"Yuma, come down for breakfast please." Said Yuma's mother Shei Zei. She was an average woman, average height, average face. She had dark hair, but one side died a light purple. It suited her in a way. Her eyes were caramel brown color, she was also a water bender. Her father was a tall man with blonde hair, brown eyes and was a fire bender. Apparently when he was younger he was quite the ladies man.
"I'm coming mom!" Yuma said and ran down the stairs, air bending a few things along the way, like dishes, and crashed the floor.
"Yuma! I told you, no bending in the house!" Shei Zei said and sighed. She had another bundle of joy in her arms and she started crying from the sound of crashing plates.

"Oh! Sorry mom!" Yuma said and quickly stopped air bending.

For Shei Zei and Li, her father, they were not quite sure how their daughter became an air bender. A fire bender or an water bender, that would be understandable. No one in the family was a air bender, they were rare to find. Another strange thing about Yuma is that when she learned to start air bending strange red markings appeared on her chest and upper abdomen area. They took her to see the doctor but even they didn't know what it was. They just said that it was a birth mark, but her parents were not completely convinced. It just didn't make sense.

Yuma sat down at the red mahogany table and started piling her plate with food. Mostly fruits and vegetables because her family was a vegetarian, but occasionally Yuma would sneak a cow pig meat once in a while from others. Now she wouldn't call it stealing, just... borrowing for an extended period of time and never returning. Not stealing. Of course not.

Her meal was mostly barely, broccoli, and rice. It was plain, but then again Yuma was used to it. Nenmei, Yuma's young sister sat at the table. There were four children in the family. Yuma, being the oldest she was turning eighteen tomorrow. Nenmei the second oldest. She was real quiet and shy. She preferred the company of books than other humans. Then there was Shen, the only boy out of the kids. He was the one who wanted to be like his father. He was also a fire bender. The youngest was Zui, the baby.

"Hey Yuma, can you teach me how to air bend now!" Nenmei said as she gobbled food inside her fourth, stuffing it till she couldn't fill it anymore.
"Nenmei, we told you before, only the Avatar can learn all four elements."

"Then how come you're an air bender!" Shen said picking at his food before deciding to eat it.
"We don't know Shen, it's a mystery." Said Shei Zei as she rocked the baby back and forth, hoping to relax the baby and let her fall back to sleep.
"But it doesn't make any sense mom!" Shen said, finally deciding to eat his broccoli. Their father Li was now coming into the dining room area.
"Well Shen Yuma is just special. That's all."
"I don't know if I should consider that a bad thing or a good thing." Yuma said. "But it doesn't matter really." She finished her plate of food, put it in the sink and left to go outside.

It was a cold morning in Yuma's small village, Kami. It was full of spirits of course almost every place was full of spirits ever since Avatar Korra opened the spirit gates. Many people have gone against the spirits roaming and living together with humans, but some, like Yuma quite enjoy it. To her the spirits were her only true friends. There were vines growing everywhere, most of the people had made their homes around the vines so that the spirits and humans could live together peacefully, so far it had worked.

Yuma went a couple of houses and toward a lake with spirits surrounding it. There were only a few humans there, the spirits probably didn't want some humans inside the Lake of Healing without a purpose. Getting spirits to trust humans was a long and tiring process. Most people had just given up completely. Many have even gone on hunts to kill all the spirits. Some would consider it a war with the spirits. As Yuma approached the lake she was greeted by a bipedal white fox like spirit. It looked at Yuma and smiled.

"Welcome back Yuma, how have you been?"

"Fine Den. You?" Yuma said and dipped her feat in the relaxing Lake of Healing. She gave a content sigh.

"Oh you know. Unwanted humans pestering us." Den looked off into the distance and saw two young kids hide as soon as they saw they were spotted. "You can come over here little ones, we won't bite."

The kids looked at each other then one brave soul quietly walked over to Den, looked up at him and stared. Den smiled down at him and patted him lightly on the back. "You are welcome here young humans." The boy smiled, called his friends and they all ran over to the Lake of Healing making a splash as they dived in the lake. A few spirits got wet, but laughed it off and splashed them back. Yuma thought it was quite cute. Den decided to sit down next to Yuma. He flicked her at the back of her head and smiled.

"How long has it been since Avatar Korra opened the spirit portals?"

"Maybe about sixty years? I also heard that the new Avatar is learning how to air bend. Though she is having trouble."

"Well the Avatar is originally an earth bender. Air is like the co-oposite of air. I can understand why." Yuma said. The kids were swimming around happily, some of the spirits were playing with them. It was good to see humans and spirits living together in peace.

"Well look who it is. If it isn't Yuma the air bender." Said a voice.

"And with her spirit friends no doubt!" Said another.

Everyone, except the kids playing with the spirits, looked over to a group of kids looking smug and tough. Yuma recognized them Shun Tey and his group of friends, they constantly caused trouble for Yuma and the spirits. She even saw Shun Tey kill a spirit. Oh it made her absolutely furious. She disliked them very much, and she knew that the other spirits did so too.

"Begone with you humans! You and your ugly friends aren't welcome here!" Snarled Den angrily. Some of the spirits roared at them in approval, but Shun Tey and his friends just kept their smug look on their faces.

"Listen to that Shun Tey! The lowly spirits are trying to tell us what to do!" Snorted one of Shun Tey's friends. They all laughed. Yuma glared at them, stood up and walked over to them.

"How about all of you get out of here. They said you are not welcome here so leave."

"Oh, now you are telling what to do Yuma?" Shun Tey said bringing his face closer to Yuma's. They both could feel each other's breath on their faces.

"Man, you're breath smells like rotten eggs, what, did you eat your mother's cooking again?" Yuma said with a smug grin. Shun Tey moved his head back and growled at Yuma. The spirits which heard Yuma started laughing, even some of Shun Tey's friends laughed, but they stopped when Shun Tey glared at them.

"This isn't over Yuma, you and your spirit friends will get what they rightfully deserve." Shun Tey said and turned his back to Yuma and her friends and walked away.

"Thanks Yuma," Den said. "Those humans are always causing us trouble. Especially Shun Tey."

"I hope he hasn't been killing the spirits."

"As far as I know the last one he killed was Rein."

"I remember that. Tortured the poor spirit then killed it. I don't understand how someone could treat spirits like that."

"Humans are different." Den looked over at the young children. "But sometimes, the young ones could be our future too. They can become bonded with us spirits and live in harmony."

"That would be nice besides the war that is basically going on."

"Between the spirits and humans. I know... I know." Yuma gave a sigh.