I still don't own Anastasia, Legend of Korra, or anything that goes with either one of them. Speaking of which, I've been seeing so little response for this crossover's sister crossover, Together in the Northern Water Tribe! Please, if you like this fic a lot, could you please go sneak a peek at that one? I know it won't have any Anastasia characters in it, but it's only a crossover because it has the Anastasia plotline!
I figured since I've been neglecting my Anastasia fics for a bit, I'll compensate with an extra chapter or so...
Enjoy!
"Unbeleivable," Korra muttered as Appa landed at Air Temple Island. "I'd heard Aang telling me that there was a woman that he'd brought from another world as a sorcerer tried to kill her by dragging her directly to what they called hell, but I had no idea that he meant now!"
"Relax, Korra," Tenzin said gravely, "How long has she been here?"
"We just got back! How should I know?" Korra yelled angrily at him, and he blinked at her with a dark scowl on his face.
"Daddy, who's that?" Jinora yelled pointing at an approaching red frame.
"I don't believe it!" Korra said hopping down and using the airbending spiral to get to him, "Iroh, Aang gave me back my bending! Now I can give everyone else back their bending by going into Avatar State!"
"So I see," he said calmly, "That's always good, very good. Do you have a minute?"
"Yeah, Aang told me," Korra said looking down. "he said she was from another world and was about to die when he transported her here and gave her bending to help her. How long has she been here?"
"One of my soldiers found her a week ago," he said gravely. "I brought her straight here, I didn't want her in the sewers in case she was long-lost royalty. That would have been another war just waiting to happen. I've been keeping an eye on her ever since. She's rooted to the spot, she won't move."
"Have you tried?" Korra quipped with a defiant smirk.
"I had a hard enough time getting her here as it was. I didn't want another breakdown, or worse, on my hands," Iroh said putting his hands behind his back. "The last thing I wanted was to harm her in any way, Avatar Korra. She refused to talk to anyone but you, thinking that nobody else will listen to her."
"Did she try to talk at all?"
"No, she just remains there as if in trying to bring something to her with only her mind," Iroh said gravely, "She won't even eat or drink, and sleep will only come to her if she's been crying."
"Hm, I think I know just what's wrong with her," Korra said leaning back. "Homesick. Very homesick, or maybe she had a boyfriend in the world that she was ripped from."
Iroh said nothing but merely raised an eyebrow at her words. She started walking away and he had no choice but to lift the brunette up from her location and carry her over to the others.
"Guys, this is the one that I was telling you about," Korra said pointing to the brunette. "She's the one that Aang protected and gave bending to."
"What element?" Tenzin's children asked excitedly. "Is she an airbender like us?"
"Her eyes are blue, I would think that she were a waterbender," Iroh said shaking his head.
"Aang wouldn't say," korra hedged. "But I do know that she's in charge of trusting the descendant of another Avatar, one Avatar with her element. That's all I know aside from how she came to be here."
"I wasn't there for this," Iroh said calmly. "Would you care to explain the situation to me so we can correctly asses it?"
"Gladly," Korra said earthbending a chair for him and then a table of sorts to put the brunette on. "Her name is Anastasia, she was nearly killed by an evil man by the name of Rasputin. Rasputin sold his… soul, they claimed, to someone that they called the devil, for a tool to destroy Anastasia's family."
"Whoa, Korra, what's that got to do with yellow over there?" Bolin asked impatiently.
"Listen to her and you'll figure it out," Iroh and Mako snapped in unison.
"Thanks, guys. Anyways, Anastasia took a trip with two guys named Vlad and Dimitri to be reunited with her grandmother. Just after the reunion, Rasputin attacked Anastasia again, but his tool was destroyed by her stomping on it repeatedly. The tool destroyed him, and in his last effort, he used the remains of the tool to force her into a world-between-worlds, if that makes any sense.
"It was as she was about to die from the tool that Aang found her and kept shooting air back at the tool's remnants to get them away from her. He quickly led her to the orb that represented our world, and then lectured her about who to trust, what to do, and why she couldn't go home. You see, if you're alive and not the Avatar, then you're on a time limit in the Spirit world. Anastasia was running out of time, so Aang decided to give her bending and pushed her into this world, promising that he'd watch over her until someone from her world found her. But there was a catch – she had to pretend as though the trip to her family never happened."
"That must be why she won't stop crying," Iroh said analytically. "But the question that remains is how to calm her down long enough to get her to trust us."
"Uh, guys," Bolin said pointing at the rock, and Team Avatar jerked to find Anastasia gone from where Iroh had put her.
"Crap!" Korra yelled pounding her head. "She could be anywhere!"
"I think I've got an idea," Iroh said shooting fire out of his feet and fists to rocket himself off towards the shores.
Sure enough, Anastasia had returned to the shores to look out at the ocean. She shot a glare up at Iroh and then returned back to glaring tearfully at the ocean. Neither said nothing as Iroh simply stood and remained where he was to simply be there should she need him.
"He shouldn't have let us remain apart," Iroh heard her murmur. "He should have dragged him with us. He should have just destroyed us both when he had the chance."
Who is she talking about? Iroh wondered to himself. Who would ever want to kill someone of such noble blood like hers?
"As glad as I am that you're dead, Rasputin, you should have brought Demitri with me since he fought you just as much as I did," Iroh heard Anastasia mutter, and realized that this was the cause of all of her grief. "Now I'll never see him again…"
Iroh remained silent as he simply absorbed the information and began contemplating about getting her to finally find a way to keep going as the last of her lineage.
So, now that her element has been decided, who wants to take a guess before I reveal it in Chapter Eight? Anyone?
Review please!
