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"Yue! Yue!"

Avatar Yue stirred feebly as she came to, her ears ringing. Her eyes flickered open, seeing the vast canvas of the sky stretching above her. In front of it, framed by it, was Rinzen's concerned face.

"Hello," she grinned at him, still dazed.

"Are you alright?" He asked urgently.

"Yes? Why wouldn't I be?" Yue asked. Then the memory of why she was here and what had just happened slammed into her.

Tui and La, the explosion!

She groaned, rubbed her head, and sat up. Around her, the rest of the Yuad were stirring on the ground too, surrounded by the similarly incapacitated members of the Fire Nation demolition team and Earth Kingdom prisoners. Fortunately, it seemed like Yue was the first to recover. It must have only been a few seconds since the Fire Nation's breaching charge had gone off.

Then she looked at the dam. A massive hole had been blown into it and water was pouring out, filling up the valley below, engulfing trees and rushing away.

"Tui and La!" Yue exclaimed in horror. They were too late! They had failed. The dam had been breached.

"You're the Avatar!" Rinzen was telling her. "Do something!"

"What can I do?" Yue felt her heart pounding. She couldn't think. She couldn't bend that much water! She couldn't earthbend anything! Not unless-

She began struggling to her feet.

"Actually. think I know what I've got to do," she told Rinzen. "But we need Gembul."

Rinzen grabbed the bison whistle from around his neck and blew on it, the noise barely audible over the sound of rushing water.

"We don't have long," he warned.

"Believe me, I'm well aware," Yue rubbed her head again. "I know this has to work."

A moment later a shadow passed over them and Gembul landed, Jet still in his saddle. Rinzen airbent Yue up as she yelped in surprise and then jumped up himself, grabbing the reins and patting Gembul on the head. The bison grunted contentedly.

"Are we going back towards the battle?" Rinzen asked. "To warn them?"

"No," Yue told him. "No time. We'd never make ourselves heard. And even if we did, the army wouldn't be able to get out of the way in time. We have to climb."

"Climb?" Rinzen repeated. "Why?"

"Just do it," Yue told him. "Please."

Rinzen snapped the reins and Gembul took off, circling as he gained altitude.

"What is this?" Rinzen asked as they ascended, the sound of the water getting quieter beneath them. Yue was reminded of another time they had gone off together like this.

"Do you remember the South Pole?" She asked.

"Which specific part?" Rinzen asked, raising an eyebrow.

"When we went together to rescue Hakoda," Yue amended.

"Ah yes, how could I forget," Rinzen looked down. "Going aboard a giant bomb. But I'm not sure we have time for reminiscing now."

"No," Yue nodded. "We don't."

She looked down at Jet. Katara's healing had done its work, and the Freedom Fighter General was already looking much healthier. But he was still unconscious.

Slowly, steadily, against every instinct which was screaming at her to stop, she began to stand up.

"Yue? What are you doing?" Rinzen asked, craning his neck to look back at her and looking alarmed.

"The same thing as before. Something stupid!"

"You'll fall!"

"I know," Yue bent down to grasp the edge of the saddle and sat down on it, wobbling all the while. Far below, the water surged, racing down the valley with alarming speed. Soon it would be upon Jet's army, and the village they were protecting, and indeed their Fire Nation enemies. The tide of death would engulf them all.

Unless...

She looked up at Rinzen.

"I'll meet you down there!" She told him.

"You can't be serious," Rinzen shook his head.

"I think it only works if I'm near death!" She replied. "I can't do it otherwise!"

Suddenly Rinzen appeared to understand her plan. He set his jaw and glared at her.

"But what if it doesn't work?" He asked.

"Then one more casualty won't make much difference today," Yue shrugged. "But I have to take the chance."

She felt terror nearly overcome her, and she managed to steady herself. In a moment she would talk herself out of it, or Rinzen would talk her out of it, and she would sit back down, and it would be too late. If she wanted to do something stupid and self-destructive, she had to do it now.

For a moment, her mind wondered back to the fortune teller, and the prophecy which had plagued her. Was this the great sacrifice she was supposed to make?

Oh well, she gritted her teeth. If it is, let's get it over with.

She closed her eyes and murmured a prayer to all the spirits who would listen. Then another, just to make sure, specifically to the moon spirit, who had given her life all those years before. And a third, to the Avatar Spirit, whose essence was bound to her, as it had been to hundreds of others across history. She opened her eyes, looked at Rinzen, and gave him a rueful smile. He gritted his teeth and nodded. He wasn't happy about it, but he understood.

Then she crossed her arms in front of her chest, leaned backwards, and fell.

Gembul shrank above her as she plummeted earthwards, the wind howling through her ears as her hair whipped across her face. Her stomach lurched and her limbs flailed. Below her, the water raged, getting closer and closer with every passing second. Every second, it drew closer to the army, engaged in a deadly race with Yue and with gravity.

Yue plunged past the rim of the dam, seeing the rest of the Yuad and the Fire Nation Royals flash past. The roar of the water and the rushing of the wind was deafening, and now she was out of time; the flood came rushing up to meet her. She just had time to hope fervently that this worked, and then her body hit the water with a crash.