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Avatar: The Last Airbender

TIGA'S LIGHT

Chapter 1: The Stone Giant

Note: This fanfic starts at the beginning of episode 21 (The Avatar State).

"Water...Earth...Fire...Air. The four main elements of the bending arts. Each art represented a part of life itself. That was now, but long ago, people didn't bend the four elements, but the energy within themselves. How does this relate to me, you ask? Me and my kind, the Ultras, were born in the depths of space from a storm caused by the collapse of the endless void. The negative matter was absorbed and an infant of the Ultra was created. The first one ever created flowed towards a nearby planet and was found by a particularly small species known as the humans. They were surprised in awe by it's mildly large size and gave it the name Nexus, the connection between two links. The links meant from the outside world to the human world. Nexus would later be raised as a human. When Nexus turned to his prime, he was beyond larger than almost anything in the world. The only exception was the Lion turtles, who taught the humans how to energybend. The human mind's curiosity grew and they attempted to teach Nexus energybending. Nexus, however, wasn't able to bend...yet. But, with the permission of the benders, he absorbed the energy and later gained the ability to do. In addition, he could bend the ability with ease and could use it as a more offensive weapons, with the humans realizing that Nexus is a being completely made up of energy. After that, Nexus would continue to practice until he fully mastered it. Little did he know that the storm suddenly grew larger and more Ultras were born. After several Ultras landed on the planet, Nexus would decide to raise the younglings. As more Ultras were born, Nexus would soon be recognized as their leader. Things took a change when people discovered the four elements of now. The Ultras took great interest in them and were allowed to take in the elements into themselves, giving them new abilities and power. While many Ultras prefer one or two bending abilities, I ultimately chose to accept all four. When Nexus felt that the Ultras are starting to "crowd" the humans, he created a floating island which would serve as their new home. Everything was peaceful until the void storm turned for the worst. It created mutated and monstrous versions of our kind, which we would later discriminate and call them as the "Seijins." Not only were they deformed to a horrid extent, the had deranged and crazed personalities, which made them dangerous to humans and Ultras alike. We began to reject them and sent them back to space. The void storm eventually exploded and the last result creation was a creature that would later be known as "Gatanozoa". Seeing the Seijins rejected, Gatanozoa massed up an army to attack the Ultras. We took notice of it when we saw Gatanozoa floating in the upper atmosphere. Knowing that only the Ultras can effectively combat the threat, Nexus went to the humans and ordered them not to interfere. He then went to the evil creature and both agreed on terms that the humans will not be participating in the war and both sides will not harm them. Gatanozoa was mildy passive during the first half of the fight, sending all the Seijins to attack the Ultras. We were outnumbered severely, with only about five-hundred of us with over thousands of them, but still fought back without surrendering. The battle was costly, while all the Seijins were either driven away or killed, three-fourths of my kind were decimated. We then realized that the reason why Gatanozoa sent out the Seijins to attack was to weaken us so it can go in to finish things off. Gatanozoa took its time approaching the Ultras, knowing their defeat was sooner or later imminent and victory was near. Nexus then ordered some of us to flee to the humans and I was among the chosen to leave. It turned out that Nexus somehow knew they ultimately weren't going to win the war so he secretly made a plan with the humans to preserve Ultras. As I was sent to a location and was forced to turn into stone. What happened to Nexus and the others, I don't know, but I fear they have been defeated and killed...Many years later, I am awaken and greeted by a boy named Aang. I never knew I would go on a journey with him and his friends. This is my adventure. This is my story."
-Tiga


Appa began to slowly grow tired after flying a bit endlessly.

"Hey guys," Aang called. "I think we should give Appa a break. He's getting kind of worn out."

"Aang, we shouldn't stop," Sokka replied. "We still have to get to Omashu so you can learn earthbending from Bumi."

"Yeah, but Appa really needs a break," Aang replied. "Besides...uh, I think we are kinda lost."

"WHAT?" Sokka yelled, shocked. Even Katara looked up and she said, "But Pakku said to fly east. How hard is that?"

"Pakku also said something about General Fong escorting us," Aang replied calmly. "I don't see anyone around here."

"Well, let's keep looking a little more," Katara suggested. "If we don't find General Fong, at least we could maybe find a place to take a small break."

Aang told Appa to fly lower and the flying bison did so. The group took the chance to look for a good location to stop and recover, but all they saw were mountains and trees. As they kept looking, something up ahead caught Aang's eye. "Hey looks it's a temple on top of that hill. Maybe we could hold there?"

"Seems like our best bet," Sokka said. "But, isn't it a wee-bit suspicious for a temple to lay out in the middle of nowhere?"

"Sokka has a point," Katara agreed. "What happens if the Fire Nation is occupying it?"

"It's the Earth Kingdom, guys," Aang replied. "Even if it was occupied, the Earthbenders would've probably cleared it by now, since it's their territory. Okay Appa, yip yip!"

Appa landed near the temple entrance and as Sokka and Katara jumped off and roamed around to explore, Aang wondered how someone could get here. He found a road and trailed it with his eyes. It lead to a huge gap where the road ended. On the other side was another road which lead into a cave.

'Whoever was here,' Aang thought. 'Probably didn't want anyone to find this place.'

Sighing, he caught up with the two.

"Hey guy-," Aang said when he noticed their surprise expression. "What are you looking a-?"

When he followed the gaze, he was beyond surprise at what stood ahead of him. There stood a big...no, huge giant statue of a humanoid being. It had a weird-looking head, oval-dome eyes and a awkward mouth. There was also a circular diamond-like object on its chest.

"Woah," Aang said looking up, staring in awe.

"Yep," Sokka said, still gazing at the giant statue. "That was how we were like."

"I wonder how someone could even carve something on this scale and in almost-perfect detail," Katara commented. "What exactly is it based on?"

"Let's go into the temple here," Aang suggested, finally taking his eyes off the stone giant. "It could give us some answers."

The trio entered the shrine before them and all there was in it was several columns and a straight path leading to a half-destroyed pillar. As they got closer, they saw what appears to be blue crystals clustered together on top of it.

"That's shiny," Sokka commented, his eyes narrowing. He raised a finger and ws about to reach out for it when Katara stopped him. "Wait, don't touch it!"

"Why?" Sokka asked.

"Uh, maybe it could be dangerous?" Katara said. "It could set a trap?"

"Oh relax, this place is nearly empty," Sokka replied and waved his hands in mild frustration. "What can possibl-"

*KRREEEEEESSS*

Unfortunately, Sokka's arm hit the crystal object, causing it to fall off the pillar and shatter, with one half bursting into pieces. As Sokka was being scolded by his sister, Aang looked around in case there was anything else. He then found some writing with carved images on one column, which happened to be bigger than the others. It displayed the crystal on the pillar which was the same they saw. Next it was a beam erupting from it and into a mirror. The mirror reflected the beam to another mirror and so forth until it reached outside of the base and into the chest of the statue outside. Aang looked behind him. There was the pillar, but in addition a mirror at the side. On the ceiling was another mirror which lead to another, and another, and outside. He could see the statue.

"So that's how?" Aang asked himself and returned his focus on Sokka and Katara. "Guys, put back the crystal..or what's left of it, back on the pillar."

The two stopped arguing and looked at the avatar. "Uh, why?"

"Look at this," Aang says and points at the column with the writing and carved images. Once they looked at it, they asked Aang. "So why are we gonna do that?"

"I don't know," Aang replied. "But hey, it could trigger something. Maybe this is some sort of religion or puzzle. Anyways, I would really like to know what exactly is up with this temple."

"Aang, are you sure this is a good idea?" Katara asked, worried. "What will happen if something 'bad' occurs?"

"For some reason, I don't think it would," Aang replied. "Remember back at Roku's Island, when the sages open the door and reveal more about my past life and about my status as the Avatar? Maybe something similar will happen here. Please."

Sokka placed the "good" crystal half back on the pillar. He and Katara hesitated, but eventually gave in. Aang looked at the columns and followed the instructions. He fixed the mirror and a faint light cast from the crystal reflected at the other mirrors. It slowly founds its way into the chest of the statue outside.

"C'mon," Aang said and the group ran to get another closer look. They halted when they had a close-up view. There was was circular thing on the chest and it began to glow, getting slightly brighter every second. The group looked back at the crystal and saw it was disapparating into nothingness. Once the the crystal was completely gone, they returned their eyes back on the statue. The circular object on the statue was in a sky shade of blue. That was when a blinding light erupted towards them followed by a high frequency. The trio looked away.

"Agh!" Sokka yelled. "Too bright!"

"It must be working," Aang said. The light faded a little, allowing the three to see without covering their eyes. The statue was no longer there, but suddenly, something shot up in its place. The being erupted from the light and yelled, "CHEA!"

The three, who were surprised by the already big statue, were even more astonished to see the giant. It retained the overall appearance, but silver, dark lavender, and, red. The whitish-yellow eyes were glowing like fire.

"Th-th-that statue was alive?" Sokka stuttered. "And colorful?"

"Unbelievable," Katara stated.

"L-l-looks friendly to me," Aang gulped.

A second later, purple lightning shot out of its circle thing on its chest, and in a flash of light, the colors on the giants were replaced by black and dark gray.

"Uh," Sokka said, now scared. "Mr. Colorman suddenly turned into Mr. Tall, Dark, and, Creepy."

The sudden change also made Aang nervous.


I first thought of this idea after watching ATLA on and then watching an Ultraman Tiga OP video on youtube. Both got stuck in my head. Can't ignore it so might as well mash 'em together. To me, I like this idea.

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