Two days passed and the mess that the fight caused was all cleaned up, Lin decided it was probably wasn't a good idea to lock up Charlie, seeing that there is no containing him. Charlie had locked himself away from the others since the fight, he placed himself high in one of the towers on the island. Tenzin, Korra, and her friends tried going up to the tower where Charlie hid himself, but everyway in was sealed shut. "What's it gonna take get him down?" Korra asked seeing noway in, "hey everyone," Korra and the others turned to see Jinora holding a tray of food.
"Jinora what're doing?" Korra asked, "I'm just giving Charlie his dinner," Jinora answered, "good luck because we've been trying to get up there all day," Bolin noted, but then the door to the tower opened up. The gang were all surprised to see the door unlock itself, all except for Jinora who walked towards the open door. Korra and the others tried following Jinora in, but was all of a sudden pushed out by nothing, they looked to Jinora all confused as she was the only one that was allowed to pass, "yeah... He trusts me," Jinora told them, "what about us?" Mako asked, "you're a different story I talk to him. Okay?"
Inside Jinora has walked up the stairs and there she saw Charlie looking over the railing, staring off into the ocean, "Charlie," Jinora called and she saw Charlie tense up when being called, "I brought you dinner," Jinora sets tje tray down on a barrel. Charlie jumps off the railing and approaches the tray with Jinora sitting on a box across from it, watching Charlie take bites out of his meal, "do you like it?" Jinora asked. Charlie swallowed his food and spoke, "it's not enough to wash the taste of iron in my mouth," Charlie noted, still staring down onto the tray.
As much as Charlie wish he can enjoy the food given to him, he couldn't rid the potent metallic like taste of blood in his mouth, he can even smell the hint of copper through his nostrils. "Charlie," Jinora called to him again, but then saw Charlie choke on his food when called, "... Yes?" "Charlie you have to come down, you can't stay up here forever."
Charlie: "... I know, but I don't want to."
Jinora: "Why?"
Charlie: "They're scared."
Jinora: "Who's scared?"
Charlie: "Them. The people down there."
Jinora: "Scared of what?"
Charlie: "Me."
Jinora: "They not afriad of you Charlie-"
Charlie: "I know you're lying, I can see it in their eyes, hear it in their voice... Just like the people in that undergrond facility."
Jinora: "... What?"
Charlie: "You can hear many things when you're the quite one, people seem to talk away like you're not even there. Like you don't even exists."
Jinora: "Tell me more about this... Underground facility."
Charlie: "It was built far away so no one could see what they were doing and it was unknown to anyone outside of it to protect the secrets inside."
Jinora: "Can you tell me about the world you came from?"
Charlie: "The world where I came is far different from yours, the world far outclass yours, but mostly there are no people like you with powers to control elements. When my father was discovered they took him away before news can spread."
Jinora: "What about Zero's original family, did they not do anything to stop them?"
Charlie: "No, because my father wasn't from that world."
Jinora: "But you said-"
Charlie: "I said "I" was from that world, but no one knows where my father came from."
Jinora: "How do you know all this?"
Charlie: "Unlike my brothers, they never stopped to listen, so I never said a word when I was there, you won't believe what secrets they speak when you're silent, so I know more than they do. I probably know more than my dad."
Jinora: "... Why were they so afraid of you?"
Charlie: "They fear me because they knew they couldn't control me, that I was stronger than the others... They tried using me for a source of renewable energy like a battery that never dies, but I didn't like that Idea so I killed those people to keep them away from me."
Jinora: "Why? wasn't there a better way besides ending others life?"
Charlie: "They wouldn't care if I never saw the light of day, they would've shot me dead in the face without blinking."
Jinora: "What makes you so sure-"
Charlie: "BECAUSE THEY DID EXACTLY THAT!"
Jinora jumped back from the sudden out burst Charlie made, causing some of the boxes and barrels to shatter, but Jinora was more afraid when she saw his hands light up. Jinora didn't make sudden movements or even dared to run thinking that Charlie will indeed go ballistic, "okay, just calm down Charlie-" "STOP CALLING ME THAT! I HATE THAT NAME!" Charlie snapped at her. Becoming increasingly more hostile, Jinora chose her next words carefully, "... Why do you hate your name?" Jinora asked.
"Because THEY gave me that name, not my father," Charlie told her, "alright well let's change it," Jinora offered, "like what?" Charlie questioned, Jinora pondered in her head to come up of a name that best suits the boy in red. She thought hard and long, but nothing came up until she started thinking about the letter that Zero wrote before he died. She remembered how he described Charlie, how he can be a pleasant person, but also become volatile out of nowhere, and then it came to her.
"Ether," she uttered, the word that Zero used to describe Charlie, "how about Ether?" she offered, Charlie thought about it about a second, running the idea to his head, "I... Like it," Charlie answered and Jinora gave him a smile. "So, Ether..." Jinora restarted, "do you like to tell me anything else because you look like you haven't got a good nights rest," she noted to the bags under his eyes and bloodshot, "I can't sleep I keep seeing someone," Ether noted rubbing his eyes, "is it the monster?" Jinora asked.
"No, it's not him," Ether corrected, "then who do see?" Jinora asked, "I keep seeing this girl," Ether told her, "Ju?" Jinora thought, "no, her hair is very long and white," Ether explained, "her eyes glowed red, her skin is dark, and her ears are long and pointy," Ether added. Jinora was thrown off on the last detile Ether said to describe the girl, long pointy ears? "it's probably just another wild dream," Jinora suggested.
"But Ether?" Jinor said, "yes?" "if you can open portals to other worlds, why can't you open another one and leave?" Jinora asked, "It's not like I did all this on purpose, it was all an accident," Ether explained, scratching the back of his neck. However when he did Jinora noticed something protuding from his back, "Ether what's that on your neck?" Charlie turned his back towards her and Jinora took a closer look and there she saw something clinging onto Ether's neck.
It was small and metallic and was digging into Ether's skin, "what is that?" Jinora asked, "It's something that they put on me to keep me from using my power to make portals, but I don't know how to take it off," Ether explained. Jinora nudged at the little device on his neck, seeing it tug his skin as she moved. "maybe I can take it off," Jinora said, "can you?" Ether asked, "if I do will you come down with me?" Jinora bargained, "yes," Jinora felt around the little device and noticed that the device had one noticeable and convenient feature. There was a small little red light at the bottom of clear line blinking on and off, on and off until it suddenly stopped.
The little tiny claws of the device retracted, letting go of the skin, and falling onto the floor, "huh, that was easy," Jinora commented seeimg the device short circuit, "then why do I feel like it's about to get worse," Ether asked.
In the dark of the ruined facility the one who wish upon the death of Ether felt as if the chains that prevented him from leaving had suddenly been lifted and so finally learned where he was, "so that is where you are hidding brother," he rose from where he sat and then with all his energy formed a doorway to the world of the Avatar.
"It is time we finish this," he walked through the portal and the world he left behind fell apart, that world is dead, and now he has moved onto the next one.
