(A/N: So the next chap will be coming soon. Story will also be coming to an end soon sad to say. But don't all stories end? Well… not all, but this one is.

I'll just stop talking now.)

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Legend

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I walked down that dirt path, the one that led to the shore. Not as a slave, not as a maid or prisoner. But as a girl. A water tribe, waterbending, girl.

I ran into the prince and his escorts. They stared at me surprisingly, but I didn't speak to them, merely walked past.

They didn't fallow. For some reason the just… didn't.

I stood on that shore for what seemed like endless hours. Head tilted back, feeling the breeze on my face.

So many loved ones seemed to appear in my mind. So many sad memories.

Kai, my mother and father. My brother and the soldier that helped me. The lives of those who would still suffer, even after I was gone. The man that was destined to marry me, and wouldn't. The unborn children I would have bore, had I never been taken.

Had the Fire Nation never taken away to this hell on earth. If there had only been peace.

And, as I stood there, for the first time since I'd come to this island. It rained.

A light shower pelted my face and I raised my hands. "I'm your legend Atin. I'm finally your legend."

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Too soon did they come. Too soon did they take me away from the rain and sea. From precious freedom and hope.

And now, as I lay in the prison cell I've been in for seven years. I can't help but thank the spirits for letting me live a good fourteen years of my life. For letting me get to know my brother and parents. For letting me live my freedom the way I wanted to. Even if it was all taken away.

And now, as long strands of unruly hair hang in my face, and my eyes are filled with tears, I hear singing.

Not just singing, chanting, cheers and shouts. Drawing nearer and nearer to this lonely prison of ours.

The main door open, the guards unlock our cells. They help us stumbled out into the hall, then out into the world again.

The sun at first was unbearable in my eyes, but I adjusted quickly.

"You're free." my eyes rise up to the familiar, yet changed, face of the prince. Beside him stood a slim, tanned skinned girl who smiled at me softly. A water tribe girl. The same one I tried to save so many years ago on that boat.

She had her hair binned up with white bands, her arm lopped in the prince's, and a white gown on.

"Wh… what?" I croaked in disbelief, attempting to get used to my voice.

"My wife wishes me to free you all." the prince looked around the circle of prisoners that had huddled into a group. "You're free. Fire Lord Saku is no more. You are free."

I raised my head back up to the sky for the first time in years… and thanked the spirits.

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I never forgot the name of that soldier. The one who'd saved me when I was a girl. Lu Tin. He said he was named after the great Iroh's son. He said he didn't want me to forget him. And I didn't.

I was married to the man that was to be destined to me. Whose name I never knew until I returned to my home.

My two sons were given the names of Atin and Lu tin. Who were both brave fighters in my life.

I lived nine years of my live in slavery. One of those years I was a maid. The others… a prisoner. But I still had my life ahead of me. I still had my dream and my hope.

I had my family… and my memories. My dear memories that I carried with me for the rest of my days.

Those of Atin, Lu tin and Kai. Those of my parents and friends who died in the raid.

But not just the good ones. I had my memories of the Fire lord and those horrible guards. Of my bruised arms and legs as I was laid to sleep all those nights, and of those early awakenings in the more.

These were all the memories that got me though with my life.

The were the memories that made Atin and Lu Tin my legends. And these were the memories that made me one myself.

I became one of those legends who were forgotten. One of the ones that no one spoke of and no one cared. But I was one. And that was all that mattered.

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A/R: So sorry it was a short story, but I thought it was definitely one of my better ones. Though I'm still horrible at writing action scenes… and pretty much everything else.

With this story… I found I tried to make it as much to do with that one-shot as possible. But I couldn't help feel it had a complete different plot of it's own. Oh well. Please review if you liked