Book IV: peace, chapter 5: Yin, or Yang?

"what are you?" the figure didn't reply, he just jumped at Yin, the avatar thought he could airbend at him but he wasn't able to, he's only present with spirit, not with body, which means he can't bend. He retracted his legs in between him and his figure then he extended them on his clone's stomach to push him back, giving himself time to get up, the fight kept going on and on, until Yin's opposite got the upper hand, by performing Ashi-garami on the avatar

ashi-garami:

fore your opponent's legs apart with one leg and hook your other leg around one of them from behind to lock the knee

for a demonstration: https://youtu.be/3YXH_LrcqNc

it is a Judo fighting technique, was banned in the real world in 1916, it kept breaking people's legs, and since judo is a really old martial art, the medical field wasn't as advanced, so you can imagine how much pain people who got their legs paralised, dislocated or broken felt.

back to chapter 5

Yin screamed in immense pain, he now only had one foot step on without feeling it collapse, the pain is lingering and intensifying, he's focusing his energy on his hands now, when moving he tries to distribute the weight unevenly between his legs so that he doesn't just collapse on the ground, the figure went far away, then it came back sprinting at Yin, Yin knew he couldn't jump to dodge it, so he laid low just moments before getting hit and put his legs forward a little bit, the figure didn't trip, against what was anticipated, instead it jumped right above him, then kicked him with his legs from behind, made Yin slide forward. When the figure came at him again, Yin felt helpless, no functioning leg with no bending is suck a weakening thing to have, suddenly, the earth necklace came out and repelled the figure, giving Yin time to stand up, and now his foot wasn't hurting at all, the necklace did something to him. He sprung right back up, the figure got closer to him and threw a punch which Yin caught with his hand and blocked, landing a fist from the downside at the figure's chin putting him on the floor, normally Yin would keep deflecting the attacks, but he was sure this spirit, or whatever it was, has endless energy, so it would never get worn down, so the avatar closed the 3 middle fingers of his hands, leaving only the pinkies and thumbs, he put each hands on opposite directions on the figure's stomach, then closed his pinkies and thumbs together which bulged the figure's "skin", Yin then opened the 3 fingers of each hand and grabbed the extended bits and started ripping them off, while doing so the figure gave him 2 simultaneous slaps, it didn't make him lose the grip he had but it sure did make his eyesight blurry

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Looking at Pha, Hiroku saw that she has 5 water and 5 fire symbols on top of her, his pupils expanded in shock, he never saw such a thing, he thought a water and firebending bibender can't exist, let alone 10 in 1. After explaining what he saw to his peeps, they started planning on how to take her down

"This is going to be our best bet: we get soldiers from Garasu no machi to circle around her, and keep glassbending, something we're sure she or any person she knows can't bend, that bastard Yin trained his people right none of them are evil, I'd give him that. Anyway, while doing that you Akira will lightningbend at her, from what you guys told me, you got the fire ring so it will help you generate a lot more light, while distracting, possibly even defeating her, I'll perform something invented on her, and that will definitely stop her" Hiroku finished with a grin

The thing he was referring to was a bending he invented, called "chi connection"

Chi connection

If you read "back stories of avatar: a true master" you'd actually already know it, here's a snippet from the part explaining it, titled "(almost) all of the main characters' bendings"

Chi connection (first appearance: book II chapter 4): a combination of bloodbending and spiritbending that allows the bender to block or open someone's chi paths without touching or getting close to them

Back to chapter 5:

Everyone started getting ready to execute the plan.

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"What do you want from me? This can't last forever" Yin screamed at the figure

"I don't want anything from you, I want to take out your bad past lives, they're filled with evil and disharmony I could really use" the figure replied in a dark ominous voice, Yin was stunned, he didn't even know the figure could talk

"What do you mean bad past lives? Avatars have always been what maintains harmony and balance in the world" Yin replied confused

"That's what you've all been brainwashed to think, only some avatars are actually good, like you, the other sum is bad, plain bad, Which is what I'm looking for to fuel my weak self" the figure added

"Wait you're-you're Vaatu!" Yon said,

connecting everything together

"Took you long enough to notice avatar, every 100 years we will be having these small fights, except yours wasn't so small, the events that happened since I was defeated, didn't speed up the first 100 years contrary to what Raava told you, think of it, this IS the first 100 years, instead, they granted my first piece more power, which is why you're breaking a sweat fighting me, if everything was normal I would've been sweeper in seconds. I want to use this opportunity I have, I probably won't get it often, to maybe get myself even stronger" Vaatu explained

"What will you benefit from taking some of my past lives away from me, and wouldn't that change the shape of the past?" Yin asked once more

"I suppose Raava didn't explain this to you, I'm not taking away their existence, I'm taking away their spirit. To every Avatar there's a Yin and a Yang, a bad and a good, a Vaatu and a Raava, if I get my hands on your spirits, I will be able to separate the evil half of your spirits from the pure one, and merge with the evil one, then either leave the pure half alone, which I won't do, or destroy it, which I will do. For now I'm targeting your immediate past lives, and the one that have the most evil sides are avatars Kyoshi, Yangchen and Szeto, compared to you, Korra, Roku and Kuruk, they have much darker spirits" Vaatu said revealing his plan

"What? How are any of the avatars you mentioned any bad?" Yin asked, and getting no reply but Vaatu rushing into him and knocking him out, just to him wake up with Raava next to him

"R-Raava?" Yin asked in confusion, where was he? What happened? He had no idea

"It's about time.

-what is it? What's about time?

-exposing avatars

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Pha kept taking Yin with her everywhere she went, still earth and airbending to destroy the kingdom, she did it for hours without getting tired, Hiroku's plan was ready to be executed, but it definitely did not go as planned, the second the glassbenders started throwing shards at her she created a big tornado through Yin's body and repelled them all, Hiroku wasn't able to block her chi paths, they didn't budge, in a last desperate attempt he tried to bloodbend her, and that was a success unlike the rest, just as he start gaining control over her, he felt something piercing through his skin, it was a dart, it made him instantly faint