Beast of the night
Chapter one:
Unknown territory.


It was the third time they had moved in the last six months, no matter where they went, one of them always managed to mess things up to the point where staying would be a danger to their small family. They didn't take much with them every time they moved, only the few necessaries that they had, new furniture and clothing could always be brought again, but a fallen family member could never be brought back.

This time they found themselves in Portland, and for once, some of them found a reason to stay.


It wasn't that rare for the rain to fall from the sky in the city of Portland, people throughout the city were trying to keep out of the rain, it was only midday and most people would either be working or in school trying to complete their work. Portland's more outer suburbs were mostly surrounded by forests making most of the population stay more inland, the more wolves that were sighted running through the forest, the more people that would move more inland, once small houses were being taken down and rebuilt much larger hoping to attract people back into these more wild parts of town. South Portland high wasn't far off from lunch time, and most of the students would either be in one of the halls, or the large library since the rain kept them from venturing off into the courtyards or the oval that was now more of a brown muddy patch than a green field that held sports of various variety.

South Portland high wasn't a very big school, there wasn't many people left surrounding the school leaving only about four hundred students, most of the students knew each other from their year levels, so when someone left or someone new came to the school, people knew right away, it wasn't hard to find a new face wondering around the school.

As the lunch bell rang, students left their class rooms and walked into their reserved locker bays to put their books away, and then left to find their own places to hang out away from the poor weather.


"Have you seen the new guy?" On ji asked from her seat at a small table in the library's second floor that was dedicated to a study block, with the surrounding books being those used throughout the high school years. "He's cute"

"The senior?" Ty lee asked back, the attractive guy she had seen earlier that day coming to mind.

On ji nodded and smiled slightly. "That's him."

"Does anyone know his name? So we don't have to refer to him as the 'Cute new guy'?" Yue asked looking up from her notes she had recorded earlier that day.

"Why don't you ask him?" Toph said pointing in the direction of the new guy they were so talkative about.

The other girls looked in the direction of Toph's finger to see him standing next to another female who was almost a head shorter than him, though from behind she seemed to be rather pretty, though they couldn't see her face.

The guy stood about six foot tall, wearing a white hoodie with a dark purple shirt underneath, with faded blue jeans, the girl, wore a tight red tank top with black skinny jeans. "Who's she?" On ji asked looking at the two.

"Maybe its his sister?" Ty lee suggested looking away from him.

"Yue, wanna go talk to him with me?" On ji asked with a small smile on her lips.

Yue shook her head. "Maybe we should just leave him alone today? Its his first day here after all, we don't want smother him."

On ji made a slight 'hmph' sound and looked back down at her text books hoping to get some more work done.


Yue was surprised to see the new girl, as well as another new girl that she hadn't seen yet, in her history class, maybe she could find out more about these new students. Class went along slowly, and Yue listened carefully to the quiet conversation the two girls were having, she couldn't make out many of the words, they weren't talking about anything important anyway, just work from a class they must have had earlier in the day. The teacher hadn't called upon them for anything thus far, and neither of their names had been mentioned.

it wasn't until almost three quarters of the way through the class that the teacher had the two new girls pair up with Yue and Jin. They were requested to complete a small task together due in tomorrow's lesson. The four girls were assigned to study the city of Seattle, and record the dates for the most important things that happened in the cities early years.

"Well, I guess we should get to know each other first to make this task easier." Jin said looking at the two new students, "My name is Jin, and this is Yue."

Yue smiled slightly and nodded towards the other girls. "Hi." Was all she said, she was more excited to find out about these two than introduce herself.

"Well, my names Azula." The girl that was with the guy from earlier said and then pointed to the girl beside her, "and this is Suki. Clearly you already know were knew here."

Yue and Jin both nodded, "Shall we start on the work? We don't have long to complete it." Suki said taking a pen out of her pencil case and in impeccable handwriting started listing things she knew about the history of Seattle.


Many of the girls in On ji's class were distracted, including On ji. The new guy was sitting by himself at a table in the middle of the room. The work had been set almost twenty minutes ago and On ji couldn't get her mind set in the right place to manage completing a single line of her essay before he eyes were reverted back to the male sitting in the middle of the room, it was like he wanted everyone's attention on him by where he sat. Or was it just her mind wondering?

The class was starting to come to an end and On ji didn't know anything more about the new guy with the shaggy black hair and pale skin. When the final bell of the day rang and the teacher dismissed the class she took it upon herself to approach the guy and try and find out his name. "Excuse me?" She said in her sweetest voice as he walked in front of her slightly.

He turned around and looked her in the eye, "Yes?" he said softly his voice was slightly deep and it made her smile widen slightly.

"Well, clearly you must have noticed a few people looking at you today?" The guy nodded slightly, a puzzled look on his face as she continued. "I was just wondering what your name was?"

"Aang." He said, and with a small smile he turned and walked away.


So yeh guys thats the first chapter of this new story, i was trying to make it seem as mysterious as possible, well, at first, with that first paragraph. Hopefully you enjoy this story because believe me its going to be differentfrom every other story I have written. Firstly its going to have an M rating due to sexual content – well that is what's planned if people vote against it, then I might leave it out.

please leave a review on this, i know its short, and mostly focuses on the new students in the small school, but its not going to be another high school story i promise, i wanted to start it this way because i want to keep some stuff secret for now.

also this is a non - bending modern a/u if that wasnt obvious.