InsaneFun: Onward!

The Next Step

"Sokka, I swear. That guy had…fire coming from his hand."

"Maybe while you were running you hit your head and couldn't see the torch he was holding."

"Sokka, it came out of nowhere…like out of mid-air."

"Oh so now he's a magician…you know this guy is sounding…cooler by the minute."

"Uh, you think this is just one big joke!"

Katara stamped her foot as she stirred the thick "goop" that would become dinner. It was the night after Toph and her had escaped the Di Lee.

"Well I guess I'll just go to Gran Gran with it," Katara remarked bitterly.

"Oh sure and then get busted when she finds out where you were last night."

Katara instantly gasped. Sokka held a strong point. Well, she would just find someway to work around it.

"Katara, you are getting much better at preparing this meal. A Ba Sing Se ancient recipe, you know?"

Sokka quenched his face, "Yeah…you got the ancient part right."

Katara glared at her brother from across the table before smiling at her grandmother.

"Gran Gran, I have a question for me."

"Hmm…I'm in the mood to be inquired of. What is troubling you?"

Katara giggled, setting down her bowl, "I'm not troubled, just curious. I was wondering…are there any people, outsiders that can…you know, hold fire."

Gran Gran stared at Katara, chuckling.

"What do you mean holding fire?"

"I mean like…like earth benders. Are there people who can…bend fire?"

Gran Gran's smile was instantly wiped from her face. Her smile seemed to disappear just as if you had blown out a flame.

"Where have you been?" she asked in a cold voice.

"Nowhere Gran Gran…well…well-"

"You went to go see that uptown girl again, Toph, didn't you?"

"Gran Gran, are there people-"

"Silence!" she screamed.

Both Sokka and Katara moved back when they heard their grandmother's voice ring. Her face seemed more hurt than mad.

"Katara, I never want to hear of this subject again…ever. I'm going to bed."

Gran Gran immediately bolted from the table and to her room. Both teenagers could hear her door slam shut.

"What did I tell? You shouldn't have gone out in the first place. Besides, it's just Toph."

"Will you shut up about me going out! Gran Gran wouldn't' be this upset if it was just about some stupid brainwashing thing."

"Then what do you think it really is Katara?" Sokka said with a sarcastic smirk.

Katara inched nearer to her brother with an

"I think…towns, cities…maybe even worlds outside of the walls."

Sokka stared at his sister a long time and then nodded his head.

"So you believe me?" she eagerly asked.

"Katara…I think now, even more than early…you need to go to therapy."

Katara groaned with frustration as her brother fell into a gals of laughter. She walked out the door, still hearing Sokka's faint chuckling.

"Gran Gran doesn't want to talk about it, Sokka thinks it's a entertainment…why doesn't anyone believe me? He did hold fire…I know it."

Katara pouted as the people of Ba Sing Se passed her by. Every single one looked the same. Whether it be their hair, their clothes, or even there face. Everyone had something common.

Katara gazed at the scene awhile before noticing that a Di Lee agent was staring right at her. He didn't move once and neither did she. Katara thought awhile, waiting for him to give up. When he finally turned he wrote something on a sheet of paper and put it slightly into his pocket. He then began to walk away.

Katara was about to roll her eyes and then walk right back inside but saw something that caught her attention. The paper had fallen from his pocket!

Running through the crowd, she made it to the other side of the street and scooped the paper up. Katara smiled in an crafty way before reading it's content.

"Blue eyes, brown hair, Zang Hi 21…"

Katara rose and eyebrow to it before repeating what she had just read.

"Blue eyes, brown hair, Zang Hi 21."

It only took her a moment more before a gasp was released from her mouth.

"I live on Zang Hi road, our house number is 21, brown hair, and blue eyes…the Di Lee…they're watching us."

Katara looked hurriedly around the street. Never before had she seen so many agents around and they all seemed to be looking at her.

Pacing slowly back across the street, Katara entered her house. She gasped for air when inside.

"I have to find that outsider…I need answers."

Grabbing her cloak and a map of the city, Katara went back outside into the place she used know as home.

"Zuko, I think we-"

"No uncle…I know the Avatar is here. He's been in hiding with the girl. I know it."

"Zuko, just try to let me explain."

"What is there to explain?! If the Avatar is here, I must find him whatever the cost. What was the address again?"

"Zang Hi, house number 21…"

"Good, I'm ready.

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