AN: Okay, so I decided to write a fanfic about my OC, Kei, as a teenager. I am going to introduce a few more OC's too, and I finally came up with a villain for this, too. I was having trouble with that part so I was putting off writing this fic. I am going to try and make the chapters fairly long since I usually have requests for longer and more detailed chapters.

Enjoy. ^^

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The Southern Water Tribe looks the same as ever to the teenaged bender. She approached the village on her own pet polar bear dog, overlooking the cold tribe. She noticed a few differences since she had last visited the tribe with her parents a few year ago. The tribe had become more populated, steadily growing over the years. It seemed to be more developed, now looking more like a small town instead of looking like a rundown tribe like it used to.

She stopped her pet just outside the tribe, just before they reached a memorial statue of the girl's mother: Avatar Korra. She looked up at it and smiled. "Hi, mom… we miss you back in the city…"

The girl slowly proceeded into the tribe, pulling her polar bear dog by its reigns to have him follow her as she walked to the other end of the tribe. As she approached her grandparent's igloo, she pulled her hood from her head, letting her dark brown hair fall past her shoulders. Though she had been born in the southern water tribe, she did not really look like someone who would come from their at all. She looked a lot like her father than her mother, though she did have the same hair color as her, but that was it.

She looked completely different than she had when she and her parents had last came to visit her grandparents. She was only ten at the time, and now she was eighteen. The young bender was all grown up. When her grandfather had opened the door to her, it took him a few moments to recognize her, but he soon allowed his granddaughter to enter seeing as there was a snow storm coming soon.

Senna had been sweeping the cabin, but she stopped her work once her eyes fell onto her granddaughter. She leaned the broom against the stone wall and walked over to greet her granddaughter with a hug. "It's been so long since we have seen you, Kei."

Kei smiled, returning her carrying grandmother's hug. "I've missed you guys… the city has really changed a lot since…" She sighed, not wanting to think about her parent's passing. Sure, she did have family to live with back in Republic City, but she had other plans in mind. She had been living her aunt and uncle for the past four years since her father had died when she was fourteen, but now she wanted to leave the city and do what she had vowed to do when her mom had passed away. "Well… it's just changed a lot…"

The water tribe women nodded, understanding the teenager wanting to avoid the subject. She ushered to young girl into the kitchen, asking her to join them at the table for some tea, which Kei had accepting since she had always loved tea. Kei smiled when Senna had brought her tea to her, recognizing it as both her and her mother's favorite.

Outside, they could hear the strong winds of the snow storm, signaling that the storm had arrived. Kei's grandfather, Tonraq, had allowed her polar bear dog to come inside the hut since it was house trained. It instantly made its way into the kitchen to be with its owner because he was so attached to Kei. She pet the white furred creature in between the ears.

Tonraq had now joined the two of them at the table, sitting next to his wife.

Senna looked over at Kei as she watched the teenager use her own bending ability to warm up her tea. Kei had always preferred her food or tea to be very hot, not mattering what it was. She guessed that was part of her being a fire bender. "So brings you all the way down here, Kei?" she asked her granddaughter.

Kei sighed after taking a drink of her tea. She had made a promise to her parents, and this was a promise that she was determined not to break, making it her one goal in life. If she did not succeed in doing so, she would feel like she had failed like her mother had felt when she had her bending taken away temporarily. She felt Tonraq and Senna's eyes on her as they waited for her answer.

"I made a promise to my parents the day mom died… it was a silent promise at the time… then I promise it again to dad before he died…" The fire bender paused, closing her eyes and slightly lifting up the red scarf she had around her neck enough so that it covered her mouth. Then she let the red fabric drop before she continued to speak. "I'm here to tell you two that I am going to find the next Avatar."

Senna and Tonraq sensed all of the determination in her voice, once again seeing their daughter in her. They remembered when Korra was only four and her showing the members of the White Lotus that she was the Avatar. "I'm the Avatar, you gotta deal with it!" she had said to them. The two of them knew that there would be no stopping the determined fire bender girl. Kei had inherited her mother's stubbornness after all.

Kei didn't stop there. "And I am going to be its fire bending teacher."

She was a very skilled fire bender, also learning how to bend lightning from her dad when she was twelve or thirty. She had a plan formulating in her mind as she continued to tell her plan to her grandparents. Kei knew that the next Avatar would be born as an earth bender, and the Avatar would be around the age six or seven. The sooner she would be able to teach the young Avatar fire, the sooner he or she would be able to move onto the next element, air, and then water after that.

She just had to find the Avatar.

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AN: I picked Bolin and Asami for Kei's aunt and uncle. I actually started to like that pairing when he helped her fight her father in the finale. Sweet. ^^

I hope you guys liked the first chapter!