Crimson Fire
Chapter 2
Aang didn't know where he was. The location was rather simple, with brown walls, round tables and a bar with people all around. Obviously, it was a tavern.
Everyone was joking around and laughing, talking about things ranging from things such as stupid jokes, to fights, to planets. Accept for one person. A girl probably 14 or so, sitting at a small table in the corner. She had short cropped black hair, and a serious look on her face. She seemed out of place among the older, more crazy people at the tavern.
The laughter of the tavern was interrupted when someone came crashing into the room. He was bleeding and his clothing and armor were severely damaged.
"Bardock? What happened to you?" Someone asked.
"Frieza! He's going to destroy us!"
Everyone started laughing, "Freiza, destroy us? We work for him! Why would he do that?"
"He thinks we're becoming to big of a threat to him." The guy said.
"Us? A threat to Freiza? Come on, Bardock!"
"Fools!" He said, and ran back out of the room.
Aang glanced around the room at the laughing people. And then, he noticed that the girl was looking at where that man had just been. She looked extremely concerned, as well as tough in some way.
She sat like that for a few more seconds, then got up and ran for the door.
There was a flash of light, and Aang was floating. In front of him was the guy from the tavern. He was yelling at a ship which hovered in a the distance.
"Freiza!" He yelled, and started to create some sort o light in his hand. It grew for a moment, then he launched it at the ship.
Aang now noticed something sitting on the ship. He assumed it was Freiza. And, he noticed something else. He was creating a light too, but as it grew, and the other one raced toward him, it became clear that Frieza's blast would be much more destructive. The red blast swallowed the guys, and it started coughing toward Aang.
Another flash, and he was floating behind the ship, looking at the planet that had been behind him a moment before. It was exploding.
Yet another flash, and Aang was in some sort of a futuristic looking room. Controls and buttons and a couple of chairs were the extent on what was in the metal room. But sitting in one of the chairs by the controls was the girl from the tavern, her face looking stern and terrifying.
Aang changed locations again, but there was no flash. This time, he was standing by Freiza, who was cut in half, yet still alive somehow. He glanced away from him, to someone who looked just like the man who'd tried to warn the people at the tavern. But he had died, and this person had blonde hair. He had to be a relative or something.
"You brought this on yourself, Freiza." He said, staring at the dissembled creature on the ground.
"D- Darn you!" Freiza yelled, coughing.
Aang only noticed that the planet they were on was having serious problems when a tremor shook through the ground. Looking around, he saw that the ground was split open and shifting, lava pouring out at some places.
"Goodbye, Freiza." The guy said, and flew off.
And then, floating in space again, Aang saw another planet explode.
Once again, Aang was in another location. This time, he was seeing a fight. There was some sort of a creature, tall, green, and fort of buglike fighting a kid who looked sort of like the two people he'd seen. They fought with power that Aang knew put the Avatar State to shame. He was amazed by the speed and forcefulness of the hits. Suddenly, the view shot forward to a huge energy blast destroying the green creature, the kid on the other side of it.
Then there was another fight. The one who'd been with Frieza in his last few seconds, and a pink… Thing. Like before, Aang was amazed. Then, it shot forward again, and he once again saw a huge blast, this one destroying the pink thing.
And then there was a slew of images, almost, of fighting things and destroying them, and for once, there was a peaceful image of the people he'd kept seeing. The guy who'd been with Frieza and the kid who'd destroyed the green thing and a bunch of other people. They seemed to be having a pic-nic, laughing about something.
"Well, at least our planet is safe for once! Earth always seems to have something trying to destroy it!" The kid said, laughing.
And then Aang woke up. He glanced around the room he was staying in at the Royal Palace. Automatically, he knew something was wrong. That hadn't just been a dream. It was something to do with being the Avatar. Something weird.
He stood and walked to the nearest bathroom, splashing cool water on his face. That girl's face from the tavern kept flashing in his head. There was something wrong about her. She was bad news, he knew. The others, the guy and the kid, though, he knew were good.
As Aang was walking down the hall back to his room, there was an explosion so loud it shook the ground, and Aang almost fell.
He turned around and started running toward the front room of the palace. He heard doors slamming open behind him, the rest of the gaang coming to join him.
When they reached the doors, they burst outside and saw that the prison was in flames on the front.
"What on earth happened?" Katara yelled, as they sped toward it. No one knew the answer to her question.
Before they could reach it, someone appeared in front of them, seemingly out of thin air.
Aang's breath caught when he saw who it was. She was much older, but he wouldn't forget that look. The same look he'd seen on the girl's face in the tavern.
"Hello, there," She said, a smirk on her face, "I like to get straight to business, so here is the deal. I want your planet. You are to weak to defend it. Find someone who can within two weeks, or you'll all be dead. See you then." And then she vanished.
The gaang stood, unable to react to what had just happened.