Book IV: peace, chapter 8: the last breath of a true master

Everyone was slowly walking to the middle of the top of lion turtle's shell, while walking Yin told Akira "this is it, my words hold truth, what I told you while with Yang, I can feel it

-what are you talking about (Naomi)

-nothing, it's just something between us" Akira replied, not wanting to scare everyone, although, internally, he did feel that Yin was right, he was still in denial.

"Is it?" Yin replied smirking, then they all kept going, Yin's closest people were there (Nova and Niko, Akria, Hiroku, Naomi and Reo, Monk Lin, Lord pyrithion, Ushi) they wanted to witness the return of the 5th element, and some were even participating in it

"Avatar, in front of you in a stone circle, I want you to stand in the middle" the lion turtle telepathically told Yin

"And I want each vending master to be in a direction, with the earth element master being in front of you, and the rest as the cycle follows counterclockwise" the bending masters heard that inside their heads, Ushi settled in front of Yin, so did Akira, Monk Lin and Hiroku respectively.

"Hold on to the ground" the lion turtle told Yin, and he knew what was about to happen so he quickly earthbended around everyone's feet to mock them on place, then he looked at everyone around him, smiled and said "if you ever meet her, know I'm inside" then he entered the avatar state and air repelled everyone as Yin floated, but they didn't move because of Yin's protection, from the sky came the Yin and Yang piece, it was a slim metallic circle, that settled right on his chest, and never stopped glowing, the other element jewelry came out of Yin glowing, and each levitated above the corresponding master, Ushi's eyes started glowing green, Akira's were red, Monk Lin's were yellow, and Hiroku's became blue, they lost control over their bodies, now the jewelry is controlling them, they bended the 4 elements in a counterclockwise circle around Yin, and when it became really close to him, Yin extended his arms, and with a simple motion the elements disappeared into something no one has seen before: each element became a glowing mist, 4 different elements, 4 different colors, Yin directed the big cluster of mist toward hid chest, toward the Yin and Yang piece, they entered Yin, Yin started breaking, literally breaking like a rock, his skin cracked and light came out of every crack, the cracks got more, and bigger, until some parts started falling off, by the time the last part fell off, a sphere of light generated and expanded around the whole ocean's perimeter, everyone blacked out.

After waking up on the beach, it took some time for everyone to process what happened, after getting up the 4 masters herd a voice inside their heads saying

"The avatar cycle did not end yet, the next avatar will be present, and as a gift for your contribution, you get to keep the element jewelry that corresponds to you, it's not as powerful anymore, nonetheless it still holds power, thank you master, and welcome the birth of the 5th element, void, its people, energybenders, and its guardian, Orisha"

At the guardian chamber, the 4 seats of the guardians started moving on their own, and another one popped up, each seat having equally far distance from the others, a cylinder of light surrounded the middle of the room, and with its disappearing showed Orisha, she was holding a wooden scepter with a glowing orb on top, she slowly walked toward her seat, turned and sat down

Back at the beach, reality hit Hiroku, he remembered the memories he had with Yin, and every time he mistreated him, he started getting angry at himself, the whole beach started agitating, from the devastation Hiroku started angrily beating the sand, then he screamed loudly

Back at the fire nation, a girl was just born, she was screaming as well,

"Shiko's your name" her mom said as she hugged her for the first time, crying from this bundle of joy....

Avatar: a true master has officially ended.