A Note: The character Rin Hiwasaki and her kin, as well as Neeko Island, are copyrighted to me. All other things are copyrighted to the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Kin is just another word I use for family and closefriends.
Chapter Two
Rin stopped before the group of people which stood outside the door to her home. Marine, the girl from before, walked towards her with Furtado on her shoulder. "We will miss you," she said in a sad voice. Rin's face did its best to form a complete smile, but it wasn't enough to keep Marine from tearing up. Marine walked back to the group and let her older brother wrap his arms around her for comfort. Rin's father stepped up this time, but said nothing until he held his hand out. He grabbed Rin's wrist and she opened it up. The other hand of her father was placed upon the open palm. Something soft yet cold dropped into her hand. Rin blinked as she looked at the trinket. It was a small, circular amulet that held the Fire Nation emblem on one side and the Water emblem on the other, and was connected to a black silk ribbon. Rin's eyes grew wide as she placed it upn her neck.
A crowd followed Rin to a large barn-like building. Inside was a rather large bird. Rin walked silently inside and alone. it was dark until she saw two large, round eyes luminate the area. They were yellow and created a light strong enough to illuminate a dark forest when needed. Two wings spread outwards to show the titanic size of the bird creature. In fact, it was a bird but with one difference, it has two sets of legs like a horse instead of one. The talons clawed at the ground, the wings flapped cautiously. Rin approached it with a calm head, but trembling hands. She reached out and patted the creature's beak and neck.
Not a second later was she lifted into the air on the beast's back, and the wind in her face. The crowd outside were bunched up once more, cheering and waving good-bye and good luck.
It'd been a few days since she last saw her home on Neeko Island. Rin touched the pendant that hung safely around her neck. The island of Kyoshi wasn't that bad. She'd only been there for a night or two dressed in the attire of a normal person. Rin had had to practice Bending outside the village where no one would notice her, and she only wore a plain dress and shirt so as to not make an enemy of the people in the village because it seemed they held a grudge against Benders or any outsider.
Rin spent most of her time in the market. Buying food and other items of need, she was getting ready to travel again. To be frank, she had no idea of what to do on this 'mission' she was supposedly prophecied to do. Before heading back to her camp, Rin had noticed that there were no men warriors... only women. At times she would examine their fighting style and give a try at doing it herself when no one was looking.
Only two more days past and Rin was all ready to go once more. A disturbance within the village distracted her, however, from her plan. There was a rumor of a travelling group of three saying that one of them was the Avatar. Out of her own curiousity, Rin decided to investigate.
Appearantly what they were saying was true; about the Avatar. The twelve-year-old kid had been the first ever Airbender she'd seen before, andthat meant that he possibly could be the Avatar. He travelled with two people from the South Pole Water Tribe, siblings no doubt, becuase they seemed to argue a lot. Rin felt her stomach grow heavy with butterflies -she wished she had a sibling.
Later during the day she learned that the Airbender's name was Aang, the girl was Katara, and her brother was Sokka. Only two showed signs of being a Bender, the other was just an idiot tag-along.
Rin was watching the light dance across the water, when something caught her eye. Aang was riding the giant Unagi.
He could get hurt! she thought.
(( I am going to continue this a little later... ))
Another Note: I will continue updating this story, but only if thereviews I recieve show that this is a good fan-fiction so far.
