Asami

"Are you awake yet girl?" I hear a voice say as pain overtakes my body every time I try to move. I manage to get my eyes open just in time for a pincer to impale itself into my shoulder.

"That should wake you up I need you conscious when the avatar gets here"

The creature before me matches the description of Koh perfectly with is massive insect like body and cryptic ever changing face. I take a look at my surroundings to try to figure out where I was taking not immediately that I was no longer in the same cave. The place was a barren stone and rock cave humongous in size littered with skeletal remains with the only notable thing being a black petrified tree with roots spanning through the cave and a glowing massive red symbol on the front. Koh leans in front of me face changing to one of a blue faced demon and follows my gaze to the tree.

"Do you like it? You see eons ago when the great light and dark spirits split Vatu having been locked inside the tree of time couldn't spread his influence anymore so he sent his powers into the trees roots hoping to send chaos into the land. Most of his powers dispersed without an affect but some found its way into areas of darkness and death." He says while raising his body and sweeping his pincers around the cave

"So this entire area…"

He leans back into my face again changing his face to one of an old man.

"Yes this tree is filled with his dark powers which caused this entire mountain to emit a powerful poison killing everything… well except for me of course but you would have known that seeing as you had my book"

Koh raises again this time curling his body through the roots of the tree before dangling his upper part of his body so that it is in front of me. A piece of paper drops to the ground at my feet.

"If you had this page that I borrowed from Wans library you would have known that not only had I adapted my body to survive in this area but also gained the ability to emit my own lethal poison."

I was terrified about what he would do so I try to move my body but found that I couldn't feel my legs and my arms were getting harder to move so I did the only thing I could and tried to gain answers while praying Korra would find me.

"Why would you do this?" I ask watching him move through the roots.

"Why is such a human word, why am I here? What is my purpose? My dear I do what I do so that humanity never becomes weak"

"What?"

"Have you ever noticed that you humans always move forward faster in war than in peace? I've discovered rage and hatred mixed with a dose of fear to be the best way to motivate."

"What will you do to me?"

He moves in a way similar to a snake wrapping himself around me and bring me up to his face moving a pincer across my face.

"You do have a lovely face… I think I'll add it to my collection right after I tear out the avatars heart. That is if she doesn't die on the way up here."

Korra

"Fu can you see the cave?" due to the poison my movement speed had been greatly reduced so Fu had been taking the lead for the last couple hours while I lagged behind using his staff to keep going.

"We are nearly there my friend just a bit longer" he says while shifting Tenzin to a different position.

We had been walking for nearly five hours not without stopping and the wait of Tenzin had been a constant burden on Fu who had to shift his position every few minutes. I had offered to help but he insisted he could bear the weight. The poison inside me was a constant pain that allowed me to stay focused and moving, but with every step I took a bit more of me grew heavier. We continue onward climbing the mountain for a while before I start to see the outline of a cave in the distance.

"Fu is that it?"

"Yes we've reached the cave at last"

The area at the mouth of the cave is littered with skeletons but void of the toxic flowers. Fu sets down Tenzin leaning him against a boulder.

"Stay here airbender where you can heal I will protect the avatar" Tenzin does his best to nod in approval at Fu before shutting eyes and leaning his head back.

We move into the cave slowly scanning the surroundings for Koh but get nothing but rocks as we keep moving. Soon we find ourselves in a massive room and I quickly spot Asami leaning against a wall.

"Asami!" I scream throwing the staff to Fu and running to Asami.

"Korra it's a trap!" she screams as a giant tail comes emerges from the roof smacking me across the cave and into a root. Blood comes from my mouth on impact. Koh comes from out of the darkness of the ceiling putting himself in front of Asami.

"Come now avatar surely you didn't think it would be that easy"

Fu runs in Kohs blind spot striking with lighting speed with his staff at Kohs body and face before doing a backflip and landing in front of me blocking me from Koh.

"If you wish to get to the avatar you must first defeat me" he says raises his staff to a defense stance.

"I've killed countless number of your kind! You will die like the rest of them" he screams charging Fu.

I watch as their battle takes place Koh jabbing his pincers and trying to circle Fu who deflects all his attacks with his staff while jumping and spinning to avoid being trapped. Koh lunges at Fu who flips forward and comes crashing down with a staff slam behind Kohs head before running the length of his body and flipping again onto the floor. But right as he lands Koh swings around and with a swing breaks his staff in half when he tries to deflect, seeing an opening a swings again smacking Fu hard in the face sending him flying into the cave wall where he doesn't get up.

I scream in rage as this happens and pound the ground in anger because I couldn't help.

"If I don't do something now he'll kill both of us. I could win if only I could bend."

"Korra you must not give up you are the avatar." I hear a voice say from nowhere

"Who is that?" I ask

"I am Rava the incarnation of light in this world and the spirit that resides within all avatars."

"What do I do Rava I can't bend in the spirit world so how can I stop Koh?

"I will help you, here in the spirit world my powers are strongest."

A familiar surge of power runs through my body air the air wraps around me raising me up and my eyes glow brighter as I enter the avatar state.

"Koh I will stop you evil here and now" I say sending a slab of rock into his body sending him flying and landing near Asami.

Black blood drips from his face as he rises up.

"I see that infernal light spirit is still in there." He wipes the blood from his face before taking notice of Asami

"If you care so much for this girl then you can watch her die!" Koh screams raising his pincer to deal a fatal blow. I shift into a stance that I promised Katara that I would never use and raised my hands.

Asami

I close my eyes and turn my head not wanting to see the blow coming. But when nothing happens I open an eye to see a pincer inches from my face shaking and being moved back in a horrible way.

"My arm! Why can't I move it?" I look around and see Korra moving her body in an oblivious stance and it only takes me a second to figure out what she was doing but I still utter the word.

"Blood bending"

Korra moves her right hand to the right sending his pincer away from me then using both hands picks Koh up before throwing him back into the far corners of the cave.

"This is the end of you Koh"

She switches to a two finger stance sweeping them in an arc like circle lighting flowing between them before raising her hand and unleashing a bolt of lightning from her fingers into Kohs body creating a hole and scorching the wall behind him causing him to fall to the ground his blood pouring from his wound.

"Well played avatar but even in death I still win"

She raises her hands and collapsing the tunnel around him blocking Koh from the rest of the cave. The glow of her eyes fades and she turns to me smiling

"We did it, he's gone" she says before falling headfirst into the floor.

"Korra!"