You're going to hear me roar

[raavashing]

Characters: Wan and OTA for anyone wanting to help him with his attempt to possess Asti
Date: between 10/15 and 10/24
Location: Zuko's
Situation: lots of talking and planning and trying to coordinate things in secret
Warnings/Rating: none

10/16 & 10-17 For those who've been contacted directly via Inboxes/Turtles

Wan had sent the messages from his console after spending a few hours mediating under his lantern. It was all the time he was going to spare for that consideration while he still felt that Zuko needed him there. Not all the time, since he was getting better and obviously so, but enough that he wanted to stay with him in the building that had been secured from further intrusions by violent kedan.

He wasn't going to wait for messages back, just hope that the people he contacted would come.

[[As Wan is staying with Zuko still, he's asked that meetings happen there. If you don't want Zuko to tag in occasionally, let us know.]]

For those who've heard about this indirectly and want in

Wan had gotten the word out mostly through Dante and Michelangelo, and had high hopes that whomever they contacted would get in touch with him. Since they knew so many more people than he did. He was nervous, but he'd given both firm answers about where he could be found. And maybe, just maybe, they could get organized enough to pull this off. Without Wan's soul being ripped apart or swallowed by the vastness of Asti's own personality and lifeforce.

Comments

[oceanblue]

Katara was entirely unsure of things, but given even a hint of an opportunity to help bring down the bad guy that had made her last two months a living nightmare was more than enough incentive to have her making her way to see Wan, even if he was staying with Zuko. She'd very easily attempt to set aside previous interactions for this.

Just as he had suggested after their sparring, the waterbender arrived at the fire sector home, taking in a deep breath before knocking on the door to his suite and mentally bracing herself for whatever lay on the other side. She had yet to face them together since she had had her untimely interruption.

But this was business. And everything in her being meant business when it came to helping the people of this world and ending the darkness that was trying to consume it...personal battles aside.

[raavashing]

Wan answered quickly, having expected a few people to show up once Dante and the others started spreading the word. Well, hoping people would, at least. He had not expected to see Katara, though. She and Zuko had been meeting when Wan wasn't around.

"Ah... hello," he greeted her awkwardly. "I thought you and Zuko were out sparring."

[oceanblue]

When Wan answered, she stayed exactly where he found her, offering him a weak smile as she shrugs a little in apology.

"Ah, we were, but now I'm here to talk to you," she explained, looking a little lost as she tried to find her footing. Her eyes shifted to the side, as if she couldn't meet his gaze directly just yet, and she sighed. "He told me you were planning something," she added quietly. "And...I want to help."

[raavashing]

"Oh."

The word hung in the air for a few moments before Wan shifted to the side and swept his arm up to invite her in, "Sure. We're still trying to get information right now, but we sort of have a plan."

[royalguard_style]

Dante got the message and headed right over. He knew Wan mainly by reputation and a few chance encounters, but that was enough to immediately know that this was probably something important, especially if he was contacted through Yin. He makes his way over immediately.

"Okay, we seriously need to talk about what the kids are learning from the two of you." Dante spoke up to the first person he saw. "But you probably have more important things to say."

[raavashing]

Wan leaned out the window and looked around for one of the turtles before waving Dante further into the room, "I think I know what you're talking about and you can blame Zuko for that."

He settled himself down on the floor and indicated Dante could take a seat wherever. The bedroom was only accessible via the window now because of how they'd boarded up the downstairs entrance in the wake of the kedan's attack on Zuko. It was as safe as any place could be at the moment.

"You know where the Great Darkness claims to be, don't you?"

[royalguard_style]

"I will." And he left the subject at that. He decided to lean on the wall instead of sitting down. He's far more active then usual, and if he sat down he might doze off mid-exposition.

"How could I not? Considering it was plastered all over the network." Dante had found out a few days before the masses thanks to Nillin, but he had to appreciate that someone had the guts to get it out in the open instead of doing this cloak and dagger nonsense.

[raavashing]

"I'm going to try to take his place. Force him out," Wan stated, eyes rising to meet Dante's. "But I don't know how and I don't believe I'll have enough power to do it alone. I need help. You seem to know a lot of people. I was hoping you'd know who to talk to for both. Power and information."

[redlightgreenlight]

The message had Valdis' mind reeling. She understood why it had to be in person, what will Mali having access to the consoles, but as to why he would bother telling her that it was safe, she had no idea. But her friend had asked her to come, so she did.

[raavashing]

When Valdis got there and got in through the window - because the majority of the downstairs had been cut off from access to Zuko's room - Wan greeted her with a gentle, if strained smile.

"Thank you for coming," he started, taking a deep breath as he settled himself cross-legged on Zuko's bed. "I have a request to ask of you. I need some information. About you."

[redlightgreenlight]

The moment she entered the room, she knew that something was different. Wan's smile was still soft and kind, but it was wrong somehow. She froze at his request, wondering if he had finally figured out that she was a monster. But no, he wouldn't confront her about that, would he?

She took a deep breath, preparing herself for the worst, while managing to appear perfectly calm on the outside. "What do you want to know?"

[raavashing]

"When you faced Anton," Wan said slowly, trying to figure out how to put it. "You said the power of the person you used to be had taken over. It's a dark power. But it is power. And there is light inside you that is just as powerful as that. Raava could feel you use that to push that darkness aside. I want to know if you've ever tried to use that light... or the darkness... to give it to anyone else. To- to combine your energy with another's."

[lordhotman]

Zuko was there when Valdis showed up, looking over when she arrived. He got up from where he was sitting next to Wan on his bed, and moved out of the way so the two could talk. He's oddly quiet, but listening nonetheless.

[backwordscompatible]

She got his message.

She wasn't entirely certain what this was all about, but she could guess. Nothing good. To start. And that was a best-case scenario.

After leaving a note behind for Jack--habit, these days, so that he wouldn't worry over her unexpected disappearance, should this end up monopolizing her time--Zatanna headed for Zuko's suite. She had to ask around before figure out which one was his, but once she did...she stood up straight and quietly knocked on the door.

"Wan? It's me."

[raavashing]

Wan looked out from one of the bedroom windows. He'd been sitting near it to listen in for people coming to the suite. Wan waved and called out, "The door doesn't work. We sealed the bedroom off from the ground floor. Come in through the window."

[backwordscompatible]

"Why would you--"

Actually, you know what? Never mind.

"Be up in a second."

He was just so lucky she could fly; exhausted as she was from keeping the Welcome Center guarded, she had enough energy to levitate herself up and to the window, where she graciously knocked before entering.

"Aside from the obvious, any particular reason for the added security?"

[raavashing]

"Zuko was attacked by a group of kedan a little over a week ago," he said simply. He hadn't exactly telegraphed that to his housemates on the days he'd been staying over there while he'd been healing. He hadn't wanted to draw attention to it. There was enough going on already.

"Thanks for coming," Wan continued, moving to get some tea for her and at least attempt to be a gracious host. "I wanted to ask you if you had any way of giving your power to others. To combine your energy with someone."

After a pause, "With me. I'm going to need as much power as I can get."

[12goingon113]

It took Aang a little longer than most to get the message and respond, not out of apathy or anything like that, but because he'd forgotten he had an Inbox to begin with.

Eventually there's a tentative knock at the door.

[lordhotman]

This time Zuko is the one to respond, looking out the window from the second story since the door is still... boarded up.

"Hey, you're here to talk to Wan, right?"

There have been a lot of visitors for that lately, after all.

[raavashing]

"Is that Aang or Korra," Wan's voice could be heard calling from further inside the suite behind Zuko.

[12goingon113]

Yeah, he was curious about that, hence the tentative knocking. Actually...there probably would have been tentative knocking anyway, but a boarded up front door is a good reason too.

Aang looks up at the sound of Zuko's voice from above, then back at the door, then back up again. "Uh huh. Should I just come up?"

10/16

[alphatar]

Korra wasn't expecting a message in her inbox, not when she practically forgot she even had one. The network had been unreliable in the last few months and she had refrained from relying on it too much. But when it came to Avatar stuff, from another Avatar no less, Korra was at Zuko's suite in no time.

As she was used to doing, Korra tapped on the glass of the window with the green ring on her finger. Easy to do from being on her haunches on a nearby branch.

[raavashing]

Wan opened the window, already knowing it was one of his lifetimes through their connection. He still couldn't tell which was which, but he'd come to accept that he might never be able to tell.

"Thank you for coming," he said with sad smile and his arms open, inviting an immediate hug.

[alphatar]

"Sure, as soon I could." Korra reached out and hugged him, using the older Avatar to help herself step into the room. "Not a lot of people call me about Avatar stuff." Like with Aang, Korra didn't have any problem giving a hug and she gave him a squeeze before looking around the suite.

"Is anything wrong?" The way things were going with her, the main reason anyone got a hold of her was because something bad was going down.

[raavashing]

"Nothing more than usual," he murmured, keeping his arms around her and resting his head against hers. That he didn't want to release the hug was probably a giveaway that he wasn't being entirely truthful. Though that wasn't entirely intentional. With how things had been lately, 'nothing more than usual' encompassed a lot of bad things.

"Have you heard where the Great Darkeness is?"