The Avatar is the only being that can control all four elements- Water, Earth, Fire, and Air the Avatar is also the bridge between the human world and the spirit world. The Avatar is reincarnated as another bender after each life. After Avatar Korra, the bond between the previous Avatars was severed, so the question of whether or not there would be another Avatar arose between the nations. The next Avatar would be born as an Earth bender.

When Korra became elderly, something happened that doesn't happen to other Avatars- she became weak with her body and mind. She was the most human of the Avatars in the way she aged. Once the public became aware that she would be unfit to fight any wars the non-benders once again rose with anger at benders, even though there had been peace between the benders when Korra was young and well. They claimed they had been treated unfairly, that benders always claimed to be dominate and more superior. Although most benders looked at non benders as equals, the non-benders decided to take matters into their own hands. They began slaughtering benders as their abilities surfaced- they killed children. Benders fought back, but the numbers had become uneven in the last 100 years, and there were more non-benders than benders, and now the numbers didn't stand a chance of coming back as they had hoped, and the non-benders developed weapons as well.

Non-benders killed Avatar Korra, and made sure to continue slaughtering benders as a way to ensure there wouldn't be another Avatar. As the numbers of benders dwindled and they lived in fear, they prayed that there would be another Avatar; one that would live and help them live a life that they didn't have to fear.

Oma, although named after one of the first Earth benders, came from a long line of non- benders. Although a family of non-benders, her family stayed out of the war. They didn't believe in what the non-benders were doing, and since they were not benders and didn't make a fuss over what the non-benders were doing, just kept their heads down, they were almost never subjected to tests when a new member came into their family- they just weren't meant to have a bender in their family.

Oma's family decided when Oma was a child that in order to keep her safe, she was not to be around any benders or families who had a strong line of benders, and Oma obeyed their orders. Oma was 25 when the chance of a lifetime came up, and she got to travel the world and document what she saw. She was a journalist, and very skilled at it. She continued to obey her parent's rules on her trips until she met Gyatso. Gyatso was one of the last Air-benders, they were already considered extinct, but it was assumed that there could still be a few out there.

Gyatso was hiding in a cave when Oma found him. Although it was strict policy to say when they found a bender, Oma did not agree with the slaughter of benders, so instead she helped Gyatso. She gave him food, water, and helped him hide. Since Oma was on her own, no one noticed that she was hiding something- or someone.

Although they were only together for a few months, Oma and Gyatso fell in love. They married in secret by other Air-benders and tried to build a life together, but it soon became apparent that it wasn't meant to work out that way. Word went out that they found several Air benders hiding in abandoned Air Temples. In order to keep Oma safe, Gyatso sent her to finish her plans instead of staying and abandoning her old life. Oma was crushed, but agreed, and promised she would be back.

Shortly after returning to her job she found out she was expecting. She knew Gyatso was a bender, and that her child could be a bender, so she called off her expedition and went home, but she couldn't bring herself to tell her family. Instead, she hid her pregnancy for several months, and then one day she just vanished. She led a trail for her family to follow to a cliff, where they could assume what they wanted there. She didn't want them looking or waiting for her, but she had to go. She had to keep her children safe.

She returned to the Temple, but Gyatso was not there, and a remaining Air nomad remained, he told her of the horrific things the non-benders did and how Gyatso was slaughtered with the rest of the Air benders. Afraid for her life and the life of her children, Oma told the Nomad of her pregnancy and how she desperately feared for the life of her children. The Nomad told her of an Air Temple that was nearly destroyed when the fire nation attacked and never rebuilt out as a reminder. Only Air benders could get to it, as was meant to be. Air Temples have a mind of their own, and after this one was attacked it moved to a place planes could not go. It was said to have possibly opened to refugees when the fire nation attacked, but there was no proof. He told her that if she went there, it may open up to her, especially if she carried an air-bender. He explained that she may be alone there, but that the Air Temples had a way of providing. He took her to a cliff, the closest they could get, and he wished her good luck.

No path that led to the Temple appeared for her, but since the cliff was far from and town or city, she decided to live there. Her due date still approached, and she had no doctor or help to deliver, and she felt as if she had begun being watched. She prayed that somehow she would be able to get to the Air Temple.

She grew very large, and it became hard to forage for food and stay hidden, and soon she was discovered by authorities. She was in the woods picking berries when they found her. She ran back to the cliff, prepared to throw herself off of it in order to keep them from torturing her or her children, but when she got there a spirit of a sky bison and a man were floating at the edge of the cliff. The man ordered her to get on, and she did. They flew off before the authorities could stop them or shoot them.

"Who are you?" She asked, visibly scared.

"Avatar Aang." The man said.

"I don't understand, I am no Avatar."

"I know, and you don't have to understand, just know you will be safe in the Air Temple. It will be a sanctuary for you."

She thanked the man profusely until they get to the Temple, where he helped her off the sky bison before disappearing into the sky.

The Air Temple was damaged, and nature had taken its course, but with that there were lots of berries and fruits growing all over the island it was on. There was a lake with a waterfall on it as well that provided her with fresh water. There were clothes that had been preserved in the Temple that she wore, and beds that she could use as well.

There were still winged lemur on the island as well as sky bison, although they were said to be extinct. However, there were no people.

She explored the island and Temple as much as she could before the baby came, but after two week, it was time for her to deliver.

It was late at night when a pain woke her from her sleep. She got up and did her best to get comfortable and for the pain to subside, but there was nothing that would help it, and she realized that it was time for her baby to make its entrance into the world. She had only ever seen one baby born, and she had no part in the delivery, and it still made her nearly faint, and now she was going to have to deliver one, her own, alone.

After hours of agonizing pain, she knew it was time to push. Before she had a chance, a woman appeared in her room. She had a gentle smile and a gentle touch. She assured Oma that everything was going to be alright, and she helped Oma deliver a beautiful baby boy. The elderly woman handed her to Oma, and then gently cupped Oma's face "We are not done yet." She was right, with a few more pushes Oma gave birth to a baby girl. The woman set the child next to her mother. Oma delivered two more, all healthy. When both her and the elderly woman thought it was over, another contraction brought another life into the world. Unlike her other siblings, this baby didn't cry. She looked around the room, as if to be studying the world around her. She was very small and frail, which scared Oma, but the old woman just swaddled her and smiled. "You have 5 children now, and each is blessed with a gift." The woman said as she sat the last child down by Oma. "You must protect them, for each has an important destiny." The old woman stayed for two days before disappearing the night of the second, once Oma was able to help herself. The same night the women left, the names for her children came to her.

Her oldest child, a son, Kuruk. Her next child, a daughter, Kyoshi. The third, a son, Haruto. Her fourth, a girl, Yangchen. And the last, her daughter that was small and fragile, Saishū. They were the names of previous Avatars, but the Avatars were no longer talked about or taught in schools, so the only Avatars Oma knew about were Aang, and Korra and slightly about Kyoshi from her grandmother telling her forbidden stories. She didn't know that these were all Avatar names from two generations of Avatars back except for Saishū, each of them specific to the children's bending abilities.

Kyoshi was the first to discover her bending powers at age 5. She got angry at her brother, Kuruk, for splashing her when she came near the lake he was playing in, and out of sheer anger and force sent a boulder flying at him. Kuruk, the second to discover his abilities, used water to push the boulder off its path to his head. Oma was shocked by this, neither she nor Gyatos came from any kind of water benders. Yangchen and Haruto were the next to discover they could bend. That night while they were sitting around the camp fire, Haruto stumbled over his shoe and fell right toward the fire, no one was close enough to catch him, but Yangchen tried, throwing her arms out to catch him, but instead using Air to knock him to the side, and as he fell Haruto put his arms out in front of him to brace himself for the burning ground, but instead he moved the fire from his face. It became clear why Oma was able to get into the Air Temple that night, she was carrying an Air bender. However, neither she nor Gyatos had any line of fire benders either.

They tried for two days to see what Saishū bending skill was, but they realized that she must be a non-bender, just like Oma. Saishū didn't mind being a non-bender, she liked being like her mother, but her mother soon began pushing Saishū to the side for her siblings. She had to control them, and help them learn to control themselves as well as teach them what happens to benders outside of the Air Temple.

When Saishū was ten, she realized she could not just control Earth, but metal as well. Then she realized she could bend pure energy, along with the other elements. She knew nothing of Avatars, or that she was one, but she saw how her siblings stressed her mom out, and how strict she could be with them, so she decided not to tell her mom or siblings. She kept it a secret, but practiced with each moment in privacy, which she often had because her mom was training her siblings.

She kept it a secret until age 12. A strong storm blew in high enough to hit the temple, and it began damaging their home. They locked themselves in with the sky bison and winged lemurs for safety, but it began tearing the stable apart. Kyoshi used her bending to try and stabilize the earth, but she wasn't strong enough on her own, and she couldn't control the metal. Saishū knew in order to keep her family safe she had to reveal her powers. She ran up beside her sister and began stabilizing the metal as Kyoshi continues to bend the earth. Together, they saved their family and the animals.

Her mother punished her severely for keeping her ability to bend Earth a secret. She told her how irresponsible it was. Saishū had never seen her mother so angry at her or her siblings, so she decided to keep the rest a secret.

Her mother was never the same towards her. Saishū began to have to do all the other chores, and her mother told her she could no longer use her bending. Saishū hid it whenever she used bending from her mother, but she didn't respect her mothers orders.

She quickly mastered Earth; as it ran through her veins, and air came to her smoothly as well, but Saishū struggled to get past the basics of Water bending and fire bending, as they were foreign to her.

As Saishū aged she began to feel her ability to bend energy get stronger and she felt that she had a stronger connection to the elements then her siblings. She also began getting the urge to tell her mother of her ability to use the other elements, something her siblings never got the ability to do.

She had been on the fence about it, until one day after chores, at 16 years old, she went to sit at the edge of the lake and a strange man approached her.