Chapter Text
Interlude
Water, earth, fire, air are the four elements of the world. For many years now the elemental nations had lived together in harmony. The North Blue is the home of most Water Tribes and with them the Water Benders. In the South Blue lived mostly Fire Tribes and some Earth Tribes and with them Fire and Earth Benders. The West Blue was home to some Water Tribes and a few Fire Tribes. The East Blue was the home of the Air Tribes and with them the Air Benders. Between the four Blues runs the Grand Line and that is where tribes of all elements makes their home. Many years ago, Gol D. Roger had been the Avatar the only bender in the world that could use all four elements. He had defeated an evil bender named Rocks D. Xebec and peace returned to the world.
The Avatar was the only bender that could use all four elements otherwise people could only use one if any at all. Roger had been the strongest Avatar for many years. But he had caught a deadly disease and had died from it. After his death people started looking all over the world for the new Avatar but he or she had yet to be found. Usually you would find the Avatar rather quickly but this time something had happened and the Avatar’s identity was a mystery.
The people supposed to find and guard the Avatar was the Gorosei. The Gorosei were the most powerful of the Celestial Dragons. The Celestial Dragons were the “strongest” benders of the world. According to the legend the Celestial Dragons had defeated the evil spirits and gods 800 years ago and their descendants still lived in the holy land. The Celestial Dragons were considered the world’s most powerful benders and also rulers of the world in a way. They were allowed to do anything they wanted as long as it meant they could protect the Avatar. But Roger had not allowed them. He had lived his life sailing the seas with his nakama. Which was probably why no one had been able to find the new Avatar yet. Rumor had it that the new Avatar was supposed to be an Airbender so he or she was most likely living somewhere in the East Blue.
But this story is not meant to focus on the new Avatar’s journey or even his or hers adventures. It is instead going to focus on the adventures of a doctor on a small island in the North Blue. Swallow Island is an island in the North Blue that is the home of a Water Tribe. The leader of the tribe is not the best of leaders so the people tend to run to the village’s only and best healer. Trafalgar D. Water Law was not born on Swallow Island. He had been born on another island named Flevance. Flevance was the island where nearly all the healers of the North Blue went to study healing by Waterbending. But many years ago the Celestial Dragons decided to wipe the town out because rumor had it that the Avatar was hiding there and the Water Tribes of Flevance refused to give them up. To the rest of the world they claimed that the people of Flevance were part of a cult that were trying to find and raise a Dark Avatar to take over the world and start another huge war. They claimed they were siding with the Revolutionary Army, a group of benders from all elements that tried to overthrow the rule of the Celestial Dragons. Law had been the only person that survived the attack and he had fled the country hiding under a pile of corpses.
Law had been rescued by an Airbender named Donquixote Doflamingo and his brother, a very clumsy Firebender named Donquixote Rosinante, Corazon for short. The brothers had taken care of Law for a couple of years before they got attacked by Celestial Dragons and Rosinante had gotten killed. Doflamingo had left Law on Swallow Island with a friend of the brothers’ and had then left to lure the Celestial Dragons away. Last Law had heard he had been arrested and was hidden away in one of the Celestial Dragons’ prisons. Law had spent his life on Swallow Island after that. He had continued studying his Waterbending and could use it both as a healer and a fighter. But he kept the fighting part mostly hidden. He was also a trained swordsman because they might end up in situations where he could not use his bending.
Law’s closest friends consisted of Penguin, Shachi and Bepo. Bepo is a polar bear spirit that had gotten lost in the human world many years ago and could not return to the Spirit World because he had forgotten how to. Penguin was a guy living in the village, working alongside Law in their little clinic and he was quickly becoming a master at qi blocking. The last member of the group was Shachi a young man with a high spiritual connection. He can always see the spirits, even when they hide from humas. Their light gibes him migraines and with the ever present snow on the island he always wears sunglasses to keep the migraines at bay. Law is also close with Ikkaku a young inventor who worked on the island. She and her friends Uni, Mippei and Shinzo were originally from one of the Earth Tribe islands but had moved to Swallow Island because they wanted to flee from Ikkaku’s horrible aunt. Ikkaku was an Earthbender who could bend metal but she preferred to use her weapons in battle and only used her bending abilities when it was absolutely necessary for her work or when bandits tried to raid the village. There was a rumor that there was a secret treasure hidden on Swallow Island so raiders and bandits would show up from time to time and it is during one of these raids that our story begins.
