Hi! I am so sorry about the late update. I was being lazy. I was almost finished with the chapter, but then I was away for three weeks and when I came back all my documents were gone! So I had to rewrite this chapter for the millionth time(cuz I didn't like the way it was many times and then it was deleted) and I hope you like it. BTW this chapter might be a little confusing so if you have any questions just pm me.
I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. All credit goes to Mike and Bryan. Except for Moku... she's my character!
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Chapter 1
The Encounter
The market place was a blur. So, being dragged by your 15 year old best friend who is technically older than you(by a month), who is also acting like a five year old, shouldn't be much trouble. Wrong.
"Satoshi! Satoshi! Look! Look!" Moku cried, pointing excitedly at the pepper stand which had just been imported from the Fire Nation "farms" for the season.
"Moku, you see them every year! Why must you get excited like you've never seen them before?" I complained.
"Gosh Satoshi, you're so boring! Lighten up a little!" she said, skipping to the stand. I rolled my eyes as I trudged behind her. I've always felt more like a babysitter than a best friend. Well, I was her only friend because of the fact that she looks Fire Nation. When I caught up with her, she was in the middle of her sniffing ritual. She suddenly grabbed my shirt and sneezed into it. I stood, shocked and disgusted.
"That is why you don't smell peppers!" I snapped, wrenching my booger covered shirt away from her face. She gave me the puppy dog eyes.
"I'm sorry To-To!(curse that nickname) Please forgive me!" she whined. I scowled. Why, why the puppy dog face? I wonder if her parents have to go through this. I sighed.
"It's ok, I can always wash it." I mumbled, defeated.
"Yay! Thank you To-To!" she cried happily, strangling me in a hug.
"Are you and your girlfriend buying or not?" a very gruff voice said. I hate when people think we're together, I thought. I pushed Moku away to look at the man. He had gray hair and ragged red clothing, Fire Nation slave. I felt some familairity around him. Have I met this guy before?
"No, we were just leaving." I said, dragging Moku be the collar.
"But Satoshi! I wanna buy one!!!!"
"I don't have money!"
"Then what's that in your pocket?"
"That's for my dinner!" She tends to forget that my dad works overtime at night, leaving me the fend for myself. A few remarks later I manage to drag her away from the stand, receiving weird looks from people in the process. Maybe now would be the time to explain some things. My name is Satoshi, as you know. I am a master earth bender. I am the only one in my school that bothered to look into the textbooks from 15 years ago to learn the way of earthbending like the earthbending master Toph Bei Fong. I have weird dreams about sinister looking people dressed in red with piercing gold eyes. Some of my dreams are happy though, like the one where I'm sitting near a pond with a nice motherly lady. Some others are weird like going to this old temple with some bald kid with a blue arrow on his head. Another thing, everything is mute in my dreams.
Enough about me though, lets talk about Moku. She is, well, unusual. She looks Fire Nation. Even though she comes from a long family line of earth benders, she's a fire bender. Only I know though. It's bad enough that her parents have to go through the rumors about her looks. Sometimes I question whether she actually their daughter by blood. She goofy most of the time, but if someone makes fun of her, she'll get mad. Really mad. There was on incident when she was so mad at a boy who said she belongs in the slave camps. I saw her eyes and I knew she was going to blow. I managed to make an earth shield around us, while Moku's hands became flames. The weirdest thing of all though is that she still claims to be "Earth Kingdom", when it's obvious that she's not. Suddenly I heard a shout and a frighten man ran through the village.
"He's here!" he shouted, "The Dictator!" gasps from several people could be heard. The "Dictator" if you didn't know, is a young guy only in his late 20's who managed to wipe out most of the Fire Nation, and leaving the rest under supervailance by his earth kingdom soldiers. He also is famous for killing the last Firelord. I think this guys an idiot for bringing fear and violence into the world when the century war has just ended. No one knows his background or even his name, but it is rumored that the Hero's of the War had known him, including the Firelord he killed. Those very same "Hero's of the War" have never been heard from anyone ever since the Dictator took over. It is also rumored he obtained some sort of power to make him difficult to defeat even with bending, since he can't bend.
Suddenly the ground started to rumble. People started to hurry to their houses. Suddenly the pepper stand we were at a few moments ago exploded. The guy there could have been killed! I thought. Then through the smoke some guy with a short haircut and a mustache came through. He wore green like regular earth Kingdom folk do, but with a yellow cloak or cape. He was holding a flag that was bright green with his face stitched on it. What the hell? What is with that gay flag?
" Bow down to the Dictator!" he commanded. Ha ha ha! This is the "Dictator" everyone is afraid of? Please, even the most peaceful fire lord probably looked scarier than this joke. I couldn't help it, I had to say something.
"Mister, that flag is really gay..."
"How dare you mock me!" he bellowed. Before he could do anything though, a woman cried out, tripped, and landed in front of this "Dictator" person. She trembled and tried to get up. Dictator man, glared at her, and then kicked her out of the way. Bystanders gasped, as the woman lay unconscious. Suddenly I was pushed aside by Moku. I had almost forgotten about her. Her amber eyes were burning with rage. She stopped a few feet in front of the man.
"What do you think you're doing?!" she demanded.
"Oh, is someone upset? I bet you don't even know her." retorted the Dictator.
"So? You have no right to treat someone that way!"
"And? What are you going to do about it little girl?"
"I-" Moku started,"I- I order you to stop terrozing people!" she managed to say, stamping her foot in a childish manner. The man stood shocked for a moment. Then he smirked. Does he know something?, I thought.
"Order? What are you, some sort of royality?" he asked.
"Why you! I don't have to be important to make you stop!"
"Or maybe you're hiding how important you really are." he said, with a smile. Moku stared at him, dumbfonded. What the heck is this guy talking about?
"What are you talking about?" Muko asked. The Dictator narrowed his eyes.
"Oh, that's right!" he exclaimed "I killed him before you could have possibly known! I didn't believe the rumors, but here's the living proof!" He started to laugh. Moku was stunned. I was confused.
"Finally." someone whispered. I whirled around to see the pepper guy. His eyes twinkled as he put his finger to lip to signal silence. I turned back to the Dictator and Moku.
"Come on! Show me the power of the last heir to the Fire Nation. Show me the power of the daughter of Firelord Zuko!"
Everyone was stunned. Moku's eyes widen at what was just said. For some reason I didn't seem suprised, and I had a feeling the pepper guy knew something about this. When I turned to ask if he did, he was gone. i started to worry, would the townsfolk turn down on her?
"You're on." I heard. My jaw dropped. Sure, Moku was a person who never turned done a fight, but this, this was just illogical! i did just what any friend would do,
"Moku, stop! It's too dangerous!" It was no use though. She took a fighting stance. The Dictator made a show of tossing his cape/cloak or whatever, and just stod there.
"By the way, the names Jet. Just thought you wanted to know the name of your father's killer." Jet said smuggly. Muko didn't flinch. She stared him down instead.
"Too bad he was no match for me, and neither will you." He said, closing his eyes. What's he doing? He then took a stance similar to Moku's, and stomped his foot into the ground like an earthbender. For a moment nothing happened. Then all of a sudden Moku cried out in pain.
"Moku!" I shouted, running to her aid as she fell to the ground. I was blocked by two earthbenders. I made a boulder in between them, split it, and ram them into houses in oppsite directions. I felt the vibration of someone behind me. I twisted my foot in an angle and whoever it was foot was pulled into the earth and dragged behind me. I smirked. My victory didn't last though. I suddenly felt drained from energy. My connection to the earth suddenly was gone. I looked around to find the source of whatever just happened. Where is Jet? I felt the hilt of a weapon thump my head, and I feel to my knees. I coud barely breath. What is going on?
"Grab him!" I heard Jet order. I was then roughly handled by a very tall, and muscled man. I tried to escape, but I barley move. I chose to glare at the person reasponisble, Jet. He had an evil grin, and was hold Moku roughly by the collar. My blood began to boil. How dare he! He has no right to handle Moku that way! I tried to touch the ground, but my guard held me too high from the ground.
"Now if you excuse me, I'm going to take my prize back to my headquaters." Jet announced, turning around. I stared at Moku, she looked so helpless. I squeezed my eyes shut. Argh! Why can't I do anything? But you can... a mysterious voice said. I suddenly felt the sun on me like a power source. I felt a inner fire within me. Suddenly a flash of memories attacked me like arrows.
"You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun."
"I don't think it's going to be much of a match."
"Like I've never done that before."
"You're a horrible person!"
"The fire nation took my mother away from me!"
"I thought you've changed!"
"I have changed."
"No, we won't!"
"My girlfriend turned into the moon."
"That's rough buddy."
"I'm sorry it has to end this way brother!"
"No you're not."
"Zuko!!!"
I'm back.
Um, yeah. I also just realized that I was stressing over not being able to right a fight scene, because fight scenes are my weakness... then I realized that it didn't need to be all squished into one chapter! Muwhahahaha! Sorry, but I promise I wont be so late again! I actually have a rough draft of the fight scene, my fight scene helper Sunayoko will help me so it can be MAD awsome! So yeah, hope this answers some of your questions.
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