The first thing that Kailani noticed about the Avatar was that he was childish, really childish. Aang, as he claimed his name to be, jumps around the village with a large smile always plastered on his face. But of course, with him being the Avatar and all, he also has fan-girls. So Kailani was having a little trouble trying to get him on his own to talk, since he was either crowded by the younger girls of the village or his Water Tribe friends, Katara and Sokka. Normally, she would have just demanded him to talk to her but if she wants him to teach her air-bending, she knows that she just has to wait until he is free.
Even though Kailani is kind of annoyed that the Avatar is never left alone, she remembers that Air Nomads are meant to Monks and are usually separated from the other gender, so she can't really blame him if he is fantasying over the fact that females want to be around him.
But it is seriously getting out of hand. The girls are starting to chase him around the village like he is a handsome prince or something. Kailani thought she'll never get a chance to speak with him before he left and was losing hope faster than she can run, and she can run as fast as the wind!
But she finally saw her opportunity. An artist was painting a picture of the Avatar, just the Avatar. Kailani found it a perfect time to talk to him after the painting and snatch him away before the 8-year-old girls could. But, of course, the girls started to show up, just starting by one until a whole herd of them fell over one another and onto Aang.
Having about enough of all this, Kailani marched over to the whole group and stood in front of the fallen bunch with her arms crossed across her chest.
"Uh...Hi?" Aang awkwardly greeted with a small wave.
"Girls, go help your parents with chores or something, I'm sure they'll appreciate the help." Kailani softly spoke with her eyes saying 'Leave before I punch one of youguysin the nose'
After the girls left, Aang used the air around him to shoot himself off the ground and land gently in front of Kailani.
"Did I do something wrong?" He asked with a confused expression spread across his face, wondering why this girl was staring at him with pure disappointment.
"Katara," She began, figuring that she shouldn't just start with 'I'm an air-bender',"she's been angry with you, correct?"
Aang was taken aback by this question, he was not expecting her to say that.
"I guess?"
Kailani sighed at his blindness, "Your letting this new founded fame get to your head and she has been trying to tell you that, even though I haven't actually got a chance to speak with her," she gave nervous laugh at her realization of what she was implying without Katara actually saying anything to her, "but you can tell that she is disappointed with you and you shouldn't get your friends and family angry with you because, with this war going on, you don't know how long you will have with them?"
Aang bowed his head, her words replaying in his head, "Your right, it's just that I've never had girl want to hang out with me, let alone be close to me, as an Air Nomad we were separated-"
"I know." Kailani interrupted him, but decided to explain more at his confused look, "I've done my fair share of research on Air Nomads, my Grandmother being one and all." Kailani shrugged her shoulder as if it was no big deal, but Aang thought differently.
Her words kept on ringing in his head, 'Grandmother', 'Air Nomad'. If this girl, who he still didn't even know the name of, Grandmother was an Air Nomad, and possibly an Airbender, that means he wasn't the last one. There could be more airbenders and Air Nomads out there.
Kailani noticed Aang's expression brighten at her words and her face dropped, "I know what you are thinking, and no. My Grandmother was the only one to escape and she died before I was born."
Aang face dropped with hers, "Did she live here?" He asked.
"No, she lived at the Southern Water Tribe, where she met my grandfather and my father was born. She died six months before I was born and my parents fled, since my dad's father and my mum's grandparents where already taken away years prior for being Waterbenders." She sighed at the memory of her mother telling her the story of her grandparents. Apparently, they put up a noble fight and were one the last to be captured, her mum's father being the second last Waterbender to be captured, "I was born and raised at an Earth Kingdom village, but it was attacked when I was 7.
"My parents were most likely killed." Kailani head dropped, and her eyes forced shut as she tried to stop the tears that had begun to run down her tanned cheeks.
Aang didn't know what to say, he hardly knew this girl and she was already confiding her past with him. Wow, was he really this good!
Kailani glanced up at the Avatar to find a dumbstruck expression covering his face. She smirked, "I'm Kailani by the way."
Aang grinned at her, glad to have a change on the subject, "So, can I call you Lani or just Kailani or something else?"
She gave the Avatar a death glare at the name suggestions, "If you call me Lani I will have your head, Avatar or not."
Aang gulped, he didn't want to make the intimating girl have a reason to want to attack him, she might not even be a bender and he is still terrified by her.
"You can call me Kai though."
They both grinned at each other for what felt like hours, even though it was most likely only minutes.
"Talk to Katara." Kailani broke Aang out of his daydream.
Aang chuckled, and rubbed the back of his neck, "Yeah, will do." And with that he ran off back to the village's marketplace, glancing behind his shoulder at Kailani before being out of eye shot of the curious girl.
Kailani sighed. She wanted to tell him about her Airbending abilities but thought it wasn't the right time to do so. She'll just have to talk to him another time, if she will be able to have the opportunity to.
Approximately, an hour has passed since Kailani's little speech to Aang. And by the looks of it, it didn't sink through his tattoos.
"'Simple Monk,' huh? I thought you promised me that this Avatar stuff wouldn't get to your head?" Katara told Aang at the marketplace with her hands on her hips and frowned bloody murder right into Aang's soul.
"It didn't" He simply replied with a shrug of his shoulders, "You know what I think? You just don't want to come because your jealous!"
"Jealous?! Of what?"
"Jealous that we are having so much fun without you."
Katara hollowly laughed, "That's ridiculous!"
"It is a little ridiculous," He agreed with her, but not wanting to give her the satisfaction of being right, he added, "but I understand."
Both friends glared daggers at each other and Kailani thought it was time to intervene, "Okay, okay!" She jumped in the middle of the two with her hands spread out to keep some distance from both of them, "How about we all just calm down, and quiet down as well, because I bet you Unagi can hear this conversation."
"Kai, stay out of this!" Aang yelled at his new found friend.
Katara laughed with no emotion in it, "Let me guess, this is another one of your Fangirls?"
The 12-year-old girl's eyes widened, "What?! Spirits no! Seriously those girls annoy me so much! There something creepy about that KoKo chick?" She glanced behind her shoulder to see KoKo standing there with her hands on her hips and yelling at one of the other girls. Kailani shuddered.
"I just seriously hate seeing people fighting." she pointed her finger to the sky and attempted to impersonate a wise man, "It's the Avatar's job to bring peace and balance to the world and it's mine to stop pointless fights and arguments." Katara had an eyebrow raise while Aang looked like he was trying not to laugh.
Kailani turned to Katara, "I'm Kailani by the way, but just call me Kai." she pointed behind herself to where Aang was standing, "Mister popular and I already met after I yelled at all his fan-girls to leave the poor Avatar alone, I don't think he really cared if they stayed or go by the look of things."
Katara grinned at the young girl and then interlocked their arms, also picking up her basket, "Oh, we will make the greatest friends."
The girls left the dumbstruck Avatar as they left to go back to the new arrivals apartment.
"Aang just frustrates me so much!" Katara confided with her new friend.
Kailani and Katara sat in the water-bender's, her brother's and the Avatar's temporary apartment while they stayed at Kyoshi Island. Katara was practicing her water-bending, a plume of water rose and fell from the small bowl in front of her. Kailani just watched with interest flooding her eyes.
"I can see that, most likely because of your argument down at the markets."
Katara dropped her head, "Was I really that loud?"
Kailani was about to reply but Aang came to the door of the room, standing cockily as if he owns the world, "Katara, remember how the Unagi almost got me yesterday?"
Without looking up from her bowl, she replied, "Yeah." Her voice ringing with boredom.
"Well, I'm gonna go ride it now. It's gonna be REAL dangerous."
She still didn't look up from her bowl, but Kailani could see frustration starting to show on her face, "Good for you."
Surprised, Aang replied, "You're not going to stop me?"
Katara still stared at the bowl in front of her, the water she was bending starting to shrink, "Nope. Have fun."
Aang crossed his arms peevishly, "I will."
"Great."
"I know it's great."
"I'm glad you know."
"I'm glad you're glad."
"Good!"
"Fine!"
Aang turned to storm angrily out of the room. He pauses at the door and turns his head back to look at Katara. She is still intent on her water-bending and does not look up at him. His face falls and he walks out the door. Just as he is out of view, Katara lets the water fall back into the bowl, crosses her arms, and looks at the door which Aang has just exited through. She drops her head into her hands.
"Am I invisible or something today?" Kailani broke the frustrating silence and tried to lighten Katara's mood.
Katara didn't move a muscle at the other girl's statement and Kailani thought that Aang might of broke her, "Um, Katara? Are you at all in there or have you gone on a field trip into the spirit world?" She waved her hand in front of the water-bender.
"I'm fine." Katara muttered in her hands as she tried to reassure the preteen.
"You should go down there."
"What?" Katara looked up from her hands and raised an eyebrow.
Kailani sighed, "You should go down there and make sure he doesn't kill himself before he's meant to stop the Fire Lord." She smiled at Katara, "Anyway, I need to see my sister, Suki."
Katara got to her feet, "Yeah, you're probably-wait! Did you just say Suki was your sister?" Kailani's final words finally processing through her brain.
Kailani laughed, "Not biologically, but yes, now go. For all we know, he already killed himself by just walking there?"
As Katara left, Kailani made her way to the Kyoshi Warrior's dojo. When she arrives she sees Suki and Sokka circling each other in a battle stance. Sokka was wearing the traditional Kyoshi Warrior uniform, including the face paint and head piece. Kailani burst into hysterics, making the two to stop circling each other and stare at the preteen.
"Kai? What are you doing here?" Suki asked her sister as Sokka sunk back, obviously embarrassed about his current predicament.
Kailani's laughter started to slow down slightly and was able to catch her breath enough to say something, "I just came to see you, and I see that!" She pointed at embarrassed Sokka and her laughter increased again.
Sokka was about to say something, but was interrupted by Oyagi rushing to the door, where Kailani was standing at the time.
"Fire-benders have landed on our shores! Girls, come quickly!"
"Hey, I'm not a... oh, whatever!" Sokka gave up on the matter and rushed out the door with Suki, while Kailani ran into the dojo and grabbed her pair of golden fans and then sprinted outside to help.
She caught up to Suki and Sokka, who were hiding behind a house which was quite close to the gate to the village. Fire-benders could be seen entering the village and searching for, what they all guessed, the Avatar.
"Zuko." Sokka hissed underneath his breath as he caught sight of the guy who was leading the group of fire-benders, his left eye burnt and scarred.
Suki aligned her fan towards Zuko, ready to throw, "Kai, a little help with the aim?" She whispered while not taking her eyes off her target.
Suki threw her fan at Zuko, purposely missing him. As Zuko turned his attention to the three warriors, Kailani closed her eyes and lifted her arms up, focusing on turning the fan around to hit Zuko. A satisfactory clang could be heard from his direction and Kailani opened her eyes to see a confused Zuko throwing fire in the other direction of the three.
She turned back to her comrades, Suki having a congratulating grin plastered on her face while Sokka's jaw was hitting the floor.
"Your-Your..." Sokka stuttered.
Kailani grinned at him and then pushed him to go and fight with the other Kyoshi Warriors who were already advancing on the fire-benders. Sokka ran out in the open to help Suki, who was fighting Zuko. Kailani took a deep breath, preparing herself to reveal her air-bending to the Fire Nation.
Kailani stepped out from the village house and sent a gust of wind toward the closest fire-bender, knocking him off his rhinoceros and knocking him out. A few metres away from herself, she saw a Kyoshi Warrior losing a fight to a fire-bender who kept on sending fire balls in her direction. Kailani lifted her hands in front of her, her fans in both hands, and clapped them together, sending two gusts of wind colliding with each other, the fire-bender in the middle and knocking him unconscious.
Kailani sent gust of wind, after gust of wind towards fire-benders, slowing losing her energy and strength she once possessed at the beginning of the battle. Aang showed up with Katara shortly after Kailani began fighting and was currently facing Zuko.
Aang used Kyoshi Warrior fans to throw an enormous gust of air at Zuko, knocking him through the wall of a building. Aang drops the fans and picked up his staff, which he had knocked out of his hands before. He throws it into the air and flies over the now burning town, looking behind himself to see the statue of Avatar Kyoshi engulfed in flames. He lands next to Katara, who is helping a small child inside a random house.
Kailani sees where Aang and Katara are standing and quickly rushes over to them.
"Get inside." Katara ushers the young child inside the house.
Aang stands next to her, looking upset and heartbroken, "Look what I brought to this place."
"It's not your fault." Kailani reassured him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Yes, it is. These people got their town destroyed trying to protect me."
"Then let's get out of here." Katara suggested, "Zuko will leave Kyoshi to follow us. I know it feels wrong to run, but I think it's the only way."
Aang hung his head, "I'll call Appa."
The three ran behind the house and Aang left to call the Bison. Suki and Sokka arrived at their safe haven and Katara told her brother that they were leaving. Sokka and Suki said their goodbyes, her giving him a kiss on the cheek and then running off to help with the fight. Sokka grabs Kailani's hand and runs up Appa's tail. Kailani looks behind herself to see Suki glance in her direction and nods her head.
"Why is Kailani coming?" Katara asked Sokka, as him and Kailani landed on Appa's saddle.
He rubs the back of his neck, "I'll tell you later."
Katara nods her head as Aang tells Appa to go and the bison flies away from the burning Kyoshi Island. Aang, who is sitting behind Appa's head, has his head bowed and his hands tightly clasping the reins.
Katara leans forward, "I know it's hard, but you did the right thing."
"Yeah, that Zuko guy would have destroyed the whole place if we had stayed. Everyone is going to be fine, Aang." Kailani tried to help rise his mood.
Aang didn't reply and without a word, Aang suddenly dives off of Appa's head and into the bay, a determined expression on his face.
"What are you doing?!" Katara cries after him.
Katara, Sokka and Kailani watch in horror as Aang disappears under the water, the water's surface starting to shows concentric rings that Aang's dive has created. Several seconds go by before the Unagi bursts out of the water, Aang riding on it. He has hold of both whiskers and forces the Unagi's head towards the burning town of Kyoshi. He pulls back on the whiskers and the Unagi spews water over the town. The stream continues long enough to put out the fires Zuko and his army had begun.
Aang sees that Kyoshi is out of danger and lets go of the sea monster's whiskers. The Unagi rears it's head and Aang jumps into the air just as Appa swoops down and catches him in his front paws and flies off.
Aang climbs back onto Appa's saddle in front of his gaping friends, "I know, I know. That was stupid and dangerous."
Kailani just shook her, "That was so awesome!"
[A/N] Sorry that it took me so long to update. But if you cannot see it, this is a very long chapter, for me anyways.
I'll try (not 'will') to update weekly. Also thank you for those 5 people who voted on my first chapter, that's 5 more than I thought (Well before I even update my second chapter).
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