Hello universe, I do still exist on this mystical plane.
The Spirit Of Autumn chapter 1
(The Beginning )(part 1)
(redo)
Disclaimer: I do not own ATLA, I just have Autumn and my various headcanons. ;)
I am re-re-writing (No clue how to spell that) my story, this is the old story: I found new found inspiration at 3 am and it's 5:01 now so, hey why not! Here is the first part of chapter 1.
But currently, I logged on to Fanfic after a good long while and felt the urge to re-re-write this idea that I still need to share with the world , that has been blooming within me since I was 12 (A.K.A. way before Korra came around, so a couple of things might be irrelevant or not make sense now, but that's okay, I just want to share my idea with you all) and do it in a less cringy, hopefully, more enjoyable way !
If you catch any hiccups or grammatical errors, please do point it out, CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms welcome.
This is hopefully ( I feel like Katara), the first of many, re-re-writes.:)
I hope you enjoy it! :)
Have a wonderful day and/or night :)!
Ordered, I might be a walking contradiction and impulsive, but I usually followed orders...especially if they sounded more like pleas.
But even though a silent battle raged inside me while I came to a decision, my bones sang with the knowledge that I could not stand by on the sidelines, even if I got hurt, even if it meant disobeying the people who cared about me. I needed to do something... anything.
For reasons beyond me, I felt the pull to act, a voice spoke about not being helpless again.
I took a breath my eyes shining despite the odd pitch-black of the frosty night. The Avatar was outside, he was fighting, they all were, my entire nation was fighting for their lives, Yue was fighting... I turned towards the passageway, I would be fighting too.
Invasion or no invasion, I would not leave my friends, my fellow beings, my loved ones, alone, I would not silently abandon them.
I would not abandon Yue, even if she was being guarded.
The urge to act was too strong and I was not known for my ability to restrain myself from the things which I was so passionate about.
I could not simply sit around doing nothing; I had to do something about it.
I was sure she would understand. That they would understand.
I did not bother taking my parka with me after I'd made up my mind, perhaps I was afraid the simple act would deter me. I continued along my path and despite the slight chill, I managed to carefully make my way outside to the spirit oasis.
The biting and brisk air was barely felt on my bare skin as I climbed through the door and blazed through the snowy grass (I made a mental note of the earlier snowfall ).
My steps were light and airy due to many years of talking myself into defense and slight combat lessons. As I danced through the grass with a grace I was not aware I possessed ( I kinda sucked at stealth, it was more than likely bad for my health ), I hoped it would be enough to keep me hidden until I got a hold of the current situation.
But even after many seconds of almost soundless breaths and the grand effort that I implored into the "not being seen" thing, I felt a shadow looming over me. Fear drenched my bones and due to the tug at my gut, the same that had sent me down this path, I swiftly glanced up. When my gaze met the source of the shadow my breath escaped me, my eyes widening in awe and wonder. Right before me ( I must have been lost in thought because I was only 15 feet away from the pond at the center of my destination) stood a huge creature formed by a glowing and powerful water, and it had risen from the oasis pond.
Something in me flashed...Ying and yang...
The resemblance to the creatures that thrived within my dreams was striking... the creature looked like the ocean spirit.
Something was going down (whatever it was could not be good, at all), so following that intuitive pull, I stared up at that strangely dark sky, moonless sky... I sky that should be glowing...A power that I had not felt surge... ( I might have noticed if not due to my mental conversations.)
Worry filled my soul in an instant. My people were almost defenseless against the raging firebenders. Pulling that brand of panic down within me, I scanned my surroundings, suddenly glad for the oasis's relatively small square footage compared to the rest of the icy tundra.
Yue and 3 other's, (slightly familiar but it was too dark to tell, they did not stand out like Yue did with her silky snow white hair.)
I found myself sprinting across the field blending into the consuming dark. Fear igniting.
The darkness, I let the shadows consume me and my ridiculously bright blue hair, I let them hide me as I hoped I would not be seen.
Why I did not know, but once I was hidden I looked upon the scene, turning up my eavesdropping ears, making sure they were at maximum capacity or on high and stayed tune, for the conversation that I felt was fast approaching.
It came as Yue murmured "then I will give it back," to an aged man holding a dead fish.
A fish... like those that swam in the pond... two...one dead... no moon.. ocean spirit... (The water creature had gotten up and moved towards the surely still raging battle as I had made a home for myself in the darkness)... my brain connected the dots and my blue hair shone.
The conversation continued as my mind reeled and I naturally followed it.
The younger boy spoke next, his appearance (due to my closer distance) was so familiar a name almost took hold on my tongue, but it slipped into an abyss as a dread climbed over me and I could not figure out who it was exactly in the blurring darkness. The roaring in my ears began slightly turning down my eavesdrop mode. The scene blurred...
But I focused on a voice as I heard a shout that, my eyes found, was indeed being emitted from the boy's vocal cords. He was shouting "no your father told me to protect you!" and instantly I knew where the dread had blossomed from, I knew why I had lost myself for a second because the realization was too horrible and I perhaps , too selfish ...
I felt myself lunge out of the shadows, probably looking as wild and as disheveled and scared as I felt.'
Without my knowledge I roared, "No you can't!" as I exposed myself to as much light as possible in a moonless night; but I was too late, by seconds, but still late.
Yue had already made her choice, once she made her mind up there was no breaking her determination, so just as I finally spoke, Yue touched the dead fish and fell. My voice drowned out by the light, by her once pounding heart.
I stopped breathing.
My Ocean blue hair shone in the moonlight that gently appeared.
The boy caught her body, a husk now, she was gone , my best friend, I felt it, but I also felt a strong pull in my gut and knew I could bend again.
That did not matter, though, sure I was incredibly proud of Yue, I felt as if she had completed her destiny, one I always knew would come to pass, but I was devastated at the fact I would never ever get to really be with my best friend again. The loneliness and anguish hit me in pangs .
Tears streamed down my face like gushing waterfalls, my head spun, and I felt sick.
Whatever the people by the pond where doing was lost to me, was that Yue's mystical voice? I could not tell. Things blurred ...reality shattered into red fragments around me.
That's when the rage hit, pure rage that was like nothing I had ever experienced before, not in this life.
I knew I was upset at Yue for leaving, but this was not my emotion, it was foreign yet strangely familiar , an echo from a past that did not exist. (could not) , a dream, it was someone else's feeling.
The question was, who's?
What made them feel this anguish and a blindingly sharp concoction of pain and fear?
Through the scattering rush of emotions, I glanced up to find a clearing world. My gaze met two pairs of blue eyes blurry but there, one pair richer than the other ( four eyes wholly concentrated on me... was I insane or shouldn't there of been six, had the man silently gone , slipped away in the frenzy ? )
I realized it had probably been a minute or 2. Whatever or wherever that emotion had come from , it had consumed me and screwed with my already questionable perception of time.
These people (A Teenage boy and A Teenage girl, the old man were gone, that much became clear as my vision and mind did,) had probably swallowed down there shock and had turned to investigate the stranger (me).
The boy, -he really did look familiar, his name lingered on my tongue yet again ,and (the possibly younger, if only slightly) girl looked similar to him ,recognition sparked in me as I met her gaze, something with a Kā¦love...family... and those sapphire eyes , give me as second- and the girl, they approached me , or began to approach me. I say began because I then felt it, a blazing pain in my temples, the ground lurching beneath my swaying feet, I instinctively pressed my hands against my temple searching for balance, searching to clear the pain with a healing touch.
I felt all the energy draining from my body as if it were being leeched on ( was it that person ? The one with the roaring rage? ), my hair losing its glint, my eyes losing their sparkle.
I heard a concerned voice in the distance, but I did not focus on the sound, I could barely process my own thoughts. Things began to scatter and slip. (like me)
I felt faint and gravity decided to pull me to the ground. There was slight awareness within me of the slow-motion like falling as the colorful and blurry world lost it's light in hexagonal blocks and all faded into a dull oblivion.
I did not even feel the impact as my body slammed onto the grass. My spirit was already long gone by then.
