Note: This is a story for friends, but everyone can read. It shifts POV here in the first and probably second chapter. When everyone meets up, things will get clearer.

"Katsa! Katsa! Sokka and I are going fishing, do you want to come?" Katsa pulled her attention away from the basket she was weaving.

"I guess it's been awhile since I've gone out. Sure, I'll be there in a second." Katsa yelled. She grabbed one of her fishing baskets and headed out to the canoe Sokka had waiting for them. Pushing off, Katsa sat at the end, while Sokka was in front and Katara in the middle. They paddled off and followed Sokka's lead.

Looking around, Katsa took in all icebergs and masses of ice. A lot like the home of the North Pole, but there was something about the South Pole that made it feel so much more… serene. Katsa thought of her mother back in the village. They left the Northern Water Tribe after her father died, but her older brother stayed back. He was an important warrior and waterbender up there and he had also recently married. Katsa, also being a waterbender, found healing was extremely boring. But the customs of their tribe forbid women to fight. Katsa was a brawler, so she really didn't like not being able to get an upper hand. So when she came to the south, and found that Katara was the only waterbender, she was a little disappointed. But, she soon became friends with the brother and sister duo.

She turned her head towards Sokka who was talking about various things while making hand motions. He had spotted a fish and was getting ready to catch it. He glanced back at the girls and grined.

"Watch and learn, Katara and Katsa. This is how you catch a fish." Turning back, Sokka prepared himself. Katara glanced back at Katsa with an indifferent look.

"Hey Katsa, could you show me that one move again?" Katara asked. Katsa grinned and nodded.

"Alright, you want to make sure your breaths are even. It's pretty easy, but you're selecting a protion of water, like this," Katsa said. She breathed out, and then held her gloved hands over the side of the canoe. She conducted her hands in a wave as she got a stream of water to pull from the ocean. She make it turn into a sphere and held it up in the air. Looking towards Katara, the younger girl nodded. She scanned the water and found a fish swimming by. Following Katsa's example, she caught the fish in a bubble. She turned to Katsa with a bright smile which the older girl returned. Wanting to share her accomplishment with her brother, she turned to Sokka.

"Sokka look!" She continued motions to keep the orb suspended.

"Ssh! Katara, you're going to scare it away." Sokka's focus was kept on the fish infront of him. With a hungry look in his eyes. "Mmm, I can already smell it cookin'."

"But Sokka, I caught one!" Katara brought the fish closer, planning on placing it in one of the baskets in the canoe. It was a bit high, so it was over Sokka's head at the moment. He reeled back with his spear and popped the bubble.

"Hey!" He cried out as the water flooded over him. "Why is it every time you play with magic water, I get soaked?" Sokka waved his arms dramatically. Both girls frowned at him.

"It's not magic, it's waterbending. And it's-"

"Yeah, yeah, "an ancient art unique to our culture." Blah blah blah. Look I'm just saying, that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself." He said, wringing out his hair.

"Hey, it's thanks to waterbending that we can get the smell out of your clothes." Katsa backed Katara up. Being an older girl in the tribe, she had her part of chores to do. But after the first time, she refused to wash Sokka's clothes after catching a wif of his socks.

"You're calling us weird? We're not the ones who make muscles at ourselves every time we see our reflection in the water!" Katara called Sokka out, as he displayed the same action that she described. Katsa stifled a chuckle behind her hand as Sokka was shocked out of his oogling of himself.

The canoe shuddered, and Sokka yelled to start rowing. They all fought against the current as it pushed sheets of ice towards them.

"Watch out! Go left! Go left!" Katara called out to her brother. In front, he had been control of the canoe. But then they were stuck between a few icebergs, so they all jumped out before the ice converged to smash their canoe into pieces.

"You call that left?" Katara sneered at her brother.

"You don't like my steering? Well, maybe you should've waterbended us out of the ice. You and Katsa could have done something a bit more," Sokka stressed. Katsa looked between the two siblings, having a bad feeling about the fight that was sure to follow.

"Guys," she stranded her voice to be heard. Katara stood up and put her back to the iceberg that was by them.

"So it's our fault?" She yelled at him.

"I knew I should've left you home! Leave it to a girl to screw things up!" Sokka said in annoyance. This irked both the girls, causing Katsa to stand up.

"What did you just say? Who catches more fish on a daily basis?" Katsa glared. She would not tolerate any sexist comments after the life she lived in the North.

"You are the most sexist," Katara yelled, swing her arms back. Katsa looked to see a small wave follow her motion. "Immature, nut brained. I'm embarrassed to be related to you!" Katsa realized with each swing of her arms, Katara was causing water to hit the iceberg behind them. Her eyes widened in worry.

"Ever since mom died, I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier! Even when Katsa and her mom came down from the North, they've done more for us that you have!" Katsa could see the comment kinda hurt Sokka, but he became engrossed by the movement of the iceberg.

"Uh… Katara.." He pointed to behind her, but Katara was still so angry that she ignored him.

"I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, not pleasant! Katsa refuses to even touch anything of yours!" Katara yelled. Her swung created another crack in the iceberg and both Katsa and Sokka exchanged worried glances.

"Katara settle down," Sokka pleaded.

"Katara," Katsa warned her, but it went unheard.

"No that's it! I'm done helping you! From now on, you're on your own!" The final swing cracked the iceberg and Katara stared at it in wonder.

"Okay, you've gone from 'weird' to 'freakish'," Sokka said after he released his sister from a protective hold.

"You mean, I did that?" She looked down at her hands and back up to the falling ice.

"Yep, congratulations," Sokka said sarcastically. A bluish glow came up from the water and a large iceberg immerged from the water. They all noticed that there was a body within the ice. The next thing Katsa knew was that Katara rushed forward with Sokka's club to help the person out. She then followed, taking out the knife she had in her boot. Katara hit the ice and with Katsa's help, they broke through. A gust of air pushed them back and Sokka runs to cover both girls from the explosion.

They all look to see a young boy, in orange and yellow clothing. He had strange, glowing arrows on his head and hands. Once the glowing stopped, the boy fell forward and Katara rushed to catch him.

Katsa came closer to hear him ask Katara to lean closer. So, she got closer too, to see the boy's expression change to that of joy as he asked, "Will you go penguin sledding with me?"

"Uh, sure… I guess." Katara responded. So far, Katsa could see this was a very strange encounter indeed.

"Hey mom, did you want help with that?" A young brown haired girl asked. Dusting off her green cheongsam and black pants, she stood up to aid her mother in carrying in the laundry.

"Thank you Misaki," her mother forced a smile. Misaki's eyebrows furrowed as the looked at how worn her mother's face had become since the Fire Nation took over her village. Even more so since her father went to war, leaving just herself, her brother and mother.

"Hey watch it!" She yelled as one of her many cousins came whizzing by. Misaki and her family were forced from their home to a farming village outside of the Fire Nation colonies. Her family of three grew to almost on uncountable amount of cousins, aunts and uncles from both sides of her family. Both her sets of grandparents combined their farms to help produce enough food to supply to the Fire Colony. Unfortunately, it meant that meant that Misaki couldn't earthbend, otherwise she would be taken away.

"Hey Misaki," one of her younger cousins that was only a few years younger, called to her. Her eyes shifted from Misaki to her mother. Misaki's mother gave them both a look before stepping inside the house. "Can we train today?" The girl, Moriko, asked in a hush whisper. Misaki looked around before nodding.

"I just need to finish my chores. Meet at the usual spot." Her cousin nodded before taking off.

After finishing picking the laundry off the line and bringing it inside. She then set off into the forest near the mountain. When she caught sight of Moriko near the mouth of a cave, she took off in a sprint.

"Alright, today, we're gonna work on creating some pillars. We're gonna create some support beams here in the cave. Watch." Getting into the earthbending stance, Misaki brought her fists up to her waist. She stomped her foot and thrusted forward her fist. The first action created a pillar from the ground while the second created beam of rock from the pillar to the middle of the cave.

"Alright, let's go!"

"Alright!"

"Argh, this place is so boring." The girl shifted her dress as she looked over the city.

"Lady Chiruka, would you like for us to bring your lunch to your room?" One of the maids asked.

"Nah, I'm not hungry right now." Chiruka said, waving the maid off. The woman bowed before exited in the room. The brunette sighed, twirling the dark brown strands between her fingers.

Ever since her father was appointed leader of this town, she had been forced from her home in the Fire Nation to here. Leaving behind friends, she now had to deal with the stares of the people around her. Not having the classic pale skin and gold eyes of the Fire Nation, people would whisper about her. Her skin was a deeper tone and she had blue eyes like those of the Water Tribes. But her father was a prominent member of Fire Lord Ozai's counsel. So nobody questioned why they had a Water Tribe looking child. Her step-mother was a fierce woman who actually stood beside her daughter and would give someone hell for questioning her heritage. But Chiruka could take care of those people. A sharp glare and a slight flicker of flames would deter people's stares.

"Hmm… " She hummed to herself as she looked beyond the city walls to the farming town that supplied the colony with food. "I wonder what's going on over there?" She grinned as she thought about paying the town a visit. Getting up, she shuffled through her closet to find some green colored clothing. Wearing the red that the Fire Nation citizens wear would be suspicious.

After she dressed in a kimono top with a brown obi and tie, and hakama style pants. She took the elegant hair pin out of her hair and shook out the waves in her hair. Watching the Earth Kingdom people, she realized most of the women had their hair pulled back somehow. So, pulling her hair into a braid, she decided she looked alright enough to blend with the Earth citizens.

When she saw that the guards were distracted by a visitor, she took the opportunity to sneak out and used the alleys of the town to the wall surrounding the town. She found that at one of the doors used by the guards had one sleeping by it. Taking the keys, she unlocked it and made her way into the farming town.

At first, she was shocked to see that it was so poor and run down. The city beyond the walls was pristine, yet this one looked as worn as the faces that graced it. Walking around, she saw most people working on their farms. There were a few shops, but they seemed rather bare. She decided that the scene was too depressing for her so she took a walk in the forest. When she got near the mountain side, she heard screaming. Rushing forward, she found two girls staring down a saber-tooth moose lion. The giant animal growled at the girls. One of them stood in front of the smaller one, holding a stance that Chiruka had only seen Earthbenders use. Not so surprising, the girl used Earthbending to try and scare the animal away. But the behemoth just roared and charged at them. So Chiruka decided to help.

Misaki couldn't believe her luck. Moriko had caused a small landslide that woke up a saber-tooth moose lion. The beast roared and charged at the girls. Misaki tried what she could to get the animal off its track but it seemed to be quite focused on the girl who disturbed its sleep.

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a fireball approach them. It hit by the saber-tooth moose lion's feet, startling the animal and it redirected its attention. They looked over as well to see a girl, about the same age as Misaki. She wore Earth Kingdom clothing, but her skin and eyes were definitely was Misaki had come to understand as a Water Tribe trait. But her fist was flaming. This was extremely confusing to the earthbender who watched as she scared away the beast.

"Yeah, that's right. Run away," the girl said, flipping her braided hair back over her shoulder. Misaki looked down to Moriko and told her to go back into the cave to hide. She then got into a defense position and encased the girl in an earth prison.

"Hey, is that any way to treat the person who just saved your ass?" She snarled at Misaki.

"I have no idea who you are, but regardless, you're a firebender. Meaning that you are Fire Nation," Misaki growled. It's the Fire Nations fault that her life fell apart and that her family is suffering. The girl scoffed.

"What about it? I could care less about the Fire Nation. Everyone there acts like they have a stick up their ass. As to me being a firebender, you're an earthbender, so maybe we can compromise." Misaki froze. She had totally forgotten that if the Fire Nation found out, they would take her away. Relaxing her stance, she dropped the earth from around the other girl.

"What kind of compromise?" She asked, still on guard. She couldn't endanger her cousin more than she had already.

"See, I hate it there in town. They expect me to act all proper and go do girly things. Well, I couldn't give a hog monkey's ass about what the hell my dad wants me to do. So I'll keep your secret, if you keep mine?" The girl said, looking at her nails. Misaki was taken back.

"What are you talking about?" What secret could Misaki have been exposed to during their brief encounter?

"That's I'm a firebender. See, it would make it dreadfully hard to walk around the Earth Kingdom with people sneering and screaming firebender at me. So, I want to keep it a secret, if only for a little bit. Do we have a deal?" The girl grinned, holding out her hand. Misaki looked at it wearly, then back to the girl's face. She seemed sincere, but Misaki knew it was best not to trust anyone from the Fire Nation. What else could she do though?

"Fine," with that, they shook hands.

"Alright! Name's Chiruka, but you can call me Rue. Only my dad and step-mom call me my full name. Can get annoying after a while. Chiruka, don't put your elbows on the table. Chiruka, wear clothes like a lady and not some commoner. Chiruka, don't cuss out the guards. Chiruka, help me shove this stick farther up my ass so I don't forget where I come from," Rue mimicked her parents, using her hand as a mouth and motioning to their chatter. Misaki held back a laugh from the last thing she said. She sure was a strange Fire Nation person.

"I'm Misaki," she said. She leaned away as Rue gave her a side hug.

"We're gonna be great friends. I can tell already. So, want to go pull some pranks on the guards? They really are stupid. None of them firebend around the wall, so you don't have anything to worry about." Rue asked, with a toothy smile. Misaki wasn't so sure anymore if this was such a good idea.

I'm sorry if it's confusing. It's hard to balance more than one character.

So to help out, the main characters are Katsa, Chiruka (Rue) and Misaki. There is one other, but she'll be introduced next chapter.

On request of a friend, there will be OcxOc. but romance is a side side story. Maybe a CanonxOc if i feel like it.

Peace

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