Chapter 2: What are heroes for?
The three heroes simply looked at the old man with their mouths slightly ajar, "Wait a minute, so you're the avatar?" Asked Izuku. "Well, 'yes' and 'no'", Avatar Roku replied, "You see, the avatar is basically whoever can control all four elements, however when an avatar dies, his spirit is cycled through to other human vessels. At one point I did use to be the avatar, but i'm not anymore. Currently, there is a young air bender named 'Aang' who is attempting to master all four elements. But time is running out and he needs help; that's why I brought you all here."
Izuku stood and listened to the old avatar speak before a sad expression slowly began to plaster his face. He honestly wanted to help. If there was anything he could do to save this world, he would do it in a heartbeat. "I'll do it.", Izuku said as the sad expression was replaced by the face of determination. "What the Hell, Midoriya?!", screamed Katsuki, "Are you actually considering thi -" his protest was soon interrupted by Izuku's voice, "Isn't this exactly what heroes are for?! This is why I became a hero in the first place - so that I could save those who couldn't save themselves!" Katsuki wanted to say something back, but he couldn't because deep down he knew Izuku was right. "I agree.", stated Shouto as he walked over to Izuku, "What sort of heroes would we be if we ran from this. At the academy, we were prepared for the chance to prove ourselves as true heroes."
Katsuki lowered his head and tightly shut his eyes as a rough growl escaped his mouth. "Goddamnit! FINE! But if this turns out to be a waste of time, I want a guarantee that we can leave freely and go back home if we want!", he said as he pointed to Roku, who simply nodded in response. Katsuki let out a sigh, "So where do we even start?" All three heroes looked at the white-bearded man who sat back down on the floor. "Your quest is to help the avatar battle the fire nation's forces. To do this, you must first locate him and his group of friends and get them to trust you. The avatar is young bald boy with blue arrow tattoos all along his body. He is accompanied by a female waterbender with long brown hair and her brother, who is a slightly older looking boy with a boomerang. Their group is finished by a blind female earth bender, a flying bison, and a lemur-like animal. From there you will simply help him fight as much as you can."
All three teenagers nodded (even though they have never heard of a 'flying bison'.)as Avatar Roku outstretched his arm, "I will transport you as close to Aang and his group as I possibly can, but after that, you all must do your best to find them." With that behind said, the ground beneath the three heroes began to glow. Katsuki scratched the back of his head and groaned, "Man, this blows!" Shouto slightly bowed to Roku, "I'll shall do this to the best of my abilities." And Izuku quickly nodded, "We'll do our best!" Avatar Roku smiled at them, The glow then engulfed the three boys in a bright light as they quickly disappeared. "Thank you, and Good luck." Said Roku, "It's all up to you now."
Just like last time, all the three heroes could see was a bright light before it was suddenly replaced by the view of tall trees and rocks that surrounded them. They looked around and noticed that they were placed right smack dab in the middle of a forest. "Ohhhh, Perfect!", yelled Katsuki, "I thought he was gunna send us to 'the avatar' not put our asses in a place like this!"
"All he said was that he would put us CLOSE to the avatar. The rest is suppose to be up to us…..weren't you listening?", Shouto stated as he looked around the surrounding environment. "Wait a minute…", Izuku began, "do we have different clothes on?" He looked down at himself and noticed that his outfit had changed. The other two also looked down to see that their other clothes had been replaced with something entirely different.
Izuku wore dark brown baggy pants that were tucked neatly into some light brown boots made of fur. He had on a long-sleeved black jacket that fully covered his upper body.
Shouto wore dark green pants that stopped just below the knee. His upper body was covered with a sleeveless black shirt that loosely hung down by his sides.
Katsuki wore something similar to Shouto except he wore a dark grey T-shirt that tightly hugged his waist.
Shouto looked up at the sky and noticed that the sun was beginning to set. "We should probably find a place where we can sleep for the night and get started in the morning." Izuku nodded in agreement, "Right, so we need to - " Izuku stopped mid-sentence as he spotted something in the sky. The other two picked up on this and turned to see what he was looking at. In the distance, a shadow of some kind of animal appeared in the sky. It wasn't a bird, its body shape didn't match. The figure began to grow as it got closer to the group of heroes. "The hell? Is that a…..bison?!", asked Katsuki. "It appears so.", replied Shouto, "It must be the avatar, remember what Roku told us?" Katsuki kept his eyes on the bison as it got closer, "Seriously?! I honestly thought that he was joking!"
The bison began to slow down as it descended down onto the ground a couple hundred yards from the group. "C'mon guys.", whispered Izuku as he began to sneak to where the bison had landed. The heroes soon came to where the bison had was, and they quickly hid behind a rock. They peered over to an open area where the bison was on the ground surrounded by about four people. Izuku soon noticed that one of the people appeared to be bald and had a light blue tattoo that covered the middle part of his head. "That must be the avatar", whispered Izuku as both Shouto and Katsuki nodded in agreement.
"Appa's shedding.", stated a tan boy with a ponytail, "Ohhh! Gross", replied a girl with similar skin color to the boy. Then the avatar began to speak, "It's not gross, it's just spring. Y'know - rebirth, flowers blooming and Appa gets a new fur coat." "Ahhh! The 'beauty' of spring'", the girl sarcastically replied. The bison then sneezed which caused a storm of hair to gently drift onto the dark-skinned girl who began to cough while trying to get it all off of her. "No, stop! *cough* Appa stop! *cough*" Then the dark-skinned boy grabbed a bundle of hair and placed it on his head, "It's not that bad Katara", he said as he whirled around, "It makes a great wig!" "And a great beard!", stated the avatar as he joined in the other boy's antics.
The girl simply stared at the two and sighed, "I'm just glad that we have another girl in the group because you two are disgusting!" Suddenly a girl, somewhat shorter than the others, appeared between the two boys, "Excuse me, does anyone have a razor?", she said before she lifted her arms up revealing clumps of the bison's fur placed in her armpits, "'Caus I got some hairy pits." The other two boys looked at her then all three of them busted out laughing.
"Hmmmmm. They all seem to be very close.", stated Shouto as he continued to watch the group. "Yeah, NOW! But how do they all function in a fight?", replied Katsuki as he tried his best to keep his voice down. Suddenly the short girl in the group turned to face the direction of the three teens, "Hey! There are some people hiding behind that rock over there!", she said as she pointed to the somewhat large rock. "Crap!", Izuku began, "Our cover's been blown!" The other three (including the avatar) looked to where the girl was pointing, and they all prepared to attack. "Are they fire nation?", asked the dark-skinned girl.
Izuku cursed under his breath as he quickly stood up from behind the boulder and started to walk into view. "We mean you no harm.", he said in an effort to calm them down, "We were sent here to find you by someone who wants to help you. We don't want to fight; we just want to help." The avatar's group looked at each other skeptically before the dark-skinned boy began to speak, "Sorry, not buying it!" With that, the rest of them initiated their attack. The shortest girl sent a barrage of rocks flying at Izuku while the avatar and the dark-skinned girl threw a pillar of water at him which was followed up by a lone boomerang.
Izuku quickly lifted up his hand and situated his fingers into a flicking position. As the attacks got closer, he released his fingers, causing a sudden rush of wind to spiral forth and intercept each of the opponent's attacks. The rocks that had been thrown by the short girl quickly broke apart and were sent in various directions. The water that was sent by the avatar and the other girl was simply blown back by the sheer force of the wind that had also stopped the motion of the boomerang as well. Once the wind died down, the avatar and his group stared at Izuku with shock written on all of their faces.
"H-how did you - a-are you an air b-bender?", questioned the little bald boy. "Well, no. But I am someone who came here to help. Me and my friends have traveled here by the request of someone who wants you to succeed, Aang." The bald boy simply blinked at this, "How do you know my name? And who's the one who sent you here." Izuku slightly chuckled and scratched the back of his head, "Actually, the answer to both questions is the same answer. We were sent here by a man (or spirit) who calls himself 'Avatar Roku'."
End of chapter 2
Author's note: Booom! Another chapter done! Man, I am on a roll right now. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Please comment so that I can see if you liked the story - maybe even suggest what I could do for future chapters (at the moment i'm blank) Thanks and Peace! :)
