Talya - The Life Bender

by Hellbent95

I've taken the time to create a new category of Bending. Life Bending. A combination of the properties from Earth & Water bending. Allowing the user to send water into the ground and using seeds they carry, be able to create a symbiotic relationship with plants. Bending the plants to their will. This is the story of the first known user of this new class of Bending. Talya.

1. Introduction - A Sacrifice

Chapter 1

Nadya rolled over. Her face tingling with the warmth from the fire which lashed into the sky. Her eyes closed upon feeling it, but she squinted and opened them gradually over the last few seconds. She placed one hand on her stomach, where she felt the damp, sticky, liquid continuing to flow from her. Her strength leaving with it.

She could still hear the crackling and snapping of the fire which roared to her right. Her house had been raided and savagely torn apart by the Fire Nation. They'd come in with a fire in their hearts, a plan in their minds, and a frightening lack of empathy which she felt no one could truly understand but them. They just may be the only people in the world who could do such a terrible thing. If not, Nadya hoped she would never have to find out who could be as awful as they were.

Yet she felt that she would never get the chance to truly find out. She could at least thank God for that one small treasure. That one blessing.

She listened as a support beam fell inside her house. The roof caving in and the ashes and coals raging and intensifying. A wave of bright red ashes rising into the sky in one large cloud. She watched, wishing that she could fly with them.

But even wishing that she could go with them, she felt a resent for them. A hate flowing through her. The beauty of the fire downplayed and almost ruined for her, the idea tainted and beat into submission by the connection and relation to the Fire Nation. Their symbol and nature horrible, poisoning the beauty that was fire. The beauty that was so enchanting about the flames and heat.

She rolled her head back to face the night sky again. The stars overhead calling to her. Nadya felt that rather soon she would join them. She also found herself wondering where her husband might be.

She'd bought him just enough time to sneak out of the back door. To take her daughter with him into the woods to become lost.

The only reassurance, the only consolation she had, was knowing they were far away. Safe. Her daughter in the strong arms of her husband, lost in the woodlands somewhere safe from the reach of the flames which would hunt them for the rest of their days.

Do to the fact that they thought her daughter was the Avatar.

Only she wasn't.

She was just a Life Bender. Something their family had passed down from generation to generation. A skill which combined properties from Earth Bending and Water Bending to allow you to bend Plants and Trees alike to your very whim. Splitting and replicating their cells to grow and blossom however you pleased.

This skill had been always used peacably for as long as they could remember.

But not anymore.

They had been planning to train their daughter to use it to end this war. Planning to train her to use it to fight because no one had ever heard of such a skill. No one would know what to expect or how to properly defend against it. It would give the world the edge that it needed. It would give the world some Hope.

They would give the world their Hope.

As Nadya closed her eyes and felt the last of her strength leave her body. Listening to the peaceful crackling off to her right, and listening as the last of the supports fell and her house crumbled into a pile of coals, she whispered into the night sky with her final breath.

"I love you, Talya."