The Search for the Avatar

by themagicalraquel

Many years after the time of Aang and Korra the White Lotus has taken over the nations and wants to eliminate all the non-benders. A group of friends come together to try to take on the White Lotus and find the Avatar. Journeying through the Spirit World and the physical world they must learn new things about themselves and each other to save their non-bending loved ones.

1. Prologue

(Raquel)

The legends of all the past Avatar's is well known to all who live in our world. It has been a long time of Avatar Aang and Avatar Korra and the great Avatars before them. Now in the modern world the Avatar is less important than in our history. We don't even know who the Avatar is anymore and the past three have been unknown until they died. The White Lotus likes us to believe we don't need the avatar to survive and makes sure that when they find the new avatar they stay in hiding. No one even knows what cycle of the Avatar we are on or what nation the next Avatar will be born in. The White Lotus keeps it a mystery.

Bending the elements is still a gift but so many can do it that it isn't as special as it used to be; they even teach bending in schools. They make sure no one can bend more than one element though; there are tests to make sure you can't. It's as though they are waiting to find the new Avatar. Some say when they do find them they'll be locked away and hidden from the world. I believe that the White Lotus is afraid that the Avatar would put an end to their worldly control of the nations.

The idea of the Avatar frightens the very people who were meant to serve them unquestionably. The white Lotus is almost as bad as the Fire Nation once was; except they don't rule the nations in fear. They rule kindly… most of the time. As long as you behave nothing bad ever happens. But I've heard of the things that happen when people get out of line.

I'm afraid that something bad might happen soon if things keep up the way they are. I really hope that the Avatar will come out of hiding soon and stop the White Lotus from turning into the Fire Nation during the hundred years war. I fear they may be planning to remove all the non-benders from our world. It is the rumor anyway.

My name is Raquel and I am a fire bender. I live in the northern part of what was once the Earth Kingdom; we are all separate provinces with our own governments in what was the Earth Kingdom. My family is very mixed when it comes to benders of different elements. My middle brother is an earth bender and my youngest brother is an air bender. My mother is a water bender and my father is a non-bender. This is why the Avatar is important to me; if the white Lotus takes away all the non-benders I lose my father and some of my friends.

Luckily my best friend Judy is an earth bender. Her whole family is made up of earth benders; they own one of the best farms in this part of the old Earth Kingdom. With her help I hope to find the new Avatar. Of course, we need to finish school first. Then we can set out on an adventure of a life time along with our friends, families, and enemies.