Chapter 1

It was a cold night many years after the original Team Avatar had defeated Fire Lord Ozai. The peace that followed after the end of the war had made many lives better yet at times tensions between nations still arose, and it was clear that the peace was fragile.

In one small village at the Southern Pole lived a small yet powerful water bender who had a great destiny before her. At the time, she was peacefully resting in her bed as her parents Tonraq and Senna were looking at her while having dinner.

"It is such a blessing that our daughter seems to be such a powerful bender. Maybe one day she will meet the Avatar" spoke Senna. They smiled as they continued their dinner.

Suddenly a man opened the door to the small house and looked at the young couple. "Tonraq, prepare the men" spoke the other Water Tribe man as he left the building.

"Be careful Senna, I need to help to defend the village" spoke Tonraq as he left the building and his young wife could hear screams and intense fighting outside of the building. She soon saw that the people were losing; the woman opened the door as she Water bent and froze one of the upcoming attackers.

"Leave us, we wish you no harm" spoke the woman but the village raiders did not care. She saw her husband's corpse lying close to the house and she run towards it.

"Tonraq" she screamed but before she could reach her dying husband, she was impaled by another raider in the stomach.

"Take the Avatar and run!" ordered one of the men as he prepared his weapon. Four men followed him as he stormed the house where the couple lived. While the house was well built, it was created form ice, and the attackers had the weapons powerful enough to destroy the walls. As they tore a large whole in the wall, they saw a small girl, no older than five sleeping in her bed.

"Get her and if necessary kill!" spoke the raider leader as he prepared his weapon.

However, as one of the bandits was about to take the girl, she woke up and saw the group. The girl's eyes went white and the girl rose in the air.

"It's the Avatar! Our intel was right, kill her and stop this Avatar cycle!" screamed the leader but could not approach the girl. The water was flowing around her, ice covered her body and the icicles were flying in different directions.

The girl screamed and sent a shockwave of water around her. The entire building was demolished as the young Avatar escaped the house. As the raiders were ready to kill her, young Korra used her power to control all the water in the surrounding area, which created a large snowstorm. After a few minutes of fighting, the girl relaxed, and her eyes turned to their natural state. The girl slowly dropped on the ground and was covered by some snow.

Meanwhile a man in his late twenties was traveling in the snow. As he walked, he remembered how more than a decade later he escaped from his abusive father Yakone and run away from home. "I hope you are doing fine Tarlok. I hope I will see you again" the man spoke as he continued walking.

Noatak as the man was called traveled greatly in the years after his escape from home. Today, he was traveling in the South Pole and decided to make a stop and stay overnight at one of the people's homes in the nearby village.

As he approached the village, he saw that it was totally destroyed. He saw the dead bodies that belonged to the members of the village; he then also found bodies of the people who most probably destroyed the village.

"I should have been here earlier, with my power I could have saved this village" spoke Noatak as he looked over the village. He walked around the village, seeing more bodies lying around, two of which he assumed belonged to a young couple. As he sat on the ground, he saw that the young woman was still alive.

"Can you hear me?" spoke Noatak as he looked at the woman. The water bender sat on the snow and took the lifted the woman's upper body with his hands.

"Bandits destroyed" she coughed before looking at the man

"Is anyone alive here?" asked the man

"Korra" spoke the woman before her head dropped to her side. Noatak put the now dead woman on the snow and looked around.

"Waaaaaaa!" someone screamed and the Water bender looked around. Using his extra ordinary water bending powers, he sensed the young Water bender and cleared the snow that covered the girl.

The small girl was shaking from cold. Noatak smiled and lifted the young girl in his arm and saw her smile, her tiny hands grabbed his neck and did not want to let go.

"All right Korra, it seems that you will live today." Spoke Noatak as his heart warmed a bit since at least this girl Korra survived the raid.

As the man began walking away from the village, he soon saw that a small white ball of fur began chasing them. He stopped and looked back. The young girl in his arms noticed this creature too and a smile appeared on her face.

"Naga!" the girl exclaimed as she looked at her pet puppy polar bear dog. Noatak sighed and gently sat on the snow before grabbing the young animal as well.

"It looks like we will not be travelling alone" he thought as he walked back into the wildness of the huge snow desert. Noatak was still sad that he was unable to save the village yet he was also proud that he saved the small girl from otherwise a freezing death. As he walked in the snow, his two passengers felt asleep. Neither Korra nor Noatak knew that their destinies were intertwined to become mortal enemies.

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Next Chapter: Noatak and Korra bond

The Chapter after that: arrival in the Republic City