Book: Unknown
Chapter 2
Spirits of the Unknown
A town is lay wasting and being engulfed in flames. Only 3 people stand in the middle of the village next to a giant statue. One is a man holding a spear; the other is what seems to be his daughter standing behind him, while the last was the strangest one for it was the cause of the fire. His features looked nothing human for it had black wings in its back with strange markings on them and was covered in a dark cloak with the hood up, but can see its smile, it also had a long katana with a chain attached to the bottom of the handle. "You will pay for what you did to my village you demon!" the villager shouted at the figure. All the figure did is chuckle " damn you to hell!!" the villager just held his spear and ran to the figure as fast as he could, then the figure just held its sword straight at him and murmured a two words. All of a sudden a flash went at him and went right at him all the fire consumed everything and only the girls scream can be heard.
"Don't do it!" Xen said awakening himself from his sleep "Man it was just a dream" he said in a relieved tone. Xen was still lost in the forested area "Well I stayed too long and today is the day i'm getting out of here….. I hope". Xen then stood up and started walking going only straight. For the past day and a half Xen has been lost in the forest, while he was walking Xen Stumbled to a river "Finally something to drink" he said, then dunked his head in the water. While he was drinking his fill Xen noticed a yellowish dye in the water, thinking quickly Xen got his out of the water "that is something I hope I didn't drink" looking stunned and pale white. Then he noticed at his reflection "wow I didn't notice my eyes were different from one another" noticing his left eye was red and right eye was green. While he was staring at his eyes something was hovering over his head "Do you mind you….. what the!!" he said in a surprised voice seeing there was an animal floating on top of his head. The animal looked curiously at him in the shadows of the tree while Xen was stepping back slowly "What are you?" Xen asked at a halt "Show yourself, I have two swords and i'm not afraid to use them". Then the floating figure came to the light it was seal in white fur the size was no longer than a full grown human arm "wow you're a big seal and your floating in mid air, that's sort of unusual you know" he said to the seal. The seal answered in a high pitched squeak (think of a baby lugia), then it just rammed Xen like a bull to the to a red cape "is this the way you say hello or lets fight?" Xen asked while lying on the ground. Then the seal was laying on him in a curled position "I guess it means a hi". Then Xen saw someone walking by and it was girl who looked no older than seventeen she had long black hair, blue eyes and wore a merchants type of clothing noticed the too on the ground "Are you both alright?" the girl asked "i'm alright, but is this seal yours?" "No and that's an arctic seal that's on you, and the strange thing is there usually out in the North or South Pole" the girl answered. "You and your little friend look like you're a little lost, do you need some help out?" she asked "Yes!! God yes!!" Xen answered eagerly "well then follow me because I was going to back home anyways".
"Oh that's right I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Lai" she said. "Oh right um my name is Xen" he answered clearly after he got the seal of his stomach and placed it on top of his head. Lai just chuckled of what Xen did "Hey what's so funny?" he asked "oh its just you placing the seal on your head, its kinda silly". They both let out a little laugh before they started walking "so um where you live?" Xen asked "Well it's a little village where merchants like to sell the most, but unfortunately there has been a few mishaps" she said " what kind of mishaps" he asked out of curiosity "well there been robberies all over town about a person in a blue mask robbing the local merchants" Lai said. Then by the time they got of the forest Xen said out of pity and stupidy "well then how about I help you with this robbering problem of yours as thank you for letting out of the forest" he suggested "well you do look kinda strong are you sure you can handle it all by yourself?" Lai asked out of worry "Don't worry I'm great at fighting, it's a natural thing for me" he said in a confident tone.
"Well um thanks I guess, just let me get this info to my father and he'll tell you more about this thug". Xen then found himself enter the village Lai lives in and follows her to her house where Lai's father waited and noticed Xen right away "And who did you bring with you Lai a husband finally?" he said in a flurterus way. Lai just turned bright red "NO DAD stop with those incessive jokes, its embarrassing" her father just smiled "I know, I was just kidding hahahaha, so really who's your friend?" he asked "Hi my name is Xen" "well my name is Kai, I'm Lai's Father". Lai asked her father about Xen helping out about the thug Kai looked impressed to see that Xen gave such an idea. "so you want to take this blue spirit head on, well then you might need some bait" Kai went trough a drawer and pulled out a sack of gold coins "now I'm just lending this, but he usually comes out at dark so might as well strategies for now". Xen was given a little lunch by the kind folk and then nightfall came and set outside to the darkest part of the village. For some reason the arctic seal still didn't wake up and was still lying on top of his head. Xen then pulled out the sack of gold and started swinging it like a yo-yo. All of a sudden he heard footsteps on top of the roofs "man that was fast" he said quietly to himself. From this point Xen ran towards a dead then turned behind him and saw a person who was wearing a blue demon like mask.
"So you're the blue spirit everyone's been talking about" Xen said to the blue spirit. "One question to you blue spirit….. Do you know anything about me?" Xen asked, all the blue sprit did was bring out his dual broadswords "Fine then" Xen said "No more talk" he then pulled out his both his samurai swords. "DODGE THIS!!" Xen first attack was to gain speed with his air bending to deliver one slash with the right sword, all the blue did was jump and dodge his attack then he just kicked Xen in the face, but delivered it mostly to the seal on his head two. The seal woke up immediately and just flew up somewhere, and then out the chance Xen used an wind strike towards the blue spirit hitting him towards a wall. All for naught though because the blue got back up as though it didn't cause damage at all "Very enduring aren't you?" Xen said, after his word he took a deep breath and blew a hard cloud of dust in front of the blue spirit by that Xen found put the swords in their sheath and just got a wind boost, ran at full speed, saw the blue spirit on sight pulled his right hand back, and finished it with a strong thrust punch knocking the blue spirit slide on the ground like a person on ice, he also dropped his left broadsword. Xen was exhausted after that "I think I used too much of my energy on that one" he said to himself, but as the dust cleared the blue spirit just stood up, but looked a little beaten "Man are you made of stone or something DAMN IT"" Xen said, but before he can pull out his swords the blue spirit gave a thrust punch, but with his handle in his hand so it did more damage to Xen. After an attack like that in his weaken state Xen fell to his knees and the bag of gold coins fell to the ground. While the blue spirit was about to pick up the bag little bits of water suddenly came up from the ground at first he just backed up slowly, then as soon as the next second passed the water shot out like a geyser it missed and the water dispersed, but as soon as the water hit the ground it froze. The ground the water touched turned frozen solid, to the next part caught Xen and blue spirit by surprise spikes of ice came immediately from the ground upward only aiming toward the blue spirit. The blue spirit was able to dodge most of the attacks, but still got a few cuts on his arms and legs. A little blood started dripping, but the water stopped and just sank back to the ground. Taking no time the blue spirit held tightly his broadsword and started on aiming at Xen. Xen could hardly see clearly because of his weakened state, but he knew what was coming. To this second only this second the blue spirit suddenly looked like the villager attacking the strange figure thinking of what it said in his dream "Damn I hope I'm not right". Xen held his right sword from his sheath and quickly pointed towards him and said the words he hoped weren't true "DRAGON PULSE!!" suddenly a pulse of a whirlwind came skewing out the point of the sword and went straight at strong and threatening speed. The blue spirit didn't have time to dodge and got hit, he then got pushed back by the strike and flew straight toward a wall of a house it seems and broke through it. After that last attack Xen blacked out because of the loss of energy, but before that he noticed the seal coming back flying to him "where….. Were…..you..?"
The dream Xen saw while he was knocked out was what he had the night before, but this time it seemed as if he saw the rest. The villager was dead because it seemed the dragon pulse the figure used was a hundred times stronger and went through him. His daughter was on her knees mourning for her dead father, seeing that she knew she was next. But the person or demon with wings walked right past her and stopped next to her "take revenge if you wish hybrid, but if you come at me at your weak I'll kill you" the figure said in an evil deep voice. "Use all you're hatred for me and make it your power, so see you hybrid" it said, the girl stood up and said "I promise I will kill you Dracko…."
"Xen wake up" he heard through his dream. Xen opened up his eyes and noticed Lai's face "what happened?" Xen asked "your back in my home" Lai said in a calm and relieved voice. Then he father came bursting in "Lai did your boyfriend wake up yet!!" Kai yelled out. Lai then completely turned bright red again "dad how can you be so embarrassing?!!" she yelled back. Xen then stood up after realizing "what happened to the blue spirit?" he said finally "Well if you were the one in the wall of the house or the blue spirit he's long gone, but I doubt he's coming back after that since it seems he was bleeding. Actually which reminds me that it seems the seal carried you all the way here" Kai said. Xen looked surprised "that little useless mammal?" he said "well yes he kinda dragged you since he knew you were so heavy" Kai said. Xen just got up and seen his weapons on the chair "has there been a village that was burned, but preserved enough to notice it?" Xen asked. "This is a war son nothing is left when the fire nation attacks it" Kai answered in a suspicious tone. "Well thank you for your help…..good bye" Xen immediately grabbed his stuff and ran out towards the door, then he bumped into the seal who was just going in. "Whoa, hold on there boy, what's your hurry?" Kai asked "I need to get somewhere fast" Xen answered "and do you know where that somewhere is?" Lai asked all high and mighty, while it was Xen's turn to go red "uhhhhhh" "I thought so Xen, so here a map so you know where you are" she then gave Xen a map of the Earth Kingdom and told him a few tips of how to read a map. Then when Xen finally got the tips down and then the little seal went back on top of his head "it seems the little guy wants to join you" Lai said after a little chuckle "it seems that way, but hold on I don't quite know your name little guy". "Of course not he an seal so you need to give him a name" Lai said in an annoying tone. "A name huh…… I know I'll call you um Ragnarok" Xen said, the seal seemed to be delighted with the name he was given. "Well guess its time for us to go, don't you think Ragnarok?" Xen said. Ragnarok just fell asleep again, so then Xen just grabbed the map and his stuff, said his goodbyes, and left the village. But not before noticing the a person who had a horrible burned scar on his left eye, also the person noticed him as well, but Xen noticed the bandages on both his arms and legs. Xen really didn't care much, but still had his suspicions. Still he just kept walking while looking at the map "now where to go…… I know how about Ba Sing Se maybe there's some clues there, don't you think Ragnarok?" Xen asked to him even though Ragnarok was still asleep. "Well alright then to Ba Sing Se we go and maybe on the way I can get some training on some fire bending and work on my air bending as well". Xen just kept walking, but wondering to himself about the water bending and if it was Ragnarok, who did all that, well only time will tell.
End Chapter 2
