Hello there! I used to have an old account here but decided to delete it after a while. So instead I'm opening up a new account again. Mostly I did this because the stories I've been writing have gotten a lot darker since I was in high school. The joys of college.
This story started when I made the mistake of marathoning Legend of Korra and then watching Princess Mononoke. It devolved into a fight between me and my roommate about what the movie would be like in the Avatar universe and so this was born. What was supposed to be a one shot has developed into a series so I really hope you guys like it.
Gather around children, and I will tell you a tale. It is the story of the son of fire and earth and the daughter of the spirit wild and how they saved the world. Very few know this story, but soon you will understand why it is so important that it is not forgotten.
It started with the spirit vines, there's no way around it. A new weapon, one that could bring the world to its knees is quite the dangerous thing to be feared, but of course there are greater weapons that need to be remembered and feared. For centuries there was rumor of a small town in the shadow of the Earth Kingdom mountains sitting against the edge of the forest. It would not seem important except for one thing, and that is the spirits that live there.
Most people only become aware of the spirit world when either they offend the spirits, or after Avatar Korra returned them to the world. But this town is different because the spirits have always existed here. The village sits in the middle of the greatest spirit wild outside of the great swamp and has struggled to survive against the spirits the entire time it existed. For in the middle of the great forest it sits beside is a small lake where the spirit of the forest resides. It is this lake that has always sat between the realms and allowed the spirits to move back and forth as they please.
Rumors spread quickly through the Earth Kingdom, an impressive feat for a nation so large. And so rumor spread about this single small town that somehow stood against Kuvira's reign. Not because the people were against her, no the people welcomed the Great Uniter with open arms. They stood apart because the spirits fought back against the armies day after day pushing the great army ever so slowly out of the valley.
Which brings us back to the spirit vines.
"I just received a missive from the village Nangen," Bataar entered Kuvira's command room in Zaufu coming to a stop be her desk, "Once again our efforts to convince them to join were destroyed by the spirits. The troops there aren't sure how long they can last."
"Then it seems that they will need all the help they can get," rising Kuvira turned to the map behind her, eyes locked onto the small white space among the green, "I want you to go to Nangen and help them defeat the spirits there. Take the spirit vines with you, they should take care of those spirits."
It is with this conversation that our story truly starts. Oh, another would give you a different starting point but this is where my story begins but not where we meet our hero. No, we meet our hero a week after the conversation between Kuvira and Bataar on a small rickety boat as a group of refugees attempted to sneak into Republic City. And our heroes have entered a new hazard. To put it simply, they turned right when they should have turned left and are now hopelessly lost within the Earth Kingdom heading straight towards the village of Nangen which sits in the middle of the spirit wild. This is the scene where we will meet the hero of this story.
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