To let go of all you love may seem like an impossible task to ask of someone. Unfortunately for Aria, it wasn't a question.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction
Book 1: Water
Future Zuko x OC
Slow updates
Komorebi [ko-mo-re-be] Japanese (n.) Sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees.
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Water.
Earth.
Fire.
Air.
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Only the Avatar, Master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.
A hundred years passed, and hope for a new Avatar has left even the most avid of his followers. The Fire Nation, fuelled by greed and pride, expanded their war to the entire world, claiming more colonies each day and getting rid of those who opposed them.
Kristala Tapu was a young city in an isle southeast to the Fire Nation, faithful to the Avatar and believers of the Spirits, built from the ground up by earth benders and water benders alike. It became the second conquest of Fire Lord Azulon.
Colonized and defeated, the people were forced to give up their culture and traditions. Benders were taken from their homes, only to never be seen again and, eventually, became but whispers of the past in the fading memories of the elders of the island.
Decades passed and Kristala Tapu had lost its hope, becoming one with the Fire Nation, the colonizers and the natives turned into partners in creating a rich city, full of diversity and progress, but they were never equal.
On a small mountain in the centre of the island, a battered-looking woman sought help from the guardians of the last Avatar temple remaining in Kristala Tapu- she was about to give birth.
So, they helped.
As dawn came closer and glimpses of the red sun could be seen on the horizon, the woman grew weaker from the efforts of childbirth. It took an hour before life escaped her eyes. The temple felt cold as the healers tried their best to deliver the baby despite the mother's passing.
All that could be heard as they worked was the deafening sound of silence that accompanied death.
At daybreak, as the warm rays of the sun grazed the temple, a baby girl was finally delivered- lifeless, as the silence continued to fill the temple hallways. Heavy with grief, the guardians left one by one the room.
The child was placed beside her mother' corpse as the last healer left.
Sunlight entered the room, and a white glowing creature materialized from thin air- a fox. It sneaked around the room as if looking for something, its big ears pointed towards the door wary of the living humans nearby. As it sniffed the air, it abruptly came to a halt and turned towards the bed.
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The guardians and healers in the hallways were at a loss, grieving the lives of the unknown mother and child that had been taken early by the spirits, when loud cries broke the silence of the temple, and they rushed back to the delivery room.
A new hope was born.
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