Avatar: The Last Airbender: Reawakening

5

They walked down the long hallway that would eventually lead them into the shrine. It was almost like a cave. Ice surrounded them as they travelled down the narrow passage way. Tau had no idea why the shrine had to be built so far into the ice but as he turned around to look back at where they came from he saw why. Anyone that came in here that was not supposed to come in would have a hard time getting out. The narrow pathway was the only way out and anyone inside would be easily trapped. Tau turned back around and continued down the path, making a mental note to not get anyone suspicious of his motives while they were in here.

They had probably walked a few hundred more feet and Tau could finally see the exit of the pathway. When they reached the end, the group looked around to see what was there. The shrine was smaller than Tau expected. He thought it would be the size of a large house but instead it was it was no bigger than a medium sized room. At least that makes the searching easier, he thought as he continued to scan the room. There was some of Kuruk's clothing, a weapon that reassembled a spear, some paintings, as well as a large shelf that held dozens of books. There was also a table place in the center of the room; Tau guessed it was so people could make themselves comfortable if they decided to read anything.

After assessing everything else that was there, Tau turned to his two friends, "Look through some of the books. If there is any information here, that is where it will be."

"There is no way we are going to be able to search through all of these Tau," Sorin said, but still walking over to the shelf as Ryu picked out a few of the books to look at.

"We don't have to," Tau told him, "Just look for anything that looks like it would mention spirits."

"Like this one?" Ryu cut in as he held up a book.

Tau walked over to him to look at the book he was holding, "Journey into the Spirit World. It looks promising, skim through it and see what you can find."

Ryu nodded and walked over to sit at the table and Sorin did the same after picking out a few other books to read.

Once they were settled, Tau went up to the bookshelf to pick something out for himself. A lot of it was just books about bending techniques or Avatar related subjects. As Tau continued to look up and down the shelf he suddenly stopped as his eyes fell on one of the books. It looked old, the cover seemed worn but that was expected for a book that was a couple of centuries old. He looked closer to examine the title, Kuruk's Journal. He picked the book off the shelf and walked over to where his friends were sitting.

"Find something?" Sorin asked as he sat down.

"His Journal," Tau replied, holding the book up for his companions to see, "I would think if Kuruk had found these spirits he would have wrote about it in here."

"Kuruk kept a journal?" Ryu looked up from the book that he was reading raising an eyebrow.

"Of course, a lot of Avatars did," Tau explained, "writing things down is the only way to keep record of history. Avatars are usually involved in things that are of great importance so many of them keep a journal of their lives for the record. I thought you would have known that."

"The Dai Li stopped caring about the Avatars decades ago. It was only until the current one returned that we had started to research the Avatar's history. We didn't get very far though and we were jailed a few months after. We didn't have time to find anything," Ryu explained, "How do you know about the journals though?"

"Sorin and I read Roku's before we met you," Tau said, "the Sages at the temple it was held at told us that it was one of many of the Avatar journals. They said that not all Avatars kept journals but a good amount of them did."