crisp water chill her body. Her eyes widened at the crystal clear scene, as she breathed in through her air bubble. A rainbow of fish swam by in a hurry,
scared of their visitors.
The same masked figure who had saved her made a signal for her to come to the surface. She nodded and let her body float to the top. She realized the water
was only up to her chest. Her air bubble popped, and she saw the bank of a forest. The trees glittered in the starry night sky. A cold wind chilled them,
making them sway to warm up. The figures sloshed through the water their dark clothes camoflouging with the sky.
The girl looked down at her blue water tribe clothes. Her bag had been taken and burnt, full of her possesions from her family. Her boots were full of water,
and her blue wrist wraps had probably been imprinted upon her. She neared the forest and was helped onto the land. She shook her head like a dog, her long
white blonde hair swinging around her face, splattering her surroundings. Most laughed, but her saviour seemed to be annoyed.
"Chong, why don't you find the Avatar some dry clothes?" asked the leader. She nodded and took the blonde girl with her. The girl named Kim ripped off her
mask, showing off her fierce silver eyes.
"She's not the Avatar!" she growled in a serious voice. He took off his mask and stared down at her questionably.
"When we were escaping," she started, "she did some of the stupidest things. And you saw how she dried herself like a dog! S-she's a moron!"
"She just has - a different way of expressing herself," he said without ease.
"If I was the Avatar, I wouldn't be messing around," she said darkly.
"Lighten up, Kim," said the leader. "It's just her personality. I'm sure she'll realize how big of a job this is," Chong brought the Avatar back in one of
Kim's dark outfits.
"Why is she wearing my clothes?" she protested as the Avatar squeezed water out of her hair.
"It was the only thing I could find to fit her," Chong said nervously. Everyone knew Kim could have quite a temper when she was upset.
"It's alright, Chong," said the leader. "Everyone can take off their masks now. And formation. The Avatar has some explaining to do." The girl looked nervous
Everyone filed into a circle pulling their hoods over their heads. The leader stepped in the middle motioning for the girl to follow. She did so reluctantly.
"What is your name?" he boomed.
"Anzu," she replied in a husky voice Kim hadn't noticed.
"Where are you from?"
"The Northern Water Tribe," she replied. "I've been trained in waterbending by the best."
"What other elements have you learned so far?" the girl's face fell.
"I-I haven't learned any other elements sir,"
"Then what made you think you could take down Azula?" Kim smirked and crossed her arms across her chest. She was getting what she deserved.
"A man promised to teach me martial arts," she started. "He said that's all I would need to defeat Azula. But it turned out he was a Fire Nation spy, and
they were offering money for my capture." He nodded. He opened his mouth to speak, but sensed something behind him. He turned and saw Fire Nation boats
coming towards them in the rising sun.
"KIM!" he barked.
"Yes?" she asked, hoping she would be sent to take down the ships. She loved the feeling of a thirteen-year-old taking down older and stronger men and women.
"I need you to go with Anzu. She needs someone to protect her." Kim's jaw dropped.
"No!" she cried. "I-I can't! I-"
"Kim, take Anzu and run," said the leader as the boats docked and guards started to pour out of the boats. "NOW!" Kim obeyed. She grabbed Anzu's wrist and
ran into the dark trees. They heard screams and bodies falling behind them.
"WHERE'S THE AVATAR?" one spat.
"Up here!" Kim whispered and junged up into the trees. Anzu cocked her head. Kim could see soilders in the distance.
"ANZU!" she hissed. Anzu stood on her hands and bent her knees over the tree bench. She swung herself over the branch then caught onto the next one. She
continued to swing herself up the tree until she reached the top where Kim was crouched behind branches. She sighed. Of course she had expected something
idiodic from her. Fire Nation guards clomped through the trees and ended up right below them. The girls barely dared to breath.
"They couldn't have gotten far," one grumbled. "Check the trees!" The girls slouched deeper into the branches.
"Huh," thought Kim. "That's the smartest thing she's done all day." A FireNation guard looked up and caught sight of a lock of Anzu's hair.
"Up there!" he screeched.
Before the girls could jump to another tree, the guard punched into the air shooting fire from his knuckles and caught the tree on fire. Before the girls
could leap to the next tree, he had caught the whole forest on fire. The girls were forced to jump down onto the ground, smoke filling up in their lungs.
The guards grabbed them roughly by their arms and started to march them away.
Kim fought for her freedom. She glanced over at Anzu who had fallen limp in the guard's arms, her eyes closed as if she was sleeping. Kim gritted her teeth.
What did she think she was doing? Did she WANT to go back to the Fire Nation palace?
Anzu was calming herself down. Her heart beat slower, and she found herself in a white, misty, blank spot in her mind.
"Avatar Aang," she said. "We need you."
Suddenly, there was a rumbling. Anzu opened her eyes, and everybody stopped.
"WHO'S THERE?" a guard yelled into the sky. There was a loud deafening roar. Anzu looked up and smiled.
"Fang!" she shouted as the dragon's head popped out from behind the trees. He was from the Spirit World, and was invisible to everyone except Anzu. Since she
was the Avatar, she was the bridge between the Spirit World and their world. The guards were knocked off their feet and thrown against the trees. They laid
on the ground groaning, while others were silent.
"And now she's talking - and petting - her invisible friend," Kim thought, narrowing her eyes as Anzu wrapped her arms around the sky. Then sat midair. It
had to be an Avatar thing...
"Come on, Kim!" said Anzu. "We have to go before the other guards find out they're missing!" Kim sighed, and Anzu helped her onto the air. Suddenly, she flew
up straight into the sky!