Chapter 1:
Years Later
"Hey Zuko," A young girl spoke to the prince, "What are you thinking about?"
The young prince starred at his female companion for few moments, and then looked back at the stars where they lay in the field of grass. "Not to much really, I...I'm just thinking about the future."
The young girl sat up and starred at the prince with a questionable look upon her face, slightly confused about the topic. "Why are you thinking about the future?"
Zuko let out a sigh and turned his body to face his friend and smiled softly, "Why not?"
Kaiya let's out a small sigh and laid back down onto the grass and starred at the stars once more, still thinking about what Zuko had sad. "Why think about the future now?"
Zuko stayed silent for a few moments, and soon sighed once more and starred at Kaiya again, who is still starring at the stars. "Because I want to know what will happen next..."
All Zuko could hear is Kaiya giggling softly and soon turned her body, now facing the young prince with a soft comforting smile on her face. "There's no need to think about the future Prince Zuko, life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Zuko locked his gazed upon the girl shock and amazed with such wisdom. She still has a smile on her face, smiling. Zuko let out another sigh once more at the fact that Kaiya is slowly starting to become like his Uncle Iroh.
But Zuko couldn't help but to smile in the end, because Kaiya is different from the rest of the nation. He liked that.
Kaiya as well also liked Zuko just the way he is and who he is, not only their extremely close but they both have the same view of the world and only wished for it to be peaceful once more. Kaiya and Zuko locked gazed and starred each other with a smile. Even though Kaiya could feel herself blushing, by the fact that shes starring at the handsome young prince. Kaiya knew Zuko for who he was, not as a prince. She knows everything about them.
But in the end, Kaiya didn't care if Zuko could see her blush, shes just to caught up in the moment to even care about that.
Kaiya couldn't help to smile whenever his around her.
It was like the perfect moment.
Kaiya suddenly jolted out of her bed, breathing heavily as she felt cold sweat twinkle down her face and neck. She felt her heart skip a beat of the thought of the dream she just had. Kaiya couldn't help but to let out a deep, heavy sigh as she ran her fingers threw her long, black with a tint of brown hair. Only to realize it was another dream.
No, Another Memory.
She slowly stood up from her bed and walks towards the mirror that hangs above her items. Kaiya looks at the mirror only to reveal herself.
She lets out another heavy sigh and starts to strip out of her clothing and change into her water tribe clothes. She held her thick jacket up in the air and stares at it's beautiful design. It has a design of a kimono top with a hood attached with a furry touch to it, it has a color light blue that matches the rest of the tribe, it also came with a white furry scarf that wraps around her neck, along with the jacket she opens the jacket and it reveals a tight black shirt with the collar that goes up to her neck. As she examine her top wear she slips them on and soon stares at her bottom wear.
She starts to put on her black baggy water tribe pants, and socks. Once she finishes that she placed her foot into her long knee high boots. Once she finishes, she also wrapped her weapon belt around her waist and placed her dagger it's pouch. Along with the dagger on one side, she also picked up a necklace that belonged to her mother and wrap the fabric around her neck. Once she finishes she wrapped the scarf around her neck feeling the scarf's warmth. Kaiya pulled out a black pig-tail from her kimono-like jacket and put her hair up into a pigtail letting her long hair flow down.
She stares at herself once more seeing her water tribe self. She flicked the dangling item that's placed against his neck.
"Another day, another time" Kaiya whispered to herself. Pulling her hood over her head and walked out of the tent.
As Kaiya walked out of her tent, the sun's ray suddenly shined upon the teenager's eyes causing herself to shield her eyes for a bit, after a few moments, Kaiya blinked a few more times and have her eyes adjust to the brightness of the light.
Scanning the surrounding area shes in, looks around to see the southern water tribe walking around, doing their chores like always. The women washing the clothes, seeing Gran-Gran making food, along that the kids playing doing their own thing, enjoying their youth.
Kaiya put her hands in her pockets and walked towards a tent where her two friends live in (Sokka and Katara), as she walks towards the tent she could see her female companion walk out letting out a big sigh while scratching her head in annoyance, which for some reason cause Kaiya to smile.
"Good morning Katara," She greeted the water bender, "How are you this morning?"
Katara looked up at the teenager, no longer feeling annoyed at all and soon smiled right back at Kaiya "Oh! Good morning Kaiya! I'm doing good," She spoke, then pointing back at the tent sighing a bit, "But Sokka over there is of course lazy as always, whatever I do to wake him up, he never seems to budge at all!"
Kaiya couldn't help but to giggle, which received her a bit of a glare from water-tribe girl. "Would you like some assistance?" She asked, giving herself an evil grin.
"Please~!" Katara said nodding her head, now also grinning as well.
Kaiya at first walked away from Katara and disappeared out of sight for a bit, leaving Katara at her tent. Then soon after, Kaiya came back with a small bucket in her hands with water that seems to be freezing cold. The thought of freezing cold water caused two girls grin even more. Katara opened the tent for Kaiya, which she gladly entered with Katara following in behind her.
Both of the girls stood over Sokka who is sleeping loudly, and slightly drooling on the corner of his mouth a bit and is enjoying his rest. Katara giggled a bit while Kaiya hovered the bucket over Sokka's head, still grinning. Giving the sleeping boy one last chance to wake up, Kaiya placed her boot on Sokka's stomach and moved her boot back and forth hoping to wake him up.
Sokka didn't budge.
Kaiya sighs a bit, and looked at Katara, "Now I see what you meant, he really doesn't budge does he?"
Katara shook her head, "Nope, not at all,"
"Well, Katara, here is a new lesson for you today." Kaiya spoke, soon starting to tilt the bucket, "This is a new way to wake up a lazy water-tribe boy."
The moment Kaiya finished speaking her sentence, the bucket that she was tilting, is now fully upside down, causing a huge, amount of cold, freezing water to fall on Sokka. The moment it touched Sokka's face, he suddenly jolted into the air, and letting out a extremely loud shriek, (which the whole water-tribe heard.)
"AHHHHHHHHHHH" Sokka screamed, jerking out of his sleeping bag, soaking wet. "WHY AM I SO WET? WHO THE HELL WOULD DO THIS TO ME?! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?!" Sokka screamed out so many questions from the sudden wake, trying to dry himself out.
"About time your awake," Katara said crossing her arms, "That's what you get for sleeping in Sokka,"
Sokka stopped screaming out questions and starred at Katara, "You did this didn't you?! You used your weird magic on me to wake me up!"
Katara laughs at his comment, then soon pointed at Kaiya, who held up the bucket to his face, "Actually Sokka, it was Kaiya who helped me 'woke you up', since I tried my very best to wake you up, I have to go to plan B, and ask Kaiya to assist me,"
Sokka looked at Kaiya with a hurt expression on his face, soon starts to pout, "B-But K-Kaiya! Why would you betray me?!"
Kaiya placed the bucket on the side and lets out another laugh, "Sorry Sokka, Even I tried to wake you up, but you didn't flinch at all! I thought it was the best way to wake up by pouring water over your head" She said shrugging her shoulders.
"BUT WITH COLD WATER?!" Sokka screamed once more. Which caused Kaiya and Katara to burst into laughter at Sokka's freak out.
"It could've been worst," Kaiya spoked with a smiles, which caused Sokka to suddenly stop fussing around. Sokka was gazed by Kaiya's smile for a brief moment, then soon looked away from her slightly blushing at the fact that his still half naked. Sokka blushed even more and shooed both the girls out of the tent.
"Y-Yeah, Yeah I'm awake now, so get out of the tent so I can change!" Sokka yelled.
"Yes sir," Katara spoke smiling, leading Kaiya out of their so called home.
Once Kaiya and Katara left the tent and started to walk away, back towards her home, "Well I've done my part Katara, I'm going to go out hunting for food alright? Try not to kill Sokka while I'm gone."
"Alright Kaiya!" Katara yelled waving at her, "I'll see you later then, I'll try my hardest not to kill the bone head!"
Kaiya smirked at Katara's comment, Soon entering her tent and gathered her hunting supplies. Once she obtained her supplies, she hurried out of her tent and walked out of the tribe and began her hunt.
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Half a day have passed so far for Kaiya, and she caught many types of fish over the course of the hours, which made Kaiya very proud of herself. Her hunting abilities that her mother have taught her came in handy, she smiled of the thought of her mother and flicked the dangling item over her neck.
Kaiya looked at the beautiful clear sky and a thoughtful look on her face, wondering how her parents been doing.
It's been exactly two years since her mother and father have left with the water-tribe warriors to seek help to fight back the fire-nation. The water-tribe meant a lot to Kaiya's parents, after all, if it wasn't for them accepting her family, she wouldn't be here right now, away and safe from them. It's the least her father and mother could do to after all the things they have done. Despite the fact that her father was a fire-bender, who married a water-bender. The tribe accepted him without a doubt. After all, her mother was well respected, and the tribe knew that mother had a great taste of judgment, and it never fails.
Besides that, Kaiya's father and Katara's and Sokka's father were close as brothers, they both agree on the fact that they leave no brother behind.
For the reason of Kaiya's mother going with the warriors? They do need a healer after all, they can leave without her, her mother was after all the only professional water-bender there, and also knew the fire-benders weakness. Even though Katara begged Ayumu (Kaiya's mother) to stay and teach her, she couldn't, she needs to make sure the men would stay in order and in place. Katara was of course sadden, Katara looked up to Ayumu a lot, as if she was her own mother.
Two years...
Kaiya looked down and starred at the ice, to only see her self's reflection. Then her eyes suddenly widen to see her younger self from the past, once Kaiya saw that reflection she kicked the snow to over the ice and started to hurry back to the water-tribe.
"No Kaiya, don't think that now," The teenager said, speaking to herself, "T-That's the past now...I need to move on."
The moment Kaiya picked up her hunting supplies and such, a sudden flash of light appeared in the sky causing herself to drop everything she had on her. She jerked her head upwards and starred at the sky, causing her eyes to widen in shock.
"W-What is that..." She asked herself, placing her hand on her stomach and starts to clutch it, not liking the feeling what so ever. "W-What ever that light is, that doesn't look like a good sign at all..."
Kaiya quickly picked up all of the supplies she had with her and started to sprint towards the southern water-tribe without stopping nor taking a breather. Whatever stood in her way Kaiya quickly avoided everything and dodge swiftly and elegantly as much as possible.
But in other words, besides the avoiding and the dodging, she couldn't help but to worry about everyone back at home, that bright light she saw, sure it was beautiful and only see once in a lifetime. But it could cause danger to the tribe, why? Easy, who in the living hell knows hows out there at sea right now, hell there could be fire-nation ships near by and if they saw that light. The first thing their going to think is the complete obvious.
The Avatar.
The thought of the Avatar returning made her stomach suddenly twist and have sudden butterflies jump and flutter within her stomach. The thought of the Avatar made her smile a bit, due to the fact that if his really back, then the 100 year war would finally be put to an end and all four nations can finally be put at peace.
But soon she frowned realizing if that ray of light was the cause of the Avatar returning, then danger that is going to come towards the Tribe will be in deep trouble, and if that does leads up to that situation. Kaiya knew very well that no matter how much she prayed for the tribe to not be endangered at all, realisticly, nothing is safe in this world.
Kaiya has no choice but to let out her secret if the time comes...only if the times comes.
Which she begs to the lord it won't.
