We're back on chapter twenty-two. The part when Korra meets Sarlaq the warlock!

REMINDER: I DO NOT OWN LEGEND OF KORRA OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS.

At the police office, Korra kicked the door open.

"You ratted me out to the President?" Korra asked agitatedly.

"Korra, let me explain." Mako said calmly.

"Explain why my boyfriend stabbed me in the back?" Korra asked bluntly.

"Look, the President of the Republic asked me a direct question. What was I supposed to do?"

"You betrayed me, and my family!" Korra yelled angrily and accusingly before she kicks Mako's desk aside with airbending.

"Enough! Look, I have a job to do! I can't constantly be worrying about keeping you from making another huge mistake!" Mako snaps.

"Well, I have a job to do, too, only it seems like you're always standing in the way of me getting it done!" Korra yelled back angrily.

"Well, I guess if we're both putting our jobs first, maybe there's no room for our relationship!"

Korra and Mako both looked at each other in silence.

"So, what? Are you breaking up with me?" Korra asked sadly.

"Yeah. I guess I am." Mako answered sadly before a tearful Korra runs out of the office.

Lin exits her office in shock. "Mother of God. What the flamey-o hell happened here?"

"I broke up with the Avatar." Mako said sadly.

"You got off easy. You shoulda seen Air Temple Island after Tenzin broke up with me. You should apologize."

Mako felt guilty of breaking up with Korra. No matter how strong headed she was, he still loved her. He walked out for her.

Back at the harbor, the tearful Korra ran to find a boat Varrick left out for her to go to the Fire Nation. Korra was crying over the breakup she and Mako had.

"I hate him. I hate him!" Korra breaks down. "I wish I have the power to end this war."

Then she saw a door that came out of nowhere. She was unsure where it came from. She hesitated for a moment, but she walked to it, but she was nervous to knock it.

Mako, Bolin and Asami walked down the harbor to find Korra.

"Who ratted her out and then break up with her? What is wrong with you?" Asami snapped before turning to Bolin. "And why did you tell him?"

"Is it bad?" Bolin wondered. "I didn't know he would do that."

"And he did." Asami said bluntly.

"I'm not gonna lie to the President, okay? I swore an oath." Mako said.

"You of all people should know Korra is trying to save her tribe!" Asami yelled angrily. "And all you think about is doing your job, you rat!"

"Hey, hey, calm down." Bolin said. "Stop yelling at my brother."

"We'll if you had kept your mouth shut, Mako wouldn't have ratted us out!" Asami yelled.

"Me? You-you blame me for this?" Mako asked.

"Well, you…" Asami was about to say until she saw Korra. "There's Korra."

Korra had the courage to knock the door, and it opens by itself. She nervously entered through the door.

Mako, Bolin and Asami saw Korra going through the door. They ere unsure about that door.

"Where did this door come from?" Bolin wondered.

"I don't know. But we've got to get Korra outta there." Mako determined. "Come one."

The trio of Team Avatar followed Korra through the door.

Korra entered a cave. Inside the cave was filed with a cauldron, spellbooks, portions and any magic items and equipment. Korra looked around the cave, and she saw toads and frogs in cages.

"Oh, what a splendid day." Korra hears a voice. "I do love a good evening. I should really need a vacation."

Korra nervously backs away from the cave and tried to leave until someone heard her movement.

"Ah, I see I've got a customer." the voice said.

A doorway with a bead curtain, where eyes her shown. The figure knows who Korra was. He raised his hand from behind the bead curtain and raised his finger to beckon her.

"Come in. Come in, my child." the figure said.

Korra comes back from the door.

"We mustn't lurk at doorways."

It was Sarlaq, who walked through the curtain. Korra thought for a moment that was Unalaq, but she knew it was his twin brother and her uncle.

"It's rude. One might question your upbringing." he said. "Say hi to Uncle Sarlaq, dear."

Sarlaq walked to Korra, placed his hands on her cheeks and kisses them.

"Oh, you look so much cuter than you were when you were a little baby." he cooled. "Your father never let me hold you in my arms."

Korra was speechless to say something. Sarlaq knew what she was thinking.

"My, my. Are you so worked up with the civil war between the Southern and Northern Tribes? All because your dear old Daddy was set up to banishment?" he asked.

Korra uneasily glanced.

"Of course I wouldn't know what that's like. I've been banished from the North by your dear Uncle Unalaq. Reduced to live in this cave for all eternity. And for what?" Sarlaq wondered emotionally with a frown and a sniff. "Because I was ambitious? Because I've made a few pitiful attempts to elevate my stations in life?"

"You tried to overthrow your father." Korra said.

Sarlaq laughed for a second. "Oh, these things get so blown out of proportion. At any rate, I've reformed. I only do good these days."

Sarlaq walked to his makeup desk. He sits down and conjured a bottle of gel. He rubbed the gel on his hands and rubbed it softly on his beard.

"Now, then. You're here because you have the problem with the war. You tried asking the general for his help, but then the President stopped you because you were ratted out by your boyfriend… sorry, ex-boyfriend."

Korra shed a tear as her uncle reminded her of the breakup.

"Not that I blame you." Sarlaq said. "He was quite a catch, wasn't he?"

He chuckled with his mouth shut and picked up a lipstick.

"Well, Avatar, the solution to your problem is simple."

He puts glitter on his lip. He makes a kiss to cover his whole lips.

"The only way to stop the war, is to become a god yourself." Sarlaq said.

Korra was surprised to hear Sarlaq saying that she should be a god.

"A god? Can you do that?" she asked.

Sarlaq makes an evil face as she glanced at Korra falling to his plan, then he makes a nice face.

"My dear, sweet child. That's what I do. It's what I live for. To help sad little people, like yourself." Sarlaq said in a sweet tone. "Poor darlings with no one else to turn to."

Sarlaq used his magic to lift himself from the ground.

"I admit I was a bad boy in the past"

"They say I was full with such wickedness"

"But you'll find that nowadays"

"I've mended all my ways"

"Repented, seen the light, and seen the goodness"

"True? Yes…"

Sarlaq gets back down and walked to his cauldron. Korra was still standing here.

"And I fortunately know a little magic"

"It's a talent that I always have possessed"

The liquid from the cauldron boiled as Sarlaq waved his hand.

"And here lately, please, don't laugh"

"I use it on behalf"

"Of the miserable, lonely and depressed"

"But then…"

Sarlaq waved his hands, and the magic glowed in his hands. He then hugged his niece with comfort.

"Poor young Avatar"

"I'd give them their need"

"This onе longing to be thinner"

"That one wants to gеt the girl"

"And do I help them?"

"Yes, indeed"

Korra smiled softly at Sarlaq's story.

"My sweet young Avatar"

"So happy, so true"

"They come flocking to my cauldron"

"Crying, 'Spells, Sarlaq, please!'"

"And you help them?" Korra asked.

"Yes, I do." Sarlaq answered.

Sarlaq frown as he remembers something else.

"Now, it's happened once or twice"

"Magic always comes with a price"

"And they became the things they now are"

Korra looked at the frogs and toads in the cadges. Then she saw some dolls and statures, knowing their victims of those who didn't pay Sarlaq.

Sarlaq flies on his broomstick at the top of his lair.

"Yes, I've had the odd complaint"

"But on the whole, I can be a saint"

Then he flies back down the ground.

"To you, young Avatar"

Unknown to him, Mako, Bolin and Asami entered the cave. They sneaked behind a cupboard and saw Korra with Sarlaq.

"Is that Unalaq?" Asami wondered.

"No, this guy's got a beard." Bolin said before a realization. "The warlock!"

"Shh." Mako said.

"So, here's the deal. I'll make you a potion that can help you reach to the origin of the Avatar. Reach to Raava." Sarlaq said.

"Who's Raava?" Korra asked.

"Now, listen. This is important." Sarlaq said.

Sarlaq waved his hand and the bubbles of the cauldron bursts from it. On the bubbles were the images of Raava and Vaatu, and Wan the first Avatar. Korra was amazed with it.

"The Avatar Cycle was created when a human named Wan permanently fused with Raava, the Spirit of Light and Harmony to fight Vaatu, the Spirit of Darkness and Chaos during Harmonic Convergence of 9,829 BG. Harmonic Convergence is what Raava and Vaatu must attend to fight in battle."

"Raava and Vaatu? What are they?" Korra asked

"You see, my drear, Raava is the Spirit of Light and Harmony. She maintains the balance between the Four Nations as a bridge to the Spirit World by fusing herself with Wan's future reincarnations.

As for Vaatu, the Spirit of Darkness and Chaos. He wants to plunge the world into ten thousand years of darkness and his desire to cause chaos everywhere could potentially result in the world being destroyed. Vaatu's powerful chaotic influence can also corrupt normal spirits and turn them into ferocious, uncontrollable beasts.

How did you think dark spirits are attacking the ships?"

"Did the first Avatar destroyed him?" Korra asked.

"Oh, no. He cannot destroy light any more than Raava can destroy darkness. One cannot exist without the other. Even if Raava defeats Vaatu in this encounter, darkness will grow inside her until he emerges again. And if Vaatu defeats Raava, light will grow inside until she emerges."

"Well, what did he do to him?" Korra asked.

"When defeating him, Avatar Wan locked him in the Tree of Time for ten thousand years. After Harmonic Convergence ended, the cycle started. But on the next Harmonic Convergence this year, Unalaq is in league with him."

"What?" Korra was shocked.

"What?" Team Avatar was shocked as well.

The bubbles shows the future, of Vaatu being free, and Unalaq fusing with Vaatu and becoming a Dark Avatar.

"If the two portals remained open, Vaatu will be free from his prison, and he will fuse with Unalaq and create a new Avatar. A Dark Avatar. Once they do, they will end Raava and the Avatar cycle." Sarlaq said. "Unless you'll need help… from me."

"No, Korra!" Mako begged until vines trapped him and gagged him.

Korra saw Mako, Bolin and Asami here in her uncle's lair. Sarlaq puts his hand under Korra's chin.

"Have we got a deal?" he asked.

Korra was thinking about the deal. "If I become a god somehow, I won't be fully human. I'll never be with my family and friends again."

Sarlaq gets Korra's point. "That's right." Then Sarlaq smiled. "But, you'll have your godhead."

He chuckled as Asami and Bolin managed to free Mako from the vines.

"Lives full of tough choices, isn't it?" Sarlaq asked.

The warlock spins on top of his cauldron and lands his feet back to the ground.

"Come on, I know you need a little magic"

"And magic is my specialty du jour"

He conjured flowers and gave them to Korra, but the flowers turned into flies and bats.

"Don't just stand there looking sick"

"Would I kid you?"

"Play a trick?"

Sarlaq grabbed a bat and used his magic to make it disappear.

"Look, I told you, I don't do that anymore"

He grabbed Korra and dances with her.

"So I think you ought to take my little bargain"

"Yes, I think you ought to make my little deal"

"Sure, it's hard to make that choice"

"But you could have a god's voice"

"Why don't you let me take that dream and make it real?"

"Oh, oh, oh."

Sarlaq laughed, and Korra was not sure what he was thinking.

"Oh, my dear, I almost forgot. We haven't discussed the subject of payment for the potion." Sarlaq said before he pulled out a bit of Korra's hair. "This will do."

He threw the hair in the cauldron and the gooey ooze just exploded for a second.

"The only way to prevent Vaatu from being free is to close the portal. Harmonic Convergence can't start with the portals shut." Sarlaq said.

"But what if I can't…" Korra was about to ask.

"There can be another way." Sarlaq said. "It's a possibility, a hard one. You'll have no choice. What if you… merge with Vaatu?"

Korra was stunned with that theory, so has Mako, Bolin and Asami.

"Fuse with Vaatu?" Korra asked.

"You've got it, sweet niece. If you merge Raava and Vaatu together, perhaps you'll reach the level of a god. Not a Light Avatar, nor Dark Avatar. An Anti-Avatar." Sarlaq said.

"Anti-Avatar? But if I get Vaatu in my body, how can I…" Korra was gonna asked.

"You'll learn that from Wan. Your original incarnation. And don't underestimate the important of Raavaatu! HA!"

Sarlaq walked to his cupboard of potions.

"The gods up there likes a new era"

"They think a girl who deserves to be like them!"

"Yes, on land it's much preferred"

"For the Avatar to say a word"

"And after all, dear, that is was evolution is for"

Sarlaq threw ten potions into the cauldron, to make its colours changing.

"Come on, they're all that impressed with transformation"

"True deities enjoyed it when they can"

"But they dote and swoon and fawn"

"On a lady who's withdrawn"

"It's she who holds the power above a man!"

The cauldron poofs as Sarlaq puts bat-wings, rat-tails and raven beak into it.

"Come on, my dear young Avatar!"

"Go ahead, face your fate!"

"You can make your dream come true"

"And you'll be a great one, too"

"It will even update your rate"

He poured his elixirs into the cauldron, and it blew up purple smoke.

"You darling young Avatar"

"It's great, and true"

A needle appeared on Korra's hand with Sarlaq's magic.

"If you want to reach the aether, my sweet"

"You've got to pay the toll"

"Prick your finger on the needle"

"Drop a blood inside the bowl"

"Not to self: Now I've got her"

"Sarlaq is on the roll!"

"This poor"

"And"

"Young AVATAAAAARRR!"

Korra pricked her finger on the needle, shocking her friends that she would make a deal with the warlock. Then she taped her finger and a drop of her blood lands on the cauldron, and the smoke from the cauldron began to rise and covered the whole lair. Korra and her friends were scared of it.

"Velooga, sadloonga"

"Come, Witches of Infinity"

"Anesia, gloxitis et max layinitis"

"Complete this spell with me"

Three shadows with glowing yellow eyes were shown behind the smoke, and the shadows morphed into mysterious figures that were cackling like some kind of witches.

"Now, enter the Avatar State." Sarlaq said with his voice becoming demonic.

"Korra, don't do it." Asami begged.

Korra ignored Asami's pleading, and she entered the Avatar State, as she waved her hands around the cauldron, the potion turned pure white. Sarlaq picked up a vial and filled it with the white glowing potion. He laughed loudly as his potion was complete.

He gave the vial to Korra, and Mako and Bolin pulled her away from the laughing warlock. Korra, Asami, Mako and Bolin ran to the door and leaves the lair.

Sarlaq was still laughing that the Avatar has falling into his hands of his dark plans. And the three shadowy witches joined him in the laugher.

Back at the harbour, where Team Avatar escaped before the door vanished into thin air.

The team saw the door vanished. The trio of Team Avatar stared at Korra who was still holding the vial with the potion that Sarlaq made for her to learn the origin of the first Avatar.

This is a long chapter, I know.

Chapter twenty-three is coming.