Yeah, I know what you are thinking… "Isn't this chapter being released a little earlier?" Well yeah.. 24 hours ago I was writing chapter 6. Truth is I am just really bored right now and got tired of doing the same thing regularly so I thought.. Hey, why not write another chapter? Anyways, I suppose I also felt kind of bad for leaving off at that cliffhanger and wanted to make up for it.

-Cheers, Nytherinz

Spring, 0 ASC, on one of the islands in the southern Earth Kingdom

Aang's POV

What are those people doing? Is that a spear he is shoving in that old man's face?

"You thought you could hide your secret from us forever, didn't you old man!" The man screamed in his face.

"I don't know what you are talking about, I swear!" He looked around and spotted us and Jatsu.

"Jatsu!" His voice turned into a pleading tone. "Help me!"

The pirate's face turned angrier once he saw who the man was talking to.

"The snitch also said that this boy," He pointed to Jatsu," was in on the plot and was here talking to Huyne when the snitch was within earshot!"

"You men, take them onto our deck where they will pay for their crimes!" He pointed to three of his men.

"I don't think they are going anywhere with you," I said, stepping out from behind my escorts.

"Aang, do not interfere!" Naqz whispered angrily, "We must not draw attention to ourselves!"

"Isn't it my duty as the Avatar to protect this world from evil? Is this not an obvious evil?"

Naqz's face contorted in anger, and then relaxed.

"Aang, you are right there, but alas, there is a greater evil and if we do this, then it will be very difficult to defeat it."

We hardly noticed the pirates speaking to us angrier every moment we ignored them.

"You! Answer me now!" The lead pirate screamed.

"Who are you, peasant, to tell me what I can and cannot do? We own this village!" He gestured behind him to his men, who were laughing as he said that.

"It doesn't matter who I am, it matters who you are. You are a regular person, just like all these innocent people who live here. How can you enforce them to give you supplies and for you to spit in their faces as if they were scum? How would you like it if someone did that to you, huh?"

"Beuce, please listen to the boy." Huyne said nervously as sweat dripped from his forehead.

"Shut up peasant, your job is to get us fish, not tell me how to do mine."

"You think we are regular people, boy? We'll show you what we are." Beuce snorted.

"Gerald, Kilan, and you two, what's your name again?" Beuce contemplated for a second, "never mind your names, show this imbecile WHO WE ARE!"

The said men and women walked out of the crowd grinning like they were royalty and said, "Prepare to die, outsider."

The ground behind us shook as rocks flew out of the dirt and flew towards me.

Beuce laughed hysterically. He was obviously insane.

Time slowed town as I tried to think of what to do. I can't expose myself as an Air Nomad. I mean, why would an airbender be all the way out here. People would get suspicious. But I don't know earthbending, so how am I supposed to get out of this?

Little did I know that Jatsu had a plan of his own.

Jatsu's POV

I saw the rock flying towards Aang and without thinking; I put out my arms and earthbended a wall out of the ground between the rock and Aang. I did it just in time too; another second or 2 Aang would have been crushed. Little did I know I just sentenced myself to death by the pirates.

Aang's POV

I was astonished when a wall came out of the ground and protected me from the rock which would of killed me.

"You!" Beuce pointed at Jatsu, "There are no benders allowed in this village. Men, kill him!"

Before the pirates had moved 2 feet, I send a wave of air towards them, sending them flying into the water.

"What? How? You're an airbender? I've heard of you guys, you are rarely seen, you always stay up in those temples on mountains. What are you doing here though?"

A teenage girl ran out from the marketplace all of the sudden and screamed.

"What's going on?" She looked around sporadically, looking for someone she knew.

"Jatsu! What happened?" She said as she was running towards him.

Jatsu looked at me in deep thought for a second.

"Jatsu?" She repeated.

He turned to her. "Well Obie, the pirates found out about Huyne and him selling his fish in small amounts so they don't steal from him. They were going to kill us I think."

She gasped at that. "How did they find out?"

"Well, apparently someone snitched on us." He looked at me.

"This stranger saved Huyne and I. We are in your debt." He looked at me and nodded, winking.

What was that? Why did he wink?

Beuce's POV

I climbed up the ladder the rest of my men put down the side of our ship.

"What happened sir?"

I looked at the scum wearing rags.

"If one more of you ask me what happened, I will personally torture you for several hours, cut into your body not one less than 1000 times, and then finally slit your throat!" I screamed in their faces.

"We will come back tomorrow, when they think they drove us out of town, and we will capture Jatsu, Huyne, and the stranger. I WANT THEM ALIVE, do you hear that?"

They nodded quickly.

They don't know who they're messing with.

Oh Beuce.. if only you knew who the "stranger" was. You would be begging for Aang's forgiveness. I mean, all you have is a few earthbenders. Anyways.. next chapter will be their confrontation and maybe a surprise. But at the end of the next chapter we will definitely be out of the village and back on our way to the Southern Water Tribe.

-Cheers, Nytherinz