Chapter 3

The Forest

Usually she went for a trip in order to shut off the world from her mind, during these trips she often found herself wandering across the lands. Various landscapes, wild forests, crystal clear rivers. Tribes of different kind of spirits, in a variety never seen before. She was in a lot of places, yet there was one specific place she preferred more than the others. It was the Forest, she discovered it while wandering around the spirit realm in the very first week after she came into this world. At first the place was just like the other unique places she visited. It was just another part of the landscape. But everything changed when she passed the edge of the Forest.

„Oh goosh, I wonder whats gonna be for today".. she asked herself with a decreasing tone.

„Better get ready for some exreme stuff, the old man doesn't like laziness"

She reached the field which surrounded the Forest. The field of grass, as she used to call it. It got that name because the grass was thicker and bigger than the other grasses throughout the territory. Whenever Korra passed through it, she always felt the strange feeling, as the grass itself would be a living being. It would not be that unusual, since she have encountered with a talking tree, and a spirited mountain before, but the feeling was some kind of different than before.

„Oh yes I knew it what is it honey?" she shouted

„Oh so there you are „ … The voice came from the Forest it was a voice of a little girl who was however not a living person, a moment of hesitation and a blueish creature emerged from the depth of the Forest.

„Oh Korra I thought you would be back sooner." The spirit turned into a butterfly and flew to the right shoulder of Korra.

Oddly enough at the very moment another spirit appeared. It was a human like spirit. She had long hair, which even reached her tights. When she stepped from the depths of the forest she brightened the surroundings, the bright blue blooming emitted from her body and it reached the Avatar.

„Korra, the master is waiting for you …"-She said it with a descending tone.

„Oh yes I thought a little bit of wandering would be refreshing, and I know I was a bit of late, but he advised this trip not me…"

„He has been waiting for you, come, today you will meet him in the other side of the Forest"- the woman like spirit invited Korra to the Forest and as She stepped on the very edge of the giant pine trees, it somehow sucked her in. It had happened before when she first came to this place, the circumstances and the outcome was a bit different though, since she came without any invitation. As later got revealed only with an invitation shall anyone pass the boundaries of the Forest. Without it… you might get lost inside.

The darkness which was usually always inside of the Forest now brightened up as they passed through a well chosen path. The human like spirit leaded the way as she followed her right behind.

After a couple of minutes, the leader stopped, she then emitted even more radiant lights and the surrounding of the Forest got colorful and brighter. It was indeed not the same place as Korra was familiar with. The usual training zone were still inside of the Forest but it had a little tent of which was created as the request of the avatar, and a giant circle zone, usually built for training, and for meditation. There were a giant pedestal of where the Hermit usually sat upon.

Korra kind of loved that certain place, it had its own uniqueness.

„Hey, where are you wandering ?"

The calm voice of the spirit rushed into the avatar's head and pulled back her from that vision of memory.

The reality was so much different, there were no training zone, even the pedestal was missing. There were however, three different urns int he center of the grassy field. The whole brightened territory was about twenty meters in diameter and there were nothing but those three urns in the middle of the circle.

„Come, Korra this is your next journey"

The spirit didn't wait any moment, it transformed to a blueish globe and floated upwards. Korra watched it as it slowly disappeared far above the forest.

„Shh, what is this now ? I knew that today is gonna be that day, but I just don't understand. Last time the Hermit said we will meet again before I ascend. Whatever let's check them out"

She slowly stepped to the first urn on the left. There was something written on it

„Fear?… what does that supposed to mean?" She asked herself as he touched the top of the Urn.

„Last time we did that I only had to meditate… well we wont find out unless we try"

She touched the top again, and slowly opened it for a bit. A bright wave of light emerged from the little leak, so bright that she even covered her face.

„Okay … hmm lets do it"

Meanwhile on the other side of the Forest in the place of the usual training field, a blueish light descended, a moment after it transformed to a human like form, the human was different from the female lookalike it presented before. It had the appearance of an old man, and this time it manifest perfectly, without the spirit lights and the brightness. It was just an ordinary old man who wore a golden necklace with a strange urn symbol on it.