Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Avatar the Last Airbender or any of its characters.

Author's Note: This is the Sequel to Icefire Chronicles. This story is going to be very dark and psycological, especially in later chapters. However it's still going to have the same Zutara fluff in it as my other two stories. I'm sorry for the length this the longest chapter of all of my stories but it is worth it. Enjoy!!

Book 2: The Savage

Marina closed her eyes and she began to fall asleep. She knew that as soon as she achieved sleep, the dream would start. She had been having this dream a lot recently, the dream of her childhood…and how she became a darkbender.

Marina ran happily around the palace on Atlantis while her nanny watched from the sidelines. She ran towards the fountain and raised her arms. The water swirled around her and she jumped up. The water attached to her feet and she swirled around the room, laughing hysterically.

The nanny marveled at the child's powers. Ever since the princess had begun her waterbending training, it was like she couldn't stop.

"Marina! It's time for merbending practice!" her aunt called.

Marina however did not hear her aunt and she resumed bending the water around the room.

With a smile, Treia lifted her arms and the water around Marina twisted around and captured Marina in a bubble. Following Treia's movements, the bubble carried Marina across the room and it popped, soaking her completely.

"Auntie!" Marina yelled happily as she ran into the waiting arms of the water queen.

"Hey Sweetie, I saw your waterbending form." Treia said with a smile.

"You did? Did you like it?" she asked happily.

"Of course I did now come on, we need to get to practice."

Treia instructed Marina how to twist her fin and how to control the water currents around her to flow through the water. Within minutes, Marina mastered the form and she swam through the water, making faces at the fish. Treia couldn't help but laugh at her five year old niece's antics. Treia began teaching Marina how to merbend about eight months prior and she had already mastered it…she was truly unbelievable.

"Hello Sister." Lea said, swimming up to where the queen was watching Marina bend bubbles at the fish.

"How's her merbending coming along?" Lea asked.

"You should be proud Lea, I have never seen a child pick up on it so fast. I myself took at least a year and a half to master it and she's already done so in less than that!" said Treia.

"Ha-ha that's my girl. But she really must be going, I have to start the new form for her crystalbending and her father has to teach her advanced defensive techniques." Lea said before turning to her daughter.

"Marina, it's time to go!"

Marina looked up at the sound of her mother's voice and smiled. She had been waiting all day to see her mother and now was her chance to show off a little. Moving her arms back and forth, Marina rocketed forward and the water around her began to spin and propel her even more. She twisted around and landed smoothly on the marble floor. Spinning around, she bended the water back into the ocean and hugged her mother.

"Hiya Mommy. Did you like my merbendy thingy?" she asked.

"Of course I did Honey, but we have to go practice with daddy now. Go say bye-bye to Auntie." Lea said to her little girl.

"Bye-bye Auntie!" Marina waved to her as she took her mother's hand and they made their way to the palace courtyard.

Marina barely walked through the doors when she took off running towards her father. Prince Jayden looked at his baby girl and he swooped down to pick her up, nuzzling her cheek.

"How's my baby girl?" Jayden asked.

"I'm good Daddy."

"That's wonderful Sweetheart. Are you ready for practice?"

"Uh-huh!" she answered excitedly.

For the next two hours, Marina twisted and flipped around, completing waterbending techniques that even some of the older benders could not do.

"She is truly a prodigy!" said the water governor to Prince Jayden as they watched Marina crystalbend and perform the defensive forms she just learned.

"Yes she is and I am so proud of her." Jayden said to her as he watched his daughter in awe. He loved Marina more than anything, she was his world.

A seven year old Marina took a deep breath as she walked into her parents' throne room.

"Mom, Dad…can I talk to you for a minute?" Marina asked.

"Sure Honey, what is it?" asked Lea.

"Well it's about my waterbending. You know how much I love it and how much I enjoy doing the lessons with you, but I think it's time I went deeper into it. I'm really good at bending and I want to learn everything about it."

"So what are you saying?" Jayden asked.

Marina took a deep breath and continued, "I want to go to each of the tribes and the colony so I can learn more styles. Please Guys, I really want to learn more and I've already beaten most of the masters in battle like a hundred times."

Lea was about to say no when Jayden spoke, "Of course you can Sweetie. But you have to go to with an escort alright?"

"Yes! Oh thanks Guys!" Marina squealed in delight as she ran forward and hugged her father and kissed her mother on the cheek before running out of the room.

"I hope you know what you're doing Jayden." Lea said worriedly.

"Sure I do. She loves her bending so what's the harm of learning a few new moves."

Marina arrived two months later in the Southern Water Tribe and she met a waterbender named Shiarala that was kept secret from the Fire Nation. She immediately began her instruction and the elder bender was astounded at Marina's prowess.

"I'm going to teach you two lessons." Shiarala said. "The first is icebending, the ability to freeze the water and manipulate ice, and the second, to take water and bend it for your own use out of plants and the air.

In two years, she completely mastered the two bending forms and said good bye to Shiarala. Marina stood at the entrance of the Southern Tribe and headed to the Western Water Tribe.

The Western Water Tribe's art is very sacred to us." Chief Morak told nine year old Marina. "We take pride on using the katana to enhance our bending. In order to bend with the sword, you must first learn the ways of the sword."

Within five months, Marina returned to Chief Morak and began her waterbending tutelage.

"Using the katana, you must reach out to the water and using the sword motions, bend the water. The water will follow your exact movements and you will learn to do many new things with this form You can create extravagant water tunnels and shape the water into sharp razors."

Marina worked hard with her katana and she dove into the water. Landing on the ocean floor, she sliced her sword through the water and created a gigantic underwater tunnel.

Chief Morak watched from the balcony as Faldir trained Marina first in sword combat, then in the waterbending form. Both times he watched the child beat the captain of the guard with a smile on her face.

"Sorry about that Faldir, maybe you'll beat me next time." Marina said with a laugh while helping the fallen bender up.

"That's what you said last time…and the time before that!" Faldir said irritably but Marina only laughed.

A twelve year old Marina arrived in the Foggy Swamp Colony and she soon learned their waterbending techniques.

She was taught to manipulate the water in the plants so that she learned plantbending. She also learned to water bend in a stiff posture and rigid movements to add more grace to her waterbending.

Marina soon mastered the arts and she was able to do battle and defeat any swampbender who challenged her. After two years of hard work and determination, fourteen year old Marina traveled to the Eastern Water Tribe.

While in the Eastern Tribe, Chief Krakken taught her to shape the water into elegant movements to carve through any surface around her and how to survive during long periods of time without water. She then learned their unique art of waterbending archery. She mastered this form so greatly that she was able to strike a pebble in mid air from two hundred yards away during the dead of night.

As she advanced in her powers, she became very close friends with the Chief's son Kalik. Marina spent all of her time with him and she soon found herself dreaming about him and wishing he was around her constantly.

Later on, it was revealed that he returned her feelings and they began to date. Because of her relationship with Kalik, she avoided leaving the Eastern Tribe for as long as she could. On the day of her departure, Kalik gave her a beautiful pearl pendant and asked her to marry him when she returned. Marina accepted his offer and said that as soon as she returned, she would marry him. Kalik never saw her again.

Under the harsh instructions of Mater Pakku, Marina learned advanced forms of waterbending offensive and defensive tactics.

Under Yagoda's teachings, she learned the ways of the human body. She learned advanced healing methods and learned all the pressure points in the body, nonbending combat, acrobatics, as well as the chi paths. Marina however, was not satisfied with the results of her bending and she began to train even harder. Within a year, she combined all the forms of her waterbending into one unique, undefeatable form. It was so powerful that she even made Master Pakku break a sweat.

Finally, after ten long years of being away from home, a 16 and a half year old Marina finally mastered waterbending. Marina began to make preparations to return home to home to the Water Kingdom and from there, go find Kalik. Before she would leave though, she had to go say goodbye to a very dear friend that she had made while in the tribe, Rissa. She hugged her friend on top of the wall, both crying when Marina spotted something in the distance.

Panicking, Marina ran to inform her master and Chief Arnook about what she had seen and the benders immediately took arms. Mater Pakku was ordered to guard Marina while the rest of the fighters took their place on the wall. Marina watched from far away as the benders kept the Fire Navy fleet at bay before a huge explosion resounded through the tribe…the Fire Nation had broken through the wall.

Breaking free from Pakku's grip, Marina ran towards the wall, using her bending to propel her forwards. She lifted her arms and slammed them back down, bending a huge ice wall to prevent the firebenders from gaining further access to the tribe. She created an ice bridge and quickly defeated all of the firebenders around her, Another explosion shook the wall and Marina was knocked to the ground. Recovering from her fall, she looked up and gasped. Rissa was dead, her body was completely broken and huge black scar covered her face.

With a roar of anger, Marina jumped off of the wall and landed in the water below. She transformed into a mermaid and sped off towards to the boats. She moved her arms to all sides and bended large water razors to capsize the boats. Within twenty minutes, they were all dead. Marina used the water to take her back to the wall and she headed for the chief's palace.

"Chief Arnook! My departure has been delayed because of this tragedy. Once the wall has been rebuilt and the dead buried, will we pursue the remaining firebenders?" Marina asked.

"No, I have orders from the water queen herself that you are to be safely in Antlantica by this time tomorrow." he answered her.

"So you're going to sit back and do nothing? Half of your benders, your fellow tribesmen are dead. The Fire Nation must be punished!" Marina yelled.

"No! We have stayed out of the war for many years and we will not dive head first into it now." declared Chief Arnook.

"Then I command you to do so. I am the water princess so I am ordering you to go after them!" she cried desperately.

"I do not take orders from a spoiled princess. Now get on your boat!" Chief Arnook said angrily.

Marina strode angrily out of the throne room and using the cover of darkness, she began to gather allies to support her cause.

"We cannot sit by and watch as the Water Nation does nothing as our fellow brothers and sisters are being killed!" Marina said. "Stand with your princess and together we will assure that the murderers of the Fire Nation see justice." Marina declared.

Within the week, Marina and fifty other waterbenders hijacked a war boat and sailed for the Fire Nation.

After a month of sailing, the Gates of Azulon came into view.

"Marina! How do you expect to break through the Gates." cried one of the benders.

"The same way we got through the blockade, with hope, luck, and lots of steam. Don't give up hope now, we're almost there!" Marina said to them.

With a loud ding of a bell, a rope net began to creep across the water and was lit aflame. With a cry of anger, Marina bended a large water razor to cut through the gates with relative ease. Blocking out the cheers from her fellow benders, she created large waves by waving her arms to expand the hole she had created. Within minutes, at least twenty Fire Navy speedboats rocketed through the water to meet the invaders.

"Waterbenders attack!"

At her words, all of the benders charged forwards and entered battle with the firebenders. Marina waved her arms around, summoning the water from the ocean to her arms so she could bend them into water tentacles. Marina took out at least a dozen firebenders before something hard collided with her head and she blacked out.

Marina woke up two days later in a prison cell, chained to a metal chair. For three days she was tortured and disrespected while she heard the screams of her companions around her as they were killed. On the third day, she could take no more of the abuse and she began to think.

No matter what the ancient laws were, her life was in danger and she knew what she had to do, she had to darkbend. She tried to remember back to when she was looking through the ancient books so she could perform a simple move. She realized that she could bend her bodily fluids to do as she pleased, she began to practice using her spit.

The next day, the guard walked into her cell and began to insult her immediately.

"What's the matter waterbender? Too afraid to answer?" he said in a disgusted voice.

"I don't answer to pigs." Marina said defiantly. In a howl of rage, the guard struck her across the face, drawing blood from her mouth.

Marina smiled at him as she began to darkbend. The blood in her mouth expanded and she spit it out at him. The blood blasted him off his feet and he cracked his head on the wall behind him.

The other guard ran towards her and she spit at him. The spit hit his chest and it spread across it, freezing his upper torso. The guard screamed as she jerked her head forwards and his chest burst open. She used her eyes to summon the spit back to her and bended them into razors to slice her chains off of her and free her from the chair. She flipped over the chair and blasted the chair forward with a jet of her spit. The chair collided with two guards and they were knocked backwards.

Marina looked around the room at the bodies of the guards around her.

"Thank you." she said to them before she ran out of the cell door.

The guards in the hall gasped in fear as huge water waves crashed down on them from all sides. Marina bended the water into a slide and she used it to speed down the hallway and down the metal staircase of the prison. Leaping off the slide, she brought her arms together and the slide exploded, sending millions of razor sharp icicles into all of the guards around her. Marina turned around to see more guards coming at her and unleashed two huge tidal waves at them but instead of using her arms, she used her feet. She watched as her powerful waves swept them away and she smiled.

She felt strange darkbending but she also enjoyed it, she felt exhilarated. Marina ran as fast as she could down the hall and broke through the giant doors and ran out onto a beach. She looked around astounded; she was on an island in the middle of the Fire Nation. Her peaceful thought was stopped as she turned to see hundreds of guards running towards her. Marina stood in a bending stance and created a water whip. Using it, she froze as many guards as she could and knocked their hands out of the way before they could bend. She kept this up for at least a half an hour before one of them issued a command.

"Stop attacking!" he shouted.

Marina turned to face the man as he approached. He looked very important and he obviously was considering he just ordered the benders to cease fire.

"Listen to me right now!" Marina said dangerously, "You are going to release me or you're going to end up like the guards back in my cell!" Marina stopped talking and her eyes went wide.

"What did I just say?" she whispered to herself.

"Don't worry; we won't be attacking you anymore. The guards are very afraid of you now." he said, "I am Warren, Fire Lord Ozai's second in command general. And I must tell you I am very impressed. You truly are a remarkable waterbender."

Marina looked at him with a confused look and he continued to speak, "I happen to know a thing or two about Water Nation law and I know that you darkbended just now to escape."

"I did not! How could you say that to the princess of the Water Nation? It is my duty to uphold the laws and-"

"Save it for someone who cares." the general interrupted her. "You bended the water in your own body and did so with negative emotions. You feetbended and bloodbended the fluids in your body, two darkbending forms."

"So what if I did?" asked Marina.

"Nothing, I was just going to say I admire you and the Fire Nation could use someone like you."

"I will never join you!" Marina snarled.

"Why not? Here you are free to strengthen your bending and delve deeper into darkbending without any interruption or consequences." the general explained.

"Did you not hear me the first time?" Marina asked. "I said no!"

"Then perhaps you can be persuaded with a threat." he said holding out a letter. "This is the approval to attack the Western Water Tribe and leave no survivors. So maybe if you reconsider…I will just so happen to lose this letter."

"Then I have no choice." said Marina.

"Very well darkbender, your instruction begins."

"Darkbender, it has a nice ring to it." Unexpectedly, Marina smiled.

Over the span of two years, Marina mastered her darkbending to its fullest. She learned the form of bloodbending and using it, she could control someone using their own body, torture them by turning the water in the body to boiling hot, freeze someone from the inside, and drain water and blood right out of a person. She learned further control of the bodily fluids and could use them to her will, such as spit, sweat, tears, and blood. She could make someone explode in water or blood, poison the water in the body to give them a painful death, bend the water in her own body to become invisible, change appearance, or be able to perform amazing acrobatic feats, temporarily block the chi paths, and fight using jabs towards the direction of the body and the water made the contact for her. With further knowledge she also learned she could suffocate or drown someone in their own body. She became so advanced in this technique that she was even able to bloodbend without the assistance of the full moon.

Marina already mastered feetbending, the ability to fight or defend by bending the water through her feet And she also learned mentalbending. She could telepathically control someone to do anything she wanted or even erase their memories, she could even find someone using the blood in a person's body using this technique. She could also communicate with animal life using the water in the mind, particularly undersea ones. She could also bend water, plants, or people from far away using her mentalbending and create large storms.

By studying the element of air, she learned that she could bend the air itself by using the water in it. She could create tornados, manifest air blasts, or freeze and heat the air at will.

By studying the element of earth, she learned that she could bend the earth itself by using the water in it. She could create earthquakes, move and throw boulders, and create rock walls.

She also learned to create duel ice swords and ice claws that were so sharp they could split a rock in half.

And the last technique, her greatest technique, she discovered quite by accident. She was dueling with a firebender and he began to mock her. In anger, she sent a jet of water at him but he screamed and the rest of them gasped. She had bended blue fire. After practicing it further, she learned that it was water but her cold, hateful aura bended it to look like fire… she named it icefire.

After another year, she mastered icefire bending and learned that once she reached true water bending savagery, she could create two deadly beams of light. An ice beam, icefire mixed with water, and a hyper beam, icefire mixed with a bubble.

As soon as she mastered it completely, she began to act. She was an assassin for the Fire Nation and she already killed a great number of people including Ursa…but she wanted more. She challenged the general to a duel and killed him during it, earning the title of high general herself and she took command of his firebending army. But it was not enough, she set out and she found two waterbending apprentices that she could pass on her great knowledge to. Together, the darkbenders created a gigantic water palace that Marina resided in on a throne of crystal, it was there that she sensed a Water Nation fleet breaking water just off course of the Fire Nation.

She sent word ahead and she allowed them to pass into Fire Nation territory. Once they neared her island, she began to mentalbend. Marina created a gigantic storm and it caused half of the fleet to be destroyed. Those who abandoned the boats were pulled underwater and died, among those was Kalik. However one boat managed to reach the island, they charged into the palace expecting to meet the Fire General. Instead, they saw Marina sitting on her throne.

Putting the pieces together, the waterbender charged forward and leapt into the air, flying towards Marina. Marina's eyes turned dark blue and the waterbender froze in mid air. When he hit the ground, his body shattered and dissolved into water. Marina stood from her throne and bended the water to her hands and sent it spiraling at the other bender. The water hit her and with a flick of Marina's wrist, the water transformed into a blue flame that began to eat away at the girl's body. Seeing the mutilated body, Marina burst out laughing. She stopped however when she sensed someone lurking in the shadows. She sent a jet of icefire at the person and he dodged it and revealed himself in the fire's light…it was Prince Jayden, her father.

Marina commanded her apprentices to attack but they were no match for him. In a cry of rage, Marina sent a great blast of icefire at him and it hit, sending him flying backwards. Miraculously, Jayden lived, only to die four months later knowing that his baby girl tried to kill him. Very soon after, the Northern Tribe changed there entire culture just so that females couldn't learn waterbending to fight, they didn't want another Marina to take root.

A nineteen year old Marina smiled and looked from her throne onto her island. She had a dream, a dream to conquer the world and become Queen…and she knew she could do it.

Marina sat up straight, awakening from her sleep. She got up and she felt something in her eye, it was a tear.

"No, I cannot cry, it's a sign of weakness."

Marina curled her fingers and the tear turned into icefire, but it did not stop the other tears from pouring down her face.

Hi people's!! So this was the first chapter of the sequel to A New Beginning and Icefire, and just so you know...you can't read this one without reading the other ones first. Anyway sorry again about the length they won't be this long from here on out. I hope you enjoyed it. And I will be updating every Tuesday and Thursday evenings. REVIEW AND SPREAD THE WORD!! :)