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Dai's POV
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements could stop them. But, when the world needed him most, he vanished. My mother used to tell me about how the Avatar, Aang, was freed from his icy chamber of suspended animation and defeated the fire lord when I was eight years old. I haven't actually seen Aang in person, but my brother says she'd seen him when he visited the North Pole. Ever since I found out that Aang visited the North Pole and I wasn't there to see him, I'd wait for his return. I don't know why, but I felt as if there was one part of me that already knew him.
The chilly air of the North Pole woke me up in a vicious spasm of shivers and I noticed that my blanket had fallen off of my bed. I also wasn't wearing the right clothing to sleep in. The sun was just starting to peak out form the horizon and that's when I got ready. I took off my sleep wear and slipped on elbow-length black gloves, a black bandeau bra, blue knee-high socks, thick, dark skin-tight pants, bleach-white polar bear fur boots and my blue water tribe pull-over jacket with a white fur hood. I looked into my mirror, my unusually very black hair looked as if a rat fought in it. I combed it out my fingers and swiped a hand through the top of my head and looked out of my window, which was viewing the open ocean, and crawled out of my room. I bent my knees as I landed and walked along the balcony of my father's palace, looking over the awakening villagers, the guards around the palace didn't notice me, luckily. I climbed down the balcony and landed behind one of the guards, I hid behind a huge plant beside me before the guard turned around and I sighed quietly in relief when he didn't spot me. When the guard turned back around, I waved a hand infront of me, causing water to engulf the guard in water and freeze him at the touch. I took off running, then water bended all of the water back onto the ground before he noticed anything.
I ran across a few bridges then came across my best friend, and animal guide, Nayta. Nayta is a big arctic fox polar bear, she has the body and color of a polar bear and the head and hind legs of a large arctic fox. Nayta tackled me to the ground and licked me all over. The guards came running over, pulling Nayta off of me. When I got up, I wiped the slobber off of me and waved my index finger at the guards.
"Relax, she just wanted to see me," I said and grabbed Nayta's muzzle in my hands, which by the way, wouldn't fit in my hands, given the fact that Nayta's huge!
"Princess Dai," one of the guards said in a matter-of-face tone. "What are you doing out here? Chief Zon will have you punished if he knows you were out here!"
"Look, I've been cooped up in that palace for almost a week doing absolutely nothing, just being pampered and dressed up like a doll! If you don't want to see my bad side, I suggest you leave my sight immediately!" My voice was coming on a bit too harsh, even Nayta got a bit ticked off at the guards. "Oh, and Chief Zon doesn't know I was out here."
"Yes, princess." The guard motioned the others behind him to move alone and he led the other guards back to the palace. I sighed and kissed Nayta's maw and got on her back, we rode off on the streets, causing people to scurry out of the way if they didn't want to be trampled over by a big fox-bear animal. I flipped my hood up over my head, making sure it would stay secure and as soon as we saw the big wall of snow ahead of us, we stopped.
"Nayta, climb!" I commanded with a gentle pat to Nayta's neck. She took a few steps backwards, readied herself, and took off, she leaped into the air then amazingly scaled up the snow wall and made it to the top.
"Good job, girl!" I congratulated Nayta. That's something I've been training her to do, to climb walls. Nayta dropped her hind legs, making herself sit, and for me, almost falling backwards off of Nayta before catching myself on her reins. This was my usual morning, sneak out of the palace, finding Nayta, climbing the giant wall that separated the ocean from our village, watching the sun rise and awaiting the Avatar.
Something in the pit of my stomach was telling me to head back to the palace, not just because I was hungry, but for an unexplainable reason. Then I remembered, my birthday. My sixteenth birthday! How could I've forgotten my own birthday? I then remembered that my father was going to throw a grand party in my honor. Honestly, I could do without the grand party in my honor. Is it too much to ask just for a small feast, just my father, my older brother, Leno and I? But, my father is the one putting everything together, which means that I have no say in this.
"Nayta, I think we need to go back to the palace," I said to Nayta. She gave a whine and half-heartedly turned around, my eyes weren't leaving the sight of the ocean, right up until Nayta dove head first. I water bended the snow underneath us and freezed it to make it into a side. Nayta slid perfectly on the slide and landed just right before taking off again. Wasn't long until we reached the palace and my father was standing right outside, waiting for me. I gulped and got off of Nayta's back, holding her reins and leading her to my father right before a guard took her away and led her into her huge stall.
"Dai, how many times have I told you not to run off like that?" my father asked when I got to him.
"I didn't run, I escaped for a few minutes then came back safe and sound."
"But what if you'd gotten hurt, my dear?"
"Father, these walls of ice are built around us for a reason. And that is to protect us. Nothing bad ever happens here. Will you please stop being so paranoid?"
My father sighed and I slid down my hood from my head. The guards led me inside and I quickly went up to my father's room when I noticed that he would stay in the kitchen. When I entered my father's room, I opened his walk-in closet and searched through the boxes on the floor. I then found what I was looking for, a long, rectangular box that had my small baby hand prints all over it with blue paint. I ran with it to my room and shut the door, locking it and gently placing the box on my bed.
I sat cross-legged on my bed as I opened the box and looked inside it. It's been awhile since I've looked into this old thing, my mother had made it when I was born, putting little things in it that would forever hold my memories. Every year, on my birthday, I look into it, thinking of finding something new, but in reality, finding the same things as last year and the year before that. Inside of the box was a familiar roll of something that I thought I forgot about. When I unrolled the fabric, four familiar toys were lined up in order, a clay turtle, a pull-string propeller, a wooden monkey, and a wooden hand drum. Basically, all of my baby things were in that box, some of it covered with dust, the other things were untouched, like the clay turtle, pull-string propeller, a wooden monkey, and the wooden hand drum.
I heard my father call my name, the front doors creaked open and I hurried myself out of my room, forgetting to put away the toys that I took out from the box.
My father had already thrown this big party, I hadn't noticed it when I came in the palace a while ago, given the fact that I zoomed right into my father's room to retrieve the Memory Box of all my baby things. The guests were arriving in handfuls, I was believing that the whole village was here. They were dressed in the finest clothing, I was going to ask my father why the guests were dressed like that, but my father pulled me into my room upstairs and picked something out from my closet.
"Here, put this on. Today's a very special day!" My father exclaimed in giddy.
I raised an eye brow at him and looked at him as if he was crazy. "Oh-kay. Father, what's going on?"
"Just… put it on. I'll be waiting for you downstairs." He exited out of my room, shutting the door and I immediately undressed myself. I stripped myself of my clothing as quick as possible, except for the black bandeau bra and [ofcourse] underwear. I examined the dress closely and smiled at it. It was my mother's dress she'd worn the day she was married. My father had told me about it. The color of the dress was a very pale purple, it had white fur trimmings, a matching cape and hood. I slipped on the tight pale purple long sleeved shirt then came the dress. It was pretty easy to put on, no zippers or strings attached. Ofcourse the dress was thick in fur, the North Pole was unbearably cold. When I came out of my room, my older brother, Leno, was waiting for me by my door.
"What's going on?" I asked Leno, he made me put my arm through his and he led me down the stair case. I un-looped my arm around Leno's and flipped the hood over my head.
"You'll see," Leno answered as he let go of my arm and proceeded towards our father. My father had a priceless smile on his face and I was just anxious to find out what was going on. As I waked down stairs, all eyes were on me. Even Nayta was sitting at a corner, her eyes showing her expression, they were giddy and amazed at how I looked.
"Father, for the last time, what is going on?" I asked.
"There's some people that need to see you."
"Need?"
"These people are here to give you exceptional news."
"What do you mean?"
My father led me to three men in matching white shawls over their black long sleeved shirts that were meant to be big on them.
"Ah, Princess Dai," One of the men said with a smile. He was a bit shorter than me, had white hair and a small white beard. "My name is Iroh. These are my companions from the Order of The White Lotus, Bumi and Pakku," he gestured towards the two men.
"Pleased to meet you, General Iroh," I greeted and bowed. Yes, I did say general. I know exactly who he is. Zuko's uncle.
"We need to ask you a question," Iroh said and pulled out a white roll of fabric. He unrolled it and on that sheet of white fabric, were my baby toys.
I gasped a bit, my eyes locked on the toys. "How'd you get those?"
"We have copies of the relics," a man behind Iroh with spiky, white hair said.
"Do you remember these?" Iroh repeated.
"Yes, ofcourse. These are the toys I chose when I was a baby. Wait... did he just say relics?" I answered.
"Yes, Bumi did say relics, these aren't just toys, Princess Dai. These are the Avatar Relics," Pakku said.
"Avatar Relics? What? These are just some toys I chose when I was a baby. It shouldn't mean anything," I added.
"Oh, but it does mean something. It means absolutely everything," Bumi said.
"Wait… wait. What are you going with all of this?" I asked impatiently.
"Princess Dai," Iroh said with a sigh. "You...are the Avatar."
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