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Do you have something to live for?
Korra let out a loud groan as she slowly sat up; it felt as if someone was hitting her head with a hammer every couple seconds. A searing pain was radiating throughout her body, starting at her heart. Her hand slowly made its way to her chest, and when it finally made it there her hand began to be covered in some sticky liquid. Korra, fearing the worst, slowly opened her eyes and looked down at her hand. Blood. Her hand was covered in blood; her chest bindings were soaked in blood. Korra could tell that the original wound was from her heart, because of the deeper reddish brown color closer to where her heart was.
Korra tried to quickly jump up, but she ended up slowly standing to her feet. It was almost excruciating to breathe, but Korra used a stone figurine near her to pull herself up. The statue was taller than she was; she slowly looked up to see what she was grabbing on to and she stumbled backwards in shock when she was it was a half of a statue of herself with spirits all over it. The spirits looked as if they were building on to the statue; bring blocks of marble and stone to carve. When Korra stumbled backwards she hit another statue that was what appeared to be Aang. Korra's breathe started to become labored and her heart started to beat even faster causing the pain to increase ten folds. Korra let out a loud groan and fell to her hands and knees trying to calm herself down.
"Korra, you need to calm down." A deep voice spoke out from the shadows, Korra looked around for who was speaking, but she couldn't see them.
"Don't you think I am trying to?" Korra all but yelled at the voice, "Who are you? Show yourself?" Korra tried to make herself sound tough, but it came out more in a weak tired voice. Out of the shadows, Aang appeared. "Aang?"
"Yes, Korra it is me." Aang said, but his face was without its normal smile, he had a very sorrowful look on his face. "The question is not why I am here, but why are you here?"
"I don't even know where I am." Korra said as she tried to stand up once more, but Aang put his hand out to stop her. With a groan Korra turn herself over so she was sitting on her butt leaning against a statue.
"You are at the southern air temple, Korra." Aang said looking around, "Were you in a fight?" Korra looked at him in confusion, and shook her head. "How did you die?"
"What?" Korra yelled, but then winced at the pain it caused in her chest, "I am not dead! I am right in front of you! I still have a job to do!"
"You are dying then."
"What do you mean there is nothing we can do?" Mako yelled at Tenzin, who was still holding the unconscious Korra in his arms. Although she was unconscious she was still squirming, letting out mewls of pain, and blood had started to pour from her chest and mouth. Tenzin had wrapped her chest in hopes of slowing the bleeding down, but it only seemed to increase the bleeding. Korra's eyes were wide open, glowing as if she was in the Avatar state.
"I mean she must do this on her own," Tenzin calmly spoke as he looked down at who he thought of as a daughter. "If one splits their own soul the only way to fix it is if they can call their soul back together."
"There must be something that we can do!" Mako sneered, as if he was trying to convince himself more than the others. Tenzin turned around and gave Mako a mournful look.
"The only way that she will live, is if she decides that she wants to keep on living." Tenzin spoke as if he had already given up hope on the young avatar.
"Why wouldn't Korra want to live anymore?" Mako once was yelling, scared of knowing the answer. "Why wouldn't she just call back her spirit and come back to all of us? Why would she leave all of us?"
"Obviously, Korra was scared of something. This fear is what tore her soul in half; she might be scared of her Avatar duties." Tenzin said, his spirit slowly lowering with each passing moment.
"Like how Avatar Aang frozen himself in the ice block?" Asami asked, stepping forward and placing her hand on Mako's shoulder.
"Yes, but she could also not know that she is dying." Tenzin spoke moving Korra's hair out of her eyes, "Or she could not know how to call her soul back together. Since her soul is not solely hers, it belongs to the older Avatars as well; she could stop the Avatar cycle all together." Everyone let out a loud gasp.
"Why is she in the Avatar State?" Asami asked getting more worried by the moment.
""It is as if she tore Raava from her own soul. Raava is still trapped inside of Korra's body and is trying to reconnect with her." Tenzin stared deep within the white eyes that seemed to hold a lot of fear in them, "But Korra cannot hear her cries. If Korra does not reconnect her soul, and reconnect with Raava before she dies…we do not know what could happen."
"So she could come back and not be the Avatar anymore?" Pemma asked looking as if she going to start to cry.
"Yes it is a possibility." Tenzin said with a great weight upon his shoulders.
"What do you mean I am dying?" Korra yelled at Aang, "That makes no sense at all! How am I dying then?" Aang could feel the anger that was gravitating off of the young girl.
"I do not know what has happened to cause you to begin to die; only you know that one." Aang simply stated with a grim look on his face, "I can only tell you that you are dying because the spirits are already building your statue. As an Avatar dies, or begins to die, the spirits begin to build their statue in their image so none will forget them."
"If I am dying," Korra began to speak, "then where are the rest of the Avatars? Why didn't they come and say 'welcome to death' to me like you did?"
"Because they cannot speak to you until you are fully dead." Korra made a face and was opened her mouth to speak but Aang cut her off, "And before you ask, the only way I am able to speak to you now is because I was the Avatar before you. You and I have a stronger bond then you do with the rest of the Avatars."
Korra's mouth turned into the shape of a circle as if she was saying "oh". Korra looked all around her, seeing all of the older Avatar's statues with their eyes glowing white.
"Why are their eyes lit up as if they all are in the Avatar state?" Korra mumbled not wanting to sound stupid for not knowing.
"Whenever an Avatar goes into the Avatar state the statue's eyes begin to glow just like yours." Aang said glancing around, "Meaning right now as we speak, and you dying, your body has shocked itself into the Avatar state. What do you last remember doing?"
"Uh, I was trying to go into the spirit world," Korra said wincing as she began to remember the pain, "As my soul was almost out of my body, I just remember this excruciating pain fill my whole body. Then everything went black, and I woke up here."
"What were you thinking of when you began to go into the spirit world?" Aang asked the young girl; Korra gave him an odd look, but answered anyways.
"I was calm, and at first I was thinking of nothing." Korra began to speak, but hesitated for a moment not wanting to admit that she was scared of something.
"You know, it's okay to be scared. The important thing is to talk about our fears, because if we don't, they can throw us out of balance" Aang spoke with a caring smile on his face.
"Tenzin told me that one time," Korra said with a sad smile on her face, "When I was so scared, I had felt so helpless."
"That is because I use to tell Tenzin that all the time," Aang said, smiling as he looked up thinking about his son. "Now what did you feel after you were calm?"
"Well, like I said at first I was thinking about nothing and I was calm," Korra spoke in a quiet voice, "But then the idea of someone, that I care for a lot, leaving me flashed through my mind and I didn't want to go see him anymore. Yet another part of me did, and that is when the pain took over my body."
"I see," Aang said looking down at the young girl, "You must have torn your soul, Korra. There is no way for this to happen, as far as I can think of."
"So am I going to die?" Korra spoke with fear and anger dancing inside of her almost white eyes, "Is there nothing that I can do to stop this?"
"If you want to live," Aang said starting to stroke his beard as he thought about it, "then you must call your souls back together."
"What do you mean, 'if I want to live'" Korra yelled, "Of course I want to live! I have a job to do!"
"No, not like that." Aang said with frustration clearly written on his face, "I did not say if you felt like you had to live. If you truly want to return to your body and become the Avatar again. You not only have to reconnect your soul, but you must reconnect to Raava in order to be the Avatar again. Otherwise you will be just another water bender; with no duties to the world and no connection to the spirits."
"Wait, so you mean I wouldn't be able to visit the spirit world anymore?" Korra said with sadness deep in her voice.
"No." Aang said in a simple answer. "It comes down to one thing, Korra."
"And what would that be?" Korra said her voice filled with determination. "I want to live. I want to be the Avatar."
"Do you have something to live for?"