Book 1: Fearless

Chapter 12: Masterpiece Conspiracy

"No, no, NO!! You're doing it wrong. You just point and let the energy flow."

Kayo was trying to teach Azula lightbending, but things were moving slowly. She couldn't seem to let go of her native bending. Her pride wouldn't let her.

Her entire life, Azula had been hailed as the great firebending prodigy of the age, and now she was just supposed to give up everything she worked so hard to learn. She was particularly angry that she would not be able to bend lightning anymore. That was one of the most coveted abilities in the entire Fire Nation. But to defeat Kayo, she had to learn his style of fighting, and she would to give it up. So she would keep trying until she got it right.

Becoming bored of trying to teach Azula, Kayo decided to leave her to her own devices.

"You are worthless," he said. "You are now on your own. You have the knowledge of how to become a lightbender. The rest is up to you. You will never see me again, so your little plans of betraying me with my own powers won't be working."

With that he disappeared in a flash of light.

Azula was shocked, but she didn't let it show. She just turned around and destroyed the nearest tree with a bolt of lightning. It was only then that she realized what Kayo had been trying to teach her. She didn't have to give up her long practiced for technical skill, but only the way that she focused her energy. She began her lightningbending technique again, but this time instead of separating the positive and negative energies like she usually did, she just let the energy flow out of her.

The light that emanated from her fingers was not lightning, just pure light, the spiritual energy that Kayo had described to her. It left her fingers exactly the way it had left Kayo's hand, at a staggering speed. It hit a rock and caused an enormous explosion. After performing her newfound technique, she fell to her knees, her body drained of most of it's energy.

"WOW," she thought. "That was the most amazing power I have ever felt."

Only then did it dawn on her what this implied. She jumped to her feat and began the technique again. In the end, when nothing happened, Azula knew that Kayo's words were true. She had given up her ability to firebend in any form ever again.

She didn't really regret having made this decision. It was just a shame that she couldn't keep both of these types of bending. No matter though. Now that Kayo was gone, she no longer had to worry about eliminating him. Her only concern was capturing the Avatar. But where to start looking. She had no idea. Her only thoughts were to go to Omashu. If she recalled correctly, the Avatar was friends with the crazy king there. Maybe he would try to free King Bumi again. Although this wasn't a very good lead, it was the only one she had to go on. She set out on her long journey from Lake Laogai to the city of Omashu.

"Finally, she got it," said Kayo, speaking to nobody but himself. He was pleased that his plan had worked. Now that he had trained a new lightbender, his final matter of business was eliminating his former student.

Long before, Kayo had tried to teach a young firebender lightbending. But the boy had given up before finishing training. The thought of losing his firebending abilities was too terrible of a consequence for him. He had run away from Kayo, taking with him every bit of knowledge on how to become a lightbender, but not opting to use this knowledge.

Kayo had let him go, assuming that the boy would never choose to learn lightbending. He had been right. The boy had grown and aged. At this point, the boy had become a man, quite aged at that. Kayo knew exactly how to locate him. Destiny is a funny thing, for it just so happened that this new student of his was the young niece of his former student.

I am so sorry this chapter took so long to write. I just couldn't think of where to go with Azula and Kayo. Hope you enjoyed the chapter. I will not take so long on chapter 13. I now have a definite idea of where book one is going, and how it's going to end.

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