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Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender…. it's not like it's sold at Kohl! But Sari is mine…. I bought her at Sears. And also I got my editor at a sale at Office Max, You should go sometime!
Sari sat up in her bed. She looked around. She saw Katara asleep in the bed next to hers, and saw Angel asleep in a chair next to the bed. She looked at the bedside table and saw a bowl of water. She grinned evilly. She focused on the water and lifted her hands. The water trailed after them. She bent the water over Katara's face and let it drop. Katara sat straight up and shouted "Ugh…. Aang, don't do that." She opened her eyes and noticed the red and black room. She heard laughing and turned her head half expecting Angel to be laughing. But what she saw was Angel asleep and Sari laughing. Katara ran over to the bed and hugged Sari.
"Oh, Sari you awake! Finally! I need to wake up Angel!" Katara said.
Katara shuck the chair until Angel opened her eyes. She muttered "Stop it Grandpa, I don't want to hit you with a rock now!"
"Angel, I'm not Bumi, Now get up!" Katara said while shaking the chair once more.
"Alright, I'm up." Angel said.
"Ok, now that everybody is up, can I have some food?" Sari said.
"Sari! You're awake! I'll go tell Zuko and Iroh."
Angel started running toward the door. Sari made an air barrier. Then she asked, "Why are you going to tell those firebenders? They're like our enemies!"
"No they're not, Sari! A lot has happened while you were asleep. We'll tell you want happened while you were asleep and you can tell us what you can remember, ok?" Katara said.
"Ok." Sari said.
"Well, after you fell, Zuko came in and saw you." Katara started, "You see we hadn't seen if in a week, you should remember that, and he moved us into this room. And he gave us food and helped take care of you. Right now, he'll be happy that you're awake. Angel, could you please go tell Zuko and Iroh, I think they're out on the deck.
"Ok." Angel said. And with that, the barrier disappeared and Angel went out the door, running towards the deck.
Katara walked over to the bed and sat down next to Sari. "Sari, What do you remember?" Katara asked sisterly.
"Well, I remember touching the charm of my necklace, then waking up in my village. I was in the exact same spot I was right before I was found on the beach. I did the same thing there too, I touched my necklace. Well, my village was packing, getting ready to move, there's not that many of us, just me, my grandparents, and my friend, Sandy, and her parents and grandparents. And in the summer, we always travel to the big town of Nome, for the big Summer Solstice Celebration. I had just helped my grandmother make some soup, and I was tired. You would be too, if you had been traveling in a bumpy sled for 8 hours straight. So, I went into my tent that I shared with Sandy, snuggled up into my sleeping bag and rubbed my necklace, trying to remember my parents, all I could remember was a cold place, an older brother and sister, and fire. The people with fire took me away…never to see my family again. I relived those memories, then I woke up right here." Sari told calmly.
"Wow…that's horrible." Katara said shocked.
"Actually, no it's not." Sari said, "I got to meet you, Aang, Sokka, Angel and some prince. And I got to find out about my bending powers."
"You know, you should give Zuko a chance."
"Well, I'm going to go up deck and find Angel…and talk to the prince you like so much…" With those words, Sari grinned evilly and ran out of the room.
"I don't like him! Only as a friend!" Katara shouted up the hallway. Then she heard Sari yell, "Right!"
Katara went back into the room to clean up.
Sari walked up to the deck and saw that Iroh was playing his weird "solitaire" game and giving instructions to Prince Zuko about firebending. She walked to the back of the deck, where she could practice her waterbending in peace. She started saying instructions to herself. They went along these lines:
"Just push and pull the water like this. The key is getting the wrist movement right."
"Like this?" She had started pushing and pulling the water that she had put on the deck.
"That's almost right. I'm sure if you keep practicing, eventually-"
"Hey, I'm bending it already!" She stopped pushing and pulling the water.
"I can't believe you got that so quickly. It took me two months to learn that move."
"Well, you had to figure it all out on your own, I'm lucky enough to have a great teacher."
"Thanks." By now Katara had finished cleaning up their room and had come up onto the deck to find Sari. When she found her recitation the lines, she just stood there.
"So what's next?"
"This is a more difficult move. I call it Streaming the Water." Sari drew the water out from the ocean and moved it between her hands. Then she said: "It's harder then it looks so don't be disappointed if-"
Sari let the water drop, then drew it back up again. She moved the water into a horizontal line, the made the line wavy, then into a vertical line. Then she moved it over her head then around her body and back into the ocean.
"Nice work, though the over-the-head flair was unnecessary." Katara said from behind Sari. Sari turned around with inhuman speed, with a little help from airbending. "How did you know what I was going to say?" Sari asked curious.
"How could I not? Those were the exact same words that Aang and I had said when I taught him some Waterbending. But how do know them, you were in your village when we were at the port of Kaul (A.N. That's what Iroh said it was called, so I'm going with it).
"I don't know…. they just came to me."
"Oh…well let's go see Mr. Princey-Prince have a bit of a duel against Iroh."
"Ok."
Katara and Sari walked over to the front of the ship's deck and watch the old firebender and the younger firebender take their stances. Zuko shot a fireball at Iroh, but he just turned it around right as it was going to hit him and shot it back at Zuko. Zuko split the ball in half and stood in the middle. He shot lines of fire at Iroh, but none of it affected Iroh. He just kept directing them away from him. They kept doing this for five minutes until Sari finally whispered to Katara and Angel, "This is getting boring. It's time to tamper." She grinned evilly. She shot a very light but forceful airwave at Zuko's back and pushed him more towards Iroh. Then she did the same to Iroh. Even though the wave was light, Zuko and Iroh still felt it. "Sari!" Zuko shouted.
"What? I didn't do anything! Aang's the last airbender!"
"Oh yea right," Zuko said as he shot yet another line of fire at Iroh. "I heard you when you told Angel your bending powers. I know you're an airbender."
"Ugh…." Sari and Katara said at the same time.
Then the match started heating up. Iroh had finally started to shoot his own fire blasts and Zuko was starting to use the advanced techniques. Angel and Sari started chanting, "Iroh, Iroh." But Katara started chanting at the same time, "Zuko, Zuko!" Sari and Angel looked over at her oddly.
"What?" Katara asked.
"Um…Why are you rooting for Zuko?" Angel and Sari said together.
"Well, somebody has to root for him. I mean, nobody can beat Iroh. I watched him while you were asleep."
"Whatever."
Then all of a sudden, one of the men said, "Prince Zuko, It's the Avatar. What do you want to do?"
"Nothing," Zuko said, "I want him to come down here so we can talk."
Appa's Back
"Look down there Aang. It's a small Fire Nation ship! And there's two people in blue jumping up and down." Sokka said leaning over Appa's saddle.
"Yea, it is. Come on Appa, let's save Katara and Sari. Yip Yip!" Aang said as he steered Appa down towards the ship.
To be continued…
I'm so sorry for the long wait! I never had the chance to write this chapter. And the fact that the floppy that I have the story saved on kept messing up on Word on my dad's laptop, then it wouldn't open on my family's main computer. But I finally got it done. And I promise to try to make the chapters longer. I swear on my Avatar DVD. And please review, all it takes it a push of a button and some typing.
Lots of Avatar-ness,
Sara