Imaginary Friends
Korra ran through her newly built snow fort, stick in hand. The seven year old was ready for battle as she swung her stick around destroying invisible enemies.
"Take that you heartless," Korra declared as she won the imaginary fight. Then she looked to her left and shocked at another invisible enemy, "Oh no, Nobodies! Donald get them."
Korra then waved her stick like a wand, "Blizzaga!" Korra then quickly moved her hand making a snowball fly at the invisible enemy. Despite the snowball's crash, Korra still won.
"Yes, we did it," Korra jumped, "Now lets go beat the organization."
"Korra," Korra looked to see her mother approaching her, "Korra it's time for dinner."
Korra pouted, her play time had come to an end, "But mom, we haven't defeated Xemnas yet."
Korra's mother giggled, "I'm sure the worlds will survive one more day," She held out her hand, "Come on, you also have an important lesson with master Katara tomorrow. She's going to teach you to heal."
Korra sighed, "I wouldn't need to if that healing spell worked."
"Well you're the avatar not a wizard," Her mother reminded.
"Why can't I be both?" Korra asked as she took her mother's hand. Her mother couldn't help but smile. She was happy Korra was playing like a normal child. Sometimes she wondered if she did the right thing, calling the White Lotus when Korra was only four. But she didn't think she had much of a choice, Korra somehow discovered she could bend other elements, not just water. That much power in the hands of a four year old, wasn't a good thing. But when Korra began the training she didn't take to it well at first. She was being constantly told what to do, how to control her bending when she had already controlled it so well. Not to mention she had to live in a compound under the White Lotus's surveillance almost every second of the day. And Korra could only go out with either her parents or the White Lotus's guard. She must have felt like a prisoner. It only got worse when she started to have nightmares.
Korra began to have nightmares about monsters. Black monsters that came out of the shadow, with yellow glowing eyes. They attacked people, turning them into monsters and destroyed worlds. Korra kept waking up crying to her parents' distress. It didn't help that Korra started to think that those nightmares were real, that those monsters were coming to destroy everything she loved. Korra tried to get strong too fast, she even tried to challenge fully grown and trained benders. But of course she lost and when she did she would cry. Afraid that when the monsters did come she couldn't protect the world as the avatar should.
Despite her parents telling her that dreams weren't real. That she would get strong as she got older. But Korra was little, she couldn't understand that yet. But then, thank the spirits, the dreams began to change. Heroes began to appear in Korra's dream. Defeating the monsters and saving the worlds. What were once terrifying nightmares, became fun adventurous dreams for Korra to enjoy. In fact, she couldn't stop talking about them now.
"… then they got to this huge white castle that floats in the sky. But they couldn't get to it, but then the keyblade appeared in Sora's hand, when he pointed it at the castle, it made a light bridge that let them in. And Namine came and saved Kairi, and then…"
"Alright," Korra's father said, "It's exciting but you still need to eat your sea plum stew."
Korra made a face of disgust but she ate it anyway.
After dinner and her bath Korra was tucked in bed. When she saw the light under her door go off. She turned he lamp on and pulled out some papers and crayons. Among the papers were childish drawings of Sora's adventures. Currently the one she was working on was a drawing of the heart shape moon. She filled the heart with the color yellow. Once it was finished she went back to bed. She needed to know how they beat Xemnas and saved the world, again.
Ten years later
Korra sat in her room on air bender island. She had just come back from her 'challenge' with Amon. She still felt like she was going to break down into tears. He had his hands on her face, he could have taken her bending away so easily. He didn't, because he chose not to.
She felt so weak, so terrified. Some avatar she turned out to be. She couldn't do any air bending and the first time she came across someone who threatened the world she couldn't defeat him.
What do you think Avatar Aang would have done in your place?
The reporters question surfaced in her mind. What would have Aang done? He ended the hundred year war at the age of thirteen. Would he have succeeded, would he had just sat there and let someone like Amon toy with him?
A knock at her door interrupted Korra's thoughts.
"Who is it?" Korra pulled herself together before asking.
"It's me," Tenzin's voice called, "A package from your parents just arrived."
Korra got up and opened the door. The middle-aged air bender held a box in his hands. Korra took it and let Tenzin in. she sat on her bed and opened it. The first thing she found was a letter. Korra read it out loud.
"We heard you've been having a hard time lately. While your mother was cleaning out your room she found something we think might cheer you up."
Korra proceeded to open the box. The first thing she saw was a drawing of a heart shaped moon. Korra's eyes widened for a bit before pulling it out, then she noticed there were a whole stack of children's drawings in the box. Korra pulled them all out. And began to look over them.
Korra felt her pain filled heart become warm as she recalled what each drawing represented. Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Going to different worlds, sealing the keyholes, defeating the heartless. It all brought a smile to Korra's face.
"I haven't thought of these in forever," Korra couldn't help but say out loud.
"What are they?" Tenzin asked.
Korra placed them on her bed, "When I was a kid, I had… nightmares. About monsters that destroyed worlds, turned people into monsters. I was terrified. There were nights I tried to stay awake, so I wouldn't have them. But then they changed," she picked up the drawing of Sora, Donald, and Goofy, "These three came along and they made everything better. They fought the monsters and brought all the destroyed worlds back. I used to pretend I fought with them as a kid. These three helped me get through a… lonely childhood."
"I see," Tenzin decided to not point out that Korra looked like she was feeling better, "I have to go check on the children." Tenzin left her with her old happy memories. Korra picked up the drawings and started to look over them again. Unaware that outside the window a meteor shower was occurring.
Was it me or were the reporters in LOK just mean?
