The Marvelous Legends of Republic City

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Chapter 10: Spirits of Old

Long ago when the world was young, before the time of The Avatar, when the first benders where just finding their elements, a great evil ensnared the Earth. A dark spirit who called himself Loki set loose a mighty serpent against the world. Loki wished to use the snake to destroy the world as a test for what he called Ragnarok, which according to him meant the end of all things. No one, not even the early benders could stand against the might of the gigantic serpent, but soon help arrived. A great thunderer with a mighty hammer named Thor sent both Loki and his serpent back their own realms. Thor then proclaimed that he would forever protect the Earth should Loki or any other being from his world threaten it.

The tale of Loki the Spirit of Evil and Thor the Thunder Spirit was passed down from generation to generation. Thor was easily remembered, marked by his golden hair, winged helmet, red cape, and most important of all his mighty hammer. Loki on the other hand would go through many versions, from being a giant, to a malevolent demon, to being able to change into the serpent itself.

Thousands upon thousands of years later and the tale of Thor and Loki is still fairly popular, often treated as a bed time story for children. However during Avatar Korra's time, Loki has finally brought about Ragnarok for his and Thor's home realm Asgard.

Thor was bleeding profusely from his final battle with the dreaded serpent, Jormungandr, the very snake that he had driven from Earth so many years ago. Thor slowly walked away from corpse of the giant snake, as one of its fangs continued to drip poison into his body. The thunder god stopped on his eighth step and looked to the horizon.

He could see the fire and hear the sounds of battle as his world fell. He spun his hammer by its leather strap one last time and opened a portal to Earth.

"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of... Thor." The thunder god then threw the hammer into the portal with all his remaining might, hoping to Odin that someone would find it. Thor took another step, his ninth and final one as he fell to the ground dead.

It was nighttime as Tahno, previously a great pro-waterbender, walked down a dirt path with a backpack slung over his shoulder. He had lost his bending to Amon and had hit rock bottom. Some might say it was karma, for Tahno was no saint by any means. He was arrogant, greedy, cruel, and had little care for those he harmed in the arena. However with the loss of his bending he had learned a great lesson in humility, though he wished such a lesson did not have to come at such a high price.

Tahno was leaving Republic City as he felt he no longer had a place there without his bending. As he took one last long look at the city he was born in, he began to trudge forward. However, he jumped in the air when the sound of thunder split the once quiet night. Suddenly a blast of lightning struck the ground in front of him, blast Tahno back a few feet. When he got up he saw that there was a large crater where the lightning had struck. Getting up and walking over to it he saw what looked like a stone sledgehammer with a short handle wrapped in leather in the middle of the crater.

"Reach out. Prove your worth." A voice called out, seemingly from the hammer. Tahno didn't know if he was hearing things or not and looked around to see if anyone was around.

"Lift the hammer. Gain the power." The voice called out yet again. The ex-waterbender slowly reached out and grasped the handle of the hammer, as a massive thunderstorm began to form overhead. He picked the hammer up by a fraction of an inch before he was struck by lightning.

Mako walked around the mansion of Hiroshi Sato, with his girlfriend Asami Sato. She was taking him to the pool outback, but she groaned when she saw who was out there. It was a young man, looking to be in his early to mid twenties, with jet black hair and a goatee laying on a lawn chair reading and drinking a martini. Asami was about to push Mako back into the house and suggest they do something else, but the man near the pool had other ideas.

"Hey Sis, so you finally went and got your very own gigolo. Words cannot express how proud I am." The young man said, sarcasm evident in his voice, as he took a sip of his drink. Mako took offense and marched up to the man. He glared down at him and said,

"Just who do you think you are?" The man lazily looked up from behind his sunglasses and replied,

"Tong Sato. I'm a genius, billionaire playboy, with a father that could take me or leave me who usually chooses the latter. You are?" Mako blinked in surprise before Asami walked up angrily and said,

"He's my boyfriend Tong. Mako this is my, and I use this term loosely, brother." Tong closed his book, showing the cover which revealed it was an adult novel, and replied,

"Ah, so you're the boy my sister keeps writing about in her diary." Asami just growled slightly as she grabbed Mako's arm tightly, causing him to wince slightly, as she dragged him off.

"Play safe you two, I'm not ready to be an uncle." Tong said as he reopened his book.

It was later that night as a man walked down the streets of Republic City. He was suddenly grabbed by someone and heard the sound of metal unsheathing. He saw a man in a crimson outfit wearing a red mask with black circles around the eye holes holding a sword to his neck.

"Okay, are you The Punisher?" The man asked as his hostage began to squirm as the sword dug ever so slightly into his neck. The hostage's heart started beating rapidly.

"You're making me angry. You wouldn't..." The hostage began to say, but was cut off by as a man wearing a green outfit and mask ran up.

"Mr. Watari! I just saw The Punisher, skull and all, a few blocks away!" The man in green said breathlessly.

"Good work Bob! Sorry about that pal. No hard feelings right?" The crimson clad swordsman called to his former hostage as he ran off down the street. The man fell to the ground as he held his slightly bleeding throat and took several deep breaths to calm himself down. He got up and said,

"That was close."

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