Just a Market Trip
AN: PLEASE REVIEW! Pretty please Anime Aang eyes!
Kushai and the others
"You guys can go shop for stuff, I'll go take care of some important business," Sokka acted as if he was the leader again, which bothered Katara.
"Oh what, stuff your face with food?" Katara shook her head. Kushai laughed in the background, but quickly shut her yap as Sokka glared at her offended.
"No…well…That's none of your business!" Sokka shouted defensively at his sister. He turned around and stomped off in the direction of what looked like a fruit stand. Momo was already hugging a peach as his precious treasure, but soon enough found him running away from an enraged salesman.
"Momo, what did I tell you about stealing food?" Aang drifted off after the mischievous lemur who was holding on to his precious fruit for dear life.
"This seems like a good time to look for some clothes, don't you agree Kushai?" Katara turned to the girl.
"Yeah, these fire nation clothes are making even Momo stare at me!" Kushai giggled as she pulled on the dress hidden under the coat Katara gave her. It would be real pleasant if a girl came prancing into the village looking like she was from the fire nation!
"Haha….no offense, but you do look like a terrorist!" Katara yelped as a flying fruit flew over her head.
Kushai chuckled, "Call me that again and it'll be a melon!"
Katara smiled and opened her mouth as if to say it again, "Ok, enough fooling around. Oh look, there are some nice dresses over there! And look at that price!" Katara walked over to the store, observing a beautifully made dress.
"I have to admit, that dress isn't half bad!" Kushai nodded interestedly, it was blue with little waves of turquoise on it. And up on the collar was the picture of a stream of water ending in a beautifully, dark blue, stone. The sleeves were long with Japanese written on them.
"Too bad you won't get to wear it," came a voice behind them and a frightening laugh.
They turned around, but found themselves wobbling to the ground….
Aang and Momo
"Finally! I thought I would have to chase you all the way to Husak village just to get that peach," Aang wiped a trickle of sweat away from his forehead and pat the lemure. "I don't blame you Momo, you haven't eaten in a while, but please give me the peach," Aang stretched out his hand.
Momo sat down disappointedly as he gave Aang the peach.
"Good boy Momo," Aang smiled at the lemur. "Now, let's return the peach to its owner and find Katara, Sokka, and Kushai," Aang got up on his legs as Momo ran in front.
Sokka
"Katara, Kushai…where were you? You were supposed to be here 10 minutes ago!" Sokka scolded the airbender as he approached.
"Sorry Sokka, I was trying to get a peach back from Momo," Aang apologized and started looking around for the others.
"I'm not the only one who's late at least," Aang pointed out to Sokka who was increasingly growing a worried expression.
"They should have been here 15 minutes ago, something's up…" The boy started searching more frantically, asking salesmen if they had seen the two girls….and was lucky enough to stumble across the salesman Momo had stolen the peach from.
"That lemur of yours is bad luck boy, bad luck!" The crazed man pointed accusingly at Momo who just tilted his head as if he had no idea what the man was blabbering about.
"Agh…Aang, did you hear where they were going?" Sokka turned to the Avatar, panick in his eyes.
"I think that they were looking for clothes….I saw them head over there," Aang replied quickly with the same traumatizing thoughts as Sokka had.
Sokka ran over to where the airbender had pointed, but was devastated to find the jacket Kushai had borrowed, laying on the ground.
"Oh no…wait Sokka, I'm sure she just got hot and took-"
"This is all my fault! I shouldn't have let them wander by themselves! Who knows where they are, or if they're even alive! I Knew my dream was a warning Aang, I'm sure a watermelon is already gnawing at Katara and-"
"Sokka, watermelons don't have mouths….but it's not your fault Sokka, if it's anybody's fault, it's mine. I'm the Avatar, and it's my job to keep...stuff……..safe," Aang never really got exactly what a better word for stuff would be, but that wasn't really a problem at the moment.
"We need to track them down somehow, I think those are footprints…fire soldier footprints! Not many shoes have that point at the tip," Aang poked a finger into the dirt, as if that was going to help! Aang growled at himself, you are the Avatar, put yourself together!
"Wait Aang, if those are fire nation soldiers..this might all be a trap. Notice that the footprints are deeper than ours even if we stomp. They must be trying to make a trail for us to follow…" Aang froze, what was Sokka saying? He had sounded so smart….ok, something is wrong!
"Um…yeah, I knew that," Aang smiled defensively, but wiped it off as he took another point of view at this situation….Katara.
Kushai and Katara
Katara shot up as clinking noises pierced her ears. She winced as her head thundered violently, where was she?
Katara stood up, but froze as she saw a shadow in the darkness. Prince Zuko…Katara stood up as she noticed he wasn't moving and found a club in her backpack.
WHACK!
"Oof….OUCH!" A shriek rang in the room, bouncing off every wall, seemingly reflecting into Katara's ears only.
"Kushai?" Katara walked cautiously over to the figure rubbing its head.
"Stay back! I'm warning y- Katara?" Kushai stood up and observed the person hovering above her.
"Kushai! I thought you were Prince Zuko!" Katara let her breath out in relief.
"Oh…that explains why you whacked me on the head! How idiotic of me to think you had just gone insane…." Kushai's relief turned to worry, "Katara, it's great that we're together in this, but we still don't know where we are, why we're, and who caught us."
"It's so dark, I can't really see anything…" Katara wandered a little around the room but then she stopped. "I heard clinking noises Kushai…" Katara trailed off to let Kushai try to figure out the rest.
Kushai also stopped dead in her tracks as she realized. "We're on a fire navy ship….."