Grieve for Mankind
Summary: The Spirit World is upset with how lightly the humans have acted after the victory against the Phoenix King Ozai. They plan to vanquish all humans from the world and reclaim it for all other creatures. But Aang was able to persuade them to give them a second chance. Thus, the Spirit World has sent their darkest emissaries, the undead.
Pairings: OC/Zuko and OC/Toph (possibly)
Episode One: The Owl and the Avatar
The Owl of the Great Library or Wan Shi Tong, stood at the center of the astrodome, the very one Sokka had used to calculate the event of the solar eclipse for the first invasion which had apparently failed. He looked up at the stars of the dome, which was just the same as the ones upon the sky now. The Spirits have been restless for the past years. Humans haven't changed. Many of his kin woe the loss of their homes and their existence as the humans still plunder the forests, tunnels, waters and even skies to make their own. He sighed, as he recalled the council of the Greater Spirits. They have tolerated humans for many generations, even when the human race was still young.
"What does the council decree?" he had asked.
"Humans no longer deserve this world. They are all to be banished."
"How?"
"Kill them all."
Upon the world, he could sense that the Avatar was also feeling the unrest of the Spirit World. He had kept a close eye on the Avatar, young as he was; he knew he had a good heart. The Owl missed the monks; he missed their patience, justice and their care for the Spirit World. The Avatar was raised by the monks and he had hoped that he could restore that sacramental care. But as it was, worldly matters always pressed the Avatar.
The council had convened just a few hours ago. The Owl was tasked to begin the genocide of the human race. He harbored ill will towards the human race as well, for their greed and abuse of knowledge, knowledge used to destroy themselves. All that was left now was for him to call his children and they shall easily carry out the task. But he waited for something else. Someone else.
"Mr. Owl?" a young voice called out into the room.
The Owl looked behind him and there the Avatar stood, timidly, though he had grown since the last they met, a good three years now. He was still very much a child though. Of course, the Avatar was the only link between the worlds.
"I knew you'd come, Avatar Aang," the Owl replied.
"I felt that I had to come. Something big is about to happen between the Spirit World and our world, isn't there?" he said.
"Yes… This event will change your world," the Owl replied vaguely.
Aang clenched his teeth. Sweat broke from his forehead, even though he was in his spirit form. He told Katara that he was having premonitions of a new battle, one they couldn't win. She was kind about it, but he didn't think she knew the urgency, the pressing need to act upon it. So he set out alone, back to the mountains where felt more at peace and more connected. Then, he set out to the Spirit World.
"I thought that you couldn't interfere with the human race," Aang said.
"No. But we can do something for the world we all live in. The Greater Spirits are very disappointed with the human race and feel that the world doesn't need them as much…"
Aang didn't like the sound of it. He didn't think he was going to like what it really meant as well.
"What do you plan for us then?"
"To kill you all," came a different male voice as two pairs of feet came into the room.
Aang turned around and saw two very human-looking creatures, a boy and a girl; though he knew they couldn't be human. They seemed like spirits but with a very different aura. Like an unwanted but sweet after-taste of tea. They must be twins, he concluded as they both looked very alike, very pale skin, silvery-blonde hair, slender hands. They boy was taller though and sharper in features while the girl had doleful eyes, both very blue.
Aang was too mesmerized by the image of the twins that he hadn't immediately internalized what had been said fast enough.
"Kill?"
He could feel his knees go weak. Death was something familiar yet always new to him. He never gave killing much thought and always thought of more pacifist ways.
"Have the Greater Spirits thought this through? You can't kill the whole human race! I've always thought that the spirits were just and wise and protected the world," Aang burst out, his arms flailing wildly.
"We can kill the human race, the whole of it," the girl said, speaking slowly and her eyes moving from Aang to the Owl. "Now, it's merely a question of if we should?"
The Owl seemed perceptive of her words. "Avatar Aang, these are my children, Mina and Milo."
Aang bowed to them. But they paid no heed as their father spoke.
"Avatar Aang, I've tasked my children to set out and destroy the human race. But as it is, I'm very unwilling to do so."
He breathed in slowly, hoping to delay the Armageddon that was about to happen. He could feel some hope in what the Owl had to say. He hoped he felt it right. Or else, he could do nothing.
"Instead, I'll send them as envoys to the human world and let them both decide its fate."
Aang saw the subtle surprise in both twins. He, on the other hand, was more than grateful.
"Thank you, Mr. Owl. I'm very grateful and I'm sorry if I judged the Greater Spirits too quickly," he clapped his hands and bowed low.
"I will send my children to the Fire Kingdom in three days time. Convince and impress my children that the human race still has some hope left. But quickly. If the Greater Spirits are just and wise, they are not so patient. And neither am I."
With that, Aang left the Spirit World and woke up to the darkness of the mountains and the light of the stars on the sky.
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The Owl was alone with his children now. And Milo had kept his tongue in check while the Avatar was present.
"You're delaying this? I thought you loathed the human race more than any other Spirit?" Milo argued, his voice rising.
Mina opened up her mouth to speak but was cut off. "Don't you dare enter this conversation. You're humankind's biggest fan and I bet one foot in the human world will set your little head reeling with impossible ideas that they deserve to live."
The Owl frowned at this. "Don't speak to your sister like that."
Milo took in a deep breath and calmed himself down. "May I ask why, please? Why the delay?"
"Because Father knows that maybe they do deserve to live, more so than we do," Mina said.
Yeay! I'm done!
Please read and review because I'd really like to know what you think, even if it's just the first chapter. I hope to update soon but with my busy sleeping schedule, it's always a nightmare. I might be narcoleptic…or hoping to be…
