Chapter 10- Cabbages

I stood at the steel rail of the ship and watched as we were stopping by one of the islands of the Kaui. The Kaui consisted of twenty five islands and each was named after the hours in a day. The twenty-fifth was one of wonder and so was not named. It was just forgotten. Myra beside me tried to keep her hair out of her face but had no luck.

"Here," I gave her a band I made when I was still learning to weave. I turned back to the island and saw that a small group of people were already gathered at the small port, gazing in wonder of the gigantic ship.

Suddenly, the ship stopped at a jerk and the bow of the ship opened to let out the fire benders. I looked out and heard one of them call out.

"Welcome to the thirteenth hour!" And soon the group of fire benders made their way into the island to get the supplies.

"Come on! That's our cue!" Myra pulled me into the ship and down the stairwell. We passed through a dimly lit hallway and out into the sunlight. I squinted as I looked around, but Myra didn't give me time to rest. She led me toward the traveling fire benders but didn't follow through. She turned sharply at a tree and soon we were at a clearing where a bunch of boulders lay.

"Yes! Earth!" She started to dash toward them. "Look at what I can do!" She held out her hands a fairly large rock in front of us. As she moved her hands upward, the rock did so. It hovered a little and she threw it against another bolder, which broke it into tiny pieces.

"Wow!"

"You're not the only one with skill you know." She began to levitate others when suddenly, she dropped all of them.

"You guys were supposed to stay in the ship!" We saw that it was Zuko. What the hell? Didn't the guy have a life than to stalk little girls?

"Were you following us?" I asked suspicious.

"No…. duh! I saw you guys sneak out and decided to follow, but I was a little…distracted."

"Distracted how?" Myra asked.

"Don't you be asking the questions. What were you guys doing out after telling you stay on the ship?"

"We were bored. What did you want us to do?"

"Go gossip – do each other's hair – make up jokes. Do whatever you girls do."

"That is so stereotyping."

"I'm not a girl." He said flatly.

"Or so you think." I muttered so that Myra would hear. She bursted out laughing.

"What did you say?" He asked. Someone's pissed.

"Nothing, pony boy." Myra snorted.

"Po-ho-ho-ho-ho-ny boyyyyyyy!" Myra laughed. "Ah ha ha ha ha!"

"Are you saying that I'm not a man?"

"No, just saying that –"

"Zuko!" Well, well Iroh came to his rescue. "Zuko! We're all waiting to buy our wares." He looked at Myra and me. "And I thought you told me that they would stay in the ship?"

"Uncle I did –"

"Never mind that. Zuko, sometimes… you're just stubborn." Iroh said as he walked out.

"Hurry up and follow me –"Zuko addressed to us.

"Or what?"

"- Or else we'll all have fun setting aflame this entire village." Yup, that shut us up. "And don't think that you'll get your way when you two are under our control, or else, we could just toss you to the Unagi by the island of Kyoshi. It's not far off."

And so Myra and I walked silently behind him. Damn him…

We got to the village and a merchant was arguing with one of the fire benders. It was something about cabbages.

"NO WAY! These cabbages cost more than a measly bronze coin."

Zuko stood up to him so close that the merchant backed off. His hand grabbed the old man's throat and he started to gag.

"Now, will you give us the vegetables?" He held up a fist ready to strike him if he didn't get the answer he wanted.

"Go ahead. Take them…" The man rasped as he tried to get Zuko to ease his hold. Fucker… He wasn't kidding. But then again, what could we do? It'd be best if we just stayed silent. But it wasn't right –

"Hoy!" A stone hit Zuko in the back of his head. He looked at Myra and me. We shrugged at him.

"We didn't do anything."

"I did." A young girl stood at the forest's edge in water bender's clothes a few feet away from me. She was looking at Zuko with angry eyes when she was looking back. It seemed that she was arguing with another person in the bushes.

"I've got it." She said sternly at the invisible person. Zuko let go of the old man and he started to walk toward her. The old man lay on the ground gasping for breath.

"What are you doing!" I whispered to her. "You know who that is? – That's Zuko, and if you don't run now, you'll be dead!" She looked at me and was surprised that I too was wearing water benders' attire.

"Are you from the north pole?" She asked quickly.

"What?" Zuko was coming closer.

"Are you from the north pole?"

"Y-yes?"

"Silence!" Zuko yelled. He then raised the girl by the neck. I could see that she was frightened. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Yaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!" I heard someone yell as a flash of orange and yellow jump out of the bushes. A bald kid with a staff jumped on top of Zuko making him fall and releasing the girl in blue.

"That's an air bender." Myra said in disbelief. "I thought that all of them were dead." What did that mean? I then got my answer. Myra and Zuko uttered it softly.

"The avatar."


Well lookie here, it's the avatar. Surprise surprise!