AN: Uhhh.. I dunno where this comes from.. just popped into my head It takes place at Aang's and Kataras time, so I may add a bit kataang later, but the first chapters are about MY main characters.

Billeh did the proof reading as always THANKS!!!! D

Disclaimer: I don't own the Avatarworld or any of it's characters. But I do own the idea for this story and for the characters Linn and Kuzan (the second)

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Prologue I

My name's Kuzan. I really don't like my name, but it has my grandfathers name, was a great firebender and maybe my parents hoped I'd become a great one too by wearing the same name.

I mean, I'm really not bad at it, just not uber-brilliant. Well, at least not uber-brilliant in the so called 'Important things', which means fighting skills. What I'm good at is creating little fireworks with lava, forming dragons with flames and at juggling with rings of fire. As you can see, I'm great at doing 'unimportant' stuff. But at least it was good to impress the girls at my town with it. – Come on, I know you would do that too if you could.

At the age of ten I already had a small fanclub, a bunch of girls that where gathering around me when I started my show. But I didn't noticed them, just one girl. My special guest. The girl, who I made all this for. She was really worth it.

Her hair was long and black, like silk shimmering in the sun and bended in two braids at either side of her head, crowned from a red flower on each top. Her skin was pale and smooth and her brown eyes had a mysterious, green shimmer hidden in them. She was the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And her name was Linn. Say it for a couple of times, again and again, and it's like a spell. Well, it was like a spell on me – and her too.

I had my first crush on her and was sure that she would be my future wife. I've stolen apples and cherries for her from the neighbours garden, trying to impress her. And she was impressed, cause one day she placed a kiss on my cheek, lightly and softly like the wings of a butterfly. We acted nearly like a couple and best friends at the same time, being only 10. I spent everyday with her, playing hide and seek, exploring the neighbours gardens, the nearby woods and in summer we swam in the nearby lake.

I was her only friend.

The other children never played with her, even didn't talk to her. The adults at our town whispered things about her and her mom I couldn't understand past then, I was just too young. I couldn't understand why my mom told me one day I maybe should stop playing with her.

"She isn't the right friend for you, Kuzan-chan", she said to me with her warm, loving voice. "Her father wasn't from here."

"What's so bad about that?", I wanted to know, but my mom didn't answer and just smiled.

I think she didn't know what to say.

I ignored everything I've heard about Linn from the others. She was still my best friend and I liked her and was sure I would marry her. I didn't care a thing that she was 'mixed', something everyone whispered when she was seen. For me she was perfect and I was sure we would never part, that we would stay together for forever.

I was wrong.

A few months before I turned eleven, a group of firebenders came to our town. They came from the military academy and I was astounded by their armour that was twinkling in the sunlight. The black and red colours were so pretty, I couldn't stop staring at them.

Linn wasn't there when they came. I didn't see her all three days the soldiers where there, my mom told me that she was hidden, but I didn't understand why. It had something to do with her father and the problem that she was somehow 'mixed', but it was hard for a almost 11-year old to understand that.

Especially because the soldiers wanted to take me with them. I should go to their academy, should become a soldier like them. It sounded like heaven in my ears, because it seemed like a big adventure, something great. Something Linn would have liked too.

On sunny days we had fought with sticks at the river bench – and man, she was really good at fighting. And she was really pretty when she did. Her eyes shimmered in a bright green then, her lips were curled in a satisfied smile and her hair were flying through the air.

I couldn't say goodbye to her. I couldn't even send someone to her, to give her a note from me. Nobody knew where she was and her mom didn't open the door.

So I left, my heart broken, promising myself that I wanted to come back. Back to this town and to her.

But the years passed and my education at the firebending academy developed... and the memory of Linn seemed to fade more and more till it was gone...

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tbc