AN: Yay I actually did this chapter that makes this literally the longest chapter I have ever done. Ok so disclaimer… I do not Own Avatar: the Last Airbender because of Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino. I do not know if that is actually how their names are spelled. If not please forgive me. Also minor rape scene in the end of the chapter. Nothing really happened but if you are sensitive to these thing please do not read the end of the chapter. For any of you Disney fans it is like the Lucaya kiss, it didn't really happen, but it was implied. As always… Happy Reading!
Maya's POV
There is something going on I can feel it one minute Sokka and I are joking and messing around the next he is acting hostile and I don't know what to make of it. It is like he became 2 different people since that flare went off. What makes it worse is that I'm not allowed to go outside. Wait a second. Why am I being obedient all of a sudden? I pick up my staff run outside and take off. I really like flying my glider. It's just me in the clear blue sky, no noise no nonsense and I am at the peak of my spirit awareness. Looking down I am seeing a lot of white snow and the occasional blue pond. Soon I see an orange blur and I start to descend.
I land and see Aang and Katara walking quickly towards the village. In my chest I can still feel guilt and fear throbbing and it is starting to physically hurt. "Aang! Katara! Wait up!"
Aang turns around and yells "Maya, this may look bad but, it was totally an accident, I swear! I didn't mean to set of any booby trap!"
Booby Trap? What booby trap?
"You wouldn't happen to be talking about the flare would you?" I asked dreading the answer.
"No..." said Aang.
I raised one eyebrow
"Maybe?"
"Aang just tell the truth and the punishment will not be too severe." I say calmly knowing this will make him spill. I'm not actually gonna punish him I was just quoting the many times that Monk Gyatso said this to me and sometimes to both of us.
Aang sighed "Yes." He said dropping his head. "I made Katara go on the fire navy ship and well… that happened." he said pointing to the flare that was still somehow in the sky.
"Wait, hold up. Who gave you the right to punish Aang?" said Katara.
"Who died and made you interrogator? Whoever did should've taught you to find more evidence of a crime before you hold an interrogation." I said sagely and coolly.
Soon enough we reached the village.
"Yay! Aang and Maya's back!" said the village kids.
I looked into the crowd and saw that while the kids were happy to see us the adults were on the other side of the emotion scale.
"I knew it!" He accusingly points a finger at Aang as we draw closer. "You signalled the Fire Navy with that flare! You're leading them straight to us, aren't you?" said Sokka angrily "And you!" he says swirling around and pointing fingers at me. "You snuck out of the hut when we told you not to which only furthers my point that you two are in fact fire nation spies.
"What proof!" I yell. "That we don't wear water tribe clothing and have pale skin like the rest of the world! Because I don't follow all of your rules and Aang was being a nimrod and accidentally broke them… No offense Aang! That I managed to beat you in a spar even though I am a twelve year old girl!" I shout enraged at this accusation.
"Aang didn't do anything! It was an accident." said Katara.
"Yeah. We were on the ship and there was this booby trap, and, well - we booby-ed right into it." said Aang.
Oh shoot they shouldn't have known about the ship part… oh well, I tried.
"Katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship! Now we could all be in danger!" said Gran-Gran
"Don't blame Katara. I brought her there. It's my fault." said Aang
Oh sweet Vayu, spirit of the sky, please help this kid, now he just confessed!
"Aha! The traitor confesses! Good luck trying to get your way out of this one windbag. Warriors, away from the enemy. The foreigners are banished from our village." said Sokka triumphantly in my direction.
Windbag is a very offensive term in my culture, It is basically a bad word except it is pure in speech but filthy in meaning. I guess Genius knew about the term, but I won't give him the satisfaction of seeing the desired effect. Aang looks over at me but I quickly turn my gaze away but I can feel a bubbling in my chest that I am almost half sure is not mine.
"Sokka, you're making a mistake." said Katara.
"No, I'm keeping my promise to Dad. I'm protecting you, from threats like him!" said Sokka.
"Aang is not our enemy! Don't you see? Aang's brought us something we haven't had in a long time: fun." replied Katara.
"Fun?! We can't fight firebenders with fun!" retorted Sokka.
"Get out of our village! Now!" Said Sokka screaming at us.
The bubbling just turned into anger, but I realise that this definitely is not just my own anger.
"Grandmother, please. Don't let Sokka do this!" said Katara pleading.
"Katara, you knew going on that ship was forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it best if the airbenders leave." said Kanna, I guess I can no longer call her Gran-Gran.
"Fine! Then I'm banished, too!" said Katara a fire in her eyes that I have never seen before. We may be more alike than I thought. Then she straight up starts to drag us by the collar towards Appa.
"I'm walking, I'm walking geez!" I mutter.
"Where do you think you're going?" said Sokka
"To find a waterbender. Aang is taking me to the North Pole." said Katara defiantly.
"I am, great" said Aang but he doesn't seem genuinely happy confirming my suspicions that this is not my own anger at resident blockhead.
"Katara! Would you really choose him over your tribe? [Shows shot of the entire Southern Water Tribe.] Your own family?" said Sokka.
"Katara, I don't want to come between you and your family." said Aang understandingly.
"So, you're leaving the South Pole? This is goodbye?" said Katara.
"Thanks for penguin sledding with me." said Aang.
"Where will you go?" said Katara directing this statement towards both of us but Aang still answered.
"Guess we'll go back home and look for the airbenders. Wow, I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years. Not looking forward to that. It was nice meeting everyone."
"Come on Appa, you can do it. Yip-yip!"
Aang flicks the reins, but Appa merely rises and growls.
"Yeah, I thought so!"says Sokka sarcastically.
"Gasp! It can think!" I sneer at Sokka.
"AHHHH! NO Aang, Maya, I'll miss you" said a village girl.
"I'll miss you, too." said Aang.
"Bye Kids. Come on, boy." I say.
Appa turns and plods away. I turn my back on the tribe and there is silence, soon after we are blocked by a snow dune I break down into tears. I don't like crying I'll admit but it makes me feel better. Aang soon jumps onto Appa's head and pulls me into his chest. This is something he has not done for me before and something in me broke. I sob harder trying to get out all of the embarrassment, sadness, anger and all the other emotions clouding my thinking and logical judgement. Aang doesn't say anything his attention apparently solely on the weeping girl in his arms. Soon I eventually stop crying and start hiccupping and then I am silent. I am still in Aang's arms but I am comfortable. Eventually I start to get off of him.
"You good now?" he asks.
Am I good now? I guess the pain is gone but I still am gonna feel the sting of those words because of who actually said them to me. Sokka, who I was actually starting to trust basically just slapped me in the face.
"I guess." I say walking towards the water.
I wash my face and walk back to the ice nook that we were at.
"Hey Aang?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I read your aura?" I asked.
"Sure." came the response.
I sat facing Aang and cleared all thoughts of everything else. All I have to do is stare into his grey eyes. I really have to concentrate. Then colours start swirling. The base is a bright yellow, this is good it means Aang is spiritually inspired or experiencing a spiritual awakening. He has a playful spirit and will act on his thoughts. There is a lemon yellow spot on it though. Lemon yellow is associated with fear of a great loss. Healthy dose of bright orange meaning a desire to live life to the fullest extent. Light blue means you are peaceful and serene… good with communication skills. I'm only seeing one more colour gold. That one means that you are protected by a deity. I soon break my gaze and start breathing hard. I've been looking for a while. Gets me a bit tired. On the bright side my spiritual side is up and running again.
"Maya, what did you see?" asked Aang.
"Bright and lemon yellow, Bright orange, Light blue, gold" I say.
"Um… translate to English please." says Aang deadpan.
"You are spiritually inspired, you have a playful spirit, you are afraid of losing or having to lose something or someone, you desire to live life to the fullest, you are peaceful, good with communication skills, and a new one, I think you are being protected by a spirit." I say.
"Seriously, you have got to teach me how to do that." says Aang.
"It is so cool, it is like you are reading me or something." Continues Aang.
"Tecnically that is what aura reading is and maybe I will teach you sometime."
"You know- What is that?!" I say breaking my sentence.
"The Village!" Aang says.
I am a really fast runner without airbending. Add together airbending and the fight or flight mechanism in our brain and you have basically the highest speeds of a tornado ten-fold. Needless to say it takes two minutes to reach the village. Aang taking up the rear on the penguin. I laugh at what I see after Aang goes into the heart of the matter. Aang soars into the air as the boy lands on his face, his legs in the air. He spins around a few times before coming to a halt in front of his men, his helmet landing on his rear.
The villagers are cheering as Aang rides speedily toward them, still mounted on the penguin. They are showered in snow as Aang rides past, however, after giving each other silent, unamused looks for a few seconds, they begin cheering once again, shaking the snow off.
I see that the soldier has just regained his bearings. So I climb onto the ship I do a backflip into a hand stand from the ship landing on the boy's head and propelled myself off of him and into a front flip. Soon he was back on the ground and I was in front of him.
"Show-off!" said Aang playfully.
"Jealous!" I retorted back just as playful.
"Hey, Katara. Hey, Sokka." said Aang.
"Hey Katara, Blockhead." I say.
We look back at the Fire Nation soldiers, where their apparent leader just got back on his feet again. Upon his signal, his men spread out, surrounding us while the leader assumes a fighting stance. We assume a fighting stance as well, our staffs held firmly in front of us as we are being surrounded by the soldiers. He sweeps the ground side-to-side with his staff, showering the men with snow. I subsequently slam the ground, sending a rush of snow at him who braces for the impact. After being sprayed with snow, and heating it up so it would melt off, he looks up angrily.
"Looking for me?" says Aang.
"You're the airbender? You're the Avatar? So she has to be the Deva!"
"Thank you Captain Obvious, now, what do you want?" I asked sarcastically.
"I've spent years preparing for this encounter, training, meditating. You're just children" said the boy.
"Well, you're just a teenager." said Aang confused and somewhat innocently.
"You've spent years, damn you really do need a life, or a girlfriend. If you want I can get in touch with my old friends." I say cracking a crooked smile.
The kid launches a series of fire blasts at us in anger at our remarks, we defend ourselves by twirling our staffs, dissipating the flames. He fires another blast at us, we twirl our staffs once again to fend the attack off. I look back at the villagers who cower as the flames stream through the air over their heads. Aang widens his eyes in horror at the sight of the frightened villagers and immediately ceases to defend himself.
"If we go with you will you promise to leave everyone else alone?" asked Aang.
After a brief moment of hesitation, He erects himself and nods in agreement. We are apprehended by His men, who take our staffs. Katara runs forward as they lead Aang away.
"Aang don't do this! Maya why are you letting him do this." Said Katara.
"Don't worry, Katara. It'll be okay. Take care of Appa for me until I get back." he says.
"Head a course for the Fire Nation, I'm going home." said the boy.
I have never been on a finer nation ship before and I instantly hate it. The metal is cold and I actually miss the sharp, cool fresh air of the tribe. I was led to a room in the back of the ship. Then I was chained and gagged chained soon a soldier came in and I soon became very uncomfortable.
"Come 'ere you" said the soldier.
Soon enough he realised I was chained and he trailed a hand up my leg and onto my thigh. I felt like I was going to throw up. Which is weird because I don't recall eating anything today. He then held me by the waist and gripped me hard pulling me up. He tried to kiss me and I had enough. I started screaming and he was biting my neck and I felt disgusting and dirty. The door soon banged open and I was met with the shout of an angry man with grey hair and then he firebended. Not at me but at the soldier. I'm not very sure as to what happened but soon I saw nothing but black.
AN: Congratulations to all those who made it this far I appreciate it. I know some of you are lighting torches and finding pitchforks to try and end me for almost getting a perfectly fine stable character raped. Man,that sounded better in my head. Anywho it was necessary for character development… and stuff, don't worry she'll be fine.
