Chapter Two: Moon

"Mysterious as the dark side of the moon"

Control. She lacked control.

Surimi had always wanted to just...be free. She had always wanted to be able to not have to hide these abilities. But apparently, bending two elements was somewhat of a sin.

A curse.

If word got out, as her mother had told her, there's no telling who would be after them. Her life had been spent in between the Fire Nation and the Northern Water Tribe, where she was living a double life.

A miserable double life.

She, in the north pole, wore the mask of a girl who never knew her father and in the Fire Nation, she wore the robes of a girl who'd lost her mother to childbirth. Her times in the fire nation were what she had loved the most. She was free there. She could freely firebend there.

Its also where she met Azula and Ty Lee.

As much as she loved her mother and being with her, it wasn't as fun being restricted to the water tribe; not being able to bend her natural element. In the end, it left Surimi feeling caged; like an animal.

Sitting in her room, she looked out the window. She had heard the Avatar was alive, but was honestly in disbelief. This said Avatar had been missing in action for 100 whole years. How had he managed to pop back up?

And then that avatar, from what she heard, was an airbender.

Airbenders were extinct.

'Twas the night of the winter solstice and of course, the abilities of the water benders would increase tenfold tonight. She was excited; she could bend water without sucking or pissing off her teacher, who seemed impatient with her inability to grasp the basic concept. But as fire was her natural element, she was brash and hotheaded.

Impatient.

She hadn't truly wanted to waterbend. Fire was her natural element; why couldn't she just bend fire? She asked herself this many times, but realized that if she did that, chaos would break out. There was no known person who could successfully bend more than one element besides the avatar, so her abilities were, of course, potentially a threat. Especially to the fire nation.

As she sat in her room, she heard the sounds of shouting and looked out the window, the scent of fire hitting her like a ton of bricks.

The fire nation was here.

In the Northern Water Tribe.

Fear was the first thing she felt, looking around. She had to do something! She would try her best to refrain from using her forbidden element though, just to be safe. But, if she needed to get herself out of a situation, she'd have to.

Slipping out of her window and into the night, she made sure to keep her face covered. Hoping nobody would recognize her in her self mission to see what the fire nation was doing here and why. Would her father be here? That brave fire nation soldier, lieutenant, she had always admired and looked up to. Loved dearly. If he was here fighting her fellow Water Tribe members...she wasn't sure how she'd react. But she knew she needed to see. To make sure her father wasn't a monster.

And suddenly, everything went dark.

She looked up towards the sky, seeing the moon was... no longer there.