Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ AVATAR: The Legend of ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )
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By: Persona Ohnlyne 
The begining of the legend of the new Avatar.
Non Anime: Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.12.2012 | Updated On: 11.23.2012 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 203 | Status: Completed
The begining of the legend of the new Avatar.
Non Anime: Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.12.2012 | Updated On: 11.23.2012 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 203 | Status: Completed
With the founding of the United Republic of Nations, the world saw an era of advance in technology like never before, when the knowledge of every nation was now able to converge in the great metropolis that is Republic City.
With Republic City as the technological capital of the world, and thanks to the era of peace brought by the end of the Hundred Year War, this knowledge and advances were shared with the world, as new technologies reached all four nations of the world. Even technology developed for devious purposes, like the Future Industries secretly developed Biplane after the failed attempt to seize power by the Equalist movement, was later developed into the Great Biplane, a big flying machine capable of carrying over 50 people through the air, connecting every city with airports, making a trip that lasted several days before, only last some hours now, faster and safer than any hot air balloon or dirigible ever was. Radios allowed for information and news to spread faster and wider than any messenger hawk ever could, and Satomobiles were able to transport people on the ground faster than any Ostrich Horse ever could.
It was during this times that the era of Avatar Korra took place. Korra, from the Southern Water Tribe, was taken in awe at this advances in human technology, but also saw the dangers of it. After she was able to master all four elements, and become the true Avatar, the bridge between the spirit world and our own, she spent the rest of her life as Avatar warning humanity to be careful about the advances in technology. While she saw all the good that said advances could bring, she also saw the dangers of what it would cause for said advance to get out of control, always remaining in Republic City, the perfect place to have her message known. That humans and nature must remain in balance, and that any technological advance, should always take in consideration that special balance and relationship that will always exists between men and nature.
But, like the seasons come to an end, so does the life of those we know. As Korra passed away, the cycle of the Avatar, must also continue.
For 17 years, the world waited for the new Avatar to appear, as members of the Order of the White Lotus looked for the Earthbender that was destined to be the new Avatar. Far and wide they searched for the new Avatar, as the Earth Kingdom is, after all, the biggest nation in the world.
Finally, the new Avatar appeared, a seventeen year old boy, born in Republic City to one of the wealthiest families. Ken Genseki, heir to the industrial megacorporation Genseki Industries, one of the most powerful corporations not only in Republic City, but in the whole world. Ken surprised the world when he revealed that he not only knew Earthbending, but had mastered Firebending, Airbending and Waterbending without any formal training already.
The world listed to their new Avatar, as Ken stated that while he respected the views of former Avatar Korra, he also considered that technological advance should always be at the forefront of humanity, since technology was the true process to bring greater balance to the world, especially between Benders and Non-Benders. As the heir of the great Genseki Industries, he was going to make sure that said advances in technology be his great goal as the new Avatar, and will personally travel the world, to ensure that the natural resources of each nation be harvested for the good of all humanity.
He did so, and good to his promise, for the following year, the whole world, and not just the United Republic of Nations saw a technological boom like never before, relying for their progress and advances more and more through technology than through bending.
It is during this shifting times that our story begins…
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Si Wong Desert, Southern-East of the Earth Kingdom.
The night sky was filled with stars, the Sand-sailers of the Hami tribe were set up in a wide circle, the sails untied and spread, serving as makeshift tents for the Sandbenders as they slept after a long day of gathering water and food in the inhospitable Si Wong Desert, in the morning the sails will be placed back and they will continue to move, being in constant nomadic lifestyle was the only way to survive in the desert.
Everyone seemed to be asleep, except for one. A young Sandbender girl of 18 years was sitting down on top of a sand hill right next to the Hami tribe’s encampment. She had her knees up, and her arms wrapped around her, her face looking upwards at the stars.
“Sahara, its well past midnight. Having trouble sleeping again?” asked an older Sandbender woman, apparently in her late 30s or early 40s, as she walked towards the young girl.
Sahara turned her head around and smiled a little, “Mom? I’m sorry, did I wake you up when I left the camp?”
Sahara’s mother smiled as she sat next to her daughter. “No, you didn’t wake me. But your cat-lizard did.”
A small meow came from behind them, as a cat-lizard approached the two. Sahara smiled and welcomed the cat lizard to her lap, “Bastet! What happened girl? You couldn’t sleep either?”
Sahara’s mother smiled, “What happened Sahara? Did you have one of those dreams again?”
Sahara looked down, “Yeah.”
“Still can’t remember anything from it?” asked her mother.
Sahara looked away, “No… it’s just so weird! I know they must be important, I mean, every time I have them it just ‘feels’ like something important, and I wake up right in the middle of them… but I can’t remember anything about them! Not a single thing.” Sahara turned to look at her mother, her eyes showing how worried she was, “Mom, what is wrong with me?”
Sahara’s mother placed her hand around her daughter’s shoulder. “Don’t worry Sahara, there is nothing wrong with you.”
The two stayed like that for a moment, when suddenly Bastet raised her head, a second later so did Sahara and her mother, “Mom, did you hear that?” “Yes, Sahara, I do… its coming closer.”
The rumbling noise was different from anything they had heard before, like a strange rumbling coming closer and closer. The sound was getting louder as now Sahara and her mother, ran back towards the Hami tribe’s encampment, flowed closely by Bastet.
The noise was loud enough to wake up everyone in the camp, as the Sandbenders rose from their makeshift beds on the sand, they saw what it seemed like lights coming their way, only that they seemed to be in pairs.
“Quickly, put the sails back on the Sand-sailers, just in case.” Ordered the Hami tribe’s chief.
The group of six Jeep-mobiles, a type of All Terrain Genseki-mobile with big wheels, built to go in places where there was no road, like the Si Wong Desert, approached the Sandbender’s encampment. The lights on them were turned on, so they could watch the road ahead of them They weren’t going as fast as they could for two reasons. One, it was night and it was hard to see where they were going, as the whole desert looked the same. Two, they were following a beetle-headed merchant, riding a giant rhinoceros beetle, which was fast, but not as fast as the Jeep-mobiles could go. Each one of the vehicles was carrying four people.
“There they are!” yelled the beetle-headed merchant as they got closer to the circle of Sand-sailers that was the makeshift encampment of the Hami tribe. “That must be the Sandbenders of the Hami tribe! I recognize their sand-sailers.”
The driver of the lead Jeep-mobile, dressed in a uniform of the Genseki Corporation, turned to the person sitting in the passenger seat. “Seems like we’re here boss.”
“Yes we are,” said the young man, who seemed to be in either his late teens or early 20s. He was dressed in large robes, that covered him completely, even his hands and feet. The robe had the symbol of the Genseki Corporation in the chest, and on both shoulders. “Let’s get closer to them, tell the rest of the team to be ready, just in case.”
“Yes boss,” said the driver, and grabbing the speaker of the Jeep-mobile’s radio, transmitted the order to the other Jeep-mobiles.
The Sandbenders of the Hami tribe watched as this metallic things on wheels approached them, stopping right next to the encampment, being led by a beetle-headed merchant. The saw how all men got out of the vehicles, all wearing matching uniforms. Some of them were wearing strange looking gloves, and the one that looked like the leader was dressed in robes that resembled pants and a shirt, but that were really baggy and covered even his hands and feet. All of them had the same symbol patched on their clothes.
The one that looked like the leader, now that was off the vehicle looked like a really big man, towering about 7 feet tall. He walked towards the beetle-headed merchant, exchanged a few words, and then the man handed a handful of Yuan bills to the beetle headed merchant, after receiving his payment to guide them to this place, the beetle headed merchant turned his giant rhinoceros beetle around, and sped away from the scene.
The chief of the Hami Tribe Sandbenders, a man in his late 50s, stood in front of his fellow Sandbenders as the men from the Jeep-mobiles approached them, with the tall robed man, their leader, in front. “My name is Badi, head of the Sandbenders of the Hami Tribe. Who are you?”
The tall young man in baggy robes smiled confidently and replied, “I am Ken Genseki, I am the Avatar.”
There were murmurs from all the Sandbenders as they heard this.
“Did you hear that mom? He’s the Avatar!” said Sahara, surprised.
“Yes Sahara, I heard.” replied Sahara’s mother, not knowing if she should be happy or worried.
“The Avatar? Well, to what do we owe to honor of having the Avatar visiting our tribe in the middle of the night?” asked Badi.
Ken gestured with his head to one of the men that had come with him, the man reached into a pocket in his Genseki Corporation uniform, and produced a rolled up piece of paper, a scroll. It had the seal of the Earth King on it. He handed this to Badi, and then walked back to his place, standing behind the Avatar.
Before Badi could finish reading the scroll, Ken continued to speak. “The King of the Earth Kingdom has agreed to lease this lands to the Genseki Corporation for the next 30 years, so Oil can be extracted from it, and refined into fuel over Republic City. I am here to oversee that all of you relocate in a peaceful manner.”
Badi finished reading the scroll, it indeed basically said what the Avatar had told him, with the seal of the Earth King and Ba Sing Se. Badi looked up from the scroll and to Ken. “Yes, I had heard of other Sandbender tribes being relocated all over the desert, I did not know that it was the Avatar himself that was doing this.”
“Well, now you know.” Replied Ken, “So, please get on your sand-sailers and go someplace else in the desert.”
Badi handed the scroll to the Avatar, who took it back, “I am sorry, but we can’t do that. We are Sandbenders of the Hami Tribe, this is the Si Wong Desert, the Earth King and his seal has nothing to do with us.”
Ken chuckled, dismissing what the older man had said, “I don’t think you understand. The Si Wong Desert is in the Earth Kingdom, therefore you are under the rule of the Earth King, and must do what the royal edict says.”
Badi frowned at this, “And where does the Earth King expect us to go? This ‘oil rig’ machinery that has been appearing almost all over the desert make it harder and harder to find food and water. Other Sandbender Tribes are competing for resources in a smaller and smaller piece of land, its not enough for everyone, not to mention that the only places on the desert that the oil rigs are not in are the most warren and desolated. Our tribe has been in this lands for centuries, to relocate someplace else will mean certain death to many of us, I will not ask my people to sacrifice themselves just because a royal edict of a King sitting in a throne hundreds of miles away from here tell us to.”
Ken stopped smiling, and frowned. “How dare you… I am the Avatar!”
“Yes, and you of all people, should understand our position. Please, go back to the Earth King, and try to make him understand that leasing the lands of the desert to dig for this oil that everyone finds so precious is hurting many animals, and many people.” With this, Badi turned around and walked towards the rest of the Sandbenders.
“How dare you turn your back on me, you filthy Sandbender. You will do as I say, I am the Avatar!” Ken raised his hand, and a fireball flew out of his sleeve and towards Badi. The fireball hit the old Sandbender right on the back, causing him to fall down on the sand, his eyes wide and white, his mouth open but no sound coming out.
“Attack! Leave no one alive!” Ken gave the order to the rest of his men.
The men that were wearing strange gloves activated them, as electricity started coming out of the gloves, they ran towards the Sandbenders, shocking them with the glove’s power. The other men were Earthbenders, they countered everything that the few Sandbenders, that were surprised and panicked, tried to do to defend themselves. Ken also used Earthbending to stop the Sandbenders, and also attacked with bursts of fire from under his sleeves.
Sahara, who had been paralyzed in a stupor when she saw the Avatar kill Badi, felt how her mother grabbed her hand and pulled, urging the young Sandbender girl to run, “Come one Sahara, we need to escape! Get on the Sand-slider.” Yelled Sahara’s mother.
Sahara got out of her stupor and nodded, running with her mother towards their sand-slider, Bastet following them. The sounds of Sandbending, Earthbending, and flying fireballs, and cries from Sandbenders, all around them.
They reached the Sand-sailer, when one of Ken’s thugs wearing electric gloves jumped in front of them. Sahara’s mother flexed her arms and pushed, using Sandbending to throw Sand into the man’s face, who shielded himself with his arm, then lowered her arms and turned her hands, causing Sand to fly towards him from behind knocking him into the ground. Soon, another one of the men came over, this one an Eathbender, Sahara’s mother stood her ground. “Sahara, set up the sail, I’ll hold them off!”
Sahara moved as quickly as possible to obey her mother, untying the sails from being makeshift tents, to set them up so they could use the sand-sailer.
As she did this, the man with the electric gloves stood up again, and while Sahara’s mother was fighting the Eathbender, he shocked her from behind with the glove.
“Aaargh!” yelled Sahara’s mother in pain. But her resolution made her able to withstand the shock of the glove, then turned and used Sandbending to throw the man away, then turned again and pushed, causing more Sand to knock over the Earthbender. She then fell to her knees.
“Mom!” yelled Sahara, she jumped down from the sand-sailer, the sails set up on the wooden vehicle, Bastet right next to her. Sahara knelt next to her mother. “Mom! Are you okay?”
Sahara’s mother looked up, a weak smile on her face, her vision was a little blurry. “I’m okay dear. We already lost your Father to the hardships of the desert, it will take more than that to take me away from you as well.”
“Then what about the Avatar?” came a voice from behind the two.
Mother and daughter turned their heads in dread as they heard that, Ken Genseki stood right there, towering well over them.
“Prepare to die!” Ken Genseki raised his arm, ready to strike down.
“Sahara, get away!” using what little strength she had left, Sahara’s mother pushed her daughter away. This, however, left her completely open to Ken’s attack. A large fireball came out of Ken’s sleeve, striking Sahara’s mother right in the middle of her torso.
Sahara looked up just in time to see her mother being struck by the fireball, saw her fall down on the sand, her head striking the sand devoid of any signs of life. “MOM!” cried the Young Sandbender girl.
“Don’t worry,” said Ken as he walked towards Sahara, “you’ll join her soon.”
Desperately, Sahara used sandbeding to throw chunks of sand at Ken, but they failed to connect since Ken stopped them with his own Earthbending powers, “You stupid girl, prepare to die!” Ken raised his hand, and launched fireball from under his sleeve to Sahara.
“NOOOOO!” Sahara, acting more in instinct than anything else, raised her hands to stop the fireball from hitting her, pushing it away from her.
Then, as if in slow motion, something that nobody expected happened. The fireball stopped completely, as if contained by Sahara’s palms, then the fireball was tossed back, with Sahara completely unharmed by it, and towards Ken Genseki.
Ken, eyes wide open in surprise, managed to raise his arm in a defensive posture just in time to prevent the fireball from striking his head. The fireball hit his arm, burning off part of his sleeve, revealing his hand and part of his arm.
Sahara stood on her place, she looked at her hands in disbelief. “Did… did I just Firebend?” She looked up and looked at Ken, she now could see what his long robe was hiding. His arm was covered in what seemed a complex array of hoses, ending at his wrist, with some buttons on his palm that he could press using his fingers.
Ken looked at Sahara, “It can’t be… that girl is the real…”
Sahara jumped on her family’s sand-slider, “Come on Bastet, we have to escape!” she yelled as she started using Sandbending to create a small whirlwind of sand, that propelled the Sand-slider forwards, speeding away into the night. The cat-lizard quickly jumped over the Sand-slider, next to her owner.
“You are not going to get away from me!” Ken extended his arm, the one that was not covered with his robe anymore, he pushed one of the buttons on his palm, and a fireball came out from one of the hoses, the fireball flew towards Sahara’s sand-slider, but it missed. He pushed another button, then another, a stream of water came out of one hose, but did not reach Sahara, then a burst of air came from another hose, but this failed to stop Sahara’s sand-slider either. “Argh! Damn you!” he stopped pushing buttons, and now moved his hand, making a fist and then striking down on the desert sand, using his Earthbending to make a sink hole in front of Sahara’s path.
But Sahara saw it just in time, and knew how to pilot her sand-slider well, she turned to one side, and dodged the hole in the sand. She sped away, away from Ken’s reach.
“Yargh!” Ken screamed into the skies in frustration.
One of Ken’s men moved towards him, the rest of the Sandbenders of the Hami Tribe having been killed already. “All the Sandbenders have been taken care of boss.” He then noticed that one of the sleeve of Ken’s robe had been burned, revealing the hoses underneath. “Sir, what happened? Your sleeve! Are you okay?”
Ken grunted, “I’m fine!” he then turned to look at the sand slider, as it sped away through the desert. “I will find you! You can never escape from me! I will search the whole world! You hear me!? The whole world!!”
Sahara kept using Sandbending, even now that everyone was out of sight, she kept using all her skills to make the sand-slider go as fast as possible. “What is going on!? I’m sure I used firebending… how did I do that? What were those hoses wrapped around his arm… what is happening Bastet?” she looked down at her cat-lizard. “Huh?” she suddenly saw something next to the Sand-slider.
A translucent shape, that seemed to almost glow in an eerie blue light. It was a woman dressed in what seemed water tribe clothes, she seemed to be in her late 30s, and she was riding a Polarbear-dog that ran fast enough to keep up with the sand-slider, the translucent woman turned her head to look at Sahara, a calm expression on her dark skinned face. “Avenge me.” Whispered the spirit of Korra.
Fire
Air
Water
Earth
Only the avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to the world.
AVATAR: The Legend of Sahara.
With Republic City as the technological capital of the world, and thanks to the era of peace brought by the end of the Hundred Year War, this knowledge and advances were shared with the world, as new technologies reached all four nations of the world. Even technology developed for devious purposes, like the Future Industries secretly developed Biplane after the failed attempt to seize power by the Equalist movement, was later developed into the Great Biplane, a big flying machine capable of carrying over 50 people through the air, connecting every city with airports, making a trip that lasted several days before, only last some hours now, faster and safer than any hot air balloon or dirigible ever was. Radios allowed for information and news to spread faster and wider than any messenger hawk ever could, and Satomobiles were able to transport people on the ground faster than any Ostrich Horse ever could.
It was during this times that the era of Avatar Korra took place. Korra, from the Southern Water Tribe, was taken in awe at this advances in human technology, but also saw the dangers of it. After she was able to master all four elements, and become the true Avatar, the bridge between the spirit world and our own, she spent the rest of her life as Avatar warning humanity to be careful about the advances in technology. While she saw all the good that said advances could bring, she also saw the dangers of what it would cause for said advance to get out of control, always remaining in Republic City, the perfect place to have her message known. That humans and nature must remain in balance, and that any technological advance, should always take in consideration that special balance and relationship that will always exists between men and nature.
But, like the seasons come to an end, so does the life of those we know. As Korra passed away, the cycle of the Avatar, must also continue.
For 17 years, the world waited for the new Avatar to appear, as members of the Order of the White Lotus looked for the Earthbender that was destined to be the new Avatar. Far and wide they searched for the new Avatar, as the Earth Kingdom is, after all, the biggest nation in the world.
Finally, the new Avatar appeared, a seventeen year old boy, born in Republic City to one of the wealthiest families. Ken Genseki, heir to the industrial megacorporation Genseki Industries, one of the most powerful corporations not only in Republic City, but in the whole world. Ken surprised the world when he revealed that he not only knew Earthbending, but had mastered Firebending, Airbending and Waterbending without any formal training already.
The world listed to their new Avatar, as Ken stated that while he respected the views of former Avatar Korra, he also considered that technological advance should always be at the forefront of humanity, since technology was the true process to bring greater balance to the world, especially between Benders and Non-Benders. As the heir of the great Genseki Industries, he was going to make sure that said advances in technology be his great goal as the new Avatar, and will personally travel the world, to ensure that the natural resources of each nation be harvested for the good of all humanity.
He did so, and good to his promise, for the following year, the whole world, and not just the United Republic of Nations saw a technological boom like never before, relying for their progress and advances more and more through technology than through bending.
It is during this shifting times that our story begins…
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Si Wong Desert, Southern-East of the Earth Kingdom.
The night sky was filled with stars, the Sand-sailers of the Hami tribe were set up in a wide circle, the sails untied and spread, serving as makeshift tents for the Sandbenders as they slept after a long day of gathering water and food in the inhospitable Si Wong Desert, in the morning the sails will be placed back and they will continue to move, being in constant nomadic lifestyle was the only way to survive in the desert.
Everyone seemed to be asleep, except for one. A young Sandbender girl of 18 years was sitting down on top of a sand hill right next to the Hami tribe’s encampment. She had her knees up, and her arms wrapped around her, her face looking upwards at the stars.
“Sahara, its well past midnight. Having trouble sleeping again?” asked an older Sandbender woman, apparently in her late 30s or early 40s, as she walked towards the young girl.
Sahara turned her head around and smiled a little, “Mom? I’m sorry, did I wake you up when I left the camp?”
Sahara’s mother smiled as she sat next to her daughter. “No, you didn’t wake me. But your cat-lizard did.”
A small meow came from behind them, as a cat-lizard approached the two. Sahara smiled and welcomed the cat lizard to her lap, “Bastet! What happened girl? You couldn’t sleep either?”
Sahara’s mother smiled, “What happened Sahara? Did you have one of those dreams again?”
Sahara looked down, “Yeah.”
“Still can’t remember anything from it?” asked her mother.
Sahara looked away, “No… it’s just so weird! I know they must be important, I mean, every time I have them it just ‘feels’ like something important, and I wake up right in the middle of them… but I can’t remember anything about them! Not a single thing.” Sahara turned to look at her mother, her eyes showing how worried she was, “Mom, what is wrong with me?”
Sahara’s mother placed her hand around her daughter’s shoulder. “Don’t worry Sahara, there is nothing wrong with you.”
The two stayed like that for a moment, when suddenly Bastet raised her head, a second later so did Sahara and her mother, “Mom, did you hear that?” “Yes, Sahara, I do… its coming closer.”
The rumbling noise was different from anything they had heard before, like a strange rumbling coming closer and closer. The sound was getting louder as now Sahara and her mother, ran back towards the Hami tribe’s encampment, flowed closely by Bastet.
The noise was loud enough to wake up everyone in the camp, as the Sandbenders rose from their makeshift beds on the sand, they saw what it seemed like lights coming their way, only that they seemed to be in pairs.
“Quickly, put the sails back on the Sand-sailers, just in case.” Ordered the Hami tribe’s chief.
The group of six Jeep-mobiles, a type of All Terrain Genseki-mobile with big wheels, built to go in places where there was no road, like the Si Wong Desert, approached the Sandbender’s encampment. The lights on them were turned on, so they could watch the road ahead of them They weren’t going as fast as they could for two reasons. One, it was night and it was hard to see where they were going, as the whole desert looked the same. Two, they were following a beetle-headed merchant, riding a giant rhinoceros beetle, which was fast, but not as fast as the Jeep-mobiles could go. Each one of the vehicles was carrying four people.
“There they are!” yelled the beetle-headed merchant as they got closer to the circle of Sand-sailers that was the makeshift encampment of the Hami tribe. “That must be the Sandbenders of the Hami tribe! I recognize their sand-sailers.”
The driver of the lead Jeep-mobile, dressed in a uniform of the Genseki Corporation, turned to the person sitting in the passenger seat. “Seems like we’re here boss.”
“Yes we are,” said the young man, who seemed to be in either his late teens or early 20s. He was dressed in large robes, that covered him completely, even his hands and feet. The robe had the symbol of the Genseki Corporation in the chest, and on both shoulders. “Let’s get closer to them, tell the rest of the team to be ready, just in case.”
“Yes boss,” said the driver, and grabbing the speaker of the Jeep-mobile’s radio, transmitted the order to the other Jeep-mobiles.
The Sandbenders of the Hami tribe watched as this metallic things on wheels approached them, stopping right next to the encampment, being led by a beetle-headed merchant. The saw how all men got out of the vehicles, all wearing matching uniforms. Some of them were wearing strange looking gloves, and the one that looked like the leader was dressed in robes that resembled pants and a shirt, but that were really baggy and covered even his hands and feet. All of them had the same symbol patched on their clothes.
The one that looked like the leader, now that was off the vehicle looked like a really big man, towering about 7 feet tall. He walked towards the beetle-headed merchant, exchanged a few words, and then the man handed a handful of Yuan bills to the beetle headed merchant, after receiving his payment to guide them to this place, the beetle headed merchant turned his giant rhinoceros beetle around, and sped away from the scene.
The chief of the Hami Tribe Sandbenders, a man in his late 50s, stood in front of his fellow Sandbenders as the men from the Jeep-mobiles approached them, with the tall robed man, their leader, in front. “My name is Badi, head of the Sandbenders of the Hami Tribe. Who are you?”
The tall young man in baggy robes smiled confidently and replied, “I am Ken Genseki, I am the Avatar.”
There were murmurs from all the Sandbenders as they heard this.
“Did you hear that mom? He’s the Avatar!” said Sahara, surprised.
“Yes Sahara, I heard.” replied Sahara’s mother, not knowing if she should be happy or worried.
“The Avatar? Well, to what do we owe to honor of having the Avatar visiting our tribe in the middle of the night?” asked Badi.
Ken gestured with his head to one of the men that had come with him, the man reached into a pocket in his Genseki Corporation uniform, and produced a rolled up piece of paper, a scroll. It had the seal of the Earth King on it. He handed this to Badi, and then walked back to his place, standing behind the Avatar.
Before Badi could finish reading the scroll, Ken continued to speak. “The King of the Earth Kingdom has agreed to lease this lands to the Genseki Corporation for the next 30 years, so Oil can be extracted from it, and refined into fuel over Republic City. I am here to oversee that all of you relocate in a peaceful manner.”
Badi finished reading the scroll, it indeed basically said what the Avatar had told him, with the seal of the Earth King and Ba Sing Se. Badi looked up from the scroll and to Ken. “Yes, I had heard of other Sandbender tribes being relocated all over the desert, I did not know that it was the Avatar himself that was doing this.”
“Well, now you know.” Replied Ken, “So, please get on your sand-sailers and go someplace else in the desert.”
Badi handed the scroll to the Avatar, who took it back, “I am sorry, but we can’t do that. We are Sandbenders of the Hami Tribe, this is the Si Wong Desert, the Earth King and his seal has nothing to do with us.”
Ken chuckled, dismissing what the older man had said, “I don’t think you understand. The Si Wong Desert is in the Earth Kingdom, therefore you are under the rule of the Earth King, and must do what the royal edict says.”
Badi frowned at this, “And where does the Earth King expect us to go? This ‘oil rig’ machinery that has been appearing almost all over the desert make it harder and harder to find food and water. Other Sandbender Tribes are competing for resources in a smaller and smaller piece of land, its not enough for everyone, not to mention that the only places on the desert that the oil rigs are not in are the most warren and desolated. Our tribe has been in this lands for centuries, to relocate someplace else will mean certain death to many of us, I will not ask my people to sacrifice themselves just because a royal edict of a King sitting in a throne hundreds of miles away from here tell us to.”
Ken stopped smiling, and frowned. “How dare you… I am the Avatar!”
“Yes, and you of all people, should understand our position. Please, go back to the Earth King, and try to make him understand that leasing the lands of the desert to dig for this oil that everyone finds so precious is hurting many animals, and many people.” With this, Badi turned around and walked towards the rest of the Sandbenders.
“How dare you turn your back on me, you filthy Sandbender. You will do as I say, I am the Avatar!” Ken raised his hand, and a fireball flew out of his sleeve and towards Badi. The fireball hit the old Sandbender right on the back, causing him to fall down on the sand, his eyes wide and white, his mouth open but no sound coming out.
“Attack! Leave no one alive!” Ken gave the order to the rest of his men.
The men that were wearing strange gloves activated them, as electricity started coming out of the gloves, they ran towards the Sandbenders, shocking them with the glove’s power. The other men were Earthbenders, they countered everything that the few Sandbenders, that were surprised and panicked, tried to do to defend themselves. Ken also used Earthbending to stop the Sandbenders, and also attacked with bursts of fire from under his sleeves.
Sahara, who had been paralyzed in a stupor when she saw the Avatar kill Badi, felt how her mother grabbed her hand and pulled, urging the young Sandbender girl to run, “Come one Sahara, we need to escape! Get on the Sand-slider.” Yelled Sahara’s mother.
Sahara got out of her stupor and nodded, running with her mother towards their sand-slider, Bastet following them. The sounds of Sandbending, Earthbending, and flying fireballs, and cries from Sandbenders, all around them.
They reached the Sand-sailer, when one of Ken’s thugs wearing electric gloves jumped in front of them. Sahara’s mother flexed her arms and pushed, using Sandbending to throw Sand into the man’s face, who shielded himself with his arm, then lowered her arms and turned her hands, causing Sand to fly towards him from behind knocking him into the ground. Soon, another one of the men came over, this one an Eathbender, Sahara’s mother stood her ground. “Sahara, set up the sail, I’ll hold them off!”
Sahara moved as quickly as possible to obey her mother, untying the sails from being makeshift tents, to set them up so they could use the sand-sailer.
As she did this, the man with the electric gloves stood up again, and while Sahara’s mother was fighting the Eathbender, he shocked her from behind with the glove.
“Aaargh!” yelled Sahara’s mother in pain. But her resolution made her able to withstand the shock of the glove, then turned and used Sandbending to throw the man away, then turned again and pushed, causing more Sand to knock over the Earthbender. She then fell to her knees.
“Mom!” yelled Sahara, she jumped down from the sand-sailer, the sails set up on the wooden vehicle, Bastet right next to her. Sahara knelt next to her mother. “Mom! Are you okay?”
Sahara’s mother looked up, a weak smile on her face, her vision was a little blurry. “I’m okay dear. We already lost your Father to the hardships of the desert, it will take more than that to take me away from you as well.”
“Then what about the Avatar?” came a voice from behind the two.
Mother and daughter turned their heads in dread as they heard that, Ken Genseki stood right there, towering well over them.
“Prepare to die!” Ken Genseki raised his arm, ready to strike down.
“Sahara, get away!” using what little strength she had left, Sahara’s mother pushed her daughter away. This, however, left her completely open to Ken’s attack. A large fireball came out of Ken’s sleeve, striking Sahara’s mother right in the middle of her torso.
Sahara looked up just in time to see her mother being struck by the fireball, saw her fall down on the sand, her head striking the sand devoid of any signs of life. “MOM!” cried the Young Sandbender girl.
“Don’t worry,” said Ken as he walked towards Sahara, “you’ll join her soon.”
Desperately, Sahara used sandbeding to throw chunks of sand at Ken, but they failed to connect since Ken stopped them with his own Earthbending powers, “You stupid girl, prepare to die!” Ken raised his hand, and launched fireball from under his sleeve to Sahara.
“NOOOOO!” Sahara, acting more in instinct than anything else, raised her hands to stop the fireball from hitting her, pushing it away from her.
Then, as if in slow motion, something that nobody expected happened. The fireball stopped completely, as if contained by Sahara’s palms, then the fireball was tossed back, with Sahara completely unharmed by it, and towards Ken Genseki.
Ken, eyes wide open in surprise, managed to raise his arm in a defensive posture just in time to prevent the fireball from striking his head. The fireball hit his arm, burning off part of his sleeve, revealing his hand and part of his arm.
Sahara stood on her place, she looked at her hands in disbelief. “Did… did I just Firebend?” She looked up and looked at Ken, she now could see what his long robe was hiding. His arm was covered in what seemed a complex array of hoses, ending at his wrist, with some buttons on his palm that he could press using his fingers.
Ken looked at Sahara, “It can’t be… that girl is the real…”
Sahara jumped on her family’s sand-slider, “Come on Bastet, we have to escape!” she yelled as she started using Sandbending to create a small whirlwind of sand, that propelled the Sand-slider forwards, speeding away into the night. The cat-lizard quickly jumped over the Sand-slider, next to her owner.
“You are not going to get away from me!” Ken extended his arm, the one that was not covered with his robe anymore, he pushed one of the buttons on his palm, and a fireball came out from one of the hoses, the fireball flew towards Sahara’s sand-slider, but it missed. He pushed another button, then another, a stream of water came out of one hose, but did not reach Sahara, then a burst of air came from another hose, but this failed to stop Sahara’s sand-slider either. “Argh! Damn you!” he stopped pushing buttons, and now moved his hand, making a fist and then striking down on the desert sand, using his Earthbending to make a sink hole in front of Sahara’s path.
But Sahara saw it just in time, and knew how to pilot her sand-slider well, she turned to one side, and dodged the hole in the sand. She sped away, away from Ken’s reach.
“Yargh!” Ken screamed into the skies in frustration.
One of Ken’s men moved towards him, the rest of the Sandbenders of the Hami Tribe having been killed already. “All the Sandbenders have been taken care of boss.” He then noticed that one of the sleeve of Ken’s robe had been burned, revealing the hoses underneath. “Sir, what happened? Your sleeve! Are you okay?”
Ken grunted, “I’m fine!” he then turned to look at the sand slider, as it sped away through the desert. “I will find you! You can never escape from me! I will search the whole world! You hear me!? The whole world!!”
Sahara kept using Sandbending, even now that everyone was out of sight, she kept using all her skills to make the sand-slider go as fast as possible. “What is going on!? I’m sure I used firebending… how did I do that? What were those hoses wrapped around his arm… what is happening Bastet?” she looked down at her cat-lizard. “Huh?” she suddenly saw something next to the Sand-slider.
A translucent shape, that seemed to almost glow in an eerie blue light. It was a woman dressed in what seemed water tribe clothes, she seemed to be in her late 30s, and she was riding a Polarbear-dog that ran fast enough to keep up with the sand-slider, the translucent woman turned her head to look at Sahara, a calm expression on her dark skinned face. “Avenge me.” Whispered the spirit of Korra.
Fire
Air
Water
Earth
Only the avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to the world.
AVATAR: The Legend of Sahara.