Greetings, one and all, welcome to the first chapter of Avatar Heroes: Tale Of A Lily.
This is going to be a prequel to Avatar Heroes, which still has a chapter plus the epilogue left as of writing.
Anyways there's no need to read it to understand this story, seeing as this story takes place around, 26 years before Avatar Heroes (May sound too short a time frame, but it gets explained later).
Anyways I hope your going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it, as always I do not own anything in this story except my OC's and now on to the story.
A dark purple Rift opened a few meters above the snow covered grounds, a small silver oval shaped pod with a dark glass window crash lands into the snow. With a swooshing sound, the door released itself, the front window slid open and a young woman not much older than fifteen, stepped out.
She had black hair that reached shoulder length, on her lower body she wore dark grey pants, with a white belt holding it up. On her upper body, she wore a black sleeveless tank top coming up to her neck under a blue hoodie.
She scanned the surrounding with her faintly glowing amber eyes, her eyes widening at the excitement of seeing the surroundings, "This is great! I successfully arrived in another World.", she said with a giddy smile on her face, "Dads going to be proud."
Her attention was drawn towards a nearby river, where she saw a canoe with tow people, a young man and a young woman fighting against the stream. Upon closer inspection she noticed that they were heading towards a large icebergs which block the end of the narrow passage formed by the towering walls of ice.
The girl raised both hands, concentrating on the canoe, "Come on, Lily. Remember your training, true power lies on the edge between rage and serenity.", she thought as she reached out, lifting the boat with passenger and all out of the water and placing it safely on the snowy ground.
"Katara is this more of your weird water magic!?", the boy asked in annoyance and shock.
"It's not 'magic', it's waterbending! And it's...", the girl said but was inerrupted.
"Yeah, yeah, 'an ancient art unique to our culture'.", the boy responded.
The black haired girl let out a soft giggle at the two antic's, drawing their attention to her. "Well it seems you two are okay.", she said with a smile, but upon noticing their expression, "I don't think I have introduced myself, my name is Skywalker, Lily Skywalker."
The two gave each other a strange look, before the girl spoke up, "That's an unusual name... my name is Katara. Nice to meet you, Lily Skywalker.", the girl now named Katara said.
"Please, just call me Lily.", she said, but the boy didn't seem so trusting of the stranger who just saved their lives.
"So 'Lily' if that's your real name, where did you come from?", he asked.
But before she could answer, Katara spoke up, "Don't mind Sokka, he is just shy to meet a girl his age."
"I knew I should've left you home!", the boy now name Sokka said, Lily looks at him surprised as Katara stares down at her brother in anger while he rants calmly, "Leave it to a girl to screw things up!"
Katara's face as it contorts with fury, "You are the most sexist.", she said as she brings her hands up to her head and swings them back down and behind her in her rage; the movement creates a small wave of water behind her, "immature, nut brained. This girl just saved our lives and all you can do is be suspicious of her. I'm embarrassed to be related to you!"
She swings both her hands back forcefully once again and her unconscious waterbending hurls a wave directly into the towering iceberg behind her; with a loud, splitting crack, a hooklike fissure arcs up its surface and out its side, leaving a spray of ice where it ends.
Petrified, Sokka gasps for air and Lily looks in the same direction, several small bubbles appear on the surface of the water directly in front of them and a small spot of water begins to glow with a bright bluish hue.
Crashing waves were generated by an iceberg suddenly rising, within the iceberg itself, showed a human shaped within below a larger, indistinguishable mass. The human figure, has glowing arrows on its head and hands.
"Is this normal for this World?...", Lily asked just as the figure opened its eyes, the same brilliant light emanating from them, revealing it to be a boy.
"He's alive! We have to help!", Katara said, getting a nod from Lily, before Sokka can stop them, Katara grabs Sokka's club out of its sheath on his back, heading in the direction of the strange boy sealed in the iceberg.
Reaching the iceberg first, Katara repeatedly strikes the iceberg with Sokka's club. "Wait, let me.", Lily said, placing her hand on the crack ice sending a wave of invisible energy through it, breaking through the surface and a great gust of wind, which escapes from within the iceberg, throws her, Katara and her brother back from the side of the dome.
Fissures quickly snake their way over the whole iceberg and, in a massive outward explosion, the entire orb of ice destroys itself. A beam of light bursts from the core of the iceberg and rockets into the sky.
As the gale begun to settle, light still encircles the remains of the former mountain of ice, now reduced to a hollowed-out crater. "What was that?...", Lily asked just as a figure emerges slowly from the iceberg.
The circles of light finally dissipate as the boy stops glowing. The figure is revealed to be nothing more than a young boy, who gives a moan of exhaustion and suddenly faints.
Katara gasps and runs forward to catch him before he hits the ground and Sokka begins to poke at the boy's head with the blunt end of his spear. Katara places the boy gently against the base of the crater.
"Hey, kid. Your alright?", Lily asked, standing behind Katara as the boy slowly opens his gray eyes.
"I need to ask you something...", the boy asked in a weak voice, "Please... come closer."
"What is it?", Katara asked.
"Will you go penguin sledding with me?", the boy asked in a suddenly in a clear, happy, hopeful tone as he elegantly rises to his feet in one swift motion, surprising the other three.
"Uh, sure... I-I guess.", Katara said awkwardly, looking at him in awe while Sokka backs away in shock, aiming his spear at him again. Lily looked at the boy with raised eyebrows.
"So what's going on here?", the boy asked, looking around and rubbing his head.
"You tell us, we just found you in that iceberg a moment ago.", Lily explained just as a low, gruff noise suddenly fills the air, coming from within the crater of the iceberg. Quickly, the boy scrambles up the ridge of ice and happily jumps on the head of a large, furry creature that has the same arrow-shaped marking on his forehead as the boy.
"The fuck is that?", Lily asked in awe, landing next to the young boy, "It looks so cute."
"This is my friend Appa! He's a flying bison.", the boy explained. Sokka and Katara appear around the corner as Appa opens his mouth and licking Aang with his giant tongue, "Your okay!" the boy hugs the bison's nose.
"Really? Hello, Appa. My name is Lily.", the girl said and the bison turned his head towards her, opening her mouth and giving Lily a lick as well.
"Appa seems to like you.", the boy said, "My name is Aang by the way, nice to meet you Lily! So do you and your friends live around here?"
Lily and Katara let out a chuckle but Sokka interrupted them, "Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light?! He was probably trying to signal the Fire Navy!"
"Oh yeah, I'm sure he's a spy for the Fire Navy. You can tell by that evil look in his eye.", Katara addresses him sarcastically.
"Girls with weird bending, giant light beams, flying bison...", Sokka muttered as he began to walk away, "I think I got midnight sun madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense...", but he realizes, however, that he is stranded in the middle of the ocean with no way home.
"If you guys are stuck, Appa and I can give you a lift.", Aang offered as he propelled himself onto Appa.
"We'd love a ride! Thanks!", Katara said as she runs to the side of the bison.
"I will see you guys at the village. No offense, but I don't think Appa would be able to carry it.", Lily said, gesturing to her pod over her shoulder before turning around to walk away, "Don't worry, I can find my way."
Much later as the sky began to yellowing, Lily was dragging her ship through the snow, she noticed a emergency flare soaring lazily through the air in the distance.
As she nears the edge of the Southern Water Tribe, she could see a ship plows through the snowy shores, splintering the ground, creating a large crack that quickly travels toward the village and over the wall.
With a loud hiss of steam, the ship has come to a halt as well.
The villagers who now curiously come out of hiding and are staring in complete shock at the large vessel. The bow of the ship opening and creaking forward in a burst of steam, forming a walkway. On the top of the walkway where a young man with black hair tied back in a high ponytail, golden colored eyes, a large noticeable scar on the left side of his face and dressed in mostly dark red armor, flanked by two man in similar armor close behind him.
The villagers huddled together and Sokka who kneels in the snow in front of them, ready to defend his tribe. Sokka lets out a battle cry and charges at the young man with his club to the ready as more soldiers trudge down.
When he reaches the young man, who merely kicks the club to his left and, without ever resting his leg on the ground, kicks Sokka over to his right, sending him into the snow where his head becomes trapped.
The warrior desperately tries to free himself as the young man continues on his way to the village, followed by six more men.
The young man comes to a stop in front of the villagers with his six soldiers behind him. "Where are you hiding him?", the young man demanded to know, as he surveys the crowd of villagers who fall completely silent. Without warning, he extends his arm out into the crowd and grabbing an elderly woman, holding her by the hood of her parka, "He'd be about this age, master of all elements?", he shoves the woman forcefully back into the crowd.
Receiving no response, the young man swings his arm out and releases an arc of fire that passes just over the heads of the people, causing them to cover their heads and cry out in fear.
"I know you're hiding him!", the scarred young man shouted.
"Seriously? This is how you intimidate a village? Send some embers over their heads? I don't even think you burned anyone with them.", a voice said behind them.
Turning around, the scarred young man and his soldiers saw Lily standing in front of her pod with her armor crossed. "I was going to kill one of the sick ones if they didn't comply.", the young man said.
"Oh, kill one of the sick ones.", Lily said sarcastically, "What are you going to do next, waterboard the elderly?"
"I didn't come here to be judged by you.", the young man said, glaring at Lily, "Now stand down or I will put you in the medical bay or whatever it is you people have here!"
Faintly glowing amber eyes looked into golden once, before the young woman bursting out into laughter. "You are the only one who is gonna need a trip to the medical bay.", Lily said with a cocky smirk, "And for your sake, I hope there's one or whatever it is you have, is on that ship of yours."
The soldiers behind the young man exchanged looks under their helmets, as their leader whispered threateningly, "Who do you think you are?"
"Why don't you come and find out?", Lily said, uncrossing her arms, and taking her fighting stance.
The leader's good eye twitch enraged as he suddenly bends a stream of fire from his fist. Lily counters by sending a telekinetic push, splitting the stream harmlessly into the ground.
His golden eyes widen in surprise at the display in front of him, the girl speed past him, before his soldiers could react, she hits one of them against the head with a back spinning kick, before sending to flying across the ground with another telekinetic push.
"What just happened?", the golden eyes young man muttered, "Is she?... A girl is the Avatar?"
Retaliating for their fallen friends, a group of soldiers aggressively send large fire stream at Lily, but she easily slide under it, and with an upwards spinning kick, sending send on of them flying. As she stood back on her feet, she flashes a cocky grin to the leader.
The two stared each other down before she jumps forward through his stream of fire, as she reaches the man, she grabs his hands, turning the leader around one time to build up momentum, as she throws him up, and with a spinning kick, sends him crashing into an nearby igloo.
Landing on one knee, Lily looks at her handy work, very pleased with herself before standing up, "Got an idea about who I am now, chumps?", she chuckles arrogantly.
Turning around, she saw Sokka looking at her with her mouth dropped open, "What?"
"You were like... zoom... then bam and then...", Sokka said, being at a lost of words, "Then all Fire Nation soldiers were just knocked down on the ground."
Lily let out a slight chuckle, when suddenly they heard the leader speak up, "Avatar! Your coming with me.", he said, holding an elderly woman hostage, "Or else this woman will die."
At Sokka's angry growl, she figured that the woman must be important to him, "Alright, take it easy. There is no need for that.", Lily said, holding up her hands.
"On your knees.", the leader told her, "Hands behind your head and no sudden moves." as she complied with his demands. It was then that the recovered soldiers, rushed over and quickly bound her hands with heavy metal.
"Take that vessel she came with as well.", the leader said to his soldiers as he grabbed Lily by her upper arm, dragging her aboard his ships walkway, "And head a course for the Fire Nation. I'm going home."
As the ship makes its way through the icy waters, below the deck, Lily had her hands bound to the wall with heavy metal claps.
"I can't believe you let us restrain you, Avatar.", an elderly tubby man said, with grey hair and beards as well as wearing similar armor as the scarred young man.
"Wouldn't have been much of a surrender, now wouldn't it?", Lily asked, earning a light chuckle from the elderly man.
Having ordered his men to take Lily's space pod to the lower decks, the golden eyed teen returned. "Don't friendly with the Avatar, uncle.", the young man said, before turning from his uncle to the captured girl, "I have spent years preparing for the encounter with you. Training, meditating. You're just a teenager!", he added angrily.
At this she raised an eyebrow, "Your just a teenager.", Lily said back, with a smug grin.
The young man shot her a glare, and proceeded to exit the room with the elderly man following him. Before he left the room, the young man ordered two guards to kept a watch at her at all times.
Lily waited a few minutes after the door closed and the footsteps had faded away, "Say fellows.", she said, "How much you guys wanna bet on me breaking out of here between now and fifteen minutes?"
"Silence.", one of them said unamused.
Loud screeching sounds were heard as the two guards turned around in alarm. With a smirk, Lily broke her bonds ripping them clean off the wall. With a single gesture of her hand, the two guards were send against the wall, knocking them out.
"What's going on in there!?", a loud voice came from the other side of the door.
"Crap...", Lily whispered, before clearing her throat, "Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.", she tried to sound officially.
"What happened?", the voice asked.
"We had a slight fire malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now.", Lily said, "We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
A silence followed before speaking up, "We are coming in."
"Uh, uh... negative, negative.", Lily said quickly, "We had a leak here. Give us a few minutes to fix it up. Large leak, very dangerous."
"Wait, your not Lee!", a second voice said, "Who is this?"
Lily rolled her eyes before blasting the door out of its hinges, slamming the two guards outside against the wall, with a loud crack knocking them out.
"Boring conversation anyway.", Lily muttered, stepping into the hall and began to try and make her way out of there.
As she made her way through the vast ship, trying to find her pod but it was when she came at a crossroad that Lily came to a realization, "I have no idea how to get around the ship.", she mumbled to herself.
She opened one of the doors and walked in only to find that the room was filled with those soldiers who could control fire sitting at tables. Each and everyone turned around to look at her.
"Its the Avatar!", one of the soldiers shouted, "She has escaped!"
"Wrong door! Wrong door!", Lily shouted quickly slamming it shut, ripping a pipe from the wall and tying it around a beam and the door handle. before taking the other one.
She continues racing through the hallways of the ship, "For the love of god! How big is this freaking ship!", Lily complained as she encounters a single guard.
The soldier fires a blast at Lily who somersaulting over the attack and the soldier, kicking him in the head, the soldier falling over from the impact and Lily proceeds down the hall.
"Okay, maybe this one.", Lily said opening another door, only to find the scarred young man sitting their, who turned around surprised when he heard the sound of his door opening. "Oh fuck me..."
"Looks like I underestimated you.", he said standing up and assuming a fighting stance.
"That was your first mistake, scarface.", she said, "The second one was trusting whomever did your hair."
"You mock me?", the young man said, "You dare to mock me!?"
"Don't worry about it, scarface. I mock everybody!", Lily said with a smirk.
"My name is not scarface!", he shouted as he fires a blast at Lily who avoids the attack, "My name is Zuko!" and he fires again, she ducks to avoid the blast.
"Okay, that's a cool name!", Lily said gesturing over her shoulder, "But I can tell your not interested in talking, so I catch you on the flip side, Zuzu." before she bolted out of the room.
With Zuko hot on her heels, Lily telekinetic threw open a door which led to the control room. "Sweet!", she shouted, as she charged forward, sliding under the soldier, kicking him upwards into the air and with the same movement landing on her feet.
She run forward then jumped through the window, her arms shielding her face shattering the glass as she did. She spin around, making sure she landed
in a crouching position on the lower deck, feet wide apart and supporting her weight with her left fist on the floor while the other hand is outstretched away, pointed diagonally upwards.
"Whoo! Nailed it!", Lily said standing back up, rubbing her knee, "...While cool, landing like that is totally impractical. Really hard on the knees."
Behind her Zuko followed, jumping after her using fire from his fist to decrease his falling speed, landing with a thud.
He looked up at her, his eyes narrowing in anger, a look of persistence on his face. Zuko assumes his fighting stance again, but a growl distracted him.
"What is that!?", Zuko shouted.
Looking behind her, she saw that it was the flying bison Appa, Aang, Katara and Sokka mounted on his saddle.
"Just my ride.", Lily said, "Now give me my ship so I can get off this floating thub, Zuzu."
"You will never escape me!", Zuko shouted, as Lily made her way towards the edge of the ship. He glares at Appa and sends a blast of fire towards Appa.
"No!", Lily shouted, out of reflex she sned out a telekinetic blast not intended to be so powerful, making Zuko flying over the deck, and knocks him out cold as he falls into the water where he slowly sinks.
"Lily, come on!", Sokka said.
She looked from her friends to the edge were Zuko was blasted off. She runs towards the edge and dived off towards her sinking enemy.
"That girl is crazy!", Sokka said as he, Aang and Katara were looking down at the deep ocean below. Before they could say or do anything else, a waterspout came from the ocean, created by Lily who was carrying the unconscious Zuko.
She held him in her arms, as the scarred young man caught up water, just as the elderly man and the remaining soldiers entered the deck.
"Time to go, Lily!", Aang said, landing Appa on the deck, allowing Lily to get up.
Appa soars away from the ship, while the elderly man helps Zuko, grunting angrily with effort, to heft himself back onto his feet.
"Shoot them down!", Zuko shouted angrily.
Together, the soldiers synchronize a firebending move and fire a powerful blast at the bison. Sokka and Katara stare at the incoming attack in horror, "Oh fuck!", Lily shouted while Aang leaps onto the saddle.
He opens the small tail wing of his staff and swings his glider around, using a powerful swipe of air to redirect the fireball into a nearby cliff side.
The impact causes an avalanche of snow and ice to begin falling. The front of the ship becomes buried in a mass of snow and ice while Appa climbs higher and higher.
As they watched them escape, Zuko bends fire all over the deck in rage with the elderly man calmly watching him.
"Good news for the Fire Lord.", he said, Zuko lifts his head, "The Fire Nation's greatest threat is just a little kid."
"That 'kid' just did this.", Zuko told, holding back his rage as he gestured towards the damaged caused to his ship, "I won't underestimate him again nor will I underestimate that girl." he then yells his order to the soldiers to dig the ship out.
Some time later, Appa is soaring lazily floating through the sky while the sun is beginning to set. Aang is perched on the rim of the saddle.
"Just what are you?", Katara said to Lily as she used her waterbending to help her friend dry her clothes.
"Would you believe I am Wonder Woman?", Lily asked.
"Who?", Sokka asked.
"Never mind.", Lily said, figuring they had a lot to explain to each other.
Well that's it for the first chapter, hope you enjoyed it. Jason's love for references makes a lot more sense now... Anyways many thanks to everyone who reads this story, you beautiful bastards.
For now I wish you all a fantastic day and I will see you ladies and gents, next time.