Prologue: Is She Truly the Avatar?

Introduction:

Four Avatars have come and gone: Wan, Ilijaia, Kadaku, and Salen.

Now it is time for the cycle to begin anew with another Fire Avatar.

Over the course of these four Avatar's lifetimes, a routine has been established. Four Nations have been formed, with governments and culture. Each of these four nations has a way to find the new Avatar. The Avatars are born in a cycle, the cycle in which Avatar wan mastered the elements, and now the same cycle the other Avatars use to master the elements. There is only one current problem with this cycle. A problem that the Fire sages now come across as they visit the home of the two year old they suspect to be the Avatar. All of the Avatars have been male, and they are now presented with a girl, who's mother claims her to be the Avatar.

Prolouge:
"Ma'am, I mean no disrespect, but are you sure that this is the Avatar?" The Fire sage stood up from where he had been kneeling on the ground in front of a two year old girl. He backed up until he was directly in front of the other two sages that had come with him, forming a triangle of flaming red robes and pointed hats. On closer inspection, his robes had gold trimming, marking him as the head sage.

"Do you think that I would make up seeing my own daughter bending fire and water?!!" A young woman, dressed in a simple red tunic and breeches, retorted. Her voice was quiet, an allusion to her real feelings. Her voice was cold, icy even. She hid her rage well. She was boiling inside, angry that the Fire sage disbelieved what she had seen with her own eyes.

"No, but you see, The Avatar is a male. And this child is a female. The majestic spirit of light, Raava would never choose a girl as their host. I am sorry, but we are going to have to leave. We still need to find the Avatar yet." The Head Fire Sage who had just spoken turned around in a swish of red robes and annoyance. The others quickly followed.

The young woman from before took a deep breath, trying to hold in her anger. These sexist fire sages wouldn't even see what was right in front of them! And that last comment! It was infuriating, to say the least. She called out to them, "Would you believe me if Azuliona gave you a demonstration? I am sure she would be honored."

"We must go. Let us leave in peace, or we will have to apprehend you." The Fire Sage had stopped walking for a moment to speak, but he now started up again, a little faster this time. That is, until the two year old girl who had been referred to as Azuliona made a fire whip with one hand, and a water whip with the other. She spun her wrists, and the whips encircled the three Fire Sages. Now keep in mind that she was two. This is an amazing feat of bending for most adults (with one element), and now a two year old was doing it with multiple elements. An untrained two year old of a single mother who was on the poorer side at that. The Fire Sages were stunned, one of them even looked sort of dizzy and was resting his weight on a fellow sage.

The head Fire Sage - the one who had spoken earlier - opened his mouth and once again spoke, "Wha-where did that come from?" He stumbled over his words, clearly unable to comprehend what had just taken place.

The girl called Azuliona raised one hand, causing the fire sages to get soaked as it had been the hand controlling the water. "Me. My name is Zuwi!" She had not yet gained the skill of pronouncing ‘l's,  "Did you see what I just did? I bended TWO elements! Mommy says that I am the only one who can and that I am the awatar! Do you know what that means? Hi, you must be the fire sages! Have I said that my name is Zuwi?" Zuli (Zuwi) was no longer shy and peaking out from behind her mother. She was talking with her trademark rapid fire speech, along with some very exaggerated hand movements. VERY exaggerated. As in, her hands were swinging everywhere, causing her mother and the fire sages to duck and swerve around the water and fire whips still attached to her hands. And the occasional pebble and gust of air, of course. She was the Avatar. Zuli now turned to her mother, finally asking the important questions, "Mommy, why are the fire sages here? And why do they keep saying that I am not the Avatar?"

After questioning her mother, she turned back to the sages. "Did you like my bending? Does that mean I am the awatar? Huh? Huh?"

Her mother dodged the elements swirling around the air and walked up next to her daughter. She rested her hand on Zuli's shoulder. In a calming voice (she had clearly gotten good at calming her daughter when she started bending elements and talking as fast as the wind), she spoke. "Zuli, how about you rest your bending well I talk to the sages? They have some questions that they would like to ask us, but they won't be able to if you don't stop bending." Upon hearing that the sages wouldn't be able to answer her questions, and ask her question if she didn't stop bending, Azuliona stopped all bending. She also seemed to calm down a considerable amount.

Azuliona, trying to be helpful, went around their yard and tried to tidy things up a bit after her bending. Though, to be truthful, whatever help she thought she was giving only made things worse. Whenever she bended, it usually ended up with a big mess, soaking clothes with charred bits, and a wind swept area. This time was no exception. As she went about doing that, her mother led the fire sages into their living room, providing some towels and food.

"Your daughter is quite, shall we say, energetic," The head fire sage astutely noticed.

"We shall train her in the art of firebending, and when she is deemed ready, the other elements. She will have to live at the firebending temple of Avatar Wan. You may join us there too," another fire sage explained, acting like moments ago, they hadn't been blatantly ignoring the fact that Azuliona was the Avatar.

Azuliona's mother, Kunoz, had very little patience for the fire sages and their opinions. She hated the way they acted like they ruled the fire nation (though in truth, a council of them did) and how they acted like if they change, then everything must change with them. She thought back to moments ago, when the head fire sage had said We must go. Let us leave in peace, or we will have to apprehend you. However, she ignored her feelings and focused on what she needed to do, which was providing her daughter with a place she could live and train. And of course, keep her in the good graces of the fire sages. You can't have the fire sages hating the fire Avatar.

"That will be fine. As long as we can have some rooms in the temple, I don't think we will need a house in this town anymore. You will personally teach her firebending?" This last comment of Kunoz was directed at the head fire sage, who was the most powerful firebender in the fire nation. Besides the Avatar, of course.

"It would be my honor, to teach the Avatar firebending," The Head Fire Sage responded with a polite bow of his head to Azuliona, who at the moment was peeking her head around the door.

She clasped her hands in a fire nation sign of respect and bowed back. While bouncing around from foot to foot, of course.