5. The Water Tribe
82 years after the genocide of the air nomads.
The Northern Tribe of Water
Today, nationwide festivities were held in the capital of the Northern Water Tribe, people had fun and made solemn toasts in honor of the birth of a son in the family of the respected Leader of the Arnuk Tribe. Many worried that the child would no longer be able to be born, since at the 8th month of pregnancy, the wife of Chief June began to lack her own bending for the development of the fetus, but the water benders from the hall of healing helped to cope with this, who were on shift at the bedside of the woman in labor for constant replenishment with soft water bending of healing.
Rumors began to circulate around the city that the Chief's son would have an extraordinary gift in water bending, since he was so eager for bending before he was born.
Only in the palace there was silence, and the people who were there spoke only in whispers, and tried to walk noiselessly at all. The thing is that recently the long-awaited son in the family of the rulers of the city fell asleep, no one wanted to accidentally wake him up.
At this time, while the main character was already having his first dreams, June was gently holding him, talking to her husband.
- Heh, heh, heh, I told you that a son, my heir, will definitely be born! Arnuk looked at his son with pride and said.
"Hush, you'll wake him up," June shushed him, "and who has been walking around for nine months and dreaming about a little princess that he will spoil all his life? she asked in a mocking tone.
- I don't remember such a thing, - Arnuk replied, embarrassed, - better tell me what we'll call it? With such an unusual appearance, he will definitely be surrounded by female attention," he finished even with some white envy.
June was silent for a few minutes, looking at her firstborn, as if looking for an answer to the question in appearance. With a little fluff of white hair, fluffy eyelashes, he looked like an angel, which made her want to kiss him. And how she likes his violet eyes, which seem to glow with some otherworldly light.
"Let's call him Yuki–" she replied after some thought, "A-a-h, I'm already falling asleep," June said, finishing the sentence with a yawn.
- That's right, that's right, rest dear, - Arnuk said with concern, - after all, you had the most stressful day today. I'll ask a few people to be near the room all the time, if anything, call me, I'll come later, haa, even on my son's birthday, things don't let me go. - he was already saying, covering his beloved with a blanket and kissing her on the forehead.
"I know your business, but don't drink too much," June said, already with her eyes closed, when Arnuk left the room.
He decided to pretend that he had not heard and quietly continued on his way, thinking to himself that he could not help but celebrate the birth of his son, and he would be able to buy off his wife with gifts later.
***
The main character, an unnamed spirit, a friend of Wong, or already Yuki
When I was born, I fully felt like one big lump of nerves, it was a cacophony of sounds, a lot of smells, there was no question about the center of gravity. An analogy of riding a super fancy Russian roller coaster came to my suffering brain, only all this multiplied by 100 times exactly. With the first breath I just started yelling, my lungs were burning, there was a mess of colors in my eyes, some kind of constant noise in the background, but it was all a pleasure for me, the main thing is that I am alive, whole, an eagle.
As soon as something was poked in my face, I instinctively opened my mouth and started sucking, I didn't expect such reflexes on the tit from myself. While I was getting food for myself, I felt as if someone was very carefully rocking me, and how much love and care the body exuded that held me, it simply cannot be expressed in words, I have never felt such a sense of security. Here, even without thinking, it is clear that this is my mother. Yes, mutual feelings were born somehow by themselves, I would even say naturally, yet you can say I really am her child, only with baggage from a past life. Having eaten enough, even burping, which I was not ashamed to call for myself an indicator of excellent cuisine to the chef, I began to feel sleepy, after all, I went through a lot of stress, I have the right to rest, at first an incomprehensible world of spirits, then a race against time, you can even say a battle for my mind, then birth, now I certainly do not drive anything, I have the right to just rest.
For the next couple of months, I felt like a king, food is brought, you are cleaned up, not scolded, in short, groomed and cherished. I didn't even consider walking under myself a problem, and if I could somehow influence it, then I would go to the potty, but so far it's out of my competence, so I just gave up on it, especially since, of course, it's not ugly.
Little by little, I began to distinguish the silhouettes that surround me, even the sounds I hear more and more clearly. It also became clear that I want to eat too much when my mother ran out of milk, and there is still no satiety in the body, as if hinting at it. The very next day, a new woman fed me, and so it went on, and this despite the fact that I was always fed by my mother anyway.
Somehow I didn't notice it before, but being a baby, having a lot of limitations, I still feel much more comfortable than when in the form of a spirit. It's as if some of the pressure that has been chasing you all the time has disappeared. I already attribute this to the fact that I have become my own for the world. You can say that before that I was a beta tester with a month of free use, and now I have bought a license and can afford a lot more.
Calloused hands often took me in their arms, this bad man often hugged me, pricked his beard. These were the only hands that felt like men's, so I signed them for my father.
The first months I slept off for the whole past life. Every adult, no, no, yes, dreamed of going back to the past when he still went to kindergarten and just give himself a slap on the head because he did not sleep at quiet hours. How do I curse myself for this now, when already at university and at work 6 hours of sleep it was already: "I'm sleeping for 6 hours today."
Happiness didn't last long, at one point I realized that I didn't know what gender I was. I have nothing against the female sex, even on the contrary, purely in secret, I only love them, but being with a whole piece of life being a man, it's hard not to start going crazy. My bad mood was even noticed by my parents, who tried in every possible way to wake me up. After suffering for a week trying to somehow feel something between my legs, I just waved my hand, just burned out. Besides, it's not the end of life, I'll come up with something. And why suffer, waste your nerves when it turns out that you were born a boy.
A month later, I decided to check my energy, at least with an eye. Having plunged deeper into myself, I saw my sources that seemed to have become more alive, I also felt how every second my spirit form merges with the physical body. In Wang Shi Tong's notes, there were warnings not to use bending until the synchronization was completely over. I'm going to observe them with all care. As I know, a complete fusion can last from three to five years, which is actually very cool, it's worth waiting for just nothing, and the bending will be with me again. You get used to good things quickly.
The senses are finishing calibration. Recently I was able to examine the interior of my room, it looks ascetic, although I expected the worst, the room is quite large, shades of blue predominate, there are even areas where you can see that the walls are icy. The Northern Tribe of water means it's good if I got to the canon, that is, there is time to prepare for the events. Judging by the cartoon, this tribe, in a conflict with the people of fire, was able to fight back well enough, which cannot be said about the southern one, but after an exhausted war, they simply fenced themselves off from the whole world, leaving their brethren to be torn to pieces by enemies.
I condemn, but I understand. In those days, to send help to an ally means to weaken your defense. People in power primarily thought about their citizens, which is also not a bad judgment.
Every day I felt my body better, I was even able to see my parents. The mother turned out to be a beautiful woman, with a dark skin tone, and long black hair. My father looked a little older than my mother, with rather long black hair and beard. And I also recognized him as a fairly well-known character. Arnuk is that you?
Now I understand that all those trials were in order to reward me in full at the end. It turns out I'm the son of the Chief of the Water Tribe, it's much better than I expected. In the future, this will give me both many advantages and impose great responsibilities. Still, you can say I was born the son of the president, my achievements are his achievements, my failures will also hit him.
It doesn't matter much, with my future abilities, I don't think I would be a simple man in the street, the same water bending that will be much better than the others will make me go up the career ladder. I feel like a donater, the situation is similar to that when you paid in the game for the best gear and support, and due to this, you just got out of the top right away.
- Ha-ha-ha, - the kid lying on the bed tried to make a sinister and solemn laugh, but this only attracted trouble.
The babysitter and mom, seeing how cute the baby was laughing, could not resist and began to squeeze him, or in Yuki's opinion to torment him.
It seems that I am too irresistible, any of my actions provokes my surroundings to kisses and hugs, I even began to try to behave calmer and more serious, but this was not the right tactic, so I make them even stronger. Well, no, I won't give up so easily.
***
Today I was dressed warmer and it seems we are going for a walk. After leaving the room, we got into a long corridor, moving further, more and more doors and rooms began to come across, is our house healthy or is it a palace?
All the people I met were with a darkish skin tone, and different colors at the eyes, it looks like the wrong Eskimos that, when passing from real life, they picked up Slavic, European and even Indian facial features somewhere. In a word - beauty!
The city was striking in its strangeness, in the light of day, these icy buildings reflected the light, which gave it a kind of fantasy, the channels that ran throughout the city resembled Venice. This view wins a hundredfold over the shown scenes from the cartoon. The main thing is that with a large number of residents of the city, there was no pandemonium, why go the whole city on foot when you can get to the right place much faster by boat through the canals. The good thoughtfulness of the architecture is impressive, it is clear that it was built with a soul and for the convenience of all the people.
When I entered the building, I saw girls and women walking briskly around the large hall. Looking curiously into the passing rooms, I was able to see how a sixteen-year-old girl treats a man's injured leg, treats a glowing one with water, this is what the bending of healing water looks like. A very useful skill, you will need to learn it yourself.
Passing representatives of the fair sex often looked at me. A couple of times I even saw in my eyes a desire to take me away from my mother and squeeze me, but my mother, seeing this, only lifted her nose higher, as if saying "look at my irresistible son and envy more""
Going into the office, mom talked about something with a cool granny who was briskly moving around the office until we sat down on the couch. After undressing me, she began to run healing water over my body, it was ticklish in the places where she passed, but I courageously endured it. Seeing my attempts, they began to giggle and look at me with affection.
They didn't seem to have found anything wrong since they can have fun at my expense. Already going to the exit of the building, I saw it, a mirror! Starting to pull my mother to him, I began to closely examine my face. Arghh it's too unclear why little kids are so cute?! I couldn't even figure out if I was a boy or a girl. But I found out that my appearance, even by the standards of the people I met, was unusual, with snow-white hair and eyes that looked like amethysts. Wow, here you will begin to suffer overnight and narcissism, or enjoy it. Now at least the reaction of the people I met is understandable, even if I want to cuddle myself.
Recently I started crawling, seeing that my parents brought carpets into the room. Now my favorite activity was to pump a muscle, crawling around the room and listening to adult conversations, trying to understand the meaning of individual words.
It seemed to me that there would be a full social package in a new life, and then you also need to learn the language, there was no such problem in the spirit world, even those scrolls were in fact more energy than a set of real words.
How cool it is, at any moment just to fall asleep, and sleep to the brim, even in a previous life, the sound of an alarm clock only made me sad, even frequent changes of ringtones did not help.
I wonder if Yui will be born, if you think about it carefully, she should, her father looks much younger than in the series, so there are still chances, although by my appearance I have already begun to change the known course of events. So let's go further, at the time of the series, Princess Yui was 16 years old, even if I was born in the same year as her, then I have a lot of time to prepare for possible events, from the side that is beneficial to me, if I was born even earlier, then it's generally super, probably I will even have time to travel and open several chakras. Okay, we need to make plans, but we all know what happens to them, then, as always, we will have to act on the situation.