Chapter 1: Veggie World!

"I'm hungry!" Sokka whined for fifteenth time.

Katara rolled her eyes at her brother. Katara and Sokka were brother and sister from the Southern watertribe. Katara was waterbender though her skills were lacking her emotions made her powerful. Sokka was no bender despite being brother to one, he was more of a inventor and highly talented with whatever weapon he picked up. Both siblings held determination and were creative to there own strengths. They were also friends of Aang, the avatar. A being that could wield the four elements and kept balance between all four nations. However Aang had only mastered the element of air and was learning from what Katara had learned by herself. That was why they were heading to the Northern Watertribe for the Southern Watertribe held no Waterbender Masters. There transport happened to be Appa, a ten tonne Sky Bison that was Aang's animal guide.

"Your always hungry Sokka" Katara said petting Momo, the flying lemur.

"We've run out of food Katara, how are we going to survive if have no food!" Sokka shouted.

"We could always fish" Katara said.

Sokka imeadiately paled in Appa's saddle. They had been eating fish for a week and had been getting to him for the lack of RED meat.

"Hey guys! I found an Island!" Aang cheered from Appa's head.

The watertribe siblings instantly perked at the sound of that and looked to Anngs direction but saw nothing.

"Ha ha Anng, very funny!" Sokka said sarcastically.

"No I'm not kidding it's right there!" Anng said, pointing to an area of the sea.

"I still don't see it Aang" Katara said.

"It's there Katara! I swear!" Aang said. "I'm taking Appa down"

With that Appa begun descend from the sky.

"And into the water? Anng, your seeing things there's nothing there!" Sokka said.

But Sokka was wrong when island begun to materialise ten meters in front of them. The island was full of life, beaches, forests and two large moutains covered the terrain while in the valley there was a village. To which Appa landed into, right in front of a startled woman but then smiled.

"Hello young ones, my name is Nara, wife to Village leader here on Naibun Island" the woman said.

"Naibun Island? The Secret Island?" Anng exclaimed excitedly as he jump off Appa to the woman.

"Yes, not many people can find this place" Nara said "How is it that you can? I see none of you are in distress."

"Well I am" Sokka said popping his head over Appa's saddle and was pointing to himself with his thumb "I'm distressfully hungry."

Nara raised an eyebrow as her eyes looked passively at him.

"I see…" she drawled.

"Aang saw the island before any of us did. He happens to be the Avatar" Katara said, her head in the same fashion as her brothers.

Nara smiled in realisation and looked at Aang with a happy gaze.

"That could be the reason why you could see this place. The Island belongs to Spirit Naibun, our protector. This place would most likely to be a gateway to the Spirit World being that this is his home" Nara sighed with happiness "Such beauty this place has, unfortunately not many people can return here once they leave."

"Why?" Sokka asked.

At this point Sokka and Katara got Appa while Momo was wrapped around Katara's neck like a gentle scarf.

"Those who seek safety can always find this place; those who don't seek safety won't find it all. Unless you're the avatar" Nara said "Or Yochi"

"Yochi?" Katara asked.

"A girl here who comes and goes off the island regularly coming back with bits and pieces, sometimes even supplies for us but lately she's been hanging around a lot longer than usual. There's a rumour going around that she is taking care of someone or she is ill. Either way it is a crying shame who love meat" Nara said.

"Wha-what?" Sokka said in fear.

"Well we can't hunt the animals here on the island or we would get very bad luck" Nara said "We had this man who used sell meat but when he started to sell meat of the wildlife here he began having this very bad luck in the end he started selling cabbages. I wonder where he's now." Tapping her chin thoughtfully.

"So…no meat?" Sokka said, his left eye was twitching in disbelief.

"Afraid so" Nara said.

Aang looked like he was in heaven at that moment.

"A Vegetarian world, I'm so…happy" Aang said with a huge grin.

"Well I'm not! I want meat! Tasty succulent meat! I am warrior and warriors deserve meat!" Sokka said. "I'm going to talk to this Yochi!" he takes two steps away from the group before he turned around to face Nara "Where exactly is Yochi?"


Anng was the first to see the hooded girl balancing on a tree with one leg high in air while her fists spread out to keep balance. She brought her foot down, swung it and then turned to the opposite direction before the leg was raised back up into the same position. She then leaned back and free fall off the tree till she flipped and landed on her feet to another branch.

"Hey are you Yochi!" Sokka asked loudly.

There was a loud yell before the girl fell out of the tree and into a bush in shock. The Gaang went 'ooo' in sympathy. The hooded girl popped her head out of the bush and looked directly at them very annoyed.

"Alright which one of you decided to try and kill me?" the girl growled

Sokka immediately pointed to Momo the girl however was not fooled especially when Aang looked at Sokka in disbelief.

"You want a death wish little man?" the girl barked.

"It was an accident" Sokka said.

"That's what the coroner will say after I deal with you" the girl said.

"Hey! There will be no more accidents okay! Besides when Sokka had yelled you had in avertedly fallen out of the tree" Aang said.

The hooded girl rolled her eyes before pushed herself out of the bush, brushing off the leaves once she was out. She flicked a bug off her shoulder and crossed her arms at them.

"What's your problem?" the girl asked.

"Our problem?" Aang asked.

"Yeah, those who seek safety can find this island, so what are you hiding from?" the girl asked.

"Well we really came by this place by accident and, um, I happen to be the avatar" Aang said with a sheepish look.

"The avatar huh? I thought you'd be a lot older" the girl said.

"Technically I'm 112 years old" Aang said.

The girl gaped at him before she return to a casual stance once the shock wore off.

"Weird things have happened before…why not a 112 year old avatar in a child's body" the girl shrugged to herself. "You're looking for Yochi, right?"

"Yeah." Aang said.

"I'm Yochi" the girl said, pointing to herself "What can I do you for?"

"Do you have any meat?" Sokka asked. "Or jerky?"

"I haven't been off the Island for a while so I don't have any fresh meat but I may have some jerky" Yochi said.

"I LOVE YOU!" Sokka shouted as he hugged the shocked girl.

Quite suddenly he was on his butt. Yochi had managed to get out his grip in some interesting yet gentle hand to hand combat moves before stepping to the side away from him.

"Southern Watertribe, right?" Yochi said as she straightened her clothing out.

"Err yeah" Katara said slowly.

"I think I may have met your father" Yochi said.

"You met our father!" Sokka said as he shot up from the floor.

"Yeah he did the same thing when I mention I had some Jerky…or was it sea prunes." Yochi said, scratching her head. "Is his name Mahado, Hadoki, Samota, Kahoda…"

"Hakoda?" Katara offered.

Yochi snapped her fingers in recognition "That's the one! Nice man your father is…little 'out there' with his inventions though."

"That's our Dad!" Sokka shouted happily. "Do you know which way they went?"

"When did you last see him?" Katara asked excitedly.

"Umm…two and a half months ago and I don't know which direction. Sorry." Yochi said.

The two siblings looked disappointed.

"Cheer up, at least you know he's still alive with all this war been going on and all" Yochi said to their sad faces. "C'mon I'll get you some jerky and I think I might have some fruit cake left over for our air nomad here."

"You have fruit cake!" Anng shouted out happily.

"Yeah…what's with the shouting?" Yochi asked slightly worried.

"We haven't really eaten well in a long time" Katara explained.

"Follow me then I have special stuff, but the basics are in village." Yochi said.

They began to follow Yochi through a dense forest filled with friendly animals, knowing that the humans can't harm them. Anng and Momo couldn't help but play with them along the way.

"So much meat!" Sokka drooled.

"Don't hunt them unless you want bad luck" Yochi said.

"What's up with that anyway?" Sokka asked.

"The Spirit Naibun punishes those who harm the inhabitants of the island and that means all the inhabitants including the wildlife" Yochi said.

"And I don't want to go back to spirit world, they have no toilets" Sokka said.

"O…kay" Yochi said slowly.

"Don't mind Sokka, he's always like that" Katara said.

"I'll keep that in mind" Yochi said "So where are you guys heading?"

"We're heading up to the Northern Watertribe to find a water bender master for Aang and I" Katara said.

"Oh so you're a water bender" Yochi said then smiled mischievously "This should be interesting"

"Why?" Aang asked, airbending down form the trees after playing with animals.

"Well, I found a young man on the beach. He had been thrown off board his ship and had been drifting in the sea to this island. I'm helping him to get back to his uncle." Yochi said.

"That's so sad" Katara said.

"He's kind of desperate to be off the Island but I told him he has to rest. If I sail and come across a storm he'd be too weak to survive it" Yochi said.

"I've got Appa, my Sky Bison, he's the best transport and friend there is!" Aang said "I'd be glad to help him out."

"Excellent and here I thought Sky Bisons were extinct. All you have to do is drop us off on the mainland and we'll it from there" Yochi said.

"Nah! We'll help you all the way!" Aang said.

"Aang what about the Northern Watertribe?" Katara reminded the young avatar.

"I don't mind in helping these people along the way Katara" Aang said "Besides we'll passing several islands along the way. Maybe he'll spot them."

Yochi suddenly grabbed Sokka as they came to a clearing to a hut near the edge of a cliff.

"Hang on there tribe boy. Five four three two one…"

"YOCHI I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

The girl laughed her head off at the moment as a boy around her age with a nasty scar on his left eye burst out of the hut. He had messy very dark brown hair that nearly covered his golden brown eyes and was wearing normal trousers with an open overalls. On his barely covered chest were a few words that Yochi began to laugh again. Katara blushed at the sight of his well muscular chest and tried to hide Aangs curious eyes from the words on it while Sokka, who had read it, was laughing his ass off. Momo just screeched and hid behind Aang before popping his head over the bold monk and blink at the scary angry boy.

"It is not funny at all!" the teenager barked.

"That's what you get when you order me around Princess" Yochi grinned before gesturing to gang. "We have guests."

At this the group straightened up in an instance and gave him a some-what smile.

"Send them away, we're busy!" he barked before he stormed back into the hut.

There was a moment after the door was slammed again. Yochi turned back to group with a smile.

"Don't mind him. He's just a little grumpy that he can't have any meat here as well" Yochi said.

"What about the jerky?" Sokka asked in fear.

"He doesn't know about that" Yochi whispered in the corner of her mouth.

Katara rolled her eyes in disbelief; she could tell this was going to be long trip now that Yochi and that scarboy coming along for the ride.


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