Lost In Your World

A New Spiritual Age

Earth

Fire

Air

Water

Only the Dual Avatars, masters of all four elements, can bring balance to the world.

Book II: Spirits

Chapter VII: A New Spiritual Age

"Isn't it amazing?" Jinora gasps as she looks around the spirit world, Korra is a bit apprehensive as Jinora and Wan look around in awe. "Let's be carefull, okay?" she begins to walk over to the duo "you never know when we'll run into some dark spirits." She accidentally touches a flower that morphs into a pink butterfly and flutters away with sparkles trailing behind it. "Wow," Wan glances at the spirit flying above. Jinora begins to follow it. "It's like it's made of jewels! The spirits are so much more beautiful in their own world than they are at home."

Wan reaches out to the young Airbender running after her. "Jinora wait!" Korra follows but she accidentally steps on a spirit meerkat hole. She trips a bit but regains her balance. The spirit pops out partially and yells at the frightened female avatar. "Hey! Watch where you're going, you giant clod!"

"Sorry," Korra apologizes, moving back from the hole. The spirit scoffles ignoring her apology asking,"This is a residential area, in case you hadn't noticed. Who do you think you are, stomping through here like that?"

"Well,I'm trying to catch up to my friends. Me and him." Korra points at Wan's direction and as if Wan knew, he turns his head shaking it aggressively. "We are the dual Avatars." Another one bursts from the ground and sniffs Korra, crossing its arms, "Not impressed." Korra slumps then straightens herself, "I'm trying to find the spirit portals? We opened one."

"I heard Unalaq did that," a meerkat says. Korra rubs her temples, getting more irritated by the second. "Why would you think that? No, Unalaq did not open it, we did!"

"Well if you two opened it, how come you don't know where it is? Huh?" it questions more aggressively, Korra getting more frustrated sasses, "Well maybe we were in the South Pole in the physical world. Does that explain it?" She folds her arms with a victorious smile, thinking she has won the debate but her victory is short- lived. "Nope!" Another one yells. Wan, in the mists of Korra's argument with the mercat spirits, slowly walks up to her saying "Korra, we have to go, they're not going to help us." However, more and more pop up, insulting Korra with every turn. Korra shuts her eyes tightly and out of anger and instinct she uses her bending to try to move the spirits back but nothing happens. "Great," Wan mumbles to himself, knowing that the spirits are now even more angry. Korra awkwardly stands still in her bending stance. She blinks a few times, Wan facepalms as she looks at her hands. "Spirit world, right?" One meerkat spirit points at her.

"Did you guys see that?! She tried to bend at us, in our own holes! Get her!"

The spirits attack,jumping onto Korra. She manages to dodge some, but they latch onto her and turn into purplish globs. Overwhelming her, Jinora turns and gasps at the sight, rushing over to help. "Korra stop, you're making them more upset!" Wan yells,while trying to pull off the globs to help her. Jinora joins in, helping Wan pull the spirits globs from her. The other meerkat spirits march around them in a circle, causing the ground to open into a bottomless pit. The trio fall in screaming, crash under the water; the three hold their breaths and hold onto each other's arms.

Wan turns his head for a second and panics, his face filled with dread. He screams, getting the attention of Korra and Jinora. The girls scream as an enormous spirit fish approaches them, and fast. The trio starts to swim away but the current pushes them back as the spirit swallows them, and they are teleported to a river that spirals down a rocky slope. Wan catches his breath as he tries to reach for Korra and/or Jinora but fails. He shouts as the river forks and Jinora goes one way, Korra the other and Wan another way.