Hiya everybody! It's Maiden Samurai here with an all new story! This is like a prologue to the stories "Owner of a lonely heart" and "Kiss of the Dragon" by my good friend ThSamurai, and it's also a prologue to my other story "Sisters: Reign of Sparta". And maybe it'll be a prologue to "Art of revenge" by Koriand'r Star, but I'm not sure.

Even though this is under the Teen Titans category, they won't be appearing. But this is linked to it because it's the history about the fics I mentioned above. I promise you all this'll be really good. But this is only the first chapter and it may seem a bit confusing. But if you read on you'll probably catch something . . . Happy reading! I'll tell you what it is in the end of this chapter!

Chapter one

The Problem and Solution

There are many stories about people with unusual abilities, lost civilisations, ruined cities, ect, ect, ect. Myths and legends, many of them are. Whether they happened or not is unclear, because the answer is lost in the sands of time.

How much do we really know about our world? A lot? A little? Enough? I don't think so. We know hardly anything about it. If we knew enough we would have known about the Elementbenders. Who are they you ask? They were people who were able to control the elements. The elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. I found just one record of them, probably the only. It was a story written about a girl from "The Water Tribe" in the North Pole. The parchments are very old, I'd say about a thousand years. It was stuffed down the back of bookshelf in a historians office. The writing is beginning to fade away, but I'll tell as best as I can. This was set in the time when the world flourished of these Elementbenders. Our story begins in the North Pole . . .

Unrecorded history: The year 1132 AD. Northern Alaska

An Inuit girl sat cross legged outside a hut tracing a pattern in the snow in front of her. She didn't really know what she was tracing, it was just random directions her hand chose to take. It wasn't as if telling her hand to stop entered her mind. What was a girl to do when she was as bored as her?

"Here, fishy, fishy, fishy," a boys voice interrupted the girls daydream. The girl turned her head towards the voices direction. A boy was standing at the bay's edge not far from her. He was fishing with a white spear in his right hand. He was wearing a sky-blue furry hooded overcoat like she was. Just his fitted more like sweatshirt while hers fitted like a dress. She stood up and walked over until she was a few feet behind him.

"Hey Koda. Caught anything?" She asked crossing her arms.

"Quiet Aleu, you'll scare the fish away," he replied not turning around while trying to shoo her away with his hand. The girl shook her head.

"You know you're doing it all wrong," the girl named Aleu said matter – a - factly. "You're supposed to-"

"What part of 'quiet' don't you understand?" Koda hissed and turned back to the water in front of him. "you're not getting away this time, my little friend."

Aleu shook her head once more until a 'great' idea hit her. Unnoticed my her brother she leaned over the edge and saw a decent sized fish swam into her view. She removed her blue glove from her right hand and waved in over the fish in the water. As she did, a globe of water burst from the surface containing the grey fish swimming around in it.

"Hey Koda!" she said happily whiling trying to control the globe of water that was flouting around her.

"I told you to keep it down!" Koda hissed still not turning to her.

"But I caught one!" She insisted still trying to retain control of her globe of water. Unfortunately, if flouted over to her brother who accidentally poked it with his spear causing it to pop and soak him. The fish bounced off his head and landed into the sea.

"Hey!" Aleu cried. "That was going to be dinner tonight!"

Koda looked very exasperated. "Why is it, that every time you play with your magic water. I get soaked!"

Aleu gave him a look of mild disgust. "It's not magic. It's Waterbendeing. And it's-"

"An ancient art, unique to our culture, yadder, yadder, yadder. I've heard that stupid speech about a gazillion times," Koda interrupted her. "All I'm saying is, if I had weirdo powers like you, I'd try and keep my weirdness to myself."

"Me? Weird!" Aleu cried angrily.

"Yeah, you're a girl, and you fight. That's pretty weird," Koda replied.

Aleu adopted a look of both anger and disgust. "You! Are the most sexist, disgusting, immature, mush for brains idiot to ever walk this planet!" She cried pointing a gloved finger at her brother. Behind her, an iceberg started to crack as she got more angry.

"I can't believe I'm even related to you! Ever since mother and father died, I've done all the cleaning, cooking, and mending while you're off fishing or playing soldier! I even wash your cloths! Have you ever smelled your socks?! NOT PLEASENT!" The iceberg was near breaking point.

"Aleu . . ." Koda whimpered noticing the iceberg.

"No! That's it! I've had it with you and your laziness! God! I should drown you in the sea now and get my ass of a brother out of my life for good! But I have an even better idea . . ."

"Aleu, I think you should settle down now . . ." he suggested timidly.

"From now on, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!" As she screamed this, the iceberg completely cracked and the pieces fell into the sea below it causing a human sized tidal wave that knocked Koda off his feet. Aleu giggled at this.

"Okay, you've officially gone from weird, to freakish, Aleu," Koda said. Aleu was about to protest when an old man emerged from the door of a nerby by wooden hut. He had a mournful look on his face.

"Oh no," Aleu muttered and ran over to him closely followed by her brother.

"Is she-" Aleu began.

"I'm afraid not, Miss Aleu," the doctor said to her.

"She will get better? Right?" Aleu asked hopefully.

"No, I'm afraid she won't," he replied. A violent cough was heard from inside the hut. "The Sickness has caused her to become weaker, so her body can to longer fight it. I'm afraid . . . Yue will die." With that, he bid them with a nod and took his leave. Aleu wiped her eyes and quickly turn to his direction.

"Can we see her?" She asked. The doctor shook his head in reply and kept on walking. The two teenagers were silent for a minute until Koda broke the silence.

"I'm . . . going to go fishing. You can com if you want, Aleu," he said.

"Okay," Aleu replied unenthusiastically. As she passed by the window, Aleu couldn't help but want to take a small peek. Yue was her older sister after all, and she wanted to see if she was alright. An older girl who looked about seventeen sat on a mattress, she coughed violently into a cloth. Her long, wavy black-brown hair had lost it's shine and life, her deep brown eyes had lost their shine, and her already pale skin was now ghostly white. She lay down and a nurse, who had covered her mouth and nose with a vale, dabbed Yue's sweating forehead. Aleu wiped her watering eyes and followed her brother to a canoe.

The two hopped out of the canoe when they reached a deserted bay.

"This, is the best place to fish," Koda announced happily raising his blue and white spear into the air.

"Whatever," Aleu said and sat down crossing her legs.

Koda lowered his spear and looked sympathetically at her. "Aleu, don't think I'm not sad that Yue's dying. She is my older sister to you know."

"You never looked up to her the way I did," Aleu said bitterly. A strand of her brown hair fell in front of her face and she didn't bother to tuck it behind her ear.

"Well . . . I suppose that's true . . ." Koda said scratching the back of his neck.

Aleu jumped to her feet. "It's your fault Yue's dying you nut brain!" Alue cried, jabbing a finger in his face.

"What? How is it exactly my fault?" Koda asked defensively.

"If you hadn't crashed your canoe into that iceberg last week, Yue wouldn't have had to jump in after you! You're a Water Tribe soldier in training and you can't swim? You're pathetic!" Aleu cried in response.

"Yue's the Mater Waterbender! She should be able to fight it off with her powerful healing and Waterbending moves!" Koda argued back.

"You knew she already had a mild cold before she had to jump into those freezing cold waters! You just had to make it worse didn't you!" Aleu yelled at him.

"How was I supposed to know she would-"

"Now who's going to teach me Waterbending, huh? Yue was the Waterbending master and Mistress! It's not like I'm gonna find another Waterbender anywhere near here! With Yue gone, I'll be the only Waterbender in Alaska!" Aleu interrupted him, she then turned away. "Yue was going to teach me healing and the Water Whip. . ." She turned back to him, her bright blue eyes penetrating him. "I'm ashamed to call you my older brother."

And with that, she walked over the the small beach and looked out over the vast, iceberg filled ocean. She then shut her eyes. "Great Spirits, help me. My older sister is sick and I need a solution to this. What can I do?" She whispered into her hands. She wasn't expecting an answer at all. "Please. Please help." Or maybe she was.

Suddenly, Aleu felt an odd sensation in her head. When she opened her eyes, she became aware that all around her was dark, but oddly enough, she could see her hands as if it was daytime.

"Where . . . am I?" She asked, not expecting an answer.

"Hello, Aleu," came a disembodied voice.

"Who-who's there?" Aleu asked nervously.

"A helper," the voice replied.

"How can you help me?" Aleu demanded stamping her foot.

"You want your sister to get better right?"

"Y-yes," Aleu replied. "But how did you?"

"Well listen carefully," the voice interrupted her. "There is a country called Japan. I want you to go to a large city called Omashu. There, i would like you to find and bring back a girl your age named Hotaru. When you return, I'll let you know what to do from there."

"Japan?" Aleu asked curiously. "Where's this, 'Japan'?"

"It's a country across the sea from here," the voice told her. "I'm sure someone from your tribe will know. Do you accept this mission? It is the only way to bring your sister back."

Aleu considered this for a minute. Were the Great Spirits really telling her what to do? What if this is all just a dream and none of this was true? But still, Aleu has never left her home area, and she was always itching for adventure and she was very curious about the outside world. The wanted to see trees, flowers, grass, and all the things she only read about in books and heard about in stories. "I accept," Aleu said.

"Very good," the voice replied. "I'll see you soon. Very soon."

The next thing Aleu was aware of was the darkness surrounding her turned to such a a bright light she had to shut her eyes. When she opened them, she saw a vast bay full of icebergs and flouting ice shards. She was home.

"Aleu?" She heard a familiar voice behind her. "I think you should look up."

She did, and she saw bright lights varying in colours shine and travel through the sky. The seals around them lifted their heads and rared up at them. Even the young ones did.

"Oh, Koda!" Aleu cried happily jumping up and down. "Then it's true!"

"What's true?" Koda asked his sister giving her a confused look.

"The Great Spirits have contacted me!" She replied sighing happily. "I know a way to help Yue get better!"

"Yeah, sure you do," Koda replied sarcastically.

"I do," Aleu added not noticing her brothers sarcasm.

"Great, weird lights in the sky. . . my sister getting some weirdo vision . . . animals acting weirdly . . . I think I've got Midnight Sun Madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense," Koda said and turned to get back to the canoe.

"Koda, you're right!" Aleu said turning around excitedly.

"Huh?" Koda replied wondering what his sister was talking about.

"We have to get back to the village and tell our Grandparents, Master Hakoda and Mistress Kiera! They'll know how to get to Japan!" Aleu announced.

"What's this 'Japa - ahhhh!" Koda was interrupted before he could finish. Aleu had grabbed him and dragged him into the canoe with her. And using her Waterbending, she made the canoe head back to the village at top speed.

Well, so finishes the first chapter to my origin story. Just in case you all are wondering, here are the ages of the current important characters, and the meaning of some of the names.

Yue (17): Her name means "Moon" in Chinese (Mandarin dialog). Tsuki means "Moon" in Japanese! Just thought you ought to know!

Hotaru (14): It means "Firefly" in Japanese (I think)

Aleu (14): It means "Feminine" in Inuit or Alaskin (I think) I got the name from 'Balto II'

Koda (15): Not sure what it means to be honest. I just picked it from a TV show or movie. Forgot the title right now.

Well, nothing left for you (or you all) to do but R&R like the nice people you are. It's that lil' purple (or light blue) box down there. Ja ne, you all!

Maiden Samurai

P.S: The thing you were suppose to notice? Read "Sisters: Reign of Sparta" and check the paragraph that gave you Yue's appearence again, and check her name to.