Chapter 3: The Past and other things.

The blurred window was splattered with droplets of water. Others were heavier than others making them glide down fast enough to race each other down the window where it would disappear behind the books that was held by the window sill. The clouds we're grey and boring and Korra just stared at her window gloomily, sitting on her mundane bed. The first day of Hogwarts was two weeks ago, and she didn't give a single care about the Wizarding World. She hated it. She despised it. It had it's time to show her it's true colours, but they we're tainted with living up to the most 'powerful wizard' expectation. Korra didn't want that; the burden of it on her unstable shoulders. In the back of her mind past all her hatred was the colour of green. Emerald Green. Or Neon Green. She remembered that there was still something she regretted, something that she couldn't take back. The outburst at the store. No. The walking out part where she left someone behind.

Did she ever try and stop me from walking out?

Korra tried to chase her the thoughts away, but it always led back to the green-eyed girl introducing herself with the same harmonious voice that she spoke in. It was scary how fresh her voice sounded, especially in her mind. Everything that Korra tried just led back to her and it wasn't annoying it was natural. Each time she thought about it guilt rushed through her and a familiar heat in her cheeks warmed her up, making her dig further into her duvet.

Good thing I'll never have to see her again. Korra sighed. I wonder what she's doing right now. She tried to imagine what she would be doing at this moment but a picture of her at Hogwarts turned out to be a eyelids started to become heavy, and her breathing started to slow in calm inhales and exhales. That was until she felt the end of her bed leaning downwards.

It's Katara. Frustrated she flipped her body so her face was in the pillow.

"Katara I've already told you I'm not going to Hogwarts," She moaned into her pillow, but the bottom of the mattress continued to keep leaning down making the top rise. "Katara." The bed mattress was tilting in such a high angle that Korra's body started to slide down the mattress and towards the floor. She flipped back round and open her eyes blinking fastly to find not her roof but a snow like-white beast pushing her mattress down. The animal had a white coat around it's neck with a furry outside that covered it's body. The paws had resembled a bear with it's enlarged arms. The only aspect that Korra saw that was beyond her expectations of a polar bear was the size of it's tail which was long and wiggling. The polar bear was continuing to put it's paws down on the mattress then stopped when it met Korra's gaze. It huffed at her, sniffing the air. The polar bear was so large that Korra was too afraid to try and scare it away at this point. Korra screamed boyishly at what she saw, and the polar bear continued to stare at her calmly with black eyes.

It's staring at me.

Korra slowly reached her hand out to pat it but pulled back at the sight of it's sharp teeth.

I guess, there's only one solution.

She took a deep breath. "KATARRRRRRAAAAAAAA!" and the whole bedroom shook. The polar bear groaned at the noise and stood up hitting his head on the roof. It bowed down then groaned louder again. It shook it's head side to side then hit the wall in the process. It fell unconscious and the whole bedroom shook again but with greater force when it hit the ground. One of her posters that was above the polar bear fell and covered it. It was a poster of her favourite band 'Fall out Boy.' She walked over to the poster to find four of her favourite boys frozen in place staring at her. "Not only do you heal me with your music, but you save me from a man-eating bear. Thank you." She gulped to herself knowing that she would have to face the beast again but then realised his large legs and arms were completely non-existent at this point. Confused, Korra picked her poster up violently almost ripping it, to unveil a still and miniature polar bear laying on her carpet. It laid there cofortably and started snoring.

"Korra! What happened is everything all right?! Are you hurt?" She yelled as hard as she can but still came out weakly.

"Shhhhh," Korra shushed "This thing is asleep." Stepping further and further away from it knowing it's full capabilities, but Katara walked over and sat down next to it. "Let me go get the phone t-"

"Oh, this little puppy?" She interrupted stopping Korra from getting whatever she needed to do. Katara walked over to it and started to pat it's head.

"Puppy?! It was hardly a puppy. I mean it was this big," she indicated by spreading her hands apart "and that large. How could you possibly call it puppy, it's a polar bear!"

"Sorry I was wrong. A puppy bear."

"A puppy bear? You've got to be kidding with me."

Katara put her hand underneath the puppy bear's stomach harnessing it safely in her hands so she could pick it up. Then she put her other hand on top of it securing it safely in her arms. "Hold it. It won't bite." Korra was hesitant to hold it but held her hands out anyway but with her eyes closed. Katara laughed at this gesture. Instead of giving her the 'puppy bear', she got one of Korra's hands instead and put it on top of the 'puppy bear's ' body. Korra felt the soft fluffiness that was underneath her touch. Her fingertips was tickled by it's fur making her laugh. Underneath all that, was it's warmth, the large inhales of exhales of sleeping pup and more importantly the heartbeat that surged powerfully throughout it's whole body. The 'puppy bear' seemed so fragile and peaceful in this moment, that Korra was jealous at how uncaring it was acting.

"How did it change from being big to small in a matter of seconds?"

"From my experience, I think it's size depends on it's mood. When it was in your room it was probably distressed because of how cramped it was in here and you... screaming." Katara looked at Korra with a glare knowing that Korra caused the distressed. Korra looked away feeling embarrassed.

"Stop giving me that look, it's not like I asked for a polar bear to be in my room."

"Actually, it found yourself in your room."

"What?"

"It was given by the headmaster of Hogwarts, Avatar Aang. He gave it specific instructions to protect you, as the letter states." Korra sighed at this, almost pulling her hand away from the pup.

"He probably just gave it to me to keep in contact with the Wizarding World. Katara I don't ever want to go back." Korra replies bleakly.

"Korra..." Korra ignored Katara and jumped onto her bed to continue watching her window. Katara sighed continuing to pat the 'puppy bear.'

"Let me show you something." Katara implied, waving her hand towards her, while still holding the polar bear.

"Where are we going?"

"Somewhere, but it's something you need to see," Korra followed her then Katara dumped the polar bear into Korra's arms. "And hold her, I'm getting tired." The polar bear snuggled deeply into Korra's arm and Katara notices this. "Aang says it needs a name. Possibly a simple name since you'll be training and growing it."


A blanket of darkness covered the town, houses and bungalows. The night was dimly lit by warm headlights on the sidewalk. The quiet sound of flies flying around around the headlights, where they run into the headlights repeatedly was the only sound that was in the vicinity. The peacefulness was destroyed when a ripple echoed the ghost-like town, scaring the cats that hid in the bushes, the flies near the headlights and possibly other things if there was anything living there. Facing a collapsed structure in rubble and dust. Katara's hand backed away from Korra's shoulder stopping the disapparation. Looking around the construction like place, Korra found a familiar sign that triggered the roots of her memories, then looked back at the rubble.

The gymnasium is gone? I swear it was here even after the swimming carnival. It can't be gone...

"We didn't know how strong you were," Katara said interrupting Korra before she said anything. "You had shown no signs of any magical activity or any interest in magic as you were growing up. We had expected that you would trigger something along the process, but this..." she pointed at the fallen infrastructure. "has done more damage than good."

"You're saying I did this?" Korra pointed at the fallen infrastructure.

There was a long pause. "Yes you did this..." Korra felt a drop in her stomach. Her heart shook violently making her breathing ragged. She felt her sick to her stomach.

"I don't even remember what happened..."

"Do you want to remember what happened?"

No.

"No." Korra replied a bit to quickly.

Katara looked at Korra who wore an expression that anyone would be familiar with. Fear. "I think you want to know what happened. Come over here walk with me..." She waved her hand over, and bended underneath the construction strip of boundaries. Travelling deeper and deeper into the area she found a brick that was barely out of the ground. "I want you to touch this." She said pointing at the brick. At first Korra was hesitant, but slowly fed into it and eventually touched the dusty brown brick that built the infrastructure.

The brick was a solid piece of wall hidden behind a cloth that had a colour and an animal displayed onto it. Then the wall was no longer the strong structure that held anything together but a normal brick, singled out. It was ripped apart by the violent gust of wind and dust. It flew into the sky in a circular motion then stopped and fell into the ground with a thud, leaving it at that spot.

Korra fell back and tore her hand away from the brick. Realising it was in the same spot ever since it was thrown in the sky.

"What was that?!"

"A flashback from the past."

"How did I do that? I-I've never done that before."

"That's because you unlocked 'The Avatar State,' in that moment." Korra shook her head in horror trying to not give in to the truth. "But you can fix this once you can control it."

"I don't think I can..."

"What makes you say that?"

"Because..."

I'm scared

"I just...can't."

"Of course you can't do it, not just yet." Katara answered simply.

"Well that's probably because you're not the all 'powerful wizard' everyone has to rely on. I'm just whatever the world wants me to be." Katara sighs at this and a gust of wind pasted by them making Korra shiver. Katara had nothing to rebut what Korra had to say because it was the truth.

"Do you want to learn how to control it at least?"

Of course...

"How can I? No one can help me..."

"With the help of Avatar Aang of course, he can teach you to control it. You're part of his lineage, you have unlocked power that no other wizard can achieve. That wizards would die for in fact. With this you have the power to balance the Wizarding World and it's struggles against evil."

"But Katara... I'm scared," Korra finally confessed trying to hold in her sobs. "I'm scared that I'm not gonna live up to everyone's expectation. Everyone's treating me as if I'm the most powerful thing in the world but I can't even face a shopkeeper when he mentions the word 'water.'"

"And that is a good thing," Katara said crouching down to pat her Korra's tense shoulders. "Fear balances the emotions of your existence. Think of fear as a reign that holds you back. Sometimes you've got to let it go every now and let your mind be free but then you would also have to keep the 'reign' there, to remind yourself you're human. Having fear allows you to create a passageways for the bad and good scenarios. It makes you think outside the box. Korra, you have to understand that not everything around you is out there to harm you, but it's rather the perspective in which you choose to see it in whether or not it will harm you."

Korra was in tears at this point, but she didn't feel weak. She felt stronger than ever before, she felt as if she unlocked a new purpose. A new perspective. With Katara still patting her back her words of wisdom revolving her head like whispers that was washing away the fears that she had. But not enough to wash away all of it.

Perspective.

Korra used her hands to wipe the tears that she wept.

Perspective.

She looked at the water droplets that wet her fingertips.

Perspective

The tears reminded her of water. Small and weak and it didn't harm her.

"Thank you," She held Katara's hand in her hands and lifted it off her shoulders delicately. "There's something I've got to do now."

She stood up with both of her hands free. She took a deep breath in, letting herself emotions free. Shifting her legs so her right leg is at the front and the left at the back. Her pointer finger and her middle finger we're in a gun like position with her other fingers tucked in. She bent down, then penetrated the ground with her fingers. The ground beneath her shook, and a vision clouded her a mind.

She was back at the Gymnasium and in the distance she could see Raiko, Mira, teachers, classmates and everyone who was the swimming carnival.

"You could've killed her!" Raiko declared. "LIFE SAVER DO SOMETHING!" The lifesaver was sitting on a high chair asleep, but woke up by the thunder of Raiko's voice. In a second he dove into the water with his float.

"She can use her 'pro-swimming skills', she won't die." Mira excused mockingly. "Besides she deserved i-"

All of a sudden the lifesaver was shot up from the pool doing flips all over the place then landing harshly flat onto the wet paved floor. He quickly got up from how he landed. His eyes were dilated and his chest was rising up and down at a rapid rate. "HER EYES! THE-THE-THEY-"

"WHAT DID YOU SEE!" Raiko exclaimed walking over to the lifesaver pushing Mira out of the way.

"BRIGHT EYES! LAMP EYES! SHE WAS A MONSTER! EVERYONE R-RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" The life saver answered then bolted for the doors with his floaty still attached to him.

"He was right about the monster part she is one if you think about it" Mira overhead the lifesaver outbursts and started laughing. Raiko looked at the pool and saw two orbs of light lighting up the pool. The light highlighted a small body lying at the bottom of the pool.

"EVERYONE GET OUT NOW!" Raiko yelled and as soon as he said that, the water was in swirling in a circular motion making a whirlpool. The pool was spilling water all over the place as it couldn't contain the contents that was in it any longer. A pierced high-pitched scream filled the gymnasium, followed by the screams of others. Raiko was too distracted by the events that was unfolding before him but he could hear that the students we're starting to evacuate with their panicked feet.

All of a sudden a wall of water rose from the pool. Debris flying everywhere hitting a running Mira on the head, making her fall unconscious. In his peripheral vision, students to his right we're about to be engulfed by the wall of water, but he pulled out his wand crossing both of his arms creating an invisible wall that protected them from being crushed from it. The water was successfully repelled and the water broke it's strong formation falling in whatever place it was repelled to. Raiko uncrossed his arms making the protective shield disappear. He examined the area. Multiple bodies we're on the ground and unconscious. Some students saw the magic that Raiko had unleashed, then Raiko obliviated every single one of them in there spot in a matter of seconds. After the obliviation they also fell unconscious. Mira was still on the ground but with blood gushing out from her head, he checked up on her finding a weak pulse.

The pool was wrecked and outstretched. The cracks of the sides gave it a concrete and grey appearance. Some had small pipelines sticked out from it, but for most of it it was a muddy mess. In the middle of the pool laid Korra laying on her righthand with blood rushing from it. Her figure was muddy and her clothes we're soaked. Raiko lifted himself from where he standing, over to Korra. Examining closer he could see a harsh bruise on the back of her head, and a scar running across her cheek. A small pipeline pierced her right elbow, but not strong enough to puncture through it. Getting her out of this will be a pain. Raiko with his wand waved it at Korra.

Wingardium Leviosa.

Korra woke up from her unconsciousness and screamed in pain as she was being painfully being lifted up very slowly. She jolted with every muscle in her body making it harder for the pipe to come out.

"Stop moving Korra! You're only making things worse!" Korra continued to thrash ignoring him and Raiko held his wand more firmly. Her eyes we're shifting from being lit up to normal, but they we're dangerously becoming fully lit. Raiko dropped Korra making the small pipe go through the same hole. Korra screamed louder.

Petrificus Totalus.

Korra stopped moving and screaming altogether and the whole Gymnasium was finally at peace.

Wingardium Leviosa.

He waved again and Korra was lifted again which was way easier than before. He laid out his arms and put Korra in them so she wouldn't fall. As soon as he did that the spell wore off and Raiko carried her away.

The vision ended, leaving Korra sweaty and exhausted.

"Did you see something?" Katara asked standing behind her.

"I-I saw me."

"What we're you doing?"

"Moving the water. Me controlling it. No. I wasn't controlling it. It was something else," Korra tried to remember specific parts to it. "And my eyes, they were glowing."

"Now do you understand why you have to control it?" Katara asked and Korra nodded at her with a determined face not needing to explain why, because she finally knew why she was important.

"Hey Katara? Do you think it's too late to go to Hogwarts?"

"Sweetie, nothing is too late with Avatar Aang." Katara hummed dreamily.