Dear readers,
I have had an epic idea for my story; I am changing a few things from the previous chapters. First, I have decided to change the relationship between Oriana and her parents. Second, the way Oriana was brought up (what her parents have brought her up to believe). Thirdly, the love between her and her parents (how and why she gets their love). I have updated now updated the previous chapters to this, If you have read the previous chapters before this update, you don't have to go back and reread them, but you can. If you can start out on this one with those changes in mind then it will be fine. That is all, so I hope you like the story, please review. J
-Goob39
The sun brightens up my room, its early in the morning, sunrise to be exact. I wake up like any other day, I try to remember my dreams from the previous night, but nothing comes to mind. I sit up in my bed, stretching and yawning like a cat in the sun. I wake and meditate; my parents have me do this every morning. I sit in the window seal, my back facing the window. I feel the heat of the morning sun on my body; I mind slowly easies into a calm state.
Memories flash through my mind, of yelling and me crying. I see my parents running with me in my father's arms. I don't know why I am crying but I know something is wrong, the memory fades and I am sitting in the window seal I feel my eyes prick with tears but I push them down. I am being strong; I have to make my parents proud.
I push myself up from the window seal and head my way down stairs. The house is already filling with life; the memory is still fresh on my mind. "Why was I crying?" I wondered "why were my parents running?" I see my mother at the table writing a letter, I walk up silently behind her. On the letter I see my name, I read over her shoulder,
Dear, C
Oriana has completed her training; she has learned and mastered both fire and water. We have also trained her in other weaponry. The plan is coming along great; the weapons are almost complete…
I was confused, I stepped back from my mother, and it must be the white lotus and her telling them what my mission is. What does it mean by "the weapons are almost complete?" I walked away silently from my mother. The weapon must be something that will help end the war. I walked out of the room, and down to the underground training facility.
I began to practice my bending, I started with water; I push and pulled the water around me, going through the each move. Then I ending by riding the fierce waves I created, then jumped off and rolled to my knee and moved the water into frozen ice daggers and they stuck into the wall. I breathed heavily, I bended the ice from the wall and allowed the element to fall back into the moats of water around the room. My father used to train with me for hours, I still remember the day he taught me to feel the water in the air,
I was around the age of nine, I had been training with master Pakku all day but my father pushed me to train longer with him. He said he was going to show me how to create steam, by using the water in the air.
"Oriana," my father yelled at me, "come here."
"Yes father," I bowed my head to him.
"You will learn a new technique today," he commanded. I nodded my head and got into my stance. "I want you to feel the air around you," I closed my eyes and focused, "do you feel the water in the air?" I nodded my head, "I want you to fire bend the water in the air, to create steam you must heat the water by moving the molecules faster."
I felt the water around me; I could feel the pull of water in the air. I focused on the molecules and speed them up and heated them with my own body heat. The longer I tried the more my temperature went up. I felt the heat radiating off me, steam began to form in tight ball around me. I felt the power in me rising up, my chi taking hold of my body, I opened my eyes. I began to swirl the steam around me, it began to become hotter by the second. My father just smiled at me, "Good."
I had made my father proud, that is what I ever wanted to do. I wanted to please my parents so much. I never wanted to make the mad or upset with me, without them I would be alone. I only had my family, I was very unsocial, and I was kept at home for most of my life, Hidden from the world. That is why I focused on my bending; it made people proud of me. I thought if I made them happy, they would love me.
I began to practice fire bending, following the advance sets of pushes and kicking. The memory of my parents and me crying swirled in my mind, I was confused; when and why did it happen. I thought the letter my mom was writing, about the weapon, somehow connected to what I had remembered this morning. But if this "weapon" was to take down the fire nation, I was all for it. I was taught from my young age that the fire nation leaders and soldiers were evil and I had to do my part to stop them. My mother had told me that if I helped in the war efforts or even died trying, "the sins of the fire nation, the fire nation in my blood, would be wiped out by my actions." I believed her whole heartedly, if I killed or even sacrificed myself, I could make up for being part fire nation, and make her proud.
I had been trying to incorporate my water movements with my fire sets. I had found that I could create waves of fire to crash out to the area around me; I was perfecting the move for the past few weeks. I felt my red-orange fire swirl out in a wave away from me, I was I complete control. I then turn my fire into a raging blue fire sea; I had been able to create blue fire for a two years and lightning six months after that. That was when I completed in my mastery of the element.
I walked up stairs to the kitchen it was late in the afternoon and I had practiced through lunch. I came in to find May but she was nowhere to be found, I ask around if anyone had seen her but no one had. I was a worried, May was the only one I could really say that they could loved me unconditionally; I thought my parents loved me but not the way May dose. My parents only gave me hugs or loved me when I did something to make them proud. I walked to my father's office I was about to knock when I heard voices inside. I leaned my ear against the door,
"You are too hard on her, Adrion," it was May. "All she wants to do is please you and lady Ebony. She would die to make you two happy and proud of her." She was right I had said that many times before to her.
"That's want we want, she will be someone great," my father said harshly, "without her the two fold project would end in chaos."
"Two fold project?" I wondered. "I understand, I just don't want her to get hurt," May confessed.
"She has to go with the prince to complete her part in the war," my father said sternly, "even if she does get hurt, or even killed. If she completes her part, she will have done a great service for our project." I gasped; I never thought he wouldn't care if I died. "Don't worry father I will make you proud even if I have to die." I walked away from the door and went to my room, I wasn't hungry any more.
Four days had gone by since my dinner with Zuko; I could feel my parents were upset with me. "They wouldn't bee upset with you if you wouldn't have messed up" the voice yelled at me. "You messed up the mission before it even started."
My father pushed me to work even harder each day; I practiced from dawn till dusk. I only ate breakfast and dinner, and I trained through lunch. My father had me focus on steam mostly; my steam grew hotter and hotter by the minute. I never asked about the two fold project, the letter or my memory, I was already on my parent's bad side.
I was in the training room practicing only my fire bending that afternoon, I was sparing with three soldiers my father had asked to train with me. I was so focused on my bending that I didn't even hear the people coming down the stairs. I shot fire balls at the, now two, soldiers. I flipped over their fire, I shot back at them; they blocked my fire with their own, as I landed behind them. I took the opportunity to surprise them with my current of fire that I had been working on. I swirl the element around me creating a ring of fire that swirled around my body, and then growing it larger and into a blazing blue. I pushed out from me making a blue fiery current to blow into the two soldiers, knocking them both to the ground. I was breathing hard; I took a moment and brought my chi down. That's when I heard clapping, I saw my father standing with both prince Zuko and general Iroh.
"That was amazing, you are definitely the master, just like your father said, "Iroh smiled.
"Yes, my daughter is very gifted," my father smiled, "a true prodigy." Zuko didn't say anything.
I walked over to them and bowed, "thank you, I am honored that you watched me." I looked up and smiled.
"Yes, but we came here to offer your daughter an invitation to come and help us in our search for the avatar." Iroh spoke to my father.
"Yes, I have heard of your search for the avatar," my father said, "and I am sure my daughter would be honored to join you on your mission." I smiled and nodded my head.
"Thank you sir," Zuko finally spoke, "she will be a great addition to our crew."
"Yes, I'm sure she will be," my father looked at me. I could see he was happy, I had made him proud. His words rung in my head,"Even if she does get hurt, or maybe killed, but she will have done a great service for our project."I knew I would complete the mission and make him proud. I looked at the prince, I still felt unsure about what would happen because of my mission, but I put that aside. "Make your parents' proud Oriana," the voice whispered in the back of my mind.
I see a burning village in the distance, its cold, so cold that my face is numb.-
Minutes gone, hours later-
I feel me being lifted and carried away from the burning village.-
Am I saved?-
I look up to see my father's brown eyes, but I don't feel relief.-
I am being jostled as we run, we finally stop.-
Pulled away-
I am sitting in a room with a man-
He comes closer to me-
He has a sinister smile-
His dark megalomaniac eyes are locked on mine.
I wake up in a cold sweat; I am in my room on the ship. I lay on my side facing the cold metal wall; I have had that dream every night while here. I feel every horror in the dream tremble in my body; I curl into a ball and wish his eyes would leave my memory. I stay in that position till the morning is close.
I walk up onto the deck, no one is up yet, I look out into the blue water in hopes of relaxation. The sun come up over the horizon, the light reflects off the water, it is beautiful. I take in the moment, I close my eyes, and I see his eyes again. I feel someone touch my shoulder, I jumped at the touch, and I turn to see Zuko.
"You're up early," he moves to stand by me.
"Yes," I answer, "I wanted to see the sun rise." Lire, I think.
"It is beautiful," Zuko looks out into the ocean. It had been two weeks since I left for my mission; I had received word from my father on what my first assignment is, "Help find the avatar, save the prince for later." That was the only words on the letter...
I hope you liked it, and the new direction I am going in. I have found a new in this story, and it will be epic. Review, because I need some type of feedback.
-Goob39