Hello guys and gals welcome to another exciting chapter. So I wanted to thank appa-appa-momo for reviewing my story and for becoming my first constant reviewer. So thank you. Oh and I wanted to apologize for the poor quality in spelling and grammar in the end. I finished it at like midnight maybe one in the morning. But anyway on with the show.
We were on our way to this island where Aang and I could ride the elephant koi. I was planing on riding it because like I said earlier, I hadn't had real fun in three years. And even though I didn't like water, I was willing to try anything at least once. Right now I think we were lost. We were flying over a giant ocean and Sokka was trying to find out where we were on the map. "You have no idea were you're, going do you?" Sokka asked Aang. "Well, I know it's near water." Was his reply. I pretended to look around. "Hm. Well no water here." I said irritably. We had been flying for several hours and I was becoming irritable. Everyone ignored my comment and kept doing what they were doing. At this moment Aang was trying to impress Katara with an airbending trick. He made these marbles float and spin. "That's great, Aang." Katara said paying more attention to her sewing than to Aang's trick. "You didn't even look." He said. She looked over and said "That's great." "But not I'm doing it now." "Stop bugging her airhead." Sokka said. "You need to give girls space when they do their sewing." 'Oh no.' I knew where this was heading. "What does me being a girl have to do with sewing?" Katara said her voice gaining an edge. "Nothing at all!" I said trying to stop the argument before it happened. "What he meant to say was people." "No I meant girls." I facepalmed. Sokka was digging himself a hole. "Girls are better at fixing pants than guys, and guys are better at hunting, and stuff like that. It's just the natural order of things. Katara gave Sokka a look and said. "All done with your pants, and look what a good job I did." She then threw the pants at Sokka, he then noticed the had a giant hole in them. "Wait I was just kidding! I can't where these! Katara please." Sokka yelled in despair. I sighed and shook my head and said. "I tried to stop you Sokka, but you didn't listen. You brought this on yourself." "Relax Sokka where we're going you don't need any pants." Aang then took us in for a landing.
We had just landed and Sokka was trying to deter Aang and I from our original course of action. "We just made a pit stop yesterday. Shouldn't we get a little more flying done before we camp out." "He's right." Katara agreed. "At this rate we won't reach the north pole until spring." At this point I decided to get in the conversation. "Look we can do this really easy. We relax and ride the elephant koi for like, five minutes tops, then we get on Appa and keep going." "Plus, Appa's tired already." Said Aang going along with my plan. "Aren't you boy." Appa gave a low groan in response. "I said aren't you boy." This time Appa yawned. "Yeah that was real convincing." Sokka said sarcastically. "Still hard to argue with a ten ton magical monster." That's when we saw it. An elephant koi jumped out of the water. "That's why we're here. Elephant koi, and we're going to ride them." He said as he took off his shirt and pants revealing a small bathing suit. I took off my dark red and black shirt, and black pants and hopped in. Aang hopped in as well, but as soon as he did he screamed. "COOOOLLLDDD!" The cold didn't bother me seeing as I was a firebender. Aang and I swam out a ways then we dove underwater and we each grabbed a dorsal fin on a koi. The kois swam with the fin above the water. The next time my koi jumped I dove for the whiskers I grabbed both and stood on it's head. When I moved it's whiskers it turned just liked I hoped. It was harder to stand, but it was worth it. I made my koi dive under water and as it rose to the surface I made it jump 10 feet up in the air. I saw Katara and Sokka wave for us to come back so I ran to the tail just before it jumped so it would fling me to the shore. My plan didn't work as well as I thought it would. It flung me but it didn't fling me to shore. Instead it flung me 10 feet from the shore and I was surprised so I started to flail, and I did a belly flop, and man did it hurt. When I got above the water I saw what looked liked a giant fan sticking out of the water, and I saw Aang running on the water away from it. I decided to follow his example but I just swam as fast as I could. When I got to shore Aang ran into Sokka, and the fin returned to the water. I grabbed my pants and shirt and put them on. Then Katara came over and asked. "What was that thing?" "I don't know." Aang replied. "I guessing sea monster. That thing just gave me another reason to dislike water." I said. "Wait, you don't like water?" Katara asked. "Yeah." I replied. "Why?" Asked Aang. "Uh... Hello firebender." I said producing a small flame to prove my point. "Well whatever it was let's not stick around to find out. Time to hit the road" Then out of nowhere these figures jumped out of the trees. Everything happened so fast I'm not exactly sure what happened. But I do know every one got tied up and blindfolded, and I was the first one they got. "Or we could stay awhile." Sokka said.
The figures from before led us away from the beach and tied us up to some kind of pole. "You four have some explaining to do." I heard a male voice say. "And if you don't answer all our questions, we're throwing you back into the water with the Unagi." A female voice this time said. "Show yourselves cowards!" Sokka yelled. after that I felt my blindfold being ripped off and I was met with the sight of a bunch of girls in green-blue robes. "Who are you? Where are the men that ambushed us?" Sokka asked. 'Oh no' That was the second time I had that thought today. "Sokka, now's not the time for you to be sexist." I whispered to him. But he wasn't listening. "There were no men." Replied the girl. "We ambushed you. Now tell us. Who are you, and what are you doing here?" "Wait a second." Sokka replied. "There is no way a bunch of girls took us down." I sighed and shook my head. Sokka would never learn would he. "A bunch of girls huh. The Unagi is going to eat well tonight." She said as she grabbed the cuff of his parka. Then Katara intervened. "No, don't hurt him! He didn't mean it! My brother's just an idiot sometimes." "It's my fault." Aang confessed. "I'm sorry we came here. I wanted to ride the elephant koi." "But he's a firebender." The man from before said pointing at me. "How do we know you're not Fire Nation spies. Kyoshi has stay out of the war so far and we intend to keep it that way." "This island is named for Kyoshi?" Aang asked perking up. "I know Kyoshi!" The man laughed. "Ha. How could you possibly know her. Avatar Kyoshi was born here 400 years ago. She's been dead for centuries." 'Time for the big revelation.' I thought. "I know her... Because I'm the Avatar." "That's impossible." The girl said. "The last Avatar was an airbender who disappeared a hundred years ago." "That's me." Aang replied. "Throw the impostor to the Unagi." The man said. All of the girls took out two fans and approached us slowly. "Aang do some airbending." Katara whispered as the girls surrounded us. Aang launched himself in the air and cut his ropes on the statue above than slowly floated down to the ground. The villagers murmured in awe. "It's true." The man said. "You are the Avatar." "Now check this out!" Aang said as he did his trick from earlier. Everyone cheer, and one guy started foaming from the mouth. After they cut Katara's and Sokka's ropes the man from before said pointing at me. "Now, what should we do with him?" "We should throw him the Unagi." The girl said. "What is it with you people and this Unagi?" I asked. "Don't worry." Sokka said. "He's with us." "Are you sure you can trust him?" He asked Aang casting me a sidelong glance. "He won't cause any trouble." Aang responded. "Avatar promise." "Hmph" The man said. "Cut him lose." A girl came up to me and cut my ropes with her fan. "Thank you." I told her as I rubbed my wrists and arms. I just got a ,"Humph." In response. "Well." I said.
The next day people started to repaint the statue of Kyoshi and they served us an assortment of deserts. "Wow! Dessert for breakfast! These people really know how to treat an Avatar." Aang said with a full mouth. "Katara you got to try these." "Well maybe just a bite." She replied taking the food. "Sokka, Lee whats your problem eat." Aang said to us. "I'm not hungry." Sokka replied angrily. I however stated my problem. "I am angry that these people don't trust me. I have done nothing wrong to them, yet they treat me like like I'm trash. And for what? Because I'm from the Fire Nation? A person should be judged by they're actions. Not by where they're from." I said angrily. "Maybe the world will be like that someday but right now everyone is afraid." Katara said trying to comfort me. It didn't work. "That's easy for you to say." I grumbled. "They don't give you sideways glances as you walk through the market. They don't cross the street when they see you coming." "That doesn't mean you should starve yourself." Aang said trying to reasonable. "You're right." I said as I got up. I grabbed a random dessert and started to walk out. "Where are you going?" Katara called after me. "I'm going for a walk!" I yelled back angrily. When I got to the street level I started to walk towards the woods. I needed to be alone. I looked around and saw the usual, people giving me sidelong glances from the other side of the street. I sighed and continued walking. Then I saw something unusual. I saw a man approaching me with an angry look on his face. "Can I help you?" I asked. "I know what you're up to!" He said pointing his finger in my face. I moved back and asked. "And that would be what, exactly?" "You're here to destroy our village! You may have fooled the Avatar and his friends, but you don't fool me!" A small crowd had gathered at this point and it looked like a fight might break out. "And I'm going to stop you!" The man charged at me and threw a punch at me. I dodged and backed up, he charged at me again and I dodged again. This time though the guy tripped over his own feet. A large part of me wanted to beat the crap out of this guy, wanted to take out my frustrations on this guy. But another part knew I couldn't do that, he was just confused and scared. Scared for his home. I had an inner conflict going on, between the part that wanted to beat this guy to a pulp, and the part that knew I couldn't. The latter won out, and I ran out of the crowd. As I ran I heard the man yell. "That's right, run you coward!" I kept running until I reached a particularly dense section of forest. I sat down as I caught my breath. I sighed and to myself. "Great. I'm probably going to get talked to when I get back." I heard a rustling in the tree and immediately got up and into stance. I saw some jump from the tree. It was the girl from yesterday who cut my ropes. "What do you want?" I asked as I dropped my stance. "I... I wanted to thank you for not hurting my father." "You mean that guy who tried to pick a fight with me?" I asked. "Yeah. That's Dad. My dad is a little cautious with people from the Fire Nation. Well everyone is but he has another reason. Fire Benders killed my mother." She said sadly. "That's one thing we have in common." I replied. That shocked her. "What do you mean?" She asked. "My family didn't like the war, so the Firelord had them killed. They killed my mother, father, and my older brother." I responded "So you hate them just as much as everyone else." She said as she came to the realization. "Yes." Was my simple reply. We stood in silence for a few moments before she broke it. "I want to apologize for the way I treated you yesterday." She apologized. "It fine." I replied. "I just wish everyone had your attitude. Everyone has avoided me as much as possible just because of where I'm from. They don't even know my name." "What is your name?" She asked. "Lee." I responded then realizing I didn't know her name I asked. "What's yours?" "Miyuki." She replied smiling. "Nice to meet you Miyuki." I smiled. "Likewise." She replied. "I'd like to talk some more, but I'm probably going to be yelled at by Mr. Feed them to the Unagi." She giggled and said. "You mean Oyaji. He's the leader of the island." I shrugged. "Either way I'm getting yelled at." "I can vouch for you." Miyuki said. "I saw the whole thing." "You'd do that?" I asked. "Yeah." She replied. "What are friends for?" That sentence caught me off guard. We'd only just met and she already consider me her friend. "Alright then, let's go." We walked out of the wood and into town. This time they gave me not just a look of distrust, but also a look of surprise. Seeing anybody walking with me that wasn't Aang, Katara, or Sokka was probably weird for them. We kept walking until we saw Miyuki's dad talking to Oyaji. s we got closer we heard a portion of the conversation. "... Then he attacked me. But I was too fast for him, and I beat him up so bad he ran into the forest." Oyaji looked at me and asked. "Is that true?" "No sir." I replied. "I was just walking down the street, when this man came up to me and picked a fight with me. I didn't want to hurt him so I ran into the forest. But I didn't lay a hand on him." "He's lying!" The man yelled. "No he's not." Miyuki said, which surprised her father. "I saw the the entire thing Lee's telling the truth. " That got her father really angry. "You're siding with him!" He yelled angrily. "Over your own blood!" "Dad he hasn't done anything wrong!" She yelled. "Don't you remember what firebenders did to your mother!" He yelled back. "Yes, and the firebenders who did that should pay. But he had nothing to do with that!" "Miyuki, he's a Fire Nation spy why else would he be here!" "Because he hates the Fire Nation too." She said. "What are you ta-" "Fire benders killed his entire family." Miyuki said. "On the orders of the Firelord. They killed his father, his mother, and his older brother. Just because they didn't like the war. Everyone on this island has treated him different, just because he's from the Fire Nation. They don't care that he hasn't done anything wrong, and we need to stop." "Maybe... Maybe you're right." He said to Miyuki. He turned to me and said. "I am sorry for what to did. I was just afraid you were here to destroy us." I took a deep breath and said. "Apology accepted." I extended my hand for a handshake. He looked at it for a moment, then he grasped it and shook. "I would done the same thing in your position." He nodded and smiled. "Now if you'll excuse me I should probably get back to my friends." I said then turned to Miyuki and said. "Thank you for your help." "Like I said, what are friends for?" "Still thank you." I smiled and headed for where we were staying.
When I got to the room I saw Katara sitting on the floor, bending a bowl of water. "Hey, Lee how was your walk?" She asked. I smiled and said. "Mostly, it was good." She stopped bending, looked at me and asked. "What do you mean mostly?" I then recounted the of that afternoon. After I finished all Katara said was. "Wow." "Yep." I replied. "So, where's Aang, and Sokka?" Katara returned to her bending as she answered. "Sokka went to talk to the Kyoshi Warriors." "That isn't going to end well." I said. "And Aang." She said her voice gaining and edge again. At that moment Aang came through the door. "Katara, remember how the Unagi almost got me yesterday?" Aang asked. "Yeah." She replied. "Well I'm going to go ride it now." 'What!' I screamed in my mind. "It's going to be real dangerous." He continued. "Good for you." She replied flatly. "Your not going to stop me?" Aang asked surprised. "Nope. Have fun." Katara replied. "I will." "Great." "I know it's great." "Well I'm glad you know." "Well I'm glad you're glad." "Good!" "Fine!" After Aang walked out I asked. "Ok. What the heck just happened!" "I'm mad at Aang because he let this hole Avatar thing go to his head, and now he's become a jerk." "Well shouldn't we make sure he's alright." "You're right." After that we walked to the bay to prevent Aang from being dinner for the Unagi.
When we got to the bay the girls were leaving and Aang was in the water. "Katara! You showed up!" Aang yelled. "I wanted to make sure you were safe." She yelled back. "You really had me worried." "But back there you acted like you didn't care." Aang replied. "I know, I'm sorry." Katara apologized. "Me too." Aang responded. "I did let all that attention go to my head. I was being a jerk." "Well get out of the water before you catch a cold you big jerk!" Katara yelled. Aang gave a big smile started swimming towards shore. The the giant fin from earlier returned. But this time it rose out of the water but with Aang on top of it. Then it sprayed a powerful blast of water at Aang, he had to hang onto a spike on it's back to withstand it. Then it tried to take bite out of Aang, but then Aang jumped and grabbed onto one of it's whiskers. It then shook it's head trying to get some kind of angle to grab Aang in it's mouth. "Hang on Aang!" Katara yelled. Then the Unagi shook it's head so hard Aang let go. He land in around the same spot that I did earlier. When he came to the surface he was unconscious and his tongue was sticking out. "Aang!" Katara yelled. She ran into the water towards Aang. But the Unagi was after Aang too, and I couldn't do anything while it was underwater. When Katara got to Aang so did the Unagi. Katara used her waterbending to push her back just as the Unagi went to bite them, which only caused a missive wave to wash them to shore. That's when I saw it. The place where I had been living for the past three years. Zuko's ship. "Oh no!" I said to myself. "I have to warn the village!" I ran all the way from the bay to the village. When I got there I saw people trying to avoid me like usual. So I yelled. "Everyone listen!" They all stopped and stared at me. "Zuko, a prince from the Fire Nation is coming!" Everyone gasped. "So you are a Fire Nation spy!" Someone from the crowd yelled. "No!" I yelled back. "Zuko doesn't want Kyoshi! He just wants Aang!" "Why should we believe you!" Someone else shouted. "Yeah! Let's throw him to Unagi!" Another voice yelled. "Yeah!" The crowd yelled all together. They all started to approach me slowly until a figure landed in front of me. It was Miyuki. "Enough!" She yelled. The people stopped their approach. "What are you doing Miyuki?" Someone yelled. "Yeah get out of the way!" Another yelled. "No." She said firmly. "He has done nothing to deserve this kind of treatment. What has he, him personally done to deserve this?" No one could say anything. "That's what I thought. So listen to what he has to say." "Thanks Miyuki." I said smiling. "No problem." She replied. I turned my attention to the crowd. "Alright, if Zuko is coming we'll need the Kyoshi Warriors." I said. "I'll go get them." Oyaji said. "Great, now if I know Zuko as well as I think I do, he'll come on komodo rhinos. They though, unless you know how to handle them. I'll instruct the Warriors on that when they get here. Next we're gonna need water. Zuko will do anything to get Aang, even if it means sacrificing some of his own. So he'll have no problem torching a village of innocents. Is there a water source of water near by? Besides the bay." "There's a pond near by." "Good, form a line and fill as many buckets as you can find. Next I recommend evacuating all the children, elderly, and sick to somewhere safe." "Done." Said Oyaji who had returned with the Kyoshi Warriors plus Sokka. "Nice robe Sokka. Anyway komodo rhinos all have one weakness a sensitive backside. So here's the plan, we'll set some rope or chain near the entrance of the village when the rhinos come we tie the rope to the leg of each rhino. Then the other warriors will hit them on the weak point. If we time this right all the rhinos should charge all at once leaving the riders for us. Any questions?" No one said anything. "Good, find some strong rope. Anything you can find, tie some together if you have to." Then a villager came up to me and said "We filled all the buckets." "How many?" I asked. "64." He replied. "Excellent. Tell every able bodied man and woman to bring the buckets to Town hall." He nodded and ran off. I went to Town hall and stood at a podium in front and waited for everyone to arrive. That only took a full minute. "All right everyone this is going to be tricky. But as soon as you see a fire you run to put it out. Don't worry someone will protect you as you go to put out. Now this guy wants one thing, and one thing only. The Avatar, and he'll do anything to get him. If that means destroying your home he'll do it. Now are we going to let that happen!" I shouted. I got a loud, "No!" in response. "Alright lets go out there and save your home!" I got a loud roar of approval as I walked out of Town Hall. I went to go check on the Warriors progress with the rope. "How's it going?" I asked Suki the leader. "We tied all the rope together and it's about two meters long. Is that good enough?" She asked. "That should be good enough." I replied. "We're going to need some Warriors on the top of some buildings to hit the weak point." I said. "I'll put my best Warriors on it." She responded. I nodded and went around one more time to make sure everything was ready. Everything was, the people were evacuated, the fire fighters were ready, the warriors were in place. Now all that was missing was one arrogant prince. I got in place with the girls and waited. We didn't have to wait long. Soon I heard the voice that commanded me only a week before. "Come out Avatar! You can't hide from me forever!" I gave the signal and everything went according to plan. The girls moved fast and accurately. When one foot of every rhino was tied, the girls on the roof jumped down and hit the weak point cause the rhinos to run and the riders to fall off. When Zuko fell three girls surrounded him. He spun around in a circle and shot fire from his feet causing fires to start. Just like I told them people started to put out fires. But the fire was spreading too quickly and I feared we wouldn't have enough to put out all the fires. He turned to me and said. "These little girls can't save you or the Avatar, traitor." "Hey, over here!" Aang yelled. "Finally." Zuko said. Then he launched two fireballs at him. The first one Aang dodged, the second he hit away with his staff the he levitated using his staff like a windmill upwards. While Aang was floating I formed a fire whip in my hand and snapped it at Zuko. It hit him in the shoulder and he grunted in pain. He turned and launched a fireball at me and returned his focus to Aang who had just landed in front of him. I kicked away the fireball easily. At this point Zuko was inside a busted house and Aang was flying overhead surveying the damage I looked around to. It wasn't as bad as it could have been but it was still pretty bad. Some of the houses were fine untouched by the flames, but most were just a pile of smoldering wood, and the statue of Kyoshi was on fire. I saw Aang talking to Katara, so I ran over there to see what was up. "So what's the plan?" I asked. "We're leaving." Katara said sadly. "What! We can't leave!" "If we stay Zuko will destroy the entire town. If we leave Zuko will follow us." Katara responded. I grumbled. She was right. No matter how much I hated it we had to leave. "Alright, just... Just give me second." I said. "Just hurry." I ran behind the house and saw Miyuki a little ways down. I ran over to her. "What are you doing?" She asked. "We're leaving, I came to say goodbye." I replied. "There's no time for goodbyes." "How about thanks?" I asked. "For what?" She asked in return. "For everything, for trusting me, for standing up for me, and for being my friend." "I should be thanking you. If it wasn't for your plan the entire village may have been torched." I smiled. "Maybe we'll see each other again someday." "I'd like that." She replied. Then she kissed me on the cheek and said with a smile. "Now go we'll cover you." Then she ran to the front of the house and took out two guards. I shook my head and ran to Appa and we took off. Katara was talking to Aang about something but all I could think about was what had happened only minutes before. 'She likes me? Do I like her? I...I guess I do.' I had never had these feelings before. I went to sea with Zuko when I was 13 so I haven't had much girl expirence. Aang climbed up to the saddle from nowhere and said. "I know, I know that was stupid and dangerous." "Yes it was." Katara said the she hugged him. Then I said confused. "What just happened!" "I'll tell you later." Sokka replied. And with that we rode off into the sunset.
Yay. 5,001 words this chapter! Is that great or is that great? Anyway did you guys like the chapter? How about the potential love interest? Huh. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Anyway I have two small challenges for you readers. One is to find the reference I made. Whoever guesses it first gets to read my next chapter before anyone else. The second is to review, favorite and alert this story... Pleasssssseeeeee! Anyway until next time. Peace off!