Chapter 3 "Erono"
The girls walk back to the camp.
"Hey! Guys, guess what! Pacia's a water bender!", Katara yelled.
"Soooo?" Sokka replies, uninterested.
"That's great!" Aang yells with enthusiasm. Pacia just stands there, blushing from getting so much attention. Vala walks over to the fire.
"Someone go get some fire wood. The fire's gonna die, soon", Vala said, staring into the fire.
"Well... Okay...? Sokka, go south. Aang, north. I'll go east. Pacia, you and Vala stay and clean up, okay?" Katara says. Everyone nods. Aang, Katara, and Sokka leave.
10 minutes later
"Vala, code red," Pacia says, pointing to the fire just as it goes out.
"I'm on it!" Vala says as she walks over to the fire. She bends down, picks up the last stick, and lights it on fire using basic fire bending. She sets it where the old fire was.
"There!" declares Vala.
Unknown to Vala and Pacia, Sokka is sitting in the forest finding wood when he sees Vala "fix" the fire. He over hears them talking.
"Pacia, what's wrong?" Vala asked.
"I feel guilty..." Pacia groans.
"I know what you mean. We'll tell them, one day" Vala said.
"I know..." Pacia says.
5 minutes
Sokka meets Aang and Katara in the forest.
"I knew it!" Sokka says.
"Knew what?" Aang asks, confused.
"It's Vala and Pacia, if that's their real names!" Sokka said, "They're keeping something from us! I heard them talking about it!"
"It's probably nothing," Aang said.
"I saw Vala do something weird to the fire and it burst into flame!" Sokka yelled.
"Leave him alone!"
Aang, Katara, and Sokka spin around to see a group of adults and children standing in a wide circle. A very familiar voice raises out of the center of the circle.
"I said, LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
"That's Vala!" Katara yelled, running toward the crowd. Sokka and Aang follow. They run up to see Pacia, Vala, and a beat up teen boy in the middle of the circle. Pacia is helping the boy up and Vala is standing in front of Pacia and the boy. With her hands balled up in fists and yelling at everyone.
"Will you just step aside and give us the boy?" an adult yells at Vala.
"No, we will not!" Vala yelled fiercely.
"Just let us pass and you'll never see us again!" Pacia said.
"No way! He owes us!" a girl yells from the crowd.
"Fine, then, you leave us no choice!" Vala says, popping her knuckles, "Pacia, do your thing!"
"Right," Pacia nods and hands the boy to Vala, who grabs his shoulder while Pacia does the same thing.
"Charge!" Vala yells. They start to run through the crowd. Vala ramming people out of the way, while Pacia was soaking people with water with water bending. All the while, Aang, Katara and Sokka stood there, dumbfounded, until Vala caught sight of them.
"Catch!" Vala pushes the last person standing out of her way and Pacia and Vala shove the, now unconscious boy at Sokka and Katara. they catch him and set him on the ground. Vala and Pacia get dragged back into the angry mob.
"Aang, help them! Katara yells at Aang.
"Okay," Aang says as he takes a deep breathe and makes a gigantic tornado that blows everyone, except Pacia, away.
"Pacia!" Katara yells as she runs over to Pacia, who is lying on her stomach, "Are you okay?"
"Fine..." Pacia whispers, getting up, "Where's... Vala?"
"Uhhh... Aang... Kinda blew her away..." Sokka said.
Later
"Vala!" Katara and Pacia yelled as they walked through the forest.
"Uhhh..." a groan comes out of a nearby tree.
"Vala?" Pacia asks, startled.
"Uhhh... P... Pacia?" the voice says.
"VALA!" Pacia yells, running up to a tall pine tree.
"Pacia! Up here!" Vala calls from her tree, "Look out!" Vala jumps down from the tree and lands on her feet in front of Pacia and Katara. Vala falls over.
"You okay?" Katara asks as Vala gets up.
"Fine! Just a little tired," Vala said.
"Let's get you back to camp," Katara says. Pacia, Katara, and Vala walk back to camp.
At Camp
"Look who we found!" Katara yells as they enter camp with Vala.
"Great!" Aang says, happily.
"How's that guy doing?" Pacia asks, walking into camp.
"I'm fine," comes a voice near the fire.
"Eep!" Pacia says, surprised.
"Guys, this is Erono," Sokka said.
"Uhh... Hi," Pacia says, timidly.
"Hey," Vala says, sitting near the fire.
"I'd just like to say, thanks for saving me," Erono says, embarrassed.
"You're welcome," Pacia says.
"Yeah, whatever, all I know is right now, I hurt all over and it feels like I was hit over the head with a frying pan!" Vala says, rubbing her head. She pulls her hand back and there's blood on it, "Oh, well, I'm bleeding."
"What? That's it, you're bleeding?" Sokka said unbelievably, "You're telling me, you didn't feel that?"
"Uh... No," Vala said. Katara hands her some bandages. She wraps them tightly around her head. They all shrug and go to sleep.
