Without hope there isn't salvation.

The morning began with screams of childs, more accurately the whinings of the new (old?) team Avatar.

Toph Beifong was a bossy girl, the Fire Lord was an angsty broody teen, Avatar Aang a really conflict avoidant boy and healer Katara and councilman Sokka were very controling people. They were just a ticking bomb waiting to explode and it did. On the first day of travel.

Kuvira looked at them again, Katara was mad at Toph because the younger didn't want to help to make her tent and Sokka at Zuko were throwing killing glares at each other: the future Fire Lord didn't want to help to fish (in Kuvira opinion the teen was trying to save face) Aang had tried twice to break the other childs spats without luck.

There had been a time were Kuvira played at being part of the famous Team Avatar, days of her childhood were she defeated a grinning Bataar, he liked to play as the evil Fire Lord Ozai just to let her to be the hero. She wasn't remembering her fiance or how she used fans to try to airbender, those were things for the night when her mind would betray her and nag her with all her shame. Instead of that, Kuvira was feeling sick of the high pitched screams team Avatar made, that was why kids were better as concept far away from her.

She concentrated on ignoring them, there was a plan that needed smalls adjustments to work. For example keeping the future Fire Lord Zuko alive was better idea that a mysterious death, having him at their side would serve to keep the Fire Nation controlled and not on a dangerous turmoil that could grew bigger. In the other side she could take advantage of the chaos in the Fire Nation if no one was there to rule it and take over it too.

Ruling over Ba Sing Se would be possible if she acquired access to the actual puppet King, there was a guy that she had to remove first, but considering that an schizophrenic 14 years old girl could so would Kuvira.

There were plans of long reach, but the only points that were clear at short notice were having the Avatar at her side and defeating the Fire Nation on the Day of The Black Sun, the day were an eclipse would make firebending impossible for a few hours and made an other wise hard enemy a really easy target.

"Don't worry. We will save your brother" Katara had gotten near Kuvira at some point and had confused her scheming with a true concern for Mako, but the water bender couldn't be more wrong.

The third axis of her new found plan was getting rid of Mako: he was an inconvenience that knew too much and would be a problem if let alive. He had been sick so maybe the illness would spare her the need of doing the deed herself..

Kuvira felt her skin get hot and the world began to spin a little, as if she were sick again, but the sensation faded away almost as fast as it came.

Not far away she could hear that the two guys were again speaking and not being a word away of changing fists.

"So where is your girlfriend again?" (Not yet) Councilman Sokka asked with a mocking tone to the firebender.

"SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" he screamed and of his nose came a little bit of smoke.

The girl they were seeking, Jun, was a bounty hunter with an animal that could track even across continents. They only needed something with the aroma of the person they seeked and money. Kuvira closed her eyes on a futile intent to forget it would be her money, as even Toph Beifong travelled almost with empty pockets. She had not enough time to think about her misfortune.

The firebender teen tried to punch the southern boy, and the water bender sister had to rescue her brother. The blind eartbender laughed whit that annoying laugh and Kuvira had to use all her control to not scream. Or put them on their knees as an adult scolding kids for bad behavior.

Only Aang was kind of a good kid but he was an airbender and Kuvira knew those people had been involved on Bataar kidnap and later they had actively show themselves as enemies willing to use ugly kids that licked windows. His cultural status wasn't the only reason of her mistrust, Aang was still the Avatar, and as far as the metalbender knew Avatars were lazy crybabies that ran away always, even if they promised hope and help.

She felt the hot ire on her throat and decided she needed to take a small walk. Cool off away of those childs that even if useful were cause of stress or bad memories.

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The leader of the cult was an old man named Piet, a powerful Lord if the words of his followers were an indication. One with fortress, men and a plan to destroy the Fire Nation with the aid of an spirit. That information was provided by the Lord himself.

The door of the small cell opened and Mako counted six loud steps before he could see the man, Mako did that action more as custom of another time that any genuine care.

Lord Piet arrived to Mako cell on a ritual he had done since the first day they meet, the old man would insult and hit the firebender. There was hatred on every word and contained punch, something about how people as Mako were savages monsters and soon they would be punished by the Great Spirit.

Four days of having to endure the crazy man were driving Mako further on his mind, the safe place where feelings or hope were forgotten and the outside world was simply happening. Almost like on his teen years, the only things Mako needed to do was eat, sleep and try to keep Bolin safe. As his jailors provided food and shelter and Bolin was safe on another place and time, Mako endured all that was thrown at him in a numb silence.

"Three more days and you will die" Lord Piet said as he smiled wickedly, his green eyes fixated on Mako, expecting a reaction that as always didn't come.

The eartbender left the room after slapping Mako, leaving the firebender with a red mark on his cheek. Everything was dark after the man closed the metal door but Mako's mind didn't bothered to make him feel enough mad or scared to try to scheme a plan to escape.

He was in a blissful numbness in wich he didn't think about anything. Destroyed cities, cold exes, time travel or the other person that was the same as him and her well-being, all those things were forgotten finally and as any man without hope he didn't do anything

He went to sleep and dreamed about monsters that ate kids on the darkness.

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The pub where Jun was didn't let small kid enter, so Toph, Kuvira and Aang had to wait outside. The metalbender felt slightly mad that her money wasn't on her hands and would be used to track someone she wanted dead (but in order to save him).

All the morning squarels of team Avatar had made a number on her, taking her to the limit.

Finally four teen went out of the place. The bounty hunter was a tall girl with long black hair, her factions had a roughness of a worker and the femenine look that any woman wanted to have, she was as dangerous as pretty, very few women could compare, and Kuvira herself liked to use make up to make her eyes stand.

"This will be child cake" the woman toyed and mounted a big beast without eyes "Can you keep my peace, babies?"

After that she stormed off, the future Fire Lord hit his own forehead with force and Kuvira felt that meeting the woman would be worthy all the money if only to see the firebender make a clown of himself.

"Let's follow Zuko girlfriend" Toph laughed as she earthbend herself to Appa mount.

The travel was long, enough to make the stars and an almost new moon rise. The thought of what had happened on the future, her mistakes and regrets growing in size.

All were camping on the forest and she was leaning on a rock, looking at the sky without really looking.

Kuvira stared at the moon, at her side Sokka was concentrated on the moon.

"We will rescue your brother. I know this has been hard for you, it's a heavy duty but that's what happens when we are the older, isn't it?" He sounded melancholic, and his eyes didn't leave the black moon even when he asked Kuvira that.

"He isn't my brother" Kuvira answered, she remembered when he was sick on the bed, how he had reached for her hand, a promise made to someone that didn't exist. She hated all that "He isn't my duty"

"Really?!" Sokka finally faced her, he looked angry "He is younger than you, he needs you!"

"For me the moon spirit can eat him" Kuvira sighed, she was mad at her situation, being with the loud team Avatar, being stuck on the past when firebenders were destroying her home, and who knew if her future home was safe at Republic City hands or if Baatar had even a proper burial. Mako fate was not her priority and more because she wanted him gone.

"The Moon Spirit is pretty and kind and would never harm anybody!" Sokka got up and began to move himself to Katara side "And Mako is your duty"

Kuvira suppressed a laugh, the Moon Spirit pretty? It wasn't like if the folk tale of a Princess of white hair becoming the moon was true, it was only a myth for the water tribe people.

And maybe Mako, after all he had dreamed..

Kuvira halted on her thoughts, it was not possible. A cat meowed somewhere and Kuvira got up, going to the sound, to find the cat with two hats, and the answers to questions she had forgotten.

The path was illuminated by the white light of the full moon and the world began to fade little by little at each step.

Kuvira opened her eyes in a unknown place, somewhere she had never been before. Inside a tower of a castle of metal, there was a party inside and outside candy colored clouds were cushons for the birds.

It was a dream, the metal walls and the marmol floor were just an illusion of Kuvira mind, a place that wanted to look as majestic and safe as she wanted.

Nothing was real, but still she knew here were the answers to everything...

A cat with two hats smiled at her and a white haired girl nodded her head with solemnity.

"Who are you?" Kuvira asked with her strong adult voice, this place was her mind and she was not longer a child "What happened to me?

"Obelon" the cat began floating on the air, its eyes on Kuvira's "I'm the spirit protector of childs. I gave you and the other your old bodies so you could live"

"You are trangersors of the world and so were outcasted of it" the white haired girl stod up and walked toward Kuvira, her clothes floating majestically with an eery air" I took you to another place and another time: Another world"

It had no sense, everything had no sense.

"Why until now? Why saying this to me now? Why not when this all began!" Kuvira snapped at them, because she had felt crazy and now the reason of her young body and being on the past was handed to her so easily, without she seeking it. Spirits as she had hipothized, but that only made her more mad "What is different now!"

"The first reason is that you seeked us, the second is tha a man is breaching the spirit world and fisical world, he is about to do a horrible ritual with children" the cat was no longer smiling and his voice cracked at every word "Your friend among them"

"He isn't my friend" Kuvira sentenced and the false world faded away, the last thing Kuvira saw were blue judging eyes.

Kuvira woke up and looked at the pitch dark night. It didn't matter if the world denied her existence, not when everything was more clear than before, when she was certain there was only another time traveler and when there were kids (hers citizens) life at risk.

She had never felt more alive.

To be continued.

Will Kuvira succeed in her plan? Would I get even good at writing? Would anyone review?

Now, I said before that only two chapter left (I think that about 3 chaps ago, the following one is the final) thanks to everyone that has read this far.