Notes: There are some things you may want to know before you begin reading this story. First off, this is a completely new story starring a completely new Avatar and cast; the world is still the same and I plan to bring up original characters including Aang and Zuko every now and then, but this is mostly a completely new story after Korra's reign as Avatar. Secondly, I didn't want to risk making the Avatar world too modern (since in the last season there were the inventions of radio, airplanes, and super eletric techno platinum suits or whatever those things were) so the world will be pretty similar to how we saw it in Korra's time. Okay, I've bored you guys enough. ENJOY!
The White Lotus War
Chapter 1: A New Beginning
A luxurious white sato-mobile with an engraved White Lotus symbol on each side of the car pulled up to a decent sized, yet noticeably poor house that the Mizutamari family lived in. Two men in traditional White Lotus robes stepped out of the car and into the sunlight. One man was very muscular with a huge physique who obviously spent countless hours training. He had long blond hair tied up into a ponytail and his face and brown eyes were as hard as stone. The other man was very elderly with wrinkles all across his body, yet held a formidable physique. He was bald with air bender arrows on his forehead and hands, showing that he was from the Air Nomads, which was slowly, but surely, being restored. They both stared at the household with great anticipation.
The more muscular man asked, "Are you certain that this is the correct residence Meelo?"
Meelo uncontrollably laughed and asked back, "You think I'd be wrong about the location of the next Avatar? Ju-Long," Meelo quickly jumped high into the air with the use of his air bending and shouted loudly, "I am Meelo of the Southern Air Temple and Bestest of the bestest friends of Big Sis Korra!" He landed softly on the ground next to Ju-Long, picked his nose to Ju-Long's disgust, and added, "So yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the place. Don't be fooled by first appearances dude."
Ju-Long sighed in frustration for two reasons; one reason was because of his annoying response while picking his nose, and also because they had answered to three other possible sightings of the Avatar and Meelo every time screamed, "This is definitely where we'll find the Avatar!" despite the fact that none of them held up. Ju-Long managed to swallow the majority of his annoyance and he proceeded to the door. He was about to knock on the door when a woman quickly burst through and bumped into him.
The woman quickly said in shock, "Members of the White Lotus! You honor me with your presence, but first, did you hear who was shouting outside? Was someone hurt?"
Meelo uncontrollably laughed and said, "Nah! That was just me! I like to shout when I'm excited; or happy, or sad, or afraid, hungry, bored…"
Meelo continued his list of emotions while Ju-Long approached the woman and asked, "Are you Miss Mizutamari?"
She bowed slightly to him and said, "Yes, and I am very honored and grateful that you are here."
"We received word from you that you believe your son is the Avatar that we have searched for; is that correct?"
She looked up at him with a big smile and said, "Yes. Please come in and I'll introduce you to my husband and take you to see my son. He's probably skipping stones in the lake behind our house. But please be quiet, our baby girl is taking a nap."
Ju-Long bowed Miss Mizutamari in thanks and entered the house. He turned back to Meelo and said, "Please come along Meelo."
"Haunted, skeptical, flabbergasted…huh? Oh! Coming!" Meelo said in glee.
The house was decently sized yet seemed very poor and rundown. The floorboards were creaky and the roof had one or two small holes in it, and every piece of furniture just seemed like trash attempting to be mistaken as furniture. This was obviously a family that had difficulty earning enough copper pieces to make the payments on the house. Her husband came through one of the side doors and from the look of his beaten red eyes and worn out hands, he seemed to be the type of man who worked his entire life and barely had enough time for himself. Still, by the way that the couple smiled at each other and embraced each other as they met, they seemed comfortable and happy with their lives as long as they were with each other.
The husband looked at Ju-Long and Meelo and bowed saying, "White Lotus, it is an extraordinary honor for you to visit our humble home."
Ju-Long just looked around the house more, still intrigued by how happy the two were with living in such bad conditions, while Meelo just stood there picking his ear with his pinky. Though obviously disgusted by Meelo's habit, he maintained his posture and said, "Please let me introduce you to our son, Akio."
The couple led the two White Lotus members to the giant lake just outside their house where a small boy was quietly skipping stones. He turned around at the sound of his father calling him, "Akio!"
Akio was a young boy, about six years old, with slightly long black hair and crystal blue eyes. His eyes were hard, yet calm and very observant by the way he scanned the two new men he didn't know. He had a good physique for a boy his age and he held an almost blank emotion on his face.
The four people approached Akio and his father patted him on the shoulder, "Akia, these are two members of the White Lotus. Would you please show them your talent?"
Akio nodded and turned toward the lake. The couple quickly told Ju-Long and Meelo to step back as Akio breathed in and out a few times. What happened next was mind-blowing. With a swift flick of his wrist, a massive wave blasted out of the lake and flew into the sky! Akio rotated his hands some more and the water quickly formed into the shape of a dragon! With the careful movement of his hands, Akio made the water dragon move as if it were actually a real dragon! Ju-Long was so astounded that he just stared with his mouth open. Meelo cheered and applauded the show shouting, "Now turn it into a leopard-snake! No, turn it into a squirrel-bear!" Akio flicked his wrist and had the dragon dive into the water creating an explosion of water that burst out of the lake.
Akio turned around and bowed to the White Lotus members. Meelo ran up to Akio and shouted, "That was great! I so have to see that again! It was like a firework show with a slight less boom! I so want you to be the next Avatar!" Meelo then quickly turned toward the parents and said with astonishing less enthusiasm, "Too bad he isn't."
The couple were shocked by his statement and turned to Ju-Long who apologetically nodded and said, "I'm sorry, but he's right; Akio simply cannot be the Avatar. For starters, he doesn't bend earth, which is what the next Avatar will have for a main element. Secondly, he's too old. Avatar Korra died a little over two years ago and your son appears to be about six or seven."
"I see," Miss Mizutamari said with a saddened expression, but then she perked up and said, "Well, thank you for telling us and I'm very sorry we wasted your time."
"Aw, don't be sorry," Meelo said with a big smile, "Your son still has a lot of potential for his age and I think that he'd be a big addition to the Northern Water Tribe." Meelo then got his very rare, 'I have an idea', look on his face and said, "Hey! Since I'm aware that Akio has astounding water bending talent, why don't I personally put in a good word for your son to the Northern Water Tribe? I'm sure that they'd be more than happy to train him up there!"
The couple's expressions exploded with great delight and Mister Mizutamari asked, "You would do that? You're too kind, sir!"
Meelo laughed and said, "Anything for a good-hearted bunch like you guys! Besides, Akio reminds me of me at his age; silent, calm, bursting with unlimited potential…"
As Meelo continued on with his self praises that were not true in the slightest, the couple approached Ju-Long and silently asked, "Was he actually like that as a kid?" They were obviously concerned for the mental health of their son, but Ju-Long assured them that Meelo was one-in-a-million.
Meelo then stopped his current listing of self-admirable adjectives and called out, "Hey Ju-Long! Last one to the sato-mobile is a rotten chicken-frog egg!" He then used his air bending to blast himself over the Mizutamari house in a single leap. They heard a crash from the other side, but it was followed by Meelo shouting, "I'm all right!"
Ju-Long decided to not be as childish as Meelo and headed back toward the car while the couple stayed with Akio to praise him on a job well-done with his bending and they joined him in skipping stones. Ju-Long was about to exit when he heard a baby crying from inside one of the rooms. Ju-Long opened the door to find the small baby girl that Miss Mizutamari mentioned earlier lying in a bundle of freshly washed white cloth. Ju-Long saw that the baby's pacifier fell from her mouth and he picked it up and put it back in her mouth. She started to stop crying and sucked on her pacifier.
Ju-Long was about to exit when he heard the baby laugh. At that moment, he felt something being thrown at the back of his robe. He quickly turned around to find that nothing was different from when he entered, but a small stain of dirt was now on his robes. But then, he saw the baby laugh again and she lifted both her arms, which caused some of the dirt from a potted plant to fly up into the air and hit the ceiling. Ju-Long simply stared at the baby in amazement.
It couldn't be, Ju-Long thought to himself, could it?
Meelo was picking his nose when Ju-Long burst out of the house with great anxiety. Meelo laughed and announced, "I win! You're a rotten chicken-frog egg!" But Ju-Long didn't care about Meelo's comments or his disgusting habits at the time.
"Meelo," Ju-Long said in great haste, "Do you have a copper piece on you? I have to make a quick call."
"Sure," Meelo said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a copper piece. Meelo quickly licked it before slapping it into Ju-Long's hand. He uncontrollably laughed and said, "Enjoy!"
Ju-Long was disgusted by his action, but he was more occupied on the phone call. He quickly went to a payphone on the corner of the sidewalk and dialed a number. The phone rang once, twice, three times, four times.
"Hello?" asked a calm voice.
"It's Ju-Long," he said in a completely serious voice, "I need you to inform the commanders to start rallying allies for Operation Underground and send word to the Doctor that I wish to commence a Deletion."
"A Deletion? First of all sir, I'll have to contact of all our commanders to begin this rallying and I suspect that it will take about three years to reach a state where we'll be able to begin Operation Underground. I'd also have to inform the Doctor about preparing a Deletion and we both know that he hates to be disturbed for no good reason. Sir, we only have five years of preparation under our belts and it may not be enough to strike against the White Lotus yet. Why in the world do you want to begin this so early? And who is this Deletion for?"
Ju-Long made sure that Meelo was preoccupied in doing some disgusting habit before he answered, "I've found the Avatar."
Phew! The first chapter of my first fanfic is done! I hope you liked it, I'm looking forward to continuing the story, and I hope you'll keeping reading! Until next time!