Chapter 1

Fire, Air, Water, Earth, the Avatar had exist to bring balance and maintain order, from the very first Avatar Wan, to the most recent one Korra. Each Avatar had faced trials and tribulation all in the name of maintaining the balance of the world.

Korra had done wonders for the world, bringing spirits and humans together by refusing to close the portals, bringing the Airbender back to the world, stopping the emergence of the red lotus, creating democracy within the earth kingdom, and many more. She had brought peace and balance in her time.

But she also has some regrets, and that is cutting the connection of the avatar to their past life. She had become the last and first Avatar.

Now her time is over, a new avatar will emerge, the journey of Kai will begin

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In a small village in the earth kingdom, a young man can be seen cutting firewood for their home. Along with him is his twin brother who is staring intently into a rock, veins popping out his neck as he tries to move it with his mind.

"Ryu would you stop that nonsense and help me out!" The young man scream in annoyance at his twin. "this wood would not be cutting themselves!"

"I would, but I'm busy practicing my earth bending." Ryu replied with a teasing chuckle. "Besides, you are almost done with the lot, and I promise I'll carry them all back home."

The young man sighed as he stomp his foot on the ground, making a small stone jump in the air, he then flick the stone straight towards the back of his twin's head.

"Ouch!" Ryu grabbed his nape as he turned around to see his twin smirking at him. "what the hell Kai? That hurt!"

"Oh did it? Guess you didn't concentrate hard enough. Now help me with this." He turned back to the fire wood and raised his axe up in the air. "it's getting late already and we don't want to ge-" his word were cut off as a small pebble smack him on the side of head.

Kai brows twitch as he slowly turned towards Ryu, Ryu meanwhile was looking in the air all aloof, whistling while his hand was in his pocket.

"So that's how you wanna play it huh?" Kai had a smile on his face, but his eyes weren't looking all to happy at his brother.

"I don't know what your talking about... Hey is that a bird?" Ryu meanwhile points towards a bird who was nesting in the three.

As Ryu was intentionally avoiding eye contact with Kai, the ground beneath his feet shifted, breaking his balance and making him plant head first into the ground.

Ryu grunts as he angrily glared towards Kai, he then stood quickly as he bended the earth, lifting two large stones in the air, and throwing it straight towards his twin.

But Ryu still wasn't that adapt at bending, the stones fall before reaching Kai, on which the latter smirked at him mockingly. "You still need a long way to go before you can- arghhh!" Before Kai can finish, Ryu rushed towards him and punched him in the face.

"Why you little!" Kai rushed forwards and retaliated with a punch of his own.

The two siblings began brawling as the sun slowly sets in the horizon, the birds returning back to their nest, watching as the two brothers beat each other up.

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In a cozy home in the village, a middle age woman was busy preparing dinner for her family. She sets the table while looking at the door. "Those two should be home by now." She mutters to herself as waits for her two children. She was ready to cook up the meal, only waiting for the firewood to arrive.

Suddenly a knock made her jump in surprise. She wondered who that may be, her husband, much less her two boys didn't usually knock and would just barge in.

The knock came again, she hurriedly walked to the door while taking the apron off of her. "Coming!" She opened the door slowly, wanting to get a glimps of who it is first.

"Good evening." A old man smiled politely towards her, he was dressed in a blue cloak with white details, at the center of the cloak their a symbol of the white lotus. Behind the old man is a group of people with similar garments. The only difference is that the old man was wearing a matching hat with his outfit. "is this the home of master Peng?"

"Who's asking?" The woman recognized the garments of the group, her husband had told him about them. The order of the white lotus. Not only that, she also recognized who the old man is. But she chose to feign ignorance.

"my name is Mako." He bowed respectfully the others following after him. He then guestured his hands behind him. "we are here to talk to master Peng about some... Stuff..."

"good evening master Mako, I'm afraid you're in the wrong house. There's no Peng here." The woman spoke politely as she also bowed respectfully.

Mako nods and smiles. He then looked at the woman seriously. "Is that so... Well then, I'm sorry to disturb you... Have a fine evening."

"And to you as well." The woman slowly closed the door, smiling towards Mako and the others. As soon as the door was closed, she rushed towards their bedroom and started to pack. "Shit, how did they find us?"

As she was busy packing, she heard the door in their house open. She quickly took a small piece of metal out the drawer and hid it behind her back. The metal then started to morph, fitting at her lower back as she slowly moved towards the sound.

"Xinyi?" A voice entered her ear. She relaxed then. It was the voice of her husband Peng. "Xinyi where are you? Are the boys back? What's for dinner?"

"Peng!" Xinyi run towards the living room, shocking Peng at her sudden scream. "they found us. We must leave now!"

"What? What are you talking about? Relax." Peng spoke calmly, trying to calm her wife down.

"The white lotus, they found us!" Xinyi voice made Peng turn serious, he rushed towards the window, peaking, trying to see if the white lotus was in the area.

"Where are the boys?" Peng asked while not taking his eyes out the window.

"I sent them to gather up some firewoods, they must be coming home by now." Xinyi answered, her voice still panicking. "We should leave, it is not safe here anymore."

"That I can agree with. Pack your bags, as well as the boys. I'll watch her to wait for them." Peng nods in agreement.

Xinyi run back towards their room, she stops for a moment before bending the piece of metal she hid behind her back. "Peng!" She called her husband, she then pushed the metal towards him.

Peng catched the metal and bended it, forming a gauntlet into his right hand, he then nods and turned back towards the window. After seeing that Peng was now occupied with keeping watch, Xinyi resumed her job at packing their things.

Peng closed his eyes, massaging the bridge of his nose. He knew this time would come, he knew that they would find them eventually. Peng was after all a former member of the white lotus. And he knows what, or more specifically who they are after.

They are here for his son. Kai.

Avatar Korra had made some changes in her times, she ordered the white Lotus to allow the next avatar to live a normal life before revealing his or her duty. 16 years to be exact.

He was there when the avatar made that order, his wife was pregnant at that time. And he was there when Avatar Korra life ended. At the moment of her death, his wife Xinyi gave birth to his two sons, Kai, and Ryu.

All was fine then, in the next three years he had fullfiled his duty as a member of the white lotus, he joined them in searching for the next avatar.

But it all crashed down when they discovered who the avatar is. It was his son, Kai.

Peng knew of the challenges, the burden, and the responsibility tied to becoming the avatar, and at that moment, he decided he didn't want his son to experience all of that.

He wanted his son to have a normal life, but normalcy is something the avatar does not have the privilege of having.

Peng talked to the elders of the white lotus, he used the words of Korra, saying that he'll take care of his son. That he'll make him have a normal life untill the time came where he must face his destiny. The elders agreed, after all. Peng is a loyal member of the order.

But Peng had other ideas. As soon as he and her wife got out of the order in order to live a normal life. He cut all connections with them, even going as far as faking his death along with his family. Going to the mother of faces, an ancient spirit, asking for a new face, paying a heavy price along the way.

And by all accounts, it would have worked. But the white lotus isn't that stupid. They knew of Peng's plan. And although they understand his point as a father... The world needed it's avatar.

But a question still remains.

"How did they find us?" Peng asked no one in particular, unable to process how the white lotus found them.

As he was deep in his thoughts, he saw his two boys out the window, coming home with frowns and bruises on their faces. No doubt the two of them had been fighting again, with themselves no less. It made him want to chuckle, seeing them like this, like two normal boys going on about their day made him want to kept the life they have more.

"Xinyi they're here! Are you-"

"I'm good here." before Peng could finish his question, Xinyi had already arrived to the living quarters with two large bag. "Let's go!" She tossed the other bag towards Peng who catched it and wore it on his back. The two of them then moved quickly towards the door.

As the two of them opened the door, the twins looked confused, they had never saw their parents this panicked. They are even carrying bags with them.

"What's happening?" Ryu asked. His eyes moved towards the face of his parents and into the bags they have.

"I was with you the whole time. How the hell should I know?" Kai answered his brother while shrugging. "But by the looks of things, it isn't good." He mutters the last line to himself.

"KAI, RYU!!! WE'RE LEAVI-" Peng didn't get to finish his sentence as he felt multiple people coming their way through his seismic sense. "Xinyi, they're here." He whispered to his wife, his voice filled with worry and fear.

"Yeah, I picked that up too." Xinyi responded as she placed her hand in her pocket, feeling the two metal marbles she placed inside.

The boys were confused when their parents suddenly stops and turned the other way, they decided to follow them but the earth beneath their feet suddenly rose and held them by their ankles.

Letters then started to form into the ground, the twin watched as the letters started to form a word.

"Hide." Ryu read the outloud, this made him sure that something is wrong. "Kai break us free we need to follow them!"

Kai punched the ground, breaking the restrains that held them. Ryu then ran but before he could get to where his parents are, a hand held him by the collar of his shirt.

"We need to hide, father sai-"

"I don't care what father said! Something is wrong and we need to help them!" Ryu slapped Kai's hand off his collar and tried to run again. Only this time, Kai jumped up and landed in front of him.

"FOR ONCE WILL YOU LISTEN TO ME!!!" Kai screamed, his face was full of fear and worry, even his voice was shaking. "Father clearly wants us to hide, you and I both know how strong father is, this means he is doing this to protect us!"

"All the more reason for us to help them!" Ryu glared at Kai, his voice was now also filled with fear and worry. "Get out of the way Kai!"

"...." Kai didn't answer, but the look on his face was all the thing Ryu needed to see to know what he's thinking.

"FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE KAI MAKE A DECISION FOR YOURSELF!!!" Ryu screamed in anger. "You don't always have to follow them and be the perfect son! You either help me save them, or get out of my wa-"

Before Ryu could finish his words, he feel to the ground, Kai had knocked him out by bending a stone to hit him at the back of his head. "Sorry Ryu..." He whispered as he kneel down to carry his twin into his shoulder.

Ryu tried to shake the dizziness off, but the hit had shaken his brain. He feel in and out of consciousness. He felt his body being carried, no doubt by his brother. And with all his strength, he turned his face into Kai's ear and whispered. "Coward." Before morpheus took a hold of him.

"I know..." Kai answered, a tear forming in his eyes. He looked back to where his parents are heading and did a silent prayer. "Mother, father... Be safe, we will be waiting for you."

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Peng and Xinyi moved to the opposite direction of their boys. He just hope that they aren't stupid enough to ignore his message.

"You reckoned they'll listen?" Xinyi asked while walking slowly.

"Well, Kai will, but Ryu would probably try to convince him to follow us." Peng chuckled. "Ryu did get his bullheadedness from you."

Xinyi also chuckled as she nodded her head. "Hey, I'm not that stubborn you know!"

"Remind me again, how many years was it before you said yes to me?" Peng glanced at his wife and raised his brow.

"That was different, I was making sure if you were the one." Xinyi fumed as she stomps her feet in annoyance.

"And?" Peng had a cheshire smile on his face as he teased his wife.

"You're really gonna make me say it huh?"

"of course. Hahaha"

"Fine! You win. Yes you were the one for me." Xinyi blushed as she shyly hid her face away from Peng. Peng then moved his hand to hold Xinyi's.

"I'm worried though. What if the order takes him away? What if they force him to become the avatar?" Xinyi turned serious as she asked Peng the question that laid heavy in her heart.

"Who did you saw when they arrived earlier?" Peng asked.

"Lord Mako.."

A small smile the rose on his lips. "Then I can probably talk to him, maybe he'll understand. He was with avatar Korra when she was on her adventures, he knows just how hard being the avatar is. He'll understand why I don't want that life for our son."

"I hope so." Xinyi answered. "I really do."

Peng hold on her hand became stronger, he then turned to the front as his seismic sense picked up the white lotus coming closer. "let's get this over with." He sighed as the two of them came to a halt.

A few seconds later, multiple men arrived at their area, the man all wore the garments of the white lotus. They parted ways as Mako walked to the front, facing Peng and Xinyi. "Master Peng..." Mako bowed respectfully.

Peng sighed and clicked his tongue. He looked at Mako straight in the eyes and returned the bow. "Lord Mako."

Mako then turned towards Xinyi, he smiled softly towards her and curtly nods. "And I assume you must be lady Xinyi... I must say, you really exceeded our expectations. Who would have thought that you would fake your own family's death, even going as far as searching and making a deal to the mother of faces." Mako chuckled, admiring the length Peng went through. "But I'm afraid that the time has come. The avatar must fullfill his role now."

Peng took a quick glance at Xinyi, his wife also looked at him, the two of them nods, a silent communication happening between the two.

"Lord Mako, I'm afraid I cannot allow that. You were with Korra when she was the avatar, You have seen the hardship that such a title did to her." Peng faced Mako again, shaking his head and closing his eyes. "The critism, the pressure, the burden, the expectations, the hardships, the loneliness... I don't want my son the experience all of that. I just want him to live a normal life."

Mako stepped forward, his face pleading. "Please master Peng. The world needs the avatar to bring balance. It is his destiny to do so." He then turned towards Xinyi. "Lady Xinyi, you know this to be true, please... He won't be complete if you force his destiny away from him."

"Lord Mako.... Our decision is final." Xinya held Peng's hand. She looked at Mako with resolved. "Our Kai would have a normal life, away from the dangers and burden the avatar title brings."

"You're going to hide his very nature to him? The reason he was born?" Mako asked shaking his head. "Please don't be hasty... Master Peng, the white lotus is prepared to reinstate you as a member, we will even allow you to become his earth bending teacher."

"I'm sorry Lord Mako... But my decision on this is final." Peng shook his head and looked down. "And if ever Kai discover his true calling, then it is up to him to decide what path he wishes to take, but as of now he is not the avatar. The world is at peace thanks to Avatar Korra's effort, it doesn't need the avatar as of yet. Let my boy live a normal life."

"See I told you Lord Mako." A voice came from the crowd of white lotus. "The son of the usurper would do this. He wants to keep the avatar to himself, and use him to take over the world."

Peng eyes turned sharp, he followed the voice and saw Yong Bei Fong, a former colleagues of his in the white lotus. Also someone who he can never get along with.

Yong and Peng had knew each other since they were children. The two of them both had the same master in Wing Bei Fong. He is also the son of Baatar jr.

Yong is a proud man, being a Bei Fong he always thinks of himself as superior, especially in earth bending and metal bending. After all, his family developed the skill. So when Peng was named master before him, at the young age of 17, he felt wronged.

Especially since Peng was the son of Kuvira, and for the Bei Fongs, especially for Yongs side of the family, Kuvira is a stain in their name.

"I guess it's true what they say. The apple doesn't fall far from the tre-"

"Enough!" Mako growled with displeasure as he glared at Yong. "Master Peng had proven his loyalty to the white lotus, he had already paid the sins of his mother even though he doesn't need to. You would do well to keep your biases to yourself Master Yong."

Yong clicked his tongue and glared at Mako, he then turned his attention back towards Peng, anger filling his eyes.

Not only was he compared to him by their master when they were younger, he had also earn the favor of multiple elder in the white lotus. And to make things worse, his son was also discovered as the avatar.

The happiest moment of Yong's life was the news of Peng and his family's death, finally the bloodline of the wretched woman Kuvira had come to an end. But then the ordered discovered that he was alive, how they did he did not know, it filled him up with anger.

But it also given him hope, that maybe the elders of the order would finally see Peng for who he truly is. But instead of being angry, the order celebrated. He wanted to scream, to say that Peng deserted their mission, that he faked his own death to hide the avatar but he couldn't.

And now the order is even giving him a chance to return back into their fold. For him this is all... Unacceptable.

"I have heard enough Lord Mako! The traitor wishes to hide the avatar for his own personal goals and yet you still want this to be civil?" Yong's anger had reach a boiling point, venom laced in his words. "Even with the evidence right in front of you, you still choose to engage with diplomacy against this traitor? Look he even change his and his wife's face to get away from us!" He growled as he pointed towards Peng.

"Master Yong that is quite enough." Mako turned around towards Yong only to see a large boulder heading his way. His eyes widened as he hurriedly rolled down to dodge out of the way.

"No Lord Mako... What is enough is you and the other elders of the white lotus. Your time has come to an end, you have gone soft." Yong stomped his feet on the ground as a large pillar of earth rose behind him, he then clenched his fist as the pillars turned to dust and the dust compressed together forming multiple large spikes, all aiming towards Mako. "As avatar Korra's reign had come to an end, your leadership to the white lotus will follow, it's time for use the new generation to take over. We will oversee the growth of the avatar, we will make sure he will not succumb to your and the other elders weakness and softness. We thank you for your services"

"Stop this at once!" Mako screams as he ignited a large flame in his hands, he glared at Yong with anger. "You will be arrested for this!"

Young chuckled, he then looked around with a mocking smile. "Arrested? By who? These men that you brought are loyal to the Bei Fongs and like me, they want some changes as well."

"T-this is treason? The other elder-"

"Would be long gone after this is over. I believe like you, they will have a permanent, well deserved retirement." Yong cut him off with a mocking tone, his expression is one of amusement and resentment. He then turned serious as he spoke lowly. "This would all have been avoided if you had listen to me. Wanting to take the traitor into our folds again, what were you thinking old man?"

"Yong please don't do this?" Mako pleaded, he bowed his head low. "This path isn't the way, look into yourself, you know that this isn't right! If you do this, there would be no turning back."

"You didn't give me a choice. You did this to yourself... All of you elders did when you choose to forgive this traitor!" He shook his head as the spikes began to spin faster. "Don't worry, the white lotus and the avatar would be in good hands."

"And who's hands is that? Yours? Don't make me laugh Yong!" Peng glared at the earth bender with intense anger as he stepped forward besides Mako. "THE ONLY THING LARGER THAN YOUR EGO IS THAT AMBITION OF YOURS!!! YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY SON!!!"

"Look around you Peng. Do you think you have a choice here!" Yong smile grew even bigger as he gloats. The other members of the white lotus all gearing up as they started to bend their respective elements. "Now tell me where the avatar is!"

"The only way you'll get to my son is by walking over my dead body." Peng answered forcefully as the metal gauntlet in his hands started to form to three orbs the rotated around his body.

Yong smirked. "I was hoping you'd say that." He turned back to the other members of the white lotus and nod, giving them the signal to attack. "If that's what you want, then it can be arranged."

Peng looked at Mako and Xinyi, the three of them nodded as they stood side by side, facing multiple master benders charging towards them. Peng took his stance as the ground beneath his feet rose into his body, forming an armor made of the very ground they stood on.

Xinyi took out the two metal marbles in her pocket as she bends it, forming into small, sharp projectiles. She also bended the dust around her, forming a barrier that surrounded her, the dust rotating fast enough as it threatened to shred whoever is stupid enough to stand in her way.

And Mako, feeling his old bones shook as he took his stance, he took a deep breath, sticking to his basics, a fire benders greatest strength is his breath, he grunts as a large fireball emerges out his palm.

As that was about to happen, Kai had already moved towards the woods, unknowing of the threat his parents are facing.

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Heya guys, TheManCandy here. This is my second account, one I created a few days earlier.

You might be familiar with my other work. Survivor's life in the dungeon. Well sad to say that I'll be taking and indefinite hiatus on that project. The reason being my other phone broke, it feel from my pocket and needed a new LCD. What I'm using right now is my old (crappy) phone. This phone had a software damage which doesn't allow me to log in into Google, the moment I try, it'll kick me out so I can't open my main account here on webnovel.

My other phone also has my file regarding ASLID. So instead of trying to remember what I wrote, I decided to put the whole project on hold. (Until my phone is fix.)

I'll probably continue this book on my main account once my phone is fix, but until then I'll write here. Don't expect consistent updates for this one, like I said, I'm using my older shittier phone which makes writing a hassle, and I'm still gonna priorities updating ASLID once I get my phone back.

Anyway, how is the prologue? This is my second Fanfic and I decided to write about Avatar. But this time, I won't be using TLAB or TLOK that much story, maybe a couple of Easter eggs here and there, but that's it. Especially since this fanfic will tackle a new avatar. This story will focus on an OC Kai, the next avatar in the cycle. So other characters would be OC as well with some being named canon characters, but they'll have little role as by this timez they are either old or dead.

I like to see if I'm good enough to write something that is practically an original story since I won't be getting anything from the source material for this one. (Except world building and lore) So good luck to me.

Also, please share any idea on how I can further advance the story, like I said, I'm going blind with this one. Tell me how you feel, is it good? Bad? Areas for improvement? Anything will help.

Thanks for picking this fanfic up. Love y'all.

-TheManCandy.