I am so sorry it took me sooo long to update it. I have like thirty different versions of how I want this written. I settled for this one because it's been like three weeks since I updated! Please no one throw rotten fruit at me!
"Kyoshi!" I turned around to have my little sister wrap her arms around me and bury her face into my stomach, "Mommy yelled at me again!" Tear s flowed down her face that was a spitting image of my own face just younger.
I reached down and gave her a squeeze, "What did you do this time?" I tried to sound stern but when she turned to look at me with those puppy dog eyes, I felt myself give in.
Kyoko sniffled, "I was trying to help with the cooking! I really was! But then some food fell on the floor." Her hands curled themselves into the sides of my warrior's attire, "I really tried. I just wanted momma to praise me like she praises you."
I absent mindedly ran my fingers through her hair. I knew that being the avatar's sister was hard on her. Everything she did, I could do better, and people always had to point it out.
"It's alright princess," I said and she beamed as I used my pet name for her, "We can cook together when we get home. I won't yell at you even if you drop all the food on the floor." I looked around as if telling a big secret, "We just won't tell mommy, okay?"
Kyoko nodded, proud to be trusted with a secret, "You promise?"
"Promise." I gave her one last squeeze.
Kyoko looked past me to the water, "Ohh, look! What is that?" I looked to where she was pointing. She was pointed to a strange black thing on the beach ahead of us.
I gave an uncaring shrug, "Looks like a piece of a ship that probably washed up." Kyoko looked at me for a long while. I rolled my eyes and nodded. She smiled and took off towards the black spot. Kyoko would walk the beaches for hours just to look around for washed up things. She said that they were the most beautiful things that the world had.
I watched her with a crooked smile until I saw something that made my blood turn cold. The black thing barely moved.
"Kyoko!" I screamed, but the girl didn't seem to hear me as she neared the black blob. "Kyoko don't!" I took off in s sprint, desperately trying get to the girl before she got to the blob, but with the distance between us, it didn't happen.
Kyoko froze as she realized that it was something that was alive. She screamed and went to turn around and run, but the black blob twisted its body so quickly that it was able to grab the girl. Kyoko screamed and dropped to her knees.
"Kyoko!" I finally came to her. I leapt onto the black blob. It was actually a tube like creature with no limbs. Just a circular mouth filled with sharp teeth, and they were all in Kyoko's thigh. I struck at the creature with my fans, creating deep slices.
Tears were streaming down my eyes. The creature's body moved under me, and I realized that it was drinking. Blood streamed onto the sand all around me.
"Kyos." Kyoko muttered turned to look at me with blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, her face pale, and her body shaking "Is mommy going to be mad?" Her arms gave away, and she landed on her stomach to breathe in her last breath.
"No!" I screamed and continued to beat the black blob even though I knew it was too late and even though I had ripped the blob apart. I continued to cry even as the tide swept all of my little sister's blood into the ocean.
"Wake up!"
Aang's body reacted despite his mind still far away in his dreams, and Aang found himself sitting up so fast that he nearly head butted the girl screaming in his ear. The girl gave a startled shriek and poked his arm frantically before leaping away to land in a fighting position.
Aang's arm instantly was deemed useless, "Ow!" Aang yelled trying to grab both his arm and his ears at the same time, "That's the rudest wakeup call I've ever had!" Aang blinked as he realized that he was not in the water tribe and the girl was not Toph being playful.
The girl instantly relaxed as she realized that Aang wasn't a threat, "Hi!" She instantly launched herself onto his bed showing amazing gracefulness. "Who are you? How did you get onto Kyoshi Island? I mean didn't the unagi give you any trouble? It's giving tons of people trouble!"
Aang blinked as the girl started moving towards him.
"Ty Lee!"
Aang turned away from the approaching and curious girl to see another woman come in while fanning herself with a dangerous looking fan. She narrowed her grey eyes on Aang in a clear look of distrust.
"Good morning, prisoner." The girl said dangerously and smirked at his limp arm, "Hope you slept well."
Aang looked away from the girl to look at his surroundings curiously. Where was he? Then he remembered the events of what he guessed was the previous day.
"Oh man!" Aang leapt to his feet and off the bed making both girls react. Unluckily, the cheerful girl, Ty Lee launched herself onto the ground. Suki pulled her hand back to swipe but Aang saw her instantly go to cover both her and Ty Lee's eyes.
Aang frowned until he looked down. His eyes widened as he realized that the only thing he was wearing was a sheet that was starting to slip down away from his hips.
"Don't look!" Aang yelped as he struggled to grab on the falling sheets.
"Don't flatter yourself!" The older girl snarled as she was able to get her hands over a staring Ty Lee. Aang pulled the sheets around himself, "Are you decent?"
"As much as a guy wearing a sheet can be." Aang snarled in embarrassment. He may be an avatar, and heck he'd had a lover before, but having two completely strange girls staring at him with barely any clothing was something that he wasn't used to
The older girl peeked and when she realized he'd been telling the truth, she lowered her hands from both her and Ty Lee's face.
"Ahhh," Ty Lee frowned, "It's not every day you get to see a boy that fine." Aang glanced at the girl with a frown.
"Anyway, where are my clothes? I really need to go. My friend is having a mental breakdown about her dead badger-mole family, so…" Aang shut up when he saw the strange look both the girls were giving him, "Okay maybe I should explain myself."
"You can't leave." The older girl stated simply.
Aang froze up, "You can't keep me here. I didn't do anything…"
"Oh, that's not the reason," the older girl said with a wave of her hand, "You can try to leave, but the unagi won't let you. Kyoshi Island hasn't been able to get anyone in or out for the last two months without the unagi killing them. Ships can't even come in." The girl was examining her finger nails, "Sorry, but you're stuck.
Ty Lee, who seemed to still be enjoying the small amounts of skin she was able to see, looked to the older girl, "But Suki, he got here. The unagi didn't kill him."
The older girl, Suki, shrugged, "It was just luck. An avatar wannabe wouldn't get that far on skill. Yeah, no offense but those tattoos are so obviously fake." Aang arched his eyebrow but didn't say anything. He'd actually been told that his tattoos didn't look right a lot. Apparently, they were to light a color to be real.
Aang smiled, "Well, I hope luck will be enough to get me off this island. My friend is seriously freaking out and I'm afraid that she's going to hurt herself. I'll take on the unagi if it means getting out of here."
Suki shrugged, "Your death wish." Suki grabbed the still staring Ty Lee and shoved her to her feet, "Let's go." Aang waited until Suki was about to grab the door.
"Oh yeah," Aang said and the girls turned around, "Here's a thank you for saving me." Aang sent a blast of air over to the flowers hanging outside his window and sent two of the prettiest flowers to Ty Lee and Suki.
They both caught them looking slightly amazed. Ty Lee clicked her tongue as if she was impressed before leaving, but Suki just narrowed her eyes, clearly unimpressed, and turned away.
"Welcome to Kyoshi Island," Suki growled, "It's about damn time you returned home, avatar." Aang chuckled. Had he not been so worried about Toph he might of stayed to get to know Suki more, for she was the kind of girl that he liked.
However, with Toph in danger, Suki could have been the most beautiful and amazing girl alive and Aang wouldn't give her a second look. Aang was slightly perplexed to find himself so fixated on coming to Toph's rescue but he didn't find any reason why.
Aang, being left on his own, was able to find his clothes in the small closet. They were different than his old clothes. Very different. It was a dress. Aang would have refused to wear it if it wasn't the only thing in the entire room, and he had a feeling that Suki wasn't going to give him any other clothes.
As Aang put it on, he realized that a dress wouldn't be a proper word to describe what he was wearing. It was more like a green, armored, robe. He knew that the look was actually sported after one of his past lives, but that didn't make it comfortable or right for Aang to wear it.
Aang walked out of the small, well to put it simply, hut he was sleeping in. He found Ty Lee lounging against a nearby tree clearly waiting for him to finish changing. He was just happy that the girl hadn't peaking at him.
She jumped up when she saw him, "About time! Geez and I thought that girls where the ones that were supposed to take a long time to change." Aang suddenly narrowed his eyes at her. Something about her struck him as familiar.
Ty Lee smirked, "Don't remember me, huh? Don't worry, I didn't remember you either. I mean I realize it's you now, but just from your face, I didn't recognized you."
"We've met before?" Aang asked curiously. He figured he'd remember a girl with that much makeup.
Ty Lee nodded, "I'm the one that spilled that vase on Azula's head when I realized that you two were getting married." She rubbed the back of her neck, "I thought I was going to die."
"Good thing you can dodge lightning." Aang smiled as he remembered the energetic girl now, "So how'd you end up here?"
Ty Lee gestured for Aang to follow her, "Well, after Azula's mom came back, Azula stopped hanging around me and Mai. It was okay at first until Mai started dating Zuko and she started ignoring me too. Suki found me pouting on a beach and offered me a spot on her island. Here I am."
Aang reached over and ruffled the girl's hair, mostly because she reminded him of a puppy, "Well, good for you. Where are we going?" Aang asked even though he had a guess. His guess was based on the fact that they were rather going to the beach or farther, if they learned to walk on water.
Ty Lee shrugged, "I'm kidnapping you." Aang shot her an unbelieving roll of the eyes and she smiled, "Normally, we'd throw a huge festival in honor of the return of the avatar that would last all night, we'd beg you to stay here with us, offer you all the eligabal ladies hands, but since you seem to be in a hurry, Suki decided that the sooner you left the better."
Aang blinked in surprise, "Thanks. Normally, I would like to stay, but Azula demanded that I return to the Firenation Palace as soon as possible. Apparently, there is a huge emergency." Remembering that Ty Lee was close with the princess, Aang looked over to her, "Do you know what the emergency."
Ty Lee rolled her eyes, "Didn't you listen to Suki? The unagi has kept us trapped here for two months. We haven't had any outside contact during that time."
"So, this unagi creature, just showed up one day?"
Ty Lee shook her head, "Nah, it's always been here. These waters are its home. It really didn't bother us and we didn't bother it. But two months ago, it just went insane. It attacked anything that entered its water, and at night," Ty Lee eyes flashed sadly, "It cries to the sky."
Aang looked over, surprised by the sudden change in the happy girl's demeanor. Deciding that he was not good with emotional females or dealing with them, look what happened with Toph, so he let the conversation drop.
They came to the beach where Suki was leaning back against a small, small boat. She reached down and patted the boat, "Hope luck will allow you to sail on the waters without being eaten alive."
She knows I'm the avatar and yet she still treats me coldly, Aang thought with a shake of his head.
"I think I can take on your little unagi," Aang said confidentiality, "I am the avatar, you know." Aang would have felt good about himself if Suki hadn't put her hand over her mouth to keep herself from cracking a smile.
"What?" Suki asked innocently as Aang narrowed his eyes at her.
"You don't think I can do it?" Aang asked.
"From what I can gather," Suki grinned, "You got beaten by a blind little girl. I just think our unagi might be a little out of our hands."
Aang blinked, "How does she know that?"
Ty Lee grinned, "Kyoshi has a way of making people talk in their sleep." Aang gulped, wondering what else he had said.