The fire is unleashed.
It happened long before Kaen's birth, but now you could see it everywhere. Villages burned down, citizens of every Nation got captured and died like flies, but even though everyone noticed it, no one did anything against it.
Hope is lost.
around 97 years ago the Avatar vanished. He left and with it took the hope of the citizens of all nations with him. Hope that hasn't been restored up to this day.
Hope is a funny thing. It can be taken away in an instant and be returned in the same moment. Or later. Or never.
Kaen wasn't a simple girl. She was a fighter, a firebender. Even though she was a women, she learned to control her abilitys, and she was never alone. Her brother Daichi was a fighter too. Together with their best friend, Kairo, they were drafted to the army and split into two different training camps. Daichi was alone, but Kaen and Kairo had each other.
After an incident they desided to flee out of the army. The didn't want to fight for something and someone they didn't like.
Now they were dessertiers. But this wasn't enough for the two treenagers. The wanted to fight, and they did.
For the freedom of the innocent
For the freedom of the prisoners
For the lives that had already been sacrificed
And for some crazy reason hope wasn't lost completly. There was something, like a little flame, that with time grew bigger and bigger.
Heimat: a place that you can call home; a sense of belongingness, acceptance, safety and connection to homeland
A decade has passed after the final battle between the Avatar and the Fire Nation, a decade after the defeat of their Fire Lord. It is a time of prosperity for most, but the crimes commited during the war couldn't be reversed. Benders were taken away from their families, people were slaughtered, their belongings, homes and land taken away. This, had been the instance when it came to the northwest part of the Earth Kingdom, that had went on to become the Fire Nation colonies.
The people of the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom lived on in the land that was given to them and gradually, they became one. They collaborated and cooperated in order to live and so they got richer, learnt to depend on each other for their survival. By the end of the war, the people, even though they came from different backgrounds, were one. A decade after the end of the war, the Avatar is commanded to solve the matter of whether the former Fire Nation citizens need to move or not.
Aang believes the nations need to be separated. The people in the colonies do not, hatred starts to grow in their hearts. The Avarar will need the help of a companion more than any other time, and there is no better person to aid him than the secret waterbender that's part of the Fire Nation fleet, the woman who risked her own life to get him to safety, even though this had been the first time they had met in their lives.
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