Avatar: The Prophecy of Seven

Chapter 1

Avatar Leo

Esperanza rushed over as her son set the table on fire. "Leo, no!" she cried, searching for the water bucket. "Sorry, mama!" said Leo, as he attempted to summon a large wave. Unfortunately, a small drop was all he could muster. Esperanza's eyes widened as she saw her son waterbending.

"Wh- how?! No... please, no..." Esperanza quickly put out the fire with the spare bucket of water she always had by her side when teaching Leo firebending. "What's wrong, mama?" asked Leo, completely unaware of what he was. But Esperanza knew that her son was no normal firebender,and immediately decided that she'd try her best to hide his newfound Avatar powers.

But someone was watching from the shadows.

Later that day, Leo was playing quietly in the living room when he heard screams coming from the garage. "Mama? Mama!" The boy rushed to the garage, but to his horror, found his mother stuck in her car, which had spontaneously combusted. "MAMA! NO!" Leo tried to summon some water, but was not very successful. "No! I have to- Mama! GAH!"a huge wave washed over the car, putting out the fire; but the damage was already done. " N-no..." the boy trembled and fell to his knees. A dark figure loomed over him.

"Leo...what have you done?" said a woman's voice.

Leo looked up, his eyes meeting the cloaked figure's

"W-what? This c-couldn't have been m-my fault..."

"Oh...but it was...don't you see? Your firebending did this. You were too careless. You killed your own mother".

Realization washed over him.

He screamed.

Suddenly, his eyes started to glow and all at once, chunks of earth were torn from the ground, high winds roared in his face, water pipes burst and his breaths turned into raging flames.

The figure smirked and cried out,

"Leo! You are the Avatar!"

Leo's eyes turned back to normal. The last thing he saw that day was the cloaked woman running away while a herd of bystanders rushed towards him.

Leo never told anyone about his powers. He was known as a firebender, but no one suspected anything else. The people never found the Avatar. There was concern at first, but it was a time of peace, so the buzz subsided. Leo was put into multiple foster homes, but ran away from all of them, afraid those families would meet the same fate as his mother.

Leo would practice his skills alone, so nobody would know except for him.

That is, except for the cloaked woman who was watching him for the duration of his life.

One day, the two of them met once again.

"Hello, Leo" said the woman

Leo was busy practicing his earthbending in the cave he resided in when he heard the familiar voice. He turned around.

"Wh- HEY! Who are you?! Do I know you?" He felt as if he'd seen the woman before, but couldn't quite remember where.

The woman made a "tch" sound with her mouth.

"You mean you don't remember the day of your mother's death?"

"How do you know about tha-"

A wave of trauma washed over him, as memories of that horrid day came back.

"You! You're the weirdo lady who started yelling all that creepy stuff about the Avatar! What's with you? And why are you dressed like some kind of cultist?"

The hooded lady laughed an unsettling laugh.

"I am no cultist, and my business here is very important, I'll have you know."

Leo sighed.

"Fine. What do you want, Lucy?"

"...Lucy?" asked the woman curiously.

"Yea, as in Lucifer? Like, Satan? You look like a devil worshipper" he replied.

The woman rolled her eyes. "Listen, Leo, I'm here to train you. As you probably know, you're the Avatar...so I am asking you to come with me, to master all four elements and save our world from impending doom!"

"Impending doom? What impending doom? Why should I listen to you, Voodoo Lady?!" Said Leo suspiciously.

The woman contemplated her response, a creepy smile settling on her face when she remembered what the Oracle of Delphi had told her long ago.

"You know nothing of the Prophecy of Seven?"

Leo raised a brow.

"Yikes, you just get weirder and weirder."

"So you don't know...well, I might as well tell you."

The robed woman spent the next hour explaining the magic behind prophecies, how they were like the entire future in a couple verses, how there were humans that embodied the spirits of the Oracles, how they were the ones who gave the prophecies.

"Okay, so how does all this voodoo stuff relate to me?"

"Rachel was the last Oracle to walk the earth, and coincidentally she was also the previous Avatar. Somehow, the spirit did not possess a new Oracle holder in time for her death. The Prophecy of Seven is the last prophecy ever spoken by the Oracle of Delphi. It reads:

Seven heroes shall answer the call

To storm or fire the world must fall

An oath to keep with a final breath

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death

You are one of the Seven."

Leo contemplated this for a while, rethinking the prophecy and looking for any signs that this might just be some dumb prank. Unfortunately for him, he found nothing that indicated such in the weirdo poem she cited.

Leo sighed once more and looked at her.

"How are you so sure I'm one of these seven heroes anyway?"

The woman raised her eyebrows. You are the Avatar. Can you think of a time when the Avatar wasn't the most crucial part of a possibly world-ending phenomenon, let alone an important figure?"

"Well, you have a point there...fine. What do you want?." Leo replied.

The woman smiled. "Come with me. I know a place where we can train without being seen..."

(A/N Hey! This is my first fic! I'm writing this with rainbowrocks113

sorry if anything is inaccurate. Please inform us if you see any mistakes! Anyway, that's all for now. SEE YA!)