YAY! I love reviewers and send them my awesome oatmeal cookies, so review and get a cookie today! A side note: I am basing this story on the first season ONLY! Why? Because I'm so busy with softball that I've missed almost all of the episodes (I saw the one where Zula attacked, the one when Aang found out about why his eyes glowed, and the one with the wandering minstrels was for some reason soundless…) not to mention I missed the ALL-ZUKO episode…bangs head in wall anyhoo, here's chapter two! Giggles I made a rhyme!

Yue woke the next morning content, the morning sun bringing her senses to life after a long night's sleep. The two twins, Shan and Fara, were still snoring, but Arelle was already up and cleaning the dishes from the night before; at the same time, she began the morning meal.

"Oh Tsuki, you're awake!" Arelle's tired face rose into a smile, "Could you wake up my sisters? My hands are a little soapy at the moment…!" She continued to scrub at the caked on stewpot.

"Please Arelle, let me help, your sisters need the sleep and I need to get my blood moving," Yue begged, not wanting to burden her hosts and finally get to attempt some of the physical labor that her father had never allowed her to try. She bowed quickly and looked back up; the other girl had a strange smirk on her face.

"You…like cleaning?"

"Of course…?"

"Well then…" she stepped away from the dirty dishes, "While I go gather the eggs from the coop, will you make sure that the meat patties don't burn?" Yue bowed again and then shuffled over to the hot skillet that hung over the fire; little sausage bundles popped and hissed on the cast iron surface, cooking and releasing their juices.

"Cooking…it can't be too hard…right?" Yue picked up the long, metal tongs hanging next to the skillet and flipped over the meat patties; they landed with a hiss and began to cook on the opposite side. Her eyes sparkled and she moved on to the next patty, flipping the sausage until all had been turned and the raw meat was cooking.

"Food?" A tired growl came from behind Yue, "Giff me food…"

"I get food first, I'm older…" Another growl from the other twin.

"Only by a few minutes."

"So?"

"I get food! FIRST!"

"NO!"

"Wanna take it outside?"

"WHY NOT?"

Shan and Fara stomped outside, leaving Yue to flip her patties yet again, but something was wrong, they had stopped bubbling and now had a dark brown color; were they done?

"KNOCK IT OFF YOU TWO!" The ground shook with Arelle's voice, "Now take two laps around the village or so help me, NO BREAKFAST!"

Yue peered at Arelle's figure against the light as she entered the room, "My sisters! They fight so much that the only way to get them to stop is to tire them out!" She peered onto the skillet, "Good job, I'll finish the rest, and if you really want to, you can scrub the stew pot."

How hard can it be? Yue thought, taking up the hard sponge and beginning scrub at the stuck on food, but she made absolutely no progress. She dropped the sponge and raked at the mess with her nails, and a small chunk fell off into her hands. This is going to take forever!

With a flick of her wrist, Yue picked the sponge back up and scrubbed at the pot again, but this time there was a different feel to the scrubbing, she was scrubbing iron! It was as if the water had pulled all of the grime off of the pot.

"Now that's cool…" Arelle stood over her shoulder, "I didn't know that waterbenders could clean pots."

"A…waterbender?" Yue looked at her hands. What was it that the Ocean Spirit had said? "We bestow this gift to you Goddess of the Moon. The water is your will, your force to control, and we Spirits will give you the ability to bend it." She had nearly forgotten the words after her body had been returned to the mortal world. She was a waterbender! And she would be able to control her abilities if she only had some practice and could remember the many katas, or bending stances, that the Ocean Spirit had showed her during hours of boredom in the land beyond.

"Come on Tsuki," Arelle handed Yue a plate, "Let's eat, it'll be another five minutes before Fara and Shan get back, and the food will be cold by then." She served Yue two of the sausage patties and two eggs, as well as a heaping pile of collected nuts from the forest. "They're supposed to give travelers their energy."

"Thank you so much Arelle," Yue's bow made the other girl sigh.

"There is no need for such formality, I'm just being a good person helping a traveler," she picked up a meat patty with chopsticks and took a small bite, "It's one of our people's ancestral traditions, because you never know who or why a person is traveling. I even heard that the Avatar is back, and who would want to refuse him, eh?"

Arelle peered closely at Yue, "Or…her. Are you-?"

"No," Yue sighed at the ground and looked at her now-empty plate, "But I have seen him, the Last Airbender," she giggled, "You cant mistake him! He rides around on a giant, six-legged bison that flies. That's kind of hard to miss."

"Really! So how did you meet him!"

"He came to…my homeland to seek a Master to teach him waterbending," Yue stopped suddenly, she couldn't give too much away. "What's taking your sisters so long?"

"You're right…it's been over twenty minutes since they took off, way too long." Arelle stood up and walked out the door, closely followed by Yue. "Where could those girls have gone?"

"Didn't they say something about a teacher?" Yue mused, "Maybe they ran into him."

"Of course, follow me Tsuki!"

The two girls took off, Yue weighted down by her cloak and Arelle setting a fast pace. They jumped over boulders and darted across stepping stones on a quick-moving river before arriving at a small hut in the forest.

"Conae-Sensei lives here," Yue's brow lifted at the sounds of a giggle and an annoyed sigh, "That's them."

"SHAN! FARA!" Two heads peeped out of the deerskin door, "You two are missing breakfast!"

A lean man stepped out the door, his ebony hair strongly contrasting against pale skin, and sapphire eyes matching his cobalt-blue robe. His eyes locked onto Yue's and he smiled.

"Fara, Shan…how come you didn't tell me that my sister was passing through town?"

"Sister?" Arelle and Shan's jaws dropped.

Fara laughed, "I knew there was something familiar about her!"

"Oh Tsuki, aren't you going to give your brother Conae a hug?" Yue awkwardly embraced him; Fara was right, there was something familiar about him: the blue robes, that salty smell…she glanced up and saw a small ring of pale coral hanging onto his ear. Her eyes went wide.

"Conae…" the word "ocean" in a different arrangement. Of course! The Ocean Spirit had told her that at almost any time, at least four Gods and Goddesses roamed the mortal world. A grin crept across her face.

"Tell me, has father sent you anything to give to me?" Yue asked.

"Why yes…it arrived yesterday, please come in!" The four girls followed the Ocean God into his home and marveled at the massive amounts of decorations, blue and silver tapestries hung from the walls, and elaborate metal sculptures stood around the room. "Just hold on a second!"

Yue watched as he rummaged in a sack and pulled out a thick scroll, "The thing he promised you! Use it wisely and…" he reached in again and pulled out a steel fan, "This he sent for your protection." A smile ran over the Ocean God's face, lighting up his eyes. "Your destination lies to the South-West."

"Oh thank you Conae!" Yue threw her arms around her false brother, "And as soon as you can, give father my thanks."

The sun was halfway to its zenith when Yue set out to continue her journey carrying a full pack stuffed with provisions from her "brother" and the three girls she had met. The steel fan she kept in one of her robe's many pouches, and her water scroll was tightly wrapped in an oilskin to keep it from being damaged.

A/N: Okay, the next update will be probably next Tuesday due to a tournament in Virginia Beach which will not end until Monday, then it's a long drive back home and I'll probably get home late Tuesday…I think I have a game that night as well as pitching practice. Oh well, please review! Get a slice of chocolate cake!