Chapter 5

Remembrance of the Blood Bender

Kane walked out on the front porch and saw Zuko practice his Fire Bending. Or was he just mad? He was shooting fire everywhere and didn't even know what he was aiming at. He missed Kane by an inch.

"Hey watch it will ya?"

He looked up and saw Kane leaning over the rail of the roof. "What the heck is the matter with you?" She asked swinging her legs over and let go doing a flip in the air and landing as soft as a cat onto the ground.

"It's none of your business," he said flatly and looked away. Kane leaned over and looked him straight in the eye.

"Dude, you were just in a fight with your uncle, no?"

"Not my uncle."

"Oh, you mean her."

He smiled and said, "Yeah her."

"Seesh can't you two get along. Ya'll are both Fire Nation right?"

"It's not like that. She's like you. She wasn't born into the Fire Nation. She still thinks I'm…"

"Evil, a brute, cruel, a destroying monster, bastard…"

"Ok, you can stop now."

"I'm just telling you what people first think of the Fire Nation, they," she paused and became real sad as she looked down. "They don't understand anything you've been through. Any of the though times. You might be different but you're still human. You can still feel sadness, anger, fear, love, and harm." She laid a hand on her arm. Old memories crossed her mind and she turned and left.

Zuko looked surprised. "Where are you going?"

"I would say home but I have none, so I'm just going to go into the woods to think," she said turning her head. Her eyes where hidden but he saw the tears run down her cheek, and then she ran toward the woods.

He turned around and screamed. There was Rao hanging upside down from the door and John just leaning against it.

"Where is she gong?" Rao asked coxing her head to the right.

"To think."

"Did you get in a fight with her too?"

"NO! She just said something about the Fire Benders being treated different then she touched her arm and ran off."

Rao looked just as sad as Kane had. "I get it now. Zuko, there is something you need to know about Kane. She doesn't do her Fire Bending in public."

"Well, I could see why not so, what is the problem?"

John sighed because she had heard the story amongst the Freedom Fighters when Rao arrived. "You might want to sit down."

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Kane dropped on her knees by a stream and began to cry as the memories of her childhood back home filled her head.

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A small Kane went chasing after ball and fell into mud. She wasn't but the age of five. She looked up and sighed. With her Earth Bending she got the dirt off. She looked around and saw a gang of boys picking on a dog.

Kane grew outraged and she went over to the boys. "Leave the dog alone, Jude." The leader, the biggest boy, looked up and grinned. "And what are you gong to do about it, Kane?" Kane took a deep breath and blasted him with Earth Bending. Jude, being an Earth Bender as well, easily slapped it aside.

This out raged Kane even more. She then used Water Bending, but there was also a Water Bender amongst them and they easily slapped it aside. Air Bending was next. None of the boys were Air Benders. The others were warriors. But they easily brushed that aside because she was still learning.

They began to laugh at her and started to come at her with full force. Then what she used Fire Bending to get them away. This scared the boys. They began to run. One of them had been scorched badly.

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"Wow, I didn't know she burned anyone," Zuko said.

"She felt horrible about it and disgraced. But she didn't think they were gong to get revenge on her," Rao said.

"What did they do?"

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Kane looked into the water saw the face of Jude and the memory flash in the water. She splashed the water clearing the image, wishing she could do that with her memories.

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Kane had healed the dog a week later and he now went back to his own village. Kane was outside doing her chores. The boys knew this was their chance. None of the adults were around and Kane would never do Fire Bending or any other Bending around the house for fear of tearing it down.

They came at her from all sides. She went down in an instant and couldn't get back up. They beat her and slashed her with whips and rocks. Jude then got out a knife. His brother stood beside him grinning with his arm wrapped up. She knew it was him she scorched.

"Which arm did she use to burn you with?"

"Her right one, Jude."

Jude grinned and jammed the knife in her arm. She let out a screaming pain. Until then she had made no sound just took the beating like it was normal. Now she was hurt and in raged.

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"They jammed a knife in her arm! No wonder she was outraged!"

"Yes but that's not the worst of it," John said.

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"NO STOP I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER I'LL DO ANYTHING TO ERASE THIS MEOMRY" Kane screamed to the sky. It returned her feelings by raining. Kane cried harder and slammed her fist in the ground, splashing mud on her face and arms, but she stayed just as she was. Gasping for breath as she fought to keep the memory away of fear of what might happen.

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Her birthmarks that they had always made fun of were now glowing. Her eyes flashed and her blood seemed to glow too.

The boys backed away in fear of their lives. But it was too late; Kane came at them with full force. She used Fire Bending most of all. The boys ran in fear of their lives.

She caught them one by one. She showed no mercy as they had done for her. She got Jude and his brother first. She blood came swirling into her hands as she attacked them with it.

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"She did Blood Bending?" Zuko jumped to his feet knocking over his chair in surprise.

Upon hearing the crash of the chair and the word Blood Bending, Iroh ran in the room.

"WHO IS DOING BLOOD BENDING?"

Rao sighed and quickly told the story over again to Iroh.

"That poor girl."

"Yes the Avatar can do it as well because he can do all Bendings. The blood being a liquid for water, the pain for fire, the swiftness for air, and the burying for earth, that all makes one Bending."

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She stuck all the boys with it, bringing them down and knocking them out. That was the first any of them ever got so close to death, and would probably be the last because they were hanging on by a thread.

Kane's anger and covered her eyes and finally when she saw what she had done it was too late. She came hurling back to the ground and ran over to the body of Jude and started to cry. She didn't want him to die.

Mamoru came up to her and looked at the sight around him. He knew she discovered the hidden power he had tried to hide from her.

"Mamoru, I don't want him to die."

"Blood heals into a scab. Because Blood Bending is needed by blood it too can be healed."

Kane knew what she had to do.

She quickly drew the last of her strength from the last drop of blood and closed her eyes. Soon everything grew quite and still. The drop of blood rushed out and quickly spread through all the boys.

All the boys woke up and saw Kane down on the ground. Her body was lying across Jude's. She had to use all her strength to save him.

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"They treated her like an out cast, but they respected her for what she did. She gave a lot of blood to bring them back. A lot more than they thought, every now and then the memory comes back and with that the Blood Bender wakes up again. She fainted a lot after that too," Rao said finishing it. "They soon went off to fight in the war. They were twelve when that happened."

They heard a noise come from the woods. Here came Kane staggering back into the land. Zuko got up to go help her.

"Stay away!" she snapped. "I don't want to hurt you," she said in almost a whisper.

Zuko inched closer to her. "STOP, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE BLOOD BENDER CAN COME OUT ANY MINUTE NOW, I CAN'T CONTOL IT!"

Her eye flashed a deep shade of maroon. Zuko quickly slammed her to the ground. But it didn't help she began to fight him.

Rao and John quickly went into battle mood, but Iroh stopped them. "Watch, this is the first time Zuko cared about someone. I think we should let him handle this."

Kane and Zuko were now in sitting position, their legs under them. Zuko had Kane by the shoulder pushing her down so she couldn't get up.

"Kane snap out of it!"

"Zuko that isn't Kane anymore, it's the Blood Bender insider her," John yelled.

Rao looked at John, "This is the first time I have ever seen you serious."

"Well, this is kind of serious don't you think," she said sarcastically.

That isn't Kane anymore, it's the Blood Bender insider her. That means Kane is insider the Blood Bender.

"Zuko, get away from me I can't protect you from this. I can't control it!" he heard Kane say, he knew she was fighting it. He wrapped his arms around her pulling her close to him.

"I know how it feels. To lose someone, to lose honor, and to lose a home.I know that it is difficult to make it through it, especially when you try to do it alone. But I found someone who is special to me. Someone I am about to lose if I don't help her fight. And I am not going to run away like a coward, I'm here to help you Kane. I'll protect you from anything that comes in your way."

Kane's muscles began to relax. Her arms wrapped around Zuko and she buried her face into his him and cried. He ran his hands through her hair. "I won't ever leave you alone Kane. I will always be there to help. I promise you won't have to fight alone.

Kane went to sleep exhausted from the lost of blood. And they just sat there. "I didn't know Zuko was so kind. I am so going to get him on this," John said from their hiding place. That broke the moment for Iroh, Rao, and John's section.

"John, I thought you learned that Fire Benders are the same as everyone else."

"I know but this is Zuko we are talking about!"

They bickered back there as Kane slept peacefully in Zuko's lap. I won't ever leave you alone Kane. I will always be there to help. I promise you won't have to fight alone.

I promise I'll protect you too, no matter what.

Ok Avatar ending music when a good thing happens, (you know the one I'm talking about I think it was in eppy two?) and we hear Rao and John bicker and while it fades out and we see the sun coming out as it sets. Well I finally finished it. Yeah! Hope you liked it.