First Steps 1

You know, when I died I expected it to go one of three ways. Number one, the most hopeful option, being a heavenly afterlife that would hopefully allow me to bask in comfort and joy and all that other crap for eternity. Number two, was ending up somewhere quite hot, with a red skinned, horned cunt trying to stab me in the ass with a giant pitchfork. Number three and the final option, was just the entire ceasing of all consciousness and the end of my puny, useless existence as everything went dark.

Ending up in a void of total darkness was pretty close to number three I admit, but the blindingly bright letters illuminating a screen floating within the darkness in front of me kind of changed that up a bit.

[Congratulations, you died! Would you like to start a NEW GAME?]

I just kind of stared at it for a bit. I thought for a second I was maybe hallucinating and on some acid trip or something despite never indulging in crap like that, but I can still vividly remember that heavy, sinking feeling as a knife plunged into my stomach and was ripped upwards. What a day to forget my own lock back.

"You know what? Fuck it," I snorted, long since passed my initial momentary surprise, and crossed my arms as I floated in that void, no stranger to the concept of this situation I wasted no more time, "A new game it is!"

[Excellent! Now please wait a moment while a world is chosen for your next game.

Results Available: Avatar: The Last Airbender. You will be entering this world around the time Avatar Aang escapes his icy prison.]

(World chosen from the users subconscious. Opportunity to visit more worlds may become available if the user reaches a suitable 'power' level in the future.)

I raised my eyebrow at those lines. 'Maybe I did actually go to heaven?' I wondered with a grin. Because as far as a rewarding afterlife goes, this has to be pretty top tier, I'm not gonna lie.

Depending on where I ended up, it would be possible to be gifted bending if I wasn't given any upon going there.

[Previous game has been analyzed. You earned: 1000 Point during your last game!]

The screen shifted into multiple screens. One showed a blanked out character avatar image idly rotating. Another was blanked out entirely. The third and final of them all, in the middle and facing me was different though.

[Choose your alignment.]

Air Bender

Water Bender

Earth Bender

Fire Bender

Non Bender

"Shit I can just choose one, that's badass!" I grinned, clenching a fist excitedly. "Fire Bender all the way!" fire was the element of power, and I'm all about that power baby. Although that Blood Bending is awesome, and that Metal Bending amazing, I NEED that Lightning Bending if I'm in a world where it's possible!

The screen in the middle shifted once again, after I made my choice.

[Choose your starting point!]

Imperial Firebender: You are one of the elite guards of Fire Lord Ozai.

The Princess' Guard: You are a guard on the ship ferrying Princess Azula in order for her to capture her brother and uncle.

Prince's Sparring Partner: You are a frequent sparring partner of Prince Zuko on his quest to capture the Avatar.

Student Of The Warlord: You are a young fire bender who showed such promise that Zhao has taken you on as an apprentice.

"What? C'mon, where's the Student Of The Dragon option! How am I meant to learn the art of tea if I can't be the student of Iroh!" I complained after reading my options over. Not a single one of them was good! There would be little I could do if I chose the Zuko option, he wouldn't listen to Iroh never mind me. And being the student of Zhao?! I'm offended just thinking of it, mutton chops could go piss off and sit in that valley a few years earlier for all I care! The guard of Ozai was tempting, it looked like the outright strongest option to begin with..but then that had me stuck at the Fire Nation capital guarding the cunt.

..So that only left the Azula option. Which meant starting in Book 2. Being chosen as one of the benders for Azula's retinue also meant there was at least some competency to be expected. And Azula was so hyper focused, she probably wouldn't notice me slipping away at some point. Especially when she ditches all her guards.

"I'll take the princess' guard option." I mused, selecting it. And just as I did, the screen went dark, and the screen on the right lit up entirely, while the character image on the left lit up as well.

The character staring back at me, was a plain faced skinny boy, looking to be around his mid teens. To the side of the image, there were a few lines of text.

Name: -

Age: 15

Gender: Male

There was an arrow to change the gender, so I could be female if I wanted I guess. I don't though, so fuck that. But there isn't an arrow beside the age. So I'm locked in to being fifteen years old I guess? 'Well, more life to live I guess.' I shrugged, no skin off my nose.

At the very least, I could change his looks thankfully. As a gamer, of course I already have my ideal body in mind. I was always around average height, not too short, not too tall, but fuck that! I made myself about 6'9, with a lot of bulk, powerful, thick muscles, rippling biceps and chiseled abs. Honestly I took the muscles almost seventy percent of the way to the max, none of that lean swimmer build bullshit, but I stopped before a point that the muscles would become a major hindrance to movement and flexibility, I made an aesthetically perfect warrior's build. Swoll as fuck, but not bulging muscles that got so big they practically leaked steroids. Next, I put healthy a pale skin tone. Then I gave some simple spiked dark black medium length hair..because there were only a few basic options for the hair, I could only do the best with what I had. Finally, I moved to the most important part, the eyes, and for these eyes, I went with a bright golden fiery irises, circled by a thin, barely noticeable line of dark red, I would have liked to add reptilian pupils, but there were no such options.

When I was done, one of the five Adonises of anime was standing before me.

With that done, I turned to look at the last screen.

[Please purchase your perks. Points Remaining: 1000]

Herculean Strength(100): Strength is increased by 10%

Endurance Beast(100): Endurance is increased by 10%

Swiftly Agile(100): Dexterity is increased by 10%

Dragon Blooded(250): Gain 50% resistance to all elemental attacks. Chi gains are doubled. Fire Bending gains multiplied by 2x.

Minor Regeneration(100): You have a minor healing factor.

Avatar Spirit(1000): You have a piece of Raava and can learn all elements.

Super Immune(50): You are immune to all diseases and poisons.

Expert Swordsman(50): You learned under master Piandao.

Prodigious(50): You learn and pick up things at an accelerated rate, from theoretical to combat skills.

Fast Growth(200): Experience gains increase by 100%

Huh, ten perks in total. And a thousand points to spend of them. But looking at it, it's really a choice between Raava and everything else.

Now, what do I want to do here? If I get Raava and become a second avatar, for 1000 points, I can't buy anything else, but as a new avatar, without the countless lives of experience and power, it will be pretty weak and extremely difficult to train to a point that it would be helpful, Raava alone is a hindrance in this case.

But everything else, is extremely op when altogether, my choice is clear...

I will BE the Dragon!

So immediately chose everything apart from Avatar Spirit.

The only thing left to do was pick a name. "I need to pick a good strong and powerful name, something really impressive..." after a bit of thinking, I had it.

Wang Shen!

[It seems you are finished. Are you satisfied with your choices, user?]

"I am completely satisfied with my choices, and I hope they will be too."

[Perfect! Stand by while the system calibrates and syncs with your new world!]

Suddenly, a rush shot through me, and I wasn't within that void any longer. Instead, I was sitting on a bed within the barracks of a Fire Nation ship, dressed in red fire nation armour, a blade of red curved metal resting on my lap.

And just as suddenly, I could remember an entire new life. A full set of fifteen years worth of memories, were just there, within my mind as if they had always been there. A life of a street rat boy, with some talent for Fire Bending. Recruited by a soldier and in the Sozin style of Fire Bending to become a soldier himself. He even gained a short apprenticeship under the vaunted Master Piandao after protecting the village the sword master was from when it was invaded by a small group of bandits. His talent was noted, and as such he was chosen to be one of the soldiers brought along as Princess Azula's retinue.

You'd think suddenly having an extra fifteen years of memories would be disorienting, or cause a headache at least. But no, it feels natural, as if I lived that life. Honestly, it's becoming hard to tell at this point if I did or not.

I opened my mouth as an instinctual thought came to me. "Status." I said. And a screen, just like the one in the void formed into existence in front of my face.

Name: Wang Shen

Race: Human( dragon-blooded )

Level: 1

HP: 1000/1000 (55 Regen per minute)

CP: 220/220 (10 Regen per minute)

Strength: 10(11)

Endurance: 10(11)

Dexterity: 10(11)

Luck: 5

Stat Points: 10

Gacha Points: 10

Perks:

Herculean Strength: Strength is increased by 10%

Endurance Beast: Endurance is increased by 10%

Swiftly Agile: Dexterity is increased by 10%

Dragon Blooded: Gain 50% resistance to all elemental attacks. Chi gains doubled. Fire Bending gains doubled.

Minor Regeneration: You heal 10% faster.

Super Immune: Immune to all diseases and poisons.

Expert Swordsman: You learned under the sword master Piandao.

Prodigious: You learn and pick things up at an accelerated rate, from theoretical to combat skills.

Fast Growth: Experience gains are doubled.

Abilities:

Sozen Style Fire Bending(Adept - 0%): Save 5% Chi Points when using fire bending techniques. 10% Chi increase. 20% resistance to the fire element.

Swordsman(Expert - 0%): Dexterity increased by 10% when wielding a blade.

Techniques:

Flame Punch: Firing blasts of fire from a punch. Standard Cost: 10CP

Flame Kick: Launching blasts and arcs of fire with a kick. Standard Cost: 10CP

Flame Dagger: Creates a vibrating, red hot blade of flames from the fist. Standard Cost: 25CP

Flame Redirection: The ability to redirect flames with physical contact. Standard Cost: 1+CP

Fire Stream: Fires a compressed stream of fire. Standard Cost: 50CP

Fire Block: The ability to block and extinguish fire. Standard Cost: Varies

"Well, for just starting off it isn't too bad." I grinned. Ten stat points to begin with already? And from the looks of it, my health points are one hundred times my Endurance stat I think. And my CP short for Chi Points would usually go up by one hundred each level I went up. Except, it seemed to be thanks to the Dragon Blooded perk I had.

Well, I may as well spend those points right now I suppose. An even build would be best for now I guess. So, with but a thought, I put four into the Luck stat, and then, two into the other three. Bringing my luck to nine ant the other three to twelve.

Name: Wang Shen

Race: Human( Dragon-blooded )

Level: 1

HP: 1200/1200 (66 Regen per minute)

CP: 220/220 (10 Regen per minute)

Strength: 12 (13.2)

Endurance: 12 (13.2)

Dexterity: 12 (13.2)

Luck: 9

Stat Points: 0

Gacha Points: 10

"Looking good," I nodded, before eyeing the other points total at the bottom, "Do I have a Gacha?" I wondered.

(Gacha Points can be used to roll the Gacha. It is 'random chance', and you could obtain almost any item within the world you currently find yourself in. From 'Space Rock' to currency, to even bending scrolls. Once rolled, these items will be deposited into your inventory.)

[Would you like to roll the Gacha?]

"Seems simple enough," I noted, though interesting as it was, there weren't really that many items in the Avatar world that would be that helpful. "And yeah, go ahead and roll it." at least it did confirm I had an inventory. That was beastly in of itself.

A moment later, a series of notifications popped up in front of me.

Gained: Iron Dao Blade(Common)

Gained: Unharmed Cabbage(uncommon)

Gained: Earth Kingdom Coins x 600(Common)

Gained: Chi Crystal(Rare)

Gained: Ruined Cabbage(Common)

Gained: Earth Kingdom Coins x 1000(Common)

Gained: Blank Scroll(Common)

Gained: Spirit Tea Leaves(Ultra Rare)

Gained: Blood Gem(Ultra Rare)

Gained: Lionturtle Claw(Ultra Rare)

"What is all of this?" The sword, cabbages, coins and scroll, I understand, but what about this stuff? "Inventory." I said, and an inventory screen popped up in front of me.

Within it were all the items I got from the Gacha a moment ago. Alongside a few others.

Fire Nation Greaves(Common): +1 Endurance.

Fire Nation Vambraces(Common): +1 Endurance.

Fire Nation Helmet(Common): +1 Endurance.

Fire Nation Chest Armor(Common):+2 Endurance.

Red Iron Dao Blade: +1 Strength.

Interesting that I was wearing them, yet they weren't equipped to me. Very odd. But, it was easy to select them and equip them all. I'd equip one of the normal Iron Dao Blade's as well, except my memories of learning how to use a sword under Master Piandao, was only training in a single blade.

Name: Wang Shen

Race: Human(Dragon-Blooded)

Level: 1

HP: 1200/1200 (66 Regen per minute)

CP: 220/220 (10 Regen per minute)

Strength: 12 (13.2) (14.2)

Endurance: 12 (13.2) (18.2)

Dexterity: 12 (13.2)

Luck: 9

Stat Points: 0

Gacha Points: 0

After checking over my new stat buffs with the armor and weapon equipped, I started to look at what drew me to the inventory in the first place. First I looked at the 'Chi Crystal'.

Chi Crystal(Rare): Upon usage, the user gains a permanent 500 Chi.

My eye widened. That was amazing! That was more than double the total amount of Chi I currently had! "Yoink!"

I laughed, and quickly selected it and used it. As soon as I did, a rushing sensation flowed through my body, and I felt completely energized. More than that, I felt powerful.

Name: Wang Shen

Race: Human(Dragon-Blooded)

Level: 1

HP: 1200/1200 (66 Regen per minute)

CP: 720/720 (35 Regen per minute)

Strength: 12 (13.2) (14.2)

Endurance: 12 (13.2) (18.2)

Dexterity: 12 (13.2)

Luck: 9

Stat Points: 0

Gacha Points: 0

I didn't get to bask in that feeling for long though. "Attention all combatant crew members. By the order of Princess Azula, you are to report to the deck!" a male voice echoed reverberating throughout the ship, "You have three minutes. Failure to appear on time will be met with severe consequences."

I sighed, "Guess the rest will have to wait until after I see what the gremlin wants." I said to myself as I stood up, stretching out a bit before getting a move on. If nothing else, I'm really curious to see Azula up close and personal. Maybe I'll get to see some techniques from her that I can copy?

I'll need to make a personal effort to keep my mouth shut though. The crazy bitch will probably execute me if I do anything she doesn't take a liking to. Really, the girl does need a spanking that's for sure.