Alrighty, first of all I don't own anything having to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender. I do own Mikomi so no stealing!

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I like my readers to know my characters so here's a profile of Mikomi.

Character Name: Mikomi (meaning: Hope)

Age: 16

Height: 5'

Build: Small and very thin

Element: Fire

Weapons: Spear with curved, silver blade on each end with a black handle and a dagger

Nation: Fire Nation

Skill Description: Extremely skilled with her double-ended spear. Also very skilled in the martial arts. She is extremely fast because she is so small. She is a firebender, but she has never learned how to control her bending so she never bends. She may start camp fires and things like that but that's it. She meditates so her rage doesn't unleash her fire.

Home Village: Village in the Earth Nation

Personality Description: Cold, seems snobbish sometimes, and distant. Quiet, reliable, responsible, and serious. Strong-willed. Always ready to fight when needed. Rarely smiles. Very intelligent.

Appearance: Pale skin with jet black hair. Bright blue eyes (not customary for a firebender to have them), hair is pulled into a high ponytail that goes to her shoulders with two long pieces of hair that angle around her face. She wears a tight, black shirt that has a turtleneck-like collar and has no sleeves. She wears gloves that don't have finger coverings. She has black wrappings around her forearms. Her pants are black and baggy except for at the bottom. A silver belt hangs on her hips hold the sheath for her dagger.

Background: Mikomi's father was in the regiment of Fire Nation soldiers that would act as bait for a powerful Earth Kingdom army. When Mikomi's father left for the battle, Mikomi was about 2 years old. She stowed away on the ship. Her father died in the battle, but an Earth Nation civilian found Mikomi and raised her. The civilian was not an Earth Bender, but was a master at martial arts and he taught Mikomi all he knew. Mikomi is a firebender, but does not use her firebending for anything except for starting a fire, because she does not know how to control it. She went on a journey to find out about her past, but ran into Aang, Katara, and Sokka. Mikomi is strongly against the war and now travels with the Avatar to help him. Also so she can one day return to the Fire Nation to find out about her past.

Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Mikomi were inside a temple they had found in the Earth Kingdom. They were using this place as a temporary sanctuary from the violent storm. With Sokka being sick from his trip with that fisherman into the massive storm, it seemed like a good idea to stay put for a while.

Sokka lied on Appa in his sleeping bag, with Appa's fur helping to keep him warm. Katara sat on Appa next to him caring for him. Sweating profusely, he started to say odd things.

"You know what I love about Appa most? His sense of humor," Sokka said delusional.

"That's nice, Sokka," Katara said forcing a worried smile.

Appa responded with a groan, acknowledging what Sokka said about his supposed sense of humor.

"Haha, you're killing me," Sokka said.

Aang sat in front of Katara on the floor watching Sokka with a confused look on his face. Mikomi sat in a shadowed corner, leaning against the wall, with one leg bent up and the other stretched out. Her eyes were closed with her arms folded and her double-ended spear sitting next to her. Aang looked over at her, he knew she wasn't asleep. She always did that when she was thinking or just relaxing.

"Did you find any ginger root Aang?" Katara asked him with a worried voice.

"No, but I did find this map. There's an herbalist on top of that mountain. So, I'm going to go see if there's someone there who can help us," Aang said.

Katara began to argue with Aang about the usual, it's not safe deal. But Aang retorted, "I have to get something Katara! Sokka's starting to think he's an earthbender!"

"Take that you rock!" Sokka said waving his arms around like a lunatic.

Katara began to cough badly, and Aang began to worry about her as well. Mikomi sat in the corner listening to them. Aang finally got up and began walking toward the entrance of the temple. He stopped when Mikomi had said something for the first time since their arrival.

"I'm going with you," Mikomi said opening her bright, blue eyes and standing up. She brought something that looked like a small, silver pole out of her belt. It was actually a retractable fighting pole. It was one of three of her weapons: her double-ended spear, the retractable pole, and a dagger in a sheath on her belt. "To make sure you don't get into any trouble."

Her face was blank as usual. No signs of any emotion decorated her face. She walked up next to Aang. Mikomi was sixteen, but she was only about an inch or two taller than Aang and he was twelve. Well, technically one hundred twelve. Lightning split the sky, and Aang put his glider against the wall of the temple. They would have to go on foot.

"I'm going to be running as fast as I can, Mikomi. I don't think you'll be able to keep up. So I guess you'll have to ride piggy-back," he said smiling a little.

Mikomi glared at him for a moment and then sighed, stashing her retractable pole back into her belt. She unhappily got on Aang's back. Then he sped off toward the herbalist institute. Aang noticed how light she was, being so small and slim. Mikomi definitely did not like traveling as fast as the wind. It made her eyes water very badly. So she ducked her head behind Aang's. Once they had made it to the herbalist, Aang bent down a little so Mikomi could get off. She climbed down, with her jet-black hair completely wind-blown. Aang laughed, holding his stomach, at her wind-blown appearance.

"Moving as fast as the wind is not fun," she said attempting to fix her hair, which was pulled into a high ponytail that extended to her mid-back. Two thick strands of hair angled around her face.

Aang smiled in response and then turned towards the herbalist institute and jogged to it. Mikomi followed him after she had finished fixing her hair.

Aang and Mikomi left the herbalist institute after they found that their friends would be healed if they sucked on frozen wood frogs. Which Mikomi found completely crazy, but if that's what the crazy herbalist said, she would help Aang find the frogs.

Aang and Mikomi were exiting the herbalist's building when an arrow landed right in front of Aang. Mikomi instinctively pulled out her retractable pole and extended it to full length, which was taller than her. She searched the trees for the source of the arrow, but she couldn't see them.

Aang must've spotted them because he looked into the trees and said, "Uh, I think you dropped this."

Mikomi would've blown up on him for sayingsomething so stupid,but she was too worried about being killed. She grabbed him and yelled, "Run!"

They both ran towards a cliff with arrows landing behind them with every step they took. Aang was a little bit ahead of Mikomi, but Mikomi being so fast could keep up when he wasn't running full speed. Aang jumped over the cliff, Mikomi hesitated a bit but then jumped.

Aang was now in the trees. Mikomi also fell throough the trees with the branches cutting and slapping her face. She used her pole to slow her self down when she thrusted it into a tree. Aang was below her jumping down the trees and she followed jumping gracefully down through the trees. She saw that Aang was down in the water looking, so she jumped down splashing loudly, holding her pole above the cold, murky water.

"Aang, what are you doing!" she said growing frustrated.

"Getting the frogs!" he said bending over to scoop up the frogs. They were both standing by a log. An arrow flew through the air and pinned Mikomi's pants to the log, she tried pulling it out of the log, but it was too deeply planted into it. She looked up and saw them. The legendary Yuu Yan archers. Their extreme precision preceded their reputation. She knew that they had no chance now. Mikomi quickly made her pole shrink back to carrying size and slid it into the back of her belt. Looking over at Aang, who had formed a wall of ice in front of them, she noticed that he was also pinned to the log. She heard the arrows beat upon the ice wall. Then it shattered, ice splashing into the water.

Just like the ice wall, her hopes of any escape shattered.

Looking into the trees, she saw the Yuu Yan archers with a net, their cold eyes piercing into their prey. They first fired the net at Aang, of course because he was the Avatar. Then Mikomi saw the net coming towards her. She stopped struggling, deciding just to give up. But her temper rose, because of her dislike of being defeated. She had to use all of her effort not to set the log behind her on fire. Looking over at Aang, who looked terrified, she whispered as silently as she could, "It'll be alright."

Aang nodded looking nervous as the Yuu Yan Archers came to pick up their prey.

Alrighty first of all I want to say that my character Mikomi is not a Mary Sue-ish character. The girl is nothing like me. If you ever feel that she is becoming a kind of Mary Sue-ish character please inform, for it is my goal to avoid Mary Sue-ism.

I know the first chapter was kinda short but it's most of what I've got so for. I've been busy.

Also, don't expect any romance early in the story. Just to let ya know. Maybe later, much much later.