Book 1: Chapter 4
New Waterbending tricks!

It seems that Katara has calmed down, although slightly upset still. Yesterday was the day of her banishment and is living with me and my friend, Fortus. Today she is volenteering to learn some waterbending moves although she will not perfect it immediately.

It is approximately an hour after dawn and I had just woken up as well as Katara. It seemed that Fortus had a little trouble getting up since he's usually his somewhat-lazy self. I got up and got out a towel and a comb. I sat down by a river, washing and drying my hair. Using the comb to straighten my messy hair, I then got up back to the encampment a few minutes later. Katara sat up, rubbing her eyes.

"Good morning, Katara" I said.

"Hello." greeted Katara, being as shy as usual.

"Fortus, are you up yet?" I asked. Fortus moaned as he was trying to get back to sleep. Katara giggled at him. I then sat beside Katara, lending her my comb to straighten her hair. I patted her lightly on the back, seeming that she is too adorable to resist.

"Do you have anything to eat?" asked Katara, speaking for once.

"Let's see..." I said as I quested inside my bag, looking for something to eat. "Well seems I have some really fresh bread here." I said as I took out a loaf of bread out. "Let's heat it up a little."

I got up and grabbed the rocks to create a fire again on the logs Fortus had gotten. After a few sparks the logs were incinerating. I grabbed a stick and hardened the bread above the fire. Fortus finally got up as he smelled the delicious bread.

"Hmmm... delicious!" he said excitingly. He tried to rise off of his bottom but he was too lazy to rise himself. Fortus moaned and Katara and I laughed.

Finally after a few minutes of toasting, I grabbed a knife and split the bread into three and ate the whole thing. This bread is my favorite type out of my whole tribe and Katara seemed to really like it as well.

We all got up and Fortus and I packed up while Katara sat there a bit bored. She rubbed her mother's necklace and seemed to grow slightly upset. I saw that Katara's head was down. I had to talk to her.

"Katara?" I said walking towards her. She looked at me a little questionly "Seems this is the only thing you have left of her..." I sighed, seeming a bit depressed myself "Eventually, you will become a great waterbender, maybe even get some revenge of your village. Believe me, although you have done something bad, it's not your fault because you didn't do it on purpose." I patted her shoulder, which seemed to really comfort her.

Fortus had all the supplies ready and packed up. "Okay ready you two?" asked Fortus. Katara and I both nodded and I picked up Katara, carrying her on my shoulders as she clinged onto my shoulder.

We had walked for quite a while now, at least a mile. Our legs were already too exhausted, feeling like we were going to collapse. Suddenly we heard a waterfall. It was a miracle. We needed a good supply of fresh water and this would be a perfect opportunity to teach Katara some new waterbending tricks.

I sat down on the rockbed near the water as I felt the icy-fresh liquid in my hands. Katara sat beside me and touched the water as well. She quickly snatched the water back to her since the water was too cold for her. I laughed and smiled at her. I started doing some moves of my own. I formed a tube-shaped form of part of the water and hovered it in the air in many places and set it back in it.

"Okay Katara, let's see what you can do." I said smiling. Katara smiled back. She kneeled on her knees on the rocks and lifted some of the water but not moving much in motion. Just hovering above the water like a floating stick. Then her energy overwhelmed her and she let go of the water, nearly exhausted.

"Just gently rise your arm with a little energy out, and it should control it easily." I said as I demonstrated it to Katara. She then tried it out herself and it seemed that it worked better. She tried to rise it higher but that requires a little more energy, in which Katara does not have yet.

"That's pretty good" I complimented "Now let's see if you can do this." I raised my wrists as if I was typing and moved it back and forth. This made the waves go back and forth as well. Katara mimicked me and almost performed it.

"Don't worry. It does take a while to make it work." I explained "Just keep practicing. Also bend your wrists a little more than you did." I grabbed her hands and positioned them the way they are supposed to be. She tried again and it was more effective than before.

"Very good. Just keep it up and you'll almost have it perfectly!" I said happily, smiling at her as she smiled back greatly. Suddelny, Fortus saw something on the ground. Something very shiny, and looks very valuable!

"What's this?" asked Fortus as he pointed at the object.

"Hmmm..." I thought to myself, trying to identify the item. "I think it's a grand Emerald. I've heard it's worth many gold pieces! Maybe even hundreds!"

"Well it couldn't have just popped out of nowhere." proved Fortus "What do we do?" Fortus and I looked a bit puzzled. I then grabbed the amulet-like jewel.

"We should take it for now I guess. Someone else might steal it like the fire nation." I said.

"It'll be very miraculous if we meet the person you know." said Fortus. Katara then glanced at the valuable jewel.

"It's pretty." she said smiling. I giggled a little.

"Well we should move on I guess." I said picking up Katara. We then packed again and headed down the road...