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Book One: Water

Chapter 1: Finding the Avatar

This is going to be following the storyline of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I edited this from 6/20/13 because of grammar reasons and improvements.

I could never beat General Iroh in a game of Pai Sho because I never really play it, and lets be honest I am not very good at strategy games like he is. He always chose one piece, the white lotus. I went with a different piece, my favorite, the white dragon.

"You know, Kaya, Pai Sho is more than just a game," General Iroh tells me. I have no idea what that meant but I am really more focused on Zuko practicing his firebending on some other firebenders or the guards. He occasionally misses every now and then because of this rickety ship. He always had that scowl on his face when he did anything, especially firebending.

I saw him saunter over here in anger after he knocks all of the men out. He slammed his fist on the table, where General Iroh and I are playing Pai Sho, and started to get angry about how weak his fire is. He wished it would have been stronger, and begging Iroh to teach him new moves. Of course he rejected that and Zuko got more angry.

"Uncle? Who is this?" Zuko asked him and looked at me. "Never mind. I already know."

"My apologies for not introducing you even though he already knows you," General Iroh told me.

General Iroh specifically says that because he knows that I am originally from the water tribe. I was abandoned when I was little and growing up with no parents was hard. Discovering my talent for firebending was amazing, especially since no one else in the world could bend more than one element.

"She came here to assist me," General Iroh said.

General Iroh has helping me become the firebender I am. When I got to a certain age General Iroh took care of me or put a house over me. I am very grateful for that and I think of Iroh as my father sometimes. In respect I still call him General Iroh, but he says I could call him anything else if I wanted too.

"Assist you?" Zuko asked confused.

"Yes. Well more of assisting you. She will help with your firebending."

"I don't need help!"

"Everyone needs help with bending," Iroh said. "Even I could have more training for certain moves."

"Hmm," Zuko makes a slight noise out of his mouth and then looks at me. "Kaya, we haven't seen each other much since when we were kids. Where did you go after middle school? I felt like you just left."

"Sucks, I guess," I said. "And you kind of stopped talking to me, so I didn't bother talking to you. Plus, I probably need more help with my firebending with you for your information, Iroh was over exaggerating.

Zuko doesn't say anything and neither do I. We just have silent for a couple of minutes as Iroh and I resumed our game. I saw Iroh has his face into a bowl of ramen noodles. Zuko pulled a chair close to the table and faces towards me.

"We're trying to find the Avatar," Zuko told me. "We think he's somewhere around here. The Avatar went missing a hundred years ago, and a new one never came back. Kaya..."

"But why do you want to find him?" I asked him.

"Because of my father!" Zuko shouted. I knew about what happened to Zuko and I didn't think that was the reason he had to capture the Avatar. "He gave me this scar and now I must capture the Avatar to redeem my honor! You know this already! Don't play dumb with me!"

"What would your father do when he had the Avatar?"

"I think that you would find that obvious," Zuko said. "He would destroy him."

"Then you father would somehow love you again?" I asked him confused.

"My father loves me now!" he shouts and I become quiet because I don't know if I agree with that. The firelord is a horrible man, I thought. "You just don't see it Kaya! Even when we were kids you couldn't see it, so how could you now?"

"Okay," I said quickly. "Little harsh."

Zuko looked right at me and I felt like he really wanted to apologize. He just got up and resumed his training with the guards. He was always so stubborn when he was little, and I also thought he would change. Azula was the same as him, but with more support. I felt like he would have changed after all I did for him.

I apologize for the behavior of my nephew," Iroh said. "He had a very hard childhood."

"I know, I was there for a lot of it," I replied. "He was always angry, especially in his bending. Zuko and I have that in common when it came to firebending. I don't really know how to stop it, though."

"That is not good for you. Don't think of bending like that."

"What do I think of it then?"

"I can not tell you that, but maybe a little help from your ancestors would help."

"I don't know any of my family and I never will."

"They are closer than you think."

What was that supposed to mean? Iroh must have been hinting me something, but I didn't understand. All I wanted to do was get off this rickety ship.

I heard a loud crack noise and saw a huge beam of light in the distance. That had to be it. The Avatar must be over there because no one else could have made such a strong ray of light. I thought that the Avatar was dead, but I guess I was wrong. Everyone was wrong. I was happy, then, because hope came back to the world.

"Head toward that ray of light!" Zuko ordered.

"No!" I shouted and Zuko turned around glaring at me. "Just listen to me. Any other way?"

"What? Kaya, since we were kids we have always been friends. I just wish you wouldn't try to budge in all the time. I get that you were trying to help me then, but I'm older now and I can help myself!"

"Fine!" I yelled disappointed. Do what you want."

"I will! Toward the light!"

The ship moved toward the beam of light slightly moving to the right.

I got up and went to the bottom of the ship. I ran down the hallways and went into my room. I didn't know what to do and I didn't want to be a part of this. This ship will at least take a day to get there. I have at least twenty-four hours to warn the Avatar of what is coming to him. I need to warn him and then tell him who I really am.

I heard a knock on my door and I told them I am busy. I saw Iroh walked into the room and I grabbed my backpack. He sat down on the chair next to me desk, and looked sad.

"Yes?" I asked him.

"I see you are packing and I think I know why," Iroh said. "I think you should put on your watertribe uniform. So when you get there they won't have any suspicions. Be safe my child and be honest."

"What do I tell them? They'll get mad at me if I tell them where I am from."

"You will know when the time is right when it comes."

"Okay," I said and put a few things in my bag as Iroh walked toward me. He put his hand on my shoulder and I looked into his eyes, teary. He gave me a big goodbye hug and then left. He closed the door quietly and I put on my watertribe uniform. The moccasin was attached to a belt on the uniform and I bended water into it from the sink in the room.

I walked out of the room slowly making sure there are no guards. I ran through the ship and a guard comes out of nowhere. He bended fire at me and I deflected it. I bended water at him and made his feet frozen to the ground. He was trying to get out of it as I bended more water at him. The water pushed him against the wall and his whole body is frozen except for his face. He started to shout and then I ran to the back of the ship. I firebended the door down and went to the side of the ship. I jumped off and dove into the water.

I stopped for a second and heard someone shouting. Then the voice is Zuko and his Uncle Iroh trying to calm his down. He is trying to figure out what has happened and he thinks there is a spy on the ship.

I am running out of breath and so then I bend an air bubble around my head. I didn't use airbending for that, I just pushed all of the water away from my face. I am so glad I am a waterbender and then I started to swim. I bended the water and made it make me move faster.

I reached near where the beam of light was and went above the water. I looked and saw a girl and boy looking at this boy. He was bald and had arrows going all around his body. That meant he must be the Avatar, but I don't think they know that. Since he had a bison, he must be an airbender and his outfit looked like the air nomads. I only knew that because Iroh taught me so much about it.

They noticed me while I pulled myself out of the water. I bended all of the water off of me and the girls face looked happy. I walked up to them slowly, making sure that they wouldn't attack. The Avatar looked a little startled and I saw the other boy was holding his boomerang out in front of him. They must not get strangers that often so they are very aware.

I am very nervous to see the Avatar and talk to him for the first time ever.

I have finally decided to write about Avatar! It is based on it but basically just a new character that will change the storyline a little bit, but I will stay on the story line.

I don't really have a day that I am updating but I might update twice a week since it is summer. If not it will be every Sunday that I will update my story.

I don't mind any comments but please don't put any nasty ones!

Guys I looked back at the first chapters, and I was a new writer then, so I had mixed up with the tenses. I recently corrected it, but the next chapters aren't corrected yet. My latest ones are good, so check those out. :)