The Legend of Korra – Dragon Spirit

Chapter One: Fin Lein-Naakin Daal

It was a serene night in Republic City, and even more quiet in Air Temple Island. The master airbender, Tenzin, slept deeply with his wife. But he began to experience something rather…disturbing.

Tenzin found himself on top of scorched earth, bodies of burned men and women lied on the burned ground. He was terrified, Tenzin then heard a sound that shook him to his very spirit, he turned to see two bright red eyes looking at him.

"Joor, vulom lov ahrk til los nid hi vis dreh do nii!" The red-eyed black beast said in its strange tongue. The skies began to turn crimson and balls of fire began to fall from the clouds.

"What…what are you?" Tenzin asked the monster as he backed away and trip on a body. He looked at the body; it was that of a United Forces soldier. He still had his armor on, but it had been burned to a crisp like the rest of his body. Tenzin stood up quickly; he looked at the monster who still stared at him.

Then more of the beasts with wings joined it in the darkness. "Dov!" One of them responded to Tenzin's question.

The darker one looked at Tenzin with primordial hatred in its eyes, its red infernal eyes. "I AM ALDUIN, FIRST BORN OF AKATOSH! I HAVE RETURNED FROM THE VOID TO DEVOUR YOUR WORLD!"

Then it opened its enormous maw and shouted at Tenzin. A thunderous sound was the last thing that Tenzin heard before he woke up in cold sweat. He struggled to breathe, his pillow and sheets wet from the sweat, his forehead burned as if he had fever and he hyperventilated as if he was being strangled.

"Tenzin! Are you all right, you are sweating like crazy." Pema, Tenzin's wife, said as she was awakened by Tenzin's fast breaths.

"I…I…" Tenzin tried to say, but he was still anxious from the nightmare he had experienced. Tenzin stood up from his bed and walked towards the door, he went to the bathroom.

"Tenzin?" Pema said as she saw her husband go to the bathroom, he had been disturbed by something in his dreams.

The tired airbender master washed his face with cold water, to cool down his fever. He looked at himself on the mirror. "Alduin…where have I heard that name before?" He asked himself.

The next day, Tenzin went to the city, his destination the Republic University in search for a source on the Age of Prosperity, the times before the Hundred Years War and beyond. It was well before Avatar Aang, Avatar Roku, Avatar Kyoshi, Avatar Kuruk and Avatar Yaicheng's times or maybe long before most Avatars.

He took several books on the subject, some were older and others were fairly newer. "Hm…" Tenzin mumbled as he found a rather strange volume, it was called the Book of the Dovah, according to the sticker on it. "What a strange book." Tenzin said as he looked at the cover of it.

It was black with a symbol of a winged creature on the center of it. He opened it and on the first page it said 'Deykel do Dovahkiin'. The next page was written on the normal acceptable language.

"Oh no…" Tenzin said after finishing reading half of the book. "It's the World-Eater."

Korra was taking a walk around the park with Mako, she had been training airbending moves for almost five months now and was now taking a break.

"Tenzin sounded pretty freaked out this morning when he left to go to the university." Korra said as she walked towards a water fountain and drank some water. "He said that he had some weird dream where this thing was speaking in a weird language to him."

"Maybe he had a spirit revelation or something?" Mako asked.

"I don't get it; if he had then I should've gotten one too. I'm the Avatar after all." Korra said as she and Mako took seat on a park bench.

"Maybe you weren't meant to get it. Tenzin is Aang's son after all." Mako said.

"I don't know. How are you doing in your new job as a police officer?" Korra asked Mako.

"It's going good, the guys in the force were a little apprehensive at first since I'm not a metalbender but Chief Beifong is trying to make the police more diverse." Mako responded. "I even stopped several muggings this week; I say I will hit sergeant by next month."

"That's great." Korra said.

"How you been doing?" Mako asked his girlfriend.

"Well…ever since I beat Amon and discovered airbending some strange things have been happening." Korra answered.

"What do you mean?" Mako asked again.

"Sometimes when I speak I start saying some strange words and then my room just explodes!" Korra responded. "It's getting more continuous."

"Strange words?" Mako added to his questions.

"I can't say them or you would go flying into the air with this airbending word." Korra said as she look at the sky.

Dovahkiin…

"You heard that?" Korra asked Mako.

"Heard what?" Mako responded.

Dovahkiin…

"That! Don't you hear it, it's coming from everywhere." Korra said as she stood up and looked around. "This is weird…"

"Where do you think this sound is coming from?" Mako asked her.

"Everywhere but…it sounded clearer from the north." Korra said as she then saw Tenzin walking towards them. "Tenzin, did you find what you were looking for in the university's library?"

"Yes, we need to go back to the temple so I can explain it to you clearly." Tenzin responded.

"Uh…okay?" Korra said as she and Mako looked at each other. They followed the airbending master back to the temple.

Once they went back to the temple, there Bolin was playing Pabu and Asami was talking through the phone with a new business partner she had found.

"This is what I found." Tenzin said as he showed them the book.

"Book of Dovah? What does it mean?" Korra asked him.

"From what I've read, translated it means 'Book of Dragon'." Tenzin answered.

"Book of Dragon? I thought that the lasts dragons were killed hundreds of years ago by General Iroh of the Fire Nation." Korra said.

"Not exactly, there are two dragons left…Ran and Shaw. But the dragons in this book are much ancient than Ran and Shaw and the other dragons like them. This book is actually called 'Daykel do Dovahkiin'." Tenzin said.

"Dovankiin…" Korra whispered.

"What is it, you heard of it before?" Tenzin asked her.

"Uh…yeah. I heard it before you arrived to the park. The word sounded all over the place, like if someone had said it all around me." Korra answered.

"This is more drastic than I thought. Korra, Dovahkiin means Dragonborn in ancient dragon language." Tenzin said.

"Dragon language? Dragons could speak?" Mako asked.

"The ancient dragons were capable of speech, writing and reading. In other words they were more than capable of communicating with normal people." Tenzin responded. "The dragon language, according to the book, was called Thu'um or Tongue."

"Well that's nice and all but was does 'Dragonborn' have to do with me?" Korra asked her sifu.

"Korra, in ancient times the spirits…rather the Divines gave to the physical world a champion to stop the ancient dragons from conquering the world. It was an individual who was born with the immortal soul of a dragon but with the body of a mortal human." Tenzin responded. "The Dovahkiin had many abilities that separated him or her from the rest of humanity. He/she could speak the Thu'um and shout like a dragon. They could master any form Thu'um and absorb the immortal soul of the dragons they slayed in battle. And also…they could control all four elements."

"What are you trying to say, Tenzin?" Asami asked the airbending master as she hanged up the phone.

"What I am trying to say is that the Avatar is the more modern interpretation of the Dovahkiin. Korra…you are…according to the book and the prophecies in the rest of the volumes…the Last Dragonborn." Tenzin responded with a serious voice.

"No way…." Korra said. "How…how can we know that these books are true?"

"I have compared the volumes of the books with old Avatar texts…they are a complete match." Tenzin said. "In abilities, supposed origins, and goals. The Dragonborn was created to bring balance to broken world ruled by Dragons…like the Avatar was said to bring balance to the world from everything that rose against it."

"Great…now it happens that not only am I the spirit of the world but I have the soul of an immortal dragon in me. This is swell…" Korra said as she sat down on the couch of the living room.

"But that is not all…Kyoshi was the Avatar during Chin's conquest, Kuruk was Avatar when the spirit known as Koh entered the physical world, Roku was Avatar when Sozin began the war and Aang replaced him when he died. Do you see a pattern?" Tenzin asked Korra.

"Uh…that Avatars are born in times of need?" Korra responded with another question.

"Yes, but your time is much more…difficult." Tenzin said.

"I defeated Amon, the crisis is over." Korra responded.

"I am afraid that Amon was not the true threat…the real one is much more sinister. The World-Eater, Alduin has returned. He was the one I saw…in my dreams." Tenzin said as he sat down on a chair in front of Korra. "Alduin…is destined to end the world."

They were all silent after Tenzin said those words. The ancient dragon known as Alduin was destined to destroy the world? How could that be possible?

"But as Dragonborn, it is said that you are the only one in the world that is capable of defeating the World-Eater." Tenzin said.

"How am I supposed to beat this immortal dragon?" Korra asked him.

"Sadly…I do not know." Tenzin responded.

Meanwhile in the Fire Nation, within the lost city of the Sun Warriors, the dragons Ran and Shaw rested inside their caves when they heard the voice…

"Dov!"

The two dragons came out of their caves and saw to the skies. A winged ebony beast with bright red eyes hovered above of them. "Ran…Shaw…zhu'u los zonah wah koraav frey faal joor." It said to the two dragons.

"Alduin…" Ran said as he saw the immense power coming from the beast. Shaw backed away as Alduin approached towards them.

"Zhu'u lo Alduin! Diist kiin do Akatosh ahrk hi fen fah daar gruth!" Alduin yelled as he flew towards the twin dragons with bloodlust in his eyes.