Chào các bạn! Vì nhiều lý do từ nay Truyen2U chính thức đổi tên là Truyen247.Pro. Mong các bạn tiếp tục ủng hộ truy cập tên miền mới này nhé! Mãi yêu... ♥

PART 2 |004.| Welcome to the tribe


I had spent four years with the northern water tribe and weirdly, they were some really good ones. They treated me like any citizen and I was not given special treatment like I had grown up with for so many years. I wasn't picky. I was glad. Glad for my life, for my home and the people around me. For the whole four years only one person knew of my true origin, Paku. And even then, I never saw or heard from him. He was a ghost in my mind.

When I'd first arrived I'd felt like a complete weirdo. A girl, in flaming reds and golds who seemed to have the generic look of a watertribe girl. Ursa a had left me from there and I didn't know if she was going to return to the watertribe or flee to somewhere over seas, gone forever.

The area was magnificent. Gleaming ice structures that sent marvellous shivers down my spine as I neared the gates which looked just as amazing as the ones inside. It's sort of a mystery to me as to how I got settled. It felt more like a set list of steps I went by.

Step one, Meet Paku and get excited because he tells you, you are in fact a water bender and how it all came to be.

Step two, have all your hopes crushed in seconds when he tells you that you can't become a master because you're a girl.

Step three, be too scared to say anything because your a firenation youngling with nowhere to go other than this tribe which more resebled a kingdom.

Step four, be forced to settle in and go to school but not actually be able to learn to waterbend for four years. 

That is if I cared enough to follow rules. I remember settling in nicely. I made no friends whatsoever because I didn't exactly fit the stereotypical 'girl'. I was taught to be proper and lady like, somewhat similar to my old school in the fire nation. But whereas there I had Azula to snap me out of being a prissy, here i was alone. Now I'm not saying I missed Azula or anything, it's just sometimes on very extremely rare occasions, her influence could have the right affect. That was it.

I had learned more and more about firenation and how wrong It had been to stand idle by while people got hurt for no reason. But I told myself it wasn't my fault. I was born into that. I didn't chose it and if I had had a choice when I was young, with all the information I had then, safe to say I would have washed up on these shores a long time ago.

The lie they had made up so I could stay there was a pretty solid one at that. I had been taken from the southern watertribe, my supposed home and forced upon a fire navy vessel where they forced me to dress in their 'uniform', even thought it was royal linen that they had seen. They then sent me to the shores of the northern WaterTribe, apparently trying to fool those inside that it was an invasion so they would kill me for a bit of war time fun. But luckily 'my hero', Paku identified my quote on quote 'look of an innocent' and saved me. Obviously, none of this was true but that was my story.

I was asked how horrible the firenation soilders had been and I described countless times through lies that it had been the worst experience of my life. Because it had. As well as that, I still mourned the death of my brother heavily with little to no support as I wasn't allowed to speak about my past life of sorts. 

That was when I turned to the spirits.

One night, when the entire tribe was asleep, I snuck out in a thick hood, trousers and combat boots that all matched. It was a typical look of the waterbenders and I had to say, I really liked it. It must have been around three months into my first year up north and I had grown fed up of the healing and only healing I was being taught. For someone who unsubcontiously suppressed their bending for twelve years, I really did excel at healing compared to the other girls who learned with me.

And that was when I found the spirit oasis. It was expansive and the only place I'd seen in three months with lucious hills of deep green grass. The first thing I noticed apart from the lush plant life was a giant koi pond that reared all around the middle of the cave. I don't know how I accidentally stumbled upon it but I haven't forgotten the way since.

There I met the moon and tide spirits, the original water benders, who'd entered the mortal world in the forms of Koi fish, milenias ago. One of black and one was white each with a tiny respective dot of the others colour and they swam in a never ending circle, keeping up what they'd been doing for their entire never ending lives.

For some reason, I understood them, felt them, heard them as I neared. I think the most logical explanation was that they were in the forms of mortal animals which prompted them to have less ties to the spirit world and therefore let me speak to them. In a form of mind I could only describe to another who felt it, they spoke to me without words. They trained me without words.

They thought that the northern watertribes traditions were a disgrace to the given waterbending gift. We were all equal in there eyes and that's why woman could waterbend in the first place. If the spirits agreed with Paku, they explained, you wouldn't be able to bend and there'd be no such thing as this 'tradition'

So they vouched to teach me in the most ancient styles of waterbending they knew. It was never going to be easy and I expected that but soon I progressed, training under the cover of darkness because the spirits new I was destined for more than lazily sitting by as a war, that I was involved in, raged on. Because they knew the avatar would search these parts and somehow eventually I would assist him.

Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: Truyen247.Pro