Avatar: The Darkness Within
Book One: Truth
PROLOGUE
Kavan held his arm outstretched waiting for his messenger hawk to land with eagerly awaited news. The hawk landed gracefully on his arm and dropped the small parchment message into his hand. He unbound the note and smiled ferociously as he read. The message contained a single drawing in blood – a large circle with a small dot at its center. It was a simple code that they had developed to provide their messages with anonymity in case they were ever intercepted. Two circles meant the mission was a success. One circle meant the mission had failed.
With the bird still perched on his arm, Kavan made his way over to his best friend, crouching beside him to whisper over the festivities.
"Bora was successful tonight."
Ziran stood from the cushions he was lounging on and the guests went quiet, eager to hear of news. His face normally stoic, changed to smile of victory and malice.
"Tonight we have succeeded. Tonight the first blow has been struck. I have confirmation that Prince Yuhi and his darling wife Meifen have been," he paused ready to draw out the next word with glee, "eliminated. Tonight the Fire Nation cries as one of their pragmatic leaders has died, not knowing that this is just the beginning."
The guests cheered raising their classes in celebration as Ziran turned to address Kavan once more.
"What's the news of the White Lotus?"
"Our scouts have them in Omashu for the moment. They've been in the Earth Kingdom now for three months without any success of finding the Avatar. No more have joined them, it's still just the waterbender, firebender and airbender travelling alone."
"Go awake my sister. I think it's time they found their Avatar. I think it's time for me to reveal myself to the world. After all, its want they want isn't it. I want you to continue as planned though in my absence."
Kavan bowed before slipping out of the room heading towards Nariko's bedroom. He knocked softly before entering, a hiss emitting from his lips at what he saw. A large welt covered her right shoulder blade.
"What the hell happened?"
Nariko wheeled around in shock, not having heard her brother's best friend enter or the hiss he made when he saw her wound. She was too busy trying to wrap bandages around it to notice. She pulled her top to cover her almost naked top half.
"Bending accident…"
He pierced her with a suspicious glance. "You got that bruise from bending?"
"Yes. I was trying a new bending technique on something larger than I should of and it backfired. I knocked myself off the ground and slammed into hard and jagged rock."
Kavan released a sigh of frustration. She was a talented bender, a waterbender unlike her brother, but she was very clumsy at times. Always injuring herself usually because she was trying too hard when bending. It was most likely because with Ziran as the Avatar, she felt compelled to be as strong as her twin brother, to feel worthy of standing by his side.
"Turn around. I'll bandage you up."
"You don't have to…"
"Turn around."
She huffed but turned around throwing the bandages at him.
"Try not to injure yourself too much more. You and your brother are going on a trip. It seems the Avatar wants to meet the White Lotus at last."
Author's Note:
I would love to know what you guys think. I always thought it would be a cool idea if by the time the Avatar was reborn in the earth kingdom, all that anger and hatred caused during the one hundred year war was bottled up inside some of the earth kingdom citizens…who just happened to raise the next Avatar…