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Prologue: Avatar Returns
Korra's Spirit stood over the defeated Dark Avatar; she purified it and sent it away with the words "Go in Peace". However her tasks were not finished, Raava approached her informing that Harmonic Convergence had nearly ended. Korra's Spirit took Raava and travelled to the spirit world.
Scene Change – The Tree of Time
Team Avatar was putting up a valiant fight at the base of the Tree of Time. However the numbers were not in their favour. The heroes were losing out due to sheer attrition, slowly being pushed back to Korra's body which they were tasked to protect. Then Korra's Spirit arrived. It bathed the battlefield in holy light and purified the dark spirits.
Korra's Spirit merged with her body and she proceeded to ride up Raava to reach the light of Harmonic Convergence. However, just before her hand touched the light, she slipped. Harmonic Convergence ended and the Avatar cycle ended with it.
From within Raava, Vaatu emerged. Using the last vestiges of Raava's power within her, Korra trapped Vaatu into the Tree of Time once more. Team Avatar departed the spirit world victorious; however it was a hollow victory as Vaatu's parting words reminded them. "You may have won Raava, but one day I will be free again. And now, your precious Avatar will not be there to save you."
Without the Avatar to guide it the world slowly fell into chaos. War became a near constant. During this period, benders became weapons, associated with nothing but conflict and death. They were feared and persecuted. Those blessed with the ability to bend were slaughtered and bending scrolls were burned to ashes.
5500 years later, bending was a forgotten art. However the wars did not end. During this time a man emerged, one who would later be worshipped as a myth, the Sage of the Six Paths, the greatest shinobi in history. He used his overwhelming might to bring harmony. He revived bending as ninshu in the hope that this time it would herald peace.
In time the man's message was lost. Ninshu the teachings of peace were perverted for war into ninjutsu. 4400 years (9900 years after Harmonic Convergence) later the world was divided into multiple nations that were homes to warring clans of ninja.
Even the spirits had adapted to this warring world. Most had evolved into animals that formed pacts with shinobi to aid them in exchange for the price of blood. A few had bonded with humans, creating abilities that came to be known as Kekkai Genkai. Very few spirits roamed the world, free and unrestrained.
Of the last type the greatest were the Bijuu. Nine incarnations of chaos. Bringing annihilation with nothing more than a wave of their tails. The only humans able to control these beasts, were the descendents of the Sage. They belonged to two powerful and opposing clans, the Uchiha and the Senju.
Relative peace finally came when Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, the leaders of their respective clans, declared a truce. They allied with each other and formed the village Konohagakure no Sato. Soon the concept of ninja villages took hold and one village per nation became a norm.
Spirit World – 96 years later (9996 years after Harmonic Convergence)
Korra, like all Avatars, had roamed the spirit world upon her death. There was something different about the once proud Avatar. Her shoulders were crushed under guilt, her head hung in shame and the fire in her eyes gone. For the past 9996 years, she had observed the world and seen the chaos that would have been prevented had the Avatar Cycle continued. For the past 9996 years, she had done nothing but lived in guilt and punished herself for that one moment where she failed the world.
Now she was heading for the place of her failure, the very location she had avoided for 9996 years, the Tree of Time. Raava had summoned her, telling her to come urgently. As she approached the Tree, she looked down, weighed by guilt, unable to face her shame.
"You have no reason to be ashamed child, what happened was a simple mistake." Raava's soothing voice came from behind her. Korra only grinded her teeth and clenched her fists as tears threatened to come out.
"Open your eyes and look straight Korra, for it is the reason I have summoned you." Korra looked and her eyes widened in shock. The Tree of Time was an empty husk, Vaatu had escaped. "Great, another disaster I could have prevented." She lamented.
"How? Why? When did Vaatu escape? How could this have happened?"
"Vaatu's escape happened many millennia ago. However I cannot say when, why or how. It had been a time of great strife and I was so weakened that I had to cling to life to survive. When peace and order came, he was hidden from me as if he was sealed away. When he was freed, it was as if he was in pieces, vestiges of the whole. Now even the pieces themselves have been sealed. But these pieces are much more powerful than they should be. If they are ever joined Vaatu will be reborn and his might will dwarf my own."
"If this happened so long ago, why have you summoned me now?"
"9996 years have passed since the last Harmonic Convergence; 4 years are left till the next. Korra, it is time that you redeem yourself in your own eyes. The only redemption that truly matters."
Korra's eyes were as wide as dinner plates. If her jaw could extend to the ground, it would have.
"You can't possibly mean – "
"Yes, the Avatar must return, and you will be the one to train him."
"But why me, you could choose any of the others. Aang, Wan, Roku all of them, they were great; they were leaders, teachers, warriors and heroes. Me I'm just a failure."
"Every Avatar in history has contributed to the balance of the world. They have delved in chaos so that the world may know order. Bathed in blood so that others will never need to see it. Fought in wars to let the world to have peace. Been consumed by the darkness so that the rest could live in the light. You too have done the same."
Raava continued, ignoring Korra as she opened her mouth to object. "Unlike you, they live here in peace, content that they did the best they could have done. I will not deny them this final rest."
"I had hoped that you too would let go of your guilt and become at peace with yourself. However it seems you need to redeem yourself in your own eyes before that could happen. I am offering that chance to you."
"Not only this, you were the Last Avatar. You and Wan were the only ones to face the horror of Vaatu. There is no one better to teach the new Avatar to combat him than you."
"How do you even know Vaatu will return? You yourself said that the pieces are divided and sealed."
"If the battle last time has taught me anything it is that the fight between Vaatu and I is fated to happen. Somehow or other Vaatu will return and when he does the new Avatar will be the only hope left to the world."
"I have already chosen the next Avatar. He is a boy, reckless, foolhardy, restless, idiotic and loud; I could spend millennia stating his faults. He is also innocent kind, noble, courageous and pure hearted. He has experienced hatred and scorn and returned it with love. He possesses the determination to move continents and more potential than anyone I have ever seen."
"So tell me Korra, will you accept this task?"
"I can't, I can't fail the world. Not again. Raava please choose someone else. I can't do this."
Raava's posture changed, somehow it became less powerful, more calm, more comforting. Korra could almost imagine her features forming a kind and comforting smile.
"Korra, you never failed. You saved the world, stopped Vaatu and stopped him from engulfing the planet in 10,000 years of darkness. If that is not success then I do not know what is. What happened was a simple mistake, one that no one except you faults you for."
Listening to Raava say that, Korra couldn't help but feel lighter. She couldn't help but think that maybe, just maybe she had done all she could and now she could do it again. She looked up at Raava, some of her old fire returning in her eyes.
"I still don't think that I can do it. But if you truly believe in me so much then I'm willing to try."
Raava's posture once more changed, now she seemed to emit an aura of contentment and hope. "Come let us make haste then."
Scene Change – Forest of Death
Hidden inside an alcove of a tree, a blond boy wearing an orange jumpsuit was lying recovering from battle. He had recently valiantly if futilely fought against Orochimaru, a traitor of Konoha in a bid to protect his teammates. Now he and Sasuke were unconscious and recovering while they were under the protection of their pink haired teammate.
Suddenly three Gennins from Otogakure no Sato attacked. Demanding to end Sasuke's life. As Sakura fought her best to protect her team, no one noticed a white and blue spirit, carrying a dark skinned girl, enter into Naruto's body.
That's it for the prologue. Please Read and Review