Book One: The Story of Delta
Chapter 1 Introductions
Summary of Chapter: This is a story about someone who was abandoned by the Northern Water Tribe and found by an Earth Kingdom village couple who adopted him into their family. While he grows up Delta doesn't feel out of place, but he does know that somethings different about him. In this first chapter we meet him and his family. We also get to see that he is about to become a man in a ceremony that his village does for their young men. It's not too action packed but wait till you see the next few chapters.
I'm going to give the story a T rating mainly because it's going to be in The Last Airbender's past some 5,000 years before the events of The Last Airbender. So logically it seems like it would have a pretty violent past. But the first few chapters won't be too violent.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Avatar The Last Airbender. Michael and Bryan do. Just some character's and idea's are my own and my friends.
"Lakota I need you to take my wife and children and get them away from here." "But sir if you stay you'll die," replied Lakota. "Which is why I need you to get them as far away from here as you can," replied the chief. The scene changed to four people being tossed and turned in a boat on the sea. One was a man and the other was a woman. The woman was protecting two baskets which must have been carrying her children. All of a sudden a big wave rocked the boat and one of the baskets got tossed up in the air and out into the sea. The woman screamed and the man tried to grab the basket.
"Delta, Delta, Delta wake up," Lian said. "Huh what is it, what's going on?" asked Delta. "You were shaking in your sleep and you were saying strange things are you okay?" Lian seemed to be more confused than anything after what she had seen. "Yeah I'm fine I just need to get up and get moving and I'll be better," Delta replied. "Well I hope it didn't rob you of your sleep too much, you've got a big day today," she said. "Really what day is it?" Delta thought he knew but he wanted her to tell him. "It's the day you get to become a man," she replied. "Oh right the trials and the ceremony afterwards. Well guess I better get up and start getting ready." Let me start my story by telling you my name. I'm Delta. I'm from an Earth Kingdom village that's in the northwestern part of the Earth Kingdom. You've already met my sister Lian; always a sweet heart and looking out for me and my other brothers.
As I got dressed my mother came in and started crying. "Come on mom why are you crying?" I asked her. "It's just I don't want you to get hurt today, but I know that's not going to be possible." "Hey don't worry about it you know that dad's been training me for something like this since I could walk and talk right?" "I know but it's awfully tough to see your children growing up right before your eyes." "It seems like yesterday when your father and I found you on the beach." That's something that I should explain. See apparently I'm not from the Earth Kingdom. My parents had found me in a basket at the mouth of the river and brought me back to their village. My dad was a General in the army of the Earth Kingdom. He had just gotten home from a war between earth and fire benders on the other side of the Earth Kingdom. He and his wife went down to the mouth of the river. My mom was a healer and she went to gather herbs and other things that could be used for healing. My dad just wanted to spend time with her and protect her as well. My mom was walking away from the shore, when she turned and saw the strangest thing. A basket floating on the waves washed up on the shore. Then she heard the crying. Dropping her basket she rushed over to it with my dad close behind. They opened it up and saw me.
"It's a baby," said Chun. "What are we going to do with it?" "Well we're not going to let it stay here and catch a cold," replied Shen. "But what will the village think?" Chun asked a little uncertain. "They'll think that we're being responsible people and since no one else is around to care for the child we'll do it. Besides I can't see the village getting upset over something like this." "Oh all right well what are we going to call him?" Chun asked. My dad thought about it and then said "how about water boy?" My mother scowled at him. "It was just a joke. Well how about the name Delta?" "It isn't very traditional but I can't think up of anything else."
And since that day I've been living here the peaceful village of Three Rivers, aptly named because we're close to three rivers that flow into the ocean. Just then my brothers Zhong and Shang came in with my dad Shen. They had just got back from hunting for the feast that would happen after the trials. "You ready bro!" exclaimed Shang. "You know it," I replied. Shang and I were the oldest teenagers in our household. Being of age we were both going to participate in the man making ceremony with the other boys in our village.
I guess I should explain the man making ceremony. It's an initiation rite so that the boys can become men. It has three steps to it. Step one you have to fight a warrior from the tribe with a quarter staff. If you can't beat the warrior with it then you fail that step in the ceremony and can't become a man that year. Step two is to fight another warrior in hand to hand combat with just your hands no weapons. If you make it past this level then you need to fight someone with a wooden sword. During this level there is an area of 5X5 square wooden posts erected where the participants have to weave in and out to find each other. If you do all of this you will become a man of the village.
There are some other options available in this process as well. If you want to fight more than one warrior you may do so. If you want to fight someone from your initiation group you may do that as well, although most people don't choose that option. The horns started blowing. We all looked at Shen. "Well what are you waiting for?" he said. We all dashed towards the place where the trials would take place. Just as we left a messenger ran up to our house and gave our father a piece of paper. His face became more serious. "What is it?" asked Chun. "The king of Omashu is coming to see the trials and the ceremony."