AN: Hey there! This is my first Fan Fic, so please be nice! I tried to not make this boring for an opening chapter, but please tell me if I tried too hard. I'm also sorry is this is short. I promise I'll make it longer for the next one!
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar, Mike and Brian do. I just own the OC's
Akanti walked aimlessly around the main room, waiting for business. She always had business on the outside, but ever since she came to Ba Sing Se, the flow of customers and clients had come to a standstill. She figured that was a good thing, though. It would have been really worrisome if healers were in high demand behind the walls of Ba Sing Se. Still, she needed something to pass the time with.
Akanti was a 15-year old girl. She was obviously from the Water Tribes. You could tell from her long, thick, brown hair, dark olive skin, and big, blue eyes. She had a slender face and body, and her hair was in a tight bun with several strands with beads hanging in front of her ears. She was like any other typical Northern Water Tribe girl, look-wise but almost the exact opposite with her personality, except for her eyes. True, they were blue, but they were such a light blue they could have been called white. She was proud of her eyes, too. They were something that made her different. That and the fact that she was a waterbender.
Sure, female waterbenders were found in the North Pole, but every single one of them were healers. Just like every other girl, she would go to her healing lessons, listening to the lectures and participating in the practice. But at night, when nobody was around, she would sneak out and practice fighting, even though it was forbidden for females to do so. Something about taking action with her element made her feel alive. She wasn't alone, though. Every night her best friend, Notak would sneak out with her.
Notak was her childhood friend, and he was always there for her. When he found out that she had been sneaking out to fight, he decided to help her. He was a waterbender, too, and would teach her the things he learned during the day. He never told a soul, not even his parents. They both knew the consequences if they were both discovered.
Everything had been going well for almost a decade, and then Akanti decided to take her waterbending to the next level. She demanded Notak teach her moves that he knew she wasn't ready for, but she wanted to try anyway. One night she had tried to create an icicle cage around Notak, when things went horribly. One wrong wrist movement and the razor sharp icicles went out of control.
She was then discovered crying over the limp and bloody form that used to be her best friend. She was sentenced to death for it, but she had managed to escape and decided to take refuge in Ba Sing Se. She still had nightmares about, where she would awake screaming in the middle of the night after dreaming of holding her friend, his blood staining her hands.
For a while, on her travels towards Ba Sing Se, she had decided to never waterbend again. She soon discovered she couldn't do that when she could no longer resist the urge to heal injured people. She would heal people, but her waterbending would never be used for violence again. She would rather die than take another life.
"Somebody help!"
Akanti was taken out of her thoughts when a yell was heard outside. Suddenly three people came into the main room of her home. A tall, young, archer with a long and silent face, a scruffy-looking girl with face paint on, and a tan, shaggy-headed boy panting and doubled over in pain. The archer was holding him up. Akanti quickly ran over to the boy in pain.
"What's wrong?" She asked quickly, lying the boy down on a nearby bench in the room.
"Are you the healer?" the girl with the face paint asked.
"Yes, now what's wrong? How did this happen?"
"He was attacked."
"Judging form these wounds, it looks like an earthbender did it." Akanti reported, looking him over. He was badly hurt in the abdomen area and if he went much longer without treatment, he wouldn't make it. Realizing this, Akanti quickly bended some water from a nearby basin and covered her hand with the soothing element. She then placed her hands on his midsection as her water-coated hands started glowing a bright blue, almost matching her eyes.
After what seemed like hours, the boy's breathing steadied and his heart rate regulated. He was still nowhere completely healed, but he was no longer in danger of dying.
"Leave him here for a week of two so he can rest up." Akanti said as she stood up, wiping the dirt and dust off of her knees.
"Thank you so much," the scruffy girl said, on the brink of tears, "We can never thank you enough for saving him."
"No thanks necessary. I could never turn down a person in need. It was no trouble to help… um… I never got your names." Akanti realized.
"I'm Smellerbee. Over there is Longshot," she said, pointing to the archer, then directed her hand towards the boy. "And this is Jet."
Akanti looked down at the injured boy. Jet. Now she knew the name of the guy who she'd be spending her next week with.
"I'm Akanti. Don't worry about Jet. I'll have him fixed up and good as new in no time! Just come back in a week and he'll be all yours." She said, sounding as encouraging as she could.
"Thank you again!" Smellerbee said, as she and Longshot bowed to her and left.
Akanti looked down at Jet and smiled 'maybe this week won't be so bad after all.' She thought. She looked down at his now peaceful face, when realization suddenly dawned on her.
"Now I have to carry him up to his room all by myself!"
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