Well, here you go…. the chapter that took me forever to post…
Yet another disclaimer: I don't own Avatar, I will though mark my words!
Katara ran down the hall and dashed into Sokka's room. She closed the door behind her and walked over to Sokka's bed, where Sokka was asleep and snoring loudly.
She started bouncing the mattress up and down, attempting to wake the snoring Water Tribe teenager. So far it was not working,
Finally, 5 minutes later, Sokka groaned as he awoke.
"Katara…." The semi-awake teenage groaned.
"Sokka, finally! I need to talk to you about Sari. I think she's our-" Katara said fast.
"Katara…. do we need to talk about this now?"
"Fine! All I wanted was to talk to you, but I see you're not gonna listen!" Katara stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind her.
A few hours later, Sari awoke from the dreams that had been had been haunting her mind. They were about the end of the war. Some were Aang and them winning and others were about what would happen if the Fire Nation won.
She quickly forgot them as she pulled her Water Tribe robes over her underclothes. She dashed out of the room, wanting to get some practice on Airbending before her and Zuko's Agni Kai.
As she walked out the door, she felt some heat bounce off her face. They weren't in the North anymore, she noted.
She took a stance, and then did the Blustery Blast move. As she finished that move, she whipped around thinking she heard someone behind her. She saw no one in the moon's light. She turned back around, made an air ball, and jumped on it, mimicking Aang's move: The Air Scooter.
As the air ball died, she landed softly on the metal and heard a soft clap behind her. It was Aang.
"Very nice form, young pupil." Aang said, mimicking Iroh's voice when he was training Zuko.
"Nice one." Sari said laughing, "How's your reading coming?"
"It's coming out just great! I can read the whole first page!"
"Ok, read it then." Sari made two stools, out of ice, on the deck.
Aang sat down on one of the chairs, fished Sari's book out of his shirt, and began reading.
"Two figures, dress in the traditional Fire Nation colors red and black, burst into the Fire Palace's main entrance courtyard. One figure, which was slightly taller, was bouncing around like crazy, happy to be back at the palace.
'Isn't this great! We're finally back! After two long years!' Said the taller figure, in a male voice.
The other figure laughed in a female voice.
'Yea, it is good to be back!' she said happily.
The two people made it to the gates at the end of the courthouse, only to have the gates blocked by the two Fire Nation guards standing there.
'No one is allowed inside palace during the night.' One of them said.
'I would think that the Fire Prince and Princess is allowed in the palace at any time.' The woman said. The man and the woman pulled off their cloaks, revealing their faces and their exotic clothing. (A.N. And by exotic, I mean different)
'Oh! I'm so sorry!' The guard said, while both of them bowed refusing to look at the Prince and Princess.
'Thank you.' The Prince said, walking though the now open gates into the palace. The Princess followed behind, only to stop in place and say to the guards:
'Will you please deliver a message to the Fire Lord?'
'Why of course, Princess.'
'Ok, tell him to be in the Agni Kai room at 9 tomorrow morning, tell him that he and a friend has some unfinished business to attend to, though don't tell him I am the sender of this message, ok?'
'Yes, my lady.' Said the other guard, bowing, before he rushed between the open gates. The Princess followed behind."
Aang shut Sari's book and handed it back to her.
"That's an awesome story so far." Aang said, rising from the ice seat, which his butt was frozen from sitting on.
"Thanks, Aang." Sari sat, also rising from the ice seat. She melted them, and using her own style of pointing her index and middle fingers while bending, spun the water around her and back into the ocean.
The door leading from the stomach of the ship opened, Iroh emerging from the shadows, carrying the Agni Kai cloaks in his arms. Zuko followed behind, wearing his training vest and pants. After Zuko, Katara and Angel followed silently. It was obvious no one wanted to wake Sokka, so he would have to listen to the re-telling of the match later.
Angel walked over to the side, sitting cross-legged near the railing. Katara walked over to Iroh, took the blue and purple Agni Kai cloak, and walked over to where Sari was standing, obviously zoned out.
"Sari…Sari." Katara said waving her arms in front of Sari's face.
"Wah?" Sari said, her mind coming back to Earth
"Sari, you need to get ready for this Agni Kai thing."
"Oh…Right."
Sari and Katara walked over to the end of the ship, where it could be easier for Sari to get water. Sari crouched closed to the ground, while Katara laid the cloak on her back.
Zuko also crouched close to the ground, while Iroh laid the other cloak on his back.
"Remember your basics, Prince Zuko."
At Iroh's signal, Zuko and Sari sprung up and turned around. Sari was already drawing water and moved it in the position for Dancing Mists. The whole deck of the ship went foggy. Zuko was shooting fire at any place, making holes in the fog, letting him see. Sari had yet to move. She drew water and used them to send three frost spears at Zuko. Zuko easily melted the first and second ones, though third one almost nicked his ear.
Zuko sent out about ten burning disks at where her thought Sari was. Though his aim was off by like 2 yards. Finally the fog cleared and Sari grabbed enough water and wound Zuko in her Aquatic Tendrils move. Zuko struggled in the air, surrounded by water, thinking of a move to get him out of this. One came to his head. He moved his hands as fast as he could, doing the Immolating Spiral. He burst out of the water, and landed expertly on his feet. Now Sari was not expecting this. She made a Frost Blade and lashed it out like a sword. Zuko made his Burning Blade, and swung it at Sari. As blade hit blade, Sari's shrunk and Zuko's was extinguished for a small second. Then Sari's blade dropped and fell into a puddle of water.
Zuko took this as an advantage and swung a Flying Fire Fist at her feet, causing her to fall off her feet and onto her back. She tried to use her airbending to get up, but Zuko was too quick and right when she was getting up, he was standing over her, flames licking at his knuckles, and he said loudly, "Dead." Zuko turned around and walked to his uncle, stood behind him slapping his hand from behind.
Aang was jumping for joy, because he won the bet, and ran down to drag Sokka out of bed. About one minute later, an excited Aang and a bedraggled Sokka came up.
"I want my pasties, Sokka!" Aang said.
As everyone was discussing the match, Zuko was glancing in the north and the south, now seeing smoke in both directions. Iroh came up behind him and said. "We are going to be squared in. You must get a disguise for all of them." Iroh jerked his head towards Aang, Sokka, Katara and Angel.
"You tell them Uncle. I'm going to go tell the captain to head for the next port at full speed."
As Zuko walked off, Iroh walked over to the others and told them Zuko's plan.
"Wait…you want us to dress like rich women from the Fire Nation!" Sari exclaimed after she heard the plan.
"Basically." Iroh said.
"Not in a hundred years! Why don't I get some cool Kung Fu outfit and Angel and Katara can dress up nice nice, and we can say Katara is my non-bender sister, and I was protecting her as she traveled to get special medication for our father, and along the way Angel joined our journey."
"Ok, that works. We should be at the next port in a half-an-hour." Zuko said walking up behind Iroh.
A half-an-hour later, just like Zuko said, they were in the next port. Zuko, Iroh, Sari, Katara and Angel walked into the port, going into the first clothing store they saw to get their disguises, while Aang and Sokka made room in Iroh's tea room for them to hide in.
When they got into the clothing store, they were bombarded with different cloths and outfits. Three ladies came out from behind the counter and each of them took one girl, getting the clothes for them. Iroh made sure that they were getting exactly what was needed, while Zuko just stood in the doorway.
In the end, Katara had gotten a pink and yellow kimono, Angel had gotten and red and light green one, and Sari had gotten a outfit that was red (against her will, it was the only color they had the outfit in), that had a top that had dark red amour-like V on it, and under it a lighter red rap-around (A.N. Yea…the top is just like Ty Lee's except red) and the bottoms were like a female waterbender's skirt and pants, though they were light and dark red.
When they three of them walked to the harbor area to board the ship, Angel and Katara got bowed at, since they looked like royalty.
Now this I could get used to. Katara thought.
Now aboard the ship, still getting stalked by two other ships, they went over the stories. After a little while, Angel and Katara went to go see how Sokka and Aang were doing, while Sari stayed behind to watch Zuko's training.
Iroh was showing him this one move where you spun 90 degrees, while kicking your leg in the air, and when you landed you shot your arm out, with your hand in the closed form to shoot fire out. Zuko was having a hard time doing it.
After watching Iroh do it 25 times, and Zuko attempt to do it about 5, Sari thought she could do it. On the side, she started doing the move just like Iroh. When she brought her fist back in, Iroh clapped.
"Now Zuko, how come a non-firebender can do the move perfectly, yet you can't?" Iroh said teasingly.
"Shut up, uncle! I will get this move!"
Sari ran up to Iroh's ear and whispered a plan in his ear. Zuko sat frustrated on the railings of the ship and watched Sari do the move again. Only this time, Iroh was controlling fire that made it look like she was doing the move, and Zuko didn't see Iroh doing this, so he though Sari was actually firebending.
"How'd you do that!" Zuko said angered.
"Easy, I just had Iroh control the fire." Sari said, laughing.
Zuko shot a fireball at her, "That-" another fireball, "Is not-", more fireballs, "Funny! And an arc of fire was shot at Sari, almost setting Sari's skirt on fire.
Finally, I got this chapter done. Wipes forehead Thank god! I kept looking up moves for the duel at Distant Horizon's TCG site. Took forever. And I also had my friend nagging me to type this chapter (you know who you are, SM!) and I got out of school and had my birthday party.
Anyway in other news, I got two of the Avatar T-Shirts! I got the cool black one where it has the calligraphy that is in the Avatar logo and Aang is in the Avatar State in front of them. And I also got the cool Chibi style one, which I'm wearing right now as I type this.
Go Avatar!
Sara
