This is the second part of Voccak (Zirrok)'s origin story, I hope you enjoy it :)
If it were for him, he wouldn't have accepted the offer that day, he wouldn't have sold his soul to him that day, but he had no choice.. he knew that he had to avenge his mother and brothers to be able to live with himself.
as if..
The truth of it is.. can he even call himself alive anymore? The dark spirit has given him a chance to avenge his mother and brother, yes.. but was it really worth it? was it really necessary to pay such a hefty price for it? he questioned his decisions in every life, every time he gets reincarnated, he questions the same things. was it really worth it?
After the demise of his mother and brothers, the dark spirit were victorious in the battle, his rage provided them as much, and so the dark spirit decided to celebrate by taking him and Hidi to his place of comfort.. the place where the two portals meet during harmonic convergence.. the tree of time.. in the spirit world.
"You must be asking yourselves.. why I brought you here? is that correct?" Vattu asked as soon as they arrived.
The two boys were speechless, they couldn't believe they were in the spirit world, and with the dark spirit of all spirits, they were standing with him, looking him in the eye and having a conversation with him, even though they hadn't spoken a word.. but it was still a conversation.
Vattu continued, "Do you know where we are?" Vattu asked.
the two boys just kept being silent, until the dark spirit spoke again, "I'm fairly certain we speak the same language.. but I'm going to repeat myself.. Do you know where we are?" Vattu repeated himself.
Hidi broke the silence of the two boys, "The spirit world?" He questioned, as Zirrok was too speechless to utter a word.
Vattu was silent for a while just looking at them, "Do I really look that frightening to you, children? Shall I take human form for you to understand that I'm harmless? at least at the moment that is?" Vattu asked.
"Yes, that would be really kind." Hidi said, as Zirrok was still too speechless to speak.
Vattu snorted, "Kindness isn't really my thing, but if it's the only way to speak to you.. then I guess I have no choice." Vattu said.
The dark spirit suddenly got to human form, he was very huge and then he started to shrink until he became the size of a normal human, then the face, legs, hands, body started to form, until he became a normal human.
Zirrok and Hidi screamed.
The two boys had enough shock for today as it is, but that was over the top, Vattu in human form terrified them more than Vattu in spirit form.
As Vattu took human form, he turned out to be.. Zirrok's father.
"Dad?!" Zirrok questioned, putting a hand over his mouth in shock.
Vattu laughed menacingly, "I'm not truly your father.. I just took a form that you can familiarize with. I was just released from Raava's clutches less than a year ago. Surely, I didn't get your mother pregnant and have a twelve year old son during that period of time." Vattu said sarcastically.
Zirrok didn't know whether to calm down a bit or lash out at that stupid spirit for his stupid jokes.
Vattu continued nonetheless, "Back to our original subject.. Do you know where we are?" Vattu asked again, but this time in human form, it sounded less menacing and so Zorrik was able to respond.
"I read about this place.. it's the tree of time, the heart of both worlds." Zirrok said.
Vattu smiled at him, "Correct. I brought you here to tell you the history of this world.." Vattu started, grabbing the attention of both boys, "Raava and I are the sole essence of the creation of this world, we were created to be at war with each other until eternity, but our war was nothing more than getting to topple each other, Raava has always come on top, every single time, even when I escaped her grasp and broke through the divide that separated the plain of spirits from the material world, She came after me and got me down again, but this time, in the material world where human interference is a possibility, we were created for them after all, and we get defined by their actions, humans are the reason behind the existence of Raava and I, if evil humans dominate the world then I get on top, if it's the other way around then Raava gets on top, and so on. but our grasp over each other has never been broken, wherever I go, she would come after me.. that was until.. we realized how weak she actually is.." Vattu stopped for a second to smile devilishly to himself.
Zirrok was more than astounded to see that devilish look on his father's face, even though it was just Vattu impersonating his father, but the sight of his kind father to have such a devilish look on his face baffled him.
Vattu continued, "As I said, in the human world, interference is a possibility, and there comes this human, I tricked him to break Raava's grasp over me, I knew that Raava would be too prideful and ask him for help and so I made her look like the dark one in his eyes, humans are weak.. they're easily manipulated, we can't have such species define the way the world works, therefore they need to perish.. As soon as I manipulated this human, he immediately helped me escape Raava's grasp, and that's how we got here." Vattu finished.
Hidi was first to speak again, "I have a question." Hidi asked.
Vattu looked at him and nodded in his direction, "You may ask, Human."
"Where are the portals that you came into the world from?" Hidi asked.
"the portals are in the north and south pole, but we came to this world through neither of them, those were created afterwards." Vattu responded.
"and the third one that you got into the world from?" Hidi followed up with another question.
"in a place called the great divide, but it's a portal that's been closed a long time ago." Vattu responded.
"Why are we here?" Zirrok finally spoke up.
Vattu looked surprised at first to see him speaking, but then he responded to him, "So you do speak, that's a relief." The master of evil said sarcastically.
Zirrok didn't respond to that, instead he looked at Vattu with eyes that said, 'I'm still waiting on a response.'
Vattu spoke up, "Do you have a clue who were we battling in your village?" Vattu asked.
"No, I don't think I do." Zirrok responded.
"We were fighting the followers of Raava.. They are light spirits called the children of Raava, powerful spirits, have the strength and spiritual reach of Raava herself, they pledged their loyalty to the spirit of light and they made a huge difference in the fight against her, she was much smarter than me as I chose to fight alone, but after the battle in your village, I finally realized the difference, your fit of anger and rage were the reason I was able to become even more powerful and it was the reason we won the fight in your village, Raava was much smarter than I am by choosing to have followers helping her, they were just human beings just like you are, they were humans ten thousand years ago, but now.. they are the second biggest threat to my reign of terror, the first being Raava herself." Vattu said.
Hidi was the first to ask questions, as always, "What do you mean they were just humans? You mean the light spirit made them light spirits? Is that an ability of hers?"
"Yes and No.. it's an ability of ours, Yes.. but can only be possible during Harmonic Convergence, it's an event that occurs every ten thousand years were both world align and become one, it grants us multiple abilities, including this one."
"Fascinating." Hidi responded with glammer in his eyes.
Zirrok was first to grasp the situation, "So you mean to make us your children during the next harmonic convergence much like Raava made hers. is that correct?" He asked.
"Yes." Vattu responded.
Fear consumed the faces of both boys, for Zirrok it was hesitation, but for Hidi, it was complete and utter disgust of the idea.
"No! I'll never ever turn into one of you, monsters!" Hidi said.
"We're not monsters, we are just the other side of the curve, young man. The difference being.. that Raava cares nothing for this world, much like you saw, when her agents killed your parents in cold blood.." Zirrok flinched at this,
Vattu continued, "I mean to change all of this, no more Raava, We don't need her in this world, one of us has to live and the other must die for this world to finally find stability, and I mean to grant you your wish." Vattu said.
Zirrok believed every word he said, he didn't knew whether it's because Vattu was impersonating his father, or because he was very angry at light spirits that he just wanted to have revenge, but he just believed him.
"We accept." Zirrok responded, and the dark spirit smirked.
"What?!" Hidi exclaimed.
"May I speak to my friend alone for a moment, please?" Zirrok asked the dark spirit.
"Be my guest." Vattu responded, and took a couple of steps away from them to give them space.
"What are you doing?!" Hidi asked as soon as Vattu was out of reach.
"This is the only way we can avenge both our families, Hidi. we can't defeat the light spirits by ourselves, we need him on our side." Zirrok said.
"Alright, first of all, I don't have a clue who killed my family, and secondly, even if it was the light spirits who did, You want us to basically help destroy the entire world to avenge our families?" Hidi still looked utterly disgusted by the idea.
"We don't know who's on the right, Hidi."
"He's literally called the dark spirit, Zirrok!"
"That doesn't make him evil.. like he said they are just the other side of the curve, nobody has ever lived to tell what's living under Vattu's reign looks like? We don't know because we haven't tried it."
"This guy was the reason behind the spiritual war in the first place, he broke through the divide that separated the plain of spirits from the material world, his hatred towards Raava says everything about his personality." Hidi responded to Zirrok's remark.
"Fine! if you're not gonna help me with this, then I'll do it alone!" Zirrok said.
Hidi was speechless for a while, but then he did speak up
"You're blinded by your rage, Zirrok.. Think of your mom, would she approve of this?"
"Yes.. she would have asked me to avenge her."
"She was the sweetest woman I've ever met, I doubt that would be her call of action."
"I DON'T CARE!" Zirrok shouted, which made Hidi cower back, "We wouldn't know because she's dead, and she's dead because of them! we have to stop this world and I would be damned if it end well for them, I'd rather die in a shithole than see those bastards victorious.. I'm joining Vattu and there's nothing that you could ever say to stop me." Zirrok said.
He looked at his friend, waiting for a response from him, but when he got none, he just left him on the spot and went to the side of the evil spirit, with his friend's look of sadness piercing his back.
"I'm ready. When's Harmonic Convergence?" Zirrok asked Vattu.
"in a month." Vattu responded.
Zirrok took a deep breath, "Let's do this."
"Count me in too." Hidi said all of a sudden.
He came to Zirrok's side who looked very surprised as he was staring him in shock of his sudden decision.
"I'll follow you to the end.. but for the record.. you ARE leading us to a shithole." Hidi said with a smile.
Zirrok couldn't help but smile back at him, and hug him.
"We're ready." They told Vattu who smirked menacingly at them.
they were just sweet little kids, they knew nothing about what's to come, they never understood what was coming at them, if only they knew.. if only they understood what they were getting themselves into, they wouldn't have agreed to it.
When Harmonic Convergence came, Vattu took them to the place of the tree of time.
"Raava and that human friend of hers are going to arrive any second now, you're not ready yet to fight them, so I'll just grant you the powers of the evil spirits and then I want you to leave.. don't ever come back here unless I'm victorious, you are the only reason I would have a chance at survival in case of defeat, in other words.. you are my backup plan, don't fail me." Vattu commanded, and both boys nodded their heads.
"Now touch the gates with your hands, little kids.. for you shall rest as humans and rise as the children of Darkness." Vattu said, and both boys did as they were told, Vattu put his tentacles on both of them as they touched the gates, they felt a surge of great energy that got into them, they screamed from the raw power they felt surge inside their bodies, until the process was finally over, both boys turned red, and then they turned back to their normal bodies but their eyes remained red, and then their eyes turned back to its normal colors as well.
"You now possess the power of darkness, my children. Be afraid no more, your job is very simple, you are going to track down the children of Raava for the rest of your lives, as children of mine, you have the power to make even more dark spirits, but none would be as powerful as the both of you, as you took your powers directly from me, I want you to roam the entire world in search for them, and if your lifetime isn't enough, you needn't worry about it, much like the children of Raava, you get reincarnated, whether it's this life or the ones to come, your objective is to find and eliminate the children of Raava." Vattu said.
"Understood, Father." Voccak and Hidi responded, and they immediately vanished, as their mission was a go.
they then heard the news of their master's defeat when the miracle happen, Raava was two steps ahead of him once more, he thought he would beat her by making children of his to make him more powerful, but Raava chose to fuse with a human to create to make the strongest and most powerful creature the world has ever known, The Avatar.
Although their master's defeat made them much weaker, it didn't make their mission any less important, they did eliminate a lot of Raava's followers, along the years and with countless lifetimes, they turned a lot of Raava's followers into the darkness, this war with Raava's followers has beeing going for ten thousand years, but it's finally coming an end, as there were only two of Raava's followers left, and only one of Vattu's followers, not to mention The Avatar and Vattu himself.
Zirrok, or Voccak now.. took it upon himself to eliminate the last two members of Raava's followers, and it's up to Vattu to eliminate the avatar himself.
they have the bigger army, the bigger numbers and the bigger odds.. but they had that before and they still lost.. they knew this world has to end in darkness, it never happened but it'll happen eventually, that's what he believed through his master's beliefs. Zirrok, or Voccak has gotten ridden of everything, except the memories of his parents being murdered by evil spirits, and although he got reincarnated, he still feels it in his very soul that he needs to have revenge on light spirits, maybe it's something Vattu implanted in him, but either way, he has no choice but to abide by his master's will, for it's something he chose a long time ago.
He had all these thoughts as he was standing in front of his army, staring down the icy towers of the northern watertribe.
It's going to be the first of many victories. Voccak thought as he was about to give the order to attack the northern watertribe.
Thank you for reading, we're finally through with origin stories and back to the real world.
See you in the next chapter :)
