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Chapter 7 The Origins of Chaos

Sokka's lifeless body fell out of Chaos's hands. Katara was bawling, tears flowing down her face, and see seemed catatonic. Zuko and Toph were too shocked to even move after witnessing one of their best friends get killed. Aang, however, was furious. Everyone knew that was about to go into the Avatar State at any moment. Chaos looked down and grabbed the hilt of Sokka's sword that was still imbedded in his chest. With a grunt, he pulled it out.

"Ugh…" grunted Chaos. "Guess it's a good thing I don't have much of a Heart. Nice sword though."

Chaos swung the sword around. He acted like he was an expert swordsman, yet nobody has even seen him carry a sword before. Aang couldn't take it anymore, so he entered the Avatar State and rushed Chaos.

"Oh please." said Chaos. He raised his empty hand and Darkness erupted out of it. Aang ran into it and the Darkness surrounded him. The Darkness formed a sphere. Aang tried to fight it, but the sphere wouldn't break. Chaos chuckled as he walked to the sphere. He touched it and it rippled, causing the sphere show Aang's outline within.

"That's better." said Chaos. "Maybe it will be much more quit without that airhead out here. And I wouldn't try breaking out of there Aang. That sphere is much harder than steel, and you only have a limited amount of air in there, so sit there and watch."

A large slab of stone slammed on Chaos, however, he used Sokka's sword to cleanly slice through it. Chaos made a 'come at me' motion with his fingers at Toph and Zuko. The Fire Lord accepted the challenge and with his dual dao swords in hand, he attacked. Using Firebending to increase the damage from the swords, Zuko used every technique he knew to kill Chaos. Chaos was able to parry each one of Zuko's attacks. Chaos never did any damage to Zuko, other than nick damage, but that was because he wasn't even trying.

"Isn't this fun, Zu-Zu?" asked Chaos.

"Don't you dare mock my sister!" yelled Zuko as he attack again.

"Since when did you love your sister?" wondered Chaos. "I thought you hated each other."

"I never truly hated Azula." said Zuko. "I admit that we always competed against each other, and she wanted to kill me, but she was my sister. I will always have love for her."

Zuko threw his swords at Chaos. Chaos side stepped them and knocked them to the ground. Using the distraction, Zuko did something for the first time- bend lightning. He released one burst of lightning and it struck Chaos. Chaos was visibly shaken by the attack and seemed that he was in pain. However, Chaos raised Sokka's swords and drew the lightning into it. Darkness enveloped the blade and contained the lightning.

"That was the first, and LAST time you do that, brat!" yelled Chaos. He swung the sword and the lightning it captured shot out back at Zuko. The lightning itself was covered in Darkness.

"I hope this still works!" thought Zuko, who got into a stance. The lightning hit Zuko's fingers and Zuko redirected the lightning.

"Uh oh!" said Chaos as he jumped out of the way as the lightning hit the sphere. "Why you little-"

Chaos was thrown into the sky by a pillar of earth. While he was in the air, he turned around and saw Toph. With a scowl, he dived and spun at Toph with the sword directly in front of him. Toph made a dome of earth around her in order to save herself from Chaos's attack. Chaos easily sliced through it, but realized that Toph wasn't there. Looking around, Chaos saw that Toph had made an escape tunnel.

"AHH!" screamed Chaos in frustration. He created a small sphere of Darkness in his hand and threw it into the tunnel. There was a large explosion, but Toph couldn't be found. "Where are you, you little cockroach?!"

"Right here!" yelled the blind Earthbender. She was in stone armor that covered her entire body. Using the earth wave technique, she gathered speed to aid her in her attack. She then jumped and punched Chaos with all of her might.

"What in the Unseen Realm?!" thought Chaos as he was thrown across the battle field. Getting angry, Chaos melted into the shadows.

"Where d'ya go?" asked Toph. "Or are you just a coward?"

She didn't see it coming. Her seismic sense didn't help her. Chaos snuck behind her. Zuko saw him and tried to warn Toph, but he was too late. Chaos shoved Sokka's sword through Toph's back and sliced the sword to the side, spilling her insides to fall to the ground.

"Not…fair." said Toph.

"You're fighting evil." Chaos said. "What did you expect?"

Zuko screamed and ran at Chaos again. He picked up his swords and attacked. Chaos sighed and tossed Sokka's sword into the air. He turned around and grabbed Zuko's swords. Zuko tried to get them out of Chaos's hands, but Chaos just kicked him to the ground and melted Zuko's swords into piles of molten metal. Zuko stood up and tried to Firebend but when he attempted, Chaos shoved both of his hands in the burning metal.

"ARGH!" screamed Zuko. His hands were burning. He tried to use the Dragon Breath Technique that his uncle Iroh taught him, but Chaos suspected this and shoved the melted metal in and around his mouth. Zuko screamed in pain again, at least he would if his mouth was filled and sealed with molten metal. As Sokka's sword fell, Chaos caught it and transfigured its form into a small scythe. Using his new weapon, Chaos slashed down on Zuko's chest, killing the Fire Lord and the last living member of the Fire Nation Royal Family.

With Aang trapped and Katara too shocked to move, there was no one else to challenge Chaos. He walked over to Katara and dragged her by the hair to right in front of the black sphere that contained Aang. He indicated Katara's arms and legs in front of the sphere and slowly broke each limb that Katara had. She screamed in pain, but didn't fight back. He then slowly cut her with his scythe. The cuts varied. Some were long, some were short, and all of them were deep. She was bleeding profusely. Chaos was able to see Aang fighting against the sphere, but was failing.

"Say good bye to the love of your life, Avatar." said Chaos as he put the scythe to Katara's throat.

Before he could slice her throat, Chaos heard a loud ripping sound. Finding the sound curious, he turned around. What he saw confused him. It was a white Crack floating in the middle of the air. Chaos looked at it and tried to figure out what it was. Then he had a revelation.

"I recognize this power." said Chaos. Then he laughed. "So I don't have to destroy this World to leave. Oh well. What's the point of starting something if you're not going to finish it? But now I can be whole again. But first..."

Chaos walked back to Katara ready to finish her off. He saw that Aang was still pounding against the sphere. Chaos laughed at Aang's pathetic attempt to free himself. With his scythe in his hand, Chaos kneeled down and grabbed a fistful of Katara's hair. He yanked her head back and put the tip of the scythe at one and of her throat. He dug the tip in, causing blood to trickle out. Then he started slicing.

However, he didn't get too far. Once he was a quarter of the way across, Chaos was blasted by white energy that hit him right in the face. He was thrown back quite a distance and his face was burning.

"You…bitch." said Chaos. He didn't even have to look up to know who did this. He could sense her. "Avatar Shijie."

The first Avatar of the World had taken over Aang's body. She was a beautiful woman. Her hair was as golden as sun, and moved on its own without wind. Her eyes were as blue as the sea. Her robes were brown and emerald green, looking as if it were made of soil and moss. She wore an emotionless expression on her face. She looked over at Katara and gave a silent prayer. She then looked back at Chaos.

"There's something different about you Shijie." stated Chaos. "You seem…brighter…than the last time we met."

"You will be stopped." said Shijie. She began to shine brilliantly.

"Really?" asked Chaos as Darkness surrounded him and fought against her Light. "And how do you suppose to do that?"

"I do not intend to fight you." Shijie said. "Aang will."

"I doubt it." said Chaos. "Because the moment you let go of your hold over his body, I am going to slit his throat and carve out his Heart before he leave that Avatar State."

Shijie didn't say anything else. She just raised her hand and created a ball of Light and released a beam of energy. Chaos extended the blade of the scythe and sliced down on the beam, cutting it in half. After the attack faded, Chaos was forced to the ground, with hands on his head and over his chest. Chaos saw that it was Aang, free of his possession of Shijie. As he was about to swipe his scythe, Chaos felt something within him stir that caused the scythe to stop right in front of Aang's left eye.

"N..no…" struggled Chaos. As Aang's body began to glow blue, Chaos glowed black. Aang and Chaos spiritually fought against each other, their auras pushing at one another. Then they were at a standstill. Internally, Aang was transported someplace else. He looked around and saw nothing. Then there was a bright flash of light, and Aang was transported someplace else.

Aang was surrounded by stars. He couldn't even comprehend the amount there was. Then he looked down and saw a very large planet. It was beautiful. It had lush green forests and deep blue seas. He saw formations of multi-colored crystal stretch across the world. Orbiting the planet was a large, Heart shaped moon. Towns and kingdoms dotted the planet. Aang saw weird flying machines that looked something that he could only compare it to Fire Nation zeppelins, but far more advanced.

Then, Darkness sprouted up at various spots on the planet. It spread and consumed everything, until there was only one extremely bright Light shining through. But the Light faded, devoured by the Darkness. The planet shook violently, and started breaking apart. Many fragments of varying sizes started to move outward. After the pieces were a good distance apart, Aang saw small Lights on each fragment begin to glow.

The fragments themselves began to glow with Light and they all shot of in many directions. They flew so far that Aang couldn't see their Lights anymore. Then, there was an explosion of Light from each and every fragment that blinded Aang. When his eyes adjusted, he saw large orbs of bright, white Light in the formation of a large sphere. Then the orbs dimmed slightly and began moving apart from each other.

A ripple appeared in front of Aang. He went closer to investigate and then three small black crystals burst out. They circled around each other and shot out in three different directions. One came right at Aang and went straight through him. This fragment gave Aang the same feeling as Chaos did. Then the area changed.

Aang was now standing on what he thought was his World, but a lot younger. As far as he could tell from the people he saw, this was long before the separation of the Four Nations. He started to walk around, but he knew he couldn't speak or even talk to them. He was like an invisible spirit.

"Make way!" said a soldier in emerald armor. "Make way for the young King!"

Aang looked and saw a young man of perhaps twenty years old. He had brown hair and sky blue eyes. His clothing seemed like half royal garb, half armor. His robes were white and green, while his armor was blue and gold. From what Aang could tell, the King seemed like a nice person, but vaguely familiar.

"Die, your Majesty!" yelled a large burly man carrying a knife.

The King didn't even notice the man. As the large man plunged the knife down, the King just sidestepped and chopped at the man's neck. The large man stumbled, but he swung his arm to hit the King. The King back flipped to avoid the attack, and then his hand began to glow in energy. With a palm thrust, he released a ripple like energy that hit the man with the knife, sending him flying.

The town's people cheered, saying that he was the most powerful Energybender of all time. The King said that he was sorry to ruin their day because of the attacker, but the townsfolk didn't look like they were offended. The King and his entourage left the town and entered the forest, while the townsfolk went about their activities.

Then the attacker reentered the town, and went into an ally. Aang decided to follow him and saw that he was talking to a cloak figure that looked a lot like…

"Wiseman!" yelled Aang. He tried to hit him, but his fist went through Wiseman.

"You performed a great show." said Wiseman, his voice scratchier than the first time Aang had heard it.

"I'm lucky he didn't kill me!" yelled the man. "When you said attack the King, I thought you were kidding."

"Why would I joke about that?" asked Wiseman. "Especially after all the gold I gave you."

"Shut up you old coot!" screamed the man. He grabbed Wiseman by the collar and shoved him against a wall. "I want double…no, TRIPLE the amount of gold you promised me."

"Not happening." said Wiseman. He raised his arms and pulled down his hood. What Aang saw was disgusting. The flesh was decayed. There was only one eye in the skull. A lot of the teeth were missing.

"AH!" screamed the large man in fear. "What are you?"

"Simple…" said Wiseman. "I'm you!"

Black smoke blasted out of Wiseman's mouth and entered the large man's. The man choked on it. As more of the black smoke left Wiseman's body, the faster it decayed. Soon it was a pile of dust and rags. The large man stood up, Darkness emanating from him.

"Let's make this quick." said the large man.

The scene changed again into a battle in the forest. The newly possessed man was fighting the King. All of the guards were slaughtered, their blood everywhere. The King was firing off energy blasts at the possessed man; however the man was able to dodge. As soon as he was in arm's length with the King, he grabbed his shoulders.

"You'll make an excellent vessel, your highness!" yelled the man as the black smoke left his mouth and entered into the King's.

The large man decayed into dust, and the King stumbled away from the decayed mess. He seemed to be struggling against the possession. Aang could tell that it was taking everything the King had to resist being taken over. But it was all in vain. With a final scream, the King was fully possessed. The King's eyes turned black. The brown hair became pitch black. His clothes turned black and red. Aang was positive that the King, the most powerful Energybender in the World, was the vessel that Chaos was currently in.

"Finally," Chaos yelled to the heavens, "a vessel powerful enough to contain my essence!"

Time moved faster around Aang. He was now looking at Chaos spreading Darkness across the world from a black spire. Armies marched across the planet, destroying everything in their path. Men who opposed Chaos's rule were killed. Women were raped to death. Children were kidnapped and forced into the armies. Aang could tell that this lasted several hundred years.

The scene shifted again, to a devastated battle field. Aang could see Chaos and a woman he recognized instantly as the first Avatar, Shijie. She was fighting Chaos on equal footing. Shijie was not only using Energybending, but also Fire, Water, Earth, and Airbending. Aang could tell that this was causing Chaos distress. However, he attacked with much more ferocity.

Chaos summoned large tendrils of Darkness that stabbed at Shijie. She stood there unafraid and began to shine in brilliant Light. Chaos screamed as his tendrils were obliterated. As he covered his eyes, Shijie blasted pure Light at Chaos. Chaos yelled in pain and felt extremely weak. Seeing her chance, she made a sarcophagus made entirely of black stone and slammed Chaos in it. Using Earthbending she wrote a binding spell that she knew and then used Firebending to seal the lid shut.

"Is that what happened?" Aang asked himself.

"Yes brat. That's what happened."

Aang turned around and saw Chaos, extremely angry. Chaos grabbed Aang's throat and shoved him against the coffin so hard that the entire area broke apart like glass. They were now in a gray world that seemed to stretch on forever.

"I will kill you." said Chaos. "I am going to devour your entire being! And there is no one in this realm that can save you! You're all alone!"

"I am never alone!" Aang screamed. In a burst of Light, every Avatar lined up in a triangular formation with Avatar Roku at the tip.

"They can't help you Aang." said Chaos. "Just like you couldn't help your pathetic friends."

Aang struggled against Chaos, but it was futile. He was too strong. Aang could feel Chaos's Darkness finally corrupt him.

"That's right, be afraid!" said Chaos, licking his lips. He turned to the past Avatars. "You'll all taste so much better when you're afraid! I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I am your worst dream come true! I'm everything you ever were afraid of!"

"We are not afraid of you Chaos." said Roku. "We are here to assist Aang in killing you."

"Kill? HA!" said Chaos. "Me? Oh you are priceless! I am eternal! I am the devourer of Worlds, and of the Hearts of Men. And you are next!"

Chaos looked right at Aang. Then his mouth dislocated and opened incredibly wide, revealing several rows of sharp, elongated teeth and a forked tongue. He moved closer to Aang. Aang could only think of what would happen if he let Chaos eat him. He thought about all of the death and destruction Chaos has wrought. He remembered his friends, and his love. Then he remembered all the good times they had. This filled Aang with so much happiness that he actually thought he was glowing. He then got an idea. He called on all of the happy feelings and memories that his numerous past lives, which filled him with more Light.

"Wha-!" said Chaos, his face back to normal. Aang was shining so brilliantly that he was burning Chaos. "ARGH! NO! I will not let you win. Even if you defeat me here, I will take away your only chance of defeating me!"

Chaos plunged his hand into Aang's chest and pulled out a thin string, colored red, blue, white, and green. Aang could see that the string connected him to Roku and the other Avatars. Chaos then materialized the scythe and cut the sting. Aang released a powerful explosion that blasted them both into reality.