DISCLAIMER: Sadly, I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. I only own my OC's
Chapter One: The Scar
"WHOOOOOHOOOO!" Akila shouted as she jumped. Akila is Avatar Korra's daughter. She has an older brother named Kobee, a waterbender, and a younger sister named Aya, a nonbender.
I grinned as I watched Akila jump off the steep, gray, jagged fifty-foot cliff, and watched her fall. I could see the wind whipping her light brown hair as she fell, with a look of pure joy on her face. Definitely different from how it usually curls around and just touches the tips of her soft, brown eyes, which settle against her beautiful cream colored skin. I shook the daydream off, and concentrated back onto the present.
As Akila neared the ground, she did a flip, and bright white-hot flames shot out of her hands, and she flew straight up. Did I mention she could firebend?
This flying technique was a move she had just mastered, and couldn't get enough of. She sent out even more flames from her hands, and she did a perfect flip, and landed, back facing the mountain wall. I turned to look at her so my back was to the edge.
"That was amazing!" she practically shouted. Her hair that was effortlessly wind-blown settled to the sides of her flushed cheeks, and I stifled a gasp.
"Yes!" I exclaimed. "I haven't seen you do so well before! Now it's my tur-" I turned and was prepared to jump off, scare Akila, and softly land on the small crevice I had created below, but I was interrupted.
"No!" Akila screamed. I turned and looked down. The forest at the bottom of the cliff was engulfed in the white, raging flames that only Akila could firebend.
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Five minutes later, we were back in Republic City. Akila jumped out of my satomobile before I'd even stopped, and grabbed Kobee right out of his noodles, struggling to pull him. Kobee's no tiny wimp. He brushed her off, and narrowed his eyes as he removed the water from his shirt by waterbending. He then splashed it all over Akila. In a moment of fright, she didn't even wince, or set his hair on fire like usual.
"What do you want, Akila?" he said, annoyed.
I stood next to Akila. "We may or may not have started a major forest fire that could spread and burn down the whole city," She said, with a nervous smile.
"WHAT?" he screamed. "I can't even begin to-"
"Save city now, kill us later," Akila reminded him. Kobee sighed angrily, and ran out to get in the satomobile. I drove as fast as I could, but by the time we got there, the whole forest was in flames, and Akila covered her mouth in shock.
"I... Did this?" she asked, knowing the terrible, inevitable answer awaiting her.
Kobee ran out as quickly as he could. he closed his eyes, and started doing extreme bending. He made strange moves, that resembled water. His long arms moved in curves, unlike the flat, solid moves that I, an earthbender had learned. The already slightly cloudy sky turned gray, and started to rain. Kobee then moved his hand toward the nearest river, and shifted his legs to be in a crouching stance. He moved his arm carefully over his head, and towards the fire. Slowly, the water lifted up, over him, and splashed all over the flames. The sizzled out.
I sighed in relief, but Kobee then sent the rain all towards the river, and soon the dry river was flowing with new vigor. I smiled a bit, then looked back at the forest. It was dark black, nothing alive. I had never felt such a sense of dread before. Akila and I stood shocked, but then Tobee collapsed. I bent a slab of rock to carefully carry him to the satomobile.
I looked back once more at the dead, bleak, black forest. So empty of hope, full of pain. This was a scar. A scar on the world, given by a child of the Avatar, and stopped by another. Akila is a powerful bender. She has just learned what this power can do when not used carefully. So had I.