Endgame

Naga could really move, and I needed to not alarm people with my highly visible dark-red glider so Iroh decided that I had to go on foot, running alongside the large Polar Bear Dog once we were in the mountains near the air field. Our approach needed to be both stealthy and quick. Running in the snow fast enough to keep up with Naga required me to keep my weight as light as possible and run on top of the snow. Thankfully I knew how to do such a thing without expending much energy. The fourteenth tier of Airbending dealt with always being able to find footing. The lesson you learned was twofold: There is always footing; Make your own footing. My technique didn't do anything fancy like reinforce the snow with air, I just distributed my weight partly into the air around me, supporting myself like I could with a glider. Only a few pounds of my weight ever touched the snow.

Our approach led us through a forest and up the mountain. Satowings flew overhead frequently, letting us know the approximate location of their base. The Equalists had a desperate need to test-fly new Satowings and expand their current trained pilot roster. When we had an informed guess of the location of the base, we went around it and climbed the mountain so we could see it from above and survey. A nearby large cliff proved to be a perfect spying perch. If only we had white colors to wear. I felt like aside from white-furred Naga, every single one of us was visible to the passing Satowings. I was wearing oranges and pale yellows, Iroh had his ruined red outfit and tan pants, Asami was wearing black and dark colors, and Bolin wore greys and green.

"I think we found our secret Airfield," Iroh smirked as we scoped out the hangar and runway. "Bolin. Once we get down there, I need you to tear up those runways. We can't let those Aircraft take off," Iroh called. I frowned inwardly. What'd happened to calling them Satowings? Ah well, if it didn't stick, it didn't stick.

"Aye aye captian," Bolin said as he raised a salute. "Oooh. General. General," Bolin quickly corrected himself as he remembered Iroh's rank.

Without a runway, the aircraft wouldn't be able to get off the ground. They needed to build up the necessary speed to generate lift to begin flying, unlike an Airbender. Iroh turned and led the way down the mountain. I wondered vaguely why Asami and I hadn't gotten orders, but then I reckoned we knew our jobs. I'd be doing bits of everything, wrecking Satowings, protecting the others from Equalists, going on the offensive at others, and probably trying to bring down fleeing Satowings if any got out.

As we approached the compound we saw an unusual sight. Metal poles extended from the ground. Fence posts. "Why would there be fence posts without fence?" Asami asked. I sniffed. Oozone? No… it's faint?

"Guys I think-" I began loosely.

And then we were electrocuted.

The three morons walked right into the gap and linked lightning in a chain, hitting us all together. I hadn't even crossed the threshold but the electricity arced through my friends and snared me. Drop you from the sky and see how you fall…

"Ow! Quit it!" Asami shrieked. I tried to bolt upright at the sound of her distress, but she shrieked harder. "Stop! Stop-stopstopstop!" she cried as I flexed. Freezing, I tried to take the situation into hand. I was tied up, hands, feet, wrists, ankles, and gagged by a big burlap sack over my head.

"What's going on?" I asked carefully.

"You keep electrocuting me!" Asami hissed angrily. I panicked and checked on my shields. The big mass was still secure, but my other blocks had been rapidly leaking electricity. It was a wonder the fence hadn't killed me outright by working with what I'd absorbed.

As it was, I'd accidently snared even more electric energy.

Joy.

"Sorry. Am I tied to you?" I asked as I tried to get a sense of what was going on. Another little spark slipped out and I cussed quietly as it hurt me. Now that I could hold and carry electricity, I couldn't get away from the stuff! Slowly I began my breathing exercises to secure the new electricity and restore my other shields.

"Yes. They bound my hands and feet and then tied my hands to yours. So sit down!" she angrily told me. Slowly I slid my feet out from under me, relaxing from my stance. I'd been pulling her arms painfully up from my half-upright position. Instead as I slid down I let my hands behind me reach out and grab Asami's. She must have her hands tied behind her too, so we were bound hands together.

"Where's the others?" I asked as I turned my head. I couldn't see since the bag covered my head. Without my head being exposed, my wind sense was massively muffled, to the point of uselessness. (It also helped that we were inside somewhere, as I'd discovered.)

"We're over here," Iroh told me.

"How come he's got all those extra restraints and we don't?" Bolin asked groggily as he observed me. I surmised the others didn't have covered heads.

"Aang demonstrated to the Fire Nation many times that Airbenders could fight rather well when tied. Benders of the other three elements can be more effectively secured with simple tied hands and feet. Kaldan, you're tied to Asami so that you won't try anything. Mess up trying to bend and you could really hurt her," Iroh worked out.

"I can't see, I can't feel the wind, and my throat is going dry from dust and burlap motes. I'm not doing anything until my situation improves," I explained.

"Than stop zapping me! Ouch!" Asami cried as she tried to shift around a little.

"I'm zapping you? You guys walked between the posts and zapped me! We could have just gone over them carefully or gone under with Bolin, but nooooo, 'Where's the fence?' What the heck you guys?" I accused.

"Stow it! The situation is what it is. Griping will not help our situation!" Iroh commanded of me.

"Fine. I'm sorry I'm shocking you Asami, but I'm so full of electricity right now I keep loosing static charges on accident," I explained.

"How can you have so much electricity in you?" She asked.

"Well, I had one stunning level shock in me from the glove before you threw it in the ocean. After than I took in some spare from the tanks outside the Police Station, then I collected a little more up until I redirected true Lightning with the Order of the White Lotus Firebender, so I took in a lot of power off that. And now I feel like I've absorbed a load from the fence. Enough that I'm crackling full," I explained in detail.

"Can you burn or shock the ropes off yourself?" Iroh asked.

"No!" Asami protested.

"I'd probably kill both of us trying. And then my body would release all the stored electricity all at once and kill you and Bolin. It totally would burn the ropes off though," I pointed out as cheerfully as I could. It was only a shame I couldn't see or feel their expressions.

And then footsteps approached. "Shush! Play dead! Maybe' they'll come in!" Bolin said. When the boots stopped outside the door, I knew we wouldn't be so lucky.

"Asami?" Hiroshi Sato asked. We gave up pretense of sleeping and I let Asami turn to face her father. "Asami. I know I have hurt you, and I am sorry. But I believe that one day you will come to your senses and we can be a family again," Sato pleaded.

"Are you insane?!" Asami hissed, leaning forwards. I winced as pressure was put on my fingers. She was cutting off my circulation! "How can we be a family after everything you've done! Mom would hate you for what you've become!" Asasmi called.

"How dare you! I am avenging her death!" Sato spat angrily. I could tell he'd grabbed the bars by the faint metal noise he'd made on contact.

"The Air Planes are ready for takeoff sir," an Equalist grunt announced in the back, behind Sato on the other side of our metal bars.

"Good. Annihilate the fleet!" Sato commanded.

Uh oh. We need to get out now. "That's right General. I intercepted your message to Commander Bumi. I know exactly where they're hiding," Sato taunted us.

"How are we going to get out of here?" Asami asked Iroh.

"I don't suppose you know how to Metalbend?" Iroh asked Bolin.

"That is a negative sir," Bolin called.

And I burst out laughing. "What's so funny?" Bolin asked.

"Knowing Bumi even if they get their 'planes' out there, he'll be in the wrong spot anyways. We still need to stop them, but I'm not worried about the safety of the fleet!" I chuckled.

"You have no faith in your uncle?" Asami asked me, confused.

"No… it is pretty funny. I can see that happening," Iroh said with a soft chuckle of his own.

"Shush!" I cut across.

"But you were jus-!" Iroh argued back, affronted.

"No, shush, I thought I heard something," I interrupted him. I strained my ears for a moment.

BOOM. "Naga! Over here!" Bolin whispered in glee. The Polar Bear Dog's noise rushed in and stopped by our bars.

"Good girl!" I cried through the sack. There was a squeak from Pabu. Naga must've brought her little friend past the fence too somehow. Naga huffed. I heard an intake of breath and Naga roared. The metal bars bent under the weight of the 800 pound wall of muscle. With two strikes of paw slamming the metal bars broke like they were hollow tin.

"Who needs a Metalbender? We got NAGA! Yeah!" Bolin celebrated.

"What about the ropes?" I asked, still blinded in both senses.

"Pabu's chewing the rope like Bolin taught him," Asami filled in quickly. Iroh was up quickly and used flames to carefully sear off our bonds as well. I ripped the sack off my head and sucked in grateful breaths of air.

"Anyone seen my staff?" I asked as we ran towards the exit. The planes were on the runway. The bunch of us chased, and I took the lead quickly with my airbending movement speed.

"I'm going after those Air-planes!" Iroh called as he ran. I moved quickly past him, reaching my top speed of twenty miles an hour. Normally I could go faster, but I didn't dare right now. My fastest speed caught me up to a plane, and I leapt into the pilot's seat. I flipped all the switches at once like a looney. Turning as the pilot desperately tried to fix his instruments, I raised my hands for a cross-chop. Two slicing winds and I freed the all four wings from the plane's chassis. Back by the group, Bolin yelled as Naga swept him up into the air with her neck. Bolin was swept up by Naga behind him.

"No Naga!" he cried as she carried the slow Earthbender forwards in her mouth again. I felt Asami climb into a Mechatank through my restored connection to the wind.

Iroh chased a plane down, running as fast as he could. As the plane left the ground, Iroh did too, leaping forwards on twin fire streams from his fists. He landed on the rear tail of the aero-plane and climbed his way forwards. Then Iroh and the plane swept out of my wind sense range. I had to turn my head and look to see him throw a man from a hundred feet up out of the plane and take control of it. Iroh was away after the escaping planes. The ex-pilot popped his parachute. Iroh seemed to be learning how to fly on the go however, so I had hope he'd do some good hunting after the other planes.

Bolin had destroyed four of five runways by the time the Equalist counter-offenses began to attack us. I'd managed to recover my staff in the small time of peace by scouring where the prison cell had been. They'd had it tucked away in a storage room. Bolin had just wrecked the last of the runways when the three mechatanks converged on us. Three lines shot out towards Bolin. I moved to block, but Naga grabbed all three lines in her mouth and leapt to the tank's right side. "Naga, no! They electrify!" I cried as the huge dog pulled on the lines.

It didn't matter. Naga reared and ripped back so hard on the lines all three tanks were pulled to their rights and crashed into each other as their 'feet' gave way under them. It helped that the tanks had been moving so quick. I felt rather useless here. I, Master Airbender, was getting shown up by the Avatar's Animal Guide. I dodged the tank as its momentum slid it towards us by leaping to the right. I hoped Bolin had enough sense to dodge and not try and hold his ground. When I didn't see him right away I brushed the dust away to find him staring at the treads on a tank, inches from his face.

"Woah. Thanks Naga!" Bolin cried as Naga spat out the lines happily.

There was an explosion inside the base, and I flipped into the air. I dropped down with a staff flourish and slid into a stealthy position by the hangar doors to look inside.

"Asami!" Sato cried from inside his tank as he rolled towards Asami. Asami had just finished wrecking a line of planes in the back of the hangar in her own stolen tank. "What do you think you're doing!?" Sato cried angrily. "You are aiding the very people who took your mother away!" Hiroshi protested.

"You don't feel love for mom anymore. You're too full of hatred!" Asami cried angrily. She spun, turning her tank towards her father's tank. I blinked at her. That sounded positively Airbender.

"You ungrateful, insolent child!" Sato cried.

The tank began rolling forwards, but I brought myself out into firing position. With only the slightest slip in restraint my body fired electricity in a line from me to Sato's mech. The massive bolt of electricity only lowered my available safe reserves by half, but Sato's mech was stopped dead. It collapsed inwards as it broke, compacting in the way the one outside the Police Station had done when it'd been introduced to too much electricity.

"You go right ahead on breaking those planes. I'll go lock your dad up in a spare cell. If you want a word with him afterwards, you'll know where to find him," I announced casually as I walked up to the tank. I was glad I'd spared Asami having to fight her dad. I punched through the front armor with a wind-drill reinforced staff lance strike and then used a powerful suction blast to rip the armor wide open. Hiroshi Sato lay in the seat, totally out of it. I removed him from the cockpit, frisked his pockets (stealing his keys and wallet), and locked him up in a cell.

Sato was secured. Asami had finished breaking the tanks and planes (expect one that she decided to keep to reverse engineer). Bolin and Naga were playing in the ruined air field with Pabu. Everything was done here. Asami was currently having a talk with her dad, and I could hear the vague yelling from there. "Bolin. I'm going to head into the city. I'll try and find out what's happening, help Korra if I can," I explained as I popped my glider open.

"But what about Hiroshi?" Bolin asked.

"I think he can stay in the prison cell until the cops are free to come collect him. All the same, the keys are on the desk on the opposite side of the prison," I explained as I lifted off towards the city.

I made good time, making it to the city in less than ten minutes. The wind coming off the mountain was a wonderful speed boost, and I rode the powerful currents almost all the way to the city's edge for one of the smoothest rides I'd ever felt. As I flew I spotted the smoldering wreckages of planes below me. Several sinking twisted hulks of metal floated in the harbor as well, ruins of the other planes. Iroh had taken out every single one of them! That was another problem sorted then. I should to get to Arena. Korra would be fighting Amon right now, and I had a hunch Amon would love to give his victory speeches from where he'd first begun his war.

As I dipped down towards the building I confirmed my suspicion. Something was happening inside, I could feel the wind. There was a subdued whuoosh of air and the side of the arena blew wide open. A man flew right by me, less than a foot from me. People on the dock screamed and rushed over to where the man splashed into the water. I overcorrected as the air turned vicious on me, and I pulled up hard, landing on the Arena's roof. Quickly I smoothed the air down and floated down to where the man had splashed into the water. There was a collective gasp as Amon's mask floated up to the surface. Oh. Amon. Huh. I glanced up at the window and waved at Korra and Mako. Korra looked hurt, and Mako was supporting her up. Both were a little rough on the eyes, but they seemed well enough.

I grinned savagely. They'd done it. And then around me the people began screaming. I frowned and slammed my air staff, silencing them. Oh no, the Avatar just beat our great tyrant hero! Oh no! I didn't want to hear it. I lashed out, covering them all with a Soundbending veil. They could keep their panic to themselves under the veil, and no-one else would have to hear it. And then I spun as Amon burst from the ocean on a water funnel.

What.

What.

What?

"Is everyone else seeing this?" I asked numbly of the silenced crowd, letting the sound barrier fall all at once. Amon gasped, as some strange sandy red powder fell off his face. He wasn't disfigured at all like he'd said. He looked down at the crowd, and I took cruel pleasure in how panicked his face became. He'd just shown his true colors in front of the entire platform of Equalist non-benders, the Avatar, An Airbender, and a Firebender.

Around me the people began speaking all at once.

"He's waterbending!"

"He is a bender!"

"The scar is fake!"

"The Avatar was telling the truth!"

I had no idea what 'truth' Korra was telling, or how fake his scar was. I was simply loving the moment. Amon was a phony. I don't know how he was blocking bending, but it must've been a Waterbending thing. Perhaps he knew how to reverse the 'healing' effects of healing(bending) with water or could form a mental block? He put a finger on the victims head and…

"He's been giving the Benders brain damage!" I ripped out, louder than the crowd. Without thinking about it, I snapped Nightflier open and leapt forwards at him.

Pain greeted me and I was tossed back by telekinetic forces. What?

What?What?What?What?

"Bloodbender?" I croaked out as I leant up among the crowd. This new news was an instant shocker. The people broke and ran, off to spread the news. Amon turned and leapt into the ocean. Mako fired at him, but the fire couldn't pierce the water. Amon began water skating, pulling out at top speed. He circled left around the arena until he was out of Mako's limited range from the window. I pulled myself to my feet and flew up to the duo.

"You guys get up to the most insane adventures," I groaned as I tried to make my insides feel better. Korra only fell backwards into Mako's arms.

We found Beifong. Or, Tenzin had found her in the makeshift prisons beneath the arena. We all met up on Air Temple Island dock to talk the day's events out together. I was horrified and enraged to discover Amon's Equalists had sent more Balloons after Tenzin and had caught him. But Korra and Mako had rescued my family. Korra and Mako explained they had started the day by going to the attic in the compound on Air Temple Island. Amon had been using it as a base of operations, as we'd found out during our earlier reconnaissance. Korra explained how they'd found and heard Tarrlok's story, and how Amon had once been Noatak. The two brothers had been the sons of Yakone. Yakone had escaped to the North Pole and started a family in the south pole. Yakone's gang had busted him out and put Yakone through plastic surgery to change his face.

Yakone had trained the two boys to be able to Bloodbend any time they wanted to. Amon/Noatak had run away in a blizzard and Tarrlok and Yakone had thought he'd died. Years later both brothers returned to Republic City to conquer it, but their methods varied and they ended up on the wrong side of each other. In the rally at the arena today Korra had revealed this truth to the people, and Amon had won them back by showing off his fake scar, which was really just makeup. They'd fought to free Tenzin, and my family had escaped. Noatak was a dangerous foe, capable of sensing blood and physically controlling it. He'd stolen Korra's bending. The Lieutenant Equalist had turned on Amon and been punished for it. Mako had hit Amon point blank with lightning bending and nearly escaped with Korra. That was where I'd found them. Korra had finally unlocked her Airbending to blast Amon away from Mako and then used her unrefined airbending to throw Amon out the window into the bay.

It wasn't pleasant news on any account. Korra had been hurt and had been brain damaged by Amon. Tenzin and my family had failed to escape after they'd fled. Tarrlok and Noatok were proof Yakone's bloodbending could be taught and learned, and he was not some freak of nature. The benders who had been bloodbent by Amon all had some sort of brain damage via Bloodbending. I'd almost tried to tangle with a Bloodbender better than Tarrlok was. Amon could have killed me before leaving when I'd inspired the crowd against him (on accident).

I stood by Korra in our ring of friends. We'd all been properly horrified by Korra and Mako's story. Beifong was trying her best to comfort Korra, which was how bad the situation was. "I can't believe Amon got you too," Beifong said sadly as she talked to Korra.

"Hey, at least you unlocked your Airbending," Bolin pointed out, looking on the bright side.

"Bro. Not the time," Mako said after a moment.

"Right. Right. I'll just head over here. Quietly. In silence," Bolin said as he excused himself.

The sight of the Flag ship of the second Fleet coming around the Island drew us all into a line to observe.

"You saved Republic City," Tenzin pointed out proudly beside Korra and I.

"But Amon got away," Korra said.

"Yay, uncle Bumi's here!" Ikki said as the ship sailed into shouting range. I could see the form of my uncle, Bumi up on top of the Dragon mast of the Fire Nation made United Forces ship.

Bumi did a weird screaming howl thing before he slapped his hands. I sighed in time with Tenzin. "Great. Now I have to entertain my brother," Tenzin said as he bowed his head and moved to the end of the dock. The general feeling was that we'd done enough. Anything else that needed to be done in the city could be done by Bumi's fleet. Any lingering fighting or attempts to rally again would be Bumi's responsibility. We were all officially done for the time. We needed to rest and grieve.

I turned as a massive 'boom' swept over the ocean from the north in the bay. My soundbending field caused the noise to wash over us all.

"Guys?" I called questionably as I pointed at the black mushroom cloud. Everyone turned to see what I was pointing at. "The wind just told me… Tarrlok did that. He just blew up a speedboat. He and Amon-Noatok were on it," I said as the wind's impressions washed over me. The amount of force had left an imprint of the wind, carrying it shortly behind the sound wave. It let me get a moment's instance of what'd happened shortly it became the more recent 'as-exploding' movement. But I'd seen enough. "Amon will never be a problem in this life again," I said as the pressure wave washed softly over us.

A half week passed before we went to the South Pole. All of us, taking Oogi and Duga for the rides. We brought the Krew, Beifong, and my entire Airbender family. I shared the pleasure of a full two days flying with only breaks when an island came into view. I'd gotten about half as much sleep as I needed for this turn of the month, and it was only the hardest of my Airbending training keeping me from nodding off in the saddle. I will not lie though; I did fall asleep flying several times anyways. Thankfully Duga knew to just follow Oogi.

We took Korra to the South Pole, to Katara. With my realization that Noatak/Amon had been using Bloodbending to damage the brain, the hope was Katara, the best healer in the world (and a bloodbender herself), could help restore Korra's bending. The house at the edge of the Avatar's compound was filled with us, Beifong, Tenzin, Pema, my siblings, Bolin (& Pabu), Mako, Asami, Korra's parents (Who I knew very little of but tried to wrap my head around them as an extra uncle and aunt), and myself. Outside Naga, Oogi, and Duga waited in the snow together patiently, keeping each other warm. Naga had had to fly on Oogi with my family as I took the Krew and Beifong. Neither animal had liked it, but it had to be done to get everyone down here quickly. If the damage set in because we were too slow, we might've lost our chance to fix Korra's bending.

Katara slid open the door, and we all knew from her expression things hadn't worked. "I tried everything in my power. But, I could not restore Korra's bending," Katara explained sadly.

"But you're the best healer in the world! You have to keep trying!" Beifong protested.

"I'm sorry there's nothing else I can do," Katara explained. "Korra can still Airbend, but her connection to the other elements has been severed," Katara announced. We all took a moment to mourn for her loss. Korra slid the door open and walked into the room with us. She surveyed all of us silently.

"It's going to be alright, Korra," Tenzin told her in the silence.

"No… it's not," Korra brushed aside as she turned and walked to the door. She grabbed her coat and brushed right past Bolin, Mako, and I to walk outside into the snow. Mako turned after her, but words failed him.

Mako dipped his head in thought, and walked out after her. The door swung shut and I turned to the crowd, unobtrusively but obviously barring the way. I gave them a moment, and then Tenzin approached me. I gave it a moment longer while he looked down at me, and I looked up at him, and then I moved aside to let him out.

Korra had boarded Naga and left. Mako stood on foot, looking at the tracks. Bolin and Asami stood beside me as we looked at him. Slowly, he got the message we were telling him. Go after her. He turned and walked out into the ice and snow field after her.

I was concerned. My cousin had a few issues. She valued herself as the Avatar based on her ability to bend, and herself as Korra as a second priority, like being the Avatar was an all-overwriting burden. She thought of her talents and abilities as character traits. With three of the elements out of her grasp, she'd feel… useless, and would assume we wouldn't want her anymore. Korra wasn't the brightest about that stuff, anymore than I was. She became so angry at not being able to Airbend because she viewed it as a flat out failing due to her sense of worth being based off her bending. I could hardly blame her. The elements had been drilled into her at an early age due to her discovered her original three so quickly. She'd skipped over the sixteen years she was supposed to live normally before beginning her training. When she couldn't grasp airbending she'd no doubt screamed internally 'why, why, why can't I do this?' and thought we'd been judging her for it. In our infrequent talks I'd tried to think of a way to talk her out of this mindset, but in the end I'd simply not been able to talk to her enough to bring our conversations towards anything but Airbending.

It'd been her upbringing to blame most likely. The Order of the White Lotus was… impersonal. Their duty was to train Korra, and they did it. If I knew the Order, they didn't view their duties as helping to raise Korra. And to avoid 'infecting' Korra with some odd (and potentially dangerous) quirk the Order would've gotten Korra bending masters without any risk of teaching Korra anything but bending, leading to Korra having drilled bending into her void of the spirituality aspects. That couldn't have been good for her self-worth. If Korra felt she was damaged goods… She might try to get a new Avatar to 'make up for her mistake', rather than continue on with the feeling she was letting the world down. But, coward that I was, I didn't know if that should concern me or not. Maybe 'concern' wasn't the right word. Should I be worried or seriously consider that Korra might try and reincarnate herself? Korra... was she feeling like that? Would she really be feeling low enough right now to try?

It'd been evening when the two returned together on Naga. Korra looked… serene was the proper word for it. As she approached, a strange pressure pressed down on my spirituality, the wind. I pulled myself together and brought my spirit within, rising from meditation as Korra rode in on Naga.

She stopped in front of me. "You're a fully realized Avatar," I pointed out. She pouted happily at me.

"How'd you know?" she asked.

"You might not have realized, but out here there's little for the wind to be interrupted by. I can feel changes miles away from here. I felt all that Airbending you did as it reached me on the wind," I told her honestly. With a combination of wind sense and soundbending I could receive air- impressions on the wind of events huge distances away. Nothing stood between me and the events, and the wind generated wasn't disturbed, so it could move in ripples for miles.

Korra rode on past me, and I smiled and went back to meditating. I'd almost figured something out, I could feel it. My spirit seemed to almost float away on the wind out here, it was so peaceful.

That night, Korra activated the Avatar Powers. She was going to bring back Beifong's bending. Beifong knelt before Korra on the steps of the compound earthbending training ground, and we all stood to watch. Korra reached out, eyes' glowing with inner power; to clasp Beifong's head like Amon, but with different hand poses. Where she placed her hands was different, on different Chakra than Amon's method. Korra's hands glowed, and when the light faded, Beifong rose. Around us on the monument, rocks raised and lifted under Beifong's power once more. Korra could restore bending to those who had lost it. Was that an avatar power fueled healing or a spirit and energy manipulation? Pabu trilled happily as he observed the floating rocks.

Beifong let the rocks fall, slamming back into the ice. "Thank you," she said simply to Korra. Korra bowed humbly in Airbender fashion. Tenzin stepped forwards to talk to Korra.

"I am so proud of you," he said simply. "Avatar Korra."