Hey guys! Sorry about the longer wait on this one. This chapter is longer because I wanted a little more action, and longer chapters take longer time and I had to do many projects and test prep during Thanksgiving and all that other stuff. Plus, family arguments have been piling up which doesn't help me in writing nor does it help me with getting ideas. In addition, Korra is ending VERY SOON, I am tearbending so much! I don't want the show to end! I just have this unsettling feeling when I think about how Korra is no longer airing new episodes after Dec 19. I might not have the inspiration to continue this story for quite some time because its ending. So, I hope you guys like this chapter. Please review.

Once again I don't own Legend of Korra.

Book 1:Wondering

Chapter 15: A Promise

Sean's POV:

We had gotten onto the plane my grandfather gave us, and it was really cool. It reminded me of first-class airplanes.

"So, who's gonna fly it?" I asked.

"There's an auto-pilot button in the cockpit, just place in the

and you are good to go." My grandfather replied.

Akina, Lily, and Cheryl stayed in the passenger seat area and the snack area. While Bryant went ahead into the cockpit. I followed after him and I watched him awe in wonder at all the gadgets. He lightly touched some of the buttons, and his hand paused when it reached a certain one. (A/N: I know nothing about planes, nor researched about the buttons, so bare with me if some things are wrong). Why that button though?

"This is where you put in the coordinates," Bryant said, as if reading my mind "Mechanics are kinda my thing."

"Nice."

"Hey Cheryl! Come you come over to show where are we suppose to go?" Bryant called out.

"Sure!" She replied cheerfully, and came rushing into the cockpit . My grandfather pulled out a map of the Earth Kingdom from a nearby shelf and opened it.

Cheryl's eyes scanned the map until it reached a certain spot within one of the mountain ranges drawn on the map. She pointed to it and gave a nod to my grandpa. He gave the coordinates to Bryant, who inputted it into the computer system.

Bryant sat in the pilot's seat , buckled up, put on some head phones and gave a thumbs up to my grandpa.

"Okay, to those who are staying on the plane, please go to your proper seat as we are about to take off." said Bryant into the speaker. My grandparents gave each of us a hug and left. I sat in the copilot's seat and buckled up while the others went to the passenger area.

"Liftoff in, three, two one!" I waved goodbye through the window and watched as we soared into the sky.(A/N: Last time I was on a airplane was five, barely remember how it went. So please don't hate me).

Akina's POV:

I took a seat across Cheryl after liftoff occurred. Lily was in the snack room getting as much treats as she could, it took some time to get the girl not to get all sugary, but it was worth it, maybe. I hear the boxes in the snack room fall down. I have a feeling my speech didn't work. I look back to Cheryl who is is currently staring out of the window, and leaning on her good arm.

"Hey." I say. She looks at me, her face somewhat monotone.

"Hey."

"Want me to heal your broken arm? I have more water right now." I water bend the liquid out of my water skin and let it hover in the air.

"Sure." She replies, pulls up her sleeve and takes out the sling. I carefully place the water on her broken arm and begin the healing process, making it glow. At first, Cheryl tenses up a little, but then she eventually relaxes. I think back to what Lily saw in her dream.

"Was you really planning on going to fight by yourself?" I say to break the silence.

"You already know the answer to that."

"Yes, right?"

"Mphm."

"Please, Cheryl. You have people who care about you. I get that you are stubborn, but use that stubbornness on the battlefield. Everyone needs support, even the Avatar. I'm pretty sure that your past lives' experiences have taught you that."

"I know, Akina" she replies annoyingly "I have tried to change, but its hard. I don't want you guys getting hurt."

"But it hurts us seeing you get take everything on your own, and eventually seeing you get injuries in the process," I see something flicker in her eyes, I think I finally got through to her. "Besides, we all have our talents and we all are capable of defending ourselves. Plus, you already have others helping you now, even though you may not realize it, and we are okay. Sean's grandparents provided this plane, shelter food, and some comfort. Bryant's piloting this air craft. Lily lightens up the atmosphere. Sean keeps us on track, and points out hidden clues. Besides we chose to help you, not because you are the Avatar. But because you are our friend, Cheryl. We all are strong. If we weren't, we wouldn't have have it this far into our adventure together."

"Adventure? Isn't this madness? Someone's going to get hurt." I give her an annoyed face and cross my arms.

"And you're the one who's jumping from place to place secretly. Escaping the police at least a million times, and you didn't know that you were the Avatar during that time. You were a regular 15 year old girl. If you can do that, so can we. And if we do fall down, won't we just rise up even stronger?"

"True...But-"

"No, buts." She sighed. I continued to work on the arm a little more, and when I was finished I put back the liquid into my water skin. She flexed it around to test out her arm, before eventually letting it rest on her leg.

"Thanks for healing it." I nodded back.

"Attention, all passengers. This is your pilot, Bryant speaking." I see Cheryl grinning from ear to ear at Bryant's voice through the loudspeaker.

"It will take 3 hours to get to our destination. So to those who need rest, please do. For others, please enjoy your view. Thank you for riding Bryant airlines."

We all laugh at Bryant's so called official announcement. Cheryl and me then turned to a crash from the snack room. The speaker screeched as turned back on.

"And Lily, please take better care of the snack section." Cheryl got up to go to the snack room, but I stopper her from standing up and gently pushed her back down into the seat.

"You're going to need to rest," I poked around the luggage place and found some blankets and carefully tucked them around her. "I'll handle it." Her eyes gave signs of protest but she backed down when I gave her a glare.

Lily's POV:(A/N: I'm so sorry to have these moments, it seems really slow right? But I realized the time gap, so I had to fill it in or the story seems rushed.)

Later, when we got to the location, the atmosphere in the airplane got tense. Cheryl looked so calm and composed in her seat though. I wish I could be as mentally strong as her, I'm freaking out despite Akina's reassurance. The area we landed in had these really tall light brown stone that looked like it was a mile tall!

"It's about 6pm. We still have a lot of time. The announcement the Red Lotus made was only about 4 hours ago. We should practice for the fight." Akina said while looking at her blue colored watch.

"We could practice in the bending room if it's too cold outside!" I shouted excitedly. Exploring the rooms in the plane had proven to be awesome cause grandpa's airplane had more rooms than a regular one. Cheryl gave a questioned look to Akina who shrugged. My brother crossed his arms at Akina's judgment.

"Well, it's not really cold outside though, so why don't take our bending outside for now. Plus, there is more room outside. Cheryl should work on her airbending and firebending." stated Sean. The others nodded in approval ignoring my slumped shoulders at disbanding the use of the bending room. When we walked out of the airplane, several spirits crowded around Cheryl. In reply, she gave a soft smile back. They all hugged her at once but then flew off.

"Why did they suddenly do that?" Bryant turned to Cheryl. She simply clasped her hands and whispered something to the sky.

For the next two hours Bryant and Sean helped Cheryl shape up for the battle. By that time, it was already dark and dinner time. It seemed so awkward to do regular things when something bad was going to happen soon. After we cleaned up, it was time for bed.

"Guys," Cheryl said making all of us look at her, she shifted uncomfortably and looked to the ground "Even though we kinda haven't been together for a long time, you are the best friends I could ever have. Just saying, and I'm glad to have you guys by my side."

"Of course." Akina replied and we resulted in a group hug that seemed to lighten things up. When it was time for bed, I curled up next to Cheryl.

"Cheryl?"

"Yes?" She replied.

"I'm so scared at to what is going to happen. How are you able to stay so calm?" There's silence for quite some time in the dark, and I'm afraid she's already fallen asleep.

"I'm scared too." She's scared?

"But you look so strong, so confident, so unfazed. Wait, what does unfazed mean again?" I hear Cheryl softly chuckle.

"Just because you look like it doesn't mean it's what you truly feel."

"Just like how you like Bryant?" The words popping out of my mouth before I can take it back. I hear Cheryl grabbed for something and before I knew it I had a pillow hitting my back.

"Who said I liked Bryant?"

"Ummm, well you two look cute together, Bryant cares about your safety..." I ramble on until Cheryl shushes me to let the others sleep. Soon, sleep takes over.(A/N:Yes, awkward).

Cheryl's POV:

The next morning I woke up a nervous wreck. Though I think my acting skills have been too refined that even when I wasn't trying, I looked composed in the mirror. Yesterday, Korra had sent some spirits to wish me luck. I feel so grateful to have a past life that I could talk with. I remember when I was smaller, Akina told me that Korra had lost her connection to her past lives and she felt alone because of that. I had to take deep breaths to calm myself down. Repeatedly reminding myself that since I'm the Avatar, I could do it.

For the rest of the morning, I practiced my bending. When the afternoon slowly creeped up, butterflies appeared in my stomach. Waiting didn't help me either.

Around 2 pm, we walked to the location of where Korra battled Zaheer. Surprisingly, I found a whole group of about 30 Red Lotus Members sitting down in lined other, similar to an army's. In front of them stood a lady that looked like P'Li, but some of the facial features looked like Zaheer. She had the braided hair and 3rd eye tattoo of P'Li, but the eye color and nose of Zaheer.

"Which of you is the Avatar?" She called out. I stepped forward.

"I am." Snickers erupted on their side. I simply got into a fighting stance. (A/N: Sorry if the fighting scenes are bad, I'm not good at writing those). The lady smirked.

"Do you remember me?" She asked, anger coating her words. My hands lowered a bit, surprised at the sudden question. When I didn't respond, fury seemed to consume her.

"I'm Oka! P'li and Zaheer's daughter! You took my parents away. Throughout my life I didn't have their support! And it's the Avatar's fault that it has been like this. For the past years I had to gather the disbanded members of the Red Lotus, hoping to live my legacy."

I thought back to how Korra suffered from the poison, both sides had taken a hit from this one experience. But why go through the trouble of revenge? Isn't life about accepting our past, learning from them, and grow even stronger from the experience? But for the good. I must have shown my true feelings through my facial expression because something else flicker in Oka's eyes. Not sadness, not anger, something else. But I couldn't put my finger on it.

"Now, I finally can finish what my parents wanted. And I'm taking you down Avatar," She continued on and gestured for on the Red Lotus except for 4 men to stand by. "You three, take care of the rest. If I shall fail taking this girl down, the rest of you surrender with honor. Taking down the Avatar is something I must do." The rest of the Red Lotus looked surprised at her decision. At least she is honorable.

I gave a final look back to my group. When Bryant and me got eye contact, a silent conversation played.

'Be careful.'

'I'll try'

'Try?'

'Fine, I promise.'

'Good'

I redirected my attention to Oka. Everyone else had stepped back. Judging by her appearance, most likely a combustion bender. I made the first move, sending a vertical air swipe towards her. She quickly dodged by jumping right, but as soon as she touched the ground, I sent an Earth Line to her left foot hopping to trip her. Surprisingly, she remained balanced by leaning on her right foot. A look of triumph appeared on her face.

"I'm no regular person, Avatar." She called out haughtily. She combustion bends a blast to me, I had barely any time to react and create an Earth Wall to defend myself. The wall breaks apart from the impact causing a dust cloud around me, blocking my view. I hear anyone blast coming from the right and quickly move backwards.

Calm down, Cheryl. Listen to the environment. I close my eyes and perform Semitic sense to get a view of the area. She's moving pretty fast for a firebender.I see her foot applying to the surface before jumping around in circles around me.

Maybe I should evade her attacks, instead of enduring it. One hit and I could be done. I take a deep breath I wasn't as skilled with the other elements' strategy yet. I remember Bryant teaching me on how to enhance speed. I'm still shaky on it, but why not try it?

I use my air bending to decrease air resistance around me and start zipping around her in zig-zag formation around her. She lets a grunt of frustration, trying to confirm my location. I send an air swipe to her feet, causing her to cough from the flying dust.

I start circling around her with accelerated. She looks around the rocky, her eyes eventually settling on this one spot. She grins evilly, and blasts to that spot. I turn around, finding rocks falling down from where she blasted. I screech to a stop to avoid impact with the rocks. A sigh a relief falls from me when I stop just in front of where the boulders landed. Next thing I knew, flames engulfed the area around me. I hiss as my left arm burns a bit from contact.

"Give up already Avatar! I clearly have the advantage!" I simply clench my jaw, ignoring the pain. I look up finding her still jumping from place to place like before. I use remote earthbending from the part of towering rocks that sends Oka to the ground. She gives me an angry look. I then send an earth bomb making the ground shake. I then create an Earth Armor on me. She smirks before giving me a combustion blast. Create another Earth shield, but the blast breaks it and sends my armor blowing off of me. Then she sends me fire missiles. I manage the distinguish some directed toward me, but the rest surround me in a circle.

I create a dust cloud to cover me while I use fire augmentation to minimize the fire. Next, I earth bent a hole under me and cover the top, using firebending to light up the place. Then, I place my hand on the surface above trying to get a reading on her location.

"Come out Come out wherever you are Avatar! You can't hide for forever. Besides, I think one of you friends might be a great rag doll for me to toss around!" I quickly shot up from my hiding location.

"Don't you dare touch them!" I retorted. She ignores my warning and simply sends a strong fire blast to me. Not expecting such a fast move, I make a weak air shield to counter. The shield isn't strong enough and sends me slaming to one of the huge rock towers. I peek open one eye, my vision a bit blurry and my back aching. She laughs seeing me crumpled up on the ground.

"I believe it's time to end this stupid game. Why don't we have your little friends fall with you too?" She gives me a sly grin. "Finish the brats off! Or I'll do it!" She yells to the 4 people fighting the rest of Team Avatar. Each having one of my friends locked. They looked kinda hurt to be yelled at, but do the orders nevertheless. The 2 waterbenders creates a ice dagger that points to Bryant's and Akina's throats, the firebenders creates fire daggers at Lily's and Sean's.

"Do it!" She yells at them again.

"Nooooo!" I cry out, my hand helplessly stretched out trying to reach them. Suddenly, the whole world turns white-ish and I don't feel like I have full in control of my body. My mind feels far away from what's going on, and the visual is far and blurry too.

Bryant's POV:

I close my eyes ready for the sharp tool to hit my throat. Instead, I feel a strong wind and its blasts away the hold of the waterbender. I open my eyes, finding Cheryl's eyes glowing white and she is floating onto of an air sprout. Her expression is an angry and pained one. I look to Oka. She gives a split second of fear before grinning evilly.

"Finally! The Avatar State, so the rumors about activating it from protecting loved ones is true. It's so much better then chasing the stupid Avatar across the globe and using poison." She laughs but is suddenly sent crashing to the ground from an air swipe.

"Oka, your thirst for revenge and ways have put the world out of balance," says Cheryl, though its not only hers. There are two other voices speaking with her. "We will end your campaign along with you."

Oka just chuckles.

"The Red Lotus will always continue! And it will always hunt for the Avatar-" Her words are interrupted by the rock kicked toward her face resulting in the woman to dodge it. Cheryl then sinks Oka into the ground, making the limbs immobile. Oka struggles to free herself, as half of her body is within the ground.

Cheryl lowers herself to the ground and flicks a tiny pebble to Oka's red eye, causing the chi to be blocked, making her vulnerable. Cheryl slowly walks up to her, places her fingers on the forehead and the chest. A white glow happens in those areas, and Oka's head limps.

Then she walks to the rest of the Red Lotus members still in their originally spot, and shocked to see their leader defeated. When she approaches them they all bow down. I walk up next to her slowly afraid of what she might do to the others. I hesitantly take her right hand. She looks to me, her eyes still glowing. I think back to what Oka said before about how the Avatar State is activated. Maybe the reverse …

"It's okay. We're all okay. Everything will be alright." I say. I could tell I was getting through to her as the anger left her face. Then her glowing white eyes return to her normal sparkling emerald ones. She slumps slightly forward and I catch her to prevent her from falling forward. She looks around, fully examining what happened. Sympathy appears on her face when she sees Oka. She pushes me off gently, and I let go of her.

"Instead of putting you all to jail, I'm giving you guys the chance to volunteer in cities around the world to see how the people really feel about the governments. All the nations have their leaders back … I saw," She pauses, waiting for the information to sink in. "Please, consider helping out and listening. I don't want to fight you, we're all humans. Can't we have peace?"

The Red Lotus members raise their heads and stare at Cheryl, still hesitant. That's when I see Cheryl collapse to her knees and fall forward. I quickly catch her just before her head hits the ground. I pick her up, and cradle her. She's unconscious now, her expression a little more relaxed then before.

"Well, I'll do it." I hear a man say. I look up to a Water Tribe Man in the 30s that was standing in the front. He looks back and the others start getting up too, saying the same thing. My jaw drops in shock.

"We promise." They say in unison.

"Why the sudden change of heart?" I ask with confusion. The man who first stood up speaks.

"To be exact, the Red Lotus kinda already died down. Only some of us came back because of Oka. Her determination about freedom seemed great at first, but then her true side about revenge showed. She would treat us whenever she got too angry. When we thought about the title Avatar, we thought of an almighty suppressor. To see this little girl fight us with such a heart … it made me, no, us, realize that the Avatar is human too. And to have her give us a 2nd chance, is amazing." I smile and look at Cheryl who has snuggled close to me. She really is an inspiration.

"What about the rest?" I asked. He gives me a confused look at first and but realizes what I am talking about.

"Oh, this is pretty much all of us except I the ones in the United Republic of Nations, I think. For some reason, we wasn't able to contact the ones there and they haven't called back to us." He scratches his head in confusion.

"Don't worry, I'm sure we get the others to help."

"Thanks kid. Take care of her." I nod back.

The main concern is finally over, we can relax a bit.

What did you guys think? Once again, there will be a Book 2 and Book 1 is not over yet people. This is not the final chapter. Hope you guys enjoyed this week's longer chapter. Hopefully, I get to update quicker. Book 2's title is called Bonds. I have been waiting to announce it, and now I can! Once again please review and tell me how you think about the final battle of Book 1, and how to improve, like the battle scenes. Please, please, Please, review this chapter. I worked really hard on it. Is it going too fast?