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The First Avatar: Legend of the Star

Book 1: Earth

Chapter 7: Kyo and Maka

Maruka led Kyora to the "Playground" of the palace, a courtyard that was filled with flowers, trees and rocks that had been drawn all over with crayons and paint.

"King Teuan made this little place for me and the other kids of Team Avatar to play in whenever we had to come here with our parents. Before Haiumi and Baizon turned eighteen, they played with us here as well." Maruka explained as she bent a small flat stone up from the ground. Without a word, she made the young Avatar sit on it and took a few steps ahead of her, making a little podium for herself to stand on.

"Okay Kyo, since this is gonna be your first "Maka's Super Earthbending Lesson!" I want to see what you can do! Just perform any earthbending you can, not matter how big or small." Maruka said with a smile.

Kyora nodded shyly and performed some arm movements from seated position and managed to lift a small pebble, no bigger than her eye. She held it for a few seconds, then dropped it while panting in exhaustion. Maruka looked at her with a puzzled expression.

"I don't get it…your form and movements are perfect! Even better than mine but for some reason, your power is really low. Bending requires Skill and Power which form the two halves of a bending style. Skill is how well you can perform the style while Power is pretty self-explanatory. Your skill is easily in master level but your power is way too low." She commented, dropping to down so sit on her podium with a confused expression.

Gorm, who had overheard her words as he walked to the playground, made himself known by clearing his throat. Kyora and Maruka both greeted him with little waves and hellos but didn't look up from the ground.

"The thing with Kyora is, she learns fast when it comes to her style. She is able to use at least three different styles of earthbending perfectly, but the earth seems to resist her." the large man said, sitting on a rock to the side of them.

"Maybe her Earth Chakra is blocked like Mama's Air Chakra was?" Maruka suggested.

"Unlikely, unless all her chakras are blocked. She is good with all the bending styles she's learned but bad with actually moving the element." Gorm said.

Silence fell between the three before Maruka looked back to Kyora. "Hey Kyo, how does it feel when you try to bend? Not just earth but just bending in general?"

Kyora blinked in surprise before answering "I don't really know…it's tiring and feels heavy, like I'm pushed down by the air. I always feel really slow and sluggish afterwards."

"That doesn't sound right." Gorm commented.

"He's right, bending is supposed to make you feel lighter and energised. Whenever I bend, I feel like there is butterflies in my stomach and it tingles all over." Maruka said bending some water from a little pond so she could say how it felt. Gorm nodded in agreement, bending was an exhilarating feeling of adrenaline and even simple actions made all but the most calm and composed people feel a little excited. Above the courtyard, in the Earth King's tower, Korra and Silver were watching Maruka try and help Kyora from a window.

"Your daughter is as playful as her parents it seems. It's nice that she's trying so hard to help." Silver commented, knowing how proud Korra was of her child.

"She takes after Bolin when it comes to her playing around but she takes after me when it comes to bending." Korra said with a nostalgic smile as she remembered teaching the girl to waterbend.

"Takes after you in helping others as well." Bolin commented from a nearby couch as they all waited for meeting to start again, Teuan was currently trying to find a new teacher.

Korra scoffed a little, "She's more selfless than me. I mostly help because it's my job as an Avatar, she just does it for the sake of it."

"Don't sell yourself short Korra, you know that even without being an Avatar, you would still care and want to help." Tsukiyomi commented from within Korra's mind. Korra didn't answer, but instead continued to watch the children.

Back in the courtyard, Maruka had come up with an idea. "Well as an Avatar, you should have some instincts when it comes bending right? Well, why don't you just ignore all your training and try just to bend on instinct." She suggested.

"I don't know if I can…" Kyora said quietly.

"Of course you can! Um…here!" Maruka pulled a small hankie out of her skirt pocket. She walked behind Kyora and tied the hankie around her eyes. "If you can't see anything maybe that will help."

The little Avatar didn't understand how that would help but nonetheless, she allowed the blindfold to be tied around her head and then listened as both Gorm and Maruka backed away from her, obviously expecting something to happen. Kyora began to move in what she thought was a random firebending style while focusing on the earth. In reality, her body was moving slowly and almost deliberately, like what her mind was saying and what her body was doing were two different things. The pebbles around her began to float around her like the ring of rocks that accompanied the Avatar State's Elemental Sphere. More and more added themselves until she was surrounded by three rings of earth and just as Kyora was finishing her movements, she instinctively stamped the ground and lifted a boulder, twice the size of Gorm out of the ground.

"Whoa! Kyo, stop!" Maruka shouted, using a combination of waterbending and earthbending to slash the boulder to pieces and then turn it to dust. Kyora snapped, suddenly realising what she had been doing and pulled of the blindfold, letting the rings of earth crumble back into pebbles at her feet. The look on her face would make one think that she had just been caught doing some horrendous things, which made Maruka laugh.

"Kyo, you don't need to look so afraid and guilty, that was great!" Maruka said with glee as she hopped over to her friend and grasped her hands.

"That boulder was pretty solid, you bent it like it was just another pebble! That was master level power with master level skill!" Gorm praised, still a bit stunned at the whole thing. Kyora blushed, not used to be praised which made her shrink back in on herself.

"I don't know what I did…it felt like I was just dancing around." Kyora admitted, her voice barely above a whisper.

"It was certainly amazing."

The two young girls and their protector turned around to see Korra and Silver had chi-flickered down to them after seeing the display that the little Avatar had just performed. "I would wager that Kyora bends in a different style to normal earthbending. It certainly did look like dancing, in fact it looked more like airbending and waterbending than earthbending." Silver continued.

Korra nodded, "Now that we know a way to do it, we can help Kyo reach her full potential."

"I'll try, but I didn't feel anything when I was dancing." Kyora admitted.

"That's not too important right now. Different people learn in different ways, I learned through trial and error, Korra learnt her true skills through battle and Aang learnt his in traditional methods of training. We just need to find a method that works for you." Silver said with a smile.

Korra walked over to the two girls and knelt down, looking Maruka in the eye. "Maka, I have an important job for you, from now on, you are in charge of training Kyo in earthbending. That means finding a good method of doing it and then remembering that method for her other teachers."

Maruka saluted with a straight face, "I won't let you down! I'll make Kyo the best earthbender ever!" she declared.

"Good girl. Now Kyora, please don't threat over this, just let things happen naturally. When I had trouble learning to airbend, trying to force it only made it harder for me. Do your best and try to relax, you'll get it eventually and there's no rush." Korra said, knowing how frustrating it was for Kyora.

The two elder Avatars returned to their meeting and Maruka, being the sort of crazy and hyperactive person she was, immediately began searching for ways to teach Kyora effectively. Gorm watched on in amusement as the two girls tried various tricks and activities to help spark Kyo's bending again.

Back at the meeting, things were becoming difficult for Team Avatar…

"Sightings of the Lightbenders have been reported in the Western Fire Nation. We also have signs of Tensa that have been in that area recently." Mako said with a frown. "Signs of Tensa" usually meant a lot of dead criminals and the birth of many Duo or Triobenders. It was clear to those at the meeting that Tensa was targeted again by the Lightbenders.

"They always seem to act at the same time as the Shadowbenders…they attack Kyora here while attacking Tensa there." Asami commented.

Teuan growled, "Yes and this time, they risked the destruction of the Cinnabar-Ba Sing Se Tunnel! If another attack happens on Earth Kingdom soil, then I'm calling a world council!"

Korra and Silver gulped. A World Council would mean that all the World's leaders would be gathering in one place, this also including all of Team Avatar and the Kami. The last time that the two Avatars had met Kona, they had gotten quite the tongue lashing for not working harder to get the newest Avatar on their team. Kona seemed very insistent that Avatars were the most important thing to have on your side in this new war.

On the bright side, they'd get to see Murakumo and Sonny!

"Tensa will likely be their main target for now. I doubt they'd try to capture one of the other Avatars with three of them in one place, especially in the heart of the Earth King's palace." Baizon said, showing his tactical specialty. The table before them showed a map of the world with coloured pins stuck into it. Red ones indicated places that Tensa had been sighted, white and black ones were the locations of Enemy attacks and the blue ones were the locations of Team Avatar members. Baizon studied these positions carefully before looking to the Earth King.

"We've had a lot of Tensa activity in the Fire Nation. I say we alert Fire Lord Iroh and send some Team Avatar guys to track him. It looks like Leo is in the right place to start that." He said.

Mako shook his head, "Leo won't be able to track Tensa, no one but a Kami could do it and we only have two on our side, we can't trust Kona or Murakumo as they remain neutral."

"Unless Tensa messes up, Kona won't get involved, but maybe Korra or I can go?" Silver suggested.

"Out of the question! If we lose either of you, then we are at a big disadvantage! Normal tactics don't work with these new benders." Teuan declared, slamming his fist down.

"Then we have no way to track Tensa and no leads on finding the enemy that are attacking him and us." Korra pointed out.

Silence fell across the room until Haiumi cleared her throat and everyone looked to her. "Kyora is our priority, not Tensa. We should call for a World Council so we can protect her and ourselves. Besides, Tensa isn't really our enemy, his actions are just worrying. I doubt he has anything to do with these new benders." She said calmly. As usual, the young woman was correct, as uncomfortable as it was, they needed to call for the council.

Teuan sighed, "This kid is right. I'll summon the Water Chiefs, Fire Lord, Air Abbots and Republic Council. I'll leave the rest of your team to the Avatars. Haiumi, since this was your idea, you get to summon the Valkyries."

Team Avatar cringed and Haiumi went pale. The Valkyries were an order of all female warriors, both bender and non-bender which also included many ex-probenders, policemen and samurai, they're one and only goal was the protection of the Avatar after the fall of the old White Lotus. They're leader was a terrifying woman who would be furious that Team Avatar had kept Kyora a secret from them (well the fact that she was with them anyway, they of course knew she existed).

Haiumi was going to have a rough time with that conversation…

"Where is this council going to be held?" Bolin asked, having been unusually quite in the meeting.

"The last one was on Fire Nation soil, this time it's going to be in the Air Nomad territory. That means we're going to the Western Air Temple." Asami answered.

Baizon chuckled, "Guess we're gonna be paying Virgo and Jinora a little visit."

Silver nodded and looked to her daughter, who was still pale in fear at having to talk to "That Woman". She took pity on Haiumi and walked over to her, "I'll handle the Valkyries. You can worry about preparing Kyora for the trip. I'll send Korra to pick up her things from her parents but if that fails, you'll have maybe a week to take her shopping for new things."

Haiumi smiled gratefully and gave her mother a small hug before dashing off to find Kyora. Silver giggled as she watched her go and then went back to her thoughts.

"So, your team is getting together again, been a few months since we've seen all the others." Amaterasu pointed out.

"It has been. Are you looking forward to seeing the other Divines?" Silver asked.

"Yeah, I'm so eager to be scolded by Kusanagi for being unladylike. I'm more ladylike that Yomi." The Sun goddess complained.

Silver silently agreed, knowing how alike Korra and Tsukiyomi were. The coming weeks would be difficult, but at least they would have a lot of help.

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Avatar Extra:

Avatar Reviews Pt. 3: Will on Bleach

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Okay, so my Sister tracked me down just to make me watch this weird show about a kid with orange hair fighting demons with a massive sword, so I'm gonna review it. I watched the whole damn series, all 300+ episodes and I have to tell you, it almost got boring. Almost.

It starts with the orange haired dude, Ichigo Kurosaki, meeting a Soul Reaper named Rukia. After some banter that basically sets them up as a pairing for fans to ship, Rukia gets the crap beaten out of her and gives Ichigo her power by basically stabbing him.

Wait what? Whenever I stab someone, they just die, why can't I do that?

Anyway, soon after Ichigo is forced to work as a substitute soul reaper, killing evil monsters called Hollows and sending dead souls to the afterlife, a place called the Soul Society where all Soul Reapers live. Along the way, he gathers a little team of misfits including; Orihime, a girl with big breasts but little brain who can't cook to save her life and uses magic with little fairies that live in her hair (no seriously). Uryu, a be speckled dude with a superiority complex who hates soul reapers for killing his club of Quincies (kinda like the fairies but more human and with magic bows) and lastly, Chad. Well, he's just Chad but he does have a pretty cool arm that launches magic punches!

Anyway Rukia gets captured and sentenced to death by the Soul Society for giving away her powers (for some weird reason that made them mad) so Ichigo, with the help of Urahara, a pervert with a sweet hat, takes his merry band of misfits to the Soul Society to save Rukia.

And then stuff happens.

I liked the show but there are way too many characters that fill every trope and stereotype in the hopes that one of them will stick to you by making you relate to them and if that person is Orihime then I suggest changing your personality. There are a staggering number of humans, Soul Reapers, Visored, Arrancar and Fullbringer, each with their own magic sword with its own name and powers and only a complete genius could remember them all and there's no way that all of them will get any good development.

Anyway, I give it a 7 out of 10 and now, I'm going to find me a sweet hat like Urahara.

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Avatar Trivia:

Book 1 Chapter 7

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Only a few more chapters until we meet most of the old Team Avatar and their new kids.

The Valkyries were formed after the White Lotus where officially disbanded. They live in a secret base known as Yggdrasil Hall which is build inside a giant tree. Its location is only known to them.

Aang and Roku won't appear much in LOS, but Yangchen and Kaizero make a few appearances.

Kyora will have access to new powers that no one else can use.

LOS is mostly meant to tell the story of Kyora whilst also evolving the old Avatar world into my own version, so expect to learn a lot of new things.

Hope you enjoyed!

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