Let It Go

Chapter One

"Alright kids, want to practice bending?"

"YEAH LET'S GO!"

"Papa? Can I watch? I can't bend..."

"Of course you can sweetie, come on, mind your brothers though."

"Why are you letting me out father? You said I wasn't allowed to bend anymore."

"Not in public you're not, I know you've been practicing in the basement, young man."

"HA BUSTED!"

"That's enough, Fuuma, after we practice yours we're going in the basement so your brother can practice forms."

Kotori and Seishirou watched from the sidelines as their brother and father practiced their earth bending.

"You miss it, don't you, bigger brother?"

"Nah, nothing to miss about throwing flames around, but what about you; don't you wish you could bend?"

"Yes but I know I'll never be a bender, it must be worse to be so talented and not being able to do it then never being able to do it."

Amber eyes widened briefly in shock and then he was hugging the younger girl. "I suppose you're right."

The day the inspector came, I was seven years old, my sister was five, and our brother was fourteen. The new chairman wanted to make sure everything about our bending was accurate and move us into protection from our crazy mother who had escaped prison.

He approached Kotori first. "So little lady, I was told you have no bending, is that correct?"

"Yes sir." She was hiding behind me and my brother; she didn't like strangers very much.

"You'll be safe from the Equalists, but even still, hide her, just in case."

"Which one of you is Fuuma?"

"That would be me!" I walked forward, proud.

"Last we checked your bending hadn't revealed itself yet, has it since then?"

"Yes sir! I'm an earthbender!" I wasn't afraid; I had no reason to be. "Councilman Teru, mind if I see the boy's bending? Just to make sure?"

"You can inspect my son's bending, but I shall follow you, Kotori you stay here with your big brother."

My dad followed me outside where I demonstrated my earth bending by moving a few rocks. I ran back in the house and saw my sister laughing with our brother. Until the inspector came back in, she instantly hid behind Seishirou again.

"So this must be Seishirou then, they have you marked as a firebender, is that correct?"

"It is."

"Mind if I see, son?"

I saw my dad's eyes fill with worry, why? So Seishirou was a firebender, that didn't mean he was crazy like mother. "You know he's a fire bender, why does he have to prove it?"

"Hiding something Teru? You know why, his mother had the curse of hellfire, like Princess Azula. Given who the boy's mother is, I need to make sure."

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"Wait a minute...what the heck is hellfire?"

Honey brown eyes locked on violet. "You're the co-leader of the Dragons of Heaven and you don't know?"

"You know I only took it because my older brother asked me!"

"Hellfire is the term they gave the rare blue firebending, can I continue with my story now?"