My Heart Bleeds For You

(AU Kataang FanFic)

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I've never given much thought to how I'd die. But given the fact I can't, it makes since.

Some call us demons, others call us vampires. But me, I always called us family.

My story starts around 14 years ago, I was born to my mother Kya and father Hakoda in a small Southern Water Tribe village. however that is not why they call us monsters.

They call us monsters because, when I was around 7 and my brother 8, we decided to go off and explore the frozen tundra around our village.

In our exploration, we stumbled upon a cave, and us being the stupid and naive kids we were, we explored further into the cave, we then came across a mysterious area of this cave that seemed to be calling us towards it.

It was wired, it was warm, and not frozen. Instead of snow and Ice, the ground was covered in grass and what seemed like a hot spring.

Once we were in the area, it beckoned us to sleep, and looking back on it now, we shouldn't have, but of course… we did.

I know something had to have happened within the time that we fell asleep and the time when that stranger wandered into the cave. But I don't know what.

All me and my brother knew was, when that stranger had woken us up, we felt different, we felt hunger. Unfortunately for that stranger he was there.

We haven't spoken of that day since, whatever happened in that cave changed us. Me in more ways then one, that was also the day I became a waterbender.

And the news of the first waterbender in the Southern Tribe in nearly half a century, easily overshadowed the disappearance of a random man in the tundra.

However for my brother, he wasn't so lucky. It seemed he got the short end of the stick in a way, no bending and double the hunger.

Over the next year, people just chocked up the random disappearances to things like, Polar Leopards, and such. But me and my brother knew the truth.

However the catalyst for our hunger seemed to really kickstart, after the Fire nation raids, the raids that killed our mom.

The raids that made all the men leave for war.

Now for me, it just gave me a sense of revenge, a sense that told me I needed to kill as many Fire Nation troops as possible.

But for my brother, it just seemed to take away an easy source of food, for him those men were the perfect people to disappear in 'hunting accidents'.

So for the next two years we were on a sort of diet I guess, just living normally around the village.

Until that fateful day.

Me and Sokka were out on a fishing trip, and like normal siblings, we started to argue. Apparently in my angered state, somehow we uncovered an iceberg.

And in that Iceberg was a boy, falling back on my non vampiric traits I knew we had to help him, so we ended braking him out.

That's when Sokka made the suggestion that, we could 'make him disappear'. But for some strange reason that I can't really explain, I said no.

Looking back on it, could it have been a sign that I really cared for him? Perhaps. But I can't really be sure.

But either way, after the boy, who we later learned his name was Aang came to, we discovered that he was an Airbender.

We took him back to our village to make sure me would be ok and not freeze to death out there, again to the protests of my brother.

I still don't really know why I was interested in him from so early on, but I suppose that maybe, it was because, ever since the cave situation, people always found us wired I guess. As if we just had a strange energy around us.

However Aang, he treated me, well like a normal kid. A feeling I hadn't felt since before my mother died, it felt like he had eased my hunger, and I could tell that my brother could feel the same thing after getting to know him.

I felt a connection with him, he was the last Airbender, and I was the last waterbender of the southern tribe.

I also learned he had no knowledge of the 100 years war, having been stuck in the iceberg since before the start of the great conflict still raging, he was like a time capsule, of a bygone era, an era of peace and era of nourishment.

An era I longed to see and experience.

When I told Sokka of this he didn't understand, he couldn't comprehend a world were he didn't feel the hunger anymore.

Although I guess it made since, I always had waterbending as an outlet to subdue my hunger. Whenever I felt the desire, I would go and practice, although I wasn't that good due to the lack of other waterbenders. It still helped.

But my brother never had such an outlet.

So I suppose, he just didn't know anything else, and due to that he kept insisting I do things such as take Aang out into the tundra alone and make sure he 'disappeared'.

But I couldn't, Aang was making me happy and I wanted to just let the good times roll, for as long as they would. Aang was the kind of person who made me think that the good times would last forever. But of course the good times can never last forever.

Hunger always returns.