Avatar: The Modern World

by helenk94

Tana is an earth bender. But in the world where if benders bend, they will be executed, Tana is forced to live in hiding. But where's the Avatar? Is it really true that the Avatar cycle has broken? Or is the Avatar in hiding? Waiting for the right moment? The lives of Tana, her friends and her not -so-much friends.

1. Prologue

Prologue

Hi. My name is Tana. I am 17 years old and I'm an earth bender. I know, I know. That is weird.

Ever since the big war between benders and non-benders, it's hard to find a bender anywhere. The war happened over 50 years ago, when the benders were defeated and killed. Even the Avatar is believed to have been destroyed forever. There are very few benders left, and no one is dumb enough to bend in the streets. There's a law, that if you bend or see someone else bend, you must report them and that person will be executed.

It has been hard for my family, because of me. When I was little I used to get my non-bender parents into a lot of trouble. I even got my dad take the blame for me and say that he was the earth bender. I was 8 years old.

Now I live with my mum. I go to school, I work part time at a cafe and my life is as normal as it can get for an earth bender in the modern world.

I've never had a teacher. I learned it all by myself, which was hard at first but I got the hang of it. You see, every step I take the earth is calling me to bend and it is hard not to squash the heads of the bullies at my school, but in time you get used to it. I've never met another bender in my life, but how could I? Though I still believe that the Avatar is out there somewhere, waiting for the right moment.