Hey everyone hope you enjoy my story! (Author's note at end)

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CHAPTER 1:

The moon was slowly rising higher into the night sky canceling out some darkness. Clouds were rolling in over head and rain gently began to break the thick musty air from the past few days of blistering heat. The gaang walked silently through the brush of the forest relieved as the cool drops of water hit their faces. Everything was peaceful and calm until Sokka shattered the serene atmosphere. "Why can't we fly on Appa, we've been walking for what feels like forever!" he shouted furiously.

Aang sighed then explained. "I feel like a big storm is coming and it's already raining so I don't want to be caught in the sky when it hits."

"Yeah Snoozels what's wrong walking on nice solid earth it's just fine." Toph remarked stomping her feet loudly as she walked.

"Well that's just great for you but-" Sokka was about to make a comeback when Katara cut him off.

"Can't you just knock it off, I think we're almost to the next village." Katara said raising her voice over a crack of thunder that erupted out of the sky.

"Um…err…well not exactly the closest village is still a few miles away." Aang corrected as he patted Momo's head. That made katara sigh also.

"Then can we sit on top off Appa as he walks?" Sokka asked.

"No Appa's done a lot for us already, right buddy." Aang said tugging on Appa's reins who just snorted and groaned.

Everything went silent again as the rain hardened drilling down to earth like silver knifes falling from the sky. The wind picked up howling wildly as lightning and thunder boomed every few seconds. Even through the clouds the moon was still shining bright acting as a nice light for the group to follow the path they were on. Suddenly Toph stopped and spun around. "I think something's out there." She said raising her arms in defense.

"We're in the middle of the woods who else would be out here?" Aang asked and came to her side.

"I don't know but I feel it, I'm positive." Toph said shaking her head.

Aang took a stance also and so did Sokka and Katara. They waited motionless for a fight to break out soon, nothing happened. The gaang looked around squinting into the dark that wasn't illuminated by the moon. Just then an orange dot appeared in one corner of darkness. They all stared at it as it grew closer and more pronounced. It was a ball of fire hurtling toward them.

"Watch out!" Aang cried as it jutted past them hitting a tree and setting it ablaze.

More fire came spurting from the forest and followed by it appeared fire nation soldiers from all directions. Sokka pulled out his boomerang and flung it toward the soldier in front of him. The man ducked and let out a deep chuckle as he rose back up only to be hit straight in the back of the head by the boomerang coming back. Sokka caught it with ease then when to help take down more soldiers. Meanwhile Aang was fighting against three different guys. They punched out rapid fire blasts and Aang created waves of air that extinguished them. For Katara the rain was helping her out a lot by creating a flowing supply of water. And for Toph it was easy to bend the soft and mushy earth. They kept this up for a while until some soldiers started leaving and turning back into the woods. Soon all the soldiers were gone and the group was left standing there puzzled. "Where did they come from?" Katara asked relaxing out of the fighting mood.

"I don't know I was pretty sure no one ever followed us into the woods." Aang said looking around confused from the random fire nation attack on them.

"Okay, yeah it's great you're concerned why people attacked us but more important where did Sokka go?" Toph asked seeming to be the only one to notice he wasn't with them anymore.

Katara and Aang looked at each other in disbelief. "Sokka!" They both exclaimed.

"The soldiers must have got him while we were fighting." Katara said her voice full of worry.

"Yeah Sugar Queen." Toph squeaked with fake excitement. "You're a genius you figured out the most obvious thing that could have happened."

"Hey this is not the time for that Toph, Sokka he's… he's." Aang stuttered as his eyes flickered to the area around them. "He's gone."


A/N: Okay so this is my first story. I hope you like it, well it's just chapter one there will be more chapters. Oh there is a paring and you could probaly guess it once you read chapter two. But for now peace out!!! R&R