Hey Ya'll! Well here's the next chapter. I'm sorry that it's so short, but it is important to this story. You'll see why exactly in a minute but lets just say that our hero's have some rough times ahead of them. :( But that just makes for more drama for you readers.
Anyway I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. Bryke does.
Aura belongs to The-Bloodbender-at-Full-Moon
Hannah, Rosie, and Chase belong to me
Hope you all enjoy.
Hannah didn't know where she was. She was in the middle of what appeared to be a dark void. Nothing, nobody was anywhere to be seen. Just her and blackness.
"H-Hello?" the nervous redhead called out cautiously.
"You lied to me."
Hannah whipped around and saw Jet standing behind her, but something was off. It was his eyes. Instead of the warm toasty brown that she had come to love, now his eyes were black. Cold, unfeeling black orbs that bored into her soul.
"Jet-"
"YOU LIED TO ME!" Jet screamed. "You lied to all of us! Your a firebender!"
Hannah took a step back her heart pounding in her chest. Was this what Aura felt like when Jet found out about her?
"Jet I can explain-"
"I don't want to hear your excuses you murderer."
Hannah's eyes widened and then she scowled. "I'M not the one who blew up the dam and flooded the whole town! Or the one who tied Aura to the dam!"
"Doesn't matter. Your Firenation. Your a killer." Jet said as he pulled out his hook swords. Without warning he attacked and knocked Hannah flat on her back. The two struggled and fought but he was more experienced and faster and easily pinned her on her back on the ground.
"Why don't you use your firebending on me huh?" Jet husked in her ear.
"I'm not gonna burn you." Hannah replied her voice cracking with fear.
"Easier for me to do this then." he smirked a sickening smirk as he reached behind his back and pulled out a dagger. The same exact dagger that he had given her on her birthday when she officially became a Freedom Fighter.
"Such a shame Hannah," Jet sighed, resting the tip of the blade on top of her chest right where her heart is. "You were a great Freedom Fighter."
"Jet please don't do this," Hannah begged, tears spilling from her sky blue eyes. Her heart raced as she looked into the face of the monster and spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. "I thought you loved me?"
The monster just laughed in her face and raised the dagger. "I could never love a firebender."
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"HANNAH!"
"WHAT?" Hannah yelled as she shot up on the make shift bed of pine needles that she slept on the previous night. Her breathing came out in gasps and pants as she looked around her surroundings. She was in the middle of the woods with Aura next to her, looking at the girl with concern. All the events of yesterday came flooding back to her and she realized that she had had a nightmare.
"Are you alright?" Aura asked. "You started screaming in your sleep."
"Y-Yeah." Hannah whispered. She reached up a hand and realized that she face was wet with tears. Crap!
"Just a REALLY bad nightmare. Sorry if I woke you up."
Aura just shrugged. "Don't worry about it. Trust me when I say I've had my fair share of nightmares. I know just how scary and real they can be."
Hannah gave a small smile, glad that somebody understood. After a quick breakfast apples, the two decided it was time to part ways.
"You sure your gonna be alright?" Hannah asked.
"Yeah I'll find the gang sooner or later." Aura reassured. "Hopefully sooner."
"I'm sorry about Phoenix." Hannah sighed referring to how the red husky ran off once the explosion sounded yesterday. "I wanted to go get him but I had to make sure you were alright first."
"I understand." Aura nodded. "And Phoenix is a smart dog. He's probably found the gang already."
"Yeah." Hannah smiled but it quickly fell.
"You sure your gonna be alright?" Aura asked noticing the anxiousness in her friend's eyes.
"I. . . . I guess I'm just a little nervous about seeing Jet again. I mean how would you feel if your boyfriend tried to kill one of your friends yesterday?"
"I can imagine." Aura said solemnly. "Look it'll work out somehow alright? If it's meant to be it will be."
Hannah nodded and the two girls hugged.
"Will I see ya'll again?" Hannah asked as they pulled out of the hug.
"I hope so." Aura answered.
"Me to. You take care now okay? And tell your friends I said "Hi!" when you find them."
"I will. Bye Hannah."
"Bye Aura."
And with that the two friends turned on their heels and parted ways. Hannah exhaled slowly as she started off towards the path that would lead her back to the hideout.
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Over at the hideout, everyone was searching high and low for the missing red head.
"Any luck?" Jet asked hopefully as Smellerbee ran up next to him.
"Nothing." the war painted girl shook her head. "We can't find Hannah anywhere."
"Where could she be?" the rebel leader exclaimed exasperated.
"That ain't all." Smellerbee added. "Chase is missing too."
"What do you mean missing too?"
"I mean he's gone. Nobody's seen him. "He's not in the infirmary or his tree house."
"Well isn't that just perfect! Just freaking perfect!" Jet snapped punching the wall of a nearby tree house in frustration. "First Aura turns out to be a firebender, then the plan is ruined all because of her stupid friends, then I'm frozen to a tree for the majority of yesterday evening and now in addition to my girlfriend missing in action now the only doctor of the Freedom Fighters is gone as well! What else can go wrong?"
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At first Hannah was afraid to return back to the Freedom Fighters, images from her nightmare kept flashing through her mind, but with each step she took as she got farther down the familiar path that lead to her home for the past months, a new emotion came into play...anger.
Not just any anger, rage, fury. Steam was practically coming out of her ears. She had become furious with Jet for what he had done. All those poor people. Not just the people of the town either, but every Firenation person who he had attacked and or killed.
No, what the soldiers did to him and the rest of the Freedom Fighters was inexcusable, she was not excusing them, but fighting fire with fire just makes a bigger fire. Taking innocent peoples lives, Firenation or not, would not bring back their lost ones.
With these thoughts and a new found confidence, the red headed girl climbed a tree and began to jump from tree to tree covering more distance than she had been on the ground. I no time at all she could see the hideout. She finally jumped down and pulled the rope. She was whisked up into the air, through the trees and finally felt her feet touch the ground.
"Hannah! There you are! We were so worried." The Duke said as he ran up to his "sister" and hugged her legs. Before Hannah could respond she was squished in the tight hug of Pipsqueak.
"Where have you been?" the giant teen asked as he placed her back on her feet.
Hannah didn't answer but her scowl returned. "Where's Jet?"
Sensing the anger in their friend and fellow Freedom Fighters voice, both boys stepped back.
"Are you alright?" The Duke asked carefully. He had never seen the girl like this before.
"Where...is...Jet?" Hannah repeated, each word dripping with venom.
The Duke and Pipsqueak glanced at each other and pointed to where they last saw him. Hannah only nodded and ran off to find him. The two best friends hesitated before they followed her a few paces behind.
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"Jet!"
The rebel leader whipped around at the sound of his name and a smile of relief pulled at his lips as he saw that the missing girl had returned, failing to notice her anger. He turned and ran towards her.
"Hannah! There you are! Where have you-"
He never got to finish his sentence because Hannah had reeled back her fist and punched him as hard as she could in the eye. All the surrounding Freedom Fighters gasped, shocked at what they had just witnessed.
Jet stumbled back, clutching his eye, obviously caught off guard. Getting punched in the eye was the last thing he was expecting from his girlfriend.
He cringed as he slowly removed his hand, revealing his eye painfully red and swollen. "What the heck was that for?"
"For almost killing Aura! And this is for all those people in the town that you flooded!" Hannah screamed as she lunged for another blow but Jet was prepared and grabbed her.
"Hannah stop!"
"Don't you touch me!" the furious redhead snarled as she ripped her wrists from his grasp. "How could you?"
"How could I what?"
"How could you kill all those people! There were families and little kids and old people and-"
"And Firenation soldiers." Jet interrupted. "You don't understand the demands of war."
"So the demands of war required you to blow up the dam and flood a town and almost kill Aura?"
"Sokka warned the town before the dam burst and everyone got out." Jet mumbled begrudingly.
Hannah relaxed slightly and a slight glimmer of hope and relief filled her body. "You mean..."
"The plan failed." Jet answered. His eyes grew wide when what the girl had said a second ago suddenly hit him. "Wait back up, what do you mean ALMOST kill Aura?"
Hannah felt her anger return and glared back at him. "I heard about the plan and went and saved her."
"YOU DID WHAT?" Jet yelled while the growing crowd gasped once more.
"She was your friend Jet!"
"WAS my friend!" Jet shot back, now growing angry. "She betrayed us!"
"No Jet, YOU betrayed HER!"
"SHE'S A FIREBENDER!"
"SO WHAT?"
"So what?" Jet asked, his voice lowering a few octaves. His eyes flashed with fury. "SO WHAT! So what that the Firenation destroyed everything and everyone one I ever loved and known? Everything we all ever had!"
"My mother abandoned me and my brother after my father died!" Hannah shot back as tears started to threaten to spill over. "You have no idea how angry I was with her! I still am! But you know what? I forgave her! I had to for both mine and Micheal's sake!" By now the tears started to flow. "I had to let go of the past to move onto the future."
"You don't understand." Jet said. "Your mother is still alive and your father died of a disease and wasn't murdered in front of your eyes."
"But she wasn't there Jet." Hannah choked. "She wasn't there when me and my brother needed her the most. Yes she's still alive but she's not there. And my father was taken just as suddenly as if he had been murdered and it's just as painful!"
Hannah couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't stand looking at this...this monster. These murderers! She turned and ran as tears trailed down her cheeks.
"Where are you going?" Jet called after her, but she didn't answer as she jumped down to the ground and then took off running.
"Hannah!" Jet called as he jumped down and ran after her.
"Come on! Let's follow!" Smellerbee said as she and Longshot followed after them.
"Wait for us!" The Duke called as he and Pipsqueak went after them.
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Hannah just kept running, ignoring the calls for her to stop and come back. She just kept running, not caring where she was going. She just ran and cried as the calls of her friend's voices got fainter and fainter.
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"Hannah!" Jet called out into the distance, not seeing the girl anywhere.
"We lost her Jet." Smellerbee reported stating the obvious.
"You two got over there and you two over there." Jet instructed pointing Smellerbee and Longshot to the left and The Duke and Pipsqueak to the right. "I'll go this way. Whistle if you catch her."
Everyone nodded once and then took off, looking for their friend.
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Hannah had run as far as she could until she just couldn't go anymore and collapsed onto her knees, panting and gasping. She lifted her head and took in her surroundings. There were destroyed buildings and houses and the ground was slightly damp.
Hannah's breath caught in her throat as she suddenly realized where she was. She was in the EarthKingdom town that was supposed to be destroyed.
Well it was destroyed, every building was rubble and puddles from the flood where everywhere. Hannah just thanked God that Sokka had arrived in time and alerted everyone in time, but still she couldn't shake the eerie feeling of the ghost town.
She felt something under her foot and looked down and realized that she had stepped on a ragdoll. She bent down and picked up the tattered toy. The doll was simple in design, wearing a plain green dress and button eyes and a head of black yarn for hair.
Flashback
"Miss Lucy's gonna get you Daddy!" a four year old Hannah squealed, her old ragdoll in hand as she ran around and chased her father. Hannah's father laughed as his daughter ran and grabbed his leg.
"Gotcha!"
"No, I got you!" her father laughed as he bent down and snatched up his daughter in his arms. Hannah screamed and howled with laughter as her father began to tickle her.
"S-Stop Daddy! Hahahaha!"
"I'm not Daddy, I'm the tickle monster!" he father laughed still tickling his daughter. After a few more minutes he finally stopped and allowed the three year old to catch her breath.
"I love you squirt." her father said as he ruffled her hair.
"I love you to Daddy." Hannah replied as she threw her little arms around his big neck. Once they pulled out of the hug an evil little smirk formed on the girl's face. "Now I'M the tickle monster! ROAR!"
Hannah's father laughed and fell backwards as Hannah tickled him
End of Flashback
Hannah felt her bottom lip quiver and she hugged the toy as more tears flowed from her eyes. Her anger and confusion about the whole mess and the hurt. Right now Hannah just wanted one thing. She just wanted to go home.
Like I said sorry for the short chapter but it's important. Next chapter is the one you have all been waiting for. Jet finds out the truth! AAAAHHHH! Maybe if I get a lot of reviews it might motivate me to write faster? (hint hint) ;)
So anyways this is Flowerpower71 saying I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and to please leave a review. Bye!
