Chapter 1: Forest intruders.

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Have you ever felt like….. our worlds were connected? Sometimes it seems like there is another world looking at us in the dark. Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever meet these people from the Twilight. Something is coming, but I'm sure we'll face it together….

Those words played in my head all week. "What does it mean?" I asked, "What's this Twilight?" Someone called my name. I peeked out the window. "What's up?" I asked. "Can you and Gale give me a hand with the goats?" asked Joe, "They ain't listening to me lately!" I jumped out of my window. "Where's gale?" asked Joe. I noticed she wasn't in her usual spot. I suddenly realized something. "There's only one place she could be at," I said. I went to the spring. I saw Saria washing her.

"Hey Nick," she said, "I washed Gale for you." I smiled. "You need her to help with the goats again? Ok, but don't have her do too much," she said. "Got it," I said. "Before you go can you play that song?" asked Aariqua. I got a piece of grass and played Gale's favorite song. "Its such an amazing melody," said Saria. I got on Gale and we headed for the farm. During my summer vacation, Saria Aariqua and I got jobs working at Ordon Farm to earn extra money.

I finally made it. "Thank goodness you could make it," said Joe. "I'll take care of this," I said with a grin. Gale ran around and I got the goats back to the barn. "Thanks a lot for the assistance," said Joe. "Don't mention it," I said. He set up some fences for me. "Here you go," he said, "This is for you and Gale to practice jumping." "Thanks," I said. We spent the day jumping over fences. "Saria makes horseback riding look so easy," I said, "I wish I could do it."

Aariqua saw me practicing. "He's so amazing," she said. "Well you two have the weekend off," said Saria, "You get to have as much time as you want with him." The next day I was strumming chords on my guitar. "This place is really amazing," I said. Aariqua came down. "Hey babe," she said. I saw Mavis and some kids. "Wow, you and Marshall got busy huh?" I asked. "These aren't my kids dork," she said, "Aariqua's aunt asked me to watch over Danica, and Pema and Tenzin asked me to watch over Meelo and Ikki." "Oh," I said.

"Its Gender-bent Korra," said Ikki. "My name is Nicholas," I said. "Its Gender-bent Nicholas!" said Ikki. "Oy," I said. "So how's your air bending coming?" asked Aariqua. "Its coming along pretty good," I said. I saw Jake and his dad coming by. "Hey Mr. White," I said, "Hey Jake." He waved. "Nicholas, I just wanna say that whenever you're free for tutoring, we'd love to have you," said Mr. White, "Jake got an A on his theory test." "Good for you," I said as I smiled. "It wasn't just you," he said, "He learned about Chord structures all by himself." "Chord structures?" I asked. "I learned them from you," he said as he smiled.

"Ok Jake, if you're gonna give Nicholas the credit for your success, I'm gonna buy you Ice Cream after my job today," said Mr. White as he smiled. "Oh I'm making you a fishing rod y'know," said Jake, "That way we can fish together." "Cool," I said. "Why don't you spend the day with Nicholas and your friends," said Mr. White. "Yeah!" said Meelo. "I guess I could babysit," I said.

"Thanks Nick," said Mr. White. He headed off to work. "So what should we do first?" asked Ikki as she jumped up and down. "Oh I know!" said Meelo, "Nick you gotta show us some of your bending skills!" "Oh alright," I said. After a few minutes they finished making an obstacle course for me. "This is gonna be great," said Meelo. "First we'll start with Airbending," said Aariqua. "Here goes nothing," I said. I went through the obstacle course. Tenzin was sitting back looking at the sky. "I haven't felt this relaxed since…" said Tenzin before Bumi did something weird. "And…. Its gone," he said.

When I saw a monster I did an air blast and blew it away. I shot another gust of wind to avoid a pit of water. "Amazing," said Ikki. On the next part I switched over to firebending. "Time to kick it up a knotch," I said. I saw some cardboard models of Amon and Tarlok and did some sweet fire tricks. Some water balloons came at me. "Arcfire!" I shouted. I shot a wave of fire at them. "Whoa!" said everyone in unison. Some plungers were being shot at me. I switched to Earthbending and blocked them. I did some waterbending and made it to the goal. "How'd I do?" I asked. "Looks like a new record," said Aariqua. looking at the score. "Wow, you have so many cool gadgets!" said Ikki, "Teach us how to use a staff!" They were looking at my staff. "Oh alright," I said. I spent the next few hours teaching them some staff moves with air bending included. "So much to keep track of," said Meelo. "I'm sorry you have to waste time with these brats," said Jinora. "I heard that," said Ikki.

"So why did you pick now to do this anyway?" I asked. "Lately there were some monkeys chasing us and pulling tricks," said Ikki, "But now that we've learned these moves we'll…." She saw a monkey take one of her dolls. "HEY!" she shouted as she chased after it. "Ikki wait!" said Meelo. "Meelo wait!" said Jinora. I chased after them. "Gale come on!" I said. I jumped on her and we went after them. "Where are they?" asked Aariqua. "I don't know," I said. Gale ran faster. I saw Jinora. "Those kids ran off to the woods," said Jinora. I kept going and saw Ikki and Meelo chasing after that monkey. "Hey, wait up!" I said. I kept going after them. Gale jumped over a fence and hurt her leg. I got off her. "You should rest up here," I said. They went into a cave. "If they're in there they could be in big trouble," said Aariqua.

We went inside. I light my hand as we went deeper inside. "This place sure is creepy," said Aariqua. "You said it. Aariqua looked at a mirror. "What's this?" she asked. She saw a reflection of herself. It quickly turned into a freakish woman with bleeding eyes and a knife and a creepy smile. We heard a creepy sound and held onto each other. "What the HELL was that?!" I said. We got out of the cave and into a new area of the forest. Aariqua heard something. "What is that?" she asked. She saw some strange creatures. "Bublins," I said. I got out my staff. "On my mark," I said, "One, two…." "Three!" said someone. It was Kai. He attacked one of the bublins and got the others attention. They tried to attack him and he dodged. "Let's give him a hand!" I said. We fought off the bublins. Aariqua did some waterbending style attacks to wash them away. I mixed up my fighting styles to confuse the bublins and took them down. One of them dropped a key to a fence.

We opened it and saw more bublins. "Come on already!" I said. I fought them off and saw Ikki, Meelo and a monkey trapped in a cage. Kai I went up to save them. Some more bublins got in our way. One of them attacked me. Kai tapped the bublin on the shoulder. "Bazinga," he said. The bublin tried to punch him but he quickly moved and it punched another bublin. The bublin looked around for Kai. "Bazinga," he said. The bublin attacked again and struck another bublin. It kept looking for Kai. "Bazinga," said Kai as the bublin struck again. Kai jumped down and did a sweep kick and tripped the bublin. "Bazinga," he said. "Show off," I said as I grinned.

A woman saw me. "I'm surprised to have seen you get this far," she said, "Most people would've given up at this point." "Listen, we don't want any trouble," I said, "I just wanna save my friends." "My name is Maru," said Maru, "I am the guardian of this forest." I busted the cage and they were free. "Ok," I said. "The prophecy has come true," said Maru. "Prophecy?" I asked. "Yes," said Maru, "Believe it or not, dark times are soon to come for this world." "What dark times?" asked Aariqua. "Many years ago, the Twili seized control of our world and made all humans spirits who watch as their world falls apart," said Maru, "But young warriors like yourselves managed to stop them and their leader." "Who was he?" I asked. "No one knows," said Maru, "He is a man dressed in many robes and no human alive has seen his face."

"That doesn't scare me," I said, "I can take on anything." "The only way to do that is to enter his domain where humans are but shadows," said Maru, "And you must befriend one of the Twili." "What does that mean?" I asked. "All answers will come in time," said Maru, "Farewell." She vanished into the wind. "What just happened?" asked Ikki. We were walking back. "Those words that Toadstool said," I said, "Was this what she was talking about?" "Gee, if you hadn't came we would've been eaten," said Ikki, "The monkey is actually nice. She protected us so we got captured together." "Mr. Nicholas?" asked Meelo, "Could you not tell my dad about this? He always tells me to never go into the dark part of the forest cause its dangerous." "Promise you won't tell!" said Ikki. "Ok I won't tell him," I said. They walked back to their house. Korra and Mr. White came by. "Jake told me that Ikki and Meelo went off into the woods and we came as soon as we heard," said Korra. "Well it looks like you already saved them," said Mr. White, "I'm sorry, this kind of task shouldn't have went over to you."

"Its ok," I said. "Have you noticed how strange these woods are?" asked Korra, "It gives me the creeps." "Yeah," said Aariqua, "We saw a reflection of someone with a knife and bloody eyes." "Crazy Penelope," said Mr. White. "Who?" I asked. "A mysterious person from a mythical land known as the Twilight Realm," said Mr. White, "Its just an urban legend and you might have just been seeing things." "But it was real," said Aariqua. "I saw it too," I said. "You kids might have done a bit too much work today," said Mr. White, "But Nicholas can I ask you something?"

"Yeah," I said. "I'm supposed to deliver something to the castle, but could you go in my stead. "Sure," I said. "I'll pay you double for everything you've done here," said Mr. White, "We should be heading back." We started heading back. Someone was watching us. "Nicholas…." She said, "How could you forget me?" She took off her robe and revealed herself to be Princess Toadstool. "Don't worry," said a voice, "The boy will come back to you soon. Once you've learned your magic that will make him live forever." "Yes master," she said. "This world will soon be ours," said the voice, "Just wait for the right time."

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