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“No one has ever passed that question. You should consider yourself lucky,” said the Guider in a much darker voice.

Aang tried to jump over the wall with his Airbending, but he couldn’t Airbend!

“Why can’t I Airbend?!” asked Aang.

“This is my realm and my magic. I choose to face your firebending with my magic!” declared the Guider.

“No fair!”

“What are you waiting for Avatar?” asked the Guider, sticking 2 fingers at Aang with one hand and pointing at the ceiling with the other 2 fingers; revealing his stance.

Aang didn’t bother to reply as he punched out fire at the Guider. He seemed to make a black ball made of shadows and launched it at the fire. It seemed to vaporize the fire. The Guider then made a small ball of lightning in his hand and threw it at Aang. He managed to jump out of the way, even without his airbending.

“Normal Airbender tactics; dodge and evade. Fight like a Firebender!” yelled the Guider.

Aang became ticked and kicked out tons of fire at his opponent. It seemed to die out before it even got to him.

“What’s the matter? Not at your strongest form?” asked the Guider, as he shot out another ball of lightning at him.

Aang made a little wall of fire to vaporize the ball. He remembered how Jet was brainwashed, but was able to come back by past memories.

“Noku! Remember why you’re with us! To free the world from dictatorship!” yelled Aang.

“Your little cries won’t reach him at all. He’s in my control!” yelled back the Guider.

The Guider of the Darkness punched out an aurora of dark energy instead of fire at Aang. He continued to make his wall of fire to block it, though it was starting to weaken. The Guider continued to fire the dark aurora from his arm at the wall. The wall was starting to vanish. Aang could no longer hold up the fire. He jumped out of the way as the energy destroyed the remains of the wall.

“Noku! You’re Aang’s Firebending teacher! Don’t you remember?!” yelled Katara from behind the wall.

“I already told you, your efforts are futile!” yelled back the Guider, as he looked like if he about to make real lightning.

But it wasn’t a lightning ball; he seemed to do it how Noku would make it. But instead of launching it, he surrounded himself in it, making electric armor. The Guider also made fire to cover the body, making it look like if he was on fire while getting electrocuted. He then charged at Aang head on with pools of fire dragging behind him.

“Come on Noku, snap out of it!” yelled Aang.

The Guider tried to jab and punch Aang while in his electric/fire armor. Aang was barely dodging them, knowing if he got touched, he would get burned, electrocuted, and hurt at the same time. Aang jabbed a fire ball at his eyes, causing the Guider to flinch. He then ran to the other side of the fighting ‘realm’ while the Guider was wiping off the pain. He used the time to concentrate on the 3rd thought Noku told him to think weeks earlier. He revealed his inner demon and unleashed all his energy into his blue fire. The Guider noticed this and made more lightning. But instead of just one shot, the lightning was coming from each of his fingers and at the blue blast. They were now seeing who had more power: the Avatar, or the Guider of the Darkness. The 2 elements collided, but no explosion occurred; just them fighting each other. The center-point of the two blasts looked like just a bright light. They continued to unleash all their energy.

“Noku! Snap out of it! It’s me Toph!!” yelled Toph.

The lightning seemed to get a bit weaker from the fingertips of the Guider.

“What’s going on?! Is this boy actually fighting to be set free?!” yelled the Guider, seeming to flinch a bit from his head.

“We got trapped in that hole! You tried to protect me from the falling rocks!” continued to yell Toph.

The lightning just stopped working all of the sudden as the blue fire came at full speed at the Guider without opposition.

“This battle…I lost,” said the Guider, as the fire hit him in the head and caused an explosion.

When Noku’s body hit the floor, it looked like a spirit exited from his body and vanished in a ghostly cry.

The fire wall separating the 2 girls from the 2 men vanished as Katara and Toph rushed to help Noku and Aang. Aang was barely walking and was too weak to speak, instead he pointed at the corner of the hut to see the body of a Water Tribe warrior.

“Sokka!” yelled Katara, as he helped him up.

“What happened?” asked Sokka, rubbing his head.

Katara didn’t answer, as she ran back to the others with her water. She touched Noku’s head with her healing powers. The blackened and burned face healed back to normal.

“That…was unpleasant,” whispered Noku, looking at them.

“Welcome back Fire-head,” said Toph, crying a bit.

“That was some weird witch,” said Sokka, still rubbing his head.

“You said it…” whispered Noku, as he struggled to get up.

The gang helped Sokka and Noku back to the campsite to see everything exactly the way it was.

“At least this is still normal…” said Katara.