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Chapter 1: The Beginning
It has been 500 years since Avatar Aang has defeated Phoenix King Ozai and brought peace to the world. The four nations of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire have once again become one and balance has come back to the world. The world has entered a long period of peace thanks to the combine efforts of Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko. Though there are still people who try to cause trouble for the world there is always an Avatar to stop them. However as the years go by and society becomes more advanced the Avatar and the four nations are eventually forgotten by most of the world. The four nations are eventually split into several villages. The bending arts are also kept secret from the world in fear that the benders would be considered outcast. Some benders even live among normal humans to live a normal life. But soon the world will know of the Avatar once again as the world is about to face a crisis unlike any other and the only hope for the world is: The Celestial Avatar.
Somewhere on a train
"Are we there yet?" asked a young man sitting on one side of a train. "I'm curious about where we are going."
"We are going to a town called Tewksbury. It is where we will be living for a while", said a women sitting on the other side.
"Why are we going their"?
"There's a school that opened up a few years ago there and I think you might like it. It is located near a lot of trees and it has a great educational program. Since I know someone their we can get a discount there, meaning until I can find a job here will have enough money for the next few weeks."
"Why bother? After all I doubt we'll be here for more than a week if they show up".
"I know that you don't think you will be safe anywhere but I have a good feeling about this. Can you please try at least for a few days Shawn?"
"Sure, I might as well Lia. But I wouldn't hold my breath."
"You're almost sixteen. We will have to find you a teacher soon. There might be one in this town."
"If there is I don't think that person will reveal who he/she is. I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any here."
"We gotta at least try."
Then with a sigh Shawn said "Fine."
At an unknown house
"Zoey, if you don't hurry up you're going to be late for school," said Zoey's mother.
"Coming down in a sec mom", said Zoey. After putting her school uniform on Zoey went to a mirror in her room to comb her hair. Zoey took great care of her hair because it was unique. Her shoulder length hair was pink, a color not very natural to most people but Zoey was glad. After brushing her hair for a few minutes she put in a hairclip on the right side of hair and went downstairs.
"Bye mom I'm leaving."
"But you still have forty-five minutes left. You got some time to have some breakfast."
"That's okay. I'm meeting Matt and Cheryl at the coffee house so I'll get something to tide me over until lunch."
"Okay. Be careful."
"I will mom. Bye."
After walking out the door Zoey saw her brother Steve about to leave in his car.
"Need a ride"? asked Steve.
"No thanks", replied Zoey. "I'm going to walk to school with Matt and Cheryl after I meet up with them."
"Okay, see ya at five."
"Bye."
At the Coffee House
Seven minutes later Zoey walked over to the coffee house where she saw one guy with a male version of her school uniform on and his long dark hair in a partial ponytail and a girl with the same uniform on as hers and with a blue cap on her wide, curly orange hair.
"Morning", said both Matt and Cheryl.
"Hey guys", replied Zoey. "Did you hear that we might get a new transfer student today?"
"Yeah", said Matt. "Though I'm not sure who this guy is or where he is from."
"I just hope the new kid is someone we can get along with", said Cheryl.
"Yeah", Matt said. "It would be nice to have another guy in the group."
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN?" yelled both girls.
"Nothing, nothing at all."
"It better not mean anything otherwise…"
"I know I know. You'll use your Tai quan do on me. You don't have to bring that up just because you do that."
"But if I don't then it wouldn't be any fun to get you to stop."
"Okay you guys let's get something to eat before school starts."
"Fine" both said.
After getting their coffee and some bagels they were about to leave when suddenly a gang of thugs showed up attempting to rob the place. " This is a stick up" one thug said. Everyone don't move a muscle and hand over all of the cash and any other valuable stuff you have with you".
"These guys don't look so tough" Cheryl said as she was about to confront them until Matt put his hand on her shoulder to stop her.
"Matt what are you doing?" "I can take these guys."
"Look what they in their hands" Matt said pointing to their hands. Each one of those thugs was armed with a gun.
"You might get shot so it's best if we just do what they say for now."
"Matt's right Cheryl." Said Zoey putting her hand on her other shoulder. You might be able to fight but they have the advantage with the guns. Plus there are a lot of hostages here and that means someone might get hurt if where not careful."
After thinking it over for a minute Cheryl clam down and moved backwards with her friends. "Besides Cheryl, we have nothing of wroth to those guys so we'll be okay."
"Alright but I won't like it."
When the thugs approached Zoey and her friends they gave them their money wanting it to be over. However something else caught one of the thug's eyes.
"Give me that hairclip kid" the thug said to Zoey.
"No I can't give it up. It belonged to a good friend of mine. It's very precious to me."
"Don't care, just hand it over" demanded the thug pointing his gun at Zoey. Zoey still chose not to hand it over making the thug really mad.
"Alright then. If you won't hand over that hairclip then I'll just have to take it" said the thug as he tried to take the hairclip from Zoey's hair.
"No!" yelled Zoey as she tried to stop him from taking the hairclip. The thug then used his other hand to punch Zoey in the gut making her kneel down giving the thug a chance to grab the hairclip from her hair.
"Zoey!" yelled Cheryl as she was about to attack the thug who stole her hairclip until he pointed his gun at her. She stopped in her tracks paralyzed by the gun aimed at her.
"Alright, no one try any funny business or you'll all get shot" yelled the leader of the thugs. He and his men pointed their guns at everyone then walked out making sure they didn't try anything.
However Zoey grabbed the thug who stole her hairclip and weakly muttered "give it back".
"You're really getting on my nerves kid" said the thug. Deciding he couldn't take it anymore the thug grabbed his gun and pointed it at Zoey. "I'll give you till the count of three to let go."
Zoey still refused to let go irritating the thug. "That's it kid. 1...2...3. Say you prayers."
As he was about to shoot Zoey a card was sent flying out of nowhere, knocking the gun and the hairclip out of the thug's hand. The thug screamed in pain as he was bleeding from the attack. "Who did that?" yelled the leader of the thugs.
"Haven't you ever been told to not treat a lady like that?" Everyone soon turn their heads to the front entrance where they saw a figure catching the card that was thrown. It was a young man who looked to be about fifth teen standing in front of the entrance.
"Who the heck are you?" demanded the leader.
"No one worth remembering. But it doesn't matter whether or not I tell you my name you fools probably won't even remember my name once I take care of you losers."
"Big talk coming from some kid. In case you didn't notice we have the advantage here. We have eight guns aimed at you, hostages, and your outnumbered. So there's no way you can take on all of us."
"You may have me outnumbered but I have you outmatched."
"Fire!" yelled the leader. As soon as they fired their guns the young man suddenly disappeared, shocking everyone.
"Where did he go?" yelled one of the thugs. However the young man suddenly appeared behind them and knocked them out one by one until only the leader remained.
"You going to give up peacefully or will I have to knock some sense into you?"
The leader was terrified of the young man and had no chance of escape until he remembered Zoey and aimed his gun right at her. "Not another move kid or his girl is dead."
Suddenly the gun just burst into flames and burning the leader's hand. The young man then quickly ran up to the leader and punched him in the gut knocking him out.
After restraining the thugs the young man picked up Zoey's hairclip and gave it back to her.
"Are you okay?" asked the young man. Zoey replied with a nod and took the hairclip back.
"That hairclip must be really special to you if you risked your life for it".
"Yeah it really is." Matt and Cheryl then rushed to Zoey's aid seeing if she was okay.
"You alright?" they both asked.
"I'm fine, just feeling a little drained but other than that… Ow!"
"You're hurt pretty bad. We should get you to a doctor" Matt said as he and Cheryl were helping Zoey up.
"There won't be any need for that" The young man said while reaching in his pocket to get something. "Here drink this. This medicine will help speed up your body's recovery system.
After being handed the medicine Zoey tried it and within seconds she felt better than when she woke up. "Wow this stuff really works. Where did you get this?"
Just when he was about to answer the police could be heard coming and the young man suddenly got up. "I'm sorry but I have to go." The young man said as ran out the door, apparently in a hurry for something. Zoey and the other's tried to follow him but as soon as they got outside they couldn't find any trace of him.
"Where did he go?" ask Matt
"Who knows" replied Cheryl.
"Well whoever he was I'm glad he showed up when he did" said Zoey as she wonders who hat guy was.
"Whoa look at the time. We only eight minutes left until school. We better hurry" Cheryl said.
"Let's go then girls."
At school
"We made with only three minutes left to spare, what a relief" Cheryl said trying to catch her breath.
"Yeah but now we can recover a bit before school starts" Matt replied.
"And were just in time for the new student to get here" Zoey added.
After three minutes of talking a women with short blonde hair and a tan suit stepped into the room. "Good morning students."
"Good morning ." said all of the students. As was placing her stuff on her desk she then got all of the student's attention over to her for a minute.
"As some of you may know we have a new student joining us today. Please make him feel very welcomed here alright." She then waved her hand over to the door to let the new student know to come in. "Please welcome your new classmate."
As the new student walked in Zoey, Matt, and Cheryl were very surprised to see who it was. It was none other than the young man who saved them earlier.
"Allow me to introduced Shawn Blaze"
"Hi nice to meet everyone" Shawn said.
"Hi. My name is Shawn Blaze" said the young man in front of the classroom. Everyone seems to be giving different expressions about the new kid.
"He's kind of cute" said one girl.
"He looks like a movie star" said another girl.
Apparently every girl except for Zoey and Cheryl had their eyes on him but he didn't pay attention to any of them.
"Now Mr. Blaze because this is short notice we don't have a school uniform ready for you so until then you may wear anything you have as long as its school appropriate understand"? said Ms. Knee.
"Yes I understand" replied Shawn.
"Good. Now then, why don't you take a seat next to Zoey" Ms. Knee said as she pointed to were Zoey sits and the empty desk next to her. Shawn nodded his head in agreement and went over to his seat.
"Alright then, now that were all here it's time to begin today's lesson" said Ms. Knee as she got out a textbook. "Please turn to page 51 in you history books".
As Shawn took his seat he noticed Zoey staring at him. "Can I help you with something?" he asked with a bored look.
"I- I'm sorry. It's just that I can't believe that you're the new transfer student, let alone my new classmate." Zoey replied.
"Whatever". Shawn said still with that bored look on his face. "Anyway please don't tell anyone what happen earlier. I'm not too big on getting any unwanted attention."
"Sure. By the way my name is Zoey Cascade and I'm…
"I know who you are." Shawn interrupted. "I'm not deaf you know."
"S- Sorry. Just trying to make conversation."
"I'm not very talkative."
"Well thanks again for saving me at the coffee store."
"They had it coming."
The rest of the period went off quietly expect for a few whispers about Shawn, which he heard but didn't let it get to him. He was used to people talking about him behind his back and so he just ignored them. As the bell rang and the students were heading to their next class Matt and Cheryl walked with Zoey to her English class as Matt was heading down to Chemistry and Cheryl was heading to Math. As they were walking they started talking about Shawn.
"I can't believe he talked to you like that." Cheryl said with a fist forming in her right hand. "I should teach him some respect next time I see him."
"No Cheryl. He's new here so try to cut him a break." Zoey said.
"Zoey's right Cheryl. After all did you hear what some of our classmates were saying about him? It's tough being the new kid."
"Sigh, fine I'll try to be friendly to him. But Zoey didn't it bug you that he talked to that way?"
"No but when we were talking I noticed something odd
"What?" Both Matt and Cheryl asked as Zoey stopped right where she was standing.
"Well, I noticed that when I looked into his eyes I could see a bit of sadness in them. I don't know why but he looked really sad deep down inside."
"You sure?" Matt asked doubtfully.
"It must be true." Cheryl said. After all you know as well as I do that Zoey can tell what a person is feeling just by looking at their eyes."
"Yeah you're right but he looks like trouble to me."
"Maybe during lunch we should invite him to sit with us so we could get to know him more." Zoey said as she and the other's resumed walking.
"Fine." Cheryl said.
"Agreed." Matt said.
As the class ended Shawn walked out and decided to explore the school a little, since he was given permission to skip second period for the rest of the week to know the school a little better. But as Shawn was walking around he started to remember what happen earlier today.
"Why did I even bother saving that girl from those robbers? I guess I'm just too nice but still I should have let the police handle it. This is what I get for listening to Lia."
Flashback
"So this is Tewksbury." Shawn said as he exited out of the taxi he and Lia were in.
"That's right." Lia replied, also getting out of the taxi with some of her things. "This is our new home Shawn."
"Until we're forced to leave again." Shawn whispered under his breath but loud enough for Lia to hear.
"I know it's been rough for you but I have a good feeling about this place. Also we can find you a teacher here."
"Whatever I'm going inside." Shawn said as he was heading towards his new house.
"Not so fast Shawn." Lia said as she placed her hand on his shoulder and turned him to her. "You start school today so you're going have to get ready and not goof off. You should wear something nice on your first day since we can't afford a uniform."
"Fine." Shawn said with a look of boredom in his eyes.
"And before you go to school you should check out the town a bit. I hear they have a great coffee shop were a lot of teens your age hang out. This could be the chance to make some new friends."
"Why bother. If they find out who I am then they'll just betray me like the others and turn me into them."
"Just give it a try okay?"
"I'll give it a try." Shawn said as he headed to his new house and to his new room. As soon as he got in he changed his clothes and put of a black t-shirt with a red jacket unzipped jacket with horizontal lines going through it. He then put on dark blue jeans with a red trim on them. To match the outfit he put on a red and white hat over his brown spiky hair going forward, black fingerless gloves, and a necklace around his neck.
As soon as he was ready he headed downstairs, not even taking the time to look at the house. He then grabbed his backpack and pulled something out of one of the moving bags, which was a small vile of medicine that had healing proprieties and placed it in his pocket.
"I'm heading out now." Shawn said.
"Alright but don't forget to be at school in one hour okay?" Lia replied unzipping some of her things.
"I got it." Shawn said as he headed out the door.
A half hour went by as Shawn was looking around but he didn't find much interest in anything until he came across a park where there was a beautiful view of the lake. Shawn had a good feeling about this place and decided to come back later. Just then his stomach growled.
"Maybe I should have brought a snack with me in case I was hungry. I guess I should head to that coffee shop Lia was talking about."
As Shawn was making his way to the coffee shop he heard gun shots coming from inside and decided to investigate. Once he got there he saw several men wearing ski masks and holding guns, one pointed at a girl about Shawn's age.
"Give me that hairclip kid" the thug said to the girl.
"No I can't give it up. It belonged to a good friend of mine. It's very precious to me."
"Don't care, just hand it over" demanded the thug pointing his gun at the girl. She still chose not to hand it over making the thug really mad.
That girls got guts standing up to that guy at gunpoint, Shawn thought. "Maybe I should help… What am I saying? It's not my problem so I'll just let the police handle it." Shawn was about to walk off till he heard something.
"Alright then. If you won't hand over that hairclip then I'll just have to take it" said the thug as he tried to take the hairclip from the girl's hair. Shawn watched as the girl tried desperately to stop him but was no match for him. Shawn then saw the girl's friends about to help till some of the other robbers pointed their guns at them.
"That hairclip must be really important to that girl if she's willing to go that far for it." Shawn whispered to himself before seeing that girl grabbing onto to the robber and getting thrown off. He then saw the robber was about to shoot her.
"I gotta do something but what? I can't use my power here but I can't let that girl get shot." Shawn was thinking of what he could do until he snapped his fingers and took out a deck full of cards. "Maybe these ought to help."
Shawn threw one of the cards right at the man's hand, a second before he pulled the trigger on the gun. With the gun and hairclip knocked out of his hand and his hand bleeding, he angrily looked to see who through the card.
"Haven't you ever been told to not treat a lady like that?" Shawn said as the card returned to him.
"Who the heck are you?" demanded the leader of the robbers.
"No one worth remembering. But it doesn't matter whether or not I tell you my name you fools probably won't even remember my name once I take care of you losers."
"Big talk coming from some kid. In case you didn't notice we have the advantage here. We have eight guns aimed at you, hostages, and you're outnumbered. So there's no way you can take on all of us."
"You may have me outnumbered but I have you outmatched."
"Fire!" yelled the leader. As soon as they fired their guns Shawn seemingly disappeared, much to the shock of everyone in the room.
"Where did he go?" yelled one of the thugs. However Shawn suddenly appeared behind them and knocked them out one by one until only the leader remained.
"You going to give up peacefully or will I have to knock some sense into you?"
The leader was terrified of the young man and had no chance of escape until he remembered the girl and aimed his gun right at her. "Not another move kid or his girl is dead."
No! Shawn thought. I have to use my power to at least blow up the gun. Shawn then made a quick glare at the gun before a spark could be seen coming out of it.
Suddenly the gun just burst into flames and burning the leader's hand. Now's my chance, Shawn thought as he quickly ran up to the leader and punched him in the gut knocking him out.
"Whew made it just in time." Shawn said to himself. He then used some rope the robbers had and restrained them. After that he noticed the hairclip and picked it up, with his eyes shifting to the girl trying to get up. His eyes then shifted back to the hairclip.
This hairclip must be really important to her if she risked her life for it, Shawn thought. He then got up an approached the girl.
"Are you okay?" Shawn asked as he handed her the hairclip. The girl replied with a nod and took the hairclip back.
"That hairclip must be really special to you if you risked your life for it".
"Yeah it really is." Her two friends then rushed over to her aid, seeing if she was okay.
"You alright?" they both asked.
"I'm fine, just feeling a little drained but other than that… Ow!"
"You're hurt pretty bad. We should get you to a doctor" said the one with a partial ponytail as he and a girl with a blue cap and orange with wide, curly orange hair were helping the girl with pink hair up.
She does look hurt, Shawn thought. Maybe I should give that medicine in my pocket. With it her body's recovery system will speed up and she'll be better in no time.
"There won't be any need for that" The Shawn said while reaching in his pocket to get the medicine. "Here drink this. This medicine will help speed up your body's recovery system."
After being handed the medicine the girl tried it and within seconds she felt better than when she woke up. "Wow this stuff really works. Where did you get this?"
Just when he was about to answer the police could be heard coming and Shawn suddenly got up. "I'm sorry but I have to go." Shawn said as ran out the door, hoping to avoid any unwanted attention. The girl and her friends tried to follow him but as soon as they got outside they couldn't find any trace of him.
"Whew that was close." Shawn said catching his breath. "Can't believe I did that and all because of that girl. Sometimes I can be way too nice.
As Shawn was still catching his breath he looked at a clock near the coffee shop and found out he only had eight minutes left till school starts. "Yikes I'm going to be late if I don't get a move on." He said as he ran through a shortcut he found and headed to the school.
End of Flashback
As Shawn was done remembering he felt someone was behind him but when he turned around no one was there. "I know you're out there so show yourself." Shawn said in a calm yet demanding voice.
"Wow no one has ever detected me before. You must have eyes in the back of your head or something to notice me." Said the stranger as he revealed himself to Shawn. He was an average looking kid with glasses on and the standard school uniform but with a camera around his neck.
"Who are you?" Shawn asked. The stranger pushed his glasses back up an approached Shawn.
"My name is Cam Accord. I'm in charge of the school newspaper and I'm also head of the photography club." He answered as he pulled out a card from his pocket. "My card." He said handing it to Shawn.
"What do you want?"
"As head of the school newspaper and the photography club it is also my job to gather any information on students. I collect data on them through my own means and place them into this little book I have right here." He then took out a small book small enough for a two year old to hold. "In this book I have information on every student who has attended this school since I have been here. This means I have data on over eight thousand students in my three years here."
"Interesting." Shawn said with a suspicious look in his eye. "And what do you do with this data?"
"That is my business Mr. Blaze" he said as he put the book back in his pocket, "but I can tell you that this information has been helpful to me in more ways than one."
"And what does this have to do with me?"
"Isn't it obvious? You are currently the only student here who I have little to no data on so I was hoping for an interview of some sorts with you, and I can make it worth your while-
"Sorry but I have no interest in being interview just to be blackmailed later." Shawn interrupted as he started walking away from Cam.
"Wait, you didn't let me finish." Cam pleaded as Shawn started walking away. As Cam kept pleading for Shawn to come back, Shawn just ignored him right as the bell rang signaling that second period was over and that third period was about to begin. "Guess this is what they mean by saved by the bell." Shawn said to himself as he headed for his class, due to his free period being over.
As he was walking Shawn was thinking over what Cam said to him, with a look of depression on his face. "Why should I bother telling anyone about myself if I'm not going to be around here much longer? And besides that guy only wants to know things about me just to use it against me later, not because he actually cares. It's what I thought of before: No one can be trusted except for Lia." Shawn said as a tear fell down from his cheek.
Meanwhile in what looked like a ruined town shrouded in darkness a figure with a long dark cloak approached a man who can only be seen as a silhouette expect for the bottom part of his face was shown. He was sitting on a large throne in what looked like a castle.
"You've returned." Said the silhouetted figure. "So have you found him yet?"
The cloaked figure bowed on one knee and replied "Yes my lord, he is located in a town called Tewksbury just north of here."
"Excellent." Said the silhouetted figure with a smirk on his face "You know what to do. Get that power he has no matter what it takes."
The cloaked figure got up and removed the hood on his cloak revealing long sliver hair. "Yes my lord. I understand. I shall get the power the Celestial Avatar possesses," he said as a shadow claw of some sorts appeared on his right hand, "no matter what it takes."