Thank you to my friend Madeline for proofreading this chapter.

To rock the earth.
To find inner peace.
To reveal the past.
To be released.
To form a bond so great so strong.
To stop the pain that was there to long.
To unite the earth once again.
To find the power lying within.

Hello dear reader, you don't know me yet so I'll introduce myself. I am a 14 year old girl by the name of Tomba Shzu I go to Kiomi Academe in the city of Ba Sing Se, the capital of the United Earth Kingdom. I'm an only child so it gets lonely sometimes but I have good friends and my parents. My dad is a Politician, he is fairly tall with black hair and green eyes and my mom is a Seamstress, with black hair and brown eyes. Their names are Bokke and Kimaka Shzu. I'm not the tallest person around and I have green eyes and black hair and I always have my black rock bracelet on or near me (it's a family heirloom on my mom's side) but this is where it gets weird, recently I discovered that I can move rocks with my mind. Odd right? My mom and dad don't know yet and only one of my friends has figured it out so far, but wait it gets weirder. This guy started chasing me around some time ago and I met this person who could move water with his mind and... and… I'm sorry I should probably start from the beginning; it was an average day like any other.

Me and my friends were hanging out in the halls of Kiomi during lunch. Zulu was picking on Kimiki and Midas was trying to separate them while I was talking to Shira. Zulu is the tallest guy I know and he has golden yellow eyes and short spiky black hair while Kimiki is short, she has blue eyes with long brunet hair and copper skin. They're both transfer students but not from the same place. Zulu is from the nation of fire and Kimiki is from the icy north. Midas has short black hair and chocolate brown eyes and always wares this annoying green hat. Shira is the sweetest person you will ever meet, till you tick her off that is, then she'll kick your ass. She has black hair and hazel eyes. She and I were talking about our history project that was due in two weeks, attempting to come up with ideas.

"What do you think it should be on?" she asked me.

"What about the great fall of King Baton?" I replied as I was conjuring up a plan to steal and burn that green hat.

"No Mune and Alaka are doing that already." She huffed crossing her arms.

"Hmmm….. The myths and legends of the old nations?" I tried again, stepping backward.

"Now that's a possib-" But before she could finish she was interrupted by a loud crash. We all looked in the direction of the noise and to our surprise a rock the size of Omashu was hurtling toward me and Shira. We tried to jump out of the way, she made it, but as I was about to jump, a wave of pain suddenly shot trough me and I fell to the ground in seconds.

"I'm never going back there again" I said turning my head to try and look at the ground. I closed my colorless eyes and thought "If I could only see, then I wouldn't be treated like a helpless little baby" I looked around and pretended I could see what I was looking at, but what was I suppose to imagine? I didn't even know where I was much less what it looked like. All I knew was I was in some sort of cave or cavern. Yes I am an Earthbender but I've been kept on the basic level of training for years. Translation, I'm still learning how to speed up the rocks migration inch by painfully boring inch. I then decided to get up and feel around. 'Rock…Rock, rock…And oh look another rock!' this went on for an hour or two, then however I felt something different. It was warm, fury and soft to the touch. It was a…a…I wasn't sure what it was. An animal of some kind? It seemed friendly seeing as how it didn't attack me at first glance. It moved from my reach, and then I heard some digging noises in the direction the animal was in. I was curious so I started following it.

I shot up from the place I was laying then immediately proceeded to grab my head in pain.

"Ok ow…. Bad idea," I laid myself back down and looked around the small room I was in. 'The infirmary...' I thought to myself and it's not like it wasn't easy to tell, there was white everywhere. White table, white chair, white bed sheets and a white curtain. And currently occupying the white chair was a sleeping Shira. A small smile appeared on my face as I sat up but more subtle so I wouldn't hurt myself this time. "How long was I out?" I called over to the still sleeping Shira. All of a sudden her eyes snapped open, looked at me and exclaimed

"YOU'RE AWAKE!" I stared back at her and said

"Yeah and I want to know for how long I wasn't." she looked at me as the words processed in her head.

"Oh you've been out for –," she looked at the (white) clock and back at me "Three hours." she said like it was no big deal. I do a double take

"THREE HOURS!" (I practically shook the building with that one) "I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm so dead." Schools been out for an hour and I had to be somewhere a half an hour ago. I jump out of bed (ignoring the throbbing pain in my head as I do) and make it half way across the room before Shira stops me by pining my arms behind my back (man she's fast)

"You're not going any ware Tomba. Get back in bed." she said from her position behind me.

"But you don't understand, my parents are-"

"Here." she cut me off, and as if on cue my dad opens the door and stops. I hear a

"What is it Bokke?" from behind him. My mom peeks through the space between dad and the doorframe and stops too. Suddenly they both yell, "YOU'RE AWAKE!" in union (Yeah that's original). Next thing I know Shira had let my arms go, my head is throbbing even harder then before and I feel like I'm being tackled by two platypusbears.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" I yelped. They immediately let go and guided me back to my (still white) bed. After I got in and laid back down (this time courtesy of my dad) my mom started bombarding me with questions

"What happened? Are you ok? Where does it hurt? How do you feel?"

"I'm fine mom" I lied through my teeth.

"Excuse me but can I talk with Tomba alone for a minute?" Shira cut in. Both of them turned and looked at her with questioning glances

"It's important," she stated. Still looking confused they got up and walked out of the room. Shira looked at me with an odd expression on her face as if deciding how to say something. "How did you do it?"