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A rather short chapter but it's enough to finally finish phase 4 of this story.

We're nearing the end, my fellow readers, it's been more than two years since I started this story and we're finally nearing the end, it's gonna be so emotional for me.

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Zuko

Zuko, Petu and Master Fung were outside the royal palace, waiting for Toph.

Toph decided to spend the day at Chief Hahn's palace, the people of the town left the city but the chief decided to stay behind, when asked about it, he said that he wanted to lead at the front, he loved his people and he wanted to depart with them to lead them through the earth kingdom, but he hated to leave his men who trust no one but him, a moving speech that inspired all people who left the northern watertribe, happy that they have a strong leader to lead their soldiers behind, the speech impressed all people.. all except Petu.

after Petu's arrival at the northern tribe and his quarrel with Zuko, Master Fung invited him for tea to discuss with him why the avatar sent him to the northern tribe, Petu took his precious time until he trusted Master Fung and Zuko, he didn't spill the beans until he made sure that they were indeed from the white lotus, the white lotus are the only people beside the avatar who want to defend the world without any ulterior motives, Avatar Aang told Petu to trust them, and so Petu listened, and he trusted Zuko and Fung as soon as he made sure that they were indeed White Lotus. Petu spilled the beans and finally told Zuko and Fung why he's here, a revelation that truly shocked Zuko and Fung.

After Petu informed them of why he was here, he told them that he needed them to be there for the investigation, the fire prince and the white lotus master were more than happy to help, but they never let Toph on any of the information, they feared her rashful persona, and that she might inform their target of the entire operation without even noticing, that decision came as soon as Chief Hahn decided to stay behind.

So Petu, Zuko and Fung were outside the palace waiting for Toph to leave to go speak to their target, which is the chief of the northern watertribe himself. Finally Toph came out of the palace, happy as Zuko feared she would be.

Oh, Toph.. I hope we're wrong for your sake. Zuko said internally, feeling genuinely bad for Toph, just seeing her this happy because of the time she spent with the chief crushed him, if their suspicions were to be true, she wouldn't be the same, not now.. not ever.

Zuko bottled his feelings inside, they might turn out to be wrong, which he truly hoped, but they had to investigate still, he knew Petu wasn't that cheerful about it as well, Petu wanted what's good for the people, but in doing this, he would have to step on his heart, and confront a man he considered a real friend with the matter, Master Fung looked like he just wanted to be done with this. as soon as Toph left the palace interior. Zuko, Petu and Fung made their way to the entrance, and confronted the palace guards.

"We want to speak to Chief Hahn." Petu said to the guard.

"Right this way, Lord Petu. we have you on Chief Hahn's close friends' list, that's a list of people that can enter the palace without an announcement." The guard responded, Zuko looked at Petu, and for the first time ever, he saw the very soul of a man being crushed right before his eyes.

Petu kept staring at the guard in shock and Zuko knew exactly how he was feeling, Zuko turned to look at Master Fung, to find him mirroring the same sympathetic expression, they both felt so bad for Petu that they wanted to hug him, they knew how uncomfortable he was by what the guard said, he's on chief Hahn's closest friends' list, that's a man that truly trusts you, and you're here to accuse him of something, Only the strong can go along with this after what he's been told.

And Petu indeed proved himself to be very strong, as he took a deep breath, smiled and said,

"Well, I shall thank him for this when I meet him."

Petu then entered the palace with Zuko and Fung in toe, and as soon as they were alone, walking the corridor,

Fung decided to speak, "I know how hard this is for you, but think of the many people he'll murder as soon as Vattu is out, this must be done."

Petu took another deep breath and without looking at Fung he said, "I know."

The three of them finally made it to the chief's personal chamber, they knocked on the door and the chief responded,

"Come in." The trio entered the chief's personal office, "I hope you are decent." Petu quipped as soon as he entered.

Hahn chuckled and stood up, "What? You wanna see it that bad?" The chief quipped back, he walked to Petu and hugged him.

The same expression that was on Petu's face when the guard told him that he's on the chief's close friends' list came back but Petu overcame it again as his expression returned neutral again and hugged him back, the chief let go of Petu and shook the hands of Zuko and Fung, he offered them to sit down but Petu refused and made an offer of his own,

"We just wanted to speak to you in a more secluded area, if you don't mind." Petu said.

The Chief was confused, but his trust of Petu made him shrug and accept the offer,

"You're finally taking me out on a date? Dreams do come true." Chief Hahn said sarcastically, Petu and the rest laughed out of courtesy. Chief Hahn put on his coat and followed Petu, along with Zuko and Fung, they spoke along the way, all the time the chief was asking what's so important that Petu wanted to speak about, but Petu kept stalling him, taking his mind off the matter until they arrive to their destination.

They finally arrived to the back of the palace, to the most secluded and calm area in all of the northern watertribe the chief decided to speak,

"What could be more calm than the pond of the two spirits?" The Chief said, he got closer to the pond of Koi Fish, "The Beautiful Moon and Ocean Spirits. Hope you are resting well tonight." he said to the two sacred spirits in the pond, although he didn't look all that comfortable standing in the place, "So what's the deal?" Hahn asked the trio.

Petu was silent for a while, unable to speak, he didn't know how to start this, hours of preparation wasn't enough for a conversation like this, he took a deep breath and finally decided to speak, looking at Hahn with serious eyes he said,

"You're my brother, right?" Petu asked, which placed a confused expression on the chief's face.

"What're you talking about? Of course you are." Hahn responded.

"You know you can trust me, right?" Petu asked again.

Now Hahn was completely baffled by this, "What's going on, Petu?" He asked, grabbing his arms as he began to get cold.

Petu looked at him with sad eyes, he didn't want this to happen, but he had to say it, "I know what you are." Petu said, and Hahn's eyes flashed fear for a mere second before it completely went away.

"Uhm.. A human being?" Hahn said, being sarcastic, but Petu knew better than anyone that Hahn tells jokes when he's nervous.

Petu took a deep breath before continuing, "It's not your fault and I know it, You're a good person, you've always been. I don't want to do this, but for the good of the world.. I have to let you go." Petu said, tears filling his eyes.

at this point, Hahn's face was consumed by fear, "What's going on..?" Hahn asked, he felt cornered, he knew he got exposed.

Petu's tears fell freely, "I'm sorry.." He said, and in a blink of an eye, he took the water from the sacred pond and encircled Hahn with it.

Petu was so fast that it took two seconds for Hahn to finally get purified, the water glowed up and The Evil spirit along with Hahn glowed up with it, It was the most astonishing thing Zuko has ever seen, how could Petu be this powerful? that prodigy of The Northern Watertribe, that waterbending master, that speed.. Spirits, Am I looking at the most powerful waterbender in history? Zuko thought to himself as he kept staring at the scene.

Hahn was paralyzed but he did flash a hurt expression at Petu before eventually getting dissipated into the sky in a golden light, taking all the good memories with him.

All the while Zuko and Fung stood witnesses unable to speak a word.

That fast? Was all Zuko could think of at the moment, he was most certain that Fung was thinking the same.

After the process, After that amazing display of power, Petu dropped to his knees and cried, he sobbed so loudly that the calm place stopped being all that calm, Petu was in agony, Zuko and Fung could only come beside him, and put a hand on his shoulder.

"For what it's worth, You did the right thing." Zuko said, before he patted Petu's shoulder and left along with Fung.

Losing a dear friend is hard, but if it's for the sake of the world then it's a must, who knew what would have happened if the evil spirit was unleashed with Hahn there, it could have been a disaster.

Zuko knew that Hahn was possessed, he didn't deserve any of that, none of the people that got possessed by evil spirits did, but it had to be done, and Zuko was more than glad that Aang sent Petu to do it. Now the only thing that was on Zuko's mind was,

How's he gonna tell Toph?


The Spirit World

"It's time, my subjects.. The era of Raava is coming to an end, a new world will be born, and I'll be the supreme ruler of it, a ruler worthy of the name, this world deserves to live in darkness, and I'll be the one to deliver it, the years of darkness have finally begun!" Vattu said as the line of avatars were standing at the two portals that separated the spirit world from the material one.

Vattu ordered the avatars to line up, and the evil spirits stood behind them, by now he took over all of the spirit world, Wan was the last of billions of spirits that Vattu turned, and now it was time for him to be unleashed, using the combined powers of the avatars, he's going to open both portals, he's finally going to achieve the goal of his life, he's going to defeat Raava and gain supremacy.

He was stopped for a couple of minutes because one of his children just got purified, now only one child remains, and that's Voccak, who was standing right beside him, he ran away after he got exposed at the southern watertribe and returned to his home beside his father, Vattu.

Vattu looked at Voccak and his child looked back at him, they connected and they got each other's thoughts, we're going to destroy the world, Raava and the avatar will perish, and a new world will be born in the darkness.

They both looked at the portals and the line of avatars waiting for Vattu to give the order.

Vattu spoke up, "Now, My Subjects." He gave the order, and all the avatars who got turned with Avatar Wan leading them put their hands on the portals. The portals gradually disappeared and finally both worlds were open to each other.

Vattu laughed menacingly as he's finally free from the spirit world, he kept laughing for a while before the laughter finally subsided and he voiced out one word,

"War."


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