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Chapter 7
I must of died and went to heaven because these beds were just to comfy. I felt like I was sleeping on a cloud and between the bed and my extreme tiredness I knocked out. I refused to wake up in the morning and the only reason I did get up was because Kane flipped my mattress over. I conceder just staying on the floor but knew I had important things to worry about.
I didn't feel the need to tell my friends about Kuro. It was honestly was nothing important. I didn't want them to flip thinking I was going to leave Rai. I would never do that. I didn't need to hear all the annoying comments they had about him and stress Rai out beyond needed. However Yuna's refusing to help was something I needed to share with the rest of the gang.
Bringing it up at breakfast seemed the best idea. "Hello earth to Kayla!" Aneko said, snapping me out of my thoughts. I was debating the best time to bring up the huge problem we had with Yuna and all my friends must have noticed how distracted I was.
"Huh?" I asked, poking at my fruit pie. Even though I loved the pies so much I couldn't find myself eating them. I knew Taya would not take Yuna's news lightly but how would everyone else take it? I was worried to death that no amount of delicious Eastern Air Temple cuisine would calm me.
"I asked if your ok but obviously your not." Aneko said in a worried voice. Aneko was strange to me. She had this darkness to her, sort of like Kuro yet she was so sweet. It was as if she was being torn apart in the inside by the good she wants to be and the bad her mother raised her to be.
"Oh right." I said, pushing my uneaten fruit pie away from me. "I'm fine."
"Call the doctor!" Kane said, pressing his sweaty palm to my head. "She must be sick if she's not eating like a starving animal!"
I pushed his hand away, laughing. Kane was the funniest guy I knew and I was always thankful to have him around. "Your horrible." I said.
"But on a serious note your not eating Kayla." Kami said, shaking her head softly at Kane.
"I guess its because I'm worried." I said, playing with a piece of my brown hair. Rai put his arm around me, holding me close to his chest. Even though he didn't know what was going on he would still be supporting me to the end.
"Worried?" Taya asked in an uninterested voice.
"Yeah about how your going to take the Yuna news." I said. My friends all fell silent as they realized what I was talking about.
"Right." Aneko said, taking a bite out of her apple. The juice spilling a little on to her chin. "You never told us how that went."
"Not good." I said, wishing I had better news to tell them. "Her Mother was killed by your army Aneko. She developed a fear of fire and firebenders. She said she help me by telling me her vision but other then that she won't fight or work with us. I don't know how to make her understand we need her."
Aneko eyes narrowed and she stood up, her chair crashing on the floor. "Unbelievable!" She shouted, storming around the room. Out of all the people who I thought would flip Aneko was not one of them. "This is great! Wonderful!"
Kane stood up to calm Aneko but it meant nothing to her. She wouldn't look at him or listen to his calming words. She just continued with her tantrum. She didn't say anything besides letting out a loud scream. She started kicking and burning things. I knew the whole house would go up in flames if I didn't do something. I waterbended as quickly as I could to stop the fire that she threw around the room. "What is wrong with you!" I shouted, pushing her hands down to reframe her from burning our temporary home.
"I can't believe it!" She shouted, kicking her feet. "It's my fault that she won't help us." Aneko voice suddenly dropped and she sounded like a girl who lost everything in the world. "I can't escape it."
"Escape what?" I asked. I looked quickly at my friends. Rai was stomping out some fire while Taya and Kami hung back both looking worried about there friend. You know something was horrible if Taya showed anything. Kane was moving towards us to put his arm around Aneko's shoulder, scared for his love.
"The past." Aneko whispered in a miserable way. "I can't escape the past. It will always haunt me."
How could I forget? Aneko has spend a whole year of her life dedicated to fixing the wrong she did in the world. She wanted to erase the mistakes her Mother made her do. Yet here she was faced with her past. Her destruction jeopardized our mission and took away Yuna's Mother. The past was always following us. What happened last year would always mark us. Some physical like the burn across my chest where Azula hit me, some emotional like the nightmares Rai and I had and the pain Aneko went through everyday.
"Aneko love." Kane said, rubbing her hair. She collapsed into his embrace as the build up anger, pain and frustration left her body, leaving her drained. I held her hand the whole time. "This isn't your fault."
Taya opened her mouth to say something that would cause Aneko to flip out but Kami put a firm hand over Taya's mouth to silence her. "Yes it is. I burned down her home. Me! Because of me she won't help us. Because of me more people will die."
"You didn't kill her mother though." I said. "Azula did. She made you Aneko. Someone was going to die anyway. It was either you and Kane or Yuna's Mother."
"I rather me then anyone else." Aneko said. I knew I would say the same thing if I was in her position so I decided to stay quiet. Thankfully Kane took over, saving me for saying anything else that could make Aneko more sad.
"Come on my dear." Kane said, pulling Aneko to her feet. "Let's go for a walk around the mountain. There are so many beautiful things here that I am sure you would love to see." He winked at me as he guided Aneko out the house.
"Well that little meltdown almost cost us our home." Taya said. She picked up a burned orange curtain with her fingertips, a smirk on her face.
I let out a groan of frustration. "Couldn't you shut her mouth permanently?" I asked Kami who was shooting Taya dirty looks. She walked away from our cruel friend to fix the mess that Aneko had made.
"If only." She said.
"Wow and I call you people my friends." Taya said. She grabbed an armful of food from the table that had magically stayed undisturbed by Aneko. "I'm gonna find better company."
"Like who a flying bison?" I asked sarcastically.
"Nope I saw this cute boy around the middle mountain last night. His better then you guys and the bison put together." Taya stuck her tongue out at us as she headed for the door.
"What happened to Shiro?" I asked Taya quickly before she left. Shiro was a boy that Taya meet at our party in honor of our heroic acts by defeating Azula. Taya had horrible luck with men and was cheated on by some ass hole. Shiro turned out to be a great guy who truly loved Taya. The last I heard they were still madly in love.
"We're having some problems." Taya said, going back into her unemotional ways. "I don't know. It might be over, I'll see when I get back to the Fire Nation but till then I have a gorgeous guy to find."
Before I could say anything else Taya ran out the house. "Look." Kami said, grabbing papers and pen from the wooden dresser in the corner of the room. "I have to go write letters to my parents and Akio. I miss them."
Kami disappeared into her room, leaving me with beautiful Rai. He looked drop dead gorgeous right now with his beautiful shining green eyes and his lips curled into a smile that blew me away. Right now all I wanted to do was throw myself into his protective arms and let his smell fill my nose.
"So I guess its up to us to visit our friend Yuna?" Rai asked, wrapping his arms around my waist. My heart began to pound loudly like it want to personally tell Rai how much I loved him.
"What?" I asked not really listening to what came out of his mouth. My sudden increase in love for him had thrown me off.
"Yuna? Us? Talking about a problem?" Rai said with that know it all smirk on his face. I remembered how angry I would get from one of those smirks but now it got me dizzy.
"Right, lets go now." With that said we left to find Yuna. It was hard to find her since I wasn't even sure which mountain she was on. I had to find Sister Aoi and ask her where Yuna would be. Apparently Yuna spend most of her time on the Right Mountain in the temple. Rai and I headed over there, silently wondering what will happen when we saw Yuna. Would she flip or not? Would she be friendly or cruel? Wise or silly? I had no idea which quite frankly freaked me out.
When I approached the temple I could see Yuna. Her long dark hair was in a braid and she wore a different orange and yellow outfit today. She sat on a cushion with her feet close to her body. The arrow on her head shining in the morning light.
"Yuna? Are you mediating?" I asked. Happy I wouldn't have to whisper since no one else was here but us. Yuna's eyes flew open and a slow smile formed on her lips. She looked every bit in control and wise unlike the last time I saw her.
"Hello Kya." She said.
"Excuse me?" Rai asked, confused. I forget to let him know on the way here that Yuna called me by my Gran-Gran's name, It must have slipped my mind.
"Oh I call Kayla, Kya." Yuna explained quickly. "I think it fits her better. Now come, sit down in front of me. We have a lot to discuss."
Rai and I took the cushion seat that Yuna gestured to. I crossed my legs easily, laughing at Rai who could not seem to make his legs do the same motion as me. Yuna merely chuckled, being more serious. "Ok." I said when we were all settled in. "Tell me about the vision."
"Oh the vision." Yuna said softly. She picked up a bowl of nuts and offered us some. I took a greedy handful, my stomach empty since I didn't eat any breakfast. Yuna left the bowl in front of me so I could grab some whenever I wanted. "The vision was the most powerful one I ever had. I had visions since I was a little girl. My first was when I was 5. I predicted a drought was coming our way when we lived in the Earth Kingdom. It came true and Mother realized I had a gift. I had visions ever since then and most of it was nothing serious. Just problems around the farm and such. It helped us escape exposure. We didn't want anyone to know we were airbenders."
Yuna looked at the bowl of nuts I reached for. She seemed lost in her thoughts. I realized I had to make her feel more comfortable. "We don't need to talk about your parents. Just focus on the recent vision."
Yuna gave me a thankful smile. "Thank you." She went back to talking about her visions, I listened to her every word. "Anyway. This vision happened while I was sleeping. I woke up sweating and unable to breath. Then I felt like I was being sucked in, the world around me falling apart. This vision actually hurt me. Then I saw them. They were a group of benders. There faces were impossible to see but I saw them bending. They all wore black and were using there elements to burn down some forest."
Fear flew through me. This was coming soon. This doom and destruction was on the horizon, ready to hit us in full force. "Do your visions always come true?" Rai asked, sounding just as frighten.
"Always." Yuna said, playing with her fingers. "There warnings. They tell me the future so I can be prepared for them. There unchangeable. This group of benders are going to attack and there is nothing I can do about it."
"You can fight." I said. Maybe I can convince her to join us and just deal with the fact that she be working with a bunch of firebenders.
"I am." She said in a way that made me not want to argue. "In my own way."
"But you can help in a better way." I said, unable to stop myself. I felt Rai squeeze my hand to stop but I just couldn't. I know I should be thankful she was willing to share this information with me but I just wish she could do more. She was a master airbender yet she wouldn't lift a finger to defend people.
"Kya please." Yuna said softly. "Maybe in time I can work with your friends but right now I can't. They hurt me to badly. I have been stuck here without my family since I was 13. That's 5 years alone. All I ever want is to go back in time. Live in that little village on the coast of the Earth Kingdom, on our little farm. But I can't. A group of power hungry firebenders ripped that from me. I can not forgive yet."
I said nothing. This girl was crushed. Her Father was gone and her Mother was dead all at the hands of Azula and her daughter. How could I blame her for something out of her control. I couldn't which only drove me insane to no end.
"Lets not talk about that right now." Rai said, smiling gently at Yuna. Even she was not immune to Rai's gorgeous looks. She looked back at him in a way that made me want to drop a gallon of water on her head. She probably didn't even noticed she looked at Rai that way but still. I guess I could be just as jealous as Rai.
"Can you tell us anything useful about this group of benders?" He asked.
"No not really." She said. The dreamy look vanished as she realized that Rai belonged to me. She wasn't going to flirt with any girls love and I had to respect her for that. "All I can tell you was that they wore black and there was four of them. One waterbender, one firebender, one earthbender and one airbender. The earthbender was a girl. All of them were…amazing. They were all masters in there element and were destroying a great deal of land."
"There is only four of them?" I asked, confused. That should be easy enough. There was six of us. The numbers were on our side and we were just as strong as they were. I was starting to feel a little hopeful but Yuna changed my mind real quickly.
"You didn't see them." Yuna said with panic in her face. "They were monsters with powers I didn't even think was possible. They shouldn't be as powerful as they are but somehow, someway they are. Don't doubt them because there is less of them. I only saw the four of them, there might be more."
Ok then maybe we have a problem. I wondered why they were so powerful, more then normal but knew that wasn't the big problem here. I had to worry about how to beat them not how they got that way.
"Is there anything else you can remember that could be important to us?" Rai asked, eating some more nuts. I grabbed a handful myself but my hunger was slowly going away with ever bit of news Yuna gave me.
Yuna closed her eyes as if trying to will the vision to happen again. She was like this for a few minutes then her eyes snapped open and she stared at me with intense gray eyes. "I remember something. Something about you Kya."
"Me?" I asked. Go figure. Everyone predicts something bad about me. First Yuna, the moon goddess says that I was going to die and now Yuna says something was going on with me during this huge fight. Wonderful.
"Yes." Yuna tiled her head like a confused dog. It was as if she was trying to make sense of this problem I was having.
"What about her?" Rai asked slightly panicked. He was overprotective of me since the whole huge battle between us and Azula. He always felt like he was going to lose me again. So he acts like a crazy person, always worried about my well being. He must be horrified to hear Yuna say this.
"During my vision an airbender and an waterbender were destroying a house. The airbender was making a tornado while the waterbender was making a huge wave. I don't know which one said it, the airbender or the waterbender, but one of them said 'Stop it.' then 'Kayla!'. They screamed for you Kya. I don't know what happened then since I was turned back to the firebender but I know the person called for you."
Did that mean I knew the group of benders? If they would be calling for me then I had to know either the waterbender or the airbender. Most likely the waterbender since I probably meet him around the Northern Water Tribe. Somehow I was connected to these killers and I had no clue who it was or what my role in this vision was.
"That's it?" Rai said, shaking. "That's all you know."
"Yes, I wish it could be more help." Yuna looked defeated. I know she wished she could be of more use that didn't involve firebenders.
"Was she in danger or anything?" Rai asked, standing up. I could see his fury in those gem eyes of his. I wish I could touch him and just take away all the pain from him.
"I don't know." Yuna said. "But I don't think so." Rai calmed down a little but I could still see how stress he was. He did not like the 'I don't know' part at all. It gave him no relief that stupid part. It did however put me to ease. I knew nothing bad was going to happen to me. The person told me to stop and the way Yuna described it I doubt the person meant me any harm but it was still so confusing. Who was it?
"Is there anything else you can tell us about this attack?" I asked, putting a comforting hand on Rai. He grabbed hold of my hand right away, giving my palm a kiss. The place he kissed got hot and traveled through my arm and into my heart. Was I falling in love with him all over again? Was that possible?
"Like what?" Yuna asked, ripping me out my thoughts.
"Like when this will happen? The date? The time? The place?"
"I know nothing about the time or date." Yuna said, playing with the now empty nut bowl. "I do know where though. Its going to happen here." Horror filled Rai and me. It couldn't happen in this brand new Air Temple. It would crumble. "We have to stop it."
"We will." I said, standing up. "But right now we have to get back to our friends and tell them this news."
We said our goodbyes then Rai and I left Yuna. We walked back down the mountain, hand in hand. We said little since we were thinking about everything Yuna said but for some reason I couldn't focus on that. I could only focus on how intense my feelings for Rai were getting.
"I love you." I felt myself say before I even made up my mind on the whole matter.
"Me too Kayla." He stopped me, pulling me into a hug. I loved the way his arms felt around me but I could not enjoy it fully. Something caught my attention in the forest close by. I stared in the direction and knew what it was.
Kuro.
He stood against a tree, with arms crossed. His dark eyes narrowed at Rai but he had a large smile on his face. There was something dark and terrifying about the way he looked at us but I wasn't going to point that out to Rai. There would be no fighting today. I pulled out of Rai's hug and gave him a huge kiss that I hoped showed how much I loved and wanted Rai.
"Whoa." Rai said when we stopped kissing. "Unexpected but not unwelcome."
"I just want to show you how much I love you and how much this year together has only made me want you more." I said mostly to Kuro who still stood in the shadows. He rolled his eyes then put his two fingers up to his forehead like a gun. Mature.
Then he did something crazier. He motioned with his hands for me to come to him. No way in hell was I going to follow him and give him the wrong idea. Rai would be fuming and why would I want to do that to the boy who made me feel like I was flying.
Kuro started mouthing words along the line as 'come'. He was wasting my time. I wasn't coming. He couldn't make me.
