Sora and Katara walked into the village where Sokka and Toph greeted them. "Hey where's Aang?" Katara asked. "He's not with you?" Sokka asked.
"Why would he be?" Sora asked. "He ran off after you guys," Toph explained.
Sora looked behind him and saw that somehow more Fire Nation troops got into the village unnoticed. Sora smiled and walked casually towards them, "Sora, wait!" Katara said. Sora just motioned for her to calm down. The troops just passed right by him but one soldier saw him and got his leader's attention. Soon after the soldiers surrounded him. "It's been a while Azula," Sora said. Azula pushed past her soldiers and glared at Sora. Azula suddenly zipped by Sora and headed straight for Katara. Sora's eyes widened when he heard Katara's scream coming from behind the soldiers that blocked his path.
"Azula, you just made a fatal mistake," Sokka said. "What would that be?" Azula asked cocking a brow. Suddenly she heard blood splatter and bodies drop. She spun around only to see the towering giant that was once Sora. It held two soldiers in its claws; both have been ripped in half. He dropped the bodies and charged.
Zuko and Iroh were passing over a cliff that overlooked that very village. "Uncle look!" Zuko exclaimed pointing to the village.
Iroh looked down and saw his own niece fighting some creature. "I'll be back!" Zuko said running off. "Zuko wait!" Iroh tried to get his nephew back but he was already out of earshot.
Azula was up for the fight of her life. "What are you waiting for?" Azula snapped at the platoon behind her. The soldiers surrounded the monster and attacked. When the fire hit the black scales the creature screamed in pain and some of the scales shot off like a rope and pulled it away from the open flames. The soldiers launched another attack only to have the flames bounce of an intruder's broadswords. They looked in the direction the intruder went; it was the Blue Spirit! The soldiers attacked the Blue Spirit while Azula faced off against the nightmare. The Blue Spirit quickly dispatched the soldiers, after the fight the headless corpses lay in an ocean of blood. He looked up and saw Azula had been pinned by the nightmarish creature. The Blue Spirit vanished as quickly as he appeared.
"Why! Why kill me? What'll it solve?" Azula said in a slight panic.
The face of the creature peeled back revealing Sora's face. "It'll make me feel better and besides, you hurt Katara," Sora growled.
His claws were driven into her chest and he ripped out her heart. He then tore the severed heart in half, "Aw, a broken heart," Sora smiled.
Sora leapt down still in his creature form. Sokka looked up teary eyed from Katara, "She's dead," Sokka said.
"Stand back," Sora said. He reverted back to his human form except for his hand. The black scales on his hand reformed into a sort of octopus thing, with the head of a shadow heartless. He pointed to it then Katara, the heartless nodded and leapt on top of Katara. It opened her mouth with two of its tendrils and slithered down her throat. Suddenly she took a deep breath and sat up. Sora just looked at her and smiled and she smiled back. The whole group around them just sighed.
"A little privacy please?" Sora said irritated. Everyone except Donald and Goofy left, "Yeah that means you too," Sora said. Donald and Goofy ran off with the others. Aang appeared and followed close behind the group.
Sora was treating Katara's fast healing wounds. Katara grabbed his hand causing Sora to gasp in surprise. "What is it Katara?" Sora asked.
"Your hands are cold," Katara laughed. Sora chuckled at her remark. Bandages covered her like a robe, "Before you go drawing any conclusions the village women bandaged you up, not me," Sora said.
"I kinda figured that out," Katara said.
"Sora!" Toph called out. Sora turned around, "I'll be right back," he ran out of the room.
Katara got up and followed slowly. Sora got out and was nearly tackled by the creature causing mayhem and destruction in the village. Its brain was exposed it had a flailing tongue as long as Sora's arm. The creature charged but before Sora could react a whip of red water slashed the creature in two. He turned around and he saw what attacked the monster. The second creature looked like his shadow form, only it was red not black. It had multiple tendrils coming off of its back.
"Oh…my…God!" Sora said in an increasingly deeper voice as he transformed again. Soon the two nightmares were facing off, Black vs. Red. Sokka saw the immediate danger, "Aang help me get these villagers out of here!"
The villagers started to run away with Sokka and Aang guiding them. The two monsters grappled, Sora threw the red creature away from the village. Sokka looked in the direction of the battle and ran towards where the red creature was thrown. "Sokka where are you going?" Aang asked but Sokka was already out of earshot.
Sora pounded the creature into the dirt. The slime that covered the red creature's body balled up and slithered away. Sora watched as it slithered over the horizon. He looked down and his large blank yellow eyes widened. He was gazing upon the beaten and bloody body of Katara. Sora picked her up gently in his gigantic hands. He threw his head back and roared. Sokka heard the roar and picked up the pace. He saw Sora, still in Shadow form, carrying Katara unconscious in his arms. He kept his Shadow form as he placed Katara in her bed, she was still breathing.
Meanwhile…
The red slime slithered into an area that recently paid witness to a massacre. Bodies of Fire Nation soldiers were scattered everywhere. The slime slithered up the side of a hut to extremely mutilated corpse of a woman that had a hole in the chest, its heart ripped out. The slime entered at the hole in the chest. Red veins spread out of the wound and all over the corpse. The veins reached the eyes and the eyes shot open revealing a pair of white eyes…