There was fire all around me, everything was burning and I heard people screaming, children crying and warriors roaring. I turned on my own axis, looked at the chaos that prevailed in this city. What just happened here?
Slowly and carefully I took a few steps and the next moment I collapsed into the ground. I was surrounded by complete darkness. Darkness. Darkness. That word echoed over and over in my head.
'The darkness ...' I didn't hear anything through that.
People's heads were buzzing around me. I just didn't know who these people were.
'It's all your fault! '-' If it hadn't been for you, it would have been very different! '
I ducked my head and bent my legs so my head rested on my knees.
"Be silent! I don't know what you are talking about! Explain it to me or be silent!" I shouted through the infinite nothingness that surrounded me. Without looking, I fired my fire at the heads, cries distorted by pain symbolized that I had hit. Moment! Screams

All of a sudden I was standing on the 'bed' in which I was lying. Just to sit down again the next moment. The wind blew my black hair back and everything spun in front of my eyes.
"Well? Finally awake again?" I heard a voice next to me. I carefully turned my head in the direction I suspected the voice was coming from.
"Where am I?" - "On Appa ..." - "And where are we going?" - "To Ba Sing Se ..." - "What do we want there?" - "Enlighten the king about the solar eclipse.", She explained. She had her hair braided in a braid and her blue eyes studied me.
"Explain to us how the shadow taming works!", Aang had joined us.
"Um. Who is flying this thing now?" - "That's not a thing!" - "Good, good! Who is flying Appa now?" - "Uhh nobody?"
A sigh escaped me.
"Shadow taming is an expanded form of firebending, you use the shadows so that they create a surface, a dome or something like that where it is pitch black. And then you send out your fire. The only disadvantage is that you do it You have to see extremely well in the dark, because otherwise you can't see where you're firing. "-" So in the end you control two elements ... "-" No ... that means yes ... it depends on how you look at it. You see the shadows as an independent element, then yes. If you don't count them among the elements, then no. Then it's just an extension of the firebending. "-" Ah .. that makes sense. ", I really started to like these children, no idea why or why. It was just like that.
"Can you teach me that?" - "Shadow taming?" - "Yes!" - "Um ...", okay, that was going too fast for me.
After all, I was taught to my opponents not to reveal my strengths or weaknesses. And if I were to teach him how to tame shadows, I would reveal my strengths as well as my weaknesses to him.On the other hand, were these children enemies to me at all? I honestly didn't know. I've never been in a situation like this. It was kind of, well ... I don't know how to describe it.
"You won't grab it ..." - "What? Why not?" - "Are you actually listening to me?" - "I'm the Avatar, I can do everything!" - "Your eyes are not good enough!", I wanted to remove the topic from the world.
Another problem was that I didn't really know how it worked myself, so how should I teach him? Again I sighed. Why did life have to be so complicated? My eyes sparkled dark gray instead of the normal sea blue. I literally counted the seconds until they were completely black.
"Are you taming the shadows right now?" - "No, they are taming me ..." I replied. And so it was.
One of the downsides of being a shadow tamer, at times when there are no examples of shadows grasping at your body. Shadows of lost souls. Shadows of Evil Souls. And when they get hold of your body, they take possession of it for a few minutes. Usually not a big deal. But sometimes it can also be really painful.
"What kind of shadows are you taming?" Asked the blind girl.
"The ones that I just get to grasp. In dense forests, the shadows that arise where no sun can get there. I change their shape to a ball that completely encloses me and my opponents and then shoot them with fire. There is but also situations where evil souls buzz around me, they show up as shadows, in such situations I tame these souls. Only the problem is that they often try to tame me, it gets a bit annoying over time was eyed curiously as my eyes returned to their normal color.
Suddenly the flight got a little turbulent, Aang hopped forward and tried to fly us through the bombardment with burning stones. I leaned out to see the ships attacking us. In the next moment I jumped from the flying bison.
"Are you tired of life?" I was called afterwards, but I didn't respond at all.
I landed a little rough on the ship and looked around first.
"Who do we have there?" I heard an all too familiar voice behind me.
"Long time not seen, brother ..." - "Yes, but tell me, what are you doing with the Avatar?", Period for him.
"Espionage, what else?" He was silent, so he didn't care. Point for me. I slowly turned to him. "Would you be so kind as to put the fire on?"
"You can answer that question yourself, can't you, Kaylin?" - "If not on the nice tour ... then just like that ..."
Slowly his shadow broke away from the ground, like me, he did the same. I didn't like fighting with him, he was somehow really like a brother to me and you fight against his brother when you have a clear advantage."We don't have to sort it out like that, do we?" I asked and there was something almost pleading in my eyes, while the two shadows on my right and left stood up.
"Just accept that I keep firing and then everything is cleared up." - "You don't think it will be that easy yourself, do you?", My eyes had taken on their black color again and faster than he could see it was too already held fast by its own shadow.
I shot two fireballs behind him and the next moment I heard the guards go down. My shadow, meanwhile, kept my back free.
"You don't want me to shoot you, do you little brother?" - "You don't dare to ..." - "Don't lead me out, Zuko! You know you will lose!" I hissed.
His shadow pulled his arms back and with a loud scream from Zuko's part, he dislocated both of them.
"I said you lose ..." I said and our shadows slapped to the ground like wet rags. "You know how much I hate to hurt you ..."
I walked up to him with slow steps, he was kneeling on the floor and his head bowed, his arms hanging limply. I carefully lifted his chin and leaned down to him. "Forgive me ... Zuko ..." I breathed softly and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Prince Zuko!", I also knew the voice.
Slowly, as if in slow motion, I got up again, my 'uncle', if you wanted to call it that, stopped a little in disbelief. "Prince-", he started, but I interrupted him. "Leave it alone, Iroh. You know as well as I that I am not the princess of the Fire Nation." - "I didn't mean that either ..." I stared confusedly into his calm eyes.
"Princess of Shadows ..." he bowed.
The question marks were clearly written on my face, but I had time to think later.
"I would be happy if we could play a round of Pai-Sho again ..." - "I'm on the run!" I threw at him indignantly.
"I'm very well aware of that." He smiled that calm smile and I turned away.
"I have to go ..." was all I said before I was picked up by Appa.
As soon as we were out of reach, Sokka and Aang looked at me with wide eyes. This glow in her eyes almost scared me.
"How old are you actually?" - "Me? Um, 17 ..." - "Wow ...", Katara was visibly impressed. "I guessed you would be 15."
I just shrugged. If I had stayed at the palace, I would have been crowned Fire Lord next year. You have to imagine the nonsense, I've been working towards one and the same goal for 15 years and when I'm about to achieve it, I run away. I brushed my hair back from my face, but the wind blew it straight back into place."Why did you call Zuko 'brother'?", I looked up, Toph wasn't looking at me, but it was clear that she was talking to me.
"Because I grew up with the Fire Lord ..." - "You are what?" - "Can you listen to Flachkopf when I say something?", Uhh, that was probably a bit too bad, the sokka moved to the farthest corner of the saddle and pouted like a little girl.
"That was really cool the way you beat him ..." - "I didn't beat him." I mumbled annoyed and rummaged around in my bag that I grabbed before I escaped from the castle.
"Did you break his arms?", Sokka had returned from his 'hiding place' and eyed me again with wide eyes.
"No, I dislocated her. Tenders don't break each other's arms, at least if they're just a little decent ..." I replied. It was very simple:
Tamer + broken arms = no taming = defenseless.
Annoyed I leaned back again, of course my cigarettes were still in the lock.
"Aren't any of you smoking by any chance?", I was just looked at blankly. "Okay, I'm sorry. Stupid question."
"Tell us something about yourself ...", Katara looked at me with her blue eyes.
"There is not much more to know about me ... I am descended from the Shadow Tenders and have been their princess. When the Fire Nation invaded my people's hideout, they all killed and took me away. The Fire Lord teased me and prepared me for it before taking over the Fire Nation at 18 ... "-" The What to What? ", I let his shadow choke him until he passed out - but was still alive.
I liked the others, I already hated him. I sighed again.
"Ok, go on ..." - "At 6 I tamed shadows for the first time, at 8 I had perfected it. Then I turned back to my black fire, it lasted longer than the shadows, but at 13 I had that too Any comment about my origins was withheld from me and so I thought Azula and Zuko were my true siblings. Shortly before my 17th birthday I discovered the well-kept secret of my origins, but kept it to myself. A week ago I posted to talk to him and he locked me chained in a light cell. My eyes have suffered a lot and I don't know if they will ever function as