Well! Here we are after so long :D Hard to believe it's been a month already.
First thing i've got to do is give a mild warning: LOS is not going to be like my last story. It continues the TFA story but it is a lot different, mostly because it focuses more on Kyora than any other character, there will also be a large number of time skips and a very different tone than in the last story. Also be warned that if you like mostly action, there is SOME but not much, since i'm focusing more on plot that action. Book 1 will contain multiple mentions of Child Abuse but they will stop after that. Also, there will be both Trivia and an extra after every chapter since trivia was so popular last time :) Well here we go! Please Read and review!
The First Avatar: Legend of the Star
Book 1: Earth
Chapter 1: The Girl who would be Avatar
Fire, Air, Water, Earth. Twenty years ago, my mother Avatar Silver and her her allies went on many adventures together, ending rebellions, invasions and saving lives. The last Avatar, Avatar Korra rebuilt the cycle when she became an immortal and set the stage for a new legend. Now, the world must search for the new Avatar and prepare them for their destiny. Three Kami's still remain hidden and with the new Avatar's help, we will find them.
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9th Day of Spring 191ACS
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Omashu, the city of the Great King Bumi and the home of the Hoshin Family estate. The estate took up most of the noble district and had been built by the Hoshins over the last ten years. The Hoshins had been a normal middle class couple and then suddenly, they were the wealthiest family in the Earth Kingdom. All because the new Avatar had been born as their daughter.
The Legend if Korra had spread far and wide, how she had conquered death itself and was now an immortal. This meant that a new cycle of Avatars had begun, and people clambered for her approval, hoping that getting the favour of the Avatar early would make them better in the future and with subsequent Avatars.
The new Avatar was a young girl named Kyora. She was a very shy and quiet little girl, ten years old and commonly dressed in a yellow sleeveless tunic and a green skirt. She had bright green eyes and light chestnut hair that she commonly wore in two braids that she hung over her shoulders. All those who had met her had been charmed by her sweetness and politeness; she was very well-behaved and never stepped out of line. This did not help with her Avatar Training.
Her parents, Toroi and Azaia, an Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation couple, were both non-benders so they used the new position as the Avatar's family to get the best trainers in the world, short of Team Avatar themselves who were oddly enough, turned away by the family. They wanted Kyora to be a great and legendary Avatar like Korra and Aang in order to accrue more power for themselves, but while Aang had master all the elements by the time he was Fourteen and Korra had become an immortal, Kyora could barely bend. The poor girl had shown very little skill in bending, being able to move small pebbles with great effort and pull at water a bit but having no other skill and that hadn't changed in over five years.
Over twenty trainers had quit their jobs when she showed no progress, meaning it was quite possible that Kyora would never learn to bend properly and this often caused some trouble with her parents.
One day, sick of their daughter's lack of progress, they called for a press conference at their estate to refute the claims that Kyora wasn't the Avatar.
"Now Kyora, I expect you to put on your best bending. I know you've been slacking but that won't be tolerated today. I want you to perform as expected." Toroi told his daughter. As the two of them walked side by side to the estates courtyard. Kyora was never alone; she was never allowed to be. She had to be sleeping, studying or training at all times and guards and servants made sure it happened.
The little girl didn't speak but nodded at her father, her heart beating at thrice it's normal speed. She was terrified! She didn't want to be put in front of others, she hated attention and this would be like all the times before that. She was certain she'd fail.
The two of them walked out into the busy courtyard, Kyora's mother and a large crowd of reporters and photographers awaited them, all looking eagerly at the tiny Avatar. Despite being almost ten years old, Kyora was small for her age and looked much younger.
"Alright Kyora, show them all that you're the Avatar." her mother said with a stern look.
Kyora nodded shakily and took a couple of steps forward. Concentrating hard, Kyora was able to lift a small stone off of the ground and then make a small puff of smoke from her fingers, the only firebending she was capable off. The reporters looked unimpressed while her parents looked angry. Sighing, her father turned to the press.
"She's a little tired from a long hard day of training. We told her to rest up but it seems she was too eager to improve." He said with a fake smile, patting Kyora on the back just a little too hard so her back stung. "Now, I'm sure many of you have questions. Please feel free to ask."
Kyora hated these Q&A things, she didn't like talking to people she didn't know, especially when they asked weird questions.
"Omashu Gazette, how do you feel your training is going?" one man asked.
"Um, I think it's going okay. I'm trying my best." She answered quietly. The reporters had gravitated closer to her so she her timid voice could be heard better.
"Avatar Kyora, the Ba Sing Se Post. Have you had any contact with Team Avatar or the Valkyrie order?"
"N-No. I've never met anyone from the those groups." She stuttered. Her parents didn't like either group. Team Avatar was determined to be involved with her to some degree and those Valkyrie order bunch were no better. They had risen up to be the new Avatar protection group after the demise of the White Lotus. To be honest, Kyora was dying to meet Korra and Silver, hoping they'd have something to help her learn bending.
"One last question, do you have any comments regarding Master Treya? She commented to us over her retirement that you were impossible to teach. Care to elaborate?"
Kyora swallowed hard. Treya was her last earthbending master but like the others she had quit when Kyora didn't make progress. With no real answer and still hurt by Treya's parting words, Kyora fell silent while her mother answered the questions.
"We actually dismissed her." she lied. "She was using outdated methods and blamed Kyora when they naturally didn't work. When she failed to conform to modern practices, we fired her." Kyora knew it was a pack of lies but kept quiet so as not to upset her parents. The reporters took a few photographs of Kyora before finally scurrying off, leaving Azaia to roughly pull her daughter back into the building.
"You completely humiliated us!" she shouted angrily, turning back to the young girl with venomous eyes.
"I did my best! Promise! I just can't bend well…" the girl said, tears beginning to form. Azaia rolled her eyes and threw the girl into her bedroom and locked the door behind her.
"You can come out when you've learnt to try harder!" she said through the door. Kyora sobbed silently as she heard her mother walk away, feeling horrible. She really tried her best but bending and being the avatar just didn't go well with her. She didn't want to fight and train all the time… Kyora's room was painted green and had a mint green carpet that matched her curtains and bed sheets. The walls were lined with bookshelves and a few crudely drawn doodles that she had made in her youth. Kyora always wondered why her parents had all these bookshelves for when the girl couldn't read. It was horribly embarrassing for her but her parents had always focused on her bending so much that they rarely had her learn anything else.
With little else to do, Kyora went over to the desk she had and began to draw. Art was a favourite thing of Kyora's to do, she loved drawing and painting and was very good with origami. As she set to work making an origami lion to go with the collection she had already created, she looked at the photograph she kept on her desk. It was of her and her parents when she was four, a year before they had discovered she was the Avatar.
Her father had been a very kind and loving man, working as a fisherman at a nearby lake. He had been very muscular but the last few years of living it large had expanded his waistband by a lot. Her mother had also been very kind and a beautiful woman, but now she rarely smiled at her daughter and was obsessed with make-up and jewellery. Kyora often prayed that she had never been born as the Avatar, and then they could go back to those times of happiness. Day dreaming with a sad smile, Kyora suddenly heard footsteps and muffled voices outside her door and stopped to listen.
"I'm telling you, I have a buyer on the Black Market already prepared!" one voice, a nasally and high pitched voice, most likely a man's.
"What!? Are you nuts!? The Black Market isn't safe anymore. They say that the Avatar and her cronies have their eyes on it." the other voice, this one deep and southern sounding. A man from the swamps?
"That's the thing; it's the market in Cinnabar City. Mr Rulo made me the offer himself!"
"How did that happen?"
"Remember I was on leave last week? I met Rulo at a resort on Ember Island and let slip that I was one of the new Avatar's guards. He almost jumped at the chance. Fifty Million Yuans just for bagging the Avatar? Not like the brat can bend to save her life."
"Hey, leave the kid alone. She's a sweet girl. I'll do it if this Rulo guy can guarantee the kid isn't gonna be mistreated."
Kyora knew who they were now. The nasally man was a firebender named Kilik while the other was an earthbender from the Southern Swamplands named Gorm. They were both mercenaries that had been hired to join her protection squad.
"I can promise you myself. Rulo told me he only wanted her so he can sell her on to the head honcho herself. Little miss first." Kilik said.
"The First!? Rulo's wants to sell the kid to the First Avatar?"
"Yup. Now come on, I need your help to get her, don't want to burn her after all." Kilik said with a laugh. Kyora panicked and hid in beneath the desk, holding her breath. Her bedroom door opened gently and the two men walked in. Both of them wore simple armour, similar to the Earth Kingdom army's. Kilik was the shorter man and was very slender, with small weasel-like eyes and greasy black hair tied in a top knot. Gorm was very tall and had very dark skin which made his kind green eyes stand out.
"What the heck? She ain't here!" Kilik yelled angrily, "Did she escape?"
"Relax, she's done this before. Happens a lot when her assho-er-Jerk parents lock her in here." Gorm said, kneeling on the floor. He pulled her tiny chair aside and looked under the desk, finding the terrified Avatar curled up in a ball. "Found you kiddo."
"P-Please don't hurt me." Kyora begged with scared eyes.
"I won't, I promise. Please forgive me for this." Gorm said with a regretful sigh. He lightly jabbed her in the chest with his index finger and middle finger, hitting a chi point and putting her to sleep. Kyora squeaked and flinched before her eyes rolled back and she fell limply to the side. Gorm sighed again and scooped the girl up, taking her in his arms and carefully carrying her away.
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Avatar Extra:
Bending Techniques Pt. 1: Earth
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Bullet Sand: This technique shatters larger stones into sand and fires it at incredible speeds towards the opponent. The speed and force of the individual grains of sand can create small craters and in large numbers, this technique can cause significant damage.
Earth Puppet: A complex puppetry technique that involves creating a humanoid or animal like doll out of earth that the earthbender can manipulate. The more intelligent the bender, the more of these puppets they can control at once.
Earth Golem: The most advanced form of the Earth Puppet. Instead of the bender being required to maintain constant control over the golem, it is infused with some of the bender's chi, allowing it to move on its own and react to its master's will.
Sand Stream: An advanced technique only available to those who have trained in energybending as well as earthbending. This technique allows the user to coat their bodies in earth chi that causes earth to turn to sand and solidify, allowing the user to seemingly phase through earth.
Sand Puppet: A more difficult variation of the Earth Puppet. Because of sand's looseness, it is harder to control but infinitely more versatile, allowing for a puppet that can be almost impossible to defeat directly. However like all puppetry techniques, it leaves the user vulnerable and sand is incapable of being made into a golem.
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Avatar Trivia:
Book 1 Chapter 1
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Despite the name of the book, the other books are not named after the elements. Book 1 Earth will be followed by Book 2: Sun, Book 3: Heaven, Book 4: Moon and Book 5: Stars
Kyora underwent a dozen different character changes before I decided on her final character. One idea originally saw her as the daughter of the Valkyrie Leader (whom we will meet later) while another idea had her as a savage tribal that lived in the forest with wolves. Ultimately neither fitted my theme.
Kyora doesn't have an animal guide, but she may get one later on.
A LOT of new OC's are going to be in this story and they will be the main focus, though none will be as developed as Kyora.
This story will take place over a period of several years. The date will always be displayed. Also, the person speaking in the Opening Prologue is Silver's daughter. She will be met soon.