Book Five: Resurrection

Chapter Two: Monster from the Past

Korra began to heal Iroh's wounds. She helped him back up to his feet and walked him to safety.

"Oh, thank you, Korra. I am in your debt." Iroh sighed.

"Oh, it's nothing. You helped me a whole lot before. I'm just returning the favor." Korra grinned as she set Iroh down near the ravaged remains of his tea table. "What exactly happened to the other spirits?" She asked.

"They were either destroyed or lost."

"And what did you say that was responsible for this?"

."The Avatar dragons...you must be careful of them, Korra. Two of those monsterous demons passed through here not too long ago..."

"What are these things? Where did they come from?"

"They were an ancient colony of spirit animals that roamed this world. During the time of the very first Avatar, some of these creatures passed through a portal to the material world and found a home in a forest full of many other spirits."

"That sounds like the forest Avatar Wan lived in."

"That's right Korra. You may also be familiar with the strangers who came across the spirits and sometimes even attacked them. Although many spirits would often flea, the Avatar dragons fought back."

"Why do you call them "AVATAR" dragons?"

"A good question deserves an even better answer. One of the dragons who fought back flew into one of the attackers and claimed his body."

"You mean...it possessed him?"

"Yes. In doing so, it also possessed the stranger's ability to firebend. Its new body tore and ripped so that the dragon retained its horns and scales."

"So it became...a dragon-person?"

"Well that is one way of putting it. The other humans looked at the dragon with horror and quickly fired at it, but it proved too fast for them. The dragon easily defeated them and soon after he took their bending as well."

"Like Amon, right?"

"Yes, but only far more dangerous. You see, as it takes their bending, it uses it to its own will. The dragon sought even more power and ventured across the world in search for more bending abilities. It had no need for the ancient lion turtles. After he was finished on his journey, he had obtained every bending style known to man. Airbending, earthbending, lavabending, lightning, blood, sand, all of them. Even then it was not enough to please it's desire. So it left all the lion turtle cities in ruins and enslaved the humans who thrived there. The dragon lived as a tyrant dragon king. People have given him many names...MONSTER...MURDERER...DEATH...but only one of them pleased him...THRASHER...LORD THRASHER."

"Did Avatar Wan do anything to stop him?"

"Yes...but unfortunately not in a pleasent way. He had no choice but to lock him away into the spirit world and destroy all of his kind..."

"But...why?"

"He was afraid that more of his kind would become like Thrasher if they were given the chance..."

"Wow...is he still alive?"

"His spirit mysteriously passed years ago."

"How?"

"I was told by the spirits that Avatar Aang may have somthing to do with it. However I dont know what."

"Wait this doesnt make any sense. If Thrasher's gone along with all his kind, how are you so sure that two of those things attacked you?"

"That is all the spirits have told me...unless...you ask the son of Avatar Aang."

"Tenzin?"

"Yes he may provide you with the answers you need. You must go now. I fear for you in this world."

Korra looked around once more at the devastation that surrounded her. "If whoever...or whatever did this keeps this up, this world may not be the only one we have to worry about." She said as she sat down. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She soon found herself back inside her room back at the air temple.

"I got to find Tenzin..." She whispered to herself. The Avatar dashed through her door and across the halls, sprinting towards Tenzin's bedroom. As soon as she got there, Korra burst through the doorway to his room and exclaimed, "TENZIN!"

The airbender jumped up from his slumber waking his wife Pema in the process.

"Korra!" Tenzin grunted, wiping his eyes. "What are you doing!? Do you have any idea what time it is!?"

Korra, now struggling for breath answers. "Tenzin...I need to talk to you..."

"Well can't it wait until tomorrow?"

"How did Aang die!?" Korra immediately regretted blurting that out. Silence now surrounded the room.

Pema placed her hand on Tenzin's shoulder and looked at Korra with disappointment in her eyes. "Korra, how could you say something like that?"

"Look, I'm so sorry I said that. But, Tenzin I need to know."

Tenzin sighed and got up from his bed. "Follow me." He said as he began to walk out the door.

The two were now outside, standing where Korra normally meditates. Tenzin pulled out a picture from his robe and showed it to Korra. "I'm sure you've seen this before."

"Yeah. That's your family when you were little."

"It is also the last time I've ever seen my father."

"What?"

"Yes, it's true."

"So you know what happened to him? About...the dragon?"

"How did you know about that?"

"Iroh told me about him in the spirit world. He told me that he's seen them...and to ask you if what he says about Lord Thrasher is true."

Tenzin breathed deeply and put the picture back inside his robe. "Yes...I know of Thrasher...the monster who basically finished off the Air Nation. My mother told me about how she witness my father battle him. She left with him and my Uncle Sokka who led the entire Southern Water Tribe army. To keep me and my siblings safe, my mother sent us to Zaofu with Toph and her family. A few months later she returns to tell me that the dragon was slayed...but the same was said for my uncle...and father."

"I can't imagined how you felt..."

"I was angry...I dreaded the fact that I never told him 'goodbye' or even 'I love you'. I didn't talk to anyone for years. I shunned my own family. But I finally came to my senses and accepted my fathers fate and I knew what I had to do. I had to rebuild the Air Nation for my father."

"And you did...I guess you can say mission accomplished."

"Thrasher was dead and his spirit vanished...but there was no telling if there was more of him. Which is why I am willing to defend my family and city along side you, against anything that threatens it."

"Thank you Tenzin..."

Meanwhile, inside the spirit world. Two figures sat in a hillside staring at the field in front of them.

"We are getting closer to the portal, brother...I can feel the Avatar's presence as we speak. Oh, how it fuels my need for her blood..." He turned to see another figure sitting on a rock holding a spirit butterfly with it's finger.

Rolling its eyes, the first figure grunted. "Yes, the butterfly is very pretty, Omega." It walked up to it's brother and snatched the creature from its finger.

Now holding it in the palm of it's hand. "But you know what's funny about beauty..." The figure slightly clenched its fist covering the butterfly completely. "It was always meant to be destroyed!" The figure growled as it burned the butterfly to ashes.

"Just like the beautiful material world. And little old Alpha and Omega are going to be the ones to do it..."

A/N: Sorry 'bout the wait...computers suck nowadays...