You need to forgive me if my writing sucks right now. I haven't been on here in so long I forgot my name and password so I had to make a new one XD. Anywho, this is my very first Avatar fanfic so go easy (I know the characters and story and everything, it's just my first one and I would like to feel welcome is all ).
Disclaimer:…..If I owned Avatar…..you would know because you'd see my name in the credits. This is the ONLY disclaimer that I will show during this fic, now that people know this (not like anybody's reading this anyway ) they can't come to me in later chapters saying that I didn't put up a disclaimer when I did……It was just only in the first chapter……..Anywho……
What is Never Lost is Never Found(Chapter 1)
"C'mon Katara! You've got to see this place! It has all the candy in the world!" Sokka said like a child on Christmas. Katara rolled her eyes and sighed heavily.
"Sokka, you need to get away from there. You know what candy does to you," Katara said as she tried to push through the crowd while tugging Aang at the collar. Aang couldn't help but want to go to every stand at the fair. Everything just smelled so good and the games all looked so fun in his childish eyes.
"But Katara," Sokka started with a sly smile. "There's chocolate in here." He knew he had her hooked.
"Did you say chocolate?" Katara stopped in her tracks to look back at her brother. Sokka nodded his head slowly while he mouthed the words "oh yeah…" Without another word, Katara was pulling Aang by the collar again back to the candy shop at twice the pace she went before. She hadn't had chocolate in ages and it was about time for some "women medicine." Sokka snickered as his sister went into the shop. Once she got inside, her jaw dropped in amazement. 'Sokka was right' she thought to herself. 'There is every candy in the world here.'
The walls were covered with open cabinets of candy. Some of the candy glistened from the lights of the candles inside and outside the shop. Others were concealed in tight wrappers of yellow, blue, red, and green. Each represented what nation they came from. The yellow was especially rare though, seeing as it belonged to the Air Nation and none of the nation's people were alive…..except Aang. The Avatar looked at the candy with disappointment and regret. He knew that this candy was probably an imitation made by other nations trying to pass it off as the Air nation's. Katara was inspecting the chocolate section with care, while Sokka was saying the names of the candy and squealing if he saw something he knew and liked.
"Hey Aang!" Sokka paged. "Come and look at these!" Aang curiously walked over to his spazzing friend. Sokka was looking into a barrel of candy that was three feet tall and about a foot and a half in diameter. Aang looked at the candy in front of him and Sokka with interest. "Look, there's the Fire Nation Fire Balls, be careful with those, they're VERY spicy, the Water Nation Ice Mints, those are nice ones, Earth Nation Rock Candy, and…" Sokka was cut off from a shrill scream outside. Aang, Katara, and Sokka all looked up in shock. People were running as fast as they could down the small road with various shops. Lanterns were ablaze and stands were being trampled over by panicked and confused people. More screams of fear and worry erupted from the crowd.
"What's going on!" Katara asked worriedly.
"I don't know," Sokka answered, his brows furrowed with confusion. As if on cue, Fire Nation Rhinoceri were parading down the street with fire benders riding on their backs. Grunts and low grumbles came from the animals as the benders singed people in their way with the ferocity and punishment of fire. Two by two they went down the street as the Rhinoceri took up much space. Katara, Aang, and Sokka immediately hid themselves behind a counter with the cashier. Katara was the last to jump over. She went as fast as she could, but, to all of their dismay, she was seen by one of the Fire Nation's warriors. The warrior unhinged the door by commanding his Rhinoceros to pierce it with the animal's three horns. The strange creature threw the door off its horns with a swift motion of the neck and then plowed through the opening, making chunks of wood fly everywhere. The Fire Nation warrior got off the animal and landed like a cat on the floor. Katara whimpered, but Aang silenced her with a soft, careful rubbing on the back.
"C'mawn out!" the man said in a husky voice. Footsteps were audible to the four worried humans behind the counter, which meant that the monster was coming closer. Sokka tried not to show it, but he was scared. He clutched his boomerang and slowly pulled it out its sheath, his breath and hands shaky. Katara motioned that he shouldn't do it and he'd get killed if he'd do it, either that or she'd kill him afterwards. Sokka acknowledged his sister, but whispered silently that he had to. Katara felt tears well up in her eyes and Aang fealt guilty that he should be doing the same thing as Sokka, but he was too scared. He was just a kid, but he was the Avatar. He was too confused, and too shrouded with duty to know what to do.
"Alright, either you're going to come out or I'm going to make you come out!" the warrior yelled. "Understand?"
"I understand!" Sokka surprised the bender and was ready to strike him. But the fire warrior was much more skilled in combat than the opposer. He grabbed the teen by the neck and threw him over the counter and onto the floor. Sokka was overcome by shock and didn't have time to react when the fire bender made fire appear before him and sear the boy's abdomen. Sokka wanted to scream, but no voice came. The warrior then gave a good conk to the Water Nation warrior's forehead and he was out cold.
Aang finally had enough of wondering what was happening on the other side of the counter and stood up to challenge the Fire Nation bender. But when he scanned the shop for the man, he was gone….and so was Sokka.