A/N: Here's the start of my new story. If anyone has any questions about anything about the story let me know in a review and I'll address it in the next chapters author's note.

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Water.

Earth.

Fire.

Air.

My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace. When the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads.

But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

Only the Avatar master of all four elements and could stop the ruthless Firebenders.

But when the world needed him most, he vanished.

A hundred years have passed and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help the fight the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look out for our tribe.

Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads, and that the cycle was broken.

But I haven't lost hope. I still believe that somehow the Avatar will return to save the world.

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Out of the fire came a Raven

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Book One: Water

Chapter 1: The Boy in the Iceberg

Raven woke up to the sound of birds chirping outside her window. The birds that lived in Azarath were extremely bright colored and their songs often filled the air. With no natural predators they had become fairly friendly with the people who inhabited Azarath.

As Raven slowly began to wake up, a cold shiver ran down her spine. It was her birthday, her fifteenth birthday. That thought alone filled her with dread.

Today was the day that was prophesized to be the end of the world. Or at the very least the end Azarath as she knew it. Raven wished that she was only being melodramatic, but unfortunately, she wasn't. Her father Trigon, a literal Demon, was prophesized to travel to this world using Raven to ground his portal to destroy her world and then after he was done, he would move through the rest of the universe.

Raven knew this from a young age and was resigned to the fact that she would die today. While the prophecy itself didn't say she would die, it was assumed that the use of that much power would result in her death.

But before Raven could even get out of bed her mother appeared at the doorway.

"Raven, come quickly. Get dressed and grab your cloak." Without any other statements she left the room.

Raven, not one to disobey her mother, quickly got dressed into a black jumpsuit, black knee – high lace up boots, black gloves, and a black cloak with a purple interior. She then quickly arranged her dark purple, almost black, looking hair into a single French braid that ended at her lower back.

Within a couple minutes she was out the door and found her mother throwing things into a rucksack. Raven paused at the doorway and then called for mother "Mama, what are you doing?"

"I found a way to save you. You will need this. Now follow me." Aurelia shoved the now full rucksack at Raven.

"But this was prophesized, how can you-"

"Shush, don't argue. Now sit here." Aurelia then gently shoved her daughter to sit in the center of circle that was drawn on the floor with ash.

Raven look up at her mother's almond eyes, they were red and she looked exhausted, but incredibly determined. Aurelia's long black hair was tied into a bun, her white robe had smudges, of what Raven assumed was ash, and her always present locket laid on the outside of her clothes. In the locket it held a picture of the two of them laughing. While Azarath did not have many earthly possessions on it, there were a couple that were permitted. One of those things was a polaroid camera. Ever since Raven was born, Aurelia had taken a picture of the two of them every year. The picture in the locket currently held a picture of Raven and her mother making bread. They were both smiling covered in flour and full of life.

As Raven was consumed by the memory, she was suddenly brought back to reality by the thought of her father. "What about Trigon?"

Aurelia turned from where she was standing by a table and said with a vengeful smile "Don't you worry about him. I finally figured out a way to get rid of him for good."

Before Raven could ask any more questions the ground began to shake. The prophecy was beginning.

"No time for questions Raven. Always know that I love you. Live your life to fullest and never stop fighting for what you believe in." Aurelia then took the locket off her neck and put it over Ravens. She smiled one more time at Raven and then she started to read off of a paper that Raven hadn't noticed before.

Raven sat there, stunned. Not knowing what to do. She was holding onto the rucksack her mother handed to her and she began to see a black dome begin to form around her. As the dome grew a pressure in her forehead began to form.

"Mom, no. Stop-"

Before she could say anything else the pressure on her forehead began to be unbearable and she quickly lost consciousness.

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Raven woke up laying on snow.

She had never felt snow before, it was really cold. But she knew that, it was just weird how cold it was. As she sat up, she saw something purple lying on the ground in front of her. It was her chakra stone. It must have fallen off during the…

Wait.

Where was she?

Raven quickly picked up the stone and put it her locket. She then put the locket inside her shirt. Raven then grabbed her rucksack and began to look around.

She was surrounded by ice and snow. It was a completely foreign landscape. Raven tried to think about where she might be. All she could think about was the stories her mother told her about earth. Her mother had tried to explain the world in which she came from. She told her about how she never knew her birth family and was raised by adoptive parents. They had lived in the city of San Francisco, and as a person of Chinese descent she was able to feel a connection with her community. Her parents had tried to control her and Aurelia did not respond well to that. And by the age of 18 she had joined a cult that focused a bit too much on the darker side of magic.

One thing led to another, and Raven was born. She was half-demon, half-Chinese.

Raven continued with this line thought until she saw something move across the water.

There was a boat of some sort. No, it was a canoe. She saw a boy and girl in a canoe. The boy was using a spear to fish, or least he was attempting to and the girl was looking at the water.

She then heard, just barely, the boy say "It's not getting away from me this time."

Raven let a sigh of relief; she could understand them. That would have made this whole experience ten times harder. She wondered if her mother's magic allowed her to immediately understand the language of the land, but unfortunately, she could never get that answer.

Raven just stood there and continued to observe them as they flowed along.

The boy then continued on with his one – sided conversation. "Watch and learn Katara. This is how you catch a fish."

But then, the girl, Katara, raised her hand in a flowy manner and a ball of water that contained a fish rose out of the ocean.

She was controlling the water.

Raven was fascinated by this display of magic. She wondered if there was anyone in this world that had powers like her. Raven had magic that was fairly unpredictable. It was only due to the strict regimen that Raven was raised in that she was able to achieve such control. Raven's powers were telekinetic, mainly. She did have some shape shifter ability but she primarily used her telekinesis.

The girl in the canoe then called for the boy, who's name, she assumed was Sokka, "Sokka, Look!"

"Shh, Katara. You're gonna scare him away. Mmm. I can already smell it cooking."

"But, Sokka, I caught one."

The girl then moved the bubble of water over, to what Raven assumed was a basket, but then the boy moved his spear back and ended up popping the bubble. The water went all over the boy and the fish quickly jumped into the ocean. This immediately set the children off, they began arguing with one another.

Raven could help but laugh.

The children went from bickering at one another to looking up at Raven.

Their eyes quickly found hers.

Raven raised her hand and said "Hey, how's it going?"

Sokka looked at her blankly but Katara was able to recover "Uhh, hi. I wasn't Waterbending by the way."

Sokka then looked frantically between his sister and Raven. "Yeah no, it was a weird artic phenomenon. It happens all the time here."

Raven smiled at their horrible lying. She assumed that magic was not widely accepted here and played along. "Okay, I saw nothing. "

"Uhh, so where you going?" The girl asked, gesturing to her rucksack.

Raven looked down at the rucksack in her hand, then back to the girl.

"Wherever the nearest town is?" Raven replied with a shrug.

Sokka then looked at Katara, then back at Raven. "We don't have any town's around here. But our village is not too far away. Do you want to come with us?"

Raven inwardly sighed in relief, she then smiled at them and said "Sure."

The boy and girl then began rowing the canoe to edge of the ice sheet that Raven was on. Once they were parked beside it, Raven walked over and set her bag in the canoe.

"So stranger, what's your name?" Sokka asked while raising his hand in way of helping her into the canoe.

Raven took his hand and gently stepped in. "Raven, what's yours?"

She felt fairly confident that she knew both their names, but she decided to follow normal introductory social norms. The girl, looking pretty peeved all of a sudden, replied "I'm Katara, he's my brother, Sokka. What are you doing here? Are you a Fire Nation spy?"

Sokka once again quickly looked at Raven then at Katara, realization brightening his face. "Hey, are you? You kind of look Fire Nation?"

Raven stared at them, looking confused "Wait, what? No, I'm not a Fire Nation spy. Look, just take me back to your village and I'll leave. I don't plan on staying, and I promise I won't mention anything."

Raven didn't want any trouble, and these children were seeming more and more paranoid by the minute.

Sokka glared at her for a minute, and then said "I'm going to trust you. But I don't want any funny business. Got it?"

"Sure." Raven replied as she rolled her eyes.

As they began to move, to what Raven assumed was their village, she felt presence on her back. Katara had been staying quiet behind her. When Raven glanced back at her all she could see was silent judgement in her bright blue eyes. Raven internally sighed, yep, this was going to be a long boat ride. But before they could argue even more, they were caught by a current.

Sokka then turned back to them and yelled "Hold on tight." And began paddling frantically.

"Go left." Katara yelled, but it was already too late. The canoe was now bouncing off of the icebergs that littered this section of the ocean, until they finally got stuck between two of them. The action of being stuck threw the three of them out of the canoe, surprisingly including Raven's rucksack. They now landed on a neighboring iceberg. Then once they were sprawled onto the white surface, they heard a crunch, and they realized the canoe was smashed to pieces.

Katara then groaned "I told you to go left."

"I did go left. I knew I should have left you home. Leave it to you to screw things up."

Raven tried to get a word in by saying "Hey, I think that's a bit uncalled for."

But then Katara turned to her and said "Stay out of this, Rae-ven, or whoever you are."

"Hey, don't talk to her like that." Sokka exclaimed.

Katara, obviously getting angrier "I'll talk to her however I like. And like your one to talk. You are the most sexist, immature, nutbrained-"

With every word she used to describe her brother, she was gesturing with her arms. They moved in wide arcs. But Raven began to realize that she was moving the water around them.

Before Raven could do anything to calm her, Katara continued "Ah! I'm embarrassed to be related to you!

-CRACK-

Ever since Mom died, I've been doing all the work around camp, while you've been off playing soldier."

-CRACK-

"Ah…Katara…"Sokka said weakly.

"I even wash all the clothes. Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you. Not pleasant."

-Crack-

Now, a bit more frantically Sokka yelled "Katara! Settle down!"

But Katara was on a roll and Raven was almost positive that anything that she said probably wouldn't have helped. "No! That's it. I'm done helping you. From now on, you're on your own!"

-CRACK-

It was this final crack that split the iceberg in half.

Thankfully the patch of ice they were standing on was really solid and they just floated farther out. But once the iceberg slowed down, Sokka commented "You went from weird to freakish, Katara."

Raven couldn't take it anymore "Hey, knock it off. That was amazing Katara. You have some real power there."

It was as if the siblings forgot that she was there. Their faces went pale and Raven smiled. She then placated them "I mean, that was a really weird time for an iceberg to split, am I right?"

Sokka nodded weakly, "Right."

But then, once again, they were interrupted. A bright blue light began to rise from the ocean. It was an orb of ice that was glowing blue. Weird.

It rose to the surface and settled on right on top.

They were now all staring at this glowing orb shaped iceberg. But Raven was the first to realize "Hey, you guys, I see someone in there."

There was a boy sitting inside the iceberg. This boy looked really young. He was sitting or hovering cross – legged and there was some large creature in there with him. Once Raven brought attention to him, he opened his eyes, they were glowing.

Katara then exclaimed "He's alive. We have to help." She grabbed Sokka's weapon that was strapped to his back and ran to the iceberg by hopping on small floating ice chunks. Sokka exclaimed a brief complaint, but no one really paid attention. Katara just started hitting the orb with it. Both Sokka and Raven quickly followed behind Katara.

But after one hit to many, the orb cracked open. A huge explosion of energy came out, and for some reason it was all centered at Raven.

Raven, who had her rucksack tied to her back like a backpack, was thrown into the air and across the white expanse. All she saw was a shot of bright light streaming into the air.

She tried to access her powers to attempt to fly. But they weren't quite working. She kind of felt them beginning to work as she began to descend but they didn't work fast enough. She hit the ground hard, but she was sure that she most likely would have died if she hadn't accessed that small bit of her power. And that was the last stream of thought she had before she once again lost consciousness.

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Zuko was standing on the top deck of his boat. He was so tired of the cold, but it was better than the stuffy cabins underneath him. He saw a bright light hit the sky. It was a giant column that couldn't be missed for hundreds of miles around them.

"Finally." He muttered to himself.

He kept looking at the column and then he saw a speck of black fly through the air. The speck became larger and larger until Zuko could see that it was the form of a human. The person flew through the air and landed not too far off in the distance. That was just too unusual to ignore. Hopefully it would lead him closer to the Avatar. Whatever or whoever caused that light must know something.

"Head after that." He exclaimed to the crew.

He heard a chorus of "Yes, my prince." And the boat began to set course for the figure, hopefully the person wasn't dead.

It didn't take very long to get the person's location.

Turns out it was girl. While this girl did have some unusual clothes, personal effects, and odd hair and eye colors she overall looked Fire Nation. Her clothes were vaguely reminded him of men's clothes, her hair and face reminded him of many Fire Nation women he grew up with. This led to the unfortunate conclusion that she could not be the Avatar. The Avatar was an Airbender who had tattoo's and was most likely really old by now.

Zuko quietly approached the girl, she was obviously not conscious but other than that he could not see any injuries. He yelled for one of his men to grab her and bring her back to the boat.

He may no longer have the honor of his nation but he wasn't a monster.

Iroh, who had stayed on the boat during this excursion, nodded in approval as they brought the girl and her things back to the boat.

"You can take the girl to my room; I will be staying with you until she has recovered."

Zuko grumbled to himself, but agreed with the placement. Oddly enough Iroh's room was perfect for adjusting it to a prison or at the very least it can be locked from the outside as well the inside (this can be done with two different lock systems, one facing inward and one outward) and until they knew more about this mystery woman, they will have her under the highest security.

Zuko and the crew kept a watchful eye for anything unusual, a.k.a. back to normal. The unknown girl continued to be unconscious, but according to the ship's healer she seemed healthy and that they should give her more time to rest. So, over the next day or so they kept moving.

Eventually they stopped by an old Fire Navy ship. It was layered in booby traps, which was the perfect trap for anyone who wanted to steal any of the remaining equipment left on the boat.

Zuko began his day by doing his daily exercises when a fire work was set off.

Finally, one of the traps worked. Zuko grabbed his telescope and brought it over to the wreckage. He saw figure holding another jumping down dozens of feet of snow to get to the ground. This person was obviously using the air to help them down.

Zuko then said to himself "The last Airbender. Quite agile for his old age. Wake my uncle! Tell him I found the Avatar. As well as his hiding place."

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A/N: Hey… End of the first chapter. How did it go? It was a lot fun to write this and I'm really excited to see where this goes.

And as ATLA does,

TO BE CONTINUED…