The Second Avatar – Part 2: The Waterbender

The sun started to rise into the sky of the cool day. Katara's eyes slowly opened and she placed her hand in front of her eyes to block the sun. She sat up and looked over at Aang who was sleeping on his back. He had one hand on his stomach and his face was scrunched. Momo was sleeping by his head and his tail softly landed on Aang's face. Aang sneezed and he shot up in freight.

Katara got up and kneeled beside him. "Aang relax! You only sneezed!" Aang looked at Katara sheepishly and he fell backwards on the soft sleeping bag. Katara smiled and she grabbed a hand full of washed, red berries. "You want some Aang?"

Aang looked at the berries and his faced turned pale green again. "Don't worry. These are ripe." Katara shoved some berries in her mouth and some red juice squirted out of a berry and got Aang in the cheek. He still wasn't fully awake so he just slapped his hand on it and fell back asleep. Katara smiled and she petted Momo who replied with a purr.

Katara got up, chewing berries and she looked over at Sokka's sleeping bag. He wasn't there! She dropped all of the berries in panic and she took off running in the woods. "Sokka! Sokka! Where are you!" she shouted. She hadn't run very far when she tripped and smashed into the forest debris. She held her body up with one hand and looked behind her. She had tripped over Sokka's shoe. All of a sudden she heard him shout in pain.

"Where's my shoe!" he roared. He came bouncing on one foot out of the bushes. "Oh! Katara you found my shoe!" he ran to the shoe and popped it on his foot.

He helped Katara to her feet and looked down. "Where did you go? I was worried something happened to you! Can't you warn someone before you just go wandering off?" Katara had her arms raised then she looked up and saw an apple tree.

"Well, Momo had an apple this morning and he showed me where he had gotten it. So I was going to bring some back, but I tripped and lost my shoe. Then I stepped on a rock and I found you on the ground and…"

"Okay Sokka, I get it."

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A girl hid behind a bush on the edge of the campsite over looking everything. Her eyes caught Aang and she hid deeper in the bush startled and worried that he might see her. She then cautiously looked up and she saw that he was sleeping. She then slowly stood up and got out her bow and arrow. She kneeled on the ground and moved into the campsite. She walked over to Aang and knelt down again.

Aang's eyes twitched and then they slowly opened. He looked straight into her eyes, but didn't move. She backed up a little and Aang sat up. "Who are you?" he asked.

She stood up and turned to walk away when she felt a hand touch her shoulder.

"Where are you going?" Aang asked her. She lowered her bow to her side and turned and faced him. She was wearing the same water clothes as Katara and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She had a long blue ribbon tied in the ponytail too. "Are you a Waterbender?" Aang asked.

She sighed and looked up at him. "Yeah and you look like an Airbender I saw in a painting once. What are you doing here?" Aang sat down and she followed. "We're camping here and we're on our way to the North Pole."

"We? Are there others?"

"Yeah there's Sokka and Katara. Oh and Momo." Momo climbed up to Aang's head.

"He's cute," she smiled. "My tribe lives just on the other side of the stream. I'm Sakura and I'm a Waterbender."

"I'm Aang and I'm a…" he looked down.

"You're an Airbender…" she said. "I can tell and you're not just any Airbender but…. the Avatar!"

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