Preface: Nearly two hundred years have passed since the time of Avatar Korra. Peace and chaos have lead to changes in the world, from the way people think, bend and go about life. Along with bending, technology has advanced far beyond the dreams of any cabbage stand merchant or humble southern water tribe girl. With the advances, it seems humanity has almost reached the peak of another glorious mountain.
However greed, jealousy and evil have festered in the shadows, and with the dawn of yet another age of wonder for humanity, these aspects of impending doom have taken much away from the Avatar in this first chapter. Though peace has been restored know it is only for a moment as a much greater evil looms ahead.
NOTE THIS IS IS MY FIRST FAN FIC AND COMMENTS WOULD BE GREAT!
NOTE I DO NOT OWN THE AVATAR SERIES IN ANY WAY! THIS IS A FANFIC I MADE IN MY SPARE TIME USING THE IDEAS OF THOSE CREATED FROM BOTH THE AVATAR: LAST AIRBENDER SERIES AND THE LEGEND OF KORRA.
AVATAR:TALES OF TORAN
CHAPTER ONE: A Bitter End
The skies had lit up in a vibrant affair of crimson and orange clouds over the banks of the rivers that night. Embers graced the winds and smoke drifted into the air out of the charred remains of what was once the Northern Industrial District of Republic City. It was clear by the massive crater in the ground and the numerous casualties that war had erupted. And only the ashes of all in its wake remained.
Amongst the ruins, undaunted by the byproducts of chaos, a lone boy shoved aside the wreckage of twisted smoldering steel and crushed stone. Not bothered enough to bend out the flames, not strong enough to muster the necessary chi, he dug through the heaps of searing scrap hoping to find—
And then there was a cough.
After quick bursts of shoving and pushing what seemed like endless piles of wreckage, he had found who he was looking for.
"Komi…" gasped the now unearthed women.
"MOTHER!"
Blanketed in soot the woman smiled up at the boy. "Of all the people in the world, I knew you'd be able to find me."
"Mom! You're safe I tho-you're hurt." A moment's glance at his mother had immediately brought him notice of a pool of blood forming by her side.
At the notice of her injury, a frown began to render across her previously faint smile. "Komi. Listen. I don't have much time."
Komi stood and ran around her in a circle, screaming for a medic, and to no avail he dropped to his knees at her side, wincing and beating himself for not being able to halt the inevitable fate of his mother.
Raising an arm to her son's knee, she tugged at the boy's ripped pant leg. "Komi. Listen. I need you to firebend a steady flame at my side to seal off the wound. It will give me some more time." she said patiently.
In disbelief Komi fell back at the 's words.
"No. I can get you real medical help, the White Lotus stormed in with us and they have the finest of the Southern Water Tribes medic units I'l- "
"Komi. Listen! Do this now, or else it will all end for nothing!"
Komi stopped his panicked logic and turned, teary eyed at his mother who coughed blood as she sat up in the wreckage.
"Don't move, I'll-" But before Komi could finish, the woman had already lifted her hand to her side and bent a small orb of flame. Rolling the ball gently against her side, she lurched forward at the pain and gritted her teeth so as to dam the screams from leaving her very chest. She then seared the wound away and brought a stop to the pool of blood by her side.
She winced, and shivered at the shear pain, but after a few moments of convulsion and gritting, she leaned back on a nearby rock and smiled.
"See Komi? I'm all better."
Komi, only seventeen welled up at the sight, and hugged as she winced again.
"You can't die! Not now! Never! You're the Avatar! There's so much I wanted to do with you and I'm so sorry fo-"
"I'm sorry Komi. I'm so sorry."
"No, don't be sorry mom. Please! Please! No! NO! NO! You can't leave me."
"Komi…"
"MOM! PLEASE!"
"Komi…"
"MOM!"
"Komi….shhhhhhhh. It's gonna be okay."
"But mom! You're dying and I couldn't even do something as simple as save you! And what about Nana and Turuk! And Dad!"
"Komi. I love you."
"I love you too mommy!"
He cried on for what seemed to him as an eternity, but it had to wait.
"Komi. You are my son, and I will always be proud of you. I love you so much, and I am so sorry that I couldn't always s be there for you, but please before I die could you listen?"
Komi sniffled, and let go of his mother.
"Komi. You must listen. A grave danger has come onto this world, an evil like no other. They have bee-"
She coughed, and lost her breath for a moment, leaning forward and holding her chest from the recoil. Komi leaned close help, but she pressed her hand against his arm and he sat back in the rubble.
Feeling even weaker after letting a spray of her blood release into the air, she gestured Komi to lean closer. He did so with his head ever closer to his mother's face.
"Komi. Evil draws closer…you know its face. You've seen….you've seen them in the council and the industries. Even in the streets. The ones that took me. That hid me for all these months. They're lurking in the shadows Komi. Torturing men, women and children underground in unknown facilities as they did me. Killing them by perhaps the thousands…"
"But they're gone now mom. You did it. You stopped them from hurting Turuk an-"
"No-no Komi I didn't. This was only one of their facilities Komi. Their heart of operations. They are like a fungus my son. They surround the city as a ring of mushrooms. Taking one stalk down will do nothing asthey have holds all around beneath and out of our sights…. they've taken so much from us already. For now I have only hurt them only so much as to buy you time Komi. They can't make any sudden moves for now. But they will….soon."
"But mom you're going to stop them…mom?"
"Komi. I'm afraid…I can't. I may be the Avatar my son, but I am human too. It seems my time has come. And all I can do now is hand the future to you. You my son….you have to….you have to help the others. You have to put a stop to this attroc-*cough*cough*cough"
She coughed and fell back on the stone behind her. Now blinking more and more, struggling to keep her eyes open that much longer.
Feebly raising her head off the stone's edge.
"You must find the next one Komi. Help them along their journey! Balance is yet restored, but you must…you must help him bring it back."
"Who? Who mom?"
She smiled."The next one. The next Avatar of course…"
"But mom…mom? Mom?!"
"I'm sorry I didn't stop this before this struggle broke out. Watch over your brother and sister. Tell everyone. Tell your father, Nana, Turuk. Tell them I love them."
Gripping her hand even tighter. "Of course I will mom."
"Komi. I'm not leaving you. I will always be with you. Komi. I love you."
Instinctively he nodded, as her grip began to loosen gradually. "I know mom. I know."
The avatar slowly closed her eyes, and with that drew her last breath. Komi shivered, eyes sealed but not enough to fight back the endless stream of tears.
"MOM!"
I dedicate this story to a good friend of mine. She got me into these fanfics, and since then I haven't stopped. I hope you enjoy Rhianne!