The Dark Lord Voldemort walked smugly through the town, smirking as he walked. The prophecy that had foretold his downfall, at the hands of a child, no less, would be null and void by morning. If it hadn't of been for his rat – literally – in the old fools ranks, it would have taken much longer for him to find the child of the prophecy.

He walked towards the designated house, looking over the wards that lay under the fidelius charm. He would admit, they were impressive, but they relied too heavily on the charms protection. He walked through the walks, mentally thanking the rat for keying him in, and blasting the door off its hinges.

He heard babies screaming and a man yelling. Something about getting the babies out of there. He silently put up anti apparition and port key wards before turning his wand on the man in question. Funny he thought how this man would dare to face him wandlessly.

Complying with Snape's wishes, he sent a stunner towards the man, sending him flying across the room, landing with a sickening crunch against the wall. He glided up the stairs, blasting the door to the nursery open, smirking as he did so. "Give me the boys, and I will let you live" he demanded in a gruff voice.

"No, please! Anything but my boys! Please, take me instead!" the woman begged and pleaded, barring the way between the cribs and himself.

"Silly girl, I would have let you off with a warning, however, your groveling disgusts me." The dark lord flicked his wand, sending the woman flying across the room. He looked at the two boys in their cribs, one quietly sleeping, the other standing, and holding onto the railing of the crib with his pudgy hands.

"Zeigen Sie Ihren Strom" Voldemort muttered, waving his wand over the two boys, a faint white mist billowing from the tip of his wand. The cloud split into two, hovering around the two boys in their separate cribs, as the mist slightly throbbed with pulses of the white light. The cloud around the boy on his left, the sleeping one, turned into a vibrant green, streaked with silver, and faint traces of pale blue. A minute later, the cloud around the standing boy changed color, but not to what Voldemort had been expecting. The boy was wreathed in a cloud of bright, shocking purple, mixed with black and red, with purple as the dominant color.

He frowned, staring at the boy quizzically. This was going to be interesting he thought. He pointed his wand at the standing boy, the killing curse passing his lips instantly. He lowered his wand, but did not expect what happened next, and so was not quick enough to react. The spell hit the boy in the face, but rather than sinking into the boy's body, it swirled around him and his brother, growing in size. It quickly engulfed Voldemort, his body searing in pain as his physical body turned to ash, throwing him from the mortal world. The last sight that met his eyes before his death, was that of swirling purple and green flames, engulfing the two brothers and winking out of existence, leaving no traces of the boys behind.

Senna walked through the snow, crying slightly as she made her way to her and Tonraq's tiny hut. She had hoped Korra would make it through the fever, had so desperately hoped that her small, tiny, one year old body would make it through the illness. But it had been for naught. Even Katara, the world's best healer, had been unable to do anything for Korra. She sniffled quietly, wiping her tears away as she laid her hand on the door to the hut, when she heard a baby crying.

She thought she had been hearing things, her mind playing tricks on her in her grief addled state. But there it was again, and again. Two cries, possibly two babies. Followed by the cries, was a sudden flare of green and purple light. Senna removed her hand from the handle, quickly huddled into her thick, heavy coat, shielding her from the severe cold of the snow and the wind. She quickly and surely moved towards the sound of the cries, and was shocked at what she found. Two, pale skinned toddlers, no older than a year old, wearing odd, but thin, clothes, huddled up in the snow, one hugging the other as if for protection.

Senna's motherly instincts kicked in immediately. Shrugging off the thick, warm woolen coat, she wrapped up the two boys, making sure to cover every inch of exposed skin on the two boys. Ensuring the toddlers were warm, she hurried off towards the hut, toddlers in hand, eager to get warm again. She burst through the door, startling Tonraq in his seat, who had been quietly drinking his usual hot coffee. As he turned to Senna, he was shocked at the site before him.

With a small smile on her face, Senna said "Look who I found, honey. They were just lying there, in the snow. Probably freezing, they were wearing very thin clothes."

Tonraq was quick to act, grabbing bottles of milk, and hurriedly warming them over the fire. "Well, don't just stand there, Senna. Put them near the fire, they'll warm up quicker there."

After placing the boys in front of the fire, still wrapped in her coat, Senna turned to her husband with a questioning look. "What should we do? What heartless monster would leave two beautiful baby boys out in the snow like that? Do you think we should take them in?" she quickly rattled off to her husband. Hoping to calm down his loving wife, he grabbed both of her hands in his, and pulled him into his chest, placing a kiss on her forehead. The woman quickly calmed down in his embrace.

"First off" Tonraq started. "I don't know what kind of monster would do that. They are beautiful, and I don't know why anyone would leave them out in the snow. Secondly, I would say we look around first and see if they haven't just wandered off from their parents. But are you sure you would want to take them in? I know you haven't completely recovered from Korra, and it's quite obvious, before you say anything." She closed her mouth at this, and he chuckled deeply at the look she gave him. "But whatever you want, darling. If this will help you with recovering from what happened, then so be it. But, we should first see if anyone is missing in the village before doing anything drastic okay?"

Senna nodded quietly, still in her husband's loving embrace. "Okay, Tonraq. But if no one steps up for them, we are keeping them okay." There was a finality in her voice, putting an end to the matter at hand. Senna turned her head to look at the boys, and laughed at the site that befell her. Both boys had fallen asleep in front of the fire, still wrapped up tight in her coat, drool slowly dripping from both boys mouths. Tonraq chuckled deeply too, when he had seen what had started to make Senna laugh for the first time since Korra had passed. This was going to be interesting indeed.

Three days later…

Tonraq looked cheerfully towards Senna, happy that she was now back to her normal self after months of grief. It had taken longer than they had thought to ask the whole village about the boys, but it had been difficult when they didn't even have names for them. Though I will say Tonraq thought to himself Senna is going to be very excited to hear the news.

When Tonraq had had a proper look at the two boys, he had found a particularly nasty gash running from the left brow to the middle of the cheek on one of the boys, the one with the black hair. He had used his, admittedly, limited knowledge in healing to stem the bleeding and seal the wound, but had needed to consult Katara in relation to properly healing the wound. It had re opened twice now, and he was well aware of the fact that if it wasn't healed properly, he could lose another child. And this one wasn't even his.

He walked over to the house he shared with his loving wife, followed quickly by Katara, swiftly letting them both in, and shutting the door quickly, so as to not let out any of the precious heat. He quickly motioned Katara over to the boys, where Senna was sitting with them, entertaining them both with the various toys they still had lying around the house.

"Thank you for arriving so quickly, Master Katara" Senna said, as soon as she had noticed the two enter the house. "We were slightly worried for him, but we knew you would be able to fix these problems quickly."

"I assume you are going to adopt the both of them, from what Tonraq has told me" Katara said as she sat down on the floor with Senna and the boys. "And I've been told you don't have names for them yet. Am I correct?"

"That you are, Master Katara" Senna replied quickly. "On both accounts. We were actually waiting for you to arrive to go through with the adoption, actually. I've heard that there is a way to adopt them so that they share our blood, correct?"

"That you are, dear Senna" Katara replied quietly. "Though I will warn you, it is painful. It requires the use of Blood Bending, and though it is illegal, it is the only part of Blood Bending I have agreed to have stay legal." She pulled to slender glass vials from her coat, and handed one to Senna, and one to Tonraq. "I want you both to fill these with your blood, completely. Normally, I would only require half, but you have two kids to adopt, so I require double. The full moon is tomorrow night, so I wish for you to meet me at my hut, right on nightfall, with the boys and the blood. Do I have your word?"

Both Senna and Tonraq nodded in affirmative, and Katara smiled, pleased at this. "Now I see one needs medical attention, and I assume this was the main reason I am here, yes?"

"That is correct" Tonraq said quickly. "I tried to do some quick healing, but all I know is quick, on the field medical attention. It's only meant to last a day or two, and by then they should have seen an expert."

"Ah, I see" Katara said cheerfully. "I'm sure it's just a quick fix, is all. I'm afraid that the scar will be permanent, but it will be properly healed when I'm done. Now come here, little raven." She said, turning to the rave haired boy, who giggled at his nick name.

She uncorked her water skin, bending the water onto her palms, passing the cool, soothing liquid over the boys wound. Her scrunched up his face, feeling the skin and muscle knit back together, the feeling awkward and uncomfortable, yet soothing to the touch, calming him down. However, as Katara moved her healing hands over the mending skin, she felt a dark, almost evil, presence in the scar, as if a vengeful spirit had possessed the boy. After she had finished the healing, she bended the water back into the skin, and turned to Tonraq.

"I need more water" was the first thing Katara said, and Senna quickly got up from the floor, rushing to help the Water Bending master. "Tonraq, do you know how to cleanse a spirit of evil? I know your brother does, but he is too far away at this moment in time."

"I am aware of how to do it, yes" Tonraq said quickly, slight worry creeping into his voice. "Unalaq showed me before I was banished from the Northern Water Tribe."

"Good, because I will need your help. There is some form of corrupt spirit residing in little ravens scar, but only a fragment from what I can tell. As the wound seems to be fresh, it must recently attached to the boy. We need to cleanse it, so that we can remove it."

Senna walked in, carrying two large buckets full of water, as Tonraq nodded. Senna placed the buckets down in front of the two benders, and stood back to watch the procession. They quickly, and quietly, moved to either side of the raven haired boy, moving their arms in long, smooth, swaying motions, bending the water from the buckets. The water twisted and turned, making a double helix of water, surrounding the carefully observant boy. From where the water made a perfect circle on the ground, a glowing gold made its way up from the ground, surrounding the boy, glowing brighter, blocking the boys from sight. A pulse of energy shot out from the rings, an ear piercing scream echoing around the room. Though, to the surprise of the adults in the room, it wasn't that of the young boy, but that of a grown man, suffering in pain, as if he had been tortured his whole life. As quickly as it started, the screaming suddenly stopped, and the water suddenly fell quickly to the ground, no longer under the power of the benders.

The boy was laying on the floor, unconscious, sleeping steadily, breath calm and steady, as if nothing had happened. Katara quickly knelt down, manipulating the water back around her hands, checking for any signs of damage. She sighed quickly in relief, finding nothing wrong with the boy.

"There is nothing wrong with him, thankfully" Katara announced once she was adamant there was nothing wrong. "Just sleeping."

Tonraq and Senna breathed a sigh of relief, not sure what had really happened, but relieved that everything was okay with their new sons.

The next day, as promised, Tonraq and Senna made their way to Katara's hut, each one carrying one of the boys, and a full vial each of their blood. Katara was standing outside her hut, patiently waiting for the four to arrive.

"Good, you are early" Katara called out calmly to the couple. "We are to make our way to the Southern Spirit Shrine, where the ritual is to take place. The quicker we are, the more time we have when the moon is at its peak."

The three adults quickly made their way towards the shrine, which looked more like a temple with its large size. Built entirely out of a combination of black and white ice, in swirling patterns reminiscent of the moon and ocean spirits swimming patterns. The halls were warm and inviting, despite the abundance of ice, and under the dome topped roof sat an oasis, devoid of snow and ice, perpetually warm and inviting. Four bridges, set at each of the cardinal points of a compass, led from the cold, stone floor over a warm moat of water. Ringed by the water was a small island, covered in grass and dotted with flowers of bright yellows, oranges and reds, with a cherry blossom tree sitting between the northern and western bridges. The long, reaching branches stretched over the island, some of the branches reaching down into a small pool of calm, still warm water.

When the group reached the small island, Katara quickly set to work in preparing for the ritual that was about to take place. She pulled out two candles from the worn bag around her shoulder, one completely black with three white streaks cutting through the black, the other blinding white, with three black streaks cutting through the white. She also pulled out a bag of incense and a small bowl, dumping the contents of the bag into the bowl, and placing it on the ground. Two candle holders came out of the bag as well, one of startling gold, the other of blinding silver, placing them on either side of the bowl of incense, gold to the east and silver to the west, placing the candles into the candle holders, black into silver and white into gold. Katara looked up, watching as the moon inched closer to be fully encompassed by the hole in the dome at its peak, waiting for the right time.

"Quickly now, we don't have much time" Katara motioned for the couple to place the boys on the ground, one facing north, the other south. She pulled another bowl out of her bag, this one made entirely of stone, carved with ancient runes and characters of long forgotten power. She pulled a small stick of charcoal out of the bag, and two smooth plates of stone, drawing the characters for the moon and ocean spirits on each plate, and placing the stone next to their respective candles. Katara bustled around the small pool, placing everything intricately in its correct position, ensuring the distance from one another was correct. She moved to the northwest corner of the island, directly in front of the cherry blossom tree, placing the heavy stone bowl on the ground in front of her.

"Tonraq, Senna, please come here" Katara called to the couple, who walked over to her quickly and excitedly. "Now Tonraq, I want you to kneel in the northeast section of the island, facing the pool." The big, burly man quickly complied with the old woman's words. "Senna, I want you to do the same, but in the southwest." The tiny followed Katara's words perfectly.

Katara knelt down in her place, instructing the others to follow her movements, and to kneel the same way. She held her hand out, asking for the vials of blood that were needed. She quickly uncorked the two vials, pouring half of their contents into the bowl, the runes and characters etched across its surface starting to glow a faint gold. She looked up expectantly to the hole in the roof, feeling her strength growing as the full moon moved ever higher into the night sky. At this, she pulled a box of matches from her bag, lighting the incense first, fanning the small flame and then quickly blowing it out, allowing the sweet scents to mix with those of the cherry blossom and flowers, small swirls of smoke moving through the air.

She leant over the pool, touching the match to the white candle, quickly moving back once the wick had been lit, quickly saying "We ask Tui, spirit of the moon, to allow us to proceed with this ritual." The plate with the character for the moon shimmered and started glowing a bright silver, in recognition and acceptance. Katara repeated the actions with the black candle, saying "We ask La, spirit of the oceans, to allow us to proceed with this ritual". The same thing happened to the character for ocean, but turned a bright blue instead. Without warning, the two spirits appeared in the small pool, swirling in their constant motions, eliciting a small gasp from Senna, and widened eyes from Tonraq.

"I ask the spirits, in their divine wisdom, to tell us with whom we shall start."

Tui left the swirling motions, and moved to be behind the sleeping form of the brown haired boy.

"I ask the spirits for permission to gain an offering from the boy."

The stone plates pulsed with light in acceptance of this demand. From the bag, Katara pulled a long bladed, silver knife with a handle intricately carved to look like the swirling motions of the waves, topped with a deep blue sapphire shaped like a rain drop. She cradled the brunettes hand in hers and quickly sliced across the palm with the knife, eliciting a sharp intake of breath from Senna. As blood bloomed on the boy's palm, Katara quickly, and deftly grabbed a third vial from the pockets of her coat and dripped the life sustaining liquid into the vial. When she had the required amount of blood, she stemmed the bleeding and quickly healed the wound with bending before proceeding.

She poured the contents of the third vial into the stone bowl, the now golden runes turning a bright green, in acceptance of the blood. She grabbed the boys other hand and sliced the palm again, quickly stemming the flow of blood, yet keeping the wound open. Using her heightened power, and to the amazement of the others, she manipulated the blood in the bowl, moving it towards the cut on the boys hand. Quickly and painlessly, Katara maneuvered the blood into the little boy's body, and sealing the cut before any blood seeped out.

She quickly cleaned both knife and bowl before continuing on with the ritual. The three of them watched quietly as Tui returned to the center of the pool, and La made its way towards the raven haired boy, as Katara poured the remaining contents of the two vials into the bowl, the runes glowing a soft gold again.

"I ask the Spirits for permission to gain an offering from the boy."

Again the stone plates pulsed in acceptance of the request, and followed he same steps as she had with the brunette. When the second cut had been sealed, and knife and bowl had been cleaned again, she asked the spirits one last thing.

"May the boys bath in your waters, so as to help them through the changes?"

The plate's pulsed one final time before fading out, and Katara carefully lifted and placed each boy into a sitting position in the waters of the central pool. The white koi fish moved over to the brunette, while the black koi moved over to the raven haired boy.

"So what do you wish to name them, dearies?" Katara asked the new parents calmly.

"I-I th-think" Senna cleared her throat before restarting. "I think we would like to name the brunette Azulon, he does have a bit of the fire nation look to him."

"And for the raven" Tonraq continued on. "I think Noatak would be a fitting name for him."

"Excellent. Senna, Tonraq, I present to you your new sons, Azulon and Noatak."