When Avatar Aang passed away, many parents claimed their child was the new Avatar. Many were found to be lying, whether the child was in on it or not.
One child was a firebender, using heat to move winds. One was a waterbender, moving vapour in the air to create tornadoes. And one was the strangest case of all. The strongest of these children were taken to the North Pole to serve as training partners for the new Avatar, Avatar Korra, but this is not her story.
This is the legend of Satoru Satoshi.
- INTRO -
A blast of water flew through the air at the woman wearing red protective gear, and she dodged it with a spinning jump, her legs moving to take the water and throw it back at the man in similar gear that threw it. It splashed him, he blocked, but the water pressure sent him flying.
Three firebenders shot fire at her, and she blocked with a shield made of water, steam flying up. She threw the steam at them, then used the steam as cover to make a water whip, grabbing one firebender and throwing him into the other two.
A waterbender threw a hundred tiny and sharp blades of ice at her while moving a sphere of water around himself, but she moved her arms around to swing the ice around her, turn it into water, and throw it back around at him hard enough to break his water ball and knock him down.
An earthbender in red protective gear stomped on the ground to bring up a big rock, bigger than he was, and he punched it forward, right at the woman.
She stamped like an earthbender and pushed it angrily with both hands, stopping it in the air, and then she moved her hands in front of her with her elbows out, making the rock a smaller and tougher ball. She punched it back at its thrower like a bullet, and it hit the guy hard enough to send him flying away through a temple wall.
The last attacker was a sneaky waterbender that wasn't supposed to be part of her training, he came at her from the back with a water whip ready to attack, but she heard him and stamped the ground. An earth column hit him between the legs, which made the elders watching "Oooh" in sympathy. But then the column kept rising and sent him flying into the air screaming.
His water fell, and when she moved her hands up, it became his water, and turned into a big sphere of a thousand tiny ice needles around her, and she could hurt any of the attackers with them at a moment's notice.
"Enough." Said an old man, one of the sages. Someone hit a gong. "Satoru, you have done well."
"Have I mastered Earthbending and Waterbending yet?" Satoru asked happily, taking off her helmet, showing off her blue eyes and swinging her blonde hair with a dyed-red streak in the middle that went down her hair's middle and the back of her hair like a skunkdog's stripe.
"'Mastered' is a strong word. You've grasped the basics, and your power is impressive... But you lack control."
They heard the guy scream as he landed, and Satoru melted her water and sent up a ball of water to swallow him up, and bring him down slowly as he struggled to breathe, slowing him down and letting him fall to the ground where he gasped like a fish.
"Did you see that? Control. That was a perfectly controlled landing." Satoru decided.
They looked down at the gasping guy.
"Good thing you were wearing your armour, huh?" She asked nervously.
He made a sad squeaking noise.
"Woah, are you ok?" Satoru asked, very concerned.
A sage sighed. "Take him to a healer."
"Wait, can't I heal you?" She asked.
He shook his head and made scared squeaking noises as he was dragged off to the healer's tent.
"You know your healing was never... exactly..." Katara began to say.
"Not embarassingly terrible." A waterbender she'd defeated said, getting back up. She stamped and punched back at him, and sent a big rock into his chest, knocking him down.
"Hey, I can heal myself just fine!" Satoru yelled at him.
"Satoru... do you realize how many people you've injured in your training?" A sage asked. "Yesterday, Korra had to skip practice, because all of her scheduled training partners were in the healer's tent for the next week."
"I can't help it! You know how much chi I have!" Satoru protested. "I try and lift a tiny rock, and I pull up that and the big piece of earth it's on! I try and fill a bottle, and I end up bursting it from the inside. All this training's helped a little, but... my family's always had problems with this."
"It is clear that your violent ways won't be helped here." The sage on the left said solemnly, the one that didn't really like her at all. "Therefore, we have decided to put your... unique... abilities... to good use."
"I can be a pro bender?" Satoru asked hopefully.
"What? No!" The sage yelled. "We hear troubling news from our friends in Air Temple Island, regarding the Triads. One of them recently robbed the Island, and stole some of Tenzin's favourite pottery! You are to go to Republic City and help the local police to defeat these barbarians."
"Plates? Really?" Satoru asked sarcastically. "I'm recovering pottery now?"
"No, they've probably been sold off. But if they can get in and steal pottery-"
"The most vital thing a Bender can own!" Satoru fake-gasped mockingly.
"Then they can also break in and kidnap his children and hold them to ransom. Or simply kill them, just to say they did." The sage finished, glaring at her.
"...And now I feel stupid." Satoru said quietly.
" You are to go... and put a stop to these Triads." Katara decided. And then she glanced at the sage that didn't like Satoru. "In whichever way you want."
"So I get to be as violent as I want?" Satoru asked hopefully.
All four sages plus Katara moved one eyebrow up at the same time.
"Woah, that came out wrong!" Satoru laughed. "I meant, I don't have to hold back?"
"Not even a little." The sage that didn't like her said with a tiny smile that was completely fake.
"Woohoo!" Satoru said happily, punching the ground and making the earth she was standing on fly up like a firework, away from them. The rock soared over the horizon, and when it was over the sea, she bended water up to her to serve as wings as she let the rock fall down, flapping her water wings and arms at the same time.
They heard the rock crash in the water, and saw an endangered whaledolphin body float to the surface, because it had been killed by that rock.
"Good riddance. The sage that didn't like Satoru decided.
"Did we tell her where Republic City is? Or which of the Triads broke in to Tenzin's home?" Katara realized.
"It's better this way." The sage that didn't like Satoru decided.
"Did you really have to make up that story about Tenzin's pottery?" Katara asked.
"And miss out on seeing her like that? I had to tell her that." The sage laughed.
"When you get to our age, you need laughs." The sage next to him said.
"I'm five years older than all of you." Katara said angrily.