"How did I get myself into this mess" I groaned walking around a forest completely lost
As I was walking around I heard the sound of laughter but as I got closer the sounds suddenly stopped.
"Well this can't be good"
I continued walking anyway, I came out near a camp fire that had 3 people sitting around it looking very guilty, I was about to say something when I heard a loud sneeze then grass went flying everywhere and a young bald bow with an arrow on his head was standing there wiping his nose.
"Right... well it was nice meeting you"
I went to turn and leave when I walked right into a tree making me fall flat on my back with stars spinning around my head.
"I don't think he is fire nation" a boy spoke
Once the stars stopped spinning around my head I pulled myself up dusting of my clothes before turning to face them clearing my throat.
"What makes you think I'm not fire nation?"
"Because you walked into a tree" the boy spoke again
I looked towards him with a frown "well maybe I'm just an idiot"
"HA so you are fire nation"
"If I'm fire nation then you must be to"
"I'm from the water tribe!" he pointed out
"So now you're saying I'm from the water tribe"
"Only the smartest people are in the water tribe"
"Then why are you in it"
"Should we stop them?" the arrow boy asked
"I think we should let them go on longer, it's entertaining" the small girl said with a grin
I once again cleared my throat and faced the others "sorry about that"
"Why are you out here?" the older girl asked
"Oh well... I was trying to find my way to Ba sing Se"
"So you're going to Ba sing Se on your own?" arrow boy asked
"Yeah... if I could find the place that is"
"Well were going there!"
"Aang don't invite him along" the boy hissed "he will eat our brains in our sleep or something"
"I prefer eating the eyes not the brains" I said as calmly as I could making him freak out
"Relax Sokka, he's joking" the older girl sighed
"So what do you say? Want to come with us?" arrow boy asked
"Uhhh... well are you all alright with it?"
Sokka went to say something when I quickly talked before he had a chance to "everyone other than him?"
"Toph?" arrow boy asked looking at the smaller girl
"I don't care" she shrugged
"Its settled then, you can travel with us" the girl smiled
"Thanks, oh I'm Senri"
"I'm Katara, back there is my brother Sokka"
"And I'm Aang!" he shouted out "it's nice to meet you!"
"I'm Toph" the small girl said sounding a little bored
"Wait... I know these names from somewhere... OH NOW I KNOW! Water bender Katara, Earth bender Toph and of course Avatar Aang, and the other one"
"HEY!" Sokka shouted coming out of hiding
"So why are you going to Ba sing Se?" Katara asked me
"I'm looking for someone" I shrugged sitting down
"And there in Ba sing Se?"
"I can't say for certain... honestly no one knows where he is but I think sooner or later he will show up in Ba sing Se"
"You don't even know if he is there!" Sokka shouted out
"Anyway I've been walking around all day so I'm going to get some sleep" I said ignoring him
With that I laid down on my back and fell asleep faster than anyone around me could even say goodnight. The next morning we headed out taking a break near a water fall, Sokka was trying to read some maps, Toph was splashing her feet in the water near Sokka, I was sitting behind her on the grass while Aang was floating around in the surprisingly calm water freezing his body and lastly Katara was up on a cliff, no idea how she got up there but there she was.
"Water bending bomb" she shouted jumping off the cliff
She laughed as she spun around curling up her body landing in the water with a HUGE splash, and I mean huge making frozen Aang fly out of the water. Sokka desperately tried to cover the map he was looking at while Aang landed on the ground with his ice smashing as rain like water fell down over us. Before any of it hit me though I managed to jump out of the way, Sokka on the other hand now had a wet map.
"Sure, our only map, juuust splash some water on them" he said with a frown
"Sorry" Katara mumbled ringing out her hair
She pushed her hair behind her and started to bend the water out of Sokka's maps; once the map was dry again he scooted off the rock while the rest of us gathered around him.
"So did you figure out route were going to take?" Aang asked as he crouched down
"Well..." he said deep in thought "no, this map is to old Aang"
"Well we should head west" I pointed out "that's around about where the city is as far as I know"
"Then we'll head west then" Aang smiled standing "but first"
Before the others could do anything Aang was soaking them, I managed to dodge the water and remain dry, other than a few splashes here and there.
"Where did you learn to move like that?" Katara asked me as we walked through the forest
"Huh?"
"Back at the lake, you're the only one that managed to stay dry"
"Oh right... back at home I was put into a training camp at a young age"
"Training camp?" Aang asked
"There all over the place, the fire nation set them up and then take children from their homes and families putting them through training to become their soldiers"
"You were in a fire nation camp!" Sokka shouted "I knew we shouldn't trust him!"
"Sokka" Katara hissed
"No he's right, I can't even defend myself in saying I was taken from my families..."
"So you are fire nation?"
"NO!" I shouted stopping "if I could I would deny my family or at least my father... history says our village was saved by the fire nation well before I was born but that's not true. For my whole life I believed the stories they fed us as children but then one day I uncovered the truth. The village was slaughtered, forced to bow below the fire nation, hundreds were killed! My mother's family was killed... after finding that out I couldn't stay there any longer. That is why I left, I refuse to be a part of that, I would rather die then follow the rule of the fire nation"
"But what about your family?" Katara asked
"I wish I could say they feel the same way but they don't... my family would die protecting the fire nation so I guess... I no longer have a family. Anyway let's get moving"
Things were fairly quiet until we reached 'The Serpents Pass' looking at the thing we all stood there with our mouths slightly open.
"Were going through that?" I asked turning to Sokka
"You're the one that said to go this way" he frowned at me
"Since when did you listen to me?"
"It isn't so bad; I thought it would be more windy though, like a serpent"
"Well you first then" I said giving him a push
"Don't do that!" he shouted
As we walked along the skinny path the sound of a fire nation ship reached our ears, the others didn't seem too concerned about it, I guess it was far away but still I kept waiting for it to attack us. If it wasn't for me nearly falling to my death they probably wouldn't have seen us but now all that mattered was staying alive.
"They spotted us!" Sokka shouted
"Like we ALL couldn't see the fire coming at us" I thought with a frown
Aang quickly jumped up whacking the flaming rock back at the fire nation ship but he couldn't stop the other one hitting the side of the mountain. We all just barely made it past the crumbling rock but that was the least of our worries as we continued to run along the path. As the sun started to set we all relaxed a little more, no more fire nation ships had come and none of us lost our heads, in all things weren't too bad.
The next morning though things got a little complicated, the path ahead of us was gone or maybe just under the sea but either way it was too far to swim and there didn't look to be any other way across.
"Everyone single file!" Katara called out
We all listened to what she said and lined up behind her as she started to part the water in front of us. Slowly we started to walk further down into the ocean with nothing but water all around us, at first it was frightening but after a little while I got used to it.
"This is kind of cool" I muttered out loud
I couldn't help but laugh as Momo leapt into the water and started to chase after fish but then suddenly he jumped back in as something huge passed us.
"What is that thing?" Katara asked
Next thing I knew whatever it was forced its way into our bubble as we all let out a scream, if it wasn't for Toph lifting the earth from out feet I hate to think what would have happened, didn't even get that wet
either. We watched as the huge thing circled around us until finally its head burst from the water letting out a screech.
"I think I just figured out why they call it the serpents pass" Sokka squeaked out
It let out another screech as it looked down at us then Sokka picked up Momo and held it towards the serpent!
"Oh great and powerful serpent please accept this humble and tasty offering, thankyou"
"Sokka!" Katara shouted at him
Before it could eat us all Aang shot a blast of air towards it then got out his glider.
"I'll discrete it, Katara get everyone across" he said flying off
Katara jumped onto the water freezing it below her feet until she made it to the other side, first a bubble underwater and now walking on ice what next? Sokka was the first one on the ice running towards the other side like a madman while Katara went off to help Aang, I was about half way when I looked back and saw Toph wasn't moving.
"Toph come on its just ice!" Sokka called out already on the other side
She put her foot down on the ice before taking a few steps back.
"Actually I'm going to stay on my little island where I can see!" she called out
Part of the serpent's body hit the small island hard leaving a huge dent in the middle forcing Toph onto the ice but she still wasn't too keen on the idea. I ran back as fast as I could on ice and placed my hands on her shoulders, mainly to stop myself from slipping and to let her know I was there.
"Hold on" I said scooping her up before she could say anything
I started running back with Toph holding on tightly and I almost made it to before the serpent broke the ice path. Toph screamed as we hit the water and started to struggle, during her slight panic I managed to get under her and back up so she was now on my back with her arms around my neck.
"I got you Toph!" I called out over the noise
I swam back trying to keep us both above the water until finally we made it to the other side, Sokka helped get Toph out while I pulled myself out. Not long after we were all safely on the other side Aang and Katara managed to knock the serpent around enough to send it away. Once we finally made it off the serpents path Sokka pointed out the Ba sing Se wall to us, I had no idea it was so huge.
"I'm going to go on ahead" Aang said flying off
"We should get moving to" Katara said walking towards the wall
Once we reached the wall Toph just opened up a large hole we could walk through stirring some trouble, luckily Aang was flying around and saw us, after finding out we were with the avatar we were all free to go.
"Oh would you happen to know where a tea shop is?" I asked one of the guards
"There's one on the main street I think" he shrugged walking away
"Well I guess I'll see you around then, thanks for letting me tag along"
"You're leaving?" Aang asked
"Good" Sokka muttered earning a glare from Katara
"Well yeah..."
"Where are you going to stay?" Katara asked
"I dunno" I shrugged "no need to worry about me though, I'll be fine on my own"
"Why don't you stay with us?" Aang offered
"Thanks for the offer but I'll pass"
"Why?" Toph asked
"I hope you guys never find out" I sighed walking away
We all have our secrets and I never wanted them to find out, if they did they or more all of us would be faced with a difficult situation and they already had so much to do.