AVATAR: Daughter of War

Chapter 1: Water

Kiara's blue eyes gazed at her younger stepbrother as he played near the icy cold shore of the North Pole. As she pushed her black hair out of her face, her stepbrother Kais came running over to her.

"Ki look at what I found" Kais said, his cheeks red with excitement.

"Kais that is an Icicle" said Kiara "why are you so interested in that".

"Ki, it's inside the Icicle" said Kais.

When Kiara got a better look inside the icicle, she saw something dark. She reached to her side and pulled out a dagger, she grabbed the icicle from her brother's hand and started carefully shredding off the ice skin. When she was finished, she was amazed to find a perfectly swirled blue stone. Worry ceased her brow as she realized that she had this exact same mark on her left hand wrist.

"Kais lets go home sweetie" said Kiara as she reached out her hand to grab his. When they arrived home Kais took the stone from Kiara and ran over to mother.

"Mommy look at what I found" said Kais, his face filled with joy.

"Hello Kadira, he did not go too far to the shore" said Kiara, looking with worry at her stepmother.

"Kiara, call me mother ok" said Kadira "Oh Kais there is a story behind that stone sit down and let me tell you. You too Kiara".

Kadira explained everything about the past history of the world. Kais listened with absolute amazement while Kiara listened with boredom.

"Kadira I do not think that that is true" said Kiara with a picky tone "Benders" she snorted "what does that have to do with the stone".

"Kiara that stone is sacred to the water tribe. That stone is the spirit of water benders" said Kadira, handing the stone over to her.

"I have to put Kais to bed so you can head upstairs now" said Kadira, grabbing Kais from Kiara.

Kiara ran upstairs and shut the door. She walked calmly over to her bed and pulled up her sleeve. The burn marks of the swirl on her wrist burned as she held the matching sacred charm in her other hand. She put the charm on her left wrist in line with her mark, it started glowing and burning. The pain was so unbearable that it took all her strength to pull off the stone. When she inspected her wrist, the flesh was a brilliant red and had blisters surrounding the mark. As she took deep breaths she wondered if her stepmother's stories were true and benders do exist. She quickly shook that thought from her mind as she realized that benders existed over a century ago. Kiara decided to experiment anyway. She walked to the shore that she and Kais were on earlier. She stopped mid-way to hear Kais giggling as he snuck up behind her.

he decided to ignore him completely and keep walking. As she reached the edge of the shore, she paused to think how she could bend. She quickly sat down and decided to hold out her hands above the water. She closed her eyes and started waving her arms around in an elegant manner. She heard a little squeal coming from Kais. She opened her eyes to a scream coming from Kadira, who had come out to bring Kais back in. Kiara looked back at Kadira to see her wide-eyed and open mouthed. Those made her lose her concentration and the water dropped in their lap. She quickly stood up and ran into the house. While in her room Kadira came inside and sat down next to her. "Kiara how did you water bend" said Kadira, avoiding eye contact.

Kiara shrugged and said "Ever since Kais found that stone I had a hunch that I could water bend". She showed Kadira her mark on her wrist.

Kadira gasped and said " How come you never showed me that". Little did they know that they were being watched by a boat in the middle of the ocean, it was near the house. On the boat stood a boy about 16 years old, brown eyes and a huge scar on his left side of his face. He smiled and said to himself

"Don't be too proud bender, we will come when you least expect it".