Kya's Mom and Dad have been acting weird lately. Her father was usually happy go lucky and carefree. But now he was tense and strained. Mom was always up tight, but lately she had been even more so than normal. Her parent's strange behavior had led her to what she is doing now, which is eavesdropping on her mother and father's conversation.
"Katara I can't just let Toph and Sokka handle Yakone alone, I need to help." Aang said calmly to his wife as they discussed in the kitchen.
"No, you don't need to help. Toph is chief of police and Sokka is a grown man on the council, they don't need your help." Katara said bitterly.
"Katara, I know what Yakone can do, I know it is completely dangerous to have him near anyone, especially near my brother in law and a women I consider my sister." Aang said his voice rising slightly.
Katara seemed to break, he was right Yakone was a terrible man and needed to be brought down, and Aang could make everything go smoother.
"Please be careful, you have three kids and a wife who need you." She said looking at the floor. Aang stood up and hugged his wife around her middle while she hung on to the front of his shirt.
"Aren't I always" he said with a smirk, he kissed his wife one last time and headed for the front door.
Neither of the adults knew that there 12 year old daughter was listening to their whole conversation.
Daddy needs help. Maybe I can help him. I am a waterbender, I haven't mastered it but I can help him beat Yakone. I heard about this Yakone person on the radio before, the radio announcer said he is a crime boss. Daddy needs all the help he can get.
Kya thought she could help protect her father from this dangerous man, so she snuck out of the hallway window and outside. She saw her father, glider in hand prepared to fly to the city. Aang jumped and was off. Kya ran to the edge of the water and jumped in. She was a skilled swimmer and easily kept up with her flying father above. She twisted and turned with the bay's currents until her father reached land. She had to act quickly before he got too far away.
While her father was still on the shore of the beach she pushed a tide and made the ocean gobble him up. Kya quickly ran to her father's carriage, jumped in the back and threw a spare blanket her Dad kept there for emergencies over her.
She heard a woosh sound of her father drying himself off and him walking over to the carriage, petting the horse along the way to the seat. Kya listened to the galloping footsteps of the horse until the noises came to a stop and she heard her father exit the carriage. Kya assumed they had arrived at the court house. Kya had a plan, if her father walked in without noticing her and the trial started before her Dad could take her home she would be fine and could stay to help with Yakone. Kya waited until her dad was right at the door of the court and ran after him. He didn't look back to notice his 12 year old daughter behind him and kept walking in the doors.
As he walked to his seat right behind Yakone in the jury he got confused looks. Toph came up to him and said "Aang, why did you bring a Kya here?" The chief of police asked sternly "What." Aang said caught off guard. Toph pointed to the floor behind him and when Aang turned around he saw his daughter looking up at him with blue eyes that she inherited from her mother.
"What are you doing here Kya, this is dangerous and how did you even get here." Aang said temperamentally trying to keep his voice even. Kya retold everything she did to get to where she was now. Aang was so frustrated that his only daughter followed him into a trial of a dangerous crime boss and that she is now in danger being hurt, if something in the trial went amiss Yakone will surely go for Kya being the Avatar's daughter. "I have to get you home maybe I can come back in time for the trial, come on." Aang softly pulled his daughters arm and headed for the door despite her protests when the court said "The trail for Yakone being accused of bloodbending commences now."
Aang sighed, he couldn't take his daughter back now, he had a duty to the city and to himself that none of his friends or anyone in the council was hurt; he also had a duty to his family. Kya did have a good reason for wanting to come, she just said was worried about me, and she thought she could help with Yakone, Kya wasn't a master bender yet, but he saw that with the courage she is displaying now, she would be soon. Aang thought it over and decided to let her stay as he thought of the possibilities of Yakone actually doing something they weren't very likely; he would have to just watch over his little girl like a hawk.
"Stay near me, don't wander off, and don't talk to anyone." Aang said to his daughter firmly. Kya nodded happy and excited that she could stay and help protect her father. Aang had an assigned seat on the council, unfortunately it was right behind Yakone, normally he wouldn't care, but with his daughter trailing behind him he was tense.
Kya and Aang sat down and listened carefully, Kya's eyes kept darting to the women reading the charges and to the man who sat handcuffed in front of her. The man had been accused of bloodbending to commit crimes thorough the city. Kya's mother talked to her briefly about bloodbending only saying 'Bloodbending is very dangerous and a scary thing to witness.' Kya listened as the women who accused Yakone said he could bloodbend without the full moon and that all his crimes were bloodbending related. Then the man next to Yakone stood up, testifying that it is impossible to bloodbend without the full moon and that his client is innocent. The council departed to talk about the charges and conviction.
Aang sighed, remembering the time they first encountered bloodbending and Sokka almost killing him because of the force the bloodbending had. He hoped he would never have to deal with bloodbending again. The council came back in and Kya's Uncle Sokka stood up, first mainly talking about his boomerang (which made Aang roll his eyes smiling.) then switching to Toph discovering metalbending and the person he use to call Sparky sparky boom man (combustion man) coming to the conclusion that Yakone is a rare bender who used his ability to terrorize the city and sentenced him to life in prison.
Suddenly Yakone stood, screams sent out from the council, Uncle Sokka was twitching and moving unnaturally, as if something was attaching him from the inside. Kya saw Lin's mother throw a police cable at Yakone, but she was quickly stopped and used to unlock Yukon's hand cuffs. She had the same fate as Sokka and everyone else in the room, everyone but her.
Kya looked over to her father and saw he was clinching his hand together worriedly looking at his daughter, the only one not being bloodbended. "Well Avatar, I see you have brought your daughter along for some father daughter bonding." Yakone said menacingly as he walked over to Kya. Suddenly Kya's body went stiff and unmoving no matter how hard she tried. "Yakone stepped closer and inspected Kya's face, "I heard she was a waterbender huh?" Yakone said smiling terrifyingly "I bet with the proper training she will turn out to be a top notch bloodbender." With that Yakone picked her up, still bloodbending the squirming 12 year old, turned to Aang and said "I'll raise her as my own. She will learn to forget you and think of me as her father." Yakone threw Aang's limp figure to the ground and sprinted outside the court house, stole the Avatar's carriage and made off. Kya tried her best to get out of the bloodbending grip she was placed in, but the sides of her vision was turning gray, the horses galloping hooves sounded muffled and far away. Soon she gave up on her senses and just let sleep take her over.