DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.
Friends of mine from school keep nagging me to update this already. So ya…
1 A Trip in Time
900 years ago…
"You're the Avatar! You must walk this path alone!" She pleaded, trying to free her hand from his grasp. The man, the Avatar, shook his head vehemently.
"I love you! I won't go through life without you!" He said persistently. She looked up at his face; it was begging her not to leave.
"I can't live without you…" He said sadly. She bit her lip.
"I can give something that that man, Hiro," he spat out the name. "could never give you." She peered up at him.
"I can let you see your parents again." She stared up at him, her mouth open in a gape.
"You, you can?" She asked, her eyes filling with hope. He smiled, and nodded. She looked down nervously. Her parents had been dead for years, and she missed them dearly. Maybe the Avatar could let her see them. He was the bridge between worlds, right? But that would mean marrying the man who could not have a wife! The Gods had forbidden the Avatar to love!
She made the biggest mistake of her life; she let him take her to the Spirit World.
He sat in the meditative position underneath the ancient tree, feeling the spirits swarm around him. His beloved sat in his lap, the only way he could bring her with him.
His eyes glowed blue; and his beloved fell faint against him.
She looked around at this place in pure wonder. It was so big and ancient! He stood behind her, smiling. She turned to face him.
"Is it true that the Gods live here?" He shrugged.
"If they do, I have yet to find their home." She laughed lightly, and he closed his eyes, enjoying the musical sound.
"You said you could show me my parents, take me to them." She said, turning serious. He looked around.
"They're usually here. I'm going to go find them. Stay here." He ordered. "There are dangerous things in the Spirit World, just waiting for beautiful women like you." He said. She blushed and nodded.
"I will stay." She promised. He smiled, and went to go find her parents.
It was not long after he had disappeared that she heard screaming. She was compassionate and she could firebend, she could defend herself. So she went to find the person screaming.
She wandered through the marsh lands of the Spirit World, and ran into an ape dressed in a toga and flower necklace, meditating under an arch.
"Excuse me do you know who's screaming?" She asked. The ape peered at her.
"Go away." He said.
"Not until you help me." She said angrily. A ball of light went flying by.
"That thing can help you. Go follow it." The ape said, and she ran after it.
The ape shook its head.
She followed the light to a giant, gnarled tree sitting high in the sky. She looked nervously down, seeing nothing but mist. She shook her head, the screaming had come from that giant tree, she knew it.
He didn't know what happened? What had happened to her parents?
When he returned to the clearing, she was gone. Seeing the ball of light fly by, he panicked. He knew where she was, and he had to hurry!
When he arrived at the ancient spirit's lair, he saw her entering. He shouted at her not to go in there, but she was too far away. He started running, praying to Agni he wasn't too late.
She walked down under the tree, looking at everything in wonder. She sensed something lived down her, but she couldn't see anything. She didn't know something evil lived down under the giant tree.
Then she saw them. Her parents! Kneeling down in a clearing amidst all the roots of the big tree.
Her face lit in a gentle smile, and she walked towards them, joy filling her.
She never saw the white-faced creature coming.
He ran down the stairs, his face totally calm, until he saw the three figures kneeling down in the small clearing, the spirit standing above them, wearing her face, smirking proudly.
Rage broke out, his love was gone, stolen by him!
The spirit smiled at him, and in his dark voice, greeted him.
"Hello, Avatar." He said mockingly, and bowed for him.
"KOH!" He yelled, and brandished his sword, hell-bent and destroying the spirit Koh, the Face-Stealer, who had stolen his beloved's face and her parents' faces.
Koh's eyes widened in glee at the sight of emotion. His face blinked back into its usual form: white with red lips and a purple spot around each eye. His mouth opened wide, revealing horrible, sharp fangs, which would rip the Avatar's face from his spirit. Koh lunged forward, ready to eat his face off.
He pointed his sword at Koh's open mouth, ready to kill him. But Koh was one step ahead of him, biting the sword in half.
He glared up at the face-stealer, and Koh smiled wickedly.
"This won't hurt a bit." He said, and closed his mouth over the homicidal Avatar's face, and ripped his face away to be his own.
Good, eh? I hope you all liked this chapter! i believe that the Avatar whose face was stolen by Koh was a Fire Nation Avatar, just for the record.
INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!
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