"You want us to do what?" Jay asks unsure if he heard Wu right. "I said I want you to go to another realm to help a old friend." Wu explains calmly to the ninja. They had met in the meeting room after Wu had called for them the room had a map and a table that they would sit around while being briefed. "Uncle Ninjago needs us." Lloyd said. "I have had a vision and it's telling me for the good of all the realms that you need to go and help that one." Wu said sternly. "What is it you need us to do?" Zane asks. "And what is this realm like?" Cole adds.
"First I need to tell you of what I know about the history of the place but I haven't been in a hundred years." Wu said. "Wait how old are you?" Jay asks before being elbowed by Kai. "As I was saying, this is a special realm that has different elements of creation. Here we have fire, ice, earth, and lightning in this realm the four main elements are fire, water, earth, and air and they have people who can control these elements. Though Kai,Nya, and Cole are more skilled and powerful than any of the people who can control it." Wu explains to them. "They also don't only have one in thier realm they have hundreds and thousands of people who can bend as they call it the elements. But there is one who can bend all four of the elements he is known as the Avatar who is the friend I want you to help. You will find him and help him I have given you a picture of him and a scroll I want you to read to him. I must say now that the four nations are very separated between the earth kingdom, fire nation, water tribes, and air nomads. Even though it is common I want you to be careful when using your powers. Last I was there the air nomads were being attacked and I have a feeling that whoever attacked them killed all air benders except Aang." Wu said solemly and there was a moment of silence. "We will help him all the way master." Kai said and the rest agreed. "I am happy to hear that Kai." Wu said. "But what exactly is it you want us to help him with?" Lloyd asks. "You shall learn that once you find him and he reads the scroll to you. Bending is similar to how your powers work but it is also very different because you are more powerful than any water bender, fire bender, or earth bender. But it's the same basics. You shall leave immediately." Wu announces getting up.
The ninja are quick to pack food and fresh clothes though they still aren't sure what it is they're needing to help the avatar with. "Maybe he just needs a ninja's hand?" Lloyd suggests. "Whatever it is I just want to see what type of water benders they got." Nya said. "Yeah but I'm sure we are all more skilled than any of them." Kai said. "Wonder what was so powerful that it wiped out a whole culture?" Zane wonders out loud. "Maybe whatever it was is what the avatar needs our help with." Lloyd said. "Yeah but this kid gets to have tattoos and I can't? Unfair." Jay complains showing them a drawing of Aang that Wu had given them. "Doesn't look like much." Kai comments. "Students it is time to go." Wu said.
They all bow to him and go up onto the deck outside as Wu hands them the realm crystal and they open the portal. "Remember you must be careful they're are powerful people who use that power for evil. You must be aware of everyone you see and find." Wu warns. "Don't worry master we promise you we will be careful." Lloyd said and with that the ninja leap through the portal and it closes behind them.
The ninja tumble out and find themselves in a lush green forest with pine trees. They each get up and shoulder their packs of food with Lloyd putting the realm crystal in his backpack. "So off to find the Avatar?" Lloyd said looking at the group. "Don't think we need to look very far." Jay said. "Why?" Cole asks. Jay points up to the sky and they look up to see a flying bison with a arrow mark on its head. "Come on lets follow it!" Nya said. "It's to closed in to summon our dragons we need to find a open area to summon them." Lloyd said. "Then let's just follow them till we do." Cole said. Agreeing that it was their best course of action the ninja follow the direction the flying bison went in. As they follow it becomes long and pretty soon it becomes dark and they were still in the forest. "Let's make camp for the night." Lloyd said. The ninja practically collapse exhausted from the days events but soon get back up to make camp. "I'll go find some fire wood." Kai said. "Don't get lost hot head we still need you to start the fire." Cole calls out. "Glad that's all I'm good for." Kai calls back jokingly as he walks into the forest.
As he goes deeper and deeper picking up sticks he feels a small rumble in the ground. "What the?" He said and looks around at the dark trees to see if Cole had followed him. Suddenly the earth under him gives way and he falls into a deep pit as he lands on his two feet and he hears a sickening snap in his left leg and he feels a searing pain go through his left leg. He falls to the ground and looks up he would be able to get out of the hole with airjitzu but having a broken leg wasn't going to help the mission. Suddenly a girl with black hair done up in a odd haircut and another older girl with long brown hair and skin look down at him.
"What did I get?" The younger girl asks and Kai realized from the white in her eyes that she was blind. "Could you help me out? Also what happened?" Kai calls up to them. "I'm a earth bender dummy." The younger girl replies with a sassy tone. "Hey I'm not the one who can't tell the difference between human and food!" Kai shouts up at them. "Well with that attitude I'm not getting you out." The girl huffs. "TOPH! He has a broken leg you gotta." The other girl chides. "Go get twinkle toes to do it." Toph shrugs. "Fine. I'll be back with help." The other girl said as she leaves from sight leaving the blind girl with Kai. Seeing that she was blind Kai despite the pain it caused uses airjitzu and gets out of the pit. The blind girl looks around wildly before Kai lands right next to her.
"How did you do that?" Toph said looking right at Kai as he leans against a tree for support. "I climbed." Kai answers calmly. "No you didn't I can sense all movements on the ground you weren't touching the ground and you just lied I can sense it." Toph accuses shoving a finger right at Kai. Before he can argue against it the girl from earlier comes out of the bushes with a boy that had short brown hair and a head ban on. "Umm Katara I thought you said he was in the hole?" The boy asks the girl. She looks at Kai leaning against the tree then back at Toph. "You helped him out?" Katara asks. "No I don't know how but he got out by himself." Toph grumbles. "Still have a broken leg though you think you could lend some medical supplies?" Kai asks. "Oh yes I can heal that up in a second just come with us to our campsite." Katara said. He nods as Katara and the other kid help him limp to the campsite where he finds another boy having trouble starting a fire.
"It just won't light!" He complains. "Sokka could you get me some water Toph broke this guys leg." Katara calls out. "I still want to know how you got out." Toph grumbles. "We can asks that later." The other boy said as he leaned Kai down on a broken log. Sokka hands Katara a jug of water and the girl summons it moving it in the air the same way Nya did. Kai tenses as the girl moves the water down his injured leg and it starts glowing a pale blue and the pain in his leg goes away. Once she puts the water back he slowly gets up feeling normal not a bit of pain. "What was that?" Kai asks. "A form of water bending I'm a water bender and Toph over there is a earth bender." Katara explains and gestures to Toph. "I'm Kuzo I never got your name?" Kuzo said holding out his hand.
Kai was a little hesitant sure they helped him but Kai didn't now what these benders could do he never saw his sister heal anything with water. He takes a risk though and shakes the kids hand. "My names Kai." He said and they all tense and he wonders if they didn't shake hands in this realm.
"Your fire nation!" Sokka yells at him getting out a sword. "What? How can you tell that from a name? I'm not fire nation mostly" Kai asks backing away. "You let a fire nation near us! He could be dangerous!" Sokka yells at the others. He swings his sword at Kai ,who was pretty sure he wouldn't try to actually kill him, decided to airjitzu into the air and lands in a nearby tree branch. Confused Sokka looks up and crashes into the trunk of the tree. "Your a air bender!?" Kuzo asks with a gleam in his eyes. "Sorry buddy I'm not a air bender." Kai said not moving from his spot in the tree. "So that's how he got out!" Toph exclaims. "But you just floated up thier." Katara said. "I'm not a air bender." Kai said again more insistent. "But you did the same thing I can do." Kuzo said making a ball of wind under him and hoping on it and going up to meet Kai. His eyes go wide as he realizes who Kuzo really is. "Your Aang the avatar." Kai exclaims. Aang nods his head and that convinces Kai to get back onto the ground with Aang looking excited. "Your a air bender this is awesome!" Aang exclaims. "I told you bud I'm not a air bender I just used a special form of martial arts that few can master." Kai said gently. "He's telling the truth Aang." Toph said and Aang goes sad and he looks like he's about to cry. "Then what are you?" Sokka asks giving Kai the evil eye.
"I was sent here to help you I'm not sure why but I Just was me and with my friends. Oh FSM my friends!" Kai exclaims in all the confusion and pain in his leg he forgot about the others. "Wait!" Toph yells putting her hands out to her sides and everyone goes silent in the dark night. "What?" Sokka asks. "There's screaming I think it's your friends there in danger." Toph explains. That sends Kai into a panic he shouldn't have left them he runs through the woods with the other kids calling after him. He ignores it and keeps running till he sees and smells fire at their campsite. It's not a campfire though as he sees soldiers in uniform attack his friends who must've been asleep and caught off guard or more likely it was a sneak attack. Before he could jump in though to help them he gets pulled back by the other kids.
"I need to help them! They're my family." Kai said getting out of Sokka's grip. "Those are fire nation soldiers and it looks like most of them are fire benders even worse." Sokka whispers as he looks at all the ninja being tied up despite their thrashing. Every time the ninja get loose of their grip the soldier closest sends a blast of fire at them and knocks them down. Nya tries shooting a blast of water back at them but her source is limited whereas the soldiers can just keep summoning fire. "She's a water bender!" Katara said excitement clear in her face. Nya does run out of water and with the soldiers mainly focusing her and they pin her to the ground pinning her hands. Cole summons a rock spire and knocks five of the thirty soldiers into trees but that makes them focus their attention on him while they bind Nya shoving fire close enough that it didn't burn her but close enough that she didn't dare move. "Take down the earth bender!" One of them screams out. "I got to help my sister!" Kai argues. Just as he said that a fire soldier sends a blast at Cole and it gives his whole arms third degree burns and he falls to his ground screaming in pain. Distracted by their teammates pain the rest of the ninja are knocked down and bounded.
"We will have a great use for a earth bender they come at a high reward and you look to be in the perfect condition for the mines or slums though it might be a while before those burns make it possible to bend." The leading captain said crouching down to be at eye level with Cole who was barley able to register much with the burning of both his whole arms. "Stay down!" Sokka whisper yells at Kai who was fighting against him to help his friends. "Why shouldn't I?" Kai hisses at Sokka. "Not even Iroh of the royal family could take on thirty highly trained fire benders by himself !" Katara chides pleading with Kai through her eyes that he stays down. "You know I heard that any water benders found need to have their wings clipped in this case you need to have your own wings clipped or burned. Any type of bending that isn't fire bending is savage and should only be used to serve fire." A captain said with a evil glint as he summons a ball of fire and the soldiers holding Nya thrusts out her hands towards the fire and the other ninja go wild against their bonds yelling out he better not burn her. The look of terror in her eyes as the flames got closer was the last straw for Kai and he diminishes the flames in the captains hands. He looks at it with confusion as Kai steps out of the bushes despite team avatar trying to hold him back and the ninja all look relieved especially Nya. "Who are you?" The captain asks as the soldiers pull Nya back. "You leave them all alone your lucky I don't take you all down right now for burning my friend." Kai threatens a fire in his eyes.
"We have all been trained in the pure art of rage and destruction in fire bending what could you do to defeat us?" The captain laughs at Kai. "I can do more than you." Kai answers. With one swift motion Kai sends several fire balls at the soldiers who were caught off guard by this and he hears team avatar gasp in surprise behind him. "Your a fire bender? You should not be fighting us you should be helping us! You have no honour." The captain said. "Honour? Where's the honour in attacking and hurting those who cannot defend themselves? You have them bound yet you continue to hurt them you hurt my little sister!" Kai screams at them sending a wall of fire at the soldiers who block it themselves with great difficulty. "So die with no honour." The captain said and sends a blast of fire at Kai who easily dodges it like a dance and sends a wave of fire through his foot that takes down five of the soldiers as they scream in pain at thier new burn scars. Kai smirks since they apparently weren't fire proof like he was. He uses that knowledge to his advantage as he side steps and creates fire behind a line of soldiers taking them off guard as there uniforms catch fire and they run into the woods screaming in pain. Kai manages to take out most of the soldiers when a couple break off getting out blades and aim them at his friends he creates a wall of fire around them. This takes the soldiers off guard as fire goes in thier faces and they are blinded temporarily but they still run around in circles unsure of where they are. Soon it's only Kai and the captain who is practically steaming but Kai had barely broken a sweat and he can hear his friends cheer him on behind him.
"That's it I challeng you to a Agnikai." The captain said pointing a finger at Kai. "Has part of my name in it but other than that never heard of it." Kai replies with a smug but confused expression. "It's a fight to the death or lose all your honour each fate is hard." The captain said suprised that such a skilled fire bender didn't know what that was. "Then bring it on." Kai challenges getting into a fighting stance. The captain does the same and for a tense minute it's completely quiet except for thier breathing and the sound of the crackling wall of fire that was protecting his friends. Kai sends the first blast the first one was aimed at the captain's head and he ducks but it leaves his lower section open and Kai sends a blast in that direction knocking him off his feet. He quickly gets up and sends a blast of fire through his foot multiple blasts in fact aimed to kill Kai dogdes most them but the last one hits him in the stomach taking the wind out of him. The captain takes the moment of hesitation and sends another blast using all his anger and energy into it making it so bright it almost blinds the watchers and it hits Kai right in the chest. He gets knocked all the way into a tree at least ten feet from where he was standing. His friends cry out for him and the captain laughs thinking himself victorious that he has killed him.
But is sourly mistaken as a flame climbs up his leg and he screams at the pain trying to put the flame out. In the moment of confusion he gets knocked back by a blast of fire hotter than he's ever felt or made right in the face. He looks up clutching the left side of his face as he crawls back in fear to see the fire bender standing. Other than the massive hole of burned away clothing where the captain had hit him there wasn't the slightest indication of the burn mark that should've killed him at the very least given a scar. "Leave now I win." He snarls at the captain hands blazing. "Who are you?" The captain asks cowering in fear. "You May be a fire bender but I am the master of fire and don't you forget it!" He snarls at the captain who runs off still clutching part of his face.
Kai turns around to see the others and goes to untie them checking over Nya who assured him she was fine. "Cole how you feeling?" Jay asks Cole who was clutching his arms. "Bad really bad it burns." Cole answers. "Katara! Can you heal him please?" Kai calls out into the bushes. The ninja look over to see team avatar slowly exit the bushes and Katara moves forward. She crouches down next to Cole who looks to Kai for reassurance and he nods his head as Cole let's the strange girl take his arms. Katara unscrews her cork and gets out the water the ninja gasp and Nya's eyes go wide in excitement like Katara's did. Katara moves the water over Cole's arms and it glows a pale blue as the ninja watch his third degree burns heal. By the time she puts the water back there isn't even a scar left and Cole looks amazed as he gets up and moves his arms slowly. "What was that?" Cole asks looking at Katara who smiles shyly. "A form of water bending I healed your burns." Katara answers. "She did the same for my leg when someone dropped me in a hole." Kai said glaring a Toph.
"I have no regrets." Toph answers with a shrug. "Wait a minute where did you come from? Kai what were you doing?" Lloyd asks. "This is going to take some explaining." Kai mutters suddenly feeling very tired from the fight but he did his best not to show it. "What I want to know is why a fire bender helped us?" Sokka asks and his group sends him a glare. "And why did they attack us? We did not have anything of value nor did we pose a threat." Zane asks clearly confused. "They're fire benders that's all you need to know." Toph said. With the confused glances the ninja give the team avatar can tell they weren't around from here. "Come on lets go and eat." Aang said gesturing for the ninja to follow and they do with their own supplies on their backs to the team avatar's campsite. It was okay with the giant bison close by snoring quite loudly.
They all sit down and Kai lights the campfire making the avatar team a little tense but they try not to show it as they all sit down. "So how did you do all that?" Aang asks Kai. "I just can it was honestly pretty easy that guy wasn't much of a match." Kai answers with a shrug. "They were for us sent a blasts right at us before we had a chance to react. We tried holding them off but it was no use we were outnumbered and caught off guard. Thank FSM you showed up you did or else they might've roasted us alive." Lloyd said giving a thankful nod to the fire ninja. "Well you just preformed moves with complete ease that even the most skilled fire benders known can only do during the day." Katara exclaims with complete wonder. "What does time have to do with it?" Jay asks. "It's common knowledge that fire benders are at their most powerful during the day. They are much less a threat at night and can barely be a problem unless in large groups like the ones we just encountered. Like water benders are more powerful at night especially during a full moon it's like a energy source for them." Aang explains. "Yeah after that show I wonder what you can do during the day? You didn't even get a burn." Toph asks out loud. "Okay what I want to know is what's wrong with being a fire bender? And why were those creeps saying that water and earth bending were only around to serve fire?" Cole asks. Team avatar look at each other since the reason was common knowledge.
"Your not from around here are you?" Sokka asks skeptically. "Oh I'm Lloyd master of energy, that's Nya master of water, Cole master of earth, Jay master of lightning , Zane master of ice, and you've already met Kai master of fire." Lloyd introduces pointing to each member who waves. "Why do you say master? It's pretty big to call yourself the master of earth that's my thing." Toph asks pointing at herself.
"We're from a different realm master Wu sent us to help the avatar we aren't sure how or why but we didn't question it." Lloyd answers. "Another realm? Ha right." Sokka laughs. "They're telling the truth I can feel it." Toph said putting a hand to the ground. Sokka immediately stops laughing and stares at the ninja with wide eyes. "In our realm we have embodiments of the elements is certain people and we inherited it and only we can control them in our realm. So that makes us the elemental masters of the elements Nya, Kai, and Cole are more skilled and powerful than any bender you got." Zane explains. "If Kai and Nya are brother and sister than how are they both benders of different elements?" Katara asks. "Our father was the master of fire and our mother water we inherited each of thier elements and Master Wu taught us how to use them." Nya explains. "Wu? He's still alive?" Aang asks excitedly and the ninja nod. " He sent us to leave for the mystical avatar." Jay said with a small eye roll. "Well you can tell him you've found him I'm the avatar." Aang said making a ball of air before lifting a small hunk of earth and dropping it. The ninja are impressed by this and happy to but still confused. "What's going on in this realm why are fire soldiers attacking?" Nya asks. They all go silent until Katara speaks.
"One hundred years ago the world was in peace with all four nations being at peace, until the fire nation attacked." Katara explains venom in her words at the last part. "Aang was caught in a storm when it happened and frozen in ice for a hundred years, so he was the only air bender to survive it. But the fire nation attacked the air nomads who were the most peaceful benders in all of history. No one was spared they all were burned alive for being benders in a attempt to get rid of the avatar. After that the avatar was supposed to be born into one of the water tribes, so the fire nation attacked the southern water tribe. They took all the water benders away and killed Sokka's and my mother. I'm the only water bender of the southern water tribe left they left the north one alone after it was realized that if the avatar was alive in the northern tribe than he would've shown up by now. Since then the fire nation has been waging more against the earth kingdom mostly any earth benders that are captured are taken to labor camps to build their navy. Any water benders found, which is unlikely out here, are to be either killed or taken to prisons to rot there. The fire nation is cruel and heartless using thier fire to burn defenceless villages to the ground. They have created more death in this hundred year war making it clear that there will never be peace unless someone wins." Katara explains the story to the ninja who are listening closely and are kinda horrified by it as well. "Fire benders use their rage to fuel their fire from what you just showed you must be pretty angery." Sokka comments stoking the fire.
"But that's not fire! Fire isn't just rage and destruction!" Kai exclaims standing up defensively. "Hey all fire benders have been heartless one of them even killed the moon spirit in a attempt to wipe out the northern water tribe." Toph said with a shrug. "B-but that isn't fire." Kai said sitting down solemly to learn that people with very similar powers to him had been causing pain and devastation was not what he was expecting. "Yeah it is if you ask me it's better if they just left bending well enough alone." Sokka said. "Aang can end the war all he needs to do is master all elements he's mastered air, water, and earth. But what is it you came to help us with?" Katara asks them. "Wu didn't tell us all he said was to give you this scroll and that Aang read it outloud for all of us to hear." Jay answers with a shrug grabbing the scroll Wu had given them out of Lloyd's back pack and handing it to Aang who unrolls it and began reading it outloud.
"My dear friend Aang I have seen through a vision you are having difficulties mastering the last element and are unable to find a teacher willing to teach you. So I found you one my pupil Kai Smith will teach you the art of fire bending. He is very skilled and I trust him with this task completely. I understand you don't want to learn it for fear of what happened the only time you've ever summoned a flame but be patient. He and the rest of my pupils are to not leave until you have fully mastered it to the fullest extent. Do not question him or his teachings for they are wise. Best wishes your very old friend Wu." Aang finishes reading it and all heads and looking back and forth between the very shocked faces of Kai and Aang. The latter passes out and falls to the ground from shock, whereas Kai just sits there staring at the fire.
Well Aang finally got a teacher better than Zuko but we can get to that later (maybe)