Disclaimer: Not only do I not own Avatar, but I don't own any of the allusions to other works, such as Lord of the Rings and Fire and Ice.
Immediately following the season finale, I jumped on the computer and wrote this. Some really great stuff happened, and just enough stuff didn't happen that I want to demand another season. I mean, I read an interview where the creators said they wanted to do more stuff in the world of Avatar, so I'm crossing my fingers.
Right now, I want to hold hands and dance in a circle, but the people at my party already think I'm weird enough. But I'm . . . happy. I'm really, really happy.
But someone else isn't, and it's not Ozai.
Some men just want to watch the world burn. - The Dark Knight
Koh writhed. Flicking through face after face after face, his stiff-jointed legs clicking against stone, he twitched in agitation.
His cage remained locked.
For all his cunning and planning and great visions of a world that would burn for tormenting him so, he remained imprisoned.
So very near the beginning had he been locked here, after his folly and his hunger brought the first chaos into the world, destroying the balance, but he was a powerful spirit. He still held power in the weak of mind in the mortal world, and over humans foolish enough to pass his restraining bars.
They had come so close to releasing him. The powers of balance had waned considerably, but now they waxed again.
"Fire and Water," he hissed to the darkness. "Air and Earth. Day and Night." His cave shook with his rage, the walls resounding a million times with his opposites. "They circle each other in an endless dance . . . chaos and control!" Stalactites crumbled as the great spirit's wrath became real, became solid. "Then why may I not have this dance?!"
You know the answer. . . .
"It is my nature!"
So said the scorpion. Old friend, I thought you would learn something by watching the mortals. You could not end their world in fire.
"Then I will end it in ice! You cannot stop me, those mortals cannot stop me! They will defeat themselves, destroy themselves, and you will have no power to save them!"
That may be so. But they will not be troubled by you. They will have control of their own destines, as you have control of yours. Now you are a mere creature of the void, a rat-viper in a pit. Learn from them.
"It is my nature. . . ."
Koh's echo laughed. Balance and chaos, a part of each other. What is, defined by what is not.
The void.
The light.
The line between them is not blurred.
It simply is not there.
Was anyone else even a little bothered by the cliffhangers?
I understood why they ended it the way they did, because it's Nickelodeon, but it was supposed to be a resolution. Thanks, Mike and Bryan, for leaving us hanging. That's just what I always wanted.
I also wanted to see Koh again, maybe getting some face kibble. More wish fulfillment for Storm.
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