Three - Prologue

The three faces are softly illuminated by the flame, provided by one of the girls. They have sat in silence for some time, until one of them speaks out of the darkness, her voice tinged with excitement.

"Hey, guys – I have a great idea."

The faces cluster closer, each reflecting the first girl's energy.

"What?"

"Yeah – tell us your idea!"

The girl pauses for dramatic effect, but the suspense is too much and she speaks early. "Okay. So you know how we've been talking about ethnic stuff and all as related to history in class?"

"Yeah, Kanuka, get on with it!"

"Well, I've been thinking – and I've figured out what each of us is."

A silence, then –

"Huh?"

Kanuka pulls her pillow closer and lifts the straps of her camisole back to their original position. "I've figured out who each of us is! I mean – Yumi, you're obviously a Kyoshi, and Zeia, you're an Imperial firebender. I'm, of course, a healer from the North who has defied all the odds and learned water-"

"Kanuka, what the hell are you talking about?" Yumi's voice is flat.

Zeia chimes in with a skeptical, but – as usual – slightly teasing voice: "Hey, are you dreaming stuff, again, Nunu? I thought we talked about this!"

"Come on, you guys! It's great. Here. If you aren't going to listen now, like, I'll tell you about yourselves and then you'll just love it. Guaranteed satisfaction, silvers back. Okay?"

"Quick question. What era is this?"

"You're such a nerd, Zeia. It's in the last years of the Hundred Year War. Satisfied?"

"Sure. Man…I have a bio due next week on the Avatar…"

Yumi giggles. "Which one? If you don't have specifics – that's quite the bio!"

Kanuka gives a loud, petulant sigh and pokes the speaker. The long-nosed girl with colorful hair, despite herself, shows a bit of interest. "Okay, fine – stop poking – start with me, then, yeh?"

Kanuka grins. "Alright. Yumi…Yumi is a Kyoshi Warrior. She can't bend, but she's seen as one of the most powerful warriors in the world – second only to the Captain, Suki. Some say she's better, but that she doesn't want the notoriety-"

"The what?"

"The fame. Stop interrupting. So she doesn't want everybody looking at her, so Suki agrees to be Captain instead – but everyone really knows that Yumi is the best. She can take out a man blindfolded with both hands tied behind her back. She's stuck in Kyoshi, though – until the Avatar comes to the island. Yumi fights furiously in the battle against the Odious Prince Zuko and almost defeats him, but a dumb rhino interfears and she is knocked out. Next thing she knows, the Kyoshi Warriors are traveling the world and fighting people!

"But then Princess Azula ambushes the Warriors. Yumi is seriously injured by a knife that she didn't see coming – it was Lady Mai – and she and the other warriors are locked up. But not for long – Yumi works with Lady Mai and Ty Lee and they are some of the few prisoners that escape the top-security prison in the Fire Nation. Yumi is not hailed as a hero – but that's just the way she wants it. She is a ferocious warrior and continues traveling through the land, until she meets…"

"Who?"

"Shut up, Zeia, and don't smirk, and she meets…ZEIA! Don't make that face. Anyway. Zeia is a firebender." The girl's light wavers as one of the faces grins. "She's the best firebender in the world. She can make the blue flame, but she finds her own golden flames more wholesome and less cruel than Azula's icy flame – Azula is her student, by the way. Zeia is, of course, Fire Nation. But she hates the Firelord, and when her thoughts come out, she must escape the Fire Nation. She goes to the Earth Kingdom, where she must disguise her identity as a firebender. But it all comes out in Ba Sing Se when she accidently burns down a building!"

"Was it the old BSS High? 'Cause I'm just gonna say it now – that was totally not my fault."

"Sure it wasn't, sure it was. Inconsequential. Anyway, she's captured by the Dai Li and can't escape, mainly because they're kickass smexy earthbenders in an underground earth stronghold."

"Did you just say smexy?"

"No. Zeia tries to escape, but she is brainwashed! After the war, though, she meets up with Yumi. Yumi realizes Zeia has been brainwashed by the Dai Li and takes her to the North Pole, where they have awesome healers. There, they meet Kanuka.

"Kanuka is a healer of the Northern Water Tribe. After Master Katara, she is the second trained waterbending woman (she seduced a hapless warrior) but she mainly focuses on healing – but if she wanted to, she could kill anyone – even bloodbend! Maybe. Kanuka has been trapped in the North Pole by her evil father, but she has a way out – a betrothal necklace from Aduk Ong –"

"Seriosly? He's such a Chin."

"I'm sorry if you hate cute guys. Anyway. Aduk Ong is in love with Kanuka, and agrees to help her escape, if she marries him. Kanuka agrees. After all, she is just so in love with Aduk Ong. Just as a side note – Kanuka is the most beautiful woman in the North Pole. She's had to fight off suitors for years. She could make a collection of betrothal necklaces, if she wanted."

"All right, get on with it."

"So, just before she leaves, Kanuka heals Zeia and she gets back all her memories. Then the four of them – Yumi, Zeia, Kanuka, and the very hot Aduk Ong – become fast friends and travel through the world, spreading peace and justice, just like the Avatar, only cooler."

The three girls go on through the night, planning their lives in the days of the war, so many hundreds of year earlier, until, one by one, they drop off to sleep, until only Zeia remains. She quickly snuffs her fist and sinks in to sleep, dreaming of finals and Avatars and Dai Li and being the greatest firebender in the world.

A/N: Start to a story about Kanuka, Zeia, Yumi. Will have canon charries, don'tchaworry. :3

Oh, yeah. Avatar: the Last Airbender does not belong to me. This obligatory fact makes me feel depressed. I shall now go watch the season finale on Netflix, because not even the discs belong to me.