Avatar: The New Era [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 7: Collision

Fast forward to 10 years after Avatar Kurana has almost finished her Firebending training

"Hey! Watch it!" she said as a young man passed quickly by her side, almost knocking off the basket of bread she was holding.

The man stumbled down to the floor where a few yuans fell and spread out.

"No! My money!" he grabbed the bills and a few coin-filled purses that were scattered all over the stone path. A few people heared the clanging of the gold on the floor and started to rush toward it to grab some.

"H-hey! That's mine! Urgh! Give it back!" the man growled as he tried to fight over the purses on another man's hand when a sudden flare of fire parted them both.

"Stop! Both of you!" the young woman, who was holding the basket of bread earlier, stood infront of the crowd that gathered in the center of the market, where the man's money fell on the floor.

Everyone stopped and stood there, expecting to see a brawl. The woman walked towards the two men as she swayed her hips. The other man stood up quickly and dropped the stolen purses in his hands as he ran away from the scene.

The man kept his stare at the beautiful woman in front of him. She had a rather shaggy hair that suited her intimidating look. She had a green sleeve less top and had a thick belt wrapped around her abdomen. Her pants were a bit dirty and looked like it was just used for sparring. She had white wraps around her legs.

The man snapped out of the stare as the woman held out a hand in front of him.

"C'mon, get up" she said with a caring tone.

The man willingly took the hand and stood up to brush off the dirt on his shirt. He looked at the mess he did and started to feel embarassed at what happened. He realized that he still had money lying on the floor as he dove down to grab the coins.

The woman helped him too. As they finished, the woman gave her all the money and introduced herself.

"Well, that's the last of it. My name's Ku-" before she could finish, a group of thugs yelled across the market.

"THERE! THAT'S HIM!" They pointed out to the man beside her. He gulped and bowed in front of the young woman as he scuffled with the bag of money he had.

The man ran around the market trying to lose the thugs after him. Every where they went, blows of fire and dust of earth followed. The woman tailed them from behind to see where this is going. The man entered an alley but, to his surprise, a 15 foot wall stood to block the path. He had no where to go but back to where he entered. The three men finally caught up with him and walked slowly while cracking their knuckles.

The man dropped his bags of money and gave them a sharp grin. He then placed both his arms out and moved them in a motion as if separating something from the air. The thugs rushed towards him and bended elements to throw to him. He skillfully dodged it all. He exhaled a deep breath and easily separated the water vapor from the humid air around them. The huge blob of water in front of him was bended to wrap around his forearms and froze it to form 2 sharp icicles stuck on his hands.

The thugs felt fear creep down their spine as the young man sliced through their clothes and gave them small cuts around their cheeks.

"Ow! Oh, man! We gotta get outta here, boys!" a firebender shouted.

They quickly retreated but 2 of them got knocked out by the young man. "Mr. Shao won't be happy with this! I'll be ba-" before he could finish, an earth slab rose to trip his feet. The man stumbled over and hit the ground head first which left him unconscious easily.