"Rogue Airbender"

I do not own ATLA

I apologize for any confusion but this is actually chapter one the final chapter is sacrifice

Prologue

Ryu stood in the middle of a sparring circle holding a staff (not a glider staff, just a staff). He was surrounded by other airbenders, some of which were twice as old as him. Suddenly, he spun around and shot an air blast, throwing one of the airbenders back. Ryu easily dodged their attacks. He was saving his attacks until they had tired themselves out. Ryu knew the elder monks were watching him. Why exactly, he didn't know.

But he knew something was up. They never wanted to watch him fight. Ryu dodged an air blast and fired one back at the airbender who'd fired it. As the others closed in on him, he decided that he had enough and slammed the end of the staff on the floor, creating a wind vortex around him. The airbenders cautiously moved back. Ryu stood in the center of the circle looking at the elder monks.

"What was the point of this?" Ryu demanded, pushing his hair out of his face.

"Storm clouds are gathering Ryu we need warriors to protect us." one of the Monks said "You have a talent for battle that hasn't been seen in Air Nomads in generations."

"Okay…" Ryu said still wondering where this was going. "You and the Avatar must defend us." Ryu couldn't take it any more they wanted to use him, anger surged through him, the air around him began to swirl. "No way!" he yelled. "Fight your own battles! I'm not going to be a part of it!" He swung his staff creating an air whip hitting each of them, then left the training hall.

Ryu walked back to his room. He was going straight to bed. Normally, he might have seen Ari, his friend, but he thought she could wait until morning. Ryu went into his room and sat down on the edge of the bed, untying his headband. It covered the arrow tattoo on his forehead. He covered it because he didn't like the attention it brought to him. At thirteen years old, he was the second youngest airbender to receive them. He knew the first was an airbender named Aang, but he had never met him.

Ryu laid down on his bed and fell asleep quickly. A loud explosion woke him up early in the morning. Ryu laid there for a second before getting up. Looking out his window, he saw firebenders swarming all over the temple. Ryu ducked as a fire ball flew past his head and hit the wall behind him. He quickly got dressed and rushed into the hallway, grabbing his staff. He immediately came face to face with a firebender. Ryu formed an air dagger, one of the techniques that had earned him his tattoos, now he knew why. He stabbed the firebender in the chest.

Ryu stood, looking up and down the hall and shot a powerful airblast at some firebenders. He then turned and did the same to some coming up behind him. Ryu spun and tried to dodge a spear but he felt it cut into his side. He pulled the spear out of the soldiers' hands, knocked him to the floor with it, then spun it in his hands and plunged it into the soldier's chest.

He then formed an air board, jumped on it and sped down the hall way. What was going on? Why was the Fire Nation attacking them? Ryu wondered, as he dodged a fire ball. He'd have to figure that out later. He fired an airblast back at the firebender, knocking him against the wall. The firebender recovered and shot a massive fire blast at Ryu. He spun his staff to deflect the fire but it still knocked him back several feet. Ryu nearly lost his balance and threw an air dagger at the Firebender, hitting him in the neck, killing him. He had to find Ari. They had to get out of here.

Ryu looked all over the temple but couldn't find her. He even tried calling out to her. "Ari!" he yelled, "Ari!" But there was no answer. Ryu ran out to a court yard. Only then did he see the full damage that the Fire Nation had caused.

Dead Air Nomads laid everywhere. No one had been spared. Rage built up inside Ryu. He ran out into the courtyard and swung his staff at the nearest firebender, hitting him in the side of the head, breaking his staff in two, the fire bender crumpled to the ground. Ryu sent a gust wind at another sending him back into a wall. Ryu spun around firing an airblast at a Fire Nation soldier behind him. Ryu spun back around throwing air daggers at fire nation soldiers. A fireball hit him in the shoulder, knocking him to the ground Ryu rolled onto his side holding his shoulder.

Out of nowhere a young airbender landed in front of him and shot air blasts at the Fire Nation soldiers. Ryu watched as a fire ball hit the boy in the chest killing him.

"No!" Ryu yelled firing airblasts at the soldiers. Standing up he looked at the dead boy, tears started running down his face. He yelled and picked up the boys staff swinging it, creating a gust of wind which knocked the soldiers back with enough force to kill them. Ryu turned back and went back over to the boy. Why had he done that? Sacrificing himself like that? Ryu opened up the boy's glider. "I'm sorry Ari." Ryu said then took off. As he flew off a fire ball hit his leg. Ryu yelled, nearly losing control of the glider for a moment but he kept flying until he crashed.