At the moment we were in a forest, we had only been travelling a few days. I was awoken by a rough rumbling. I rubbed my eyes and looked around, okay, good, we hadn't been captured. The female dragon, who I had named Kaida, used a special ability, she could go invisible. I looked around and saw guys riding on Komodo rhinos. "Give up, you're clearly surrounded!" he yelled. A guy shot some arrows at us, they were on fire, they pinned Sokka's sleeping bag to the ground. Sadie hopped onto Oppa and led down close to the saddle.
"Come on! Come on!" Sokka yelled.
"My scrolls!" Katara yelled.
"MY scrolls!" I yelled, a guy pinned both of our scrolls to a tree stump.
"My staff!" Aang said loudly. Katara and I ran and grabbed our scrolls before running back and getting onto Oppa. I saw Aang run and grab his staff, someone threw a bomb at him, he wacked it into the forest, I covered my ears as it exploded. I felt Kaida claw her way up to my neck and wrap around me for safety, she would never leave my side. Aang jumped back onto Oppa "Yip yip!" he commanded, we started to fly away.
"My boomerang!" Sokka yelled, I looked down, his boomerang was still on the floor. Someone blasted fire at us, I jumped up and sent it back at the attacker.
"There's no time." Katara said.
"Oh I see, so there's time to get your scrolls, there's time to get your scrolls and time to get your staff but no time to get my boomerang?!" Sokka asked.
"That's correct." Katara said smugly.
"Oh." Sokka slouched. We stopped at a nearby village.
"Sorry about your boomerang." Aang said to Sokka.
"I feel like I've lost part of my identity." Sokka sulked "Imagine if you lost your arrow, or if Hotaru lost her scar, or Katara lost her…hair loopies?!" Katara hugged Sokka apologetically.
"Here's your produce pony tail guy." The shop keeper said.
"I use to be boomerang guy." Sokka sulked, he walked away sadly. Katara gave the shop keeper some money, he inspected a coin.
"Hey, water tribe money." He smiled.
"I hope that's okay." I said.
"So long as its money." The shop keeper nodded. We started to get ready to leave "Have a nice avatar day!" the shop keeper said, we all looked in his direction in confusion.
"Avatar day?" Aang asked.
"You guys are going to the festival right?" he asked. We all smiled at each other, we were going.
Kaida was invisible but curled around my neck while Patch curled up in my bag, Sadie stayed with Oppa. "Who knew there was a holiday for the avatar?" Aang asked once we were down in
"Who knew?" I shrugged.
"Look!" Katara said. I looked around at what she was pointing up at; there was a massive wood and paper statue of avatar Kyoshi. "They made a giant Kyoshi float."Katara said. We ran through a street to the town plaza.
"And there's avatar Roku." Sokka said. There was a big statue of Roku being pushed behind Kyoshi.
"Having a huge festival in your honour is great but frankly, it's just nice to be appreciated." Aang smiled.
"And it's nice to appreciate their deep fried festival food." Sokka grinned; he stuffed a whole doughnut in his mouth at once.
"Aang look!" Katara said, it was a giant Aang statue.
"That's the biggest me I've ever seen." Aang said. The statues were lined up in the plaza. A man was running to them with a torch."
Sokka pointed at the man with the torch and said "A torch, that's a nice prop, it's bright, it's dangerous, smells manly, but I'm not sure I could carry it off."
"Hey, what's that guy doing?" I asked, he was running with the torch at avatar Kyoshi. He jumped through it with the torch and set Kyoshi on fire.
"Down with the avatar! Down with the avatar! Down with the avatar!" the crowd jeered. The guy set fire to Roku after. The guy jumped onto a roof and was given a gesture by some goofy looking man. He pulled back and threw the torch at Aang's statue. It hit the fake Aang's eye and set him on fire. Katara ran forward and water bended all the water out of nearby jugs, she soaked the statues and put out the fire.
"That party pooper is ruining avatar day!" a crowd member yelled angrily. Aang jumped onto his statue's shoulder.
"That party pooper is my friend!" Aang yelled, he threw away the hat he was wearing, revealing his bald head and arrow.
"It's the avatar himself!" the goofy man from earlier yelled.
"It's going to kill us with his awesome avatar powers!" someone else yelled.
Aang started "No, I'm not I-"he raised his hand up, the man screamed and ran away. Aang looked at his hand and put it behind his back.
"I suggest you leave, you're not welcome here avatar." The goofy man said.
"Why not?" I asked.
"Aang helps people." Katara added.
"It's true, I'm on your side." Aang said, he jumped down from his statue's shoulder.
"I find that hard to swallow considering what you did to us in your past life, it was avatar Kyoshi, she murdered our glorious leader Chin the great." The goofy man said.
"You think that I murdered someone?" Aang asked.
"We used to be a great society before you killed our leader, now look at us!" A really ugly old man said. I gasped and took a step back.
"Aang would never do something like that, no avatar would, and it's not fair for you all to question his honour." Katara said.
"Let's tell her what we think of the avatar's honour!" a man yelled, he waved his butt in the air and blew a raspberry. The rest of the crowd cheered.
"Give me a chance to clear my name." Aang said.
"The only way to prove your innocence is to stand trial." The goofy man said.
"I'll gladly stand trial." Aang said firmly.
"You'll have to follow all our rules, that includes paying bail." The goofy man said. I stormed over to him and chi blocked him, he fell down to the floor. I walked back over to the others who were looking at me like they couldn't believe I'd done that.
"You know you wanted to do that anyway." I shrugged, they nodded.
"Correction, pay bail for two." The goofy guy said from the floor, I groaned, oops.
"No problem." Aang nodded.
"How was I supposed to know they wouldn't take water tribe money?" Aang asked, we were both in portable wooden stocks and in prison.
"So some people don't like you, no big deal, there's a whole nation of fire benders who hate you, now let's bust you outta here." Sokka said.
"I can't." Aang said regretfully.
"Sure you can!" Sokka cheered Aang on. "A little," he blew out of his mouth "Swish swish swish!" he sliced his arms though the air "Air bending slice! And we're on our way."
"I think what master swish is trying to say is that you're supposed to be out saving the world, you can't do that locked up in here." Katara said.
"I can't do that with people thinking I'm a murderer either, I need you guys to help prove my innocence." Aang said.
"I'm gonna stay here with Aang, but when you do get him out I'll just break out and be on my way." I said.
"But how are we gonna prove his innocence?" Sokka asked "The crime was committed over 100 years ago."
"That's okay Sokka, for some reason I thought you were an expert detective." Aang said, I had to try not to laugh, well played Aang.
"Well, I guess I could be classified as such." Sokka grinned.
"Yeah, back home he was famous for solving the mystery of the missing seal jerky." Katara said.
"Everyone wanted to blame it on a polar leopard but I figured out it was old man jacko wearing polar leopard boots." Sokka said, Katara squeezed the bridge of her nose, Aang and I shrugged. "See, a real 800 pound polar leopard would have left much deeper tracks." Sokka said, Katara put her hand over her mouth to stop herself laughing when Aang mimicked Sokka. "Okay, I guess I am pretty good." Sokka said smugly.
"So, you'll help me with my case?" Aang asked.
"Fine, but I'm gonna need some new props." Sokka said, he left and came back a few minutes later with a pipe and a weird hat with magnifying glasses on it. "I'm ready." He said, he pulled a magnifying glass in front of his eye. Katara laughed "What?" Sokka asked. Katara and Sokka left while Aang and I went to mingle with all the delightful prison people. I took of the wooden stock and put it on the floor; I took off my jacket and out it on the stock. I walked and sat at a table. I saw a dude with snake tattoos and a bald head. He walked over, I saw that he had a chain around his neck.
"What's a little defenceless girl doing in a place like this?" he asked. I smirked and stood up.
"Hotaru, don't!" I heard Aang yelled, I looked at Aang and frowned. "Fine, but make it quick." Aang sighed, I nodded and smiled thankfully. I turned back to the bald guy and chi blocked him, he fell to the ground. I sat back down.
"That's what I'm doing in a place like this." I smirked. When the snake guy's feeling came back I realised he wasn't that bad, nobody was. We sat down in a circle and just chatted.
"This girl you're talking about, she'll come around." He said "You just gotta hang in there."
"You think so?" Aang asked.
"Sure." He said.
"Yeah." Someone else in the circle said.
"You're a catch." Someone else in the circle said.
"I don't know." Aang said sadly.
"Hey, you're smart, handsome, funny, not to mention you're the avatar." Snake guy said.
"You guys are great." Aang said "What about you Hotaru, got a crush on anyone?" he asked me.
"Well, when we last saw each other Teo asked me on a date, but he's kind of in an air temple and I'm here." I said sadly.
"Don't be afraid to tell them how you feel." Someone said, he wiped a tear from his cheek.
"There there, there there." I said, I patted him on the shoulders. That night we were called to the gate of the prison to talk to the goofy man, he was the mayor.
"Honourable mayor, we've prepared a solid defence for the avatar." Katara said "We did an investigation and found some very strong evidence."
"Evidence? Hah! That's not how our court system works." The mayor laughed.
"Then how do I prove my innocence?" Aang asked.
"Simple, I say what happened and then you say what happened and then I decide who's right." The mayor said, I wanted to fire bend that smirk off of his face. "That's why we call it justice, because its just us." He walked away laughing. I had to stay in the prison while Aang delivered his story.
After a while of me just sitting there I heard screams and rocks falling, I guess someone was attacking. I shrugged and took off my wooden stock. I used water to make steps on the wall before jumped out of the prison and melted them. I smiled and waved at the guys in the prison before running out to help. I saw one of the members of the attackers; it was the rough rhinos attacking. I saw the leader of the group, a fire bender. I grinned and ran over to him, he was facing the other way so didn't see me push him off of his rhino. He blasted some fore out of his fist at me, I bent backwards and gasped as it almost hit my face. I kicked a big ball of my own fire at him, he put his arm up and let it bounce to the side, it hit a house and set it on fire. I gasped; I pulled some water out of a barrel and put the fire out. I turned around and saw him running at me, luckily Aang jumped right in the way and grabbed his arm, the man flew into a house nearby but got up straight away. When I looked at Aang I saw that he had two fans, Kyoshi warrior make up on, and a Kyoshi warrior head dress. I frowned and shook my head, I'll ask later. I got up and saw the dude back on his rhino, he ran at us with some fire surrounding his hands. Aang jumped over him and blew wind at him from above while I grabbed onto the gutter of a roof and ran across the edge before jumping off and landing next to Aang. He dropped his fans and his head dress had fallen off. He rode an air scooter over to the leader and blasted air at him, the leader dodged. Aang was now at the opposite end of the street from the leader. I jumped back to safety on the roof. Aang and the leader ran at each other, the leader released a huge wave of fire; Aang went through it feet first and kicked the rough rhino leader off of his rhino again. The leader flew into a house. We had defeated the rough rhinos.
That night we were being celebrated for saving the Chin village. Fireworks were going off and confetti was falling everywhere. "From now on, we'll celebrate a new avatar day in honour of the day avatar Aang saved us from the rough rhino invasion!" the mayor declared.
"What's this?" Sokka asked, we were all holding a bowl of new festival food.
"That's our new festival food, un-fried dough, may we eat it and be reminded of how on this day the avatar was not boiled in oil!" the mayor said. He got a reply of many cheers and clapping from the crowd. Aang lost the trial, before avatar Kyoshi spoke through him and confessed, he was then going to be boiled in oil as a punishment but then the rough rhinos showed up and the Aang and I were let off the hook for defeating them. We took some of the food out of the bowl.
"Happy avatar day everyone." Katara said before eating the raw dough. Aang ate his but it was spilling out of his mouth.
"This is by far the worst town we've ever been to." Sokka said while looking at the food.
"Yup." I answered before I ate mine and gulped it down before I could spit it out. Nice, real nice.