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When I was a girl, I would often read stories about the Last Airbender. And as I grew up, my father and mother explained that my brothers, sister, and I were all direct descendants from him. His name was Avatar Aang.
Before I was born, Grandpa Aang died. And following the cycle... the Avatar Light Spirit, Raava, passed on to a new host... a waterbender named Korra.
Korra went through many things in her few years as an active Avatar... she and her friends changed the world.
But now is a time for peace... but whenever peace is achieved... another form of chaos rises again.
But I believe... Korra can save the world.
Granted, maybe entering the Spirit World may not have been the most mature choice considering the state of the world. But Korra had risked life and limb time and time again... it felt only natural to want a vacation.
She was glad her friend, Asami, was here. Honestly, the two had grown ironically close since both girls used to date their best friend, Mako.
The spirits seemed peaceful in their homeland, despite the freedom to travel between worlds.
"Did you ever solve how you moved the energy around you and Kuvira?" Asami asked, broaching a conversation they'd had with their friends before the big wedding between Varrick and Zhu'Li.
Korra thought about it.
"Technically speaking... no. But I think since it was Spirit energy... it was just a matter of bending it like any other element." Korra replied, having tried to make sense of the past at least a thousand times in her head.
"How is that possible?" Asami asked, "No one else can bend energy like that... not even Avatar Aang."
"I don't know that he couldn't do it..." Korra thought about it some more and wondered if she could show her what she meant. She touched Asami's shoulder with her hand, focusing her energy into a form of bridge between the two of them.
"Oh..."
The scene shifted rapidly... suddenly they were in front of the Tree of Time.
"Where are we?" Asami asked.
"The Tree of Time... Vaatu's old prison... I didn't mean to bring us here." Korra confessed, studying the tree. "I was just trying to connect our energies so I could... well, honestly I don't know what I was thinking."
"Maybe your subconscious brought you here... it's not like Avatar powers are all that specific normally."
"True."
Korra used airbending to lift them both to the tree and looked inside it.
"So, this is where you meditated to become the big super giant spirit?"
Korra nodded, "It's the Tree of Time... it can amplify your own spiritual energy. Tenzin told me that the ancients used to cross over into the Spirit World and meditate here in search of greater truths."
"Wow, sounds amazing."
"It was." Korra decided to step in and would have slipped if Asami hadn't grabbed onto her. "Thanks." Korra said, blushing.
Asami smiled, "Be careful, Ms. Avatar." The two leapt down holding hands, Korra using gentle air breezes to slow their descent. "So, this tree knows everything?"
"Sort of... I think it's more like the ultimate Mover. It saved all of history on some big back up."
"The idea of having so many moving pictures in such little space... makes you really think about how the world has changed." Asami said, taking a step closer to Korra, hoping she wouldn't notice.
She noticed.
"Um... yeah. Aang would have never imagined an entire civilization reborn overnight. All because of Harmonic Convergence..."
"And you..." Asami pointed out, "Without you... we wouldn't have airbenders... we wouldn't have benders period if you didn't stop Amon. Zaheer would've plunged the world into chaos... you've brought balance to so much chaos in so little time."
"I wouldn't have been able to do any of it without you." Korra admitted, "Or Mako... or Bolin... or Tenzin..." The two shied away, both blushing.
"What's that?" Asami asked, pointing to a short picture behind Korra.
She turned around and barely recognized herself... mainly because she hadn't been a bald monk in over twenty years.
It was him... Avatar Aang. Couldn't have been older than twelve or thirteen. He was standing with a beautiful girl by his side, dressed in a green silk robe.
No words were passed, instead the two young teens stood staring at the sunset. Like it was the first time they were watching it.
The girl turned to him first. Then Aang turned to her.
The dark skinned girl leaned in and kissed the young Air Nomad, both momentarily ignornant of the world around them.
"What was that?" Asami asked.
"I think someone's trying to tell me something." Korra confessed.
"Who?"
"If I'm not mistaken... Aang."
"But he died a long time ago... and you lost that connection. Do you think it's back?" Asami wondered.
Korra looked at the Tree of Time and realized that maybe, as many times before, she herself had been the source of her troubles. When Zaheer tried to kill her, she unconsciously shut down her link to Raava. Blaming it on the poison for the better part of three years... but now... looking at the Tree of Time, and seeing that beautiful memory from Aang's life... she was confident that the Avatars before her were not lost as she believed for so long.
Korra sat down and began to meditate, trying to focus on her past Avatars.
Asami looked around and saw several images, all of them surrounding the bald monk Korra claimed was Aang... and the dark skinned girl Asami assumed to be Katara.
"I'm saying I would rather kiss you than die! That's a compliment!" Aang protested.
'Wow, this kid needs to work on his flirting.' Asami thought to herself.
The scene shifted to a darker tone... a more serious tone.
"TELL ME WHERE APPA IS!" Aang was surrounded in waves of sand and air, each looking to send anyone nearby flying to the next continent.
"I... I traded him... he's probably in Ba Sing Se by now... they were gonna sell him there." A young sandbender called out...
But Aang could barely hear his words... even from eighty years in the future, Asami could feel the pain he felt. The sense of betrayal, loathing, and impossible anger... it was enough to block out the loudest of sounds.
Aang began to float into the air, climbing higher while a young man dressed in Water Tribe garments, grabbed an Earth Kingdom girl who seemed to be unaware of the seriousness of what was going on.
"Just get out of here. Run!" He shouted.
But the young girl whom Aang kissed in the scene earlier stayed behind, she was dressed in Water Tribe wear as well, only confirming Asami's suspicion that it was Katara, the greatest healer in history.
She grabbed his hand and watched him turn his face in anger, enveloped by rage to the point of almost no-return... Katara pulled him down against his wishes, knowing that the best thing she could do for him was just to be there.
She held him tight, despite the high winds and dangerous storm still raging around them.
Korra saw the same images as Asami, but in her head, not in the tree.
"What are you trying to tell me?" Korra asked.
Her own memory came to her... one she made after her meeting with Zaheer, the one she had arranged to break the mental prison she surrounded herself in.
"Do you know where Jinora and the others are?" Korra asked Zaheer.
Zaheer confesses, "No... but you do."
The Red Lotus leader disappears, leaving Korra's momentary confusion to be replaced by a bright light from a dark corner of her heart... somewhere she had locked up one of her favorite parts of being her.
"Raava... I've missed you. Where have you been?"
"I have always been inside you." Raava replied.
"They're a part of me," Korra realized, "just like Raava."
She took a deep breath and exhaled, digging into that dark corner of her heart and unlocking the final block.
Her fists came apart, extending her fingers until it looked like a bright ball of energy was beginning to surface out of thin air.
The energy came apart and dispelled itself around Korra, revealing a group of some very old friends.
"Korra... we're so proud of you." Aang said, stepping forward.
"You undid my mistake." Wan told her, "I sought to protect the humans from the spirits, and neglected them in my duty to humanity. Where you managed to bring them together, I tore them apart."
"But you were a great Avatar... you figured it all out without teachers, without help. Before anyone knew what the Avatar was." Korra pointed out.
Wan looked at her, "We are all each other. No matter how many lifetimes it takes us... we fight to correct our mistakes. In the case of Roku, merely a single life. Aang fought to defeat the Fire Lord when the world around him was new and alien. Nevertheless, his mistakes undone by the life that came next."
"And my mistakes?" Korra asked.
Wan laughed, "You are young to be worrying about your mistakes. Keep being the Avatar. Honor the legacy we've left for you, and come to us when you require our wisdom and guidance. You are human... mistakes will be made. But my greatest mistake gave humanity a chance to build away from the backs of the great Lion Turtles."
"That's why we fight." Avatar Kuruk stated, "We cannot permanently change anything... but we can fight to protect those around us, until it is time to pass the torch on to the next generation."
"By the time you are ready to join us... you will be wiser, more complete. And ready to guide the next Avatar into their role as peacekeeper, mediator, and warrior." Avatar Kyoshi said.
"But for now..." Avatar Roku began, "It is time to enjoy life's great gifts. And to celebrate it's treasures. Remember what I told you when you were Aang... all those years ago."
Korra blinked and found herself beside a younger Aang and the same-aged Roku.
"When love is real... it finds a way. And being the Avatar doesn't hurt your chances with the ladies either." Roku from the past explained.
Then the past Avatars were gone.
Korra's eyes glowed for several seconds before she blinked back her normal blue color.
"Are you okay?" Asami asked, catching Korra before she fell over.
Korra turned her head slightly to face Asami and remembered what Roku had told her all those years ago.
She leaned in slowly, then all at once. Pressing her lips to Asami's carefully at first, like she might explode, then pressing the kiss with more passion when Asami did not terminate it.
When the two broke apart, they pressed their foreheads together and broke out in laughter.
"Please tell me we're both laughing about the irony here?" Korra asked, fearing that Asami was making fun of her.
"Of course we are... Mako lost us... to each other!"
The two started laughing together when they realized, this was destiny.
"I've had such a hard time figuring out things in my head... and I guess I should have realized. That part of my problem... was in my head. I just can't imagine going on without you."
Asami put her hand in Korra's lap, "I feel the same way. You're amazing Korra... and I'm going to do everything I can to help you be the best Avatar you can be."
"Thanks Asami... but I just thought of something."
Asami's expression changed, "What?"
"What are we going to tell Mako?"
...
"You are ready." The elderly woman stated.
"You have taught me well, Master Azula." The young firebender stated.
"You will go out and rain fire over Republic City. Burn it to the ground... cleanse the world of my brother's mistakes. And when it is a crisp... find Zuko... and kill him."
"Yes Mother."
"Rise Oza... granddaughter of Phoenix King Ozai, heir to the Fire Nation throne." Azula smirked, ready to take her revenge on her brother after seventy-plus years of hiding. Oza had been borne barely twenty years ago, making her roughly the same age as the new waterbending Avatar. Surely Avatar Korra would fight to protect Republic City and the elder Lord Zuko... but her spies, still loyal to the Fire Nation government from the Hundred Year War, confirmed to her that Korra was in the Spirit World for the time being. "Raze the city... and then you will be strong enough to rule the nation."
Oza with dark hair and piercing gold eyes rose from her kneeling position and looked out at the small legion of loyal subjects.
"Long live the Phoenix Queen!" They chanted over and over again.
"Defeat Zuko..." Azula cooed, "and that title will be yours."
Well, what do you think?
Korrasami? Definitely. Admittedly, the first gay ship that I wrote about. But I rewatched Korra recently... and there is just soooo much to ship.
Also, I wanted to throw in some danger and problems to spice up the story. I'm planning for this to be a Tri-Shot.
Love it? Hate it? Review, favorite... leave and never come again? Whatever it is...
ZHU'LI... DO THE THING!
(by the way, that's the correct spelling aside from the apostrophe. I added that to help connect the two.)