We have already made our way into the Great Divide and are starting our journey to go through the Canyon.
"Come on tell me," Sokka whined to me.
"I refuse."
"Oh come on, pretty please."
"How many times will I have to repeat myself the answer is still no, Sokka."
"Ah why must you be so stubborn?"
"I could say the same for you," I said as I continued walking across the cliff path. Sokka had been harassing me for an answer to his question. Usually a person would have have dropped the question hours ago but not good old Sokka, he had to get an answer even if it meant pestering me all day. Since the beginning of the trip through the Great Divide I hadn't gotten any peace. "Do your voice a favor, and stop asking me a question that I can't answer."
"I don't get it why is it such a difficult question for you to answer?" Sokka asked me frustrated. I let out a small sigh as I crossed my arms and looked up toward the crowd of refugees, the two tribes keeping a good distance from each other.
"Your question isn't something easily answered like 'when is dinner ready?' and besides that you don't even know my situation."
"I would if you would just tell me!" Sokka countered, complaining like a toddler.
"It's my choice who to tell my problems to," I said as I continued walking ahead of him.
"You know the others would be worried too if they knew." I stopped in my tracks as I turned to Sokka giving him a serious look.
"Let's keep it that way. I don't want to be a distraction to them, especially Aang." Sokka let out a small sigh but nodded his head knowing I was right. I suddenly heard a scream from behind us making me turn my body around to where the noise was coming from. I saw the Canyon Guide being held in the mouth of a hideous looking creature. It was huge almost as big as Appa but much thinner. It looked like an overgrown black insect only it had four legs instead of the normal six. It had small sharp red eyes and a long thin mouth with carnivore teeth.
"We gotta help him," Sokka shouted as he took at his boomerang and threw it at the ugly creature. The boomerang hit the giant bug's forehead making him drop the nearly paralyzed Canyon Guide to the ground as it began charging toward Sokka. "Okay...now you gotta help me!" Sokka shouted when he realized that he's weapon barely affected the giant bug. I shook my head at Sokka's poor excuse for a strategy but decided to help him out. I extended my arm out and summoned my staff from the charm. I twirled it behind me before striking the insect's jaw. It grew angry and lunge its head down to bite me, but I easily dodged it and jumped into the air. I spun my body around as I allowed the air to build a current around me. I then swung my staff, sending a huge wind toward the creature making it crash into a nearby canyon wall. It winced but then slowly was able to climb up the wall and disappeared into a hole. "Thanks," Sokka said with a sigh of relief.
"It wasn't a big deal," I said in an even tone making him a bit pissed.
"What was that?" Aang asked when it had disappeared.
"Canyon Crawler," the Canyon Guide said as he winced in pain "and there's sure to be more."
"Your arms they're broken," Katara said in surprise.
"Without my arms I got no bending, in other words..."
"...we're trapped in this canyon," Aang said completing the Guide's sentence.
"No wait can't Brianna use her abilities?" Katara asked hopefully.
"Sorry I can't...I can't do anything," Brianna said in an apologetic voice.
"Why," Katara asked in a desperate tone.
"Because she can't," I said as I crossed my arms while everyone turned their attention toward me. "Like I explained before when we first met, Brianna and I are not benders. We are just able to use the elements in certain ways. Brianna's earth abilities will not allow her to assist us in getting out of this canyon. So far all Brianna can do is break and throw earth, excluding the time she used it as a shield."
"Then what are we gonna do," Aang asked me.
"Think of a way to get out, but we first have to be able to survive. Since one Canyon Crawler was able to find us means that someone here must have not followed the Guide's orders and brought food down."
"I thought the whole point of ditching our food was so we wouldn't have to deal with things like Canyon Crawlers," Sokka asked looking for the person who was stupid enough to bring food down an endanger us all.
"It's the Zhangs! They took food down here, even after the Guide told them not to!" the refined elderly leader of the Gan Jin tribe shouted out.
"What," the Zhang large female leader shouted as she marched up to the older man "if there's anyone who can't go without food for a day, it's you pampered Gan Jins!"
"I hope you're happy. We're stuck in the canyon with no way out!" the Gan Jin leader shouted accusing the other tribe of committing the crime, but I knew perfectly well that his tribe had also brought down food.
"Why don't you thank yourself food hider!" The Zhang leader shot back as the two continued to insult one another.
"Look, sticking together is the only way to..." Aang started.
"I'm not walking another step with the likes of them," the large woman shouted.
"Now, there's something we can agree on," the skinny elderly leader agreed as he crossed his arms.
"Any ideas," Aang asked as he looked over at the four of us plus one insane man.
"No bending, we need to get out of this canyon. I won't die down here! I won't become part of the food chain!" The Guide shouted with an insane look in his eyes.
"See, we're going to become part of the food chain because of you!" the old man shouted as he started to pin the blame on the more barbaric looking tribe.
"Sure, unjustly blame the Zhangs, like you always do!" the barbarian leader shouted out.
"Gladly," the more elegantly dressed old man said as he glared at the woman.
"Enough," Aang shouted as a strong current of wind blew past them. "I thought I could help you guys get along, but I guess that's not going to happen." He jumped up onto a high cliff that stood in the middle of the path, splitting the path in two. "We should split up! Gan Jins on this side, and Zhangs on that side. We'll travel in two separate lines." The two leaders stared up at Aang and then looked at one another. I let out a sigh as I walked up toward the two leaders.
"Hey it's either that or Brianna and I can throw each and every one of you out of the canyon." Brianna seemed to like the idea resulting in an evil grin forming on her lips. "One body at a time," I muttered while cracked my knuckles as my lips formed a smirk. The two leaders quickly shook their heads as they lead their tribes to the assigned pathway.
"Sokka, you go with the Zhangs. Katara, you go with the Gan Jins. See if you can figure out why they hate each other so much," Aang commanded the two Water Tribe siblings. They both nodded their heads as they walked off, following their assigned tribe.
"Finally the annoyance is out of the way," I muttered as I watched Sokka walked behind the Zhang tribe.
"You know he's only looking out for you," Gin said as I continued to watch Sokka walk ahead.
"I know, but my pride will take a major hit if I allow anyone to know I'm worrying about something so stupid. That and I'm not sure how much longer I could have held back the urge to beat Sokka up."
"Just hit him like you did with the Canyon Crawler," Gin told me jokingly. I let out a laugh as I began walking to Brianna, Aang, and the Guide.
"I would but Sokka's not a bug, so it's not like he wouldn't feel pain if I smashed him into a wall...although I'm not sure if that theory counts since I'm pretty sure the Canyon Crawlers are a mix between insect and animal. What do you suppose it's a cross with?"
"I'm not sure if you caught onto it, but I usually am not informed of things if you do not know of it either," Gin said a bit shocked at the fact that I didn't catch onto that.
"Sorry I wasn't thinking," I said with my arms crossed. I stared over at the canyon walls as I continued to try and think of the possible animals or insects that were crossed in order to create the Canyon Crawlers, sadly I was unable to come up with anything and eventually gave up completely. "If only my brother Alex were here, he would know."
"Although I'm sure he'd be more interested in killing the Crawler than examining it," Gin told me thinking of how Alex would have behaved.
"Yeah I guess you're right," I said with a laugh as I imaged Alex trying to exterminate the overgrown bug by biting into its head. "But you have to admit it would be a funny sight."