A New Life
Chapter 3:
Morning to Night
The next morning Crystal woke up to the rising sun. She could feel the power coursing through her body. She looked out the window, it was still really early in the morning. She felt like the power is coming from the rising sun. She felt very tired though, as if she was short on sleep.
She stretched herself and rubbed her eyes. That's when somebody knocked on the door,"Miss Aura may I come in?"
"Yes."
That somebody opened the door and it seems like that somebody was one of the servants. The servant looked like she was around her 40s, with the typical Fire Nation look. The servant smiled down at Crystal. She seems nice was the thought that went through her mind.
"My name is Fen. I was assigned to get you ready for the morning." Fen bowed.
"I have a question." Crystal said waving her right arm in the air.
"Yes?"
"Do people in the Fire Nation wake up this early in the morning? 'Cause I'm still a bit sleepy." Crystal stretched and yawned.
Fen chuckled, "Well, Miss Aura, you are a fire bender and fire benders rise with the sun."
"So, I don't get to sleep in?" Crystal looked at Fen hopefully.
Fen shrugged, "Most likely not, unfortunately. You are now a daughter of a minor government official now. You have to wake up early anyway." Crystal groaned rubbing her eyes. "Now let's get you ready!"
Fen helped her wear her new dress (which was pretty different from what people wear in Crystal's world). Before Fen dressed her, Crystal hid her locket under the bed when Fen wasn't looking.
Then Fen did her hair. Fen was going to do a complicated braid on her hair but Crystal told her that she wanted something simple. She ended up having a ponytail with both of her bangs on the sides of her face. Crystal found out that the people here use ribbons instead of rubber-bands. When Crystal tried doing her hair it just fell in a loose mess so she just let Fen do it. Crystal sighed inwardly, this is going to be a long day.
Finally she went down to the dining room to have breakfast. "Oh my gosh! You look so cute Aura!" before she knew it Crystal was in a bear hug by Jia who seemed to come out of nowhere. "Don't you think Hong?"
Jia gestured her to spin around. Crystal wore a red dress that fell to her ankles, with a black belt that was attached to a small red ribbon on the left side of her dress and a flowery pattern on the right. Her pony tail had a ribbon with the fire emblem in the middle.
"Ah, yes, she does look very cute." Hong said from behind his long scroll. Jia snatched it away from him and rolled the scroll. Hong looked disappointed. Jia put her hands on her hip, her eyebrows arched down, making her look scary. Hong turned to Crystal. He looked impressed. He smiled, "Yes she does look cute with her new dress." Crystal grinned ear to ear.
"But you look tired."
"I had to wake up really early."
She sat down on the table beside Jia. Just like yesterday, there was a whole variety of food. She picked the bread with the jam and poured a glass of milk. After that she took a yoghurt. When they were finished eating, Hong and Jia took Crystal to the garden. There were different flowers all around the place with a small water fountain in the middle.
They went to a little clearing and stood. "Right now we will teach you the basic forms of firebending." Hong said.
"We will teach you the breathing exercises first. It is the most important in firebending because if you don't keep your breathing in check, your will loose control of your fire." Jia explained.
"That means we will be meditating. You have to focus on the sun. The sun is the main source for firebending, we draw our power from the sun. If we didn't have the sun at all we won't be able to bend." Hong said pointing at the sun. "When you meditate you have to sit like this." He sat down cross legged with both his hand on his lap, palm facing up. Crystal did the same. "Good, now now focus on the sun. Take a deep breath in and out." Hong instructed.
Crystal did as she was told. She could feel the sun's heat on her back, she focused on it. For some reason the heat didn't bother her as much as it used. Must be a fire bender thing. The sun actually calmed her down a bit and she could feel this tiny bit of power from it but it was still boring.
15 seconds later...
"I'm bored." Crystal grumbled.
"It's only been 15 seconds." Hong said incredulously.
"Ugh, I'm bored." Crystal rolled on the the floor.
"Get up young lady! Don't make your self dirty." Jia scowled as she put her hands on her hips.
Crystal sighed, "Ok, fine, I'll die of boredom."
"Meditate!" Hong commanded. She immediately went back to her meditative form.
It's been two hours since meditation. Hong said that she has to meditate every morning in front of a fire. But right now she was learning how to act like a proper lady. Jia told her not to let any (as if ANY) of these things slip. Right about now she was learning how to hold a fan properly, how to talk politely (which she is not that good at) and perfect posture. Well she's trying her best.
After lunch they they tried teaching her about the four nations and their cultures. Later that night she went to the family's library and looked for a small book to read. She only looked through the pictures since she couldn't read and by the end she became sleepy so she went to bed. She clutched her locket to her heart as she thought about the day and went to sleep.
A/N: I am so so sooo sorry for not updating last week. My only excuse is that I forgot to. I am sooooo sorry. From now on I will try not to forget to updates please forgive me.
