"Sombra, you're needed at city hall. There's an emergency with a rampaging spirit and I think you should-"
But Sombra was already gone before her mother got to turn her head back around from the radio. Her chair at the dining table was already empty.
She smiled proudly.
Sombra arrived in no time, much to the relief of the peacekeeping force already fighting against the angry spirit by the parliament building. Normally, the usual team of police force accompanied by a few members of the Order of the White Lotus (OWL, as they have eventually shortened it) could easily manage any spirit attack on Republic City, but this time they were facing with an extremely powerful spirit. They could've done it without Sombra's assistance, but the traffic had already been disrupted for a good two hours. Her help would be extremely beneficial. Besides, they couldn't guarantee no damage to the nearby property. That might incur millions in damages.
It was a huge spirit, that's for sure, scaling almost 20 metres tall. It had a mostly spherical body, except for four legs protruding its sides.
Sombra was already in her usual outfit. A suit in white, along with a covered glass helmet and a wing flap, very much alike to the ones those airbenders use. On the back, it wrote in bold black letters, a strong contrast to the snow white palette, "Peacekeeper".
"Let's see what you've got."
She raised out her hand and flicked her hand in a circular motion, summoning huge tunnels of air to blast directly towards the spirits. The air collided with the spirit, facing the couple of policemen shooting at her, and it nearly lost its balance. She definitely got his attention now.
The spirit lunged towards her, but not before she flew out of its way.
Sombra managed to leap over the spirit, and took a couple of shots of fire balls to its back. The spirit screamed in retaliation.
As Sombra landed safely on the ground, she noticed there was a separate mouth at the very top of the spirit and it glowed green. It caught Sombra's attention for a second, but she was caught by it in the next. The allegedly second mouth was really a hole to the spirits incredibly long arm, which now had Sombra firmly grasped in its arm.
She was flung up and down frantically through the wind and her stomach lurched. She just had breakfast ten minutes ago.
Sombra could feel it start to squeeze, but she knew better. Two daggers of fires were casted and she quickly escaped the spirit's hold on her. She fell on her legs swiftly, now right in between two of its legs. In one swift move, two blue and tremendously huge pillars of fire cut straight through the spirit's body. But that wasn't the end. It was merely a distraction. On her signal, the peacekeeping force fired their Ra cannons right towards the centre of the spirit's body. Ra cannons were small and lightweight cannons that were built out of ordinary plastic, albeit covering their intimidating purpose, that were one of the primary weapons used by the peacekeepers. Instead of shooting any type of ammunition, though, they shot these long wires with a little grapping hook, per se, that would latch onto any sort of spirit. These wires served to connect the spirit directly to one spirit bender on the other side of the cannon. Much like how the late Avatar Aang spirit-bended Ozai to rid him off his powers, Ra cannons were a sub-class of spirit bending invented by Avatar Ishu, the third Avatar after Korra, as a means to temporarily disable huge or difficult spirits. Even almost 200 years after his death, it seems like his invention won't be dying out any time soon. With three spirit benders connected to the spirit, they focused their energy intently, all towards trying to stop the spirit in its tracks. And successfully, the spirit immediately stalled then stopped moving completely.
The spirit's body was already starting to regain consciousness, but it stationary for a moment. Sombra took this opportunity and almost instantaneously, rings of fire were halfway covering most parts of the spirit's body. She was appeasing the spirit, very much alike to Unalaq's water-spirit technique, but with fire instead. Other firebenders helped guide her as well, causing the rings of fire to grow bigger and bigger, gracefully. Back in Korra's days, water was the only element which could appease the spirits. Of course, she had dedicated an entire field of the study of spirits including methods about how to appease them in the university she founded in Republic City. At this instant, Sombra felt lucky she attended Republic Institute and paid attention to her classes. For sure they weren't failing her now.
The spirit was already glowing bright yellow, and when it landed back on the ground, it immediately started moving toward the spirit portal. Only seconds had elapsed, when the spirit was gone as quickly as it came.
Sombra stood proudly, and wiped the sweat off her forehead. She gave a thumbs-up to the other peacekeepers, and started heading back to her home.
By the time Sombra had reached school, she was already late for her second lesson that day. Her mum had dropped her off and reminded her that a note had been sent to the teachers that she'll be late for class again. She gave her one kiss on each cheek before Sombra quickly left the car, in case that someone would've seen her like that.
"Hey." She greeted Min lee and Horan, her bodyguards, standing at the school gates. She never figured she'd need any help from them in case of any emergency, but she knew it was better to be safe than sorry. They'd help her with her haters, anyway.
"Hey, late again uh? Too busy fighting the bad spirits again?" One of them replied.
"C'mon guys, we all know that it was important. Besides, studying is much too boring for me."
"We know public school isn't exactly what you or your mum wanted, but you both know it's what's best for you. Heck, your mum did everything she could to make Mr Sol change his mind. Strong woman. Honestly, I still don't know how he made her agree with him on it in the end."
"Whatever, guys. I'll just head to class now if you don't mind."
The two nodded in agreement.
Of course, that wasn't what she had in mind at all. She walked down the hall towards her classroom. But once she was sure she was out of sight, she sneakily slid out the back door, and she was out.
Mr Sol has watched over Sombra ever since she was born. As the former secretary of OWL for twenty years, there was no better man to be her chief-guardian than he was. And under his care and tutelage the past sixteen years, Sombra has grown to be quite the intelligent, strong-willed and caring woman she is now. He was also in charge of Sombra's training. Sombra being already sixteen, was expected to finish the third stage of her course that year and then move on to her confirmation course over the next two years.
It was a system implemented by Avatar Hira, two Avatars after Korra. She had devoted her life to the structuring of the Avatar training system, among other things, as she felt that the threat that Avatars were facing more and more recently were becoming increasingly dangerous and challenging. It was her, too, who had founded the Peacekeeper Academy, and drastically change the purpose of the Avatar from being a mere extremely gifted bender going around, upholding peace and balance between the people and spirits alike, to being an actual formal figure of power who would be recognised among all the states in the world and as an influential political figure who would have a voice in world matters.
"Sir?"
"...Yes, yes please go on." Sol was snapped back into reality.
"As we were discussing earlier, we would like to confirm that Sombra will be taking her pre-confirmation test as of the 26th this month, sir."
Sol only nodded in agreement; his mind was evidently still somewhere else.
Sombra was enjoying her tub of ice-cream at the Ben & Holly's when Min Lee walked in. She headed first to the store manager, though, and thanked him for calling her to fetch Sombra. Sombra gave a "wtf" face at him, mentally blacklisting him in the "list of people I can't trust".
"So what? I'm grounded now?" Sombra casually smirked at Min Lee as took another mouthful of mint-and-chocolate ice cream. Her favourite.
"Sombra…you know you're supposed to be in school. After the school bell rang and Horan didn't meet you at the usual spot, the entire OWL was alerted. Your mum panicked. Do you know how much work we all put in just to take care of you?"
"I'm just so tired of all this controlling thing. I can't go anywhere without being monitored, ever. How many times must I say, I don't need your protection."
"Once upon a time…an Avatar named Juno was kidnapped and then-"
"Okay, okay. Enough already. I've heard that story at least a gazillion times."
Min Lee laughed. "Okay, how about this. I'll go finish my tub of ice cream, and then we'll go. Deal?"
"Alright, alright. I'll finish two more tubs before you even finish yours, I bet."
Min Lee gestured at the store manager, and he quickly got her the Strawberry Hugo Deluxe.
"You're on."
Hi! Thanks for taking your time to read my very first piece! I'm really new at this, so any suggestions or reviews will be very much appreciated! I'm still trying to develop the Sci-fi part of the story, so please be a little patient about it- it'll be out in the upcoming chapters! This is set about 400-500 years after Korra, so if you think there should be any other type of advancements in the Avatar world, please let me know! I've already done up a draft of the second chapter, and it's a lot more talking than action, though, as I'm trying to develop the characters a little more. That's all from me for now! Hope to see you in the next one :)
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Regarding my current piece, I'll be using fantasy as well as sci-fi elements into my Korra story (it's about the fifth avatar after Korra though so...she'll mostly only do appearances as a ghost or something because she's dead, duh) but I'll also be incorporating both personal - school, mental health and self-care, relationships - and world-scale events such as war, natural disasters as well as a CERTAIN politician's rise to power. Also, I recognize LGBT and the story will also touch on such topics (I'm assuming Korra and Asami is legit so) and I hope that the story won't just be a type of entertainment, but also something readers and writers can enjoy thoroughly and get inspiration from.
Some names and events might be adapted from different materials that I've exposed myself to, but aside from the actual Korra universe, everything here is original. I'm also contemplating if I should include any sort of NSFW material, so please let me know what you think ;)