Betraying Firebenders
Book: 1 Chapter: 5: Things Change
Summary: Groups together the original episodes "The Southern Air Temple" and "Warriors of Kyoshi" of course with my special twists and clips of Via's journey to kill the avatar, and Krystal's journey helping Jet and the rebels.
The sea twisted as the ship passed through the churning waters. The metal work protested as it coursed onward through the starry night. Zuko stared at the strange shape in the sky, knowing that the flying bison was carrying the most important being ever to live. The avatar was so close, yet so far away. Prince Zuko knew he couldn't beat the avatar now, he needed to train. But Uncle Iroh was keeping him at the basics.
If they could beat this avatar who knew what would happen when the line came back to the airbenders. Maybe the line would break and the avatar series would end with a firebender. He sighed and turned back to practice more of the basic firebending moves.
Meanwhile on a bison just in the sky Aang the avatar was watching this ship with horror. "We won't be able to land if they keep following us this tightly!" Aang threw a piece of bread with frustration into the sea. Sokka gaped at him.
"Ahh! I was going to eat that!"
"Stop stuffing yourself, Sokka. We need to save food." Katara said.
"Tell that to the Avatar!" Sokka said with sarcastic enthusiasm.
"No, it's okay. It was rather stupid. I'm just frustrated. That's all. I need to think." Aang said half paying attention half finding interest in looking down at the water.
About five minutes later, after Aang had imminent time to think he jerked up really fast and said, "I've got it. I know a place where they can't follow us! Appa head south." Appa reared to the right, almost causing the standing Aang to fly off. He sat down hurriedly. "We're going to the Southern Air temple! We're going home Appa!" Aang shouted enthusiastically.
Meanwhile by a dam that saves a city that is damned with fire nation presence. (A/N Woah that was pretty cool LOL)
Via laughed. That was revenge. The girl was going to be crushed as soon as the village came up to fix the damn dam. Via had used shadows to bring up the block that had been sitting below. If they didn't do that soon the girl who had become the fifth most hated person in her life, Krystal, and Jet would die of one: starvation two: Dehydration three: Lack of food , or being crushed by a block of cement. Then Via turned back and felt sorry, remembering how her father and brother had abused her.
Why was she even doing this? The gauntlets most have poisoned her mind! She climbed back up the newly replaced ladder and stared down knowing below the melded cement there were two living beings there. She re-evoked the power of shadow and heaved with all her might. The stone heaved off and immediately after that Jet and Krystal jumped out and stared up at her as they landed on the tilted edge of the concrete. Jet jumped up to the top of the dam to confront Via, Krystal followed.
"Why'd you do that," Jet asked. "What'd we ever do to you that would make you try to kill us?"
"Nothing." Via replied regret in her voice. "It wasn't me…"
Jet laughed, "Then who do you think did it? Someone that looked identical from you?" Via reached into her bag and pulled out the gauntlets and looked down at them. They were the color of blood and flowed slightly with the magic put into creating such hatred. She then turned around and tossed them into the water…
Meanwhile, back to the avatar and gang, they had arrived at the temple…
"Well not exactly a friendly welcome, but I'm sure everyone's busy, that's all!" Aang said enthusiastically. Sokka rolled his eyes and started to speak, but Katara covered his mouth.
"It's best not to tell him the rumors about the air nation being destroyed by the fire army." Katara said.
"Yeah, sure, sure, just lie to the kid that happens to be the avatar." He said nonchalantly.
Katara scowled at him and then whispered, "It's not lying, it's just that we're not telling him the full story." This was the most devious thing Katara had said in a while and Sokka put up a finger to protest but then just sat there dumbly.
"Come on guy's! You've got to meet my master Mokyotsu (A/N no clue how to spell it!) Sokka tapped Katara on the shoulder and pointed to a firenation helmet.
"Maybe we should tell him." Sokka was crossing his finger across his neck and Katara turned to face Aang.
"Tell who what?" Aang asked. "Are you keeping a secret from me?"
Sokka looked at her then stared back at Aang. "It's just that," Sokka sighed, "… Katara and I had beans last night. So you might want to keep your distance." Aang laughed.
"Oh so that explains the smell." He said looking around suspiciously, then turning on his heel to lead the group toward the temple. "Now this is my favorite spot, we used to play…" He stopped as he took in the sight. There were bones scattered all around and in the middle sat an obvious frame of an old man using powerful air bending. The robes were still intact and many fire nation soldiers obviously perished to his bending. "Mokyotsu… He's dead." He turned around to face Katara and Sokka. "You knew, and you didn't tell me!" His eyes started to glow as did the arrows on his body.
The ground began to crack, water flew into the sky, fire erupted into all angles, and a mini hurricane started. Sokka turned to Katara and shouted against the on going tempest, "You've got to calm him down."
Katara nodded and shouted, "I'll try." She ran towards Aang and shouted, "Aang, you've got to calm down. I'm sorry your master Mokyotsu died, and I'm sorry Sokka and I didn't tell you the rumors. Aang! Please stop!" The last words were begging and Aang turned to her his eyes slowly dimming back to their normal brown shade…
Meanwhile, on a ship below them…
"Uncle, we won't be able to get up there," Zuko said with anger. "We'll just head where we know the avatar has to go."
"Too bad we have no idea where that is." Iroh said.
"We might as well head to Kyoshi then. It's close by and the avatar might stop there to restock." Zuko said. It was logical, but he doubted Kyoshi was a friend of the fire nation. "On second thought, don't go to shore." He said.
Meanwhile on top of the dam…
Krystal stared as the girl threw the gloves into the water. She didn't see what was so special about them, but she imagined what the girl was doing was a great feat. The girl looked back at Krystal and said, "I think those gloves were controlling me. I would never be so cruel." She looked honest, but Krystal highly doubted it. Apparently so did Jet.
"I really doubt that." He said looking her in the eyes.
"Well then I'll take my leave," she said. "My actions not atoned to in your eyes." Via walked away and Jet made no intention to follow her.
Krystal looked at him. He was staring vacantly into the distance, probably just now taking in the loss of Esav. "I…I didn't know it would kill him. I mean I just meant the tap to knock him back to his senses. He must have been practically dead already."
"What's done is done," Krystal said supportively. "Well your in charge now."
"Who says?" He said.
"Well you have my vote," she said, then sat down beside him and looked off into the distance. "I mean your smart, you use good strategy, you're a great warrior, you're really great at what you do, and you're handsome to top it all off." Oops! I didn't mean to say that. She looked at him and managed to catch his eyes…
Back to our favorite little avatar and his buddies…
Aang collapsed onto the ground and Katara called Sokka over.
"I think he'll be out for a while." Katara commented gloomily. Suddenly a lemur jumped out from behind a bush.
"Food!" Sokka screeched! Sokka dashed up and picked up the lemur.
The avatars eyes fluttered and he woke. "I guess he won't be out for a while," Katara muttered.
"Hey a flying lemur!" Aang said as he ran over and took the lemur from Sokka.
Sokka scowled. "You took my lunch!"
Aang stared at him then back down at the lemur. "He wasn't going to eat you little fellow." He said affectionately. The lemur suddenly hopped out of Aang's hands and leaped into a dark room. Sokka took a lantern and ran in after the lemur. He gaped at what he saw.
"Aang, Katara, could you come in here. There's like a thousand statues in here!" Aang walked over and Katara joined them a moment later.
"These are all the previous avatars!" He said happily. "Look there's avatar Roku!" Aang pointed to an older man at the end of the string of statues.
"How do you know what someone who died 113 years ago looks like?" Sokka said bluntly.
Aang frowned and sat down, the lemur jumping into his lap. "I don't know." He said. "Maybe it's because he's my previous reincarnation." He looked down at the lemur and patted it on the head. "You want to come along with us?" He asked it. It jumped on his shoulder. "Great! I'll call you Mo-Mo."
"Hmm this must be a pretty sorry team if the avatars happy that a lemur joined." He said out loud, and then covered his mouth as he got an evil look from Mo-Mo. "I didn't know lemurs could be so evil too, though." He added in a whisper.
"Aang, this is all great and all, but we need to restock on food…"
"I know!" Aang cut in, "We can go to that island over there." He said pointing at a map. "It's sometimes called Kyoshi Island, because of the warriors of Kyoshi that live there!"
"Hopefully they'll welcome the avatar in style." Sokka said while waving his arms around.
"Well let's go!" Aang said and dashed back to Appa. Sokka and Katara followed.
Aang stopped by Mokyotsu's dead body. He put his hands together and bowed. Then he continued his wild rampage to Appa. He stopped when he noticed an artifact missing. There was a description above it and a scroll that had a picture. Aang picked up the scroll. "We might as well add this to the task of saving the world…" Sokka said annoyed…
Meanwhile, just off of "Kyoshi Island"…
Prince Zuko's head spun. "Shouldn't the avatar be here by now?" They were hiding in a cove by the small island. They wouldn't be visible from the sky, land, and barely the sea.
"Be patient, Zuko." Iroh said while sipping a strangely colored tea. Zuko gave him a sideways glance and sat back down.
"I guess I might as well practice a few of these." He was muttering but this part came out loud enough for Iroh to hear… "Basic techniques."
Meanwhile, in the forest (you know where)…
Why does no one ever believe me? I mean Father always kept Tom's opinion higher then mine even when it was an obvious lie. And now I'm tied up by a bunch of that old man's rebels.
Via was tied up and sitting on a chair. The funny thing is she couldn't bend the way they had her imprisoned. You feel so helpless when you can't bend, she thought. Soon I suppose the old man, the Jet kid, and that girl will come order me executed or something. She sighed. Well that's what I get for even planning to kill the avatar. Suddenly Htaed spoke up from inside her head. (A/N for now on I am going to use underlines to go with the italic when he speaks to her from inside her head.) You might not want to go to sleep Via. You broke your part of the deal in two ways. One: thinking what you just did. Two: Throwing the gauntlets into the water.
Well what do you expect! She shouted with her thoughts. The gloves were controlling me. You knew this and you expect me to go through with it? I suppose I could let you off for throwing the gauntlets into the water. One of my creatures will come stop by and retrieve them. But I can't allow you to second guess killing the avatar. He must be stopped. Ok…Ok. Could you figure out a way for me to get out of this situation? Maybe send over one of your creatures to kill the old man and rescue me? The old man was killed by the boy called 'Jet'. It was a heroic act to save his friend from his master. The shadows affected him so that he was already dead, well pretty much. He just needed to be touched and he'd be finished. He went crazy before he died. Via shuddered at the thought that she had killed him. I didn't want to kill him! Well you did, and I commend you. He might have been the wisest person on the planet. I will send a creature by to rescue you then… He was cut off as the door opened and in came Jet and Krystal.
Krystal looked obviously like she had just blushed like crazy and was staring down at her feet. Jet looked at her with piercing eyes. "Are you telling the truth?" "About the gauntlets?" She knew that he would be able to tell if she lied. So she didn't
"Yeah. They were my fathers… He's the most evil man alive."
He looked at her curiously and then replied, "Your father is Fire Lord Ozai?
She laughed. "The Fire Lord is friendly compared to my father. The funny thing is our last name… Charity. I wish it fit his character. I don't know what his first name is, but my father, my brother, and my middle name is Corzova."
"What are you doing here… I mean coming from firebending territory to earthbending. The thing is you're a fire bender. The only firebender hereby permitted in this forest is Krystal." Krystal looked up at Jet happily. Jet smiled and then continued his interrogation. "What is your mission, to kill the rebels? To stop the avatar?"
Wow option two hits it right on the money. Speaking of money where is my bag, Htaed? Its behind you, where you would never expect to look if you tried to escape. Wow that's a pretty good idea. Well I might as well be honest. Evil laughter rang out in her head. You fool. Go ahead and do what you wish.
"Well to tell you the truth it's option two; to kill the avatar." Jet drew his swords. "Hey listen me out before it gets bloody." Krystal had a flame in her hand, ready to hit her with, but she slowly extinguished it and sat down beside Jet on a nice sofa. "This creature…" She paused as she heard Htaed's voice in her head saying no names. "…Wants me to kill the avatar. It is sending me dreams that can kill me until I do that."
Krystal spoke. "That doesn't justify anything, I really hate to say it, but the avatar's life is worth a thousand of a normal person's life. I really don't mean any offense… but I don't think Jet and I can allow you to pursue that." She looked at Jet who nodded.
"Sacrifices must be made to stop the firenation; the avatar isn't the only one who can help out. Even though he has been missing until now, he can stop Ozai. I'll have to order you executed." Via stared at him horrified, but knew he was right. Htaed, you heard all of that right. Pause. Yes, but it's a lie, if the avatar makes it that far it's a chance for your father to take on his power and become even more powerful. It's a forbidden darkness and shadows bending mix. Via knew it could be a trick, but if it wasn't then her father could destroy everything. She had to take the chance. Either kill the avatar and trust her father to attack Ozai, or don't kill avatar, and let her father use his powers to destroy the human race, or what ever he was planning to do.
Can you send your man here any faster! She begged with her thoughts. Yes, if you go to sleep he can use your dream… or nightmare, as a portal to get to you. Jet and Krystal left the room, only to return a moment later holding a leaf. "Don't worry this herb won't kill you, it will just put you asleep so you can't escape." Jet said. Suddenly Via's eyesight went black for a second. The herb is alright, I just had to borrow your eyes for a second. Take it and you will be put to sleep, one of my creatures will come to you through a dream.
"It really isn't poisonous." Krystal reminded her.
"Ok, I'll take it." She said sticking fake fear in her voice. Jet stuck it into her mouth when she said that. She swallowed it and almost retched. "That doesn't taste so good."
Krystal and Jet looked at each other then Jet and laughed. "You're not exactly a guest of honor." Jet said. Via's eyes darkened once again, and she fell into black sleep.
Meanwhile back to Aang and Katara and Sokka and Appa and Mo-Mo…
"Look there it is! Let's land by the sea Appa!" Appa rode them down to a beautiful beach with starry glazed sand, and a beautiful view of the ocean. Suddenly a ship went out of a cove that was impossible to see. They all recognized the ship. "Oh no it's that firebender!" Aang said alerting everyone's attention over there.
"Aang, we've got to go farther in!" Katara stated the obvious. Appa, Yip-Yip.
Appa flew farther in land and landed in a small village. Warriors surrounded the bison immediately…
A/N I'll leave you there, coming out soon
The end of a phantom one shot DANNY PHANTOM
Unforgivable longer, like most of my others NARUTO
Next chapter will have the little clips for Krystal, Zuko, and AZULA? Maybe a Toph clip at the end.
BYE for now.