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.
The crowd gathers to the Republic City town square, where Mayor Sho is going to make an announcement.
Everyone in the crowd brought picket signs saying all kinds of negative things against Benders.
"Have them all leave!"
"Make them pay!"
"Death sentence!"
"Fix my Cabbage Shop!"
Mr. Qiang tries to calm them all down. "Everyone, SHUT UP!"
They all shut up.
"Thank you, Republic City Prison Warden Qiang." says Mayor Sho. "Nation, I have called all of you together to announce a new bill that we have passed."
Korra, Meelo, Di, Li, Xiao, and Wei Tung are escorted into a train by hundreds of guards, the bystanders that gathered booing them and cursing them out.
"This bill will, in it's totality, ban all bending from our city, and will make both citizens and immigrants that have the capability to Bend the elements illegal within our borders!" announces Mayor Sho.
The crowd cheers!
Tenzin is in the crowd, but he is not cheering.
The train leaves Republic City station, passing the Border Bridge out into the outside world.
The kids notice the sign as they cross the bridge:
邊境大橋
现在離開共和国城市
(Border Bridge, now leaving Republic City)
From the window, Korra looks down under the bridge to see that the same ferry boat that she came in was now leaving the city as well.
"The era of crime on our city is over! A new era of peace has begun!" proclaims Mayor Sho.
The crows cheers as loud as ever before.
Tenzin begins to leave.
Qiang sees this and goes to Mayor Sho, and whispers to him.
"Hey, Boss. Look down there. Isn't he the owner of the Jasmine Dragon that we…I mean, they blew up?" he says.
"Why…yes. Yes!" says Mayor Sho.
He goes back to the podium.
"Everyone! We have here in the audience the owner of the Jasmine Dragon Tea Shop, that as we know, was blown up by Benders yesterday!"
The crowd starts cheering for him to go up the steps to the town square.
"What's his name?" asks Mayor Sho.
"I think it's Tenzin." says Qiang.
"Tenzin…." says Mayor Sho, until he suddenly realizes something.
"….TENZIN!"
"XAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH"
Mayor Sho comes back into his head as the crows starts cheering for Tenzin to come back.
Tenzin tries to sneak his way out, but the crowd picks him up like a hero and carries him to the podium.
Mayor Sho slowly walks away as Tenzin approaches the podium.
Sho clears his throat, and says "You are a hero, Tenzin. Tell us how you feel about the Bending menace now rid from the streets!"
"I…uh…I…" says Tenzin, as he looks nervously to the thousands before him.
"Hey, old man. Don't pee your pants yet, say something!" whispers Qiang to Tenzin's ear.
"I…uh….don't agree." he says.
The crowd gasps.
Qiang and Sho look confused.
"You don't agree? With the new law?" asks Mayor Sho.
Tenzin tries to gather enough courage to talk.
"I don't agree with the law!" he proclaims to the audience.
"Tenzin, they blew up your tea shop!" says Mr. Qiang.
"No! They didn't!" yells Tenzin.
The crowd gasps.
"What do you mean?" asks Mayor Sho.
"Korra, Meelo, and those other kids could not have blown up my shop!" proclaims Tenzin.
"What proof do you have of this? How could you defend them!" says Qiang, completely perplexed at what this old man is saying.
"They could not have done it, because they were with me!" yells Tenzin. "They were in my home! They could not have done it!"
The crowd gasps.
"You were harboring prison escapees!" says Qiang.
Tenzin realizes what he has just said. "Yes. Now banish me from this city."
"You are not going anywhere. You are under arrest, and you are going straight to prison!" says Qiang, as guards arrest Tenzin in front of thousands.
"This sucks." says Xiao.
"We know, birdbrain." says Di.
"Don't worry guys, they banished us, but they can't do anything to us outside of Republic City." says Meelo. "We are outside their jurisdiction."
"How do you know that?" asks Wei Tung.
"Because…." he stands up from his chair. "I'm Meelo."
His and everyone's else's hands are in chains.
"Are you OK, Korra?" asks Li.
Korra is still looking out the window, very depressed.
"Leave her alone guys, she's not happy." says Meelo.
"Yeah guys, we don't want to anger Meelo's girlfriend!" says Wei Tung.
Xiao starts laughing.
"She's not my…" says Meelo, until the train stops.
"Are we there already?" asks Li.
Meelo sits down.
The door opens, and two huge men walk inside, ready to fight.
The teenagers look at them with fear.
"So, Benders, huh? We got orders from Mayor Sho to exterminate you as soon as we leave city borders." says one of the giants.
"Yeah, get ready to get pulverized!" says the other.
The teenagers all look at each other.
"Really? You think you can beat us up?" asks Meelo.
"We chained you up, so you can't use your super powers, and we are much stronger and bigger than you!" says one of the brutes.
"What are you stupid? A bunch of chains aren't going to keep us from bending!" says Xiao.
"We Earthbenders can bend with only our faces!" says Wei Tung.
Xiao stumps his foot on the ground, and a pillar of rock sticks out from under the floor, sending a giant straight through the roof!
The other giant watches as his partner falls face first into the ground outside.
Wei Tung crosses his legs, making the walls of the train pinch the giant's foot, making him unable to move! He then Metalbends his chains out, and creates a whole on the side of the vehicle to get out.
All of them run out, except Korra.
"Hey girl! You coming?" yells Meelo.
Korra thinks about it for a second, and kicks the giant in the nuts. She gets out of the train with the others.
"So what's the plan?" asks Korra.
"What are you looking at us for, you are the Avatar!" says Di.
"Yeah, we are here to serve you!" says Li.
"You are our master!" says Xiao.
"We will stand by you till the end." says Wei Tung.
"Just say the word, Avatar Korra." says Meelo.
They all kneel to Korra.
Korra thinks about it. Why should she care for Republic City? Why should she care for Tenzin? He doesn't care about her or Airbending. She is practically already an Avatar, it's just that there is no longer a 4th chapter to the textbook. She can just go home, and live her life.
"I promise." says Korra as Chief Katara is buried.
"I made a promise." says Korra. She has made her decision.
She turns around to look at the city far in the distance.
"We are taking back Republic City."