Chapter 2
Being the only girl in a family of four brothers wouldn't have been Kana's top choice. She would've been much happier just being an only child. What's more, she was the middle child. Her siblings' age ranged from eight to twelve. She was only ten, but she was treated like a baby by her brothers, and her parent's wanted her to grow up. The baby of the family, Sasko, was given everything; the next oldest, Kalsu, acted evil with her and an angel in front of her parents; Kahm, the second oldest, told stories about what embarrassing she did when she was younger; and Luka, the oldest, could lie right off the bat which helped with framing her for things she didn't do. Reason why she was in her room staring out her window watching the snow fall lightly. She would never take anything from her parents, but there it was, in her pocket the day she put on her favorite blue sweater and periwinkle parka. But a day in this family was always some sort of adventure. Reason why her parents found two-hundred dollars worth of jewelry in her pocket. Reason why she was stuck in her room on a perfectly good day to go swimming or skate or catch snowflakes on her tongue.
She sighed. The boys wouldn't come back out for another three hours which would take so long.
"And when they come back, they'll be sorry," She didn't hate them. She just wished they would be kidnapped by pirates, shipped from the South Pole, and be deserted on an island for fifty years. That wasn't considered hate.
She lay on her bed farthest from the fireplace. Two years ago she was stirring her water with her finger thinking of her latest diabolical plot. Of course, the others had ganged up on her (without the parents knowing-again) and she was really mad. Not even mad. Fuming angry. She stirred faster and faster angry thoughts still brewing in her mind. Then Sasko pointes at her mug and said, "How're you doin' that?" Only then did she realize that her water had frozen on her finger. She pulled it out and licked it.
"How'd you do that," Sasko wiggled his tooth and his eyes were as wide as saucers. Then Kana's anger turned into wonder and the ice slowly trickled down her fingers and turned into water in just five seconds. Kana gave him a look saying, "This is just our little secret,"
Sasko nodded, his curly brown hair bobbing up and down looking with his innocent blue eyes.
Three days later, Kahm bribed Sasko out of the latest sister story. Two days later, the village leader told the parents to keep her under close eye and whenever anything strange happened, take her to the nearest hospital.
So for two years, Kana kept the fact that she was a water bender to herself since then after finding some old scrolls. She kept those in her room. Yeah, she stole them from a heavily guarded facility, the temple. But big whoop. She stole, not the end of the world.
Might as well practice. She formed her body into the most common water bending stance. She watched and awe as with each movement, the water would move in different directions. Then she did a fighting water bending stance. She used the razor sharp water to cut a K into the wall.
Then her most daring thought came into her mind. Bust out of the house. Village-wide hysteria would be so cool to watch from a safe distance. Plus, she wanted to know what was going on in the outside world. She went into the fighting stance again and made a circle in the wall. She made it deeper and deeper until it fell and she felt the chill of the daytime air. I'll travel to a place that's really warm. She thought. She pulled her parka closer and hoped her sweat pants were warm enough. Then she set outside.