Hey, it's my first fanfic and well...ye...I just hope you enjoy really. :P x
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the last airbender. At all.
As Katara hit the block of ice once more it split throwing out trapped air into her, Sokka threw his arm around her and dropped to the ground. The tan-skinned siblings looked up again to see that the top half of the block was missing and a small bald boy standing on the top of the ice. Katara ran forward as he fell and caught him in her arms, he opened his eyes and saw her there. To him, she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen, he could have stayed there in her arms forever were it not for the load shout that came from inside the hollow ice a moment later.
"Aang! Help! I'm stuck!" Aang suddenly jumped up with a little help from his airbending powers. Sokka and Katara stared at him like he was an alien as he ran round to the other side of the huge lump of ice. They followed after him and saw a girl with long ginger hair and dark crimson eyes trapped under some ice with only her head sticking out. Sokka laughed as he saw her but Katara hit him making him stop and ran to help the young airbender get his friend out.
"Hey, Katara! What are you doing? They could be fire nation spies!" He said pointing at them for dramatic effect. The ginger girl scoffed.
"Ye, of course, because a spy would obviously be stuck under a piece of ice and just shouting her presence out to everyone around." She said her voice dripping with sarcasm, Aang smirked and Katara had to bit her lip to keep from laughing, she did have a very good point after all.
"Well, maybe! You could just be very bad spies!" The girl would have slapped her palm to her forehead if she could but seeing as she couldn't she sufficed by whacking her head on the hard ice below her.
"Wow. Just wow, you really are an idiot. I thought you were just being overly cautious but it was just your stupidity. God, what has this nation come too?" She asked looking up, this time Katara couldn't hold in her laughter at Sokka's red face, Aang had finnaly managed to push the ice off the girl and now that she was up you could see how tall she was. She was at least a foot taller than Sokka and must have been at least 15 years old.
"Thanks Aang, it took you long enough. So, where are we?" She asked, Aang went to speak then her realised that...well...he had no idea where they where. He could have guessed it was near a water tribe from all the ice and snow but they could have been anywhere in either the south or the north pole.
"I...erm...hey, where are we?" He said turning to the water-tribe siblings. The girl stepped forward and smiled.
"Hey, I'm Katara and this is Sokka. Right now, you're in the south pole, only a little while away from the southern water-tribe." Sokka frowned, he still didn't like that girl for making him look stupid. Aang smiled and ran over to a big cream blob of fur, Katara and Sokka stared at it, how they hadn't noticed it sooner was a mystery to them.
"Appa, get up!" The 'blob' rolled over and revealed 6 legs and two horns on his head, along with a arrow, much like the bald boys, on his head that followed down his back. The ginger climbed onto the saddle on Appa's back and Aang followed, he held out a hand to Katara. She smiled and grabbed on, he pulled her up and Sokka gaped at his younger sister.
"What are you doing?! They could be evil!"
"Of course, and we're also spies, ninjas, the avatar and hair-specialists." The ginger said as sarcastically possible to do so. Sokka scowled, it's official, she hated the girl. "And anyway," She continued; "How else are you going to get home? You're on a block of ice miles away from home with no boat." She smirked, Sokka sighed but then gave up and climbed onto Appa.
"Fine, but only because Katara might get into trouble." The teenager raised a brow at him and shook her head turning away.
*The southern water-tribe*
"Finally! It took you long enough, I thought that giant 'thing' was meant to fly?!" Sokka complained as he jumped off Appa, Aang scowled at him.
"He can fly! He is just tired, that's all." He defended. Katara ran into her village and was surrounded by a small crowd of people, she ushered Aang and the red-head towards them.
"Aang, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang and...his friend." She said, the village smiled and Aang grinned, and bowed, his so called 'friend' did the same. "Now that I think about it, you never really did tell us you're name, and Aang didn't say it." Katara said frowning as she looked at the ginger teen. She looked down and gulped, she looked up and spoke.
"My name is Hotaru, it means firefly, I was born and raised in the fire kingdom. I was banished when they learnt I was a airbender, I don't like to speak about it, or say my own name." Hotaru said, Katara looked at her sadly, she slowly nodded and put her hand on Hotaru's shoulder.
"Sorry, do you mind if I give you a new name then?" Hotaru looked surprised but nodded smiling, she had never thought to having a new name and the thought of one now excited her. Katara frowned deep in thought, after a while she walked over to Aang and whispered into his ear, he grinned and nodded.
"Hotaru, you're new name shall be...Minoru! It means truth, so you can always remember it as your true name." The newly named Minoru grinned and hugged the younger bender.
"Thank you, so so much, that means a lot to me." She said, Katara smiled and looked over to where Aang was now showing the little children of the tribe how his tongue got stuck on his staff. Minoru laughed and Katara walked over to him, Minoru walked out of the village and went around the back, she started to practise her bending and she was, in her opinion, starting to get very good at it.
A few hours passed and she walked back into the village, she wiped the sweat off her brow and saw that everyone was gathered in a crowd, she walked over and saw Aang and Katara looking very guilty in the middle getting a good telling off from an old woman.
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I was the one who said we should go in." Aang said, Sokka stepped forward and poked him in the chest with the end of his club.
"Go, leave, the only thing you have caused us is trouble." He said, Aang looked heart broken but nodded and walked out, Katara went to follow after him but Aang told her to stop, Minoru could feel his pain, she knew how it felt to not be wanted anymore. She stayed where she was, and watched as he left on Appa.
Only a few minutes later they saw a huge fire nation ship coming up to the village, but it didn't stop, it crashed into the wall and broke it down, the entrance opened and out stepped the soldiers and they're leader. He walked into the middle of the village and stopped, Minoru glared at him from where she stood but said nothing, she knew better than to get on the fire nation's bad side. What he said next was the one thing that surprised her.
"Where is the avatar?!"
