Chapter 1

It was a cold morning at the South Pole. It was snowing, and little cold frozen particles of water were falling from the sky. Despite the coldness, it was quite peaceful. Occasionally, a group of arctic seals crawled on the ice before immersing into the razor sharp cold water of the South Pole.

Three people sat in a boat, who appeared to be fishing, interrupted the peaceful tranquility. The group consisted of two girls, one being clearly older than the other, as well as the boy, who tried to catch a fish. They were all dressed in warm clothing and yet the three breathed out some cold air.

"Could you hold still? I am trying to get a meal. Gran Gran specifically told us to catch a few fish since our reserves have been nearly depleted" The boy spoke as he looked at his two companions. The younger girl, who was his sister, laughed at him.

"Don't worry Sokka, we will catch enough fish" spoke the girl as she looked at her brother

"Whatever" Sokka replied as he tried to catch the fish.

While Sokka was looking at the ocean, trying to get dinner, the older girl, Korra spoke, "Hey Katara, what do you say, shall we practice some more water bending?" The girl graciously jumped on a nearby floating piece of ice and looked at her friend.

"Sure Korra, I am very certain I can beat you cousin now!" spoke Katara as she jumped on the surface as well; unfortunately she did not land on the nearby iceberg as successfully as her cousin. Korra smirked and the two girls prepared to fight.

"Freaky magic tricks" said Sokka quietly as he was searching for a fish that they would eat for dinner.

Korra lifted some water from the ocean and circled it around herself after which with quick arm movements she send the icy water at her cousin. Katara saw the water coming and caught it, although some water managed to hit her and so the girl made a step back as she breathed into the icy air.

Katara looked at Korra and repeated the motion, now sending an almost equivalent size water ball at her friend. Korra jumped slowly, Katara saw her friend making a large grin on her face. However, Sokka was not as lucky. The boy almost caught a fish and was trying to put it into the bot when the water hit him as it send the fish back into the ocean.

"Korra! Look what you are doing! Your freaky magic water powers will make us all starve" he glared at his cousin before retuning to his activity while the girl continued their friendly match.

"Looks like you still need to learn much from your older cousin" spoke Korra as she lifted more water and sent it at her relative. Katara looked at her surroundings and breathed slowly, so that the girl's surroundings froze. The water froze and after becoming a solid block of ice, it dropped on the ground.

"Not bad Korra. Lets see what our seventeen year old Water bending prodigy can do against that!" spoke Katara as she broke the ice ball into many small pieces before sending them all at once at Korra.

Korra moved her arms and a small tidal wave hit all of the ice balls, dropping them all in the water. The younger girl was surprised but quickly recovered. "Lets make it more interesting" Korra looked at a nearby large piece of ice and tried to concentrate. To the girl's delight, the ice mass moved and swam towards the girls. Korra made more arm movements and with great concentration pulled the ice block above her. Water was running down her face and arms but the girl did not care.

Korra then tried to throw the piece of rock at Katara but found it difficult to do so due to the fact that she never dealt with such heavy ice masses before. Katara saw that her cousin was struggling and lifted quickly some water from the ocean next to her and formed a small water whip, with which she hit Korra.

"Ahh!" screamed Korra as she lost balance and dropped in the water. The combined force of the ice dropping on the girl as well as Katara's successful attack made Korra fall unconscious for a while; at the same time the girl was sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

"What have I done?! Stupid, stupid Katara!" shouted the younger girl as she tried to pull her cousin from the water but failed. The girl sat on ice as she cried.

"Where is Korra? She will miss the fish! I caught five already! Somebody's going to be happy tonight!" the boy looked at his sister and saw that she was crying. That immediately brought his attention and his facial expressions became more serious.

"She, she… Korra drowned. It's all my fault. If I was more thoughtful of what I was doing," she cried. Sokka did not cry since according to him, it was not manly but a small tear escaped his eye. He jumped on the ice and hugged Katara.

Meanwhile, as Korra was drowning, she had a vision. First, there was some sort of Temple, which was attacked by some men with weird black red and white colored helmets. Fire was everywhere and Korra was horrified as she saw that people were burning. A boy with a tattoo on his head cried as he flew away on some weird flying bison creature with a group of kids. He cried as he retreated from the island.

Another vision came. The boy that appeared before was now an adult fighting some man; his body was twisting weirdly and it was clearly that he was in pain. Then the vision went blank.

"Korra, it is your time to free the world from the tyranny and end the war" Those words were the last thing that Korra heard before she totally loosing consciousness.

Suddenly, Korra's eyes began glowing and she circled her arms as she propelled herself from the sea. As she gained speed, she quickly exited the ocean's depths within a water tornado that was centered around her waist. The water rose and soon Korra was suspended in the air due to her thin water tornado. As she rose, she looked in the sky and a white light escaped the girl as it flew upwards. After this action, Korra decelerated the water's motion and slowly landed on the ice she was previously standing on.

"Korra! I am so sorry cousin!" Katara ran towards her cousin and hugged her while Sokka's jaw was still far away from its standard location.

"You went from weird to freakish Korra!" spoke the boy

Nearby, a small iron ship was swimming in the ocean. A boy, around Sokka's age looked at the energy that appeared in the sky. "Uncle, I think we found the Avatar. I think he is hiding somewhere close by, that old man, the Last Air bender. My search is about to end and we will soon return home" the boy smirked since he was searching for the last Air bender Avatar for three years already.

"Are you sure it was the Avatar or even an Air bender, Prince Zuko?" asked the older man whom Zuko called Uncle.

"I am sure, the last Avatar was an Air bender as he disappeared for a hundred years. Now, I have found him I hope he is a weak old man so that I could easily take him down and restore my honor" the boy used his telescope and soon found a small village.

"I bet he is in there Uncle" Zuko's Uncle, former General Iroh put down a card and looked at his nephew but said nothing. He knew that even is his nephew had found the Avatar, he or she would be far from being an Air bender.

"I wonder how Tenzin is doing nowadays" he wondered as he thought of what he would write in his letter to an old friend, "First I need to confirm my suspicions of course" he thought

Korra, Katara and Sokka soon returned to the village with six fish, two of which were pretty large. The smaller kids were running around in circles, as they seemed to be rather hungry. "You did a fine job", spoke an elderly woman

"Thanks Gran Gran" replied Sokka as he looked at his and Katara's grandmother, "Now, Katara, Korra, be good girls and cook the fish" spoke Sokka to his female relatives.

"And why should we cook the fish, o mighty brother of mine?" asked Katara

"Simple, boys are better at hunting and fighting while the girls are better at cooking and cleaning" replied the boy

"Why you, you sexist pig. I am embarrassed to be related to you," cried Katara as she threw a large snowball at Sokka that then turned into water and made him wet. Sokka stood up and opened his mouth but soon after closed it as they saw black smoke that was landing on ice, mixing with snow and making the village dirty.

"Be ready for an attack" Sokka left to his tent to put his warrior war paint and got ready to defend the village while the girls brought the children into the tents. The ship soon arrived and lowered its bridge, in the process destroying Sokka's watchtower.

"My watchtower" the boy cried

A few soldier exited the ship, who were led by Prince Zuko. Sokka ran at him but the Prince hit the boy twice; the attack threw Sokka in the snow.

The prince looked at the tribe, "Where are you hiding him? Where is the Avatar? He is an Air bender, about a hundred years old, master of all elements," he stated as he grabbed Gran Gran, soon releasing her to the crowd.

"There is no Air bender here," stated Korra, "Leave us, you are not welcome here"

"Make me: Zuko sent a few fireballs at Korra, who jumped away and lifted some snow, throwing it at the prince.

"A Water bender? No matter, I am looking for the last Air bender, the Avatar" he made a few more kicks, and fire flew at Korra from his hands and feet. Korra concentrated on the snow and pushed her arms up, trying to defend herself from fire. To her astonishment, she formed an ice wall, which got erected from the ground and withstood the attack.

Zuko was growing impatient as he threw a large fireball at Korra with more power applied. The force of the impact between the icy wall and the fireball broke the wall. Wit his next attack, Zuko threw a fireball straight at Korra and saw that fire had hit her hands.

"Excellent, her arms are now burnt, and she will soon be defeated" thought Zuko but then to his astonishment, as well as everyone else present including Korra, she held the fire in her hands, the fire had not burnt her.

"Impossible, only a Fire bender can do this" cried Zuko as he prepared for another attack. Korra tried to throw off fire from her hands, which resulted in a lengthy flame flying away from the girl.

"You are the one I have been searching for. You are the Avatar!" realized Zuko. Sokka, who just climbed out of the snow pile, was even more astonished.

Korra realized that she could fire bend. The girl countered Zuko's fire wit her own and the two kept exchanging attacks for a while. Korra mimicked Zuko's movements and pushed the boy a bit further from herself. Zuko was surprised at the girl's learning speed- he realized that while she was a novice to Fire bending, she was picking the basic forms as if she was born a Fire bender.

"Another Fire bender prodigy, great" the Prince had experience to his advantage, which eh used to aid him in the battle and soon after exchanging numerous attacks and counter attacks, Avatar Korra fell on the ground. Korra lay on the ground as Zuko brought a sword to her neck.

"Stop!" Zuko was hit by a water wave and then hit the wall of a nearby house, in the process dropping his sword.

"You little peasant!" he shouted as he picked his swords, ready to strike. However, he then saw the girl who stood there as she helped Korra and looked at her face.

"Katara?" he slowly spoke, dropping his weapons.

"Zuko?" spoke the girl. The two teenagers looks at each other before running towards the other, tightly embracing each other.