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Chapter One

Falling Down

I walked into the living room where my older sister had fallen asleep on the couch in front of the tv. It was late, around midnight, and my sister's show was still flashing in the dark. I didn't know what it was. All I saw was a bald kid in an iceberg, with a strange arrow on his forehead, Whatever it was, it didn't look too bad so I sat down and watched a little bit of the episode.

That was when the tv turned off and the hum of the house's electrical appliances stopped.

It wasn't that big of a deal, just a blackout of some kind. Groping around in the dark, I looked for the remote but couldn't find it. I went toward the tv to check, when suddenly something knocked me over into the screen. But there wasn't any screen. I started falling from what seemed to be really high because I was picking up speed fast. I tried to scream but I couldn't hear myself cause the wind whipped it and took it away too fast. I flailed my limbs about. At first it was dark, but then it became really light. A landscape spread out below me, with craggy cliffs, mountains and grass everywhere, as far as I could see.

That was when I closed my eyes in fear. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die...I whimpered to myself in my head. I guess I'd always wanted to know what clouds felt like, just not like this. I covered my head out of pure fear and braced myself for impact.

I hit the ground hard, and it knocked the breath out of me. Breathing heavily, I grasped my stomach and stood up as best I could. I looked up and almost screamed. In front of me were two orange eyes. I smiled weakly at the man with strange warlike garments on.

"Your under arrest in the name of Fire Lord Ozai!" The bulky man yelled at me. With that he motioned to two guards who nodded and grabbed both of my arms.

"I didn't do anything!" I yelled, scrambling everywhere while trying to break free. "And ow," I continued, looking over at the man on my left, "do you think you could loosen up? I'll be lucky to have this arm after you've squeezed it to death." The guards seemed taken aback at my bold words, like they had never seen someone talk like that to them before. They loosened their grip in surprise for just a second. But a second was all I needed.

I kicked one in the shin, and he let go and yelped as he started hopping on one foot. Meanwhile, I lashed out with my now free hand and pushed the other man off of me easily. I ran in the opposite direction of the man who had spoken to me first, Looking back every now and then. "Halt!" They called. I was still in shock. Where was I? If I had died from the fall, heaven seemed a lot cruder then I had imagined it. No, I couldn't be dead, though. I hurt too much to be dead. Taking a sharp turn into a hidden crevice in one of the cliff sides, I caught my breath and prayed I wouldn't be found.

The men ran past me, not even glancing in my direction. I sighed with relief. Even though I knew they were gone, I still waited a few minutes before I moved at all. Looking into where I had turned, I saw it didn't end where I was standing. It started small, but as you walked, the passageway grew bigger, and it seemed to go on forever. Keeping a hand on the cool rock, I walked down the rock until I stopped in front of a great, wide space That seemed to almost had been carved out of the rock.

I gasped. Everywhere I looked, there were huts and cottages. The nicer ones had small chimneys with small puffs of smoke coming out of the top. People roamed about everywhere in strange clothing that seemed to have the same green color scheme. Most were adults, but there were some smaller children too. I took a few more steps before I stopped an old woman walking by with a basket of fruit. "Excuse me, ma'am," I said, as polite as I could manage. "Where are we?" Before responding, she looked me up and down. I realized that I was still in my pajamas. I had on a large gray shirt and a pair of pink cotton capris. I flushed with embarrassment.

She seemed to notice me turn red and she seemed to become a bit kinder. "Are you a traveler, dear?" She asked, smiling. "Not fire nation, I would hope?"

"Fire...nation?" I mustered. She nodded.

"We're a group of rebels. Some benders, some fighters. Fighting against the fire nation, we are," she said, very proudly. When the only emotion I showed was confusion, she raised her eyebrows. "Oh, my. You really are lost, aren't you? Where are you from, dear?"

I gulped. I couldn't just tell her where I was from. I'd sound like a world class lunatic. "Water nation?" I lied, hoping with all my heart that such a place existed. The woman chuckled a bit, motioning me to walk with her. "I suppose you mean the Water Tribe," she said, which I awarded with a nod. She smiled. "Are you a bender, too?" She asked. I nodded yet again. I wasn't sure what that meant, but I was pretty sure I could bend some stuff. At lunch I could always bend the plastic utensils in half.

Soon we came upon a small clearing where people were doing amazing things, things I had never seen before! Most people were making earth fly, but a few were making water fly through the air. The old woman called over one of the boys making water fly through the air. "Finn!" She called, waving him over to stand by her.

He came over and smiled at the woman. "Granny," he said smiling, and then looking at me. "And who is this?" He asked, curious.

"I'm Luka," I said quickly. For some reason I had decided not to lie about my name. The woman clapped her hands together in excitement.

"Luka is a waterbender!" She exclaimed excitedly. "Just like you, my grandson!" Finn smiled and looked at me. Happiness was in his eyes. It was strange, the way he looked at me-it almost scared me a bit.

"Well," he said, finally breaking the silence. "Go ahead. Waterbend. Show me what you can do!"

...To Be continued

( But yeah, I know that this might seem like a bit of a repetitive theme to write about, but I really wanted to try it out for myself so...ta da! Even if nobody reads it, well yeah. Please R&R though, I really wanna hear what you think. Oh and by the way, I know it's a bit short and I apologize about that. )