A true warrior's tale, two lives, one world
It is a quiet night; many people in an 80-mile radius were doing their own thing. One person was talking to the night and himself. One group of friends was trying to solve several problems that all connect to one big problem. And three people were trying to start their own havoc connecting to everyone in the radius.
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He breathed a silent breath as he lay down and silently let all of his emotion flow through his mind. He started out with what he already knew, and what he didn't want to know.
"This is not what I had in mind. I leave with my uncle, a ship filled with my loyal crew, eyes set on capturing the avatar," he said and by he I mean the all angry, all mighty, short-tempered Prince Zuko. There he was gazing at the sky, the cloudless, starlit sky. Wondering - for what else is there to do - searching for answers, as he says, to his pathetic questions.
"Why must it be that I lost my ship, alone, no crew, a no where near the same as me uncle and a sister who is ahead of me, as usual? The avatar, water-bender, loser and that new earth-bender always just a inch out of my reach?" He stretched his fingers in the air, as fire flew from the tip of his fingers.
"For the sake of this unholy earth, I am Prince Zuko, I should be able to handle this." His voiced echoed in the air, as the smoke from his angry flames stretched across the sky. He thought about the boy he befriended, and how his name brought terror to all that was around him, even though he was trying to help them.
"My name is a dishonor and I am a disgrace," he sighed and slowly he eased his troubled mind by drifting off into a dreamless slumber.
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Somewhere else, only 70 miles from Zuko, Aang's friends were setting up camp… or just arguing.
"Toph, could you help me set up the tents please," Katara asked stumbling over rocks with the tent supplied in her hand.
"Maybe I will, maybe I wont. But there is a better chance for me to help if someone would stop thumping on the ground. He is giving me a major headache," she scoffed pointing towards Aang's direction.
"Well I would just fly up the tree, but noooo, someone had to NAB my staff, right Sokka," Aang still thumping, for he was attempting to get his hands on his staff, failing for Sokka was high in a tree.
"Well the only reason I took it was so I could reach Momo, who is know chewing on my boomerang. This staff gave me a good running leap for me to reach this tree. And if I am not happy, no one is… bwa ha, ha," he laughed… really spooky like.
"Done yet," Aang asked.
"Yep pretty much," Sokka asked.
Well then… give me back my Freaking Bo-staff," he yelled and the two were bickering, jumping around and just being plain annoying. Though one did enjoy the show… Momo who was gnawing on Sokka's weapon.
"Erp," Momo said as he watched the show.
"This is getting ridiculous," Katara said. She got into her 'water-bending stance' and opened her canteen. She slipped and slid her hand into a continuous motion until she formed a whipped and slapped Momo out of the tree.
Surprised by the attack, Momo fell onto Sokka, thus giving him his boomerang. Sokka dropped the staff on Aang, who took it eagerly and stopped jumping. Toph sensed this and stood up to rub her head. She and everyone else, simultaneously, closed there eyes and breathed a "finally" or an "at last".
With the help of Toph, camp was settled and everyone was dining on nuts berries and some fish.
"Haven't seen any action for a while," Aang said.
"Fine with me," Sokka replied stuffing his face.
"You can be such a wimp, you know that Sokka," Toph asked.
"Yeah he knows, he sometimes gets into hero mode," Katara mused, "but most of the time he follows the old saying 'When and doubt, be a coward and hide."
"Or," Aang said, "when life gives you lemons, let someone else make the lemonade," he chuckled.
Toph added "can't stand the heat, bluff it and hide."
"Or," Aang, Toph and Katara said, "once a wimp, always a wimp," Sokka pouted as everyone around him blew into laughter.
"Hey, I'm no wimp… and I don't bluff and don't call me a coward. You know what they really say 'safe than sorry.'
"Or in your case, sorry but safe," Katara said as everyone laughed.
"Ha ha…" he muttered as he continued eating. But soon everyone was in some serious thinking. True, they haven't seen any fire nation for quite sometime. Are they taking their time in attacking them, tracking them… following there every move at this moment? When they last saw Zuko, he was without a crew… what's happening? Is this part of some complicated plot, or is something happening that they don't know of?
"Well I know one thing," Katara suddenly said, startling everyone around her. "We definitely need to make sure Aang is safe from any harm. He needs to stop that meteor as soon as possible. I think we should start having… listen," she started to whisper. "I hear something coming from the bushes."
As if this was usual for them, Katara put out the fire and hid among with Toph, who was forming two underground holes, one for the enemy and one for herself and Katara. Aang and Sokka went up the tree. Sokka placed his boomerang inside the trunk and felt the vibration. Momo was off flying to Appa who was about a mile walk from them.
Sokka signaled to everyone that three people were approaching. They immediately thought of the three girls from earlier. Toph acting first, made the whole deeper, so it will tougher to get out of.
The people soon approached, though not what the team expected. There were two males, and one female. They seemed to glow with their golden outfits, but the light of the fire, that was previously lit, probably had some after affect with their vision. The young women seemed to be in her young 30's and the men looked around 40. She smiled a simple smile, while the men, had a no emotional look.
The women walked over the trap Toph created and seemed to have no affect on the young women. She soon started speaking as if she knew that they were all there, and listening.
"Once upon a time, there lived a young water-bender and her older brother; a water-tribe warrior. They soon met the long lost avatar and helped on his quest to master water bending. On their way they also met an unkind-hearted fire prince, running into him every so often," she had a soft voice, somewhere near the singing of your favorite slow song. But one of the most peculiar things was everyone soon gotten out of their places and stood around the women and as soon as the lady said "fire" the two golden men disappeared, only to return to the wide awaked prince.
"Wh…what, unhand me at once," he started, somewhat relieving everyone of there trance. But as soon as he gazed upon the women, something inside his head told him to cool him and just listen.
"Now on with the true story, the fire prince and the uncle of this prince were on the look out for the young group. But time was lowering on them, for they had to help the avatar master all four elements by the end of the summer. But soon the task of the capture of the avatar was soon on a young, skilled bender, the sister of the fiery prince. And while this was happening, the other group of fine warriors met an earth-bender, who was joining the gang of… heroes."
She paused and looked at everyone up at her. She did that smile again and said, "this is where you young teenagers are going to continue the story. I know that you guys can do some great good to the world if working together. Expect to see your uncle soon young prince. I am going to erase your memory of what just happened and a few weeks earlier as well. I will be watching you young warriors, but I am no guardian angel…"
With that statement, she left along with a blinding light, and she vanished. Everyone stood up ready to talk and/or argue until the men snapped their fingers and the group disappeared too.
Hmmm, pretty good I hope. So tell me about it, I will be more than happy to add some more detail if necessary. Chow.