Sapphire, Princess of The Fire Nation, first child of Fire Lord Zuko, woke up at the sunrise. 16 years-old girl rubbed her eyes with her hands and took a deep breath. She got out of her huge bed and looked through the window. The sky was kinda pink and red, sun was soon to rise. She had one hour before her maids would actually come to wake her up. She sighed, she had that dream again. In last ten years she would always have the same dream once a year. She hated when that would happen, she told her father the first time that happened and he seemed shocked when she described woman she dreamed about. The dream would always be the very similar: she was standing alone in the darkness, she could never see anything. Suddenly, a woman would appear before her. The woman had dark skin and brown hair, just like Sapphire's younger brother Lu Ten. But for a difference from her brother, woman had big, sad blue eyes. Sapphire herself never had most usual eyes, all people of her nation had small golden eyes. Although her eyes were gold like her father's they were huge and baby-like. The woman from her dream had another similarity with Sapphire - she was always wearing Water Tribe necklace around her neck made out of blue stone. Sapphire knew that those kind of necklaces are sign of engagement in The Water Tribes. But what bothered her was that the necklace was exactly same as hers. Not that Sapphire was engaged, that was the only thing left to her from her mother.
Her mother abandoned her and her brother when Sapphire was four and Lu Ten was two. She didn't remember her very well. But, she knows that she wasn't here on her 1st birthday, she knows that she wasn't here on Lu Ten's 1st birthday either. She knows that her mother was traveling a lot, she left Fire Nation when Sapphire was three or four months old, then came after about year and a half and got pregnant with Lu Ten. She remembers her mother's growing belly. Lu Ten was born two months after Sapphire's 2nd birthday, then her mother left three months after Lu Ten's birth, so she was with Sapphire for a year. Last time she saw her was when she was almost four, her mother came, stayed for a few days and then just vanished. But why? She knows that she was in Fire Nation during her pregnancy with Sapphire and then three months after, and then stayed also a year when she was pregnant with Lu Ten. But last time, she stayed just for few days. Why? Was is because she wasn't pregnant again and had no reason to stay?
Sapphire looked like her father, pale skin, black hair, golden eyes (big like her mother's). Sapphire herself was a firebender, but, she was also a waterbender. That is last similarity she had with the woman from her dream - waterbending. Her moves were always so elegant and beautiful. Sapphire was almost firebending master, but she wanted to learn waterbending so badly... Her father knew about that ability, of course, and didn't forbid her to practise, but she never seemed to learn it so well. There was no waterbenders in The Fire Nation and she had to teach herself.
She knew that the woman from her dream was her mother, no question. She had her necklace, her bending, her brother's hair and skin. She didn't even know her name. She always wondered what was she alike, was she loving and caring? Was she cold and heartless? Why did she leave her father? She remembers the times when she was very young and her father was happy. Every time that woman visited, which is two times after Sapphire's birth, he would be the most happy. He would be smiling all time and she remembers him kissing her. During her childhood, she could sometimes see Fire Lord just staring out the window, hoping that his love will return. But she never did. Why were three of them worth leaving?
Bumi, firstborn son of The Avatar Aang, just returned home from whole night spent in the forest. 15 years-old boy was exhausted, he was out in the haunt whole night, because it's the only time he can eat some meat. When the sun started raising, he knew he had to go back home, to East Air Temple. Here he lived with his father- Avatar Aang, younger brother Tenzin and a lot of non-bending monks. His brother and father were only airbenders here, and in the whole world. So he could sometimes feel a bit jealousy towards Tenzin, but he loved his little brother.
Sky was already blue and when he quietly sneaked in his bedroom. He was sure that no one of the monks saw him. His room was simple, like everyone else's here. Whenever he came home in the morning he could never sleep, and he was always thinking about his mother. He really didn't know why. He likes to think that his mother loved to eat meat as much as he does. He likes to think that when Aang would practise bending with Tenzin his mother would do something funny with him. He knows she left off to travel when he was few months old and came back about a year after. Then she was here when she was pregnant with Tenzin and then left forever after few months. He sometimes wondered was he a problem. Was is because he wasn't bender? He was only three years old when he saw her last time. But sometimes he wondered was his father a problem? But he would always dismiss that idea, his father was his own person idol to him, no matter that he sometimes spends more time with Tenzin. His brother and his father were his only family and he wouldn't change them for everything.
Lu Ten, Prince of The Fire Nation, firstborn son of Fire Lord Zuko, closed the big doors of his bedroom quietly after his big sister left. 14 years-old boy sighed. He loved his sister a lot, she was the only person whom he really could talk to about everything. But this time was the opposite, she came to his room so early in the morning. She told him that she had dream about their mother again. He looked at himself in the huge mirror. He put his brown hair up in the ponytail and put a Crown of Fire Nation Prince on it (can you imagine little Zuko with his ponytail? so cute lol). He was always different from the rest of his nation. With his dark skin, of course there were brown-haired people in Fire Nation but his father's hair was black, so his hair was a proof that he is more like his mother. Although everyone talks everyday how he has his father's bad temper. What he liked the most about his looks were his eyes, so gold and small, like any other Fire Nation citizen's. Also, he wouldn't change anything for his bending. He was a firebender. His eyes and bending were proof that he really is his father's son. Although Zuko would always tell him that he loves him just the way he is and smile. It was rare to see Fire Lord Zuko smiling, Sapphire told him that she remembers when he was still in their mother's belly and when he was born, father was happiest man alive. He doesn't remember her at all, he knows that she left few months after his birth and then came back for about a year and stayed for few days.
He didn't think of her often, but he knows Sapphire did. She cherished that stupid necklace that mother gave her like it was the most fragile thing in the world. Lu Ten really didn't know why Sapphire liked that stupid peace of stone, she has bunch of other jewelry but this one was special. He didn't know why she wanted something from a woman who abandoned her.
Tenzin, first and only airbending son of Avatar Aang looked out through the window of his room in The East Air Temple. 13 years-old boy watched his older brother Bumi climbing up the rocks to sneak back in the temple. He knew about Bumi's secret, and he swore to never tell their father that his brother eats meat, although he disliked the meat himself. Tenzin had a happy childhood, or at least happy as it could be when your mother leaves you when you are a still an infant and never comes back. But he was raised with monks, so it wasn't so weird to him that he didn't have a mother. No one of the other children living here hadn't. They were all non-benders and his father was learning them how the meditate and similar.
Tenzin was very fond of his father. Tenzin swore to himself when he was six that when he grows up he will be just like his father. He was pretty good at his airbending, and his father would often praise him. He asked only once about his mother and Avatar told him that he shouldn't worry about things like and that it is not important for him to know her. So Tenzin never asked again.
Kya, daughter of Katara of The Southern Water, came out of their huge igloo in her soft, purple coat. 12 years-old girl frowned when she saw that the snowman she made yesterday was ruined, like someone ran over it. But she didn't mind it, she took her right glove off and bent snow back up in the two balls, one on the other. She smiled at her good work. Although she was only twelve, she was excellent at waterbendig. Her mother started training her when she was only three, so she had practised for almost ten years now.
There were waterbenders at The South Pole, but not so many of them. Kya was born in the time of change, few years after the big war was over and she could see everyday how tribe-men were building ice palaces. There was about other ten waterbending children at the tribe now, but they weren't nearly as good as Kya. They weren't much of a challenge. Kya was living with her mother Katara, grandfather Hakoda, great-grandmother Kanna and great-grandfather Pakku. It wasn't so weird to have great-grandparents, since that the women in The Water Tribe give birth when they are around twenty. So Kanna and Pakku were about seventies now. She also has an uncle Sokka and aunt Suki at The Kyoshi Island. There are something like chiefs there, like her grandfather is here.
Her mother, Katara of The Southern Water Tribe, was a calm woman, caring woman, loving woman. She would always help anyone no matter were they her family or strangers. She also had healing lessons to teach women in the tribe how to heal, including Kya. At first Kya didn't like the idea of healing, she liked to fight a lot more. But her mother insisted and said that it would be very useful. And Kya didn't want to make her mother sad, she hated when she was sad. Hakoda and Kanna used to tell her stories that Katara was once full of fire. Crazy, ha? Saying that waterbender has fire within themselves. They would also say that she was wide-mouthed, stubborn and easily pissed just few years before Kya's birth. She couldn't imagine that warm and caring woman being stubborn and aggressive.
Kya can't remember a time when Katara was using waterbending for a fight unless she was showing it to her. She was using it mostly for healing and cooking. Kya's life was good, but there was always one thing missing - father.
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