The Legend of Kiara
BOOK 1 - Air
I do not own Legend of Korra or Avatar the Last Airbender. They both belong to Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino.
Chapter 1 - Discovery
**With Every Legend, There's A Beginning**
气和
Two people stood facing each other, standing in a small arena outside. One of them was a man, probably in his mid to late 30s, muscular, and tall. The second person was a teenage girl, about 16 years old, slightly muscular, and short compared to the man. She had dark, shoulder-length red hair while the man had black, short and spiky hair. The girl wore crimson colored robes, which were rimmed with gold, crimson boots, and a necklace with a golden firebending symbol. They both had gold eyes and looked very similar. Both of them bowed and began to circle each other.
After a few moments, the man struck first. He punched his fist forward, sending a large fire ball towards the young girl. She twirled away from the blast and kicked her leg up, throwing a wave of blue fire at him. The fire was a beautiful blue color with some white and purple in it and was much hotter than any other fire. The older man ducked from the wave aimed for his head and slammed his fist on the ground, sending a wave of orange fire in every direction. The girl jumped over the wave and spun around, while still in the air, before kicking both of her feet forward, creating a large fire ball that flew towards the man. He quickly put up a fire shield right as the blue fire blast slammed against the shield and sent him flying across the arena and into a tree.
The girl ran forward as the man slowly got up, aiming her fist at him. "I win." She said, smiling. "Second time this week."
"Your getting good, Kiara. Your a Master at this." The man said, patting her on the shoulder.
"Thanks, dad." She said as they both walked back towards the arena where they're bags were. "I had a great teacher."
They both opened their bags and took out a bottle of water. "Wonder if mom and Rachael are done with training." Kiara said as she drank from the bottle.
"They should probably be on their way here now." Her father said, placing his bottle back in the bag.
"We're already back, Zane." A woman said from behind them. She and another young girl walked over to them.
"Hey, Nyla, how was waterbending training with Rachael go." Zane asked his wife.
"It went great!" Rachael answered for her mother. "I am officially a Master waterbender." She said proudly.
"Yep. She beat me for the second time this week and I have nothing left to teach her." Nyla said, patting Rachael on the shoulder. "She's mastered Northern Water Style, Southern Water Style, I even taught her Foggy Swamp Style." She said smiling at her daughter.
"Looks like both of our daughters are Masters." Zane said. "I've taught Kiara everything I know about Firebending. Just last month she learned how to generate and redirect lightning. They're both prodigies in their own arts." He said as they all walked towards their house.
"I've even taught myself how to firebend with my sword." Kiara said proudly.
"We're so proud of you both." Nyla said, smiling at her beautiful children.
The four of them walked up a large flight of stairs, up to a big three story beach house at the top, overlooking the beach and ocean of Ember Island below. It was a 6 bedroom, 6 bathroom house. Crimson roof and doors, large, open living room and dining room. A big, spacious kitchen with a middle island. The cabinets were all crimson color with gold handles. Fire lilies lined the front and back of the house, a large pool was in the backyard, with a furnished back patio.
Zane walked over to the double doors and unlocked it. "Rachael don't forget you get to make dinner today." He said as he opened the door.
"Alright. I'll start now." She said walking towards the kitchen while Kiara ran upstairs.
Zane and Nyla sat down on the crimson sofa in front of their flat screen tv. As Nyla flipped through the channels, she saw the news coverage of the war. "The United Nations has pushed further into Earth Kingdom territory, taking Omashu in the process." A news lady on the screen said, gesturing to a world map. "The good news is the Southern Water Tribe has halted all advancements to the south and some of the southeast." She said as blue arrows moved across the map, indicating the Water Tribes movements.
Nyla turned the channel before she could continue. "I really don't want to hear about this war right now." She said as she stopped on one of her soap operas.
"You and me both." Zane said.
The four of them all sat around their small six seat dinner table. Rachael made them all lasagna, which were delicious. Rachael has always been the better cook between her and Kiara. They all ate silently, having small conversations.
"Dad, do you know if Zon has arrived at the Earth Kingdom?" Kiara asked after drinking her glass of soda.
"Actually, yes. I received word that he arrived yesterday." Zane answered.
They're brother, Zon, joined the Fire Army almost a year ago after his 18th birthday. None of them wanted him to go, but it was his choice and they couldn't convince him otherwise. He said he wanted to help end this terrible war, seeing as the Avatar has still not been found, and the war has absolutely no end in sight.
"Do you think the Avatar is even alive?" Rachael asked.
"I'm not sure. But I know he or she wouldn't leave us purposely. Maybe they don't even know they're the Avatar yet. Who knows." Nyla said, shrugging.
"Oh. Don't forget, we go to the Capitol tomorrow to visit your grandparents." Zane said, pushing his empty plate to the side. "Pack your sleeping bags, extra clothes, and anything else you want."
"Yes, Father." Kiara and Rachael said at the same time while standing up. They both collected their plates then took their parents as well. As their mother and father left to their room, Kiara and Rachael went to the sink to clean the dishes.
They both stood in silence, cleaning the plates, cups, bowls, and silverware. "Sooooo." Rachael said while placing one of the plates into the sink. "What do you think of this war?"
"Ugh, I hate it. It's pointless and just wasteful." Kiara said, drying off a cup. "This war already took our brother to the frontlines, I just want don't want anything to do with the war at all." She sighed, "I hope the Avatar arrives soon because this won't end with him."
"Yeah, I just want it all to end. I've always wanted to travel to the Earth Kingdom, but with all the fighting over there, It's almost impossible." Rachael said as they finished with the dishes. They dried their hands and went their separate ways.
Kiara walked upstairs to the third floor where her room was. She opened the door and was greeted by her pet Fire Fox. Her name was Sofia, she was bright orange and yellow, and had big golden eyes. She sat in front of me, wagging her tail around. "Hey, Sofia, I haven't seen you almost all day." Kiara said while rubbing the fox on her head. She received the fox as a gift from her grandparents last year as a pup. They also gave Rachael an Ice Fox and her name was Chuchi. The ice fox was light blue and white with big sapphire eyes. They both loved their pets deeply.
Kiara went to her bathroom and took a quick shower, brushed her teeth, and washed her face. As she looked in the mirror, her mind kept going back to the war and the Avatar's disappearance. "How could we not find our Avatar?" She said to herself. "They wouldn't abandon the world... would they." She thought as she walked to her black queen size bed with crimson panel headboard. She slipped under the covers as Sofia jumped to the foot of the bed and got comfortable. "Goodnight, Sofia." She said falling quickly to sleep.
Fire Navy Blockade
The blockade commander, Jun Kin, stood on the bridge of his command Battlecruiser. The ship was one of the biggest ships in the Navy. She had over 200 cannons on each side, strong armor, rocket launchers, and the Fire Nation still, after all these years, use their catapults to launch fire balls at their enemy. They have proven to be very powerful and effective. Jun Kin looked at the large screen in front of him, showing a map of the world. But, something changed on the map, hundreds of red dots appeared directly in front of the Fire Nation, heading for the blockade. "Not again." He said, rushing to the balcony.
He took out his binoculars and looked towards the open sea. A thick fog covered whatever was coming and he didn't like that. "Ready all weapons!" He ordered. "Yes, sir!" The naval men said at the same time and rushed to carry out his order.
Admiral Chan Ro stood on the bridge of his large command destroyer. He had the waterbenders create a thick cloud of fog around every ship, hiding themselves from the enemy. "Sir, we are within firing range." An officer said, looking up from his computer station. "Very good. Fire all mortars." Cho ordered still looking out the large windows. "Yes, sir."
The mortars on all of the battleships aimed towards the blockade and fired. The orange fire bombs flew high into the air, heading for the Fire Navy.
Jun Kin's eyes widened as hundreds of fire bombs broke through the thick fog high into the air, before fall towards his blockade. "Brace yourselves!" He shouted right before the mortars slammed into a majority of his ships, one shot very narrowly missed his ship. Alarms sounded across all of his ships as two of then began to sink immediately. "All cannons and mortars fire!" He ordered, walking back inside the bridge from the balcony.
He approached a holotable and contacted his Admiral, who was in the Capitol at the moment. After waiting for a few moments, the Admiral finally appeared. "Sir," He said said saluting, "The blockade is under heavy bombardment from the United Forces." He reported as the sound of his own cannons opening fire. "You must push them back, Commander. Do you know the size of their force?" The Admiral asked. "There appears to be hundreds of battleships, sir." Jun Kin said. "Do whatever you can. I'll send reinforcements, but they'll be awhile." The Admiral said nodding. "Yes, sir." Jun answered saluting as the holoprojection deactivated.
He walked back to the window and saw the United Nations fleet emerging from the fog, still bombarding them and the Fire Navy firing back. "Ready catapults." He ordered. Two sets of catapults on every ship were raised onto the deck. Each rock was covered in oil as the firebenders set them ablaze. "Fire!" Jun shouted. Immediately hundreds of fireballs were launched into the air, along with the mortars, towards the enemy. A majority of the projectiles hit their targets while some did miss.
Five large submarines were deep underwater, right below the Fire Navy. The commander in one of the subs looked at his radar and could see that the United Forces had arrived. "Alright, lads. It's time to put this operation into affect. Ready torpedoes and aim for one of the enemy ships." He ordered.
The subs all aimed upwards and quickly fired their 10 torpedoes. The ocean lit up as the missiles hit their targets dead on, destroying multiple ships. Debris from the battlecruisers flew off the large steel cruisers. Some of them were already beginning to sink to the sea floor.
Admiral Chan Ro smiled as the submarines hit their targets, causing a majority of them to sink almost immediately. "Get some of our destroyers over there and have the aircraft carriers launch our fighters and cargo planes." He ordered. "They're already on it, sir." An officer said as three jumbo planes and fighter jets flew past them. "Intensify our cannon fire." Chan said turning away from the window.
Commander Jun Kin glared at the planes and jets flying over them. "Get me Command, now!" He shouted. "Yes, sir." He waited for a few moments until the Admiral appeared again. "Sir, a team of submarines have attacked from behind. They've crippled the blockade and sent planes and jets into the Fire Nation." He said quickly. The Admiral's eyes widened. "The reinforcements are almost to your position, but I'm afraid the war has finally reached the homeland." The Admiral said, shaking his head.
"Sir, we've tracked the ships movements and it appears they're going to attack Ember Island." An officer said from his station.
"I'll warn our homeland defences, you keep the rest of their forces from entering the Nation." The Admiral said as he cut the transmission.
"Intensify all cannon power and ready the mortars and catapults." Jun ordered.
Ember Island
Kiara was in her room packing her backpack with another set of clothes, hairbrush, toothbrush and toothpaste, two bottles of water, lotion, deodorant, ect. She even packed a small bag of animal snacks for Sofia. Finally she strapped her red sleeping bag to the backpack. "They're, all done." She said to herself. Whenever they go to their grandparents house in the Capitol, they're grandfather would take her and Rachael camping. That was one reason why she never misses one of these trips.
The door opened and Rachael entered with her bag of her back. "Come on, Kiara, we have to go." She said excitedly. "Okay, okay, I'm coming." Kiara said picking up her sword and strapping it to her side, then followed her sister downstairs.
When they made it downstairs, their parents were already there, along with Sofia and Chuchi. "All ready?" Zane said, smiling at them. "Yep, let's go." Rachael said opening the door. As they walked outside, Sofia and Chuchi stopped and growled at the sky. "What's wrong, girls." Nyla asked, patting them on the head. Then, Kiara could hear the sound of a plane. "Wait, do you hear that?" She said, holding up her hand. Everyone looked up in time to see three large jumbo planes flying overhead as hundreds of United Forces soldiers dropped from them, deploying their parachutes. "We're under attack!" Nyla shouted.
A fighter jet flew in low and fired a missile at them. "Jump!" Kiara shouted. Without having to be told twice, they all jumped off the long flight of stairs as the missiles destroyed the front porch. They all landed on the sand below, grunting from the impact. "Out of anywhere else *cough* they had to destroy part of our house." Rachael said, slowly standing up. Multiple enemy soldiers landed all over the beach and immediately engaged the family of four.
Rachael and Nyla pulled water out of their water skins and attacked the soldiers. The mother and daughter team went from person to person, knocking them off their feet and using waterbending to toss them around. Kiara and Zane blasted at the men on their side. The soldiers eyes widened at seeing Kiara's blue/purple fire blasts. One of the earthbenders through a wave of sand towards Kiara, but she used a jet of firebending to throw herself into the air, then kicked her feet at him from the air. The wave of fire slammed into the man, causing him to fly into other soldiers behind him.
Zane blasted at anyone that dared to get in his way. He ducked over a jet of sand and swept his leg in front of him, sending a blade of fire at the earthbender. He looked up and saw more soldiers parachuting towards them as a plane flew overhead. He threw continuous streams of fire at the men, knocking most of them out of the sky. Turning around he could see most of the men were focusing on Kiara now, and she was starting to become overwhelmed. He tried to run over to her, but more people stood in his way. He growled as he punched fire blasts at them, two of them dodged the attacks effortlessly and charged towards him.
Kiara's eyes darted from person to person. They were every where. She saw movement to her left and fired a fire ball at the soldier, who dodged the blast and tossed a cord with a small, heavy weight at the end of it, at her hand. It wrapped around her wrist and he pushed a button, causing a surge of electricity to run through the cord and hit her. "Ahhhh!" She screamed in pain, then kicked a blast of fire at two other in front of her, they ducked under it and wrapped another cord around her right wrist, hitting her with another burst of electricity. One of the soldiers stepped forward and used his electro-staff to poke her in the stomach. "Ahhh!" She screamed again as they repeatedly hit her with electricity.
"Kiara!" She heard her mother and sister shout, but they were also surrounded.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha." The person with the electro-staff laughed, "Not so tough now, are you darling." He said as he electrocuted her again.
Kiara was in a lot of pain and couldn't fight back. Slowly she began to lose consciousness. Then, right as she almost passed out, her eyes began to glow. "W-what's happening." The man in front of her said, stepping back as the wind started to pick up. Kiara's entire body heated up until she released a large and powerful wave of fire which disintegrated the metal cords. She held out her hands as the wind and sand swirled around her. Stomped her foot on the ground, causing large pillars of sand to punch the soldiers around her away. The intense whirl winds blew almost everyone off their feet as Kiara lifted off the ground in a powerful air spout.
"Fire!" Someone ordered and all of the firebenders shot streams of fire at her. Kiara lifted both of her hands and the fire dissipated before reaching her. She raised her hands higher, causing the ocean behind them to raise and crash into the firebenders.
Behind them, on top of a cliff, the Fire Army had just arrived and stared in awe and fear as Kiara rose higher into the air. "Th-the Avatar?" One soldier said in disbelief.
Kiara looked up and saw another plane going over them. She fired a massive blast of fire, the biggest she's ever made, and hit the plane, causing it to lose altitude and fall towards the ocean. Kiara then began to rapidly move back down to Earth and slammed her feet into the beach sand, slamming more pillars of sand into the United Forces, sending them flying in every direction.
Suddenly, her eyes stopped glowing and she became dizzy, falling to her knees, exhausted. A pair of helicopters hovered overhead and more enemy soldiers propelled down to Kiara. She was too weak to do anything.
"Kiara!" Rachael shouted, pulling a large wave of water from the ocean. She hopped onto it and sped towards her sister, trampling anyone in her path. The men near Kiara tried to run away as she slammed her wave into them. She bent down and helped Kiara stand as the men picked themselves up and cautiously approached them. A blast of fire exploded in front of them and their father, Zane, jumped towards them, followed by their mother.
"You guys have to get out of here, now!" Zane shouted.
"We can't leave you guys alone." Kiara said.
"Who said we were alone." Nyla said, smiling. Hundreds of Fire Nation soldiers charged forward, fire in their hands, and engaged the United Forces. The Fire Nation commander ran over. "You must go, Avatar. We'll handle this." He said, bowing to Kiara.
"Avatar?!" Kiara said, shocked and confused. "I'm not..." She didn't get to finish as Rachael began dragging her away.
"Come on, we have to go. More ships are coming." She said as they ran away.
They heard barking and found Sofia and Chuchi standing next to a medium sized speed boat, two waterbenders were on the ground, grunting in pain and holding they're bleeding arms. "Good job, girls." Rachael said, using waterbending to pull the tides forward and make it easier to get the boat into the water. "Come on." She said as the two foxes jumped in, followed by herself and her sister. "Uh-oh." Rachael exclaimed as two enemy firebenders approached. Kiara fired a stream of fire at them while Rachael started the speed boats engines. They sped off and around the island to stay away from the ships.
They have been in the ocean for three days now. Three straight days. The engine gave out a long time ago so Rachael had to use waterbending to keep them going and while she took a break, Kiara would use the paddles. Neither of the two talked much about what happened and Kiara still couldn't even remember.
After a long time of silence, Kiara finally spoke. "You had to forget the map, didn't you?" She accused.
"Hey, it wasn't my fault, aren't you always the prepared one." Rachael said. "Besides, I still didn't get a Thank-you for saving your butt back there."
"Oh yeah, thank-you for saving me, but then dooming us on a boat with no map." Kiara said sarcastically.
Rachael was about to reply until she saw an island in the distance. "Hey, I think I see something." She said, digging through her backpack and pulled out a pair of binoculars.
"So you remember the binoculars and not the map." Kiara muttered, petting Sofia on the head.
Rachael ignored her and found what she was looking for. "Land. I see land." She said excitedly.
"Well, don't just stand there, little sister, get us over there." She said smiling.
Rachael rolled her eyes but nonetheless used her waterbending to create a wave to push them towards the island. Once they made it to the land's shore, she and Kiara jumped out and dragged the boat onto the small beach they were on. "Well, we're definitely not in the Fire Nation." Rachael said, looking at the forest infront of them. "We don't have forests like this there."
"I think you're right." Kiara said walking over to a tall tree and began climbing. When she got to the top she was greeted with a very wide forest which went on for miles. She could see mountains further away and what appeared to be a city even further away. She jumped down and landed in front of her sister. "Nope, we're definitely not in the Fire Nation, and I think we're in the Earth Kingdom. But there is a city that way." She said pointing to the east.
"Then lead the way, Avatar." Rachael said, following behind Kiara with the two foxes.
"I still don't understand. How am I the Avatar?" Kiara said as they walked down a man-made path. It was very worn down and was probably used by millions of people over the years.
"I'm not sure, but you are the right age, you definitely used all four elements back there, and if I'm not mistaken, only the Avatar can use the Avatar State." Rachael said.
"I actually used the other elements?!" Kiara shouted.
"Yep, it was actually cool, and kinda scary, to watch." Rachael said, "You were like 10 times more powerful than you already are. You completely disintegrated those metal cords that were around your wrists."
"So, did I airbend?" Kiara asked, now interested in what happened.
"That was the coolest part!" Rachael said excitedly. "You raised above the ground using a wind spout and stayed up there, wreaking havoc on the United Forces." She said.
"If I'm the Avatar, that means this war is... my fault." Kiara said, slumping against a tree. "The Avatar was here all along and she sat by and let the world fall apart."
"Come on, Kiara. You know as well as I do that this war has nothing to do with you. You didn't know you were the Avatar until three days ago, how is that your fault." Rachael said, sitting next to Kiara. "Remember what mom says, nothing happens for no reason. You were revealed as the Avatar because it was time. You'll never know, what if we did know you were the Avatar before,what if Tuuk Jar got to you and killed you. How can you save the world if your dead."
Kiara thought about what she said. "I-I guess you're right." She said, smiling at Rachael. "Hmm. Do you know the Cycle I'm supposed to go by? I can't remember it at all."
"I think for you it goes; Air, Water, and Earth. You've already mastered Fire, so you just have to find an Airbending Master. I can teach you Waterbending. And Earth would be last." Rachael explained.
Kiara chuckled. "Isn't it funny how only days ago we said we wanted nothing to do with the war, but now we're directly in the center of it." She said.
"The world has a cruel sense of humor." Rachael said. "At least we still have Sofia and Chuchi." She said smiling.
"We're not completely alone." Kiara said, rubbing under Sofia's chin. I promise world, I will stop this war. I won't let you down again.
Well, that's that.
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Next Chapter: The sisters make it to the Earth Kingdom city.
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