"Of all the crazy things, nonsense, jokes, ridiculous ideas, and brilliant plans and strategies I've seen you try, this situation, this precise moment, has become the most incredible. By Agni, I agree with this," Zuko said, patting Shisui on the shoulder as they reached the Spirit Pond. He revealed his true thoughts without hesitation.
"I really didn't believe the Avatar when he told me that! THE AVATAR! Imagine someone like that telling you something you can't believe," commented Toph, who had her head tilted to one side as she listened to everything happening around her.
"Are they really going to do something like this? Is it even possible? If so, use the drawing I made on the way here as a reference!" Sokka showed a piece of paper on which he had drawn something that resembled a living creature.
"It's horrible, no offense," said Ty Lee after trying to understand the illustration's shape.
"Hey! You don't understand modern art!" Sokka complained before looking at his drawing again and finding no mistakes. He had clearly drawn an incredible, mature woman. How could Ty Lee not appreciate her beauty?
"Stop being ridiculous, Sokka! This is important," Katara whispered to her brother, making him grimace in annoyance.
"I just wanted to contribute," Sokka replied before leaving with Suki, who at least told him that his drawing was beautiful.
"Do you want to use my condition as a template?" Yue asked Shisui because her own situation as the incarnation of the Spirit of the Moon was the first thing that came to mind when she heard this plan.
"Not exactly. You're human, and then you became what you are. What we're going to do is build a secondary body for Raava," Shisui explained, gathering his bender friends around him. In his mind, however, everyone present had a role to play, without any waste.
"Could you please stop being so cryptic and explain what we're going to do?" Petra asked, exasperated by the mystery Shisui was deliberately maintaining, especially since she could see his characteristic smile.
"He'll never stop being that way!" Azula commented, hands on her hips, looking at Shisui coldly. She used her temperament as a future mother and wife to pressure the Sage, who wiped a drop of sweat from his forehead.
"All right, all right. The first thing we'll do is tune in. Our energies will be connected, all of us together. I suppose Aang and I can try to do this with our knowledge of energy bending.
Raava herself must convey the image she wants to achieve to us. We will use Yue's unique abilities to recreate her connection with the Water Spirit. Once that is done, we can move on to the next plan." Shisui explained the plan he had devised to accomplish this arduous task step by step.
At first, Mai, Ty Lee, Sokka, and Suki thought they wouldn't be needed. However, when they learned of their responsibility, they joined the group, looking at the sage as if he were deranged.
If not for him, they would have thought it was the ramblings of a madman. However, strangely enough, the plan made some sense, no matter how crazy it sounded. The worst part? It went extremely smoothly in practice!
How did this happen? At first, everyone sat on the grass with their eyes closed and held hands. Aang was in the middle of them, in a meditative pose he had learned as a child.
Speckles of chi emerged from Shisui's body. They swirled around him, dancing with joy. Then, they spread throughout the area. Each speckle fell into the hands of the gathered people, including the Avatar.
At the same time, Aang opened his eyes and emitted an intense white glow. The same happened with the arrows running through his body. He had entered the Avatar State! Yue had also unleashed her full power and began to emit a similar glow.
Beneath them, a vine-like structure materialized, entwining their bodies and representing the connection they had created.
Raava noticed this subtle connection and began to observe those present. She noted that each of the young people was special in their own way.
'Those who surround the Sage or the Avatar are never ordinary humans,' thought Raava, before focusing her attention on Yue, who returned the attention. With Yue's permission, the Spirit of Order, Peace, and Light quickly studied her connection with Tui, the Spirit of the Moon.
'So that's how you do it? In that sense, perhaps I am not as good as the Moon. Luckily, there is a Sage who wants to help me,' Raava reflected before sharing the information she had gathered with everyone connected to her.
Along with those details, she included the vague image she wanted to adopt. However, they could discern that it possessed unparalleled beauty.
They didn't need to see; they just needed to feel. Even Toph, who was blind, could 'know' what appearance this spirit wanted to adopt, a rather novel experience for her.
This whole situation was actually a kind of milestone for her. Although he didn't say so, Shisui wanted to use this event to give Toph a gift. He couldn't cure her blindness, but he could help her find a way to appreciate the world beyond vibration and her other senses.
He had been thinking about this issue for a long time but hadn't found a feasible solution until he had an epiphany: 'Why not give her the tools and let her progress on her own?' That way, she could achieve something that suited her perfectly.
Shisui had previously talked to Toph about Avatarization and his ideas about energy bending. By bringing together several events in which he allowed her to experience situations related to the subject, the sage hoped this would be the catalyst the young woman needed.
Shisui stopped thinking about that matter and concentrated on the present moment. It was time to begin the most arduous part of the process, the creation of a body!
Mai, Ty Lee, Suki, and Sokka began to describe its characteristics from all angles with the mental image given by Raava, creating a mold that would be used in the future.
At the same time, they offered their chi, making the image given by the spirit much more solid and detailed. It even materialized in the real world, just like the previous vines.
Although Raava had lived in a human body for almost 10,000 years and knew how it felt, these four had the duty to strengthen the details because the spirit had to do something much more arduous at that moment: condense a spiritual core with her personality.
This would not result in a clone of her but rather the channel she would use to control her new body, completely under her control and, in essence, herself. For some reason, Shisui had warned her never to create a clone of herself, but he had never explained why.
She had previously thought that she would have to separate a piece of herself, but the sage explained that this was unnecessary and that Yue's situation was extremely special and could only be used as a reference.
Therefore, after studying Yue's situation, in which her body was brought back to life with a seed of Tui's power, making her a being connected to Tui yet independent, Shisui added to his plan. This method was derived.
This time, however, Raava was going to go further. She wanted full control of her new body with only her consciousness and will; nothing else. Since everything was going to be created from scratch, she saw no reason to limit herself to ethical issues.
In that sense, one could appreciate this spirit's duality because it never controlled its Avatars but wanted to impose total control over its incarnation. If it had taken over the body of a living person, perhaps Shisui would have turned against Raava because he hated possession the most.
This spirit would have been capable of taking complete control of every human it was reborn in because it was a superior being. However, that thought had never crossed its mind. In that sense, it was much better than malicious spirits that tried to possess the unwary.
'Ready!' Mai, Ty Lee, Suki, and Sokka said at the same time, using the bond that connected them. Having finally finished the mold to create the body, the benders took their places.
'Toph, Petra, together, create a statue with this template,' Shisui instructed, taking advantage of their connection to give orders at key moments.
Together and in sync, the two earthbenders stood up with their eyes still closed. Then, they began to earthbend, each creating one half of the new body out of mud.
'Zuko, Azula, please...' Shisui communicated, and suddenly, a pair of special flames blossomed.
One was golden, hot, and powerful, resembling the sun in its purity. The other was light blue and seemingly emitted no heat, yet its presence felt strange. Zuko and Azula controlled both fires, which 'baked' the mud as they spread across the body made from this material.
'Katara, Yue, with me.' At that moment, Shisui stood up with the two women, and they all simultaneously took water from the Spirit Pond.
The water emitted a blue glow, and the three of them contributed their ideas on different matters. Shisui contributed his knowledge of life and directly used life-bending to its full capacity, similar to when he had created that pseudo-elemental life.
Yue contributed power and vitality. As someone who was literally saved from death by the moon, she understood this concept perfectly. She had not categorized it before, but she knew Life-bending; she had just traveled a different path.
Her raw power, second only to the Avatar's, was also necessary to bring this body to life. Katara was the least able to help in this area, but she decided to contribute something she thought was key for any living being: emotions.
Raava needed a body that could feel emotions independently, without the spirit's direct involvement. Katara had also learned a lot about this process, which would make her future healing arts more effective.
As if forging steel, water spilled over the ceramic body, covering it in a mist. Then, its form began to change. Its earthy appearance began to acquire color, flesh, and flexibility.
They now had a living body, but it did not breathe and had no room for a spirit. Here, Aang acted. A gust of air entered the new entity's nose and mouth, giving it what it needed to be considered a complete being.
It takes energy to design it, earth to create it, fire to temper it, water to give it form, and air to give it spiritual space. The four elements act in harmony, demonstrating that they form a whole and are the basis of existence itself.
Then, an orb of white light with blue lines forming a rhombus emerged from Aang's chest and entered the chest of her new body, causing her heart to beat for the first time.
She was a woman with white skin, long blue hair, and the figure of a mature woman, voluptuous without being obscene, older but not old. Her eyelashes fluttered as she tried to open her eyes. It was the first time she had done this, so it took her a long time.
When she finally did, the world seemed to pause for a moment. Her pupils were not normal; they were a pair of navy blue diamonds with a small black dot in the middle. After a few millennia, they observed the world again.
The physical and spiritual worlds were shaken. Some special spirits came to watch, but before they could see what was happening, they were surrounded by hundreds of past avatars led by Wan.
Except for a few powerful spirits who refused to leave, the weaker ones fled. Perhaps the only spirits permitted to witness this process were Tui and La, as it was taking place in their territory of the physical world.
Raava, who could easily see what was happening, waved her hand, then realized nothing had happened. She looked at her hands, confused.
"I don't feel the elements in me, and my spiritual energy is at the level of a normal human. Hm... but my powers as a spirit are still there." The woman's eyes sparkled with excitement as she snapped her fingers and produced a sphere of energy that emitted a warm glow.
It was light, but not like Agni's. It was the light of order and peace, her true power. For other beings, this would set them on an extremely dangerous path for ordinary civilizations. But for her, who lived among humans, it meant she could defend herself, nothing more.
"After all, order and peace are not achieved by a little energy alone. It is a duty to which all intelligent beings must aspire." But first..." Raava looked at her naked body. Although she wanted to stop and examine it, she decided to first materialize a dress.
The young people had begun to come out of the state of connection they were in.
"Everything I know about chi is just the basics! I swear, if I performed my special super technique now... wow!" Sokka shouted when he saw Raava's incarnation. Although any other girlfriend would have been angry, Suki didn't complain because she was impressed too, as was everyone else present.
Yes, even Toph, who blinked several times. Not because she could see with her eyes, but because she had taken advantage of this opportunity and had not disappointed Shisui. She couldn't see like the rest, but she wasn't far behind.
If her eyes failed her, she would create a 'Spiritual Eye' and use it to see the world. Shisui, sensing a new line of sight, turned around and saw Toph looking at him, tears falling from her gray eyes.
She hadn't stopped being blind, but she had opened up a new path for herself. After all, Toph was so talented at energy bending that the canonical version of her discovered and used it on her own.
Why couldn't the real Toph in front of him do the same? She was no longer limited by a plot, a canon, or a Dreamer.
"It seems that two people have seen the world again today," Shisui whispered, a smile of joy playing on his lips.
This proved that his crazy plans would never disappoint him!
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AN: Well, let's figure this out. Is Toph capable of creating something like a Spiritual Eye? Well, let's consider several things: The Avatar story draws heavily from Asian and Indian cultures, so inevitably there will be things like this, don't you think? But let's not focus on that now.
It is known that, canonically speaking, Toph developed Energy-Bending. I'm not referring to taking away a Bender's bending, but rather using Chi or spiritual energy to connect with the rest of the world, learning things about faraway places through this connection.
Toph is a character who has often been emphasized as a prodigy, and in the canon, she learned from the Badgermoles, but in this fanfic, she also had Lao Ge as her teacher. Who is Lao Ge? I have mentioned him before. But if you're not paying attention, let me remind you, he's the only human being who is 4,000 years old.
That said, Toph's version in this fanfic has also had opportunities provided by Shisui, who wants her to discover her talent for energy bending, which is why he has given her so much information and even special opportunities, such as this event, or when Shisui achieved Avarition, etc.
All of this has led to the creation of the Spiritual Eye, a technique developed by Toph to observe the outside world in greater detail. You can think of it as an application of the third eye, the divine senses of cultivators, a mental eye, but with 'spiritual' instead, etc. Toph will never stop being blind, and part of what makes her Toph is that she is a disabled person who is much more skilled and capable than any other Earthbender in the series. Toph beat up two Avatars!
By the way, did you notice Sokka's words? Hehehe.
Okay, this ends here. My country has been through a storm, and there is a threat that it will return, but as a category 5... Let's hope it passes us by and doesn't affect other lands, that it fades away into the ocean.
Raava is a tremendous MILF. All the Avatars are her children, which makes her a mother, therefore...