A/N: This is my fan fic. Please be kind.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN AVATAR (but i wish i did)
Prologue
The girl screamed as she watched them drag the woman out of the hut and throw her into the snow. In a ready stance, the soldier grinned and shot flames from his fists as he heard the agony of screams and cries pour out of the village like a waterfall.
The young six-year-old water bender freed herself from the tight grip of the two soldiers and rushed over to the woman's bloody, burned corpse. The last thing she said to the girl was "Be strong! I will always live in your heart!" She had screamed as the fire grazed her skin and she had given the girl one last look goodbye.
She knelt beside the woman and wept into her shoulders, not caring that she was now drenched in blood. Why? She thought. Why did it have to be her! The pain ate through the girl from the inside out.
She looked up and shot water at the man who killed the woman. He looked back with a fire in his eyes. It was an unforgiving look, the most horrifying look that the girl had ever seen. He brought up his foot and kicked her in the ribs, sending her flying backwards. She got up and ran toward him running faster than she ever thought possible and shot five strings of water into his face. He lunged his hand out toward her and grabbed her neck.
The tribe looked away in terror as the poor defenseless girl turned from red, to purple. She gasped for breath and shot water at the soldier and he dropped her yelling horrible things at her. Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind and taken away, far from the tribe, away from the pain and death. All she could do was watch the woman's body fade away as she was dragged helplessly by her brother and father to the nearest forest to hide. It was too late…. She was gone…She would never see her mother again.
