FLASHBACK
A young weapon-throwing girl known as Mai and her ballet academy were going to the Annual Traveling Fair just outside of Paris. Mai was a dark-haired and hazel-eyed twelve year-old girl. She was known as silent, but extremely caring. Mai's hair went straight down to her shoulders and she was wearing a red dress (like the one she usually wears on the show). She was also wearing a red cloak. Everywhere they walked in the fair, they saw gypsies, fortune tellers, animal tamers, and many more…interesting people. But just then a young, scruffy, balding, man beckoned everyone to his tent:
"Come everyone and see something that you will surely never see before." the man declared, "Come and see the Devil's Child!"
Everyone including Mai, walked over to see a boy a bit younger than her. He was inside a huge cage and he was wearing a bag over his head but it had 2 holes in it revealing golden eyes. He was making a dragon out of the hay that he was sitting in. He looked at all of the disgusted faces, except 1 face who looked concerned. That face was Mai's! He just stared at her with amazement while she stared back.
All of sudden, the scruffy man came in. He stepped on the model dragon and kicked the boy in the back. Then he began earth bending rocks and boulders at the boy who just sat there. He didn't make a sound just tried not to cry. People laughed and threw things at the boy while Mai just watched in sorrow. The man suddenly grabbed onto the bag on the boy's head and yanked it off revealing the boy's face. Now people were laughing harder and some were gasping in disgust. Mai could only watch with tears in her eyes as this young boy was getting beaten and taunted.
When the man was finally done torturing the poor child, the boy grabbed the bag and put it back over his head. Everyone began to leave, laughing and shuddering at what they just saw. Mai slowly began to turn away and with the same look of sorrow on her face, she began to walk away. The man was too engrossed in his money to notice that a small, but strong pair of hand was reaching out of the bars of the cage.
Mai was just about to leave the tent when she heard a choked cry. She whirled around to find that the child had grabbed the man by the neck and somehow managed to bring him into the cage and the boy was shooting fire from his hands at the man who's hands had become tied to a bar of the cage. The man was gasping for air from the fire that had been forced in him. Suddenly, the man fell dead, on the ground. The fire had burned through the ropes and the man had fallen on his chest. A hand grabbed the hay model dragon and looked at Mai again. All of a sudden, a man came out:
"MURDERER!" he cried
People came running out with torches and pitchforks, readying their weapons and bending, but Mai and the boy had already run off, leaving some people to just stare everywhere, some to crowd around the now dead man, and others who ran in different directions to find them.
Meanwhile, Mai had grabbed the boy's arm and they had begun to run away. Mai knew where a trap door was so she ran over to it, opened it, and beckoned the boy inside. The boy ran inside and Mai ran after him closing the door as she went. Then she descended down the stairs and prepared to give this poor child a home.
FLASHBACK ENDS
"I hid him from the cruel, evil, clutches of this world and he has no memories of anything else since then." Mai concluded
"Oh my god Mai! What are we going to do?" Aang asked in amazement
"I don't know Avatar, he is a true genius! A musician and bender, an artist and magician…A genius Avatar!" Mai sobbed
"But clearly Mai, genius has turned to madness." Aang said
Mai only nodded her head in sadness as she wept.