AN: So the results from the previous votes are in Fire Nation and Firebending scroll won. There will be another vote at the end of this chapter.

Also this is just a fair warning, the MC will be acting in a way that readers don't expect. I feel like I've give good reasoning but if not there will be more in the closing AN. Please keep in mind her age and the past two months of her life though.

Chapter 2

-Midnight 95 AG, June-

I stuffed myself. It was fairly plain tasting but the fish was actually hot and somewhat seasoned, by far the best food I've had in weeks. I also passed out fairly quickly after finishing. It's been a truly exhausting couple of months since my escape from the Northern water tribe, and honestly pretty lonely. I spent a lot of time mad at my father, my tribe, Yue, my mother...life in general. Well my uncle was pretty cool but still.

2 months of isolation with no ability to return home... well I still don't like any of them. My father, while a talented bender and soldier became a pacifistic coward after he left the war. He refused to even stand up and fight for me or my right to learn waterbending. He wouldn't even learn from master Pakku and teach me in secret like I asked. All he would ever teach me was healing and how to defend myself and whoever I was healing without killing anyone. Everything with him was always about prioritizing healing and protecting others.

My tribe just...ugh. Everything with my tribe. From the forced betrothals to not being able to learn waterbending... just everything. I wouldn't be a criminal right now if my stupid backwards ass tribe didn't outlaw me learning how to use the powers I was born with. It's like... they outlawed me being me.

Yue. Stupid perfect fucking Yue. She's in the perfect position to help change the tribe, she's a waterbender and hates that she has to be forced into a marriage. And what does she do? She obediently follows along with every stupid fucking tradition like the perfect little princess she is. She... may have also been my first crush. Which I may have told her. It didn't end well. She even apologized to me for making me feel those things for her.

My mother admittedly is loving and kind... a loving and kind doormat that is. She has the same Waterbending I do and not only does she not try to learn to do anything but healing, but the crazy woman actually prefers it that way! She's completely on board with all the traditions and can't even begin to understand why I would want to fight. She's 'patiently' waiting for me to grow out of my 'rambunctious phase'.

My uncle... is odd. Kinda standoffish and dark, but he's the only person that's ever said they would help and not treat me like a freak for wanting to waterbend. He always promised me that one day things would be different and I would be free to learn waterbending, he said our family was powerful and he would teach me personally but it was dangerous before the time was right. A part of me regrets that I didn't wait to learn from him but the bigger part of me knows there was nothing he could do to actually change anything in the tribe. He was always just all talk.

Still even with all that... I miss people. Even the annoying ones I couldn't stand. I even miss arguing with my mom over the stupid name she gave me. Or with my dad about how he could be doing so much more if he just went out and helped the warriors he left in the southern water tribe. Even if it was only as a healer. I wouldn't even mind sitting through one of Gran Gran's lectures on balance and the moon and ocean spirits. Or how it reflects our roles in the tribe with the men fighting and defending and the women nurturing and healing... on second thought I could still do without her lectures.

No, just because I'm lonely doesn't mean I need to romanticize the Northern water tribe... I just need to get around people again. In fact there's no point in putting off leaving any longer. Laying back down from my sitting position I bend my make shift sub closed and readjust to the tight quarters. I tried to keep it as small as possible, only about 8 feet long and 3 feet in diameter. The smaller it is the harder it is to notice, the faster I can move it, and the less energy it takes. But... t can be wearing mentally to be in here.

The entire bottom section is actually just my two scrolls and clothes frozen in a block for safe keeping. I stopped wearing the clothes about 7 weeks ago for various reasons. The first was that I didn't want them wearing out from constant use and with no one here to see me … there wasn't any real point. I don't really feel the cold and what little I do can easily be taken care of with a constant low effort blood bending... not that I do it often. I kind of like feeling cold... in certain places.

Clearing my mind of the fun mornings I've had, I focus on connecting my chi to the water around, and search until I feel the first break in the water I can reach. That should be a ship... or a large rock. Only one way to find out I suppose. Diving down in the water I propel my sub roughly 300 ft before stopping in front of the object. Honestly when I'm like this, it's a lot less like I'm bending an ice boat and more like I'm bending myself, well not bending... mmm, it's just natural.

No moves, no hand waves I just feel the water and concenrate on where I want to go. Then again I've been connecting my chi to external water for a long time now, it's basically the core of what healing is. OK now time for some finesse. I'm roughly 5 feet from the object and I'd rather not flood my sub well I could always take care of that with my bending but... I got a really cool idea and I want to do it.

Taking a deep breath, I focus on forming a layer of ice over top my body then slowly bend the ice from under me, on top of me. In a few seconds I was met with the shock cold water and I knew I was successful. If I can learn to do that quickly, I can literally walk through ice walls, not make a tunnel or hole through ice, but basically meld into it, bending it around my body. I'm going to look so cool just slowly emerging out of ice like I'm being born from it or something!

I can picture it now, It's days before the Northern Water Tribe invasion. Team avatar is eating diner in the palace with Arnook and Yue, I slowly emerge from a wall, to make sure everyone sees it happening. Arnook is all sputtering as I stare him down then is like 'Guards! Arrest that traitor!' Then Yue is like 'Kala how are you doing that?' Then I'll smirk and wait till the guards get close and be all like 'this is Agna Qel'a, I walk through walls in Agna Qel'a.'

Then I'll rapidly disappear into the wall, and when they open a hole to where I should have been, I'll just be gone. Then Yue will swoon at the epicness and turn to Arnook and be like 'Father! I hate this betrothal and all our backwards traditions... but I wouldn't mind If you were making me marry her! I wonder if there's a spirit that can help us have babies?' …. OK so maybe not that last part with Yue. Still it's going to be so awesome. What should I call it? Ice swimming? Mmm maybe... no focus on the... rock. It's just a massive rock.

Bending myself back into the sub, a bit quicker this time I bend off the water left on most of my body, the places I didn't rapidly are coated in a thin layer of ice. Heh, I got ice on my nipples. And my... no focus! Erm uh lets just bend to the next block in the water flow and save happy morning time for the mornings. Even if I do have some idea of how I could use the superio... No! Bad girl! It's time to focus!

It takes me the more false alarms before I find an actual fire nation ship, I think maybe we just didn't actually sink a lot of them back then. Not nearly as much as everyone tells stories about at least. Still I have found a ship so lets go ahead and ice swim to it. I decide on ice swim just now, it sounds cooler than ice melding. Also realized it's easier and faster if I keep a thin layer of ice on my body the whole time... and not just because of how fun it feels.

Looking over the fire nation ship I see it's mostly intact, very rusty though, save for a massive whole in the side. Mmm, well I guess it's no mystery how this one sank. Making my way through the hole I curse myself for forgetting that it would be pitch black in here. What to do, what to do... I know! Can get some of that glowing algae that sticks to the bottom of the boats sometimes and scares the fish away. Ugh, scrapping it off was always the worst punishment.

It's didn't take long to find the glowing blue sea life and use waterbending to gather it into a bubble. I did have to ice swim my head back into sub for air a couple of times but I'm finally ready to explore this ship, for real this time!

Swimming back in the whole the inside of the once dark ship is illuminated by the soft blue light of the algae. I see a bunch of fish scatter when the light gets close to them After getting to the end of the corridor I find... oh spirits that's a body! Oh there's a lot of them! Nope, that's just... no. Oh this better be worth the scarring sight of all these dead bodies.

...It wasn't. It just really fucking wasn't. Almost everything was either rust or had extreme water damage. The only thing I managed to recover was gold. And not a lot either. Between all the jewelry and ornamentation... there was maybe 2 pounds of gold. And that's only cause I lucked out by finding a ship that an admiral was on. Assuming there's even less on any other ships out there... so not fucking worth it. I'm done with this shit.

-Morning 95 AG, June-

"Ahhh!" Mmm spirits that was... I need that after the fucked upness of last night. Letting my body recover from the after shocks, I bend the black ice, I just decided to call it that cause it sounds so cool, back into the frying pan it use to be. On second thought do I really want to cook with that after... well I guess it's from my own body, and it does taste good. Maybe it'll help the fish... or I have a serious problem. It's hard to tell when you've been in an ice tube for the better part of 2 months.

After a quick breakfast, the fish did taste better and I'm not sure if that's a good thing, I started making my way to the Fire Nation. Mostly because I realized that the most interesting parts of the earth kingdom, Ba Sing Se, Omashu. Gaoling, and the Si Wong desert were on the other side of the Earth Kingdom, and unless I wanted to back track and have to travel through Northern Water Tribe waters again, I would literally have to pass by the Fire Nation to get to the fun places.

I could stop by the western air temple, it's really close, but I'm not sure I'm ready to go see a bunch of dead bodies so soon. Mmm I may go hunt for a wild sky bison to take as a pet. They're super cute and the most useful animal you can find, besides dragons of course. Because dragons. I don't think Lion turtles count as animals either... but they aren't spirits... eh who knows. The point is I'm heading to the Fire Nation.

Specifically to Hama. I thought about robbing the Fire Lord's house on Ember Island first but doing that would be going out of the way and more importantly, stealing should probably be the thing I do after I'm ready to leave the Fire Nation, not before it. Also I should probably learn how to dress and act Fire Nation before I go an Island were all of the Fire Nation Elite have houses.

It took nearly a week to get there. Not because I couldn't move the sub faster... but because I wasn't focused only on that. Most of what I want to do in the future, bending wise, requires bending water in multiple different ways, and in multiple different objects all at the same time. I do want to get better with my ices as well of course but I've got down how to change it's molecular structure to give it different properties, now it's just a matter of drilling it so I can do it at combat speeds and experimenting to make stable versions of other ice phases.

Right now though I need to focus on my control. I started by trying to boil water in a pot shaped from normal ice. Basically maintaining the heat of the boiling water while also maintaining the cold of the ice. It was admittedly challenging at first until I remembered my combat bender perk that makes using my bending for combat easier. I started by bending water into a ball and then heating it up by agitating the molecules really fast.

Once I got a good feel for how my chi interacted with the molecules, it was a lot easier. By the end of the first day it became easy to flash boil the water with minimum effort. The trick to it is simple. You don't use your chi to manipulate the molecules to be agitated, you use your chi to bend the water into water that has agitated molecules.

Basically instead of trying to control each molecule yourself, after getting a feel for what boiling water is like, on a chi level, you have your chi recreate that effect on the water your bending. It's a small and simple distinction that most benders don't get, but it makes all the difference. It saves so much on chi and mental focus that it's not even funny.

After I maintained a ball of boiling water the only real challenge was doing that and keeping ice cold at the same time. I obviously already know how to form and keep ice cold on it's own. I decided to practice attacking with both at the same time, blasting jets of boiling water and ice spikes back to back until I was blasting both at the same time. It was weird... but It was more about conditioning my mind to see my chi as not one big whole energy, but a big energy with a bunch of parts, that cold be used at the same time.

Still took two days to get my mind and chi synchronized on everything though. If I was the type of person to meditate it might have been easier but... that's for the weak. I know how to manipulate my chi by telling it what the fuck to do I don't nee some backwards ass faith exercises giving me a false sense of what my actual abilities are on my own.

With effort my chi shaped up and I had the metal image of forming two tendrils of chi, one for each task. After that it was smooth sailing. As long as I fed chi to maintain the desired temperatures, I didn't need to actively try to 'bend' the ice to not melt or the water to not cool. It's all my own chi after all, it doesn't cancel itself out like that. From there it was just a matter of repetition and getting it up to combat speed.

By the time I got to Hama's village I was able to form and fire a spinning shell of thin ice that contained a basketball sized ball of boiling water, in about half a second. Good but needs a lot of work still. The idea was to hit with a drilling force of ice to dig through armor or clothes and then have it break open to splash scalding water at the person. It can't quite do that but I'm making progress. After I got the move fully formed and worked out, it's just a matter of getting my chi to do it in a one single move instead of a bunch of little ones that I had to maintain control over individually.

It was midnight when I got to the island Hama's village was on. I sunk my sub to the bottom of the ocean and froze it there so it was safe, well so my scrolls were safe... and my clothes. I... decided it would be better to do this naked. You see uh my brown skin blends in a lot better to a dark forest/town than my blue clothes would. And um it would be better to be caught naked than in water tribe clothes... not that I want to be caught or anything! That would um probably be super embarrassing... some stranger staring at my naked body... uhhh anyway I'm doing this naked. Spirits I'm going to need a lot of fun time in the morning.

I stealthily made my way through the forest, and sleeping village with sadly no on- erm luckily with no one catching me. I figured it would be best to take care of my lack of clothing first... I need to be able to walk around during the day after all, probably. I make my way through the clothes lines of a few different houses, making sure to only take one thing from each house. I'm going to be modifying it all anyway but still, it's better to be safe.

With my clothing borrowed, and stashed in the forest for now, I make my way back to the houses... naked. I just don't want to get caught committing crimes in my new clothes, and uh I haven't modified them yet so I doubt they'd even fit right now so I uh I have to be naked. I made my way to the first house, the nicest looking, and suck to the back door. Pulling a bit of water from my water skin I inserted it and froze it into a key. Luckily the locks are fairly simple here.

Sneaking my way through the house I checked every room finding an old sleeping couple in one and two boys in another. One of the boys opened their eyes when I walked into the room and blearily looked over at me then stared. I'd say he's about my age, maybe a little over. His eyes raked over my body in confusion and I couldn't help the massive blush that rose to my face. He started to sit up so I quickly moved over and placed a hand on his chest.

"wha..." He groggily stumbled through the words so I pushed him back down gently and started using bloodbending on him. It took a second to get a hold of it but once I did, I started slowing down his blood flow.

"Go back to sleep, it's just a dream." I took it slow, not wanting to hurt him and his body responded, his eyes getting heavier and his breathing deeper.

"Best dream ev-." He fell asleep before he could finish the compliment but that fact did nothing to help the full body blush that came over me. He is kind of cute. I wonder if I should... I mean no one would know but... do I really want my first to be... I stopped thinking about it and just leaned down to kiss the sleeping boy. It was a peck really more than a kiss and almost over before it started, but still... that was my first kiss. In either life. I'm not even sure if I like boys like that. Dying a 14 year old virgin surprisingly gives you little experience with these things.

After I broke the kiss, and jumped back from him, it took me a full minute or so to get my breathing under control and calm down. I'm going to to need so much fun time in the morning... so much. In the mean time I have a job to do and I've played around enough. Moving the older couples room I looked through drawers until I found some money in pouch. It wasn't much, just a few gold and silver Ban, so it's probably only their pocket money. Good I'm not trying to leave them broke.

I follow this pattern through 4 more houses. Though none them had cute girl to ki... erm I didn't get caught at any of the other houses. My haul was fairly small 17 silver and 12 gold Ban, a decent amount but nothing serious. Making my way back to the beach, I stop to get my clothes from the forest. I quickly connecting the ice of my sub and break it away from it's anchor and shoot it up to the surface.

After entering I freeze my new belongings with everything else for safe keeping and resign to just calling it a night. I try to close my eyes and get some rest but I get an image of me kissing that cute boy popping right in head. I probably would have ignored it but... I shifted and my leg brushed against my frying pan. And then the image of Yue swooning for me was in my head and all of a sudden my frying pan wasn't a frying pan and ohhh... mmm maybe morning fun time should be morning and night fun time from now on.

-Midday 95 AG, June-

I got a late start. I uh slept in. Well I wasn't really sleeping, I ugh... got carried a way a bit this morning, and afternoon. Still I'm up now and my soreness has been healed. I had just finished eating, I may have had to make a new frying pan the other one is um... currently occupied, ugh doing stuff. Shifting to grab my now unfrozen haul form last night I... oh that's... mmm, that's different. That's going take an adjustment. Heh.

After a few minutes of trying to move without uh 'responding' to my current situation I have the gold coins in my lap. Concentrating I pull in water from outside of my sub and encase each coin with it individually. I start freezing it into black ice, which takes a few minutes. Once done though, I split each coin block down the middle and let the coins fall out. Inspecting them carefully I choose a half that captured the detail of the front the best, and then do the same for the back.

Once I have a good visualization of the mold I spend a few minutes to create a mold for 10 coins. With that out of the way, I reshape the frying pan, the new one, into a pot and start raising its temperature. I put all the gold from the ships in it and then encased the bottom in a block of ice and set it to float next to my sub. This should also be good training. Now while thats melting let's do something about these clothes. Luckily there's a lot of excess material to cut off and I can make ice needles.

...What the fuck is that smell! Looking over I see a boiling pot of gold and... stuff. Spirits it smells rank. There's no way I can use whatever the hell is in that pot as gold coins, or use that frying pan again. I rapidly lower the temperature of the black ice then encase the whole thing in a block of ice and jettison it to the bottom of the ocean. I also move my sub away from that smell. Stupid Fire Nation gold.

Admittedly my bad mood didn't last long. It's hard to be upset when every little shift of your body is... so enjoyable. I quickly finish the new outfit and move to sta-

"Nnnnggg." This may not have been the greatest idea. There's no way I can mmm walk around like this. It takes me 20 minutes to get dressed with my current... difficulties. I maybe shouldn't have used the whole frying pan. Still as tempting as it is to just stay in this sub and have fun times, I need to get moving. Why am I acting like a hormonal little idiot when... Ohhhh, right. Ugh I thought I dealt with the worst part of puberty in my past life.

It hit early and fast for me. I got my period just after my 11th birthday. And boy did it bring hormones with it. I remember getting so horny back then I was constantly rubbing off on pillows. Then I discovered the joys of Pornhub on my older sister's computer and I was a goner. I had a 3-4 orgasm a day habit at my peak. I had calmed down a lot before... all this happened. But now it looks like puberty is back in full force for this body, accept now I have magical powers that give me so many more options than I ever had before... oh fuck, there's no way this ends well, is there?

Slowly bending myself to shore, after sinking my sub, I have to stifle moans. I really shouldn't have gone out to town like this. But I couldn't just... stop. It takes me nearly an hour to walk through the forest but on the bright side, by the time I reached town I've mostly adjusted. I see people turning to look at me... most likely a mix of being a stranger and my outfit.

It's... appropriate. Technically. The top covers an inch bellow my breast and leaves both shoulders bare, my hard earned abs on full display. My puffy shorts are low waisted and stop at mid-thigh. I'm showing more skin that everyone else but not offensively so. I'd blame my choices on being excited as I designed it but... it's honestly just that fucking hot out. This is the Fire Nation in the middle of summer and it's unbearably hot. Even wearing so little I'm having to keep myself cool by bending the ice on my nipples and erm... the ice on my body.

Making my way to the town's inn I try best not to explode with everyone staring at my body and whats on it. Spirits if they only knew what was in it! Mmm I'd bet they'd all stop and stare at the young girl from the colonies stumbling down the street with a massive black di-

"Welcome to my Inn, would you like a room for the night dear?" When the fuck did I get to the Inn? Oh fuck no, this world is way too dangerous for me to be walking around with this in me if I'm going to get that distracted. Someone could have easily have snuck up on me and slit my throat. Hell Hama could have taken me out.

"Yes elder, thank you for your care." I give her a low bow, something I've had to do way too often in the north. Hama's eye's widen significantly, as she takes me in, likely just now seeing me properly. She make's out that I'm water tribe fairly quickly. Fire Nation people may not be able to tell easily, earth kingdom people can have skin as dark as mine and blue eyes, but anyone from one of the water tribes would be able to see in an instant.

"You're-"

"From the Southern Water Tribe, I didn't recognize you so I assumed you were from the north. I hoped I greeted you correctly, my Gran Gran is from the north and tried to teach me." I used blood bending to raise blood to my cheeks and duck my head in 'embarrassment'. My act got me a light, almost disbelieving chuckle.

"I'm sure it was fine little one, but I have to admit I don't know much about Northern customs. The only person I knew from the north was my old friend Kanna, sh-"

"That's my Gran Gran! Oh sorry ah... My name's Katara, it's an honor to meet you." I 'nervously' adjust one of the hair loopies I gave myself for this. I look enough like Katara to sell being Kanna's grand daughter. While I am hoping this buys me good will, I haven't decided if I'm going to kill her yet. If I don't then either I'll be friends with Katara and never let her come here, or we'll be enemies and when she comes here and meets Hama... hopefully Hama will refuse to teach her thinking she's a liar. She may even attack her.

"And I'm Hama. Come with me dear this isn't the best place to talk." Following, she leads me to the inns dining room then has me wait while she goes to make tea. I... suppress every desire I have to start moving the black ice inside me. I'm so rewarding myself for good behavior tonight, I definitely deserve after resting the urges to fu-

"I hope you enjoy the tea dear." Oh fuck I did it again. I look over to see Hama sitting at the head of the table with a cup of fresh tea in front of us both. I'm never having this thing inside me in public again.

"Thank you for letting me stay the night and taking care of me." I drop the elder bullshit. We've established she isn't from the north so I have to sell that I'm form the south. Plus fuck those bullshit old people.

"It's my pleasure little one. It's not every day I get to see someone from my tribe after all. Tell me though, how exactly did you know I was from the water tribes?" Her smile is as pleasant as ever stretching her wrinkled face, you have to look hard to see the undercurrent of bloodlust she's directing my way. Still it's a valid question, unlike most of us Hama's skin is fairly light and her eyes gray, she likely has air nomad ancestry.

"I felt the ice you're using to cool yourself, it's just stupidly hot isn't it?" Hama showed visible surprise before relaxing and giving me the first genuine smile since I met her. When you're used to connecting to all the water in your vicinity, it's hard to miss someone maintaining ice drops on their back.

"So you're a-" I cut her off by waterbending the tea out of my cup and into my mouth in a small stream. She gives me a brief laugh at the display then closes her eyes for a second in concentration. When she opens them she's looking at me strangely... oh she felt where I keep my ice.

"I see you learned that trick as well, though I can't say I've ever kept mine in such... interesting places." The blush I give her is completely genuine at being called out so openly about the ice on and in me.

"Oh don't worry dear, I was young once too, I'm sure a little ice on your nipples puts a nice pep in your step." There's absolutely no judgment in her eyes, just mild amusement. Still why would she... she can't feel the ice inside me can she? Ohhh, she's only feeling for the cold. She must not be great at connecting her chi to things, probably never learned to heal then as that's the corner stone. I shouldn't do it but... I kinda want to. It's so bad but... oh fuck it. These hormones are going to kill me one day I swear.

"What!" She looked down on me in shock when suddenly there was another massive source for cold between my legs. She looked at me in confusion, so I bent the black ice out of me, not able to suppress the moans. I had to make sure to keep all my juices inside. I've been... leaking a lot. Thank the spirits I'm a waterbender. I set the dildo on her table and bring the heat up back to body temp.

"I uh may have found a new way to bend ice." She looked at me, then at the dildo, then at my crotch, then burst into laughter.

"You invented a new way to waterbend because you were horny!" She started laughing at me so hard she started crying. I did not invent it for that... I did it because I wanted hot fish for once! Which is actually a worse reason when you consider I could have boiled it... dammit!

"I'm sorry dear it's just, ha, if you knew what I went through to... haha and then you... oh we would have been the best of friends if I knew you when I was your age." There was that no judgment look again... I'm honestly not really used to it, my family while loving is super judgy. I'm kinda starting to feel guilty about lying to her now. Like it's an asshole move. Then again she tortures people...

"I just... get really worked up sometimes, it really isn't why I invented it but... it is how I've been using it a lot." She goes to pat my arm comfortingly then picks up the black ice and marvels at it. Eww, I wish she hadn't touched it. No w ti has old lady hands on it and I have to make a new one!

"You know I planned on asking you if you would like to learn the waterbending of our tribe so I could pass it on, but now I'm starting to think you have just as much to teach me." I can't help but blush when she wags my dildo at me. So weird and embarrassing! Stop touching my dildo lady!

-Evening 95 AG, June-

The past week at Hama's was probably one the best in my life. It was freeing to have someone take an active interest in my bending and support me openly. Not make promises to the future, but actually sit down and teach me. I learned a lot of forms from her, soaking it all up, though truly most of the knowledge she held outside of forms I already knew. Truthfully I taught her more than she taught me.

She caught me bloodbending myself. I was tired of the constant horniness so at night I tried to bloodbend myself, slow down the flood of hormones. It took a few nights, but I know a surprising amount about brain chemistry. The problem came in me not realizing how loud I was being, how loud my moans were when I accidentally flooded myself with hormones instead of damning them She watched the whole time and I though I had explaining to do.

I did but not in the way I thought. She wasn't interested in how I learned bloodbending. She wanted to know how to bend without the full moon. I taught her, mainly it was about her learning to use her chi to properly connect with water. You have to understand healing to understand bloodbending fully. Luckily for her I'm an excellent healer.

The questions of how I learned bloodbending did come about when she finally got over being able to bloodbend without a full moon. I... couldn't take lying to her anymore. We bonded I guess and... well she's just a really cool person. This could completely destroy the trust she placed In me... but I have to tell her. On the bright side my bloodbending myself worked and I feel so much more normal again. I can actually think about a cute girl with out wanting to finger myself for hours.

"I... I'm not from the southern water tribes. I got banished from the north for trying to steal a scroll and I was on my own and had broke my legs horribly when escaping and I was healing myself but the blood kept coming out so I had to force it back in but it kept coming and I kept having to force it and I thought I was going to die but I lived then I practiced on the fish on the way here and I got real good and I'm so sorry I lied to you Hama it's just I didn't know if you knew I was wanted so I didn't want to say I was from the northern tribe and then you mentioned Kanna and my dad he's from the southern water tribe and he said this nice old lady named Kanna delivered him and he would talk about her because she kinda helped raise him after his mom died and I'm so-"

"Shhh. I'm not mad at you sweetie, I understand feeling like having to hide who you are." I'm not sure when I started crying during my mini breakdown but as soon as she pulled me into a hug I just couldn't stop. It's been so long since I've been hugged. I have no idea how long I cried for, it felt like hours. I love my mom, and Gran... I do, but it's different.

When they tell me it's OK, they don't mean the way I feel is OK. They mean they love me even though I'm wrong. They mean it's going to be OK when I finally come to my 'senses' and stop trying to learn waterbending, to happy to be sold off to some boy to be bred. They love me but they'll never accept me. This is... I think this is the first tome I really felt anyone accept me. Ever.

"I'm Kala. My real name is Kala." Hama tightened her hold on me and kissed my forehead. A small part of me still feels guilty for not telling her the full truth... but I've made a decision. When I leave here, I'm taking her with me. I'll tell her everything then.

"It's nice to meet you Kala, I'm Hama, I look forward to getting to know the real you." She's not a good person. You could even consider her evil. A monster. I know she wants to use me. Is probably just manipulating me to have me follow in her footsteps, terrorizing and murdering Fire Nation people. I won't... but I can't help that I feel at peace for the first time in her arms. Maybe monsters need love too.

Or maybe it was a really bad idea to mess with my brain's hormone production and now my brain chemistry is all fucked up... Maybe I shouldn't have come here... It's still a good hug though.

AN: I don't think I should have to say this but I will: the MC is not in anyway shape or form attracted to Hama, and if things go the route of her being a companion it will not be as a lover but as a grandmother figure.

In case it wasn't clear in the chapter, the MC is dealing with both extreme isolation and a really hormonal puberty at the same time. She's still not over her recent death, and while mostly suppressing thoughts of it, it is affecting her. We'll get more into her life before Avatar in future chapters.

Also while smart, and knowledgeable, she did die at 14 and is far from all knowing. She's going to know a lot about certain areas of interest but may be completely clueless about others even if they seem simpler.

We'll get more into bending, the spirits and chi in next chapter.

So two more votes:

1: Hama's Fate

Should the MC try to temper some of Hama's more anti Fire Nation tendencies? Hama has a legit reason for hating the Fire Nation and with a bit of love, familial, she can be brought out of most of her bloodlust.

Or

Should the MC realize the bitch is crazy, and her feelings are because she just fucked up by bloodbending her own brain. MC will kill Hama in her sleep and run for the hills.

2: Where should she go next

Should the MC Attempt to infiltrate the Royal palace as a servant after leaving Hama's? Possible actions include: Befriending zuko or Azula. Preventing Fire Lord Azulon's death. Aid Ozai's rise to power in some way. Steal any possible weapons blue prints or battle strategies.

OR

Should the MC seek out Master Piandao to learn sword fighting. If impressive enough this could mean recruitment into the white lotus and future pre-canon interactions with Bumi and Iroh.

To clarify for Hama's fate vote, you the readers are actually voting on hama's intentions towards the MC. If she lives then, she genuinely just wants someone to pass her teachings to and to have a connection to her tribe with. If she dies, then Hama was manipulating the MC and trying to lead her down a path or terror in he Fire Nation.