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The Avatar and The Monk: The Story of Azure

Azure was born in 1500 BSC in a small village on the coast of Ember Island, which at the time was many small villages on a much larger island. She was the daughter of Fire Lady Opal and her brother Spark was the heir to the throne. When she was sixteen, the Fire Sages informed her of her status as the Avatar, and she began her journey to master the four elements.

Firstly, she traveled to the Eastern Air Temple, where few male monks were present. One of these monks was named Bushi, he had been born 50 years earlier as the son of Avatar Forgen. Respected very much by his colleagues, Bushi was given the task of training the next avatar in airbending. The two developed a close bond, as one of Azure's past lives had been Bushi's father, but Azure would master Airbending in three years and both had to depart from the Eastern Air Temple back to their own homes.

Next, Azure traveled to the Water Tribe, where the chieftain had a hard time deciding to train her because she was a female. The Water Council of Elders decided that the rule should be bent for Avatars, but that didn't help Azure's difficulty with the element. It took her 10 long years to master Waterbending.

Azure would travel to the Earth Kingdom in what was once the quiet city of Omashu, which had grown significantly in the time of Avatar Forgen. The 20th Earth King picked his finest instructors to teach the Avatar. And she mastered Earthbending in four years.

A fully realized Avatar at the age of 33, Azure returned to the Fire Nation, her father had died many years before and her brother Spark now sat on the throne. Spark never liked Azure, and searched for many a reason to banish her from the Fire Nation. Finally on her 34th Birthday, he framed her for murder of his son (which he did himself) and banished her. She became hated by all the citizens of the Fire Nation and retreated North to the Water Tribe, where they offered her shelter.

The Water Tribe Council of Elders were wise, they knew that Azure was telling the truth and had not killed the son of the Fire Lord, but they were not sure that the world would come to realize that. It was here at the Spirit Oasis, that the elders would help her truly master the Avatar State, something that few avatars after her would be able to do.

Azure was visited by Bushi Four Years later, and was told that she must return to the Fire Nation, for Civil War had broken out and her brother was dead. She returned and told the opposing sides the truth, but they would not cease their fighting. Azure used the Avatar State to turn Ember Island into two islands. Ember Island, and Azure Island. The war would continue with opposing factors on either island, Azure set up her government on Azure Island, and loyalists to Spark set up on Ember Island. After Two years of fighting, the war ended and Azure reunifyed the Fire Nation. She was named Fire Lady Azure, Avatar and ruler of the Fire Nation.

Azure kept this title for five years, but then gave it to another. As the Avatar she didn't feel it was right to hold a title as ruler, but she would return to make sure that the Fire Nation never broke apart again.

When Azure was fifty, she visited her Airbending Mentor Bushi for his 100th birthday. But Bushi was dying, and their was nothing the Air Nomads could do, and nothing the healing powers of Azure's waterbending could do.

Azure decided to contact her past lives to find a solution, and sure enough she connected right away with Bushi's father, her direct predecessor, Avatar Forgen.

"What is it, child?" Avatar Forgen asked. "Why have you called me here".

"I need to know how to stop Bushi from dying" Azure said. "My mentors told me Air Nomads are supposed to live longer than most. But Bushi is dying and he is younger than all the other elder monks".

"When it is our time, it is our time" Forgen said simply. "We must acknowledge the death of others as a part of life. So my Air Nomad teachers taught me. As an Earthbender, it was hard for me to accept this as well".

"But isn't there any way to stop Bushi from dying?" Azure asked.

"Well, there is one way" Forgen finally answered. "You see, Bushi is my son. He is Half-Avatar, and is thus infused with a small amount of my life energy. Not enough to master more than one element or live longer than he would however".

"Your point?" Azure asked, getting rather impatient.

"For one that is of Fifty Years of age, you are rather childish" Forgen scolded her. "Very well, if you give me part of your life energy he will live for another 1,000 years and form a bond with any Avatar who lives in that era, but their is a catch".

"What?" Azure asked.

"You sacrifice your life energy to add years to Bushi's life" Forgen told her. "By doing so, you lose years to your life. You won't live for 60 more years at the most".

Azure decided to do so, and Forgen touched her forehead.

"You have a small portion of the art of Energybending that gives you the ability to transfer your life energy into someone else" Forgen told her. "Use it but once, or you will perish before your time, and the Avatar Cycle will end".

Azure nodded and returned to the mortal world, giving Bushi her life energy.

"Thank you, Avatar Azure" Bushi smiled. "But you have turned me into an Avatar Soul, after 1,000 years I will be reincarnated into another who will help the Avatar. And so begins my cycle".

Azure nodded and the two bowed to each other, Azure lived for another 50 years and died peacefully at the Eastern Air Temple, hundreds of miles away at the Northern Air Temple, Monk Bushi lived on, awaiting the next Avatar in the cycle.

Great Story right? SilverOmega01 had some suggestions for Azure, but I decided they might fit better with Forgen's story Tommorow.

See you Then,

TheStoryWizard