I DO NOT OWN EITHER SERIES OF AVATAR. I DO HOWEVER OWN THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS FAN-FIC. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN ALL OF THEM ARE.
AUTHORS NOTE* I am so sorry that this is so late to the game. I just sort of forgot about uploading it for a while, it's been finished, and I am starting on the new chapter now. The next chapter should be uploaded just a bit after I upload chapter four of my other fic. I just got distracted with other story ideas and other things. I am so sorry about this! There will be more though, and I will make up for it with long chapters, and a lot of them. I hope you enjoy this!
I met up with Jaing-Li after school like we had discussed, even though I wasn't entirely comfortable with buying clothes from a store when I could easily make ones that would fit me better, and look better. We hit the mall and went up and down through the stores and looked at different styles and things Jaing said would look good on me. We ended up buying different outfits from multiple stores, with multiple different styles that I could probably mix and match somewhat. We took a break and went to the food court since we were both tired and each had at least thirty bags to carry. After we ate we went back to my house and she helped me pick out an outfit. I ended up with a horizontally striped long-sleeved t-shirt, a fedora with a red feather in it, a blue undershirt, and almost black jeans with a pair of black, pirate-ish boots. I actually looked good in this outfit, I guess it helped having someone there who knew how to shop, and what to shop for.
Jaing and I headed down to the street where we were to wait for Lee to pick us up. He was supposed to get his grandpa to lend him the old Thunderbird, Jaing and I tried to convince him that it was too dangerous for that car tonight, but he wouldn't have his girls show up in a non-epic car. The T-bird was electric blue, and it was a 57' model. I loved the car almost as much as Lee's grandpa. I would kill Lee, and bring him back to life so his grandpa could kill him if anything happened to that car.
Lee showed up a few minutes early, and caught Jaing and I talking about different ways to re-style nerf-guns, because we had just discovered that we were both fans of 'steempunk'.
"Well well well, isn't this a lovely surprise? My two favorite girls, actually getting along for once."
"Oh, Lee, if either one of us was to be less than civil, you would have given away our ticket, would you not?" Jaing was pretty quick when it came to retorts.
"Not to mention, this night is supposed to be about fun, so we might as well find something in common, and go from there."
"Ok, fine, you girls can gab about steempunk all night if you want to, just don't try to get me in on any of it."
After a few more jabs at each other, we got into the car and headed for the concert. I couldn't help but worry about that boy with the blue hair though. I didn't know if he would really show up, but it worried me.
We got to the concert and we went in just in time to meet the members of the band. Jaing fainted almost immediately, but fell right into Lee's arms. I however took the opportunity to embarrass her.
"I'm her translator, that means you're awesome." Everyone laughed, and it was just enough to break the ice. We helped set up the stage, and most of the stuff we did had to be re-done to a certain degree, but they decided to upgrade our passes anyway. We were now allowed back stage during the show, which would be awesome, not to mention we got all of their autographs. It was epic. During the show was amazing, I didn't realize how loud it was up there until that night. It was loud. I knew I wasn't going to be able to hear anything the next day. It was going to be a great night.
. . .
It was a little after the show, and we were helping take stuff down. Not because we were forced to, it was just something that seemed fun, meet all the rowdies' and get pictures with people and learn some things about the stage as well. After we had finished striking the stage, taking all the stuff down and putting it away, I saw that Feng, weird guy from earlier, hanging around the exit that was closest to the car. All the rowdies' were gone, and Lee and Jang were out in the car waiting. I had gone to the bathroom. He was smiling like an idiot, and I supposed that there was no way around talking to hi. I was still a little miffed about him messing with those nerds. But curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to know what he was talking about when he mentioned me to his friend.
I walked over to the exit, and waited for him to speak. I was sure that he would pretty much know what I was going to ask, but apparently he didn't. "What do you want from me?" Were the first words out of my mouth.
"Your friends memories have been activated," were his.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Your friends had false memories. Their real ones have been brought back to them. They remember who they are now, and they remember why they were brought to this… place." He trailed off as if he wanted to say something other than 'place.'
"… Why were they brought here?" I was just sort of going along with it. I didn't want to upset him because it was obvious to me that he was insane, probably an escaped mental patient.
"Because they were sent to protect you. Their families were sent to protect you. They were to befriend you and take care of you, and keep you safe from evil spirits."
"I think you have the wrong person…"
"No I don't. I made sure of that earlier. What happens when you get angry? Or upset? Usually something weird happens right? Like a freak earth quake? Like today?"
I had to give him that, because I had also been thinking about that. But that didn't really mean anything. But I also thought that it could just be one of those random-alignment-of-the-universe things, but something in the back of my mind told me to listen to him. Part of me said I needed to get as far away from him as possible, and the other part told me that this guy was okay. I decided to go with my instinct of running away. "Sorry, but that was just a coincidence. I don't really know you, and my friends are waiting for me outside." I walked around him, and surprisingly enough, he let me pass. But not without a few words of warning.
"Listen, you do what you want, but these 'coincidences', are only going to get worse." And then I left. I walked out to my friends, and we drove off. The drive back to town was very quiet, we had the radio on as background noise, so the silence wasn't so awkward, but no one seemed to want to talk. I was grateful for the quietness, though. I needed to sort through all the events of the day. It all went by so fast, and I needed to just sit and think.
When we got to my house, the first stop on Lee's way back, I was a little shocked. I wasn't paying attention to what was going on. I got out of the back seat and walked up to my door, but when I turned back to wave them off, but they were already gone. I tried the door, then realized it was locked and there was a note on the door. It said that if I wanted to get in the house, then I would have to climb in my window, and that I should have been home sooner. I thought about it, and realized that it must be around 2 or 3 in the morning. I walked around to the back of the house, and started to climb the lattice that lead straight to my window. I carefully crawled over to my window, and found that it was slightly open, just enough for someone to put their hands in and open it, but not enough for someone to notice it was still open if they were on the ground. I pushed the window open, and half fell into my room. Luckily my beanbag chair was right under the window, so I didn't make too much noise.
After getting up and closing the window, I looked in the mirror again at the outfit that Jaing had picked out for me. I then changed into my pj's and started climbing into bed to get comfortable. Sleep soon overtook me, and dreams of flying rocks and water going against bursts of air and fire came to me. It was a very strange dream.
