AVATAR ALEX
AHSOKA TANO
DARLENE TURNER
AVATAR: THE EARLY YEARS
BOOK 11: FAITH AND DESTINY
Chapter 1: The End
As Alex woke from a state of pure terror, he quickly checked on the sleeping Ahsoka who lay next to him. The vision had really shaken him and this was his worst vision yet. Watching Ahsoka die like that really showed him how much he feared his brother if he ever reached his full dark potential. The truth was though? Alex was scared, he was frightened more frightened then he had ever been in his life. As the Avatar he thought things weren't possible, that he wouldn't have to fear anything any more. But after the recent adventure in which Darlene had nearly lost her sanity.
He began to think things more differently now. After the things he had seen, Trickster's. Time Travel, Spirits. Ancient beings with the total capacity to wipe out anything in the universe. He was looking at life differently. Many months had passed since Alex's first adventure. Where he met Ahsoka, where he discovered that he was the Avatar. His life now was unpredictable, he never knew what was going to happen.
He had made many friends and had made many enemies, some of which he had wished he hadn't. If not for Sky, Ahsoka, Darlene, Faith and Anakin he might have never made it on his own. But looking back on it, he needed his friends now more than ever. He was reaching his lowest point and that scared him. More than the Daleks and Faith's prophecy combined. Wow. He thought. Faith's prophecy that was a thing he had thought no hoped that he wouldn't be witness to it.
How the months had changed him. "You're awake" said the familair kind voice of Ahsoka. Hearing Ahsoka speak now brought a smile to Alex's face "Nightmares again?" Seeing no reason to lie Alex nodded and faced his girlfriend. "Tell me" she said holding out a hand when Alex didn't take it she frowned.
Alex sighed in exasperation and figured there would be no point in lying, Ahsoka and he had been together for almost a two years now and that was something "every night since we defeated Sky on Tatooine. They've been getting worse"
"The same room?"
"Always the same room. The same bodies. I don't know who they were. But one thing almost never changes"
"It's to do with me isn't it?"
"How'd you know?"
"You always say my name after it happens" Ahsoka stood up and walked forward to face her lover "I can pretty much guess that the nightmare is about me" she held out her hand again and this time she took it "listen, Alex I don't know what you're dreaming about, but trust me. I am always here to help you." She kissed him on the cheek and smiled "always. Never let a nightmare tell you otherwise"
"There's more to it than that"
"What do you mean?"
"I don't think these are just nightmares or visions anymore" he let go off Ahsoka's hand and looked away from her. He then reluctantly reached for something that sat on a desk. A picture of Alex, Ahsoka, Darlene and Sky back when the good old days happened. Before Sky turned dark "I think these visions or whatever they are. Are a message. I think they're warning me of something"
Ahsoka took a hold of the picture and smiled "I think you hold onto the past too much. You need to look into the future" she took the picture away from him and smiled at the memory. "These visions then, what do you think they are?"
"I think they're a warning"
"A warning of what"
"The end" Alex said and that silenced Ahsoka wondering what's her lover meant was one thing and trying to guess what he was talking about was another "I think they're a warning of what will happen if I don't uphold my promise"
Ahsoka remembered Alex's promise, his promise to her that he would always protect her and Darlene no matter what. "You made that promise for a reason" Ahsoka said "look" she sighed "I don't know what to say at this part, and I'm not good at giving the Avatar good council, but when you're heart is in the right place and you know what to do with this. Come find me and we'll talk"
"Ahsoka" Alex said chucking "my heart is always in the right place. It's with you. When I'm with you, I feel like a light has entered the dark space. It's like my whole world brightens up."
"Did you prepare that speech on your own? Or did you just make that up on the spot?"
"Why? Did it work?"
Ahsoka smiled at this and pulled her boyfriend in for a passionate kiss. When three pulled away Ahsoka whispered seductively "it certainly did" she then pulled him onto the bed and they continued kissing.
