CHAPTER 9: INVASION
As soon as everyone had stepped into the house they collapsed. The day had been very tiring, not to mention entertaining. Sokka was still awake, having not done a thing the whole day. His head was finally starting to clear so he had enough sense to not move. As the moon started to show he drifted off to sleep.
One by one, everyone woke up and to their surprise Sumey was the last to wake up.
"Did you dream about something other than your family?" Pang asked.
Sumey smiled and shook her head. "No, I drempt about them. But this time it was about other things. Happy things." Everyone smiled out her.
Toph moaned "I don't want to do another work day!"
"Now we have two more people to help." Katara said, grinning at Zuko. They were about to start out when Sumey stopped them.
"We have these basket's with wheels on them. It will be easier to get the food from the hill to here." Sumey said, started around the outside of the house.
"And how came you didn't tell us about those last time!" Sokka yelled out in frusturation.
"I don't know. I forgot."
Sokka groaned and slapped his hand to his forehead.
Sumey came back out wheeling about five large carts with hand holds punched into the side and wheels on the bottom. "This will make things go even quicker. And since the lake is right next to the grove then we can go swimming again." Sumey, Aang, Katara, Iroh, and Sokka took a cart and everyone started walknig towards the tree's on top of the hill.
Sokka was the first one up there and he immediatley started loading the fruits from the tree's into his cart. When it was half way full he wheeled it to the edge of the top of the hill.
"Sokka, I think your supposed to fill it all the way." Aang called, jumping from the nearest tree.
"Just watch, I know what I'm doing." He replied as he jumped into the cart. It immediatley started to roll down the hill. Aang watched with a smile on his face until Sokka reached the bottom. The rock wheels got cought in the grass and he went flying forward, and landed face first in the ground.
"I'm ok!" Sokka yelled weakly.
Aang burst out laughing and went to go help Sokka pick up all of the food he had just spilled all over the ground.
About 3 hours later they had picked almost everything. Everyone was glad to cool off in the lake and they just sat in the shallows and talked. Sumey sat on a tall rock, Toph and Aang sat in the shallows, Katara was drifting around the water on her back, Iroh was sitting at the water's edge, Sokka was trying to catch some of the fish in the lake, Zuko was sitting at the top of water fall looking down on Katara, and Pang and Kuehm were off somewhere doing something else.
Everyone looked around as they saw Pang and Kuehm run into the clearing.
"Fire Nation ships!" Kuehm managed to gasp out. Then he gasped and fell to his knees. Sticking out of his arm was a small dagger.
"Oh, no." Everyone immediatley got into a fighting stance as three more daggers flew out of the tree's along with a flipping, pink clad person.
"Who the hell are they!" Sumey yelled. No one answered they just merely attacked. Katara stood in the water and froze a wall of water in front of her to clock the daggers. Ty Lee jumped towards Aang who was the closest but a giant sheet of earth shot up in front of her. Toph laughed out loud as Ty Lee ran into her sheild and fell to the ground.
Sumey jumped off her perch and ran towards the house. She returned moments later with two sets of swords and she threw one the Zuko. Mai's dagger's shot towards him and he deflected them easily with his swords. Aang had jumped into the air and was about to pull out his bison whistle when a flash a lightning emerged from the tree's. He fell into the water as he tried to avoid it.
Azula emerged from the tree's and immediatley started to walk towards Zuko who was fighting back-to-back with Katara.
"Hello, Zuzu."
"Zuzu?" Sumey laughed. Azula glared at her for interupting and Sumey glared back, completely unfazed. Azula turned back to Zuko. He was ready to fight with his training and his swords his was very powerful.
"Well I guess I was wrong about you. You are a traitor." Azula sneered.
"Just because I'n not as cruel and sick as you, Azula, doesn't mean I'm a traitor."
Azula immediatley lashed out. Katara was still was behind him and with a flick of her wrist, a wave formed imbetween them and Azula. Azula's lightning went straight into the waves, creating smoke that filled the area.
"Dammit!" Zuko breathed. He grabbed Katara's wrist and ran towards the other side of the lake to find that Sumey and Toph were fighting Ty Lee, Iroh was taking care of Mai and everyone else was taking care of the other fire nation soldiers. Aang ducked behind a tree and blew the bison whistle as hard as he could.
Azula cleared the area of the smoke and walked around to where her brother was. She couldn't see the avatar so she went for him. She ran around until she found him, still holding the hand of Katara. 'This should be interesting.' Azula thought cruely. She stepped up and shot lightning forward. The two side stepped it. The only problem with that was that it was headed straight towards Sumey.
"Sumey watch out!" Katara screamed. Sumey who had just sent a line of fire at Ty Lee turned around. She waved her arms and a wall of earth came up in front of her and it shattered when the lightning made contact with it a second later. Azula stood shocked for a moment and then growled.
'Oh, shit.' Sumey thought. Toph ran forward and sank a shocked Ty Lee in the earth so that only her head was showing. Mai had been pinned to a tree by her own daggers, which were deflected by Zuko's swords. Aang whipped around his staff and half of the fire nation souldier's went flying. Sokka, Kuehm and Pang went flying as two fire balls connected and Pang was knocked out when his head slammed into a tree.
Aang blew his bison whistle again but nothing happened. Mom flew through the tree's but no Appa. Azula was furious. She sent lightning bolt after lightning bolt at any one of the group. She looked up to see the avatar sitting on the tree above her. She jumped up, about to strike, when Aang swung his staff and with a gust of wind she flew into the wall behind the water fountain. Aang looked lightly shocked at what he just did but then jumped down from the tree to join the fight below.
"Appa!" Someone yelled. Aang turned to see his bison fly over head. He landed on a clear spot and whipped his tail, sending people everywhere. Sumey ran towards the unconsous Pang and she dragged him to Appa and Aang lifted them up.
"Wait I have an idea!" Sumey yelled. "Fly over the volcano!" Aang steered Appa over it and stopped. "Iroh, Zuko help me!" She whispered something to them and they nodded. Sumey jumped and landed neatly on one of the rock walls she had made the day before. She stomped and pushed and the rock walls dissappeared. She jumped back up onto Appa and She, Iroh and Zuko started aking swaying motions together. Suddenly they pushed up and Lava shot out of the volcano. They pushed out in front of them and the lava made it's way downward. They flew away as the lava made contact with the tree's.
A tear ran down Sumey's cheek as she watched her second home go up in flames.
Sumey watched until her home was out of sight.
"How do you think they found it?" She asked as she held on to Pang's unconscious form.
"The volcano. It send tons of ash into the air and anyone could have seen it." Iroh said quietly. Sumey nodded and continued to mop Pang's bleeding head.
Kuehm put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you ok?"
"No. My family's grave's were on that island. Now I'll really never see them again." Everyone was quiet until it started to get dark. Aang and Toph were seated on Appa's head. Sumey had Pang's head resting on her lap. Kuehm was near by, watching for when his friend would wake up. Zuko and Katara were near the head, talking quietly. Sokka was silent, thinking to himself. Iroh was the first to speak.
"Where do we go now?"
No one really had an answer.
"The south pole."
Everyone turned to look at Sokka who was staring at the ocean below. "That's were their getting ready for the war so we should head there. And if it's ok, could we stop at Kyoshi Island along the way?"
"Sure Sokka. That's exactly what we'll do." Aang said smiling. Luckily they had already started south so they didn't have to back track over the island. They flew threw the night, taking turns with flying Appa, until they reached Kyoshi in the morning. Sokka smiled widely as the island came into veiw. Cheering could be heard as they neared the island. Sokka hopped off Appa before he landed and he ran threw the crowd. He ran up to Oyaji.
"Where's Suki! Is she ok!?" Sokka practicly yelled. In the background he could here the foamy mouth guy faint and Koko yelling "HI AANGY!"
Oyaji looked shocked for a second before replying "She's alive but is still weak. She needs to rest."
"Can I see her?"
"Yes, but-" He started but Sokka had already ran off.
Katara was helping Sumey bring Pang to the water to that she could heal his cut on his head. It was a deep one too. Kuehm followed them so that his bleeding cut on his arm could be treated too.
Zuko and Iroh stayed on Appa, a little nervous about what would happen when the villagers learned that Zuko was the one who had attacked their village.
Aang helped Toph off even though she protested.
"Aangy?" She laughed.
He blushed. "It's not my fault they call me that." Koko ran up and hugged Aang around his middle. She then glared at Toph. "Is she your girlfriend?"
"What. . . I. . . um. . . no. . ."
"Good. Follow me." Koko pulled on his had and Aang grabbed Toph's and pulled her along with him. "I don't want to be there when a buch of girls take a shot at you!" Toph growled.
"We can't even stay here that long. We have to leave by the morning." Koko just happened to hear this.
"What?! No you can't leave! Not again!" She whined. She turned to Toph. "It's her isn't it! Your leaving just because she wants too! She's controling you!" she yelled.
Toph growled but Koko didn't back off. "You should just go and leave Aangy with me!" She continued, pointing a finger in Toph's face. Toph couldn't see but she smacked her hand away anyway. "You listen here, I'm not in control of anyone! And Aang is not yours to control!" Toph's face was red now. Koko's face was just as red as she turned to Aang.
"Who do you like more me or her?" Koko growled.
Aang looked surprised and nervous. "I. . . um. . . like. . . coming!" he yelled and then ran off. The two girls growled at eachother and then turned and stalked off in opposite directions.
The night wasn't the best. Toph wouldn't come near Aang. Pang still hadn't woken up and Sumey wouldn't sleep until he did. Sokka spent the night at the docters with Suki. The town made dinner and more girls fawned over Aang, making Toph even more mad. Zuko and Iroh were having a hard time because they were fire nation. Let's just say that nearly everyone was happy when the morning came.
As everyone slowly woke up, they headed outside to get ready to leave. Koko watched happily as Toph walked away from Aang everytime he tried to talk to her. She walked up to a depressed Aang.
"So does that mean your staying?" She asked sweetly.
"What do you mean?"
"Well now that she doesn't have any control over you, your staying right?"
"No! I'm still leaving!"
"But you like me better right?"
Aang looked at her coldly. "Thanks to that stupid thing Toph won't even talk to me! Thanks a lot!" He said sourly before walking away. Koko pouted and then ran up next to him.
"Well why are you leaving if she doesn't like you?"
Aang flinched slightly but kept walking. "Because I want to. I need to." (A/N: So that no one asks I'm making Koko Aang's age even though she's like at least 5 or 4 years younger.)
"Why?"
"Because we're in a war! I need to be ready!" Aang said, now deeply annoyed by her questions. 'How on earth am I going to get him to stay. Oh, I know.' Koko thought.
She had stopped walking and Aang was now ahead of her, patting Appa's head. "Hey Aang?" Koko asked sweetly, tapping his shoulder. He turned around and to his surprise he felt her lips on his. She wrapped her arms around his neck when Aang started to struggle. He managed to break away from her and to his horror he saw Toph standing behind Koko. She had a look of disbeleif on her face before she turned on her heel and ran away. Aang didn't catch it when she whispered "I'm so stupid." as she ran around the corner.
dun dun dunnnn. bad koko! anywho don't worry about that their leaving anyway. i felt bad while i was writing that. its going to get more serious but still funny. there in a war people what do you expect! REVEIW! PLS!!!
