This was written for challenge of rewriting a scene of a episode. This is what really should have happen instead of two earth kingdom tribes believing Aang's lie at the end.
The Great Lie (189 words)
Aang had just finished telling the Gon Jin and the Xjang that the source of their long feud was a childhood squabble over a game; he smiled, hoping they believed his lie.
"You've got to be kidding me," the cheiftan of the Xjang muttered. For once the leader of the Gon Jin nodded in agreement.
"No no," Aang said quickly- as if to clear up a simple misunderstanding. "I mean it."
"It makes no sense," the Gon Jin leader stated. "Our redemption ritual and grudge go back far longer than one hundred years."
"Yeah," the Xjang added. "It sounds like a stupid fib!"
"But-," Aang started to try to explain, as the two tribes set off to the Earth Capital. He sighed, as Katara and Sokka started to lecture him about why he shouldn't lie, even if it's for a good cause.
"You know," the white-haired Gon Jin said, as he happened to be in ear shot of the Xjang chieftain. "I was really expecting more from the Avatar."
"Yeah," the pig-tailed Xjang woman agreed. "But maybe he meant it to point out how silly old tales can become."