(After someone very kindly informed me of all the mistakes I made I decided to redo this chapter, Well pretty much the entire thing! Yeah, sorry about the Sue character, until now I didn't really now what a Sue was, so I'm going to Sue her down. I feel like saying thank you kind stranger but that would be kind of weird so yeah, thanks!)

Chapter One

The sky was a dark gray. The clouds hung lazily in the air, miles above the ground. Rain pored down and beat on the roofs of houses and the poorly paved roads. Hardly anyone was outside on this dreary day. There were only a few people running from place to place, holding their hats tightly over their head so they wouldn't blow away.

This small town was usually bustling with people. Families getting food, girls shopping for ribbons to tie in their hair, old men selling the crops from there farms, and children running through the streets, laughing and chasing one another.

But people here did not like the rain. They would prefer a hot sunny day to a cold cloudy one. They needed the hot day's, it was fire easier for them to fire bend, since this town was in the fire nation.

One girl sat in her house, her 15-year-old eyes staring out on the empty street and her nose pressed against the window. She breathed and a small spot of fog formed on the cold window.

As she pulled away from the window, she sighed and tucked her legs up underneath her for warmth. After settling herself, she continued to stare out the window and watched the small splashes of raindrops in the puddles as the rained filled them.

Her name was Ryoko, and she was the only one in her family that actually lived in their house. Her mother had disappeared one night, when Ryoko was only four years old. Her father had loved Ryoko's mother deeply and had been miserable for so long, but he had always loved his daughter.

But now her father and her older brother were off fighting in the war. The war that made no sense, the war that was for pure power, the war that Ryoko loathed with all the fiber of her being.

Why couldn't the Fire Lord have just let it be? Let everything stay simple; let them be friends with the other nations. But no, he had to rule them all. She had thought this Over and over in her mind but still had no idea as to why the Fire Lord must do this.

She sighed again and leaned her back on the wall next to the bench. She supposed the Fire Lord knew what he was doing. She really had no way of knowing, as she had never met the man in person.

Ryoko sat back up and stared. She has just seen someone dart past the window. She blinked a few times before quickly standing up and dashing into the kitchen were the entrance to the house was.

Click! She locked the front door and pulled back the curtains. She peered out the window. There it was again. The dark outline of someone running past the window. She dropped the curtain and pressed her back against the door. She could here the wind rapping against the window, or was it a person? No it had to be the wind. Then one of the windows burst open. The harsh wind blew into her house making a horribly moaning noise.

She dashed over to the window and grabbed either said of it, stopping for a moment to look out the window, and her heart skipped a beat. There was a man standing not more then a foot away from her window. He had on a black cloak and his hood was pulled over his head so all you could see was his pale face.

She let out a scream and the man covered his ears. "My god child! Calm yourself!" He hissed at her. "I'm sorry," She said quickly "You just…scared me." She now realized that the man was only the village messenger.

He grumbled something to himself and pulled out a small box from underneath his cloak. "From your father" he said thrusting it towards her. Ryoko smiled down at the box as she took it from his hands, her father had sent her only a few things and she had always enjoyed them.

She began to open the box when she noticed the man still standing there with one hand outstretched. "Oh…right" she said setting the box down on a table. She walked over to a small jar, which contained a little extra money. Two bronze shilling were what she handed over to the man. He looked down at his tip before tucking it in his pocket. "Much obliged" He turned on his heal and walking back off into the rain.

The box now sitting on the table was a soft brown, and was a little damp from the rain. Ryoko sat down at the table and opened the lid. Inside was a small bracelet that was silver. It was one from the earth kingdom, she could tell be the green emerald dangling like a charm from the silver chain, it was beautiful. She lifted the little clasp and raped it around her wrist, a look of pleasure on her face.

There was no letter in the box, and there never had been in any of the other gifts he'd sent. It would have been pointless to send Ryoko a letter; Ryoko couldn't read. She had never been able to, no matter how often they had tried to teach her.

The people in the village had thought her ignorant and stupid for this. Ryoko was not stupid at all. In fact she had plenty of common sense. She had tried to dismiss their comments but they had always stuck with her. Once she had even began thinking that she was stupid, but her father had told her other wise. "Common sense is far more important then any kind of knowledge there is," he had said.

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The next day Ryoko was out in the village. The rain had stopped and the people had found there way back onto the streets.

There was a small bag of coins on her side and she wore a red band around her shaggy black hair, which came down to her chin. The bracelet she had received from her father the day before still around her wrist.

There was a large cart with a sour looking old man standing behind it that was selling fruits and grains. Ryoko walked up to the cart and began looking through the fruits. The man gave her a skeptical look as she lifted up a mongo from the cart.

"Um, how much?" she asked. "Three bronze shillings" the man said folding his arms. Ryoko dug into the small pouch at her side and pulled out the needed money and handed it to the man. "Thanks," she said before turning around.

Just after she'd turned to face the road something sent her mango flying in the air and then splatter on the ground. Ryoko looked up and saw two teenage boys and one girl. The three people in the world she liked least of all. "Hey Ryoko, sorry about that!" one of the boys, Lea said sarcastically placing his hand's on his hip's and grinning.

Ryoko didn't say anything, she just turned and began to walk in a different direction but the other boy, Kaage, stopped her. "So, you were actually able to figure out how to count money huh?" Said the girl, Sachi, stepping forward and smirking at Ryoko. "Yes, but it seems you still haven't learned how to keep your mouth shut" came a boy's voice. The four looked around to see Ryoko's old friend Shang standing at the corner.

Ryoko smiled at him as he approached the seen. She wrenched her arm free from the Kaage once Shang was standing beside her. The other three scowled at the sight of him. "Now, if you would please leave Ryoko alone," he said sternly. He towered over the other three, as he was quite tall. They turned quickly and left the two alone mumbling to each other.

"Thank you Shang" Ryoko said smiling up at him. "Its no problem." Ryoko looked back at her destroyed mango, that had been her lunch, but she wasn't about to go and spend another three shillings.

Shang noticed this. "Why don't you come to my house, my mother will have something for you to eat, I'm sure."

"So I've been thinking…maybe its time for me to leave the village" Said Ryoko a few hours latter, in Shang's house. "Ryoko, are you sure that's such a good idea? With the war going on, right now I think staying would be a better plan" he said taking a sip from his tea.

"Yes I know, but I've really been feeling like I need to go," said Ryoko looking out the window, a longing look on her face.

He though for a moment and looked into his tea. "Well its not up to me" He said looking back at her "but I will miss you if you go" A sigh escaped Ryoko's lips. "I will miss you to".

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So that's the first chapter! If there is something wrong with it, or something that I just spelled wrong or one of the characters you just don't like then please tell me! I might not change some of the stuff you tell me because I might have it in there for a reason that you'll find out somewhere later in the story but other then that...So I hope you like it! I tried not to make my character a Sue by the way.