Chapter 2: Southern Air Temple

Hey guys! Here it is, the 2nd installation of the Legend of Kai. Since I'm doing this from Kai's point of view, I'm taking out the scenes of Iroh and Zuko unless she's there with them. But, if you guys want to see some more from their perspective, I could add in their scenes in later chapters Enjoy! –Cleo0421

Also, to Silmarwen Losshelin, and Purplechic13: Thank you so much for the support! I'm glad you like Kai, and I hope that I can continue to write her character well. Also thanks for the tips! I hope that you continue to like the story!

Disclaimer: I own nothing, just Kai


I sat in a dark room, silence all around me. Suddenly the room filled with an unearthly glow that was radiating from two figures that stood in front of me. On my left was a beautiful woman with eyes like the sun. She smiled warmly at me, and I gasped when I saw that her black hair was covered in flames. She wore a long, red dress that was covered in golden designs .It flowed behind her on the floor.

To my right was a tall man. He had orange and yellow robes flowing down his body and had a staff with intricate designs of animals in his right hand. The strangest thing about him was that he was blue. Not sad blue, but his skin was literally a greyish-blue color.

I just stared at him with my head tilted in confusion.

"Were you born with blue skin, or did someone pull a prank on you with blue dye? I mean, I've done that before but at least I only dyed Sokka's hair. Not his entire body. That's just mean." I folded my arms in front of me as the blue guy only stared back, his eyes widened in disbelief.

A warm laugh filled the air and broke us out of our staring contest.

"See! I knew there was a reason we picked her!" The red lady was keeled over in laughter while the blue guy just huffed at her.

"I can't help that I was always blue! At least my hair's not constantly on fire!" He retorted. The lady just scoffed.

"Oh please, that just shows how hot I am." She winked at him. I stared between the two in confusion. I hesitantly raised my hand.

"Uh…excuse me? Sorry to interrupt, but who are you? And where am I?" I looked around me noticing that everything was still black. The two figures looked at each other before smiling kindly at me, looking much more dignified than they had a second ago. The lady walked up to me and put her hand on her shoulder.

"My child, I'm sorry but I cannot explain everything yet. It is not time." She replied. I stared back in confusion.

"Okay first of all, not your child. Second of all, can't I at least know a little? You can't expect me to accept getting no answers at all!" I threw my hands up in frustration. The blue guy stepped up to me.

"You will know all when you're ready, but we can tell you who we are at least." He offered. I groaned, but nodded in acceptance. He pointed at himself.

"I am known as Vayu, spirit of the winds. I am the deity of life." The woman then pointed at herself.

"And I am Agni, the spirit of fire and rebirth. I am the immortal messenger of the spirits."

I stared at the two of them in disbelief.

"Okay…that's nice. What the hell do you guys want with me?" This was too weird. They merely smiled at me, but there was something sad in their eyes. Agni put her finger to her lips.

"We can't tell you yet. I'm sorry." She hugged me. I shrugged uncomfortably.

"Well I guess it's not your faults if you can't tell me. No reason to be sorry." She smiled at me sadly.

"I wasn't apologizing for that. I'm sorry for all that you'll go through because of us, but you were the best choice. I believe you will accomplish your task." Okay, now I think she's been in the smoke too long. I have no idea what's she's talking about.

"What? What's going to happen to me? What did you do? What task?!" I shouted, beyond frustrated. Vayu put his hand on me this time.

"You are our आश्रितशूर. Our Azrita Zura (2), and it is time to wake up."


I sat up in panic gasping. Pain shot through my head and I immediately grasped it. My body was wet with sweat and shaking. What the spirits was that?! Oh…never mind they were spirits! I sighed as my panic receded, taking a deep breath.

"Kai? Are you okay?" I nearly screamed in fright as I heard a voice behind me. Turning around I saw Aang looking at me from Appa with concern in his eyes. Katara was sitting behind him, but when she heard his question she quickly got off Appa and sat by my side. She put her hands on my face and began to look me over. I gently grabbed her hands and pulled them off my face.

"I'm fine, just an…interesting dream." I gave them a thumbs-up trying to reassure them. I didn't know why I hid my dream from them, but I just felt that it wasn't the time to yet.

Aang seemed to accept my answer after a moments hesitation, but Katara stayed glued to my side.

"You know you can talk to me if something's wrong right?" She asked as she put her arm around me in a side-hug. I hid my face in her shoulder for comfort.

"I know. I just…can I just not talk about it? I'll tell you someday, I just can't today." I whispered into her shoulder knowing that she would hear. I felt her stiffen in suspicion before she relaxed.

"Alright. When you're ready to talk, I'll be here to listen." She kissed my head in sisterly affection as I nodded into her shoulder. I pulled away and gave her a smile. She returned the smile as she said,

"Now let's go wake up Sokka. We're heading out to the Southern air temple now." Aang heard this and excitedly jumped off of Appa.

"Sokka wake up! It's air temple time!" Aang shouted. I snorted. Good luck, Sokka could sleep through the apocalypse. As if to prove my point, Sokka just grumbled.

"Sleep now, air temple later…" He turned over onto his side. Aang just pouted, before a devious grin spread on his face. He picked up a stick and began moving the tip up and down Sokka's sleeping bag.

"Sokka wake up! There's a prickle-snake in your sleeping bag!" The reaction was instant. Sokka jumped up and started screaming, "Augh! Get it off!" before falling on his face.

We all started laughing at the sight. I fell onto the floor holding my gut. Hahaha! I gotta remember that one! Aang just looked at Sokka innocently.

"Great you're up! Let's go!" Sokka grumbled, but slowly began to get up. I held my chin in thought.

"Hey Katara, where can I get a real snake?"


"Ugh! Are we there yet?" I whined. We had been flying for what felt like forever! I was going out of my mind. Sokka was searching the bags, and Katara was sitting by Aang in the front.

"Kai, I don't think that you asking that every five minutes is going to make us get there any faster." Katara rolled her eyes at my impatience. I pouted in response. It was more like every 10 minutes! A loud grumble broke me out of my thoughts. I turned to see Sokka clutching his stomach.

"Be quiet stomach. I'm trying to find us food." He grabbed a small bag out of his pack and excitedly poured the contents into his hand. I laughed as he looked at his hand full of crumbs.

"Hey! Who ate all my blubbered seal jerky?" He questioned. I grimaced. Who named that stuff? Blubbered seal jerky? That doesn't sound the least bit appetizing. Aang rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh, that was food? I used it to start the fire last night, sorry." He said sheepishly. Sokka looked broken-hearted.

"You what?! Aw, no wonder the flames smelt so tasty last night." He pouted. I patted his back in sympathy. As we continued the flight I quickly got bored. A ridiculous tune suddenly appeared in my head. Who was I to keep it to myself?

"We're going on a trip,
with our favorite bison ship,
zooming through the sky!
With little Kai!
Climb on up,
and join us on the run,
from the angry guy!
With little Kai!" (1)

I finished off my little tune with an air punch. Looking around I saw everyone looking at me like I had grown another head. I huffed and sat down. No one appreciates art nowadays. I was quickly distracted from my disappointment as tall mountains suddenly appeared through the fog.

"The Petola Mountain range! We're almost there!" Aang shouted excitedly.

"Yes! Finally!" I flopped onto my back with a giant sigh. Katara smiled at my theatrics before turning to Aang with a serious expression on her face.

"Aang, before we get to the temple, I want to talk to you about the air benders." She said. He just continued looking ahead before asking happily,

"What about them?" Katara looked down, but continued.

"Well, it's just that I want you to be prepared for what you might see. The fire nation is ruthless. They killed my mother; they could've done the same to your people." She explained.

I looked down at the reminder of Kaya, but then I remembered something when she mentioned the fire nation. I still haven't told them about my heritage! I realized. But, how am I going to tell them? I was broken out of my thoughts as Aang said,

"Just because no one has seen any in 100 years doesn't mean that the fire nation got them all. They probably escaped!" He said with a frown on his face. I sighed at his denial.

"I know it's hard to accept, but-."Aang cut Katara off.

"No Katara, I don't think you understand. The only way for anyone to get to the temple is on a flying bison. And I doubt that the fire nation has any of those, right Appa?" Appa roared in response. Me and Katara just looked at each other and sighed, hoping that he would be right.

I looked around at everyone before sighing. Now's as good of a time as any.

"Hey guys…there's something you need to know." They all looked at me in confusion, before Katara asked,

"What is it Kai?"

I grabbed my necklace and took it off. I flipped it to the side with the flame.

"On the ship Zuko and Iroh, they were the ones that shot fire at us, came and explained what this meant. These are necklaces worn by merchants to display their nationality. My parents must've given me one of theirs. This is the symbol of fire." I sighed. "I'm from the fire nation."

I displayed my necklace to them and gauged their reactions. They all looked shocked and glanced at each other, and there was a silence. I looked down. They're gonna hate me. I thought sadly. I looked back up, and was shocked at the smiling faces I saw.

"Kai, it doesn't matter where you were born. You grew up with us, you're one of the kindest people I know, and you're my little sister. I think that trumps your original nationality." Katara said as she gave me a hug. Sokka merely nodded in agreement as he patted my shoulder. Aang looked at me with a smile.

"You're my friend Kai! Where you were born isn't going to change that."

I teared up at their acceptance, and buried my face in Katara's shoulder hugging her tightly. We sat there hugging for a few minutes before I pulled away wiping my eyes.

"Thanks guys, you're the best." I was so relieved that they didn't hate me. Then all our attention was suddenly drawn away as Appa started speeding upwards to clear a mountain top. I nearly fell off, but Sokka put his hand on my back and pushed me down on the saddle. We finally cleared the top and gasped as the fog cleared up ahead.

"There it is! The Southern air temple!" Aang pointed at a beautiful structure on top of a high mountain. We all gaped.

"Aang it's amazing!" Katara gasped. Aang just looked fondly at the structure.

"We're home buddy, we're home." Of course, I just had to break the moment.

"They're so…pointy."


Aang and I ran ahead of Sokka and Katara. We raced each other to the top of the trail, laughing as Aang cheated using air bending. We reached the end and I took in the amazing view. I heard Sokka and Katara approaching us.

"-guy with simple needs!" I heard Sokka say. I rolled my eyes. Probably something about food. I waved them over to us as Aang began to point things out.

"Over there is where me and my friends played air ball! And over there is where the bison would sleep. And…" Aang let out a sad sigh. Katara looked at him concerned.

"What's wrong?" She asked. Aang just continued looking out at the field before saying,

"This place used to be filled with monks, lemurs, and bison. Now it's just full of weeds. I can't believe how much things have changed." He stood at the edge of a cliff overlooking the field. Katara, Sokka, and I exchanged worried glances. Sokka stepped up and asked,

"So this air ball game, how do you play?"


Sokka stood on a pole in front of a goal with a target painted on the front. He got in a ready stance as Aang stood at the other end. He held a ball in his hands and began using air bending to spin it rapidly. He suddenly tossed it into the air before using an air powered kick to send it flying. It ricocheted off of different poles before hitting Sokka and making both him and the ball fly through the goal. Aang and I both laughed.

"Aang 7, Sokka 0!" Aang shouted of the score. Sokka grumbled something in the background, but I just ran up and climbed onto a pole.

"I want to try!" I shouted. It looked fun, and if Sokka could handle it so could I!

"Alright! But I won't go easy on you!" Aang responded. He began preparing the ball for another serve. As he hit it towards me, time seemed to slow down. I watched the ball flying towards me, and I got the instinct to kick my leg out. I lifted my leg and reeled it back in preparation. I felt a sensation in my gut as I kicked my leg out just as the ball reached me. I hit it with as much power as I could. It shot of my leg and rebounded towards Aang. He obviously wasn't expecting this as he stared at the ball with wide eyes. It hit him in the gut as he flew off the pole. It missed the goal though. I gasped and quickly ran to Aang's side.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! I don't know what happened I just sort of, hit it! Are you okay?" I grabbed his arm and helped him up. He rubbed his stomach for a second before looking up at me with awe on his face.

"That was awesome! I wasn't expecting you to be able to do that so well! And that power, it was almost as if you were an air bender!" He shouted happily. I just laughed and shook it off, glad that he was okay.

"Beginner's luck I guess." I shrugged. He laughed.

"I guess you took all of Sokka's share too."

"Of course! Fate had to give it to somebody, why waste it on that knucklehead?" We shared a laugh and began walking back up the hill.

"Aang, there's something you need to see!" We heard Katara shout. We began running to the scene.

"Okay! What is it?" Aang asked as he tossed the ball around in his hands. As we neared, I saw Katara water bend some snow over Sokka. I laughed as he struggled to get out. Luckily we had put our parkas back on.

"Oh, I just wanted to show you a new water bending trick." I raised my eyebrow at that. Katara was acting suspicious. Aang just shrugged it off.

"Nice one, but enough practicing. We have a whole temple to see!" I shrugged off my suspicion before running after Aang.

Into the temple we go!


Aang and I ran into the main courtyard. I began looking around at the statues in curiosity before stopping in front of the one in the center. Aang noticed where I was looking and ran over shouting back at Katara and Sokka.

"Hey guys! There's someone I want you to meet." We all gathered by the statue as Aang introduced him.

"This is Monk Gyatso, the greatest air bender in the world. He taught me everything I know." Aang bowed to the statue for a minute, before standing again with a glaze in his eye. Katara put her hand on his shoulder.

"You must miss him a lot." She said sympathetically. Aang merely nodded.

"Yeah." He began walking up the steps into the temple.

"Where are you going?" I asked him. He turned back slightly before answering,

"The air temple sanctuary. There's someone I'm ready to meet."

We looked at each other before following him inside.


We were walking down a hallway before stopping in front of a giant door. It had 2 tubes running along the sides that went into 3 swirls in the center. I looked at the symbol curiously. Where have I seen that before?

"But Aang, no one could've survived in there for 100 years." Katara said, breaking me out of my thoughts. Aang merely shrugged.

"It's not impossible. I survived in the iceberg for that long."

"Good point." She agreed. Aang looked at the door excitedly.

"Katara, whoever's in there might be able to help me with this whole Avatar thing!" Sokka then decided to interject.

"And whoever's in there might have a medley of delicious cured meats!" He started drooling. Me and Katara looked at him unimpressed. He ran at the door…and promptly ran into it. I fell on the floor laughing.

"Run first, open doors later! Right Sokka?" I managed to say through my laughs. Sokka huffed at me before asking Aang for a key.

"The key, is air bending." Aang answered. He got in a stance and took a deep breath. He pushed his hands forward while letting the breath go. Two streams of air flowed from his hands and into the two tubes. One by one the 3 swirls flipped over, and the door opened.

"Hello? Anybody home?" Aang walked into the dark chamber. Katara and Sokka following him a second later. I stopped by the doors and looked at the symbols again. I snapped. Oh yeah! I grabbed my necklace from inside my parka and flipped it over. There, on the other side, was the image of the 3 swirls surrounded by the flower. I think Iroh called it a White Lotus. I stared at the symbols. But, Iroh said that this showed the nationality of the merchants! So what does this mean? I shook my head. I could think on it later. I ran to catch up with the others.


Inside the room we didn't find meat, much to Sokka's dismay, but we did find statues.

"Who are all these people?" Katara asked. She and Aang were looking at some of the statues.

"I don't know, but I feel like I know them somehow. Look an air bender!" Aang pointed at a tall air bender with a mustache. Katara pointed to the one next to it.

"And look! This one's a water bender!" The statue had what looked like a wolf cloak on. I looked to the next statues, eyes widening in realization.

"They go in a pattern; air, water, earth, fire!" I pointed to the four in front of us.

"That's the Avatar cycle." Aang announced. Katara's eyes widened.

"Of course! They're Avatars! These people are your past lives Aang!" Aang looked around in wonder.

"Wow! There's so many!" He walked to stand in front of a fire nation Avatar. I stood next to him and looked into the statues face. I could vaguely hear Katara and Sokka talking behind us, but my attention was drawn to the statue. There was something familiar about his face. I felt as if I knew him somehow.

"Kai! Aang! Snap out of it!" I snapped back to reality as Katara started shaking our shoulders.

"Huh?" Aang and I responded very intelligently. Still looking at the statue. Katara joined us.

"Who is that?" She asked. Somehow, a name popped into my mind and out my mouth before I could even think about it.

"That's Roku." I said. Aang followed after.

"The Avatar before me." He finished. Katara just stared at the two of us. Aang also stared at me.

"There's no inscription. How do you know his name?" She asked us, pointing at the statue.

"I don't know how, I just know it." Aang smiled, but turned to me. He looked at me confused before asking.

"But how do you know? I have an Avatar connection, but how do you know his name?" I just shrugged at the question.

"I have no idea. It just popped out of my mouth." I answered honestly. This was so weird. Aang thought for a second.

"Maybe you have some sort of spiritual connection to Roku? It's been said to happen before. Since you're fire nation, maybe Roku's a distant relative?" We both shrugged at each other. Sokka just groaned.

"You guys couldn't get any weirder."

Suddenly we heard footsteps behind us. We all turned around and saw a shadow with two large points on its head. Katara, Aang, and Sokka hid behind statues. I heard Sokka say, "Fire bender!" I just stared at the shadow. Even with their pointy helmets, that looks nothing like a fire bender's shadow! Unless this one has giant horns. *Gasp* it's a demon! I stepped closer to where the shadow was coming from. Sokka noticed my absence and glanced around the statue he was behind. His eyes widened as he noticed me.

"Kai! Get over here!" He shouted urgently. I rolled my eyes at his unneeded concern. I saw a figure in the doorway. Katara and Aang also peeked around their statue, and saw me.

"Kai! Get over here this instant!" Geez, bossy much? I shook my head at Katara's command. The figure in the doorway looked like some small creature.

"But you guys! It's just a little animal!" I shouted at them. They finally looked closer at the creature, Aang's eyes widened as he shouted,

"Lemur!" Sokka had other ideas.

"Dinner!" Ew, he's drooling. I grimaced at the sight. The lemur, obviously sensing my brother's intentions, ran out the way he came.

"No! Wait!" Immediately Aang chased after the poor guy, Sokka right behind him. Me and Katara just looked at each other and sighed. Boys.


Katara and I had stayed behind in the chamber. We were examining different ones. All of a sudden, their eyes began to glow. The chamber was filled with light as the hundreds of Avatars lit up. We gasped.

"Aang!" We immediately ran out of the room and looked around for any sign of him or Sokka. I pulled Katara's arm as I pointed to a room across the path that had wind blowing all around it. That looked like the center of it all. We ran there and saw Aang in a giant, floating air ball. Sokka was holding onto a piece of a brick wall, trying to not get blown off the mountain. We crouched down and slowly crawled over to him.

"What happened?!" I yelled over the noise. Sokka looked back.

"He found out the fire benders were here and killed Monk Gyatso!" He shouted back. I gasped. This was news to me. Katara just nodded.

"Oh no! It's his Avatar spirit. He must've triggered it somehow! We need to calm him down!" She started getting closer to Aang. Me and Sokka were barely holding on to the brick.

"Well hurry before he blows us off the mountain!" Sokka yelled as his feet began to leave the floor. I pleaded with him.

"Yes please! I rather like being alive, and not a splat on the floor!" Oh, I can just see it now! I'll become a famous relic! 'And over to your left folks you'll see the amazing Kai Pancake. Last remainder of a tiny 12 year old! While Sokka and Katara were bigger and had more weight, (and no I'm not calling Katara fat), I was tiny and my whole body was in the air. Katara started trying to talk to Aang.

"Aang I know you're upset! And I know what it feels like to lose someone you love! I went through the same thing when my mom died. Gyatso and the other air benders may be gone! But, you still have a family! Sokka, Kai, and I! We're your family now!" As she said this, Aang lowered to the ground and the wind slowly stopped. I fell to the ground, luckily not the ground hundreds of feet below us. We all walked up to Aang.

"We're not gonna let anything happen to you. Promise." Sokka told Aang. Katara grabbed Aang's hand, and I put my hand on his shoulder. He stopped glowing and fell forwards. Katara caught him.

"I'm sorry." Aang whispered. Katara shook her head.

"It wasn't your fault." He looked down in sadness.

"But you were right. And if fire benders found this temple, they found the other ones too. I really am the last air bender." His eyes filled with tears, and Katara just hugged him tighter. I looked down at my necklace. Maybe the last air bender, but maybe not the last from the air nations.


"Everything's packed. Ready to go?" Me and Katara approached Aang. He was looking at the statue of Roku.

"How's Roku supposed to help me if I can't talk to him?" He asked. I thought about it.

"I know you'll find a way." Katara assured him.

"Maybe it'll be some sort of Avatar connection? If it is it'll probably be through something weird. Like 'possessing and talking to you through a lemur' weird." I shivered. Katara and Aang laughed at the ridiculous image. We heard footsteps behind us, and turned to find the lemur again. He walked over to Sokka before dropping off an armful of fruit. Sokka immediately started chowing down. Aang smiled.

"Looks like you made a new friend Sokka!" He just looked up with a crazed look in his eye.

"Can't talk. Must eat." He went back to his food. I grimaced.

"Mind not doing both at the same time? Gross." Katara and Aang laughed at my response. The lemur crawled onto Aang's head.

"Hey there little guy." I walked up to the lemur and inspected him closely.

"Are you possessed?"


"You, me, and Appa. We're all that's left of this place. We have to stick together. Kai, Katara, Sokka. Meet the newest addition to the family." Aang said, petting the small lemur on his arm.

"What are you going to name him?" Katara asked. The lemur suddenly jumped off Aang's arm, grabbed the fruit out of Sokka's hand, and began eating it once back on Aang's arm.

"Momo." He announced. We all laughed at Sokka's open mouth.


"Hey, Aang?" I asked him. We were back on Appa and flying through the night sky. Katara and Sokka were asleep, but Aang was looking back at the temple with Momo at his side. He turned to me and asked,

"Yeah?"

I fiddled with my necklace. I had been thinking this whole time about what it could mean, and I think I might've come up with a solution.

"There's something I found out back at the temple." I showed him the side of my necklace with the air symbol.

"This necklace is supposed to symbolize my heritage. If the symbol of air is on this side, it could be possible that I'm a descendant of an air nomad. Maybe one escaped and fell in love with someone from the fire nation. And if one escaped, maybe there's more out there in hiding." His eyes widened at my revelation. I continued.

"I just thought you should know that it's a possibility, but I don't want you to get your hopes up just in case." I admitted. He just nodded, but looked at me with a smile.

"Descendant of an air nomad or not, you're still family. But, it would be even cooler if you were from the air nation as well." He hugged me excitedly, and I hugged him back. Aang fell asleep soon after. But, my mind was still racing. I thought about my dream and my necklace.

Who am I? I questioned, but I simply shrugged and nodded with a resolute fact in my mind.

I'm freakin Kai. And I'm awesome.


(1): For anyone that didn't get the song reference. Kai's singing a parody of the Little Einstein's theme song. If you don't know the then you should look it up!

(2): Also with the Azrita Zura thing that will be explained later

End of Chapter 2! Hope you guys enjoyed it. Next chapter should be out in a couple days!