The Weight of Destiny The monks utilized the “Moonwalk” technique.
They rose from the ground and kept jumping around until they were able to master the technique, the monks moving freely in the sky as if they were walking on the ground or dry land.
”Excellent, excellent, Sora!
What a useful and practical technique for benders!” ”True, Sora, your technique is useful for the clan such that it will save individuals who fall from the mountain!” ”Well done, Sora, for your technique may help the clan abandon the glider and allow them to fly freely in the sky,” Gyatso was happy for Sora over his invention of this technique.
After nearly five minutes, the monks descended from the sky and gathered around Sora.
Gyatso looked at the monks and then looked at Sora, “I agree to give the master rank to Sora, for he has reached a stage in airbending that surpasses his age, and his talent is immense, so he deserves the master rank.
Who agrees with me?” The monks looked at one another, “I agree, Gyatso, for Sora has reached the master stage.” ……
After a full hour.
Sora exited from the temple, and on the front of his head and his hands was a new blue arrow tattoo drawn on his body.
This was the sign that an individual had reached the rank of Master in airbending.
”Soraaaaaaaa!!” ”Hello, Aang, how are you?” Sora looked at the enthusiastic Avatar.
”Sora!
You got the airbending tattoo, amazing!
You are the only one at our age who obtained it.” ”It is not a big deal; if I had wanted it before, I would have gotten it, but I did not have a chance to take the test,” Sora replied to him with boredom.
Sora does not hate Aang; although this child is the Avatar, he remains a child.
How dare these elderly monks throw the responsibility of peace upon a child who has not even understood what peace is?!
Sora does not expect much from the Avatar, for he will not rely on him to fight the Fire Nation.
For what is he but a child, how can he realize that what he will fight is a group of genocidal killers?
Sora hated the principle of non-killing or the principle of balance and these boring, completely unrealistic ideas!
We are talking about a war that lasted 100 years of slaughter and killing; do you expect me to erase all these matters or forgive all these massacres by saying that I will restore balance?
What balance?!
When the airbenders were slaughtered in their temples.
What balance, when the airbenders have disappeared such that the world has become containing only the benders of fire, water, and earth?
From the moment the airbenders were slaughtered, balance was lost and it could no longer be returned, for the elements are four, if one is lost, it affects all elements.
Sora is aware that the airbenders will go extinct, but in this period he did not possess the capability, for he was young in age.
Although his talent was gargantuan in airbending in every sense of the word, to the point that he surpassed Aang, yet he is aware that in facing an entire nation, he cannot, for humans have a limit to their energy.
If he were granted time, he would be able to bend air to a terrifying degree.
For in his past life, he was an outstanding student in sciences and elements, so the level of his knowledge of the elements forming the air and what it carries surpassed the imagination of even the monks who were bending air before.
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”Sora, do you want to race me on the air scooter?” Aang looked at Sora, filled with hope, for Sora was the only one who played with him sometimes and was not afraid of him or minimized himself, rather Sora surpassed Aang himself.
”Hmmmm?
Perhaps I should play a little in order to relax my nerves, for since a while I have been drowned in training and isolating myself.” ”Agreed, we will start at one, two, thr—!” Sora created an air ball floating atop it and launched forward with great speed!
”Soraaaa, you are cheating!” Aang launched from behind him riding the air scooter, angry!
”If you are afraid, Aang, just tell me, I will stop and give you the victory,” Sora said it with a provocative tone.
”Impossible, I will defeat you, Sora!” Aang increased the rotational speed and movement of the air ball.
From the intensity of the ball’s speed, a sound of tearing air was heard; Aang drew a little closer to Sora, but he was still slower than him.
”Haha, Aang, did you eat your breakfast today?
It does not look like you are in good health.
Do you want me to make you a cup of milk for babies like you?!” ”Soraaaa, stop making fun of me!” Sora and Aang were moving at maximum speed, to the degree that everything they passed by experienced a violent wind tearing the grass and public pathways.
The airbenders were distancing themselves from them quickly before they would collide into them, for the residents of the temple were accustomed to the chaos of Sora and Aang, for Sora does not care about anyone, but he tries as much as he can not to break the ground.
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Sora and Aang reached the temple garden, and Sora was the first to arrive.
Sora looked at the beautiful place, as the breezes of air were striking the face gently and refreshingly.
Sora loves this place for its stillness and its special beauty.
Aang arrived at the garden and was depressed because he was the loser.
”Do not despair, Aang, for you will defeat me next time, I can feel it,” Sora looked at Aang and encouraged him.
”Really, Sora?
Will I be able to overcome you next time?!” ”Yes, Aang, after a hundred years, perhaps you can!” Sora said it while smiling with arrogance and gloating.
”Do not expect me to be discouraged, for next time I will defeat you,” Aang said while filled with hope.
Both Aang and Sora looked at the natural landscapes of the sky and the clouds as they were moving very slowly but comfortably to the eye.
After a period of quiet and stillness.
”Sora.” ”Yes, Aang?” ”I am the Avatar!” ”And is this news?!” ”You know what I mean.
What do I do?
I am a child, I do not know what to do!” Sora looked at Aang, or the Avatar, with a look of pity, for in the end, Aang is a child.
The idea that you throw the responsibility of the world and peace upon a child who has not even lived his childhood is a stupid and foolish thing.