CHAPTER 3: A Spider In The Room

Avatar Doyle sleeps peacefully in his old room, when he's suddenly slowly awaken by a presence staring at him from the ceiling. As Doyle continues to open his eyes and adjust them, he can't quite tell what it is yet but its heavy creepy breathing has Doyle already freaking out without a reaction yet, until he decides to turn the lights up. It is some horrid monstrosity that immediately startles Doyle and makes him jump off his bed.

This being proceeds to attack Doyle with hooks but he pushes it away trying to snap out of the panic while managing to handle the unexpected and sudden attack in the middle of such scare. The being throws more of his hooks at Doyle, and keeps throwing them while Doyle dodges them. Doyle metal bends some back at the being and the fight continues outside after the being launches himself at Doyle making them fall through the window and the fight keeps going until Doyle accidentally kills it.

Carcass Martell runs to the scene to check what has happened while Doyle is there on his knees still trying to digest what has happened and also regretting having taken a life.

Carcass: "What has happened brother? ...Oh my fucking spirits, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?"

Doyle: "It's absolutely fucking nasty looking, isn't it? ...but I killed it. Was it the right thing?"

Carcass: "Where did it come from? Fucking look at it... shit... are you ok?"

Doyle: "I'll go for a walk" –says after vomiting-

/Avatar Doyle is intervened by Korra while walking/

Korra: "Had a little spider in the room?"

Doyle: "What...? Yes... it moved like a spider... everything about it was so unsettling. Such a fucking scare"

Korra: "You seem to have forgotten about the missing non-benders"

Doyle: "You're right. This Nuke thing has set the Maverick invasion to a hold. I can get on that now... does it have anything to do with what attacked me? If it does, those non-benders might be in danger. I have to save them" –starts getting all worked up-

Korra: -steps in front of him and stops his walk by grabbing his shoulders while saying with deep voice- "There's no saving them... but you can free them ...like you did with that one"

Doyle goes speechless staring blankly ahead as Korra's spirit banishes away.

/Meanwhile at New Valyria/

?: "Oh, hi" –says a girl who approaches Rafaél while he's sat on a rock-

Rafaél: "Hey... man, this fucking heat is killing me. How can anyone live here?"

?: "The temperature is just fine for me, seeing as I'm a fire bender and all ...what's your name?"

Rafaél: "It's Rafaél. Yours?"

?: "I'm Yurema. It took a while for my father to finally let me go out since you guys were here..."

Rafaél: "Scared of the penguins? ...speaking of which, why didn't we bring any? ...well, probably because they wouldn't have survived this fucking heat..."

Yurema: "...I don't like it how you're taking the world by force"

Rafaél: "Is that what you came up to tell me? Piss off! ..Hey, it looks like my father's answering a political message. I'll see what it is. Get out of my way, will you?" –says before going to where his father is taking a message from the Earth Republic's president-

The president: "It was you, wasn't it? You created these... freaks of nature. You violated the term; but now there's not much we can do except for to fight. So come at us, you'll have it your way Chief Alvaro Maverick"

The Chief: "What the fuck is he talking about?" –Confused-

?: "He means there's no Nuke anymore for you to worry about" –says a young mysterious woman in a weird old diving suit-

That woman is kept around by the Mavericks and Rafaél spends the whole afternoon with her.

Rafaél: "Hey, thanks for solving all of my family's problems. Sounds like you have quite an army of your own"

Eleanor: "Let's make it bigger, let's join our houses"

Rafaél: "W...what house are you from?" –blushing uncontrollably-

Eleanor: "The Rapture Family" –giggles-

Rafaél: "So... is it your name, Eleanor Rapture...?"

Eleanor: -laughs- "Haha, no. Actually, the rapture Family is much bigger than just one house and I'm their leader. I'm Eleanor Lamb"

Rafaél: "Wow, you're very young for a leader"

Eleanor: "Yeah well, my mother and father died ...my father not quite entirely ... I'll find a way to bring him back to life. In the meantime he lives in me. Oh! I'm sorry, I hope I'm not freaking you out too much"

Rafaél: "Heh, just a little bit" –says with sarcasm-

Eleanor: "I think you should have this" –hands him a bottle with a fancy squid-like design-

Rafaél: "What is this?" –looking at it-

Eleanor: "It's Iron Sow. It's from that weird time in Rapture that there were drinkable plasmids ...it was at the very beginning of everything. You'll be able to create water with it. I thought it would come handy for a water bender like you"

Rafaél: "Wait, what's Rapture? What's a plasmid? How is this going to make me create water?"

Eleanor: "Rapture is where I come from, where my family's from. A plasmid is what you're holding right now, just drink it"

Then Rafaél drinks the thing and falls to the ground in pain while experiencing some sort of chemical and biological transformation and looks at his hands starting to grow weird tentacle holes while water runs through them and all over his hands

Eleanor: "You never forget your first splicing..."