Blue - trust, peace, sadness, cold
White - pure, innocent, perfect, complete
Black - darkness, evil, mysterious, alone
(location) Spirit World
(genre) tragedy
Word Count: 853
The battle against Vaatu raged on, as the dark skies boomed with sounds of the explosions surrounding the avatar and her enemy. Korra punched element after element at her uncle, trying to keep him away from the evil spirit. She could feel every muscle in her body strain from the battle, every cut stung, and every bruise throbbed. Her legs were shaky and she could feel her heartbeat pounding away in her chest and head. Everything was moving too fast, yet at the same time this felt like the longest day of her life. Everything about her felt conflicted with Vaatu's presence washing his influence into everything around him. The spirit world felt heavy, completely different from the way it did during her earlier visit which gave her a feeling of weightlessness and peace even in her dire travels to find herself and change the spirits back to their light selves. The atmosphere was dense, the air humid and oxidized, and the razor sharp rocks surrounding them completed adding to the feeling of bleakness and desperation that Korra was feeling inside.
She came so close to ending the battle before it began, all she had to do was close the portal a few seconds earlier, just a few seconds. And she failed yet again in putting Vaatu back into his prison. If only Unalaq didn't get through the portal. Where were Mako and Bolin? They were supposed to hold him off. Were they hurt?
She shot several more fire blasts at her uncle, effectively preventing them from fusing. The fight was taking more from her than she thought she was capable off, but she was managing to keep them away from each other somehow. She just managed to trap her uncle in an earth prison when she saw Vaatu turn abruptly. He moved at incredible speeds towards one of the portals and Korra scrambled to follow him, ignoring her uncle's anguished screams. She would not let Vaatu leave the spirit world if it was the last thing she did.
The first thing she saw was the dark spirit rush down instead of through the beam of light, the second was her cousins facing the brothers trapped in ice right in front of the portal. She watched helplessly as Vaatu dived down to them, and heard Mako's scream of agony as the spirit tore through him and they fused.
"NO!" no, no, no. No, Mako would be okay, she would get Vaatu and put him back into his prison, and then she would take her team and the four of them would go celebrate their victory. She wouldn't let this happen. But she did, she did let it happen and now Mako was in danger and she didn't know what to do.
Mako's body broke from the icy restraints and his hand touched the portal, an inhuman shriek escaped his mouth and when his eyes opened, Vaatu's red shone instead of Mako's warm amber. A shockwave threw everyone back from him and Korra felt Raava's anger flow through her.
Korra, save him! Raava said from within her.
"How?" she shouted despirately.
Pull Vaatu out of him. We can't let him get away with this.
"Help me," Korra told her as she moved towards her corrupted friend with newfound resolve.
Always.
She threw herself at Mako, and he retaliated. Their hands clasped each other's, struggling to gain the upper hand. The four elements began to surround them, and Korra could feel that she only had control over half of them, the other belonging to the creature before her. He still looked like Mako, and she could see the turmoil in his features. The firebender was fighting back against Vaatu, she was sure of it.
"Raava now!" Korra's eyes shone a blinding white, matching Vaatu's dark with her light. She felt Raava extend herself and pull at the darkness in Mako. She felt Vaatu struggle against her and Raava, but Mako's restraint and strength of will was just enough to rip the spirit from him. She saw Mako collapse to the ground, but her concentration was on the two tangled spirits fighting in front of her.
Korra, we must get him to the tree. He's too strong!
Korra felt their grasp on him weaken with every moment as he thrashed and pulled violently, desperately. "It's too far!" And with that, she knew what had to be done. It was their only hope, the only chance to win this battle. She let herself pull Raava back, and with her Vaatu followed.
She ignored Raava's desperate calls to stop this, focusing instead on trapping Vaatu within herself. Suddenly the heaviness around her became too much. She collapsed to her knees as the heavenly light of the avatar state made space for the new darkness in her. One eye shone white and the other red. Half of Vaatu's mark appeared on her torso, the other half clearly belonging to Raava. She felt a tear fall down her cheek and the last thing she saw was the lights of the portal as she felt herself slip into complete icy darkness.