1.The Bender Guardian
"Welcome, children. I hope you've come prepared.", called out the man on the podium, "Now you start a journey that never ends."
"Yeah, for you and the others, for me its just another dead end. Oh and I nearly forgot to say who I am. I am the heir of the largest and one of the most ancient bender families in America. I am Harold Goodswood, a boy, if you could not guess that from the cryptic gender neutral name I have (sarcasm, get it?). And mine was the most ordinary of the stories. For me anyways.
See I was the typical boy, born in a great family, with proverbial (like in a proverb, duh!) silver spoon in my mouth. I had no scarcity of anything. All was well and good. Until I reached the age of twelve, that is right now. Now I have to enroll at the Bender's Academy (They do not teach bending exercises there!!) and I haven't got a clue of what I am supposed to do.
For you to understand this you have to know that our world is just a parallel world to yours, that is we are in the world as you, but we stay hidden. Kind of like Harry Potter universe, just the difference is that we are real. We are of the ancient blood, and thus can control the various elements of nature. I know this sounds very much "Avatar: The Air Bender" type, because I guess it is. That story was not the only story of us leaked in your world ! But now don't assume that we live in Ivory towers, cut off from the rest of the world. Me and my peers like Coldplay songs as much as the next person does, though of course we have the pressure on us to act in a specific way. You wouldn't believe, but we have specific rules on how to do specific thing, even listening to music! Trust me, its not as good as it sounds.
So now back to the business. Right, so we have 6 different types of benders and we are supposed to show our powers, related to that element at the age of twelve, and then enroll at the Bender's Academy, where we will specilize in our own subject. So the time has come, and i haven't yet specilized in air, fire, thunder, water, invisible forces (Those are like having a giant robot which nobody else can see), or flux (Yeah, who am I kidding, like I would ever get the most powerful force in the world). So the trouble is what to do.
I really don't want to disappoint my parents, because frankly, you don't want to be the one who disappoints my parents, trust me. Its not like I don't want to, bit I can't. Yeah go on judge me, say-Harold, but you are born in such a great family, why can't you follow their footsteps? I say Bullshit! How do they expect me to survive the academy, without any powers, huh? You may say whatever you want to, but the fact remains, I can't do bending even if my life depended on it.
What will I do?
My life is an eternal struggle...and yet you say that high school is the most traumatizing period of life. Just wait for a glimpse of my life, and you will think it was paradise. Come on lets go for it...