Dawa opened his eyes, his body floated out of his body and looked at the Ice. He Floated out of the water and looked around. "How did I enter the spirit world?" He asked as flew toward the smoke. He walked through the town going through people and no one noticed, he flew again in this state space wasn't his worries as he moved quickly to the southern air temple.
He saw the devastation, the destruction and all the smell of burning meat could be smelled. He ran looking for anyone who survived only to find nothing but the remains and then he followed the tracks to a coughing, he looked Gyasto coughing as he looked at Dawa.
Four years ago
Dawa looked at Aang. "You're the new student?" He asked, surprised to see it was only an eight year old air bender who just grinned at him. He smirked at his fellow student. "I'm Dawa! If you need anything I can help, just don't ask me about girls." Aang laughed and Dawa joined him.
He led him to the kitchen. "Ok time to train." made some fruit pies and placed it on the balcony.
"When do we eat?" Aang innocently asked, looking at the Fruit pies.
Dawa waved his index finger. "Oh no, this is to exorcise the air sphere." He stepped back and formed an air sphere.
Gyasto "Dawa!" Stepped up and Dawa stopped the air sphere. "I told you many times, the most important part is the creamy center and you have to be patient." He said with smile at the eleven year old. "Now continue." He smiled performing the air sphere and launched the pies. They watched as hit one of masters and they all hid while the master simply sighed tried the Pie.
Gyasto "Your aim has gotten better." He said look at the master who was now feeding the lemurs.
One year later
The master and students stood at a ledge looking at the clouds. "Are you sure I'm ready?" Aang asked Dawa who looked down and nodded.
Gyasto spoke. "There's no better time than now." Dawa jumped down with his staff closed, disappearing into the clouds. "Demonstrating my point perfectly." He smiled and Dawa came out of the clouds cheering.
He was laughing as he flew. "Come on, Aang! The wind is perfect today!" He said before jumping on to his glider, windsurfing and then returned to the normal method.
Aang went down when Dawa was close and both flew through the air. Both laughed flying around though Dawa teased him a little by diving near him. "This is great!" Aang said, feeling the wind on his scalp.
Dawa landed next to his master. "He's not going to come down is he?" Gyasto asked and Dawa nodded. "He won't come down until the sun goes down." Dawa looked his master.
He smirked. "My bet he will come down before." They both stared and thought about what kind of bets they could take.
"I bet my storage of hard cheese that he came down before." Gyatso nodded.
Simply to say Dawa ate like a king.
One year later
Dawa was having a fever after getting his arrows, a wet towel on his head. "Are you going to teach me your technique?" Dawa chuckled at Aang's innocence.
"No, when you're older than Aang, the council wants to ban it." He said the parts where the arrows were tattooed turned slightly red. Gyasto came into the room.
"Dawa will be able to answer all your questions later, he needs his rest." Aang nodded and left the room. Dawa looked away. "An impressive show of air bending, though you need train to master over it." He looked shocked at Gyatso. "The masters decided to make it so that it will be taught as the last tier." Dawa slowly nodded, biting his cheek questioning if it even should be taught. "The silent realm, good for meditation or as a last Defence." Dawa smiled that Gyasto tried to cheer him up, even though he felt so much guilt from accidentally harming one of the masters.
"How is master Pasha?"
"He started asking how you were able to form the sphere without anyone noticing, you know how he is ,get his curiosity and he won't asking until it's stated." Dawa chuckled.
One year later
"Aang wanna play a game of airball?" He asked about having the float from one hand to the other. "What's wrong?" He caught the ball and looked worried about his fellow young master, Aang somber looking at the other kids. "Aang remember what i told when we first met?"
Aang looked at his senior. "They say it would be unfair with on any team." Dawa looked confused. "Because I'm the avatar, everyone treats like I'm the most powerful person there is." Aang was about to add something on to that but he interrupted.
"No, Aang you're just a kid and what if they're being dumb, you might change the world but your should just be who you are aang." Aang cheered up and Dawa took the ball.
"It's still two wins to two wins!" Aang said smiling and dawa jumped after him.
Currently
Dawa cried on Gyatso, each disappearing once they left his eyes. The man smiled seeing one of the students. "Dawa, are you ok?" He asked in a gentle tone and peaceful demeanor. "I hope you and Aang are safe." Dawa continued to cry, his rage growing. "Please, be a good guide for Aang, don't let yourself be blinded by something trivial as revenge." as he saw gyatso last breath escape and he screamed, grief was scaring his spirit as a black slash appeared on his chest.
Dawa left the resting place of his master a week later he looked around seeing the armor and bodies, he tried to pick them up but each time he tried his hands passed through. He spent a long time traveling the earth nation, seeing the scars of the war and the cities under attack. Yet he showed no hatred toward the fire benders who fought against other armies but even then he whispered to those who could hear him, the plans of the fire nation. He saved a few villages and many battles, but the war didn't become easier with time, only two cities in the earth nation stood, while others were either trading with the fire nation or so small that they were never a worry.
He flew to the fire nation sitting in the war room watching them argue about the way to destroy their enemy but once they stopped talking, he would walk around the Garden. Once he learned of a major attack he would be and went to Earth nation warning them before returning to the war room to laugh at the generals who raged at the losses they had taken, the larger cities wouldn't fall if it was up to Dawa.
Though he would visit the air temple's during the winter and autumn when the fire nation was at their least active. "Guru pathik! It's been too long or too short, time feels like the ocean and I'm the only one who isn't drowning." He smiled at the spirit.
"Yes, being in the spirit world must be cumbersome." Dawa nodded looking at the onion Banana soup. "Still feel the urge of hunger?" Dawa shaked his head.
"No, however I do miss the sensation of taste." The Guru nodded understanding as he drank his smoothie. "Thank you again for all you have done here." He said walking down the steps.
Guru smiled if it was what anyone would have done. "Ofcourse, no need to thank me." Dawa still had a somber expression. "I understand, it was full of life now." Dawa nodded remembering his younger days being chased by a bison for jumping on one of her calves, he shouldn't have been patient.
"Yea, I made a few mistakes. Never try to test a bison's patience or else you get a weird scar." He sat down on a stair.
"When do you think you will pass on?" Dawa shrugged that he had been doing this for almost eighty years. "Your spirit hasn't aged since you left your body." Dawa nodded. "Your body will need time to adjust to having been separated for so long." He nodded agreeing with the wise Guru.
He left walking toward the Largest city on earth, he walked through the city and an instant dislike came from the dividing walls. He walked to the throne room to see the young boy sitting on the throne. "Do you know what's behind the walls?" He asked him while the bear was licking the king's face. His eyes squinted at the young king confused at how he lived in his own naive world, while outside the world was engulfed in a war.
He left the capital and he saw the first burning stones launched at the walls, shock and horror took over as he ran to the capital screaming looking for anyone who could see him, yet no one could so he left the city and walked to the encampment. "Go away!" He yelled at the soldier none heard but then he noticed one general and ran at him staring at the older man. "You can see me?" Dawa asked and the general looked away and Dawa growled at the man. "Listen, I demand you to leave this city and never return!" The general kept ignoring him and drank his tea.
Dawa started punching the general, annoying the general until he yelled. "Stop it!" his soldiers looked at him. "I mean it's time for break, be need to well rested before we can continue." The soldier nodded agreeing. Iroh walked to his tent and the spirit projection followed. "Why are you here? Are you the spirit of the air nation?" Dawa shrugged and went back to punching his face until his patient. "Stop it! Why are you even here?!" The spirit smiled.
"Make you look insane, they take you away and this siege will stop. Simple and easy." Iroh glared at the spirit.
"You won't stop me or the fire nation." Dawa nodded, agreeing. "So you will stop with this idiocy?"
He looked around and laughed. "One man can't move a mountain but they can dig through it. I'm just going keep annoying you until you finally leave." Iroh got out of his tent and started barking orders yet the air bender continued to annoy the general and pushed his hand through the commanders heads each time they spoke. "Stop it." He Iroh whispered, trying to hold down shimmering anger from two nightless sleeps.
"Prince Iroh, what did you say?" Iroh looked at the one confused general.
"Oh I just think we should stop offensive from the west and concentrate on the middle." Nodded agreeing with the general.
Dawa started screaming. "I think this meeting finished." Iroh continued to ignore the annoying young man and luckily he had learned to tune him out after five days of sleepless nights. He woke up to see the Airbender sitting at a table with a Pai-sho board. "I miss playing this, has been fifty years since a real challenger." He said trying to lift a single piece, which led to his hand passing through.
He sighed. "If I win a game against you, then you leave me alone." Dawa thought about it floating upside down.
"I will let you sleep instead of keeping you Awake." He got to the board and let the spirit decide where the first piece would be placed. Dawa chose the lotus which confused the general a bit as they continued to play and Iroh lost to the Lotus gambit. "Best two out three?" Iroh nodded and played again, which led to him losing again to a white dragon gambit. "I do enjoy this game more than other." Iroh sighed but by the third game he had won.
"Yes!" He yelled jumping up from his body seat and the air bender shrugged, this frustrated Iroh. "Why are you so calm?" The air bender shrugged floating around the tent. He whispered "you're trying to make me sound insane..." He realized and so he went to bed, with the spirit for once being silent during the night.
During the Two Years Dawa kept screaming at the general and playing a game of pai-sho to see if Iroh would get a night's sleep. "You won't win today." He spoke, placing the white lotus tile.
The game ended and that evening the outer wall was penetrated. "Pfff, good job "penetrating" that wall. You beat those mud benders so well." Iroh laughed at the childish jokes and for once the spirit was annoyed.
"Not even you can darken my mood spirit." He said walking to his table and writing a letter to the capital laughing about the idea of burning the city which made the spirit growl in anger. Soon the earth kingdom's armies will fall like yours did." The air bender tried to slap the fire bender but this time Iroh flinched seeing the complete hatred from the air bender. "I stroke a nerve?" He asked, smirking at the air bender being annoyed.
"We didn't have armies." Iroh looked confused and the spirit flew at him staring into the fire bender's eyes. "WE DIDN'T HAVE ARMIES! Your soldiers slaughtered children and old men!" Iroh stepped back confused at the idea. "There was no honor in what your soldiers did and I created something that made the master a hypocrite!" He cried again once the years fell off his cheeks they would disappear like a snowflake touching a fire. Iroh sat next to the crying spirit seeing a black scar on his chest.
"I didn't know." Dawa stood up leaving the tent and Iroh just started to contemplate the idea that his nation had committed an act that wouldn't or better said couldn't be forgiven.
Dawa wouldn't come again for months. "This can't be." Iroh said as the soldier gave him the report. "Leave." He said and the soldiers did so. He cried the pain was force than any fire that could burn and slammed on the ground.
The siege ended and Dawa returned. "I know how you feel." Iroh simply looked at the spirit and he stared back at the fire nation prince. "It feels like being ripped apart and burned through your being." Iroh stared at the air bender and wanted to yell and scream but he couldn't because he couldn't argue against the truth.
He stared and fell to his knees. "I want to see my son, please one last time." Dawa stared at the prince and pulled the man's spirit out of his body. "What did you do?" He asked, looking at his hands and then his body on the floor.
He held Iroh's hand and transported to a swamp. "No matter how deep we go, you won't find your son. But here? A crack between all the layers of the spirit world and like a hole in a window flies come through, so wait for the spirits to reach you." Dawa sat down and meditated.
Iroh sar next to him and saw that he had a black scar on his chest. "A Mark of corruption, hatred and grief clouding the mind and spirit to a point, it destroys the spirit and creates a monster of people." He stared at the scar.
They continued to wait and Dawa left him. "Son?" Iroh turned around to see his father. "Please forgive me, I shouldn't have sent him with you." Iroh ran and the moment before he was able to hug his father, the spirit of the dead disappeared, there Iroh looked more confused and Dawa returned looking around.
"I can never find an air bender here." He said and looked at Iroh hitting the ground. "Did you see him?"
Iroh shaked his head and stepped in to punch the air bender but Dawa dodged and Iroh hit the ground. "I saw my father, why didn't see my son?!" Dawa looked at the sky.
"The same reason as why I can't find any airbenders here. Because they have all accepted their death and have no regrets to speak off." Iroh found some peace in the answer but still his grief was burning.
"So he died and didn't regret anything?" Iroh asked, confused at the air bender. Dawa nodded and continued looking around. "Thank you." Iroh said Dawa shook his head and held Iroh's hand before again moving to the firebenders body. "How does that ability work?" He asked, confused.
"In the spirit world space has no meaning, so we're able to move freely without the worry of time." Dawa left Iroh next to his body, which is now on a bed.
Dawa continued to watch the hundred year war continue and one winter suddenly he felt his body breath and he reentered his body in nearly a century.
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