissed or cut off completely. Wan fights back, and he is threatened to be sent to prison.

Oh, the cherry on top? The verdict takes less than a minute, which the male Avatar nearly bursts at. The judge finds Senna innocent.

Everyone else he sentences to death.

Korra is the first one to threaten to take the judge's life. Wan, however, remains silent. But his silence means a thousand words, he is keeping his tongue shut before he cuts someone with it. Unalaq unsurprisingly jumps into the rescue, asking for mercy for the men. Their sentences then change to life. After, the men are sent away,

Korra and Wan exchange glances at each other and nod.

Hotah is driving home, then he hears a roar. He looks at his side mirror and gasps, he speeds up by pressing the gas but Wan earth bends a wall in front of the satomobile, which crashes against the wall. The door is ripped open and Naga looks into the car, then pulls the older man out and throws him to the ground in front of Wan. "Let's chat, shall we?"

Korra then pulls him off of the ground by his shirt, "You have fifteen seconds before Naga gets her afternoon snack, I'd suggest you'd better start talking," the water tribe Avatar threatens as Naga growls.

"I have a family, a wife, and children! I'll do anything, I can pay you! Just let me live," Hotah pleads,

"Wrong answer!" Wan yells, "Ten seconds bud!" Korra adds on.

"I was just following Unalaq's orders!"

"Go on," Wan says, a bit calmer but still having an aggressive edge to his voice. Hotah swallows hard, shaking his head. "I-I said too much."

"Oh, that's too bad" Wan throws an ice dagger near his head, it misses by design. "Okay!" Hotah cries out in terror, "I've worked for Unalaq for years! He said he needed everyone to think the trial was fair! He wants Tonraq out of the way, just like when he got Tonraq banished!"

Wan walks up to the trembling man, as Korra sets him down, "You are going to tell me every. Single. Thing, that Unalaq kept under the rug, starting with the banishment, understood?"

Hotah nods frantically. "If you miss a single part, so help me spirits," Wan says menacingly.

"Unalaq hired the barbarians that attacked the Northern Water Tribe years ago, then told them to hide in the spirit forest so that Tonraq would go after them and get himself banished!"

"He wanted Tonraq out of the way so that he could become chief! Then during the trial, he gave me orders to let Senna go and to sentence everyone else to death! That way Unalaq could pretend to make me change my decision to life in prison in order to keep Tonraq out of the way while keeping Avatar Korra on his side!"

"Why!" Korra demands as her anger rises. "I don't know! I swear I don't know! I just know he has plans that he needs you both for! And that Tonraq will try to stop him!"

"Does he want war!?"

"No! He says that if there's a war it'll just be a temporary setback!"

"For what! The portals?"

"I don't know, He never told me!" Hatoh cries and trembles, hugging himself. Wan turns to Korra, "We need to close the southern portal, something tells me that someone did it for a reason."

"I'm in, but as for this coward?" Korra points at Hotah who is still trembling in fear. Wan makes an earth cage for the man with little air holes. "That'll keep him for a while. He better hope someone finds him eventually."

"Wan, we need to get my father out of jail. At this point, a civil war is inevitable."

"I know, and we are."

Korra and Wan finally arrive at Varrick's office and tell Asami, and Varrick who is in a platypus bear suit, what Hotah did.

"I'm busting my father out of jail," Korra says bluntly. "I need your help."

"Are you sure?" Asami asks, crossing her arms, "If you do this, there's no going back. It'll be a war."

"Unalaq has already started one. Will you help us?" Wan asks the businesswomen, who respond with, "Of course I'll help you guys."

"Count me in!" Varrick exclaims.

The door opens and Bolin and Pabu walk in, Bolin wearing a blue robe similar to his girlfriend with spikes, his hair combed into a bowl, and wearing an edgy version of a betrothal necklace, with a skull on the front and spikes around it.

"What in goodness name happened?" Wan says, glancing up and down at the earthbender, at the same time trying to not burst out laughing.

"I told Eska I want to break up, so she said we can get married now." Bolin then whispers. "Save me."

Wan smirks, quite amused at this, "Well, don't flirt with a girl that looks like a creepy old doll."

"I'm pretty sure the guy is supposed to give the girl a betrothal necklace," Korra says to try to restrain her laughter but failing miserably.

"I guess Eska didn't get the memo," Bolin says drily. Wan coughs then jokes, "Well, I know who wears the pants in that relationship, and it's not you." This breaks Korra's hold on her laughter.

"Look, the only way to deal with crazy women is to lie big and leave fast," Varrick says, "Lucky for you, Varrick's got your back. Now, gather around Ping Ping. Let's talk plan."

They all step closer to Ping Ping and discuss a plan.


Wan knocks out a guard with a medium sized rock, knocking him out clean, he takes the keys and tosses them to Korra, who unlocks the door and freezes in terror- the room is completely empty.

"I'm sorry Korra, you'll never see your father again," Unalaq says at the beginning of the hallway, the Dual Avatars turn to him. "Where's my father?" Korra demands.

"On a ship, headed to the Northern Tribe." Unalaq answers. "He'll serve out his sentence there."

"Bring him back!" Korra barks. "No," Unalaq replies simply. Wan then steps up, "I know why you don't want to teach me and tell me lies about me and my memories! So tell me what happens

when the two portals collide huh, they turn to gold, and what else?" Unalaq remained silent, Wan smirks a bit. "So you do know don't you?" the male avatar says, eerily calm.

"Why would anyone even listen to you?" Unalaq starts, glaring at Wan. "You have no memory of who you are, you have no spiritual connection to the past Avatars and even if you did it would be minimum to none. You are nothing more than a man with amnesia that so happened to be another Avatar. An abomination."

Korra steps forward, her rage nearly consuming her. She is nearly three seconds away from attacking but she has a few words to say before that moment hits.

"How dare you! You are nothing more than a jealous man who wants more power. You have no idea what he is capable of being! He struggles every day to learn and adapt, while you manipulate and lie to get what you want! You were always jealous of my father, you got him banished so you could become chief, and I bet it just killed you to learn he was the Avatar's father. You're afraid of Wan because he's learning something that you don't want us to know, and as soon as we know what that is. It'll come back to you."

"All I want is to help the true Avatar," Unalaq argues, in a sympathetic tone, then he points at Wan aggressively. "This man is leading you down the wrong path, Korra."

Korra narrows her eyes, her fury now reaching peak levels, "No, you're leading down the wrong path! First, you invade my tribe, then you arrested my father. And now you insult my partner!? You are not worth dealing with for that pretty little light show! And whatever you're hiding, trust me we'll find out. So don't you dare. ever.talk to Wan like that again!" Korra attacks with three fire blasts, which Unalaq neutralizes with water from his pouch. Unalaq throws an arc at Korra. Wan has had enough and attacks the Chief with a blast of air that knocks Unalaq to the back of the prison wall.

"If we get to Varrick's boat, we can still save your father!" Mako yells, Korra turns to him. "Then let's go!"

They reach Varrick's boat as he is preparing to take off, he and his assistant, Zhu Li, still wearing the platypus bear costume.

"Where's your dad?" Bolin asks Korra.

"On a ship headed North," Korra says, walking to Varrick, "Think we can catch up to it?"

"Sure," Varrick says nonchalantly, then, "Once you get us past our friends from the North." Wan rubs his temples as he looks out to see the blockade. "Of course. How do we get out?"

"If only we had a plane to get us close to those ships, we could waterbend them out of the way?" Korra ponders, Wan smiles as he high fives his avatar partner. "Now that's good thinking."

"A plane? Well, why didn't you say so?"

He pressed a button and a hatch in the deck of his ship opened, a plane rose from it, similar to the equalists' but painted blue instead.

"Um, why do you have a plane on your boat?" Bolin asks Varrick, who turns to the earth bender.

"Why? In case the boat sinks of course!"

"There's no runway," Asami points out, "How do you plan to take off?"

"Zhu Li!" Varrick calls out to his assistant. "Take a note! 'Build runway'."

"Yes sir." Zhu Li says somewhere in the platypus bear. Wan strokes his chin, a light bulb goes off in his head making the amnesic avatar smirk, "I think I have an idea."

Asami puts on her goggles, Mako and Korra are on the wings of the biplane. The engine starts stirring. Korra gives Asami a thumbs up. Asami starts the biplane and starts moving forward.

Wan follows on a cloud, as the plane starts to pick up momentum. "Korra, Mako. Now!" Wan calls out, the two fire bend behind the plane, letting it take off successfully. "Yes!" Wan cheers as he follows the biplane, Korra enters the avatar state near the blockade, bending an enormous wave pushing the battleships aside, leaving a wide enough gap for the yacht.

"Nice!" Wan gives her a thumbs up.

They pass through the blockade, both Wan and Korra glance around at the vast ocean looking for a ship. Wan points at one that he spots. "Look! Korra, I think that's where your father is!"

The team invades the ship, though they crash the plane. Once on, they integrate one of the guards, and they rush to where Tonraq was held. Korra kicks down the door to the prison and everyone exits. Once Korra sees her father, she rushes up and hugs him. "Dad!"

"Korra." Tonraq parts from his daughter, confused. "You promised me you wouldn't do anything rash."

"Well, I had to, you need to know something," Korra starts, "We can explain later, right now we need to get out of here." Wan hurriedly runs to the top of the ship and everyone else follows. Once Wan is done dealing with the attackers, they all wait for Varrick to pull up alongside them.

"Unalaq set everything up to the smallest inch, he wants to control all the tribes and he has an agenda with the portals," Wan tells Tonraq.

"How do you know this?"

"We interrogated Judge Hotah. Unalaq hired the barbarians to get you banished in order to become chief, then he ordered Hotah to play the entire trial out the way it did," Korra admits, Wan then adds on with, "Unalaq is planning something that involves the portals. A spirit girl came to me and gave me images of the portals colliding."

"So, once I knew the truth, I couldn't just sit by and do nothing."

"My own brother betrayed me…" Tonraq growls in anger, one of Tonraq's men comes forward asking, "What's our next move?"

"I've been running from my past for too long. It's time to put my brother in his place," Tonraq says, narrowing his eyes, enraged.

"You have our support, Chief Tonraq," one waterbender says. "Me too." Wan adds on, thinking to himself sarcastically, 'War, Great.'

"I'll be proud to fight alongside you Dad."

"Thank you," Tonraq says to both of them, "The South can give Unalaq a good fight for a while, but without help, we're finished. Korra, Wan, have to get the President of the United Republic on our side."

"We'll try our best," The Dual Avatars say in unison.

Later on, Dual team Avatar watches as the waterbenders leave back to the Southern Water tribe, that's when Bolin decides to start talking.

"I really need to thank you guys," Bolin says to Wan and Korra. Wan scoffs, now completely aggravated, saying, "For what, starting a Civil War? The exact opposite of what I wanted." He crosses his arms.

"Exactly! Now Eska and I are officially broken up."

Wan facepalms hard as he closes his eyes, "That doesn't equal a breakup, Bolin. That equals abandonment. A war can not break someone up for you." Wan throws his hands to the window, showing him a gigantic wave coming near them. "Take a look, Bolin! What is that!" Wan shrieks.

The earthbender rushes to the telescope and looks through it, his mouth drops in horror. He slowly moves away, "That would be my darling Eska. Quick question. Is this boat fast enough to get away from my crazy waterbending ex-girlfriend?"

Varrick shows them a big old grin and says, "Why do ya think I built this boat?" He shoves the throttle, and the boat moves away from Eska rapidly.