Avatar: Age of Darkness
Chapter: 1
Korra. Kooorra. "Oh come on Asami let me sleep." Korra whined. "The morning is evil, and the Tree of Time isn't going anywhere." KORRA! "Whoa!" Korra yelped as she jumped too her feet. She looked around the camp, senses on high alert. Nothing seemed to be out of place. Asami was sound asleep on her bedroll. The campfire was burning low, and was in need of more wood. Korra turned away from the fire, and gazed out into the darkness that surrounded their camp. She could see nothing in the shadows, nor could she hear anyone calling her name.
It was quiet. Too quiet she quickly realized. She could hear nothing, but a deathly quiet. There was no crackling of the fire, no soft hums of small spirits, not even Asami's steady breathing. Korra whirled around, and her fears were confirmed. Nothing was there. The avatar was completely surrounded by darkness, and dead silence. Korra? She spun around looking franticly for whoever had called her name. "Asami?" She called back. Korra. Came another voice, this time from behind her. This one sounded just like "Mako?" She spun around, again nothing but darkness. "Whats going on here, who,s out there?" She called out. she was starting to panic now. Her heart was beating faster, and the adrenalin began to flow.
Then from out of the darkness she could hear something. It started out as a low whispering, but it was steadily growing louder. "Korra, korra, korra, korra." The louder it got, the more she realized it wasn't just one voice, but several; hundreds even. All of them from people she knows, or once knew. There was Mako, Asami, Bolin, opal, Tenzin, Lin, Amon, even her mother, and father they were all calling her name louder, and louder.
She fell to her hands, and knees. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Korra screamed as she covered her ears. Soon all of the voices merged together into white noise. Her heart was beating louder, and faster. Between that, and the thrumming in her ears she now had a massive migraine. This couldn't get much worse, she thought to herself. She was so wrong.
There she was, on her knees in a dark void, ears covered, and eyes screwed tightly shut. That was when she heard new voices. "You got to deal with it!" "We have the right to exist!" "Please don't take my children from me." "They are afraid of something, bigger monsters." The last voice was so cold it sent a chill up Korra's spine. What unnerved her even more was that she had never heard these voices before; yet the seemed familiar. Even so, she still had no idea what the voices meant.
Suddenly there it was silence; sweet, beautiful, blissful silence. After that hurricane of voices, the lack of sound was the most wonderful thing she ever heard. Amazing as it was, of course it only lasted five seconds. From the void now came laughter. Cruel, malicious laughter that sent icy chills up her spine. Korra has heard this laughter before, and had prayed never to hear it again. "Vaatu" she whispered. The dark laughter suddenly stopped, and korra slowly opened her eyes. There not even a foot away was a pair of glowing, crimson eyes; staring into her cerulean orbs.
After what seemed like hours of staring, Vaatu spoke. His voice oozed arrogance, and dripped malice. He only said three words, yet they still rocked Korra to the very center of her soul.
"Soon Raava, soon."