Chapter 3: Yorru
The next morning I went to Kya to see what she had to say about the dreams I had.
I showed her the painting as well as she immediately asked me where I had seen the girl, almost sounding panicked…. But when I asked her why, she said it was nothing and that I should ask Tenzin for advice.
"Yeah, I tried that already and I gotta tell you, it didn't went all too well…."
I said with a smirk on my face before I thanked her for her time and went back to painting, but my thoughts were once again elsewhere…. I didn't dream at all that night, because I was to busy pondering over that strange girl…. Who she was, were she was from, and most importantly, if she was real. Or was she only in my imagination? Someone I made up?
Who are you, you appear in my dreams but we never met, are you real, or just someone that exists in my mind…
I wrote down next to the painting I made in my diary of the girl, hoping one day, I would know who she is... and why she appeared in my dreams. I was pondering about this when i saw Ikki and Meelo walk my way with what seemed like a new airbender. But something was off with his eyes... I couldn't place it but he looked like a bad guy in disguise.
"And this is Femke! She's a good fairy and a friend of grandpa Aang, she is really nice and she can bend three of the four elements as well, thanks to her powers."
Ikki happily told the stranger, who gave me a shocked look before he nodded and beamed at me brightly. Almost instantly believing what Ikki had just told him, though most people didn't believed these kinds of things and started to ask me to prove it. And and after that, they start to ask me 100 questions at once. Which in my eyes meant he was either very easy going with these kinds of things or he didn't want to get in trouble by asking me more about this kind of stuff because he knew I would ask questions in return as well.
"Nice to meet you Femke. My name is Yorru; a new airbender recruit." The man said as he shook my hand with a smile on his face. I looked at him with a suspicious look, as i just nodded and shook his hand as well before i went with ikki and meelo to guide the stranger around. I didn't do that only because i wanted to help the kids guide this man around, but also because I wanted to keep a close eye on him because i didn't trusted this guy at all. I didn't know what... but something was off with this guy... and I knew telling someone else was gonna get me in trouble.
'Especially since I can't prove that he isn't worth trusting…'
I thought as I looked at this Yorru from the corner of eye every now and then. He was tall, around the 1,65 Metres tall, grey clothing that looked quit worn out. Bald with a strange bruise on his head and through his eyebrow and grey eyes that twinkled happily when she looked at him, and yet... His eyes also spoke of something else, something i couldn't quite place my finger on...
Zaheers POV
"And this is Femke! She's a good fairy and a friend of grandpa Aang, she is really nice and she can bend three of the four elements as well... thanks to her powers."
One of the two kids said, the kids that were the children of Tenzin and the grandchildren of Avatar Aang. The fools fell for my Yorru act with open eyes. They had no idea that I was actually Zaheer; the wanted criminal that wanted to take Avatar Korra as a child. They couldn't found out either, that would mean disaster for me and my friends. When they mentioned that this woman could bend three of the four elements as well because she was a fairy, I smiled at her, believing it almost instantly.
'There were more unique people in the world, why not? P''li was special as well... P''li…'
I thought, smirking as I thought about my love, safe and sound back at our hideout with Ghazan and Ming Hua. Soon I would be with her again. I had to concentrate now, or I might do something odd. That would arouse suspicion... something i didn't wanted to happen.
"Nice to meet you Femke. My name is Yorru; a new airbender recruit."
I therefore smiled at the young woman they had introduced me to, who looked at me with narrowed eyes, almost as if she was looking right through my disguise...
'That can't be. It must be my imagination…'
I thought as I looked at the woman with a neutral look in my eyes, not wanting to confirm to her I wasn't worth trusting if she was indeed able to see right through me. This time, she just smiled at me And followed us around as the kids showed me around their home.
"So… where are you from?"
I asked the girl after the kids were done guiding me around and left, the strange girl named Femke looked at me with a shocked look before she shrugged.
"Does it matter? I'm a firebender, and I'm married, so don't get any ideas."
She said coldly before she turned and walked away. I looked at her, shocked when she had said this. Like I wanted to flirt with her! The idea! I had P'li. We have been together for, well…. I can't even remember anything else. Why had she reacted so coldly? Did she REALLYfeel I wasn't worth trusting? Or was something else the matter?
'Maybe I just looked like I was trying to flirt with her and that's why she reacted like that. No big deal.'
I thought as I got a plate with some food as well and looked around where I could sit. There were several air acolytes in the room with whom I could sit and have a talk, maybe even get to know something about where the avatar was hiding. But then my eyes fell on her. She was sitting in the far back all alone, eating away her food as she read a book.
Dracula, by bram stoker
The title said, an unusual title. I had never heard of this 'Bram stoker' person, and I knew a lot of books, including all the books and stories about Guru Laghima, the wisest airbender who ever lived and my greatest inspiration.
"Mind if I sit here?"
I asked her as I walked over to her table and looked at the strange picture on the front of her book. The brunette looked over the side of her book, rolling her eyes at me in a very Ming-Hua like way, like 'sure, if you have to' before she went on with reading.
"I'm sorry if i did something wrong... I didn't mean to offend you. It's just that I was a little curious if you were an airbender as well."
I said, trying to sound like I meant what I said. I wasn't really... but if she knew where I could find the avatar, I was willing to try and talk to her.
"No, I 'm not, so please leave me alone now. I'm reading."
The girl snapped at me with a angry look on her face, which made me look at her, shocked, unable to understand why she was being so nasty to me, since I hadn't said anything weird or wrong. I just tried to talk to her.
'Either she is a real unpleasant person. or she is indeed seeing right through me.'
I thought as a group of fellow airbenders sat down a few tables further. And as I looked around, I saw no one was sitting close to the girl. Everyone avoided contact with her.
"Yorru! Come sit with us!"
One of them called over. I looked at the black haired man with a small smile as I shook my head.
"No thanks, I'm fine here."
I replied as I looked at the reading girl with a small smile. She has something mysterious around her, a feeling I couldn't place... Which wasn't love, because I would know that one from P'li. It was something else... Something strange... Like I knew her from somewhere, though I had no idea where.
"Why? You rather sit alone?"
One of the air acolytes mocked me now, which made me look to the strange girl with an odd look. Was she invisible? Then why did I see her? And if she isn't invisible… Why are they ignoring her?
"Im sitting with Femke. I wanted to ask her what the book she's reading is all about."
I replied as I pointed to the brunette who looked up at me with a shocked look, probably because I either saw her or acknowledged that she existed.
"You best ignore her, Yorru. She's that weird girl that hangs around the Avatar and her friends all the time, claiming she was part of the old Avatar's group of friends, which no one can proof."
The air acolyte said as she looked darkly at Femke, who looked back just as darkly, before she slapped her book shut and walked off.
'Well... end of conversation I guess. Though I wonder why she's being so locked off from the rest. Why isn't she fighting to get seen?'
I thought as I sat down with the other airbenders now and looked at the spot where the girl had disappeared to, feeling she wasn't all she appeared to be. And if everyone else ignored her because they thought she was a weirdo, I would bet she must be dying to have someone to talk to. And if it was true that she was close with the Avatar I'm sure she will know where she was hiding at the moment. I got up and told my fellow airbenders I had ate enough and left the table without saying another word, starting to look for the mysterious Femke.
Femke's POV
"Im sitting with Femke here. I wanted to ask her what the book she's reading is all about."
The new man Yorru said as he was sitting next to me, even though I was completely ignoring him from the moment he sat down with me uninvited. I wasn't interested in talking to him, at one hand because I wasn't interested in him, and at the other; I was busy reading my book; Dracula.
"You best ignore her, Yorru. She's that weirdo girl that hangs around the Avatar all the time, claiming she was part of the old Avatar's friends... which no one can proof."
The air acolytes told Yorru as they looked at me darkly, which I answered with the same dark look in my eyes, hating them for saying this. They were probably right with this ruining my chances of ever making a friend down here. This is why I got up without saying another word, slamming my book close as I did soand left, not looking back at them for a moment.
'It just was too good to be true…'
I thought as I went to a lone part of the island and started to practice my bending skills. I was so caught up in my bending that I didn't see Yorru had found me somehow and was standing with his back against a tree as he was watching me. I noticed he was watching me when I finished my last earthbending stance, because he had started to clap for me. I looked up shocked when I saw him, surprised he had been able to find this secret place I had found and made my new training hole. And second that he seemed to enjoy being around me. Something most airbenders and air acolytes didn't do.
"How long were you watching?"
I asked him with a hostile tone in my voice as I looked at him angrily.
"I just wanted to talk to you. After I saw how they treated you, I thought you might like someone to talk to…"
The man said as he took a step close towards me, his eyes twinkling in the dark gave me a sick feeling in my stomach, like my whole body was telling me this man wasn't worth trusting...
"No thanks... "
I snapped before I walked off, stopping when I felt a hand, his hand.. on my shoulder, and he looked at me with a dark look that gave me the shivers.
"You can trust me, believe me. It's okay. I'm here for you. If you want to talk or just... don't want to be all alone."
Yorru said with a calm voice and in had to admit, I did suspect him at one hand, but at the other... he had something mysterious but also something that was making me feel good after all. He did say I could trust him. Maybe I should give him a chance...
'After all, Lord Zuko changed as well because he got a second chance.'
I thought as I nodded and sat down. In the end I spent the rest of the day with the mysterious Yorru. During lunchtime he ignored the others saying I was a freak and that he shouldn't sit with me and sat by my side. And before I went to sleep I looked at the roof of my room, feeling glad to have someone to talk to at last. Someone who seemed to be very wise, kind and caring.
'Maybe I could talk about those nightmares to Yorru. Maybe he knows what they mean, since Tenzin refuses to help me. And Yorru seems to be just as wise as he is.'
A voice in my head told me. And I had to admit... That wasn't such a bad idea since Tenzin refused to help me, maybe Yorru knew what it could mean.
'I'll talk to him first thing in the morning. Then I will finally get some answers. At least I hope so…'
I thought as I snuggled up in my pillow and quickly fell in a deep sleep, once again with the nightmare about the strange girl...
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This ends the third chapter of the story. I hope you enjoyed it.
A/N:
Femke definitely had a feeling Yorru was in fact the wanted criminal Zaheer. But due the lack of proof she didn't sound the alert, as well as the fact that no one would believe her anyway.
The dreams femke keeps having are of her interrogating P'li in the last however, the cell ... meaning P'li had escaped. This was meant as a warning of what was gonna happen. Though Tenzin must have understood this, he got mad at her, since the Avatar is normally the only one with vision powers.
Thinking Femke was part of the new Team Avatar since had been bonded with the old Team Avatar as well will come back later in the series. Just keep in mind Zaheer and Femke are already lightly bonded.
Well, that was all for now. I hope you enjoyed it people. Anyway, thanks for reading and don't forget to leave a REVIEW
and thanks paranoidgirl for doing such a wonderfull job as beta reader