Messiah
In the frozen wasteland at the South Pole there was a tribe of people who spoke the language called Votra. The village these people lived in was made up of one large toe-a (as in a song) and fifteen small (toe-i (as in if). The toe-a being for Katara and Aang, who were the leaders of the tribe, and the other huts being for the rest of the villagers. The ovular huts were all very well insulated and were made from animal furs, cloth, and wood imported from the Earth Kingdom.
Coming out of the leader's hut there were the distinct sounds of a newborn baby screaming. It was Katara that was giving birth, and while her husband Aang watched the miracle occur he could do nothing but smile. After nine months of waiting their baby was finally here, and it was a beautiful baby girl. After the baby was free and Katara had regained her strength, the new parents lifted their newborn into the air and were smiling gleefully for many minutes. However, after they looked over her a few times both of the parents froze. On their daughter's upper back was a wavy symbol that was in the prophecy in their ice cavern. It was said that the girl with the Symbol of Waves would bring great power to the Water Nation right before the so called 'Period of Sorrow.' The parents slowly turned their heads to one another and still said nothing. They placed the baby down on the warm bed and went out into the village.
They gathered all of the villagers into the town center and then they stood up on the large ice sculpture in the middle of them all. They slowly explained what had happened with the new baby that they had named Saamee. The crowd stared up at the couple in awe for a few minutes before screaming. Women and men ran every which way before Katara and Aang settled everybody down and urged them back to listen. They reassured them that they had nothing to worry about because in the prophecy it was stated that the power would not be revealed until the child's thirteenth birthday. Before they let the villagers go they asked them to keep it a secret from Saamee forever because they knew she would figure out what to do on her own. All of the people agreed and slowly made their way back to their huts. After this the couple slowly turned towards each other, grasped one another's hand, and walked back to their hut.
Katara looked everywhere for Saamee but could not find her. It was her thirteenth birthday and her mother did not want her to miss the celebration in the village. She shouted and shouted but heard no reply. She had checked all of the huts in the village, the fleet of boats, the underground cellars, everywhere. She had only one place left to search that she could think of. She walked for many a minute and was relieved to find Saamee sitting down safe and sound in the ice cavern.
Katara yelled at her daughter exclaiming that she had explicitly told Saamee to never enter the cave, but now as Saamee had, she did not know what to do. Before her mother could go on another rant Saamee quickly asked what the carvings on the wall were. Her mother told her that they were not important, but Saamee would not listen. She pointed out that the child in the ice had the same mark that she did on her back, but her mother quickly interjected saying that her mark was slightly different. Saamee questioned why her mother was keeping the cave carvings a secret and after many queries her mother told her to sit back down.
Her mother explained everything that there was to tell Saamee with the matter concerning the prophecy, and just as the parents were when they first saw the mark on her back, Saamee was speechless. In her head she could not do anything else but wonder why it was her that had to save the village from great sorrow and why it could not be somebody else. After her mother had finished with her lecture Saamee quickly got up and ran out of the cave as fast as she could. Her mother did not intervene because she knew how tough it was on her to find out all of this information now and slowly made her way back to the village.
Saamee reached the water and scrambled inside a little snow fort she had made a few years previously. She cried and cried for many hours until it was dark and the temperature was dropping fast. She wanted to go back to the warm shelter of her home with her parents waiting for her there, but she could not face them at the moment as she was full of mixed emotions. She slowly cocked her head to look at the night sky and saw the beautiful shape of a full moon above her head. She prayed to the moon asking her if she could help her, and then stretched out her finger. She drew the symbol that was in the prophecy over the face of the moon, semi-subconsciously, and noticed that the lines came to life. As soon as she had finished the last of the lines she was lifted off of her feet and was blinded by a flash of bright white light. As she looked around she could only guess that she was inside of the moon. Before she could think of anything else she heard an ear piercing voice inside of her head:
Saamee, I am now a part of your soul and I will guide you through the many hardships ahead. When you return to your home I will teach you the art of waterbending and you will use it to destroy the enemy! They are coming, they are coming!
The next thing that Saamee knew she was inside of her hut with all of the villagers staring at her. Her mother and father rushed to greet her and caressed her as though she were leaving the village forever. She asked if she was gone for a long time and the villagers replied that they had not seen her in an entire week. Even though she could not quite grasp what they were saying to her she knew that she had to follow the orders that the moon had given. She was guided over to the water by something pulling at her legs and the villagers followed without question. She told them what she was about to do and the villagers watched.
As she raised her arms the water all around her lifted from its position into one huge tidal wave. When she moved her arms again it crashed down onto an iceberg and rolled away into the ocean. She moved her arms every way imaginable and as she did the water moved all over. Finally, she moved in one last sequence pulling water from the air and turned it into ice. She propelled it forward at great speed at the ice sculpture in town and everyone watched as it shattered the ice into thousands of pieces.
As Saamee finished her display she knew she had to teach everyone else waterbending, but she also knew she did not have a lot of time, the enemy was coming to destroy the Tribe of Southern Waters and she was the only one who could stop them.