We Meet Again

Today was unlike any other day, I'm not entirely sure why but I had a feeling that something was going to happen. Onji practically had tension radiating off her as she either walked absent mindedly in circles or paced back and forth biting her nails. She was definitely thinking about something that was worrying her. But I ignored that...for now, we were about to head off to look for some food. We didn't have enough money to go spending it on meat everyday for Sokka. And how ironic, he was still in bed snoring his head off whilst we looked for food. Lucky Iroh, he gets to wait around at he house 'incase he woke up and didn't know where everyone was', well that was how Iroh put it.

We set off and I lazily walked through the dense forest from what I could tell to look for food. Why am I even here? I can't see any foods that we need to eat never mind knowing if they are edible or not. I wasn't concentrating much on any vibrations around me but it was obvious when someone was running with heavy feet and I spoke up abruptly, "Wait, stop. Someone's out here."

I moved my foot forward along the ground, causing the figure to be encased in rock and began to move toward the person.

"Yori?" Onji questioned.

The kid was struggling against his earth enclosure that I had proudly constructed and he didn't look up to pay any attention to Onji.

"Yori, you're hurt. Look at me."

Slowly, Yori lifted his head and I decided to let down his earth enclosure to easily speak to Onji, what harm can he do? And before I knew it the crumbled rock was in the air again and I just managed to beat it to the side as it was directed at me. An earthbender. I raised my eyebrows at the challenge he was now going to face. I got back into my earthbending stance but I reluctantly decided against it when Onji asked him caringly, "What happened to you?"

I didn't want to disrupt her "moment".

"Like you care," he scowled.

Now I am really tempted to knock his block off.

"Of course I care! How could you say that?" She replied. She was already getting upset.

There was a pause. I knew something was going to happen today.

"Well I went back to our place but...these guys were waiting for me there and started chasing me and I've practically been running all night."

"I've been so worried about you." She attempted to embrace him but he pushed her off roughly. "You didn't seem to care before."

This guy is worse than me. But he doesn't seem...serious.

"Hey listen, you should take a few lessons from Onji," Aang interrupted.

"What's it to you?"

As Aang and now Zuko were fighting with whoever that guy is, I said to Katara and Onji blankly, "He's lying. There's something not right, his pulse is too rapid."

"What do you-" but Onji was cut off in mid-sentence as...what was his name...the boy grabbed her roughly. "Come on, Onji."

Onji struggled against him but to no avail. "Let go of me! I'm not coming with you, Yori."

Yori, that's right, I'll have to remember that.

I turned around and Aang was in his bending stance, I could tell by the way his feet were planted, like a true earthebnder. I joined him in my attack stance but I was too late. Yori had pulled out a knife and held it to her throat. "I'll do it," he threatened.

But he won't. I closed my eyes and shook my head. He's still lying, why is he doing this? Instantly I felt vibrations that came from atop a tree, I was suddenly on the alert as I felt my ears prick at the slightest sound. I sidled to where Katara stood and whispered, "Katara, see that tree on our right?"

Katara I'm guessing shot a glance to her right and also whispered in reply, "Yes."

"There's someone up there."

"I'm on it."

Katara removed the water from her waterskin and formed it into her traditional water whip and in one swift movement had sliced through the leaves and had hit someone in the tree who landed on the ground with a thump. The others had forgot about the fight that they were involved in and looked to the figure cloaked in red that now lay on the floor astonished. But it wasn't long until Katara had been jabbed in the back and fell limp.

Before anyone could react the girl looked at Yori and Onji and said, "He'll kill her, so don't bother hurting me."

"Why, Yori? Why'd you do it?" Onji asked, tears streaming down her face still in his grasp.

"Onji, I had no choice! They were going to get you. I wasn't going to and I won't let anything happen to you." Yori pushed Onji to the side and dropped the knife. He transitioned into his bending stance and sent Ty Lee flying backward.

Onji instantly embraced Yori and he wrapped his arms around her in return. "Onji, I wouldn't have ever let any harm come to you. I just couldn't! Especially if it was all my fault."

"Yori, you know I was safe here."

"But they told me they had already gotten you, I didn't know they were lying, I didn't know what to believe. But just as I arrived here they told me that they hadn't captured you and told me to threaten you so they could capture the Avatar or else they were just going to get you there and then. That girl with the knives could've sliced you. And our families...I was so confused."

"What are you talking about?" Aang interjected.

"It's a long story, we better do something with these two first," Yori replied, jabbing his thumb in the direction of the girls.

They nodded in agreement and discussed their options. And the only thing that they could do was to leave Ember Island, they were no longer hidden nor safe.

Sokka will be in the next chapter! If you're confused about the Mai/Ty lee thing with Onji/Yori it will be explained next chapter!