A/N: Do you know how hard it is to try to make a story in a different genre other than "Harry Potter" and "Batman"? It really is. Here's my first story for "Avatar: Last Airbender". Since I'm already writing an A/N, I would like to inform the reader that in my stories, I often pair my OC with one key character (the one person she'll end up loving) and several others, because nobody is attracted to one person in a long journey like "Avatar: Last Airbender". I mean, really. Fans of Azula, Ty Lee, Mai, Zuko, Iroh, the Aang Gang, and whomever else you love in the series, you all will be pleased with this story, as it will possibly feature every person in the franchise. Enough chatter, enjoy the first chapter of "The Highest Bidder".
The Highest Bidder
Chapter One: Odd One Out
As a young woman once told the legendary tale of Avatar Aang, a second tale coincided in the journeys of the young heroes who saved three out of the four nations from a tyrannical leader of the Fire Nation. Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko intended to keep their promise to their newfound ally, Mura, who proved to be a dependable friend when the world needed her the most. It was on behalf of Katara that Fire Lord Zuko informed the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom, and the Northern and Southern Water Tribes that they had had a helping hand from the least likely of their former mates.
Mura's reputation was admirable and repulsive, and it wasn't for the lack of trying that she turned out to be an all right person in the end. She was very different from the rest, but her mind and loyalties were not unlike those of a common thief.
Mura had been very helpful in the war because of her special talent, an ability to move objects with her mind. Mura was a telekinetic, though her powers belonged to her free will and moral values. Often, during her journey from the opposite sides of the imperial war, Mura's mind would stall her ability: if Mura believed that it was wrong to destroy somebody's harm then nothing that she tried to do would work since it was her telekinesis that depended on her thought waves. Her loyalties were scattered in the air often, and nobody really knew whose side she was on until she decided at last minute.
During the war, it was a repeated assumption that Mura's loyalties belong to that of Princess Azula, for Azula demonstrated strong acts of control, power, and a sense of ambition: all three qualities that Mura admired. And on the other hand, Mura found Azula to be appalling, and when the Avatar persuaded her that Azula was not to be trusted, she took Aang's side, and fought for him.
However, despite all of her acts and the people she formally betrayed, it all came down to the bottom line that when she realized that her friend, Azula, lost her mind after Zuko and Katara confronted her, the highest bidder was Aang, for he knew right and wrong.
However, the means cannot always be justified by the end results.
On the stand, for charges of treason committed against the four nations, Mura is ordered to tell her side of the entire journey that led to the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai. If she is proven justifiable for the acts that she committed then she will be pardoned, and she will be recognized as one of the heroes. If the four nations convict her of criminal activity then she will be put to death.
After all, in the end, Mura's loyalties belonged to the highest bidder.