Disclaimer: I don't own ATLA but I own Xiao.

First came the suffocating heat-

It was scorching and oppressive, pressing against skin and seeping deep into muscle, it churned and breathed pure heat until finally there was a shift and it boiled down to a hissing simmer. The cool air coiled, curled, and settled inside her stomach and she sighed in relief.

-then came the screaming wails-

Almost echoes of each other, grating and frantic in their pitch, escaping through fresh throats into the world and she was confused.

Disorientation clawed through her head as her eyes opened and blurry figures raced frantically across her vision.

-and the hushed voices-

There were hands everywhere - touching, always touching - and she could feel the sharp talons of panic and fear crawling their way up her throat because she had been dead.

She knew it like that back of her hand.

So to be breathing - to feel her heart beating - was terrifying.

But not so much more so that the sensations of the untamable heat deep inside her. No, that was its own monster.

-and the low hum of pain-

Crowing cries fell from lips that weren't fully hers as an arm cradled her up close to a bosom and fingers drifted over her scalp.

There was no mistaking the feeling of her own life dripping out from her veins, Lee Raleigh had died in the back seat of that car whether she liked it or not.

A mouth found its way to her brow as heat once again blossomed across her skin, racing down to the tips of her toes and back up to the crown of her head.

-and then came the realization-

And despite how she wanted to denydenydeny there was no ignoring the clear fact that currently, she was alive.

Alive and trapped inside of the body of a hapless newborn.

-the realization that maybe, just maybe there was more to dying that what meets the eye.

Fire.

The phenomenon of combustion manifested in light, flame, and heat.

One of the four elements of the world and if she went by the word of the nation in which she lived, it was the one that would rule them all.

I have headcanons that all the nations speak different languages/dialects and common tongue is English.

The Air Nation: Tibetan

The Earth Nation : Cantonese (Which is a form of Chinese since both the Earth Nation and the Fire Nation are influenced by them)

Fire Nation : Traditional Chinese

Water Nation: Inuit or Sireniki.

Common Tongue: English

Here's the revised first chapter.

7/18/16