A.N- Hello fellow humans! How is life going for you guys? I'm doing pretty good. As always, thanks for asking. This chapter is probably the shortest I've written for this story and I apologize for that. I usually get to like 4,000 words but this time it was only 3,486.. Sorry.
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Anyways- Here goes nothing.. Chapter 4 starts right now on-! {Disclaimer: Sadly, I only own Hideki and Kya.} Hope you guys like it!
Chapter 4: My Real Job Begins
Kya's POV
Knock, knock. I groaned. Why did people always have the need to disturb me when I was sleeping? Knock, knock. These people just kept on interrupting me.
"Go away! I'm sleeping HERE!" I yell at them. Can't they just leave me alone? I mean, seriously, I barely get enough sleep in the first place.
Knock. 'Oh just get up already Kya, before I roast them alive.' Hideki told me. I picked my head up to look at him, raising one eye brow at him. He gave a little puff of irritation and put his head back on my stomach.
Rolling my eyes, I gently lifted him off of me while I got up out of my bed. I then set him down in my spot and Hideki curled up, enjoying the warmth my body had left. I walked to the door and opened it, yawning right in Iroh's face. Running one hand through my messy bed head, I managed a sleepy hello.
The retired general laughed, "Good morning, Miss Kya. I'm so sorry to disturb you but it is time to get up. It's almost midday."
Oh, I hadn't realized I had slept that long. "Can the cook still give me breakfast?" That was my main priority right now; food for me and Hideki. Maybe after the cook makes me something I'll take some meat and give it to him. Ha, meat, it reminds me of Sokka. Wait- Sokka- Water Tribe- Midday. My eyes widened in realization. "Wait a minute; are we at the Southern Water Tribe yet?"
"No, but I suspect that we will soon. My nephew saw a flare shoot up from an abandoned ship. Apparently, there were two people leaving it when he looked through his telescope: a water tribe person and an airbender. Prince Zuko believes that the airbender was the Avatar. And yes, I believe that the cook will still give you breakfast." He told me. When I nodded, he continued. "Well, I do believe that I must go take another nap. I'll see you when we get there." He winked at me and then turned to walk off.
I closed the door and turned, sliding all the way down the door to the ground. Bending my knees, I slumped down and pressed my hands into my face. 'You are worried.' Hideki stated. I heard the soft sound of wing beats and then Hideki's claws on the metal next to me. Resting his heavy head on my shoulder, I felt a warm puff of air on my neck.
'You don't want the village or any of its people getting hurt; especially your friends.' I nodded, he spoke the complete truth.
Katara would be fourteen and Sokka would be my age, fifteen. 'I bet Sokka's voice still cracks when he tries to act like the boss of everyone. And Katara probably still runs around, comforting people and giving people speeches about hope.' I laughed and Hideki let out a deep rumble in his chest.
'Kya, there is no need to worry about them. They are very strong willed. Everything will be fine, you'll see.' Hideki said to calm me down. I nodded, believing in the dragon. 'Now hurry and get ready before I eat the next person who knocks on the door. I am starving.'
I laughed and got up, walking to my bathroom. I quickly took a shower and heated up my hands to dry my hair after I got out. After putting on something to wear that was fighting worthy, I left the room in search of the kitchen.
We arrived at the Southern Water Tribe earlier than I expected. It was an hour before midday when the ship crashed into the ice barrier in front of the small tribe. The whole ship jolted, which made Hideki almost bite my hand off when I was feeding him a big piece of raw meat. I squeaked, quickly letting go of it and retracted my hand to my chest, heart pounding. I looked at Hideki and he nodded, still eyeing the other pieces I had brought him.
'Go. I'll see everything that goes on from your eyes.' He told me. I opened the door, running to the deck off the ship. Finally reaching it, I sprinted to the railing to see the tribe. What I saw was not surprising to me; Sokka was trying to attack Prince Hothead.
The Southern Water Tribe boy threw his boomerang at the prince, but it just missed him. 'He's gotten so much better at that. I remember he tried to teach me one time but I just couldn't get it.' I told Hideki. His response was a mental picture of raw meat hanging out of his jaw. I shook my head and focused back on the tribe.
Nanuq, a little boy I remembered from a long time ago, yelled to Sokka and tossed him a spear. I winced; this was not going to end well for Sokka.
And I was right. Sokka ran at the Prince full speed and it failed- badly. Hothead ended up knocking the spear away, hitting Sokka on the head three times with the blunt end of it, broke it into pieces, and then threw the parts of the spear to the ground.
I wanted to jump down and help my old friend but just when I was about to leap over the railing, I saw a light shine in the distance. I grinned; Sokka's boomerang does always come back! It bonked the Fire Nation Prince on the head and I laughed at his misery. He deserved that to happen to him.
Zuko growled at Sokka and two daggers of flames appeared behind his hands. I tensed and got ready to jump to save my friend again, but just when he was about to attack the water tribe boy, a person riding on the back of penguin like a valiant pungent penguin king knocked Zuko over. His helmet flew off his head, he flipped and landed on his face- rump straight up in the air, and when his helmet finally came down, it landed right on his derrière. I giggled, covering my mouth so my voice would not be heard.
Tearing my eyes from Hothead, I looked at Sokka's savior. The person was an airbender, I realized by their clothes, but that wasn't the most shocking thing. The airbender looked to be a little boy, around the age of twelve. I gasped to myself when I grasped the idea that this could be the Avatar. 'How could a little boy save the world from the Fire Nation all by himself?'
Hideki didn't answer me. I don't know if he was in shock like I was, but he wasn't reassuring me at all with his silence. Seeing fighting going on below me, I focused back on the scene.
The airbender was fighting Zuko, well not really fighting him, more like evading all of Zuko's flames. When one of the Prince's blasts got to close to the villagers for comfort, I saw the airbender raise his hands in surrender. He said something in which I saw Zuko nod to. Two soldiers came forward and grabbed the staff out of the young boy's hands and pushed him forward, onto the front ramp.
Midway up the ramp, Katara ran forward, yelling out something to the Air Nomad boy. Having to lean over the railing to get a good look at the group of soldiers pushing him forward, I missed what the Avatar said to her.
All I saw was tears coming out of both of their eyes. My eyes began to water like they always did when I saw someone cry and I closed my eyes, wiping away the tears and cursing my emotional self for being a total wimp. I then walked away from the rails and waited for Zuko and the Avatar to arrive on the deck.
I only had to wait a few minutes and in that time Iroh joined me. We nodded to each other and stood there in comfortable silence. When the Prince arrived with the Avatar, I took the time to study the young boy, completely zoning out what Zuko was saying.
The next thing I knew I was being handed the Avatar's staff by Iroh, "Mind bringing this to Prince's room for me?" I rolled my eyes, groaning, but taking the staff anyways.
"Sure." I began to walk off, noticing the Avatar watching me as he was being shoved away. I walked forward into the hallway and paused at a joining hallway, waiting for the avatar. I was more than sure that he had something up his sleeve to escape from this ship. About two minutes later a heard a yell.
"The Avatar has escaped!" and a few seconds later a heard running coming in my direction. I stuck the staff out just as they reached me, successfully tripping the person running. And I was correct it was the Avatar.
He looked at me from the ground and I looked up and down the hallway making sure that nobody was here before I whispered, "Come with me. Hurry, we don't have much time." I stuck my hand out and held it out to him. He looked shocked but grabbed my hand anyways. I quickly pulled him up and pulled him into the nearest room. Luckily, it was the servants' cleaning supplies closet.
"Who are you? And why did you help me?" was the Avatar's first words.
I put a hand to my lips to tell him to be quiet before I answered in a rushed whisper, "I'm a friend. I'm so sorry Avatar, but I cannot tell you my name. If you were to be caught and told them I helped you, we would both be in trouble. I am you're friend just like Sokka and Katara are. Now, anyways, I will help you all that I can. When we leave the closet, you must airbend me into the wall. That way no one will ask why I let you go."
"First, please stop calling me Avatar. My name is Aang. Second, how do you know Katara and Sokka? Third, why do I have to hurt you? You are my friend; can't you just say I airbended you into the wall?" He asked me.
I grinned, "Okay, Aang. Let me explain. I must look like I was hit by a wall and the only way for that is to actually hit a wall. Don't worry about me, I heal really fast. I'm a waterbender. And as for the water tribe siblings, they are old friends. When you rejoin with them- which I have no doubt that they are on their way here and you will join up- tell them I said hey. Now let's go. We don't have much time left. All the soldiers will probably be on deck, but you can take them without my help right? I hope so." I reached for the door and took a look out into the hallway. So far, the coast was clear. Sticking my head out into the hall, I glanced side to side. All was good. Nobody was there.
I opened the door wider and stepped into the hall. I motioned for Aang to come out. He peaked out and cautiously came out. Handing him his staff, I tensed up and nodded at him. He gave me sad look and took a deep breath before airbending me hard into the wall. I let out a whimper and crumpled into a ball.
Aang took a step toward me with a worried look, but I whispered with my last bit of strength, "Go, I'll be fine. Be careful though." He nodded and turned, running down the hallway. The last thing I saw before I lost consciousness was of Aang glancing over his shoulder with a guilt look on his face.
Aang's POV
Taking one last look at the girl who helped me, I took off, running at a speed only an airbender could. I reached the deck and the Fire Nation girl was right; it was covered with soldiers. I grabbed the top of my staff and spun around, airbending most of the firebenders off the deck and into the freezing cold ocean.
I ran forward but soon got circled in by six of the soldiers-my capturer not included. He was off to the side, watching. One of the firebenders shot a fire ball at me and I ducked, making the flames hit one off the soldiers behind me. He flung back, hitting the railing hard.
At the sound of him hitting the railing, the rest shot their flames at me. Apparently, they didn't learn from past mistakes because I jumped straight into the air, twirling my staff to make me go above the fire. The flames each hit a person, making them go flying back. I defeated all of them by using each other's attack against them. When my feet hit the metal deck, I heard my capturer move behind me.
I whirled around to face him as he muttered, "I have to do everything myself." He shot a few fireballs at me, and kept attacking when I evaded all of them. Our fight lasted a long time before he paused, looking at the sky, and asked "What is that?"
Curious, I turned around and saw with delight that it was Appa. I saw Katara and Sokka sitting on top of his head and grinned, the girl was right about everything!
I heard a grunt come from behind me and turned around just in time to see a fireball coming at me. I twirled my staff, blocking the flames while jumping into the air, landing on the railing. Another fire ball came and although I didn't hit me, I lost my balance and fell backwards into the ocean.
As soon as I hit the freezing water, I blacked out. I didn't literally mean blacked out. I meant that the Avatar State came on and I had no control of my movements at all. After watching my body waterbend myself out of the water and defeating the now conscious soldiers, I found myself being held in the arms of Katara.
"Hey Katara, hey Sokka. Thanks for coming." I said to the water tribe siblings. Sokka said something but I wasn't really paying attention. "Sokka, can you go get my staff, please? It's over there."
The warrior nodded and ran off to go get it. Not wanting to but I did anyways, I slowly pulled myself out of Katara's grip and tried to get to my feet. It didn't work; I guess I didn't have much energy left after the Avatar State. To my embarrassment, Katara helped me stand and get onto Appa's head.
I watched, unable to do anything as three Fire Nation men stood up and walked cautiously toward Katara. The Water Tribe girl saw them right away and gathered some water. Doing some movements, she accidently flung the water backwards and froze it with waterbending.
I heard an "Aw, Katara!" Coming from Sokka; whose feet where now covered in ice and frozen to the floor. The waterbender shrugged sheepishly and turned around, doing the same movements as before. This time she was successful in freezing the three Fire Nation thugs.
"C'mon Sokka! Let's go!" Katara yelled from the saddle. I looked to see Sokka whacking at the ice covering his feet with his boomerang.
I vaguely heard him mutter something along the lines of 'I'm just a guy with a boomerang. I didn't ask for all this flying and magic' before he was free and climbing up Appa's tail, yelling "Yip, yip. Yip, yip!"
We took off into the air and I looked down in time to see both the old Fire Nation man holding up the girl that helped me. They both looked shocked to see a flying bison but I saw the girl's body relax as we flew farther away from them.
There was the sound of my old capturer yelling, "Shoot them down!" and I jumped up into the air, using my staff to blow away the huge fire ball coming at us. It flew into the side of the glacier besides it, which made a bunch of snow and ice fall onto the Fire Nation ship.
Sokka and Katara cheered behind me and I joined in on the laughing. As soon as we were far enough away, Katara began to ask the questions she had wanted to ask since she found out I was the Avatar.
"How did you do that with the water? It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen!" She asked, excited to know the answer.
I smiled a little. "I don't know really. I was in the Avatar State; that's when all my past selves join together and take control of my body. I guess that one or more of my past selves knew that move and did it."
Katara frowned a bit as she took that in and asked another question, "Why didn't you tell us that you are the Avatar?"
I frowned, turning my head away from the Water Tribe siblings, "Because I never wanted to be."
"But, Aang, the whole world has been waiting for the Avatar to return for a hundred years. They have been waiting for the Avatar to finally put an end to this war." She said softly to me.
"And how am I going to do that?" I asked her.
The waterbender replied, "According to legend, you need to master water, then earth, and then fire right?" I nodded, that's what the monks had told me before I got frozen in an iceberg. "Well, then we should go to the North Pole to master waterbending!"
I smiled and agreed, "We could learn it together!"
Katara turned to her brother, who had been sitting there quietly the entire time on Appa, "And Sokka, I'm sure you'll get to knock some firebender heads along the way!"
"I'd like that, I'd really like that." He grinned and we all laughed.
Suddenly I remember the Fire Nation girl. "Hey guys, do you know any Fire Nation girls with ice-blue eyes that claim to be a waterbender? Because—" I got cut off by both of them.
Katara exclaimed "That sounds like Kya!" while Sokka yelled, "Kya—how would know her?" They both then looked at each other and then looked at me for an explanation.
"Well, um. She was on that Fire Nation ship and—" I got cut off, again but this time it was by only Katara.
"She was on that ship? I can't believe it. I thought she was against the Fire Nation!"
I sighed. Things would go much quicker if they let me finish what I was trying to say. "She is against the Fire Nation." I saw Katara open her mouth and I quickly cut her off before she could speak. "Let me explain." Katara and Sokka nodded and I continued. "She helped me escape. I'll start from when I was brought onto the ship. She was there was on the deck when I arrived onto the deck and I could feel her staring at me when Zuko was talking to me. He gave my staff to I believe to be his uncle, who then gave it to her. I watched her leave as two guards brought me to the cells. When I was finally able to escape from them, I ran to the doorway that I saw her enter. I then kept running straight when she tripped me with my own staff. She then helped me up and pulled me into a closet so we could talk. In there she told me that she was a friend and that she knew you guys and that she was going to help me escape without losing her cover as a loyal soldier. We came up with an escape plan in which I had to airbend her into a wall and then run away like it wasn't part of the plan. I reached the deck without any interruptions and fought off the firebenders without a problem and then you guys arrived with Appa." I took a deep breath and looked at Katara and Sokka. They both looked shocked. I grinned and laughed at their expressions. "Did you guys get that?"
They nodded, but still looked shocked about the whole thing. I laughed and grabbed my map before I jumped onto the actual seat part of the saddle. "Anyways, we have a lot to do before we get to the North Pole. We have to go here, here, and here." The siblings finally shook off their shock and looked at me questioningly.
"What's there?" Katara asked me. I grinned; this was going to be an awesome adventure.
A.N- So what did you people, my fellow human beings, think? Do you like? *wiggles eyebrows and smiles creepily*
I had to think of a way to put Kya in there and this idea came to me, even though I had to take out my favorite part of this episode- when Aang airbends Zuko into the ceiling along with his mattress.
So, Kya is now Team Avatar's inside man- I mean- WOman. Do you think that she should have went with Team Avatar? Do tell me. I want to know.
So I know there are probably some grammar error in here because its like super late and my grammar isn't really good no matter what time it is. (And to prove my point- It took me like seven tries to spell the word grammar right. I keep wanting to spell it like this: grammer. I mean seriously. That is horrid.)
So pleeeeaaassseeeee review, and tell me all the little nitpicks that I need to fix. I really would appreciate it! :)
Remember, have a great morning, day, afternoon, or night! Good night world! Until next time.. Dun Dun Dawww!
