Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ Duty Versus Love ❯ The Fight ( Chapter 47 )
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By: Light-Eco-Sage 
Avatar is owned by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, not me!
Non Anime: Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Fantasy / Martial Arts / Romance / Supernatural / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.02.2013 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 431 | Status: Work In Progress
Avatar is owned by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, not me!
Non Anime: Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Fantasy / Martial Arts / Romance / Supernatural / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.02.2013 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 431 | Status: Work In Progress
LES: Sorry about the delay in posting this. I was going to write this Sunday afternoon, but I happened to go out into the living room to check how my mother’s football game was going. (She’s a Steelers fan.) And when I walked out there, the Steelers started to play amazingly. I got dubbed the good luck charm and was forced to stay there the whole time. But… the Steelers won, so my mother is really happy.
Anyway… now onto the climax of this chapter, which will probably be the most difficult for me to write. Action sequences are not my forte, but I shall do my best.
Chapter XLVII: The Fight
The plan had been worked out carefully between Aang and his children before-hand. Aang was proud of the abilities of every single one of his children, but he had given them specific orders that they were not to attempt to fight Azula or the Soulbender.
They were needed to fend off Azula’s minions, and if any of them got hurt or killed, Aang would never have been able to forgive himself.
Aang would join forces with his wife and fight against Azula and the Soulbender together, and he left the command of his sons and daughters in the capable hands of his eldest son.
Anil’s fight with Sho weeks ago had not been able to accurately portray his abilities as an Airbender. Now, however, he was in his prime, an Airbender almost as powerful as his father. He seemed to be everywhere at once, providing a great contribution to the battle by disabling Firebenders by using the Final Airbending move on a small scale, for fire could not exist without air. He was able to naturally work well with all of his siblings, with the exception of his Waterbending sister Hitomi, seeing as he had trained most of them.
He kept an eye on his siblings, making sure that none of them were in danger of being overwhelmed, and jumping into the fray instantly when several of Azula’s minions began to try teaming up on the siblings in an effort to overwhelm them. He also secretly kept an eye on his parents, watching in case they needed the slightest help. He knew he had promised his father that he would stay out of the way, but he still was determined to have his back in case something bad happened.
Aang and Katara’s biggest issue was keeping the Soulbender away from them. The only thing they had going in their favor was that the Soulbender needed to touch them in specific spots in order for Soulbending to occur. If he missed these spots by even a fraction on an inch, there would be no Soulbending. So, instead of trying to stop the Soulbender, which would have been nearly impossible, they focused on deflecting his hands to other parts of their bodies.
Aang also realized that the Soulbender would have to be disabled before he could concentrate on Azula. His only hope of subduing her peacefully lay in Soulbending, and if he pulled her into a Soulbending battle too soon, it would leave him open to assault from the other Soulbender. Katara, as powerful a Waterbender as she was, could not hold him off alone for the time it would take Aang to overcome Azula’s powerful, but twisted Soul.
Katara could not help but think of old times while she and Aang fended off the Soulbender’s attacks together. Even when they were children practicing their Bending together, they had an unusual amount of coordination. This fight was like that again, except Aang was not mostly limited to his Airbending. He used all four of the elements; sometimes in such close proximity that it was like he was Bending them both at the same time, a feat he had only been able to achieve with the Avatar State. He used Earth and Air mostly as shields, while sending out attacks of Fire and Water to keep the Soulbender at bay.
Azula stood at a comfortable distance. She seemed more than willing to sit back and let the Soulbender handle them. After all, he did not tire as normal soldiers did. He would fight himself to death before he would allow himself a breather in battle.
However, things quickly went wrong when one of Azula’s Earthbending minions broke through the ranks of Aang’s children and rushed at the couple. Anil saw this, and barely had the time to knock his own opponents away before rushing after his parent’s attacker. Anil send a massive blast of air at the attacker, sending him flying into the nearest tree, but not before he had launched his Earthbending assault, raising a thick earthen wall between the Avatar and his wife, separating them.
“Katara!” Aang gasped, turning around and realizing the full horror of the situation. He had been cut off from his wife for a few moments, and normally those few moments would mean nothing. He could destroy a wall like this in a split second. But that split second was time he did not have, for the Soulbender had been locked on Katara’s side of the wall. “Katara!” He screamed again, turning to tear down the wall in a single, swift blow… but it was all ready too late.
Katara barely had time to register the wall that rose and separated herself and Aang before she realized that she was now facing the Soulbender by herself. Some animal instinct part of the Soulbender that had survived his own botched Soulbending knew that Katara’s protections were diminished and instantly made his move.
Faster than most people could react, he threw himself at Katara; one hand aiming for her forehead and the other for her heart.
Katara’s body froze, but her mind did not. She only had time for a single thought, and that thought was the helpless unborn child that she carried within her womb. A precious piece of herself and Aang depended on her completely was in danger. Katara wasn’t even worried about her own death, but the death of the unborn child. How could she deny a healthy child a chance at life? How could she just sit back and watch her baby’s death approach like Fate itself?
She made a split second decision. The sort of person who could mindlessly wield the power to destroy a mother’s bond with her unborn child and force death upon them was someone who did not deserve the power at all.
On reflex, she struck out against the Soulbender for the life of her unborn child. There was a spray of red, and the earthen wall crumbled behind her, destroyed by her husband in his rush to get to her.
“Katara!” He gasped.
Katara turned around slowly, covered in blood, and for a horrible, heart-stopping moment, Aang thought that it was her blood, and then he saw the Soulbender behind her.
He had stopped in his tracks, his expression completely unchanged, even as blood flowed freely from the gash in his neck. In a rush of protectiveness for the life of her unborn child, she had aimed for the life of the Soulbender, and had succeeded in taking it.
The unnamed Soulbender took a few lurching steps towards Katara, still trying to complete his duty even as his lifeblood drained from his neck. And then he collapsed on the ground and died, his face never showing even the slightest hints of fear even in his last moments before the darkness took him.
Neither Aang nor Katara said or did anything, for they did not know what to say. It was the first time Katara had taken someone’s life. And then, to Katara’s shock, she felt Aang turn her around and pull her into a swift embrace so that she could no longer see the body of the man she just killed.
“I… I just killed him. I didn’t even think…” Katara cried in horror.
“It’s okay.” Aang said firmly.
“You… forgive me?” Katara asked, thinking that Aang would denounce her killing of the Soulbender.
“I don’t believe in killing any living being.” Aang whispered. “But that man… he was not alive. He was of the living dead. You did nothing but send him to where he needed to go.” He let go of her, and turned to face where his children were still fighting against Azula’s minions. Many of them had been disabled, but there remained plenty more. “We need to end this.” Aang said. “I’ll use the Avatar State to clear this rabble, and then we’ll deal with Azula together.”
He moved away from Katara, and closed his eyes in preparation to use the Avatar State.
Sho was fighting against an Earthbender near-by, and succeeded in knocking the air out of his lungs with a blast of compressed air to the chest, knocking him down for the count. He was about to jump over to assist Anil, who was getting overwhelmed with no less than seven Benders ganging up on him, when he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye, and it gave him pause.
He saw that his parents had succeeded in stopping the Soulbender’s rampage. Sho couldn’t tell from his angle, but the Soulbender looked like he was dead. He saw Katara covered in blood, probably from stopping the Soulbender, and he saw his father with his eyes closed and his arms spread out. Sho recognized that he was about to use the Avatar State.
And then something else caught his eye and time seemed to slow down.
The woman who had tricked him had been merely content to stand back thus far and not contribute to the battle, and it seemed like his parents had forgotten her presence because of that. She stepped over the earthen wall that his father had broken down to get to Katara, watching the Avatar’s movements very carefully.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl as Aang’s tattoos began to light up with all the power of the summoned Avatar State. In that very instant, Azula screamed “Now!” and used her father’s method of creating instant lightning to send a blast of fatal electricity right at Aang’s back.
Time was moving so slow that Sho could see the progression of the lightning as it branched out, moving towards his father. There was no time to think, only to do, and he did what his heart told him to do.
He used Airbending to speed up his movements and rushed towards Aang as fast as he possibly could, covering the few feet in distance in a split second, and shoved his father out of the way of the incoming blast of lightning.
Instead of striking Aang and killing him along with the Avatar Cycle, the lightning hit Sho directly in his lower back, blasting him off his feet, and only just managing to not get thrown into a tree by being knocked into his siblings instead.
It took a second for everyone to realize what happened. Katara felt her knees go weak as she processed what had happened. “SHO!” She screamed, running over towards him.
Aang looked up from his place on the ground, his eyes and tattoos no longer glowing, but the power of the Avatar State still running through his veins. It only took a second for him to realize what had happened when he saw Sho laying lifeless on the ground, and Azula standing to the side, her arms still outstretched from the attack, but a look of shock on her face. Years of planning, and she had missed her one opportunity.
All that Aang felt in that moment was terrible sadness and rage. He was on his feet in an instant, turning to face Azula. “Azula! Surrender or I’ll be forced to disable you right here and now!”
“Ha! I may have missed my chance to kill the Avatar for good, but I can still kill you!” Azula laughed manically. “I know that you have to touch me to perform Soulbending! If you take one step towards me, I’ll send you to join your traitorous son!”
That was the last straw. Aang whirled his arms around and performed the final Airbending move on Azula. But he had miscalculated. He had never before even tried to perform the move while he was in the Avatar State, so it was quite a bit more powerful than normal.
He had meant to draw the air from Azula’s lungs and give her a shock, but the move did more than that. It drew every ounce of air from her body, even the oxygen in her blood and cells. Her lungs collapsed in on themselves, causing instant asphyxiation and her other organs that depended on oxygen stopped working in an instant.
Azula was dead before she even hit the ground.
Aang froze in place, staring in horror at what he had accidently done. He had completely forgotten that he was in the Avatar State in the first place. For the first time in his long life, he had murdered someone. He would have broken down right there if Katara had not called to him.
“AANG! Come quickly! It’s Sho!” Katara yelled.
Aang rushed over, not even noticing that Azula’s minions had all disappeared upon her death. They apparently could tell when they were losing a battle and decided to quit while they still had their lives.
Aang slid on his knees next to Katara, who was holding Sho in her arms. He was still alive, but only just. The only reason he was still alive was because he had been hit in his lower back rather than his chest.
“Sho… Oh, Spirits… Sho…” Aang gasped, pulling his son into an embrace.
“Aang…” Katara said gently, placing a hand on her husband’s shoulder. He looked up at her slowly. She was holding out some water for him. “You’re the only one who can do it.” She said softly.
Understanding flowed through him and he accepted the water from Katara. He entered the Avatar State and charged the water with his own spiritual power, turning it into glowing Spirit Water. He lifted Sho up slightly, and pressed the glowing water into his back just as Katara had done for him all those years ago.
Several moments passed before Sho’s breathing began to come a little easier, and he opened his eyes slightly. “Dad?” He gasped quietly. “I’m sorry for getting in the way when you told us… not to.”
“I forgive you, Sho. I forgive you. You saved my life today.” Aang said firmly. “Now you just rest now, son. Everything’s going to be all right.” Sho smiled slightly before he passed out cold.
With Sho all right, Aang looked around, taking stock of the rest of his children. There were some injuries here and there, but Sho was by far the worst, and he was in a lot better shape now.
“We’re… all going to be all right.” Aang breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s over now.” As one, the entire family crowded around him, and they shared a group embrace, glad that they had survived the challenges and come out of it a much stronger family.
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In the shadows of the woods, a group of survivors from Azula’s group watched the family share their little moment. None of them dared to attack now after they’d seen what they had done to their two strongest members.
“What do we do now?” One of the men asked.
“I don’t know.” Another said. “But that’s it, then. The Anti-Avatar moment has been virtually destroyed. There’s no going back to our former glory now.”
“There remains one option.” Another commented. “There’s always the Anti-Bending movement. They are also against the Avatar controlling government.”
The first man snorted. “They are just a lobby group. They know nothing for fighting for what they believe.”
“But they can be taught, right?” The second pressed. “I’m sure they would be willing to let us join because we’ve run a guerilla movement. We can tell them we’ll move them from small-time protesting to actually causing trouble and making some changes.”
The first considered that point. “That does sound like a good point. All in favor of joining up with the Anti-Bending movement?”
Of course, none of the surviving Benders voted for that, but they were in the definite minority since most of their Benders were lying unconscious on the recent battle field. But all the non-Benders voted to make the merge.
The first man glanced at the Benders with sympathy. “I’ll understand if you guys don’t want to go. Tell you want, we’ll try to make them see that not all Benders are bad… just the Avatar.”
With that, the group split up. The Benders decided to continue with the Anti-Avatar movement, which would end up disappearing completely after a few years with no one to support it after their resounding defeat on Kyoshi Island. The non-Benders, however, joined forces with the Anti-Bending movement, bringing all of their violence along with them.
And the rest is history…
LES: Nope, this story is not done yet. Still got some loose ends to tie up.
Anyway… now onto the climax of this chapter, which will probably be the most difficult for me to write. Action sequences are not my forte, but I shall do my best.
Chapter XLVII: The Fight
The plan had been worked out carefully between Aang and his children before-hand. Aang was proud of the abilities of every single one of his children, but he had given them specific orders that they were not to attempt to fight Azula or the Soulbender.
They were needed to fend off Azula’s minions, and if any of them got hurt or killed, Aang would never have been able to forgive himself.
Aang would join forces with his wife and fight against Azula and the Soulbender together, and he left the command of his sons and daughters in the capable hands of his eldest son.
Anil’s fight with Sho weeks ago had not been able to accurately portray his abilities as an Airbender. Now, however, he was in his prime, an Airbender almost as powerful as his father. He seemed to be everywhere at once, providing a great contribution to the battle by disabling Firebenders by using the Final Airbending move on a small scale, for fire could not exist without air. He was able to naturally work well with all of his siblings, with the exception of his Waterbending sister Hitomi, seeing as he had trained most of them.
He kept an eye on his siblings, making sure that none of them were in danger of being overwhelmed, and jumping into the fray instantly when several of Azula’s minions began to try teaming up on the siblings in an effort to overwhelm them. He also secretly kept an eye on his parents, watching in case they needed the slightest help. He knew he had promised his father that he would stay out of the way, but he still was determined to have his back in case something bad happened.
Aang and Katara’s biggest issue was keeping the Soulbender away from them. The only thing they had going in their favor was that the Soulbender needed to touch them in specific spots in order for Soulbending to occur. If he missed these spots by even a fraction on an inch, there would be no Soulbending. So, instead of trying to stop the Soulbender, which would have been nearly impossible, they focused on deflecting his hands to other parts of their bodies.
Aang also realized that the Soulbender would have to be disabled before he could concentrate on Azula. His only hope of subduing her peacefully lay in Soulbending, and if he pulled her into a Soulbending battle too soon, it would leave him open to assault from the other Soulbender. Katara, as powerful a Waterbender as she was, could not hold him off alone for the time it would take Aang to overcome Azula’s powerful, but twisted Soul.
Katara could not help but think of old times while she and Aang fended off the Soulbender’s attacks together. Even when they were children practicing their Bending together, they had an unusual amount of coordination. This fight was like that again, except Aang was not mostly limited to his Airbending. He used all four of the elements; sometimes in such close proximity that it was like he was Bending them both at the same time, a feat he had only been able to achieve with the Avatar State. He used Earth and Air mostly as shields, while sending out attacks of Fire and Water to keep the Soulbender at bay.
Azula stood at a comfortable distance. She seemed more than willing to sit back and let the Soulbender handle them. After all, he did not tire as normal soldiers did. He would fight himself to death before he would allow himself a breather in battle.
However, things quickly went wrong when one of Azula’s Earthbending minions broke through the ranks of Aang’s children and rushed at the couple. Anil saw this, and barely had the time to knock his own opponents away before rushing after his parent’s attacker. Anil send a massive blast of air at the attacker, sending him flying into the nearest tree, but not before he had launched his Earthbending assault, raising a thick earthen wall between the Avatar and his wife, separating them.
“Katara!” Aang gasped, turning around and realizing the full horror of the situation. He had been cut off from his wife for a few moments, and normally those few moments would mean nothing. He could destroy a wall like this in a split second. But that split second was time he did not have, for the Soulbender had been locked on Katara’s side of the wall. “Katara!” He screamed again, turning to tear down the wall in a single, swift blow… but it was all ready too late.
Katara barely had time to register the wall that rose and separated herself and Aang before she realized that she was now facing the Soulbender by herself. Some animal instinct part of the Soulbender that had survived his own botched Soulbending knew that Katara’s protections were diminished and instantly made his move.
Faster than most people could react, he threw himself at Katara; one hand aiming for her forehead and the other for her heart.
Katara’s body froze, but her mind did not. She only had time for a single thought, and that thought was the helpless unborn child that she carried within her womb. A precious piece of herself and Aang depended on her completely was in danger. Katara wasn’t even worried about her own death, but the death of the unborn child. How could she deny a healthy child a chance at life? How could she just sit back and watch her baby’s death approach like Fate itself?
She made a split second decision. The sort of person who could mindlessly wield the power to destroy a mother’s bond with her unborn child and force death upon them was someone who did not deserve the power at all.
On reflex, she struck out against the Soulbender for the life of her unborn child. There was a spray of red, and the earthen wall crumbled behind her, destroyed by her husband in his rush to get to her.
“Katara!” He gasped.
Katara turned around slowly, covered in blood, and for a horrible, heart-stopping moment, Aang thought that it was her blood, and then he saw the Soulbender behind her.
He had stopped in his tracks, his expression completely unchanged, even as blood flowed freely from the gash in his neck. In a rush of protectiveness for the life of her unborn child, she had aimed for the life of the Soulbender, and had succeeded in taking it.
The unnamed Soulbender took a few lurching steps towards Katara, still trying to complete his duty even as his lifeblood drained from his neck. And then he collapsed on the ground and died, his face never showing even the slightest hints of fear even in his last moments before the darkness took him.
Neither Aang nor Katara said or did anything, for they did not know what to say. It was the first time Katara had taken someone’s life. And then, to Katara’s shock, she felt Aang turn her around and pull her into a swift embrace so that she could no longer see the body of the man she just killed.
“I… I just killed him. I didn’t even think…” Katara cried in horror.
“It’s okay.” Aang said firmly.
“You… forgive me?” Katara asked, thinking that Aang would denounce her killing of the Soulbender.
“I don’t believe in killing any living being.” Aang whispered. “But that man… he was not alive. He was of the living dead. You did nothing but send him to where he needed to go.” He let go of her, and turned to face where his children were still fighting against Azula’s minions. Many of them had been disabled, but there remained plenty more. “We need to end this.” Aang said. “I’ll use the Avatar State to clear this rabble, and then we’ll deal with Azula together.”
He moved away from Katara, and closed his eyes in preparation to use the Avatar State.
Sho was fighting against an Earthbender near-by, and succeeded in knocking the air out of his lungs with a blast of compressed air to the chest, knocking him down for the count. He was about to jump over to assist Anil, who was getting overwhelmed with no less than seven Benders ganging up on him, when he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye, and it gave him pause.
He saw that his parents had succeeded in stopping the Soulbender’s rampage. Sho couldn’t tell from his angle, but the Soulbender looked like he was dead. He saw Katara covered in blood, probably from stopping the Soulbender, and he saw his father with his eyes closed and his arms spread out. Sho recognized that he was about to use the Avatar State.
And then something else caught his eye and time seemed to slow down.
The woman who had tricked him had been merely content to stand back thus far and not contribute to the battle, and it seemed like his parents had forgotten her presence because of that. She stepped over the earthen wall that his father had broken down to get to Katara, watching the Avatar’s movements very carefully.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl as Aang’s tattoos began to light up with all the power of the summoned Avatar State. In that very instant, Azula screamed “Now!” and used her father’s method of creating instant lightning to send a blast of fatal electricity right at Aang’s back.
Time was moving so slow that Sho could see the progression of the lightning as it branched out, moving towards his father. There was no time to think, only to do, and he did what his heart told him to do.
He used Airbending to speed up his movements and rushed towards Aang as fast as he possibly could, covering the few feet in distance in a split second, and shoved his father out of the way of the incoming blast of lightning.
Instead of striking Aang and killing him along with the Avatar Cycle, the lightning hit Sho directly in his lower back, blasting him off his feet, and only just managing to not get thrown into a tree by being knocked into his siblings instead.
It took a second for everyone to realize what happened. Katara felt her knees go weak as she processed what had happened. “SHO!” She screamed, running over towards him.
Aang looked up from his place on the ground, his eyes and tattoos no longer glowing, but the power of the Avatar State still running through his veins. It only took a second for him to realize what had happened when he saw Sho laying lifeless on the ground, and Azula standing to the side, her arms still outstretched from the attack, but a look of shock on her face. Years of planning, and she had missed her one opportunity.
All that Aang felt in that moment was terrible sadness and rage. He was on his feet in an instant, turning to face Azula. “Azula! Surrender or I’ll be forced to disable you right here and now!”
“Ha! I may have missed my chance to kill the Avatar for good, but I can still kill you!” Azula laughed manically. “I know that you have to touch me to perform Soulbending! If you take one step towards me, I’ll send you to join your traitorous son!”
That was the last straw. Aang whirled his arms around and performed the final Airbending move on Azula. But he had miscalculated. He had never before even tried to perform the move while he was in the Avatar State, so it was quite a bit more powerful than normal.
He had meant to draw the air from Azula’s lungs and give her a shock, but the move did more than that. It drew every ounce of air from her body, even the oxygen in her blood and cells. Her lungs collapsed in on themselves, causing instant asphyxiation and her other organs that depended on oxygen stopped working in an instant.
Azula was dead before she even hit the ground.
Aang froze in place, staring in horror at what he had accidently done. He had completely forgotten that he was in the Avatar State in the first place. For the first time in his long life, he had murdered someone. He would have broken down right there if Katara had not called to him.
“AANG! Come quickly! It’s Sho!” Katara yelled.
Aang rushed over, not even noticing that Azula’s minions had all disappeared upon her death. They apparently could tell when they were losing a battle and decided to quit while they still had their lives.
Aang slid on his knees next to Katara, who was holding Sho in her arms. He was still alive, but only just. The only reason he was still alive was because he had been hit in his lower back rather than his chest.
“Sho… Oh, Spirits… Sho…” Aang gasped, pulling his son into an embrace.
“Aang…” Katara said gently, placing a hand on her husband’s shoulder. He looked up at her slowly. She was holding out some water for him. “You’re the only one who can do it.” She said softly.
Understanding flowed through him and he accepted the water from Katara. He entered the Avatar State and charged the water with his own spiritual power, turning it into glowing Spirit Water. He lifted Sho up slightly, and pressed the glowing water into his back just as Katara had done for him all those years ago.
Several moments passed before Sho’s breathing began to come a little easier, and he opened his eyes slightly. “Dad?” He gasped quietly. “I’m sorry for getting in the way when you told us… not to.”
“I forgive you, Sho. I forgive you. You saved my life today.” Aang said firmly. “Now you just rest now, son. Everything’s going to be all right.” Sho smiled slightly before he passed out cold.
With Sho all right, Aang looked around, taking stock of the rest of his children. There were some injuries here and there, but Sho was by far the worst, and he was in a lot better shape now.
“We’re… all going to be all right.” Aang breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s over now.” As one, the entire family crowded around him, and they shared a group embrace, glad that they had survived the challenges and come out of it a much stronger family.
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In the shadows of the woods, a group of survivors from Azula’s group watched the family share their little moment. None of them dared to attack now after they’d seen what they had done to their two strongest members.
“What do we do now?” One of the men asked.
“I don’t know.” Another said. “But that’s it, then. The Anti-Avatar moment has been virtually destroyed. There’s no going back to our former glory now.”
“There remains one option.” Another commented. “There’s always the Anti-Bending movement. They are also against the Avatar controlling government.”
The first man snorted. “They are just a lobby group. They know nothing for fighting for what they believe.”
“But they can be taught, right?” The second pressed. “I’m sure they would be willing to let us join because we’ve run a guerilla movement. We can tell them we’ll move them from small-time protesting to actually causing trouble and making some changes.”
The first considered that point. “That does sound like a good point. All in favor of joining up with the Anti-Bending movement?”
Of course, none of the surviving Benders voted for that, but they were in the definite minority since most of their Benders were lying unconscious on the recent battle field. But all the non-Benders voted to make the merge.
The first man glanced at the Benders with sympathy. “I’ll understand if you guys don’t want to go. Tell you want, we’ll try to make them see that not all Benders are bad… just the Avatar.”
With that, the group split up. The Benders decided to continue with the Anti-Avatar movement, which would end up disappearing completely after a few years with no one to support it after their resounding defeat on Kyoshi Island. The non-Benders, however, joined forces with the Anti-Bending movement, bringing all of their violence along with them.
And the rest is history…
LES: Nope, this story is not done yet. Still got some loose ends to tie up.