Hello there! Sorry about not updating last week, my life was kind of hectic with basketball games, tests, my art competition and on top of that getting sick! Anyways here it is the next chapter! Thank you C for reviewing again! And I don't know either but I will still write it! Thanks for reading!
-goob39 :)
The small harbor town that we stopped in gave us nothing but more supplies. It was completely different for my own town. The town is in a region that is quite mountainous, which was quite different then my flat islands that I was used too. Here, where the ground is uneven and rough, there are few paved pathways or roads and all buildings are on a different elevation comparative to each other. But my home town was flat and had a bigger port area. Plus most houses are constructed on bare rock; it was stone brick houses in my own town.
We sailed away from the town, I was disappointed. I don't know why I thought it would be easy to find the avatar, which has been missing for 100 years. I could hear Zuko yelling at the crew, I could hear the disappointment and anger in his voice. But ignored the yelling and watched the town grow smaller in the distance. The last town we left was my own; I remember saying goodbye to my father,
I stood by my father at the dock; he was the only one there with me. My mother stayed behind and so did May, even though she wanted to see me off. May was the only one that actually cried when I left, she told me that she loved me and to come back. But when my parents said goodbye to me they didn't cry, they told me to complete my mission and make them proud. I think my parents didn't know if I was coming back or not. The ship before me was massive compared to me, I looked at me father he had a hard expression on his face. Then he turned to me,
"Oriana, you have a mission to accomplish," he said, "you are important in our plans. We will contact you with mission plans." I nodded, "remember this, 'who knocks at the garden gate.'" I was confused what did this mean, "'the one, who has tasted its fruit and seen its mysteries,' ...the mysteries of new beginnings sprouted from the seconded branch."
"I don't understand?" I was utterly confused but memorized the statement.
"You don't need to," he said sharply, he saw general Iroh and prince Zuko coming. He bent over a kissed me on the cheek, then whispered in my ear, "the second branch is counting on you, make me proud." Then turned on his heal and left.
"I love you", I whispered under my breath, "I will make you proud."
I wanted him so say I love you back, to tell me that he would miss his only daughter but no, he left without another word. The town was no longer in sight, I turned to turn in early and hoped my nightmares would stop soon; I was going to start showing the loss of sleep if I didn't.
I napped for hours with no dreams or nightmares. I felt restless, I got up for my bed and lit the candles around me, and I sat a meditated. I felt the heat of the candles rise and fall with my breath, and I began to relax. My mind drifts to nothing, I feel the heat in the air, and I feel the water in the air around me. I pulled it out, condensing it. I pull it tight around me I cool it down instead of heating it up with fire bending. I pull the particles apart again and let it back out into the air. The air is cold now, the memory floods back,
The air is glacier cold, the land around me is all pure white, the barren snowy lands of the poles is around me. I hear my name called out behind me, it's a deep man's voice I turn to him. I quickly hid behind an icy glacier. He walks by me, has dark black hair and deep golden eyes that look like molten gold. He has pale skin that contrasts with his raven black hair, he's very handsome. The smile on his face comforts me,
"Oriana, my sun rise, where did you go?" he was laughing, pretending not to see me. "I guess since I can't find you, I will have to eat all of the stewed sea prunes by myself." He started to walk away whistling from where I was hiding back to a small village not far off.
I ran from my hiding spot laughing, "No! I am right here! Would you have really left me?" I jumped on to his back. He pulled me tighter to him and spun around, then setting me back on the ground and turning to me.
"No, my sun rise, I would not now or ever, I love you!" he bent down to my eyelevel. "I will protect you and love you all your life. I promise!
"Pinky promise?" I smiled and he took my pinky into his pinky.
"Pinky promise!" he laughed.
I was pulled back from the memory by yelling from outside my room from on deck, I could hear the sounds of fighting I shook my head; I was on Zuko's iron ship and not in the poles. I had never even been to the poles, or so I thought. Who was the man, I have no idea, and the memory is new to me. He was not my father; I have no memory of meeting this man. The man was clearly fire nation, but why was he in the poles, those were water tribe lands. I was so confused, now this confusion on top of the confusion of my nightmares. I need answers to now four questions; one, why the village is on fire, second, who's the man with the dark megalomaniac eyes, third who is the man who made the pinky promise and who in the heck is fighting upstairs!
I walked out onto the deck; I find a Zuko and Lexer fighting. Out of all the people abroad this ship and it would be the two people I had become friends with. The two were yelling about the most stupidest thing imaginable, what route to take to get to the water nation and where to stop to fill on supplies when they needed to. The only thing was there was only one way to get to the southern water tribe... south. Now stopping along the way would be easy, if you travel down the western coast line of the earth kingdom, there would be plenty of places to stop when we need to. But they were arguing on the time when stopping and what was the best way to go south. Like I said, stupid men that want their stupid ways. I was about to stop the argument myself, but before I could Iroh stepped up and stopped it. I saw the heat of anger pouring off both men.
"Stop," Iroh stepped in between the two men, "this is not a time to fight."
"Especially over something that stupid," I through in my two-cents, "do you two know that there is only one way to get to the southern water tribes, right?" they both glared at me but then walked away from both me and each other. I stood there with Iroh shaking his head at my side.
"You shouldn't have said that," Iroh looked at me.
"I got them to stop fighting over something stupid," I countered.
"Yes, but Words are so very powerful, and we never know what state of mind someone is in at any time. You choose your words, but you cannot choose the affect they will have on people. Always speak out of love. True power does not crush others, but helps them to see their own greatness." He advised me.
"I understand Iroh," I said.
Zuko stood at the edge of the ship looking out into the sea, as I got closer to him, I could hear him muttering under his breath, I hoped that I hadn't made him become angry with me, or even angrier at Lexer. Lexer... I didn't even go after him when he stormed off, I had gone looking for Zuko. I don't know why, Lexer is one of the only ones I could say is my friend, but Zuko...I don't know. Zuko was a good friend nothing more, but why do I feel as though I need to help him, protect him, and to be his friend. I felt that he needed my friendship as much as I needed his. He understood what it was like to be without friends, and without a family that actually appreciated you. There were too many similarities in our lives that must be why we understood that we were friends. I walked up behind him,
"I will find him; he has to be out there somewhere. My honor rests on this; I have to get back home." He said under his breath, I knew who he was talking about, the avatar, the person he has searched for the last two years.
"Why don't you just stop looking, give up. Do something that makes you happy." I startled him with the words came out of my mouth before I could stop them. "I really need to work on what I say out loud," I thought to myself. But I wanted to know why he had never given up, I had been disappointed today and it was just the first time for me. Zuko had done this for longer than me. I wanted to know how he could not just give up.
He turns his head and look at me, "I will never give up hope that he is out there, and I will never surrender to the thought that I will never find him, and go home. I will never up without a fight." He said softer than usual, he looked back out to sea. I walked up next to him,
"Never give up, never surrender." I looked up at him, "that's you, a fighter." He showed a small smile but said nothing. "Prince Zuko," he looked at me "I promise, I will never give up you; I will be with you every step of the way. Even if no one else stands with you, I will." I smiled at him. "I will never give up on you; I will never surrender our friendship. I will never give up without a fight for you." I knew this was a horrible promise to make because of my mission but I could see Zuko needed a friend that would never turn on him, and I was willing to pay the price for him. I would want the same for me, and like I said he needed my friendship as much as I did his.
"Why?"
"Because Prince Zuko," I looked him in the eyes, "you are my friend."
"Zuko," I gave him a funny look, "just call me Zuko.
I smiled; "okay Zuko," then we both looked back out to the sea.
That night on deck I received my second letter and it said;
Avatar? Become friends.
-One week ago-3rd person-
"But sir why would you want her to become friends with him, and what if she can't find the avatar?" the concerned woman asked.
"Friends? I would think that would be obvious," the man looked at the confused woman's face, "she needs a way in and who better but the banished prince himself. The avatar, well she will find him and he will be the one who brings peace to a warring world, that we will take over" the man with the dark megalomaniac eyes laughs coldly.
Cliff hanger... awesome. So tell me what you think, review (It only takes a min). Also, can anyone tell me what movie I quoted with "never give up, never surrender"? Hopefully someone will know.
-goob39 :)
p.s.
Oriana-means sunrise
