A Light Exists in Spring

by QueenTyZula

After the darkness, the smoke, the shadows and the fade to gray, stands a woman in green. Her face painted, she approached the large, lavish Kemurikage hideout and the red doors, bearing a golden, dragon doorknob, completely alone. She took a deep breath, balling five shaking fingers that never before did such things. [Tyzula Week Spring 17] *Taking zero credit for the artwork.

2. Touch

The Capital. With its red buildings, red tapestries, red people, red flags. Red everything!

"TY LEE! What happened to your school UNIFORM!"

Eight sets of eyes fell on that one sister.

"I bleached it. It's pink now. Pink is so ya' know, Springy!"

She was forced to wear her replacement uniform and shoved into the academy to blend with the rest of the red garbed children.

"Maybe you should pick a new favorite color," suggested Mai.

Ty Lee thought on the matter, but decided she would just secretly love pink and pink only until…

"AAAAH! My hair!" She screamed from a vicious yank, hearing a girl's evil cackles turning into hiccups.

Ty Lee would have been angry. She should have been angry, but the girl's nose snorted out fire. Not just any fire, but…blue…She had never seen such a thing. Of course, many kids at the academy could bend fire, but blue fire? Well, that was different.

"Can I touch it?"

The girl stopped her snorting and eyed her curiously. "What?"

"Can I touch your blue fire?" Repeated Ty Lee, entranced and reaching for the girl's nose.

Her hand suffered near third degree burns that day, but Ty Lee made up her mind that before the year was over, she would touch it, possess it and put it in her little pink box, forever. She could always have two, secret favorite colors, after all.