(A/N: First Chapter's done, yippee! Anyway, I'm getting totally pumped by the reviews I got so I'm gonna start on the second chapter RIGHT NOW! Review more and expect more~ Peace! ~Nyx)
A black-robed figure was walking through the gardens, the Biodome Gardens was the only part of the Southern Watertribe that held bundles of greenery. I crept in closer, beside him, almost hidden by his flowing cloak was a small girl, brown hair and gold eyes that was like mine.
"I… I'll be a… prin…cess…?" a voice that mirrored mine nervously said
"You'll have everything you've ever wanted; you will be more powerful than anyone…" His deep voice was reassuring and… hypnotic...
I shook myself, I started to crawl toward the man! I froze in my tracks, quickly crawling back to the bushes before he saw me.
"O…okay…" My voice said, then the man covered my look-a-like and himself, a strong wind blew, I shut my eyes because the wind stung. The moment I opened them, they were both gone…
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I woke up startled by a constant shaking from someone.
"HEY! WAKE UP HANA!" a boy with chocolate-brown hair was in my room, on my bed, his face right above me, so I can see the sea-blue specks in his honey-gold eyes. I'd know those eyes anywhere.
I sat up immediately on my bed, "DAITCHI!" I threw a pillow at him, he just laughed, jumped off my bed dodging the pillow, and said, "Oh, come on~! I've been coming into your room every day to wake you up since you were seven! You should be used to it by now!"
He was right though, Daitchi's been my best friend since I was six, a year later, after my mom disappeared, and dad started to stay out hunting longer and earlier than he used to, Daitchi was pretty much the only person I could count on. We did everything together, at least until he turned ten and started to go to the Waterbending School, then he spent about 10 hours a day there and 2 more hours at home "studying", mostly because his mom doesn't want him to end up like his Dad who died showing off, trying to Waterbend the Kraken into a fishbowl made of ice.
You might be asking *shouldn't she be in school? Which means she hangs out with Daitchi?*That would be true except, I've already earned my Waterbending Mark, Marks are kind-of like tattoos that show your skill in Waterbending, the more you have, the better you are as a bender. Mine is on my forehead, a crescent moon with wave-like tentacles stretching across my head, framing my ice-blue eyes.
There are exactly five Marks benders can obtain, to date there are only five Benders, dead or alive, that have achieved all of them, Mostly, people achieve their first Mark when they graduate Bending School. I had my first Mark when I was 11 about five years before normal people, so I didn't need to continue School because you graduate when you get a Mark, to get the second Mark, I need to train in the Northern Watertribe, then the third is received once you complete a certain quest, the fourth has something to do with Powerbending, it's said that Powerbending is the type of bending that Aang used in the Century War a thousand years ago. The fifth one? No one knows, the five people who got it wouldn't tell.
Of course, the whole Century War is a legend, nobody really knows if Aang exists, there is such a thing as Powerbending, but most people think it's an old wives tale about how Powerbending was learned, who knows? Anyway, there hasn't been anyone called an Avatar for 500 years.
"Now come on! There's this big commotion outside, apparently, the High Council has something to announce to everyone." Daitchi said, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"The Order? Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"
"Well… I was trying to wake you up for the past few hours, you were out like a rock!" He grinned revealing his row of white teeth. "Anyway, your dad wants to see you in the grove before the big announcement."
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A few minutes later, I was dressed and we dashed in the grove, it was a small place where two Koi were swimming in the pond. Once, the moon spirit was killed, so as a defense, the moon spirit and the sea spirit now embodies two Koi each, a pair in the Northern Tribe, and a pair here, in the Southern Tribe, ever since we had the Koi, the Southern Tribe's bending was better as we studied the push and pull of the Koi's own personal current.
"Hana…" My father motioned for me to come nearer "Hana, you must leave the Southern Tribe! Now!"
"Wh… What? What do you mean, Dad? Why should I?" How can my father ask me to leave my home? Is it because I'm too different? Is it because taking care of me was more trouble than it's worth?
I realized it was none of the above when I saw the panicked and worried look in his eyes. "Hana, it's dangerous here, you must go, go to the Southern Air Temples, there you must ask for Monk Hairi, and show him this." He shoved a small envelope containing his own personal seal, a crystal of ice with Tui/Yue and La around it. Oh yeah, did I mention, I was part of the Southern 'Noble' Family HaiYuen? Well, I am, my family was started in the Rise of The Order Era, which meant it was a much "newer" Royal /Noble Family than the Bei Fongs or the Firenation Royal Family. The HaiYuen Family started because people thought that the Southern Watertribe would be better with Noblemen/women, so they elected 3 families and named them the TuiLiang, HaiYuen, and YueShan Families. It's been this way for 500 years now…
"Hana! Are you listening?" My father's panicked voice brought me back to the present, "Daitchi agreed to come with you."
"Wh-what? I didn't even say I'm going!"
"Hana, please, this is for your own safety, please just go to the Southern Air Temples and give the envelope to Monk Hairi." When I saw the look in his eyes, all my resistance melted away, that was the same look he gave Mama when he told her not to leave, and when she did, she never returned…
"You're going to use
"O…okay…"
Maybe I shouldn't have said I'd go, maybe I should've run away, go to the Order Announcement instead, but I did, and that was how everything started, that simple event was the turning point of my life…
(A/N: Okay Disclaimer Time! Don't own Avatar, blah blah blah, etc. etc...
Okay, Now waddya think of the first chapter? What'll happen in the Air Temple? C'mon people review!
