As it turned out, Aang had been right. Tarrlok had to find Amon before contact could even be made and that meant Korra remained the corrupt councilman's guest until it could be done. Two days passed with him stopping by to gloat and make sure she was fed. Korra would often win their daily battle of wits however with a veiled insult or a clever remark about how hard Amon was to find and he would have to keep her alive until he did. By the third day, he seemed ready to snap and use blood bending on her but he didn't and merely walked away without a word.
Each night, Korra summoned Aang before her again and subtly noticed it becoming easier and more natural each time. On the first night, her successor showed her scenes of him working with Toph and the Duke to stop the Terra Terrors, a rogue trio of earth benders working for the Dark Elements. Each one possessed the unique ability to create golem monsters and animate them by earth bending with their minds, skills even Toph couldn't do…yet.
It's a tough fight, much harder than the one against the Dragon Brotherhood, but with Aang's own earth bending added to the mix, they seem certain to triumph. However, the leader of the Terra Terrors has one last trick up his sleeve, a unique art called bone bending. It seems that much like blood bending is to water bending, human bones are made of minerals like those found in earth. The leader shatters bones with a gesture, crippling Toph by bone bending her arms and legs. He proceeds to do the same to the Duke and Aang until the later enters the Avatar State.
Aang's eyes and tattoos glow white as he uses an unbroken arm to unleash an earth bending assault that stuns his foe and traps him in a mound of earth. Before the next move came be made however, Aang's injuries force him out of the Avatar State. This leaves the corrupt earth bender enough time to free him and begin bone bending the Avatar once more. Aang would have died right then and their if Toph hadn't intervened. Thanks to private lessons with King Bumi before he died, she could now use just her face to earth bend. Toph saves Aang with a behind assault and helps him reinforce his earth prison. The Air Nomad Avatar then used energy bending, the original bending art from ages past known only to him, to remove the Terra Terror's bending abilities forever.
The visions end there but before Aang vanishes, Korra asks "how did the Dark Elements bend the way they did? It looked impossible." "Under normal circumstances, it was" Aang replied "I spoke with my predecessor, Avatar Roku on the subject and he said that the Dark Elements had asked a spirit to amplify their bending abilities, though who this spirit was and why he did it were unknown. I had thought what we had seen was the worst of it until we met the Red Moons." Aang can say no more then and is gone before Korra can ask about the boy she saw.
A/N: another short but hopefully good chapter. Because I forgot this, the Dark Elements and the spirit they worship {more on that later} belong to me. Bone bending however belongs to Silver Omega, a great author who is writing an awesome LOK fic called "The First Avatar." It updates daily so check it out! I would like to thank Silver for use of her creation and for being my only reviewer so far but I would also like to say to those who faved or alerted this fic: I love the praise really but I need commentary from you guys. So please, R/R so I know Silver isn't the only one who knows this story exists. I'd love to hear from ya!
