Summary: A hundred years ago the Avatar disappeared. Now three children from the Southern Water Tribe have found him. Join Katara, Sokka, Aang, and new bender, Alanis, during their journey to save the world.
Disclaimer; I do not own Avatar the Last Air bender or anything else you recognize. (If I did own it the Zutara ship would have set sail the first episode)
Alanis POV;
I began to defend us by forming ice barriers between us and the ship. I then emerged from behind the ice to stand in front of the dropping gangway. When the gangway was set I spoke, "Who are you and what do you want from our village?"
A man walks down the metal plank in front of probably 50 soldiers, and he replies to me, "I am Prince Zuko, Heir to the throne, and future Fire Lord. I want the Avatar."
"I'm afraid that you come a long way for no reason. You aren't getting your wish." I reply, with that I formed a water whip, and I slashed the whip through the air successfully removing the prince's helmet.
He says to me, "If you do not give it to me I will take it by force."
"You may try, but you won't succeed." I challenged
I watch as he moves to an attach position and I watch as the fire leaves his palm coming at, but I snap out of my thoughts just in time and manage to avoid the flames with a back-handspring. Quickly I draw snow from what is left of Sokka's wall (more like pile). I melt the snow and sending it all towards his torso making him step back from the attack. Five soldiers step up behind him and with a six total they all bend fireballs at me and it is all I can do to not get burnt. I fall to my knees in defeat, there are way too many I might as well survive now so I may fight another day.
The man gestured to his soldiers and said, "I want the Avatar, so search the village and bring me every elder." As the soldiers went throughout our village which only held but five elders I plan to get the fire nation off of this tribes back for a little while.
As I watch our elders being thrown to their knees I wince, cold and being thrown on ice ouch. "The Avatar is dead! The Fire Nation made sure of that!" I exclaim hoping they fall for my trickery.
No dice. I watch the prince judge me cautiously, then he spoke, "I don't believe you water peasant. Why should I anyway? You fought me, and your word means nothing."
"Fine." I scream, desperate, "If it is the Avatar you want, then it is the Avatar you'll get." With that I bend the snow around me forming a funnel, then I produce a flame from my mouth, and at last I move the water particles throughout the air as a forgery of air bending. "I am the Avatar." I assert, although the claim was false the bending was real. I smirked. Beat that prince of the Fire Nation.
"You have proven to be truthful. Avatar or not, you don't have the power to defeat a whole army." He was right. I couldn't defeat him and his army.
"I surrender," I state, "but you have to leave this village and its people alone and bring them no harm. Now or in the future."
"I will agree to this if you do come willingly with me and do not fight me or my men."
"Very well." I assent. I watch through my eyelashes with my head downcast as the prince receives a pair of metal shackles and walks towards me. Then he places the cuffs onto my wrists and yanks me up in the direction of his ship. The prince gave commands to me, "Girl, you will follow me and do not resist, if my orders are followed… I won't destroy your village. Move out soldiers."
I follow him with two soldiers to my right and two to my right. As I am being led up the gangplank I look back, and as I look over the village I see Sokka holding Katara back from running in my direction, but I can tell he's holding himself back as well. Throughout the village I see how the soldiers muddled when they went through to grab the elders. I see the residents of our village the paupers, the irate, and the adherents of my decision. I turn, and walk on with a slight feeling of guilt, but the feeling of satisfaction, that my home will remain safe, won out.
When the soldiers led me out to the main deck I felt a shift I my heart, I won- I was ripped from my thoughts when my left cheek met the deck with a painful crunch. "I said as long as she cooperated that she wouldn't be harmed." Prince Zuko admonished.
"But sir-"a soldier protested.
"Did she try to get away soldier? What did she do to deserve a broken nose?" He's defending me? Why? I'm just a 'water peasant.'
"No prince Zuko. The girl she stopped walking up the plank when we were loading her on. She wouldn't budge for a whole minute!" the soldier reported.
"When we left home I did the same thing soldier, and if one of you had broken my nose for it you would have had your hands burnt and then cast overboard. Treat her well unless I tell you she has done so wrong she deserves to become deformed. If those words do not come from my mouth take you and your woman harming hands to the 10th level of the burning pit in the ground… do I make myself clear soldier?"
"Sir, yes sir" the soldier replied.
"Now, soldier take her to the cell the closest to the stairs- don't question my generosity- and meals for all will be in three hours." Then he addressed me, "I'll come speak to you soon, but I have much more pressuring issues."