This Story takes place after Legend of Korra. Where Korra Died at age 20 and we are now in the 1940's, review if you like. I would like constructive feedback, if you have nothing constructive to say then please do not review.
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BOOK 1 CHAPTER 1 – Saia
After Amon was Defeated a new leader rose from the remnants of his equalist movement. He created weapons and powerful bombs that became aids in the war on "bender terrorism". When Avatar Korra found out about the man's actions she called a meeting. Thinking they had come to an agreement Avatar Korra made a deal with the man that he would stop the construction of the bombs if she dealt with any bender who harmed or threatened a non-bender. That night while Tenzin and his family was away welcoming Kya's child's first baby into the world in the southern water tribeRepublicCity was bombed and burnt to the ground and with it, Avatar Korra. Now bending has been outlawed and any known bender has been killed. All who are found with this ability hence forth will be killed on site. Pema, after losing Tenzin and her air bending children, had another child named Saia. Pema, Rohan, and Saia now live with Tenzin's brother Bumi in the EarthKingdom. Even though benders have been put into hiding there is still hope. The hope that the Avatar will be discovered and bring balance back to the world…
The river glowed as the sun beamed down causing it to glisten with a silver radiance. A single drop of water rolls off a leaf and disturbs the water, it settles and we see Saia. She is the spitting image of Aang if he had been in fact a girl; her brown hair was pulled back and braided into one long ponytail. Her eyes were closed as she sits and meditates on a large rock, the wind rustling her bangs. Her nose twitches and she sighs, she adjusts herself and relaxes once again. We hear a distinct voice echo from afar,"Saia! Breakfast! Come home!" Saia pouts and opens her eyes, the piercing hazel striking to behold. She hops down off the rock and heads back her hands behind her head.
On the porch of a small cottage Pema is shouting on the porch, "Saia!" She sees Saia coming up the road. She smiles and goes inside. Rohan is setting the table, the modest food already out waiting to be eaten. Saia walks in and Pema sits along with Rohan, Saia washes her hands and joins them. Rohan looks like Tenzin but with hair, he has his mother's eyes and has a firm muscular build.
As they eat Rohan looks up and wipes his mouth, "Hey mom, when's Uncle Bumi coming back from the city..?"
Pema looks down and answers meekly, "The message hawk said he would be back soon…" they continue eating and Saia finishes first. She takes her plates to the sink and walks back over to the table.
"Anything we need in town? Its restock day at the cabbage cart." Pema nods and gets up and out of her chair and goes to a drawer; she pulls out a list and hands it to her.
Rohan stands and puts the dishes in the sink, "Saia, let me go with you, its going to be heavy."
"Alright."
"Be careful you two," Pema kisses them on their cheeks and goes to the sink and starts washing the dishes, "I will see you when you get back."
The children say in unison, "bye mom!" They both run out the door and head to town.
After a long day of shopping Rohan's arms are coated in bags and Saia puts another one on his arm. Rohan's face is blue as he follows his sister waddling after her, arms stretched out. He groans as she puts another bag on his arms, "how much more..? My arms are going to fall off."
"Just a couple more items."
"Can you handle it? I'm out of arm anyway."
Saia chuckles and nods, "yeah, I think I can handle it, go and take that stuff home."
"Thanks Saia! You're a life saver!" Rohan quickly waddles away and Saia laughs as he disappears from sight.
Saia looks at the list and continues down the street, the area she travels into is known for its high crime and mugging but Saia wasn't afraid, she had been down this way many times before, but never when someone was being robbed, like today. An older frail man had been kicked and beaten to the ground, Saia saw this out of the corner of her eye, "please, take my money, take anything, just please don't kill me!" the old man cowers in front of another younger more versatile gentleman.
The man took the wallet and put his knife against the throat of the old man, "Humph, begging for your life, how pathetic…" The robber goes in for the kill and the old man closes his eyes tight bracing himself for certain death.
"Hey!" Saia sweeps her arm out and she air bends the robber away from the old man. The old man stares in shock and runs away frightened, "uh… your welcome?" Saia stares at the robber.
The robber gets up and glares, "you're going to regret bending at me…" he runs off and for the first time Saia realizes what she had done. The color leaves her face. She had bent in front of people, she hadn't even bent in front of her brother, her mother, nobody! She knew she was a bender but she had kept it a secret from the world. In a panic Saia thought to herself that Rohan would know what to do so she used air bending to bolt down the street and down the path home.
Rohan was waddling down the path, the bags on his arms rocking back and forth, "why does mom always wait until we run out of everything..?" He drops a bag and sighs; he slowly and carefully bends down to get the bag from off the ground when a sudden Whoosh flies past him making his hair fall in his face. He tries to blow it out of his vision but to no avail. He straightens himself back to standing position and keeps trying to blow the hair out of his face. "What was that?"
Saia skids to a stop hard and falls back onto her butt, "OW!" she rubs her backside and stands up. Rohan spots her and runs up to her shocked; he drops the groceries and bolts to her. "Rohan! I did something terrible."
Rohan stops dead in his track, "Saia? Did you just… but you were... And I was..." he looks at himself pointing back and forth with a shocked look on his face. "HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"
"Rohan, I'm an air bender."
"You're a WHAT?" Rohan grabs her shoulders, "how long have you known? Nobody has air bended since…" Rohan stops and raises his eyebrow, "wait... why are you telling me this now..?"
Saia bites her lip and looks meekly away from her brother's stare, "I may have… kind of… well, you see this old guy was getting mugged and…"
"You bent in front of them didn't you?"
Saia nods and looks at Rohan with fire in her eyes, "the guy was about to kill the old man!"
Rohan looks at her sadly and then pats her shoulder, "it was nice knowing ya sis…"
"ROHAN!"
"yep, if mom doesn't kill you first they sure will…" Rohan goes to pick up the groceries off the floor.
"Mom doesn't know I can bend though…"
"yeah, she's going to kill you."
Saia gets a look of frustration on her face and shouts at her brother, "This isn't a joke Rohan, stop it!"
Rohan looks down and drops the bags, "I know it's not a joke Saia! I'm about to lose you, how am I supposed to respond? I… I don't want to see that again… I don't want to see mom like that again… watching dad and my older siblings die… I just… don't…" Rohan falls to his knees and his body slumps on the floor. Saia finally realizes her brother was trying to figure out how to stop this from happening and she touches his shoulder, he jerks slightly but doesn't pull away.
Saia sighs, "Rohan… I… I'm sorry, not that I can bend, but that I didn't tell you and mom sooner… I didn't mean to hurt you… or mom…"
"We need to tell her… come on, let's go home." Rohan got up emotionless and picked up the groceries once more. Saia helped and they headed home.
"I don't think I will be getting the rest of the groceries…"
Rohan chuckles a little, "that's the least of our worries right now." Rohan walked next to his sister slowly as if it was a walk of shame to be related to the last air bender on earth.
It's the late afternoon when the children finally make it back to the house. Pema is sweeping on the porch, she squints and spots them and waves. Saia gulps and they both look at each other, "come with me?"
Rohan smiles and pushes her forward, "I'll be right behind you." Saia nods and walks up to Pema with a serious look on her face.
"Mom, I need to tell you something…"
"What is it?"
Rohan takes Pema's shoulders and turns her to go inside, "maybe you should sit down first…" Saia nods and they walk inside; Pema's face fills with worry as she is seated at the table, Saia sitting across from her and Rohan standing behind Saia.
"What's this about?" Pema asked curious.
Saia breathes in deep and lets out a low sigh then she blurts out, "I'm and air bender! I bent in front of people in town today and well… this robber was about to kill this old man and I saved him by air bending the robber away…" Pema covers her mouth in shock and as Saia speaks tears well in her mother's eyes. "Mommy, I'm sorry."
"Why didn't you tell me..?" Tears fall from Pema's eyes.
"I didn't want you to worry! I wasn't thinking, I never planned to use it in public…" At this point Pema starts to cry into her hands, Saia touches her shoulder and Pema jerks it away. Saia tears up, Rohan has to turn away, and he looks at the ground sadly. "I'm sorry… I'll leave…" Saia gets up to go and Pema reaches out and grabs her arm lightly.
"No, don't go… we'll think of something, you're not going to die." Pema looks at Saia with every ounce of confidence she had left, but it was short lived. Knocking came from the door. They all spun and looked nervous at the door. The Knocking became pounding very quickly.
"Mom.." Saia says in a low whisper.
"Open up! We know you're withholding a fugitive bender!" The guard shouts and the banging on the door becomes harsher.
"Go.. Take Oogie, get out of here, I'll hold them off."
Rohan's eyes become wide, "No."
"Break down the door!" The guards start banging even hard and the door begins to splinter.
"I won't leave you…" Saia clings to her mother's hands.
"We can't all go… I now know why I survived all this time… to make sure Tenzin's legacy lived on.. Through you…" Pema looked at her daughter with love and sorrow but happiness knowing she would have a fighting chance, she then looked at Rohan with a stern look, "Rohan, take her, I'll hold them off for as long as I can."
"But mom…"
"Go!"
Rohan clenches every muscle in his body and he grabs his sister, throwing her over his shoulder, Saia screaming kicking and struggling to get free. The door splinters even more, the guards are almost through. Pema picks up a pan from the counter and holds it in a fighting stance.
"NO! MOM! Let me go!" Rohan climbs up on Oogie with Saia.
The door is burst through and Pema, mumbles to herself, "be safe..." as she charges at the guards they hold up a pistol and cock it.
A single shot rings through the house and outside to the children, Saia screams, "MOMMY!" she tries to jump off the bison but Rohan holds her on by the back of her shirt.
"Oogie! Yip yip!" Oogie flies off and Saia sobs into her fur. Rohan has tears streaming down her face.
Back in the house we see Pema's hand laying out the rest of her body hidden by a doorway, a necklace lying in her hand; it has a picture of her and Tenzin on one side with the air babies and Saia, Pema and Rohan on the other. The guards kick her hand and go out the back to see Oogie flying away. "Inform our leader that we missed an air bender…" one guard walks off as the other glares as the bison flies off into the distance.
Oogie flies halfway through the night, Rohan lands her and by this time Saia had cried herself to sleep in the Bison's fur. Rohan threw his jacket around him and her sister and he went to sleep next to her. In the morning Rohan hops off of Oogie and accidentally wakes Saia, she looks down at her brother rubbing her bloodshot eyes, "Take Oogie," Rohan said as he walked away. Saia took a few seconds to register what he had just said the she hops down and runs after Rohan.
"Rohan, no please don't leave me."
"They're looking for an air bender, if they find us together we're both dead, we're the last two that could possibly be air benders, we stand a better chance split up… I'm going to find Uncle Bumi… you need to find the Avatar, that's the only person who can help you." Rohan looked at her sternly but with a twinge of fear and sadness in the corner of his eye. "Please understand, I don't want to leave you but if we split up maybe they will come after me and not you."
Saia looks at him, then runs and gives him a big hug, "I love you." She kisses his cheek.
"Promise me we will see each other again." Rohan hugs back.
"Promise."
They let go of each other and Rohan runs off into the woods, Saia turns and runs to Oogie and hops on her back, "ok girl, Yip yip." Oogie takes off and Saia almost glances over her shoulder, she shakes her head and continues on.
End Chapter 1