Avatar: Seeking the Last Avatar

**Avatar: Seeking the Last Avatar** is a Story Arc of the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Avatar's Interra and follows the perspective of the wandering Elai, Feng, Liang and Neel.

## Main Arc

### The Book of Matter

**Yuai,** daughter of the Water Tribe chieftain, and her disgraced brother **Elai**, while sent on a diplomatic mission in the great Republic City, capital to the world, learn of rumors that the **Avatar**, a being able to manipulate the four elements, resides in a nearby cottage. Due to elemental bending being rarer and rarer these days - with Yuai being one of the last **Waterbenders** - the duo investigates, and encounters Liang, a young Earthbender with similar interests. The "Avatar", however, turns out to be Surnak, a charismatic scammer, but with no bending abilities.

Things change quickly as a girl falls through Surnak's ceiling, although unharmed. The girl, **Feng**, is a Firebender, running from the Fire Nation's army, one led by Shafirah. Due to quick thinking, the group escapes Shafirah's clutches, although not without causing a diplomatic incident. Forced to retreat to the land of the Water tribe, the dysfunctional group is berated and criticized for its involvement by Yuai and Elai's father, and forced to return to the Republic City. By chance, they stumble, on their ship travel back to the city, on the president, Yi Zen, himself.

Impressed by the team's bending ability, Yi Zen encourages them to participate in a Pro-bending tournament in the Republic City, which they accept. There, however, they interact with Iola Bei-Fong, Pro-bending champion and leader of an underground movement, that secretely investigates a vast conspiracy, regarding a forbidden **Spirit Energy Bomb**, an equivalent to the atomic bomb that would prove to cause catastrophic destruction to millions. They also learn that said conspiracy has ties with Surnak, although he denies this.

Investigating a hidden factory tied to that conspiracy, the group learns through Yi Zen's corpse that the president has been replaced a long time ago, by a being able to perform a "forbidden bending" - Matterbending, a corruption of Earthbending. That being is Koh, a spirit able to steal people's face, and grown tired of humanity's impiety and disregard for spirits. Hoping to terrify them with the bomb, only to steal all of their faces, Koh's plan is foiled when it is confronted by the team, and captured by Elai, who reveals himself to be a unique bender as well - a Bloodbender unable to bend water.

### The Book of Darkfire

In the aftermath, Elai reveals more about his past; born during an eclipse, he was taught to manipulate blood by Rakuen, a mysterious dark spirit with a hold on his soul. Seeking to find Rakuen once more, Elai asks to leave the capital; Surnak, Liang and Feng follow him, Yuai staying behind as a candidate to the presidency of the Republic City. On their path, the group encounters the mysterious and perverted Airbender monk Neel, who reluctantly joins them, while still searching to understand his own path.

Walking in desolate lands, the group encounters Shafirah once more; although they are able to overpower the powerful Firebender, she reveals she holds part of Liang's family hostage, forcing them to surrender, and seizing Feng for herself. Thrown into prison, the group is forced to adapt, enlisting the help of fellow prisoners: mysterious earthbending sisters Pinky and Roche; Zhi Qiang, Liang's mother and a deposed Fire Lord of the Fire nation, as well as Boshay, another Air Nomad, who quickly bonds with Neel. The party escapes prison, but Feng is nowhere to be found, having already escaped with the help of the true Avatar, **Xifong**.

Chasing after him, the party reaches the Earth Kingdom and its capital, Ba Sing Se, where they are forced by its current leader, **Fuh Ton**, to investigate a string of disappearances and kidnappings. The culprit is revealed to be Neel's childhood friend, Su-Minh, controlled by Breathbending - a corrupted version of airbending that warps memories and allows to control minds. With Su-minh freed from the influence, Fuh Ton gives information on Feng's whereabouts; she has hidden in a cavern in the midst of Earth Kingdom lands, surrounded by Fire Nation forces, which the group then defeats.

Feng is found unconscious, close to the bodies of Liang's father Chin and of the previous Avatar Xifong. Elai manages through his healing prowess to save Chin from the brink of death. Feng then awakens, revealing that Xifong was nothing but an empty shell; in fact, the Avatar, tied to the Great Spirit Raava, is none other than Feng herself. She acknowledges Elai as the potential vessel of Raava's opponent **Vaatu**, an Anti-Avatar able to wield corrupted version of pure elements, such as blood, matter and breath, and Elai admits this to be true.

### The Book of Breath

With those revelations in mind, the party is interrupted by the appearance of a massive satellite in the sky. According to Neel, this is the creation of Pabu, the Breathbender who controlled Su-Minh, a fallen monk who, having grown hateful of the world's material attachment, seeks to subvert time itself and return creation to a previous state. Controlling a sleeping Vaatu, Pabu usurps bending of other impure elements and poses a threat to the entire world.

Helped by Chin, who reveals himself to have been Xifong's lover and Surnak's best friend, now seeking to protect Feng, the party manages to breach the satellite, only to be greeted with a variety of labyrinthine trials and deadly traps formed from impure elements. However, the party has grown; Feng's Avatar prowess, Neel and Liang's immensely powerful bending abilities, and Elai's manipulation of flesh, blood and soul allow them to overcome the trials and reach Pabu, at the bottom of the satellite.

Pabu is revealed to have trapped Shafirah, using her power - as a mistress of corrupted fire, Darkfire - to fuel his own. However, Elai uses his abilities as a healer to save Shafirah, then forcibly bends Pabu's own breath and soul to defeat him. Even then, Pabu shows himself to be a very capable opponent, challenging Neel, Liang and Feng to a battle, from which he emerges defeated. However, Vaatu takes advantage of this to invade Elai's body, forcing Feng to let Raava control her body to stop him. With Raava fueled by despair at the vision of that the world has become, spirits, backoned by her wrath and by Rakuen's subtle manipulation, start pouring onto the world as it starts to crumble.

### The Book of Blood

With Pabu's satellite having trapped the rest of the party, and the end of the world as it is known beginning, external help is needed. This help is given in the form of Uki Blackstone, Shafirah's previous associate and inventor of the anti-bending suits, joined by Earth kingdom general Baihua Shi-Ying, associate Lanying, and the body of Feng, now under the control of the spirit of Xifong. Using Uki's technology, powered by Lanying's lightningbending, and the sheer bending power of the Avatar and Baihua, the group manages to breach into the satellite's core.

There, they are helped by the spirit of previous Avatars, frightened by Vaatu's bloodthirst and Raava's wrath, In particular, the first Avatar Wan helps guide the new party to the apocalyptic confrontation, where Elai's body is now discarded, and the two spirits clash at full power. Uki's team now unites with Liang and Neel's in order to stop Raava's wrath, with Wan reminding the spirit of their role as protectors, meant to watch over mankind, without judging its choices. Raava reminisces, and calms her anger; while Vaatu is contained, in part thanks to Elai's body acting as a delayed trap.

As light engulfs the satellite, they find themselves on Earth once more, next to the republic city. The satellite has been destroyed, the world is saved, and Wan and Raava have reunited once more. As Chin, Zhi Qiang and Liang embrace; as Yuai now repairs the Republic City, helped by Surnak; as the three airbenders depart on a nomadic journey, Elai is left with Iola, his powers lost, and cradling Feng's soulless body, left of Xifong's will and the Avatar's flame. Close to despair, he brings her to the ocean - and as water caresses Feng's body, animated by the remains of Elai's healing powers, the Avatar twitches...

## Characters

### Water Tribes

* Elai
* Yuai
* Surnak Blackstone
* Uki Blackstone

### Fire Nation

* Feng
* Shafirah
* Zhi Qiang
* Lanying

### Earth Kingdom

* Liang
* Iola Bei-Fong
* Baihua Shi-Ying
* Chin

### Air Nomads

* Neel
* Boshay
* Su-Minh
* Pabu

### Others

* Raava
* Koh
* Rakuen
* Wan
* Other Avatar characters

## Trivia

* This storyline happens in the aftermath of Avatar: the Last Airbender and Avatar: the Legend of Korra.