<~ Strange Happenings ~ The End Has Begun ~>

"No, wait!" Kat yelled, flailing her arms and sitting up abruptly. She winced, rubbing her head, and blearily looked around her room. Groaning, she pushed the covers away from her face and looked at the alarm cloak. Nine in the morning? she thought, rolling onto her back and looking at the ceiling of her bedroom. I should still be asleep!

"What a weird dream," she mused aloud as she slowly staggered out of her bed and towards her dresser. Kat pulled out a pair of jeans, followed by a light yellow tee shirt and some ankle socks. She put her assorted clothing pieces on before slowly walking to the door. "Dragons. Again." she muttered, kicking the door shut behind her out of habit. "Maybe it means something..?" Kat paused, thinking about her dream. "Nah. It's probably just my overactive imagination at work again."

Korra woke with a start, her eyes flew open and she let out a yell. "Wah!"
Her cat, Ikki, let out a meow of discontent as she was shoved aside and knocked off the bed.
Korra sat up, panting in her bed with her blanket half on the floor and half on her lap.
She shook her head and rubbed her temple.
"It's that weird dream again... Dragons and fire... and the sea..." she muttered under her breath, "Sorry Ikki." she said turning to stroke her now annoyed cat.
The siamese cat lashed out with sharp claws but just missed Korra's hand.
"Fine! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" she said.
Ikki left the room angrily as Korra got out of bed and got dressed. She ate some cereal, on her own and filled one of Ikki's bowls with dry foods and the other with water.
Korra's parents were working abroad again on an archaeologic dig and had left their daughter home alone for the summer. This happened just about every year since Korra could remember, but Korra being the independent person that she is didn't mind in the slightest.

She shook her head of the dream that kept bothering her as she munched on the cereal.
"Maybe some fresh air will make things clearer." she said to herself walking to the door.

She slipped on some boots, grabbed a light weight jacket and rushed out into the forest by her house. Korra had been going out into the woods everyday since she had discovered a strange and magical power, that was completely not possible from Korra's perspective, but that had come to her in a dream.
She called it 'bending' the elements and went training every morning to try and improve her skills.
She reached the clearing and hung her jacket up on a low branch.

Korra started off with fire, making a rapid sweeping movement with her right arm and letting out a loud 'HA!', a large ball of fire appeared in the air and slammed into a nearby tree which broke it in half. She repeated this, only this time on a large boulder.

Next off, earth. This time she moved both her hands in an upward movement, like as if she was lifting something, and a solid block of earth rose up in a kind of wall. She jumped up into the air and kicked out simultaneously with each of her legs until she landed again. Giant boulders flew up into the air and landed with an extremely loud crash, causing nearby birds to call out in alarm and fly away.

Air was not her favourite but she still loved it. Korra sat on the ground, cross-legged, and closed her eyes. She brought her two hands together as if she was praying, let out a long calming breath and breathed in deeply. Soon enough, a rotating ball of air formed underneath her and she was floating in midair about two or three meters off the ground. She opened her eyes and cheered, thrusting out her left fist.
"I did it!"
As soon as she lost her concentration, Korra plummeted to the ground, landing on her back. She let out a cry of pain and started to rub the pain away.
"I guess I know how Ikki feels now." she chuckled, "I think I need to work a bit more on that one."

Last was her favourite of the elements and by far the one she could control the best, water.
Twisting and moving her arms around in smooth, sweeping motions, Korra controlled a large floating ball of water through the air. Sometimes she thrust both her arms out in a quick movement, creating massive force and breaking branches off of trees.

Korra continued controlling water, for some reason this element calmed her and made her feel safe. She let her mind go blank and let herself flow with the water.

"Mornin mom," Kat nodded to her mother as she plopped herself into a chair at the table. She looked expectantly at her mother for a minute before sighing. "I'm going to have to make myself breakfast, aren't I?" Slowly, she pushed her chair out and stood.

The options for breakfast were along the lines of cereal, toast, and/or eggs. Kat pulled out the toaster and shoved two pieces of bread into it. As she waited for the toast, she rubbed her eyes and thought about her dream. There had been a grayish dragon sitting on a single rock surrounded by water. It had turned its head to look at her, and Kat found herself staring into brilliant blue eyes. They seemed to grow larger, merging with everything else. The dragon breathed out a wisp of smoke, and Kat felt like the dragon was somehow a part of her. She reached out for the dragon, but before she could touch the sparkling scales, the smell of burning toast jerked her from her daydream.

Her toast was significantly charred around the edges, but luckily the middle had survived the lapse of attention. Kat grabbed it quickly, blowing on it to try and cool it down. She slapped it down on a plate and coated it with jelly. While she ate, her mind kept wandering back to the dragon sitting alone in the middle of the ocean. It seemed to be calling to her, trying to tell her something...

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Azuria sailed aimlessly over the seemingly endless expanse of water. She turned slightly, catching the wind in her large wings, and headed back towards land. Kat. she thought, and the name echoed around her mind. Katherine? Kat? I must find her. We must join to become one again. The gray dragon landed heavily on the beach, not paying attention, and her head spun. The only scent out over the water had been salt, but now there were so many new scents that she couldn't ascertain. Azuria could only make out one clear thought: that she must find her warrior.

Azuria folded her wings and walked towards the small cave she'd been using as a shelter for a few days. As she entered it, a weird sound echoed up to her from the back of the cave. She strained to see anything but couldn't, except for a crack too small for a dragon her size to fit through. After looking around a few times, she decided there was nothing else in the cave with her. But as she was still curious, she put her head down next to the crack and called, "Hello?" She waited a moment, hearing her small roar echo down through a tunnel system.

Korra was pulled out of her bending when she heard a loud scream coming from nearby.
"What was that?" she asked herself out loud.
She grabbed her jacket and ran through the trees in the direction of the voice. As she ran, Korra noticed birds fly up into the air, crying chirps of alarm. She reached the edge of the forest and found a boy on the ground, obviously in pain, holding his head as if he was having a migraine.
She rushed over to him and turned him over so that she could see his face. She blushed when she thought that he was quite cute.
Shaking her head of the thought, Korra took off her jacket and folded it up to place under his head.
"Excuse me," she said in a soft voice, "Are you alright?"
Oh my god, I hope he is... she thought.
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Naga soared over the ocean, along the coastline and over the beaches.
"Korra where are you? We are destined to become one." she said to herself.
As she flew across the sky, Naga spoted another dragon. She drifted down and landed with a thump on the sand and walked over to her.
"Hello?" she roared, "Are you looking for your rider?"

"There are other creatures down there!" Azuria gasped, turning to face Naga. "I think they're dragons!" she clawed at the gap, trying to widen it. A few rocks crumbled away, but other than that, nothing else happened. Azuria didn't give up, but her clawing grew slower. "Can you widen it from the other side?" she called to the other dragons, pausing her attempts for a moment.

"Watch it!" Azuria coughed, blinking to keep the dust out of her eyes. She managed to clear more rubble blocking the path from her side and began to push small boulders out of the way. Dust filled the air but she periodically cleared it away with her wings. "Almost there," she muttered, tunneling her way past a few huge boulders. When she finally stopped to catch her breath, a huge pile of boulders was looming over her. "Oh." she said simply, sitting down and gaping at it. "That's a lot of rocks."

Azuria got back to her feet and began to push boulders. She got onto her hind feet and began to widen the gaps between them, making them loose. A few stones tumbled towards her as she clawed at the gaps, but she dodged them. "Keep trying! I'm loosening some of them!" she roared, hoping the other dragons would hear her. She kept adjusting the stones, gradually making them wobble slightly. Azuria took a step back out of caution, worried the huge tower would collapse. She sighed in relief and disappointment as it didn't.