A Meeting of Legends

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The rain poured as Team Avatar walked through a dense forest. In the lead was Avatar Korra, alongside her was her best friend Asami Sato, with her other friends Mako and Bolin close behind. While on a trip to a southern Earth Kingdom island they had come across a city by the name of Athens. It's king had requested the Avatar's aid in dealing with a ferocious beast that stalked the forests outside his city, trapping all who dare to venture out into them. Naturally Korra had accepted. Following the beast's trail, Korra and her team trekked deeper into the woods.

"Uh, Korra what did this thing look like again?" Bolin asked nervously, as he heard rustling sounds from several bushes.

"Don't know. The king said no one has ever seen it up close and the ones that did never returned, so I guess we'll know it when we see it." Korra said as she ducked under a branch and kept walking. This did little to calm Bolin's nerves as his brother placed his hand on his shoulder.

"Relax Bo, we've got firepower, earth, the Avatar, and Asami's shock glove. We can handle whatever this thing is." Mako said reassuringly as Bolin calmed down a bit. Suddenly a loud roar erupted throughout the previously quiet forest, followed by the loud something rocketing out of the bushes in front of the group. It was an extremely large lion, as large as Korra's polar bear-dog Naga, leaping out at them. Korra airbending the beast back, knocking it over as she blasted fire at it. The beast didn't even flinch and appeared to be completely unharmed as it lunged again, with Bolin sending a large boulder at it, which knocked it back though otherwise left it unharmed.

Mako and Korra both tried to burn it, with Asami firing her shock glove at the monster, all with barely any effect. Korra in a last ditch attempt sent a massive blast of air at the monster of a lion which sent it flying backward through the forest.

"What is this thing?!" Bolin yelled as the lion quickly recovered to continue its attack. Suddenly several arrows flew into its side, though they broke apart, causing it to turn its attention away from the Avatar and her friends and toward its new attacker. Everyone looked to see a man, easily 5 years older than Mako, wearing a dark green tunic with his arms and chest exposed, sandals, and leather bracers on his forearms, with a quiver of arrows on his back and a longbow in his hands. He had long hair and a short beard that covered the lower half of his face. He seemed to be shocked that his arrows broke against the monster skin. His expression soon turned grim as he then removed the quiver and threw down his bow. He reached for a tree next to him and grabbed it with both hands, ripping it out of the ground and swinging it at the lion.

The tree shattered against the beast as it lunged for the stranger, but Korra flung several boulders at it, as did Bolin.

"Who is that guy?!" Korra asked, still having trouble believing someone could so easily rip a tree from the ground with their bare hands and swing it like it was nothing. After all, not even earthbenders could do that. The stranger leaped on top of the monster and grabbed its neck with both arms.

"I..." The man's grip tightened around the thrashing beast's neck

"... Am..." The monster tried in vain to shake the vice-like grip of the man as it did its best to shake him off.

"...HERCULES!" The man shouted as the lion's neck snapped under his great strength. Everyone stood silent as the man got up and looked over at Korra. He gave a friendly smile as he stepped forward.

"The Avatar I presume?" Hercules asked. Korra and company just stood dumbfounded.

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