21. Attack

Time did not stand still, the development of new elements, the treatment of patients, the conquest of blood bending, visits to the South Pole, all this turned into a pleasant routine.

Less than six months have passed since the bending of the earth reached the average level, along with this it turned out to work out the already mastered techniques, adding to them the creation of a stone shield and stone armor.

I managed to find the right points of contact in blood bending that are responsible for movements, now I am able to control a whole dozen rats, trying to deepen my understanding of this ability, I have achieved that I can give each rat different movements, and it seems I have found a key or some basic understanding of blood manipulation. The rats no longer made rapid progress, I had to go to the tundra, and already there I tried to control the movements of larger animals, which was not very difficult, and a little more energy was spent, but the principles are similar. It remains to find the guinea pigs.. Ahem, I wanted to say scoundrels on whom you can try out blood bending.

There has been a boom in the birth rate all over the North Pole, when you are no longer bothered by injuries, you look at life differently, there seems to have been a reassessment of values, now you can often see women clinging to rounded tummies, or already carrying their babies in carriers. It is worth thinking about expanding the boundaries of the city, and the issue of our own farms for breeding fish and animals is acute, since the city, and all the nearby tribes still feed from nature, this is not bad, but all the last years there has been only a positive birth rate, and over time, for the sake of food, we will upset the balance in the ecosystem.

Exactly, it seems that this issue has already been taken under control, hehe, it's worth sleeping less with your eyes open at meetings, I won't miss something really meaningful for an hour.

Yui caught fire with the idea of becoming the first female water master at the North Pole, and seeing her progress in comprehending bending, there is no doubt about it, I think I will be able to achieve the lifting of the ban on water bending for women before this momentous event, the process has already been launched, a document is being developed in which all the details will be painted. It is already known for sure that no one will send them to the front line, maybe only water masters will be allowed to do this later, but at this point in time we are talking only about teaching the female population water bending on a voluntary basis. After all, nothing bad will happen if the beautiful half of our city is ready to stand up for the same children in case of anything.

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At its next appearance at the south pole, a completely destroyed old village caught the eye not far away, even from here the burning remains of those tents could still be seen.

- Bl #@b - I knew that this would happen someday, but I still hoped not to destroy the damn canon. Every time I asked questions - "what if?"that if Sokka and Katara hadn't been here, the avatar would never have appeared, in the hope of preserving the line of history I needed, I put people close to me in danger. And after all, it was already possible to carry up to two large animals through the portals without any problems, but seeing no direct danger, I decided to wait a little, it was necessary to immediately transfer the entire tribe to the north.

Quickly creating a water platform, I immediately flew to a new village without wasting time, seeing out of the corner of my eye how the dead soldiers of the fire people who fell into our traps were lying on the territory of the old village, some of them were not dead yet, but judging by the blood that had flowed– it wouldn't be for long, two ships were standing right at the village, cutting the ice, I feel life there, but now it's not up to them.

In the next second, I was already halfway to the village, while noting all the new soldiers that will forever remain in these snows. I hope everything is in order in the tribe, although judging by the screams, everything is not so smooth there.

Having braked sharply over the village, I saw the whole picture that is now unfolding here. The bodies of the villagers were not found anywhere, but there were soldiers of the Fire nation.

- Here is a water bender, get him to me alive or dead, - shouted one of the warriors who saw me first, while giving others an example, launched a fireball at me.

- Here he is, - another obvious remark was made by the soldiers, who began to leave the houses.

- You won't leave! - one of the benders said with a growl, launching a blade of fire at me. This is already dangerous, but I don't have time, I hear familiar voices at the far end of the village.

Taking control of the snow that was under the feet of the soldiers, and melting it into a liquid state, I ensured that this water entwined all the benders in the blink of an eye, when they were all in the water, I re-turned the water into ice, let them sit here for now. There are no strong benders here, so it will take a long time to get out of the ice.

- That girl is a water bender! - I heard a scream in one direction.

At the edge of the village, where there was a hidden entrance to the tunnels, I saw the remaining warriors who were approaching Kaya, who was blocking Sokka and Katara.

- We take the girl alive! Those who get in the way at the expense," shouted one of them, in a uniform that was different from the others.

My heart started beating faster, I was about to immobilize them when several things happened at once. The fire Mages stood at the ready, while fire began to gather at their hands.

- Noooooo, - Kai's cry coincided with mine. On some reflexes that he worked on rats, he took control of the hands of fire mages, taking their blows up.

Kaya, who closed her eyes and raised her hands in front of her, did not exactly expect, like me, that water would rise up in front of her, thus creating protection. I had nothing to do with it, Katara also looked at it surprised. All after that, while the benders were still struggling with their own hands, I managed to put them in ice.

- It seems that's all, - the feeling of the spirit is silent, so there are only those that are on the ship, you can deal with them later. Katara was the first to see me, she rushed towards me with tears in her eyes, Sokka and Kaya came up behind her, as a result, the four of us hugged Katara, calming her down that she had encountered such a situation for the first time, it seemed that Sokka still remembered something from early childhood, so he reacted to all this only with clenched fists and gloomy determination in his eyes.

Only when everyone calmed down enough, I asked to call the rest of the residents, while I myself was engaged in transporting prisoners to one of the houses, which I additionally surrounded with another layer of compressed ice. Not knowing yet what to do with the ships, I just walled up all the exits with ice.

Well, now there are definitely volunteers who are ready to experience the transition from the south pole to the north. Those who, even after a while, did not die from injuries received due to traps, I completely froze, I hope they will live for some time, I want to try to cure them with the help of healing bending combined with blood bending. It's nothing personal, we're just on different sides of the barricades, if they were in my place, they wouldn't even think about what to do with me.

Already at night, when all the things were done, and the people were calmed down, I learned the whole chronology of the event. The story of Qatar began.

- This afternoon, Sokka and I were at the ocean, where I tried to control the water, I didn't want to show you my abilities until I learned how to use them well, - Katara said, looking away, the conspirator, didn't even tell anyone about it, - When we were about to return home, we saw several warriors from the People of Fire behind us, I don't know how they got there, - and I know, they sent scouts, not seeing life in the old village, - they saw how I manipulated the water, when they already ran to us, I sent them to they have a water wave.

- They were blown further away from us, while they were climbing, I took Katara by the hand and ran to the village, - Sokka picked up, seeing that Katara, with her head downcast, fell silent, silly, thinks that she is to blame for the attack, but they would still not fall behind, they will need to explain everything to her later.

- At that time, one of the patrols came across fire warriors who fell into traps, people started running to the bunker, but I didn't see my children and ran to look for them, - Kaya continued, - we met on the way to the village, and already being close to the entrance to the tunnel, we realized that we were already surrounded by warriors.

- I think it was worth trying to do this earlier, but now everyone definitely needs to go to the Northern Tribe of Water, soon I will be able to ferry you to the other pole, the people of fire will definitely not calm down and will dig snow with their noses in search of missing soldiers, - I said seriously, to these words Kaya nodded in agreement, Katara began to look a little happier, after all, being seven days a week next to me is definitely better than two.

- Kaya, I congratulate you on becoming a water bender, - I said to the startled Kaya, who still did not believe in it. It seems that she does not believe much in her strength, in order to dispel doubts, I asked her to try to lift a little water from a glass, which she successfully did. As soon as she believed in her gift, she could not be torn away from manipulating the water, she spent the rest of the conversation like a little child, with glowing eyes, moving her hand levitating the water, even Katara and Sokka looked at her in disbelief, after all, they had never seen this part of her personality, they were used to always seeing her calm and collected.

As soon as everyone was asleep, I began to comb the nearby waters and lands by air for all sorts of surprises, whether they were new ships or soldiers I had not seen. There were none.

Stopping at the ships of the people of fire, I thought hard, there are the same people on it, with the same blood and the same problems, a man of the 21st century fought in me for a whole minute, but in the end the new me who grew up on the realities of this world won, now I live here in this world, where war is not dry lines about victims in conflicts in some distant Africa, I simply have no right to be weak, having calmed my conscience, I began to clean the ships. It would be easier if people were dissolved in the energy of the world, like spirits, and benders would give you their energy, so it would be much easier to perceive all this, but it would be too fat, especially since I will most likely absorb some of them in the Realm of Spirits, after all, there are a lot of spirits of the main four on that plane, as I guess - these are the souls of deceased benders, although anything can be here, but for now I will stick to this theory.

The night will be very long today, it will be necessary to interrogate the soldiers on the topic of their arrival, of course there are guesses, but it is worth finding out the exact details. There are still a few soldiers who were in critical condition, I wanted to test the healing through blood bending and vital energy on them.

I never thought that I would have to interrogate someone, I don't have such specific skills, but a bunch of movies I watched give a lot of different options to choose from, but I didn't have to do real interrogation this time, creating the right atmosphere of torture, preparing tools, and all this from ice, how much I love the bending of water, all this was done in minutes with the help of this bending.

Then he began to speak in a loud whisper about what I would do with the poor soldier of the people of fire, as already in the second minute the client was ready, maybe I got so impressionable, but he gave me everything in spirit, I even had to stop him when he told me too much detail and too wrong.

They were sent to check the reason for the long silence on the part of the Southern Invaders, it turns out that the people of fire have supply bases in some parts of the world, the Southern Invaders were assigned to one such one, when they were not seen at the base for a whole year, this issue was raised in the form of a letter to the capital. But as he knows, the bureaucratic apparatus is too bloated, the letter could have been lost, so they sailed only now. Everything is clear, if they lose these people, they will definitely worry from above, it is no longer a question of leaving or not leaving.

For the next hours, I was engaged in crossing healing bending and blood bending. The result was unexpected, healing bending turned out to be a milder form of what is obtained when combining blood bending and vital energy. In simple healing, water acts as a filter of your vital energy, I used to think that it was hard to adapt to patients in simple healing, but even then water helped me to do it easier. Here you need to change your qi, without any filter, especially here you act immediately on a person's blood, that is, the concentration of his vital forces, one tiny mistake and you lose a person. I didn't want it, but the first fire warrior, repeated the fate of my first fish, it was terrible, but I found an unexpected plus that remained with me from being a spirit, strong negative emotions are smoothed out, if it weren't for this, there would be another battle with conscience.

What is the effect? It is already clear that this is possible, but difficult… I cured the last injured fire soldier, or rather completely regrew his lost leg, which he left trapped, of course, after that he died of exhaustion, but this was a side effect that does not affect the result, the body drank itself in order to complete the task.

Everything is in the blood- that's what I realized. I programmed my life energy adjusted for it to return the body to its ideal state. The process was going steadily while I was sending him my life energy, as soon as I stopped it, the body began to look for third-party resources in order to complete the task, these resources were in the body itself, the program did not care if the person died in the end, it needed to complete the task. The limb still appeared due to my energy, but then I don't know for sure that there is an ideal state for blood, but the resources of the body were squeezed out in five seconds, and the only change occurred near the soldier's eyes, wrinkles disappeared, this is how much vital energy is needed for complete rejuvenation?! Although we will solve this issue, the main thing is that it is possible at all!

As if a stone had been lifted from my soul, even the soldiers participating in my research did not worry me so much now, because they managed to participate in such a discovery that even Wang Shi Tong would not recognize, no, this should only be shown to loved ones, some even can not tell how it happens.

There are too many impressions for today, just a whole roller coaster. The sun will rise soon, it's worth getting some sleep, tomorrow there are still a lot of things that require my personal attention, check the passage through portals with people, and of course pay attention to Kai's family, children certainly have a plastic psyche, but it's always welcome to cheer up, I just remembered a fairy tale, I will need to show it to all the children of the tribe, to sit for a few hours locked up in a bunker, also such an experience.