Here's the next chapter, Hopefully it's not too bad. I had a bit of trouble writing it, I think I Had to rewrite it about 10 times! Well enjoy!

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Chapter 1

Kaiya looked out of her window and into the dark back garden. Her mother was there hanging up the washing on the line. Her attention was clearly on making sure that none of her precious clothes blew away in the cold arctic wind that swept across the city. She wouldn't notice if one of her many children slipped away for a couple of hours. There were times where Kaiya would have thought she was going crazy by being glad she had a Billion brothers and sisters. Now however, she was thankful.

She scampered out of the room she shared with her twin brother, Kouyo. He wasn't there. He was lucky. He got to go practice bending with the masters. He was going to be a great Water Bender. She would be lucky even to learn the stuff he gets to. It really wasn't fair, how only boys could learn how to fight with their bending. Girls only learnt how to Heal. Not that Healing wasn't great. It just isn't as exciting as fighting.

Kaiya was lucky though. Her Grandmother, Shaiya was from the southern water tribe. Where they let girls fight. So Shaiya was now teaching her all of the southern water tribe bending. Shaiya was a master, just like that stubborn old Master Perrou that taught Kouyo. But Kaiya had to learn in secret.

She crept to the front door and slowly slipped on her seal skin boots. She slid on her hand me down Parka coat in Water tribe blue and did up all the buttons without a sound. Once the 10 year old was ready in her winter clothes she slowly opened the front door so it wouldn't squeak and stepped outside into the frosty air. She ghosted along the path and down the street until she met the dead end of the city wall. Looking around her to check if anyone would see she raised one hand in front of her and concentrated. With a sudden flick of her palm the ice wall turned to water. Another sweeping motion of both her hands and the water split down the middle, leaving a doorway just big enough for her willowy frame. After stepping through she bought her hands back together and flicked her palms up again. The wall was a smooth, white ice once again and, more importantly, she was outside the city walls.

It didn't take too long after that to get to the cave where they practiced their bending. She crawled in through the hidden entrance and then stood dusting the snow off her clothes as she looked around her surroundings.

The cave was really a huge clearing surrounded by icy covered stone walls and piles of snow. There was a small creek of half frozen water running through it and if you craned your head and looked up you could still see a glimmer of sunlight. It was, Kaiya thought, almost perfect for two water benders who wanted to train without anyone noticing.

There was also a tunnel going off to one side. Kaiya turned and walked down there. She entered another clearing, this one a proper cave with a roof. Lying on the floor of the cave was a blue scaly creature.

Her blue scales rippled in the gloom of the cave and there were still droplets of water scattered about on her massive hide. She was 8 metres long from tip to tail and wide enough to have Kaiya lay across her back easily. Her face was of a noble and wise creature and her Amber eyes suggested this was more than just a common animal. Her snout was longish and she had blue feeler-type-things that stuck up into the air and rippled with an imaginary breeze just above her eyes.

"Suli" Kaiya called the water dragon gently "food"

The Water Dragon ambled over and nudged Kaiya with affection. Suli obviously loved Kaiya.

Kaiya reached into the bag slung around her shoulders and brought out the massive fish that she had caught yesterday. She offered the fish to Suli, who gobbled it up immediately pined for more. Kaiya reached into her bag three more times until Suli had had her fill. Then Kaiya sat down next to the fully fed Water Dragon, rubbing her soothingly on her huge head. Suli crooned with pleasure.

Kaiya had had Suli since she was 6. She had been practicing bending with her grandmother when she had head a pitiful wailing coming from behind a nearby iceberg. There was the tiny Water dragon, much to Kaiya's surprise. Water Dragons were unbelievably rare and hard to find. Most of them lived far further north than the northern water tribe could travel and if they did come this far south they stuck underwater and lived in secluded water caves. They were also very protective of their young, if this one was lost then the mother was never going to come back for it, only death would separate a mother from her baby for longer than a minute.

Shaiya had exclaimed when she bought the baby back with her, not many people had seen a grown water Dragon, let alone a baby. She agreed to keep the baby in the cave and Kaiya had christened her Suli after famous warrior maiden she had read about in one of Shaiya's books. From then on Suli and Kaiya were best friends and partners.

They sat there awhile, just staring into space, enjoying each other's company. Kaiya would yatter on about nothing in particular while Suli would grunt every so often in reply.

"Kaiya?" The hesitant voice could only belong to her grandmother.

"Coming!" Kaiya called to let her grandmother know she was there. She ran into the other cave, giving Suli an apologetic pat on the head as she left. Suli knew what it meant. Kaiya had to go now to practice Water Bending with her Grandmother.

Kaiya bowed to her Teacher respectively before the lesson started. Shaiya had already partly stripped off her clothes so they would not slow her down while they were practicing. She indicated that Kaiya do the same.

"We're doing some sparring today" Shaiya walked slowly to the opposite end of the clearing and faced her granddaughter. "Hit me with your best shot!"

Kaiya reacted immediately. She twisted in a circle using her hands to make the water twist around her. A huge water spout leapt up immediately and surrounded her, protecting her from any attacks that may come. Outside her spout she could see Shaiya, using her own bending moves to try and break into Kaiya's Spout. Kaiya grinned and ran forward, dragging her spout along the ground with her. Two seconds away from her grandmother she released the water from her twister, turning it into a giant wave which tumbled over her grandmother.

After the water subsided she ran over to the soaking wet old woman and helped her to her feet. Shaiya gave the girl a hug.

"You're getting really good" the grandmother remarked "I don't think I'll be able to keep up with you anymore"

Kaiya laughed "You're the master" she exclaimed "You're not supposed to let an apprentice like me get the better of you in the first place!"

Shaiya looked down, frowning. Kaiya waited patiently for her to think. At last Shaiya's head snapped back up. The old woman flung her arms wide open, revealing a shard of pointy ice she had hidden inside her sleeve.

"Think fast Kaiya" Her grandmother sent the shard flying towards her, the point spiralling menacingly through the air.

Kaiya instinctively reached for the ice in front of her, she didn't have to think. A tendril of water shot up like lightning and neatly sliced the ice shard in two. The water and ice fell to the ground slowly, instantly freezing in the cold again.

"Are you trying to kill me?" She asked in demand. "What did you think would happen?"

"Exactly that" Her grandmother said calmly "If you hadn't done that I would have diverted the ice so it would not have you, I knew I wouldn't need to though."

Kaiya's mouth dropped open "What on earth did that accomplish?"

"It was a test" Explained Shaiya as she took a seat on a lump of ice she had raised from the snow covered ground "You passed, You are now officially a water bending master"

Kaiya's mouth stayed open "Me? I'm 10! I can't be a master yet!"

"You can, and you are. There is no more that you can learn from me." Shaiya looked over at her granddaughter "Close your mouth dear, you're saliva's beginning to freeze."

Kaiya obeyed, wincing as the ice in her mouth made contact with the roof of her mouth.

"Brain freeze" she explained

Shaiya chuckled, She stood up and walked over to Kaiya. She laid a hand on her shoulder and sighed. "It's time to go or your mother will miss you, say goodbye to Suli and run back home" Shaiya smiled "You will be a great master Kaiya, one of the greatest perhaps." With that the old woman turned and walked out of the clearing, leaving Kaiya to her thoughts.

It was two months before Kaiya got used to the idea of being a master. Nothing really changed, she still went to practice with Shaiya and her mother had no Idea what on earth she was doing with her free time. Kouyo, of course knew everything. Kaiya couldn't keep secrets from her twin. There was nothing that Kouyo was learning, however, that Kaiya didn't already know.

"How can you become a master so fast?" Kouyo whined to her once "I'm the one getting the proper training!"

"So?" Kaiya wanted to know "I can still beat you in a match without even trying"

"It's not fair, it's like you were a master in another life and all you really needed to do was remind yourself of the techniques"

Kaiya thought about this "Maybe I was, it would explain a lot of things." Her eyes glazed over

"Like what?"

"Well, sometimes I know a new move already when Gran Gran was trying to teach me and when I tried it myself I didn't need to practise, I could already do it."

"Really?" Kouyo looked astonished "I was just joking you know"

"I know, but, something in that rings the truth. I even know complicated bending moves that Gran Gran doesn't know, like Mist bending. She can't teach me that but I taught myself to do it."

"How long did it take you to master?"

"About a week, Mist bending isn't hard."

"I don't start on mist bending for two more years!"

Kaiya shrugged and threw herself down on her bed.

"You're freaky. Do you know that?" Kouyo also flopped down on his bed on the other side of the room.

"It get's freakier." Kaiya murmured

"How?" Kouyo sat up, interested.

"Well, one time, I felt tremors in the ground that no one else did and there was that day when the air just randomly just kept stopping and starting around me. And there was this one time…"

"Yes?"

"I should have got burned."

"What did you do?"

"I reached too far in the fire, Ma screamed and pulled my hand out again but it wasn't harmed. Not even a slight burn."

"That is freaky"

"Yeah..." Kaiya agreed "I just don't know what happened."

"Well maybe you…"

"Kouyo! Kaiya!" They heard the call from their Mother from down the hall "Dinner!"

The twins rushed to obey.