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Legend of Korra Book: Strength Chapter 8

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Shiro Shinobi: "After an intense fight with Koh, Korra and Tenzin managed to recover Ummi's face. As promised they were told how Korra can regain all her past Avatars. Meanwhile, the rest of Team Avatar make it to Kyoshi Island, only to find the United Forces fleet being attacked by the Dragon Brothers` army. Once defeating them Opal and Kai reunite with the group and are on their way to Zaofu.

*Book: Strength Chapter 8: Reunions*

    
After traveling a day the airship is flying over the forest close to Chameleon Bay up ahead. The skies were clear and blue with little to no wind. Asami, Bolin and Opal were eating breakfast on the long dining table.

     “Where’s everybody else?” Opal wondered asking Asami.

   “They’re probably still resting. But they’ll be with us soon.” Asami replied as she poured herself something to drink and sat down, “So were you able to get in contact with your mother in Zaofu?”

     “I was, but there was a bit of interference, probably since we’re getting more out of range to transfer signals. They’ve had a few confrontations with the spirit army, but everyone is doing fine. My family along with the other metal benders have been protecting the region.”

  “That’s good to know because I don’t think I can fight another spirit soldier for a while.” Bolin added.

Opal giggled, “Well don’t worry Bolin, I’m sure there won’t be any when we’re in Zaofu. Everyone is looking forward to seeing you again.”

  “Oh, I look forward to seeing them all as well. It has been a while since we’ve gone and visited them. I also wonder how Varrick and Zhu Li are, did you get to talk to them as well?”

     “No, they weren’t with my mother at the time I talked to her. But we’ll know soon enough when we get to Zaofu.” Opal continued to eat her breakfast.

 

     In the Spirit World, Tenzin, Korra and Jinora stood in front of the north spirit portal putting on warm clothing they had brought with in their back packs.

 “Good thing we brought these coats along.” Korra puts her coat’s hoodie on her head.

  “How far will the Northern Water Tribe’s City be once we cross over?”

 “Not too far Jinora, but it’ll be quite a long walk.”

  “Maybe we will meet up with someone who can take us to the city along the way.”

 “Hopefully, but the weather isn’t going to be all that bad during the summer after we’re far from the portal. Even if we don’t get picked up it won’t pose any kind of danger.”

“Good to know. Now let’s head on over.” Tenzin replied.

The three then walk through the portal. Once on the other side there was a mutual wind blowing the snow around. The path ahead was partially visible after they walked out of the spirit forest. Korra pulls out a compass from her back pack and uses it to head south where she knew they were going to find the city.

 “We should head in that direction.” Korra pointed out for Tenzin and Jinora.

They started walking holding onto their coats to stay warm. Soon there were small illuminating post sticking out of the snow used as guides for anyone traveling from the Spirit World.

Tenzin saw Jinora trembling a bit and wanted to see if she was alright, “Are you alright Jinora?”

  “I’m fine, the coat is keeping warm.”

Then they all came across a large poll that had a flag high above next to what clearly was a snow plowed road. As stopped on the side of the road, they noticed two headlights coming more and more visible. Tenzin and Korra waved their right arm to see if the driver can give them a ride. The snow vehicle drives by them covering them in snow. They all stayed standing with an annoyed look on their faces for a second then air bended the snow off themselves. Another snow vehicle’s lights appeared in the gentle blizzard. Again Tenzin and Korra waved their arms hoping the driver would stop. The driver was able to see them through the fog on the wind shield. He stops the vehicle a foot from Tenzin. The three then approached the passenger side door, which the driver opens.

Tenzin let’s Korra and Jinora get in first and closes the door, “Thank you for giving us a ride especially in this weather.”

     “No problem. What are you all doing all the way out here on foot anyway?”

 “We were exploring the Spirit World, I don’t know if you what has been happening in the mainland, but we crossed over to search for some answers.” Korra replies.

     “If you’re talking about those terrifying spirit monsters, I do.”

  “How do you know about them?” Jinora asked.

     “They have been attacking one of the outer walls.”

Tenzin leans forward to see the driver better, “Have the soldiers manage to keep them out?”

     “The soldiers have managed to control the situation.”

 “Control the situation?” Korra wondered what the driver meant.

     “Yeah, those monsters keep coming back, recently on the backs of dark dragon looking spirits.”

“That’s odd, they really keep attacking the same wall?”

     “Yes, the soldiers take shifts now guarding it.”

Tenzin whispers to Korra with Jinora listening in, “Why do you think they are attacking the same place repeatedly?”

 “I can’t think of a reason myself.”

The driver then stomps on the brake to force the vehicle to a stop making everyone lunge forward, but were kept in their seats having their seatbelts on. They could see a few glowing colored figures that clearly were dark spirits. The driver started to go into a small panic, seeing so many dark spirits. He changes the transmission to reverse and starts to back the vehicle away.

 “Wait, we’ll be able to handle them.” Korra said in a high voice.

The driver stops the vehicle, “But they’re dark spirits, nobody can defeat them.”

 “Oh, we’ll be able to. Let’s go.”

The three take their seatbelts off as the driver stayed. Once they were all out the driver stuck his head out of the window, “Good luck! Just keep heading down this road, you’ll reach the city.” And with that he sped off into the blizzard.

The three roached the group of dark spirits that were walking down the road.

 “They’re clearly heading to the city to attack. We must stop them.”

Korra fire bends at a spirit as Tenzin and Jinora air bended at other spirits in the back of the group. The rest of the spirits up front turn around to fight them. Korra jumps on the head of one of the spirits and landed in the center of the group. She liquefied the snow and water bended at the surrounding spirits. She froze a few and made frozen balls to launch at the others. Jinora fought two spirits throwing whirling winds while performing martial art moves. She jumps over the spirits to avoid their charge at her. After landing she uses a big whirl wind wall to blow them down into the snow. Tenzin as well used all sorts of moves to fight off the spirits, using more advance air bender tactics.

 “Hurry, you two use your air bending to round up the remaining spirits together.” Korra instructed.

Tenzin and Jinora start to move their arms in circles to generate a coral of air, which starts to force the spirits to group together. Korra then liquefies the snow under the spirits and made it twirl around them. Then she started to make the water glow gold as well as the spirits from their feet up to their head. The spirits disintegrated into tiny light orbs until they were all gone.

Korra puts her right fist on her left palm and bows her head, “Go in peace.” She takes a breath and looks at her friends, “Alright, we should get moving.”

“Right, there shouldn’t be much distance left to reach the city.”

All three then walked down the road on their way again.

     The sun was visible since the weather was calmer and there were many clear white clouds in the sky. Two guards were guarding above the entrance where Korra, Tenzin and Jinora approached.

A guard spots them and calls out to them, “Halt, who are you all and what is your purpose here?”

 “I’m Avatar Korra, accompanying me are Air Bending Masters Tenzin and His daughter Jinora.”

     “It’s the Avatar, open the gates.” The guard commanded the others behind the gates.

Not long after, the three were being driven to the palace. Jinora looked out a window to see the many structures and architectures mainly made out of carved ice. It looked like an ice version of Republic City. They reach the palace and are greeted by Eska and Desna while their guards stood on each side by the palace walls.

   “Korra, what has brought you here?”

    “Have you came to take care of those bothersome spirit soldiers? They kept interrupting my sleep for many nights now.” Desna said in an annoyed tone.

 “No, Tenzin, Jinora and I had been in the Spirit World to find out how to regain my past Avatars. And now we’re heading to Ba Sing Se to rendezvous with everyone helping to find the temple of where the spirit soldiers are originating from.”

   “Won’t you at least see what you can do about the spirit soldiers attacking the wall south of here? I would think you being the Avatar can do something to stop them.”

 “OK, I’ll see what I can do.”

   “Guard, have our stagecoach come at once.”

     “Yes ma’am.” The guard then ran off.

“Are you sure we have time to do this Korra?” Tenzin asked.

 “We have to help where ever the soldiers are at. Besides the more of them we defeat the sooner we will resolve this with little resistance.” Korra happily assured.

 

     Near the shore of Chameleon Bay the airship had landed. Everyone got out to stretch and walk around close to the shore line. The crew stayed close to the airship as they sat on foldable chairs chatting as they ate lunch. Ronin was fishing, Bolin and Opal walked down by the shore, while Mako sat on a foldable chair a small distance from the water. Kyria had come back from the airship holding two canned drinks and sits down next to Asami on a separate beach towel.

    “Here we are, two apple peach sodas.”

   “Thanks.” Asami opens her can and takes a drink from it, “So, how is it you came to be in the Western Air Temple?”

    “Well, after receiving my certificate from the school I attended I went onto being an apprentice of a great mechanic. He taught other apprentices how to fix all sorts of machinery. After a year I worked in an airship hangar where I worked for two years. It wasn’t long that the company sent me to the Western Air Temple. But once Kuvira started taking over the earth mainland the company was shut down and I had gotten stranded in a sense at the temple. But I got used to living there especially since I got employed by the construction company hired to help make new additions to the temple.”

   “Wow, you really been on quite the adventure unlike any other.”

    “Alas, I had been needing to return home and check up on my family, see how they been doing after Kuvira’s fall.”

Asami smiles at Kyria, “Well it won’t be long after leaving Zaofu you’ll see them again.”

    “How is Zaofu by the way? I never been there.”

   “It’s nice. Opal’s family were the main creators of it. They have been expanding the city after the former Prince Wu got rid of the monarch. I look forward to seeing the new additions they’ve made.”

Kyria took a drink and then looks at the sand between her beach towel and Asami’s beach towel, “So, um, are you and Mako… together?”

Asami had been taking a drink from her soda and almost choked on it, but calmly coughs it out, “Oh, no. I mean, we dated a long time ago. It didn’t exactly work out, it had gotten complex since he had feelings for Korra. But we’re good friends now and wouldn’t want it any other way.”

    “Sorry, didn’t mean to assume or anything.”

Asami chuckled a bit, “It’s alright.”

    “You’re a very interesting person, it’s strange to me that you aren’t with somebody.”

Asami smiles as she looks down at the sand between the towels. Ronin then comes out of the water having caught three fishes that were tied to the rope.

    “That’s quite the catch Ronin.” Kyria commented.

“Thanks, these will be great for dinner. I should get more so we can have them when we arrive to Zaofu we can have a big dinner with everyone else there.” Ronin left the fish in a small pool he made and went back to fishing.

 

     Near the Northern Water Tribe’s City outer wall, everyone reached the damaged wall that mainly had the huge cracks filled with bended water that was frozen in. Korra, Tenzin and Jinora inspect it from the top seeing what defenses were placed, like spears embedded into a small dune of ice in front of the wall, to keep the spirit soldiers out.

 “They clearly haven’t been holding back”

“I find it very odd they keep trying to get into the city. Have you two any idea of why they keep coming back?”

   “No. We’ve had our best investigators on it, but haven’t found any sort of evidence.” Eska replies.

    “They been attacking in different times in the day and in the night.” Desna added.

 “But you guys have everything under control here right? Cause if you do we’ll must be heading to Ba Sing Se.”

    “Wait, so you’re not going to help?”

 “Well, I mean, the sooner I get my past incarnations back and find the temple, the sooner I can get rid of all of the spirit soldiers.” Korra gave a fake smile unassured of how to convince her two cousins that kept a sharp look on her.

Then a huge wave hits the other side of the wall causing it to quake making everyone almost lose their balance. Korra runs to the edge to see what caused it. There were four spirit soldiers using their spirit energy that bended the water they made from the snow with a few standing by to attack. Again they smacked a wave onto the wall causing more cracks to appear on the wall. Immediately, Korra follow by Tenzin and Jinora jump on down to stop them. Eska and Desna looked at one another and shrugged at each other, then jump down as well. When Korra did her landing roll she bended two huge piece of ice from the ground and throws it to defeat two of the water bending soldiers. The others unsheathe their weapons and march towards her. Tenzin and Jinora land swiftly put generate their own separate whirl winds and use their bending to trip many of the charging soldiers. Eska and Desna surfed down the wall taking a few parts of it off and make sharp long spear heads to rain on the soldiers. Many of the soldiers disappear having gotten hit by them. The two bended alongside each other after landing. Korra then gets into the Avatar state to freeze the feet of the soldiers. Tenzin and Jinora use a sharp whirl wind to eliminate the soldiers as some began to break free. After a small quake, a massive dark spirit with various tentacles rises from the frozen ground.

 “I can’t get rid of that thing with the spirit soldiers attacking.” Korra yelled out while defending herself from oncoming attacks.

“Alright. Everyone, we need to do what we can to give Korra an opening to get rid of the dark spirit.” Tenzin shouts to everyone.

Jinora, Eska and Densa then start giving their all against the soldiers as they dodge the dark spirit’s tentacles time to time. The dark spirit then grabs on to multiple parts of the wall and started to pull on it. Cracks formed as pieces of the wall fell down while the Northern Tribe soldiers evaded the top of it.

    “We need to stop that thing from tearing down the wall.” Desna said to Eska.

   “Then let’s detach those wiggling limbs off the wall.”

They both put their hands to the frozen ground and bend huge ice pillars to lift them near the top. Once there they use sharp disc to cut off the limbs. But the dark spirit still managed to bring down the wall. As the pieces fell Eska and Desna jump from piece to piece water bending to keep some the of the wall up.

“Korra now!” Tenzin yells after he and Jinora blew the remaining soldiers away into a pool of water.

Korra then starts bending water around the spirit and begins to make it glow. The light covers the spirit entirely and begins to disintegrate. She takes a breath then walks on over to Tenzin and Jinora.

 “Man they really want to get into the city.”

“And from the looks of it now they just might the next time they attack.”

    “I don’t thinks so. We’ll make a blockade and build the wall higher and thicker.” Desna replies.

   “That is right. If they think they will get through they are mistaken. We’ll have more guards on here as well.” Eska added.

 “Alright, if you two don’t mind we’ll be leaving now.”

   “We’ll have a ship readied for you all in your travel. Guard, have a ship ready for my cousin and her friends.”

     “Yes, right away.” The guard ran off.

 

    Finally the airship makes it to Zaofu. There were new train tracks that connect the city built alongside the roads. In the very back new buildings were being constructed.

   “We’re here.” Asami told everyone whom gotten up and looked out the window.

“Wow, it’s beautiful.” Ronin marveled at it all.

The airship lands on the landing zone near the city portion where Sue’s home is located. Sue, Baatar and Toph along with some guards drove up on jeeps to greet everyone.

Opal runs to Toph happy to see her, “Grandma!” She says and hugs Toph.

       “How are you kiddo?” Toph replied happily.

     “It’s great to see you here. When did you arrive?”

       “About three weeks ago. Thought I should get out of the swamp and see what everyone has been up too. Course I felt an unbalancing force causing trouble over here and came to help out on whatever it was.”

      “Opal, Bolin, how have you two been?” Sue hugs Opal then Bolin then turns to Mako and Asami, “How are all of you as well? It has been a long time since we saw all of you.” She then notices Ronin and Kyria, “Who are your new friends?”

Bolin introduces them, “Oh, this is Kyria, met her at the Western Air Temple. And this is Ronin, met him in the Eastern Air Temple.”

Sue shakes their hands happily, “Nice to meet you two. I hope you’ll enjoy your time here.”

    “I am sure we will. It is very beautiful here.”

Ronin then presents the small ice chest with the fish inside, “I got these in our stop at Chameleon Bay, for dinner if that’s alright with you.”

      “Thank you, these are going to be great. How about we all head to my home? Everyone is looking forward to seeing all you.” Sue turned to the airship crew, “I’ll have a couple more guards escort you all to the living courters where you can stay at.”

Captain Mharu stretched and thanks Sue, “Why thank you madam, your hospitality is very much appreciated.”

The jeeps pull up to the entrance of Sue’s home where Huan, Wei and Wing were waiting up front. They each hug Opal and shake the hands of her friends. Inside they gather and sit in the living room to discuss.

 “So how long have you all been fighting off the soldiers?” Mako asked.

      “Nearly a month now. They came from the North and attacked the new addition to Zaofu. Luckily the guards and my family were able to defeat them and gain control of the situation. We set some watch towers a couple of miles to keep watch over the lands in case the invaders came again, which they have been days after they get defeated. We been collecting their armor in a pile away from here.”

        “Where is Korra by the way? I would have thought she could handle such spiritual beings. She hasn’t gone soft again has she?” Toph wondered.

  “She, Tenzin and Jinora went to the spirit world to find a spirit that knew of a way to get her past Avatars back. We are to meet in Ba Sing Se in my cousin’s home there.” Bolin replies.

       “Hmm, well I just hope she gets back to kick those no good spirit soldier’s butts. I’m too old to be having to do her job especially since I retired.”

 “Do not worry, she’ll be coming back soon. In the mean time we been stopping them from attacking towns. We’re searching for their source which happens to be a lost temple.” Mako added.

       “And where is this temple you speak of?”

Mako pulls out the map and hands it to Suyin, “We are not exactly sure since its location had been lost a long time ago. We been marking the places where we have fought them, it mainly seems it’s going to be in the northern part of the earth mainland.”

      “Well, when you find a specific area give me a call and I’ll get some of my best metal benders to help locate it.” Sue offered.

 “Thanks, I’m sure we’ll need it.”

That night after dinner, Ronin was on a balcony looking at the scenery. The many lights illuminating from the buildings that were separated by dark lands in between, with only small lights that lit the streets connecting the city. With the mountains in the back and a few visible stars in the night sky. A few spirits of all sorts flew near and far from Sue’s home.

Asami then walks out and joins Ronin, “Here you were.”

“Oh, hey.” He turns to see her.

   “Why are you out here?”

“Just thought I’d get some fresh air and see what the city looks like at night.”

   “Are you alright?”

“Yeah I just been thinking once this is over I’ll see how the village has been doing and maybe find peace.”

   “I hope you do. We’ll be with you all the way. You really helped us a lot defending the world from the army, we’ll make sure you’re remembered for your part.” Asami place her left hand on his right shoulder.

“I sometimes get the feeling something has happened to the village, especially with all these spirit soldiers appearing everywhere there is no telling if they made it there.”

Asami could see Ronin’s face with uncertainty, “I’m sure everyone in your village is doing well. After all, if the fishing villages on the coast were able to defend themselves without much of our help, there is no doubt your village’s descendants have been able to as well.”

“You’re right. After all they are rather hidden well in the forest. Not to mention we had underground tunnels to escape in just in case of an invasion.” Ronin felt better remembering that.

   “See, I’m sure they’re doing fine. We’ll see them all before you know it.” She looks back at the entrance hearing everyone chatting and laughing, “Say why don’t we head back and join in on the fun.”

“You’re right, we need that after all we been through.”

The two happily walk back inside as spirit birds flew onto the balcony to rest.

Finally got this uploaded. Been working in order to get a "necessity for a better life". haha
Well it might be some time for another chapter to be up, but there will be more nonetheless. Hopefully more improved in every way.
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