PitA: Hello everyone!
Ida: Hey.
PitA: So this is our Avatar story, co-authored by me Party in the Afterlife and my best freind, Ida Cippo! Care to do the honors Ida?
Ida: We don't own Avatar The Last Airbender
The First Impression
The two black wooden doors were open and were swinging softly in the wind. They were held in place by a large arch made of stone, which stood over them imposingly. Above it, on the top, stood a statue of the Avatar Rokku in his traditional Firebender clothes, his hands stretched out in blessing and greeting to all the newcomers.
Behind him was the green roof that stood out against the sky. It was in the traditional shape, square with the sides swinging out.
A glance inside the house through the doors showed a large hall and another pair of wooden doors, equally open which lead to a wooden terrace. A few steps closer showed that this was a square yard, the building continuing at the sides.
In the centre of the court stood a statue, this time of Avatar Kyoshi in all her might, clothed in her warrior outfit, arms swinging in a powerful attack.
The doors on the sides of the building were marked with different symbols, fire, earth, water, air, but other too, like maths symbols, a map of the nations, physics equations, art tools and others. Each corner had an Avatar statue in it, representing the endless cycles.
These were the classrooms, because this building was the school of the Western Dragon Iroh the bending school for all elements, The Elite Western Dragon International Intercultural Element Bending Academy, usually just called the Academy. It was a school for People of great talent, bending or non-bending, or of great nobility. People of any Nation.
This probably explained the low number of new students waiting in front Elite Western Dragon and son on Academy. There was a bald boy in air-monk cloths, a blind girl, who had been dropped of by fretting parents, a girl with two long braids that stuck of the side of her head and two skulking, male, sandbender twins in gangster rapper outfits.
The students had been told to wait in front of the main entrance, a guide would come and show them around the school before their first…err…lessons.
All around them their soon-to-be schoolmates were streaming into the building when a dark cloud sidled up to the group. They jumped.
It was not, in fact, a cloud. When you looked closer you could see a tall, slim, fifteen year old girl, all dressed in black with long black hair, pale skin and depressing make-up.
"I'm Mai," the girl said surveying the new students without marked interest, "I'm giving you the tour. All ready?"
"Yeah," the blind girl said, oblivious to Mai's evil emo powers. Most likely because she couldn't see her. Or maybe she was just brave. Who knew?
Mai started walking towards the black double doors that marked the entrance of the school. The students followed her like a herd of intimidated sheep. Well, they were intimidated.
They walked out onto the terrace. It was roofed so that the students could walk along it to get to their classes even in the rain.
"The buildings along this side," Mai stated, bored, "are the teachers lounges, the secretaries and the office of headmaster Iroh. You'll come back here after the tour to pick up you're schedules.
She walked forward into the yard. Students were milling all around it yet all appeared to be avoiding the Statue of Avatar Kyoshi. Mai, however, was filled with no such hesitation and moved towards it boldly. She stopped close to the statue, beside which a brown haired girl in jeans and a green top was holding a megaphone. Beside her a boy in blue clothes with a brown ponytail stood handing out leaflets.
"What you see here," Mai began in a flat, monotone voice, "is a statue of the great and so on Avatar Kyoshi. Standing beside her is Suki, the political activist, encouraging everyone to come to today's protest march. She is flanked by Sokka, who, whenever he needs a date, is also a political activist."
As they walked past the trio all the new students had leaflets thrust into their hands. Mai was curiously missed out.
"Why didn't they give you a leaflet?" the monk-boy asked, staring at the paper in his hands. 'Come today!' it read 'Protest against Paragraph 987.2…' he stopped reading. It was too boring.
Mai smiled for the first time. Everyone in vicinity shivered and averted their gaze.
"Their afraid I'll scare all their protestors away," Mai explained, " Now, the right side of the building is devoted to training rooms. They are constantly under construction due to over enthusiastic bending or fighting…"
"Hey Goth-Princess," a tall boy with a mop of brown hair and a cocky grin sauntered up and laid his arm around Mai's neck, "haven't seen you in a while." He leaned forward to give her a kiss on the cheek but Mai put up her hand and blocked the attempt.
"The idiot with his arm around my neck," she stated in her bored-tour-guide-voice, "is the captain of the baseball team and supposedly hottest guy of the school, Jet. He will let go of me in an instant because two steps behind us the captain of the soccer team, second-hottest guy of the school and Jet's most hated rival, Zuko, is talking to the captain of the cheerleading squad and Jet's newest girlfriend, Ty Lee.
Jet let go of Mai and whipped around. As Mai had said, standing behind him was a short, pretty, slender girl in a purple and blue cheerleader outfit. She was talking to a tall, pale boy with shaggy black hair and a scar across his left eye. Jet stomped over to them, put his arm around Ty Lee and spat something at Zuko who immediately responded and within seconds a hot diss-battle was going on, whose disses were completely random.
"You're so stupid Zuko, you trip over the cord of a cordless phone!"
"Well couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat, Jet!"
"You're so fat I tried to drive around you and ran out of gas!"
"You're so short you have to get on a ladder to pick up a ten-cent piece!"
"The rooms at the back of the building," Mai ploughed on in her tour. Her herd ignored her, completely fascinated by the battle, "are devoted to the Library, as well as Etiquette and Mediation classrooms. These are the favourite haunts of the Guru."
"Whose the Guru?" one of the herd asked timidly, "Does he have a name?"
"The Guru is simply called the Guru," Mai stated, "He is a Vegan, believes in Feng-Shui, and will teach you about you're Chi, the connections of the Elements and which Chakra you're feelings stem from if you are stupid enough to listen in his lessons.
"Now the left side of the building is devoted to classrooms where you will learn about Math, Physics, Art, History and Politics."
Then the main door of the building was flung open and a girl of middle height with dark hair and piercing eyes stopped in. She was followed by a troop of people. When she saw Mai she immediately changed her course, heading straight for her. Everyone who was in the way scrambled to get out of it.
"New students?" she asked when she reached Mai. The guide nodded. "Well be sure to teach them the rules," she snapped turning around and heading off again. The horde, which had hovered a few meters away, took up its course again.
"That was Azula," Mai stated when the girl was out of earshot, "princess of the school. I will explain the rules to you now, remember them if you want to live. Rule 1: Never stand in Azula's way. You may follow her around and worship the ground she walks on. Rule 2: Don't talk to Azula unless she talks to you. Rule 3: Don't talk to anyone Azula hates or she will hate you too."
"And who does Azula hate?" the blind girl asked brashly.
"Oh, everyone," Mai responded, looking almost cheerful as she started walking again. They crossed the yard and were moving towards the double doors on the other side of the building when a pretty girl with long brown hair wearing jeans and a blue top walked by.
"N-errrrrrrrrrrd," Mai said to her as she came by them. To her group she explained, "This is Katara the Nerd of the school. She even takes extra healing classes when everyone has gone home."
"Goooooooooth" Katara replied cheerfully to Mai then waved at someone behind the group, "Hello Haru!"
The others turned around to see whom she was talking to but there appeared to be no one.
"Haru, the Invisible Man," Mai intoned, "a student who, when not bending, can only be seen by Katara and the teachers. There have been some doubts that he exists or, if he does, is a ghost of someone who died of boredom during a lesson."
Katara waved at the group and walked on as Mai led them through the back doors of the school. They came to an open field in which a lot of picnic tables stood. Over to the Side was a small school building and behind the tables were the sports fields and swimming pool.
"This is the lunch area," Mai droned, "Lunch is cooked by two different students every week. It is supposed to teach us responsibility or something. The building over there is the kitchen. I would advise you to check the plan on the door. You'll soon learn in which weeks it's better to bring your own lunch."
She smiled nastily, then continued, "the sports fields are over there. All sports are student organized, check with the captains of each team if you can join…and that is the end of the tour. Please go to Headmaster Iroh's office now. You will receive tea, The Welcoming Speech and your schedules. I have a lesson to attend."
With that the girl swept around and marched back into the building. Before she went through the door she turned around one more time.
"Oh yeah, welcome to the Academy."
The herd blinked.
PitA: So that was it. The couples are in no way fixed so review...
Ida: ...and send us our three favourite couples and we'll see what we can do about it!