Hiya, peeps, this is a new story that I just happened to think up, so I'm getting it down before I forget about it. FYI, all of my stories will be our time modern, since I can't really write a story without some modern technology, so deal with it. This is just meeting the Team, knowing how they are on the first day, stuff like that. It isn't really much, so . . . yeah. Enjoy!
Korra's POV
My name is Korra Raisman, I'm 11-years-old, and I just moved to Republic City from the Southern Water Tribe. The city's pretty cool, the neighborhood I live in now is awesome, and the middle school I'm attending soon is really big – two stories high! And did I mention I was homeschooled until I moved here? Yeah, well, that was only because I'm the Avatar and we didn't want everyone swarming around me if I went to a public or private school. And yes, I said "Avatar". But since my earth-bending teacher, Toph Beifong, is the Chief of Police here, she'll be coming down to teach me, so there's really no need to keep my thing a secret anymore.
I'm really hoping that I can make some friends. When I was being taught water-bending back in the Southern Tribe, all the other kids didn't like me – all because I'm a tomboy! I'm not kidding. I don't favor silk, heels, make-up, and jewelry and stuff; I favor leather, boots, a plain face, spiked cuffs, and jeans and that kind of stuff. I'm not really into the bling-bling sort of things. It's not me. I just hope that the kids here won't judge me because of the usual girl stereotype.
Tomorrow's the first day, and I'm restless. I don't know if I'm ever gonna fall asleep. This is the first year of Middle School – 6th Grade – and I am a nervous wreck. But I'll be able to fall asleep eventually. And I'm right. But the thing is, I don't fall asleep until 1:30 am and I have to wake up at 6:00 am now. Whatever, I'm always full of energy, even without sleep.
Okay, now it's 6:00 in the morning, and let me tell you this; I am not, and I repeat, AM NOT a morning person. My stupid alarm clock wouldn't go off, so I ended up throwing it across the room – and then it decided to stop ringing.
"Finally," I muttered to myself as I groggily climbed out of bed to the bathroom to wash my face.
I got dressed in a bright blue Hollister t-shirt with a blue-plaid, country jacket, navy blue skinny-jeans, black leather half-gloves, a navy blue leather spiked cuff on my right wrist, and black leather boots. I put my hair in a high pony-tail and left my long bangs out to frame my face. I grabbed my blue book-bag and went downstairs. I grabbed an apple, since I wasn't really hungry, stuffed my lunch in my bag, and headed down to the bus-stop down the street.
Mako's POV
My name's Mako Henderson, and let me tell you this; I am a balled-up piece of nervousness. Today's the first day of 6th grade for me and my 10-year-old brother, Bolin. He's two years younger than me, but I started school when I was 6, so that kinda explains the age thing; and I'm not turning 12 until next month.
I dressed myself in a red t-shirt, blue boy shorts, and new red-and-white Nikes. I'm casual, so I don't really "dress up" and make a first impression. I grabbed my red book-bag and knocked on my brother's bedroom door.
"Bo, you up?" I whisper-yelled through the door.
"Yeah, I'm almost done," I heard Bolin say as I heard him mumbling stuff like "Stupid shoe" and "Come on, book-bag, close!" I listened in amusement. Typical Bo. Just then, the door opened. He dressed himself the same way I did except his shirt and Nikes were a bright green. Earth-bender thing; I'm a fire-bender.
"You ready?" I asked him.
"Yeah, but I'm also pretty nervous," he said as we walked downstairs.
"So am I, but we'll pull it off," I said as I tossed him a banana – he loves them. I took an orange, stuffed our lunches in our bags, and talked as we walked out the door to the bus-stop down the street.
Asami's POV
My name is Asami Sato, and I am super nervous. It's the first day of middle school for me, and I'm so nervous, I think my dinner from last night might make a reappearance. I got out of bed, brushed out my long, wavy hair, and got dressed.
I'm wearing a lavender tank-top with small sequins on the top, a pair of pink rose earrings, a necklace with a white lotus blossom pendant, a light purple, rhinestone-studded flower bracelet on my right wrist, a knee-high purple uniform skirt, and metallic-pink sandals. I clip the right side of my hair with a pearl bobby-pin, leaving a strand of hair to frame my face, grab my lavender book-bag, and walk downstairs. I was almost late for the bus-stop since I woke up five minutes later than I should have, so I stuffed my lunch in my bag, grabbed a peach, and sped-walked to the bus-stop down the street.
Korra's POV
I stood next to the stop sign as I waited. There were groups of girls who talked about school while the boys threw a football around. Then, I saw two boys, the taller one wearing a red t-shirt eating an orange, and the shorter one wearing a green t-shirt and eating a banana. The taller one looked up so he could see where he was going. His amber-golden eyes landed on me. I have to say, he was kinda cute. We stood there, just staring at each other until the shorter boy snapped his fingers in front of the other's face.
"Mako, you there?" he said.
"What? Oh, sorry about that, Bolin," Mako said to the shorter boy.
"Nah, don't sweat it, bro," he said while swatting Mako on the shoulder. Those two look nothing alike, I thought to myself as I watched the two boys talk. Then, I realized I was still holding my apple core. I walked over to the nearby trash can and threw it in. I turned around, and BAM! I crashed right into someone and both of us landed on the ground.
Bolin's POV
I was just on my way to throw my banana peel away when out of nowhere, I crashed into a girl who was no older than 11. We both landed on the sidewalk. I quickly stood up and brushed myself off, but when I looked down, the girl I crashed into was still on the ground, rubbing her elbow.
"Whoops, heh, heh, my fault," I said as I held out my hand to help her up. She took it and stood up.
"No biggie; I'm used to it. I always end up falling on my butt at earth-bending practice, anyway," she said while dusting herself off. She looked up at me with electric blue eyes and a small smile. Earth-bender? She's dressed in blue get-up! I thought to myself as I looked over her tomboy attire.
"You're an earth-bender?" I asked her. The girl's smile became more visible.
"Yup," she said, making sure to pop her "p".
"But you look so . . . water tribe," I said as I gestured to her get-up. She chuckled.
"That's because I –" she was cut off when my brother, Mako, called my name.
"Dude, where were you? You just vanished!" he said as he stood next to me.
"Well, sorry, I was just throwing away my banana peel when I crashed into –" I looked over to the girl I knocked to the ground, " – sorry, I didn't catch your name." She chuckled again.
"My name's Korra," she told me with a bright smile.
"When I crashed into Korra!" I finished what I was saying to my older brother. He just rolled his eyes in amusement. Then I remembered something.
"Okay, to make this official, Korra, this is my older brother, Mako; Mako, this is the girl I accidentally knocked to the ground, Korra," I said as they shook hands.
"Hi," Korra said after letting go.
"Hey, sorry about my brother, he has a knack for getting into some weird situations," Mako said, side-glancing at me. I glared at him through narrow eyes. Korra just laughed.
"Yeah, I think I can see that," she said sarcastically. We returned our attention to her. I don't know what it was, but I can tell there's something really special about this girl.
Mako's POV
I haven't seen Korra around here before. She looked pretty new.
"So, are you new here?" I asked her as if I already knew her.
"Yeah, I just moved here from the Southern Water Tribe. I live in that blue house over there," she said, nodding her head backwards to the house she was referring to.
"We used to have a friend who lived there. She moved back to the Southern Tribe a few weeks ago, though," Bolin said.
"So, you were saying about you being an earth-bender?" Bolin said as he focused his attention back on her. Now I was confused.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Earth-bender? You sure you're not making stuff up, Bo?" I asked him with my hands in front of me.
"Yeah, I'm sure!" he said, "You were saying?"
"I know it might be a little hard for you guys to believe this, but . . ." Korra took a deep breath before she continued, ". . . I'm the Avatar." My eyes widened and Bolin's jaw dropped to the ground as she bit her lip with anxiety. It did make sense though.
"Wait, wha – how –you're saying that – what – how is that possible?" Bolin finally got out. Once again, I rolled my eyes with amusement.
"It makes sense, Bolin. The next Avatar was found in the Southern Water Tribe and was claimed to be a girl. Right now, she's working on mastering earth. Korra is a girl, she's from the Southern Water Tribe, and she can bend both water and earth. Try to connect the dots, here," I explained with a little hand motion. After a few seconds of staring off into space, Bolin put on an "Oh" face and turned to Korra. She was trying to hold back a laugh; you could tell by her watering eyes, red face, and her hand covering her mouth.
"Well, this morning was fortunate!" he said happily. Just then, the football that the other boys were throwing around started to come towards Korra.
"Look out!" My brother and I yelled in unison. She was confused.
"What?" she asked. She turned around just in time to see the football right in front of her. But the surprising thing is that she caught it with ease – with one hand!
She glanced over the ball to the boys who had on "Whoops" faces as they looked at the girl who caught they're football. She dropped her hands to her side and had on a "Really?" face. It was clear that she was definitely unimpressed.
Korra's POV
I wasn't impressed by this one bit. It was simply throwing and catching a football and these guys didn't even know how to aim it right!
"Seriously? And I thought you guys had some decent aim and catching skill to just plainly throw" I held up the football, "this around."
"Sorry about that," one boy said as he held up his arms as if he was about to catch something, "Think you could pass it back? Just be sure not to break a nail or anything!" Now I'm mad. Do I even look like the kinda girl who likes to wear fake nails?
"Sure thing," I said with a smirk. I easily threw a perfect spiral towards the boy. It landed in his gut – hard. Hard enough to knock him to the ground, as a matter of fact. I had a smug grin as everyone else looked at me with amazement. I'm so full of surprises. Then, the bus started to some down the drive. And the surprising thing is for me is that it was a double-decker – double-decker, I tell you! (Ok, I really don't know why, but I'm obsessed with double-deckers, so don't blame me!"
"No one told me the school's here have double-deckers as school buses!" I said as I turned to Mako. He didn't notice the bus, but once I spoke to him, he did.
"Yeah, guess they kinda left that part out at Open House for you yesterday, didn't they?" he asked me.
"Yeah," I said. The bus stopped and Mako, Bolin, and I decided to sit on the top deck. I gotta say, it was really cool.
For the rest of the bus ride to Dragon Flats Middle School, all we really talked about was our favorite things to do, our hobbies, stuff like that – just to get to know each other better.
"So what do you do at home – besides practicing earth and water-bending?" Bolin asked me.
"Uh, a lot of things, actually, so I'll just point out the big ones. Take playing sports, for example," I pointed out.
"Yeah, I think we all got the jest of you and sports earlier," Mako said with a small chuckle.
"Mmhm, you got that right," I replied, "There's also writing, practicing self-defense, playing "Just Dance 4" on both Wii and Konect, and . . . uh . . . oh yeah, playing the guitar and singing."
"You play and sing?" the brothers asked in unison. I nodded.
"Then let's hear it," Bolin said. That earned him a whop upside the head from his brother.
"Seriously, Bo?" he asked him with an annoyed tone.
"No, I don't mind, really, but I wanna check something, first," I said. I unzipped my book-bag as Bolin clapped his hands together and pointed at his brother with a sharp and know-it-all "Aha!" I just rolled my eyes at those two as I looked at my schedule.
"Okay, let's see . . . uh . . . okay, what is your schedule like for A day?" I asked them. They took out their schedules and we compared.
Raisman, Korra, Arabia
A: Social Studies – Tenzin – 1st Period
B: Accelerated Science – Kerr – 1st Period
A: Accelerated Gym – Beifong – 2nd Period
B: Accelerated Chorus – Pema – 2nd Period
A: Social Studies – Tenzin – 3rd Period
B: Accelerated Science – Kerr – 3rd Period
A, B: Accelerated Literature Lab – Crystial – 4th Period
A, B: Lunch – Dyson – 5th Period
A, B: Accelerated English/Language Arts – Crystial – 6th Period
A, B: Accelerated Math – Silveria – 7th-8th Periods
Henderson, Mako, Andy
A: Social Studies – Tenzin – 1st Period
B: Accelerated English/Language Arts – Crystial – 1st Period
A: Accelerated Gym – Beifong – 2nd Period
B: Accelerated Chorus – Pema – 2nd Period
A: Social Studies – Tenzin – 3rd Period
B: Accelerated English/Language Arts – Crystial – 3rd Period
A, B: Accelerated Science – Kerr – 4th Period
A, B: Lunch – Dyson – 5th Period
A, B: Accelerated Literature Lab – Crystial – 6th Period
A, B: Accelerated Math – Silveria – 7th-8th Periods
Henderson, Bolin, Dillion
A: Social Studies – Tenzin – 1st Period
B: Literature Lab – Crystial – 1st Period
A: Gym – Beifong – 2nd Period
B: Chorus – Pema – 2nd Period
A: Social Studies – Tenzin – 3rd Period
A, B: Science – Kerr – 4th Period
A, B: Lunch – Dyson – 5th Period
A, B: Science – Kerr – 6th Period
A, B: Math – Silveria – 7th-8th Periods
"Okay, so, by the looks of it, all three of us have Homeroom/1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 8th periods together," I said as I looked at each schedule. I took a quick glance over the railing, then did a double take, and realized we were already at the front of the school. They were dismissing the 6th graders to the gymnasium.
"Here already?" I asked as the brothers looked over the railing with me.
"Guess so. Come on, we're leaving now," Mako said while grabbing his schedule and red book-bag.
"Yeah, I can see that. Let's go, Bolin," I said while I stood up and gave Bolin his bag while I grabbed my own. We walked down to ground level and walked to the gymnasium. I have a strong feeling that this school year will be awesome.
Yeah, so, that's all I have so far, but I'll be updating again either later tonight or tomorrow. Well, that's all for now. Full and honesst reviews please!
DISCLAIMER:
I DO NOT own "The Legend of Korra". Belongs to Mike and Bryan.