Water.
Earth.
Fire.
When I was 16, I learned that I could control all three elements, and that it was my duty to keep the world in harmony and balance.
But before I could do that, I had to learn to control the final mystical fourth element: Air. But those who know of it died a long time ago.
The chief of my tribe told me that someone still lives who knows the art of Airbending, but he lived in Republic City, where crime and hate for the benders grow strong.
So I journeyed to the city, hoping to find the last piece of my destiny.
I am Avatar Korra, and I am ready to take on the world.
Fire engulfs the tea shop.
People scream and run around in horror.
The employees of the tea shop try to tear down the door, blocked by debris from the explosion. They can't get out.
The roof starts to crack over them, as the heat from the flames melt the metal foundation.
"We have to get out of here." says an employee. A bunch of employees grab a large column that fell over, and ram it towards the door, trying to break it open.
The roof begins to crack some more.
"Come on!" says the employee, but with every ram, the weaker the building gets.
They are trapped. Smoke engulfs them.
Suddenly, the fire is sucked out of the room
The roof collapses on top of them, but it stops in mid-air!
Wei Tung crashes through the wall, and Metalbends the foundation from crushing the people!
Firmly placing his right foot on the ground, he maneuvers the metal away from the people, and crushes the foundation into a single sphere with his hands.
The fire spreads into the neighboring buildings.
The neighbors run out of their homes before the fire engulfs them, but not all can escape.
A family on the fifth floor isn't even awake as fires enter through their window.
The family's pet white hamster sniffs the fire, and runs toward the family on the bedroom. She jumps repeatedly on top of them, until the husband wakes up.
"That's enough of you! You have woken me up during the night for the last time! I have a very important job interview tomorrow, and I need to be able to focus! And I can't focus if I get no sleep!" says the guy, completely oblivious to the inferno outside.
He drags the cat-like creature from her tail to the front door to kick her out, but when he touches the door handle, he screams from the intense heat.
"What in the world!" yells he, now wide awake enough to notice his whole apartment is on fire!
He runs to get his wife and kid until the fire from outside completely engulfs the window, blocking the hallway to his room! The fire spreads to all his belongings and rooms!
He runs toward the faucet to fill a bucket with water, but as soon as he opens the tap, a flood of water spews from the faucet, sending the guy to the wall! Di jumps through the window and uses the water to take out the fire in the home! He Waterbends the wave out the window, where Li redirects it to spew all over the building like rain.
Xiao creates rock walls to stop the spreading fire to jump into other buildings, and to make safe pathways for the people to evacuate.
He creates a square fortress around the tea shop and the burning buildings, and makes pillars rocket out of the ground like stairs to the top of the walls.
"Going up Meelo?" says Xiao.
Meelo runs up those stairs and Firebends the flames into one compact sphere.
Korra aims at the clouds, and Waterbend them to go straight into the sphere of flames, and drown it with it's water.
A huge column of steam spews out of the square fortress like a nuclear reactor!
Xiao gets rid of the square fortress, showing the damage the fire has done to the tea shop and the surrounding buildings.
Korra, Meelo, Di, Li, Xiao, and Wei Tung gather to watch the tea shop, now barely recognizable.
"What happened?" asked Korra.
"This is no regular fire, this was a bomb." said Meelo.
"Who could have done something like this?" said Wei Tung.
Di looked around, and saw all the people looking at them, simply astonished with what they saw. Many of them have never seen a bender in action before, let alone to save them.
Korra walks through the remains of the tea shop, kneels, and picks up a piece of paper showing the commemoration for the building when it was opened seventy years earlier by Iroh.
"Tenzin is going to be devastated." said Korra, with her heart almost broken.
Suddenly, bright lights engulf them.
"Stay right where you are, Benders!" says a Republic City police officer.
"That's them alright! They bombed the tea shop!" yelled Mr. Qiang. "They escaped from my prison, and went straight here to cause more chaos!"
Meelo and his gang raised their hands in the air. Korra was not paying attention.