Hi : ) This is my first FanFic EVER, and I'm writing it in English. Considering that I am Portuguese, please do not take my grammar errors too serious. Correct me if you want, but don't be mean :P
I remind you that I DO NOT own Avatar: The last Airbender.
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I. One
Twenty years passed since the war's ending. The world was finally recovering from the bloodiest war he could remind. The four nations were finally in peace, trying to find the balance they needed to move on. The scars that war left were deep, but hopefully, the Avatar was there to help cure them. It was hard to make people trust firebender's. They weren't welcome anymore. Most of them were executed by other tribes. Others went to prison with no signs of release. Zuko was inflexible on their judgment. Generals, captains, soldiers, all of them condemned to prison. To some of them, the punishment was even worse, with Aang taking their power away, so they couldn't be a threat anymore. And so, after twenty years of reconstruction, Earth could finally sigh from relief.
Besides all the changes that happen globally, there were a few things that changed on particular lives, too. After Zuko's coronation, he married his beloved Mai, which became known as Lady of Fire. They remained pretty close to all of their friends: Suki, Sokka, Toph, Ty Lee and of course, Aang and Katara. But due to their different origins, they decided to live in different places. Obviously, the Lord of Fire stayed on the Fire Nation. He and Mai had an heir to the throne, Kripton, and years later, Er'rzulah, a little baby girl, was born. Suki and Sokka moved to Kyoshi Island, and there they constructed their family: after Layra was born, they got married, and had two more girls, twins, in fact: Nala and Yué. Sokka was a little disappointed he could only had girls, but he would soon realize that those girls would be better warriors than any man on the planet. Toph accepted the offer that came from the Earth Kingdom, a high charge, where she was the responsible for the defense of Ba Sing Se, as well for the elimination of all the members of Dai-Li association.
Although being a member of Kyoshi Warriors, Ty Lee decided to go back to Circus, where she felt free, traveling around the globe. She is still a heartbreaker, but she still hasn't found her man. She's the one who sees Aang and Katara more often, because the pair decided to move on to Katara's pacific water tribe, on the South Pole. Katara gave birth to a big boy named Tizen, an airbender, just like his father, and two years later, to a girl named Agnieska. To their surprise she was a firebender, just like her father.
The kids grew up fast. Twenty years passed in front of them, and seemed only a minute. In one second they were just babys, in the other, they are childs, teenagers, almost adults. Layra was the oldest one, with 19 (almost 20) years old. Tizen and Kripton were now 18 years old; Agnieska was now 16 years of rebelliousness; the twins were now 14, and the youngest was Er'rzulah, with 10. Despite all the friendship that involves their parents, most of them never met. Only Sokka's and Katara's "kids" knew each other, obviously because they are cousins, and they were together… three times in a year?
- Hey Mommy, hey Daddy, hey big bro! – Greeted Agnieska as soon as she walked home on her usual good mood. – So, why are you all with that angry face? Aren't you happy to see me? 'Cause if you're not, I can really walk away aga…
- Sit down! – Snarled Aang. The surprised girl pushed a chair and sited. Tizen and Katara were sited next to her. – Can you explain me, my dearest daughter, why didn't you show up to the commemoration of the twentieth birthday of peace on Earth?
-Because I have absolutely nothing to do with that, you are the Avatar, not me. – She lifted her eyebrows like she didn't care. – The war was over and I wasn't even born. Why should I be on a memorial of the warriors that I didn't know, and at the commemoration of the peace that I've always known? – Aang compressed his lips to contain his fury. – It's stupid.
- You could do an effort to care for everything we've been trough to have the peace you know so well. – Katara said smoothly. – If it wasn't those warriors you despise so much, you were probably never born!
- I don't think you could resist dad so much time, mother. – The girl smiled lascivious.
- Where were you, Agnieska? That's all I want to know. – Aang said, after releasing a sigh and ignoring her last comment.
- I really don't think you want to know, dad… Ok, fine. – Aang was looking at her like he could slice her into pieces. – I was with my boyfriend.
- I asked where you were, and not with who.
Agnieska smiled like a little child when is ready to say something no one wants to ear. She got up, touched her brown, silky, wavy hair in a very sexy, deliberated way, and replied:
- I was on his bed.
BOOM. That sentenced hit the rest of the family like a punch made by the combination of the four elements. Aang was with his mouth wide open, while Katara covered hers with both hands. Tizen stayed static, looking to his little sister like she was a monster. "So,", they reasoned, "every single time she was late to dinner "because she had a work to do for school"…"
- WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? – Aang seemed possessed, creating strong draughts around him, making abrupt gestures, like he was ready to blow up the house or enter in the Avatar State. – DO YOU KNOW HOW OLD ARE YOU? HÃ? YOU'RE JUST A CHILD, YOU HAVE NO MATURITY TO DO SUCH THINGS! AND YOU SHOULD NOT TALK ABOUT THAT IN FRONT OF YOUR OLDER BROTHER! HE'S GOING TO BE A MONK!
- Dad, everyone does that, they just don't have the courage to say it, like I did. – Agnieska was perfectly calm. She crossed her arms and stared at her dad's grey eyes. – You know dad, do you really think that I believe that you and mom, while on your "journey to save the world", – She used her fingers to illustrate the quotation marks. – you have never done it? Do you?
- We never did, that's the truth, we were too young, and… - Aang started to blush till his face looked like a tomato.
- Even if you didn't, - Agnieska continued, with a large mean smile on her face. - let's do some counts: Tinzen is eighteen years old, right? Right. He was born two years after the war ended, right? Right. When he was born, mum was sixteen, and you were what, fourteen? Congratulations, you were sooo mature at that time to have a baby! – She made a deliberated pause, staring at a very, very, angry and defeated Aang. - Conclusion, the one who has skeletons on his closet, shouldn't give opinion about them. – No one spoke, which made Agnieska smile radiantly. She started walking to the door, but before she left, she said over her shoulder: – Oh, and Tizen, I know DAD wants you to be a monk, so, take a little advice from your sister: don't try it. You will love sex, and you will never fulfill daddy's dream.
Agnieska stepped out of the house. The day lightened up the mess that "The Peace Day" made. The snow was all dirty with all kind of rejects and objects, there was people sleeping on the ground, and rests of food and bottles everywhere. "So, this is what Dad calls "Peace Day"", Agnieska thought, "I think it's more "Pigs polluting my town Day."".
She started to walk to her boyfriend's house, where she spent the night, when she heard a huge scream coming from her own. A huge scream. It sounded like a really angry Appa, but she knew it wasn't the bison. She knew it came from her dad. The Avatar. She was the Avatar's daughter. She had to be perfect. Her mother tried to teach her that, tried to make her the perfect daughter, a girl to be example for the rest of the world. But she never intended to be that. She wanted to trace her own destiny, not live in her father's shadow.
- Agnieska! – Rashid, her boyfriend, was outside his big snow house, looking at her a little bit confused. – What are you doing here? And what was this scream?
- Oh, that was just my dad. – He putted his arms around her hot body while she was speaking. – It was his reaction, when I told him that we do have sex.
- You said that, to your father? – Rashid couldn't believe her. Then, he thought for a second, and he believed. It was Agnieska, after all. – I think I got reasons to be scared, don't you think? I mean, you are not a regular girl, you are the Avatar's daughter and he can…
- STOP that. – She moved away from him abruptly. – Yes, I am the Avatar daughter, but my name is Agnieska! I am what I am, and I'm not going to change just because I have to be an example for everyone!
- Agnieska, I didn't mean to say that, listen…
- But you JUST DID. - She looked at him with her greyish blue eyes full of rage. – You shouldn't be afraid of my dad, in fact. You should be afraid of me.
- What do you mean with that? – Rashid was now looking for her like she was crazy. – Your dad is the Avatar, he can beat you down in a second! You're just a regular firebender!
- NO, I'M NOT! – Agnieska yelled. He couldn't understand, he had never seen her training, he had never seen her… power. – Come with me. – He didn't move a muscle. – It was an order.
She started walking to south, where her father constructed a practice area for the waterbenders that lived there now. Since everyone was released from the Fire Nation prisons, there were a lot of waterbenders everywhere. And South Pole Water Tribe was no exception. As per usual, kids were there playing with their element, smiling and laughing and falling, and laughing again. Agnieska ignored them, for the first time on her life, and turned to Rashid.
- Observe. – She opened her hand and a blue flame appeared on it. She stared at her boyfriends face to see his reaction. He was absolutely speechless. His green eyes were staring to the small dancing blue flame on her hand, like he have never seen that before. Agnieska closed her hand. – So, impressed?
- You're fire is… blue! – He seemed lost. – How… how can you do that? Every firebender has orange fire, not blue!
-If you are shocked by the blue fire, watch this. – She lifted her arm slowly, with two fingers together, and a huge lightning tore the sky. Rashid screamed with the noise it made, and then looked to his girlfriend like she was just a stranger.
- Agnieska… What are you?
- I… I don't know… My fire has always been blue, and I can control it so well, like I have done it my entire life! – She sat on the snow and sadly sighed. – I wanted to tell my dad, but, he's always so busy training Tizen, that I gave up… I use it a lot of times, and when I'm angry, the power grows like a monster inside me… It's so hard to contain him.
Rashid didn't know what to say. He sat next to her and hugged her. And there they stayed for awhile, ignoring that the scared kids went to the village to tell Aang what they just saw.
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Agnés 'Scape: Well, that's it, end of chapter one! Please review, I would love to have some support to continue the story. Give me some real opinions, make me questions, whatever, just give me a reason to move on to the next chapter. : ) Love, AS.
