So this is the sequel to The Avatar's Daughter. You should read the first one if you don't want to get confused but if you don't that's ok to. I promise to fill you in as much as possible.
So yep here's the first chapter and I'm not sure if I'll continue it. So please don't forget to review*****
Chapter 1
"Kayla!" Kami said, throwing herself into my arms. I tighten my hold around her tiny body. I could see Akio-my cousin and Rai-the love of my life, shake hands with one another. "Kayla I missed you like crazy."
The feeling was neutral. Kami was my best friend. When we lived in the Northern Water Tribe we use to play together everyday of our life, it was my job to protect her being that she was the princess of my home. But when Kami and I had to go stop another war from starting we figured out that Kami was not a water princess but the Fire Lords Zuko's daughter. They gave her away at birth to one of her mother's cousin to protect her from Zuko's evil sister, Azula.
Azula the one who send her daughter out to start a war. The one who almost killed me and if not for the moon spirit Yue I might be dead. The one who my Rai killed.
But that is long over. Now Kami lived with her parents in the Fire Nation being there lovely princess.
"I didn't expect to see you here." I said, pulling out the hug. Kami's weird blue/golden eyes were sparkling with joy. She gave me one of her beautiful smile, reaching out for Akio. My quiet cousin was in love with my best friend. He even joined the Fire Nation's Army just so he could be close to her. I was finally use to the idea of them being together.
"Well Father had business with your father." Kami explained, leaning against Akio. "I just had to come along, besides we always have fun when we come to the Earth Kingdom."
I bit my lip, thinking anxiously what business the Fire Lord Zuko could possibly have with my Father. For those of you who don't know, my father is the most important man alive, he is no other then the Avatar. Besides my attitude and ability to enter the spirit world I was nothing like my Father, at less power wise. The only reason I was a great waterbender was because Mother was.
"Do you know what there talking about?" I asked. Kami frowned, looking up at Akio like the answer would be on his forehead.
"Not a clue. Something important." Kami finally said. This made me more worried. Its been a year since Kami and me went out to stop an oncoming war that Azula's daughter was starting. On the way we made some new friend and fell in love. Those few months we spend tracking down Aneko-Azula's daughter, were the scariest, most confusing time of my life. I was happy now. I lived in the Earth Palace happily with the love of my life Rai.
Rai the boy I used to hate and not understand as a child now was my reason for living. My love for Rai only grew with the passing days. The more time I spend with him the more crazy I was about him. Yeah he could be a jerk and cocky but that was him. We had our fights and they could be rough but in the end the love we felt for each other was to much to just throw away.
My life has been wonderful since I moved to the Earth Kingdom. I had my amazing family and my friend still, even though they all lived far from me. Everything was going great and the very idea of something was wrong made me feel sick. Couldn't we just live happily ever after? I didn't want anything to change.
Rai noticed something was wrong, he seemed to know everything I was feeling even before I felt it. Putting his arm around my shoulder, he whispered "Don't worry Kayla. I'm sure everything is ok. We're living in a peaceful time."
"Sure, we were in peace when Azula almost started that war too." Even though I was still nervous about what was going on I couldn't help but calm down a little. In Rai's strong arms it was impossible to feel anything but love. The smell of his skin filled my nose, he always smelled like meadow or rain.
"I don't know Rai." Kami said, not noticing Rai's warning glances that were begging for her to shut up. "Father seemed a little anxious to be here. I think something is wrong."
"Thanks Kami." Rai said as I pushed out of his hold, feeling panicked. Kami put a hand over her mouth, finally realizing the affect her words were having on me.
Why couldn't things just stay ok? Why was there always something going wrong? I was pacing around the room, trying to calm down but everything I did just brought me back to that horrible night when Azula was killed and I was almost dead myself. I didn't want to go through that again.
"Calm down Kayla." Kami said, softly. Kami was the sweetest girl you ever meet and was fairly innocent. If anyone could make me relax it was her. "I'm sure its nothing big. Your Father would of told you."
"No he wouldn't." I said. When my parent found out I almost died they became overprotective. They wouldn't tell me what was going on, they be to scared I would want to take care of it.
Rai grabbed me by my shoulders, forcing me to stop pacing. His beautiful green eyes that looked like precious gems stared into my own eyes, willing me to relax. "Kayla, nothing bad is going to happen."
An idea popped into my head. It was one of my mischievous ones that usually got Mother angry at me and Father laughing. "Your right Rai." I said, trying to look like my normal self. "Nothings wrong. Kami come with me, I want you to tell me about your trip here."
Rai raised his eyebrows, eyeing me suspiciously. He just knew me to well. "Mind if I join you ladies?" He asked, never taking his gorgeous eyes off of me.
I walked over to Kami, putting an arm around her. Hopefully she got the message to just go along with me. "Nah its ok Rai baby. I wouldn't want to bore you with girl talk. You and Akio go hang out. Do some bending or something."
Rai hated girl talk and I could see his nose wrinkle in disgust. "Are you sure?" He asked. I gave him a quick kiss that still managed to make me want more.
"I'm sure." I said. "I love you."
Rai grabbed my face between his hands, sending chills down my spine. "I love you too." He kissed my nose before releasing me into Kami's care. I dragged Kami outside, making sure we were far enough from Akio and Rai.
"What is this all about Kayla?" Kami asked when I kept pulling her farther away from the palace and closer to the garden.
"I need your help." I said, stopping when we were in the garden, far away from any curious people.
"Oh no, this can't be good." Kami said, rolling her eyes. When we were younger I use to do crazy things and dragged Kami along with me.
"Come with me to spy on our parents." I said, getting excited by the very thought.
"Are you insane?" Kami asked, lowering her voice till it was nothing more then a hiss.
"Yes but that's not the point." I said, grabbing her hands, giving them an encouraging squeeze. "We need to know what's going on, we have that right. They only started talking probably a few minutes ago and I know all the places to hide. Can you please come with me?"
Kami rolled her eyes, knowing it was completely pointless to try and change my mind. "Do I have a choice?" She asked, smiling. "Fine I'll go."
I threw my arms around her, giving it a big squeeze. "I love you Kami." I said. It was great to be with my best friend again, doing things we're not suppose to do like the good all days.
"Yeah, yeah. Lets go." Kami said, laughing. "I am such a push over."
"No you're a good friend. Now come on, we're wasting time." We ran all the way back to the palace, careful not to bump into Rai or Akio who would make sure we didn't do anything stupid. When we got to the doors of the throne room, I pulled Kami to a bunch of curtains. I pulled them back, reveling a small wooden door.
"Whoa, how long has that been there?" Kami whispered, looking around to make sure no one would notice us.
"Forever. It was made for emergency but today its going to help us spy." I said, opening the door softly. We tip toed into the dark little room, the sound of mice and other unknown animal feet tapping against the stone floor. Kami moved closer to me, nervous about being in the dark.
"Kayla can we get out of here?" She asked a bit to loud.
"Shh." I said, walking over to another door. I opened it up, pulling Kami inside it. We were now in the throne room and I could clearly see my parents and Kami's. We hid behind another green curtain so no one could see us.
Father and Mother both had a concern look on there face and they clutched onto each other tightly. King Jonei, Rai's Father, sat on the throne with a puzzled expression on his face. Fire Lord Zuko and his wife Kaida both looked calmer then the rest of the group but from the tight frown on Zuko's face I knew something was defiantly wrong.
"Aang what do you think?" King Jonei asked in his calm, dreamy voice. Father looked at Mother before turning back to the king.
"This is serious, I believe in the girl." He said slowly.
Zuko's frown deepened. "But she's only a 16 year old girl. How on earth can she tell us the future."
"She had a vision Zuko." Father said, shrugging his shoulder. "I believe it."
"What was the vision?" King Jonei asked, confused and not appreciating being left out of this little detail.
"Sorry Jonei." Zuko said. "You weren't here for that. Her vision was that a group of benders were causing great destruction."
"Benders?" Jonei asked the very question I was thinking about.
"Yes benders." Mother said, frowning. "Like earth, water, fire and air. All of them together, hurting people and destroying homes. The girl said she couldn't see much, only that they were all wearing black and were using there elements to attack some city."
Jonei rubbed his forehead like the information was causing him a headache. "How is she able to have visions? Is that normal?" Zuko nodded his head in agreement.
Father smiled but it seemed forced and stressed. Two things Father hated most but who said being the Avatar was an easy job. "Well Avatars have visions sometimes. I had a couple. The girl might be a descended of an Avatar. There are plenty of well known Avatar airbenders she could be great-great-great-grandchild of. So yes having visions could be conceder normal."
Jonei shook his head. He didn't seem to comprehend a lot of what Father said. "Ok? So what do we do from here?"
Mother rubbed the back of her neck as she thought deeply about what to do. My Mother was the greatest waterbender I knew and was the woman I looked up to. She was smart, beautiful and a terrific mother. I leaned forward slightly to hear better. "We need to talk to her face to face." She said finally.
Zuko shook his head. "Its no use. She's not about to tell us everything. How would you react if the Avatar, the Fire lord and the Earth king came to your door, talking about something life changing."
A shadow crossed Father's face. "She would run. We need to send someone she could relate to." Kami grabbed my upper arm to keep me from exposing us but her little grip was nothing. I broke free from her hold and walked out from behind the curtain. No one noticed I was there but they would in a second.
"Kayla!" Kami whispered but I ignored her.
"Father, Mother." There heads spun around quickly, looking at me like I just turned a random color in front of there eyes.
"What are you doing here Kayla?" Mother asked, unsure how to react to me ears dropping. I knew that she was leaning towards yelling at me but thankfully she held off.
"I was curious." I said simply. In my mind that wasn't the important issue right now. The peace Father and I worked so hard for was once again being ruined. I was not going to let this happen. I know I enjoyed the no worry life where there was no fighting or anything but I was a hero and heroes saved people. I was not going to let those benders ruin everything I nearly died for.
"I'll go." I said, watching my parents faces carefully. In the end it was there decision whether to let me go or not. "My friends and I could find this girl and try to figure out what's going on with these visions." I felt a strange déjà vu, only a year ago I had begged Father to let me go stop the oncoming war started by Aneko.
"But Kayla the last time we let you go away you got…hurt." Mother said softly like if she said it to loud it would make it happen again.
"Mother that was out of our control. I want to do this. Please?" There was silence around us, Kami stood behind me also waiting for a reply.
After a very tense five minutes Father broke the quiet. "Her name is Yuna and she lives in the Eastern Air Temple." Father said. What he meant to say was "Yes you can go Kayla, have fun." But he would never say those words out loud.
"When should we leave?" Kami asked. Zuko looked like he could kill someone right now. I'm sure he didn't want Kami in any danger like my own parents.
"I see no reason to leave so quickly." Mother said quickly. I smiled gently at her. She was more protective then even Father, which wasn't to new. Mother was always like that, since I was born she had a strange desire to shield me from the dangerous of the world.
"Neither do I." I said. "We need time."
"For what?" Jonei asked, playing with the a piece of black hair that matched his beautiful son.
"We need to wait for a couple of people." I said, Kami smiled knowing what I was talking about but the rest of the adults looked as confused as could be.
"Who?" Jonei asked. He seemed to the one who was always asking questions everyone else was to shy to say out loud.
"Aneko, Kane and Taya." I said, smiling at the thought of being all together with my friends again, on another mission.
Later that night…
I was standing alone in a circle of blue fire. Rai was on the floor next to me but I knew he was gone beyond hope, nothing but a shell of what he used to be. I could hear screaming and I knew it was coming from me. There was no use living without him, I would take whatever was coming my way with my head held high.
Suddenly, the fire parts in the middle and Azula appears. Her black hair undone, flying into her cruel, unfeeling golden eyes. She laughs insanely. As she's laughing a giant rock out of nowhere falls on top of me, crushing me to death.
My soul leaves into the spirit world but its not a nice place. Spirits of other dead people grab at my body, tearing at my blue dress and hair. I see all my friends watching me doing nothing, all of them staring emptily at me and ghostly pale, looking like death themselves.
I call to them and tried to get to them but the other spirits kept me back and my friends did nothing to help me. The spirits started to pull me away and towards a giant gaping hole where only darkness and death came from it. "No, no, Help!" I screamed. "Help!"
"Kayla!" A voice shouted out of nowhere. It didn't come out from any of the spirits mouth or even my friends. But the voice didn't matter, the spirits were still pulling me into the hole. My bottom half was now inside of it and it was blazing hot, like I was burning to death. I felt spirits biting my leg, trying to get my whole body inside. I clawed at the ground, screaming for my friends to help but they did nothing.
"No!" I yelled when I was almost completely inside, the spirits surrounded my body. They were crying and screaming, pulling at my skin and hair.
"Kayla!" My eyes flew open and I realized I was not in the pit of hell but in my comfy, green bed in my large room. But nothing was as green as the eyes staring at me in such a panic. Black hair fell onto my face, tickling my nose. This wasn't hell like in my dream, it was the opposite. Anywhere with Rai looking at me like this was heaven.
"Rai?" I asked, rubbing my forehead only to notice that I was covered in sweat. My hands shook violently and my breathing was to heavy. The nightmare seemed to do a lot more then just scare me to death. "What are you doing here?"
Rai sat beside me on the bed, pushing a gorgeous piece of black hair out of his beautiful green eyes. He let out a sigh of relief to see I was ok. "I heard you screaming."
"No way." I said as I tried to calm my nervous or at less just stop my hands from shaking. "You're all the way down the hall, its not possible for you to hear me. I made sure of it this time."
Rai smiled, pushing my sweaty hair off my forehead. His touch made me stop breathing all together. I can honestly not explain the affect Rai has on me. If you never been in love then you probably wouldn't understand the way I was feeling, I sure didn't before. I use to think love would never happen to me, I didn't care really. Somehow Rai changed all that. He made me into a better person slowly throughout our time together. Without Rai I couldn't even think about living.
"Trust me, the whole palace could hear your screaming. You were louder then all the other times." He said. Great, the whole palace knew how my last moments with Azula tortured me. "It was that dream again, right?"
I don't when the nightmares started. Probably a few months after the last battle between Azula and me. All I know is that the same horrible nightmare comes at less once a week. Sometimes its worse. I have been known to be screaming my lungs out from one of my frightful dreams. Most of the time Rai comes to hold me but there were the times when he didn't hear my pain and I was left alone in the dark.
The day Azula died had left an painful mark on me. Both physical and emotional. I just can never get over the way Azula looked when she was about to kill Rai and me. That insane look, the one that only someone truly evil could muster. Rai had nightmares to but he kept them to himself. I knew they had to be bad since he was the one to take Azula's life.
"It won't go away." I said, feeling hot tears fill my eyes. "I can't get that night out of my head. I know we're heroes for stopping Azula but I wonder if people know how screw up I am now."
Rai pulled me into his solid chest, brushing my hair gently. My nose filled with his scent and the simple touch of him made me want to stop crying. Rai kissed the top of nose. "You don't have to explain it to me, my love."
I cried a little, wetting his white shirt. When the tears finally stopped I pulled out of his hug so I could plant a soft, loving kiss on his perfect lips. The moment our lips touched my whole body got warm and my head began to spin. Nothing was more powerful then true loves kiss.
"I love you." I said against his lips.
"You know I love you Kayla." He said, pressing his body against mine. We kissed for a few more minutes till all reminders of the nightmare or even my surroundings disappeared. Finally we pulled away, resting our foreheads against one another. I stared into his emerald eyes, falling into them like always.
"Kayla?" He asked almost in in a whisper.
"Hmm."
"Do you think your ready for another adventurous? Don't you think it's a little to soon?"
I thought over his questions and realize my answer was chosen for me before I even made my decision. I was the Avatar's daughter and my job was to bring peace to people just like my Father. I didn't turn my back on the world a year ago and I wasn't going to do it now.
"I've never been more ready."
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