Brianna and I somehow managed to finish editing this part by using video chat, strange right? We're going to try to finish part four but don't get your hopes up, it might not be posted today.
((Rebecca's P.O.V))
This was the second time today that I had regained consciousness thanks to Zhao's men, but this time I didn't feel sore or pain from my newly found injuries. I looked around at my surroundings and found myself floating in a dark cold area with no sign of any life anywhere. I placed a hand over my head and I tried to remember what happened before I passed out. A flashback of several Fire Nation soldiers kicking and punching me came back to me. I probably passed out from losing too much blood.
"Am I dead," I asked myself as I continued to stare at the endless black space. I pulled my hand back down and stared at it. There were no signs of any injuries or chains restricting me. I brushed my fingers over my left wrist and felt nothing. "Weird," I whispered to myself.
"What's weird," I heard a voice ask me. I turned around toward where I heard sound, not recognizing the voice. My eyes shot open when I saw that the female voice had come from a bright white light floating before me.
"What the hell," I muttered under my breath in disbelief.
"What's weird," the female voice asked again. The voice seemed to echo throughout the darkness. Its voice was soft and its light felt like it was giving me warmth.
"My wrists don't burn," I said holding onto my left hand.
"Is that all?" it asked me. I stared at the light not sure that it meant by that. "Doesn't something else feel in pain?" I realized that the light was referring to my mental well being.
"I guess my heart" I said gripping into my robe, "it aches."
"Why," the voice asked me innocently. "Why does your heart hurt?" The voice sounded as if she was around my age yet she was talking like a mere child, it puzzled me but that wasn't my main priority at the time.
"Because," I struggled to find words to describe my feelings. "I really hate myself. I'm not strong enough to protect Aang, and all I ever do nowadays is cry." I let out a heavy sigh and stared down at my feet. "There has to be some kind of mistake, I'm not suitable for this kind of job. The First Avatar must have made some sort of mistake choosing me. I can't even protect myself so how am I supposed to help save an entire world? It's impossible," I kneeled down refusing to look at the light and just continued to let myself sink into depression.
"Why is it you have to give up," the voice asked me confused.
"What does it matter," I said in a dull tone. "It's not like it'll make a difference I'm pretty sure I'm dead anyway. In fact I think the world would be better off if I were gone. Both in the Avatar world and my world, they're both better off with me dead. I'm not a big loss to these worlds."
"Is it really alright to say something like that?" I glanced up at the light as it floated down to my eye level. "You'd be leaving behind friends that would be sad if you left them. Look," the light flew deeper into darkness and made a circle in the air. A portal formed around where the light had draw its circle as an image of Sokka, Katara, Momo, and Appa appeared. Katara and Sokka were in their sleeping bags which were on top of Appa's legs with Momo lying on Katara's sleeping bag. What surprised me was that Brianna was nowhere to be seen.
"What in the world could be taking Aang and Rebecca so long?" Katara asked looking towards the portal.
"Ah I have no idea," I heard Brianna's voice boom. I saw the image shift and I saw a close up of her hand. I realized her charm was providing me the vision which was why I couldn't see her.
"You don't think they got into any trouble do you?" Katara asked Brianna a bit worried.
"I'm sure they'll be fine," Brianna said confidently. "This is Rebecca we're talking about. She's Super Woman! Aang's in good hands!" I felt my heart ache as clutched my robe, feeling guilty from her words.
"Ah where is Rebecca," Sokka shouted out as he wildly looked around, like an insane person. "Where is my best buddy?"
"I didn't know that you guys were close," Katara said as she let out a cough.
"Oh course we are," Sokka shouted proudly "because we're best friends!"
"No~," Brianna shouted out in protest "Rebecca is my best friend!"
"Then we'll fight for her friendship," Sokka shouted out as he punched the air "earth bending style!" The image of them began to fade away as I heard the sound of the light laughing.
"You really have made some amusing friends," the voice echoed in the distance. I remained silent since I wasn't sure how I should respond to that, since I didn't know whether or not she was complementing me or insulting me. Although I knew well enough that despite being strange, they were all really good friends but it made me wonder why they wanted to be with me. Most of the times I was antisocial, you would find me in the back of the group just watching them all having fun. If I wasn't busy being a stick in the mud I would throw out sarcastic remarks at anyone, looking back I really felt like a huge bitch. "They all seem to care a great deal about you," the light continued to say to me, snapping me out of my thoughts "some more than others."
"What do you mean?" I asked it confused. The light formed another circle in the darkness to make another vision appear only this time it was of a Fire Nation chamber, but it looked slightly different from the one I was being held in. I saw the steel doors open as the infamous blue masked figured entered the room. I saw the Blue Spirit approach closer to the portal and swing his swords breaking the metal chains and I heard a scream that caused my ears to ring.
"I need to find Rebecca!" I heard the sound of Aang's voice boom from the vision, this time I was seeing through Aang's eyes. To my surprise the Blue Spirit, who I knew was actually Zuko, didn't seem to have any objections and just nodded his head. He ran out of the room with Aang following close behind him until they reached a door that was being guarded by two soldiers. They were easily knocked out by Aang's air bending, while the Blue Spirit broke the horn so that they couldn't alarm Zhao's army. "Stand back," Aang told the Blue Spirit as he inhaled some air and blasted the door open. "Rebecca," Aang shouted my name as he ran into the room. I was shocked to see my unconscious body on the floor with my hands tied behind my back. Aang frantically ran to my side as he picked my head up and looked at my face. My eyes were slightly opened but there was no shine or any sign of life in them. My skin had gone complete chalk white and my lips didn't have any blood running through them and looked like they had turned blue. I really looked dead; looking at my own corpse was even too creepy for me. "Rebecca, wake up Rebecca!" Aang shouted out my name as he shook my shoulders. I saw Zuko cut off the ropes with his swords while Aang continued to hold me in his arms. I hear him crying and saw tears fall onto my cold pale cheeks. I felt guilty once again hearing the sound of Aang cry, the one person I never wanted to hurt, but that wasn't the most surprising thing. I shifted my attention to Zuko's hands that pulled the ropes off my wrists and drew his swords back, surprising me with his next course of action. I saw his blacked gloved hands holding mine as he gently brushed the rope marks with his finger tips.
"Why is he?" I asked confused but the sound of the light giggling cut me off. It circled around me, its laughter echoing through the darkness.
"You really are a strange one not knowing matters from the heart," the voice said to me sounding amused. "It's hard to believe how different we both are."
"What do you mean?" I asked the light as I eyed it suspiciously. "Gin, what's going on?"
"Gin isn't here," the voiced said in a cheerful tone "it's just you and I."
"What's going on here? Who are you?" I asked as I took a fighting position.
"You came inside your subconscious," the voice said happily "a place only you can enter." I watched the light dance around me, looking as if it didn't have a care in the world.
"What are you?" I asked eyeing the light.
"I am a spirit that lives inside of you," it told me.
"Inside of me…." I repeated its words in disbelief.
"Yes," it said as it flew closer to me.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
"I don't know," it said in an innocent voice.
"Who are you?" I asked trying to think of another question.
"I don't know." I was getting irritated with its answers. Was it just playing games with me, or does it really not know anything?
"Do you have a name?" I asked deciding to continue the game of twenty questions. There was a shot pause as it remained floating in the air.
"I don't remember it," it said rather sadly. I stared up at the light wondering what I should do. I knew now that it clearly didn't have any memory of anything.
"Do you want a name?" I asked it. There was another short silence until I saw the light seem to brighten as it circled around me again.
"Yes," it said happily. "I want a name, please name me!"
"Whoa calm down first," I said as I waited for the light to slow down. I let out a small sigh as I looked at the light which was now floating at my eye level. "Well since I don't know your gender I'll give you a unisex one." It didn't seem to be bother by that as it just continued to shine. "Hikaru," I muttered under my breath "how about Hikaru, it means light."
"Hikaru," it repeated the name. "I like it!"
"Then Hikaru it is," I said with a smile.
"Thank you Rebecca," it shouted happily and flew up into the air then glowed brighter. Its light nearly blinded me when it circled around me ecstatic about my gift to it. I shielded my eyes with my hand so that I would have some protection from the light. I took a step back when I saw a pair of see through arms reaching out for me and wrapped around my neck to pull me into a hug. I lowered my hand and saw long white hair that danced in the darkness and generated light from each strand. "Thank you Rebecca," I heard Hikaru whisper into my ear. My eyes begin to droop as I felt myself being pulled back and my body was becoming warm. I could feel myself gradually disappearing in her arms, but none-the-less she continued to hold onto me. I could hear Hikaru giggling to herself once again as she hugged me tighter and whispered into my ear "See you later."
((Zuko's P.O.V))
"Rebecca, don't leave me" the Avatar muttered to the dead body of his dark haired body guard. "You promised me," he continued to cry "you said you'd always be by my side. Please come back." I stared down at the broken hearted Avatar and the lifeless body of my enemy. I should have been happy, with her out of the way capturing the Avatar was going to be much easier. She was just one of the many obstacles keeping me from capturing him, it was lucky that her life was taken away. Even though I knew this, why is it that I didn't feel satisfied? It was as if I had lost something, but I knew that couldn't be possible. I had already lost everything that was dear to me: my mother, my father's love, and my honor. They were all gone. There's was nothing more that could have been taken away from me. This girl is not a great loss to me, or is she? I didn't have enough time to sort my confused emotions for something broke my concentration.
"Aang," I heard a faint voice murmur. I felt my eyes widen from behind my mask as I looked over at the body again. I saw the girl close and reopen her eyes as the color in her face slowly returned. "I'm fine, Aang" she said weakly, forcing a smile and stared up at the Avatar's face. The Avatar took her into his arms again and pulled her into a tight hug. She struggled to lift her arms up but managed to place her hands behind his back to return the hug.
"Can you walk?" the boy asked her after a long hug. I saw the girl's face harden while trying to get up, but only managed to slightly move her body.
"Sorry," she said in a guilty voice "I can't, Zhao drugged me and I think I'm still suffering from my wounds," she explained as he tried hiding her injured body. I saw the girl take a deep breath then glance over at me. I felt my body tense up from her dark brown eyes staring at me, as if she could see right past my mask at my scarred face. I was finally able to breathe when she turned her attention back to the boy. "You guys go on ahead. I'll leave right after I've recovered," she said to him calmly.
"No I'm not leaving you," the Avatar shouted angrily as he pulled her up from the ground to help her to her feet.
"You guys won't make it if you have to drag me," she said while she pushed her master away. "That's why you have to leave me here." She was panting heavy and we could all see her knees shaking, but it seemed her pride wouldn't let herself fall so easily. Her eyes made their way back onto me, her face begging me. "Please get him out of this place safely," she pleaded. "No matter what get him out of here." She grabbed onto the boy's arm and shoved him over to me as she continued to struggle standing. As a reflex I held onto the Avatar's arm preventing him from moving. I couldn't seem to process the idea of retreating with the Avatar and my body remained motionless, just staring at her. I would just image it, as soon as I left the charmer she would fall to the cold floor. If I left her behind it might possibly be the last time I would see her. Just the thought of it made my heart sink. Would I be able to remain calm when her very end would be marked in history and talked about for years to come? Regret was something I've felt since the scar was placed upon me, but her death was something I didn't want to be added onto my list. I didn't want to go through the rest of my life regretting something again. If I turned my back on her now I'm sure that I wouldn't be able to forgive myself later.
BLAME ME FOR THIS TAKING SO LONG! I got very sick that and my moms in the hospital. We DID have plans to edit the whole thing today, but then my throat went caputz and such, so yeah, I stayed home...on a lighter note
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OMG OMG OMG FINALLY! FINALLY! IT HAPPENED! Well Almost, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH! *starts squealing like a fangirl*
