Oddly enough I had thought I had written a lot more than I actually did, oh well. Hope you guys like it. I tried making it as intense as I could but it still might be lacking or just sucks all together.

Update: Just made a cover for my Avatar series. It's kind of on the small size so if you want a closer look just go to my deviantart page, lovelylotus. deviantart (.com), it should be the first picture on my browser


((Rebecca's P.O.V))

"Well umm this is quite a sight," I mumbled while looking around. There were huge trees and roots everywhere. If there hadn't been eerie fog it would have felt like we were in a swamp rather than the Spirit World. "Where's Aang?" I asked after getting a good look around.

"Over there," Brianna shouted. I looked over to where she was pointing and saw Aang talking to a monkey meditating on a rock. After a couple of seconds of exchanging some words he suddenly started chasing after a small light.

"We better follow him," I said with a sigh. Brianna nodded and followed after me with Nyoko behind her.

"Come back," I heard Aang shout to the light. He was about to chase after it again but something in the swampy waters caught his attention. "Roku!" he said amazed. "Roku, the Water Tribe is under attack. I need to find the Ocean and Moon spirits!" By then we had reached Aang's side just in time to witness the reflection of Roku reappear before us.

"The Ocean and the Moon are ancient spirits. They crossed over from the Spirit World to the Mortal World very near the beginning. There is only one spirit I know of who is old enough to remember" Roku told him.

"Who" Aang asked him, happy to hear that there may be some hope left.

"The spirit's name is Koh." The very mention of the name sent a shiver down my spine. "But he is very dangerous. They call him the Face Stealer. When you speak with him you must be very careful to show no emotion at all, not the slightest expression or he will steal your face!" I couldn't help but shudder. I had only seen Koh once but I could never forget him. Spirits like him had always made me paranoid in the past but now that I was in the Avatar world it was much worse. Aang looked rather horrified but nodded his head understanding the danger he might have to overcome.

"Roku, what about us?" Brianna asked.

"You both have your own missions" he told us. "You must go deep into the swamp where the Mirror of True Reflections resides."

"What do we do after we get there?" Brianna asked, confused.

"That is something I cannot say for sure. I am merely a messenger."

"Then who are you speaking for?" I asked.

"The first Avatar," he said after a long pause. I couldn't help but have a flash back of our second experience in the Spirit World. Of the man from the vision who wished to speak with us.

"Alright I guess that's the plan then. Aang will go and meet Koh while Brianna and I go to the Mirror of True Reflections. After we're done with our tasks we'll meet up back to the entrance. It'd be a pain if Brianna and I got stuck here."

"Okay," Aang said nodding his head. "Be careful."

"You too," Brianna and I said at the same time. And with that we headed to the heart of the swamp. The journey there was gonna take a while since Brianna was trying to walk along the roots, but since she's not the most balanced person her pace was slow. Although I couldn't blame her, the water was gross and I probably would have been trying to avoid it if I couldn't walk on water.

"How will we know when we've reached the heart of the forest anyway?" Brianna asked.

"It will probably be very obvious," I said in a dull tone. Ironically just as I said this we came to a clearing with only four huge trees with a faint blue aura. We approached closer to the trees to get a better look at what it was. The roots of the trees circled around one another to create a lake separated from the murky swamp water. The water inside was jet black, it honestly looked like oil. The trees were bare and the water still, making the whole area feel empty and dead. Like I thought identifying the Mirror was fairly easy but now came the difficult part. I stared down at the water and tried to figure out what we were here and what we needed to do. The name of the place gave some hints but wasn't actually clear on what it would reflect. Brianna reached out to the black water and poked it with the tip of her finger. The ripples caused the roots to move making Brianna jump back. The roots stretched itself to the middle of the lake, creating a bridge for us. "After you," I motioned to Brianna. She gave me an uneasy look but took a step onto the bridge.

"This is really weird," she whined.

"Deal with it," I said jumping onto the root border. I was about to step onto the bridge when a root from below grabbed onto my ankle. "What the hell?" I shouted. It didn't take long for Gin to appear beside but he got caught. I tried pulling the root off my ankle but it just made it wrap itself around me.

"Rebecca, Gin, are you guys okay?" Brianna asked me.

"Peachy," I said sarcastically. I tried relaxing myself, panicking was not a good idea especially if we were in potential danger. The trees must have sensed my ease and released me. "Gin just relax, they'll let you go." He did as I told and sure enough he was released too.

"Have any idea what's going on?" Nyoko asked me.

"Not sure."

"Maybe we should get out of here," Brianna said looking frantically around. She was probably freaked out about being alone on the bridge.

"No I don't think Roku would send us here to endanger us. If he knew this place was a threat he would have warned us" I told her. I glanced at the bridge and wondered why it only reached to the center of the lake. "Brianna, keep going until you make it to the end. We'll see what happens." She looked scared as if a monster would jump up and eat her. "Come on Brianna, we can't waste time. We're in the middle of a war!"

"I know that!" she cried. It took a while but she managed to gather enough courage and started making her way across the bridge. When she reached the edge a small platform of earth rose from the water. Brianna glanced back at us wondering what to do. We motioned her to go on it. Brianna took a deep breath then stepped onto the platform. The root bridge slowly moved back to into its original place, leaving Brianna stranded on the patch of dirt. "Now what?" Brianna screamed. Honestly, how was I supposed to know? Before I could give her a sarcastic reply back the trees began glowing brighter. Their blue aura was changing to a bright green. The branches were growing small buds that bloomed into white flowers. Flowers started growing from the gaps in the roots.

"What's up with these flowers?" I asked.

"They're verbenas, pansies, and baby's breath flowers," Nyoko told me.

"You certainly know your flowers" I said, ignoring the fact that she answered a rhetorical question.

"I'm not, I heard Brianna say it."

"Since when was Brianna girly?" I asked. Something was wrong, I knew Brianna and she's not a flower fanatic. Not only was that odd but the fact that she was completely silent worried me. "Brianna," I called out her name but she didn't answer. One of the flowers floated down in front of Brianna making a ripple appear. As it spread to the ends the lake the water below became a clear beautiful blue. You could see small orange koi fish swimming below toward Brianna. They began jumping around Brianna in a circle. The sight was mysterious but Brianna did not remove her eyes off her reflection. I spotted another white flower fall into the water making the fish stop jumping. Just when I thought the show was over a girl emerged from Brianna's reflection. The girl looked around eight years old and wore high class Earth Nation robes. She had light brown hair that reached to her shoulders and large brown eyes. She smiled at the awestruck Brianna and handed her a cattail flower. With one last smile the girl slowly began to vanish. When she had disappeared the koi fish turned into water and the lake was becoming black. The flowers were fading away and soon everything reverted back to what it was originally was.

"Brianna, you okay?" I shouted. She nodded her head but still seemed like she was in a daze. She kept staring at her hand as if she expected the cattail to reappear. When Brianna's mind finally came back to us the root bridge stretched back to Brianna so she could cross back. When she was out the Mirror of True Reflections the roots went back to its places and the platform sunk back down into the black water.

"What happened?" Nyoko asked when she joined us.

"I have no idea," she said like she had just woken up from a dream. "But it felt like I knew her." I stared at the lake, just what was the Mirror of True Reflections?

"Let's see if I can enter it now," I said taking a step forward. I spotted a small golden light from a gap between the roots. I kneeled down and saw what looked like a butterfly fly out. It flew to, of course, the center of the lake and seemed to be patiently waiting for me. I took a step on the water and slowly approached the small creature. I tried to stay cautious but couldn't help but be at ease. In this dead bare place there was one source light and happiness. When I was below the butterfly it danced around me. I slowly lifted my hand so it could gently hand on it. I stared down at my hand then realized it wasn't a butterfly but a flower. Bird of Paradise, the name echoed in my head. Suddenly the flower flashed a blinding golden light. When I opened my eyes there was a thick fog all around me. I couldn't see anything in front of me. Hell, it was a challenge just seeing my feet. While trying to see my surroundings I saw stuff falling into the water. It seemed like I was surrounded by hundreds of falling cherry blossoms from the trees. I decided to wonder the Mirror seeing several varieties of flowers growing off the roots. There were flowers as far as the eye could see: purple rhododendrons, pink and white sweet peas, orange lilies, purple bauhinias, orange calendulas, and blue forget-me-not flowers. The colors and names of each flower filled my head causing me to become dizzy. I cursed under my breath, my hand over my forehead trying to stop the pain. The fog was getting thicken, didn't think it was possible but it happened. I couldn't even tell which way I was going anymore. Was the Mirror of True Reflections this big? I had been wondering around for a while and was surprised I didn't manage to get to the edge. Just when I thought I would be lost forever I heard giggling from behind me. I couldn't see the person's face but I sprinted to the sound. I somehow caught up to the person and only got a glimpse of her before she ran. The only thing I saw was long white hair. The first person I thought of was Yue but we were in the Spirit World. She couldn't have been here. Who else had white hair? Then it hit me. I ran after her, searching aimlessly. Finally in the midst of white I saw her, it was her.

"Hikaru," I called and tried grabbing her wrist. My hand went right through her. I pulled back my hand brushing off the water with my robe. Hikaru giggled at me some more before. "Wait hold on a second!" but she didn't wait. Even if she was just a water clone of Hikaru she was the only chance I had in leaving the Mirror. I was about to go searching for Hikaru when I heard sobbing from behind me. I looked and saw a girl with dark red hair crying into his hands. "Are you alright?" I asked reaching to her. She stopped crying and looked up at me. I froze. She had the exact face as Hikaru only her eyes were gold but were just as lifeless as Hikaru's. She didn't speak and took a few steps back, her eyes locked on me until she disappeared. Why did everyone keep disappearing? I looked around expecting to see someone else pop up but all I saw was my shadow. I paused for a moment, "My shadow?" Why could I have a shadow if we were in the Spirit World? I crouched down and stared down at the shadow. I felt crazy thinking it but, looking at it closely, I felt like the shadow didn't belong to me. When the thought past through my mind the shadow reached out and grabbed my neck. Within seconds I was dangling ten feet in the air with a pair a piercing glowing red eyes glaring at me. Its long wavy hair reached down to the very bottom of the water. Its long nails pressed against my neck. Was it possible to die in the Spirit World? I was terrified, but what scared me more than the thought of being killed was its eyes. That hungry crazed look was enough to steal my energy and will.

"YOU SHALL NOT ESCAPE YOUR FATE!" I screeched. That horrible laugher echoed through the trees. My body grew cold, as if my blood had stopped running though my veins at the sound of her voice. It felt as if the devil was before me or at the very least I found the devil's bitch. I felt so helpless. I couldn't move or even breathe. All I could do was cower in fear. She gave me a sinister smile and tightened her grip on my neck. I felt tears forming at the corner of my eyes. "That's right cry! Cry!" she laughed "You will suffer at my hand!" She reached out and covered my eyes with her black cold hand. My head filled with images of the destruction of villages, innocent dying, murder, war, suicide, and revenge. The voices of all those that suffered filled my head. I couldn't hold in all that negative energy, I screamed. Never had I screamed in such seer horror before. My felt my charm activate and sent out a blinding light. I felt myself fall into the lake and sink down to the bottom. The shadow was gone but I was still frozen in fear. No matter where I looked everything was red, like her eyes and the blood from the visions.


Alright for those of you who don't know, each flower has a meaning or symbolizes something. The flowers I used in the Mirror of True Reflections were used to convert a message to us in the flower language. Note, there may be more than one meaning to the flower but I selected the flower to pass a specific message. I used this site to search and find appropriate flowers for this chapter, livingartsoriginal(.com)/infoflowersymbolism(.htm).

For Brianna's message she had verbenas, baby's breaths, pansies, and a cattail.

Verbenas: associated with the praise "Pray for me."

Baby's Breath: purity of heart and innocence

Pansy: the name comes from pensée (French) meaning thought, you occupy my thoughts

Cattail: peace and prosperity.

For my message there was a bird of paradise, rhododendrons, sweet peas, orange lilies, purple bauhinias, orange calendulas, and blue forget-me-not flowers

Bird of Paradise: symbolizes freedom, is known in South Africa as a "crane" flower

Rhododendrons: beware, caution

Sweet Peas: goodbye, departure

Orange Lilies: hatred

Bauhinias: harmony

Calendulas: grief, despair, sorrow

Forget-Me-Not: true love, memories