Ok! Well here's the new chapter!
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"Ready to go, Katara?" Sokka asked, standing next to his sister at the back of Zuko's ship.
"Yea, I'm ready." Katara stated. Sokka and Katara walked over to others on the other side of the deck. They made a circle around Katara. Iroh stepped forward.
"Good luck." He said as he handed Katara Sari's necklace.
"Thanks." Katara held Sari's necklace by the ends of it. She saw the engravings on the back. She dropped one hand and put it around the charm. Then her whole world went black.
Sari was sitting on the cold snowy ground right in front of a river. She listened to it slowly trickle down into a lake about 100 yards away. How could they have kept a secret like that away from me all these years? She thought. These people were her family. Well, ever since she was 3. She figured she would go through everything she could remember from her younger years.
"Come on, Sari!" Her brother and sister shrieked. They were playing one of their favorite games in the snow: Tag. I had just turned 3 and could finally catch up to her older brother and sister. The brother was 6 and the sister was 5. Her brother was it just as it started to snow black snow.
One of the men, my father, stopped working and looked at the sky. Dark clouds had gathered and they were the source of the black snow. He whispered one word, then two more. "Soot. Fire Nation." Even though he spoke very quietly, our whole village went silent. Then mothers and older children started running around gathering children and weapons.
My mother and gathered us three, her only children, into our family's tent. There sat our grandmother, we called her Gran-Gran, sowing with no worried expression. She told our grandmother to watch over us as she fought with the men and other waterbenders, since she was a waterbender herself.
I had always been a curious child. I wanted to see everything there was in the world, though back then I though the world was only my small snow-made village. Since my grandmother was not paying attention, and my brother and sister were fighting over something, I think it was what was better: waterbending or weapons. My sister was lucky, she was a bender, if I had any bending in me, I would find out when I got older.
I toddled out of the tent and stood a good distance away from where the adults were, getting ready to fight. I saw in front of them, two large metal boats. They weren't the regular Earth Kingdom boats I was used to, they had flames on the sides, and I knew they would cause trouble for my family.
Before I knew it, those ships were coming towards our walls. They plowed right through them. These men in black and red outfits came down the front of the ships that had folded out and down. My people fought. Water and weapons combined. The men shot fire out of their hands. I had never seen bending like this. I was not frightened.
The knocked away every fighter except my mother and my father. They were the masters in our tribe. My mother had learned from my grandmother, who had learned waterbending mysteriously, but had always kept it a secret. I think only myself and my mother had known.
Then the fire men saw me. The yelled, "Its her! It's the child!" I wasn't sure what they were talking about or why they wanted me. I thought it was a game, so I didn't run away. My mother tossed a small bag at my father and nodded her head towards me as she drew in some water, read to strike. He ran towards me, opening the bag as he ran. The men with the fire knocked my mother over and started running towards me also.
My father reached me first. He quickly took out a necklace, careful not to touch the charm dangling from it. He put it around my neck and picked me up fast, leaving the bag behind. But the men reached us. He shot a flame at my father and he dropped me. The men created a ring of fire around me so I could not escape or my father could not reach me. One man stepped into the ring. He looked like a monkey that I had seen on one of the Earth Kingdom ships. He picked me up and I started yelling my head off. As he walked towards the ships, I saw my father lying in the snow, my mother lying in the snow and all the other benders and warriors in my tribe lying there, not helping me. As we reached the ship, I remembered the necklace. I touched the charm and everything went black.
After that, I never saw my family again. I was brought up with people who said they were my grandparents and my aunts and uncles. I didn't know weather to believe this or not. I figured my family would find me. Little did I know, my dreams would never come true.
Sari looked up to see a person appear out of the woods behind her. She took a stance ready to bend, even though she forgot she couldn't explain herself if she attacked one of her tribe mates if she did bend. Then she dropped her stance as she realized it was Katara.
"Katara! How? What? When?" She said surprised.
"Shhh. We can't let anyone know I'm here. I won't be able to explain myself." Katara whispered.
"Oh, ok. You going to tell me how you got here?"
"Long story. Can I sit down?"
"Sure."
Katara told Sari about Iroh and his discovery and how she was the one to come.
"Wow! My necklace is an Avatar relic!" Sari exclaimed.
"Yes. A very special one I might add. I think Iroh said there are only 2 left in existence."
"You hungry? I think we might have some stew left back at camp?"
"Sure! I haven't eaten since breakfast."
The two waterbenders walked back to Sari's camp; one has hungry as a wolf.
"Uncle, I've been thinking. Sari could be the one that my father thought was the Avatar." Zuko said, while playing Pai Sho with Iroh.
"Yes, I very well think she is." Iroh replied, deep in thought on where to move is Lotus Tile.
"They thought Sari was the Avatar?" Angel said.
"Yes. A very long story, but since we're waiting for Katara, I'll tell it." Iroh said, pausing his game with Zuko.
It had been a year after I had come up from my retreat at Ba Sing Sai. Zuko was about10 years old and his sister, Azula, about 9 years old. One day, I was reading over some scrolls about the history of firebending, I was also watching over my nephew feeding the turtle-ducks and my niece play with her two friends, Mai and Ty Lee. Then one of my brother's servants came out and told us that the Fire Lord requested his family into the war room. By that time, Fire Lady Ursa had already disappeared, so the only people in the war room were myself, Zuko, Azula, and all the head generals of the Fire Lord's army.
I never had a clue why we were all called into that room. But as soon as everyone had sat down, the generals and the Fire Lord started talking about the location of the Avatar. I sighed. My own father and grandfather all tried to find him and had failed. Then the Fire Lord called in the Fire Sages. They told about their predictions about how the Avatar was female and how she was hiding out in the Southern Water Tribe and was only a baby.
Saying the Avatar was a baby had caught my attention. Saying that meant that the Air-born Avatar was dead. There really was no Airbenders left, not counting the Avatar. This baby would never become a fully realized Avatar, since there was no one to teach her Airbending.
One general said we should just go down to the Southern Water Tribe, grab the baby, and teach it to support the Fire Nation. A plan that I thought had many flaws. Another said we should just go down there and kill her. That plan had one major flaw; the next Avatar would be born into Earth, a very powerful element. The Fire Lord thought the first suggestion was the best.
About 1 month later, the man leading the mission came back empty-handed. The Fire Lord nearly killed him. He said the baby had been knocked unconscious right after they had taken her from the Southern Water Tribe. So they left the baby's body at Koyshi Island to be buried at sea. Though I guess it didn't work, since Sari is alive.
Sokka gasped. That very time, when he was 6, his youngest sister had been taken away by the Fire Nation. It was more proof then ever: Sari was Katara and Sokka's long last sister. But how did she get the airbending powers. Surely no one in his family was an airbender, unless they hid a secret so deep and powerful that it could change the world.
"Sokka, its true isn't it?" Angel said, standing in front of him with concern flashing in her eyes.
"I'm pretty sure it is, Angel."
"But if Sari was born into a family of all Water Tribe and waterbender blood, how is she an airbender?" Aang said, with a confused look on his face.
"I have no clue. Someone in my family must be hiding a secret that could change the world." Sokka replied apparently thinking hard.
"That means…there are still people of my kind out there!" Aang said jumping five feet in the air. Aang was really excited. Wouldn't you be if some of your people survived when they were rumored to be dead?
"We must go to the Southern Water Tribe then. We must solve this mystery." Iroh stated. Everyone turned to Zuko, who had not said a word, this whole conversation.
"Fine! We'll go to the Southern Water Tribe. It's just the perfect place we need to go…more ice and coldness will really make the world better!" Zuko yelled, obviously annoyed.
"But I still need to master Earthbending! I can't learn that in the Southern Water Tribe." Aang said.
"Ok, How about this? We send a letter to King Bumi in Omashu telling him to round up the best Earthbenders there are and they will teach you in Omashu and then we will go to the Southern Water Tribe as soon as you're done learning and on the way there Zuko and I can teach you Firebending? Ok?" Iroh said.
"Ok! Yay! I can ride down the slides again!" Aang said happily.
"This means I'm going home!" Angel said, also happily.
Sari and Katara sat on a log around the slowly dying fire, each hunched over their stew, hoods up to protect themselves from the bone-chilling wind. Finally after a windy silence, Katara said: "We should be getting back soon."
"Yes, we should." Sari said softly.
Sari and Katara placed their bowls down in the basin of other dishes and walked to the river, looking like to blue figures in the snow that was whirling around them. After a little while of hiking through the cold snow, they made it to the river. Sari had her necklace that was still around her neck, while Katara had Sari's necklace too. I know kind of hard to understand.
They both held the charms and saw the world flash before their eyes. Time and space went speeding past them. Finally, Katara's feet hit the deck and Sari awoke on Zuko's bed. Sari jumped off the bed and ran up to the deck. When Sari got up there and Katara had gained her balance and turned around, they saw their family and friends hunched over Iroh's small table, talking about what Iroh should write. They obviously didn't notice that they were there.
Katara cleared her throat. Sokka turned around, saw them, and then tapped Iroh on the shoulder. Iroh turned.
"Oh sorry girls. We're just writing a letter to King Bumi. Everyone wanted to put a part in we didn't even hear you girls come back." Iroh said with happiness in his voice.
"Can we put a part in the letter?" Sari said excitedly.
"Why of course!" Iroh said, and Sari ran over to the table, while Katara just shook her head and walked over.
Admiral Zhao and Princess Azula were riding horses back to Princess Azula's ship. They were discussing the plan on the way there.
"So, we have to be nimble and sneak up on my brother, if you could call him that." Azula was finishing.
"Yes, that plan makes perfect sense, my lady, if I should say so my self." Zhao said, using his manners, hoping it would score some points with the Fire Lord if needed.
Azula looked up to see her royal procession docked all by itself in the port. She sneered. Her trainers were right; the royal procession is easily spotted.
The two horses and riders pulled up to the gangplank and gave the rains of the horses to the soldier standing there. They walked onto the ship, ready to spring their plan into action.
It was around midnight, and everyone was asleep. Everyone except Zuko. He was standing in the steering room, looking out into the horizon. He swore he could see the smoke of another ship in the north and the south. He decided to go back to bed. It had been a long day. He took his secret shortcut: A spiral staircase that led to a trapdoor right above his door to his room. He walked down the stairs and jumped down, only to land on a certain waterbender.
"Hey! Do you mind looking before you jump?" Katara said grumpily.
"Well, I'm not used to waterbenders roaming my ship!" Zuko said sharply.
"Well, you're the reason I'm on this ship anyway."
"You could leave on Appa at any time!"
"You know it's my duty to stay with Aang, Sari, and Sokka!"
"Stupid peasant."
"Arrogant Prince."
"Annoying bender, I have better things to do in the middle of the night instead of fighting with you!"
Katara drew water from the pouch at her side and hit Zuko with the Water Whip as he turned around to go into his room, then she dashed down the hallway and into her room.
Zuko chuckled. Fighting with Katara can be quite and experience.
I've been writing this chapter for an hour every night, and I'm quite surprised on how its come out. I'm going to start the next chapter as soon as possible, and I know that it will be a very good chapter.
Anyway, lets talk about new episode. WASN'T IT GOOD? WASN'T AZULA A TOTAL ASS FOR WHAT SHE DID TO ZUKO AND IROH? I MEAN WHO ATTEMPTS TO KILL THEIR OWN UNCLE! AND KATARA WANTING TO HELP ZUKO WAS A TOTAL SIGN OF ZUTARA-NESS! AND THEN WITH TY LEE AND SAYING SOKKA WAS CUTE WAS A TOTAL REFERENCE TO TY LEE/SOKKA SHIPPING!
Ok, not that I'm over that whole episode of the episode, I'd just like to say, Please Review! If you have any ideas, I'll think about putting them in!
Sara