Chapter 1, beginnings
Hey guys, this is my first story and im completely new to this. I do not believe im a good writer in anyway, I appreciate criticism but please be a little gentle with me, also you'll have to forgive me some grammar mistakes for english is not my native language. anyway, I have always had this fascination for the backstory of characters, and my love for Avatar has roots deep inside of me ever since I was a kid, Air has always been my favorite element so I thought I'd write about an airbending character. The first character that came to mind was Monk Gyatso, I think he is an interesting character in the series but very little is explained about his background/origins, so i thought i'd would make my story about him in his younger years. I hope you enjoy
Fuck, how could this have happened, had his recklessness finally caught up to him? Was this the end? He was just running away from some soldiers when something hard hit him on the head, turning off all lights. He was floating in darkness now,not knowing if he was dead or alive. Being a Monk of the Southern Air Temple he always thought he would be at peace with dying, that it would only lead to a greater stage of enlightenment in the afterlife. But now when he thought his time had finally come all he felt was fear and sorrow. Suddenly the deep black swirled and turned to colours as he remembered how he started his great journey.
"Gyatso, come! I want to show you something!" the young avatar Roku called from above, using his glider to ride the winds. The Air Nomad jumped up and used his glider to fly after his friend, who was already far ahead. After about 5 minutes they reached a great cliff east of the southern air temple. "What is it Roku?" Gyatso asked, a little annoyed that his friend wouldn't tell him anything. "I'll just show it to you" Roku replied.
Roku had been at the Southern for a few months now and Gyatso had been friends with the playfull avatar since the beginning, helping him out with mastering His second element, Air. Gyatso was a very promising student but the Elders thought he was still a little bit too playfull, so they thought that the serious training the avatar had to go through would maybe calm him down. The exact opposite happened, the Avatar was just as wild and careless as Gyatso, and they became great friends almost right away.
"Okay baldie, watch and learn" the young Avatar jumped from the cliff, putting his glider under his feet, using it as a kind of surf board but in the sky. Gyatso did not want to show how impressed he was with this new trick, and launched himself in the air using his bending. He put the glider on beneath his feet like he saw roku doing, and tried to maintain balance. At first it worked and he surfed on the winds, but then he was caught off balance, he tried to hang on to his glider but he fell down, the ciff was about 200 feet high and falling off of it would be a certain death, even with airbending it would be a hard landing. He cried for help and luckily Avatar Roku quickly surfed under him and he caught Gyatso. He flew them both back to the top of the cliff where they sat while breathing heavily for a while. "thanks man, for saving me" Gyatso said while looking for his glider. "no problem"roku replied. After he found his glider hanging in a tree somewhere Gyatso said: "we should head back to the temple now, Monk Kino will be waiting for us to start training" "yep i'm coming" Roku said as they both jumped up and flew back to the temple
"What do you mean Roku has to go already? He can't go yet he still has much to learn about airbending!" Gyatso said, it was a few months later and it was time for Roku to learn the other elements, next up being water. "that's why you will be going with him, we have decided you are ready to receive your tattoo's and you can keep teaching him while you're traveling the world" the Elder replied. Gyatso was so happy he could not find the words to express it, so all he did was bow and say "I thank you for this great honor" Roku was very thrilled about it too. Walking out of the Great Hall they started talking about adventures they would go on and people they would meet. "I wonder if water will be hard to learn for me, it being the opposite element of fire and all" Roku said with a frown. "I think you'll be fine, you picked up airbending very fast" Gyatso said. "yeah that's true, water is very differet from air and fire though, I hope it won't be too much trouble" Roku said. "don't worry about it too much, our journey is going to be amazing and im finally going to get my tattoo's! i'll be an airbending master!" Gyatso said, jumping up and down from excitement. "and I'm really excited about being able to travel with Abbee too, I think she will love to!"
Gyatso had gotten his Sky Bison at a very young age. He was 6 years old when he first met her. He was just playing in the fields when he heard some panicked groaning in the distance. He went to investigate and found the young Sky bison trapped in some thorns. He cut away the thorns and freed the big animal. They were inseperable ever since.
"I think Fang and Abbee will become even greater friends" Roku said when they reached the two animals. He petted his large red dragon on the head. Gyatso smiled and launched himself onto his bison. "I think we're all set Monk Kino!" Gyatso called to his Master. "Yep, i'm ready" Roku confirmed. "good luck on your journey!" the old monk replied as he waved off the two teenagers. "I wonder if they'll be okay" he thought to himself as they flew off into the night sky.
