Hey! Part 10 guys ^_^ this part... will blow your mind.
BY THE WAY! Someone by the penname of KP100 alerted my stories yesterday (relative to when I'm writing this), so I decided to look at her profile.
O_O let's just say this person is obscenely obsessed with Danny Phantom, to an excessive degree... BUT HEY, DID I SAY THAT WAS A BAD THING? XD
Kana Part 10
Kana once again awoke to the sound of rain flicking against her window. She had no strong negativity for it, and in some instances found it comforting, but recently it had become a nuisance.
She could tell with her internal clock that it was just about four, so she got up and dressed in her servant clothes, which were fresh and clean from yesterday's laundry.
She was brushing her hair in the hand mirror when Anil rapped on the door, "Coming!" she shouted.
"Hurry! You're almost two minutes late!" he said from behind the door.
Kana just about dropped the brush, TWO MINUTES LATE? she thought, MUNO WILL KILL ME!
She hurried as fast as she could with her hair before attaching a golden pin to her hair.
Anil knocked on the door again, "I'm coming!" she quickly slid a dagger into its sheath and placed it in her shoe. A good trick she had learned from Guma in her self defence training.
She nearly fell out the door and startled Anil, sending the eyes of everyone in the hallway trained on Kana.
"Sorry..." she said meekly.
"Don't worry about it! You have to get to Muno! You're supposed to help prepare the banquet for the guests!" Anil said with hurriedly.
Kana stood and smiled shyly.
He gave her a quick hug and patted her on the back, "Now go, quickly!"
She ran through the hall and before she went into the throne room, made sure to check herself of any wrinkles. Feeling content she calmed herself and walked casually through the hidden door.
She noticed two things that ultimately sticked out in her mind: one, dining tables, with rich green table cloth were lined in the center of the hall, going from the throne about half way through the entire room. Secondly, the king, who normally wears fancy clothing but today he was wearing an abnormal amount of gold. Earrings, necklaces, rings, even his shoes were inlaid with gold. Everything he wore shone as if he were a bright star, and the effect was exactly what it was supposed to be.
Kana walked up to Muno, who was going through a checklist on a clipboard, "Ah! Kana, you're here. Please, we need you to assist us in kitchen duty, you can cook well, correct?"
She shrugged, "I know how to make a few things."
"So you can use a spoon?"
She sighed, "Yes."
"Good! Then get to the kitchen, the head chef will take care of you from there. Oh! Hota! Come over here and help me with-"
Kana made her way to the other side of the hall, where another hidden door lay behind another banner.
She opened the door and went through a short hallway, made to make sure the clanking obnoxious noices of the kitchen wouldn't disturb the goings-on of the court.
When she entered the kitchen, a man in white clothing was waiting for her, "Are you the help Muno would send?"
She nodded.
"Good! Here, take these," he handed her a white apron and chef's hat, "Now what we're going to be making-"
The job in the kitchen was probably the best job she had ever been given, she had fun dumping the flour, shaking in spices, and watching the firebending attendants start oven fires with the flick of a finger.
When she was finished she was very pleased with herself, not only had she had fun, but she had just about filled her quota for a day's work, in about four hour's time.
She walked out with hands covered white with flour and made her way to the washing rooms in the servant's quarters.
When she had cleaned herself she walked to her room and pulled open the door, but before she could enter, Anil tapper her on the shoulder.
She leapt up and flew to the wall in shock, "Oh! Anil, don't scare me like that!"
Anil had a very serious look on his face, which made the wrinkles on his face much more predominant, "My apologies. Kana, as your tutor I'm here to tell you that you have not fully filled your quota of work for today."
She shrugged and looked at her feet, "Oh come on, I only need to do a half hour's work, they can live without me, right?"
He shook his head, "No, but I have an alternative. How'd you like to get some extra tutoring in?"
She sighed and looked up, "Fine, lead the way."
Anil didn't smile, nor give off any emotion of the excited, optimistic mentor she had always known since, she had to think for a while. How long have I been here?
Two years, Feng came in, you've been here two years.
He had been unusually attentive today, reacting to a lot of instances in the kitchen and giving advice on certain herbs she found that could enhance the dish. She added them in secret, otherwise the guards or other chefs would accuse her of attempted assassination, which is punishable by four months of torturing before death.
Thank you, Kana replied.
You're welcome.
Wait, did he just say you're welcome? He never uses words like that, things are always straight forward and to the point with him.
She snapped out of her trance to find Anil taking her to the courtyard, except when they made it outside into the open air, he turned sharply right and walked to a door in the wall.
"Anil, are you sure we're allowed in there? Everytime I try a guard appears out of nowhere and tells me I can't."
He chuckled, "Trust me, the guards are all preparing for the banquet, they won't notice two servants walking where they're not supposed to go."
She shrugged and followed him to a set of stairs, winding their way up hundreds of steps. When they made it to the top Kana was shocked to find that they were in a fifty-story watch tower.
Anil turned to her when they were at the top, "Do you remember when I asked you about the legends you knew, many months ago?"
She had to stop and think for a while, "Yes, I think so. Why are you asking from up here?"
Anil looked at her and smiled, "Do you remember what also happened that day?"
"Yes," she said unhesitantly, "my coronation."
"Yes, your coronation. Do you remember what you had to do to make it official that you were in fact receiving a tutor?"
She squinted, "I had to use my palm print. But, Anil, what does this have to do with anything?"
"You'll know soon enough. Listen, I'm known around the servant's quarters as one of the only palm readers, and a really good one too. Once I was able to predict when a cup bearer was going to be set free from prison, and when a baker was going to be executed."
She sat and thought for a moment, "Again, what does that have to do with why I'm up here with you?"
He sat down with his back to the wall and put his hands in his face, "That's exactly what I thought you were going to say. Please listen to me. I doubt you have, but have you ever heard the legend of the Avatar?"
Feng intensely perked up and went straight to attention.
Kana felt her spirit leap at the mention of the word, "No, but... no."
Anil seemed pleased with her answer, "What I am going to tell you should never be repeated to anyone on the face of the planet, unless I give you strict and clear permission to do so."
She nodded, her curiosity burning inside her.
He sighed, "Long ago, before the Earth Kingdom had engulfed much of the world in its empire, the four nations were much more equal, much more peaceful. The Water Tribes, Fire Nation, Air Nomads, and Earth Kingdom never quarreled unless provoked, and the land had never been more happy. In order to keep the peace- according to the legend -the spirits chose to make someone with the power to master every element, the power to have strong spiritual connections, and whenever he or she died, there would simply be another to take his place. The Avatar would simply reincarnate every time he died, so that peace would always be kept.
"However, about three hundred years ago, the Fire Nation decided to expand, much like what the Earth Kingdom is doing now, and take over all of the other nations. So they commit one of the biggest, and most evil acts in history. On the day of Sozin's Comet, when their power is at their greatest peak, they wiped out the entirety of the Air Nation, trying to destroy the sole person they knew would be able to stop them, the Avatar.
"But they failed. The day before the attack, the Avatar, Aang, fled for unknown reasons. Some say he commit murder, which is highly unlikely, others that he would be forced to leave people he loved and didn't like the idea. Either way, he left in the knick of time and managed to escape the onslaught. He left on his air bison, whose name differs from Appa, to Momo, even to Yip-Yip. But we can never be certain if anything of this story is true, we can't even know for certain if it's even a real event! But anyways, on to the story.
"When he fled, he crash landed in the sea, and as a last ditch effort, used the Avatar State to freeze him and his bison in a ball of ice."
Kana interrupted, "What's the Avatar State?"
Anil chuckled, "I forgot, you don't know any of this. Well, the Avatar State is a state (obviously) where the user taps into his connection with the past Avatars, using the energy to boost his powers to extreme extents."
Kana sat upright and focussed all her attention on Anil, ignoring all else in the world besides his voice, as the story he was weaving in her mind was somehow translated into images. He could see Aang, bald and not older than thirteen, with blue arrow tattoos and red and brown monk clothes. He could picture the bison, with a red-brown arrow on his forehead. He could even see the ball of ice he had trapped himself in. She had no idea how any of this fit with her, but it just did. Every piece of information Anil gave her she was able to tell the right from the wrong, the lies from the truths. Everything simply clicked with her.
"Now, when he was trapped in the iceberg, many people believed the Avatar was dead, that he never reincarnated, that the spirits themselves gave up on humanity. And one-hundred years later, you heard me right, one-hundred years later, he was rediscovered."
"By who?" she asked.
He put his finger to his lips and smiled, "By a Southern Water tribe girl."
Kana let out a small gasp.
He nodded, his smile growing wider, "And there's more. With the help of the Water Tribe girl and her brother, they learned waterbending in the Northern Water Tribe. Then they went on to the Earth Kingdom to learn earthbending. They learned it, now whether or not this is true is up to you, from a blind girl. No one knows how she could bend, much less know how to teach, but it has something to do with her feet."
"Her feet?" Kana asked.
"I know! I don't know if it's true or not, but it sounds ridiculous enough to be a story made up by some drunkard in a bar. But regardless, when he had learned earthbending, waterbending, and obviously had mastered airbending, he didn't know any way in which he could master fire. However! there was one person who was chasing him down, attempting to kill the Avatar and bring himself honor. Prince Zuko, the son of the Fire Lord, Ozai.
"Prince Zuko had lost his honor when he spoke out of turn to general in Ozai's war room, making his dishonor placed on the Fire Lord himself. So Ozai did what any officer would do, challenged him to an Agni Kai, an ancient, traditional duel to determine one's honor. But when it came time to battle, he realized his mistake and tried to stop the battle, giving up and begging for mercy. Which only made his honor die to nothing. The only way to end an Agni Kai is to burn the other, not to kill, and Ozai gave him a burn directly on the right side of his face, marking him a dishonored prince, forced to hunt the Avatar as an only way to salvation.
"And when it came time for Aang to learn firebending, he chose the sole person who was attempting to kill him and throw him on his father as a tool to gain honor."
Kana looked down at her feet, trying to comprehend what must have made him turn so quickly.
Anil looked up at the sky and noticed it was getting dark, with a few stars in the sky, "After he had mastered fire, earth, air, and water, he went on to challenge the Phoenix King, the title Ozai had given himself when he had conquered the world. He won, but only slightly, and ."
"Didn't kill, then how did he win?"
"With energy bending."
"What's that?" Kana asked.
"Long before people knew how to bend the elements, people bent the energy inside themselves. Nothing is known about how, what they did with the energy or where they learned it, and no one knows where or how he got the ability, but he did it. Aang bent the energy in Ozai's body to block out the firebending in him."
Kana stared in shock.
Anil waited for it all to sink in.
"Why are you telling me this?" she asked.
"Because this was your lesson today, and Lord Tuma forbade anyone from speaking about the Avatar."
Kana lay in her bed, thinking back on all that had transpired.
The book. Read it.
She sat up straight and looked around her room quickly before realizing that it was Feng.
What? But he went away before she could ask him more about it.
She thought about what he said, The book? What book? The only books I ever read are the ones Anil teaches me. I don't even own a book, besides the one Anil gave me of course. But-
She stopped herself. The book Anil gave me...
She reached down and opened the drawer she had hid it in, blowing all the dust from the cover.
The title was in golden characters, and she could actually read them, "Of the Avatar."
Of the Avatar? But Anil already told me about that. looking down at the book, she opened the top cover to an illustrious map of the four nations, the earth kingdom dominating them all in the center, the Northern and Southern Water Tries on the poles, and the Fire Nation in their own separate island to the west. She turned the yellow pages and found an intro.
The words that follow are true and sound,
The history proven and untempered.
Let all who read these pages bound
Have these words in their mind remembered.
She continued on to another page detailing the Avatars proposed origins, but got bored and read a section on control. She turned to the back and found a section detailing all the known avatars, going down from Yengchen, Kuruk, Roku, Aang, Haka, Nama, and an unknown firebender. She started flipping through random pages until she came to a section labeled "Signs."
The Avatar will have a slight pull to all the major elements, including earth, water, air, and fire. The specific connection is usually a larger gravitational pull to the element than to any other object.
Kana thought about that statement for a while, "Gravitational pull huh?"
She looked towards the candle she was using for light and slowly moved her hand towards the flame.
The flame flickered and stood straight for a while, but after a few seconds of her hand being there it slowly moved towards her.
She froze, her heart stopped, and everything around her seemed to move in slow motion.
Her hand quickly went away from the flame and she backed away into the wall. She noticed she was hyperventilating and tried to take in deep breaths.
When she had calmed herself down she tried to think, "No, no I'm not the Avatar. Maybe my family has deep ties to the Fire Nation? Yeah, that's it." she looked over to her glass of water.
She stared at it for a while before bringing the courage to move close to it. She placed her hand on the side of the cup and immediately the water curved a little, moving towards her hand.
She stopped and picked up a rock on the dresser, one that had caught her eye in the courtyard before she brought it inside with her.
She picked it up and placed it on the ground, waiting.
After a few minutes she sighed and shook her head, I'm an idiot for thinking that-
The rock spun until the shining, sharp end that made it so unique was pointing straight towards her.
She let out a screech before placing her hand over her mouth.
NO. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. I HAVE MY FUTURE SET OUT, I ONLY HAVE THREE YEARS OF SERVANT DUTIES BEFORE I'M SET FREE!
She took in deep breaths until she was calm, and tried to contact Feng.
Feng! FENG! Get your spiritual butt out here now!
He came quicker than she thought he would, What is you want?
Feng, what do you know about the Avatar?
He gave off an intense feeling of happiness and completion, It's about time you asked.
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