I thought i'd start labeling when the story changes to different characters point of view.
Oh and the character's ages... hmm I'll just list them all:
Aang 13
Toph 13
Sokka 16
Katara 15
Jet 18
Zuko 17
Mirra 16
Fey 16
Faust 17
(oh boy... I just realized the kinda big age difference between Toph and Faust... hahaha)
Disclaimer: I dont own Avatar.
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Combo! Aang and Mirra
-Aang-
What was the thing that came out of the hole Faust made?
I couldn't stop thinking about it as we rode on Appa towards the town. I sighed and let go of the reigns to grab my staff.
I quickly jumped off Appa and turned the staff into it's glider form. Everyone was surprised and scrambled like we were being attacked, but relaxed when they saw I was flying next to them.
So many things were on my mind that I just wanted to be alone, and this was the closest I could get.
I hadn't really talked to anyone since we all met up.
They had all been caught up with Faust.
I wasn't jealous, I actually enjoyed the down time.
Katara was always talking with Zuko or the girls, Jet and Sokka were constantly looking at maps or discussing plans, Toph was always disappearing (surprisingly Faust too...) and I didn't want to talk to Faust because he had to focus on getting his powers back and I had to concentrate on Avatar things.
To be honest I was kind of scared of him...
But there was one person I really wanted to talk to.
Mirra.
When I met her I thought she was cute, but then I actually had conversations with her and found out she was... amazing.
She actually took a walk with me one day and we discussed our pasts. She grew up surrounded by boys and was always compeating to keep up.
She told me her village used water bending as little as possible and instead used ice, because their island was founded by a group shunned from the North Pole long ago for practicing a different religion.
She grew up with Faust and Fey, and was the most skilled female bender in her village.
But I knew she loved Faust, so I gave up the hopes.
For now I'd settle for taking on the fire lord.
Being the youngest member of the group wasn't easy...
I signed for Appa to land.
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-Aang-
On the ground we all gathered around Appa in the middle of an overgrown area of trees and bushes.
"This is the town where the prisoners, our allys, are being held" Sokka told us.
He held up his hand which had several strands of straw in it.
"Hey! did you go through my straw collection?" Jet joked.
Everyone laughed and picked a piece.
The straw had colors on it, mine was blue at the bottom. I looked around and noticed Mirra also held a blue straw.
I smiled at Mirra and she smiled back, making my heart jump.
"Okay lets see" Sokka said looking at everyone's straw, "four groups, red group is: Katara, Jet and Zuko". Jet and Zuko stared eachother down and Katara laughed nervously.
"Blue team is: Aang and Mirra" Sokka continued. Mirra and I smiled at eachother again.
"Yellow team will be: Fey and I" Sokka announced. "And green team is... Toph and Faust".
That was lucky... But it was also lucky I got to be Mirra's partner.
We threw down our straw and sat down around a paper Sokka was writing on. "Fey and I will be infiltrating the prison to rescue the prisoners, the group with three: Zuko, Jet and Katara will be outside the prison to make sure no one gets in and only we get out with the prisoners". He looked around and everyone nodded.
"Mirra and Aang It's your job to get into the town capitol building, screw up the alarm systems and steal secret documents of the fire nation weapons" Sokka lookaed at Mirra and I. We nodded a him and at eachother. We knew we would be the first ones to play into the plan.
Sokka turned to Faust, "You and Toph will go to the palace and-" "Kill the governer" Faust cut him off.
Everyone looked at Faust who was staring at Sokka with an almost frightening look of a killer on his face.
"Uh, I was gonna say capture him... We don't have to kill him" Sokka stuttered.
"I can't guarantee that to happen" Faust said with an evil grin.
Sokka just nodded and the rest of us stood in awkward silence. "Yeah, well we want to get the governer to intimidate the fire nation so they know what we're capable of" Sokka finished and we all took the time to relax before we took off.
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-Aang-
I sat beside Mirra under a tree while everyone else talked about plans. "Our part is really important" Mirra said. I nodded and smiled, "I'm sure if we work together it will be easy".
She smiled back, "that's what I like about you Aang, you're always smiling and looking at the bright side." I blushed and rubbed the back of my head.
She giggled and pushed me playfully, "and you act like a cute kid sometimes!" this made me blush even more.
We talked about signals we could give during our mission.
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-Mirra-
I knew I should have been concentrating on the task at hand, invading the capitol building with Aang, but all I could think about was confusing things...
Faust was obviously in love with Toph and now I didn't know what to do.
I hadn't revealed my love for Faust, but I didn't expect him to be with someone else when I found him.
Pulling my thoughts together was going to be difficult, but I was glad the Avatar was with me. No, I was glad Aang was with me.
I wanted to stop treating him as something un-human and more like a friend.
I caught myself staring at him and looked back at Toph.
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Mirra created her weapon (an Ice blade much like Faust's except a katana instead of a cleaver). Faust smiled and gave her a thumbs up.
Aang clapped and laughed, it was the first time Mirra hed bended since they all met.
She smiled and made it turn back into the water she held in a satchel on her waist.
Everybody gave their good bye's and good luck's and Aang and Mirra left.
It was easy to get into the town (they just had to walk in), and the capitol building could be seen right when they entered.
They walked quickly and avoided eye contact with anyone. The satchel of water on Mirra's waist was hidden under a shawl she wore.
They took a detour down side streets so they would end up behind the building instead of in front of it.
When they got there they discovered the capitol building wasn't protected by any guards.
The fire nation didn't face danger of attacks so they didn't have need for guards at every door.
But Aang wasn't planning on using any doors.
He picked Mirra up bridal style and jumped easily into a second story window.
When they landed a man in the small room inside drew a sword in surprise. Before he could yell or even defend himself, Mirra had taken a step forward and slashed his chest with her ice sword.
Aang was shocked.
He didn't expect her to be as vicious of a killer as Faust.
She turned her weapon into water and stepped over the body.
"Come on" she whispered.
Feeling weak, Aang decided he would take care of the next one. It didn't take long for the oppertunity to come, because a man came into the room and quickly pushed Mirra to the ground to charge at Aang with a short sword.
Aang created a disk of wind that was itended to hit the man in the head and knock him out, but when he threw it the man jumped for some reason and the disk hit his chest.
Instead of knocking him out the disk pulled the man like a boomerang back toward Aang.
Both the man and Aang screamed and Aang jumped to the side while the man was blown out the window by the wind disk, landing two stories down.
Aang got up and looked down at the man who was knocked out in the ally below.
Aang turned around quickly when he heard a funny noise.
It was Mirra with her hands on her knees laughing.
She wouldn't stop even when Aang told her it wasn't funny.
His ears and cheeks were red.
"Well, you got him!" she said between laughs.
Aang waited until she went from laughing hysterically, to giggling and wiping tears from her eyes.
"Let's go" he muttered embarassed.
She patted him on the shoulder and he led the way.
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-Aang-
After my embarrasing expierence in front of Mirra, I was determined to do better.
Winding through halls with absolutely no one around to stop us, we made it to a sign that said 'security' and had an arrow pointing down the hall to the left.
we walked catiously down it and counted silently when we were outside of a door that said 'DO NOT ENTER'.
Mirra whispered, "Three... Two... One... Go!"
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