When the duo woke up, the sun was at its peak in the sky, and it was blazing down on them. Tania, half asleep, was shaken by Elle as she shouted "Tania, we made it to the Earth Kingdom! After six days we finally made it!" Tania smiled and yawned, and stood up in the boat, which was trapped between rocks near the Earth Kingdom cost. Elle jumped into the water and began swimming to the shore.
"Elle, you can't be serious!" cried Tania. She bent down and felt the water, it was freezing. Tania gave a sigh, and reluctantly dived into the water, swimming quickly to the shore. When she reached she crawled up onto the ground, and turned on her back to face the sun. She felt great warmth engulf her body, and she smiled.
Elle was already busy gathering firewood when Tania got up and went to find her. "Elle, we don't have anything to cook over the fire, so why are you getting firewood?"
"Because Tania, we're drenched in wet clothes we've been wearing for six days. Now come on, light this please." Elle sounded, a bit annoyed.
Tania stared at the unlit stack of wood. She lowered her head in a sigh, pulled her left arm back, and then punched at the air towards the stack. Fire spewed out and lit the stack. "Done," she sighed.
"It's about time, Tania, now let's sit down and warm up." They sat down and started to talk. At first it was about their new surroundings, there was no ash anywhere, and the grass and dirt smelt clean. But it soon turned to talks about what they would do now.
"So, Elle, do we join the Earth Kingdom army now? Or do we help the villagers?" Tania, even when she talked, kept staring at the ground.
"Tania, I have no idea, I guess we should start with the Army, we could do our best work with them." Elle was always looking around the terrain, and commenting at small differences. They talked for a few more minutes before Elle silenced herself and Tania, and stood up.
"What is it, Elle?" Tania kept asking, but all Elle did was place her finger on her lips to shush Tania. Elle reached and pulled out a rusted old dagger out from a pocket in her all red apparel. "Tania, there's someone in the woods."
Before Tania could ask for an explanation, a giant boulder shot towards them They both managed to dive out of the way, but soon another came crashing down – then another. When a boulder came extremely close to Tania, causing her to crash to the ground, the boulders stopped. Three figures, dressed in green and brown, slid into view. The middle earth bender raised a large rock sticking out of the ground completely into the air, and sent it crashing towards Tania.
She was fast, and punched the air with her left hand, as she did before, and a huge fire wave show from her hand and penetrated the boulder, causing it to split into peaces. "Stop please," she cried out, "We're not Fire Nation soldiers."
"Please, look at the way you're dressed, and your bending. Do you think we're stupid?" called out a boy's voice. It was deep, but it still had a few hints of youth.
Elle had used this time to get to her feet; she had been knocked down by repetitive attacks by the middle bender, and launched at the right bender with her dagger. She dived on top of her, knocking her on the dirt, and held her dagger to her face. "Get off me," cried the female bender, "Get off!"
A huge bolder shot into the air, and hovered over Elle, but before it could knock her off, Tania shot a single fire ball at the middle bender, knocking him to the ground. The boulder over Elle crumbled. "I knew it," shouted Tania with a squeak in her voice, "There's only one bender here, him!" Tania stopped talking, and turned around. Twelve Fire Nation soldiers were standing at Elle's feet, and they were staring at the Middle bender and his friends.
"Attacking children of the Fire Nation, tisk tisk, and in a place where earth bending is illegal," chuckled one of the soldiers. Three of the other benders stepped back, charged their hands, and fired an amazing fire blast at the Earth kindred.
Tania was fast, and jumped in front of the earth bender and his friends. The three fire blast, which were heading in three different directions, started to bend towards her, and soon she had them all merging in front of her. She circled her hands around the sphere of fire, and released it towards the twelve fire benders. As soon as the fire came close to hitting the twelve, the fire was spread out and avoided all of the soldiers. "Please," spoke the soldier from before, "You have nothing you traitor!"
As he spoke, a huge boulder was lifted into the air, and it rocketed towards the men, knocking them all done. Elle and Tania were grabbed from behind and the three earth kindred and the two fire nation girls vanished into the woods.