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54 - Reunion
🕑 Added 2024-06-24 18:43:06 +0000 UTCHe immediately activated blood bending, and to his surprise, it actually worked, it seemed the cool down time was already over.
‘It seems I was right, I have spent more time than I realized trying to cross over to the physical world.’ thought Levi.
Blood bending should have taken him days to be able to use it again but now he used it with no problem even though he remembered that it hadn't been long since he had used it against Vaatu.
The only explanation for that was that his sense of time was distorted while he was inside the wormhole.
He of course wasn't going to openly use blood bending here, he had another use for it besides bending other people's blood, he could use it to heal himself!
And the effects were much better than using normal water.
So right in front of Azula, Tenzin, Tobirama, and all the others who were paying attention to him Levi slowly got up as if nothing had happened to him, even the scratches and burn marks on his skin were slowly healing.
‘What a monster.’ those who were watching couldn't help but think, except Tobirama everyone else was shocked.
Nobody had the confidence to get up after just receiving that bolt of lightning like he did, and not only that his wounds were disappearing in real-time.
‘Is he using the moisture in the air to heal himself?.’ thought Tenzin as he looked at Levi, that was the only explanation that he could come up with, he could also do it himself, but the healing speed wasn't even a tenth of what Levi was showing.
‘Ha-ah, the new generation will always surpass the old.’ Tenzin couldn't help but sigh as he concentrated on his fight again. M
***
Feeling that his wounds had completely healed and seeing that his health points were back to full, Levi relaxed, he hadn't been careless previously but the attack was just too fast for him to react to, even the activation of Limit breaker would have taken time so it was basically impossible to escape from it.
‘Lightning bending, what a wonderful technique.’ thought Levi in admiration as he looked at the terrified face of Azula back on the fire nation ship.
‘Now that I can use fire bending, I wonder when I'll be able to master it.’ thought Levi in anticipation.
He had many plans for it, he didn't plan to use it in a crude way as it was shown in the show or as it was currently used by the Royal family of the Fire Nation, no he had a lot of ideas for it, ‘If I can just coat myself in it to increase my speed and reaction time it'll be worth it, not to mention other aspects.’
‘Sadly my level and understanding of fire bending are still too lacking right now.’ thought Levi helplessly, he couldn't do anything about it for now, he could only slowly grind its level until he was strong enough.
Even his water bending was far from mastered, not to mention fire bending that he had gotten not too long ago.
‘Ha-ah, I guess I'll need a mentor for that.’ thought Levi helplessly, it was either that or he'd have to slowly grind the levels up which would take a long time.
But if he wanted a mentor he would have to expose his fire-bending ability which he wasn't very keen on doing.
Not to mention the huge target that would be put on his back, just the danger it brought to his family wasn't worth it.
‘Maybe if I ask Iroh for help.’ thought Levi, he knew that he could trust the old man, but now was not the time for that.
All of Levi’s thinking seemed to have taken a long time but it was but a moment in real life, looking around he quickly memorized the entire battlefield and decided on his next course of action.
‘Let's take out the weaker ones first.’
Thinking that Levi looked at Tobirama who immediately noticed and understood his message, ‘It's time to end this.’
Concentrating he manipulated the water around him, and also turned the snow and ice around into water and separated them into small water droplets and froze them, creating small water bullets!
Seeing his actions the fire nation soldiers obviously wouldn't let him continue, the normal soldiers didn't dare approach as they'd seen his earlier slaughter but the fire benders were another story.
Sadly for them, just as they raised their hands and prepared to attack Levi and stop the soon-to-be rain of ice bullets they were interrupted by Tobirama.
They could barely defend themselves against Tobirama so how could they stop Levi? Soon a rain of bullets started raining down on the fire nation soldiers and benders.
Some of it knocked against their armour and dealt little damage, some hitting directly in the head or eye and inflicting serious injuries, and some of them directly piercing their bodies.
Levi was already very adept at water bending but even he couldn't precisely control all that rain of water bullets.
In the end he was only one person, and although he dealt some damage it wasn't enough to turn the battlefield in their favour, unless he used limit beaker or his other trump cards of course, but that wasn't necessary.
His earlier attack had given time for his side to counterattack!
Tenzin started waving his hands so fast that some people had a hard time keeping track of it, no person his age should possess such agility and strength. The water around him responded to him as wave after wave carried dozens of Fire Nation's soldiers and threw them back into the ocean, displaying the full might of a water-bending master.
Kato although wasn't a water-bending master but he was still above the average fire benders, he continued to push them back as the rain of ice bullets fell on them repeatedly, breaking their concentration and distracting them allowing him to get the upper hand.
Like that under the bombardment of the rain of ice bullets and the pressure of two water-bending masters and Kato the Fire Nation soldiers got pushed back till they were at the shore near the Fire Nation ships.
***
Ronan had already woken up a while ago and was watching the current situation unfold, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
“Even with all the preparations we've done we still failed in the end.” he spoke with a tired defeated look on his face.
He wasn't addressing anyone in particular, it was just his way to vent.
“Don't blame yourself commander, it isn't your fault, we've done all we can, we had even prepared extra troops to deal with Levi, but who would have thought they would have another water-bending master hidden.” spoke Azula with a mature tone of voice, she had a complicated look as she looked at Tobirama.
She didn't feel anything strange as she looked at Tobirama even if he defeated her worse than Levi did -if that was possible- she still wouldn't feel it was strange.
They had prepared for months and had even sneakily increased their troops to deal with Levi, aside from the people in the prison mission that day few knew about his existence, so it was quite difficult to explain why she needed the extra troops but she still managed in the end.
Sadly a person like Tobirama was present, she could only accept her defeat as she observed Tobirama effortlessly disposing of her soldiers, at least she could accept that. Tobirama was obviously an old and experienced water bender so it was only natural.
‘Unlike him.’ she thought as she turned her attention to Levi who was still at the back manipulating hundreds of ice bullets separately and sending them crushing on her soldiers.
She could only clench her hands tightly behind her back as she watched this scene, feeling helpless.
This was the second time in her life she had felt such helplessness and both times Levi was a main factor.
“Ha-ah, this battle is over, order the men back and let's retreat, there is no need to suffer any more casualties.” said Azula as she turned her back to the battle and walked to the insides of the ship
“Yes, Your Highness.” replied Ronan in an excited tone with a strange light shining in his eyes as he ordered his men back.
He could feel that the princess was going through another change and it seemed to be one for the better, if it was the normal her she would have ordered them to advance no matter the cost.
Even though they had lost this battle, and they lost too many good men, he felt that the gains outweighed the losses, his princess seemed to be even more mature and steady.
***
Back on the southern water tribe’s side, cheers could be heard resounding nonstop as the Fire Nation soldiers boarded their ships and retreated one by one.
Sadly it wasn't all cheers, at some parts of the tribe there were the cries of men, women, and children instead, it was a heavy atmosphere, they had won but at what cost?
Soon the ones cheering came back to their senses and stopped, going to comfort the families of the deceased or tend to their fallen comrades' bodies. It was a heavy atmosphere.
Seeing such a scene Levi felt a complicated feeling, even though he felt bad inside he realized that as long as his close ones were safe and sound he would not care at all about anyone else.
‘Don't know if that's a good or bad thing.’ thought Levi.
Suddenly his danger sense flared a little but it was so miniscule that Levi didn't bother to dodge, he knew what was coming as a huge smile covered his face and he was almost tackled to the ground by a foreign object, not resisting at all.
“Brother…..wahhh…, I've missed you…wahhhh...” the sound of a little girl said as she cried nonstop, her tears soaking into his back as Levi smiled a bright beautiful smile.
He almost cried too, when he had left, Katara was only a five-year-old child, he had feared that she wouldn't remember him, but all his worries were for nought.
Just as he was about to turn around and hug her his danger sense flared again, this time way more severely than when Katara tackled him, Levi had the intense instinct to dodge but he still resisted it with a bitter smile on his face.
Something the shape of a ball collided with the side of his body so hard that he felt his bones were about to break, he even lost a tiny chunk of HP
‘Just how hard is this boy’s head.’ Thought Levi with a helpless smile on his face as he turned around and hugged his younger siblings.
At this moment, and for the first time ever since he came to this world, Levi decided to deactivate Gamer’s mind!
He immediately felt as if a huge layer that had been put over his thoughts and emotions was removed, that layer wasn't there to harm him, the opposite it was an impenetrable defense that always protected him and made sure that his mental state was always optimal, but in situations like these it became more of a burden then help.
Immediately, as if the floodgates were opened, tears started falling from his eyes as he put his hand over them, he didn't want anyone to see him cry.
“Brother, why are you crying, did someone hurt you?” asked Katara innocently, with a worried tone of voice.
“Stupid Katara who in this world can hurt our big brother “ retorted Sokka, a little angry at Katara.
And funnily enough Katara wasn't mad she only opened her mouth in shock before nodding in realization.
Soon his mother and father ran to him and hugged him, Kya with tears in her eyes and Hakoda with a slight smile.
“I knew you were okay, I just knew it, even when everyone else lost all hope I didn't …*sniff*” said his mother as she cried and hugged him, shaking like she couldn't believe she was holding her beloved son again.
Tenzin was standing far away and watching this scene, he was just about to come talk to him, but he decided it wasn't a good time and went to help the clan.
Although Levi’s return wasn't as huge or grand of a matter as it was supposed to be due to the fire nation attack, but he didn't care, the people he cared about and wanted to see were around him and happy with his return that's all that mattered him.
