Aaah...good times...
I don't know if u guys had seen the trailer of P. Night Shyamalan(or whatever the heck his name is)'s "The Last Airbender", but I've gotta hand it, it brings up sooo much memories...
One more thing before I patch up my new episode: Sorry for you guys, but I think Bryan and Mike got too high because of the sticks up in their ass, when they didn't continue AtLA. I mean c'mon, those three books deserved a fourth, heck, even fifth!
Yeah, I don't own AtLA, because it is owned by the two lazy geniuses called Bryan and Mike, but I tell you, that new movie is gonna kick ass!! WOOT!
Here's my new episode, warning though, extreme coolness, and a bit changed storyline.
It was a beautiful morning, the soft northern breeze mixing the saltless smell of artic seawater; that was something Kaidu always appreciated about home.
"Not any longer, though", he thought when they spotted the Earth Kingdom Outpost which was, eventually, the closest to the borders of Fire Nation.
"Ah great, nothing takes the cake like being the avatar now, doesn't it Aang?" Sokka asked slyly.
Aang had a questioned look: "What are you talking about Sokka?" he asked.
"Oh don't give me that innocent look, at least it's good that there won't be any girls in the castle to worship the almighty Avatar when they learned his most recent victory!" Sokka asked, grinning stupidly at that time, and being scolded by his lil' sister, Katara.
"Wow Sokka, I'd never think you'd be this much sober after you drank the whole icecream juice (yeah, my design) when we were at that ship." Katara said, amused by his brother's sudden awareness.
"Well what can I say, sis? I have a natural knack about girls." Sokka added, grinning like a pimp the whole time.
"That you surely do, brother." Kaidu intervened, chuckling quietly. "But really, do you think it's a blessing, or maybe more or so, a curse?" Kaidu asked suddenly, choking the humor in his sore throat, while gazing at the Avatar.
"Well, yeah...considering the hero worshipping he will get when we arrive at the castle..." Sokka was suddenly stopped when Kaidu turned to Aang.
"...and then what? They will ask of him the things he cannot accomplish once they stop their pampering." Kaidu spat at clean sea, obviously disgusted from the mental images. His look turned to sea, sighted alone by the gaang, as "deprived of hope".
"What makes YOU think that Aang cannot do it? He was the one who saved you and your tribe at the siege, he did." Katara told Kaidu, an accusing, yet innocent look on her face.
"Aang AND The Spirit of The Ocean, mind you." Kaidu turned to Katara, stretching out his legs a bit, relaxing: "Thank to His Almightyness for that, for I find it difficult to believe a 12 year old kid who's yet to master earthbending and firebending, even waterbending, accomplishing such a fact. He will need to tell them the truth." Kaidu pointed out Aang, who had a solemn look on his face, while Katara was getting angry at the boy.
"And what do you think IS the truth? That Aang is powerless, and can't save the world?" Katara almost gritted through her teeth, her face getting flushed in red slowly. Sokka was listening how this was going to end, though.
"The Truth, Katara of the Southern Tribe, is right in front of you." Kaidu sighed, his eyes getting narrowier at the time, gazing at Katara's blue orbs: "A nice, goofy little brother who was, by a stroke of events that Agni had woven, selected as the Avatar, whose entire nation was wiped out by a whole other nation, surely being overpowered, and no matter whomsoever he is, and will be, he deserves to grow as a normal boy." Kaidu finished the last of his words in anger, his voice trembling at the memory of what occured to children who played snowball in his neighbour, before the siege had began.
They were put through a fate worse than death, for in afterlife alone, you are bound to burn in hellfire, if you are evil, that is. They were almost burned to ash, some peeling off their burned skin to get rid of the pain, some trembling like a madman when they poured ice-cold water over their burnt, some ashened clothes, chewing a piece of their mother's loincloth for silencing their screams. It was a truely gruesome sight, some sight that would weaken the common belief of godhood impact upon humankin.
Aang was traumatized whan he heard Kaidu's....no, Gyatso's words. Even though on the surface, he believed that being the Avatar carries the sole responsibility of taking care of every bit of life that he was entrusted with, sometimes, he couldn't help but miss his childhood, those masterless days at the Southern Air Temple, when he played with his glider, along with other Air Nomad children.
And how he began to miss those old goofy days...oh well, Karma's a bitch, or so Avatar Kuruk thought suddenly, deep within the Spirit World territory, still seeking atonement for the crimes through his spear, battling Koh for eternity. That loathsome spirit made sure he shalt pay every bit of his arrogant actions he committed before he met Ummi. Yet still, Karma's not enough.
And so it is written, so it shall be, Agni ordered.
The entire group was silenced, lost at Kaidu's words, when suddenly, he spoke up:
"I don't expect you guys to understand me, you know. I call out my life story, and you do so yours, but deep down, you know the inevitable truth: War makes adults out of all of us, sooner or later, and it's those who couldn't adapt that shall suffer the direst of consequences."
All of the Gaang looked down after Kaidu's statement, who afterwards sheepishly grinned, saying: "But still, one can enjoy theseat any age." , eating a seaweed-wrapped-juvenile-swordshark-steak (A/N:my design!).
Sokka began to drool immediately, murmuring through all that saliva somehow: "Hallelujah, brother..."
Katara was about to ask Kaidu how was his childhood spent...
Unfortunately for her, they had already arrived at the castle, which looked elegant, yet militaristic in the old-fashioned Earth Kingdom style. Huge walls, while not even the one-tenth of Ba-Sing-Se, stood tall and proud, protecting this outpost against echoes of a hundred-year longing war.
The gaang were startled when they heard explosive sounds above...only to see, well, atually NOT see fireworks exploding under broad daylight!...
"Man, what a waste of art..." Sokka wisely stated. Everyone in the gaang nodded.
Appa landed on the courtyard of the castle, where the gaang were getting acquainted by the Earth General Fong, one of the top five generals that controlled the entire military of Earth Kingdom. Proud, but deceitful yet, General Fong's character was more like a Sandbender's.
"I can't imagine how sane it would be to wield powers of your calibre, oh mighty Avatar. It will be definitely an honor to escort you to Omashu...however..." General Fong was obviously nervous about some matter...in a way that demanded something in return.
"Trouble brewing..." Sokka stated when he saw Kaidu's piercing gaze upon General Fong, along with the white knuckles that showed his anger.
"Before you leave, I'd like to tell you my thoughts about this so-called plan." he stated after he got out of his timid behaviour: "In the avatar-state, your usage of elements entirely depends upon where you stand. Now, won't you find it suprising, that in the hot climate of Fire Nation, which is surrounded by seas, and based on volcanic earth, also posesses volcanic hot gas which would be deadly and still be considered as an aero-type element?" General stated when his eyes narrowed, hoping to trap the avatar in his devise.
Aang was pretty nervous about this situation, but still didn't get the idea that General would be stating. "Don't you see?" General asked, his voice a little higher, a little too much excited: "If you attack the Fire Nation right now, with the usage of the Avatar State, then you would have the four elements at your disposal, without any further requirement of training...except entering and exiting the Avatar State at will!" General got up from his throne-like seat, a factor seen a lot in the Earth Kingdom - luxury addiction.
Before Aang could answer, Kaidu intervened, getting up and getting a few steps closer to the short-length General.
"Pray tell, oh great General, why do you think that Fire always overpowers Earth, vaporizes the Water, and only gets stronger thanks to Air?" Kaidu asked suddenly, looking straightly at General's unstable eyes, at least, as it would seem to be for the moment.
"Everyday my men are returning, wounded and some totally dismembered due to the Fire Nation wretches, Avatar! We have to take the necessary risks required to end this bloodshed, and for that, ..." General seemed to ignore the tall waterbender before him, stuttering a bit, yet Kaidu was not the one to be ignored so easily.
Suprising everyone, Aang got up and said:
"I believe that my companion here has asked you a mutual question." "He seemed to have learned lessons about proper talking and wisdom through Master Pakku" Kaidu thought smirking inwardly.
"Since it is your question, I'd prefer, instead of some worthless peasant's that I've been disgracefully addressed to, then I shall answer your questions..." General was about to continue when all of a sudden he felt a cold, chilling touch to his neck.
His mind couldn't bear to look behind when he heard the voice coming from behind was Kaidu's.
"Worthless peasant? I'd gladly accept both the titles, for I have neither materiality nor nobility..." Kaidu talked in an icy tone, holding an ice dagger to the neck of the Earth General.
"...but you shall not forget that..." Kaidu began to sneer at a scary rate...
"I...lack...HATRED (no, that's not it...wait a sec...)
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"I...lack...humanity!" Kaidu whispered sharply to the General after dissolving his ice dagger and looking at General's eyes, forcing them to look at his too.
Then, General saw it, the cursed orbs of a Waterbender...
...feline, in pure slits, and filled with ancient venom and danger...
That, totally freaked the General out, which alerted the Earthbender Guards' intervention in less than a second, trapping Kaidu in a rock shell.
"You accursed Demon! Guards, take that...thing into the dungeon!" General Fong replied, his head hung down, only to be stopped by a humongous air blast that came out suddenly from the Avatar.
"You will do no such thing!" Aang stated in an almighty-obeyfulness voice which calmed down the General...calmed down? Well, not exactly.
"J..Just get him a...away from here, A..Avatar!" General stated, stuttering quite a lot. "And don't speak to me if he stays around here!" General exclaimed in a superior tune.
Kaidu smirked at the confusion the General went through. "Maybe getting out of the village was not as bad as I thought..." he thought inwardly when Aang turned to him.
"You heard him, Kaidu. Leave." Aang ordered in a cold tone, something that amused Kaidu, and suprised the siblings in a bad way.
"As his Majesty commands." Kaidu made a flabberant move and a salute upon "Avatar", then he took his leave from the castle main room, and descended from the ladders.
Suddenly, he was surrounded by eight earthbenders who took him into another rock shell, which Kaidu would still state as "troublesome". He would be escorted to the castle dungeons.
The conversation with the General went roughly after Kaidu's "Divine Intervention". Having being influenced by Kaidu's words, and with the support of the water siblings, Aang and General soon got into a rough discussion, which ended up in Aang deciding, that he would do as he planned before, and continue to do the things through the safer road. That angered the General, but his opponent-would-be being the Avatar, he only said "So be it" in a sharp tone, that almost showed Aang that this discussion wasn't over.
Later, the Gaang learned that Kaidu was put in dungeon against the Avatar's wishes, who reacted by rescuing Kaidu firstly, then dealing with the General's "way of showing obedience". When Aang descended into the dungeon, he was allowed to take the conict out of his cell. When he saw Kaidu, he was walking in circles, looking the ceilings above.
"Kaidu, We're here to rescue you. Let's get out of this place." Aang said firmly. He was reaching for the lock when his hand was interrupted by Kaidu.
"Or is it the oppsite, Avatar, that you need a key to unlock this illusion you've been in?" Kaidu asked in a cryptic tone. Aang furrowed his eyebrows, ingoring Kaidu's statement. He unlocked the cell, which Kaidu took a few steps forward, being face-to-face with the short Avatar.
"This place is not a place to discuss such unnecessary philosophy, Kaidu. We need to deal with the Earth General, and his minions for kidnapping you." Aang exclaimed, receiving nods from the siblings.
"What, that old geezer? You need not to do such thing, Aang. That guy had made me realize some pretty important things while I was at my cell." Kaidu said while they were walking out of the dungeon. Aang stopped. Now he was curious about this bold statement.
"Mind us telling what?" Aang said, his eyes narrowing a bit further.
"Why do you think Fire Nation had managed to win this war to this extent? It was because one obvious historical lesson we all forgot, Aang. When this world was created, Earth, Water and Air only made up it's limbs, flesh and physical appearance."
"The main reason why life even formed up in this world, was because of Fire. Fire is the main soul, the main spirit in both this, and the Spirit World. It is the divine judge, and both life and death. It's an entirely different yin-yang in itself. Water is bleak, clouded to see, and difficult to understand. Earth is firm, yet complicating, hard to break, and even harder to shape. Air is fickle, travelling over everything, merging with everything and impossible to sense the presence of."
"Fire isn't anything like that. It's power, it's irony tramples the misty appearance of water, gets through the cracks of earth and shakes it into dust, and emerging with air, only to be fire stronger, suffocating it. Your entire nation was suffocated from the ash clouds that Fire Nation put ablaze there. Earth Kingdom will, sooner or later have it's stubborn walls burned to glass, not even a piece of ash will remain. Our nations will be nowhere to be seen, drown and melt down like gallows of an ancient tree."
The entire gaang was shocked, as usual (this is getting boring). Every word he just said were true, and they were slowly beginning to think, that maybe, just maybe, this war was doomed to be lost.
Kaidu shook off a chuckle after seeing his comrades falling into such a state of despair. He continued:
"Do you think Agni would put this as a fair game? No, dear Avatar, for this is the part where you enter. You see, with the combined power of the four elements, hell, event three, you may counter, or event better, overpower the fire. With air-powered, sharpened and enhanced speed of water running through the small cracks of earth, filling it up, and forming an impenetrable defence, fire would clash with it like dry ice clashes with mere water. They would balance each other."
"Know that weakened fire can always be overcame with a powerful fire blast. That is the reason why Avatar would never be truly defeated. And that is what you must do." he finished; apparent that years of waterbending training seemed to wisen up him and ponder over the classic method of elemental manipulation and knowledge.
"And know that this shall be all that you gain from me." Kaidu said lastly. (A/N: Yes, yes I know, some of you guys might go happy-dayz dance after this).
"I think it will be more than enough." Aang told Kaidu warmly as they made their way out of the dungeon.
They were encountered by an entourage of the Earth General, 20 Earthbenders surrounding the team, poised to strike.
"I'm really sorry it had to come to this way, Avatar, I truly am. But seeing as you won't co-operate yourself, my intervention would be suffice to have you enter the Avatar-State." General shouted, his maniacial eyes and grin scaring the shit out of Sokka. Kaidu laughed, muttering something about something being a long time. Aang stood firmly, his glider-staff held in his hands, ready for attacks.
It began quickly. 20 earthbenders weren't eventually much of a challenge for an Airbending Master like Aang, being an Avatar on top of that helped too. Kaidu and Katara were having their own way of kicking Earthbender butts, splashing their earth to mud and eventually, freezing them over. Even strangely, Katara didn't see Kaidu drawing any water from the back of his wrist. Sokka was hacking and bashing his way through the ostrich-horsemen that came out to be reinforcements. He seemed to have made friends with untameable beasts that earthbenders had forced their allegiance. Now he was throwing his boomerang in close-range and chopping the groins and abdomens of the horsemen thanks to his Water-Tribe machete.
It ended quickly, though. Seeing as the only Earthbender stood as General Fong, the General had sunken the "enemy" closest to his range, who was unfortunately for Aang, Katara.
Kaidu was troubled. A voice in his head was gaining volume whenever he came close to killing an earthbender. And now it's sound was...menacing for him. Unbearable, at most. He wondered what was happening when he turned to see Katara in deadly danger.
Sokka made a futile attempt at charging the General, shouting "SNEAK ATTACK!!!". He tripped to a rock General created, and later encased in a dome of rock.
"Let her go! I yield, I will enter the Avatar State!" "Cone on, damnit, just do it!...for Katara!" Aang both said and thought, angry that he was tied mentally to this situation, and upset that Katara was in danger.
Kaidu fell to his knees. "Stop...please stop....I can't bear this ache...this pain...this loss!!" he thought when at last, the voices in his head was no longer muffled, but clear for once.
"Then don't, childe. Embrace it, embrace the loss, the pain, the ache, whatever foolish human name you may call it. And embrace me, for I am you." he saw a huge, dark green serpent, swimming in a vast sea in his mindscape.
"Why do you do this? What are you?"
"Ahh...this will be a story for another time, for you see, with your new loss, my time has come!" Kaidu and The Serpent suddenly changed places, which Kaidu stood at feet, staying on water, while the Serpent forced him into a prison, and slithering away.
Aang entered into the Avatar State when he saw Katara slipping away from his own two hands. He felt a huge stream of fury and sadness flowing out from him in shape of ultimate power. He rose up in a sand tornado, only to see another monster in appearance, at least.
Rukhila, the Northern Serpent, staying proud and tall, it's length passing the walls of the castle. It jumped to the sea near the castle, shaking the entire foundary at the way, and began spraying great amounts of sharp water at the castle. At the middle of his tentacles that grew up at it's feline eyes was an unconscious Kaidu.
Sokka was trying to protect himself and his sister while Aang began his mayhem, eradicating the old castle and all which stood within with a huge earthbending blast. Soldiers were instantly killed, though the General, and the water siblings somehow managed to be held in the Avatar's mercy, who by the way, was having a tutelage by the Avatar Roku in the spirit world, concerning the Avatar State.
Kaidu was getting bored. This prison was really boring, the entire walls being dyed in dark shades of grey and green, and a swampy color of water beneath his feet. There was absolutely nothing to do, so he commanded the Serpent.
"Yield. Thou shalt have no power over my body unless my will allows it." he commanded in a divine tone, which suprised the serpent.
"So, you at least know how to talk to a mythical Elemental. Would you be so kind, oh host, to tell me how you've learned it?"
"Master Pakku. Great man, old geezer, sloppy cooker, failure at women, and knows more about divinity than the Master Fire Sage." Kaidu declared grinningly
"That fart is alive? Agni really favours him. Anyway, lets bargain for dominance."
Kaidu took a few steps to face the humanized version of the Elemental. Long blue-hair, blue eyes, a navy blue vest that considered a "mysterious stranger style" outfit, which went quite well with his pale, bony hands that were covered with runes similar to his wrist's.
"You are the Water Elemental, the divine being that is only one step below the Avatar officially. You and your kin were to support the Avatar, granting him his powers. You are the ones most gifted in their elemental usage, and passing down through generations after generations, you have been the tutors of the Avatar."
"Indeed, youngling. You resemble me much of Avatar Ruga. A shame he had to die so foolishly. A rare breed, one that comes once every century amongst the waterbenders and a fountain of knowledge." the Serpent claimed.
Kaidu was feeling prideful. Avatar Ruga was the waterbender Avatar before Avatar Kuruk. He was the first one who managed to tame a sea serpent, going by the name of Surzaki, and the ony one at that.
"I see much of his spirit formed up in you, yet so different from his psychosis either. Anyway, the bargain?" the Serpent asked Kaidu.
"So be it. Judging your nature,...uhh, Elemental, I shalt yield my powers to thy control only at matters that considered VERY severe physical and emotional distress. Beside from that, I ask naught but your peace, and by Agni, change this mindscape a bit, will you? I've been in here, and let me tell you, it's really boring!" Kaidu told the Elemental as such.
"Ah...sense of humour seems to always stay in waterbender veins now...so shall it be, Carrier, and to the end of our days, we shall be one." Serpent finished what he had to say, and Kaidu returned to his normal state, only to see a castle in wreck. The gaang were running to him, who was standing on a rock, near the sea.
"Kaidu, are you alright? What happened to you there? You were like this huge serpent, and..." Sokka was blabbering when Kaidu prevented him his death due to breath loss.
"Shut up damnit, my head hurts. Did Aang win?" Kaidu tiredly asked.
"Well yeah, though, I couldn't help him much." Sokka said, a bit down.
"I told you not to sneak attack while shouting so much!" Kaidu bumped Sokka's head and dragged him down to Appa, where Katara was trying to cheer up Aang and he was obviously falling for it.
Though they got quiet when Kaidu came along. They all seemed pretty much shaken up and scared like shit after seeing his "kick-ass mode" as Sokka would describe in the days to come.
"Sheesh, If I was gonna eat you, then I'd have already done so." Kaidu grinned, his joke lightening up the mood a little.
"So Aang, what did I miss? What happened to you there, that whole brightiness and stuff?" Kaidu asked.
"Well, Roku told me that Avatar-state is a defense mechanism that calls forth the power of all past avatars into one body, and lends literally earth-shaking bending power." Aang said a little too excited.
"Now that's cool. Why do you seem down then?" Kaidu asked, smiling.
"Because if I got killed in the avatar state, the avatar cycle would be broken, and the avatars would cease to exist." Aang said sullenly.
"Aw c'mon, who says that you're gonna die now buddy?" Sokka cheerfully said.
"Yeah Aang, we'd never let anyone hurt you in any way ever again." Katara said, supporting his brother.
Aang turned to Kaidu, who had a shit-eating grin on his face.
"Are you alright, Kaidu?" Aang asked doubtedly.
"I'm alright, so much for you to ask." he took a solemn pose and smiled. "It ain't any big news, it's just that I'm the Carrier of the Water Elemental Rukhila, the one who's destined to train the Avatar in the Grand-Mastery of Water Element, and now we eventually have to also find out the other Carriers." he stated sullenly. Everyone, of course, gaped their mouths 20.000 leagues down at Earth.
"So yeah, I have to protect you too!" Kaidu declared as the Gaang continued to their destination.
There! So much for you, Filthy beast known as School!
I'm really glad it's over. Man, I really didn't want to change the storyline, but hey! Where is it's taste in that? I always loved Elemental-concerning stories, so if you'd like to give me some of their names, then I'll make something special for you in my next chapter. Since I suck terribly at sending cookies, that's what I can do at least!
Reviews are, of course, always appreciated. Reviews are awesuuum! Review, or you suck worse than Katara!
Katara: Hey!(Her head expoldes in a blast of fire) (Thanks to the Naruto Abridged for teh idea, mon!)
Anywho, you guys totally rock. Avatar rocks too!
I've created the pairing chart, which goez as:
Zutara
Taang
Ty-lokka (Suki dies, and Sokka bounds with Kaidu, so does Mai, and Zuko bounds with the water duo)
Azula-my OC('cuz she's really cool...opposites rock!)
Of course, due to the reviews at hand, my thoughts can be swayed, my fellow readers...thx for reading, and for the American Readers there, Happy Independence Day!!!
