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Book Three

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Chapter XII

Venom Of The Red Lotus.

The Red Lotus has captured the Avatar. Korra gave herself up in exchange for the airbenders. But Zaheer double-crossed her and threw Naruto off a cliff while Ghazan trapped Team Avatar in the temple. All seemed lost until Bolin saved their lives by lavabending. But he's not the only one with new skills. Naruto and Zaheer unlocked the ancient airbending ability of flight. Will Team Avatar save the air nation and Korra before it's too late?

Red Lotus' Hideout.

"When I get out of here, none of you will survive!"

Korra yelled as she struggled with her chains before Zaheer spoke. "You won't get out. Unless the metal clan taught you a way to bend platinum. Once we administer this poison, your body will naturally react, forcing you into the Avatar State in an effort to keep you alive. Sadly for you, you'll be entering it for the last time."

"No. The Avatar cycle…"

"Yes. When we dispatch you in the Avatar state, the cycle will end. So we lucky few, this band of brothers and sisters in anarchy, are witnessing the beginning of an era of true freedom. Together we will forge a world without kings and queens, without borders or nations, where a man's only allegiance is to himself and those he loves. We will return to the true balance of natural order." Zaheer said before continuing.

"And though you will never again be reborn, your name will echo throughout history. Korra, the last Avatar."

In a room by them, Opal looked at Jinora who returned from her spiritual self. "Did you find any way to escape?"

"No, not yet. But don't worry. We'll find a way out soon."

"They might not make it that long." One man said looking at Bumi and Kya who were knocked out.

"Korra will come to save us, right?" Ikki asked her sister.

"I think we're going to have to do this on our own."

Up ahead, Zaheer looked at the others. "Administer the poison." The sentry bends the poison, splitting it into four portions, and attaches a portion to each limb. He metalbends, causing the poison to diffuse into Korra's skin. Throughout the administration, Korra screams in agony and her eyes begin to glow momentarily. Get ready. As soon as she's in the Avatar state, take her out.``

"Wait. Why isn't she staying in the Avatar state?" Ghazan asked as Korra's eyes went back to normal.

"Give it time. She can't resist for long."

Outside, Kai rode Lefty in front of the others. "The place where I saw them taking the airbenders is around here."

"That's gotta be where they took Korra," Mako said, seeing the cave up ahead with statues carved in the mountain.

"That's it! Down there, Lefty."

They landed before Tenzin spoke. "Find the airbenders and my family.

"Don't worry. I'm not coming out without our children and the rest of your people." Su said to him as all but Tenzin ran in.

Inside, Korra continues resisting the poison. "It's working," Zaheer said before Korra started to hallucinate he was Amon while her uncle took Ghazan's place before turning into Vaatu.

With the airbenders, the kids started to complain. "I'm thirsty."

"I gotta go pee."

"Me too," Daw said before one man spoke

"Hey. Keep it down over there or you're all going to end up like them."

"Sir, please. Could we just have some water? There are children and a baby here." Pema said as the sentry glanced at his partner, who shrugs before he brings the water to the airbenders.

Jinora airbends at the sentry, covering his face with his robes, which causes the keys to fall off. Meelo airbends, throwing the keys to Opal, who catches and hides it out of view. "Oh, so you just called me over to attack me. Fine. Now nobody gets any water. I don't know how we ended up here in daycare while everyone else gets to watch the Avatar being destroyed. I can hold a bowl of poison."

Opal unlocks her cuffs and before the sentry can act, he is stabbed in the neck by a kunai as another goes in his partner's head. "Mom!" Opal said as Suyin hugged her.

"Oh, honey, I'm so glad you're safe."

"Oh! Me too." Bolin pushes Suyin away to hug Opal.

Naruto walked out and flicked the blood off his kunai. "You guys get everyone out of here. I'll search for Korra." He said as the kunai went back in his vambraces.

"We're going with you," Mako said walking up.

"You don't have to search for her. I know exactly where she's being held." Jinora said to them.

Up ahead, Zaheer saw Korra's eyes staying white as the wind picked up. "Now! Destroy the Avatar."

Ming-Hua sends an ice shard to Korra, who destroys it by breathing fire. Korra struggles and pulls off the chain on her right arm, swinging it toward Zaheer, followed by Ming-Hua. Zaheer dodged the attack, but Ming-Hua was caught off-guard and slammed against a wall, losing her water appendages in the meantime. Ghazan erupts lava toward Korra, who swings the chain around her arm before directing the lava flow with airbending back to Ghazan, causing him to retreat to avoid the lava.

Korra rips off the chains on her legs and airbends herself away before propelling herself with firebending to rip off the final chain. She lands in front of Zaheer and bends four boulders and circles them around her before airbending to push the boulder away. The Red Lotus retreats to avoid the attacks. Korra breathes fire in fury while Naruto, Mako, and Bolin run in.

"Korra!"

Korra breathes fire toward Zaheer, who dodges the attacks and flies out through the open roof. Korra propels fire from her feet and gives chase.

"We have to help her!"

"Look out!" Bolin blocked an attack from Ghazan before Mako looked at Naruto.

"You help Korra. We got this."

Zaheer flies out of the cave with Korra giving chase as Naruto follows with his new flying ability. Korra sends two boulders toward Zaheer who dodges the attacks but is pushed off by Korra. Zaheer grabs Korra and tosses her away, Only to be caught by Naruto. She looked up as he nodded before grabbing her chain and flew, pulling her with him.

Tenzin witnesses the fight as Naruto throws Korra toward Zaheer, who follows suit. Korra leaps across columns to regain her ground and circles a pillar, breaking it in the meantime and sending it to Zaheer, who dodges the attack.

"Daddy!"

Tenzin saw his family run out and up to him. "Oh, thank goodness you're all alright."

"Honey, are you okay?" Pema asked, looking at him.

"I'll be fine."

Korra slams two pillars toward Zaheer, who dodges the attack. Naruto flies over to kick Zaheer as Korra sends three rocks and charges toward him.

Inside, Mako firebends Ming-Hua, who dodges the attacks and swings away. Mako chases her while his brother engages Ghazan. Bolin sends two rocks at Ghazan, who blocks the attack before using his wall against Bolin. Bolin smashes the attack, but Ghazan hides behind the wall and catches him. Bolin regains his ground and throws Ghazan away, who retaliates with two rocks. Bolin dodges the attacks and smashes a rock.

"What are you smiling about?" Bolin asked Ghazan.

"I was just remembering the last time we fought," Ghazan said, throwing lava at Bolin who redirected it away.

"Well, a lot has changed since then."

"So that's how you got out of the temple. Not bad. Let's see what you've got!"

Outside, Zaheer dodges bent rocks before flying away. Korra bends more rocks at Zaheer and manages to catch up. Korra flies toward the arch, before propelling herself up with earthbending. She attacks Zaheer with multiple fire blasts, while Zaheer retaliates with air blasts, landing a hit and throwing her onto the floor.

Zaheer zooms past Korra, tossing her off the edge. Korra regains her ground and bends a large boulder toward Zaheer, slamming it against a mountain. Zaheer narrowly manages to avoid the attack and flies back to Korra. Korra lands atop a pool of water and directs whips toward Zaheer. Zaheer manages to dodge all the attacks but is struck on the right leg.

Korra freezes the water, causing him to lose altitude. Korra charges toward Zaheer, but the poison acts up and causes her to crash onto the mountain. Zaheer manages to smash the ice on his leg and flies back to Korra, who attempts to breathe fire but is stopped by the poison. "You can't fight me and the poison."

"She's not alone!" Naruto breathed fire at Zaheer who moved back as Naruto threw rocks at him from the surrounding columns.

He then grabbed Korra's chain when it was thrown up and spun pulling her up. He then threw Korra at Zaheer, having him dodge but was hit by the chain.

Down below, the airbenders all form a circle as Jinora stands in the center and creates a small vortex that increases in size, while the airbenders create air gusts to the vortex, causing it to increase in size.

Inside, Mako chases Ming-Hua, breaking off her water appendages. Ming-Hua trips and loses her appendages. "You have no water. It's over."

"Not yet." Ming-Hua jumps into a hole, avoiding Mako's fire blast. Mako follows into the hole, landing in a lake of water. He lights his wrist, turning to see Ming-Hua behind with eight large water appendages. "Now it's over!"

Ming-Hua directs multiple water blasts at Mako, forcing the firebender to retreat. Mako stops for a while before leaping onto a stalagmite and shooting lightning at the water, electrocuting Ming-Hua.

Up ahead, Bolin blocks Ghazan's lavabending with an earth wall before directing a lava flow to Ghazan. Ghazan leaps forward and lavabends, turning the wall behind Bolin into lava and directing it toward Bolin. Bolin retreats and leaps down, solidifying the lava. Ghazan intercepts Bolin and prepares to attack, but is stopped by Mako.

Mako flies toward Ghazan, who tries to block Mako but is knocked off by Mako's fire kick. Ghazan tries to regain his ground but is constantly knocked back by the brothers. "Give up, Ghazan! You can't win!"

"I'm never going back to prison. If I'm going down today, you're coming with me!"

Ghazan punches the floor, causing rocks to fall. He melts the walls around him and directs them downward.

"Mako, hang on."

Bolin creates a platform and the two brothers ride out of the cave, where they watch the cave collapse. Both brothers run out of the cave.

Outside, Naruto stabbed Zaheer in the shoulders, having him scream out before throwing him into the vortex and having him be pulled down to the ground. Lin and Su then earthbends him in a shell from the neck down.

Naruto then flies down holding Korra bridal style as Tonraq runs up. "Korra, sweetheart, it's me, Dad. Please hang on."

Zaheer starts to laugh as Naruto looks up. "What are you laughing about?"

"You're too late! The poison's been in her system too long. The Red Lotus has won."

Naruto kicks a rock at him knocking Zaheer out as Su runs up. Suyin runs to Korra and holds her by the shoulder and forehead. She metalbends and pulls the poison from Korra's limbs, while everyone looks on, worried. Suyin pulls the poison out of Korra's mouth, causing her to cough, before tossing the poison aside. "Naruto? You're alive." Korra said, waking up as Naruto smiled.

"I'm here for you. I'm never going to let you go."

Two Weeks Later, Air Temple Island, Naruto, And Korra's Room.

Naruto walks into his room wearing a black shirt with dark blue pants as Asami takes a hairpin from her lips and inserts it into Korra's bunned hair.

He saw Korra was in a wheelchair in the dress she used for formal parties. "There you go. All fixed up for a formal Avatar appearance. Take a look." She said, handing Korra a mirror.

"It's great. Thanks." She said solemnly as Naruto walked up

He knelt to kiss her before pulling back. "Sad it's going to be a while before we can have long hours of sex-!" He stopped as Asami pinched him. "Hey, hey, like you're not upset at that either."

Korra's lips twitched upwards for a millisecond as Asami rolled her eyes before she knelt on Korra's right. "You know, nobody expects you to bounce back right away. It's only been two weeks. You need time to heal. I want you to know that I'm here for you. But let's just try to enjoy this today. For Jinora."

"You're right," Korra spoke as Naruto stood and grabbed the handles. "OK. Let's go."

Naruto pushed her outside to see the others with both of Korra's parents and Kya with a crutch. Bumi had his arm in a sling as Raiko and Zuko stood with them as well "You look beautiful, sweetie." Tonraq said, walking up as Senna hugged her.

"You're looking stronger every day, Korra," Tenzin said before Raiko took a step forward.

"I'd like to officially welcome you back to Republic City. I know that the last time we saw each other it didn't end on the best terms, but I want to thank you for taking down those Red Lotus terrorists."

"We should go inside," Ikki said, running up to Naruto as Meelo got on Korra's lap.

"I can help."

"I wanna ride with Korra." Korra smiled as she held Meelo. "Jinora's already inside. It smells like shoe trees."

"Sandalwood, Meelo." Ikki sighed as Lin walked up to the bottom of the stairs as Naruto and Asami stopped

"I got this. Hang in there, kid."

She earthbends them on a platform before pulling them up the stairs. "She's not looking good," Raiko said before Tonraq looked over.

"Neither would you if you'd gone through what she had."

"She'll be fine," Tenzin said, looking up at the others. "She just needs time to heal. The poison took a great toll."

"Of course. I'm just saying, with the Earth Kingdom in complete disarray since the loss of the queen." Raiko said, walking up before Zuko looked up to speak.

"And even with Zaheer locked up again, we still don't know how many red lotus members might be out there, hiding."

"Exactly. With the world getting more and more dangerous, we need the Avatar now more than ever. Who will protect us while she's in a wheelchair?"

"Naruto," Kya said, getting their attention. "He may not be spiritually aware, but he can do it if we help him."

In the ceremonial hall where incense sticks are burning. Air Acolytes and many guests are seated, witnessing the ceremony, while airbenders stand on the stage. Jinora is in the middle, wearing a hood as Tenzin stood and spoke. "Jinora, come forward." Jinora bows and walks forward before kneeling. "Today we welcome the first airbending master in a generation, and I couldn't be more proud of my daughter. When the existence of our people was threatened, when the Avatar's life hung in the balance, Jinora never gave up hope. Thanks to her leadership, I see a very bright future for the air nation."

"Of course, there would be no air nation without Avatar Korra. She opened the portals and somehow the world began anew for us. And she was even willing to lay down her own life in order to protect ours. There's no way we can ever repay her for all she's done. But we can follow her example of service and sacrifice. So while she recuperates, the air nation will reclaim its nomadic roots and roam the earth. But unlike our ancestors, we will serve people of all nations, working wherever there is corruption and discord, to restore balance and peace."

"Avatar Korra, I vow that we will do everything in our power to follow in your footsteps and with Naruto, bring harmony to the world." Tenzin bowed at Korra who bowed as well. "Now, let us anoint the master who will help lead us in our new path."

Tenzin removes Jinora's hood, revealing she's bald and her new tattoos. Jinora removes the coat and stands up as the airbenders bend the smoke from the burning incense sticks, sounding the wind chimes around the hall. Jinora hugs her father, having the audience clap while a tear rolls down Korra's cheek.

Naruto used his thumb to wipe it away before crouching. She looked over having Naruto pull her in for a kiss. He then pulled back and smiled at her.

To Be Continued.

A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.

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Caught up to where I've written so updates will probably be slower but I will still try for once a week.

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