So, as I said, this is the story of Aang's mother :)

And, since the show doesn't tell us much about the Air Nomads, I had to make things up. So let me explain, just a little, so you won't get confused:

First of all, the war actually already began. If I recall it well, Sozin had colonies long before Roku died, but there wasn't an actual official war; the Century War only began with the Sozin's Comet thing.

And, second of all: the non-benders live on those mountain-things around the temples, in happy families and everything, like any other non-bender people from around the world. But the benders grow up and live in the Temples, travelling around the world and beeing raised by monks. It is not right for monks and nuns to get married, so those babies have to come from the families in the mountain. When a bender turns 16, he or she can leave the monk/nun thing and live in the mountains, get married and everything, if he/she wants to.

The only big problem here is: baby-benders are taken by monks to the Temples, and their families hardly ever see them again. Yeah, I know :'(

But it's kind of a reason for the mothers to be proud, a very strong cultural thing, so most of them just agree.

I mean, most of them. Witch is not the case of a little non-bender single mother who I like to call Aang's granny :)

Prologue:

The night was dead silence. Up in the sky, the full moon shined, and you could even hear the quite sound of the wind; but that was all.

Right above the ocean, far away from any kind of civilization, flew a big sky bison, taking with it two young air nomads; one of them, an airbender.
They were both girls. The older one had just celebrated her 25th birthday, and the other one - the bender - was still just a baby, barely a child.

They were (and were trying to stay that way) mother and daughter.

The little girl's name was Gyelin, and she was 3. It had been only two days since her first powerful-bended-wind-sneeze proved her to be an airbender, and they were already on their way to Omashu.

As for the mother, she was a brave woman. The Air Nomads traditions said, for centuries, that every bender should be raised by monks; and she was alone, because her husband had disappeared on Gyelin's birth day. But that didn't stop her from packing everything she could as fast as she could, leaving the mountains of the Southern Air Temple, where she'd grown.

Now, all they had to do was get to Omashu, stopping only when it was drastically necessary. And not just because of the monks that could be right behind them, trying to take Gyelin for themselves (they weren't, but in the worried heart of a mother, they could show up anytime). They also had to worry about the war between the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom, happening all around Omashu. It wasn't an official war; actually, Fire Lord Sozin kept on denying it even existed -, but it was still dangerous.

The young woman took her child on her arms. She looked so beautiful, so calm when she was sleeping... like nothing was wrong in the entire world. Like everything was in peace, and there was no secret war, and all mothers could keep their babies, and all families could be happy. She was just there, sleeping. Her little beautiful airbender.

After a week, the two of them got to Omashu. The woman found a house, a job and a few friends. To never be bothered by the monks again, she and her daughter wore Earth Kingdom clothes, and told people they were Earth Kingdom too. They lived like this for two months, being the happy little family they should be.

But then, the woman got sick. She didn't last long, and then little Gyelin had to go to an orphanage.

But she never got adopted; all couples said that, somehow, she wasn't the right girl. She was just... weird. Unusual. A little too headstrong.

And, you know. Different.

Ok, that was ridiculously small, specially with such a long description. But I promisse it'll be diferent; the description was big cuz I had to explain things, and the text was small cuz it was just the prologue.

But anyway. If you'd like me to continue this, please let me know. I'll be posting Chapter 1 very soon, but it's never bad to get reviews, you know 0:)