"Come on, you can do it Xeylix!" My mother said standing right next to me. I had been trying all day, no, all month! I still couldn't get the dumb rock to move. It was a small rock, one I could easily move with my own 7-year-old strength. But Mom didn't want me to move it, she wanted me to use earth bending to do it.
"I can't!" I said pitifully, I could feel the tears coming but I held them in.
"Oh come on it's such a small rock!"
"No! Mom can't you just give up! Maybe I am not an earth bender, maybe I am just like dad and a non-bender!" I said turning away from the rock and storming away. I didn't get very far until I heard my mother crying, I immediately felt bad. I turned and started to go back when I heard my father Wu and Adviser Mako talking.
"Sir we should tell the people, if they find out on their own they will be extremely angry with us!"
I ducked and hid underneath the window that the voices came out of.
My Father looked at his hands sheepishly," I suppose so...you sure that Jinora is correct? And Avatar Korra is really..?"
Mako looked pained as he said," Yes, she is dead. Jinora is sure of it, the only thing she is not sure of is when."
"When! Wouldn't it be in the last year or even month?"
"No, Jinora says the new Avatar could be anywhere between 8 years old to 1 month old."
"Oh, wow that really narrows it down." My father said sarcastically, getting up from his chair," It doesn't help that earth benders are everywhere. Not only are they in the Earth Kingdom but in; Republic City, the Fire Nation, and even in the water bending Cities!"
I felt numb, I had heard stories about Avatar all of them great- but this was devastating. I turned and sat down next to the wall I was hiding behind. Wow, the Avatar is dead. I wonder who is the Avatar now? It must be an Earthbender, but I wonder where in the world right now is the new Avatar.A chill ran through me when I realized that Tonre, Naoki, and Maya would be more heartbroken than anyone else -except for Mako- that Korra was dead. I walked out of the garden and into the halls wandering around until I found Tonre in the Grand Library.
I froze not knowing if they knew that their mother was never going to come home, I wondered even if they remembered their mom. Then I thought about how that avatar could talk to past selves, maybe on day, Tonre could actually talk to his mother through the new avatar. What would they talk about? Firebending? Would the new avatar, tell Tonre about this and feel like a third wheel? Because that would be really strange, going up and saying 'hey Tonre your mothers says your fire bending needs more work! You need to focus on your studies! Follow your father's footsteps! Become an Adviser!' But then the new avatar would not just be the new avatar, it would be the old. Following directions that Avatar Korra, soon will be just the puppet of Korra. How dangerous is being the avatar, having to not only satisfy yourself for a job well done but to, satisfy the world? The ever-failing- doom, of not having a job well done. Being shunned from everywhere just because you can't be perfect. Then I realized that Tonre was looking at me and I spent the last 2 minutes staring at Tonre.
"Hi," I said staring at my feet.
"Sup," Tonre said ignoring me and going back to his book. Mako being his father, and Avatar Korra as his mom, Tonre has a lot of doors open for him. A Moderate fire bender, but in all uses brain over brawn, Tonre didn't need to be a fire bending master he was a smart kid. After backing out of the Grand Library, I thought whoa where did all this proud feeling come from and what does brain over brawn even mean?
I remembered my mom and went back to the garden, I felt a new feeling awake inside of me. As I walk up to the small boulder I saw my mom, feeding the turtle ducks. I remembered my mom telling me that the turtle ducks were a gift from Fire Lord Izumi. Walking up to the boulder I frowned, turning I saw the Tumbleweed Rock. On this rock Maya, Aria, Naoki, and I would play on. It was much larger than the small boulder I was set to work on an hour earlier. I don't know how I did it but it came so naturally to me it was easy. I don't know how I wasn't able to earlier. I pushed to be next to my mother. She did not notice me or the rock because she was in her own world. I climbed on top of the boulder and tapped my mother on the shoulder.
"Huh?!" My mother turned her head and saw me sitting on the Tumbleweed Rock and a trial of moved dirt." Oh, Xeylix you moved it!" She hugged me, and I could smell some of her sweet perfume. I have never been that close to my mother before. I usually cared for by my nurses and I only saw her when she would check in on me, and dinner and maybe sometimes if I was lucky, she would talk me to the garden. Rarely was I this close, so I relished the hug.
