((Rebecca's P.O.V))
"Would you sit down? If we hit a bump you'll go flying off! What's bugging you anyway?" I heard Sokka yell out, waking me up from my sleep.
"Why can't I have a quieter alarm clock," I muttered as I rolled over to my side, to see what was going on. I looked up from the saddle and saw Aang pacing around in a circle, which told me that he was worried about something. I sat myself up and tried to force myself to wake up.
"It's what Avatar Roku said. I'm supposed to master all four elements before that comet arrives," he told Sokka while he continued pacing.
"How long has he been like this?" I asked Brianna as I let out a small yawn.
"Ever since he woke up, so like maybe an hour or two?" Brianna said, trying to recall everything since she woke up that early morning.
"Well, let's see, you've pretty much mastered air bending, and that only took you a hundred and twelve years. I'm sure you can master three more elements by next summer," Sokka said sarcastically as he concentrated on steering Appa. Without hesitation Brianna took an apple core, that Momo had finished devouring, and threw it at Sokka's head.
"I haven't even started water bending and we're still weeks away from the North Pole! What am I gonna do?" Aang exclaimed as he panicked about the distant future.
"Calm down, it's going to be okay" Katara said as she grabbed his arm and brought him down to a sitting position. "If you want, I can try and teach you some of the stuff I know." I raised an eyebrow as I looked at the two, wondering if that was a good idea. I recalled how she becomes jealous of Aang's talents making me question if I should stop her from teaching Aang, since it would later drive her into stealing the water bending scroll.
"Hey Brianna," I whispered and motioned for her to get closer "shouldn't we stop her?" Brianna raised an eyebrow, not knowing what exact event in the episode that I wanted to stop. "Should we stop Sugar Queen from being Aang's jealous tutor then a thief?" I asked her quietly as I pointed to Katara with my eyes. Without even a hesitation Brianna shook her head.
"No way," Brianna whispered in a harsh tone. I rolled my eyes already knowing her reason, without her even having to even say it.
"You are way too obsessed with pairings," I told her as I let out a sigh referring to her favorite pairing, Zuko and Katara. Brianna just grinned at me, happy that she didn't have to explain any of her inner thoughts. I let out another sigh as sat up straight. "Whatever we won't stop her, but if Aang get hurt I'll be happy to find a new partner." Brianna's grin immediately dropped at the thought of me possibly killing and replacing her. "I'm sure there are many people who would be more than happy to replace you."
"No, no I'm sorry" Brianna pleaded. I said nothing and just crossed my arms as I looked at the two sitting across from us.
"We'll need to find a good source of water first," Katara said as she looked down towards the ground for anything water that they could practice with.
"Maybe we can find a puddle for you to splash in," Sokka said, thinking that we wouldn't find any source of water nearby. I elbowed Brianna in the gut then pointed to Sokka.
"Want to go find Sokka a puddle?" I asked her as I gave her a small smile. Brianna nodded her head eagerly as she ran over towards the edge of Appa's saddle and summoned Nyoko.
"I'm on it Aang!" she screamed out as she jumped onto Nyoko's back and flew off in search of the giant waterfall area from the episode.
"Why was she in such a rush?" Sokka asked as he watched the giant black cat fly off into the distance. I lay on my back as Momo took it as a sign to cuddle up close to exchange body heat. I took the lemur into my arms as I gently patted his head.
((OOOO))
"Nice puddle," Sokka said as he looked up at the great waterfall.
"Thank you," Brianna said happily before jumping into the large pool of water with Momo right behind her. Appa followed them and caused a large wave of water that splashed Momo and Brianna as they resurfaced.
"Yeah, don't start without me boy!" Aang shouted out as he also started taking off his clothes, only to be stopped by Katara.
"Remember the reason we're here," she said to Aang, making him realize that this was no time for fun and games.
"Oh right, time to practice water bending," Aang said as he put his clothes back on. I watched Brianna circling around Appa while Momo lay on his stomach, trying to dodge all the water Brianna was splashing at him.
"Great, so what am I supposed to do?" Sokka asked feeling left out.
"You could clean the gunk out of Appa's toes?" Aang said as he held up a branch with leaves on it to him.
"So, while you guys are playing in the water, I'm supposed to be hard at work picking the mud out of a giant bison's feet?" Sokka asked Aang as he raised an eyebrow.
"Mud and bugs," Aang said correcting him. Sokka thought for a moment before taking the branch in his hand.
"Okay," he said as he walked toward Appa ready to start working.
"Well that was easy enough," I muttered to Gin who just chuckled to himself.
"Hey Rebecca," Aang called to me "what are you going to do?"
"Train," I said as I placed my feet on top of the water and started walking towards the middle of the river.
"But you always train." Aang whined.
"He's right Rebecca. You should relax for a day," Katara said agreeing with Aang.
"No thanks," I said still walking towards the center of the river.
"Do you even know how to relax?" Katara asked as I continued to walk.
"Possibly," I said sarcastically before positioning myself. I placed my hands out in front of me then moved them in a circular motion. The water from under me began to create a large shield that surrounded me. I kept my left hand out as I pushed my right hand upward. The river's water moved up forming a large wall that reached up to twenty feet. I slashed my right hand forward sending a wave of air that broke the top half of the wall, sending it back into the river. I slowly put my left hand down and brought it back towards my chest. Without a second wasted I pushed both my hands forward sending the shield of water towards the wall, completely destroying it. I dropped my stance as I looked over at Katara and Aang. "Hey, shouldn't you two be practicing?" I asked when I noticed the two had been staring at me as well as the others.
"That was amazing!" I heard Sokka shout on Appa's stomach.
"You go Rebecca!" Brianna shouted after him, as she waved her hands around.
"Hey," I turned to the two who were lazily floating on the water. I placed my hands over the water letting it surround them before lifting them up. I began moving my fingers making the water form two small water balls that were the size of baseballs. Before they realized what I was about to do, I threw water balls at the two of them, causing their heads to be soaked with water. "Stop lazing around and get back to work," I told Sokka before I turned to Brianna "and you, just because our opponents are Fire Nation doesn't mean you don't have to practice that element. Go get your butt in gear and started shooting out some fire."
"Fine," Brianna said as she put on a pouting face. She stood up and got on shore. She took a deep breath as she got into a stance, within seconds she was surrounded by fire that evaporated the water that was on her body.
"Hmm not bad," I muttered to Gin.
"Although she still needs practice if she wants to be able to catch up with you," Gin said praising my abilities. I shrugged my shoulders as I looked over at Katara and Aang.
"I'm not that good. I'm just a bit better because I practice a lot more. Although in my opinion I'll still need more practice," I said as I watched Katara begin her lesson.
"You have to work on your self-esteem" Gin muttered under his breath.
"No I refuse," I said while chuckling. I looked back to our student-teacher lesson. In the end I decided to watch them practice, since I had wasted too much energy on the earlier move and needed a short break.
"This is a pretty basic move, but it still took me months to perfect, so don't be frustrated if you don't get it right away. Just push and pull the water like this," Katara said as she motioned her body, which made a small wave of water move back and forth to the shore. I reached the shore and sat on a nearby rock as I continued to watch their lesson. "The key is getting the wrist movement right."
"Like this?" Aang asked as he started moving according to how Katara was.
"That's almost right," Katara said as she examined Aang's movements "if you keep practicing, I'm sure eventually…"
"Hey, I'm bending it already!" Aang exclaimed as he too started to bend a wave of water only it was twice as big as Katara's.
"Wow, I can't believe you got that so quickly," Katara said disbelieved. "It took me two months to learn that move," she said with a displeased look.
"Well, you had to figure it out on your own. I'm lucky enough to have a great teacher," Aang said somewhat flirting with her, making me gag on the inside.
"Thanks," Katara said having calmed down, but I knew it would only be temporary.
"So, what's next?" Aang said ready for the next move.
"This is a more difficult move. I call it streaming the water," Katara said as she was able to bend a string of water and began move it around. "It's harder than it looks so don't be disappointed if….." Katara began to say but then stopped midway when she saw that Aang had already mastered the move and was playing around with the water. She stopped bending the water, making it dropp into the river as she stared at Aang rather irritated. Aang playfully spun the water back into the water surface barely making a sound or ripple. "Nice work, though the over-the-head flare was unnecessary," Katara said, clearly getting more and more jealous.
"Sorry, well, don't stop now. Keep them coming!" Aang exclaimed.
"Well, I kinda know this one other move, but it's pretty hard. I haven't even totally figured it out yet. The idea is to create a big, powerful wave." Katara tried for the move as the water slowly began to form up but stopped moving at a certain point. I stared at Katara's face, which clearly showed that she was at her limit and eventually she finally caved in sending the water back down.
"So, like this?" Aang asked as he easily formed a large wave that shot from the waters towards Appa and Sokka.
"Aang," Sokka shouted his name before the wave collided into him sending him backwards into the river.
"Looks like I got the hang of that move!" Aang said pleaded with he's work. "What else you got?" Aang asked Katara eager to learn more.
"That's enough practicing for today," she said obviously not being able to stand Aang's talents anymore.
"Yeah, I'll say! You just practiced our supplies down the river!" Sokka shouted as the pointed out the bags that began floating down with the current.
"Uh sorry, I'm sure we can find somewhere to replace all this stuff" Aang apologized.
"Ugh, my life was hard enough when you were just an air bender." Sokka complained as he sunk down into the waters. Brianna ran over to my side as she whispered to me.
"Can't you just go get the stuff?" Brianna asked referring to my abilities to walk on water and run at the speed of the wind.
"What they don't know won't hurt them, besides" I motioned Brianna closer to me "if you want the certain moment to happen we have to go to the market." Brianna let out a small squeal as she remembered her favorite fanmade couple in the series. I rolled my eyes as I went over towards Appa to dry his fur off, before going into town. I looked from the corner of my eye and saw that she was still squealing and dancing around happily. I felt my right eye twitch as I turned my head around, but could still hear the sound of her giggling from afar. I let out a sigh as walked over to Appa before I muttered under my breath "Romance-addict."