I was absolutely stunned about what had just happened. An at least five foot tall girl had redirected two different sources of lightning, effortlessly. Asami held onto me for support, "Wow…" o managed to get out. I looked at the cheap spin off of a Satomobile, it looked exactly alike but wasn't constructed properly.
Bolin looked at me "What just happened?" He asked as we saw the small girl drag her brother off. We all stood in confusion.
An old lady started to laugh "That's my girl Aries you kids messed with" she stepped over to me in the road. "Whenever there's a fight she breaks it up. She's a lot tougher than she looks" she cackled. "I heard you four talking. Who was the one who called you about a powerful bender?" she asked
"Damon" I told her, her grin widened.
She nodded. "Ah yes, Damon Vaughn. He's those two's parent. Don't know which one he's talking about, both are very strong and powerful."
. . .
As we reached the steps of the estate, it was very large, the family was obviously wealthy. I grabbed the handle of the lion turtle door knocker and lightly used it to knock on the door. A butler swung the door open and it startled me. "State your name, and purpose to be here"
"My name is Asami Sato, my friends here are Korra, Mako, and Bolin. Mr. Vaughn called us due to the claim he has that he has a powerful bender in custody" Asami introduced us, we all were surprised about how sophisticated and business-like she sounded.
"One moment" the butler said and disappeared for a few seconds. "You may come in" he told us, and we stepped in, even Asami dropped her jaw when we saw how large the building was. High ceilings, dark lacer walls, everything was so clean I was afraid to step on the hardwood floor. Once I worked up the courage, I stepped off the red carpet and I looked around, everything was professionally decorated. "Master Damon will see you in the living room"
We all cautiously walked to the living room. We saw a tall man with black hair and blue eyes, he stood up and smile "Avatar Korra, it's an honor to meet you" he told me and smiled. "Please, sit" he motioned to the luxury couches. I took a seat and I sank into the plushy seats. "You may wonder why I asked you here, and it's for my daughter, Aries"
"We've met" Mako sort-of growled. "She stopped two fights"
Damon chuckled. "Yeah, she's a peace keeper" he looked directly at me. "The only way you'll understand what I'm about to tell you is to start from the beginning." He sighed. "Aries growing up, we lived in a tough neighborhood. Crime riddled the streets, Aries couldn't bend so she started to fight as soon as she could. By the time she was nine, she was an acrobatic genius. She knew how to chi block and temporarily paralyze others, she had stopped… who knows how many crimes. She had a heart of gold"
Bolin leaned in and whispered "No wonder she was so muscular" he said.
"When Aries was 14, her biological brother, Koa, was being threatened for his life. Aries took it so personally when she stumbled upon that, that she had harnessed her bending abilities and saved her brother. I took this news very, very seriously. There had no benders in my or Aries mother's bloodlines, ever. So I knew immediately she had betrayed me, cheated on me. So I divorced and won custody of Aries. I moved us to a new city, where I met my current wife, and her son Anakin. We married and I became a lawyer, and my wife was a doctor… so we easily made money, and worked all day long" he sighed.
Asami spoke up "Why do you keep referring to Aries as a bender? Why not just firebender?" Asami asked. "We all saw her redirect lightning"
"I'll get to that. So one night I came home very late, and I witnessed Aries in the backyard bending. She was firebending… with blue flames." My eyes widened. "And not only that, she caught the ground on fire, and then… she water bended" my jaw nearly dropped. "I came outside and confronted her… she admitted that she had earth and air bended too." I looked at the ground in astonishment. "So I moved us here immediately, a small village where I could buy a large plot of land, and keep her bending in secret, and only have her publicly as a firebender. And I paid for trainers, so she could master bending. Extra, so they wouldn't expose her. She had problems with her firebending teacher, so Anakin stepped in and taught her, because he had mastered the arts… started training when he was six, mastered it at 17. But… Aries mastered all of the elements within… months. Except for airbending of course."
I managed to reply "So you want me to teach her to airbend?"
"Yes, here preferably. She shouldn't leave the house and risk exposure of her identity to the public, who knows what people would try to do to her?" he told me.
All the sudden there was yelling, we all walked to the large backyard and to a platform. I saw Aries and Anakin backs facing us, balancing on one leg and hands up and apart. They held flames in their hands. They went into a deep sideways lunge, then a normal lunge with their body facing me. I immediately recognized the dance they were doing. "The dancing dragon?" I asked Damon.
He nodded. "I wanted them to know the origins of their power, and be able to give a performance tomorrow at my party" he told us "which, you and your friends are invited to, I apologize for the short notice"
I nodded while I watched the blue flame flicker in Aries hand. They went into the last position, her form was flawless. "That's not how you do the last pose" she told Anakin. "It's a lunge not a squat"
"Dad?" Anakin looked over at us.
"Aries is right Anakin, it's a lunge." Damon said, and we walked back inside. "There's something else I need to tell you." We all sat back down. "With all of her trainers, they said… well they said she was more than they could handle… more gifted." He looked around at all of us. "Waterbending, she would sometimes get frustrated and angry… and within seconds her instructor was on the ground and couldn't move. Earth bending, they taught her metal bending too. But then she was able to lava bend. Then fire bending, she could generate lightning flawlessly and with ease. Then one day she and Anakin were training and she somehow generated an explosion… I`m almost scared to find out what will happen when she learns to properly airbend" he told us.
