Chapter 4

The ship arrived at the island and the group decided to rest. Iroh, who was piloting the ship for quite a while was tired and decided to sleep for awhile; the group heard his loud snoring and decided that they would rather enjoy a relaxing break on the shore before getting some local produce rather than hearing the loud noises that were coming from the old ex general's mouth.

"This place creeps me out. It is so quiet and deserted. Could we stay here for a while?" asked Jinora her older friends/

"We will stay here as long as we have to. For now I think that we can enjoy a small break before we will continue our journey to the Northern Pole and the Northern Air Temple" spoke Katara as she looked at the younger girl.

Before anyone else could speak, a bunch of warriors jumped out from the forest and quickly subdued the group, nobody even had time to speak a word- the attackers were quick. However, Zuko realized that the group was watched but did not have enough time to alert his friends.

The former Prince jumped away from his attackers and briefly fought them; even though the boy managed to knock out a few of them, the odds were not really in his favor and he was soon captured as well. The warriors, who attacked the group then brought them to a pole, tied them and took their masks off so that the warriors could see the group's faces.

"Who are you and what are you dong on this island?" asked the elder girl

"Where are the men who brought us here? Surely, you did not capture us as you are just bunch of silly girls" spoke Sokka

"I don't think it is wise to insult our captors" spoke Katara quietly to her brother

"No men had captured you, it was us who did it. We are the Kyoshi Warriors who guard this island" spoke the eldest warrior girl

"Why does Kyoshi sound familiar?" asked Korra as she looked at her friends. The Avatar was confused. She never heard of that name yet somehow the said name was rather familiar to the girl.

"Kyoshi was the Avatar, who preceded Avatar Roku. She" started Jinora calmly in a somewhat focused manner, as if she intended to provide a lecture on the past history of the island.

"You are correct, Kyoshi was the Avatar, who was born on this island about four hundred years ago," confirmed the warrior girl.

"Wait, Avatar Kyoshi? I am the Avatar!" spoke Korra proudly, trying to stand more firmly on the ground.

"It is impossible, the last Avatar was supposed to be an Air bender, who disappeared about a hundred years ago," commented the leader of the warrior girls.

"He was not the last Air bender. I am his granddaughter. My name is Jinora and I am a fourteen year old granddaughter of former Avatar Aang" spoke the Air bender.

"Lies! Throw all these spies and impostors to the Unagi" commanded the girl. Jinora decided that she has it with these people and decided to prove her bending skills. She propelled herself into the air as she then freed herself from the restraints.

"An Air bender! But how? The last Air bender was Avatar Aang. Surely you cannot be the Avatar?" asked the warrior girl

"I am not but she is" Jinora pointed at Korra who by now was fuming. The avatar did not enjoy being restrained and the girl really wanted to get out.

"Even if you are an Air bender, we don't see any truth to the Avatar in question being actually the Avatar Don't even try to prove your Avatar status by using water or fire as two of your friends surely can help you with that" spoke the older girl.

Suddenly winds appeared, which circled around Korra. Her eyes started glowing and the next thing everybody saw was that Avatar Korra had disappeared. Instead, a much taller woman appeared, who was in her mid thirties or so, The woman looked like a replica of the warrior girls, who had just captured the group with the exception of being much older looking in appearance as well as clearly being the Avatar.

"My name is Avatar Kyoshi. I was born here on this island four hundred years ago. Back then it was a part of the peninsula of the mainland of the Earth Kingdom. Korra is my future successor, the next Avatar born after the departed Avatar Aang."

To prove her yet again Avatar Status, the woman destroyed the ropes with her fans with extreme ease and then bent the earth around both groups. After showing some of her abilities, the smoke cleared and the group saw Korra yet again, who stood between the two groups, clearly being confused.

"What just happened?" inquired Korra

"Avatar Korra, you just proved to us that you are indeed the Avatar. Please accept our deepest apologies" spoke the elder warrior girl, "My name is Suki and I am the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors"

"San we still throw the boy to the Unagi? Another Kyoshi Warrior girl looked at Sokka, "He is so annoying!" Fortunately, Suki dismissed the request and then invited the group to spend some time in her village.

Katara with the rest of the group followed Suki deeper into the island but Korra decided that it would have been fun to go swimming for a change. As she approached the shore, she threw most of her outfit on the ground and was now left in a much simpler one, where she wore a white tank top as well as white shorts. The girl then jumped into the water.

"This is so good," exclaimed Korra as she swam in the water. However, soon her relaxation was disturbed by a large shadow that was approaching her quickly from the depths of the water.

"Might be the scary Unagi. Lets see how bad can you possibly be?" smiled Korra as she put her two fists together. A large snake like creature lifted its head and neck from the water, although its head looked like a dragon. The creature opened its mouth and threw itself at Korra.

"I am the Avatar, you gotta deal with it. Come and get me!" smirked Korra as she swirled herself in the water, creating a small water tornado which lifted her into the air as Korra faced the water creature straight into its face.

Meanwhile, the two boys decided to check out the Kyoshi Warrior's practice to see how they would handle one to one combat with the warriors. As the two friends approached one house, they saw the warrior girl group training in what Sokka would consider dancing.

"What are you two doing here?" asked Suki as she stopped her practice.

"Just came to check the practice. But you can continue your dance lessons until you are ready to take on a real warrior. In fact, I am the best warrior in my village and I cold surely teach you girls some moves" spoke Sokka

"What do you think girls, should we learn the moves from the best warrior of the Southern Water Tribe?" asked Suki as she looked at her colleagues. All the girls nodded and smirked while Suki smiled.

"So show me, o great warrior how a warrior would fight to a defenseless girl?" She spoke and stood against the boy. Sokka asked the girl to try and defend herself but the girl easily blocked his incoming fist. In fact, the next thing she did was to swing Sokka around and then after jumping in the air, she hit Sokka with her leg. Sokka dropped on the floor, being angry that he had just been humiliated.

"That's it, I will show you my best!" screamed Sokka as he launched himself at Suki again and again but each of his attempts was blocked and then counter attacked with some new move each time. After the fifth try Sokka sadly admitted that the girl was a much better fight than him as he quietly stood up.

"Would you like to fight with me?" asked Zuko cockily

"Are you another warrior from his village? The girl pointed at Sokka

"No, I am the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, Prince Zuko and I will show you how the real martial arts fighting is done. To be fair, I will not use my Fire bending to aid me" he proclaimed.

"Challenge accepted" spoke Suki as she attacked Zuko. The boy quickly counter attacked her attack and then launched his own. This went for a few rounds, where neither seemed to be advancing, since both of the fighters were quite good. Suki grabbed Zuko by his shit and then grabbed his arms, holding him still. That worked for a while for the girl until Zuko took all of his strength and threw Suki away from him, However, the boy lost his shirt in the process to the excitement of all Kyoshi Warriors except Suki, was now fighting even more aggressively, since she had never seen anyone with such skills.

Zuko jumped and took a sword from the stance that stood nearby. Suki quickly armed herself with two fans and the two teenagers continued their fight. However as the two lost their weapons and were now fighting on fists, they heard an attack to their village.

"We will finish this next time" spoke Suki as she led her Warriors to help the village against the invaders. Zuko went to pick up his shirt and Sokka quickly approached Suki, wanting to apologize for his earlier behavior.

"I would like to apologize on how I treated you. I now understand that you are a great Warrior" Sokka began his apology.

"Don't worry Sokka, I forgive you but I am glad that you now understand that you were wrong. My warriors and me are not just the warriors though, but we are girls too." Spoke Suki as she kissed Sokka on his cheek before catching up with her group in rescuing the villagers.

It turned out to be that the entire village was now on fire and that the two figures were now fighting with Katara and Jinora; unfortunately for the group, the two invaders were all too familiar for them- Azula and Tahno. The Fire Princess was sending Fire balls at the buildings, as well as using Fire whips to scare the people off. Tahno was sending ice spikes as well as the water jets from his fists and feet at the villagers; both invaders had already dealt a lot of damage to the village.

Sokka and Zuko soon joined the group in their effort to fight off the deadly duo but their two enemies were still advancing. Even with the addition of the entire Kyoshi Warriors group, the overwhelming majority of them still could not defeat the invaders, although the two sides were now almost equal in strength. Zuko and Katara fought Azula while the rest took Tahno, who made it impossible for the group to approach him closely as he created an icy armor around himself with spikes from the surrounding water and was now quite effective at deflecting all non bending attacks; Jinora's Air bending was not very effective against him either. Tahno walked slowly towards all the incoming warriors as they jumped towards him, he quickly used his arms to repel that force with Water bending.

Azula was sending fire and lightning at the two benders who managed to hold ground but were quite ineffective as of yet to go on the offensive. Azula easily evaporated all of the water tat Katara sent at her and also easily countered Zuko's Fire Attacks.

The two benders were soon pushed a few steps back. "Katara, grab my hand, maybe it would help us if we fight together" spoke Zuko to Katara. Each of them took the other person's hand and together sent their bending element at Azula. The two elements seemed to fuse, also helping each other immensely.

Katara managed to produce a water jet from her hand while the fire did not die out from the interaction with water, this was all confusing for the two but they decided to wait for an explanation later. The two elements circled around each other, getting tied around the other and the combined water-fire jet shot at Azula, who was thrown back a few steps. However, the Fire Princess quickly recovered and went on offensive, producing even more powerful fire attacks at the group. Katara and Zuko's defenses were breaking.

Suddenly a large jet of water hit the village and the fighters within it. The jet was massive, it seemed that an entire river was pouring on top of it. After everyone looked up, they saw an Unagi sea creature, its head and neck; its jaw was open, pouring water on the village. Using the distraction, Katara and Zuko threw their opponents far away from the village. The two landed somewhere in the woods on the other side of the island.

Soon it was time to depart. The group took some local produce, thanked the villages and went to their ship only to find it destroyed with Iroh standing on the shore. However, as the group arrived on the shore, Korra joined them as she jumped from Unagi's head.

"You will not believe this but this sea creature is so sweet. Come here Naga" spoke Korra as she waved her hand to the sea creature

"Naga?" questioned Katara

"From Unagi. I changed Nagi to Naga. This Unagi allowed us to be our new ship!" exclaimed Korra as she hugged the creature's neck with her arms.

"In my entire life I have never heard of a person who tamed an Unagi sea creature" spoke Iroh. The group then created a somewhat large and comfortable saddle, which Korra then put on the creature. The group then climbed on it with Korra sitting on the creature's head.

"I think we could first visit my old friend Bumi, he lives in a city close by" spoke Iroh as the group prepared for their next journey.