Chronicles of Kairo

The Girl With the Annoying Spirit

Book 1: Darkness

Chapter 1: The Girl With the Annoying Spirit

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the Last Air Bender and Legend of Korra, or any of the related characters. The Avatar universe was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. This fanfiction is intended for entertainment only.

"You really are getting better at this," Gyila told his brother as he was sweating from struggling to airbend. Gyila was genuine and wanted to motivate his little brother. He knew how hard it was for him as an earthbender.

Kairo rolled his eyes, "Don't patronize me."

"I am not; it has been only two weeks since you arrived here. Go easy on yourself. This is your opposite element," responded Gyila.

"I swear, if you tell me that I need to be more patient again, I am going to kill you," Kairo said as threateningly as possible, even though he sure didn't mean it. He naturally got irritated when his brother responded to his death threats with laughs.

"Yeah, you really are Korra's reincarnation," Gyila responded while chuckling slightly.

As amusing as Gyila found this situation, Kairo was seriously troubled by it. Firebending came so quickly to him, and even so, he almost spent four years in the Fire Nation Capital. He couldn't help but feel overwhelmed by the number of years he would spend in this place. Of course, he loved the Southern Air Temple. He just wished he could travel in time where he wouldn't struggle this much with airbending.

Kairo was also fascinated by how different air felt. He has always been a typical Earth citizen and bender. He was quite stubborn, impulsive, self-assured, and ambitious. The lightness, almost weightless bending style was drastically unfamiliar to him. He was used to bending earth pieces weighing tons, not a weightless concept.

He couldn't help but think how two brothers came out to be this different. He knew they weren't blood-related, but they grew up together nonetheless. "I guess this is what happens when people get separated at round 10," he thought to himself. Gyila turned out to be an airbender, and well, Kairo turned out to be the Avatar. As annoying as he sometimes found his brother, especially when he talked about all that patience mumbo jumbo, it was really good to live with him again. He really did miss him, but he wasn't going to tell this to him or anything.

"You should meditate more and try to connect with Korra. She was also struggling with airbending. She can help." his brother suggested. That would've been the perfect solution, of course, if Kairo had been as spiritual as his brother.

"What makes you think my spiritual connection is that strong while I can't even airbend properly?" asked the young Avatar. He wasn't this pessimistic, normally. He has always been the energetic and cocky type of Avatar, not a very gloomy baby.

"It does not hurt to try, isn't it?" Kairo knew, as always, that his brother was right. He just wasn't going to admit it to him.

Right while they were having this little argument, Gyila's phone interrupted them. It was Jinora. "Okay, I am going to need to take this call. Practice till I come back," said Gyila while Kairo grunted very loudly.

"Yes?" he opened the phone. "Hello Gyila, how is the training going?" Jinora asked. Gyila admired and respected Jinora enormously. After arriving at the Southern Air Temple at age 10, his spirituality caught people's attention, and Jinora became his airbending master. Even though he felt a powerful connection to the air culture, leaving his family in Omashu was quite hard for him, and Jinora made his first year very tolerable.