How does it feel

How does it feel 41

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Mizu lands on the ground turning her back on the Mother of Faces. She releases her watery hold on everyone. Korra, Asami, and the others heed Katara's warning and remain still. Mizu closes her eyes exhaling deeply. "It's finally finished." She says speaking in Tsuchi's voice looking around at everyone. "You can feel it now can't you?"

This was the earth essence's final gambit. Ending the mothers would end it all, life, pain, everything. He realized the true cause of his torment was his mother and her rules. She was the one who created him. She was the one who paired him with Mizu. The mothers created humans as well. They set this whole foolish game in motion, but he would be the one to end it. He would free everyone. If he ended the mothers, all existence would end as well.

Mizu walks toward Seika. "Once our mother is gone the others will fall too; no more absurd rules and laws, no more people, no more pain…"

Tsuchi is interrupted as a gargantuan tree like hand scoops him up. The Mother of Faces stares at Mizu for a moment seeing the strange state of her son's essence within the woman. She pulls the pencil sized spear from her chest. Her withered face instantly regenerates. She looks at the spear between her fingers with genuine curiosity then gives the spear to the Mother of Hands. The other three mothers crowd around one another examining the strange object before poking one another with it. To the spectators below, the mothers looked more like inquisitive animals than all powerful cosmic deities.

Tsuchi's mother's eyes begin sparking with anger as she stares at her son's clouded essence. "You dare try to extinguish that which cannot end?!" Her voice shakes the ground.

Tsuchi spits a slimy stream of water at the deity's face.

The great mother's eyes widen seeing the contempt on her son's face. She glares at Tsuchi. The dome around the swamp suddenly flashes with a green light. The mother of faces furrows her brow noticing that there were indeed two Tsuchi's. How was this possible? How had he become separated from himself and Mizu? The great mother's rules for her children's preservation made that impossible.

Her faces begin to shift position. She puts a new set of glowing eyes on Tsuchi and notices an oddly colored fluid flowing through Mizu's body. She takes a deep breath then looks down at Asami seeing a similar glow. The plant like titan turns to Katara. "Wife of the Avatar, our agreement is no longer valid. Mizu and Tsuchi already have new bodies."

Katara clears her throat and steps forward. "Great mother, I know how things may look to you, but I can assure you that Mizu and Tsuchi are still bonded. What you see within their bodies is an elixir I created because of your son's decree. It is only temporary. They will revert back to their original state very soon."

"What decree?" The Mother of Faces asks.

Tsuchi shakes his head. "Ever the absent mother, aren't you? You never cared about me; none of you ever cared about any of us. You should all just die!" She yells creating ice spikes all over her body that pierce the mother's giant hand. "You're nothing but heartless disgusting…."

The Mother of Faces slams Mizu down into the ground then creates a cage of golden light around the watery essence. "Silence child." She turns to Katara. "Speak wife of the Avatar." Tsuchi fumes as a golden collar of light tightens around his throat choking him.

Katara gulps. "Your son decreed that he and Mizu would be trapped in his lair for eternity. This wouldn't have posed a problem except for the fact that he also trapped millions of the physical world's citizens in his lair during the solstice in order to lure her here. I created that elixir in order to free his kidnapped victims."