Chapter 56.1- And so the Dragons Danced

What? What the fuck did he just call me? No, he had to be fucking tweaking.

“I assure you, I am not ‘fucking tweaking’” The first Avatar said with a sly smile on his face.

“Then you have to be permanently insane, because I’m no Avatar.” I said with a scowl. What was this waste of my time? I needed to get back to my body, to arrest that cupbearer and reap vengeance on the who would shake my hand with their right whilst daggers lay behind their backs in their left.

“To begin with, what do you think the Avatar is?” He started, and I gave him a purposeful blank look. I wasn’t going to let my knowledge of canon slip here.

“We are you just as you are us, Natsu. We know your every memory and thought— even your memories from your first life are ours as well. And I do have to say that Kyoshi here has not been too pleased to find what people in your world were doing with her likeness” He said, and I had to fight down the flush that rose to my cheeks. I knew exactly what he was talking about— but I was just a teenager at the time. It was far from my proudest moment, but definitely not what I was worried about here.

“What is there to worry about? We’re all dead. There’s nothing we could do with the information you have given, and truth be told. It’s not like it was of much use in the first place. You took us out of the canon as you would call it a long time ago”

“Can you stiop reading my mind and responding to shit before I can even say it?” I said instead.

“Sure. If that is what you prefer. So I sense you have questions. I’ll let you ask them so I can answer.”

“You never explained how this could be possible” because I was starting to believe their bullshit. How else could they so easily get into my mind. I knew from what writings my ancestor had preserved from his time with Szeto, the Avatar cycle was not just power being reborn. It was. A person being born in different eras over and over again. It wasn’t like One for All, to risk using an anime reference.

“Well, you know the Avatar was created when Raava and I fused the very first time. When I died, she went to the next person, taking me along. That was the beginning of the cycle and it created a line that went unbroken down from Fire to Air to Water to Earth Nationals for millennia. Until you.”

“Until me?”

“You killed the Avatar in the Avatar State”

“Yes. And that was supposed to end the cycle”

“But why would you have been so sure? It’s never happened before, has it? We were literally in uncharted waters” Wan said, smile still solid on his face.

“Oh stop beating around it. Tell the foul boy the truth” An old man in red robes walked out of the line in my direction. Roku.

“When you stabbed me in the back like the coward you are. Raava had a choice. She could either have stayed with us, died with us, and then given me the power to smite you and take you with us, or leave us for you. She chose the latter. She betrayed us, and your presence here is the fruit of that, you foul boy” He said, stepping into my face.

“I’ve got no idea the shade, colour, or shape of your problem, old man. But step off. Before I make you” I said,