Hey everyone! To set a few things strait before we begin, this story takes place about three months or so after Sozin's Comet, but The Promise stories never happened. I'm not putting much detail in to this because I'm assuming that everyone knows what the air temple looks like and what everyone else looks like. Well, that's all for now, so read, review, and enjoy!
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The Western Air Temple. It was once a great place where the air nomads lived, but now lies in ruins with one sole occupant, Hakiya, a waterbender from the Northern Watertribe. She now tries to preserve remains of the temple and drives away anyone who threatens to destroy or harm it; someone had recently had a huge fight there and destroyed a portion of the temple before she had even gotten there, and she was determined not to let the rest of the magnificent piece of history be destroyed.
Hakiya is a sixteen-year-old girl who has been traveling alone since she was seven. She has sapphire blue eyes, long dark brunette hair usually up in a high pony tail, is very reserved and doesn't talk much, but is a skilled fighter. She decided that her water tribe pants were too baggy and warm, so she found a pair of slimmer black pants, wears a dark blue, short-sleeved shirt with a black jacket when it gets cold, but it's not bulky. Her shoes are not the boots of the water tribe but traditional shoes worn there. She reached the Western Air Temple when she had just turned sixteen and had been there for about two months.
One day, Hakiya was in the river by the temple and saw a huge shadow from something flying above and looked up. She saw what looked like one of the beasts from the murals on the temple walls, flying toward the temple. She didn't know if it was friendly or not, so she hid and watched. It sailed right into the canyon that held the temple, so she created water out of the air, made an ice board (like a snow board), and rode it through the air to see what or who had just gone into her home.
When she flew into the canyon she immediately spotted the flying creature and saw that there were people on it climbing off of it and throwing down sleeping bags. Hakiya didn't like this so she flew down to the edge, summer-salted and made her board into two ice daggers that she gripped with her hands. "Who are you and what are you doing at my home?" she asked in a low and commanding voice, eyes glaring daggers at the strangers.
They all looked at Hakiya with strange looks, and they all had different types of clothing. Two of them had watertribe clothing, which Kahiya recognized but she didn't know them, so they must be from the Southern Tribe. One was a girl with a water pouch and Kahiya could immediately tell she was a water bender, but the other, a boy, wasn't. Another girl had earth kingdom clothing and looked blind. There was a boy with jet-black hair and he had a scar over his left eye and he wore fire nation clothing. Someone else had on a green warrior dress with her face covered in makeup. The last was the boy who responded to me. He didn't look like anyone Hakiya had seen in real life; he had arrow tattoos on his head, arms, and legs, and wore orange and yellow robes. She only knew he was dressed as an air nomad from the paintings on the temple walls.
He pointed a staff at her and responded, "What do you mean 'your home?' This is an air temple, which is my home."
"This place was deserted when I got here, and when I saw the destruction of that part of the temple over there," she pointed to a section of the temple where it looked like explosions had happened and where a fountain had once been, "I decided to protect it from any more people who have come to finish the job. Besides, like you said, this is an air temple and there are no more air benders."
"Do you even know who we are, who he is," said the waterbender, pointing to the boy dressed in air nomad clothes.
"No, and I don't need to know either, just leave!" Hakiya replied.
"Is she serious?" the watertribe girl asked to the rest of her group and they all just shrugged. "How long have you been out of touch with the world," she asked.
"Nine years," she responded coldly and all the strangers' eyes bulged.
"No wonder she doesn't know who we are," said the girl in earth kingdom clothes, "so how about a proper introduction? I'm Toph, but you can call me 'The greatest earthbender in the world.' This is sugar queen," she said pointing to the water tribe girl, "twinkle toes," now pointing at the one dressed in air nomad clothes, "snoozles," pointing to the watertribe guy, "warrior princess," pointing to the girl in the warrior outfit, "and hot head," pointing to the one in fire nation clothes. By the time she was done she was getting looks that ranged from amused to angry.
"Well, those are quite some names, 'twinkle toes' and 'hot head', but you should really be leaving now," Hakiya replied, slightly amused herself.
"Those are not our names, I'm Katara," the watertribe girl said, "this is Sokka, my brother," she said pointing to the boy from the watertribe, "this is Suki, his girlfriend," she said waving her had to indicate the girl in the warrior getup, "this is Zuko," she said pointing to the guy in the fire nation clothes, "and this is Aang, he's the avatar," she finished, resting her hand on Aang's shoulder and he nodded.
"Who do take me for, the avatar hasn't been seen for over a hundred years," she said annoyed.
"Well then, let me show you," Aang said. He stomped the ground and pushed the air and then a rock came up out of the ground and slid over the edge. Then he threw punches the same way as the rock and fire flew from his fingers. Next Katara uncapped her water, he made fluid movements with his arms, and then the water came out of the bottle, danced around for a bit, and then went back in. Next he moved his hands in a circular motion and a burst of air shot out of nowhere. "Now do you believe me?" he asked and she sighed.
"I guess, but what are you doing here? If you're the avatar, why don't you stay at some fancy place instead of these old ruins?" she asked, still suspicious.
Aang looked back at the rest of the group and Zuko glared, "look, it's a long story, but for now, we need to stop here, probably for just a few days, but we need to rest, and this is a good place for us. We won't get in you way of what ever your doing, in fact I really appreciate what your doing. Thank you," Aang said and bowed.
Hakiya nodded slightly and turned around to leave. She was walking toward the edge but stopped when she heard Suki yell, "Hey wait, you never told us your name."
Hakiya turned her head to see expectant faces. She smiled slightly and said "Hakiya." Then she turned back around, started running, and jumped over the edge making a new ice board once she was falling, and then flew to another part of the temple, shocked faces staring at her the whole way.