The Beginning of my new three part series!
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The First Avatar
Book 1: Mind
Chapter 25: Aang's Legacy Pt. 1
Korra and Silver wasted no time in crossing the sand dunes in the spirit world, the desert sun may have been milder than it would have been in a mortal desert, but it was still very hot.
The Eastern Jasmine Dragon was situated in an Oasis that Avatar Kyoshi had created; the building looked like a real tea house this time. Silver approached the door and knocked twice, waiting until a familiar face slid it open.
"Hello Avatar Silver! And you too, Korra. Your friends are expecting you." It was the old King Bumi that had answered the door.
"Please forgive the relatively small number of us here. Only the staunchest of us ever come here." The mad king told them as he led them in. He was right, besides him the only other people here were Aang, Toph, The old king of Ba Sing Se and Avatar Kyoshi.
Mako and the others were listening to stories told to them by Aang, with Toph throwing in the odd comment.
"Ahh, nice to finally meet you in person Korra" Toph greeted, approaching her for a handshake. Korra took it and they shook hands roughly, squeezing too hard trying to make the other pull away first. Korra would have lost any day… that is if she wasn't an Earth Spirit. The little exchange was a draw.
"Hah you're a tough kid Korra, I like that. I've got to thank you for helping my daughter find my letter by the way. Also…" she lent in close to whisper to her, "If I were you I'd marry Bolin."
"WHAT!" Korra yelled, drawing the whole room's attention.
"Hey, he's a tough earthbender and pretty funny. He's like Sokka but better since his jokes actually are funny!" Toph whispered again, her brilliant green eyes locked on Korra's blue.
"Toph…" Korra muttered.
"What?" asked the old earthbender.
"Can you see?"
"Oh yeah, being dead has some perks. No such thing as being blind or deaf or mute here, I've gotta tell you though, I could do without all the bright colour!" she laughed.
Silver was already speaking to Aang, catching up on how Team Korra had been behaving since they split up. Korra and Toph came to join them.
"Hey Korra! What was up with that yell earlier?" Bolin asked.
"None- none of your business!" Korra said, blushing.
Bolin gave her a confused look and then smiled, "I guess you did it right? You became an Earth Spirit" he asked.
"Yep I hand to climb a mountain with a boulder round my waist! But now my earthbending is stronger than ever!" she cheered.
Team Korra gave her a wave of congratulations and Aang smiled at her as well.
"I'm glad…did you happen to find the room beneath my temple yet?" Aang asked, his voice had grown quite sage-like.
"Silver and Lin both used Seismic Sense and found nothing. There are definitely no secret rooms on Air Temple Island." Korra told him.
Aang looked at her funny and burst out laughing. "What?" Korra asked.
"Not the temple built by me, the temple built for me." Aang said through his laughing.
Korra thought for a moment and then it clicked, "Avatar Aang Memorial!" Korra shouted, realising what he meant.
"Memorial? They called a tribute when I was still alive, oh well." Aang sighed, Momo picking at an invisible crumb on the airbender's shoulder.
"What's in this room?" asked Tahno.
"Some interesting stuff I learned about bending before I died. There are advanced techniques for all four types of bending." The previous Avatar told them.
"I'm gonna go speak with Iroh in the western dragon, I'll meet you back here when I'm done." Silver said, walking out the door. Team Korra offered their goodbyes while Aang watched her like a hawk. Once she was out the door, Aang moved closer to the teens, speaking to them in a hushed voice.
"Listen, you will all face a powerful enemy soon, far stronger than Amon and I fear you will not be able to trust Avatar Silver." He warned
They all looked surprised, "You don't think she'll betray us do you?" Asami asked worriedly.
"Not willingly but the enemy you will face is beyond anything you've seen, Silver may not be to resist them. Beyond that we don't even know their gender, the only thing we do know is that Silver may be tricked into helping them and that they are the one behind the Black Lotus."
Bumi grumbled and spat in the corner, mumbling about what his order had become.
"Who is this person? Do you have a name?" Korra asked.
"No…I've told you all that I know. I sense you have some…conflicted feelings toward her" Aang said the last part so only Korra could hear him. Korra nodded slightly, acknowledging that she had feelings for Silver, her eyes however suggested more.
Aang looked up a little to see the other four teens staring at Korra. This would be a complicated affair, "So you have feelings for all of them…I see why you are confused, but remember Korra, when the time comes to make that choice, when they come to you with a cruel ultimatum, imagine their faces, imagine waking up beside them every day. In that brief moment, you will know who you truly love." Aang told her quietly. Korra looked up at him, and smiled.
"Thank you Aang." She said.
The next few hours were filled with stories from Aang and Toph's past with Kyoshi and Bumi playing Pai Sho in the background. After they grew board of waiting, Aang took them outside to help him brush Appa, whom they were all surprised to see was quite a lot bigger than Oogi. Eventually Silver returned, her face seemed tired, like speaking with Iroh had physically worn her out. Team Korra once again said their goodbyes to Team Avatar and were transported back to the mortal world.
We see some Toph (if only a little) and Korra gets some relationship advice from Aang! He won't be turning up much until the episodes progress.
As it's a sunday that means we have...
UPDATE TOP 5
1. Makorra and Silvorra. It's most likely that one of these two will win, they each have over a hundred votes more than the 2nd place!
2. Borra. I'm happy to see Bolin is doing well, out of all the characters from the show i think he is best suited for Korra.
3. Tahnorra and Korsami. Tahno and Asami with Korra seems to be gaining popularity.
4. Linver. People want to see Silver and Lin together it seems...
5. Amorra. It happened! Amon/Korra has been on the edges of the top 5 since the beginning and now it's finally got a spot!
And thats the top 5.
Bonus Extra: What's in a name.
A reviewer made quite a good point yesterday. Why is Silver's name kind of bland compared to names like Korra and Tenzin? This little short will explain why. If you aren't interested than feel free to skip it.
As the First Avatar, Silver was born in the pre-Avatar era along with her brother Will. It that era, they used a writing system which had a masculine and feminine language. The Masculine language was basically Mandarin Chinese while the Female Language was Japanese. In those day's Words could have many meanings however they had no concept of Name-Specific Words, like Korra. Instead they would use any word that had meanings they liked or hoped would reflect their child.
In order to distinguish a name and a normal word in the written language, Names would have the Prefix from the word in Masculine language and the Suffix from the feminine language for males or the reverse for females.
For Example. The word Silver in the Masculine Language is: Yin while the Feminine would be: Shiruba. Silver's actual name would be written as Shiyin, using the Female prefix and the male suffix. If she was male her name would be Yinuba.
The written language later merged into one which evolved into the four nations different writing scripts, before the hundred year war began, Kyoshi created a common language, leaving the specific nation scripts to be used for secrets and important documents only.
Regardless of this, the spoken language hasn't changed since long before Silver's era, so even though her name was written as Shiyin it would still be pronounced as Silver.
My own Pen name comes from this story. Silver is obvious, Omega is the opposite of Alpha (the beginning or First) and 01 is just to represent the first.
I hope this was interesting to you!
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