book III: spirits chapter 7: the journey

The grind continued, and by the end of day one, so much of the spirit world was cut to the point half of the spirits started turning evil, Yin may have some tricks up his sleeves, but mayor Aku has some of his own too. It's finally time to put all of his inventions into use. When Yin sensed the heavy disturbance that happened in the first night, Yin decided to rake his secret force and prevent anyone from entering in the second night, that will cause a bit less damage and grant the earth kingdom a bit more time to build the wall around Republic city. Yin and his ay were secretly observing the Republic city portal in the spirit world, and after waiting for all of the city's troupes to enter, along with the mayor who was there, they closed all three portals with a very long glass tube. In addition to that, Yin surrounded the glass with lava then hardened it to make the protection even harder to break through, as soon as that was over, Yin said "done" and the fight began.

The receiving end, aka the earth kingdom communications tower, heard what Yin said, and with that they sent a wave toward all TV's that was so high pitched that it would wake the citizens up, after that buzzing contin7ed for 2 minutes, it stopped and someone started talking on the TV's, ordering everyone to go to the underground train station as soon as they can or they'll die. At the same time, the wall started to get built, with slides from the outer side to let people enter easily but never exit, those slides were meant for the fire nation, air nomads, water tribes and the earth kingdom to enter. As soon as the wall was built, which was relatively fast, the 4 troupes were ready at the 4 different directions, waiting for orders. After the citizens all went where they were supposed to go, the 4 troupes entered, to immediately start getting attacked by the republic city army and air force.

Yin and his Garasu no machi secret army have also gotten into a fight with the troupes in the spirit world. As intense as it was, Yin was so ecstatic and proud of seeing the way his people ate fighting, just how he taught them; the Mayor's army use 2 main weapons: gloves that produce a high electrical power and guns, along with robots, whenever someone tried to electrocute a Garasu no machi person they use a technique Yin taught them, and he took it from waterbenders, what happens is that the glass gets bent just like a big wave, the electricity travels through that shape just to find itself heading back to who launched it. Some republic city soldiers got zapped, some dodged it. Noticing the number of his troupes going lower by the second, mayor Aku faced Yin, grinned and said "you thought I underestimated you, well I didn't, I actually knew you are probably going to win, so I left a surprise inside the tree of time for you, you have 3 seconds to check it out before it reveals itself" then he immediately clicked on a red bottin on a remote he had, Yin knew it was a bomb, but saldy wasn't able to save the tree of time, it exploded, very agressively, and the golden water inside the tree of time started to spray, and the log fell down, Raava instantly glew up inside of Yin and the fire ring and earth necklace did as well, they exited his body and headed directly toward the tree and formed a red and green shield around it, that stopped the water from leaking out and anyone from touching what's inside the protective area they created, not only that, but the air earring and water bracelet came down from the sky and added to the bubble too, then when republic city soldiers attempted to break the bubble or take one of the jewelry pieces, a huge force launched them. But that wasn't it, Raava just glowed even more inside of Yin's body and Yin entered the avatar state, and said "those who harmed the tree of time shall be punished" but what was weird is, whenever he normally talks in the avatar state, you can only hear his and korra's voice, but this time it was as if he said that in a thousand different voices. He airbended himself up, then turned the whole place everyone was standing on into lava, now a gigantic radius around the tree of time was just a lava lake, Garasu no machi people were able to glassbend themselves away, but republic city ones were stuck on a small land that Yin hasn't turned into lava yet, Yin then bended lava up, and toward them, it looked as if a huge tsunami wave was going to hit them, except it was not made out of water, it was going to melt them alive, but just before it did that a glass dome firmed around them and didn't let the lava pass through. Garasu no machi soldiers didn't let Yin kill them, they protected their enemies. Then they bended  glass at Yin.

*flashbacks*

"When I go into the avatar state I lose control over my actions, and as much as conscious Yin values life, uncontrolled Yin doesn't, so if I ever attempt to end one while in the avatar state, no matter what's happening, I want you all to promise to stop me, by blocking my chi paths temporarily, and here's how you do it".....

*flashback ended"

Yin knew a day like this where he was going to attempt to break his own rules is coming, so he trained his secret service to stop him from doing so. They successfully blocked his chi paths then knocked him out, so that he could exit the avatar state, then they created a glass plateau under the big lava lake and lifted it then put it around the republic city troupes, so that they were trapped in the glass dome, and if they ever want to break through it, lava will flood the place, and they'll find another layer of glass waiting for them as well, the layers were glass, lava, glass. Then they earthbended the ground open to swallow the rest of the lava and drain it. Meanwhile in the material world, the fight was quite the thing, although they were outnumbered, Republic city's fighters were winning, all thanks to one of the most powerful pieces of technology they created, it was a gun that shoots something small that has 4 legs, those legs dig one's skin in a way they become paralyzed and are able to be controlled. Every time on of those things ejects it wirelessly connects with one of the controllers that are prepared for that, whoever controls the controller controls the person. Republic city's soldiers were turning benders against each other.

It was a dark endless place, Yin was there all alone, then suddenly Raava showed up and said "if you leave the tree of time to eject all of its water out, the whole spirit world is going to die. And trust me, there's not a lot of time before that happens. The only way for you to be able to bend golden water is to exit to the spirit parallel universe

-The WHAT now? There's a parallel universe? Raava how many secrets are you hiding from me? (Yin)

-the question should be, how many secrets have you told me. Every avatar learns something new, and that knowledge normally dies with him, rare are the information that make it out, and the one I'm about to give you should never be known by anyone else. I'm going to guide your soul and body in the parallel word, but you'll enter on your own, and can't bend. (Raava)

-what? Yin asked stunned. Why is that?

-the parallel world tries to get you as weak as possible, it sucks all of the bending abilities out of you, if you're lucky and spiritual enough, there's a chance one or maybe even more elements would stay with you, but that never happened to the other 2 avatars that entered before you before, so don't count on it happening to you either. Ready or not, here we go"

Yin entered the avatar state, and he went above the protective globe that formed around the tree of time, then his spirit went out of his body, leaving it to fall in the protection area, then his spirit circled around the 4 element jewelry, then went up the globe, and started entering slowly, but when entering it's not being put inside the globe, it's disappearing, the deeper it goes the more it fades, until it all left, leaving his body inside.

After entering Tin felt so much pain and weakness, his vision was blurred, the first time he attempted to stand up he fell down again, he was barely awake. After a second and third attempt, he was able to regain some energy. He stood there, shocked at where he was; he was on top of a giant boulder, and there was a path of floating boulders in front of him, but they weren't in reach, some are too high, some are too far, and when he looked down, it was just void, nothing to see.

"Please, just one element, please" he whispered as he tried earthbending, which didn't work, he was sure that since the bending he's the best at wasn't present, neither would be the rest. Despite that he kept trying, and to his surprise, airbending worked! He smiled so hard, and tried to lift himself up but fell after a bit, he was too tired to be able to bend a lot.

Back in the material world, it wasn't looking too good for the benders, the only ones that were able to avoid being controlled are air and glassbenders, everything was going downhill, half of the republic city's force that were in the spirit world left to help the others, the rest stayed to watch the mayor and the others with him, and of course, the avatar's body. The place around the spirit world started turning gray, and that grayness started very slowly expanding, and every plant it passes by die, and every spirit turns evil. Everyone was shocked by how the spirit world is becoming.

Meanwhile in the parallel universe, Yin was on his knees hopeless, he had lots of questions he wanted to ask Raava but couldn't; is there a specific fruit to eat or anything he can do to get back his other bendings, or can he at least enter the avatar state. Lots of questions with no answers, but he gathered himself up and thought to himself that all of the spirit and material worlds rely on him, he breathed deeply, and focused on his bending, he closed his eyes, felt the air around him, and then jumped extremely high with the help of his bending, and landed like a dead leaf falling from a tree at autumn. He kept hopping through the small spheres until he reached land. "How majestic!" He thought to himself, the place was bright, breathtaking, full of life, no wonder Raava doesn't want any humans in it, after walking a bit he found a sign that said "hanging Gardens of Babylonos" and the view was even more mystical, not only was nature there, but there were buildings as well...

To be continued