Book 1: Fearless
Chapter 4: The Tide Began to Rise
The camp sight suddenly exploded with light. As if out of nowhere, a boy appeared in the middle of the fight. He looked to be about Katara's age. He had blond hair that seemed to have light emanating from it. He held out his hand and a shaft of light shone out of it and shot out into the field. The beam hit the ground and exploded in a fireball larger than any that they had ever been seen before. Everyone stopped fighting and looked in awe at the newcomer.
"My name is Kayo. Which one of you has the power of lightning," he said.
Azula stepped forward confidently. Her hands started to move in the circular motion to create lightning. Kayo didn't even move as she fired at him. But when the lightning reached its target, he was no longer there. As they all looked in wonder at the empty spot where the boy had stood not half a second before, Azula felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around and stumbled backwards. Standing there was Kayo, completely calm.
"Just because you control one of the most powerful forms of energy known to you, don't overestimate your power when you attack a new opponent. Since you are the only one whom I deem worthy of learning from me," he turned to the rest of them, "the rest of you will have to be eliminated.
His eyes lighted on Aang. He was in the avatar state, so there was no mistaking who he was.
The Avatar, Kayo thought. This must be my lucky day.
"Tell me, Avatar. How many of the elements have you mastered?"
Aang looked at him. "I'm not going to tell you anything about me until you tell me about you. Who are you? What are you?"
"Well said, Avatar. You are wise not to reveal knowledge that could be harmful in the hands of enemies. However, I am not willing to tell you about me, so I suppose I will not be learning about you. Very well then. You will be eliminated with the rest of your friends. Seeing how your in the avatar state, you might want to run away now. It would end the avatar cycle if I were to kill you."
"I'm not running," said Aang.
Kayo laughed. It was and evil laugh that, coming form a boy his age, it seemed out of place.
"Very well," he said, and with that he shot a beam at light at Aang.
For a moment, Aang's eyes and tattoos glowed a gold color instead of the typical white. He erected a stone shield in front of him and when the light hit it, there was an explosion that shook everyone else to the ground. But Aang and Kayo were still standing when the smoke cleared and Aang was glowing white again. Kayo looked a little surprised that Aang was still standing but didn't let it get to him. He shot another beam of of light at Aang, this time with a little more force. Aang started to glow gold again and located the water Katara had thrown into the ground. He pulled it up in front of him and the light was reflected off in another direction when it hit the water's surface. This time Kayo seemed truly angered that Aang was not down. He shot one of the most powerful beams of light he could muster at Aang. Still glowing gold, Aang put up an air shield. As the light hit the air, both the combatants were pulled toward the spot at a staggering speed. They met in the middle and collided headfirst. Both were knocked unconscious. Seeing the opportunity to flee, Katara gathered up Aang's limp body and called Appa, who had wandered off into the field for the night. Sokka told Toph to put down her stone shield and he carried her to Appa as he landed near them. Momo came flying out of the forest as fast as lightning when he saw Appa. They all climbed onto Appa's back and Katara called "Yip, yip" and he took off flying. As the battle scene dwindled in the distance, Katara looked back and saw Azula leaning over Kayo. She didn't see Zuko anywhere.
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