Name: Kaiya

Parents: Ronin and Amaya

Status: novice waterbender

Age: 16

Hair: dark brown, almost black

Eyes: dark blue

Height: 5'3"

Location: a small village in the southern water tribe

Weapons: daggers

Appearance: At 5'3", she is pretty short, but is very thin. She is fair skinned unlike many other villagers in the tribe with darker skin. She has very dark brown hair that comes down to her back that she normally has tied in a braid. Her blue eyes tend to stand out from her dark hair.

She wears a dark blue long sleeved shirt under a lighter blue fitted vest. She has strips of cloth wrapped around both her arms for extra warmth. She also wears a long navy blue skirt with slits in the sides so she can walk. She has thick boots and a fur jacket with a hood when it's cold.

Personality: Generally quiet and shy, she would rather be in the side lines then in the spotlight. However, if provoked, she can often be very harsh and aggressive. She has always been very quick to learn things which ties in well with her adventurous spirit.

History: Kaiya's parents died when she was only about a year old. She only knew about her parents through her mother's journal. She read that her parents Ronin and Amaya were both scholars that traveled the world. They were neutral in the war, and were both non-benders. They both lived in Ba Sing Se all their live as refugees, so they decided to go out and see the world on their quest for knowledge. They went around the entire Earth Kingdom first making several scrolls about their customs, bending and many other things. When they went to the Northern Water Tribe, they did the same. Then they returned to Ba Sing Se and sold many of their scrolls at the University (mostly for money and a lighter load to carry around). Right before they left for the Southern Water Tribe however, Amaya discovered she was pregnant. They delayed the trip until almost a year after Kaiya was born.

On the way to the Southern Water Tribe, they ran into a terrible storm. It diverted the boat off course and the landed a long way from the tribe. After hiking around a few days though, they came upon what looked like a camp. It turns out though that the camp was actually another village of the water tribe. It had about 70 people, mostly women and children, but still several men who at not gone off in the war. Amaya and Ronin decided to stay there, even though none of them were waterbenders who could show their style of bending.

Everything else she had learned from the villagers.

One morning after about 5 months later, the villagers woke up hearing a baby crying loudly. Some of them went into Amaya and Ronin's tent and were appalled by what they saw.

The tent had been completely ransacked. Crates were opened and scrolls were thrown all across the floor, nothing had been left untouched. They saw sighs of a struggle, and then found both Amaya and Ronin dead in a corner. They found Kaiya on the other side of the tent, away from everything else. She was unhurt except for an odd, deep cut on her right forearm that resembled an "S" with an "X" over it. Even though they searched the whole tent and even the whole village, they couldn't find any sigh of the people that had intruded.

Since that day, Kaiya lived with Taka, the eldest woman of the village who also served as the medicine lady. Taka had no children of her own and was willing to raise Kaiya when no one else wanted to. The village had a fear that the group of people that killed Amaya and Ronin would come back for Kaiya and possibly others.

Kaiya's childhood was pretty normal. Taka was a very traditional woman however, so she had Kaiya indoors quite a bit teaching her how to run a house and also about different herbs for healing illness. Kaiya disliked it very much, however, and often sneaked out if the house to play. When she was 8 she started watching the boys during their training. She thought learning how to fight was much more interesting than learning about healing so she made watching them a daily habit. She would practice their stances in her spare time and one day Sheng (the man that was teaching the boys) saw her. He noticed how talented she was for someone who had only watched and eventually convinced Taka for him to train Kaiya too. The other boys ignored her, thinking she was weird for taking the class along with them. There was only one who did, his name was Manchu, and he soon became her best friend. After training for the day they would often spend the rest of the day playing together. They were both adventurous so they both would often travel many miles away from the village.

It was on one of these occasions when Kaiya discovered she was a waterbender. She was ten and she and Manchu had traveled to the ocean looking off a cliff. They were laughing and talking when suddenly Manchu lost his balance and started to fall off the cliff. By some instinct, Kaiya moved her hands and made the snow stop his fall.

Since no one in the village was a waterbender, she relied on herself and her parents scrolls to teach her. She had always enjoyed her parent's scrolls; since it was the only thing she had left of them, and never let anyone else read them. She didn't understand many of them, but she felt like they were all important. She felt like she might need the information one day, especially if the people who had killed her parents ever came back....

did i leave anything out? i shortened it quite a bit so i could add some more stuff in the actual story so i hope it all still makes sense

Okay since so many people wish me to stop doing reruns then so be it. I acompished what i wanted to do anyway. and so on with it.

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Siam - airbender

Mrs. Yoji - earthbender

Grandma Chiyo - waterbender

~~Siam and Mrs. Yoji say goodbye to ranch and head for the northern temple~~

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The following day began anew with a glorious sunrise that that casts a warm glow upon the earth. Scanning the grassy horizon, Mrs. Yoji began finishing her preparations for their departure. Her face immediately turned to a scowl as she turned to the house.

"Siam! Siam get your fanny out her or Avatar Roku help me I will drag you out."

The girl finally made her appearance dressed in her Green blouse with a cloak and travel pants. On her back was a gummy sack containing provisions and her staff. Following up the rear was Grandma Chiyo who was pushing out the half conscious girl.

"She's here Hana," Chiyo said replying for Siam. "She's just a little tired."

"Tired? It looks like your pushing a cadaver around. Look at her... it looks like the rigarmortis hasn't set in yet. I pronounce her dead at O' nine hundred."

Siam swayed her head and opened her blood shot eyes. "Wha... who's dead."

"Hana," Chiyo said, "Stop teasing her. She was up half the night talking to Kempa. Here take this Siam. It will wake you up."

Grandma Chiyo handed Siam a small bottle containing a liquid. Siam smelled first and then drank it down in half a gulp. She immediately winced and the sourness and gagged from the taste.

"This stuff taste horrid," said Siam as her eyes watered. "It tastes like rotten puke with a side of lemon and socks."

"You have incredible taste buds dear," the woman jested.

"But why did you give me that stuff? I thought you were going to give me something to wake me up?"

"Ah, but you are awake dear. So do you think it worked?"

"Um, well yes but..."

Mrs. Yoji started walking toward them and interrupted their conversation. "Chiyo, we're heading out now that Siam awake. Siam if you want to fly I can follow you on a boulder. But always make sure you're always in sight of my position."

Siam grumbled a complaint as she untwisted the wings of her staff and took off. The blue sky seemed to come alive as she gained altitude. She felt a warm pocket of air, reminding her that spring was just about to end as summer approached. After all that had happened Siam had forgotten how much of a release flying was. Her train of thought was disrupted by a boulder that flew up past her and exploded midair. She looked down at the grassy earth with a few sparse trees and realized that she had flown too high.

"Ok, ok, I get it already... sheesh," Siam pointlessly shouted toward the ground.

Siam immediately ascended from her current altitude until she could spot Mrs. Yoji. The woman gave her a peeved look but Siam waved her off with a free hand. Then Siam felt like putting on a show. She climbed into the heavens and with all her strength soared at her vertical limit. The clouds flew past her and wetted her cheeks only to be dried a second later by the wind currents that buffeted her.

When she could go no further she looped backward toward the earth. As she descended Siam bended a path shaped to slice through the air. As she neared the ground she spotted Mrs. Yoji with a look of fear on her face. The reaction made Siam inwardly smile as she aimed for the boulder the older woman was riding on.

"Siam! What are you... No! Wait...," Mrs. Yoji panicking.

Then with all her might Siam pulled up and nearly blacked out from it. Before she slammed into the boulder Siam created a square like shape out of the air around her. A moment later she landed softly next to Mrs. Yoji who gave Siam a look of contempt. Siam looked at the woman confused.

"Wha..."

Before Siam knew what had happened she found herself buried up to her neck and surrounded by multiple pointy devices made of rock. Standing behind them was a red faced Mrs. Yoji. Siam then realized what she had done and braced herself for the worst.

"Siam! Do you feel alive mostly when faced with uncertain death? Do you see this," said Mrs. Yoji pointing to her frazzled hair. "I'm getting gray hairs for my troubles concerning you. Here I am constantly saving your sorry butt and in return you almost kill yourself? Well...?"

Siam look down at the ground and aloud her hair to cloud her face. Mrs. Yoji could not tell what Siam was feeling but only saw several tears fall to the ground.

"I'm sorry," Siam replied as she sniffled. "I really didn't mean to scare you it is just that... So much violence has happened in such a short amount of time. I do not know how any of this had to happen to me but I cannot help but feel responsible. Riding the air is one of the few ways I can release some of my feeling."
Mrs. Yoji heart melted along with the spikes pointed at Siam. Siam then felt the earth open up as the ground lifted. But even though she had been freed the girl still felt shackled.

"I'm sorry," was all Siam could manage through the tears.

Mrs. Yoji shook her head and walked to Siam, hugging her. "Idiot, you're not sorry at all. You're stubborn, selfish, and very-very stupid. But I love you as if you were the daughter I never wanted."

Siam started to laugh so hard she got the hiccups.

"Now," said Mrs. Yoji continuing. "You must be tired from that stunt you pulled so no more flying for you today. I'd stop here but we need to reach the West side of the Kyoshi inlet before nightfall."

"That's okay I don't mind," Siam replied feeling a little better.

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i anybody needs more of a recap then let me know... please comment and such

It turns out I have a dentist's appointment on Monday, so Tuesday's the day I'll try to get my finale up. Then I have fanfics to update, a site to make, a job to find, a world to take over... Oh, ignore that last one. *shifty eyes*

Oh, and welcome Fresh Meat- er.. FLZ

Yata!!

I'm on page 463.... I didn't know that you could change the number of posts per page.

By the way Fireladyzuko as a new member of this forum topic you are required to post something soon... becuase i say so. Naw just kidding but it would be nice if somebody could fre@king post something already.