"If you really want to end it, then come and get me!" Came Kuvira's distant voice.
Korra takes off in pursuit of the her voice. Ducking under a large, arch-like root and pushing through a clump of bushes, she comes upon a clearing and, looking up, gasps in horror. Kuvira, holding on to the side of the firing mechanism of the spirit cannon, and holding the manual trigger handle in her left hand.
"Now it's over"
Korra extended a desperate hand. "Don't!"
Kuvira slides the trigger. Korra abandons her attempt at reasoning and dives for safety as the barrel discharges, its beam colliding with the ground and throwing Korra aside after hitting the ground a few times. She comes to a stop and looks up. The beam has not stopped; it continues to pierce the ground, the ground flaming at the impact point.
As the weapon continues to fire below, the vines around her begin to glow The force of the firing has propelled the cannon backward, away from the ground; now it twists around, wildly swinging in its cradle of vines as the beam follows.
"Shut it down!" Korra yells
Kuvira slides the trigger to find the cannon unresponsive. "I can't!"
A sudden shudder of the cannon throws Kuvira from its side; she yells as she tumbles to the ground, hitting it multiple times. Raising her head, she gasps, her expression morphing into horror as she sees the spirit beam coming right for her.
The spirit beam keeps coming. Korra sprints to kuvira to try and move her out of the way, but she's too late.
The spirit beam encompasses them both. The energy hovers around them in a sphere before blasting up into the sky above creating a spirit portal. A bright light blinds her vision.
When Korra is finally able to open her eyes she finds a purple reflection of herself. The reflection then morphs into the form of an unconscious kuvira.
"Monsters are real. Ghosts are real too. They live inside us… And sometimes, they win" A voice from seemingly nowhere and everywhere at the same time stated.
As Korra continues to observe Kuvira's unconscious form she began to see what looked like Kuvira's memories surrounding her.
"I don't know what to do with her, she's too much" "Well we can't just kick her out, what would people think of us" A six year old kuvira silently let tears fall as she listened to her parents argue about her.
"You stupid bitch" her father roared bringing a metal pole up before bringing it back down into the little girls skin. "Daddy, Daddy what did it do?" She questioned begging for an answer to her punishment. Her father just kept screaming at her, the stench of alcohol pouring from his mouth as he struck the metal pole against her skin again. "Mommy please help me" she looked at her mother whom was watching with a nasty smirk plastered on her face. "What did I do wrong" she whispered to herself as tears streamed down her face. When the beating finally came to an end kuvira scrambled to a corner chest heaving and breaths shallowed she watched her parents conversed as if nothing had just happened.
"dad pls stop your hurting me" a sever year old kuvira sobbed as her father held her down and molested her.
"I'm gonna kill you just like you killed your mother you fucking monster! You hear me!! I'm gonna kill you!" Kuvira's father boomed grabbing her face to make her look at him before aggressively throwing her on the floor. "Please daddy it was a mistake, it was a mistake. pls don't leave me, pls daddy I didn't mean to hurt mommy. Pls I didn't meant to. It was an accident. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry." An 8 year old kuvira sobbed while on her knees as her father walked away.
"Well if you'd accept, I'd love for you to come with me to zaofu and become one of my students." The nice lady offered an eight year old kuvira
A nine year old kuvira tugged on the nice lady's sleeve. Looking up at her, eyes filled with hope she asked, "Can I call you mom?" The nice lady's eyes widened in surprise then softened. "No sweetie I'm your mentor, pls call me Suyin"
"Can I play with Opal?" Asked a ten year old kuvira. "No kuvira, you temper is out of control, you might hurt her"-suyin "but-" she tried "I said no kuvira" Going against suyin, kuvira went on to play with an 8 year old Opal. While playing with opals dollhouse, kuvira got mad and crushed it with her metal bending, not noticing opal reaching out to grab something from inside she broke one of opals fingers. Opal started screaming for her mom, and when suyin entered the room, she immediately scolded kuvira and punished her by grounding her to the platinum box for 2 weeks. The platinum box was a small room made of all platinum that only had a bed in it. While in the was giving 3 meals a day and 2 bathroom breaks a day. Kuvira was miserable.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, I'm pathetic, I'm worthless, I'm a disappointed I'm a monster, I killed my mom, I hurt Opal, im a monster, I'm not good enough, I'm not perfect, I need to be perfect." A 12 year old kuvira alone in her bedroom whispered to herself on the verge of a mental breakdown. Her knees were clutched to her chest, trying to calm herself down she tried to take deep breaths in but it didn't help. That's when a thought crossed her mind. She'd heard people speak about how it was only a temporary solution and would make her problems twice as bad. But at that moment she didn't care she just wanted to relive the aching pain in in her heart threatening to suffocate her. She. Got up from her spot on the floor against the wall. Wiping the tears from her eyes she left her room and headed for the family bathroom. Once there she opened the storage cabinet underneath the sink and pulled out a small box. The words 'derby razor blades 100' pack on it. Pulling out one of the blades she put it in her bagermole pajama pants and quickly made her way back to her room. She tiptoed when walking past suyin office hoping not to alert her. Thankfully no one saw her. Once inside her room she locked the door and unwrapped the razor. She hovered it over her arm for a few seconds hesitating before bringing it down gliding across her wrists. It hurt yes but it calmed her down. Watching as blood started leaking out of the cut, kuvira tried it again. This time she went deeper and it bleed immediately. Again and again it was like she was in some sort of trance watching her wrist bleed as the blade danced on her wrist.
Her first day in high school. Kuvira was 14. She had arrived an hour early so she could find all her classes, which she was having no luck in. She'd been looking for her first class for about 20 minutes now and still couldn't find it. When turning a corner in one of the hallways, she bumped into a guy who seemed to be a year or two older than her. "Sorry" kuvira muttered. "It's fine. You seem lost, do you need help finding your way to class?" Questioned the guy. Being the stubborn person she was she muttered "I'll figure it out" kuvira shoved past him and started walking away. That's when the older guy caught her wrist. "Room 202 is that way" he pointed in the opposite direction. Trying to keep her cool kuvira asked "how do you know what my classes are?" the guy just waved her schedule in his hand. "let me help you" he insisted. Realizing he wasn't gonna leave her alone kuvira relented. "Fine" He reached out his hand to her "the names kuruk" "kuvira" she said shaking his hand. "Kuvira… that's a beautiful name"
He showed her to all her classes and after that day they became close friends. Kuvira later learned that kuruk was 17, in 12th grade, a zaofu native, and zaofu gaurd in training. He was pretty funny and smart. They became best friends and shared all their secrets with each other (kuvira didn't share her cutting addiction though) it was one night at a party a year later when Kuruk made a move of kuvira. He was 18 and she was 15, she was confused because she thought of him as more of an older brother than anything else. Kuruk got angry with kuvira saying that he had stood by her every time people made fun of her at school and he'd always been there for her. He made kuvira feel guilty for not wanting a romantic relationship with him, but still made it clear she didn't want that. That didn't go so well because Kuruk threatened to tell everyone that she had killed her mother. Kuvira had no other choice but to agree. Kuvira hated every bit of they're relationship. When he would kiss her, grope her, touch her even hug her. He kept pushing her to have sex with him, but she kept refusing. It wasn't till one day kuvira had come over to his place for drinks he had stolen from his parents. She hadn't known what had happened but she had woken up to him fucking her. She was in complete shock, she wanted to move to fight back to scream to do something but couldn't, it was like she was paralyzed. Even after her realized she was awake he kept going till he collapsed on top of her. Kuvira was frozen in place for another few minutes, before she got up once she noticed he was asleep. She wiped her eyes unconscious. She hadn't realized she was crying. She then turned to put her clothes back on. She found them on the floor not too far from her. She immediately put them on and left. She made her way to the beifong residence. Ignoring the questioning looks thrown her way by the beifong family and guards on patrol she went into her room and locked the door. For several days she refused to come out of her room, even at the insistence of the Beifong's. She never wanted to leave her room ever again but it had been 2 weeks and she didn't want to fall behind on her studies. She that day at school she tried to avoid kuruk, but he came up behind her and gave her a big hug. "Where were you, I was so worried about you, I missed you so much" he claimed. But kuvira only shoved him away. "We're done!" She said sternly before walking away. He grabbed her arm trying to get her to stay but she removed his grasp and kept going. It was later on in the day when kuvira realized what she had done. "Murderer" "monster" "what kind of a monster kills her own mom" came the voices of her classmates. "Wrist reveal" once of her classmates joked Kuvira tried to hold on her emotions, but couldn't stand it and stormed out of class, ignore it the voice of her teacher calling out to her. She went straight to suyin's home office that day claiming she wanted to drop out of school and join the guard. To her surprise suyin perked up at this and accepted her request as long as she did finished school with independent study. Kuvira accepted and stated her training the next day.
At 17 she became the captain of the guard
At 18 the avatar and her team came to zaofu. And she. Began her journey of restoring the earth kingdom.
At 22 she's driving a ginormous mecha tank through republic city. All her pent up rage being let out. She was mad at the world. And took it out on innocent people.
The memories disappeared and only Kuvira's tattered form floats in front of her.
"Kuvira let her monsters win once. Make sure it doesn't happen again." Again, the voice came from nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
The blue lights and Kuvira's form started to dissolve.As Korra was lowered.
Korra looked around to see the materializing world around her. She and kuvira had just created a spirit portal and now she's in the spirit world. Kuvira was nowhere in sight. Korra thoughts drifted to what she had just experienced. Then to her family and friends.She was worried they might have been hurt or perished during the creation of the new spirit portal behind her.
Korra is broken out of her thoughts by what sounded like a small whimper. She immediately looked around thinking a spirit was hurt or kuvira was nearby. But instead she spotted something she hadn't noticed before. Not far off from where she was, was what looked like a pile of clothing. It looked very out of place and she wondered why she hadn't detected it earlier.
She slowly gets up from her seated position on the flowers and cautiously walks over to it. As she got closer the sound of soft whimpers became clearer. She had an idea as to what it was, and they were confirmed one she was in full view of the pile of clothes, which she realised we're actually blankets.
In those blankets was what really confused her. It was an infant. The baby's eyes were closed, and it's face was scrunched up. It looked distressed. Thats when korra noticed blanket the infant was covered in had a growing red stain on one side of the infant. Without even thinking korra picked up the baby and clutched it to her chest. Upon noticing there was no spirit water nearby. She practically sprinted towards the spirit portal, in search of help for the baby.