Hi. This was originally going to be one chapter, but it was freakishly long, so i divided it up into two (maybe three) sections.

Also, if you were wondering, it took so long to post this 1) because I am writing other FanFictions, 2), because it is so long, and 3), I miiiiiiight have accidentally binge-reading a FanFictions that I found. Maybe.

Disclaimer: I do not own A:TLA


Concordia's POV


I tried to stay calm as I saw the banished fire nation prince's navy ship crossing the plains, obviously headed toward the water passageway to the south pole. Instead, I bended a large sphere out of the water and ran toward the ship, creating hundreds of tiny ice daggers to sabotage the ship with. I did not turn back as I raced to the end of the ship and threw them all at the back of the ship, making it look as if hundreds of tiny, angry bees had attacked it. The rhinos pulling the ship and their riders did not turn, thankfully. Neither did anyone who happened to be riding in the ship as this happened. I heard Chasca earthbending and I ducked as a couple of boulders slammed into the iron, creating a bang that was sure to send some sound waves toward the rhinos and their riders, but fortunately, Chrystal bended the air so that none of the sound waves could reach any of them. Clove took her turn attacking by melting a part of the ship, and by then, we saw a bald head with a ponytail and a scar peering through one of the holes that some of the ice-bullets had made. Zuko. I turned over to the campsite, to the A-year, who were standing around stupidly, not knowing what to do. I nodded to the rest of the C-year, and ran back over to the A-year, and told them to start packing up, this was a code yellow.

"Wait," Abilene said, "What does code yellow men?"

"It means not the worst ever, but still bad," I explained while motioning to hurry to the rest of the A-year.

They immediately started going into their tents and packing up, hauling everything onto Salt. I patted her head, gave her a quick peck on her cheek, and rushed back to the growing battle between seasonbenders and fire nation soldiers.


Alinta's POV


We were badly outnumbered, but it looked like Alya had a few tricks up her sleeve. As soon as we finished packing up, we left Alinta to fight from the skies on Salt while the rest of us fought from the ground. Zuko was blasting like crazy from the unstable refuge of his damaged ship while us seasonbenders fought like crazy. Alya was standing a little bit off to the side, and Zuko blasted at her. She moved, and the blast lit a small section of the ship on fire, but it quickly burned out. I ran in with two sudden fire blasts, and it seemed to work, but only for a second before Zuko ran up to me with two fire daggers and I had to block, then hop to the side as he rammed into me. I had to bullfight him for a few minutes until I heard the triumphant cries of the other seasonbenders. Zuko turned. We won.

Zuko angrily ran towards his damaged ship and frightened crew. We stared back at them, laughing, as they tried to haul the ship the rest of the way with a broken hull. (I think it was a hull. I don't know. The backside of the ship.)

Zuko's crew tried their hardest to get the ship in the water while Zuko barked orders at them all. Poor people. They are fire nation and serving Zuko, but still. They are still humans. Eventually, they hauled the ship into the water and were off, probably to get repairs.

I laughed. "Take that!" I called after them and blasted some fire at them. That probably did nothing, but it doesn't matter.

Instead of celebrating our victory, the C-Year looked solemn. "We need to go, now," Chasca said.

"We're going to the south pole," Concordia said.


Concordia's POV


I guess that the A-Year did not know. They should know. I will tell them on the ride to the south pole.


Nine years earlier… Concordia's POV


Nine-year-old Katara gasped excitedly. "I'm a waterbender! This is so exciting! Do you wonder what I could do if I got better? I could bend rivers! Lakes! Oceans!"

I laughed. I had known that I was a waterbender for a week now. I still wasn't the best, but I wasn't "i'M a WaTeRbEnDeR" material, like Katara. No offense.

As I was chuckling, Katara was making the small hump of water go up, and down. Up, down. (Speaking from the point when I can bend a huge sphere of water and freeze it around a certain banished prince, it wasn't that impressive. But she'll get a bit better, don't worry.)

"Great job," I said, and bended a little hump onto the water that she was bending, making it seem as if a frog was continually rising and falling in the water. We both giggled. It was fun, learning waterbending. And a great thrill to learn that you can waterbend. Our hands moved up and down, and the frog-hump moved up and down.

"Here, I wanna show you a cool move that I'm learning," I said, standing up. I took a wide stance and pushed and pulled the water with my hands.

Katara laughed with glee. "I wanna try!"

"It's harder than it looks," I warned.

We probably looked funny, because Katara's brother, Sokka, was laughing at us.

I stopped. "What's so funny?" I asked, turning towards Sokka's hiding place.

"Oh, nothing," He snickered again. "Just nothing,"

I bended a small sphere of water and threw it at Sokka.

"Hey!" He protested, to no avail. He piled up the snow and clumped together a snowball, and aimed at me. While the snowball was in midair, I bended it back at him. Haha, now all of his ammo would turn against him. I bended his little snow pile at his face, drenching him in snow, meanwhile, Katara was laughing at him. They both ran off to their small village to have a snowball fight. I was going to join, but then Chasca came running up to me. Chasca had just arrived at the south pole, for a week-long vacation. We were immediately friends. We had some sort of connection… (A/N when seasonbenders are born, they don't even know if they are benders, and they usually find out that they are benders before their friends, and once they all know that they are benders, they start to meet each other, like one goes on a vacation and meets another, like Chasca and Concordia. Once they all know each other, they get a vision (from the spirits or something) that they are seasonbenders and that they are a year.)


A few weeks later, Chasca and I were in the Earth kingdom, because she had gone back home and I was visiting her. There was a new girl, Clove, and we also were immediate friends. Another few weeks went by and I was back home, in the south pole, and Chasca and Clove were visiting me, and while we were practicing our bending in our little secret bending area, a girl walked in, (this was Chrystal) and we immediately had a shared vision in which we were all bending, but not only elements but also seasons. (We did not know how we knew, but we did.) I was bending water and spring, Chasca was bending earth and summer, Clove was bending fire and fall, and the girl was bending air and winter. The vision ended, and the girl looked embarrassed and admitted that she was an airbender, and also a winterbender. We all thought that that was cool, and invited her into our friend group, or our year. She introduced herself as Chrystal, and our year was born.


After we were introduced to Chrystal, we came back to the village where Katara lived.

"Hey, Katara!" Chasca said, "We got a new friend!"

"New friend?" Katara asked, "Who?"

We decided not to tell her that she was an airbender, so, "She's a non-bender, named Chrystal," I told her.

"Cool," Katara said.

Chrystal nodded awkwardly. "Hi."

We all practiced bending together, and we all were getting better. Sometimes, when Katara was away, Chrystal could practice airbending. Chrystal mastered airbending easily. I guess she had been practicing before we met her. She finally got good enough that she could winterbend, and we pretended that she was a waterbender. Much to our relief, Katara bought it. If she suspected that Chrystal was an airbender, even worse, found out, bad things would happen.


One day, while we were practicing bending in the village, I faintly smelled smoke. I asked Chasca, Crystal, and Clove to come and help me figure out what it was. We ran across fields of snow and raced over the ice until we found the source. A fire nation navy fleet. I glanced at the flag and identified them as the southern raiders.

"Oh, no," I said quietly. This was not good.

We rushed back to the village, but by then, it was too late. They had taken Katara's mother.


Back to when Concordia was telling the story...


"We thought that Katara's mother was taken," I said, "Turns out, she was killed."

Abilene gasped, then grabbed onto Salt's saddle, as to not fall off. "That's terrible!"

"That's not all," I said.


Three years earlier...


Chasca, Clove, Chrystal, and I wound our way through the rocks. Bao, our flying bison, was getting tired. Hey, you couldn't blame her. She had been flying, with us on her back, for 2 whole days. We had decided to rest, regroup, then continue on foot. Chasca had been earthbending the rock out of our way for the first half-hour, then we decided that we wanted to run and jump like it was parkour. We all laughed at the thought; C-Year, PARKOUR ARTISTS! Fun times, fun times.

"Hey," Chasca said, after a few minutes of silence, other than the sounds of jumping and landing on rocks and panting. "I'm ready to do some earthbending and get ready a rest area with some shade,"

"That sounds like a good idea to me," I said.

Clove and Chrystal nodded, panting.

A few minutes later, we were reclining under an outcropping of earth that Chasca had earthbended for our shade. Well, reclining was a bit of an understatement. We were sprawled out on the earth, enjoying the shade and rest for once.

After what felt like an hour of resting in the shade, I suggested we move on.

That was immediately met with groans of disagreement, Especially from Chasca. "Does that mean that I have to earthbend more?"

Even Bao didn' seem to like the idea of walking. SHe tried to stand up, but she made her legs shake to communicate that she didn't want to walk any further.

"Don't worry, we won't walk, any further," I addressed everyone, even Bao. "It looked like Bao is rested up for some more flying,"

I unpacked some of the hay rations that we had saved, just in case, for Bao. She ate the few handfuls gratefully, the stretched, and walked out of the shelter, ready for us to load onto her back. Once we were all settled in, Bao took off and started flying over the desert.


Abilene yaned, clearly tired from the story. "I wanna find out what happened," she said honestly, "But can it wait for tomorrow? I'm really tired, and it's getting late."

Everyone else looked as if they had just been reminded of the fact, and nodded in agreement. The only one that didn't was Chrystal, who had already laid down on Salt's back and nodded off. It's fine, she was there. She knew the story.


The next morning, I awoke on Salt's back, and realized that we had not landed or let her rest at all through the night.

"Salt," I whispered, climbing over to Salt's head.

She looked up at me proudly as if to say, "I handled that myself, thank you very much."

I grinned. Apparently, she had landed, slept, and took off without even jostling us. Well, no one woke up, and we were roughly in the same spots we were in when we took off.

"Great job," I said, obviously making the flying bison pleased.

"Oh, she's such a big girl now, isn't she?" I turned around to find Chrystal awake, patting Salt's side.

I nodded. I knew today was going to be smooth flying.


Once everyone was awake, I asked what we wanted to do, and everyone agreed that they wanted me to continue on with the story.

"Where was I?" I asked, "Ah, yes, Bao was flying over the desert…"


After hours of flying and giving Bao some walking breaks, we finally reached the serpent's pass. We were deliberately taking the most dangerous way to Ba Sing Se for vacation.

Crossing the serpent's pass was easy enough, the parkour training in the desert was paying off. Then, we came to a part where there was no path, and we decided to do a bending race. We all took our positions, and raced along the section of water. Chasca bended the earth and ran across it, earthbending herself to make her even faster, Chrystal simply flew over with her glider, I made a strip of the water freeze into ice and tried to copy Chasca's technique, but it didn't work. That's fine, I just kept bending. Clove firebended out of her hands and feet, marketing her look like a human rocket, and soaring over the pass. The order in which we came in was: Chasca, Clove, Chrystal, then me. It lost, but that's fine. It was only a race.

We crossed safely and rested at the edge of the desert that surrounded Ba Sing Se. The next day, we packed up and simply flew over on Bao to the wall, then crossed over, with much protest from the guards, to the train station, where we got our tickets and entered the city, Chrystal riding on Bao's back.


We stayed in Ba Sing Se for two months, not in any rush of any kind. Once we left, we headed west, just wandering around in the Earth Kingdom. We eventually decided to vacation at the western air temple, where we found none other than the banished fire Nation prince Zuko himself.

At the time, I didn't know who that might be. "Who is that?" I asked myself, then I figured it out. "Fire Nation." Then, "What are they doing here?"

"What are you mumbling about?" Chrystal asked, "If they are not on our side, so what? If they want to fight, we can take them!" She paused, "At least, I think."

Chrystal's "I think," speech did nothing to lighten my spirits. If anything, it just dampened them.

("No offence, Chrystal," I said.

"None taken," She answered.)

Anyway, we eventually decided to separate, sneak around, and avoid detection at all costs. Well, almost all costs. Nothing too drastic.

We all went in different directions, and we decided that one person should follow Zuko and the rest should scour the area. The person chosen for following Zuko was Chasca. (If you were wondering, yes, we originally thought that it should be Chrystal, since she was an airbender, and we all agreed to that, but then I suddenly had the crazy idea that it should be Chasca and specifically not Chryastal. Because if Zuko caught her and figured out that she could airbend, he would think that she was the Avatar. Luckily, everyone thought that that was also a good idea, but Chrystal's scouring path branched out a lot in hopes that she will be close enough to Chasca, just in case.)

("Maybe you should tell them what you did, Chasca," I suggested.

Chasca shrugged as if to say, "Maybe,")

Well, nothing really interesting happened, except that I found a gold bell thing, and it didn't really look important, so I just left it there and continued my search for nothing in particular. (I did share it with everyone afterwards, but they also passed it off as unimportant.)


"Chasca had a worse time," I said. "Maybe you want to tell what happened to you?"

"Sure," Chasca said.


Haha, nope! I'm saving it for next time! This chapter not cut in two would be SOOOOOOOOO long. I wouldn't want to force that on you. Sorry.

-Saladin2