Chapter one
Things get complicated
I wanted to change some things a spruce things up to an old fic that is about a year old, most of it will be the same, but there will be some edits later on.
That little girl dared her to do such a thing. Yeah it was stupid, even if she lived alone in a large manor making a mess with dirt and water was a hassle.
The sixteen year old groaned, after all the mess that happened two months ago, she would have liked not to do such strange things. The night was surprisingly well lit, as she lit the touches. "I don't need to gather air, it's all around me." The dirt pile was nicely organized as a bucket of water was perfectly placed in the circle next to the pile of dirt.
The water bending girl had no idea why she was wasting her time with such a silly idea, but her neighbor dared her. Though one must question why a sixteen year old would care about what such a young girl had to say. "Well, it really doesn't matter at this point. Let me finish this so I can rub it in her face," The girl took a piece of paper out of her pocket as she slowly read the distorted words.
"Wǒ zhàohuàn nǐ de sì gè yàosù"
A moment of silence followed, as the girl looked around the main room.
Nothing changed; all the plants and pot stayed the same, none of the windows shattered. Overall, the event was rather disappointing. The girl had a small smile as she scoffed.
"I knew she was just pulling my leg, bringing back four random benders from the dead to act as my bodyguards. That's just silly." The girl turned away, preparing to walk up her steps, but she did not get far. A rumble was felt underneath her feet. It definitely was not an earthquake, so slowly turned around, and noticed the circle was shining a bright blue.
"Y-you have to be kidding me..."
"Ah, I wonder if Wěndìng did what I asked her to do..." The small girl looked towards her ceiling, wondering what her friend next door was doing.
At that moment, a soft blue light entered her window; it clearly was not natural as the girl blinked looked out of her room towards her neighbor's house.
"That...can't be right." It was a joke after all; nowhere in the little girls mind did she actually believe that such things would happen. After all, it was simply a story her grandmother told her when she was young.
"I better go check it," The small girl jumped out of bed as she prepared her dress and clothes.
Wěndìng eyes fluttered open as she squirmed, it seemed liked she was knocked out. At least that is what she assumed; as she finally let light in, she saw a familiar face. "Tuaq?" Wending groaned as she sat up, she was obviously in her bed as the small blue eyed girl smiled.
"Yep, you really gave me a scare, I thought you died or something." The small water-tribe girl smiled as Wending groaned slightly. It was a hassle, but it seemed she would have to leave the bed she looked out the window. It was still nighttime; it was obvious that she had not been asleep for long.
"Tuaq, you really shouldn't be out and about like this. Your mom would bite your head off if she found out," The older girl frowned as the little girl rubbed the back of her head.
"Actually Wending, I have to tell you something, and it's something important." Tuaq looked at the elder girl with bright blue eyes as Wending sighed once again,
"It can wait right? I need to clean up the main room, and see if there is any damages, I somewhat blame you for this," Wending looked at the small girl with a rather stern look Tuaq winced. Usually the little girl could get whatever she wanted out of Wending, all she had to do was pout and shed a couple of tears, but it seemed this was an actual important matter.
Speaking of important matters.
"Wending, you really should listen to what I have to say!" Tuaq raised her voice as the older girl continued to ignore her. Wending headed towards the door as Tuaq followed, hot on her heels.
"Really Wending, please listen to me!"
"Listening to you got me into this mess in the first place, I just hope the light wasn't strong enough to attract the police, those guys are assholes," Wending hurried down the stairs as she entered the main room of the manor. It seemed like the mess was already cleaned up, it was rather nice and all, but Wending was wondering who would clean up?
"Tuaq, did you do this?" The sixteen year old looked down at the ten year old girl as she shook her head.
"No, that's what I've been trying to tell yo-"
The small girl was cut off as footsteps came from the higher floor.
It was rather odd; after all Wending didn't have any plans for a visitor this late. Could it be someone else?
"It's about time you woke up, you really shouldn't keep someone like me waiting."
Wending simply looked towards the higher floor as she saw a teenage girl with amber eyes, for some reason she had a feeling that this girl was looking down on her, but that wasn't the point. "... Tuaq, who is this girl?" Wending asked as Tuaq pressed her fingers together.
"Y-you see, it seemed that myth I was talking about wasn't a myth at all. You really did manage to summon them."
Them, that was the word that entered Wending mind.
"Y-you mean there are more of these people in my house!" Before the small girl was given a chance to reply some entered the room from the kitchen, a boy that appeared to be in his late teens to early twenties. His hair was only shoulder length and he had green eyes.
"It seems my peasant master has finally awoken, and not a moment too soon, the company here is sickening."
The boy then glared at the amber-eyed girl, as her eyes narrowed. It seemed that something was about to go down, something that would cost a large sum of money to fix.
"Master! You're awake!"
Before Wending could even turn around, she felt someone tackle her, of course the blue-eyed girl known as Tuaq managed to avoid being hit, though it seemed she always got lucky with such things. A small tussle followed as Wending finally managed to pull the person off of her, too much of her surprise it seemed she was a twelve year old watertribe girl, at least that is what Wending assumed from her skin tone and clothing.
At this point Wending was speechless, she really did not know what to say in this kind of situation. Should she scream, or should she politely ask them to leave. The twelve-year-old girl simply blinked at Wending, who was still on the ground after the tackle. Tuaq remained quite along with the amber-eyed girl and the black haired boy.
After the long silence, Wending finally managed to force some words out of her mouth, though it sound a lot like pathetic pleading.
"T-Tuaq, what should I do!" Wending screamed as her little ten-year-old friend yelped.
"I-I, I'll go find one of grandmother's books. I'm sure they'll have answers for us!"
That was an excuse, she simply wanted to leave the awkward situation behind, after all she was in a room filled with absolute strangers, and it's not like Wending couldn't take care of herself. "Just keep them busy until I get back." Tuaq made a mad dash for the door, as Wending tried to get up to stop her, after all she didn't want to be left alone with a room with a bunch of crazy people, but alas, by the time she managed to get to her feet. The door was already closed.
...Once again silence filled the room as Wending simply blinked.
Before any of the four could open their mouths someone from the bathroom emerged, someone bald with a large blue arrow tattoo on his forehead. It was a man in his mid-too early twenties, from the look of things he was an air nomad.
"...Did I miss something?"
There they were. Wending, Tuaq and the four benders sat in chairs in the main room, all in a circle as opened up a large brick of a book. She slowly started to read the marked pages.
"Ah, it says that if you managed to summon four benders of the past, they will act as your familiars. Feeding off of your chi, not only are these creatures much stronger physically then most things in the living realm, but if they happen to be benders then their bending abilities will be dramatically increased."
"Yeah, yeah that is amazing and all, but how can I send them back."
As Wending asked such a thing Tuaq face darkened, it seemed she had some bad news to give.
"It says here, that the only way you can disband a familiar is if they either take too much damaged to sustain a physical form or if their master dies."
Neither of those ideas seemed to appeal to Wending, killing someone else isn't very nice. Nor did the idea of dying herself seem amazing.
"Okay, can I least have all of your names?" Wending looked towards the four unnamed benders as the black haired boy sighed.
"I am the 25th Earth king Wēiwǔ, though I doubt a peasant like you would understand that." Wending decided to ignore the backhanded comment as she turned to the twelve year old watertribe girl.
"Oh, my name in Panik, it's nice to meet you master!" She was oddly happy for someone who was supposed to be dead, but it seemed she would be the kindest out of the four that she summoned, so that is a blessing.
"My name is Cali, I am from th-"
"No one cares where you are from, we just need you name peasant." Weiwu crossed his arms as Cali simply sighed, it seemed like he did not want to start an argument over something as pointless as names so the nomad kept his mouth shut.
That only left...
Wending and the other all looked at the amber-eyed girl as she simply huffed.
"My name isn't important, even if I told fools like you I doubt any of you would know who I am."
"You dare call Weiwu the great a fool, you try are suicidal."
The amber eyed girl merely smirked as Wending slumped her shoulders.
"Well, I have to call you something...I'll think up a name for you later." Wending simply put off such a meaningless task as Tuaq snapped her fingers; it seemed as if she had an idea. Which usually is not good, because her idea is what got them in such a mess in the first place.
"Maybe you could go ask the Avatar, they usually know how to fix this kind of thing."
As Tuaq said such a thing, the amber-eyed teen chuckled.
"Do you really think the Avatar would do such a thing, they'll probably just end up killing that girl if they found out you were in control of such powerful beings." Tuaq looked down once again, truth be told it did make sense. The Avatar had to look out for everyone and she doubt she would make an exception for Wending.
"So in other words, it's best for us to avoid the Avatar at all cost?" Wending cocked her eye as the amber-eyed girl nodded.
"Yes, if my experience with an Avatar means anything, you will only find suffering and pain if you look to them for assistance."
"Ha, who need the Avatar when you have someone like me as your familiar, even if you are a peasant master?" Weiwu smirked as Panik nodded.
"Do not worry master; we will protect you no matter what. Even if it's from the Avatar, after all if you go down we all die."
Wending simply frowned, she knew the girl was trying to be nice, but it simply came off as an insult. However, Wending was use to those kinds of things in her life.
"Actually, master where are we exactly?"
Cali asked as Wending simply blinked.
"You're in my house."
The amber-eyed girl sighed; it was as if she knew such a response was stupid, perhaps insulting her was the best way to get information out of the person in front of her.
"We know that, he was asking what town or city we were in." Wending blushed slightly before stating the name of the city.
"Well we are in Republic City."
"So... you're really are a bloodbender." The room was dark as two figures engaged in conversation.
One was a woman who appeared to be in her early twenties the other appeared to be a young teenage boy.
"You should know, you are the one that summoned me."
The boy nodded before he asked one last question.
"Tell me familiar, what is your name?"
"Hama."
It was the next day, and nothing really had changed. That was the only thing they were allowed to do, walk around and observe, Wending did tell them to make sure they did not do anything odd, which is a rather vague request to begin with.
Not only that, but the airbender known as Cali was stuck back in the mansion, after all Air bender's aren't the most common anymore due to the fact that they were a little dead. This left the Earth bending king, the unknown Fire bender and the Water tribe girl wandering the city with no supervision.
Their master hoped that they would behave; after all they should know how to act around other people, even if they themselves aren't fully human.
...It was a mistake she should not make again.
The three simply walked around town, ignoring the hustle and bustle of the large city, for some reason the king known as Wēiwǔ seemed rather unsettled.
"Peasants, peasants everywhere." Those were his thoughts, and who could blame him for having them, after all there may be a chance that the poor would rub off of them and on to him. This would be very bad for someone of such stature as Weiwu, one such as he could not be seen hanging around such unsightly people.
The Fire bender sneered as she looked across the ground.
"Such a disgusting place, I don't know what's sadder, the fact that girl is living in such a nice home in such a horrid area, or the fact that this is supposed to be a city." Her attitude was that of a royal, one must wonder if she was once of royalty.
"Eh, really peasant, I thought such a place would be fitting for someone such as yourself?" Weiwu smirked at the amber-eyed girl who gave him a rather cruel glare. Panik of course simply looked at the two.
Truth be told, she did not really mind the city, it was kind of dingy, but it really wasn't offensive. Though she really did not know how royalty should act, so it was best to keep her mouth shut. So they walked around what seemed to be an endlessly pointless trail, having nothing catching their eye they started to wonder if the trip was a waste of time. However, something interesting caught the king's eyes, a game with a stone and three cups owned by a street vendor.
"You there, owner of this fine challenge!" It seemed like the late king did not know the arts of fine slang, or rather, he was above such thing.
The street vendor simply blinked at the young man as the amber-eyed girl groaned.
"He is asking if he could play..." She hated being the translator of stupidity, but it was something she had to deal with until she could figure out exactly what was going on.
The vendor simply nodded as he gained a smirk, he showed a small pebble along with three cups. It seemed they were about to play the most simplest of games in history. However all games require payment to play.
"Water bending peasant girl, give me the money. "The king held out his hand expecting Panik to simply give him the bag of coins, after all their master did give them the money to spend as they saw fit. This would be the perfect time to test such a thing.
"How much." The water tribe girl frowned; she didn't enjoy the idea of having her share of the money being spent on gambling.
"ALL OF IT!" He gave an order, something befitting a king of his stature, though one must wonder why he was getting excited for such a childish thing.
"I want to buy something, what happens if you lose all our money." Panik made a good point as Weiwu simply scoffed at the water tribe girl.
"Fool, its not like you're going to buy anything of use, now give me the money!" Panik simply sighed in defeat, she knew arguing with him would be meaningless as the amber eyed girl crossed her arms. It seemed as if the game was about to begin.
There they were, Wending and Cali sitting across from one another, in the large mansion by themselves, you would think a five-hundred year old Air bender would have something interesting to say, but he was a rather poor conservationist.
To be honest, the only reason Cali was still in the manor was because Wending knew that she couldn't send a random Air nomad out without arousing some suspicion, and she really didn't want the Air Acolytes coming and knocking at her door. In addition, having to tell someone that their entire race is almost dead would be in poor taste.
"Ah, so master why do I have to stay in the manor?" The man asked with genuine interest as Wending simply laughed, one should note that it was a rather awkward laugh.
"N-no reason, it's not like your entire race is dead or anything." Wending gave a small smirk, no doubt she was smoother than butter with her statment as the Air Nomad simply looked at his master confused.
"...What?" Cali cocked an eyebrow as Wending winced; she was surprised that she let such a thing slip out.
"I just had something in my throat; I wasn't saying anything important if I did it was a joke."
The room fell silent again, the two really had nothing in common, and neither of them really liked talking about themselves.
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"So, you're a water bender." Cali pointed out as Wending shrugged.
Being a bender was more annoying than helpful, she really didn't use it for anything important and with all the annoyances about bending about a month ago, she was glad she didn't live too deep in the city.
"Yeah, but it's really not a big deal, you can probably find better one's out in the city." Wending sat back in her sat. They were waiting for Tuaq to get back with her grandmother's notes, after all they were the only guide they had for figuring this oddity out.
"You know, everyone from the temples are benders, no one isn't an Air bender where I come from."
"Um, I know you haven't noticed this, but you've been dead for a while. You have no idea how much the world has changed." Wending pointed out as the Air bender sighed.
"Well, I think I died about six hundred years ago, but I was only summoned once before this."
Wending eyes widen as he stated the last comment, it seem like familiars could be summoned more than once. After the master dies they most likely fade away to be summoned again for later. Wending made a mental note.
Before their conversation could continue a knock on the door entered the room.
"Ah, Tuaq back already?"
Wending left her seat as she walked towards the door, she opened it reveling a small ten year old girl with glasses, holding a large stack of books. It was rather odd, Tuaq very rarely wore her glasses unless she was reading fairly small print. Though it was a perfect fit, after all she did want to be a scholar.
"I've found even more things; this is so exciting, my best friend making one of the greatest discoveries ever!"
She was rather excited for something that was not really all that important, and despite being a water bender herself the Tuaq had no interest in such things. Wending grumbled as she let her friend in, thinking back on it. Tuaq was her only friend and that was rather odd. Tuaq was ten and Wending was sixteen, Wending probably should be hanging out with people her own age, to bad people her own age were rather stupid.
"Hi Cali." The small girl waved towards the Air bender as he waved back, she then took a seat next Wending before she opened one of the large books.
"I took out the time to book mark some points and abilities of interest about familiars. I'll read them off to you and we'll test and check each one of them out when we get the time."
Wending crossed her arms, she knew this was going to be a rather long rant, but she would have to grin and bear it. After all Tuaq was taking time out of her day to come over and help Wending, who was she to complain.
"Well first, it seems the Avatar cannot have familiars, it is an impossibly of the highest level. We have a higher chance of a comet striking the earth than the Avatar gaining familiars. I would go into more detail, but since neither of us is Avatar's it is pointless."
That was a good thing, after all no one needed information that did not have anything to do with him or her. To be honest Wending questioned why her friend even brought it up, she wondered if there was some sort of invisible audience for everything and the only reason Tuaq said such a pointless thing was to help them out, but that would be just silly.
"Next it seems along with physical enhancement, a familiar gains a special ability that is formed by their strongest trait while they were alive."
Wending tilted her head. "Could you please elaborate on that." It seemed like the teen was confused on such an odd thing as Tuaq nodded.
"We'll let just say someone's strongest trait was lying, then they may gain an ability that allows them to make others believe any lie they tell."
That could be helpful later, but Wending did not really see any use for it right now, nor did she know any of her own familiars abilities.
"Anything else?" Wending asked as Tuaq pressed her finger to her lips.
"Well, there have been recent earthquake's that have been appearing lately in the area. I was wondering if you would help me check it out tonight." Tuaq gave a light smile as Wending frowned; she was not in the mood to be looking around at night for something odd. She had enough of that during the day.
"Can't we let the police handle that kind of stuff, despite popular opinion that is why they are there?" Wending crossed her arms and Tuaq lips quivered.
"B-but we might solve a mystery or rewrite history!"
"Worthless things that no one cares about." Wending countered the small girl's pleas.
"Maybe we should look into it master, I mean what is the worse that could happen, plus it will give you an idea on what you should avoid." Cali smiled before Wending glared at him.
Before the conversation could continue a large honking noise came from outside, causing the three to head towards the door, what they saw outside was rather shocking, if not a little crazy. There they were, just sitting in a car, the king known as Wēiwǔ was obviously the driver, which would explain the many bumps on the bumper and hood. The unnamed fire bender was in the passenger seat as the small water-bending girl was in the back seat with what appeared to be large sacks of money.
Wending lost all color to her face as she began to stutter.
"H-how d-did you guys get all of this!" Wending screamed as Panik jumped out of the back seat smiling. "We won it!". This of course caused Weiwu to scoff at such a silly idea.
"We? HA who is this we? I the greatest king in the entire world won us this small amount of what you would call money, I the great Weiwu!"
"I don't know, but I have this weird hammy taste in my mouth." Tuaq frowned as the fire bender sighed before exiting the car as well.
"We visited a few places, that is all you have to know. We best get this into the manor before some idiotic peasants start to hound us...you."
The Fire bender then looked at Cali who simply blinked.
"Take the bags in, we'll decide what to do with them then."
The air bender grumbled, he would rather not argue with anyone, and it's not like he was doing anything important anyway.
"Okay..."
As everyone slowly reentered the house the King had to give a command, no one knew why he had to give it, but he simply had to give it.
"I wish to eat something...master make me something to eat!" Wending slumped her shoulders at such a demand.
She was use to cooking for herself and Tuaq, but never for such a large group of people. However, it was nearing lunchtime and she doubted any of them had anything before now. However, something else crossed Wending's mind. What was she going to do with the car? Judging from the damage, she really could not just let anyone drive it. Not with the risk, that someone from the police force might pull them over. In addition, she herself did not know how to drive.
"Whatever, I just need to make everyone something."
She then looked around the room, Wending noted that Cali just got back inside from carrying all the bags, this means she had to make food for six people. She had no idea what any of them ate or anything of that nature, no doubt she would fail, since failure was the only option at this point.
"I'll just wing it."
Author note
This first chapter is pretty much the same as the orginal, though I'll probably touch it up a little later on and fix some inconsistencies from the original