This is my first fanfic I have written so I'm really excited about this one. Please tell me what you think of this. My biggest concern is the names. I don't know any good names that you might see in an anime. If you could please help me out with this in your reviews I would really appreciate it, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender

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It's been almost two-hundred years since the war against the Fire Nation started. People are starting to loose hope. Avatar Aang has been dead fourteen years now, and even he couldn't bring the world to piece. The only part of the world not conquered by the Fire Nation is a large city atop a mountain in the middle of the ocean. Avatar Aang made that city and that mountain as a last desperate attempt to make sure the Fire Nation doesn't win this war, even they could not penetrate the city. That is why the city is called New Ba-Sing-Se (impenetrable city). Our only chance of survival is the new Avatar, but he or she has yet to been found.

Rui, a fourteen year old boy, is the best waterbender this world has ever seen. He mastered every style of water bending by the age of ten. Since then, he has developed many new moves that no ordinary bender could perform. He was a water bending prodigy. Although Rui was an extraordinary bender he had lived in secrecy all his life. With his parents dead a master waterbender was to raise him, but at the same time hide him from the fire nation. You see, he did not know it at the time, but the elders found out that he was the Avatar when he was very young and made sure that the fire nation could not find him no matter what.

"Rui, where are you! Rui, I need to talk to you!"

"I'm in here!" He replied.

His master walked into the room. "Ah, there you are" He said. "Please, sit down. I need to talk to you about something." Rui sat down as he was instructed; he knew this wouldn't be good, every time his master asked him to sit something was up. Either something bad has happened or he needed to tell him something important. "Rui, it has been a pleasure and an honor taking care of you for the past ten years, but now is the time that you knew the truth." Rui looked a little puzzled; this was not starting out the way he had expected. "I don't know how to tell you this" He said as he sat down in a chair near the waterbender "Rui, you are the Avatar, and it is time that you started on your avatar journey." Rui was dumfounded, he couldn't believe it, it was overwhelming, he thought that there must be some kind of mistake; he couldn't be the Avatar, although it did explain his extreme natural talents. "Tomorrow I will take you to the north pole in secret. Once there you will meet with one of the elders. His name is Sung, he will escort you to an ancient shrine where you will begin your quest." After saying this, he got up and left.

That night, Rui lay awake in his bed. He couldn't sleep, not with the thought of him being the Avatar. He was excited, but at the same time it felt like a heavy burden had been placed on his shoulders. He stayed up till about midnight and then fell into a very deep sleep. While he was sleeping Avatar Aang came to him in a vision. "Rui, do you know who I am?" the former Avatar asked.

"You are Aang, the Avatar before me. The one who revived the Airbenders and created New Ba-Sing-Se and the mountain it's on." He replied.

"Yes, yes, very good. I am the one who will be helping you throughout your journeys as the new Avatar, but first there are a few things you need to know."

"Like what"

"Tomorrow you will begin a long and difficult journey, one that involves dangers and hardships like you never imagined. Rui, you must finish what I started. You must defeat the Fire Nation at all cost, and to do that you will need to master all four elements. When you begin your journey you must immediately go to New Ba-Sing-Se. Stay there for 4 years and master airbending and earthbending. Then find someone to teach you firebending. You will face many things along the way, but I have faith in you. Remember that there is more to bending than meets the eye. Open your mind and you will become the greatest among the Avatars. I must go now, good luck."

"Wait, don't go! I have so many questions!" He yelled out. But it was too late; he had woken up without realizing it. It was morning now, the sun was bright and everything was peaceful. His master was waiting for him out in the field. From there they set off to the North Pole.

It took them awhile to get there, several hours in fact, but overall the trip went well. Once at the North Pole, they met up with the elder Sung. "This is the end of the road, I must leave you now, Sung will guide you from here. Make sure no one realizes you're the Avatar."

"Ok, I hope ill see you again." They bowed to each other.

"Sung, take good care of him."

"Don't worry, he's in good hands." He bowed again and walked away. "Ok, please follow me."

Sung led the Avatar to a shrine in the middle of the North Pole and went inside. The room was very large and spiraled down. The floor was ice with a metal platform in the middle. The room was filled with the statues of the former Avatars all spiraling downward into the ice. Right next to the center was the statue of Avatar Aang, to the left of him was Avatar Roku, and to the right of him, in the dead center of the platform, was a stand with an orb made of glass and filled with glowing blue water that was constantly spiraling. "This is the Northern Avatar Shrine. Each of the statues you see is one of your past lives." Rui just stood there in awe of what he was seeing. It looked incredible. "This place used to be the home of the first Avatar. Since then a shrine has been built around and under it. The ice you see is sacred, both in the ground and in the orb you see before you. The orb is one of the Avatar Orbs, this one of course symbolizing water." He couldn't speak. He just kept looking around. "This is where your great journey begins. Now you must go up to the orb and place both hands on it." He looked at the elder in disbelief. "Go on, it'll be fine, nothing to worry about." He wasn't too sure of this but did it anyway. He slowly approached the Orb. Once there all he could do is look at it, you could see it much more clearly up close. The water in the center of the orb was spiraling in such a way that a blue snakelike creature was depicted. It had the head of a dragon and appeared to be bending the water within the Orb.

Rui slowly reached for it with both hands, scared half to death of what might happen when he touched it. A chill was sent running down his spine as he laid his first hand on it. It was surprisingly warm; heat seemed to be emanating from its core. He then slowly laid his other hand on it. The second his other palm touched the orb it began to glow so brightly it lit up the entire room. Seconds later the eyes of every avatar statue in the room began to glow and the ice began to rapidly melt. From underneath the nearly endless depths of the water he heard a very low roar, the roar of what sounded like a very monstrous beast. All he could see was a pair of glowing blue eyes at least two feet apart. The room started to shake as the beast let out another loud roar. All he could think of was, "What the heck is that thing?"

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Hope you liked it. Please review and comment on it. I need all the help I can get. Again I need a few names for upcoming characters. Post them on the review page or email them to me and if I use them ill be sure to mention you at the end of the chapter. Please remember I am a novice writer. I will appreciate any suggestions or changes that need to be made; I could really use the help. Once I am satisfied with this chapter I will post the next one. Thanks again.