Avatar Fan fiction! Avani
What if a secret avatar existed that no one knows? Somewhere in the endless spans of time this phenomenon has happened, maybe even more than once, but that is for a different story. This is the story untold .the story of the unknown avatar Avani and her role as the avatar. Avani was an earthbender who lived in a small village in the earth kingdom she was about seventeen. Avani was always a very serious girl with a passion for earth bending and the latest styles. She didn't really think about boys much, because she'd rather be practicing her bending or studying. She was almost always found with her friend Akemi, who's the only fire bender in the village and the two of them sparred quite often. This story takes place in their village during its time of harvest.
Chapter one: The unknown.
"Avani honey, wake up there's someone at the door for you!" Avani slowly rises out of bed and wipes her long auburn hair out of her face and puts it into a single ponytail. She mumbles unrepeatable words as she heads for the door. Her friend is waiting for her. "Akemi?" she says confused. A girl about seventeen or so stands in the doorway trying to catch her breath."Akemi, what's wrong?" "you…huff…need to go to…huff… to town!" she grabs Avani's hand and starts running."Akemi, what's the rush?" they arrive in the town square and Akemi gives Avani a strange look and slowly mutters "look" and she points to a strange looking man with almost orange hair and a small beard. He starts to speak loudly to a crowd. "Thank you all for your attention; I must share something very important with you today." Avani looks with an intrigued face. "This town will soon be seized by the new age army, aiming to unite all countries as one." Most of the crowd's attention is taken by two town guards approaching. The man starts speaking faster. "we are offering this one chance to join our army or be put to work by the new age empire further more…" his speech is cut short by the two guards who pull him away and execute him on the spot. "Oh god…" Avani says in disgust, turning her head. Akemi looks at her worried. "Do you think what he said is true Avani, about the army?" "No Akemi." She replies. "They're just trying to get members for their organization." she looks down and all the possibilities of destruction run through her mind. "It won't happen… It can't."
Later that night Avani is awoken by the sound of crackling and a blazing heat. She bolts up only to face the horror of her own home being burned. She can hear her family screaming just across the door, but Avani knows that nothing can be done. She tries to assess the situation but falls as the heat overwhelms her, she manages to gather just enough strength to pull herself to her knees and earthbend her way out of the house. She stops and gasps for air. Panting, she wastes no time sprinting as fast as she can towards her friend Akemi's house. She is startled and shocked when she sees Akemi trying to fight her way out of three warriors in strange outfits, who are relentlessly fire and earth bending towards her. But Akemi's fire bending can only hold out for so long until she collapses and the warriors stand over her waiting to strike. Avani seizes her opportunity to attack furiously hurling large rocks at the attackers but they manage to bob and weave their way out of most of the boulders, they begin their onslaught on Avani with a flurry of fire followed by hunks of rocks. Avani tries to dodge their attacks but is eventually taken by the force of a flaming boulder. It catches her in the stomach, but Avani stays down as if playing possum and the warriors leave, in search of new victims. She waits until she cannot hear their footsteps. "Uuuuuugh!" Avani grunts as she heaves the boulder off of her body. She slowly walks to her friend expecting the worst, but Akemi pulls herself up. "Akemi…" Avani vomits, and wipes off her mouth with her arm. "We have to get out of here, or they'll kill us!" Akemi hesitantly agrees. They limp away out of the town. Avani takes a final glance back at her home, now ablaze, looks at the ground and then back up. "Let's go." she says as they leave.Chapter two: Aftermath.
Avani slowly opens her eyes, not knowing that she had been asleep. "A… akem. Ugggh!" Avani looks down and find her abdomen uncovered exposing a vicious burn as well as a large bruise. Akemi enters the room with a muscular young man (around the same age as them) that Avani has never seen before. She looks at him as he approaches. "So," he says "you're finally awake. You took quite the hit there." Her face turns red. "Aw what you mean this," she blows air out of her mouth and looks down "it's nothing." She tries to sit up but is overwhelmed by the pain. "Uugh" Avani cringes. "Whoa" he says as he puts his hand behind her back laying her back down. He starts to water bend on her abdomen and a soothing feeling comes over Avani. She blushes and tries to hide it. Akemi giggles but the boy pretends not to notice. "You should really take it easy for the next few days." She laughs at the idea. "So" Akemi says "this is tatkret, he's a healer from the water tribes who just so happened to be visiting on the day of the raid." Avani's eyes open wide as she mentions raid, when was it, I mean how long was I out?! " Not long." Tatkret replies. "All night and a couple hours today. And you kept mumbling something about the new age." Avani puts her hand on her head. "Those pricks, they think they can just get away with that, we'll just see what the central monarchy has to say to this." Tatkret and Akemi both lower their heads. "Well Avani, they took that to…" Avani's thoughts overwhelm her and she starts to break down. "What! You mean those bastards killed my family AND overthrew the government! No! This can't happen! Somebody has to make them pay!" "Avani calm down. Let's just hope that this will all be over in a couple of days and until then we can wait it out here." "Well Akemi, where exactly is here! Were stuck in a tent in the middle of nowhere just waiting to be captured or even worse…"" AVANI!" Akemi shouts. "Calm down. Breathe. We will figure out a way to get our home back. But you have to be patient. Avani makes a fist and looks at the top of their tent. "Just go." Avani says. "Avani…" "GO!" Akemi and tatkret leave in a more than awkward fashion. Akemi turns to tatkret. "Just give her some time, she'll come to her senses." Tatkret looks at the tent "NO. We need someone like her, or else we wouldn't be as inspired to fight back. Listen Akemi I'm going to go try to talk to her, and I think it'd be best if you waited out here." Akemi nods in agreement and Tatkret enter the tent. Avani looks at him. "What do you want?" She says. "I just wanted to see if you were okay." "I'm fine. I'll just put some wrap on…" "No" he interrupts. "I mean about what happened last night…with your family." The screams echo through her head once more. "…" she says nothing. "look he says, I know it's bad, that's why Akemi and I are here for you, but you can't let this control your life." She hops off of her bed cringing, but collecting the strength to stand," "what would you know about my life!" Tatkret amazed that she is even able to stand, replies "we've all been hurt and seen tough times, Avani, my parents died when I was a little boy who could barely walk, because of that I used to live with a band of misfits who lie and steal just to get food for my whole life. But I'm not letting it control me." "Your right." She says. She wraps her abdomen and pulls her shirt back over it, and barley able to walk she emerges outside. "I'm sorry Akemi, for blowing up on you. Let's find a way to defeat these menaces." Akemi smiles.
Chapter three: Recovery
Avani walks slowly around the tent as Akemi and Tatkret practice their bending in a sparring match. "Is that all you've got?" Akemi says as she continuously dodges Tatkret's water attacks. But Akemi is surprised when she slips on a patch of ice. "That's not fair." she says. Tatkret laughs. "Hey guys" Avani says."What's that?" she points towards a large black mass in the sky getting closer and closer. "I'm not sure, but it's getting closer!" "Wait, I've seen these before!" Akemi says. "Their butterfly fish!" they look in awe as a pink mass of butterfly fish fly above them. "Wow." Avani looks at Akemi. "You've seen these before!?" "Yeah, miraculously a group of them flew over as my sister and her husband got married…I wonder if their okay, they were at the village during the raid." "Don't worry Akemi I'm sure their fine." "I'm going to go take a walk okay." Akemi walks away. Avani looks at tatkret. "Hey tatkret…" "Yeah?" "Do you think things will ever go back to the way they were?" he pauses. "No… I don't." Avani lowers her head regretting asking, but realizes that things probably won't be like they were. She looks back up balls a fist and says "either way we need to do something about it." "I agree" says tatkret. "So let's go back, we can help people." Tatkret replies. "But if we do that they'll capture us." "Hmmm…" "Avani, what are you thinking" she looks back up at the sky. She looks at tatkret and says "how stealthy can you be?" tatkret smiles deviously.
In the dead of night the three sneak out, dressed as stealthily as possible. Tatkret checks to make sure nobody is watching them, and when he's sure, he signals the others and they make their way back to their village, taking a less traveled route to make sure their not spotted. "Avani, are your wounds still good?" "Yeah, Akemi. Thanks for asking" Avani whispers. They all walk slower as they reach the outskirts of the village. Akemi whispers "what can you see Tatkret?" "I see…nothing…" "What?" Avani whispers quite loudly. Tatkret stands up and walks into the village, completely disregarding all stealth. "Their all gone." Akemi and Avani walk into the village as well. "see." Tatkret proclaims "nobody" Avani stops moving for a moment and then quickly bolts. "Avani! Your wounds!" "She's not gonna stop." Tatkret says. "Well I'm going after her." Akemi says, before she takes off after Avani. She is soon followed by tatkret. She stares in awe as nothing is left of the town hall, let alone the inner city. Avani walks up to the nearest house and slams her fist into it, "sigh… that felt too good." She said. "Let's just go back" Akemi says. They all walk back without speaking a word, only to return to a ruined camp, and three uninvited visitors. " Who are you!" Tatkret demands. One of the three men speaks up, we are soldiers of the new age army, and your camp is on our property. "Your property!" Akemi yells. "You took our home our village and our families, and now you want this to!" one of the men looks at her with a twitching stare and says, "You've got a pretty loud mouth, I'm gonna love roasting you alive." He blasts a fire ball at her but tatkret quickly douses it with his water and goes on the offensive, firing ice shards at the men, they scatter into a formation in which one of them is in the middle with the others on each side of them. One of the men on the side starts to hurl boulders at tatkret, but he dodges them with ease, and quickly fires back, but is blindsided by a waterbender on the other side. Tatkret falls to the ground but feels a hand pull him up. It's Avani. "c'mon" she says "we have to win" Avani starts throwing large rocks and hits the waterbender, knocking him out. "One down, two to go" she thinks to herself. The fire bender in the middle looks down at his fallen partner and then back to Avani. "You'll pay for that!" he snaps. At that moment tatkret is hit with a small boulder and barrels over. Akemi is quick as she punches fireballs towards the earthbender, he blocks a few but is hit and struck down. Avani looks towards the firebender "now it's just you and me!" she says. He blast fireballs at her but she manages to pull an earth wall out of the ground to block it then she fires chunks of earth at him, which knocks him down. "Huff…huff." He struggles to get up. "Hahahaha!" he laughs. "If you think that'll finish me, your gravely mistaken." He grabs his arm and lifts it to the air. "Oh, no." tatkret says quietly. The man's arm fidgets as it absorbs lightning."Avani watch out, he's lightning bending!" tatkret yells "Take this!" he points his fingers at Avani and a rush of lightning heads straight for her. She puts her arms in front of her face, expecting the worst, but Akemi quickly jumps in front of Avani and stretches her arm out in front of the lightning. It rushes into her arm, but she keeps her posture and points her other hand at the firebender and the lightning shoots back out just like it came in and strikes the man's feet, he hits the ground. "Akemi, where did you learn to redirect lightning?" Avani asks. "My sister taught me, but I never thought I would have to use it." The firebender groans. Tatkret walks over to him and pulls him up by his shirt. "Who sent you!" the man cringes "nobody, we were just patrolling, please don't hurt me!" "For who!" "General Chun!" the man points northeast of where their camp is "The fort is over there!" Tatkret looks at Avani and Akemi. "We have to go there." He says. He then pulls out a hunting knife and uses the butt to knock out the fire bender. He falls to the ground. "c'mon, let's go." He says.
Authors note (The next chapter will be up soon. in the meantime go check out our facebook page BolinandMako?fref=ts )
Chapter four. Search and rescue
The three benders advance with tatkret leading them. After walking for about an hour they come upon a huge clearing in the forest, in which a large prison-like building has been built.
"Looks like we're here." Tatkret says deviously.
Akemi stares at the building."But what is it?"
"Where about to find out." Tatkret replies as he approaches the building.
They get to what seems to be the front door, which is a large metal gate surrounded by spiked wire and fences, when they are greeted by an elderly man wearing a rather large hat.
"Hello!" he shouts as loud as he can.
"Umm, hi." Avani says awkwardly.
"The wardens been waiting for you guys, he's been complaining about the mess a lot lately"
Avani interjects "uuh, I don't think…oof"
Tatkret gently elbows her.
"Play along." He whispers
Avani pushes him.
"psssh. I knew that."
The old man leads them down ghastly halls filled with prison cells, most of which are filled up. As they walk, Akemi pinches her nose to block off the smell.
"This place reeks." She says.
"Well get used to it, you're the new janitors." The old man says as he leads them to a closet full of supplies and then walks away.
"WHAT!" she says
He turns around quickly and Akemi covers her mouth.
"Sorry…sir,"
He turns back around and walks away.
As soon as he's out of sight tatkret lets out a deep sigh.
"What have we gotten ourselves into?" he says
"Actually, this could give us an opportunity to figure out what's going on here." Avani says. "we could disguise ourselves as the janitors and do some investigating."
Tatkret scratches his head
"That's not a bad idea." He says.
The three slip on the janitor suits over their clothes and begin to look around."
"Tatkret, you go look around the cells, Akemi, check out the courtyard. I'll check the warden's room. Avani Says.
"Gotcha, tatkret says." They all split up.
Meanwhile back at the gate three scrawny men show up.
One of them pipes up. "We are the janitors you had sent."
"No." the man says "The janitors showed up an hour ago"
The three look confused.
"WARDEN!" the old man shouts.
Almost instantly, a big man steps out of the gates.
"What is it father?"
"These men claim to be the new janitors, but I let the janitors in an hour ago."
"WHAT!" you let them in!? These are the men I had sent."
The old man looks up
"Oh."
The warden stomps into the prison and demands three of his best guards to find the fake janitors. They go without questions. Back in the warden's room, Avani looks around, going through papers and letters. She finds a fancy letter and begins to read it aloud.
Dear Warden Chun,
Due to recent revolts, I request that you jail all survivors of the attack until they swear their loyalty to the army. Also if by some chance you find the avatar I want you to…
Avani is startled when the door is kicked in and she is forced back by a blast of air.
"Thought you could fool us huh?" A guy says with a smirk.
"Who are you?" Avani says as she pulls herself off of the ground.
"I am kyatso. The third most powerful guard in this facility." He says with a smirk.
Without a word Avani rips a chuck of concrete out of the ground ant hurls it at Kyatso. He pushes air back but is hit against the wall in the outer hallway. He recovers, but Avani comes out with another chunk. She hurls it, but Kyatso is able to roll away.
"Take this!" he shouts as he forces a blast of air at Avani.
She earthbends her heels to the ground so that she isn't pushed back. Kyatso doesn't stop his blast, he makes it more powerful. Avani tries to stay in place but a shard of the earthbent concrete strikes her in the face, leaving a small cut. Many more pieces begin to pick up. She crosses her arms in front of her face like a shield.
"I've got to move." She murmurs and tries to take a step.
She is pushed back into the same position.
"It's no use." Kyatso shouts with a smile.
She manages to get a good look at Kyatso and with the flick of a wrist she earthbends a pillar right into his chin. The wind stops and he falls.
"That wasn't much for the third best." She says, mocking him.
"Heh." He says. "I don't matter anyway, the others have your friends already, and you'll never beat the warden.
"WHERE ARE MY FRIENDS?!" Avani demands.
Kyatso points down a hall and then passes out. Avani looks towards the hallway where he pointed and sprints down.
"Let Us GO!" Akemi yells with her hands tied.
"It's no use, Akemi." Tatkret says "We'll just have to sit and wait"
Two hooded figures look at them, and one of them speaks up.
"You should listen to your boyfriend little girl, before somebody gets hurt."
Akemi shouts "FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME, HE IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND!"
The hooded people laugh, but are cut short when they see Avani sprinting down the hall.
"Hurry!" one of the two says. "Put up the barrier."
One of the hooded people waterbend a large ice barrier that stretches from wall to wall.
"Avani!" Akemi shouts
"HaHa, your friend will never get past that."
As Avani gets closer to the ice wall she earthbends a large stone glove around her fist and slams it into the wall at full force. The wall cracks only a little.
"Let...my…friends…go!" she says slamming both of her fist against the wall, doing little to nothing. One of the hooded two begins to firebend a little and puts it closer to tatkret.
"Stop that little girl, or I might just slip."
Avani looks at what he is doingand backs away from the wall.
"Akemi, why aren't you bending that fire away?"
"we cant bend Avani, I don't know why."
Avani punches the wall again.
"I think we should show that little girl what happens when you don't listen here." One of the two says.
"I agree." The other says as he water bends a blade of ice and raises it at tatkret. He swings downward
"NO!" Avani screams, as she punches the ice, and to her surprise she shoots a fire bolt straight through the ice and into the man about to kill tatkret, throwing him against the wall. "Avani looks down at her hand and then somehow friebends a hole in the wall big enough to pass through.
"How…" the other masked guard says as he surrenders. Avani unties Akemi and Tatkret and bids the hooded guys. They start running out towards the gate, and once they make it they are greeted by the warden.
"You infiltrate by prison, kill two of my best guards and destroy multiple rooms and expect to just walk out the front gate? Preposterous! I WILL END YOU!"
The warden airbends a huge blast at them, knocking them all down. Tatkret quickly bounces back up and pulls water out of the air, turning it into ice shards and blasting them towards the warden, but he air blast them away. Avani, Akemi and Tatkret all stand ready to attack when the warden starts laughing.
"I've been waiting to do this for a while!" he says
He starts to air bend a small sphere and concentrates it to the point where a powerful and dehabilitating noise rings through the building. The three all start to fall, succumbing to the power when the old gate man knocks the warden out.
"I said no more of that god forsaken noise."
Tatkret stands up confused. "W…why did you help us? He says.
"It was annoying" the old man replies
Avani gets up. "But why didn't the noise hurt him?"
The old man yawns and says "once he found out he could do that, it made him go deaf, he reads lips"
Avani helps Akemi up off of the ground
"Well were gonna leave now"
"I don't care."
The three walk out the gate and away looking for anywhere to go, but eventually go t sleep on the ground in the forest. Nobody asked Avani about the firebending, which surprised her. She knew what it meant and decided she would sleep on it, and discuss it with the others in the morn.
She was exhausted, they all were.
(Authors note) so you've probably figured out that this is before the air nomad genocide and that they still live among all the other benders. Also, Soundbending is a thing but I don't know how common it'll be. And I apologize for waiting so long to upload this. My laptop broke, but I should have new chapters up about every other day. Thanks for reading.