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Sulana Jay: hmm, if my parents found a rated M story of mine, I'd b dead. If they found me writing a horror story, they'd probably think I'm crazy. If they find me writing this story, which is depressing, they'd still think I'm crazy. (Inner Devil: basically, it's a lose, lose, lose, situation.)
Shadowlover101: u actually cried? Hmm, then I guess this story is a tearjerker. 13 to 17? GOOD LORD! You've read a lot of stories, I've only read about 4, and mine is the best? YIPPEEE! (Inner Devil: don't blame me 4 her hyper-activeness, she just ate. Pancakes and bacon. Lol.)
Rioki Moondove: I'm going 2 make it happy! (Inner Devil: coughcougheventuallycoughcough) just wait!
Sokka.is.mine: hold your horses, here's the update
Lopchop: your cat? I like cats. My cat got put 2 sleep. My other cat is suppose 2 have died at the jaws of a coyote. (sniff) haha, u 4got! U r lame, man. (Inner Devil: and so r u, Z2)
Chapter 8: Saviors
Kierra was starting to shake in rage."Soo, this is what happens to her?" Kierra hissed. The Master of the Worlds just stared at the window which showed Kellie screaming, crying, bleeding, and clawing.
"Yes, I'm afraid so." Kierra's sea eyes filled to the brim with tears.
"I have to help her." Kierra said finally. The Master shook his head.
"I'm afraid not." Kierra whirled around in rage, and in the Avatar world, the oceans stormed under their mistress's state.
"Why?" She hissed. The Master of the Worlds sighed.
"You will not survive where Kellie is. I can help protect you, for so long, but after that, you must either return to the waves, or here, and hope Kellie can save herself." Kierra flinched. The waves, where she belonged, or here, where she was no longer an outcast of gods.
"How long?" Kierra finally asked quietly, with her head bowed. A door opened at the Master's side.
"One hour." He replied quietly. Kierra nodded, then rushed through the door.
Kellie felt the tears sting at the wounds on her cheeks, but the feeling was fare away. The lack of food had dulled everything about her, and she felt far away from anything.
Kellie no longer panicked as she saw the black creeping through her field of vision. On the contrary, she giggled.
"Oh no, the black clouds have come to gobble me up!" She giggled insanely.
But, her giggling fit didn't last long, for the faint picture of her husband, her brother, they kept floating back to her.
Kellie scowled, although blind. She vaguely wanted someone to come and save her, but she quickly pushed the thought away. She could save herself.
Now I will tell you what I've done for you50 thousand tears I've cried
Screaming, Deceiving and Bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me
(I'm going under)
Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily by you
Just when I thought I reached the bottom
I'm dying again
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under
Blurring and Stirring the truth and the lies
So I don't know what's real and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again
I'm going underDrowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under
So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe again I can't keep going under
Kellie felt cold, lost, and blind. Her loneliness stung bitterly.
The sound of feet pounding, ragged breaths, and the sight of a blue and green blur in the forest flashed by in minutes.
Kierra ran as fast as her will allowed. She had only one hour to bring her friend back, before her time was up, and she would have to return to the Master.
Her head flashed all around her, trying to find the cottage where a dying Kellie lay.
The Master of the Worlds stared intensely at the window, showing the Water goddess run through a forest, the domain of an Earth god.
"Hurry Kierra, 40 minutes left…" The Master pleaded.
Kierra ran through the door, and nearly screamed at the sight of Kellie, lying against the wall, dying.
She looks worse in person.
Kierra thought sadly. She knelt beside her friend, and paid no mind to the clawing hands.
Kellie had never stopped clawing, she hated the feel of something against her back. It made her think of Zuko, where was he? Why wasn't he here?
Kellie stopped clawing for a minute. There was something there, something to grasp.
She reached out, and tried to grasp the thing that was Kierra's arm. But it was like water, very slick, but not ungraspable. But it had more characteristics of water than it did of flesh.
Kierra sighed, Kellie's eyes had a glaze over them, she was… blind?
Kellie's hand followed Kierra's arm to her shoulder, then to her face. Kierra sighed, this must have been what Helen Keller's nanny felt like.
Kellie tried to grasp Kierra's cheek, but her hand began to slide. But Kierra caught it before it fell back to Kellie's side.
Kierra felt the tears build up in her eyes, would this be the last she ever knew of the late Fire Lady Kellie Kelso? The feeling of her clammy hand against her cheek?
Kierra closed her eyes tight, trying to fight the tears, but they still managed to leak through.
The Master leaned in. This predicament left him distraught.
"20 minutes…"
While Kierra cried, Kellie was surrounded in her mind by a whirlwind of colors and memories.
The glaze in Kellie's eyes began to fade, and around her, she began to see colors and blurry and very vague images.
As her vision continued to return, the sharpness of the feature in front of her got clearer. It looked sorta like Kierra.
Hmm, this is nice, the last thing I get to see is a friend…Kellie thought warmly, until she remembered her hand. It was pressed against cool, pale blue flesh, and, the flesh was real. That, or her senses were playing very good tricks on her.
"Kierra?" The Water goddess's head snapped back into attention. Kellie's eyes were wide, and, focused. She could see.
"Yes, it's me." She whispered. Then all was quiet, as the memories rushed back to Kellie, as she whispered Kierra's name, in order to help herself remember.
Catch me as I fallSay you're here and it's over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away
Don't turn away
Don't give into the pain
Don't try to hide
Though they're screaming your name
Don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
Don't turn out the light
Never sleep, never die
I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain if I will it all away
Don't turn away
Don't give into the pain
Don't try to hide
Though they're screaming your name
Don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
Don't turn out the light
Never sleep, never die
Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me I shall give in
Upon my shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen I rise to meet the end
Finally, Kellie stopped repeating Kierra's name, and looked up at her old friend's eyes.
"I remember, everything, old friend." She whispered finally. The Water goddess smiled warmly.
"I'm glad." Suddenly, a voice whispered in Kierra's ear.
"Time's up, return here, now!" Kierra's sea eyes widened.
"No, please, she needs me a little longer!""I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do! Return!"
Kierra suddenly felt dead and dry. Water, she needed water so badly…
Then, she willed herself to return to the Master of the Worlds, and was gone.
The Master of the Worlds watched sadly as Kierra returned to his hallway, beating upon the floor, crying and screaming.
Kellie blinked, and stared at the spot where Kierra had been a moment before. Her hand was still in the air, exactly where the Water goddess's cheek had been a moment before.
Her eyes widened, and then, she suddenly began to beat upon the earthen floor.
Aaron sighed as he walked along Basin Street. He stopped at the bookstore and peered in the window. There was a book by Alice Hoffman sitting in the window on display.
Kellie liked her books.
Aaron thought sadly. He turned away from the window, and continued his walk home.
Tears streamed, unchecked, down Kellie's cheeks. Kierra had just been in front of her a moment before! Now she was gone!
Suddenly, Kellie found her balance, and stood up. She walked outside, and next to her cottage, she saw a pool of water.
She kneeled next to it, and looked upon the water. It was crystal clear, although you could only see a few feet down. And it was smooth, her breath didn't disturb the surface.
Very carefully, Kellie lowered her lips to the surface of the water, and lapped up a drink. It felt wonderful in her dry throat.
Kellie sat up after drinking her fill. She continued to stare into the water, and at her reflection. In her reflection, she saw a very filthy girl in torn Fire Nation clothes, dirt and blood smudged across her face, and her hair tangled beyond compare.
This wasn't Kellie, wasn't Kelso,
It was someone else.
A someone.
Kellie lowered her hands to the water, and when the water met her skin, she pulled away. The water stung, it was so cold. Then, she lowered her hands to the water again, and at first it stung, then it felt nice and warm. Such were the dangers of hypothermia.
Giggling, Kellie began to push her arms into the water as well.
Aaron looked up, and saw he was no longer on Basin Street, but in a neon blue hallway. He remembered this place, but after seeing Mary's therapist, decided it was just a dream.
In front of him, stood a man in a robe, the Master of the Worlds, and lo! Who was this? A most beautiful girl, pale blue skin, did she have hypothermia? Green legs, with webbed toes? Her hair was purple, that must have been a lot of hair dye, and her eyes, they were gorgeous, they were blue and green, colors of the sea, always swirling, and always beautiful.
"Stop goggling, Aaron, you already have a wife." The strange woman said calmly, and rather harshly.
"H-how do you know I have a wife?" Aaron stuttered. Kierra began to examine the hall in which she stood.
"The same way I know you abandoned your sister for your wife, your past for your future, and the ones who really matter for the ones who couldn't matter less." The Water goddess spat.
"That girl wasn't my sister." Aaron hissed. Kierra's eyes flashed, and in the Avatar world, storms began to rage. Kierra ran up to Aaron, and picked him up by the scruff of the neck with in-human strength.
"She is, and soon be, was, your sister!" Aaron raised an eyebrow.
"Was?" Kierra nodded.
"Because of you, and the new Fire Lady, Kellie's about to commit suicide, so go save your sister, Aaron!" Kierra yelled.
She set Aaron down, and he ran straight into the Avatar world, hoping it was his way home.
But, unluckily, it was not Ephrata. It was a forest, and he was in some sort of clearing. Ahead, there was a run-down cottage and a girl leaning into a pool.
Hmm, that's odd,
Aaron thought.
She looks sorta like…His gray eyes grew wide.
Kellie, when we played in the mud. Oh man, that girl is my sister!
He rushed forward, but it was too late, Kellie had already gone, head first, into the pool.
Aaron looked into the dark water. He should see his sister, but she was sinking fast, out of his sight.What kind of pond is this?
Aaron thought bitterly. Until it hit him. This was no pool…
It was a well.
Aaron ripped his shirt off, and dove into the well, kicking harder than humanly possibly, searching for his sister's ankle.
He saw it, down there! But, he couldn't see any air bubbles coming up, from her mouth.
NO!She couldn't have stopped breathing, she couldn't have died!
Ignoring the fact he needed to surface for air, Aaron swam down just a little more, grabbed his sister's ankle, and went up to the surface.
His lungs were screaming for air, he wasn't going to make it, they would both die, and they would die together, if in a well…
And then, his head broke through the surface, and he scrambled onto the grass, and carefully laid his sister upon it. He pumped the water out of her lungs, and then picked up the frail girl in his arms.
Her eyes opened wearily, and Aaron could have jumped for joy at seeing her green eyes once more. His sister was alive!
"Aaron," Kellie whispered quietly. Aaron looked upon his little sister lovingly.
"It's me." He replied quietly.
How can you see into my eyesLike open doors
Dealing you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it and lead it back home
Wake me up.
Wake me up inside.
I can't wake up.
Wake me up inside.
Save me.
Call my name and save me from the dark
Wake me up.
Bid my blood to run.
I can't wake up.
Before I come undone.
Save me.
Save me from the nothing I've become.
Now that I know I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
Bring me to life
I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside
Bring me to life
Frozen inside without your touch,
Without your love, darling
Only you are the life among the dead
All of this sight
I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark
But you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping 1000 years it seems
I've got to open my eyes to everything
Without a thought
Without a voice
Without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something wrong
Bring me to life
Bring me to life
I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside
Bring me to life
Kellie, with much effort, smiled warmly into her brother's eyes, and raised one hand to cup her brother's cheek. It felt warm, she liked how warm it felt, it reminded her of Zuko and firebenders, and that was such a nice thing to think of.
"Aaron, my brother, good bye, I know you have forgotten me, but I have never forgotten you. And please, never forget me again. Good bye, Aaron, I shall be looking for you in Heaven." And with that, Kellie closed her eyes, and was no more.
Aaron began to shake compulsively, and let out a despair filled scream. Aaron fell to his knees, his sister still in his arms, his tears fell onto Kellie's cheeks harmlessly. The late Fire Lady Kellie Kelso, the Goddess of Healing.
His sister was dead.
(sniffle) so sad.
The songs I used r called(in order of use): Going Under, Whisper, and Bring Me To Life, and r owned by Evannescence. thanks, lopchop, 4 reccomending these songs.
I just saw the 4th Harry Potter movie, it wuz good, but it left out a third 2 half of the book! And I liked Krum… lol.
Wait till lopchop reads this…
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