Act 1
He just sat there on the floor, letting his brain process what he was looking at, the main room was in shambles and there was a woman just standing there looking at him. Just staring at him for whatever reason there was. She was wearing some sort of make-up, for some reason it looked familiar.
He noticed that strange things had been happening around the city, but this was simply far too bizarre, almost to a disturbing fault. He wondered if it was a dream, it had to be, considering the sheer size of the woman it had to be.
Everything was simply in ruins, as the teen slowly stood up, with a somewhat confused look on his face. Ignoring the broken chair and shattered tables, he felt a knot in his throat...he wanted to hold it back, but he had to speak...
"Who are you?" It was a question he was going to regret asking, even before his mouth let those words escape his mouth.
The woman, as if she was looking down on him simply replied. "Kyoshi,"
There was a large hole in the ceiling as the moon shined down on the scene, for some reason the teen felt as if this was a mark of many...many things to come.
He really didn't know why he was so calm about it, there was a giant hole in the ceiling that needed to be repaired before his father got back from vacation and a strange woman in an even stranger outfit was sitting at one of the tables that was still intact.
Though it went further than that, he even made the woman tea despite such an awful situation. Maybe it was because he was too nice, or maybe because despite the circumstance, someone falling through the roof of your building requires you to help them. Regardless of the reason, plus she must have hit her head pretty hard for her to be thinking that she was a long dead Avatar.
"Lets see if the lights are working..." The brown haired teen sighed as he ran towards a switch and flipped it on. Luckily he had some luck as a warm light enveloped the room, it was amazing what modern technology could do.
It seemed the woman that called herself Kyoshi was shocked as well, as if she was expecting some kind of firebending of some sort.
The teen then let out a small cough, trying to transition into a more acceptable and relevant topic than the lights in his home. "Anyway, are you sure you are Kyoshi?" The teen used his words carefully, he didn't know if the person in front of him was crazy or simply confused.
Truthfully, he probably couldn't tell who the Avatar's were just by looking at him. He only knew the most famous names and even then only a few odd fact going with each of them. Though there was a rather easy way to figure such a basic thing out.
"Um...why don't you bend the elements then? If you can bend more than one, then you must be Kyoshi," Perhaps the task would jog the woman's memory of who she really was rather than her holding on to a false identity.
Kyoshi simply gave a stern look, as if irritated that he would ask for a demonstration. Though she could not blame him, as she lifted her self from her chair, and slowly moved the wooden table over, looking around making sure what she was prepared to do would cause minimum damage.
She took a deep breath, and closed her eyes, lifting her arms she entered a strange stance. With a quick movement the teen felt a gust of air rush past him as stones shot up through his floor...causing more damage, but that wasn't what he was focused on.
The woman before him just used Airbending and Earthbending at the same time, that alone was cause for concern and amazement. That was why the teen held his breath and looked at Kyoshi, who was having a very different reaction.
The warrior simply looked at her hands for a moment, as if she was confused...
"Why did only two come out..." She kept her thoughts to herself, there was also many things that needed to be tested along the way. Though by the looks of it, the teenager was satisfied with the results and took the truth as fact.
"But...wa-wait a minute...dead people can't be alive!" The teen wanted to curl up into a ball, first the giant tree and roots growing directly in the center of the city, and now an actual Avatar was in his home. This was coming right off of a giant monster wrecking the place two months ago.
Actually the more he thought about it, the more he realized all the weird shit that happened to Republic City.
"Now, that a proved my name, isn't only fair that you introduce yourself to me?" Kyoshi frowned, she avoided demanding his name since it was his home. But now that everything was out there was no reason for him not to have the decency to do the same.
"Oh...it's Guójiā, I have a last name, but it's not really important," The woman was satisfied with Guojia's response as she resuming sitting down.
"Tell me, where are we?" Kyoshi asked as Guojia simply blinked, for some reason the former Avatar had a feeling that he was about to say something rather stupid.
"Well, we're at my house,"
Kyoshi remained silent, she didn't know if he was simply being a smart ass or if it was genuine ignorance or stupidity that made him misinterpret the question.
"I understand that, I'm more referring to the city or nation we are currently in," Kyoshi slowed her words, as Guojia winced, finally realizing just how stupid and obvious he answer was.
"We're in Republic City, we're kind of our own nation though. Not really connected to any of them much, if you want more information you should probably read about it. We have a pretty big library here,"
Guojia had no idea why he brought that up as Kyoshi simply nodded as she stood up as if she was weighing her options whether or not she should leave or stay.
"Very well, could you tell me where the library was located," It seemed this time it was Kyoshi who said something rather silly as Guojia simply laughed and scratched the back of his head. Causing Kyoshi's eye to twitch slightly.
"Even if I told you, it wouldn't help you right now...it's the middle of the night. They won't be open until tomorrow, and even then with all the weird things going on around here it probably still won't be open," The brown haired teen's answer made sense, though that simply brought up another point for the former Avatar to recognize.
"If you knew that, why did you even bother telling me about such a building in the first place?" Guojia paused for a moment, before shaking his head, if he replied he knew the long tangent like conversation would just continue so it was just easier to change the subject.
"Well, this is strange anyway. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but if you need a place to stay for the night, I don't mind, from there you can decide what you want to do," Kyoshi frowned, it was odd that he was so understanding of the whole situation.
However, Kyoshi didn't know much about Republic City, or where they were or what to do, or how to go about doing it. Thinking about it, she was just kind of there, without rhyme or reason, honestly she would have been far more distraught if she wasn't taught how to handle herself in such situations.
"If you offer then I will not refuse," After all refusing the offer would just be a cheap attempt at attention, plus the home was large. Far too large for a single person to be living there, with an entire second floor. So the fact that Guojia was living there by himself was just asking for someone to stay there.
"Oh...I guess I'll show you to your room," Guojia frowned slightly, he was actually was just trying to be a good host and wanted the woman before him to leave. After all, it's only natural to turn down such an offer the first time, though now he was in far too deep to say no.
"No, I can find a room myself," Her tone was blunt in short, just like all her other statements.
Though it was probably for the best, after all he still needed to clean up the main room among other things. He was just happy it wasn't raining as having a flooded house would just make his life even more miserable, though he really couldn't complain.
"I guess it was only natural that the weirdness of this city hit me...the fact that I'm taking it so well just means I've gotten desensitized," Guojia sighed, Kyoshi had already left to find a room subtitle for her as Guojia was left cleaning up a mess he didn't even cause.
"Man, I really should pick a more mundane place to live, like the Earth Kingdom or Fire Nation," Guojia lifted the broken and splintered pieces of wood from off the ground, making sure none of the poked or prodded him and gathered them in a pile.
After a few moments of moving the wood and other debris Guojia simply sighed as he walked towards the light and cut it off. Leaving the large hole in the ceiling for the next day.
The moon was large, as Guojia gave a small frown, "Huh, it will probably be full tomorrow," Guojia had no reason to say such a thing but it would no doubt be full tomorrow.
Author note
A short first chapter, and I had about 400-500 more words of content, but I'm deciding to save it for the next chapter.
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