Destiny
When Ryu opened his eyes, this time he knew exactly where he was. He was in the Spirit World…again. "Great." Ryu thought as he stood up and looked around, he was in the exact same place he had been last time he was here. Everything was the same except the boy who jumped down from the tree in front of Ryu. "Who are you?" Ryu asked reaching for his staffs that he only now realized he didn't have. "The simple answer." the boy said. "I'm you." "Well sort of." "What do you mean?" Ryu asked. "I'm confused." Ryu said "how can you be me?" "When Aang was shot by Azula part of his Avatar Spirit latched onto you." "That's me." "I took this form so I wouldn't scare you." "I don't understand, why me?" Ryu asked.
"Your Aang's brother." The boy said. "I can't be Aang's brother, were nothing alike." Ryu said. "Exactly." the boy said. "You are two sides of the same coin, Yin and Yang, good and evil, light and dark." "I still don't understand." "If Aang's good does that make me evil?" "No." the boy said "You make you evil your choices define you." "I've made a lot of bad choices." Ryu said. "And now you have a second chance." The boy said.
"Does this mean I'm the Avatar now?" "No." the boy said "You can only bend Fire and Air." "Can I use the Avatar State?" "Again no." the boy said. "That was a onetime deal to save your life." "Oh." Ryu said slightly disappointed. "Where exactly am I?" "I mean in the real world?" "I'll show you." A screen appeared just like last time and Ryu saw himself lying on a bed. Bandages crisscrossed his chest there was a bandage on the right side of his head as well. His hair was longer. "How long have I been out?" Ryu asked. "Just over two weeks." The boy said. "Can I go back?" "Sure." the boy said but first you need to know something.
"You're fate may be sealed, but you can pick you own destiny make sure you pick the right one."
With that Ryu's eye's snapped open and he looked around he saw Fire Nation emblems on the wall and almost had a heart attack he jumped out of bed and grabbed his staffs and slowly opened the door and walked down the hallway from the swaying he had to guess he was on a Fire Nation ship. He stopped when he heard footsteps heading his direction and ducked into a nearby room closing the door silently behind him. "Ryu?" a voice said. Ryu spun around raising his staffs and saw Aang. He relaxed and lowered his staffs. "Aang what's going on?" Ryu asked. "Why are we on board a Fire Nation ship?" Aang explained what had happened after Ba Sing Se. "Katara told me you Firebended." Aang said. "How?" Ryu explained everything to Aang as best he could. Ending with the fact he was Aang's older brother. "It makes sense if you think about it." Ryu said "we're both really powerful Airbenders, I was even born at the Southern Temple remember?"
"I never found out why they moved me to the Northern Temple." At that moment Ari and Katara entered the room, when Ari saw Ryu she launched herself into Ryu's arms almost crushing him in a hug. "You're awake!" she said. "We thought you had died." "I'm fine Ari." Ryu said letting go of her. And saw the bandages on his chest had bleed through. "Maybe not." He said. "You need a healing session." Katara said. He and Katara went back to Ryu's room once there Katara took the old bandages off Ryu and started healing his chest without meaning to she noticed how good of shape he was in. Much better than Aang, She shook her self and continued to heal Ryu. "Something wrong he asked?" "No I'm fine." Katara said. "Why don't we move to your face?" She took the bandage off his head and Ryu felt a cooling sensation on his face. "How's it look?" he asked. Katara formed a mirror out of water and handed it to Ryu. He looked at his reflection. "Great now I look like Zuko." He said. "It's not that bad." Katara said. "Your scar is a lot smaller than his." "How do you know?" Ryu asked. "Never mind." He said when she glared at him. "You should leave the bandages off for a while." Katara said and let the wound breath." "You should rest as well." Then she left the room.
Ryu laid down on his bed and after a moment tried to form a fire ball in his hand and to his surprise a blue flame appeared, he yelped and jumped back falling off the bed onto the floor he heard laughing and looked towards the door and saw Ari standing there. "Some Firebender you are." she said still laughing "Afraid of your own fire." "I wasn't afraid." Ryu said standing up "It just startled me." "Sure it did." Ari said. "The ship's drawing too much attention so we're taking off on Appa." She added. "Why." "We were attacked by a Fire Nation ship while you were still asleep." Ari explained. "We drove them off but they'll be on the lookout for us." "We have to go into hiding." "Where?" "The last place anyone would think to look." "The Fire Nation." "We'll be hiding in plain sight until the Invasion on the day of black sun." "Until we get Fire Nation disguises wear this." Ari handed Ryu a Fire Nation robe and he put it on. And walked out onto the deck of the ship with the others and climbed on Appa, a second later Appa took off.
Sorry if updates get slow in the future working on four stories at once is a lot of work. I will neither confirm nor deny one is a Legend of Korra story.
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