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Chapter 57 - I will save them my way!

By now everyone was tired, and the heat was dehydrating everyone else except Sokka, who seemed okay. Though Katara noticed that his movements were slower than usual.

'He is getting tired too.' She thought. "We can't hold on much longer."

Suddenly, a bubble rose amongst the lava, and the molten rock splattered towards Aang. He was too distracted and tired to notice it.

"Aang!! Look out!!" Katara yelled at him, and even though the Avatar turned around, it was too late.

BOOOOM!!!

That was when a torrent of water burst through the lava. Forming a dome of ice around Aang, and taking the molten rock head-on.

"Thanks, Katara," Aang thanked her. "I didn't know you could do that."

"I can't…" muttered Katara, pointing towards a further spot of the walls. There stood a familiar, silver-haired man with three red lines on his face and blue armor. 

They knew him, he was Tobirama, the man that had stopped them from unknowingly destroying a village in the past, due to Jet tricking them.

Katara was shocked, how was he able to pull out water from under the lava? Was he someone strong enough to pull up water from the deep underground rivers? Even she knew that was something absurd.

He melodically raises his hands, and the frozen water turns back into liquid. Katara is entranced by the feat of waterbending that was happening in front of her. It was nothing short of amazing.

This was no normal man waterbending but it seemed more like the Avatar. Though Katara hadn't met other waterbenders she instinctively knew that this man was one of the strongest out there.

"Waterbending isn't all about power, young girl, fighting against strong enemies doesn't necessarily have to be a head-on fight," said Tobirama, looking at Katara. He took a deep breath and controlled a huge wave of water. He used the water to cool off the lava repeatedly, slowly but surely creating a wall of obsidian. Using the volcano's power against itself. "At least this time you are saving a village instead of destroying it."

Katara kept staring in amazement, this was like something she had never seen before. Even from such a simple display, she could tell that it was something she might never be able to do.

Slowly he created a triangular shape, with a sharp tip in front of the village that split the lava in two. Making it go around the village. Something that they had been struggling for hours, had been handled by the man in minutes.

Initially, Katara had thought that waterbending in here would be useless as the lava was too hot, it would only evaporate the water. 

The man looked at the villagers, and his eyes seemed to light up with joy. 

Katara wanted to ask Tobirama to teach her waterbending but... she felt inadequate in herself. She wanted to thank him at least, but as she looked up, she only saw a slow mist spreading from the place where he had been.

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-Sokka POV-

I stealthily moved alongside the wall and used the mist to hide my movements. Going to my water clone, that was slower than the real me, but many should just attribute that to me getting tired. 

Dismissing it, I was behind my sister, back into my normal form I put a hand on her shoulder. "Hey~ Katara, stop looking with starry eyes at a weird-looking person who creepily disappears after doing something."

She came to her senses and muttered. "A great waterbender and warrior."

"...." I guess I am never telling her who he really was.

Also, I doubt she would be impressed if she knew that I had just put water barrels slightly below ground. So the feat of waterbending that I did wasn't as amazing as it seemed. 

On top of it all, even that was tiring as hell, just pulling such huge amounts of water and moving it around wasn't easy. 

I went toward Aang and made sure that he was okay. "Are you hurt anywhere?"

"No," he said, but a smile slowly came to his face as he glanced at the structure made of obsidian. "But that guy is an amazing waterbender, I wish we could have had him as our waterbending master."

Sorry Aang, but that was just the illusion of greatness. Not anything special. "So, it seems like Aunt Wu was wrong. Wonder how the villagers will treat her from now on?"

Aang seemed worried. Some families had lost everything and would try to find someone to blame. That person would most likely be Aunt Wu.

Aang jumps down, and lands in the middle of the platform the villagers were on. They were already looking at Aunt Wu with hatred in their eyes.

"It's because of you that we almost died!"

"I lost my home!"

"My husband died!"

The villagers yelled at her in anger, Aunt Wu looked at the ground, unsure of anything. 

As expected, she too believed in her fate reading. 

"I think everyone should try and calm down," Aang intervened. "Aunt Wu wouldn't want the village to be destroyed either. She just made a mistake."

It seems like Aang got better with words. But still, he needed to be more convincing. Though the people weren't going to rip apart Aunt Wu right in front of one of their saviors. As soon as we are gone, she will be in deep trouble.

I let Aang handle this one. Aunt Wu would have to leave the village and retire, but she already had enough funds to live a good life. Her house wasn't burned either. Her assistant would have to go with her too because once Aunt Wu was gone, the villagers' hatred would go for the little girl.

She had said that the village wouldn't be destroyed. But half of it had crumbled down. There was no excuse for her predictions now.

Aunt Wu must be feeling deeply regretful too. Because if her readings she believed in were wrong all along, then each time she had said something in the past, it had put a person in danger.

Well, this was what I had wanted from the beginning. Now people won't rely on fate and will check next time, each year if the volcano was about to erupt.

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In the end, everything ended as I had wanted. Aunt Wu retired and took her assistant with her. 

I didn't care if fate reading was done normally. Because when people don't believe it to such an extreme effect, then it wouldn't have been harmful.

While on Appa's back, we set off, and I looked at the village as we left it. 

Has this been the right decision?

Such thoughts did cross my mind. But it was useless to think about them now. Maybe Aunt Wu could have lived and kept reading others' fates and nothing would have happened. 

But, I was confident that I made the right decision with the information I had at the time. That's the best anyone could hope for.

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