Hello, FanFiction community! Long time, no see! ^^ I decided to kick this off by not diving head-first back writing quite yet. That's when this idea entered my head. I was inspired by two songs to write this fic, but I'm going to save them until it's through. There will be a total of thirteen chapters, all of which will be roughly between 300-500 words each. So it's somewhat like a series of drabbles, but they all intertwine to connect to each other, and they all lead up to the thirteenth which will probably end up being more like 2,000-3,000 words.
The first five chapter may seem boring or repetitive because they deal with canon stuff and we already know what happened. But after chapter five, we'll be focusing more on my own take on what happened outside of what we know to be certain. All chapters except number six will be based on events that we know for a fact happened at some point in the Avatar canon, and chapter six most likely happened as well, it simply hasn't been confirmed. This may all sound confusing right now but trust me when I say that after chapter five it won't be so repetitive and I won't be writing about stuff that happened in the original series. (No promises that we won't get a flashback of some of the later stuff in Korra! XD)
Once again, all these are drabbles and therefore are gonna be pretty short. But they all go together in a big clump. One will follow the other and they'll build on each other. I also would really love and appreciate reviews. They're what keeps me going and keeps me writing. ;] Thanks to everyone for reading and I look forward to writing the next twelve chapters!
Darkness. Unending, eternal darkness for an entire century... broken suddenly by the most immense light he had ever witnessed. He couldn't feel anything. Light was entering his eyes and yet everything was blurry shades of gray. Then... feeling. Some sort of unfamiliar feeling came over his body; of course, all feeling beforehand had been foreign to him. But this feeling was... cold. Shivering cold. He began to breathe shakily, and was starting to gain the recognition of his limbs once again. Finally, colors began to come back to him. His vision became saturated with white lights, blue hues, and cyan forms of what could have only been ice. His focus adjusted. Then.
Then he saw her. His eyes, which had been only peaking out into the fretful abyss, widened upon the radiant sunshine kneeling over him. It was a stranger, wrapped in a fuzzy parka of blue and white; her skin was a gorgeous shade of brown, a few strands of her hair escaping out of her puffy hood. Her beauty, while bewildering, was eerily familiar at the same time. How did he not recognize her, but still feel like he knew who she was? There was a spiritual connection there that he didn't understand. This graceful teenager was entirely unrecognizable, and yet he loved her. He loved her greatly.
His heart skipped a beat.
He felt his strength slowly building up in his body, part by part of which he was continuing to gain recognition of. He decided to speak.
"I need to ask you something," his first words in so long were. The girl spoke in reply, causing his heart to flutter, which in turn gave him an instant rush of more energy; not enough to get up yet, but his consciousness was certain now. "Please, come closer."
"What is it?" She asked, moving her face slightly nearer to his. This sent a warm feeling throughout his entire body; this time, enough to give him the energy to exert himself.
"Will you go penguin sledding with me?