"I need you
-no
-but, you're the only one who-
-I said no, deal with it yourself, I'm tired, leave me alone
-do you have any idea how serious the situation is, Pha is killing 5 people a day because "she hasn't found who she is looking for yet", the king and queen are endangered, the whole kingdom is falling apart, and you're here whining about being tired"
Yin finished his sentence and got into the avatar state, grabbed Hiroku by the collar and slammed him against a wall, and with a thousand voices of his past lives said "do you have any idea how selfish you are?" he then quickly calmed down, and backed off, took a deep breath and said "I'm sorry, I'm just-.. panicking and lost. please, all I'm asking you is to look at what she can bend, nothing else, just look at her, tell me the elements, then leave, because my gut is telling me it's more than regular fire, and I learned to trust my intuition over time. please, you can't just say no, half the water bracelet is in you, a piece of my spirit is in you.
-do you not understand what no means? leave, right now
-please hiroku"
Hiroku didn't let him finish before bloodbending him, he threw him outside and said "when I tell you to leave, you do so" before closing the door. Yin couldn't figure out what hurt more, his friend not wanting to help him, or the pain of being bloodbended, or the fact that his friend bloodbended him, or that now he has to find out what Pha is bending in another way. he stormed in the house again
"if you're not helping the avatar, you don't deserve a piece of him" Yin entered the avatar state and made all of the element jewelry around him come out glowing, he then sprinted extremely fast at hiroku he didn't even give him time to process it, and took his half of the water bracelet "it may not want to merge with me, or its other half, but I can assure you, you're not getting this back" then a storm generated on the spot, Yin airbended violently, and when the storm stopped, the avatar vanished.
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it was the middle of the night, Pha and her friends penetrated a room where the earth kingdom military sleep, the 5 people she kills everyday were from the military, in hopes of whoever killed her parents finally confessing, or her killing them in the process, she also looked into the files of who retired for the past 10 years, and is targeting them to.
Except this time, no one was in the room except for 4 people, Reo and Naomi, Akira, and the avatar, sarcastically Pha said "avatar, what made you come here?" he replied "you" then swiftly bended the ground under her to close her in, which worked, then the earth necklace came out, and Yin blew all of the ceiling off, then he focused on fuyuki, seeing that, Doku threw a dart at him, but Reo airbended it and redirected it toward him, Yin performed the trick monk Lin taught him when Jinora was still alive on Fuyuki, Naomi looked into it, she found out who she is, and that she's deathly scared of heights, because she almost lost her life due to an airbison throwing her off mid air when she wasn't trained enough to be able to stop herself from falling, she was saved last second. the move, which is now under the official name of air projection, was now performed successfully, the airbender lost consciousness and then he put her in a bubble of water and froze her. Pha ejected herself from the ground, and started viciously attacking, she lit the whole ground on fire, but this time Akira and Yin were there to stop it, the fight went on until they heard a crack, Fuyuki broke free from the ice, since water has air inside of it, and she was able to bend that, Fuyuki and doku were making everyone busy, while Pha vanished, for Yin to only feel the heavy water and heavy fire sticking onto him, except Yin wasn't a normal person, he didn't just become fully numb, his eyes lit and switched between white and black, a beam, also changing colors came out of his mouth, he screamed, and all of the area around him was destroyed, he air and earthbended so aggressively everything close was destroyed, the earth necklace stayed with him, and the fire ring and 2 halves of the water bracelet got themselves out of him, and directed themselves to Akira and Pha respectively, Yin then he fell, and got up again, and started lavabending at Reo, Naomi and Akira, while Pha was behind him, guiding him spiritually, with her eyes closed, and her body not moving, she can usually control people pretty easily, but with Yin, she really needed to focus. Yin was powerful enough to knock all of them down, and doku finished them with a dose of darts that made sure they'll faint for days to come
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"wh-where am I?" Yin said slowly getting up, he was in a forest, Raava suddenly started glowing inside of him, then she came out and spoke
"do you remember why I did not allow you to master the avatar state?
-the fact that every 100 year a part of Vaatu starts to reappear slowly in you, and training may shorten the first 100 years
-correct, and guess what the tree of time's restoration did?
-it shortened the time, didn't it?
-today, the first 1 of 100 pieces of Vaatu's spirit have reappeared, inside the tree of time is where it's at, physically it may be far, but spiritually, it's going to cause a lot of disturbance to you avatar, the element jewelry ejected themselves out of you, except for the earth necklace, they were worried them combined with vaatu's effect and the mindbending will kill you.
-the WHAT?
-mindbending, speaking of that, someone wants to speak to you"
Raava reentered him and out of him came the spirit of avatar Suin-Sa, the 101st firebending avatar
"we meet again, avatar
-what's mindbending, did you help Pha, what chapter in your book did she use, what's going on, please tell me, I'm-I
-calm down, everything will be explained to you. When I was alive, I wrote that book, and left part of my spirit in it, "rare bendings and spiritual connections" is more than words on paper, it's power, it's spirituality, it's a lot of knowledge, I poured my heart and soul into the book, I know who read it and what they read at all time, Pha read it all, but she kept going back to the chapter of heavy water and heavy fire, this girl holds the power of 5 waterbenders, which allows her to bend heavy water and 5 firebenders, which makes her able to bend heavy fire. how does she hold all of this power, I have no clue, maybe you do. but what matters is what I'm about to say next
the merging process of heavy water and heavy fire around one's skin grants her the ability to fully control the person's body and mind, and the person's spirit stays inside their consciousness, the only place mindbending doesn't reach is what's beyond the mind, which is where you are right now
-please tell me there's a way to come out of this, please.
-there is actually, 2 in fact. the first one is for 5 firebenders and 5 waterbenders to master all colored water and firebending, then heavy fire and heavy waterbending, then they can suck them out of you, which let's be real, isn't happening, nobody knows about this other than me, you, Raava and her, the second thing, which is what you're going to have to do, is to fight yourself, if you win, heavy water and heavy fire will eject themselves out of you, and never touch you again. if you don't, your spirit dies, and the day your body stops being controlled, it will turn into ashes. if you cross beyond the portal in front of you, there will be no going back, you'll face yourself.
-is there a way to beat.. myself?
-when there's a will, there's a way. I'll help you, and this is the last thing you're going to get for me: you're Yin, understand your Yang. Until you succeed or fail avatar" and Suin-Sa vanished with a smile on her face
"hey Raava, I know you're hearing me, do you reckon I can do it? I hope so, I really do. i have no time to waste, I either come out of it alive or I don't" and Yin walked toward the portal. the second he entered the portal disappeared and a copy of himself, just all black, was in front of him, in an endless room that's all white.
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"live from Ba Sing Se, we can see the avatar on top of an air tornado completely tearing the earth castle apart, nothing but remains and ashes are left" then Yin notices them, and throws a boulder at the camera and breaks it, his face full of rage with the earth necklace glowing and practically floating because of the amount of tension, Pha has made it clear, until the people who killed her parents show themselves, she won't stop the destruction or the killing, she threatened to start murdering 5 citizens with the 5 army people if she doesn't find her parents' murderers soon, fueled with her anger, Yin wasn't going to stop anytime soon.
Hiroku decided to help, he went to Garasu no machi, just to find their outer perimeter glass wall up it got triggered as a precaution. the guards recognised him and let him in, then sealed the glass wall again, he went to talk to the ministers of the 3 floors, he asked "where's Yin, we got into an argument 2 days ago and I want to make amends, I acted selfish and I want to make up for it" the ministers said and did nothing, but open the TV to show him what's happening, he asked to be taken to Ba Sing Se, which one of the guards fulfilled for him by floating on a big glass disk, the guard dropped him off and left immediately. Hiroku then started getting closer to the destruction machine that was once his friend, he found Reo, Naomi and Akira, they invited him in to where they were secretly observing, and Akira pointed at Pha; Yin was floating above the castle destroying things, while Pha was directly under the avatar, with her eyes closed, moving, and Yin did the exact movements she was doing, it was as if she was bending air and earth through him
"well, apparently I missed a lot, anyone cares to explain?"