Out of body

I was alone, the scarfed girl had left. Lime had run off as I told him. He was highly intelligence, much more intelligent then he should have been. I was proud as he went off to do whatever he would.

I stayed at the center of the lion turtle shell. The center most area had a design across it, from what I could figure out it from the design. It was the lion turtle of earth, its shell was massive. Almost 3x the size of what the fire lion turtle was in the anime. I only figured that out from the massive echo caused if I struck hard enough on the shell. The inside was hollow, meaning it had no skeleton or dirt burying the inside.

The echo was heard across the entire island echoing even though the volcano. The massive sound, made a wailing like noise. If I didn't know what it was I would've been terrified. I wondered what kind of underground tunnels would make such a long unending echo.

I tried my best to use some form of seismic sense, but I had no idea how to even begin using it. I wanted to know what secrets laid within the tunnels and shell of the lion turtle. However to even begin to find some kind of opening would be impossible. Since the Echo followed through the entire island it meant there was enough material that the sound and vibration could pass through. The Tunnel then was a long funnel for the sound waves so any of the exists for the sounds would either be small, or hidden within the volcanoes.

I gave up trying to figure out anything with the shell, due to nothing would actually be gained from it. I could try to break off a piece and use it as a armor or shield. However the strength I needed to do so would be insane, so I sat down figuring maybe I could use the Shell as a conduit to contact the lion turtles again?

Going through the motions, I realized as I already knew. I had know clue what the spiritual world worked, or even how to begin with using any skills related to the spirits. I had abilities relating to them, i just had know clue on how to use them.

My best success begun when I was practicing energy bending. With the use of energy bending I could feel the energy within me. I couldn't manipulate it at all or even change it. While in this state though I could feel the energy of the shell, or at least some lingering energy that passed off the shell. I sat in this state for so long I didn't realize it was night. At some point the hours passed by instantly. My eyes widened as the design on the shell begun to glow.

I wasn't sure what I was doing, but the fact I blacked out seconds later. Followed by me standing over my own limp body told me I was doing something right. i thought how Lime would react if he saw my limp body, but a sudden jerk of force and I felt my vision move. I watched Lime chasing a...Rabbit frog through a small pond of water. The creature looked disgusting and I wasn't sure if that was intentional biology or not.

When I thought back to my body it shifted again. I could see my limp body, i remarked how small my breaths were and how loud my snores were. That could be a problem if anyone finds me in my current state. I thought about the other contestants and my vision blurred to each on I thought on. The Scarefed girl I saw huddled in a cave behind a waterfall. I tried to think on the island itself and a phantom pain cover my body. My vision shook slightly and I was high within the air as a ghostly form.

The island was small, but big at the same time. From my current angle I realized the reason the ditch was formed was due to a crest within the shell had formed it. The Shell was more similar to a tortoise then and actually turtle. It also meant the shell made up nearly 75% of the island's foundation.

My ghostly body was a blueish see-through. I had light passing through me which was neat. I looked at the skills I had. Only two things were different currently.

<Energy bending(15% ???){From Fire Blessing}>

<Spirit Shifting(Active)>

I had improved my energy bending and I found out spirit shifting meant I left my body. It was also a active skill not a passive one. It also had no progress like bending did. So That was interesting.

"The only thing I need now was to actually talk to the Lion Turtles, then this turn of events would be perfect."

"You can Talk with me now."

The disembodied voice was familiar, the voice was gravely. "Was this luck?"

"No Luck involved, however if you hadn't spoken. I wouldn't have known you were in my resting place as a spirit. Your progress is impressive, glad to see the earth bending making progress."

"Thanks, but are you going to be a disembodied voice?"

"Sadly, yes. However I can use a medium if you wish? It will be like an extremely vivid fog."

"Sure! Talking to voices out of no where didn't make me feel comfortable."

Haze begun to fill my sight, and a tiny palm sized lion turtle appeared in front of me. i couldn't make out my surrounding in the sky anymore, but the chibi lion turtle was amazing.

"You're so cute!"

"It is your brain that processes my medium into this form. I will agree it is...cute however."

The little chibi blushed, adorable.

"You wish to ask me something?"

"Oh right! Can you see this notification?"

I showed the scrambled mess of a interface text. -----Context:<?#$%^#@?#!?$&*>-----

"I do, before I answer. What do you see it as?"

"Garbled mess of symbols."

The medium nodded, and a white board appeared.

"Huh?"

"Oh that's interesting you brain process my explanation onto this panel. That's simple...To begin you aren't able to understand it, I however do see what it says. I will not tell you at this time, instead i will add two more objectives to your adventure. Also changing one slightly to fit your new...abilities."

As the turtle spoke the white board drew diagrams and little pictures.

"Alright? So its an ability?"

"I'll get to that, first the changed objective. You must become unwavering that way you can resist any changes that may happen to your spirit. That way you can become a vessel for what is to come."

"That sounds ominous...that doesn't tell me what objective changed either."

The whiteboard showed a picture of me with several dots and what looked like veins.

"You will get that information at another time, this relates to your new objectives. As sadly I am not the most spiritually gifted of the lion turtles. You must find the resting places of the other 3 lion turtles and show them the garbled message. They will be able to read it just like I can, once they do hopefully you may receive more information."

"So it's something related to spirits and you can't tell me because neither of us are skilled enough?"

The Lion Turtle blushed again slightly.

"I do apologize, and you have that correct. If you had the power of the avatar reincarnation cycles maybe you could've read the message like I. You might even have some understanding of it. Unfortunately I am not skilled enough, and you are only the lion turtles champion not a vessel for Raava or Vaatu."

"Dang...What about the second new objective?"

The White board made a diagram of yin and yang and balance of order and chaos. Depicting what I should and shouldn't do.

"It is a simple one, cause some chaos. Do not through the balance out however! Cause chaos that will lead the timeline astray from future events. While still following the order in which the current Avatar fight the fire lord and the next Avatar fights Raava."

"Really? Why?"

"I cannot tell you. You should however wake up. You are being surrounded by some malicious forces."

"Ugh! fine, I guess t goes with the garbled message. New problem how do I wake up and return to my body."

The lion turtle shook and begun to spin. It then slammed in to my forehead like a fucking red shell from mario. It didn't knock me out, but instead startled me awake. Just like the Lion Turtle said I was in fact surrounded.