I just watched the series final of Last Airbender, and was thoroughly disappointed with who ended up in a relationship with who, it was painfully predictable. So this plot bunny found me and suddenly I had an idea for a full multi-chapter story. The chapter that follows is a prologue of sorts, with enough positive feedback I will proceed with the story.
Prologue:
Mai is dead.
The words reverberated one thousand times around him as he sank slowly down into his chair, face buried in his hands.
She couldn't be gone, she couldn't, she was too young, heaven, she was only twenty six. Most of that short span of time had been riddled with war and strife, he let out a wretched sob, dead before she had the chance to live.
"How?", he whispered.
Through his blurred vision he saw the guards exchange apprehensive looks, finally one stepped forward and stuttered, "Hemorrhage ", he paused, "it looks like she was in a fight with a very high level bender, there was a massive damage radius, and-", the man seemed to lose his voice.
"What?", he practically shouted, he had to know.
"Sir we don't know how the attacker accomplished it, her body had only fifteen percent of a human's normal blood levels, but there isn't a scratch on her. We think that the bender-", the man shuddered, "We think the bender may have extracted it phsyco-kinetically, while Miss Mai was still alive".
All kinds of alarm bells were going off in his head. He knew only one practitioner talented enough to suck out a person's life force without touching them, but the woman in question wasn't capable of that. She was a pacifist, terrified of her own terrible power, she would never use her strength that way. It made no sense...
"Did you find anything else on the scene?", he rasped, dreading the answer.
Another soldier produced a small object and deposited it on the desk in front of him.
It was the broken top to a crystal vial, attached to a long, leather cord, he had seen it many times.
He had to be dreaming, he clamped his eyes shut, feeling like a frightened child, he needed to wake up from this nightmare.
Katara.
Katara killed Mai.
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