Avatar: A New World

by psycho12345

The first chapter isn't part of the main plot. It supports it, but it is just a look into the past, as it is titled. This series is based on Nickelodeon's "Avatar" and pertains to it's original ideas. Yet, it is in a different setting.

2. Chapter 2: Jiao Long

Chapter Two: The New Avatar - Jiao-long

Three hundred years had passed and the descendents of Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, Mai, Zuko, and other people from the four nations had lived in the Southern Air Temple since Aang and his allies came to refurbish the castle. The goal that was sought out by Zuko was to create an elite force of trainers while recreating the airbenders' civilization. He also wanted to be the Fire Lord and took leave to train Aang and record scrolls; as he and Aang mastered the art and created unique techniques that turned natural weaknesses in the bending style into strengths, as Aang did with other masters such as Katara and Toph. Aang and Katara had a wedding in the location of the Southern Water Tribe and returned to the Southern Air Temple having six children as they aged: two being waterbenders and four being airbenders. Aang also recorded scrolls on how to perform energybending techniques, but these scrolls became sacred as no unworthy bender was thought to use the power to decide the fate of one's spirit. As the people in the Southern Air Temple had children and more people immigrated in to keep reproducing, benders of earth, water, and fire were relocated to their own nation after training to become masters who were in charge of their own school. Air benders were to stay in the temple and study the arts. Eventually, the people grew enough to expand to other temples, where appointed descendents of Aang, Zuko, and Toph were the rulers.

In the Western Air Temple, a man named Baojia (a descendent of the now deceased Avatar Aang) ruled over all of the airbenders. He was a master airbender and was the father of the most recent Avatar: Jiao-long, a firebender. The world seemed to be a different place, as now people from different nations would breed and the offspring could be benders of any of the elements. However, Jiao-long being the avatar could master all four elements, took the appearances of a firebender and first learned firebending techniques. Once he reached ten, he was told and his life filled already with loads of training, as all peoples in airbending temples lived, was introduced to his forefather Avatar Aang's sacred writings explaining to him the life and duties of the avatar. This was now the ritual for the avatar to go through.

In order to officially become the Avatar, one must go through the ritual that Aang set up hundreds of years ago. Trying to keep the world from spiraling into another war he sealed these writings in the air temples so that once an avatar was identified, he would be sent to the air temple in which was closest to his region. He would then study the art of his own bending style, and then learn the next in the sacred sequential order. As he mastered the elements and could win a duel of a master in each style, he could return to his region in which he was born to be a ruler or leader of an elite force such as the ancient Dai Lee. Three times a year, he would take leave from duties and go to the other regions to check up on all of the rulers in the other three nations. However, Jiao-long seemed to have trouble with the scrolls that Aang had put together. He didn't seem to grasp the new ways of the avatar and liked the traditional route that Avatar Rokou and others before him. He wanted to travel the world on his own and then settle down on a small island of the Fire Nation. His father, Baojia was mortified when Jiao-long confronted him about this.

Jiao-long was granted his wish and set off to find his own masters the traditional way, but he was banished from ever returning to any of the Air Temples. This action both pleased him, and made him suffer the feelings of loss and distraught. He had always wanted to be a traditional Avatar, but the thought of him losing any hope of mastering airbending (the next element he was supposed to master) and losing all the family he had permanently made rage build up inside him; making him an excellent bender, especially in firebending.

Jiao-long had no choice but to master waterbending, then earthbending. He set off for the Northern Water Tribe, hoping to find a master who would be willing to teach him. However, Jiao swore to get revenge on his father, and the people of the Western Air Temple.