'The Air-benders Rebellion, Into the Inferno Saga'
Disclaimer; Avatar the last air bender is not mine and that goes for the rest of the story. I own only a few OC characters...
Summery; One hundred years have passed and Ally, accompanied by her fellow air benders awake to a world where the whole world is spinning with chaos; in this new and seemingly surreal world of a full scale war, Ally is faced with decisions that may lead to the survival or the extinction of the Air Nomads. Will Ally be able to keep her promise to Monk Gyasto? - Or will she fall under the weight of the high expectations of her fellow Nomads? And what is with the tattoo of a thunder bird holding the Air Nomad insignia doing on each arrow on her body? What does it have to do with the Avatar? And it seems that a person can have more than two destinies'.
R&R!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~*`~~: Chapter one: ~~`*~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The ice glittered in the morning sun, which coloured the sky from its inky black to stunning hues of blue, red, pink, yellow and orange. The water was a magnificent royal blue under the morning sky, the air crisp and clean. No one from the South pole noticed a large orb of glowing ice and swirling air float down from the pinkie white clouds; but then again, the arctic lands of snow, ice and freezing blue water looked completely desolate, so it was little wonder that no one saw such a strange and mysterious sight.
The glowing globe slowly descended into the water gently, the well trained eye would have seen a gentle caress of wind around the orb and a few tiny sparks of lightning. The air danced away, while the large orb of ice sunk into the depths of the Arctic Ocean.
Ten decades had passed since that day of the descending orb, and it seemed like an ordinary day in the arctic. The blinding white of the snow and the sparkling glaciers gleaming in the light of the wintery midday sun, this atmosphere of normality would never reveal what happens on day except for the events that unfolded, with the long awaited return of the Avatar.
The first sign of abnormality was a large metal battleship ship in the distance, a red fire nation flag holstered high and proud and very menacing to those who knew what the fire nation had done over the past hundred years, and considering that a century is a long time everyone would find this sight to be a nightmare come to life. The engine hummed as smoke trailed out of a chimney near the rear of the ship. The bridge appears to be several decks above the main deck.
Suddenly a bright blue light of concentrated energy shot into the sky, creating aurora australis to display an awe inspiring graceful dance in the sky, lighting the sky up with amazing colours of the rainbow.
The ship cuts through the ice easily, suddenly moving around towards the phenomenon light that slowly started to fade. As it draws nearer you could see several soldiers watching as a young prince around the age of sixteen practising a fire bending move with two soldiers participating in the exercise. An old man was observing with intelligent keen eyes, his partly bald head had white hair and his beard was also white, his belly rather round.
They young prince had a high black pony tail, but most of his head was bald, a large angry scar tightened the skin around his eye, like most of the fire nation the young prince had the golden eyes of a fire bender.
The prince blasts fire from his hands at the guards, who dodge the attack swiftly, in retaliation the guards attack the prince with fire blasts of their own, the young prince easily dodges with grace and stealth. He back flips over the guards to land behind them.
But the old man shakes his head in disapproval; "No!" he said in exasperation, "Power in fire bending comes from the breath. Not the muscles. The breath becomes energy in the body." The man states wisely before moving smoothly into a fighting stance, breathing in calmly. "The energy extends past your limbs and becomes fire." The old man demonstrates this by releasing a controlled puff of flame that bursts in front of the young prince, the fire vanishing before the controlled fire hits the prince. "Get it right this time Zuko." The man states before gracefully slipping out of his fighting stance.
Prince Zuko narrowed his golden eyes and lashed out at an unsuspecting soldier, who is surprised and trips over by the onslaught of furious flames. He advances on the old man who is recognized as a fire master. "Uncle, the sages tell us that the Avatar is the last air bender." Zuko said fiercely. "He must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements. I'll need more than basic fire bending to defeat him. You WILL teach me the advanced set!" He demanded.
The old master sighs, "Very well... but first I must finish my roast duck!" he happily pulls out the said food and starts to eat it.
The ship continues to sail towards where the light once disappeared.
That wasn't the last time this desolate area saw of the ship; the afternoon was where things got interesting.
The ship returned in mid afternoon; through a long window of the room on the tower of the ship the newly returned Avatar and the Prince of the fire nation are fighting, the room lights up every other second each time Zuko releases a blast of fire.
Prince Zuko twisted around only to see that the twelve year old boy named Aang rolled underneath Zuko to get behind him. The Air Nomad swiftly copies the furious fire bender's moves to stay behind his attacker, wide eyes fearful and weary of being burnt.
Aang swiftly got onto an air scooter and zooms around the walls and ceiling of the room, trying to escape the flames that tried to claw at him. The young Monk with the mastery arrow tattoo vanishes the air ball as Zuko swings his legs around, tripping the boy into the metal wall.
Zuko blasts another inferno at the boy, but the hot flames do not touch the target; for the young boy slipped up behind the tapestry that has the fire nation emblem, kicking off the wall while grabbing the red fabric off the wall. He wrapped it around Zuko as he passes, swiftly spinning away to grab his staff, then turning to face his opponent.
Zuko easily breaks his bonds with flames licking at the fabric. Suddenly Aang air bended a mattress up off the floor and slams it into Zuko, propelling him into the opposite wall. He is smashed into it with an 'oomph' knocking the wind out of him and falls with the mattress onto the floor. Aang then air bended the mattress up to the ceiling, smashing Zuko into that. The Monk raced out of the room with the agility and speed only an Air-bending master could achieve.
Speeding down the hallways and on the deck of the ship, he spun his staff into glider mode then launched into the air with a whoosh of air bending. Suddenly Zuko rushes out with a fierce cry of desperation lunching several fireballs; Aang spun around and used his glider as an air shield spinning it around to rid the flames. Unfortunately his mind split into two different areas, concentrating on not being burned and not enough focus on being air born; he fell onto the metal floor of the deck, his staff skidding away from him. He leaped up with impossible agility, but was distracted when a loud rumble was heard.
"Appa!" Aang said happily, pleased to see his bison though a little surprised to see the passengers; Katara and Sokka.
Snarling in anger, Zuko lashed more fire blasts, and Aang flipped to his side and used air bending to suck his glider back to his hand, and quickly span his glider to protect himself from vicious orange flames. Then still spinning his glider he moved it over his head and he started to hover while quickly retreating backwards, away from the furious fire-bender. He kicked another fireball away and landed on the railings of the ship, waving his arms wildly as he becomes unbalanced trying to balance on the rod of metal.
Fire balls came at him again and he fell, crashing into the icy depths of the ocean bellow, Katara screams called out his name in anguish.
Then in a whirlpool of water the Avatar shot above the surface, eyes and arrows alight with bright white of pure power. He landed on the ship while spinning the water around him-self then lashed out with the water, creating a shockwave that sends Zuko overboard and the guards knocked unconscious.
The Avatar's friends jumped off the bison and rushed to Aang's side as he falls in exhaustion. "Hey Katara. Hey Sokka. Thanks for coming." he mumbled, half unconscious.
"Well I couldn't let you have all the glory." said Sokka smugly.
"My Staff? - where?"
"I got it!" Sokka said, while running towards the air benders staff that lay hanging partly overboard while Katara helped Aang onto his Sky Bison. Sokka came back quickly with it "Yip yip! Yip yip!" he said hurriedly running up the Sky Bison's beaver-like tail.
Iroh sleepily emerged onto the deck after a long sleep, looking up to the sky sleepily only to look bewildered at the flying creature. Iroh looked around in confusion and quickly went to assisting Zuko getting back onto the ship after seeing him trying to climb up.
"Shoot them down!" Zuko ordered desperation evident in his gold eyes. He noticed all of his crew was either unconscious or trying to revive the unconscious comrades, a hand falls on his shoulder and he turns to see his Uncle nod briefly.
Together they launch a massive bolt of fire at the retreating figure that was the sky bison and it passengers.
Aang gritted his teeth in determination and jumped to the back of the saddle while using his staff, air bending a forceful wind that sent the fireball away from Appa and into the glacier nearby.
The fireball exploded with the force of a hundred dragon breaths, releasing a huge amount of ice from the icy wall which fell into the narrow channel that the metal ship was sailing through. The entire channel was now blocked up under an avalanche of ice and half of the ship stuck under it.
The group of three laughed as they sailed away through the sky, but what they didn't realize was that they had left behind; it wasn't just a damaged fire nation ship, but enchased in a glowing globe of ice was the last remaining air benders from the Air Nomad Genocide era, sitting in the snow in the full view of a stunned prince of the fire nation and a contemplative Iroh, who was stroking his white beard while observing in silence.