I've been on a bit of a roll this week, I think if this carries on I may even get a couple more chapters on this weekend before I get another writer's block. Don't you just hate those things? Anyway, enjoy the chapter, even though it's quite short 'n' sweet.

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Chapter 5

The last Avatar was Avatar Jough, of the Air Nomads, he was a wise Avatar and the world was peaceful during his time. Some say that he was just a lucky Avatar, some say it's because he was still living under the respect that Avatar Aang had earned for his people.

However, no one can deny that Avatar Jough did a good job. It was a sad thing when he died, just over 10 years ago.

We got notified by the Monks of the Northern Air Temple soon after he died. We knew that his reborn spirit could be any one of the 29 children born in the water tribes about the time of his death; we had to test all of them.

A year after the Old Avatar's death we gather all the children in the city that were born around that time. To disguise the fact that we were searching for the avatar we had to also invite all the children in the city under the age of 5.

There were 27 children in this city that we suspected of being the avatar, two of the other candidates being born in the south. We decided to use the oldest and most effective test; the memory test.

We set out hundreds of items, all on tables where they could be easily seen. We gathered all the children and told them that they could pick any three items and keep them.

They were all thrilled; there was a mad rush to the tables as each child scrambled to get a new toy each.

We kept a close eye on the 27 kids that were possibilities. As each of those children came up with toys and shiny objects we began to despair. At last one of the boys came up with a brightly coloured, through battered ball, we were thrilled; the ball was an avatar relic. The boy was one of the 29 possibilities; we thought we had found the avatar. That was until another of the 29 children came up the other two relics, a toy white bear and a multicoloured woven bracelet. We watched in amazement as this child walked up to the boy and asked if she could have the ball in his hands. The child's mother scolded her for being rude but the boy handed over the ball with a shrug and ran off to a blue sled that no one had claimed yet.

We knew then that the child, the girl, was the one we were looking for. She was the avatar. We watched as her mother dragged her off, ranting that she had chosen badly and 'didn't she want a nice new ball instead of that crummy old one?' We watched as they walked over to her siblings, the other children teased her but she stood by her choices. We knew then that she really was the Avatar. Any other child would have given in and gone to get other things.

We took careful note of her identity and kept tabs on her over the past years. We knew that come her sixteenth birthday we would have to tell her of her true status.

Then yesterday, something happened to disrupt our plans. Those pirates attacked. This caused a chain of events beyond our control and thus we are telling you this story.

I can tell you are confused Kaiya, you don't see the connection with you at the moment. That girl was you, this story is yours. It is your future to travel around the world and master each of the four elements, this is your destiny. Granted, this day has come a little sooner than we thought, we really have no choice but to tell you this now, we don't want anything to happen to you while you are away.

You are the Avatar, Kaiya.