The Airbender | K.TH x Reader

The opportunity

Y/N's POV. 

Have you ever just looked up at the sky and wondered if there were something more hiding up there above the clouds? Like a far away place that no one had ever seen. Well of course, most people would probably just pull out the science card and say something like 'It's not physically possible for something like a floating island to exist, because the Earth's gravity would pull it down and make it crash into the sea.' or something like that. And maybe that's the correct of thinking, but what if that kind of place actually existed, and we weren't even aware of it?

As a kid, the unknown had always interested you. Maybe it was because you was found alone as a little kid during a rainy night. No parents, no relatives, no one to take care of you. Just a poor orphan alone in the dark night, with no clue on where she came from or who she was. But luckily a kind soul had found you and brought you home and taken care of you, like you were their own kid. An old language professor who had always wished for having kids, but never had the chance of getting any himself. Because his wife died while she was pregnant, and left the earth together with their first child. 

The legend of Celestis, aka the lost Air Islands had always been your favourite. The story about the floating islands high up above the clouds, that they said was once created by some enormous fallen meteors that had crashed into the Earth's atmosphere and gotten stuck in the air before burning up into ashes. Years had passed and they had started to transform into islands in the sky, with plants growing on them. People said that it was some kind of magic involved in the process, but no one truly knew how it all happened.  

This legend had always been very appealing to you. Why you wasn't sure of, it was just something with it that seemed so interesting. 

Though growing up wasn't the most simplest thing, especially not when you lived in a world where danger lurked behind every corner. Or at least that was what everyone always had told you. But you dreamt about adventure, leaving this grey old city and see the world. And if you were allowed to dream a bit, you would one day want to jump on to one of those flying machines, and travel to the Air Islands. 

But when you were a poor young kid with not much money, growing up in a world were people don't believe in such things as the Celestis. Your dreams get crushed by someone who stamps on them, and hit you with a reality sign in your face. That was your everyday life, people laughing at you for believing in such things. The only one who actually believed in you, was the old professor. 

It was thanks to him that you even got a proper education and your love for the art of languages. Growing up, he had taught you several languages and always said that you never knew when they could come to handy. So that's where your big passion for languages started, which then evolved into you studying old runes and ancient writings. 

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"And that's my theory about the Air Islands, thank you for listening." 

You released a long sigh, as you sank down onto a chair. Glancing up at the big screen beside you, you took a long look at your presentation that you had been working on for such a long time. All those sleepless nights of staying up, trying to read ancient runes on old parchment rolls. But finally you had managed to finish it and felt honestly pretty proud of yourself, now the only thing that was left was to actually do it in front of your class. And that was the dilemma, would it just turn into another one of those 'laughing at y/n parties'? Only time could tell. 

Suddenly your phone began buzzing angrily. You grabbed it and noticed that it was a alarm that you had put up for yourself to have so that you wouldn't be late for your class, but since you had been busy with practising your presentation, you had completely lost track of time.