"Hello my faithful readers! :D Guess what? In this chapter we have a special guest oc. Ladies and gentlemen give it up for Aura Brag!
Aura:...um hi?
Me: For those who don't know, Aura is the oc of the fabulous The BloodBender at Full Moon. She was kind enough to allow Hannah to be in her story "Book 2: ocean of the waves." and now Aura is guest starring in Fighting for Freedom!
Hannah: This chapter is kinda my point of view from my guest appearance in her story.
Chase: Oh great! Another one!
Aura: Is he always like that?
Hannah: Sadly yes.
Me: Disclaimer time! I do not own Avatar the last airbender. That right goes to Mike and Bryan
Hannah: Flowerpower71 does own me, Chase, Rosie and any other oc's that have been mentioned.
Aura: Me and my dog Phoenix belong to The BloodBender at Full Moon.
Me: Enjoy the story!
It was a two weeks after Hannah's birthday and ever since, she and Jet had started to grow a little bit closer more and more each day.
"CAN'T CATCH ME SLOW POKE! AHAHAHAHA!" Hannah called over her shoulder as she jumped from tree to tree trying to keep away from Jet.
"Well see about that." Jet called back after her as he followed suit behind her. Hannah turned around long enough to stick her tongue out at him then continued her get away.
After awhile though she stopped when she could no longer hear anyone behind her. She looked around and everything was deathly silent and Jet was nowhere to be found.
"Jet?"
Suddenly something lunged and tackled Hannah from the side causing her to fall from the tree. She screamed but quickly found herself just hanging in mid air.
"JET!" Hannah yelled at the rebel leader as he held her up with one of his hook swords. "Stop that!"
"But it's fun." Jet chuckled as he pulled the girl up onto the branch. Only to find himself falling as Hannah shoved him off.
"So is that." Hannah smirked as Jet fell and then twisted his body so he landed on his feet.
"Your going to regret that."
Hannah just stuck her tongue out at him again and then jumped down. "Gotta catch me first!" she chirped hitting the ground running.
The two ran through the forest and soon found themselves running on sand. Jet suddenly lept into the air and tackled Hannah from behind. They started rolling down a sandy hill and then finally came to a stop once they reached flat ground. Hannah found herself pinned to the ground with Jet ontop of her.
"Told you you'd regret that." Jet smirked. The two shared a laugh but once it died down, they found themselves starring into each others eyes. They felt their faces growing closer together and both closed their eyes...when suddenly it began to rain.
Jet rolled off of Hannah and they ran back into the forest.
"What are you doing?" Jet asked as Hannah began to laugh as she twirled around.
"Dancing in the rain." the red headed dancer explained laughing all the more.
"Your crazy."
"And your a wet blanket. Come on!" Hannah reached out and grabbed his wrists and spun him around. Jet resisted at first but quickly found himself laughing as the two spun around getting soaked to the bone.
The rain began to pour down harder and they found shelter in a hallowed out tree. It was cramped and both of them blushed because Hannah was squished up against Jet's chest.
"How long do you think the storm will last?" Hannah asked.
"Hard to tell." Jet replied. He looked down at his friend and she looked up at him. He wrapped his arms around her as best as he could in the cramped space while she felt his heartbeat with her hand resting on his chest.
"Do it! Do it now! Do it!" both of their minds screamed at them.
Sparks flew as they felt their lips touch as they stood there. Lost in their own little world as the rain continued to pour down. Hannah's mind went numb. All that she was aware of was the feeling of Jet's arms around her waist and how fast his heart was beating.
Finally the need for oxygen pulled them apart. Both breathed in and out heavily with goofy smiles on their faces.
"Well...that was unexpected." Hannah said said looking out at the rain. She felt her cheeks grow warm. "So...um..."
"What?"
"Does this mean that were...you know...boyfriend and girlfriend now?" she asked looking anywhere but at Jet. She felt Jet's arm move from her waist and a finger go under her chin, forcing her to look into the rebel leaders warm brown eyes.
"Do you want to?"
"D-do you?"
Jet smiled, not a smirk like he usually did, but a genuine smile, as he leaned down and lightly kissed the surprised girl's soft lips. Once he pulled away his smirk returned and he whispered "Does that answer your question?"
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Hannah was on cloud nine. Her and Jet were now officially a couple. No longer did she have to hide her feelings. She fingered the necklace that Jet had given her on her birthday as she walked across a rope bridge.
Sadly though, the new "couple" couldn't hang out that morning. Jet, Longshot, Sneers, SmellerBee, The Duke, and Pipsqueak all had left early that morning for a raid on a firenation camp that they had been planning for quite sometime.
She sighed out of boredom. All of her friends had gone on the mission and Hannah was feeling a little left out.
BOOM!
Hannah jumped as the small explosion sounded from the infirmary followed by a string of swears and coughing from Chase. Hannah ran over to the infirmary and was immediately engulfed with smoke when she opened the door.
"Chase! (cough cough cough) What the (cough cough cough) Heck (cough cough) Did you (cough) Do?"
Both Hannah and Chase ran out of the infirmary covering their mouths and hacking trying to breathe in fresh air instead of smoke.
"What did you do?" Hannah asked a second time once they both got their breath back.
"If you must know I was attempting to do a very important experiment, but as you can see it literally blew up in my face." Chase snapped.
"What kind of experiment?" Hannah asked not batting an eye at Chase's crudeness. She was used to it.
"Nothing that concerns you!" Chase snapped.
"I was just asking." Hannah mumbled. She tried to be nice to Chase but every time she tried to get close to him, he would push her away.
"Look I'm just trying to help. You want me to help clean up the infirmary once the smoke clears?" Chase opened his mouth to tell her no, but his gray eyes shifted and he looked at the splattered mess that covered the infirmary.
"Very well."
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"Good night Irene!" Hannah gasped as she tried to scape off a particularly stubborn goop stain off of the wall.
"Who's Irene?" Chase asked battling with his own splatter.
"It's another way of saying good grief where I come from...at least that's what my Nana used to say anyway." Hannah answered finally winning in her battle against the stubborn goop stain. "What were you trying to make anyway?"
Chase stiffened. He was actually trying to figure out a way to contact Maerillie without having to go through Long Feng first. "Nothing in particular. Just a...small personal experiment."
Hannah raised an eye brow but said nothing; sensing that the loner didn't want to go into further detail. The dancer tried her best to make small talk but she was only met with one worded answers. After awhile she finally gave up.
Once all the goop had been cleared Hannah rose to her feet and left to leave.
"Hannah,"
Hannah stopped and turned to face the boy, honestly surprised that he remembered her name.
"Thank you...for helping clean." Chase said quietly as he straightened up a few bottles of medicine.
"No problem Chase." Hannah smiled as she turned on her heel and left. You know, maybe he's not so bad after all.
"PHOENIX COME BACK!"
Hannah stopped and fell back as a red blur ran past her, followed by a yellow blur that knocked her down.
Hannah shook her head and caught a just a glimpse of the yellow blur, which was actually a blonde haired girl, as she chased after the red colored blur and disappeared around the corner.
"Oh great! She's back." Chase hissed sticking his head out the window to see what all the commotion was about.
"Who's she?" Hannah asked still sitting on her rump.
"Some chic Jet and the others rescued awhile back... Aura I think is her name."
"Aura huh?" Hannah mused. "Why haven't I seen her around?"
"She was supposed to become an official Freedom Fighter but she got captured by the Firenation before she could be initiated. And obviously she's back." Chase grumbled.
"Do you not like her?"
"I don't like anybody!" Chase snapped slamming the shutters of the window shut.
"So much for progress." Hannah sighed. She got to her feet and followed after where the blonde girl had ran. Hannah turned a corner and saw the red blur from before disappear into her tent followed by Aura.
Hannah sprinted until she reached her tree house and opened the door and found Aura scolding the red blur, who as it turned out to be, was a red husky dog. The girl stopped mid scold and looked like a deer caught in the headlights as she looked at Hannah.
"Hi, I am sorry. My dog was going crazy." Aura explained.
Hannah smiled. She knew all about dogs going crazy from her own experiences with Rosie. "It's alright. You must be Aura, am I correct?" Hannah asked holding out her hand.
"Yep!" Aura said taking Hannah's hand and shaking it. "And you are?"
"Hannah Johnson." Hannah replied. Why did this girl look familiar? Something in the back of Hannah's mind was telling her that she had seen this girl before...but where?
"What's going on here?" Jet asked as he and another girl wearing blue clothing and had her brown hair tied back in a braid with two little hair loopies by her ears, walked in.
For some reason or another everybody looked down at Rosie and Phoenix and formed an "o" with their mouths when they realized how the two dogs were looking at each other.
"Looks like Rosie found herself a boyfriend." Hannah joked as the two love sick dogs stared at each other with big eyes. Phoenix suddenly looked away from Rosie and knocked over a flower that was in a tin cup, (a random thing Hannah decided to do to decorate her room a little) The husky grabbed the flower stem in his teeth and then gave it to Rosie.
"AAAWWW!" all three girls squealed. Jet just rolled his eyes. What was it with girls and cutesy things?
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Later that night, the Freedom Fighters threw a huge celebration feast to celebrate the days victory on a successful raid on the Firenation camp. Jet made a point to give out a special thanks to The Duke who had ridden one soldier like a wild hogmonkey.
"Now the Firenation thinks they shouldn't be scared of a couple of kids hiding in trees. Maybe They're right." Jet said during the victory speech.
"BOO!" the crowd booed.
"Or maybe," Jet started "They are DEAD WRONG!"
The room of rebels erupted into cheers at their leaders speech. Everybody failed to notice the slight flinch that Aura gave at the end of the speech though, and Hannah's cheers were not as enthusiastic as her comrades. She snapped out of it though as Jet sat down again.
"Nice speech!" Hannah and the girl that was with Jet earlier-Katara- said in unison. The two girls glared at each other for a second but let it drop as they both went back to their meals. Though Hannah more or less picked at her meal.
"You feeling alright Hannah?" Jet asked snapping his girlfriend out of her thoughts.
"Huh? Oh yeah. I'm just not very hungry is all." She lied. "I think I'm gonna take a walk." Hannah quickly got up from her chair and grabbed her plate so that she could feed Rosie. Jet frowned as he watched her go but was distracted when something glass broke.
"Sorry Jet." the timid voice of Lillie spoke as she stood in front of the shattered glass remains on the floor.
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Hannah walked around under the starry sky, Jet's speech echoing in her head. The way he had said it was full of venom and she shuddered. As if he was speaking to her.
"I just had to fall in love with the guy who hates all firebenders with a burning passion and then turn out to be one." Hannah sighed. She stuck two fingers in her mouth and whistled. "Rosie! Dinner!"
The sound of claws clicking across the wooden platforms was heard as both Rosie and Phoenix came rushing over.
"Hehe, table for two?" Hannah asked as she walked over to a nearby box and sat the plate of noodles on it. Rosie and Phoenix ran over and both dogs started in on their meal.
Hannah sat down on a crate and watched the dogs eat as she got lost in her thoughts.
"What am I gonna do? Jet sounded so...so..." Hannah sighed. She had a feeling in her gut that things wouldn't stay as well as they were right now. She was normally optimistic but she couldn't shake the feeling that bad things were about to start coming their way.
The red head snapped out of her thoughts and smiled as Rosie and Phoenix ate on the same noodle Lady and The Tramp style, and she smiled as their noses touched.
"At least things are going well for you two." She said.
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After the dogs dinner Hannah went searching for Aura to return her dog. She found the blonde haired golden eyed girl talking to Jet.
"Jet!" she called catching the attention of both teens, who smiled as the red head approached them.
"I just came to wish you goodnight and give Aura back Phoenix."
"Thanks Hannah," Aura said as she jerked ahold of Phoenix's collar. "Come on Romeo."
"You to Juliet." Hannah giggled as she grabbed onto Rosie's collar to keep her from following them. Aura waved goodbye as she half pulled half dragged the struggling Phoenix to wherever her and her friends were sleeping that night.
"Don't worry girl you'll see him tomorrow." Hannah cooed as she petted her dog.
"If they have puppies I'm not gonna clean up after their litter." Jet stated simply. Hannah snorted. "I don't think it's gonna be THAT soon."
Jet smirk and chewed on his wheat stalk. "We'll see."
Hannah just stuck her tongue out at him.
"Well Night." Jet said kissing her on the cheek before he headed off to bed himself.
"Night Jet." Hannah whispered after him, still not being able to shake that feeling of dread.
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The next morning after breakfast, Hannah and the Duke were put in charge of sorting the supplies from yesterday's raid.
"What do you guys need all this blasting jelly for?" Hannah asked as she pushed a crate full of the explosive goop away from the pile they were sorting through.
"Beats me." The Duke lied not looking at the girl. "Jet just said to sort through it and make sure it doesn't get mixed up with the jelly candy."
Hannah frowned and bit her lip but continued to sort through the crates. Making a mental note to ask what exactly the blasting jelly was gonna be used for.
Hannah picked up her crowbar and shoved open yet another crate, but this time, instead of more blasting jelly, jelly candy, or some other form of supplies she found-
"Oh my goodness!"
"What?" the Duke asked peeking out from inside a crate.
"YOU GUYS HAVE CHOCOLATE IN THIS WORLD!" Hannah shouted holding the chocolate bar up in the air.
The Dukes eyes grew big. "Uh I don't think you should eat that."
"Eat what?" Jet asked, over hearing as he passed by. He stopped dead in his tracks and his eyes bugged out when he saw what his girlfriend had in her hand.
"NO! No! No! No! No! Absolutely not!" Jet shouted.
"What?" Hannah asked innocently. "It's just chocolate."
Jet glared at The Duke, whom he had specifically told to make sure that Hannah did NOT find the chocolate. The Duke gave a sheepish smile and shrunk down in the crate.
"Exactly! We all know how you get when you eat chocolate." Jet stated.
Hannah rolled her eyes. "It was not that bad."
"Hannah, you climbed up the tree houses like a spider bettle and kept saying "My precious, my precious." Jet immitated, making his voice go all hoarse and raspy. "It took us three hours to finally catch you."
"I had a lot last time." Hannah defended. "I'm just having this one little tiny ba-"
"Nope!" quick as lightening Jet was across the room and snatched the candy from her grasp. Hannah crossed her arms and pouted for a few moments before quickly grabbing another bar out of the crate and then made a run for it.
"HANNAH!" Jet shouted chasing after her. The Duke just awkwardly stood alone in the room before making his way over to the chocolate crate and then helped himself.
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Hannah hid behind a random tree house as Jet ran past.
"Finally." She whispered as she pulled off the wrapper and then took a big bite of the heavenly morsel. Her eyes bugged out and her pupils grew huge and then tiny, and then huge again.
"Oh no!" Jet groaned having spotted her to late.
"You will never take my precious!" Hannah shouted as she took off running with Jet trailing behind her.
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"Hey guys!" Hannah greeted running up to Aura and Sokka as they were walking by. The hyper girl ran in a circle around the two confused teens and took another bite of the candy. "THIS IS SOOO YUMMY!"
"Hannah give me the chocolate!" Jet ordered holding out his hand once he approached them.
"NO!" Hannah refused, stepping back and holding the chocolate bar close to her chest. "My precious. My precious." she said, her voice going raspy. Aura and Sokka took a step back as her left eye began to twitch and her hair seemed to pop out. Hannah took off running, holding the chocolate high in the air, laughing like a maniac.
"THAT'S why I didn't want her to hide the chocolate from her." Jet explained turning to the two very confused and somewhat frightened teens.
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"Come on Rosie, time for your walk." Hannah cooed later on in the day after she had come down off of her sugar rush. Rosie lifted her head up and looked at her master but then back at Phoenix. The red husky let out a little whine in the back of his throat, not wanting his beloved to leave him.
Hannah giggled. "You are more than welcome to come to Phoenix." Hannah said. Both dogs jumped to their feet and ran out as if they understood. "Wait for me!"
Once she caught up with the dogs and were now at walking speed, they ran into Aura as she exited a tent.
"Hey Hannah," Aura smiled greeting the red head. "What are you up to?"
"I was just about to go for a walk. Care to join?"
Aura shrugged. "Sure, I have nothing better to do."
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The two girls and two dogs walked down the hidden forest path near the springs where everyone bathed. Phoenix and Rosie sat down and curled up next to each other and Aura pulled water out of the pond and then bended it around in the air.
"Another bender!" Hannah thought. "Cool!"
"So Hannah, where are you from?" Aura asked.
"A small island off the coast of the Earth Kingdom called San Franscisco." she lied. Aura started to laugh and Hannah gave her an odd look.
"As in California? With the Golden Gate Bridge?" Aura asked smirking. Hannah was dumbfounded for a few seconds before her eye's grew big and she practically tackled the blonde girl in a bear hug.
"YOUR FROM THE STATES TOO?" Hannah asked happily. Suddenly realization dawned on her. "No wonder you look so familiar! I saw your face on the news awhile back."
"Yeah, I'm that girl from North Carolina who vanished in Hawaii while living with her father." Aura explained sheepishly.
Hannah's smile widened slightly. She didn't know why but something told her she could trust this girl. "So is it okay if I tell you what type of bender I am?"
"I don't care. I'm a water and firebender."
Hannah's smile grew even wider and her blue eyes began to sparkle. Another firebender! An actual, non-evil firebender! Maybe now she would finally have a teacher!
"You are? I'm a firebender too! Maybe you could teach me a thing or two? Every time I tried to learn, I burn myself."
"Alright, but I am a horrible teacher." Aura admitted.
Hannah smirked and placed her hands on her hips. "Try me."
Aura smirked back. "I warn you, last time I tried to teach someone, they burnt part of my hair off."
"That ain't nothing. I burnt myself so bad awhile back that I was bed bound for an entire month.
"Sounds like me when I started a few years back, but thank goodness I had a teacher." Aura said. Her smile faded "On second thought maybe not..." Hannah raised an eyebrow as Aura got lost in her thoughts.
"But anyways let get back to the point. I will teach you what I know." she said snapping back to reality.
Hannah's smile returned. "Thanks. This means a lot to me."
Aura nodded her head. "No problem. It's a good thing to know how to defend yourself and not get burned, because fire is an evil and dangerous thing if used the wrong way."
Hannah swallowed and nodded. "Okay."
"However," Aura stated sensing the red head's unease. "If you use it the right way and can control it, it can be a good thing."
"But you just said that fire was dangerous?"
"There are people that take advantage of it and use it to hurt people. That's why fire can be so dangerous. I know people who use fire for control over people and threaten them. Also if you don't control fire properly or keep an eye on it...it will wield out of control causing bigger problems."
Hannah listened carefully and rubbed her arms where a few nasty looking scars were left from her most recent accident.
"But you don't seem evil as other firebenders I've met in the past." Aura said.
"You seem like you've met people like that." Hannah said quietly.
Aura was silent for a few seconds and looked down. "...yeah...I have..."
Hannah frowned. "I don't mean to sound nosey when I say this but you can tell me if you want. Back at home my friend Monica always said that I was a good listener."
"No, I can't bare for someone else to know." Aura answered quickly shutting her eyes tightly as if she were trying to fight back tears.
"Talking it out helps but if you don't want to I understand completely." Hannah said gently placing a hand on the blonde girl's shoulder.
"Alright...Now let's get to the amount of fire you can do. Show me...as a matter of fact blast it at me." Aura said snapping out of her memories.
"You sure I won't hurt you?" Hannah asked hesitantly.
"Nah, I'll block it." Aura replied nonchalantly.
"Alright," Hannah took a deep breath and then blasts a medium sized fire blast at Aura which she easily blocked.
"That's it? You need more aggression."
"Aggression?"
"Yeah. A firebender's fire is fueled by his or her emotions. The more angry you are the bigger the blast."
"I don't know..." Hannah mumbled. Yes she could have a terrible temper when she was angry but the majority of the time Hannah was pretty easy going.
"Your to timid!" Aura said her voice thick with emotion. "You have to think of something that gets you angry. Like the fact that someone you thought you could trust lies to you your whole life!" she growled as she shot off a fireblast in the distance. "Or how about the fact that the one person you love turned his back on you for his so called honor!" she yelled blasting an even bigger fire blast than the last one.
Hannah blinked a few times before she cautiously answered, "Uh...nothing like that has happened to me."
"Sorry! Got carried away." Aura explained quickly. The two were silent and Aura nervously coughed.
"Are you sure you don't wanna talk about what's bothering you?"
"What's the point?" Aura asked more so to herself than to Hannah. "Your probably gonna find out from Jet or one of the other Freedom Fighters."
Hannah walked over to a nearby shady tree and sat down, patting the ground next to her. "I'm listening."
"I thought I was supposed to be teaching you?" Aura asked walking over.
"I don't mind." Hannah said truthfully as Aura sat down next to her. "Besides you look like you need a friend to listen to."
"Where do I start?" Aura choked out pushing some of her hair out of her face.
"The beginning is usually a good place." Hannah said kindly as she brought her knees up to her chest.
"It's a very long story," Aura warned.
"I like stories." Hannah answered stubbornly.
Aura sighed. The stubborn red head was not gonna give up and she knew it. "It began with what I thought was gonna be a normal day of middle school..."
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(AN: Aura's story is long and complicated and I am not gonna try to explain it for fear of leaving out something important. So to find out what it is read The BloodBender at Full Moon's story, "Book 1: World of Winds." Followed by the sequels "Book 2: Ocean of the Waves" (this is the one Hannah makes her guest appearance in) and "Book 3: Sands of the Earth." All are AWESOME!)
One hour later
"Oh my gosh..." was all Hannah could say after Aura had told her story to her. "I...I don't know what to say...Aura...I'm so sorry."
"Just don't pity me."
Hannah reached over and gave the blonde girl what she needed the most at that moment. A hug. Aura stiffened at first by the unexpected embrace but then hugged the girl back.
"So...about that lesson?" Hannah asked sensing it was the right thing to do at the moment. Aura gave her a grateful smile and stood back up.
"Alright back to that. Now firebenders draw their power from the sun..."
Hannah smiled as she listened closely to her teacher. Both girls smiled at each other and sensed that this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship...little did they know just how much that this new found friendship would be put to the test just a few hours later.
And I am stopping there because I love to torture my readers with cliff hangers. (evil smile) Starting next chapter things are gonna start getting dramatic. Hopefully now that it is summer I can update this more frequently.
Once more special thanks to The BloodBender of the Full Moon for allowing me to use Aura! And don't forget to check out her stories as well.
And now you guys know why you should never give Hannah any chocolate-
Hannah: CHOCOLATE! AHAHAHAHA! (runs by super fast leaving a trail of dust in her wake)
Jet: Smellerbee! Longshot! I told you two to keep her away from that stuff!
Longshot and Smellerbee:(both are tied and gagged) Mmm! MMM! MMM!
Aura: 0_0
Me:...Yeah...So okay until next time this is flowerpower71 saying I hope you enjoyed this chapter and remember to leave a review.
Hannah: Yeah! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Review! DO IT!
Jet: Hannah! Give me the chocolate bar!
Hannah: (creepy raspy voice) YOU WILL NEVER STEAL MY PRESCIOUS!
Aura: Help me!
Me: Yeah...okay bye!