The bison flew through the air as fast as it could to get far away, Jinora turned around and saw a giant cloud of smoke and dust kicking up, "oh, no," Jinora spoke, where am I going to go?" Jinora told herself, "NOT FAR," Jinora looked up and to her horror Him was diving down on her. Him struck the bison to its side causing it to crash down into the woods, the bison crashed through trees before caming to a halt. Jinora was thrown off of the bison, when she stood back up she saw the bison on its side hurting, she then found Ether pinned by a broken piece of a tree, "Ether!" Jinora cried out. Running to Ether she removed the broken piece of timber off him, and held him as he was still hurting.
"IT'S ALL OVER CHILD," Jinora turn back around and saw him standing a few yards from her, "I WON'T LET YOU HURT HIM!" Jinora yelled, taking her stance against Him, but Jinora didn't stood a chance. Within a blink of an eye Him appeared right in front of Jinora, and swated her with the back of his hand as if she was nothing more than a bug. Jinora was sent across and crashed into a tree, she hit the floor unconscious, "PITTY," Him commented and then turned to Ether who struggled to get up, "WHAT'S WRONG BROTHER? NOT FEELING WELL?" Him then shot forward striking Ether with his foot. Ether was sent crashing through several trees before hitting the ground, everything seemed to freeze in Ether's perspective as he saw that everything looked to be frozen in time, or maybe it was all in his head.
He got back up and tried to square off with Him, but struggled to stay up, Him shot forward and grasps Ether's neck, he lifted him high, and punched him down back to the earth. Ether was planted deep into the ground until Him pulled Ether out and threw him across the field, "GET UP," Him demanded, Ether got back up and stared down Him, "I'VE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS," Him shot forward again, but this time Ether ducked down, tripped him, and threw him across as far as he could. After seeing he was far far away Ether ran back to Jinora as fast as he could, he saw that Jinora was still laying on the floor, Ether ran to her side and tried to wake her up, but then Ether noticed she wasn't breathing. Jinora's dead.
Ether's heart dropped she was the only person that he believed in, she tried to protect him, but Him just swept her to the side like she was dust, "AWE, DID I TAKE AWAY YOUR ONLY FRIEND?" Ether slowy turned his head around and saw Him standing behind him. "YOU'RE SO WEAK. YOU CAN'T EVEN PROTECT YOURSELF. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU COULD'VE SAVED HER?" Him pressed on, but Ether didn't listen to him he was too angry to hear what he had to say, "NOW IT'S TIME TO DIE."
Him rose his hand, but Ether shot forward and tackled Him, the force was so strong Ether and Him flew through the air, crashing through mountains, and landed back into the city. The two crushed several cars upon landing back into the city everyone was in a state of confusion, no knew what was going on all they could see is a grotesque monster and a child fighting one another all the while destroying their homes in the process. Ether grabbed hold of a light post, ripping it from the sidewalk, and then batted Him down the street. Him came crashing into a building, when he came out he looked around and saw a lot full of cars, he levitate all of them, and then launched them towards Ether.
Ether saw the storm of cars flying towards him and so he summoned his power, and a beam of dark energy shot from his hands destroying most of the cars, but one flew higher than the others and was about to land on someone. The person about to be crushed closed their eyes not wanting to see it coming, but it never did came for Ether caught the car before it could smash the person, but for brief moment Ether saw that it was Ju. Ether stood there still holding the car in his hands, but eventually tossed it to the side like it was trash, he wanted to say something to her, but then Him jumped in, "KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME," Him taunted.
Him swung his leg high and brought it down to crush both Ju and Ether, but Ether shoved Ju out of the way and took the full force of the kick, it slammed him through the street into the sewers. Him looked down into the hole trying to find Ether, but was then assaulted by a rock to the face, however the rock shattered into dust upon impact not even leaving a spec on Him's face. Him looked to see Ju just standing there, "IS THIS ALL THIS WORLD CAN GIVE ME?" Him wondered thinking this might be easy. He rose a finger to blast the girl to pieces, but then Him was kicked foward far away from where Ju stood, to her surprise Ju saw that it was the Avatar, but she wasn't in the best of conditions to fight still.
Soon after Ether punched a hole through the street and climbed out, "Ether!" Korra cried out, running towards him the best she could, "Ether where's Jinora?" she asked seeing the young air nomad not with him. Ether's became darker and Korra was going to ask twice, but then, "SHE'S DEAD," Korra turned around and saw him hovering above them, "DON'T WORRY YOU ALL WILL BE JOINING HER IN A WHILE," "you KILL HER!" Korra roared in anger, "YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN IT. OH HOW HER VALIANT EFFORT TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT WAS SO EASILY SNUFFED OUT BETWEEN MY FINGERS," Him mocked. Korra gritted her teeth in growing anger of how Him was just laughing of the death of Jinora, but then Him was grabbed by a giant mechanized claw.
Korra saw that it was mecha tank that had snatched Him. it swung him around, the mech slammed Him to the ground, into buildings and even slammed a car on top of him. The car ignited into flames and blew apart, the mech turned around letting the three look and soon Korra the others saw that the United Forces have arrived, "are you alright?" one solider asked to them, but there was no time to answer. The mech that first arrived suddenly crumbled up like a piece of paper and blew up, as the tank fell apart everyone saw Him standing behind the destroyed tank, in a blink of an eye Him Tackled Ether. They both skidded across the street, tearing up the asphalt, and knocking soldiers and other tanks aside, they skidded many yards down the street until Ether kicked him off, sending him flying in the air, and grazing a couple of buildings.
Him stopped himself in midair, but soon notice blimps and biplanes in the air, and ships in the bay, one plane tried to bypass, but Him grabbed hold of a wing, swung it around smashing it into a few others, and the pilots fell screaming to their doom. Him zooms pass a couple of biplanes snatching their bombs under their wings, he then shot them towards the blimps, and each one bursted into flames and fell out of the skies. He then turned over to the battleships and propelled himself at breakneck speed, the naval ships see Him diving towards them, and so fired at him, but Him took their own fire and surround himself with it, planning to shoot right through the lead ship.
However right when he was right above the ship Ether shot out of nowhere and tackled Him away from the ship saving the soldiers on board, and landed back into the city. They've slid across from each other, but soon Ether ran up to him and punched him across the face, he upper cuts him with his foot, and then head-buts him. Him grabs Ether by the face, pins him to the ground, and starts beating him down repeatedly. Ether soon shot rays from his burning Him's hand, Him backed away, grabbing his hand as it burned, "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!" he growled angrily, "I THINK IT'S TIME TO BRING MY FRIENDS A LITTLE EARLY," Him added.
Him had gathered his strength and conjured a portal over the city, it grew larger and larger in size, the over side was just a dark void until Korra noticed something move behind it, and then what ever lay behind it gave off an echo that the whole world heard, and then the monster flew out of the doorway from its old world into the new one. The monster's size was indescribable for it dwarfed the fleet of battle ships in the harbor, the body was long and slender, twisting and coiling around like an eel, the ribs were exposed the bones sticking outward, it possessed several tentacle like appendages, bony wings on its back, and the skull was exposed with the lower jaw split in half. It was almost human-like.
The monster flew between the buildings all the while crashing its appendages and tail into the buildings, when it saw the people running down below, it opened its jaws as big as it can, and like a whale it began sucking up the people. When it came up to the harbor the ships opened fire at the monster, the beast cried out in pain as it cuaght in flames, but the navy failed to notice a second portal opening up above them, and the another one came crashing down on one ship. The ship was cut in half and sunk down, more and more came out through the portals and started spreading throughout world, consuming everyone onsight.
Korra and Ju looked on in horror seeing their world end as the monsters now spraying what looked like ash into the air, blocking out the sun. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!" Him laughed seeing the world dying all around him, "WHEN I BLOCK OUT THE SUN THE WORLD WILL HEAT UP. THE WINDS WILL DIE OUT. AND ALL LIFE WILL BE EXTINGUISHED," Him chanted. Ether looked around him seeing everyone getting sucked up, he turned to Ju and Korra and saw the monster coming from behind. It sucked them up into its mouth, they both screamed, Ether ran towards them in his effort to save them, but was too late. Ether wasn't fast enough, he tried to grab Ju's hand, but he missed, he watched as they were both swallowed up by the monster.
Ether dropped to his knees, he felt so powerless, the world around him got darker and darker as the legion of monsters blocked out the sun, he looked over to Him seeing him still relishing his moment. Ether became angry his eyes became blinded by pure rage, his heart was pounding, and his hands whole body started to glow with the dark energy, he got back up and stared down at the monster that ruined everything. Him turned to see Ether standing across from him, "HUH? CAN'T YOU TAKE A HINT? IT'S OVER YOU'VE LOST," he proclaimed, but Ether didn't respond.
He started pacing towards Him gaining more and more speed, Him then charged as well, each step they took shattered the ground beneath their feet, but for Him's large build Ether tackles him upward towards the first portal. They flew faster than any plane, but when they've passed the portal something happened. The other side of the portal wasn't filled with the monsters Him had made, instead the it was long bright tunnel of flickering lights and lighting, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Him cried. He managed to knock Ether off him, but have fell through the barrier of the tunnel disappearing from Ether's sight, Ether flew out of control through the portal he couldn't stop himself he was spiraling out of control gaining speed.
The lighting in the tunnel struck Ether, but didn't really harm him, it only burned his jacket, searing off the blood that stained it, turning it to a now black charcoal color. Ether soon saw he was nearing the other end of the tunnel and was still going faster than a race car, he braced himself for the impact, but when he collided with the other side, he gasps awake back inside the temple. Ether looked around and saw the familiar face of Tenzin's mother, Katara trying to heal him, "Ether! what happened? why did your jacket turned black?" Ether turned his head and saw the concern expression of Jinora.
He didn't understand how did he get here? he wanted to hold Jinora tight relieved to see her alive, "everyone-," Korra stopped herself in mid sentence when she saw that Ether was O.K and was about to say more. Until Ether realized something, he shot back up to his feet, grabbed the table, and threw it through the walls. There was a series of loud crashes and and large holes going through the walls all the way outside, and on the other side everyone saw Him laying on the floor rubbing his head, "HOW?- NO. IT CAN'T BE. YOU'VE JUMPED BACK IN TIME." While Ether jumped through the hole everyone was confused, but then Jinora remembered.
She remembered that Zero was fifth dimensional being and had the ability to travel through universes and time in said universe, Ether and his brothers must have the same ability. Ether stood across from Him no longer afriad for he knew what he really was, "YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING. YOU ARE ALL WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT. THEY COULD'VE CARED LESS ABOUT THE REST OF US." Him cursed to him. He stood back up and swung his fist down on Ether, everyone gasps in horror as the monster tried to strike down on the boy, but it never came. The hand that was ment to harm Ether disappeared and Him cried out in fear, "WHAT! NO! WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME!?" "you're fading," Ether spoke, "because you're nothing, you were never really real, and never will be." Him looked to the boy he so deeply hated as his body began to fade, and so in a desprate attempt tried to lash out to Ether, but the boy stuck out his hand and one small little orb is all it took for Him to fade from existence.
Ether remembered what his father said before he died "it's all in your head" is what Zero said, It was Ether who created Him, the monster that destroyed the world he came from, and tried, but to kill him. However felt something lift away from him like whatever was weighing him down was gone now, but then he notice that the small orb was still floating in front of him, and then in a flash a doorway opened up. The way was so brightly lite Ether couldn't see what was on the other side, but he felt that something was calling to him, to walk throught the portal. Before Ether took any step further he looked back to the Avatar family as they stood there wondering what was going on.
Ether ran towards Jinora and gave her a big hug, "thank you... For everything," he said and then turned around and ran towards the portal, Korra tried to stop him, but her Katara stopped her, "let him go Korra," She said. "He must find his own destiny," Katara added, the family watched, when Ether was about three feet from the doorway, he dived right in, and the portal vanished. Everthing fell silent, Jinora let one tear down her cheek seeing that the boy was now gone from their lives, "good luck... Ether."
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Ether lay face first on the ground, he felt groggy to the head, when he pushed himself up he felt the soft touch of the lush green grass, he opened his eyes and saw that he was somewhere entirely new. There stood trees all around him, it was misty, but light still shined through, the air was cool and welcoming with the sound of birds chirping in the distance. However Ether heard someone giggle, Ether looked around trying to trace the sound of the laughter until finally he saw her.
The girl he saw so many times in his dreams, her eyes glisten red like rubies, her hair was pure and clean as milk, her skin much darker than his, she wore a dress was colored white, and her long and pointy ears were dipping up and down. She stood a few feet away from Ether staring at him with a smile on her face, it was odd seeing the two in one place together because there stood a pale boy with dark hair, blue eyes, and dressed in black, and there stood a dark girl with pale hair, red eyes, and dressed in white.
Ether didn't say anything, he didn't know what to do, "who are you?" she asked, "... I-I'm Ether," he answered hesitantly, the girl tilted her head side to side studying the boy across from her, but then the girl started to approach him slowly. Ether didn't move an inch, even when she stood right in front of him, "what happened to your eye?" she asked, gently caress the scar, "... A monster tried to kill me, but it's gone now," Ether replied. The girl looked deeply into Ether's eyes, "my names Loma," she introduced herself, "but what's that on your nose?" she asked, "what's on my nose?" Ether repeated, and then Loma poked him on the nose, "tag. You're it," she stated and ran away laughing. Ether waited about a second, he smiled, and was soon chasing after her.
THE END?