Identity

I had to do this. Aang was captured, I was the only bender left in our group and Sokka was well Sokka. I looked down the hill and saw the soldiers taking away a small boy, Aang. He hadn't even started learning earthbending. (A/C: it's before they find Toph). He had been captured only a few minutes ago. We were off guard. We had just gotten back to camp as the sun was setting. We were going to celebrate his 13th or really 113th birthday. He had been so excited. He even made the cake all by himself. He told us 'the secret to the cake is in the gooey center.' As Monk Gyatso would have put it. But he won't be celebrating a happy 13th birthday. He'll be spending it in a dark cold cell with no happiness or cake. They were monsters. Every single one of them. But I had to do this. I looked over at Sokka and nodded my head, as did he. Slowly we went down the hill. We hid behind a bush and started throwing rocks at them. They talked and a few of them started walking up to us. Good. As they got closer we threw more rocks and they started chasing us. I stuck my thumb up to Sokka, as did he. We split up and two of the guards followed Sokka one followed me. I started running through the woods, trying to find the stream I found earlier. I ran through some bushes and found it. I kept lashing out water whips at the man until finally he fainted. I took out the knife and opened up where his chest was. I looked away and stuck it in. I pulled it out and cleaned it off with water. I started taking off my water tribe clothes and slipping on the mans clothing. Luckily the man that chased me was pretty young so I fit into his clothing quite easily. I took off the tunic and armor closing my eyes and pushing his body into the bushes so I didn't see him nude. I got the knife then and cut off almost all of my hair, constantly telling myself that it would grow back. I slipped on his tunic and armor and started walking off, having the metal clunk all the way. Finally I made it back to where Sokka and I had split up and saw two men sitting, probably annoyed.

"Lee!" said one soldier. "What took you so long?"

"Oh, um." I said trying to deepen my voice. "That waterbender got pretty far in the woods and I didn't want her to uh get away."

"Whatever." said the other. "We better get back to Zuko or else he'll get really mad."

"Yeah." I said hurrying along. Suddenly I tripped over a rock and fell to the ground.

"Lee, you alright?" said one of the guys.

"Yeah, you seem different." said another. "Did you shrink or something?"

"No, I just uh…" I started to say. "Never mind, we better get back to Prince Zuko." I started walking again having my armor or "Lee's" armor clunk around. The other soldiers just looked at me then each other knowing something was different. Finally after what seemed like forever we made it back to the ship. I panted as I walked up the plank.

"Hold up, Lee." said one guy. "Something is up, what is it. Normally you can take all this walking and now it's like you just arrived here."

"Well, I have been eating a lot of fire flakes." I said having my voice pretty deep.

"Lee, I told you those are bad for you!" said one guy shaking his head.

"What took you men so long!" yelled an all too familiar voice.

"We saw the two water peasant who traveled with the Avatar." said one. I became a little mad as he said this.

"Yeah, probably trying to get their friend the Avatar back." said another. I looked away not wanting him to recognize me.

"Hey, theirs something different about you." Zuko said cautiously to me.

"Hmm?" I said trying not to make eye contact.

"Look at me when I'm talking to you cadet." he said grabbing my chin and forcing me to look at him.

"Oh uh… sorry." I said trying my best to deepen my voice.

"Now go back to your room cadet." he said walking up the plank. Well at least now he wasn't calling me peasant.

"Come on Lee." said one of the guys.

"What." I said.

"Uh we need to go to our rooms!" said another. "Or have you forgotten where it is?"

"Uh…" I said a little guilty.

"You forgot." said a guy. "Okay, I'll take you there." He started walking off and I followed him until finally I was to a small room. I opened it and looked inside. It had a mattress, a few banners and a small drawer. "Well night Lee."

"Night." I said. As he closed the door I started exploring the room, trying to find anything that would tell about "Lee." I then found a journal that had tons of little entries in it. It began with he was being recruited to Prince Zuko's ship in his search for the Avatar. He had a sister named Acaria who was a young firebender. It then said he made two friends. One's name was Raph and he told him not to eat fire flakes. The other's name was Hown and he liked to fight a lot. Those must have been the two guys who'd waited for me or "Lee." I took off the armor so that I was only in a tunic. I got into bed and closed my eyes knowing what I had to do. I slowly but surely drifted off to sleep.

A/C: Well, do you like the first chapter? You'll never guess how and when I thought of this fanfiction. It was during Star Gate SG1!