Avatar Rylon
Book 1 Trust
Chapter 1 New Beginning
80 years after the defeat of the Earth Empire Dictator Kuvira by Avatar Korra
In a huge empty room with nothing more than a large video camera and a small black podium with the Earth Kingdom symbol on it, a man wearing a formal grey suit, with short greying hair and a beard walked out of a nearby door and onto the small podium where he turned to face the camera. There was not a single sound in the room at all until the man cleared his throat and began.
"It is with great sadness that I, the current President of our beloved Earth Empire, must bring my people the sad news that the Avatar, Avatar Korra has peacefully passed from our world into the next at her home in the Southern Water Tribe surrounded by her friends and family."
"It goes without saying that our nation and all the nations of the world owe Avatar Korra the peace and serenity that we all live in today and it is also because of her that both us and our spirit brethren live in harmony. The Legend of Avatar Korra will never be forgotten and she and her legacy will be long remembered in our own Earth Empire Avatar museum as well as by the large statue created in her honour by our greatest metals benders that stands proudly beside that of late Avatar Aang in Republic City."
"Though through this sadness we of the Earth Empire can rejoice as now somewhere in the midst our beautiful land a new Earth avatar is born who will continue to lead us into this new world where we, the spirits and technology are together leading the way forward into the future!"
The president nodded towards the camera before taking a deep breath and stepping off the podium and walking towards one of the huge windows in the room. He looked out the window over the modernised world of Ba Sing Se where huge metallic buildings stretched high up into the cloudy sky surrounded by huge town sized blimps and smaller air bison and whilst below mechanized magnetic MAGLEV trains sped through the city in the blink of an eye. Looking at the city the man smiled…
7 years after the death of Avatar Korra in rebuilt city of Zaofu.
In a small metallic house on the outskirts of the grand city of Zaofu a man holding two brown suitcases, a babies bottle and a shopping list was running around his house like a mad man.
The man ran into the kitchen where he saw his young daughter sitting down in a baby seat next to the kitchen bench where the man had earlier carefully laid out a bowl, a tea cup and a glass container of milk for his breakfast.
His daughter watched him run inside and she laughed excitedly at the state he was in, his work clothes were scruffy and not tucked in, his hair hadn't been brushed and was all over his face and he had dark circles under his eyes due to lack of sleep.
Dropping the two suitcases he was carrying onto the floor he then put down the bottle he was carrying in front of his daughter before shoving the shopping list into one of his already full pockets.
"Ok good now it's time for both of us…" He turned to his daughter and watched in the blink of an eye as she shot a small burst of air at the bottle causing it to fall off the bench and onto the floor where the lid popped off and the milk spilled into a large puddle. "Oh Trinley." He said putting his head in his hands as his daughter squealed happily clapping her hands.
Meanwhile outside the man's son was sitting down in the back garden where he was playing with a small piece of metal. The young boy who was seven years old was already an avid metal bender and would bend the small toy metal piece into a variety of shapes that he saw around him. All the earth bending children born and raised in Zaofu were taught to be superb metal benders from a very early age but this boy had seemed to pick it up much easier than others his age. Some of the nearby spirits had taken an interest in what he was doing and moved closer to him to watch. The young boy ever since he was a baby also seemed to have an unknown affinity with spirits which seemed to be drawn to him for a reason that they themselves seemed unable to explain to humans.
The young boy enjoyed his spirit friends and enjoyed watching them float around him. Seeing that they were entertained by his metal bending tricks he would form the small blob into the shapes of the spirits around him which would make them coo excitedly and those that could would applaud. Smiling he looked up into the sky where a huge blimp cast a shadow over the entire neighbourhood as it flew by. Looking back down at the metal he quickly formed it into the shape of the blimp, the spirits were all delighted by this new shape but the boy seemed a little disappointed by this as the huge one in the sky flew off into the distance.
The boy quickly stood up and held the blimp in front of him with his metal bending and threw it up into the air before the blimp fell instantly to the ground in front of him somewhat to his disappointment but to the intrigue of the spirits. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath the boy concentrated on his small toy but after a few moments the sound of chattering spirits caused him to quickly open his eyes and look in front of him to see the toy floating gracefully in the sky under a small whirlwind that was keeping it up in the air.
"Rylon it's time to say goodbye to your spirit friends it's time to…" His father walked out but before he had a chance to finish he saw his earth bending son air bending his toy with a small whirlwind around the garden in front of him. "It-it can't be." The father said looking down at his son in shock as all of a sudden from nowhere all the spirits in the area came over to look at the young boy who was shocked to see his antics attracting so many spirit friends.
"The Avatar has been found." One of the spirits said as it floated past Rylon's father before quickly disappearing over the fence and into the distance.
Rylon looked up happily at his father.
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"We have spoken with the spirits and we have come to the conclusion that your son is indeed our worlds new Avatar." A government official in a dark grey suit said sitting down at the table in Rylon's father's house with two spirits floating nearby.
"We have spread word of this to the spirit world." One of the spirits who appeared to be a cross between a rabbit, lion and bird said with a nod.
"The President of the Earth Empire President Chen-Li has consulted with the current Mayor of Zaofu Mayor Ryva and they have agreed that your son will immediately begin training with our world's greatest metal benders right here in Zaofu with the very descendants of the mother of metal bending Toph Beifong whose linage who have produced the worlds greatest metal benders. His metal bending school trainers have already informed me of his exceptional metal bending skills and so we believe he will learn very quickly with our nations very best. Once he has mastered metal bending to absolute perfection he will then as the spirits have informed me will then learn fire bending, air bending and finally water bending by the best benders of each nation at their capital before being taught by the spirits themselves in the spirit world." The man finished and looked at Rylon's father was obviously still trying to process everything.
"So, yes right." He paused. "Anyone need a cup of coffee because I do…anyone, you spirits? Do you spirits drink coffee?" He said looking at the official and spirits who all gave him an annoyed glance.
"Sit down." The official said pointing back at the chair.
"Zen we understand the imbalance that the recent loss of your wife due to sickness has put on you and your family…" One of the floating spirits with an eel like body and the face of a lioness said as it floated towards him. "But with the help of the Earth Empire and our guidance your son is going to grow into a great avatar because never before has an avatar been under the direct tutelage of the spirits themselves as well as your human's greatest benders."
Zen looked at the spirit before looking outside at his son Rylon who was still playing with some of the spirits.
"When does he have to leave for the metal bending temple?" Zen asked looking back at the government official and the spirits.
"He must pack his bags right now, we will wait." The official said calmly.
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Hearing the door open behind him Rylon watched his father step outside and walk over to him.
"Dad look at all the spirits, this one is so funny looks at his long legs." Rylon laughed poking a small fuzzy green ball with long legs and a long beak as it squeaked before it bolted down to the back of the garden and curled into a fuzzy ball with its eyes glaring back at them.
"The spirits have always known." His father sighed looking at the spirits around his son. "I have some important news for you Rylon." He said as his son looked up at him.
"Are we going to go to skip school and go see Grandma and Grandpa today?" The boy grinned at the idea of missing a day at school.
"Son have you learnt about The Avatar before?"
"Avatar Korra brought peace and spirits to the world and was the only one who could bend all four elements at the same time but she died before I was born. The teachers had us memorize the last ten avatars let's see there was Korra, Aang, Roku…"
"You know the cycle that once the previous avatar dies a new one is born?" His father quickly interrupted looking down at his son who nodded.
"They're going to be so awesome!" Rylon grinned. "It's an earth bender this time!"
Zen paused for a moment and looked out at the garden and the huge city of Zaofu behind it.
"You know you're a very good metal bender, just like me." His father grinned looking back at the garden as he picked Rylon's metal toy and metal bent it into the shape of a train. "Your sister is also going to be a great air bender just like your mother…but I think that maybe you're going to also be a great air bender as well." Zen dropped the train out of the using his metal bending and watched as his son instinctively used air bending to stop the toy from hitting the ground by using a small whirlwind.
"I can't air-bend…" Rylon said before trailing off. "I…I can't be the avatar I'm not a good bender like Korra or Aang they were amazing have you seen the movies?" He quickly dropped the toy which fell onto the ground.
"It's all right to be a little nervous but you're going to be training right here in Zaofu from the greatest metal benders in the world…" Rylon's eyes lit up a little. "Your sister and I will be right here if you ever want to come home and visit."
"Do you think one day I'll be a better metal bender than you?" Rylon said with a grin.
"Oh I don't know we'll have to wait and see." His father said slyly. "Now come on let's go pack your bags and get ready for your trip to the Metal Bending Temple." His father jumped up and walked inside quickly followed by Rylon.
"Oh just a minute Dad I want to take my metal bending toy with me." Rylon turned around and went to pick up the now train shaped metal toy. As he bent down to pick it up the green fuzzy spirit he had poked earlier shrieked in surprise and ran right back across the garden and hid behind his legs. Rylon looked down at the spirit and gave it a quick pet, "Don't worry little guy I'm sure it's nothing." The spirit looked a little disgruntled about being petted but watched closely as Rylon walked towards the edge of the garden where he could see something curled up in the shadows between the flowers and vines.
Rylon moved his hand towards the shadow which instantly darted into a nearby flower bed and hid between the white flowers. The fuzzy spirit who had initially been frightened by the creature had now run up beside Rylon and was looking down at the animal intrigued.
Before the animal had a chance to move again Rylon took a deep breath and used his airbending to create and small whirl wind that picked up the animal and gently, and much to its displeasure, brought it into the light. Once it was in the light he saw that it was a baby silver and grey coloured Dragon Fly Snake. The little snake looked up and at Rylon as he gently put it down on the ground where it hissed before it quickly used it's earth bending to create a small mound that it crawled into and stared out off at Rylon with its golden eyes.
The little fuzzy spirit seemed to be amused at the small creature and started digging at its little mound with its feet.
"Leave him alone Spirit it's just a baby." Rylon said quickly picking up the fuzzy spirit and putting it down beside him away from the mound. The dragon fly snake seeing the spirit glaring at it quickly decided it was better off with Rylon and quickly moved out of its little mound and used its little dragon fly wings on its back to fly up onto Rylon's hand. The snake fit perfectly in his hand where it looked up at him flicking its tongue. Before either of them could do anything else Rylon heard his father call out.
"Come on Rylon you have a lot of packing to do!"
The little dragon fly snake looked a little disappointed but Rylon quickly opened the pocket on his coat.
"Come on little dragon fly snake you can come with me I'll protect you and we can keep each other company." Rylon said as the snake excitedly slithered into his pocket where it poked its head out and looked up at him. "I never knew dragon fly snakes were earth benders and you look almost like platinum…"
"Rylon now!" His father yelled.
"Goodbye spirit." Rylon said patting the fuzzy spirit on the head before running inside. "I'll be back one day and we can play then!" The little spirit looked a little irritated once again at being petted before looking longingly after Rylon as it was now alone in the garden.
