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Chapter 4: The Swamp

In a large town in earth nation territory their sits two individuals who are sitting on the streets. These individuals are the banished fire nation princes known as Zuko and the former general of the fire nation army Iroh. Zuko is leaning against their rider bird and Iroh is sitting next to his nephew with his hat in his hands as he shows it to nearby passers.

"Spare coins for weary travellers?" Iroh asks to a man who passes them. He stops and throws a copper piece in the hat as he then walks on. Zuko looks at his uncle with anger. "This is humiliating. We're royalty; these people should be giving us whatever we want." He says as he looks away still angry. Iroh just smiles. "They will if you ask nicely." He says.

Then a young walk past them as Iroh notices. "Spare a change for a hungry old man?" He says as the woman smiles. "Aww, here you go." She says as he places the piece in the hat. Iroh then smiles at her. "The coin is much appreciated, but not as much as your smile." He says grinning as Zuko face palms. The woman giggles before heading off.

Then a rugged man with tied hair and a pointy beard walks up to them and looks at them with a grin. "How about some entertainment in exchange for…" He says as he pulls something out of his pocket. "A gold piece?" He says as he shows a gold piece in front of them.

Zuko looks at him distastefully. "We're not performers." He says while Iroh places his hat on the ground and stands up. "Well not professionals anyway." He says as he starts to sing without any music. It's long long way to Ba Sing Se, but the girls in the city they look so prettyyyyyy he sings as he hold out his hand to gesture for the piece.

"Come on we're talking a gold piece here, let's see some action." The man says as he pulls out a sword that he then is able to split in two. Zuko looks at the swords and knows that those are probably the exact swords that belonged to him.

"Dance" The man says as he begins to slash the swords in front of Iroh's feet as he hops to avoid them. But they kiss so sweet that you really got to meet. The girls from Ba Sing Seeee. Iroh finishes as the man stops slashing and starts to laugh. "Hahaha, nothing like a fat dancing for his dinner. Here you go." He says as he just drops the piece on the floor in front of him before walking away. Iroh picks it up and sits down smiling. "Such a kind man." He says while Zuko stares at the man angrily.

On the Gaang's side

After the whole ordeal that happened at Omashu, the Gaang are now flying around in search of a new earth bending master to teach Aang. As they fly around they are all busy doing their own thing. Katara is looking over some of the scrolls that Pakku gave her, Sokka is sharpening his sword with a rock, Zian is laying on his back while humming the song a long way to Ba Sing Se and Momo is just being…well Momo.

They fly over a swampy forest as they fly on top of it. Aang is suddenly transfixed on the forest as he just can't help at staring at the swamp. Then for some reason Aang slowly flies Appa down as he eyes are still fixed on the swamp. Sokka notices this and looks at Aang puzzled. "Hey you taking us down for a reason?" He asks as Aang doesn't reply.

"Aang why are we going down?" Sokka exclaims as this breaks Aang's focus on the swamp. He shakes his head. "What?" He asks confused. "I didn't even notice." He says as he rubs his eyes. "Are you noticing now?" Sokka asks sarcastically. Katara and Zian stand up as they walk over to Sokka. "Is something wrong?" She asks them. "Yeah what's the matter?" Zian asks.

Aang looks down at the swamp again. "I know this is gonna sound weird, but I think the swamp is…calling to me." He says surprised. Sokka looks at him curiously. "Is it telling you where we can get something to eat?" Sokka asks as Zian looks at him and shakes his head. "Is food all you ever think of?" He asks as Sokka just shrugs. "What can I say, I love food." He answers.

"No I think it wants us to land there?" Aang says not completely sure of what he's saying is true. They look at the swamp. "I don't know Aang, I mean I'm pretty sure that I don't see any land much less any of it for us to land on." Zian says. "I don't know, Bumi said to learn earth bending I would have to wait and listen." Aang says as he looks down.

"And now I'm actually hearing the earth. Do you want me to ignore it?" he asks them. "Yes" Sokka says abruptly. "I don't know there's something ominous about that place." Katara says worryingly. "Same here. I don't what it is but I feel like the swamp is just like a big no and that we should stay away from it. I don't know it's just a feeling." Zian says frightened. Sokka looks at him grinning. "Aww what the matter? Big bad wolfie afraid of a little swamp?" Sokka asks teasing him.

Zian looks at him sternly. "No, I'm just getting a bad vibe about that place that's all." He says. Momo then cowers away as Appa groans. Sokka stands up. "See even Appa and Momo don't like it here." He says to Aang who looks at them defeated. "Ok since everyone feels so strongly about it." He says as he looks at the swamp. "Bye swamp. Yip Yip." He says as he turns Appa around and they fly away from the swamp.

As they fly away from it they then suddenly hear strong wind behind them. Sokka turns around to see and his eyes turn wide as he sees a giant tornado is heading towards them. "You better follow an extra Yip. We got to move!" He exclaims. Aang leads Appa as he takes evasive maneuvers to get away from the tornado.

For some reason Aang can't seem to shake it off them. The thing gets closer as it starts to suck Sokka into it. Katara and Zian see this and they both grab his hands so that he doesn't fly away. Aang thinks quickly as he jumps onto the saddle. He then summons an air sphere as it surrounds Appa and counter acts the tornados wind direction as Sokka falls back in the saddle.

However the sphere is sucked into it as they disappear in it. The wind is too strong for Aang to keep the sphere stable as it starts to get smaller and smaller. As he is no longer to keep it intact it then disappears as everyone is thrown off of Appa and they all spin around the tornado. As they spin around and around and around and around they are then flung by the tornado as all four of them crash into the swamp hard.

As everyone regains their senses they stand up and they dust themselves off as they looks around. Aang looks to see if everyone's alright as he notices something. "Where's Appa and Momo?" He wonders. He jumps on the tree trunks as he jumps to the top to get a better view of the swamp. He looks and the only things that he can see in front of him is trees, trees and even more trees. "Appa! Momo!" Aang calls out to his friends.

Katara, Sokka and Zian look at the water they are in as Katara looks at her brother. "Sokka you got an elbow leech." She says to him as he turns to her all startled. "Where?! Where?!" He asks. As he turns around Katara and Zian now clearly see the leech that is hanging on to Sokka's elbow. "Try to guess." Zian says sarcastically.

Sokka looks at his elbow and sees the leech. He then grabs it as tries to pull off. "Why do things keep attaching to me?!" He exclaims as he succeeds at getting the leech off of him as he throws it far away. "Maybe they like you." Zian says jokingly as he grins. Aang then swings down from the vines as he lands next to them. "You couldn't find them?" Katara asks. "No and the tornado. It just disappeared." He says surprised.

After a while they all start to move as they head in a direction. Sokka is cutting down the vines to clear a path. "We better speed things up." Sokka says as he cuts down more vines with his machete. Zian however winces every time Sokka cuts them down. "Sokka I don't think it's such a good idea for you to do that." Zian says a bit frightened. "Zian's right Sokka maybe we should be a little nicer to the swamp." Aang says agreeing.

"Aang, Zian these are just plants. Do you want me to say please and thank you as I swing my machete back and forth?" Sokka asks them as he continues to cut. "I prefer that you don't swing at all." Zian says getting scared. "Maybe you should listen to them. Something about this place feels alive." Katara says getting a bad feel. "I'm sure there are lots of things that are 'alive' here and if we don't want to wind up getting eaten by them then we need to find Appa as fast as we can." Sokka says as he hacks and slashes.

Zian winces as he covers his ears. Katara turns and notices this. "Are you alright Zian?" She asks him. He looks at a direction. "For some reason I thought I heard Aang's infernal whistle being blown." He says unsure. He looks at Aang puzzled who just shrugs. "Don't look at me I don't have it on me." He says as they continue to go down the swamp. Unbeknownst to them however someone is watching them from a distance as the individual observes them.

Later at night

"Appa! Momo!" Katara calls out to them as she gets no response. The Gaang have been walking for hours trying to find the lemur and the bison with no luck what so ever. "There's no way they can hear us and there's no way we can see them." Sokka says to her. "We'll have to make camp for the night." He adds as mosquitoes suddenly fly all around him as he tries to hack them with his machete.

Mist then spews out of the swamp river as this startles Katara. "What was that?" She asks frightened. "Nothing just swamp gas." Sokka says as he sounds like he's starting to get annoyed. "Look there's nothing supernatural going on here." He says as everyone is disgusted at the smell. Zian then chuckles. "What a bunch of big babies." He says.

"AAAAAAGH!" Something screams as this startles everyone (even Zian) as they all huddle together for safety. They look and see a small white bird standing on the branch. "AAAAAAGH!" The bird screams again as it flies and disappears in to the deep swamp. "I think we should build a fire." Sokka says as his paranoia goes up and he rushes to a nearby tree branch and starts to hack to branches to pieces so that he can get some wood for the fire.

"Sokka I beg you, PLEASE would you stop doing that." Zian says. "I feel that the more time we spend here gives us more reasons for you not to do that." He says. "No I asked the swamp it said that it was fine. Right swamp?" Sokka says as he starts to shake a branch. "No problem Sokka." He says in a different voice as he then cuts the tree. This irritates Zian more than Aang as they set up a fire.

At night-time

The four of them have set up a fire under an old dead tree. Katara looks behind her as she turns to the others. "Does anyone else get the feeling that we're being watched?" She asks. A fly is hovering over Sokka as it annoys him as he tries to swat away. "Please we're all alone out here. Beside if anything comes close Zian can just sniff them." He says still trying to hit the fly.

"Actually…I can't." Zian says looking a bit embarrassed. This raises Sokka's eyebrow. "Excuse me?" He asks sounding more shocked than surprised. Zian looks down on the ground disappointed. "It's just…it's just that ever since we got here I haven't been able to smell anything else besides the smell of the trees and the swamp, heck I haven't even been able to smell Sokka's strong nasty shoes." He says gesturing to Sokka's feet.

Sokka looks at him offended by his statement. "My shoes don't smell that bad." He says to him. Zian looks at him blandly. "Please, your nasty shoes can make even a lion turtle fall over in disgust." He says as Sokka just turns around and pouts. "Well like I said we're all alone out here." He says as the fly irritates him again and he tries to hit it. As he almost hits it, it then turns into a big glowing sphere as it flies away.

As it does so it lights the forest a bit to reveal many eyes watching over the group. This makes them even more frightened than before. "Except for them." Aang says scared as the all huddle together for safety. "Right, except for them." Sokka says terrified. "I hate the swamp." Zian says both scared and annoyed.

Later that night

The group are finally asleep as they sitting back to back while sleeping next to the now died out campfire.

Little do they that someone is watching them unseen. A vine moves as it slowly slithers quietly to Sokka's feet as it extend as it goes. It creeps and twists all around his body going in circles as it tangles him from his neck to his toes. As it does to him, more vines slither along as they also tangle themselves onto the rest of the group not making any movements to wake them up. Then they all slowly open their eyes as then…

"AAAAGH"

They all scream as the vines drag them into the fogginess of the swamp as they vanish from sight.

Sokka quickly uses his machete to stop himself from being dragged any further as he he then cuts himself free from the vines grip before standing up. He looks around as he sees more vines heading towards him. He quickly turns tail and runs away.

Zian is gripped tightly by his vines as he uses his strength by using his arms to give himself enough space. As he does this he then quickly closes them as he sinks into the ground and vanishes. The vines look at the spot where he was for a moment before giving up and going away. As they disappear Zian's head emerges from the ground as he looks around. "I hate the swamp." He says abruptly before coming out of the ground and running in the opposite direction of the vines.

Katara is struggling with the vines as she tries to push herself free. When she sees her method is not working she then bends the water around her she begins to slice her way out. The vines advance on her as one by one they are cut up and they fall to the ground. As she cuts up the last of the vines she then runs into the fog to evade the rest.

Aang is caught by his vines as he struggles. He then takes a deep and releases a wind sphere around which stretches the vines and gives him enough space. He jumps in the air as the vines miss him and he jumps onto a tree as the vines pursue him. He jumps from tree to tree as the vines try their best to grab a hold of him again but to no avail.

As he jumps down though a vine appears right under him and snatches his leg as it yanks him backwards letting him fall hard on the ground. As he lands he then turns to the vine and blasts himself backwards with his bending and escapes it grasps as he disappears. As he flies he lands gently on a tree trunk and looks all around him. "Guys?" He exclaims wondering what happened to the rest of his friends as the sun rises and the fog starts to clear up

After a while

"Aang! Sokka! Zian!" Katara calls out to her brother and her two friends as she has been lost and wandering for the last hour in the swamp. She sighs as she suddenly sees a figure in the distance with their back towards her. "Hello. Hello. Can you help me? " Katara says as she walks closer to them. She squints her eyes as the individual comes into view. The person is a female and is wearing water tribe clothing and has dark brown her just like hers.

"Mom?" Katara says as her eyes widen. Her face brightens as she runs towards her. "Mom!" She exclaims as tears of joy run down her cheeks. As she is within reach she grabs her shoulder as she turns her around. "I can't believe…" She says before the sun shines on her mother and reveals that the person was nothing more than a small broken tree. She steps back in shock as she looks around. She is sadden by the moment as it causes her to fall to her knees and cry.

Meanwhile

"Aang!" Sokka yells as he cuts up the vines that he is struggling to get through. "Nngh, swamp dump ugly vines." Sokka grunts as he hits the water with his machete. "Katara! Zian!" He calls out to his sister and his friend. He tries to go through but a vine holds him back. "You think you're so tough, huh." He says as he breaks free but his leg gets caught and he falls into the water face first.

His face, body and clothes are soaked and he groans. He then lifts his head and notices a white light that appears before him. "Hello?" He says as he stands up and walks to the light. As he draws closer he sees the light becoming clearer. It appears to him to be not a light but a girl wearing white clothes and hair as she is floating above the swamp water.

"Yue?" Sokka says surprised to see the girl he once loved is floating right before him. He then touches the sides of his head as he shakes it. "This is just a trick of the light. Swamp gas." He says not believing she is there as he turns around. "I hit my head running away last night. I'm going crazy." He says as he turns back to her with a confused and fearful look.

He walks over to her and looks at her. "You didn't protect." She says as the words echo around him. He rubs his eyes as he looks again and he sees that she is gone. He looks down and sighs before turning around. He is then startled when he sees her right behind him and he falls back and lands in the water. He looks again and sees that she has once again vanished.

Completely sure she's gone he then stands up, takes out his weapon and moves on.

Somewhere in the swamp

"AAAAAAGH!" Zian shout as he walks lost, alone and angry in the swamp. "I HATE THIS SWAMP, I HATE BEING LOST AND I HATE BEING!" He yells as he kick the water as it splashes. "ANGERY!" He says as his nostrils flare. "AAAAGH!" He hears the bird from last night screech as he looks up to see it sitting on a branch. "SHUT UP!" He yells as the bird hides behind the tree in fear.

Zian looks forward as he calms himself down as he closes his eyes as he inhales deeply through his nose and then exhales through his mouth. "Ok. I have to be calm and collective. I can't be getting angry now. I just have to find my friends and get out of this STUPID place." He says to himself as he starts to walk.

After walking for several minutes he then starts to see something in the distance. "Hello" He says as he walks over to it. As it gets closer he sees two individuals standing next to each other. One is a middle aged man with black hair and wearing earth clothing. The other is a woman although in her 30's she looks beautiful and shiny smooth skin. Her hair is brown and long and she has hazel coloured eyes like Zian's. She is wearing red clothing of some sorts.

As Zian gets closer they both look at him with smiles on the faces. Zian looks at them shocked. "Mom? Dad?" He asks as they smile brightly. Zian's faces lights up as he smiles. He then runs to him as tears run down his faces. As he is ready to embrace them they then suddenly vanish as they are replaced by a shadow figure.

Zian can't properly see him as his face turns to fear. "What?" He says confused. The figure then moves into a stance as he bends a boulder next to him and throws it at Zian. Zian evades the boulder by diving out of the way. As he gets ready to fight the figure he then sees that it is gone.

Confused even more Zian then looks at the trees and all around the swamp as he gets angry. "STOP MESSING WITH ME!" He yells as he calms down once more and goes to look for his friends.

Another part of the swamp

Aang is walking in the swamp lost and trying to find the rest of the group. "Katara!" He calls out to her as he jumps over a branch. "Appa" he calls out to his bison as he receives no response. As he continues he suddenly sees something on top of a large rock. "Hello" He says as he suddenly sees it clearly. On top of the rock is I little girl with a flying boar. The girl giggles as the boar flies away and she jumps off of the rock away from Aang. "Hey. Come back." Aang exclaims as he follows her.

When he gets on top he sees that she is not where he assumes she'll be and he hears giggling behind him. He turns around and sees the girl on top of a tree standing on a branch. She giggles before walking behind the branch. Aang jumps to a branch and starts to swing to her. He then hears her giggling again as he sees her on the ground running to a nearby tree and disappears behind it.

He swings as she appears back on the branch and he pursues her. As he lands on the ground he sees the girl and the pet boar standing ahead of him and he runs to her at full speed. However the girl and the boar hear him running and turn to him. He sees them suddenly change to Katara and Zian as his eyes widen. Their eyes widen as the see him running to them.

Running at full speed he is unable to stop and he trip as he falls on them and they fly backwards. Sokka hears their screaming and readies himself thinking that it is a wild animal. He doesn't see the coming as they hit him on the back and he flies forward as they roll off a long tree root and fall on the ground hard.

As they regain a bit of their composure Sokka stands up and looks at them annoyed. "What do you guys think you're doing? I've been looking all over for you." He says angry. Katara rubs her head and looks at him angry. "Well I've been wondering around looking for you." She says. Zian shakes his head. "Excuse me but I've been looking for you guys in this accursed swamp." He says.

"I was chasing some girl." Aang says as he stands up. "What girl?" Katara asks him puzzled. Zian looks at him and grins. "Already Aang?" He says jokingly. Aang looks at him confused. "What?" He asks as Zian waves it off. "Nevermind. So who was this girl?" He asks. "I don't know. I heard laughing and I saw some girl in a fancy dress." He says as he helps Katara up.

"Well there must be a tea party here and we just didn't get our invitation." Sokka says sarcastically as Zian snickers a little. Katara looks down sadly. "I thought I saw mom." She says as this surprise her brother. Zian looks a bit serious but also saddened. "I thought I saw my parents." He says as the rest are surprised. "Really?" Aang asks. Zian shakes his head. "Doesn't matter." He says trying to forget the memory.

"Look we were all just scared and hungry and our mind were playing tricks on us. That's why we all saw things out here." Sokka says as this catches Katara's attention. "You saw something two?" She asks curios at his statement. Sokka turns around. "I thought I saw Yue, but that doesn't prove anything." He says as he turns back to her.

"Look I think about her all the time and you saw mom, someone you miss a lot. I'm sure Zian can say the same with his parents." Sokka says as Zian rolls his eyes. "What about me? I didn't know the girl I saw and all our visions led us right here." Aang says. Katara looks at him questing. "Ok, so where's here?" She asks as she gestures forward. "The middle of the swamp?" She asks.

Aang turns around and looks up. "Yeah…the centre of the swamp." He says as Zians eyes widen and whistles in impression. "Wow that's one big tree." He says as they all see in front of them stands a gigantic tree that probably reaches the clouds. "It's the heart of the swamp; it's been calling us here. I knew it." Aang says happy with his statement. "It's just a tree it can't call anyone." Sokka protest.

"Don't' underestimate the power of nature." Zian says to him as Sokka turns to him. "Really? Last night you said you hated the swamp." He says as Zian looks at him. "Hey, I respect nature but I hate the swamp. Those are two very different things to me." He says. Sokka shakes his head. "Look, for the last time there's nothing after us and there's nothing magical happening here." He says.

Right after he says that a gigantic viney monster pops out of the water as it faces them. Everyone screams in terror. They all stare at the monster until it makes it move and starts to attack them. Everyone runs away in different directions as they try to get away. The monster targets Sokka and shoots it vines at him as it tries to grab him. As it grabs him and then slams him in the water. Aang sees this and uses his bending to cut the arm off as Sokka falls to the ground. The monster looks at Aang and slams him as he is sent flying. Zian bends a giant boulder as he throws it at it. The boulder just passes through the monster as it creates a big hole in its belly.

"Ha!" Zian yells in triumph. His jaw drops as he sees the monster restoring his belly with the vines. "Aww come on." Zian exclaims as the monster raises its arm and brings it down hard on Zian as he is slammed to the ground with face in the ground. "Ow" He muffles mildly

As Sokka is busy hacking the last of the vines that are on him he then looks up and see the monster regrow its arm as it then grabs him again and whooshes away. Katara splashes a huge wave at it as it stumbles backwards. As it regains its balance it then shoots vines at her as she flies back. It does the same to Aang who is running at it.

It then tries to suck Sokka into its stomach as it walks away. As it does so it is then suddenly surprised when an earth pillar impales it through its left arm and another through its right. Two more pillars impale it through its waist as this holds it where it is. The monster looks and sees Zian is the one doing it and tries to hit him.

Before it can do it however Aang jumps on top of its head and uses his air bending to twist it. As it's like this Katara then freezes to vines holding Sokka and she blasts through it creating a big whole as she appears behind it with her brother with her. The monster turns to them and rejuvenates its stomach as it walks to them.

Katara bends the water around her as she creates water disks that head to it and starts to slice it to pieces. As its busy falling apart it tries to recover itself as Sokka can see something in the vines. "There's someone in there. He's bending the vines." He says as Aang jumps in the air and blasts the monster with strong wind. The vines fall apart as the person struggles to heal it.

"Why did you call us here if you just wanted to kill us?" Aang says as the person stops what's doing. "Wait" The person says as the vines fall to the ground. The person is a man that has grey hair and wearing nothing but clothes made of leaves. "I didn't call you all here." He says as he stops attacking.

The group looks at him confused. "We were flying over and I heard something calling to me. Telling me to land." Aang says. "He's the Avatar, stuff like this happens to us a lot." Sokka says as Zian chuckles. "You have no idea." He says as the man looks at them surprised. "The Avatar? Come with me." The guy says. The group look at one another and then agree to follow him.

Moments later

The man leads them to the giant tree as they walk on its roots. "So who are you then?" Katara asks him as he bends a vine away. "I protect the swamp from folks who want to hurt it. Like this big fellow with his knife." He says clearly talking about Sokka. "See completely reasonable, not a monster just a regular guy defending his own. Nothing mystical about it." Sokka says with a grin. "Oh the swamp is a mystical place alright. It's sacred." The guy says. "I reached enlightment right here under the banyan grove tree." He says as he sits down in front of them. "Yeaaaaaah, enlightenment suuuuure." Zian says not completely sure about what the guy is saying.

The guy ignores him and looks at Aang. "I heard it calling to me just like you did." He says as Sokka rolls his eyes. "Suuuure you did, it seems really chatty" He says sarcastically. The guy continues to speak. "See this whole swamp is actually just one tree spread out over miles. Branches spread and sink and take root and then spreads some more. One big living organism. Just like the entire world." He says as Zian looks at him a bit impressed.

Aang however looks at him confused. "I get how the tree is one big thing but…the entire world?" He says not quite understanding the man's meaning. He just smiles. "Sure. You think you're any different from me or your friends or this tree?" He asks rhetorically. "If you listen hard enough you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We are all living together even if most folks don't act like it, we all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree." The guy finishes.

"But what did our visions mean?" Katara asks. "In the swamp we see visions of people we've lost, people we loved. Folks may think they're gone, but the swamp tells us they're not. We're still connected to them, time is an illusion and so is death." He says as he sounds like he hates saying the last bit.

"But what about my vision? It was someone I've never met." Aang says as the guy just grins. "You're the Avatar you tell me." He says. Aang looks down and thinks. "Time is an illusion. Sooooo it's someone I will meet." He says as the guy just smiles and nods. "Greaaaat, so apparently the swamp can tell future. Whoop di doo." Zian says mockingly.

"And I hate to be the one to interrupt this lovely lesson, but we still need to find Appa and Momo." He adds as Aang looks at him and realizes something. "I think I know how to find them." He says as he places his hand on the tree and he closes his eyes. "Everything is connected." He says. After a few moments his eyes open up as he stands up. "Come on we got to hurry." He says as he runs and the rest follow him.

Somewhere in the swamp

Set my lines by the riverbed. Caught ten fish and I killed 'em dead. Cut 'em and gut 'em and I tossed the heads in the water to keep them catgators fed. A man (wearing nothing but a leaf hat and clothes) sings as he and his friends (Who are also wearing the same attire) are dragging Appa in a net and Momo in a sack as the ride the rivers in two rafts and use their water bending to move them.

They stop when they start to hear rumbling coming from the water. It then stops as all seems normal. Then all of a sudden an earth pillar shoots out of the water and hits the raft from under as it splits one of the rafts in two and sends passengers flying as the fall in the river. On top of that very pillar stands a laughing Zian.

"Appa!" Aang yells as he lands on a tree root as Katara runs up next to him. He shoots a gust of wind at the other raft. It misses the one moving it but hits the one holding the bag containing Momo as he drops the bag and is shot backwards into the water. "We're under attack!" The raft mover exclaims as he bends the water and creates a large and pushes it at them. Aang and Katara counter act it as Katara looks surprised. "Hey, you guys are water benders." She says.

The man stops bending and looks at her joyfully. "You two? That means we kin." He says as Katara looks at him oddly as if not finding that a good thing. Zian laughs at her after he made that statement. Sokka and the monster guy run to them. The raft guy looks at him and smiles. "Hey Huu, how you've been?" He asks as Huu grins. "You know, scaring some folks, swung some vines, the usual." He says as Sokka raises an eyebrow. "Huu?" He says finding that odd.

At night time

After some reassuring and explaining, the swamp benders let the group back to their camp as they cook dinner and they sit around a campfire. "How you like that possum chicken?" Due (the raft mover as they later found out his name) asks Sokka as he sits next to Tho (The one who was shot at with the wind who they also found out was his name).

"Tastes just like artic hen." He says eating a possum chicken kebab. He looks at them wondering as he points at Appa. "So why are you guys so interested in eating Appa?" He asks as he then points to the catgator lying next to Due. "You got plenty of those big things wondering around." He says. "Yep, catgator does sound tasty." Zian says as catgator growls at him as Zian just smirks.

"We don't eat old Slim; he's like a member of the family." Due says as he throws a fish into Slims mouth. Sokka grins. "Nice Slim." He says as he throws a big bug to him. Slim doesn't open his mouth however as the bug bounces off him and he growls at Sokka. Sokka flinches back in fear as Due laughs. "Oh, he don't eat no bugs. That's people food." He says.

"Where'd you say you was from?" Tho asks Katara "The South Pole." She says as her brother chews nonchalantly. "Didn't know there was waterbenders anywhere but here. They got a nice swamp there, do they?" Tho asks sounding interested. "No, it's all ice and snow." She answers as Due and Tho look at her shocked and confused. "Hmm. No wonder you left." Tho says. Zian grins. "Hey there's always the ground and dust if you're interested." He says chuckling as Tho rolls his eyes.

"Well I hope you realize now that nothing strange was going on here. Just a bunch of greasy people living in a swamp." Sokka says to Katara. "What about the vision?" She asks him. "I told you, we were hungry. I'm eating a giant bug." He says as he holds up said bug and takes a bite from it. After he swallows it (with some difficulty) he then sticks his tongue out in disgust. "But what about when the tree showed me where Appa and Momo were?" Aang asks.

"That's Avatar stuff that doesn't count." Sokka says as Zian looks at with a grin. "Aaah Sokka, the man who wants everything to be in science." He says as Sokka glares at him. Zian looks at Huu. "What I'm actually curios of is how you made the tornado that made us forcefully land here." Zian says. "I can't do anything like that. I just bend the water in the plants." Huu says leaving Zian confused.

"Well, no accounting for weather. Still, there's absolutely nothing mysterious about the swamp." Sokka says. Zian lies on his back. "Eh, you can't be too sure. Life is full of mysterious; all you have to do is looks for them." He says as he can't help but wonder who that figure was he saw in his vision. After a while he lets the though slide as he fall asleep.

Midnight in the alleyway of a town

The moon rises over a small town as a rugged man carrying two sword on his back walks down an alleyway minding his own business.

He hears rustling behind him as he immediately takes out the swords and turns around. "Who's there?" He says cautious and ready. He then hears movement behind as he turns around. He suddenly feels two hands grab him as his swords fall out of his hands and he is flung against some crates as the place him into a state of unconsciousness.

A being picks up the swords and looks at the man. He is wearing black boots with a black suit. His face is that of a blue mask and sharp teeth. He is none other than the blue spirit himself.

Aaaand done. I hope you all enjoyed it and had fun. Thank you so much for reading I do appreciate it.

Also Happy Easter. I hope you enjoy finding your Easter eggs and enjoying your delicious chocolate bunnies. Hope you all have a lovely Easter.

Until then see you all in the next chapter. Bye