Chapter 3

Timeskip- 3 Years ]

{ Valrick's POV }

It had been three years since I had chose to reincarnate in the world of the Avatar which wasn't pleasant experience as I expected it to be. The cause of the unpleasant experience was obviously being a baby which was one of the most uncomfortable moments of my lives. I had found out that my new name in this life is Jialong when I heard my parents say it.

The funny thing about my name was the meaning of my name. I had found out from my parents that my name means Water Dragon which is ironic as I am a water bender so the water part makes sense but also I'm a firebender so the dragon makes sense since in this world dragons are the original practitioner of firebending.

I also felt very sad for my birth parents of this world as they had given birth to me and also protected me from the fire nation. I could also tell from the few moments that I spent with them that they wanted to really raise me but alas couldn't make it happen due to the fire nation.

Being a baby sucks as I have to pretend cry to eat or for my parents to change my diaper which was really embarrassing for someone who is an adult but in a baby's body. I decided to act like a baby for a few months and then gradually becoming more mature so that I don't raise any suspicion.

My new parents treated me like any other parents would as they treated me with lots of love that most parents give to their child. I was grateful that they treated me like I was their own blood which made me happy as I missed those days I had with my other parents.

At first I did not accept them as my parents as I still thought of my other parents as my real parents but because of how they treated me, I gradually started to accept them as my parents.

Since a baby's vocal cords begin to develop around the age of 2-3 months, I decided to start saying my first words around the age of 6-7 months.

I decided to speak my first word when I was drinking the milk one afternoon. I really desperately wanted to say bland while drinking the milk as it did taste bland but I decided to say the standard word that every baby says to make their parent happy.

Speaking my first word was awkward as I hadn't used to the word Mama since ages but I decided to speak it anyways to bring happiness to my parents which in turn made me happy for them.

I'm now three years old and also I graciously have the title of a genius by the whole village as I matured way faster than the rest of the kids in the village. Since I learned way faster than the kids of my age in my village, I was graciously presented with the title of a genius which I don't really care about as it does not help me in any way and rather it is more of a disadvantage than an advantage.

I think around the age of 3-4 that a child is able to bend their respective element which means that I soon should be able to bend fire and water which I'm really excited for as I have lots of plans that will help me get really powerful that even the avatar won't be able to defeat me.

'For now I should strengthen my physical strength for times when I have to fight people without bending and instead use hand to hand combat and also use weapons to defeat a bender or non bender.' I thought of prioritising my physical strength right now since I can bend my element yet

To strengthen my physical body I decided to small and less intense body exercises and to make my body more flexible and agile, I decided to do stretching that helps the body become more flexible which is going to be beneficial in the future.

{ Third Person POV }

Jialong began to do small exercises before he got ready to freshen up and get ready to go to his village school which was a piece of cake for him.

For his exercises he decided to do some 5 sit-ups, 4 push-ups, 3 pull-ups, lots of stretches and few laps around his house which was the maximum amount of times he could do before he got tired and before his body started to ache.

Since he already was able to speak English, he didn't have any problem communicating with the villages or rather won't have trouble communicating with anyone since the universal language in this world is English. The obstacle for him was the literature of this world as it was in Chinese which he didn't study in his past life so he didn't know a single shit about it.

But with his trusted photographic memory, it took his a month or two to learn the alphabet properly. With a lot of practice, he became fluent in writing in the Chinese alphabet.

Since Jialong lived in the 21st century where the world was filled with different platforms for entertainment, he had nothing that could entertain him in this world.

'Fuck there's nothing for me to do except play with the kids but that is weird since I'm much older than them and also it's too childish for me. If I had the mind of a younger them I'm sure I would have fun playing with them.' Jialong complained about his situation as he had no form of entertainment except playing with kids which he didn't want to do.

'There is Pai Sho which I could play with the adults in the village but that would be too weird for the adults seeing a three year old competing with them as I'm sure I could become a good player if I know the rules and if I play a few games.'

Jialong decided to create the game of chess in this world as he was a really good player or at least he considered himself to be in his previous life so he would dominate anyone who he plays against.

'I should create Chess when I'm around six. I should also hand carve the pieces since I have nothing else to do and charge few gold pieces for it.' Jialong thought in his head about his plan to get some cash which involved him carving it which would make the price higher than the standard manufactured by machines.

'I'll start carving wood to make the chess pieces in about a year so that I can start selling them when I'm nine and travelling the world.' Jialong thought to himself of a plan that will include himself travelling the world to get stronger and also make money by selling his chess set.

"Jialong, come downstairs and eat your dinner. We are having roast duck tonight." Jialong heard his mother shout from downstairs while he was scheming his plans for the future.

'Planning can come later as eating takes priority and I really want to eat that duck.' Jialong rushed downstairs as roast duck was one of his favourite dishes that he had in this lifetime.

"Someone is excited to have their dinner" Yihi said to Jialong, seeing him rush to the dinner table and in response Jialong gave a nod.

Jialong quickly sat on the chair and began stuffing his mouth with the pieces of roast duck which was seasoned with different spices and definitely wasn't bland or raw. While Jialong as stuffing his mouth, his father and mother also sat on the chairs and joined in.

"So how was your day you two" Yihi asked to start a conversation as the room was just filled with sound of eating which irked her a bit.

"Can't talk, must eat" They both gave a reply in return which in turn made Yihi shake her head with a smile at their behaviour.

Once they had finished their dinner, they went to their living room where they talked about their day but that soon finished as they soon got tired and sleepy.

*Yawn*

"We should get going and get some good night sleep" Inok said to his wife and his son noticing the yawn that came out of Jialong.

They took Jialong to his room which was right next to theirs which was convenient for them as they could quickly go to his room if there was an emergency.

"Good night, have sweet dreams sweetheart" Yihi said to Jialong while tucking him in his bed.

"Good night mom, dad" Jialong said to his mom and dad in return.

...

It has been about 3 months since Jialong had plans to create the game of chess in this world and he decided to create the pieces early on as he really had nothing to do in his house except play with the toys that he didn't enjoy playing with but still played with it since his parents bought it for him with affection

The only thing that distracted him was wandering around the forest and climbing the small trees which he enjoyed quite a lot as it gave him nostalgic feeling of his past life where he used to climb trees in his back yard.

Jialong asked his father that he wants to carve wood as he saw someone in the village carving it and also he was bored and wanted something to do. Inok supported him as he wanted Jialong to have a hobby which would help him in later life as it eases stress and anxiety.

Since Inok also carved wood in his spare time, he had the tools and materials that would help Jialong in wood carving so he didn't need to buy new equipments for wood carving.

Their house was filled with wooden models that Inok carved as their was wooden models of animals and also the frames of the mirrors and other furniture was carved by him.

Inok thought that the wood carving would be a good father son bonding time so he decided to make the most of it. He took his son outside in the garden where they wouldn't make a mess indoors and his wife wouldn't complain and also the weather was beautiful with the blue sky and the gentle cold breeze.

(AN: I'm not a wood carver so no offense to those that actually do carve wood. This is the information that I just researched in Google.)

"The first thing you need to know about wood carving is the types of wood carving there are. There is Whittling, Relief Carving, Chip Carving and Carving in the round" Inok then explained each carving in detail and when to use those types for an object.

"Do you understand" Inok asked and Jialong nodded in return.

He then began to explain the materials and also the different carving tools that are used for the different styles of carving.

"Since you are a beginner, the best wood for you to use is basswood which is used by beginners and would be perfect for you." Basswood was one of the easiest wood to carve so he gave it to Jialong as he was a beginner.

"So, have any idea on what you want to carve." Inok asked his son which lead Jialong to think about what he wanted to carve.

After thinking for some time Jialong came up with carving a butterfly out of the wood which shouldn't be too difficult if he takes his time.

He started carving out the basic shapes and by the time he was finished carving the basic shape, it was already getting dark and he had to go inside.

"Dad, can I also carve the wood in my room" wanted to finish carving since he hated leaving incompleted work and also had another plan in his mind.

"Sure, but make sure you don't make too much mess or injure yourself as I don't want to sleep in the couch tonight" Inok said with a laugh towards the end. Jialong decided to act confused as if he doesn't know what Inok is talking about since it would be strange if he actually understand the joke as a three year old.

"Forget what I said" Inok said to his son, seeing the confusion on his face and wanted him to ignore what he had just said.

Jialong also took extra wood pieces to carve out his chess pieces which wouldn't take him to long as the shapes are easy to carve out.

He started to work on his butterfly until he got down the details of the butterfly and then began to work on his chess pieces which didn't take him too much time as his butterfly which had a lot more detail than the chess pieces.

...

It had been about 6 months since Jialong had started wood carving and he had already carved 20 chess set pieces except the board which would take too much space his room so he decided to just carve out the chess pieces.

Other than the chess pieces, he had also started to carve out different animals and objects which increased his skill in wood carving since he got faster and better at carving wood that his skill in carving was really high.

His wood carvings of the animals and objects took most of the time whereas the chess pieces only took a portion of the time. Overall he was proud of his work and so were his parents.

He also decided to take drawing and painting as his hobby as he wanted to try something different and also some he was quite a good artist in his past life.

The scenery he could draw about was amazing as he lived in a forest where there was variety of trees and plants which he could draw and there were a range of different animals that were unique and diverse that he could also draw.

"I should draw a flower this time." Jialong visited the forest to look for a beautiful flower which he could draw then paint.

He walked around for a bit until he came across a beautiful red and white flower which he wanted to draw about.

"Is this a White Dragon Bush or is it a White Jade Bush which causes blindness. Either way, it's not like I'm just going to try a random flower in the wild that could poison me." Jialong thought with a smile remembering Iroh trying to make tea out of a poisonous flower.

As soon as he finished drawing the flower, he decided to pack up and then go back to his house before it got too dark and before dangerous animals lurk around there.

...…

"I'll start with small amounts of water since I'm a beginner and also should master chi manipulation to be better bending" Jialong said to himself

"Since Aang and Katara mastered water bending in about a few months which is only possible if the they had plot armour"

"I'll start working on water bending and when I finish this training then I'll start working on fire"

Jialong gathered a small bowl of water to bend and practiced his wrist movement to start bending and after 10 minutes he started to bend the water in mid air into a ball.

His goal was to bend the water into a sharp ice spike to throw into a tree which would be used for offense.

After practicing for an hour he started to get results as he manage to freeze the water into a ice spike but what he was aiming for was to form it in mid air so that he could launch it towards his target.

To form a spike, he had to concentrate keeping the ball of water flowing while simultaneously forming a spike and making it freeze which took a lot of concentration and time since it was his first time bending.

Will a lot of resilience and perseverance, he managed to form the ice spike in 15 seconds and launched it towards a tree near his house.

"Damn, my aim is bad" Jialong said to himself after observing the ice spike that he threw and seeing his shot not going anywhere near as he had intented.

"I really need to start practicing aiming or else the ice spike would be useless if I can't hit my target" Jialong came you with another goal which is to practice his aiming as it was really crucial in a fight and he wants to be the strongest so he needs to be good as possible at everything in fighting.

"I need to form the spike much faster rather than taking 15 seconds to form just a single water spike."

Jialong began practicing forming spike much faster than his previous attempts until he manage to form the spike under two seconds. By the end of the day, Jialong practiced enough to be able form a spike under two seconds and figured out a use for the spike in a battle.

"I should be getting home before my parents get worried" Jialong said to himself noticing the sun setting and the sky getting darker.

"But before that I'll need one more shot." Jialong before he quickly formed a ice spike and hit dead on the target which he drew on the tree.

"I'll start working on blood bending in a few months but before that I need to work on more moves with water bending"

Jialong after throughout of infusing a martial that suits with water bending rather using the standard water bending moves which is inspired by Tai Chi Chuan.

'I'll try to use a different martial art that may suit with waterbending' Jialong thought in his head while walking towards his house enjoying the scenery along with it