Aang feels his very being filled with horror and sorrow as the tragedy of Guts' life plays out before his very eyes. The boy cries and screams and clutches his heart hopelessly crying out.
"DESTROY!" The shadowy beast howls breaking Aang out of his stupor and into a desperate fear.
The boy frantically searches for the origin of the howl and finds it deadlocked with Guts in an isolated dark void.
"You will kill." the beast snarls chomping down on Gut's neck.
From it's bite the beast begins spreading itself onto and into Guts' body. Guts growls and attempts to pull the beast away from him finding his prosthetic missing. With one arm Guts can only annoy the beast with his attempts to free himself.
Without missing a beat Aang dashes toward the frenetic pair and begins attempting to pull the beast away from Guts. The beast pulls it's teeth from Gut's neck and snaps at the boy narrowly missing the airbender's hand. With the monster distracted Guts grabs it by the back of the neck and shoulder throws it away from him and the boy.
"Dammit..." Guts grunts out.
"GUTS?! GUTS?! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" A familiar voice rings across the void. "WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"Over here Schierke!" Guts keeps his eyes locked on the beast.
They both watch as the beast recovers and begins charging towards them. Mouth a gap and showing of hundreds of pearly white dagger-like teeth the creature readying to pounce on the boy. Guts watches carefully trying to find an opening, but before an opportunity presents itself the beast is airborne heading for Aang.
Instinctively Aang tries to bend and … surprisingly, it works! A jet of flames spring out of the frightened boy's hands and engulf the beast and blasts it writhing backwards. The newly summoned fire lights up the void like a beckon drawing Schierke to the two.
"GUTS!" She shouts flying toward the avatar's light. "What has happened? This realm... it's wrong..."
"Is there some way out?" Aang asks meekly.
"I do not know, this place... it's somehow different from the astral plane..." The little witch ponders.
"It's not the same as the spirit world either… I can bend here." The avatar adds. "We'll need to try something. Schierke, Guts, i'll try going into the Avatar state to see if theres some way for me to get us out of her, but I need time and protection. Can I count on you two?"
Schierke nods hopefully.
"I'll need a weapon." Guts states plainly.
Aang thinks for a moment and assumes an earthbending stance.
"Please work." The boy says going through the motions and slowly but surely congealing a patch of the shadowy void near Guts into vaguely Dragonslayer like silhouette.
"Thanks kid." Guts smirks and readies the impromptu weapon.
The beast, still ablaze, charges at the newly armed Gut while Schierke begins summoning dirt golems from her bag to surround and protect Aang as he enters the Avatar state. The boy takes a meditative stance slams his knuckles together and his tattoos begin glowing with a strong blue light. Guts steps into a quick swipe across the beast's snout sending it careening away
The light from Aang's tattoos begin spreading to his entire body then engulfing the area around him including Guts and Schierke. The light forms a huge pillar of light piercing through the void like a bolt of lighting from a gloomy sky. Aang feels an odd peace as his body automatically moves into bending stances he had no knowledge of. The light congeals like water and rushes down on the three of them and pushes them through the ground.
