Mining village was crowding with merchants and tourists even from an early morning. Avani's mother, Ela was busying herself by working in her shop, while waiting for her daughter to return and help out.

Suddenly, the shop door was thrown open and a shoeless girl ran toward Ela, breathing heavily.

"I'm sorry!" Avani said sheepishly, green eyes innocent as she looked at Ela, "I had to wait for Ryuu cause he again got lost through The valley. I had to be his guide"

Ela chuckled in amusement, "I swear you two always get in trouble"

Avani scratched the back of her neck, "I know. I know. But in my defense, today it wasn't my fault"

Ela smiled, opening her mouth when they heard a small thud. They froze, looking toward the door, seeing the walls shaking slightly.

Avani wriggled her fingers on the ground, squinting her eyes slightly in concentration. Her eyes widening in alarm after a few seconds, "Earthbending"

Ela gave her a scolding and fearful look, looking around, whispering "Where?"

Avani lightly tapped the ground with her toe fingers, tilting her head aside "Center" she answered simply

Ela sighed heavily, grabbing Avani's arm, leading her outside the shop toward where they could see the entire village already gathered around the center of the village.

Mother and daughter watched silently at a teenage guy fearlessly bending several rocks in the air.

"I'm tired of living in fear!" The guy yelled, bending a chunk of earth toward the rest of the village. The villagers screamed in fear, ducking so they wouldn't be hit. "We're not longer in the Hundred Year War! We can freely use our bending. Why do we fear worthless people? They can't do what we can! They're not worth our fear" he looked around the village, his eyes scanning the people he knew were like him "Come on. We cannot fear them. Join me and the Revolution to fight for our rights, my brothers, sisters"

No one spoke.

Avani watched as the hope slowly slipped away from his face, before hardening his features. She knew he was being reckless, wasn't concentrating in the ground around him, trying to get them to follow him which lead from the patrols to easily slip a pair of platinum handcuffs on him.

The moment he realized his hands were useless, he began trying to get rid of the bendless material and the patrols used the moment to tie his legs, knowing earthbenders used mainly their feet to bend.

"No!" The guy tugged against his restrains fearfully, turning to face the rest of his village "That's what we came down to it? Is history repeating itself? Are we seriously submitting ourselves to a second War?"

Avani looked away as the patrol officers took him away. She knew what he meant. He was referring to the fate their village had fell upon in the Hundred Year War. Her grandfather had told her once how the Fire Nation had forbidden earthbending and took to prison the ones they discovered used their bending. He had been taken as a prisoner too, but a friend of Avatar Aang and the Avatar himself had saved him and his father, her great-grandfather.

And the guy was right. History was repeating itself not only in their village but the entire world, only this time instead of Fire Nation, it was non benders, the people of their own village.

"This is the third one, this week" Ryuu walked up to her, quietly watching the guy trash in their grip. "Some are rebelling. I don't know wether to think that's smart or stupid"

"And dangerous" Avani added, watching the guy lower his head

"But he has a point" Ryuu told her quietly, thoughtfully.

"The Avatar will stop you!" The guy suddenly screamed, startling everyone. There was a cold silence. It made a shiver pass down her back "I know he is alive. I can feel it! The Avatar is among us. He'll bring peace again. Like Avatar Aang did before. It's just a matter of time"

Everyone did nothing as the guy was taken away.

Ela placed a hand in her daughter and Ryuu's shoulder, "That was intense" she said quietly, ushering them to walk away, before she returned to the shop.

Ryuu sighed, "There hasn't been an Avatar in years. Not since Avatar Korra passed away thirteen years ago. What are the odds he's right?"

Avani wasn't paying attention, her eyes locked in the place the teenager had been taken. "Not being able to bend freely made him crazy. There's no Avatar. There's no need for one either"

Ryuu nodded slowly, seeming to disagree but he didn't voice his thoughts outloud, "You're right, Ava. There's no need for someone to vouch for us"