it's locked, stupid: book two

ch.8

Wan firebends at Vaatu, who flies away to avoid the blasts. However, he turns back and knocks Wan away with one of his tentacles.

"I lived ten thousand lifetimes before the first of your kind crawled out of the mud!"  Vaatu screams. He fires a purple energy beam out of his face. Wan screams as he is knocked backward again.

"It was I who broke through the divide that separated the plane of spirits from the material world!" He fires the purple beam again. Wan grunts as he ricochets over the ground. "To hate me is to give me breath. To fight me is to give me strength. Now prepare to face oblivion!" Vaatu fires a purple energy beam at Wan, who propels himself with his firebending to avoid it.

Wan turns to Raava desperately. "Raava! The only way to win is together." Raava flies to Wan and merges with him, who is briefly surrounded by unstable white energy. "Ah!"

Vaatu attacks with his whpping tentacles, which Wan evades by flying on a cloud. The two of them exchange blows, with Wan being more powerful and is making a decent stand against Vaatu. Vaatu still has the upper hand in the fight though, even though Wan is now capable of bending two elements simultaneously. Wan is forced back, his physical form starting to become static as his energy becomes unstable.

"I have to leave you. If I stay any longer, you will die." Raava says.

"It doesn't matter. If you leave me now, Vaatu will destroy everything. We have to finish this together!" Wan and Vaatu exchange more blows, the former becoming more static while losing ground. Wan promptly charges at Vaatu, and although he manages to land a fire blast, he is shot backward toward the southern portal by a purple energy beam. He skids to a halt right before the portal, where Vaatu pins hims down using one of his tentacles.

"The Harmonic Convergence is about to begin. The era of Raava is over." Vaatu shouts victoriously. The two beams from the spirit portals bend over to connect with one another. Vaatu starts to glow purple as he watches the spectacle in the sky. While still static, Wan lights up briefly, showing Raava's form inside his chest. He puts his right hand behind him, causing the energy of the southern spirit portal during Harmonic Convergence to flow though him, basking him in blue light, as he permanently merges his spirit with Raava's. Vaatu notices and releases him in shock. Wan's form becomes less static and his eyes glow white. He cries out and white lights shoot out of his mouth and eyes, enveloping the area. Vaatu moves away a safe distance before turning back. As the light subsides, Wan emerges and his energy has stabilized. Music intensifies.

"We are bonded forever." Raava says.

Wan, eyes still glowing, attacks Vaatu, hitting him consistently and pressuring him before trapping him in an air bubble, which he secures with rings of all four elements. He uses his bending to guide the bubble to the hollow of a tree in which he imprisons Vaatu behind a purple energy field.

"This is your prison now. And I will close the portal so no human will ever be able to physically enter the Spirit World and release you." Wan says. Wan closes the northern portal.

Back in the mortal world, spirits are lining up to return to the Spirit World through the southern portal.

'The spirits must stop fighting with humans and return to their home in the Spirit World. I will teach men to respect the spirits so that balance will be maintained.' Wan thinks to himself. Before the aye-aye spirit enters the spirit portal, he turns to Wan and bows respectfully, a gesture that is returned by the first Avatar. 'I will be the bridge between our two worlds. Different groups of people must learn to live together. This is my mission: to use Raava's light spirit to guide the world toward peace.