CHAPTER 1: THE MARKET
"Come on Sokka we have to hurry!" Katara whispered to her brother.
"Ok, ok I'm coming, geez." Sokka said paying the man at the stand as she did so.
"I'm sorry, but we've been gone for a long time, and we have to get back to Aang and Toph." Katara
breathed.
"Please, it's not like Toph can't- HEY!" Sokka yelled as someone ran up and snatched the food he had just
bought, and ran away.
"This just had to happen now!" Katara sighed as they ran after the theif. They turned the corner to meet a
dead end. An empty dead end.
"Oh, this is just perfect!" Katara yelled
"It's ok, we still have some money left, so lets just make the most of it." Sokka said in what he hoped was
a reassuring voice. He knew that his sister had been under a lot of stress since Ba Sing Sa.
About a half hour later Katara and Sokka made their way towards the woods, but stopped when they heard
a startled scream. Katara ran towards the sound, leaving Sokka to carry all of the supplies.
She ducked behind some barrels to see what was happening. There was a girl who had dark brown hair
that was pulled into a a pony tail that sat in the very back of her head. Her eye's were a greyish blue that
reminded her of someone. She had a grey top on that had two straps for each shoulder; one to go over
her shoulder and one to go around it. Her black pants went to her knees. She looked around Sokka's age,
maybe even Zuko's. Katara's eyes darkened at the thought of the prince.
As she looked at the girl again she noticed she wasn't alone. She was surrounded by big muscular guys.
She reconized one as the one that had stolen their stuff earlier. By now Sokka had caught up to her.
"What's going on?" He asked in alarm.
Katara shushed him and then moved so he can see.
As he looked the men started to advance closer to the girl. One came from behind and grabbed the girls
shoulder. Her expressionless face became angry. She grabbed his hand and flipped him, over her, into the
the guy that was in front of her, causing them to slam into the wall behind them. Then another man jumped
forward and pinned her to the opposite wall.
"Oh now your gonna get it." he whispered in her ear in a raspy voice.
A look of panic crossed the girls face, but it became expressionless once more. Her hands ripped free from
the person holding her and shoved forward, hitting air. The men didn't even have time to smirk before they
blown back by a sudden gust of wind. The wind continued to blow harder abd harder, making Katara's
braid go crazy, until the men tumbled from the alley and ran away. Katara peired over the barrels to see
the girl who was breathing heavily but had a smirk on her face. She then turned to look at Sokka and saw
that her looked surprised too.
"Did she just. . . airbend?" they asked in unision.
Katara peaked over the barrels again to look at the girl and saw that she was picking stuff Katara couldn't
see off the floor.
"Let's go talk to her!" Katara said getting up.
"Katara, NO!" Sokka breathed, trying to pull Katara back down.
"Hi, my names Katara!" Katara said as she approached the girl. She looked shocked for a moment before
nodding. She then continued to pick up what Katara now saw was jars and fruits.
"That was some pretty amazing bending you just did." Katara said with a smile.
The girl had a look of surprised mixed with horror on her face. In a blink of an eye she was on the roof and
she dissappeared.
"No, wait!" Katara yelled running to the base of the building.
"What was that about?" Sokka asked from beside the barrels.
'Dammit! They saw me!' she thought as she jumped from roof to roof. She only stopped when she got to
the edge of the forest that surrounded the town. She jumped to the ground.
"Dammit!" She yelled thinking that she blew everything.
"Who's there?" a voice called from the trees.
'crud' she thought as she jumped back on the roof to hide.
A second later a girl in green with her black hair tied into a bun, with bangs hanging in her face, emerged
the forest. She kept walking until she was right beneath the girl on the roof.
"Toph!" Someone yelled from the right. It was the people from the market.
"What are you doing! You should be with Aang!" Sokka said.
"Chill, Snoozels I felt unfamiliar vibrations so I came to see who it was. I heard them yell so I asked who
it was. Suddenly I could't feel anymore of the vibrations so I came out of the woods. Then you came."
Toph said in a bored tone.
They started to walk back towards Appa. "How was Aang?" Katara asked, her voice filled with worry.
"He's fine, he slept like a baby the whole time you were gone. Speaking of which, what took you guys
so long?" Toph grumbled.
As Katara finished telling of their little 'adventure' they reached Appa.