Prologue
Sokka needs to prove himself. Katara wants answers. Zuko is more confused than ever. And Azula has a secret. Their lives change in a matter of seconds, and now they are chosen to go on a quest to save the world but also to find themselves. AU. Inspiration from The Heroes of Olympus. Formerly called The Heroes of Raava: Heritage
Okay, I began this fanfic after I read The Heroes of Olympus series. I have the idea in my head for weeks and I finally give it a try. This fanfic will not be like the books, if someone had read it. I just took the idea of the gods and the demigods and adapted it in the ATLA world. But maybe there's going to be parts that are alike to the books. This will be in the modern world and their problem are different than canon, so the characters will be kind of OOC. And if someone was thinking, yes I publish it before but after a while I try to change some things.
ATLA doesn't belong to me neither do The Heroes of Olympus sadly.
This isn't my first language so there's going to be mistakes. Let me know if there are.
Sokka
Before bull face, Sokka's day was fine.
It was the last day of school before winter break, so Sokka was having a good day; a fantastic day. Well part of it. Yue went with her family to Canada for the holidays a week prior to winter break. So that leaved Sokka alone for the winter break ball. But that didn't stop him to have a little fun.
He was in P.E with Zuko ready to play volleyball. Sokka didn't like that game; he was better playing soccer and basketball, but not volleyball. But he was positive this time because he was in Zuko's team, and that meant win. Being in the team with the volleyball captain had his perks.
Sokka remembered when the coach asked Zuko to be the new captain of the volleyball team when he saw him play in P.E. Zuko refused at the beginning saying that he had more important things to do than been a captain. But Katara insisted him to try (and Sokka was very suspicious as why Katara wanted to Zuko try it) and after weeks telling him to try Zuko finally accepted.
But Sokka must admit that looking at Zuko trying to be a leader was fun. He realized that Zuko was a great leader, a great captain; better than the last one. Because they had won all the tournaments and they were ready to go to the nationals was a great proof of how great Zuko was.
They were warming up before the game when Sokka began to talk with the "bad guy", as so many girls called him.
"So Zuko," the blue eyed boy began, "who are you going to ask out to the ball?"
In the last three months, the friendship between the blue eyed and the amber one was tense but at the same time smooth. After what Katara, his sister, told him about the past of Zuko in the last two years Sokka was trying, really trying to make a friendship with Zuko, for the second time. What Katara had told him months ago, had made him think what really happened to Zuko to be so cold and distant.
It was difficult at the beginning to gain the trust of Zuko and made him talk more, but after a month of insisting that he was trying to be a friend to him, Zuko began to open up more. But when he asked him about his family Zuko became more distant to the point of completely ignore him for a week. Katara had always told him to take it slow. "Little steps" was what Katara said.
"If we want him to remember and be him again we need to take slow. It's the only way," Katara told him that day.
So that's what Sokka had been trying for the last three months.
"I don't know," Zuko said. "I was planning not go to that stupid ball."
"I thought that Mai had asked you to go with her."
"She did, but I refused," Zuko spoke in his thick British accent while taking a ball in his hands and began to play with it.
"Why you did that? It was the perfect way to take you out of your house for a while," Sokka told him with a bewilder face and both hands extended to him, "And also for you to begin to date. Hey, no offense buddy, but you really need a girlfriend."
"First, I just don't want to go and second I don't need a girlfriend right now," Zuko said, "What about you? Now that Yue is not here, with whom are you going to the ball? With Ty Lee or…"
"Have no idea, but I'm going to the ball. Hey, and your sister with whom is she going?
"Since when do you care about my sister? Unless you really care about her in a different way…" Zuko teased him.
It was very weird when Zuko teased. Must of the time, he was serious and barely talked. But when he teased it was completely weird. Katara liked when Zuko began to tease Sokka (and he didn't like it; first, because he didn't like to be teased and second because he didn't like how Katara looked at Zuko when he do that).
"I don't care about her," Sokka said immediately but he thought of the way he had said it, "I mean that I don't care with whom she is going. I just said it to talk about something"
"Yeah right…"
"Okay little girls," the coach said more like shouted, "it's time to play"
Zuko's team was winning. They were 25 points against 30. Sokka was near Zuko, where he can ask him about what the hell to do and where to hit the ball. Even though he was terrible playing volleyball he was happy that they were winning. Coach G said that the winner will have a complete week without P.E. So to Sokka meant time to eat more and practice soccer.
Just when Sokka hit the ball the floor shook. Everyone froze and began to whisper to one another about what was that. Another shake.
"What is happening?" Sokka asked Zuko.
"I have no idea."
The shake ended and everyone began to do what they were doing. But there was still the nag feeling in Sokka that the shake meant nothing good.
"Okay girls, get back to play," the coach shouted.
But just when the game was about to begin the shake came back. This time with more intensity and faster. The shakes were like the ones of the steps of a dinosaur in Jurassic Park. And Sokka was sure that whatever it was it came fast; running.
BAM! The wall of the gymnasium broke.
Students were screaming and shouting and running. The dust of the wall didn't let them see what cause the smash of the wall. Coach G was shouting to everyone to leave the gym. Students ran to the exit when the thing raised and growled. Everyone froze at the sound. Sokka looked at Zuko and how dumfounded he was.
From the waist down, the thing had fur and hooves; from the waist up it had the body of a human. But his face wasn't human; it was a face of a bull. Its horns were big and in its hands were a sword and an axe. Its hair was long and braided, with swords of all kind and shields being used as clips for hair. Bull face, as Sokka now called him, was about thirteen feet tall with a big scowl in his face.
Bull Face charged. His eyes (brown Sokka noted) were focused in him, or that's what Sokka thought. Bull Face growled again and began to run to him. Sokka felt a hand in his arm and saw Zuko drag him to the exit. But Bull Face was fast. In front of the exit was the axe preventing them to run away.
Zuko let go Sokka and turn to face Bull Face.
"We need to fight him," Zuko said after a moment.
"Are you crazy?" Sokka shouted at him, "We can't bit Bull Face."
"Bull Face?"
"Yes, Bull Face; something wrong about the name, Zuko?"
"Well yes, his name is a minotaur. We need to figure out a way to bit him and get out of here."
"And how we will do that? I'm not a monster hunter. Wait…Minotaur? As in the myth? How can you be so sure?"
Zuko didn't answer him, instead he ran to the Minotaur to try to face him. He never thinks things through Sokka thought. While Zuko tried to face Bull Face, an easy name than Minotaur, Sokka began to think of how to bit the monster.
"How are we gonna do that?" he asked himself.
A yelp alerted Sokka. Zuko, for some way, got two swords and had stabbed Bull Face in his left foot. Zuko used the swords like it was a second nature to him; an extension of his body. It was amazing how he attacked the monster, without a hint of fear in his face.
Sokka think something.
"The bulls can't turn well when they are running, what if…?" Sokka thought. "Zuko, try to run through all the gym I have an idea!" he shouted.
"WHAT?" was all Zuko said.
"Just do it," Sokka commanded.
Zuko ran through the gym as so Bull Face but when he turned to the left Bull Face ran directly to the wall. While Bull Face tried to get free from the wall Zuko ran to where Sokka was.
"What is your plan?" Zuko said between breaths.
"The next time you do that the both of us will climb through his braid take a sword and stab him in the neck," Sokka said. "Got it?"
"Got it," Zuko smirked.
Bull Face got free. His eyes were deep brown with anger. Zuko got his attention and began to run again. Sokka saw how Bull Face growled again and race to where Zuko ran. Meantime, Sokka go to the other side of where Zuko was running. When Zuko turn around again, the monster anticipated his movement and stopped before turn around again and ran. But Zuko didn't stop and so does Sokka.
"It's not working," Zuko yelled.
Sokka began to think again.
"Keep running, and when he stops to turn around I will get a sword. After that we will keep running and stop to stab his feet," Sokka answered.
"You're sure it would work?" the black haired guy asked.
"Yes," Sokka replied. "I think so." He said in a whisper.
Zuko kept running with a very angry Minotaur behind him. When the Minotaur stopped to turn Sokka ran fast and caught a sword. With sword ready, Sokka ran after Bull Face. Both of them were ahead of Bull Face now. Sokka caught Zuko's eyes and nodded.
"Now," Sokka shouted.
Zuko and Sokka stopped running and slashed Bull Face in his feet. The monster yelped and fell to the floor. Both Zuko and he got near him with sword ready. Zuko was about to stab him in his neck when Bull Face talked.
"This is just the beginning", his voice was deep and raspy, "Just the beginning, half-bloods."
Both boys made eye contact. Sokka shrugged and said nothing.
"You better run to be able to save them," was the last thing Bull Face said before Zuko stabbed him in the neck. Bull Face's body disappeared in a golden dust after he died.
"What do you think he meant about that?" Sokka asked.
"No idea, but I have a feeling that is not good," Zuko replied with a frown in his face.
Screams coming from inside the school snapped both teens. Some of the students that were on the gym unfroze from what they saw and began to run again to the exit. The screams from within the school were loud and grew every second. Both boys looked at each other and ran to the school.
The hallways were full of students running to the exit of the school. One of them said something about an animal in the second floor attacking other people. Zuko and Sokka ran faster to the second floor. Sokka knew that Katara had Social Studies in the second floor near the end of the hallway. He just hoped that she was fine. But the words of Bull Face echoed in his head.
"You better run to be able to save them"
A chill ran through all of Sokka's body at the words. He had the nag feeling that the "them" meant his sister Katara and Zuko's sister Azula. What kind of monster or animal was attacking them was beyond Sokka's knowledge, but he knew that they needed to run fast and try to rescue them.
In less than a minute, Zuko and Sokka were in the second floor. More kids were screaming saying things like a big hawk was inside one of the classrooms. A crash alerted them. They ran where more screams came and the sound of caw. It was Katara's classroom. The door was closed and locked.
"We need to find a way to open it," Sokka suggested.
"Look there," Zuko pointed to a fire extinguisher. "We can use it to hit the door."
"Good thinking," Sokka said.
Zuko took the fire extinguisher and began to hit the door. While Zuko hit the door, struggling could be heard from inside the room. The sound of a bird and the screams of students echoed through the hall.
Katara please be fine
Just when Zuko hit the last time and the door was opened, the sound inside stopped. Both teens walked in and saw a mess. Books were everywhere, pages of books flying around the classroom, the desk were upside down, and others were completely broken and for some reason golden dust was in the floor. The students were all in a little ball in a corner, trying to protect themselves from the danger. But what caught Sokka's attention was the big hole in the wall; big enough for a bear to get in.
"Azula!" Zuko said when he saw his sister.
Azula was sweating. Her red shirt was torn (enough for Sokka to see her black bra but he looked away), she had a big stick in her hand, and her hair was tangled. Sokka had never see Azula so mess up. She had always being trimmed and clean. She had always being perfect. So it was weird to see Azula so dishevelled.
"Zuko, Sokka!" she said happily? Now Sokka new there was something wrong with her.
"What happened in here?" Zuko asked his sister.
"Some kind of a bird—"Sokka cut her.
"Where is Katara?"
"She is," Azula turn to the hole, "well, was here"
"Where is SHE?" Sokka shouted to the black haired girl.
"I promise Sokka, she was with me the whole time. We were fighting those things…"
Azula paused.
"Things?" Zuko questioned her.
"Yeah, two. I was fighting one and Katara the other one. I swear she was with me when I…She stabbed one of the birds and was about to help me…But I did it myself. That's when you came in." Azula explained.
"Did they talk?" Zuko asked.
"Did they what?" Azula answered. "Of course not, how could you think birds would talk. That's crazy!"
"Well the Minotaur talked to us, he warned us about you."
"The Mino what? Okay, I think Zuzu that you have read a lot about those books of mythology."
While the two siblings kept arguing, the students that were in the corner began to walk swiftly to the door. Sokka hoped that Katara was among them. Not luck.
"Could you please stop arguing? We have a matter here. Katara is gone. We need to find her, before something bad happen. Are we clear?" Sokka said with a determinate look.
"Yeah," both siblings said.
Katara, where are you? Sokka thought just when far away an explosion took place.