Korra
Eska and Desna led us through the Palace without uttering a word. I had to admit that even thought I couldn't see I could sense something wrong in this building like there was some dark force just around the corner.
"Our farther will see you now" I heard Eska say as Asami leads me through the doors.
The dark feeling grows stronger the further in we go and I start to feel a bit sick. Eventually I start to hear the flipping of pages and the sound of flowing water.
It was Tenzin who speaks first.
"Forgive the disturbance Chief Unalaq, but we would ask for your help with an urgent matter."
"Ah Tenzin it's been a while since we've seen each other and Avatar Korra I've been waiting a long time to meet you."
I hear his footsteps as he makes his way over to me
"If I may ask what bring you to the northern water tribe?"
"I'm looking for a way into the spirit world, I heard that avatar Aang found one here during the siege."
I feel a sudden surge of the dark feeling after I say this and my eyes erupt into a horrible pain. My hands shoot to my eyes in an attempt to deal with it.
"Korra!" Asami screams as I nearly fall over from the pain
"I'm alright, just a little bit of pain"
"Korra don't scare me like that" I manage to smile but also feel a bit of guilt at lying to her like that.
"Excuse me miss, but who are you?"
"I'm Asami Sato"
"Ah yes of the Sato corporation, a pleasure to meet you but Korra I sense that there's more to this than you're not telling me. Why are your eyes covered in a cloth?"
I reach up to touch the cloth on my eyes having forgotten earlier that I put it on when we entered the city.
"My sight was stolen by Koh the face stealer, I need to get to Wan Shi Tongs library in the spirit world to find a way to get it back."
He takes his time before he answers as if playing out some grand plan.
"Koh the face stealer is one of the eldest spirits on record you're lucky you only lost you're sight to him."
"But is there a way Korra, Tenzin and I can cross over"
"It is possible to cross but I'm afraid in the spirit world you're bending won't work"
"Be that as It may we have no choice" I hear Tenzin
"Very well, I will lead you to the spiritual hot spot"
I take Asami's hand and follow as Unalaq leads us through the palace and into the city before we the sounds of the city start to fade and the air starts to get warmer.
"Welcome to the home of the ocean and moon spirits"
Unalaq states as we discarded our heavy coats for our normal clothes.
"This is place is beautiful"
"Yes it is Asami, I can feel great spiritual power in this place. Come on girls let's get started" Tenzin states as we sit down and get into a meditative position.
I try to relax and focus but the dark sensation that I've been feeling keeps distracting me. I do my best to ignore it and focus on the sounds of the water around me. After a moment I feel another presence, but unlike the dark feeling this one felt oddly familiar, I let this feeling flow through me and out of me like a push and pull. The sounds of the world start to fade and light is all I feel for a moment before the sounds of birds is all I feel.
"Korra?"
I turn my head at hearing Tenzin's voice
"Finally we were starting to get worried"
"I can't believe this place I don't even know how to describe it"
I stand up and try to take a step but fall forward into pile of mud. Asami and Tenzin pull me up and I start to rub the dirt from my face.
"Just great my first action in the spirit world and I fall on my face." I undo the cloth and do my best to wring it out.
"Korra hold up you got some near your eyes I got it" she says before I feel her hands brush some mud and dirt from my eyes.
"I got most of it but you might want to try blinking to see if anything stuck"
I nod my head and open my eyes only to be surprised by something
"Asami! I can see you"
"What!?"
"I can see you! And the sky! and Tenzin!"
I proceed to take in all of my surroundings as I enjoy being able to see once again. We were in some sort of bamboo forest with a small stream flowing a few yards from us, in my excitement I pull Asami close to me and give her a passionate kiss stunning her for a moment. I pull back to take in the blush on her face as I finish and her face grows confused for a moment.
"Korra your eyes are pure white"
"What?"
I look around for a moment before I find a small puddle of water and stare at my reflection my eyes were white.
I get so absorbed in my appearance that I don't notice someone walk up behind me.
"Enjoying the puddle my friend?" I turn my head and jump a little as I look at the figure before me.
"Ah! Talking monkey"
I know it wasn't the smartest thing I could have said but it was a monkey. Although I guess monkeys don't wear straw hats, linen robes and carry a bamboo staff.
Tenzin comes running when I scream but comes to a stop when he sees the figure.
"Yes I am a monkey, but one who was walked the path of the sage and seen the way the world shifts, my name is Fu a pleasure to meet you avatar Korra" he says as he bows to me.
I don't want to be rude so I bow back. When I look back up Fu has climbed his staff and is now eye level with me
"Now tell me in what way may I be of service to the bringer of balance"
"I was going to Wan Shi Tongs library to get my sight back but I can see now… so I don't really know."
Fu strokes his chin for a moment his white mustache flowing down both sides of his face.
"How did you come to lose it in the first place if I may ask?"
"It was stolen by Koh but I don't understand how I can see here and not back home"
Fu nearly falls off his staff at the mention of this name.
"Koh! I see, I thought I sensed a dark power in this. But Korra you have it wrong, Koh is many things but even he isn't powerful enough to completely steal your sight."
"I don't understand I been blind for days now but when I crossed into the spirit world I could see again."
"Tell me my friend what do you know of the balance?"
I try to find my worlds but just shrug my shoulders at him.
He sighs before he extends his hands and two glowing orbs fill his palms in his left a ball of light and in his right a ball of darkness.
"You see there must always be a balance between the forces of light and darkness like there is a human and spirit world, Koh has always been allied with darkness so it was easy for him to overpower your inner darkness rendering you blind in the human world. But for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." He shows us this by closing his fist of light and within moments his fist of darkness grows in size.
"So by overpowering her darkness in the human world causing her blindness…
"… It allowed her light to grow in the spirit world allowing her to see again." Asami finishes
"So how do I restore my inner balance?"
Fu shakes his head
"I'm afraid what was done can only be undone by the one who did it in the first place"
"Great, so where do I find Koh?"
"You already know where you must go to find the answers you seek"
I let out an irate sigh
"Wan Shi Tongs library, but where in the spirit world do I find that?"
Fu hopes down from his staff and extends it toward a bunch of bamboo trees who split apart revealing a dirt path.
"To find the path you seek one merely has but to look"
