Author's Note: This is my first ever girl on girl fanfiction. Now it's not going to be all smut. I love smut and there will be some smut, but I feel like there isn't enough lovey-dovey lesbian fanfiction out there. So here it is. I am a lesbian so I will try really hard? xD
"Ellie! Aang is here!" Cain excitedly shouted from the hall. I excitedly jumped off the bed and started to run down the hall. I skidded down the corridors with my air, excited to see my friend. I saw his bald hair and arrows, and tackled him to the ground.
"Aang! I've missed you so much!"
"I missed you too Ellie!" He laughed embracing me back. I was so happy to see him at the Western Air Temple again. He showed up so rarely that I clung to every chance of seeing him. I slowly got off of him, still smiling.
"So how has our honorary little brother been lately?" Aang's smile faded, and I looked up nervously at Cain. Cain put his hand on Aang's shoulder and smiled down at him.
"Let's go somewhere private. Okay Aang?" He nodded at my older brother, and we traveled on top of the cliff that the temple was under. Aang and I sat, looking at the view from the cliff. The wind blew furiously, as it often did. The view was not as beautiful as the other earth temples but it was still our home. Not Aang's home, but it was the home of Cain and I.
"Aang, what is wrong? You know you can tell us anything," I asked, looking at his face. He looked sad and distant.
"I'm the Avatar." His voice was sullen and sad. Cain smiled, his big goofy grin.
"That wonderful Aang!"
"No it isn't. Everyone treats me differently now. Most of the other kids won't play with me anymore. I feel like I'm being shunned. I don't want to be the Avatar."
"Aang, no one wants to be the Avatar. I don't think it's anyone's goal to have to make peace for the whole world. But I'm really glad that it is you. The Avatar should be someone like you, kind and understanding but still able to have some fun! And Cain and I, we don't think any differently of you now then we did ten minutes ago. You're still our baby brother Aang, whether you want to be or not. That's never going to change." He smiled at both of us. He swooped in and hugged me.
"Thank you Elyon. I think that's exactly what I needed to hear." Cain nudged him.
"Hey let's go play!" The two ran off, with me not far after. I really didn't like playing, as I was terrible at playing games. I slowly sat as I watched them playing with their airbending. How odd I must have looked next to them. Two young boys, one with a shaved head like the monks, and another with completely brown hair, short and soft. And then there was me, Elyon of the Western Air Temple. I was somewhat of a legend, as I had been born with blond hair. They had said that I had been touched by the Painted Lady, spirit of the Jang Hui river, because I had been born there in the Fire Nation. I was the only child any of them could ever remember seeing with blond hair. Now it was long enough that it came down into two braids, with my bangs framing my face. My gray eyes were the same as the others, but my hair was something everyone had wanted to touch when I was little.
Everyone had also disapproved of my tattoos. Normally I would have received normal airbenders tattoos like Aang had. But instead I had two arrows intertwining up my left leg. I was one of the only girls in the whole temple, and I refused to look like the rest. I had also refused to shave my head for the arrow. I had no intentions of becoming a nun, although men had never interested me in anyway. But I was determined to not live in the temple forever. I wanted to be a nomad, go wherever I pleased, instead of just occasionally to the Fire Nation. But more than anything I dreamed of seeing the Earth Kingdom. I wanted to see Omashu and Ba Sing Se. I wanted to do something other than live on top of a cliff with a bunch of men for the rest of my life.
That night, Aang slept next to me. We were tucked under the covers as Cain snored in the background. The nuns had put up a bit of a fight, but I had convinced them that nothing was going to happen between a fourteen year old girl and a twelve year old boy. Not that anything would have happened had he been older. I loved Aang as though he was my own brother. In my heart, he was my own brother and he always would be. For all we knew, he might very well be. They only knew Cain and I were siblings because we had been found together. But although Aang lived so far away, we still loved him. We wrote to him often, never forgetting how much we longed to see him.
He shifted a little bit uncomfortably, and I rubbed his bald head with my hand.
"Why me Elyon?" I could hear the tears in his voice as I held him.
"Because you are the only one meant for the job. You are perfect just the way you are. Aang. I know how scary this is for you Aang. But you're strong enough to do this. And I can't think of anyone I would rather have be the Avatar."
I held him as he cried, not knowing that it would be the last time I would ever hold him in my arms. Not knowing that it would be a long time before I saw him again.
Aang had left that morning without saying a word to Cain or I. He had left us a little love note, saying how sorry he was that he had to leave. I was so afraid that he was running away. Cain told me my fears were irrational. As much as I loved Aang, I had a bad feeling. And my bad feeling was right.
I sat out on the cliff, looking out towards the ocean. I saw flakes falling from the sky, but we rarely got snow, and when we did it wasn't this time of year. I let one fall into my hand and saw that it was ash. Then I heard the screaming. The events that happen next are still difficult for me to remember. I was so lost, so confused. Why would the Fire Nation waste their time with a bunch of Nomads? What would they want with us? I couldn't think, I couldn't breath. I saw the firebender approach me, but I didn't move. I saw the blast of fire coming at me, but I was frozen. Cain jumped in front of me, sending the flames back with his staff.
"Elyon what are you doing? RUN!" He grabbed my hand, almost dragging me as we sped down the corridors of the temple. Firebenders were after us as we sped down the halls. I saw the dead faces of children I had known, those I had loved. But I felt almost nothing, as though my feelings were frozen. We finally got the room Cain had planned, the room that would only be opened by airbending. It was already opened, and we rushed inside. He started to push it close, but it was too heavy.
"Ellie help me!" I snapped out of it and started pushing the door was almost closed when a firebender shot flames into the door. They hit Cain's arm, but it went straight into my face. I will never forget the look on that firebenders face. Because it was the last thing I would ever see. I remember screaming in the most intense pain I had ever felt. Cain tried to help me by finding water, but the pain was the most intense I had ever felt. For days I lied on the floor in agony, wishing death would take me too, wishing I would somehow be taken. Slowly the pain lessened, but when the pain finally went away, my sight did not return. Cain took off the bandages, and sounded very sorrowful.
"I'm sorry Ellie. There isn't any scarring or anything. But your eyes..."
"What about them Cain?" His breath let out in a sigh.
"They are white. Not gray anymore, but completely white."
"Well I'm blind Cain. I don't know what you expected."
"I wonder if it's safe to go outside yet..." His words sounded worried. I could remember what the room looked like but I could not remember how to get out. I could feel the cool stone floors beneath me, feel a subtle dryness in the air. It smelled like the monks robes had, a smell I had never truly noticed until now. I could hear Cain trying to push the door open, but it wouldn't budge, not even with airbending. My emotions were so clear now, so much so that I couldn't contain myself.
"The Fire Nation has taken everything from us! Everyone and everything we have loved! I thought they couldn't take anymore from us but they took my light, and our freedom! What do we do now? Are we going to starve to death Cain?"
"Ellie calm down? Y-you're glowing!" And then everything froze. Everything I knew stopped. It was as if I had stopped time in the room itself. I had no idea that that was exactly what I had done.