Chapter 23: First Flame 1
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It was a really good thing I was travelling through the open air, because as soon as we were out of range of Azula, a crazy mass of notifications hit me. One after another until my vision was nearly blotched out.. What the hell is going through that girls head!? Every time I closed one notification, two more popped up in its place!
'Status'! I thought desperately. And my eyes widened when I saw what greeted me.
N̵̰̊a̴͙̅ṃ̴̕e̶̝̒:̷̥͛ ̶̡͐Z̷̧͋a̴͙̕n̷̠͝
̸̢̕R̷̫̐ạ̸͊c̵̱̀e̴̗̐:̸̦̈́ ̶̟̾H̴̱͗u̴͉͝m̷̜͌a̷̗̐ṉ̸̈́
̷͕͌L̵͔͘ê̸̦v̶͖̈e̷͌͜l̴̯͆:̴̬̆ ̶͙̓1̷̼͗0̶̩̄ ̶͓̀(̷̝̆2̷͈̾2̶̘̕3̴̻͌/̶͂ͅ1̶̻̎3̴̣͆5̶̡̈́8̴̡̀)̶̣̊
̶̱͘H̴̲̍P̴̧̕:̵̳̔ ̵̳͆3̵̺̆8̶̘̃0̸̞̅0̸̿͜/̴̯̈́3̷̩͘8̷̗̀0̴̻͒0̶͇̔ ̵̭̈́(̴̲͂1̷͓̓9̵̩͗0̸̧͌ ̵͓̀R̵̜͛ę̵́ḡ̶̣e̸͕̒n̸͜͠ ̴̩͂p̶̤͒ė̸͔r̴̲̐ ̴̮̌m̸̝͗i̵̮͐n̸̯͐u̵͉̐t̸̛̮ë̷̱)̶̠͘
̵̯̓C̸͝ͅP̸̱̊:̷̖̀ ̵̪͂(̷̺̏3̵͘͜2̶͒͜0̶̻̃0̴̺̎)̷̥͗ ̸̢͝4̵̬͌1̷̻͆6̵͚͝0̷͕͊/̶̝͛4̸͙͠1̴͖͑6̸̼̿0̸̩͋ ̶̯̂(̶͈̎1̸̘̅6̷̭̾0̴̫̉ ̴̯̎Ṟ̴͋ḛ̷̏g̵̠̑ẻ̸̗n̶͎͆ ̶̳͒p̸̥̀ę̶̔r̷̨̓ ̵͑͜m̴̜̈́i̴̠͂ñ̵̨u̵̪͝t̶̤̒e̵͚͝)̸̹̃
̴̲̄S̷̮͝ẗ̷̬́r̸̩̅e̷̛̮n̷͍̄g̶͎͂t̵͓̄ḧ̴̻:̶͈͊ ̶͉͝4̵̖̏0̸͓͊ ̸̥͒(̶̘͆4̶̗͊4̷͔͝)̷̯̌ ̸̫̎(̸͈̌4̶̜̾5̶̤͘)̵̰̿
̸͎͑E̷̼̍ṅ̷͈d̸͇̋u̶͚͗r̴̝̒ă̷͚n̴̺͋ć̴̦é̵̼:̸̰͂ ̴͍́3̷̬͂8̴̤̔ ̴͔̾(̵̩̅4̷͈́0̷̨͛.̶̻̆8̷̇͜)̵͎͛ ̴̲̇(̵̬̏5̵͂ͅ2̸̧͛.̸̣͒8̴̢͗)̴̻͒
̵̙͝D̵͓͠e̶̪͊x̴̫̀t̷̡̓e̴͚͊r̷̝̄i̵̠̔ṯ̵͋ỳ̶̼:̸̠͐ ̴̮̓3̴̫͆6̴̦͊ ̶͍̽(̶̠͊4̸̗̃5̸̛̱.̵̩̈9̵̳̇)̵͔̍ ̸̹̄(̷̖̓4̴̖͒6̷̪̔.̷̅͜9̶͉͛)̷͚̅
̵̥̈́L̴̾ͅu̷͇͠c̶̳̾k̶̖̒:̶̖͗ ̷͙̂1̸̹̇3̴̣̔
̴̺̃S̴͖̓t̵̟̒ȁ̵̘t̸̩́ ̵̬͋P̷̥̍ọ̴̀i̷̪̚n̷͖͗ť̷̯s̶̙̋:̶̩͋ ̸̩͋1̶̱̓0̷͘͜
̸̳̃G̶̢͋a̸̠̐c̸̭͗h̵̻̿a̸͖͠ ̴̨̔p̶̩͛o̵̲̔ĩ̶͈ň̵ͅt̸͇͝s̴̛͓:̷͖̎ ̵͐͜3̵̼͂
'What the hell it's all glitched out!' I gaped, has Azula's crazy ass mentality really fucking glitched my system!?
Thinking quickly, I knew I must have ten stat points from levelling up twice just there, so I mentally assigned them to my stats. Three in my physical stats, one in my luck stat, hoping the stats getting updated would fix it for me, or refresh it or something.
N̸͎͠a̷̛̳m̵̧̃e̴̜͠:̵̹͘ ̴̙̒Z̴͍̐ã̵̬n̵̫͠
̸̛̣R̷̬̅â̷̳ĉ̷̤e̴̢̔:̷̝͗ ̸̗̈H̵̱͋u̶̢͝m̷͔͛a̷̦̅n̴͚̾
̷̘̒L̸̛̤e̵͎̒v̶̧̌e̴͕͗ľ̵̳:̷̟͐ ̴̈ͅ1̶̫́0̵͖̍ ̷̢̊(̸͔́2̷̪̽2̶͈͑3̸̳̂/̸̜͝1̸̛͈3̶͍̇5̶̝͂8̷̞̎)̴̻̊
̸͓͋H̸͉̓P̶̫͊:̵̜̀ ̷͉̆4̶͠ͅ1̴̮̀0̴̭̄0̶̡͒/̶̹̓4̷̼̋1̵̫͑0̸̦̾0̷̜̀ ̴̲̓(̴̬̅2̵̭͊0̵̖̊5̴̣̄ ̶̥̓R̵̥͐e̸͖͗g̷͖̓e̵̮͋ǹ̵̮ ̴̙̆p̴͍̄e̵̢̕r̷͉̾ ̴͚͗ṃ̴͘i̵̟̓ṇ̸̍ū̵̮t̶̕͜e̴͉̋)̵̪͑
̷̫̇C̶̢̓P̸͈̾:̷̼̀ ̵̳͂(̷̺̌3̸̞̉2̸͕̇0̷̼͋0̴͈̚)̸͎͝ ̵͙̊4̶̮͗1̸̖͐6̵̘́0̶̪̓/̴̑ͅ4̵̩̓1̴̼͛6̴̫̓0̷̯̒ ̴̘̀(̸̑ͅ1̷͙̓6̶̙̉0̴̤̐ ̶̗̿R̸̙̉e̴̺̔g̸͉͗e̴̖̋n̸̝̍ ̵̣̑p̷͚̾e̴͙͘r̷̛̘ ̸̤́m̶̞̕i̶̝̎ń̸͍u̸̻͆t̶͉̚e̸̯̎)̴̮͘
̸̩̔S̶̺̕t̴͖͠r̶̘̃e̴̛͈n̷̼͝g̷̭̎t̸̯̚h̷̪̄:̵͇̌ ̷̫͝4̶̥̾3̵͊͜ ̵̥͝(̶̠͋4̷̪́7̴̟̊.̷̣͋3̷̻̿)̸̤͠ ̴̝͛(̵̝͐4̷͖̎8̵̟̚.̵̯̆3̵̹̾)̶̟̒
̶̼̚Ē̶̤n̴̠͗d̷̺͝u̴͉͠r̵̡͊a̸̲̍n̵̳̈́c̶̙̐ę̶̅:̶̍ͅ ̷̝̀4̸͈͑1̸̤͊ ̵͉̾(̶͖̌4̵͓͠5̵̯͛.̵̨͘1̶̖̽)̷͙̂ ̷̩͝(̵͓͒5̶̜̅7̶̦̐.̷͎̉1̸̙͝)̸̢͝
̵̻̐D̴͇̅e̸͈̒x̴̺͛t̸̤̀e̷͚̍r̸̛̗i̵̹͗t̸̢͌y̸͈͌:̶̢̄ ̵̪̽3̸̨͋9̷̳͛ ̵̳̾(̸͖̐5̶̯͘1̶̦̔.̴̲͂7̸̼̎)̶̗͐ ̴̝̽(̷̗̕5̶̦͝2̵̤́.̷͙̋7̴̥͘)̶̧͘
̶̃ͅL̷̝̇ų̵͗c̴͖̾k̷̼͒:̴͎̑ ̷̿ͅ1̴͎̊4̷̠̚
̵̧̆S̵̅ͅt̵͇̅ä̴̜́ț̴̕ ̶̛̼P̵͕̈́o̴̹͗í̴̥n̶̦̎t̶̡͐s̴̝͒:̴̗͊ ̴͓̿0̷̙́
̷̦̎G̷͉͝à̴̫c̸̦͝h̶̥̓a̷͔̔ ̷̖͛p̸̦̀o̴̜͋i̷̡̾n̸̗͗t̵̤̀s̷̲̄:̴̼̔ ̶̝̊3̸͕̄
But no luck. What the hell is going on here!?
The system is fluctuating. I have never encountered a problem such as this before. The mental desires of the one known as Azula regarding you are switching and changing so rapidly that the system cannot keep up and what you believe to be a glitch, is just the mass of automated notifications you have gained spilling in to each other.
How the hell do I fix it?!
T̷h̸e̴ ̶s̴y̶s̸t̷e̶m̴ ̴w̶i̴l̶l̷ ̵h̷a̵v̷e̶ ̴t̴o̸ ̸u̴n̴d̴e̵r̵g̴o̶ ̴m̸a̵i̷n̷t̶e̸n̶a̷n̸c̵e̴ ̵t̸o̶ ̷a̸d̶j̵u̶s̵t̶ ̴t̷o̴ ̸t̶h̴i̷s̷ ̸o̴d̴d̴ ̵p̶h̶e̴n̷o̸m̷e̷n̷a̸.̴ ̷U̸n̷t̶i̶l̴ ̸i̴t̴ ̶i̷s̷ ̷c̶o̶m̷p̸l̵e̴t̴e̸,̵ ̶y̸o̷u̸ ̵w̸i̴l̵l̷ ̴j̶u̴s̶t̷ ̴h̵a̴v̵e̷ ̴t̶o̶ ̶d̴e̶a̸l̵ ̸w̴i̸t̴h̷ ̴i̶t̴.̶ ̸U̶n̴l̶e̸s̵s̷ ̸y̷o̴u̵ ̵w̸a̵n̸t̸ ̴t̶o̷ ̸t̸o̸g̵g̵l̵e̵ ̵o̷f̸f̴ ̵t̵h̷e̷ ̷s̸y̵s̸t̸e̶m̶ ̶n̶o̶t̵i̵f̴i̴c̸a̵t̵i̴o̶n̴s̶ ̵a̷n̵d̵ ̸s̵c̷r̶e̵e̶n̸s̵.̷ ̶T̷h̸o̷u̴g̷h̸,̷ ̸b̶e̸ ̸w̵a̸r̶n̶e̷d̴,̶ ̴w̸h̷i̵l̷e̴ ̵y̷o̷u̷ ̶w̵i̵l̶l̸ ̵r̵e̴t̷a̵i̴n̴ ̴a̵l̶l̶ ̶y̴o̸u̴r̷ ̷a̷b̴i̷l̷i̶t̸i̴e̶s̵ ̴a̶n̸d̸ ̴t̸h̵e̷ ̶s̴a̶m̵e̴ ̷g̴r̴o̵w̴t̴h̸ ̴r̷a̵t̵e̷.̵ ̴Y̶o̸u̶ ̴w̵i̸l̴l̴ ̷b̵e̵ ̴u̴n̵a̸b̷l̵e̴ ̵t̶o̷ ̸a̷c̵c̷e̵s̸s̸ ̴t̵h̷e̶ ̷m̸e̸n̵u̵ ̴s̷y̷s̷t̸e̶m̷s̷ ̷t̷h̷e̸m̷s̶e̵l̴v̸e̷s̶,̴ ̸s̸u̷c̶h̷ ̶a̴s̷ ̵y̷o̸u̵r̴ ̶s̶t̴a̶t̵ ̶s̷c̶r̷e̵e̸n̸.̵ ̶A̶n̴d̸ ̸y̶o̷u̴ ̸w̴i̷l̴l̸ ̶g̷a̴i̷n̶ ̵n̵o̶ ̷n̴o̷t̸i̷f̶i̴c̴a̸t̶i̴o̸n̸s̴ ̸o̶f̶ ̸q̶u̶e̸s̷t̷s̵,̷ ̴s̵k̵i̵l̶l̸s̴ ̵o̵r̶ ̴a̷b̶i̵l̶i̸t̸i̵e̸s̶ ̴y̵o̸u̷ ̵h̸a̷v̶e̵ ̷g̷a̷i̴n̶e̴d̴,̶ ̸o̷r̶ ̸e̷x̶p̵e̴r̸i̶e̷n̴c̵e̶ ̵a̷n̵d̴ ̴l̸e̵v̶e̶l̸s̵ ̷u̷p̷ ̷u̶n̷t̶i̷l̸ ̷y̷o̷u̵ ̶t̸u̵r̴n̴ ̵i̵t̶ ̴b̵a̶c̶k̶ ̴o̴n̴.̴
Fucking hell, even the system communicating with me is getting glitched now! What about my inventory and my beast tamer stuff and the like!? Will I still be able to access them?
Y̴e̷s̶.̶
I grit my teeth in annoyance. Cursing my own stupidity for letting my irritation with Azula get the better of me. And my utter stupidity with all that grand standing! If I'd just made a clean break from her instead of trying to lay out my own made up backstory more to camouflage my true abilities and stop people from questioning them as much, I wouldn't be in this mess!
'Do it!' I ordered. And as soon as I did, the mass of screens filling up and blocking my vision, stat screen and communications from the system itself, all just gone, replaced once again by the clear blue sky I was rocketing up through.
The good news was though, I could still feel all my abilities. I could feel the items in my inventory, I just couldn't look at them through the inventory screen. I could still feel Mong and the beast tamer ability.
'Right, this isn't too bad a loss I guess, I can work with this!' I nodded to myself, psyching myself up. It just meant I couldn't use the system to keep track of my health points and Chi Points, I'll need to manually do that myself now.
I really could have handled that better. But, it's not like I'm a super competent person in the first place. It's easy to let the fact that I'm so far above my previous self in my previous life that it isn't funny, get to my head and inflate my ego. But it isn't like I don't already know I'm not the smartest guy around. And hindsight is twenty twenty.
I looked down with a sigh, and caught sight of a large forest beneath us. And deciding it was as good a place as any since we'd been flying straight through the air for a good few minutes at this point, and were miles away from Azula, I decided to hover down and land.
"...Well, I really wasn't expecting this when I woke up today," Ty Lee mused as she climbed down from my shoulder, slumping onto her lovely behind and looking up at me with complicated eyes, "At least all the heat you were giving off dried my clothes at least."
I rubbed my face, "Sorry," I apologized, sprawling down as well in front of her, "I ended up losing my patience with Azula and got you dragged into my mess."
Ty Lee smiled at me, "Don't worry about it, we're good friends aren't we? I couldn't let Azula kill you with her lightning," she replied, before shrugging, "Besides, it's freeing in a way. As scary as this all is, I've finally drawn my line in the sand with Azula and I don't need to constantly walk on egg shells around her now. Really, I think in time my aura will become pinker than it ever has been before."
This girl..is just way to good for me man.
She frowned at me then, "There is something I want to ask," she continued, lifting a finger to point at me, "What was all that about? That stuff you were saying to Azula about her dad wanting to kill Zuko, it seemed true if I go by Azula's reaction. And not only that, but what about you saying you were gonna be the strongest person this world had ever seen? Like I know you said it was a dragon spirit, and I don't know much about about spirits at all, but even I know the Avatar spirit should be way stronger than just a dragon spirit."
Well, I'd been setting up for this for a while now. "You'd be right, most dragon spirits while really strong only have the ability to fire bend and the like," I began, "This is a dragon spirit though, it got stronger through devouring a bunch of other spirits and gained a bunch of abilities from the spirits it ate, like my inventory."
"Well, that's not nice at all," Ty Lee frowned cutely, before tapping her chin and humming, "Though now that you mention it, you did say back in New Ozai that you got multiple abilities from that dragon spirit. I know about the inventory, and you just brought up how you only got your fire bending because of it as well?"
"That one I can't be sure of," I shrugged pointing at my eyes, "They say that the more gold your eyes are the stronger fire bending spark you have. My eyes have always been like this, but until that dragon possessed me I'd never been able to make a flame."
"Maybe it just unlocked your bending? I mean, Zuko was a pretty poweful fire bender even as a kid, leagues ahead of anyone else his age, the only reason he got put down as untalented is because he was constantly compared to Azula," Ty Lee responded, "And Zuko didn't bend his first flame until he was like six or seven, even with the elite tutors the royal family had on call to teach him."
"Could be that," I agreed, "After all, dragons don't usually have the ability to give bending. Most spirits don't. All bending that we humans have originally came from the Lion Turtles after all."
"..Eh?" Ty Lee cocked her her to the side and looked at me weirdly, "What are Lion Turtles?"
"They're four massive lions with turtle shells, as big as a huge island, I'm not even sure if they were living creatures or spirits," I shrugged, seeing no reason not to tell her, since I'm going to be going into how I got all my knowledge soon anyway, "Nearly ten thousand years ago, before the first Avatar, they protected all us humans, letting humans live and build towns and villages on their backs, this was back when spirits were still free to roam about this world and the lion turtles protected humans from them. They had a special ability called energy bending, and with it they could give the type of element they had to others. There four in total as I said, one of fire, one of earth, one of air and one of water."
"The four elements!" Ty Lee's eyes widened in realisation, "So that's where bending comes from then? Back at the royal academy we just got taught fire bending came from Agni."
Agni, the sun spirit. More or less, a sibling spirit to the moon spirit from what I'd learned in this life growing up. "I don't know about like fire bending dragons or anything like that," I replied, "But as far as we humans go, we got the ability from the lion turtles."
"That's so cool, I wish I could meet them! That would be a really fun adventure!" Ty Lee giggled. "Do you know where they are?"
"Three of them are dead, from what little I know, it was us humans that killed them," I replied sadly, and I was sad about it. They were magnificent creatures I'd love to have met, "From what I know, only the fire lion turtle is left, drifting about the ocean and avoiding us humans."
"B-but why? Why would people kill them if they used to protect us and gave us bending?" Ty Lee gasped, "That's not right at all."
"It isn't, but to be honest, I have no idea how humans managed to kill them in the first place," I mused and agreed with her, "They were gargantuan in size, and no human should be able to do much damage to one. The only two ways I can think of to manage it is a bunch of fire benders powered up by Sozin's Comet, or the Avatar." personally, I'm guessing it was an Avatar. They were still as fallible as any other human, and some of them were even quite dickish. I could see one getting the wrong idea after running into a lion turtle and probably attacking to kill it thinking it was a threat.
I suppose if I ever get the chance to talk to Raava, I'll be able to find out.
"..That's to bad," Ty Lee frowned, her eyes sad, "It must be so lonely for the last one, can you imagine being the last of your kind?"
"Right there with you," I grinned, reaching over to ruffle her hair, getting a pout from her, "I actually do want to meet it, so maybe we can meet it together and ask it? Cheer it up if it needs it?"
"Okay, that sounds something fun and worth doing!" Ty nodded and smiled at me prettily, only to pause and frown at me, "But, how do you know all this?"
"That's because, among other things, that dragon spirit gained the ability to see into the future and travel to different worlds, it wasn't just limited to our world and the spirit world," I replied, "And while I didn't retain its ability to see into the future, I still saw a lot of what was going to happen in the future, and the thing about the lion turtles, I saw that in a vision of the next Avatar, who was learning all about her past lives, and how the avatar was born in the first place, and because she went on a spirit quest of the memories of her past life, the first Avatar Wan, I could see them all as well."
"Wow..that's just really wow," Ty Lee leaned back on her hands, "Like really, a lot to take in."
"It was a wild ride, that was for sure." I agreed."
"So that's why you know about that stuff about Azula and Zuko's dad right?" she pointed out, "You must have saw it happen, or saw them talking about it in the dragon spirits visions of the future."
"Both actually, yeah," I nodded. Some might find my twisting of the truth a bad thing, but honestly, a few little white lies like this, as long as they were kept under control were fine as far as I was concerned, "I even saw you in a few of them."
"Oooh?" she leaned forward in interest, eyes suddenly sparkling in curiosity, "What did you see me do?"
"You didn't appear a lot, but you did beat up a lot of people with your chi blocking while helping Azula on her little mission," I shrugged, "I did see you appear alongside Azula, Mai and Zuko at the Ember Islands, and at some point when Mai went traitor to help Zuko because she's apparently in love with him and Azula was about to kill her you jumped in and saved her like you did with me just there." even if I didn't need it.
"Well that's disappointing to hear, it looks like things would end up like this regardless then," she frowned, "And not only that, it seems like I'm not all that important if you only saw that stuff."
"If it makes you feel better, you stood out to me more than anyone else," I smirked, "Heck, you could even say that as a kid, I had a huge crush on you, despite having only seen a future version of you years ago."
Ty Lee's eyes widened minutely, before a giggle left her pretty lips, "Oh really?" she moved forward onto her hands and knees, getting close to my face, "And what about now?" she asked teasingly.
"Well, out of all the girls that appeared in my visions, and there were a lot, lemme say this," I stared her right in the eyes, still smirking, "Ty Lee is best girl, better than all the rest."
A small red flush appeared on her cheeks, "Oh really? Are you sure it was me you saw?" she challenged me with a little smirk of her own, "I do have six identical sisters you know, and we all know chi blocking."
"No, it was you, I saw your sisters briefly in a vision as well, they're going to end up at your old circus by the way," I replied, and her eyes went from flirty to outraged and she probably would have insulted them if I didn't place a finger on her lips, "You do look nearly pretty much completely identical, but I can tell you apart. You might look like a group set, but you stand out even then."
My eyes widened as her arms suddenly wrapped around my neck and she tackled me to the floor, her soft, lush body pressing down warmly against me. And her lips on mine. My hands automatically went to her hips to keep her steady as her tongue pushed into my mouth and meeting mine in a lovely wet little wrestling match.
She pulled back from me only a minute letter, lips bruised and eye half lidded, "That's the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me." she panted, her hands keeping her balanced on my chest. "I really like you, y'know?"
"I really like you to," I looked up at her, licking my own lips, tasting her on my tongue as I tightened my grip on her hips, "But are you sure you're fine with me? I'm gonna end up doing a lot of crazy things in the future."
"..Yeah, I think it has to be you," Ty Lee breathed deeply, her face still red, "And I don't mind crazy, it might even be fun."
I grinned at her, "Then you're all mine," I used my grip on her waist to pull her down tightly against me again and e inched forward to capture her lips with my own, "I'll show you things and places you could never have imagined before."
"That's sounds good to me." she giggled, and inched forward herself.
Just as we were about to share a second kiss though, a bellowing roar split the air and we both shot up, falling into combat stances in a split moment. It didn't take us long to find the source of the roar.
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