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This takes place after the eclipse and a new character has been added with history.

The Avatar Apprentice: Chapter 1

The Fallen Prince

There he lay. Zuko. The once proud fire nation prince reduced to nothing lying on his knees in reverence. In front of him stood 5 dazed and dumfounded kids, overwhelmed by the choice they now had to make.

"What harm could he do as a prisoner?" said Katara, a bit mousey.

"How do we know this isn't a trap?" retorted the always militant Sokka.

Then Aang stAepped forward as he was the one who had to make the Descision. He was the Avatar and all but one of the group accepted the power he held.

"There is no other reason for you to come here. You wont be our prisoner. But you will be watched."

Just as Zuko stood, about to sigh in relief he was thrust a good 3 feet into the air. A stinging blade of water jolted him and sent him flying against a wall. The water quickly froze and the stone wall grew around him. The shadowy figure who had been looming behind the group was a thin lanky girl of about 16. She was clad in a simple blue tunic that lay gently on her dark southern water tribe colored skin wavered as she floated up to him on pillow of air. Her eyes met his as she raised a hand. Seperate streams of water rose around her wrist,freezing at a point on her long pointed finger. She placed the point on his jaw line , dragging it while starring into his wide fearful eyes.

"You'd BETTER be telling the truth." she whispered in a smooth cold voice. Before he could speak the stone that held him began slowly moving downward to meet the ground. He had never seen earth move so fluently. Come to think of It he didn't know this girl at all. He'd heard of another bender able to manipulate all of the elements but he thought it to be only the work of story tellers.

He watched as the girl moved her long arms, parting the stone and bringing the water back to a small pouch on her hip. As he steadied himself on his feet his words of thanks left him. He was now only confused.

The girl turned to the group.

"I'll take him to the room on the lower level." Her voice was now gentle and kind, almost bubbly as if the cold hearted terrifying woman had left her leaving behind a giddy average girl who did jot posses such immense power. She turned to Zuko with a pleasant but not completely smiling look. She nodded and began walking her hips swinging like she didn't have a care in the world, the light caught a shimmering shape that peeked out of the side sleeve of her tunic. He followed close behind her through what seemed like a million hallways until she came to a large door. She swept her arms firmly across her body and the door followed suit. He wondered if there was anything she couldn't use her bending for.

He followed her into the room. There was a bed in the far corner but nothing else. He couldn't complain though. It was better than the woods he had grow accustomed to and the fact that he had been spared made him grateful for everything.

"This is it. Oh I'd better set up a... my tattoos?" Her back was to him and he couldn't help but stare at the blue pattern on her shoulder. What he didn't understand was how she knew.

"Your heartbeat sped up. Alot of people get scared of it. I'm like Toph. She can pick up alot of little vibratons with her feet and I can do the same because I've pretty much mastered earthbending and when i met Toph she taught me... I'm rambling." She turned to him and shrugged.

"The Avatar apprentice marks are of many dragons. They go pretty much around my entire torso. You don't say much."

She looked at him with a childish honest glow. While she wanted to know this fallen prince he was convinced they were all here to foil his nonexistent dirty little secret.

"I-I know I'm walking on thin ice." he choked.

"I understand. The others have had more personal experience with you. They have reasons not to trust you. Keep in mind trust is earned and youll have a much easier time getting mine." she smiled weakly and turned to the wall pressing her hands into it.

"As I was saying I'm going to set up a tunneling system. It's how we communicate. For you I guess shoot a flame through the pipe that corresponds with where you want to send an alert. This one-" A low rumble shook the room as she removed the tubes of stone sending them shooting into the common area.

"-is for the common area. This one is for me KatarA and Toph's room. This for one for Sokka and Aang. Setting theses off will alert anyone to the main area outside. These are NOT to be taken lightly." Her voice became suddenly stern.

"I won't." Zuko said kindly.

"I promise." He smiled at her quickly retreating expecting his show of kindness to be rejected. Surprisingly she gave him a large smile. He was taken aback by the sweet glow that emanated from her huge smile. Her deep eyes sparkled in a large pool of purple that he'd never seen.

"Well I have to go. Oh and Zuko. Kunai."

"What?" Zuko asked placing his bag on the bed.

"My name. Kunai. By. And good luck." He watched as she swayed out of the room.

He sat down trying to take in what had happened to his life within the past 20 minutes. He had betrayed the only thing he had believed in since he was a little boy. He had put his life his fate and his destiny at the hands of the most powerful 14 year old in the world. He had been threatened by a terrifying bender with all the power of the Avatar. He had just found out that the Avatar apprentice a wives tale to scare children was real. Not only was their actually an Avatars apprentice but it was a girl. Not some terrifying evil brute but a thin lanky girl with breathtaking eyes and creamy brown skin. He payed on his back and prayed to Agni that someday this group would trust him. If he could not teach the Avatar he had nothing to live for. A wave of exhaustion hit him hard and as he drifted to sleep the name of that mesmerizing girl swarmed through his head. Kunai. Kunai. Kunai.

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