Candle's POV.
months had gone by and we had spent every moment learning, going to school, and exploring. I had now been across the whole island several times. Tina had agreed to let Akoi mentor me and Sapphire in the firebending. All of us grew to become great friends. Skya had gladly accepted every time I chose to spar with her. But this time there was someone new.
Akoi had told me that this girl only came every once and a while. She was tough, and was a firebender or as the rumors go. She had never shown up on a day that we sparred. People think she is to hide.
"I think she showed up because you're here," Zoë told me, I looked at the girl. She had these piercing green eyes. I felt like her stare was looking right through me. She knew who I was, so far for the months I had been here no one knew exactly what I was.
She had jet black hair and pale skin. She looked like she didn't get much sun.
"Any volunteers?" Mrs. Torri asked.
"I will fight," the pale girl said. Just like the day I showed up everyone shut up," I will fight the girl with the airbender tattoos."
She got up from the rock that she was sitting on. It had been right next to Mrs. Torri. Everyone was looking at me, and for once I was nervous of what this battle might have in for me.
I walked out to the middle of the field. It had finally returned to it's grassy self after that fight I had with Skya. The girl was already in the middle. She had walked quickly up to it. I could feel butterflies swarming in my stomach.
"Hello, I haven't seen you before. You must be new," The girl said.
"Yeah I am," I told her. Fear was creeping up my throat.
"I hear that you are one of the hot shots around here. That you can bend all the elements. I am surprised that no one knows who you are. Even after all the teaching that Mrs. Torri has been giving people. She might not even know who you are," The girl said.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Elizabeth," she whispered.
"Can I call you Lizzy," I smiled.
"No," Elizabeth said coldly.
"Aw, well my name is Candle," I told her.
"Odd," she said," I have never heard of an Avatar being called Candle."
I was a taken back and it made me loose my fighting stance. That's when she struck. I saw a waved of hot blue stuff heading towards me. She had flipped her self back and had her foot heading down for my shoulder.
I moved out of the way at the last minute.
"You're faster than anyone here. Skya couldn't even follow. That means you truly have had training. You are here for your last element. Fire," she said. I nodded and then did something I had only done to Skya.
I made the water bubbles again. But as I did this I bent the air around me. I knew that she must have watched me the first day I came. How else would she know about my fight with Skya. As the water moved at incredible speed air followed after. And soon once again the whole field was covered in water bubbles.
"I know what you're doing. I will not fall for something that someone else did," she said. She sent a ball of fire at the one closest to me and then surrounded herself in a cloak of fire. I smiled, I knew she wasn't going to fall for something that Skya did.
Each water bubble blew up. Each reaction went strait for her. She made the cloak more powerful the closer they got. She knew that she had too because each reaction wasn't filled with rock that she through she could melt. No, each bubble was filled with very high concentrated air.
The air rushed for her and started to blow out her blue fire shield. I could see that under it she was trying very hard to keep it up while she blocked her face. She looked up and could see me running at her at full speed. I jumped up and thrust my arms to my right. All the air that had put out her blue fire now made her fly across the field. I she landed sliding across the dirt.
"You-," I cut her off.
"Hey. Please there are small children here," I said. That just made her madder. She bent down close to the ground, sorta like she was about to do a water bender move. I took a few steps back before I realized that she could only bend fire. But then what was she doing. She moved her arms in a flow motion and then lighting started to crawl across her body.
"Candle! Move!" Sapphire yelled at me. All I could do was stand there, frozen. Then I saw the lighting get thicker and soon it was traveling up her arm. Time slowed down and I saw that blue lighting erupted from her two fingers that were pointed at my chest. I moved me arms up in defense. Not even knowing if I was bending anything.
The lighting hit, but it wasn't me. It hit something that sent the current to me. It didn't hurt as much, but I still screamed. I could feel it hitting my arms. When the dust cleared I could see a wave of water in front of me. It had electricity all round it. Some bolts would come out and hit every 10 seconds. It would make we let out a whimper every time.
I looked to my right and there standing was Mara. Her eyes were mad and were glaring at Elizabeth who was breathing hard.
"Stop!" Mrs. Torri yelled.
"Candle are you ok," Mara came running up to me. She grabbed hold of my arms that had harsh burn marks on them. I felt something cold hit them. I was crying, the pain had finally registered with my mind.
Elizabeth came running up.
"Candle, Candle. I'm so sorry," she tried to tell me.
"No! You hurt her, beyond what sparring is supposed to do! Get out," Mara yelled.
"M-mara. Calm down. Elizabeth didn't mean to, I was the one who got her to do that," I tried to reason with Mara.
"Candle, you can't forgive someone who had just left scars on you!" she said. Elizabeth turned and ran.
"Wait," I tried to reach out but only screamed and brought my hand back when I felt the raw skin start to bleed. Mara pulled some water form the pond and started to heal my wounds. I could feel the pain slowly calming down, but I could still feel some.
"You're going to be fine, but I am going to have to redo this process every five minutes," Mara looked at me. I nodded slowly. Mrs. Torri told everyone that school would be cut short today and to go home. People slowly left, only Skya, Zoe, Akoi, and my friends stayed. Gabe came over with some bandages and slowly started to wrap them. He would apologize every time I winced.
It was 2:00 by the time I had every burn and cut tended to. Mara still looked fuming mad. I tried to calm her down through my mind, but she had blocked it. We decided that we should go back to the inn and said good bye to Skya who said that her home was a ways off and wanted to be back there before sun set.
Gabe gave me a piggy back ride back to the house. He ran at full speed and I laughed the entire way. The others showed up to the house about 10 minutes after us, and since the trail was down hill the whole time.
Tina set out a dinner and freaked out when she was that my arms were covered in bandages. She made us tell every detail about what happened today and then scowled Akoi and Zoe for not making sure that I had better medical care. Mara didn't talk the whole time, but she just sat there and didn't make eye contact with anyone.
"Hey Candle, what are you going to do about Elizabeth?" Alex asked me while I sat outside on the roof. I had climbed up after dinner and Alex had come up a minute later.
"I think I am going to go find Elizabeth. We need to talk," I told him.
"What! You can't be serious," he jumped and almost feel off the roof until I caught his shirt,
"Yeah I am. I need to make sure that she knows that I am cool that she did this to me. It was an honest mistake. I mean I am the person who cause this," I said holding up my left hand. I could see that the marks on my hand glowed brightly. Except for the metal mark. Maxine had to be asleep.
"How far away is America from here?" I asked.
"To the east or to the west?"
"To the west,"
"About 6756 miles away," he said.
"Are you lying?"
"No, I looked it up," he laughed a little.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because I was bored one day," he said," when will you leave?" he asked.
"In a few hours. When Mara had gone to sleep," I told him.
"OK, I saw here go into your room about an hour ago. I just you just have to rely on your hand," he said. I nodded and then laid down on the roof. I starred at the stars. We were far enough from Tokyo that I could see plenty of stars. At first I would only see boxes that I would make up in my mind, but then I could see more complex things. Like dragonflies and bears.
I was really bad at knowing what constellations looked like. I didn't even know Orion's Belt, I knew what the north star looked like. I knew where Venus was in the sky. I knew where Jupiter was when it did come out. I knew where the moon was, but everyone knew that.
Soon there was lots of stars out. And I laughed as Alex tried to teach what some of the constellations were. But I would never find them, they would always look like something else. I soon came up with the family of dragonflies and families of boxes.
I looked at my hand and saw that water wasn't shinning anymore. I smiled and stood up, Alex stood up too.
"Be careful and try not to get more burns," he laughed. I smiled and then jumped off the roof to the ground. I landed with a soft thud and then sprinted off into the woods. It was probably close to 12 in the night. I knew that I would regret this in the morning when I woke up tired as hell.
I was running through the woods and hadn't heard anything. I had heard the wounds of birds and bugs, but nothing to show that people had been here. I tried to feel around for movement and found nothing.
I had been running for about an hour until I felt something. I stopped, I knew those vibrations. It was Elizabeth, she was around here. I felt the vibration again, but it was very weak and slow. She was around here.
"Elizabeth?" I called out. I felt one more vibration, but it was quick and rough," I know you're around here I can feel it. Your vibrations are very specific."
I felt yet again another vibration, but it wasn't a motion vibration. It was one to tell you that something's heart rate went up.
"You know it is me. You're watching me. I just came to tell you that whatever Mara said you can disregard it. I do forgive you for burning me. See," I held up my arms," I am all bandaged and Mara had been giving me healing seasons for a while."
The heart rate calmed slightly.
"You're starting to relax. I can feel that too. Please come out," I called. I wait for about a minute and then I felt a thud and I heard a stick crack. I turned around.
There she was. She was standing in the shadow, and I could only see half of her body. I could see her green eyes though. They seemed to glow in the darkness.
"What do you want," Elizabeth said bitterly.
"I want to talk. Like I said I totally forgive you," I told her. She laughed a little.
"You're American accent shines through. It's almost annoying," she said. I laughed at that and she laughed too.
"Well, can't really help that. Being an American and all," I told her. She laughed harder.
"You guys are so weird. I can see what they mean by Americans can be such idiots sometimes. You came to the person who probably gave you countless burns and scars on you and you just say that its fine. How could someone be so stupid," she said. She had stopped laughing.
"I find that highly offensive. Not all Americans are stupid. What about Mara?" I asked.
"She has a British accent. She is from Britain," Elizabeth said coldly.
"Really? I had grown so used to it that I hadn't even noticed that it was still there. Besides I think it's leaving her. I mean she talks more like an American and she's not as proper anymore," I said.
"Is that all you came for?" Elizabeth asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Did you come here to tell me that you are fine and forgive me and then joke about your country. You should have more pride," she said.
"Pride is something I don't hold so high. I could joke about myself all day," I smiled. She looked at me coldly.
"You seem to not hold any pride at all," she said.
"I do, I held my pride when I was being tested on. When I was being starved, with I got banished from the Amazon Jungle," I told her. She seemed to find the last one weird.
"You were in the jungle?" she asked.
"Yeah... I learned how to water bend there," I told her.
"Seriously! And then what happened when you got tested on?" she asked.
"Oh, well you see the government is after me, because they are working for him. And then they caught us, been then we blew up their prison and sorta killed everyone in there. Then almost killed our selves since it was in the Antarctic. Then we were found and then the he found us again and attack the village that we were staying with. And yeah. I could tell you the full story, but you probably wouldn't believe me," I said to fade off.
"You are the Avatar correct?" She asked. I hesitated for a moment.
"Yes I am," I told her.
"Can you prove it?" she asked.
"Did that fight not prove it?"
"No,"
I stood for a moment. What could I do to prove that I was the avatar. I could try to enter the Avatar state, but I have never just done that. Well I have never tried, I could possibly do that. I could call on my past lives, but once again I hadn't done that before. I could just try to hold all the elements at one time, but I had also never done that.
"Um... uh... I guess I could try to hold all the elements at one time. But I have never tried that," I told her. She nodded.
"Then do it," she said. I stood there for a moment. I started to bend air around me to make a giant ball. Then I started to make those small water bubbles, they made rings around me, sorta like the rings on Saturn. Then I tried to make some rocks fly all over the place as I made the air now dance around the open area. The rock were floating around the air currents. Lastly I made some fire make thin little lines that twisted and turned around the place. I started to smiled, this was becoming easier and easier to do.
Elizabeth seemed to be laughing. I made the air swirl around her and make her black hair go up in a swirl. She laughed some more and started to run around feeling the air run through her hair.
I finally stopped and watched as the water feel to the ground and the rocks. The fire faded into smoke and the air stopped blowing through the trees and Elizabeth's hair. She looked over at me, her smile was now gone.
"I am sorry, but I can't go on any longer. It takes a lot of energy...," I didn't look her in the eye.
"It's okay. I believe you, no one else can do that," she said. I perked up and smiled.
"Thanks,"