I've been thinking about this story for a while now and I hope you guys like it. Please review. No Flames please, but constructive criticism is good. Her name is pronounced: Kuh-mar-ee (rhymes with Hermione from Harry Potter.)
Kimari's POV
I took a deep breath and placed my hands palm-to-palm.
"Like this Kimari." I felt my dad's touch as he lowered my hands, so that they were in front of my face. I kept all my concentration focused.
When he was satisfied with my posture, he released me. "Okay, now."
A small smile broke onto my lips and I pushed my body into a spiral. I felt myself being lifted into the air in something like a tornado. I kept spinning, trying to make it bigger.
Finally, I stopped my spinning and gently lowered myself to the snow feilds. Luckily, they were far from the village since I would constantly push myself to go farther. Being near the village would probably result in me accidently whipping it out when I tried out a new move.
My feet touched cold snow and I opened my eyes to see my dad looking at me.
"You did that perfectly Kimari," he praised me. I broke into a huge smile.
It meant alot to me when I did my airbending well. My dad and I were the only airbenders on the planet, which meant I would have to learn everything in order to teach it to others if they could airbend.
My name is Kimari. I'm the only daughter of Avatar Aang and Katara, though I just call them Dad and Mom. I'm also an only child.
I have friends though. I also hang out with my cousins whenever we visit them on Kyoshi Island. They're twins and their names are Hami and Rana.
I've been all over the world since both my parents love to travel and we have dad's bison, Appa.
As the daughter of the Avatar, I'm usually expected to be able to do something extrodinary. Lucky for me, I can both airbend and waterbend. As far as I know, I'm the only person in the world who can bend two elements, other than Dad of course.
I'm very close to both my parents, and they both teach me my bending. I can heal too. Not as well as Mom, more like just minor cuts, bruises, scrapes, etc.
I smiled at Dad. "Can I go penguin sledding now?" I asked. Yeah, penguin sledding at fourteen. I guess I inherited most of Dad's carefree spirit, though I am a little bit more serious. I got my looks from Mom; everyone says I look exactly like she did at fourteen, except for one thing: my eyes. Instead of Mom's clear ocean blue, my eyes got a shot of Dad's gray, so my eyes are more of a icy color. I call it ice blue.
Dad laughed and told me to be back before dinner and to have fun. Sometimes, he goes penguin sledding with me, but not today.
I smiled and went to find a small fish so I could catch the penguin. Then I went over to where they hang out most of the time. Luckily for me, they were all there. I smiled and walked out, holding the fish high in the air so they could all see it. As usual, they all ran, or waddled, over to me and I grabbed on by the scruff and had it follow me over to a big snow hill in front of the ice tunnels. I fed it the fish and got on it's back. I pushed off and we sped down the hill. My hood flew off pretty soon, okay I admit to using my bending to make us go a little faster. Just a little.
I sped through the tunnels and my laughter echoed off the walls. If I ever had any spare time here, I would explore the tunnels and I had almost every one of them memorized right along with my bending moves.
We kept like that for a while and the tunnel ended aprubtly by an old abandoned snow field. Mom told me this was where an old fire navy ship used to be and that it was used in the raids.
I
knew the war had stopped years ago but the place still had an eerie
feel to it. The fact that the Fire Nation had tried to take over the
world was always a little hard for me to wrap my mind around. I had
good friends in the Fire Nation and Fire Lord Zuko was always nice to
us. His son Zhen is a couple years old than I am, but he always finds
the time to spar with me when my parents go there for business or
just a friendly visit to see Zuko and Mai. I knew the whole story
about how Zuko had first betrayed my parents, uncle, and Toph, but
that was hard to believe since he was so nice to everyone now. My
parents won't tell me how he got his scar though. They said I should
ask him because it's his business. I've approached him before to ask
him, but the look of that vicious scar right on his eye always made
me stop. Going back to that would be painful for anyone.
The
penguin bucked me off its back and waddled off, sickened at the
thought of being used as a sled. I looked at the sinking sun and
judged it would be almost time for dinner. I decided to head back to
our home.
I lived with my parents in a big house not to far from my grandfather's, Chief Hakoda's, place. Everyone told me this place used to be a bunch of little huts surronded my a wall during the war. Now, it was considerably larger. There was a big courtyard, fountains everywhere, and waterways to move around in boats right in the town. Yeah, it's more of a town than a city.
As I walked through the city, everyone greeted me and I said hi to them. My luck ran out when Lakano saw me. I groaned and tried to get past him. He stopped me by grabbing my sleeve.
"Let go of me Lakano," I said firmly. He was always trying to get me to go out with him, so much that is was pathetic. The main reason I didn't like him was that he was shallow and didn't care for other people all that much, let alone animals.
"What's wrong Kimari Baby?" He asked, feigning innocence when he knew exactly what was going on.
"I'm in a hurry. Now let me go." He still held his grip. As much as I hated using my bending against people who couldn't amount to me in skill, I was quickly reaching my limit.
"Come on Babes. Let's go back to my place for a while." I scowled. This guy was really annoying me.
"I'm
in a hurry." I said and grabbed his wrist tight, with my other
hand I raised some snow up to his unprotected wrist and settled it
there.
"Let me go," I said again. He refused again and
I froze the snow so that it turned into ice and stuck to his skin.
"Want it to get bigger?" I asked, maliciously.
"I'll just bend myself out like last time Kimari; you know that."
I scowled at him and jerked free and flipped him to the ground. "I told you, I DON'T WANT TO DATE SOMEONE AS SHALLOW AS YOU." I said firmly and walked away.
I entered the house I shared with my family and saw Dad reading a letter. There was a Fire Nation messenger hawk on the window sill.
"Dad?" He was worrying me a little bit, with that look on his face. Mom, who was nearby, had an almost identical look.
"It's a message from Fire Lord Zuko. We need to go the Fire Nation Capital immediately."
Immediately? Must be important. I asked them for more information but they were both just as stubborn as me and they won out in the end.
"Well, you're not leaving me here." I said firmly and that was something I wouldn't budge on. They might need my help and I hadn't been to the Capital for a while anyway.
"Kimari..." Mom started, but she trailed off and looked at Dad. I knew her enough to the point I could read the look on her face. It said plain and clear, "Is it too dangerous?"
That was weird. Mom had trained me in waterbending herself and I was nearly as good as her. I still had some training to go through. The look only made me more stubborn. Mom mothered me sometimes just because I'm her "baby girl". Usually it didn't bother me, but I like to be my own person. She knew I was good. She just didn't like the idea of me getting hurt, though I rarely did.
"You might need my help if it's THAT bad," I said. I added a please just for good measure.
Dad, who always was eager for me to go with them, even seemed hesitant. "I can take care of myself," I said.
They looked at me and smiled. They knew I could. They'd both trained me.
"Okay, you can come," Dad said. Mom gave him the "look" as I called it. "But you need to stay at the palace if things get too dangerous."
I sighed inwardly. It was just a good thing that "too dangerous" for me was forty against one.
I smiled and hugged them. "Thanks. I'll go get my stuff."
Okay. There's chapter one. I guess you could say it's really just something to get you ready for the plot. Zhen(Zuko and Mai's only son) is one of her best friends even though she is two years younger. That's why Zutara wouldn't work in this story. Chapter Two will come out soon. Remember that I'm writing like, five stories at once here. Please read and review. That is the stuff writers live off of.