It was dark and the night was silent. Silent if it wasn't for that little noise that woke Kashi up. He couldn't tell what it was or what exactly he had heard, but he got up still. Something within him made him feel that it was important. Very important. A short moment later, a cracking noise was heard. Kashi rushed out of his room :
« Father ? »
His heart started beating faster. Something was not right. Not right at all and he had to find out quickly. He ran along the corridors of the house as a loud shriek was heard. Breathless and pannicked, he entered his father's room... only to find an horrible picture.
His father was in his bed, a spike of ice in his heart, desperately trying to breathe as blood was drowning his throat. In the corner of the room was a man Kashi had never seen. Tears came to his eyes :
« Father ! Father ! What did you do to him !? »
« Sorry, son. Your dad's gone. Now turn back and I'll pretend I didn't see anything. »
Kashi lost control. This waterbender had murdered his father in cold blood. Kashi yelled insults and punched in the air, throwing the biggest fireball he had ever produced. They distroyed a whole corner of the room, setting the house on fire, but the assassin escaped swiftly. Kashi ran after him in the yard, throwing fireballs.
« You're not escaping, you scum ! I'll skin you and burn you and kill you ! »
The man didn't answer but was gaining field. Kashi was already breathless. In a last attempt, he jumped into the air, took a deep breath and spat a huge wave of fire that destroyed a whole part of the garden his father had spent so many years to maintain. Then he fell on the ground, exhausted. The assassin was only a shape, then a shadow. And soon he was gone. And as Kashi rose up to his knees, he saw what he had done : in his anger, he had set the whole house on fire and destroyed the garden. He blinked : there was something in the part of the yard that had been burnt. It looked human but it was not alive. It had been burnt just as much as everything else. He had burnt everything. He slowly approached, tears flowing down his cheeks and when he got close to the body, his heart missed a beat :
« ...Mother ? »