Well, here's the second chapter of Life of Kai, the story of the young Avatar's past, and our introduction into her world. Enjoy

The little girl could only have been three years old. As the older Kai watched her skip merrily across the grassy front yard of the home she really couldn't remember. She had been too young when her world was turned upside down, and what little she did remember she has shoved stubbornly into the recesses of her mind. She stood, enraptured, on the fringes of the memory of her childhood, both eager and afraid to learn about her own past.

She watched her younger self run around and play with different things in the yard for a few minutes before her attention started to wander to other aspects of the home. Instantly, she was struck by a jumble of emotions so intense, it took her breath away. Disbelief, pain, fear, more disbelief, anger and surprise raged through her mind when she realized that the home she was looking at was clearly the home of Fire Nation citizens.

Why was she at a Fire Nation home? She couldn't be Fire Nation, she was an air bender! It had to be impossible. She took a closer look at the little girl and found that, sure enough, she was clad entirely in red, and she was wearing the symbol of the Fire Lord around her neck. Kai suddenly felt dizzy. She didn't have much time to dwell on this new revelation, for the little Kai had begun eavesdropping on her parents through the kitchen window.

"Namo, I'm worried about Qian," the woman said as she wrung her hands together.

The man who must have been Namo grabbed her shoulders and said with a terrified expression on his face, "What is it Ming, what happened!"

"Well, nothing terrible." Ming said as she shrugged out of Namo's grip. The unspoken 'yet' on the end of her statement was as loud as if she had screamed it.

"Then what is wrong with her?" Namo asked, looking very confused.

"I don't know!" Ming shouted, throwing her hands up in the air in a motion that belied her worry for her daughter. She turned to look at her husband with watery eyes and stones in her heart. "But I think she might be…" her words trailed off and she turned away, still wringing her hands as if she were ashamed of the news she was about to give. "I think she might be an airbender"

Ming was crying openly now, her tears forming glistening trails on her cheeks. Namo on the other hand seemed to be completely frozen. Kai's own heart was racing with all that she had heard. Her name wasn't really Kai? She was Fire Nation but an airbender? She was horrified but found that she could not turn her attention from the scene before her.

"Why do you say that?" Namo had thawed out enough to speak and look skeptical at his wife's accusation.

"Because earlier today, I was watching her play through the window," Ming said, pacing around the small kitchen. "And just so you know, there was absolutely no wind," she paused to clarify this point. "She was playing with a butterfly, and she waved her hand in a circular motion like this," Ming waved her own hand in a circle in the air in front of her. "And all of a sudden, this huge gust of wind started blowing outward from exactly where she was sitting." Ming was sobbing so hard now she seemed to be having trouble breathing.

"That doesn't mean anything Ming!" Namo didn't look as if he believed what he had said at all.

"Namo, a blast of air blew outward in a circle all around her, where there had been no wind minutes before! Our child is an airbender! How can that possibly be?" Ming shouted.

"Did anyone else see?" Namo's face had turned to stone.

"No"

"Do you have any idea what this means?" He whispered. His eyes shifted from each of the different windows and doors in the house as if he was expecting Fire Nation soldiers to erupt through them at any moment.

"But she can't be!" Ming cried. "She's Fire Nation! And she's just a child!"

"It doesn't matter Ming. If anyone finds out that the Avatar is alive, and that we're harboring her…" He shuddered, the statement to horrifying to continue. "She cannot be allowed to live."

Kai's heart which had been racing a moment ago, plummeted nearly to her feet. She could not believe what she was hearing. Her own parents were plotting her murder before her very eyes! She turned to look at the little girl who had somehow managed to trap a beetle in a ball of air and was laughing at its feeble attempts to escape. Even if she was an airbender-all of whom were supposed to be incredibly skilled from an early age-she should not be able to perform feats of this level so perfectly and with so much control. Even so, the girl was so young, sweet and innocent. How anyone, especially her own parents, could consider such a heinous act was completely beyond her. Her mind barely registered the rest of the conversation.

"We'll walk her down to the ocean tomorrow. No one will ever know. Everything will be alright." Namo was saying.

"Ok." Ming sighed, her voice surprisingly emotionless considering that she was about to lead her own daughter to her death.

Kai continued to stare at the young girl whose life was about to take a turn for the absolute worst.