"Looks like you've been displaced this ti, Vice Admiral Zhao," a voice whispered in Zhao's head as he watched in annoyance as the Southern Water Tribe people gathered around the supposed Avatar.
When he awoke from his deep ditation, he realized that they had left without him to et such a transcendental figure, not even bothering to wait for him or leave a letter of warning.
So imagine his surprise when, after a rather psychedelic and enlightening journey, his spirit returned to his body to find that the goal of his mission had already been accomplished, but without his direct participation.
This was a hard blow to him, soone who sought fa. He wanted his na to be in the group of people who t the Avatar for the first ti in 100 years, and even to be among the first to have contact with that person.
But no, no one bothered to consider him; in fact, he had long felt like an afterthought, soone who was only there in the background to aggrandize the supposedly 'important' figures in this mission.
No, he was less than that; he was just the driver who brought them to the South Pole, and no one bothered to tell the driver the important things. Zhao, being soone extrely arrogant and careerist, was brushed aside in this way, causing what little hesitation there might have been in him to be consud by the growing darkness.
Yes, darkness. Though his spirits were low as he watched people toss the so-called Avatar Aang through the air, his body felt quite good, full of power and energy.
Being empowered with dark spiritual energy directly from Vaatu is an advantage few beings can have. Zhao felt invincible at that mont, but Vaatu's cold voice in his head brought him back to reality.
"You are nothing compared to the Avatar." Those words were like a bucket of cold water to Zhao, but he could understand why in no ti.
With his new power, he could sense the extraordinary power in the Avatar, who was filled with a spiritual energy that was, of course, quite pure and soothing to others. For Zhao, Aang was like a torch near his eyes, uncomfortable to perceive.
'Aren't you afraid that he will perceive you?' Zhao thought, knowing that due to his current connection with Vaatu, Vaatu could perceive his thoughts and communicate a response.
"No, even Shisui's strange eyes can't sense if I want them to. Just don't act in front of them and you'll be fine," Vaatu replied, making Zhao rember the things this spirit had told him.
Many spiritual beings had noticed the strange behavior of Shisui's eyes and easily deduced that it was an ability to perceive the aura, sothing that was not very common, but not rare either, since there had been people with such a gift throughout history.
Sure, no one knew the depths of Shisui's ability, but they could always take so precautions, couldn't they? So, Vaatu had made sure that the dark energy that had been implanted in his current dependents was not visible to normal aura vision; unless they were acting blatantly in front of Shisui, Vaatu assud that Shisui wouldn't notice.
Only Vaatu, in his imnse power, ignored an insignificant detail: he assud that Shisui's ability was the normal aura vision that normally appeared in human history.
Shisui himself did not even know the depths of this ability, despite having it for two lifetis, but he had developed it enough that when Zhao approached the crowd, Shisui was able to discern sothing.
To Shisui, Zhao's aura was unusually organized, unlike the normal state of human aura; this strange organization looked artificial, bizarre. In addition to the recent appearance of a dark spirit, Shisui simply smiled on his lips.
'What are you hiding, Zhao?' Shisui thought, but otherwise he paid no attention to the man, knowing that like snakes, this one would choose to remain hidden until he felt it was ti to strike.
Shisui morized the phases of the moon and knew that tonight was a full moon, so he was ready to enter the spirit world to talk to his mother.
What he didn't expect was that when he entered the spirit world, things would get even stranger than usual. He was not in the usual place where he always landed when he arrived in this world, but he was in what seed to be the territory of a spirit.
He was on a beach, the waves pushing the sea water, darkened by the lack of sunlight, with only a huge full moon hanging in the sky. A dark sky full of stars greeted him, making the atmosphere a bit gloomy.
But instead of feeling fear or panic, he felt at peace, as if he were at ho. He didn't know why, but it seed like he was born to be here, and this place was as familiar to him as ho. But as he ca to this conclusion, a voice ca from behind him.
"This is the ho of all Waterbenders," a rather soft and sweet female voice said, but Shisui, always alert, quickly turned around, but was quite surprised to see the person in front of him.
A tall, dark-skinned woman with blue eyes, the characteristic features of the Water Tribes at the poles. But the most striking thing about the woman was her lush white hair, not gray like the elders, but a pure white that seed to emit its glow, a brightness that resembled the moon.
Not to be outdone, the person in front of Shisui was Yue. he recognized her not only from the paintings he had seen of this woman, but also from the series he had seen in his past life, but his surprise was not that.
What surprised him was that Yue was standing next to Chang'e, his mother. Both won looked harmonious standing together, and when Shisui looked closer, he noticed that both his mother and Yue looked quite similar.
'Don't tell ...' As if Shisui's thoughts were reflected on his face, Yue covered her face and giggled slightly.
"Looks like my Little Bunny got the ssage," Chang'e said, making Shisui feel a little embarrassed at the way his mother called him.
"A smart boy, no doubt, he deserves to be your son, big sister," Yue said, finally confirming Shisui's thoughts.
Yue was his aunt! His mother was the royalty of the North Pole! He was a damn prince! Shisui, feeling surprised for the first ti in a long ti, just sat on the sand and looked at his mother and aunt without saying anything.
"Has the mouse eaten your tongue? Say sothing!" Yue, who wasn't very familiar with Shisui, walked over to him and leaned down, urging him to say sothing.
"I never thought I had a good origin, I always thought my mother was a 'pole farr', imagine the surprise of those bastards..." Shisui mumbled, rembering so bad things that had happened when he was a child.
"Looks like you didn't have as good a ti as those rumors about you make it seem." Yue felt a little uncomfortable as she understood the implications of Shisui's words, but Shisui refused.
"No, those guys are just a minority of losers," Shisui, showing his adaptability, quickly found the good side of this situation.
"You were telling ... this is the ho of all Waterbenders?" asked Shisui, who stood up and looked around.
"This is the territory of the Ocean and Moon Spirits, when they still resided in the spirit world," Yue said, pointing to the giant moon in the sky.
"The gifts of Waterbending originated here and were given to the humans who had affinity to them, before a certain cataclysm caused the humans to isolate themselves in four special places, where they had to hand over their gifts to four special guardians." Yue didn't delve too deeply into the history of the past, but from the knowledge he knew, Shisui was able to put together a small tiline.
Before humans lived in the Lion Turtle, humans were like this ti, born with an elent, but it seed that the way they operated was different.
Shisui noted the 'affinity to', that is, affinity to an elent. Who knows if in ancient tis, when there were so few people compared to today, all or the vast majority of people were attuned to a particular elent.
To so extent, that would explain what happened in the Legend of Korra, with the awakening of so many Airbenders; they were akin to that elent, they were not necessarily descendants of Airbenders like Avatar Aang's son, Bumi.
In that case, this phenonon could be a natural occurrence from that distant past. Then maybe Vaatu won back then for X reason? Who knows, but humans had to live isolated from the world on the back of the lion turtle.
Then the elental system changed, and you needed the permission of the 'Guardians' to use an elent. Until the arrival of Avatar Wan, the first of all, who overturned that system and led to what is happening today.
After thinking about all this in a few seconds, an idea ca to Shisui's mind, but it would have to be implented step by step in the future. But for now, he didn't want to think about plans, ideas, or big goals.
"So, tell about yourself," Shisui said, making Yue smile at him.
"Only if you tell the truth out of so many rumors, is it true that you rode a 100-ter-long water dragon?" Yue asked with so childish interest in her eyes, while Chang'e sighed heavily.
"I will never understand where so many crazy rumors about my son co from, even in the spirit world, so strange stories have started to spread," Chang'e comnted, making Shisui curious about what kind of gossip was spreading in the spirit world.
But since he had to answer his aunt first, as strange as it might sound to think of such a young woman as his closest relative, Shisui began to tell Yue his life story, although she was constantly interrupted by her asking him strange questions, always related to so rumor.
"No, Auntie, I can't see the future from puddles of water..." Shisui answered one of Yue's strange questions for the hundredth ti, and for the first ti, Shisui felt the sa tiredness as Azulon in the past when he asked him so many questions.
"But you know that Waterbending technique that allows Waterbenders to see places with water, right?" asked Yue with a raised eyebrow, causing Shisui and Chang'e to look at her questioningly.
"Is such a thing even possible?" asked Chang'e, causing Yue to nod.
"Well, I guess it's sothing I can do because of the essence sharing with the Moon Spirit, but I can see distant people or places with water, but I have to know them first.
Before, I couldn't see my nephew because I didn't know him personally, but now that I even know his past, I can observe him, hehe". Yue's last laugh made Shisui shiver, and rembering what would happen when he ca out of his deep ditation tonight, he felt that he should give Yue a warning.
"The ti difference between us is quite large; when it's dayti at the South Pole, it's nightti for you, and vice versa. You know, I ditate at night and I have a fiancée..." Shisui stopped explaining when he saw the strange looks Yue and Chang'e gave him.
"What did you say you did at night with your fiancée, Little Bunny?" Chang'e asked sternly, causing Shisui's neck to shrink, although a smile appeared on his face.
This kind of situation had never happened to him in this life, so although he was embarrassed, he was happy to interact with his mother. But it was Yue's words that made him want to drown in the nearby sea.
"You have touched the concept of 'Life', be careful, normal contraceptives are no longer useful for your 'Vital essence', maybe you will be a grandmother in the future, big sister," Yue finally burst out laughing, especially because of the face Shisui made the mont he heard those words.
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