Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Air Bender, but I do own Cho and Kiku.
Chpter one: Behind Locked Doors
Thump! Thump! Thump!
"Do you hear that?" asked Aang, looking around the abandoned air temple.
"What? My stomach grumbling? 'Cause that's the only thing I hear right now!" Sokka almost yelled as it echoed through the empty halls. "I knew there wasn't any fo…"
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Momo's ears perked up as he ran through about four hallways and to a door that was locked from the outside. "Someone is in there!" Katara said, catching up with Momo. She tried to lift the huge bar that was locking them in there but it was no use. "Hang on in there! We are trying to get you out!"
Aang wisped some air up and under the bar, causing it to fly in the air and land about three feet to their right.
Thump! Thump! Wham!
A girl who looked around fourteen stumbled out of the door. She had short black hair that reached her shoulders and piercing green eyes that shown brightly along with her green, very loose fitting, travel clothing. She stared around at Sokka, Katara, and Aang, backing up into a corner she shielded her face with her arms.
"Hey, are you ok?" Katara asked, reaching a hand out to the girl.
"Ok?" the girl asked, moving her arms away from her face.
"Are you hurt?" Katara asked, moving her hand back beside her and looking back at the girl skeptically.
"Hurt?" the girl asked, still looking at the three.
"What's your name?" Katara asked, hoping this would get an answer out of her.
"Cho." she replied, looking up at them and smiling brightly. She reached out her hand in greeting.
"My name is Katara." she shook Cho's hand and pointed to her brother. "This is my brother Sokka and this is Aang, the avatar." she pointed to Aang when she said his name.
Cho's eyes widened as she looked at Aang. She got on her knees and bowed. "Avatar." she said plainly.
"Hey, hey…It's no big deal, really." Said Aang with a nervous laugh and a lopsided grin. Momo walked over to the girl and looked at her, crawling on her back and lightly pulling some of her hair. "That's Momo, he's my flying Lemur." Aang smiled brightly. "He likes you."
Cho raised up and looked at the lemur in her hair. "Momo." she said happily and smiled brightly as the Lemur crawled off her shoulders and onto Aang's.
"Why are you in this abandoned air temple anyway? Are you an Air bender?" Katara asked, and saw how Aang face lit up when she asked that.
"Fire Benders…" Cho said and held her shoulders as she shuddered, remembering all too well what happened.
"Sorry." Katara said, kneeling down to meet the girl eye to eye. "Did they hurt you?"
Cho pulled up her sleeve to her shoulder and revealed a pretty deep gash in her shoulder. It had healed over but still looked pretty bad.
"Ouch…" muttered Sokka as he looked at the girl. "Do you know where any food is?"
She put down her sleeve and nodded as she stood up, running back into the room and bringing out a few things of food. "Here." She handed some of it to Sokka.
"Are you sure?" he asked, looking at her.
"Wow…you actually asked?" Katara asked, eyes wide open.
Cho nodded and held it a little closer to him.
"Yeah…I mean she looks like she hasn't eaten in awhile…" he said lowly then took a piece of fruit and ate it.
"Do you have anything else here?" Katara asked.
Cho nodded and ran back in the room, coming out with a broken wind fan, much like Aang's.
Katara looked at her with wide eyes. "Do you know what that is?" she asked, taking the broken weapon.
"Don't know." Cho said, looking down at the ground.
"Why don't you remember?" Katara asked, still looking at the fan.
"Don't know." she said, still looking down.
"What do you remember?" Aang asked, finally speaking up excitedly.
"Fire benders took me. Mother was dead, so was father… They hit me." she said, punching her fist when she said 'hit.' "They cut me…threw me in here." she pointed to the door. "Said 'Should be with own kind'…" she looked up.
"So you could be and air bender?" Aang asked with wide and hopeful eyes.
"Don't know." Cho said, looking back down.
Katara looked at Cho. "Do you have anything else?" she asked, then looked back down at the broken wind fan in her hand. 'Is it possible that Aang isn't the last air bender?' she thought.
Cho's eyes widened and so did her smile as she looked up and shook her head up and down. "Kiku!" she said and turned, only to run through a few hallways before ending up outside of the temple. She looked around and smiled even wider as she saw a huge lump of white fur on it's side.
Katara was the first to run up behind Cho, followed by Aang and then Sokka who had found the rest of the food. Sokka looked up at the large white lump about on hillside down from them and almost choked on his food. "A flying Bison?" he asked, having barely swallowed his food successfully.
"Great, great Grandpa's!" Cho said excitedly as she slid down the mountainside and ran over to it. "Kiku! Yip, Yip!" She placed her hand on the bison and began to shake it as best as she could.
"It's dead." said Aang lowly so only Katara and Sokka could hear. He slid down the mountain side, soon followed by Katara and Sokka.
Cho placed her hands on her hips as she walked around the mass of fur. She dropped to her knees when she saw why Kiku hadn't woken up. Tears slid down her face. "Kiku…" she said lowly and placed her hands in the charred and blood covered fur.
Katara walked over to Cho and placed a hand on her shoulder. "It's ok…" she said and knelt down beside of her. "We've all lost something close to us by the fire benders."
"Fire benders…" Cho said somewhat angrily and Clutched Kiku's fur tightly. She stood up and wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her shirt before looking down. She looked at her hands and noticed something on them that she hadn't noticed before. Well, as far as she knew she hadn't noticed them before. She held her hands up to Katara. "What are those?"
Katara gasped. "Aang, Sokka! Come here!" she said and once they saw her hands they all gasped also.
Well, this isn't exactly what I promised but I hopw it makes up for my lack at finishing stories...this one will be continued, I promise!
By the way, Cho is suppossed to talk and act like that, that is how I made her.