DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.

Lopchop: well, if I slip, I'll just get back up again, and I'm sure I'll b getting up this chapter. (if u didn't get that metaphor, I won't explain it. Cuz I can't explain if my life depended on it.)

Chapter 22: Nightmares Come True

Kellie watched the clouds roll by. It was nearing sunset, but it was if Kellie was lost in her own world.

It all looks so familiar,

She thought.

The sky, the sea, all the faces that pass me by,

Kellie looked to each of the things she listed in her head in turn.

And yet, it all seems so far away. I don't feel the like the girl I used to be anymore, what was her name? Whatever it is, I won't need it.

And Kellie watched as the sun went behind the horizon.

A few clouds rolled in, no doubt Air gods. Heads appeared from beneath the surface, these were Water gods. And pillars of fire spouted up from nowhere. Didn't take a rocket scientist to realize there were Fire gods.

And finally, Zuko and the men on board his ship appeared through the hatch. Aang's bloodied body lay where it had been when Kellie dropped him that morning.

Kellie stood on the bow of the ship, and watched as the moon began to rise where the sun had set, and a brilliance that was not the moon rose, and landed on the ship.

Kellie turned to face the light, and the Great God's voice boomed.

"Let the duel for humanity begin."

Kellie took a fighting stance, and stared straight into the core of the light. Everyone else had to look away from the light.

She dares to look into the brilliance. She cannot be the One!

The God screamed, and waves jostled the ship. Kellie waved her arms around, and the waves calmed into nothing.

The light went starboard (right) and everyone on board feared that they would go under.

They would have, if it hadn't been for Kellie. Who's skill with waterbending helped upright the boat and keep them all alive.

Kellie wiped some sweat from her brow. What had been going through her head when she challenged this guy?

Oh yeah, that's right, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Please, please God, help me!

Kellie prayed to God, of her religion.

Clouds rolled in, and Kellie knew they weren't more Air gods. Thunder struck all around them.

She looked up, and Kellie saw a bolt of lightning coming straight for her head. With less than a second to realize what she was doing, Kellie threw a wave of fire at the white hot energy. The two blew up on contact.

When the dust cleared, Kellie came charging through with a sword of fire bursting from her hand.

She whipped it down onto the deck of the ship, and the fire traveled forward straight towards the light. When the light and fire clashed, nothing happened. The voice of the God boomed in laughter. Kellie nearly fainted.

Nothing could work. Nothing.

Kellie couldn't win, she had failed before she even tried.

The God stared at the teenage bender in annoyance. She was faster and more witted than any person he had ever seen. Not to mention very bold by doing a head-on attack like she just did.

No matter. She's already proved one fatal weakness. Love.

And the God sent a bolt of lightning down at Kellie. It wouldn't miss.

Kellie woke out of her trance just as the dangerous energy came shooting down at her like a star. She whipped out a stream of water from the ocean, she planned to use it like a lightning rod.

The lightning was trapped in the water. Or so Kellie thought. The water began to move on its own accord, and twisted around, and wrapped itself around her arm. Kellie knew what was happening. She looked up and saw the deadly bolt heading straight at her. In less than a second, Kellie had been shocked, and was slumped on the ground.

The only person that didn't realize that Kellie was unconscious, was Kellie herself.

Kellie got up unsteadily, and raised a hand to her aching head. She moaned at the pain.

Her eyes snapped open when she realized what had happened before she fell. Kellie looked around frantically. No dead bodies, maybe humanity had been saved!

But something didn't feel right. Kellie just couldn't place her finger on it. She looked around. Gray. Everything was gray or had a gray tinge to it. And the metal beneath didn't have that red sheen it use to.

Kellie walked over to the edge of the ship, and looked into the water. She nearly screamed.

Kellie couldn't see water, just a black nothingness. And yet, there was a shadow of her reflection, sitting there in the nothing.

She backed away from the railing, this was all too freaky.

Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps. Kellie whirled around. To her relief, it was Zuko.

"Zuko, did I win? Is humanity saved? Can we get married now?" Kellie asked eagerly. Zuko gave her a warm smile, but it was not warming to Kellie. It looked to, forced.

"Yes. The Great God is dead, and won't be coming back." Kellie cocked her head, and shrugged.

Suddenly, black tendrils of some demonic monster stretched out from below the railing. Kellie tried to burn it into oblivion, but nothing happened. She watched in horror as the tendrils wrapped around Zuko's throat. Kellie noticed some vile liquid dripping off the tentacles. No doubt poison. Kellie watched as Zuko died, and felt him slide off into Death.

Kellie tried to call him back, but was unable to. She saw him die, then be carried back into the darkness that once was the ocean.

Kellie screamed, or tried to, but her voice was caught in her throat. Kellie tried to run and save Zuko, but the metal of the ship grew over her feet, and stopped her from freeing the scarred teen.

Kellie now realized that this could not be possible. She clamped her hands over her ears, and tried to think.

The familiar feeling of sea water wrapped around her arm, and Kellie suddenly felt a jolt of electricity shower through her body. And then nothing.

Kellie opened her eyes, and finally understood. This wasn't real, just some hallucination made by the Great God. Then why did the feeling of the metal on her feet feel so real?

As if he heard her ask the question, the bright light of the Great God shot out of nowhere. Kellie didn't look away.

"Foolish child," the Great God started.

"Don't you realize you can't win? You are separated from your body, and the ones you love. You will stay here while I kill off all living things, and start the world anew. It will be pure, and cleansed." Kellie spat at his explanation.

"Humph. Well I've heard, 'if people don't learn from history, they are doomed to repeat it'. So even if you do kill us all off and reborn the world, the same thing's just gonna happen again." The light chuckled.

"No it won't. For you won't be around. Kierra will never mature, and the Fire Nation will win the war."

Kellie's eyes grew wide.

"But first, your spirit must not return to the Living. Or my plans to cleanse this world will fail." And the light got to its brightest point before it left, and killed off everyone in the Avatar world that Kellie loved.

At this exact moment, the metal that had held Kellie's feet finally broke, and she sprinted head on into the light of the Great God, just before he left to kill all in the world Kellie was trapped in.

The light grew too bright to describe as it absorbed Kellie's being.

Hehe, lopchop's gonna luv this.

INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!

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