The Shadowbender Book 1 ( Avatar Last Airbender FanFic/ Zuko Romance)

Prolog: With every light comes darkness...

"A mistake by the universe" is what I like to call myself. Not a firebender nor waterbender, I am more unique, neither am I airbender or earthbender. I am the first bender of a none existing element. I know that I am a bender because I can do some pretty bad ass stuff, but what kind of bender I am, is hard to say even for me. I tried to find a kick ass name for these skills but because of not existing creativity names like "the big black blubb bending", "the unknown bending" or the "I don't even care anymore bending" just don't fit what I
can do. Yeah I know these names are pretty genius... but back to my actual story.

I don't know where I am from or even who my parents are, it might seem pretty awesome to have no parents right? Wrong, just so you know it is not it is the worst thing to ever exist, it gets freaken lonely out here in the earth kingdom woods. Apart from my sarcasm I am traveling with my wolf, more specifically my Amarucwolf. His name is Onai and he is the only 'family' that I have. As a matter of fact having no parents makes it hard to have experienced a childhood so i had none, I just woke up out of nowhere in a forrest next to Onai, like I never existed before.

Well,I don't like people and usually people don't like me either, that makes me socially crippled. I got used to it a long time ago. I have been traveling for two years now, on a journey to find out who I am, but I have seen no place that could tell me what I am and most importantly if I really am a human?! I mean you never know i could be part spirt, but i need to find out just to be sure.

I once had a dream that the four elements crashed, because of the unbalanced power that the Avatar comes with. He locked away Vaatu, the dark spirit, and merged with Raava, the light spirit. This event made the whole world unbalance but the dark is always present among the light. So my guess is that I am the product of this whole mess, the nothing in between the elements as they slowly start to melt into each other I mean metal bending, lava bending all these hybrid forms of bending seemed to weaken the yin and yang system that seemed indestructible but however nobody is perfect and I am the human (hopefully) evidence for that.

That was just a weird not really convincing explanation for me breathing, being self. A bad explanation for me feeling the hard ground under my feet and doing the unimaginable.

I can disappear. This means that I can step between the spirit world and reality... into the shadows I call it. That is what I have been doing for my two years of living, even though I may look more like sixteen. I somehow can bend myself invisible and that my friends is how I survived. It makes stealing food a lot easier for me to not get killed by the owners of the food and by other robbers.

I can feel something while I am in the shadows, while I am hiding. Something is calling to me, something or someone from the spirit world. The path of nothing between them seems so fragile and so small that every time I am hiding out there I have the feeling that it could just soak me in into its infinity. Although I never had the courage to take that one step back and fall into the spirit world, something just seems off about me wandering through.

Onai is the only one apart from me that has no problems stepping over the borders of different worlds, he even seems to have fun leaving me for hours and hunting dragonfly bunny spirits. The red mark on his head (like drawn) on his soft white furry forehead, always glows when he comes back from one of his trips. I don't know if he ever set one of his gigantic paws in the spirit world but I know that some spirit animals, mostly the small ones slip through in the small darkness between the two worlds.

That's how I go hunting... I'm kidding!

I am not sure if I have more powers but I am constantly trying to find out. Riding on Onai around the Earth kingdom from temple to temple in the hope that one of the old monks could help me to find a similar bender. The earthkingdom is still a mess after the old firelord got defeated. Hard times for two men armies like me, though never underestimate the power of a giant wolf. Apart from it's fluffiness it also has its advantages for fighting. They don't really show a speed limit and their agility is incredible .Onai likes to use his fang teeth to slam the enemy with a quick step to the right with his hind legs to the ground, using his whole weight, muscles and gravity to knock him out. But his most effective attack is just randomly jumping on people and his weight does all the work. Our three hearts, he has two and I am hoping that I only have one, burn for fighting, what makes us sometimes lose ourselves a little but who doesn't.

Black is my favorite color and somehow I happen to have completely black irises, exacltly like my life long companion of shadows. My long black hair seems to interfere a little with my pale skin, but my very skinny but still strong body is proportionate with my really long legs. I've been super flexible since I can think and used this skill in every situation. I never thought of myself as a beauty but I know that boys seemed to have their eyes on me. However I am not interested because love always gets in the way and screws everything up.

Unafraid of anything is a adjective that applies perfectly on me, along with being stubborn and a little evil minded. I consider myself to be ambitious and impatient. The world always seem to mess with me, I can literally see it spiting me out day after day. As you may noticed I am the enemy of optimists...THE PESSIMIST. However I think of myself more as a realist. Probably because I just have no idea why my childhood was stolen from me and in return I got a gift without instructions what makes it practically useless.

But I know one thing for sure; my life will change... I can feel it, deep in my bones... I am going to be the shadow over everyones mind!

Note by the author ( = me :D):

So this is my first fanfiction ever, and I really hope that my ideas are welcome by all the other ATLA Fans. I own only the characters that I created, but most of my characters will be based of the real Avatar series, apart from my main character and her pet. I am always open and happy to get critique. If you also notice a spelling error just comment and I will fix it. Thank you so much and I hope you have fun reading a special Avatar Fanfic that goes along with Avatar TVshow. I plan on writing many more chapters.