Thanks to everyone who reviewed(all three of you)! I wasn't going to bring up the true enemy until Book2, but this part got stuck in my head and wouldn't come out. Aren't ya'll lucky! It probably willn't be brought up again for a while, so enjoy… or tell me you hate it.
Disclaimer: All because I keep forgetting to put these doesn't mean I own ATLA.
Note: It's now early summer in the story… Thought you might want to know.
Chapter Twelve: Letters from Home
(Kyoshi POV)
Avasa and Ning, who was dressed in plain green lower class clothes, were dragging 'me through the busy streets. I had no idea where we were going, so I asked for what seemed the hundredth time since Avasa had woken me up saying they had a surprise for me.
"Where are we going?"
"Be patient, we're almost there," Ning stated.
"Why are you in those clothes anyway?" I asked. I had never seen him in anything less than what 'royalty wore. Avasa rolled her eyes like I had just asked the stupidest question she'd ever heard.
"It wouldn't be very smart for everyone to know who I am just by looking at my clothes," he whispered. I felt stupid.
We arrived at the middle class market. It was full of people and in the hot summer sun it smelled fairly bad but not unbearable. There were shops selling all kinds of things. Some had needed items such as food while others had wanted items like pets.
While all this was interesting, only one shop really caught my attention. The shop was small and had few goods, but the man running it was very familiar. He was middle aged with light brown hai4r and brown eyes. He wore light Hue and green clothes.
"Hideaki!" I called as I ran over to him. He looked over at me and smiled brightly. Ning and Avasa were right behind me.
"Kyoshi! It's good to see you," he said as I caught my breath. I then gave him a quick hug.
"How have you been?" I asked kindly.
"Really good!" I said then decided to introduce my friends. " This is Avasa, I
M staying with her family. And this is," I paused for a second wondering it I should introduce him as the Prince, "Ning, he's in the same Earthbending class as me."
"It's nice to meet you both."
"Nice to meet you," Ning answered back, Avasa nodded but with a smile.
"How are my parents?" I asked impatiently.
"They're good. Lin is worried sick of course. That reminds me," he went to his bag and got some paper out. "Your parents, Hyun, Shinju, and Emi wrote you letters." He handed them to me. We then talked about what was happening en Rin Island, which was practically nothing, and then my earth bending. He didn't seem surprised when he found out General Wei himself was teaching me.
When it was time to go, Hideaki told me, "I'll be here for a week so come visit me and when I leave I'll take you replies to the letters."
"Thanks! See you tomorrow then!" Ning, Avasa, and I then left. When we had gone a little ways I asked, "How'd you know he was here?"
Ning answer, " I overheard some guards say 'there was a merchant asking about you. I asked Avasa if you had said anything about knowing a merchant-"
"And I told him you had talked about a merchant from your home, so we found out were he would be," Avasa finished.
"Thanks! You're both awesome," I told them. I decided I would read the letters as soon as possible, but first I had practice. What fun. . .
(NORMAL POV)
Miles away in a dark room, two figures talked, both were male. The first was short and slightly chubby, but had an air of power around him. He was in charge. The other man was much taller, but had to use crutches to support a broken leg. They were in so much shadow that you couldn't see any other features.
"I've heard what happened from you men, but you were in charge Let's hear what happened from you," the short man said coldly.
"We attacked the caravan like we were supposed to," the man with a broken leg began. "We were about to finish them off, but a strong earthy bender showed up." He stopped ashamed.
"We didn't break out of jail and keep you alive for no reason! How old was the bender? What did he look like?" His voice was full of anger.
"She. The bender was a girl who couldn't be more than eleven,"
"So, an eleven year old girl took out twenty of our better group in the EarthKingdom."
"She did have help. When I tried to kill her a Spotted Wolf attacked me. I'm not sure what happened after that."
"According to you men, five of them went to help you. The girl took out fourteen single handedly and some AirNomads got the five that were trying to save you," the short man said this as if bored.
Feeling that he had to say something the man with a broken leg said, "That sounds about right."
"Good. My boss will be very interested in this." (dramatic music plays)
