Still don't own Legend of Korra nor the Anastasia plotline. Here's where it starts to deviate from the Anastasia plotline though. Anyways, I hate to say this but this will have to be my last chapter for this fic for tonight... I've still got others that I'm trying to do and update before I go to school tomorrow...
Oh, the italics in this means singing.
Kailee could again hear the buzzing that she knew was a healer, but she didn't dare open her eyes again, not after last time. she instead decided to focus on the voices around her to see just what was going on and why they were trying this method again when it hadn't worked last time.
"By remembering it in her sleep, she won't be in pain," Kailee heard the male, Iroh, say formally.
"That was a good strategy, General. Fire Lord Zuko himself saw that at work when Jet was hypnotized in Ba Sing Sei," Lin said calmly. "If it worked to free Jet, then it can work in the reverse. All we have to do is create a codephrase and hypnotize her."
"What about, 'Avatar Kyoshi wishes to speak with you'?" Iroh asked contemplatively, and they stared at him.
"Actually, that's a good one," Korra said smiling. "Not many people would think of saying that."
"We'll have to wait until tomorrow so we can interview her and make sure that that is the reason that she's getting the migraines, however," Lin said shortly. "It won't be a good thing to do the wrong healing methods for her condition."
Tarala smiled nastily as she heard the plot unfold, and stayed where she was with a simple bout of a couple of chi blocker rods stuck into the building slightly. Now that she had the information, all she had to do was create a password that would be used to her advantage.
"Fire Lord Ozai congratulates Azula for winning the war," she smiled, "Nobody would ever be able to guess it!"
Kailee hesitantly opened her eyes to look around her in confusion at the three benders who were standing around as though they were planning a war strategy. While the three had their backs to her, she snuck down ever so quietly and softly out of the room and down to the arena.
She stood in the large arena, staring around her in confusion. It was where she felt the most at home, but something was wrong, something was familiar about this place. She left the area and went in the vicinity of the City Hall. Without even needing an escort, she knew her way around the halls, walking as if she were in a dream.
"I feel like I've been here before," she said quietly to her flying lemur, which had gone and hid during the fight with the equalists.
It let out a confused sound, but was soon watching its mistress begin to look around the main judging area like she'd been there before. She walked down the pews and down the various hallways, humming a soft tune to herself that she couldn't quite remember the words to. She could only remember one tiny little phrase of the song, "once upon a december", and it wasn't much to go off of even though she could remember the tune perfectly. As she stepped into the training hall that was once used for training new benders, however, her head seemed to throb with an undercurrent of pain ever so slightly.
"Now I definitely know that I've been here before," Kailee said confused as she looked at a painting of Team Avatar, their children, and their grandchildren. She fingered a small girl who was the daughter of two others, the daughter of Avatar Aang and Master Katara and a Firebender. "But… it's like I was here in a dream, or a dream of a dream."
Dancing Bears, Painted Wings
Things I almost remember.
And a song Someone sings
Once upon a December.
Someone holds me safe and warm.
Horses prance through a silver storm.
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory!
She swirled around as she sang memory, and a mass of benders of all elements appeared. There was a younger looking Tenzin and Pema, she realized, and a younger Lin Bei Fong as well. None of the others could be recognized however, but all began bending in unison and as if their moves were choreographed and were a new style of dancing all their own.
But as the others were bending, she felt extremely left out, and then turned to find a set of elders.
Someone holds me safe and warm.
Horses prance through a silver storm.
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory!
Far Away! Long ago!
Glowing dim as an ember.
Things my heart used to know
Things it used to remember.
And a song someone sings
Once upon a December.
"Kailee!" she heard a yell, and jolted back to find the room completely abandoned and her head throbbing only slightly painfully, not nearly as bad as it normally had.
She turned at the sound of her name, and began to flee, not liking how someone had known her name at all. She hadn't been able to communicate it to anyone, and she was the only one aside from the elders, and a select few cunning and powerful benders, to have survived that night.
"Kailee!" she heard again, and the earth around her ankles was jerked upwards.
She screamed in fear, not sure of how to get out of the building. She jerked her head up terrified to find an older version of the woman that she'd seen before. She realized that this new Chief Bei Fong was from the dancing hall, from her memory somehow. Carefully, she tapped out the message in morse code to the Chief.
"Yes, I'm Chief Bei Fong," Lin said calmly. "Well, former Chief. How do you know Morse Code?"
Kailee tapped out a quick "I don't know. How did you know who I was?"
"Iroh put the puzzle together," Lin said narrowing her eyes. "Are you really Kailee?"
"I don't know," Kailee tapped, "My name is Kailee, and a dance with the previous Team Avatar is all I can remember from when I was ten, and I'm not a bender."
"But, what of your parents? Do you remember anything of them?" Lin asked, and Iroh and Korra arrived a few seconds after she did. "Don't answer for her, let her answer."
"She can't, she's a mute," Iroh scowled.
"I see, so that's how it is," Lin said gravely, "You remember a couple that looked like the one in the portrait behind me that were lying in a pool of bloody snow, and nothing but a wave of pain before that? Your only memory otherwise from before you were eleven is the dance that you just remembered while singing?"
Kailee nodded and tapped out an explanation.
"Well, that makes so much more sense," Lin said with a frown. "To a degree."
"What?" Korra asked, "How are you communicating with her, Lin?"
"Morse Code?" Iroh guessed.
"On the nail, General," Lin complimented. "She has been using Morse Code to communicate with me. It seems that something in her past traumatized her so that the only way that she can speak is by singing. Even then, it has to come from inside her, inside her heart and very being."
"Is this true?" Iroh asked, and Kailee frowned and looked at Lin before nodding while tapping with her foot.
"I don't know," Lin said shaking her head. "You'll have to ask Tenzin, he might."
"What? What was she asking?" Korra asked curiously.
"Just about something that she lost that her grandmother gave to her the night that her family was attacked by equalists," Lin said calmly.
Lin and Korra left, leaving Iroh alone with the teen, and he looked at the young woman confused. But he shrugged it off and instead went to free her by pulling the rocks away stiffly.
Review and let me know what you think. I'm stuck on this, admittedly... just after she's in the Northern Water Tribe.
