Fire Girl

Surrounded

Chapter 1

(In the Forest)

I was in the forest sitting by a small area with a waterfall. It was a beautiful autume day and I was by myself. I usually only came to this spot too get away from the outside world and try to forget all about the horrible experiences that I've been and gone through. See all my life it's been like a crazy adventure/ride what with everything I've been through in my life. I mean, it's hard enough having a mom who can waterbend, and then having a dad who can firebend. Its just so crazy! My mom came from the northern water tribe where she learned to master waterbending by the time she was my age. My dad learned much faster and mastered firebending at the age of 10. Since their both know how to master an element and had me, I didn't know what kind of power I had. Heck, I didn't even know if I had an element power. My dad was usually tough on me, but my mom wanted me to take it easy and learn slowly. Dad was just like that, but he jjust wanted me to be a great a master of an element just like him and mom. Well I wasn't going to let that bother me. Learning an element power was bad enough, but this war was even worse. I looked down into the water and stared at my reflection.

"Why does life have to be so hard?" I asked myself as I saw the sad look on my face.

I just stared at myself for a couple of minutes, and then I decided to head on home. I lived with my parents in a large village that was close by too the forest. My parents owned different shops to help us earn money. Both of their shops were big hits and a lot of people came to them. My mom owned a bakery, and my dad owned a blacksmith shop. Everyone in town knew and loved them. As much as I loved my parents, I couldn't help but get involved and helping them. I liked to help my mom bake her delicious treats; and helping out my dad was hard work, but I got to learn a lot about using tools and making and fixing things. Anyway I case you're wondering, my name is Raven. How would you describe me you ask?

Well I'm a tall girl; skinny; peachy colored skin; medium length dark hair; brown eyes; Long pants; flat black shoes; and a long sleeved shirt that's a dark blue color.

The woods was a huge and big place that you could get lost in, but I've been in and out of it a lot of times. Therefore, I knew a way to get in and out of the woods and no body else. It only takes like...what 5 minutes or more? It's no big and I like going thorugh the woods. Especially inthe autume when the leaves changed colors. Just the smell of autume and the feeling of that cool breeze was just so...perfect. (Sorry but I think this is the right time and season like during the first season of Avatar. Hopefully I'm right, if not, please comment.)

Well I was almost too my house, but then I noticed some strange men in armor coming up too my house. There was something about their armor that looked a bit familiar to me. I recall while working with my dad, he'd get shipments of armor that'd need fixing for other people. The armour those men were wearing, was the armor that belonged too The Fire Nation.

"Okay this is new now. Either their here to pick up some armor, get their armor fixed, or something really bad is about to happen here" I told myself as I quickly ran too the house and through the back door.

When I got into the house and closed the back door behind me, I turned around to see my mother looking out the window and my father sitting down in a chair with his hands together and his head down in shame.

"Mom, dad what's going on? Why are there fire nation guards coming?" I asked them and my father brought his face up and then looked at me.

Then he got up from his chair and came over to me. Then when he got to me, he placed his hands on both of my shoulders and then looked deep into my eyes. I could tell just from looking at his eyes that something was wrong. Tears were beginning to form in his eyes and then he brought me close to him. He just hugged me and held me tightly in his arms. Then he let me go and we both looked at each others faces.

"Raven I need you to understand that what I've done is something I'm not proud of." He told me as tears fell from his eyes and I just looked confussed.

"Dad, what are you talking about? What's going on? What happened? What did you do?" I began asking him and he didn't answer me.

Our front door knocked and my mother went too the door. She looked at my dad for some reason, and he nodded his head up and down. it was so wried because mom never had to wait and see if she could open the door. Then my mom looked away from my dad and opened the door. Then in came a whole group of Fire Nation guards into our house. There must have been like 10 or 15 of these guys in our house and they had the place surrounded. Then one of them came out from the group and came up to my dad. He wore a mask on his face like the rest of them so I didn't know what kind of faces they were making right now.

"Alright your time as expired, either you pay up your det, or we'll kill you." The guard told my dad and then my eyes went wide opened and I looked at my dad in shock.

"Dad, what is he talking about? Paying your det or they'll kill you? What is he talking about?" I questioned him and he didn't answer me.

"Dad is this some sort of joke? Oh I get it, good one dad ha, ha, ha. This is a joke right?" I asked him but still he didn't answer me.

"Well where's the money?" Asked the guard sounding rather angry and so my dad gave my mom a single and she left the room and ran upstairs.

(7 minutes later)

My mom soon returned holding a small bag in her hands. She looked rather scared and then gave the guard the bag. He insteadly took it out of her hands, opened the bag and looked inside it. He stared into the bag and then threw it onto the ground in anger. Apparently he wasn't to happy about what he saw in it.

"Is this all of the money you've got?! Or is there more that you're hiding from us?!" Cried out the guard who then grabbed my dad by his throat and then my dad spoke.

"J-Just h-hold on now. W-We're both firebenders here r-right? P-Please, I-I spent m-most of our money for my f-family." He told the guard and then the guard let go of his throat.

"Well now, maybe I'll just kill your family instead." Said the guard who then looked at me and my mom who was being held by one of the guards as the guard in front of my dad and me showed his fire in his hands.

"Oh no, no please I'll do anything!" My father cried out and then the guard looked back at my dad and then released his fire on him.

Suddenly, my dad used his firebending to make the fire go another way. Which was good for him, but since I didn't bend, the fire came my way and it hit my right arm. I then let out a bloody scream of pain and fell onto my knees. I then started to cry and my mom looked scared and shocked at what just happened. My dad however, was really shocked. Then he looked from me to the guard who then gave a single to his troops to move out.

"I'll give you 2 months, otherwise, you'll pay dearly." Said the guard who then turned his back on him and walked out with his troops.

Once they left our house, my dad got up and ran over to me, as did my mom.

"Oh no Raven, Raven I didn't mean it. Raven I'm so sorry." Began my dad as he reached out to touch me, but I moved away from him.

I was feeling so much pain right now that I didn't want to be touched by anyone. I held onto my arm and I didn't want to let it go. i was afraid to let go and so i quickly got onto my feet, and I ran out of the door and into the woods. I could hear my parents calling my name as I ran deep into the woods.

"Raven?! Raven please come back!" Cried my mom.

"Raven get back here!" Cried my dad.

But I wasn't coming back. Not by a long shot was I going back there ever again.

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