Hello Good People Of Fanfiction, It's been a while, i hope you like this new chapter, and as i said, we are discussing new aspects to the story, so you will probably have new information and some odd ones even considering our story is about a fictional world, so please, forgive me if you find anything odd, it's fiction, it's a big field to play on.

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The Spirit World

"We can't hold much longer, he's too powerful!" Shouted one avatar.

"This is a mission that can't be failed, WE HAVE TO HOLD HIM BACK!" Avatar Kyoshi shouted back grimacing tightly as she did so, from the power displayed by an evil demonic creature that's been around longer than any other creature alive except the spirit of light.

Avatar Yangchen was helping the other avatars holding the wall, using her full power and so did the other avatars but somehow that wasn't enough, Vattu was just too strong for them.

"YANGCHEN, WE NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!" Avatar Roku shouted as he, with the help of the other avatars, were fighting a battle of their own against the spirits that got turned by the evil spirit Vattu, All the avatars were using their spiritual powers to hold back Vattu and his soldiers, as this is the only power they can use with the portals closed.

"I CAN'T RISK IT, ROKU! IF I SPARE ONE AVATAR, THE WALL MIGHT CRUMBLE!" Yangchen shouted back still barely holding her own with the wall of spiritual energy they created to force Vattu back.

"IT MIGHT CRUMBLE IF YOU SPARE ONE AVATAR, BUT IT WILL DEFINITELY CRUMBLE IF YOU DON'T, I NEED BACKUP OR THEY'LL GET PAST." Roku shouted back as he launched a spiritual beam at one of the turned spirits.

Yangchen closed her eyes in despair as the burden was too much for her, but finally she made a decision..

"KURUK! GO AND HELP ROKU!" Avatar Kuruk regarded his past self with a look of surprise, but one look at the struggle Avatar Roku was in made him understand, he let go of the wall of spiritual energy and rushed to Roku's side.

With Kuruk gone, Yangchen felt the weight of the opposite force getting stronger, so she had to warn her companions,

"DOUBLE THE STRENGTH, FELLOW AVATARS. THE WORLD DEPENDS ON US TO HOLD VATTU FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER! LET'S NOT DISAPPOINT THE WORLD!" Yangchen shouted encouragingly to the other avatars, and also to herself, suddenly the weight began to loosen as she felt herself and the other avatars pushing the evil spirit back, she couldn't believe her plan was actually working, it was a miracle.

"THAT'S IT, MY FELLOW AVATARS! WE'RE PROGRESSING! KEEP IT UP!" Yangchen shouted again as she felt herself pushing the evil spirit back as well, and finally they were making progress in this fight.

Only to find out it was no progress at all, just a trick..

The evil spirit surprised the avatars from the side as he switched places with the spirits he turned that Yangchen never got to count as they were too many, she wondered how Roku was holding his own against all these evil spirits, but finally the evil spirit discovered the gap and after creating some offense, he switched places with his loyal subjects and brought down Roku and Kuruk who turned as soon as the evil spirit touched them with his tentacles, magnifying their negative emotions and swaying them to give in to the darker sides of their natures..

"NOOOOO..!" Yangchen shouted as she saw the horrendous sight in front of her, as her and the other avatars let go of the wall to try and create one in front of the evil spirit, as soon as they let go of the wall and changed their direction though, a sea of evil spirits was set free towards them, coming at them with full force that Yangchen kept staring at them for some time in fear before reacting, she tried to hold Vattu's wall with one hand and create another with the other hand in the direction of the spirits, with Avatar Kyoshi helping her as she noticed the coming of the turned spirits too, but to no avail, as the evil spirits reached the avatars and began tearing them apart..

rummaging and scattering them as they did so, making them let go of the wall in Vattu's direction, and as soon as that happened, Vattu launched an enormous spirit beam in the direction of the avatars, making a huge explosion in the process, and all the avatars were thrown back and fell on their backs with a thud, with most of them passed out and the rest struggling to find their feet, the evil spirits rounded on them and began holding them in their place, Yangchen realized what was happening as soon as the spirits rounded them, it was time for the turning..

Vattu started turning all the avatars in attendance, turning their eyes red, and their appearance horrendous, Yangchen tried to find her feet and fight back, but it was for no use.

"Why are you doing this..?" Yangchen breathed out as Vattu reached her last, after turning Kyoshi, Yangchen struggled to speak up, "Y-You seemed.. very eager.. to get to us for some reason, W-What's your plan, Vattu?" Yangchen finally finished looking at the huge evil spirit, who got bigger and bigger with every turned spirit.

The evil spirit laughed maniacally and regarded her, "Your death opens a door, it's nothing personal.." The evil spirit stopped for a second to consider, "well, maybe a LITTLE personal as soon as i find your first.." Vattu finished, his voice betraying some locked up rage, "You see, this battle has always been between Raava and I, but as soon as that human interfered and imprisoned me inside the tree of time, i realized that Raava was never my real enemy, it's you, Humans." Vattu finished.

"And w-what will.." Yangchen grimaced and grabbed her abdomen in agonizing pain, but she kept on, "W-What will finding Avatar Wan do for you?" Yangchen managed to speak..

"It will do astonishing things for me, this is why i reached out to you first, i needed to find his reincarnations and then his reincarnations will lead me to him, you are all pieces of him after all. and i finally found all of you, all that remains now is the original piece and all of you combined will be my door out of the spirit world." Vattu finished, and finally Avatar Yangchen understood as Vattu reached her, Avatar Wan was the key to open the portals of the spirit world, and he needed to find him to open the portals, he needed to find all pieces of him.

"Y-You will never find Avatar Wan, N-No one ever did." Yangchen said in a fit of rage and anguish as the realization dawned on her..

Vattu laughed yet again and said, "Until Me." And he struck her with his tentacles, Avatar Yangchen felt the light being driven out of her, and she descended into darkness.

Aang

They have been flying for almost a month now, and still Jet's base was nowhere near, Aang made multiple stops throughout his journey to supply themselves with food and shelter for the night, but what was most annoying about the journey was Senge's constant nagging, the boy never stopped talking, he kept asking about their destination, who are the people they are going to meet, where are they going to meet them, what's their cause of action afterwards, but the most annoying questions were those concerning Aang's past, every time the boy talked about the days of the rebellion or how Aang managed to stop it temporarily, it brought bad memories back to Aang, and immediately he would shut down the conversation, but what was most mesmerizing was that Aang found that he's grown dependent on the young airbender..

Aang realized that the boy provided him with some entertainment throughout his journey, and without him, Aang would have died of boredom. Aang realized that with every passing day he finds a new trait to the kid that was evident to his younger self, he wondered what happened to that younger self of his, died somewhere between killing his first man and the cursed ceremonies..

"Look, Aang. i can see a town nearby." Senge said cutting off Aang's musings, the boy is used to calling him just Aang now, after the constant punishment Aang gave him each time he called him 'Avatar Aang', Aang told Senge that everytime he calls him 'Avatar Aang', he won't talk to him for the rest of the day, and it worked.

"I don't think it's a good idea, Senge. we're already late for Jet, and i don't think he will take our absence easily, this is a time of war, and he must be worried for us." Aang said worriedly himself, he wondered what happened to Jet after he sent the letter, each time he gets worried for Jet and his team, he reminds himself of their valor and skill in battle during the rebellion.

"But, Aang.. we need supplies for the rest of the journey, we don't have enough food to last us the rest of the journey, we have to make this stop." Senge complained.

"What? we have enough food to last us three days, How..?" Aang trailed off when the realization hit him, "Tell me, you didn't just eat all the berries.." Aang said with an unamused face knowing the answer already.

"Sorry.." Senge said with a low voice, making Aang groan loudly, Momo chirped loudly as well and flew off Aang's shoulder and went to give Senge quite the punishment, Aang smiled when he heard Senge's moans from Momo's attacks and turned Appa's reins towards the town..

"You have quite the large appetite for an airbender, kid.." Aang said making Senge chuckle nervously and mutter another apology while trying to dodge Momo's attacks.

When they arrived in town, they were met with silence.. Literal Silence.

"Where did everybody go?" Senge asked no one in particular when he and Aang got off Appa, Momo decided to stay on Appa and that made Aang worry all the more.

Aang and Senge, with Appa in toe, walked slowly towards the stands of the market to find not a soul in it, but the fruits and supplies were still there, meaning the people just left the market in a hurry, or some animal just came and ate all of them, but there was no sign of a struggle or a fight, just some fleeting footsteps, Aang decided to follow the trails..

"Aang, we have all the supplies we need right over here, let's just take what we need and go.." Senge said, the worry very evident in his voice.

"No, i need to find out what happened here, these are fresh footsteps means the people just ran away in that direction.." Aang motioned north and brought his head back to regard Senge once again, "Hop on Appa and stay here until i get back, if anything happens, take him and Momo and leave right away." Aang finished taking some steps to the north with staff in hand, but he was halted by Senge's voice again..

"No way, i am not leaving you, if this is going to be your first investigation, then i need to be with you on this one." Senge said what somehow Aang knew he would say.

Aang sighed, "Alright.." he looked at Appa and Momo, "Appa, if anything happens, take Momo and leave." Appa groaned worriedly, but Aang knew his buddy will never abandon him at any case, he just shrugged and took after the trails with Senge in toe.

Aang followed the trails until it led him to what appeared to be nothing at all, but with the technique Toph taught him, he felt with his feet a large bunker underground, Aang took off his shoes and tapped his feet to the ground to feel the opening of the bunker, he found it and he followed his earthbending senses until he reached it, when he tapped his feet once again, he found that there was indeed lots and lots of people inside the bunker, but they appeared to be in no trouble, just in an immense amount of worry.

"Can you please explain to me any of what you are doing!" Senge said loudly, and Aang put his hand on Senge's mouth to muffle his voice but the damage was already done as distort and discomfort was settled between the people inside the bunker when they heard the voice,

Aang felt people's heart rates rise significantly, and he heard some of them saying with low, worried voices "It's here, what are we gonna do?", Aang put his shoes back on and grabbed Senge to go the opening door of the bunker, and he knocked on it three times..

"Hello! Anybody here!" Aang called loudly for the people inside to hear through the metal door.

"Who goes there?" one of the people inside answered, Aang remembered that his identity needs to remain hidden..

"We're two citizens of the town, please let us in before we get hurt, i have my little brother with me." Aang said perfectly imitating a helpless person's voice, Aang turned to Senge to find the amused smile gracing his lips, and Aang motioned to him to go on with the act, when they heard the door being opened, Senge wiped the smile off his face and imitated a helpless kid's face as well, when the door was opened they found an old man with a very long white beard and a bald head, holding a staff with one hand.

"You are no citizens of our town, i don't remember having airbenders in our midst.." The old man said as soon as he saw Aang and Senge, Aang almost slapped his forehead as he forgot to hide his arrow tattos before doing the trick, but the old man spoke again,

"But don't worry, as long as you have human flesh, you are welcome to stay with us.." The old man said motioning for them to enter, Aang was confused by the phrase but entered anyway with Senge beside him, when he got in, he saw all kinds of helpless people brought in together in one room, it was difficult to watch all these people with their kids being in such worry and discomfort.

"What happened here?" it was Senge who voiced the question as Aang was too shocked to speak.

The old man answered, "Sad to watch, isn't it?" The old man asked the rhetorical question, "But unfortunately, this has been our way of living every Friday of the week."

"Every Friday?" Senge asked again.

"Yes.." A youngman by the old man's side spoke, Aang just saw him for the first time as the shock of seeing the people in such condition made him blind to look at anything else, he was a youngman in his mid twenties, with ordinary earth kingdom features and a strong built physique making Aang assume the youngman is an earthbender, "My name is Ran, and this old man over here is the mayor of our town, his name is Master Gilbert." Ran finished.

"Gilbert? What kinda name is that?" Senge spoke up with a chuckle, and Aang punched Senge in the ribs making the kid yelp in pain, the old man laughed none the less, and looked at the boy with amusement.

"Don't worry about it, I laugh at my own name sometimes as well." The old man expressed still chuckling a bit.

"I am Aang, and this kid over here is Senge-" Aang was interrupted.

"Hey! I am not a kid!" Senge complained.

Aang groaned, "Sorry, The youngman over here is Senge.." Senge gave him the look of "Yeah, that's more like it" and Old Man Gilbert and Ran laughed at this, but Aang continued when the laughing subsided, "What happened here, Master Gilbert?"

The old man's features darkened and he started to tell the story in a very slow, boring voice, "We are a very peaceful and self-dependent town, providing ourselves with supplies and resources without needing any help from outer sources. you see, we have green fields, animals, and a forest nearby, we can provide ourselves with the resources we need and there will be more to export-" before the old man got to finish he was interrupted..

"JUST GET TO THE POINT, OLD MAN!" Senge exclaimed loudly, making Aang punch him in the ribs again and another yelp escaped Senge's lips, "OW! I'm sorry, but he is just too boring.." Senge said with a low voice but not low enough for the old man to not hear.

The old man laughed again, "I'm sorry, i am too old to tell a story, Ran take after i left.." Master Gilbert said, making Aang glare at Senge who looked at him guiltily but then turned his face to look at Ran who continued the story..

"As the old man told you, we are a town blessed with resources, this is why about five months ago, specifically after the avatar's death.." Aang winced at what the youngman said but he brushed it off without Ran's notice, Ran continued, "The Firenation attacked our village, they stole our crops and resources, they killed all our town guards and slaughtered some of the citizens, they brought havoc to our town and burnt a lot of houses, but that wasn't even the worst part.." The youngman stopped for a bit to look at the oldman who gave him the OK to tell them, Ran regarded Aang and Senge again, "After they brought havoc to our town, they decided to harness the resource of an even bigger place, Our forest." Ran finished.

"And how's harnessing the resources of some dumb forest worse than killing your own townspeople?" Senge exclaimed bluntly again, making Ran and Aang send a glare his way, but the old man decided to respond himself..

"We never realized until the firenation interfered, but the forest belong to a spirit, shortly after the firenation's interference, the spirit was set free and it brought havoc to their own troops, after the firenation realized the danger, they ran away, but the spirit never stopped at that, and it started attacking us, every friday at sunset, it would come out of the forest to attack us, as Friday was the day the firenation started harnessing the resources of the forest, but it was the friday prior to the friday the spirit started attacking." The old man finished, and Aang now understood everything as the realization hit him.

Vattu is winning. Aang mused sadly, he understood everything that's going on, this is why he no longer can get in contact with any of the avatars anymore, Vattu is winning and he is bringing havoc to the spirit world, the spirit wasn't attacking them because the firenation started harnessing the forest's resources, it started attacking them because Vattu turned it evil, Aang looked in complete sorrow, and he brought his head down, Aang felt entitled to tell him the truth.

"I told you my name is Aang, but i never told you that.. you probably know me as.. The Avatar." Aang said and he received just the reaction he thought he would receive from the people in attendance, even those listening to the conversation without speaking released the same gasp.

"The Avatar?!" "What?!" "How is he still alive?!" "He is Lying!" The people in attendance started talking, and Aang never realized how many people were listening to the conversation, but he felt like these people needed some kind of hope, and he was going to give it to them.

"My name is Aang, i am the avatar.." Aang then went on to bend all four elements, "Air." He made a ball of air and sent it to the ceiling, "Water." He bent the water in someone's cup and back to the cup, "Earth." He tapped his foot to the ground to release a chunk of earth. "And Fire." He extended his hand to release some Fire, The people gasped again, now believing that he is truly the avatar.

"If you are really the avatar, why weren't you there when we needed you the most? you fucking failure!" One of the people in attendance said loudly and the peopel rioted once again, Aang felt the need to silence them so he can speak again..

he took in a very sharp intake of air, and released it, "SILENCE!" Aang's voice echoed loudly in the room and the people fell silent at once, Aang then started to speak again, "All this time i was recovering from the injuries delivered to me by the traitorous Firelord Ozai who as we speak might be burning down other villages as well-"

"Firelord Ozai is dead." A youngwoman said all of a sudden making Aang's head spin.

"What?!" Aang asked with shock written all over his face.

"Yes, Avatar. A passerby informed us a couple of days ago that the firelord was indeed murdered, no further beans were spilled." The Old Man Gilbert informed, and Aang was in so much shock to speak, even Senge looked to be struggling with this new information himself.

"Who's in charge of the firenation now then?" Aang spoke with a low voice.

"As the old man said, all we know is that the firelord is dead." Ran said, Aang didn't know how to feel about this, feel joy about the murder of the man who killed you and your father figure? or feel bad for the murder of a human being? or feel worried for the conditions of Toph and Zuko? he made sure to ask Jet about it as soon as he arrives, but now he has another problem at hand.

"I need all of you to listen to me as only few people in the world know of the information i am about to tell you.." The people paid close attention to Aang, even Senge joined them, "The spirit that's attacking you isn't attacking you because it thinks you want to hurt its forest, it's attacking you because it's been turned by a dark spirit who wants to destroy the whole world." Aang finished, and decided to observe the reactions of the people, which contained confusion and worry.

"What the hell are you talking about?!" "Did the avatar let go of his mind to be resurrected?!" The people started to riot again, but now it was the old man's time to silence them..

"SILENCE!" Old man Gilbert said with an incredibly high voice that made all the people silent, just as effective as Aang's airbending trick, it was weird to hear such a strong voice from such a weak old man, or maybe he is pretending to be weak.. Aang thought incredulously but brushed it off, and spoke again, he told the people in attendance about the war in the spirit world, he told them about Raava and Vattu, how Vattu was imprisoned for thousands of years and how he was released, the people were upset that the reason of Vattu's release was the death of Aang and the avatar spirit and they expressed it to Aang who told them they were no more upset than he is, but he promised to make things right again for everybody.

"Now, i am going to make a deal with you.." Aang said, "How about i make sure that this spirit in the forest stops haunting your town in exchange for one favor? you spread the information i just told you throughout the entire earth kingdom and the world, that the war that matter is the war of the spirits." Aang finished, looking at the people's eyes.

"If that's all it takes to rid us of that evil spirit, then we agree, Avatar." Ran said, and it seemed like all the people in attendance agreed with him.

"Are you mad? How do you know you can take on that spirit? you no longer possess the power of the avatar spirit." Senge whispered to Aang.

"It's called the avatar state.." Aang corrected.

Senge groaned, "That's not the point-" Senge said but Aang interrupted,

"I know, to answer your question, i don't know how to deal with the spirit but i have to, not just for the people here to be safe, but to prove to myself that i can beat Vattu." Aang said.

"You are going to battle a spirit to feast your own ego?" Senge whispered sharply.

"Not my ego, my confidence, i need to know that i can beat the evil spirit, and i need to find ways to know how to beat spirits without the avatar state." Aang responded calmly.

"But-"

"No Buts, i am going to face that spirit. these people here deserve it, and if i die in the process, then i guess i kinda deserve it." Aang expressed sadly, and thankfully Senge never spoke again, as he finally realized why Aang needed this fight, Aang has let people down a lot of times, maybe it's time to do something right for the people.

He's not feasting his own ego, or confidence, he's just trying to let go of some of the guilt.


And that's it for my returning chapter, i hope you liked it, and tune in for more soon.

Again, Thank you.