Disclaimer: Don't own avatar. All I own is Kila, Melia and my story right thru right thur. I also do not own "Defy Gravity" from Wicked, although I own the CD, so don't steal my CD.
100 REVIEWS! Yay!
To everyone who can speak German, I'm very sorry. You'll see why eventually.
And…I changed around the lyrics for "defy gravity" a bit, but I only changed about two words, so it's really not that big of a deal.
So, I decided to pop out a chapter in honor of the new episode on Friday, the 21st. (Tomorrow for all those people out there that are really bad with dates.) Let's see if it's actually out by then…cross your fingers! Because I'm not gonna come back and edit this paragraph! Yay for being lazy and sick! No one morns the wicked!
Khazia- Yea, I haven't heard "My Immoral" in the LONGEST time…and I was listening to Evanesance on my iPod, and I was like "hm…." Yea…you know I don't think much. Oh…I love you. Yea…that's it.
Lin13- No…you're number 98. But you can have some virtual chocolate anyway! YAY! –Pats your head-. Is Zuko ever gonna lighten up…I dunno. It's Zuko. We'll see. He'll probably get used to the idea soon…but it might be awhile. I hope that everything works out with you and this Kyle person.
O-dragon- Yay for Zuko being in character! I'm a good writer? –blushes- well I was hoping the last chapter made sense and wasn't too corny, but I was tired. –Shrugs- things happen. Yes, Kabby sang that song also. What can I say? Evanesance rocks. Wow…your football team lost 37-3? That really sucks, I'm sorry. You can come here…I guess. Go ahead and use "Snaps to me." I made it from the saying "Oh snap." Cause when my friends would say it, I would start snapping. Then…It just kinda evolved.
Petitio Principii- YAY FOR BEING MY 100TH REVIEW! –Hands over pounds of virtual chocolate-. OK…haha, I was hoping that the fake end would confuse some people. Maybe I'm just weird, I dunno.
Yes, I love the word DUN. Because it is awesome in all of it's…um…DUNnessosity. Yes, I made that up. Yes, I am awesome like that.
Indil Culfindel- Yay for a new name! Hi new name! –Waves-. Yea, Avatar is a kinda guilty pleasure of mine I guess you could say…I like the way you put it, so I'm stealing it, ok? Kewl. Oh, I hope Kila and Zuko get together too! But…I'm just writing down their happenings, I cannot control them. –Shrugs-. NEW EPISODE ON THE 21 OF OCTOBER! So, now you can actually watch the show…yea.
Aanglover- I dunno how I write fast…I guess it's just a talent of mine. That, and what someone develops from being online 24/7 I gather. I am definitely going to get Carpel Tunnel Syndrome.
Angela- I love writing arguments so much, it should be a sin. I mean, I have an argument in practically every chapter. Or, not really arguments, but little truffles. Like "perhaps" in chapter 14. I dunno…I'm just weird. Some people love fluff. Me? Bring on the fighting babee!
KajiMori- HI NEW FACE! –Waves-. Wow, at first I read your review and I was like "…fluff? I didn't know there was fluff in there." Was there some foreshadowing put in there that I didn't know I had written? Cause then I would be just so awesome; I would have to kiss the ground I walk on. Wow…that sounds so horrible, I'm sorry. I just re-read it, and I don't like to use the backspace when it's not a typo or anything…just cause I'm lazy. I'm really not that conceited, I promise. But I think I may save that line…I like it…-evil smile-.
plutobaby494- Oh, if she spit on him again, I would feel so sorry for him. But…per your request, I'll try and squeeze that in there somewhere. I don't know when, but I will. Just because I love you. No, I really do.
ElvenArcher0310- Yea, Melia and Kila are friends. But what kind of friendship is based on lies? Ooer. The plot thickens in my soup of evilness. Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake, eye of-…sorry about that. Random burst of sophomore year English. I had to memorize 25 lines of Shakespeare, don't ask.
Wow everyone, keep those reviews coming! YAY! Cause, I eat reviews. Yum. So…feed me.
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Yea, ok that was bad, but review please. Cause then I learn how much everyone loves my story, and what I should change…
So it's really for YOUR benefit. OH. Whoa now.
Alrighty…I think you want to start reading now, so I'll shut up.
16
"Kiana! What are you doing here?" Asked a startled Melia as she opened up her door. Because standing opposite her was a grinning Iroh and a tear-stained face Kila, and no one was explaining anything. Kila simply looked downward and wished that she could sink right into the floor.
"Hello Lady Melia. You have a new roommate. Is that alright?" Iroh asked, his tone like the kind of a hotel manager on happy steroids.
"Um…its fine…I guess. But I believe we're going to need another mattress or something…" Melia said, looking behind her to confirm that there was only one bed in the room.
"Oh wonderful. Well, I will get right on that. Miss Kila, you will find that your stuff is right where you left it, or it should be. I'll be back soon." And with a little wave of his hand, Iroh walked of a little quicker than usual to avoid the questions that were about to spew out of Melia's mouth.
"…Kila? Where you left it? What's going on? And why do you look like you were crying?" Melia stepped back out of her doorway so Kila could enter, and studied her for a second. She thought, and then asked "Did I miss something?"
Kila sighed. "No, you didn't miss anything." The only thing I missed, or am going to, is this friendship she thought to herself.
Melia blinked a couple of times. She wasn't stupid, and she had known something was going on with her friend sense she had met her. But she had never questioned what. "Kiana…what's going on?"
Kila took in another deep sigh and flopped on her old bed. "Well, first off, my name isn't Kiana. It's Kila."
"Yea, I got that much when Uncle Iroh called you Kila when he left." Melia said, jabbing her thumb in the direction of the door. "But that's not what I'm concerned about. Lots of people change their name when they go into hiding. Why did Uncle say-" Melia paused for a second as realization began to dawn on her. "You used to be on this ship?"
"Yes." Kila answered, looking downward. "I cooked for them."
"You cooked for them?"
"Yes…I used to be the cook. And I used to sing for them also."
"So…why didn't you ever tell me?"
Kila shrugged. "I didn't want anyone to find out. Especially Jet, who I knew would kill me."
"Well, if you ran from them, then he wouldn't kill you, he would welcome you, like he did."
"No, I didn't run from them. I was taken off the ship." Kila said sitting up straight on the bed, looking down.
"Taken? Wait…how did you even get on the ship?" Melia up a hand up to her forehead and rubbed her pulsing temples. She was getting so confused.
"I used to be this other guys cook. But then Zuko saw me firebending, and-"
"Wait, you're a FIRE BENDER?"
Kila winced at the venom Melia iced into the word. "Yes."
"Why didn't you tell me? I told you I was a firebender!"
"Well, I didn't know how people were going to react! I knew that Jet hated firebenders, and I didn't exactly want to die." Kila said, holding out her hands.
"So you lied and told me you were a waterbender?" Melia exclaimed, getting angrier and feeling more betrayed as this conversation went on.
"Well no, I didn't lie per say…"
"What do you mean 'per say'? Either you lied, or you didn't. You can't bend two elements." Melia was getting so aggravated that she wished she could pound her dresser drawers, but knew better than that; She was a lady now, and had to behave as such.
Kila cupped herhands, placed her head in themand thought. As long as I'm telling her the truth, I might as well get it all out. "Melia, I'm actually-"
But just then the door burst open as a large mattress came flying into the room with such speed it hit Kila head on and she was knocked off the bed, where she hit her head on the floor and died.
No, just kidding. That would be a crappy way to end a story, huh?
But just then the door burst open as a large mattress came flying into the room with such speed it hit Kila head on and she was knocked off the bed, and fell on top of the floor where the mattress pinned her. She heard the faint cry of Iroh's voice as he called back "Dinner is at the usual time Miss Kila!" As he ran down the hallway to, once again, be out of the way of the cat-fight he believed was about to take place.
"Ow. Well that was unexpected." Kila muffled from underneath the mattress, the wind knocked out of her a little.
"Here, let me help." Melia huffed.
"No, allow me." Kila replied, bending air to flow under the mattress so it was pushed up high enough so Kila could roll out from under it. Kila stood up and looked into Melias now very wide eyes.
"You…that…how…im...possible…" She stuttered, pointing to the mattress. Then she shook her head and slapped her cheeks lightly to wake herself up. "That's not possible." She said. "The air benders died out one hundred years ago. So now are you telling me that you're a fire, water and air bender?"
"Well, yea. I haven't learned earth bending yet." Kila said, lightly shrugging.
"But…but that's not possible either. There's already an avatar. Auf was geht? Ich kann nicht glauben, dass dies Ereignis ist! Ich hasse dies! (1)" Melia started rambling in some random language that Kila suddenly recognized.
"Ich bin wirklich sehr erbärmlich.(2)" She replied back in German. Melia's eyes grew wider.
"How do you know germankin?" She cried. "Only the people in Germank speak it! It's now a dead language!"
"No it's not…it's…OH! Germank…GERMANY! No WONDER you're arian." Kila said slapping her forehead with her hand.
"I BEG your pardon?" Melia cried, getting more and more afraid as the seconds grew.
"You lived in Germany!" Kila explained.
"No…I lived in Germank." Melia said slowly.
"Well…Germany where I'm from." Kila said, shrugging.
Melia blinked a couple times, and then flopped onto the bed. "Who are you?"
"I'm Kila Okame." Kila replied.
"What element do you bend?"
"You already know that. Air, fire and water. I don't know earth yet."
Melia stood up and folded her arms. "Prove to me that you can fire bend."
Kila stared at Melia straight into her eyes and held out her palm. Instantly a flicker of a flame appeared. Melia's eyes widened again. "But…the avatar is an airbending monk…Prince Zuko is always talking about him…"
"Well, the avatar now is Aang. I'm the avatar from the future." Kila said, extinguishing the flame. "I'm in the fire cycle at home, so I'm technically a firebender. I really don't know very much about it. I just popped up here one day, and haven't been able to go home sense." Kila looked up at Melia. Melia looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because…I don't know." Kila said flopping her hands to her sides. "No one knows except Zuko and Iroh. And it has to stay that way."
Melia put her face in her hands and took in a few deep breaths.
"Melia, I'm so sorry, but you can understand why I didn't tell anyone, can't you?" Kila asked, beginning to feel desperate.
"…can, can you just leave me alone for a little bit so I can think this over?" Melia said calmly.
Kila was quite taken aback that Melia wasn't getting mad. "Erm…yea. I have to start dinner anyway. I think we'll have some pizza." And with that, she left the room.
Melia heard the door click shut and looked up. She was indeed alone, Kila had left.
Running over to her bed, she began to punch the living daylights out of the pillows. Stupid, stupid stupid. She hated being here. She could understand why Kila never told her, and it made perfect sense to her, but in a strange way, it didn't make any sense at all. But the fact that she could speak her native language was just bizarre. Oh, how she wished she was back home, she never wanted to have a fiancé. Sure, Zuko was great, but it was an arranged marriage, and she never really forgave her parents for doing that. There was someone she had in mind, but there was no way it was going to happen now.
Stupid drama. Stupid everything. Melia kept punching her pillow until all her frustration was out, then she collapsed on top her bed asleep.
Iroh sat in his room in solitude, sipping his tea. He hadn't heard any screaming, crying or screeching of any sort, and he wondered if it was safe to venture out. Deciding against it, he took another sip of his tea and told himself he would wait until it was dinner time to leave his safe haven.
Dinner was quite unexpected by most of the soldiers that night. They had no idea what was happening when they were once again served pizza. All they remembered was that the last time they had eaten it, Kila was there. Did that mean that she was back?
Indeed she was! How was the prince reacting to this? And why was her hair shorter?
The prince just seemed to be sulking, did that mean that it was ok for them to be happy Kila was back to cook? Because they had all hated the stews and gruel they had to face from when Mao was cooking for them again. They missed her cookies also. Were they called cookies? Oh who cares, they were tasty.
So, in general, the crew was quite happy that Kila was back among them. However, Kila was still distraught with her run-in, if you could call it that, with Melia. She hadn't said a word to Kila after that, and always looked the opposite way when Kila entered a room. Iroh tried to be extra friendly, but Kila noticed that he also didn't trust her fully. Zuko just plain hated her and wouldn't utter a sound to her. And Kila was so afraid of what Jet and the other freedom fighters would think about her, that she never went downstairs into the prison hold.
But all that was going to change, on music night.
Kila had made beef stroganoff that night, in honor of her first real music night, and because Iroh had asked her to. Sense Kila had landed on the ship, she had never even heard of music night, because she usually provided entertainment for the men instead. Yet Iroh insisted that there needed to be a music night to liven up everyone's spirits. He even let the freedom fighters come out of their cell and partake in the activities, but mainly because they were watched constantly, and Kila had asked him to. And so, it began.
Jet was quite annoyed with Kila, and the fact that she totally lied to him. Unlike Melia, who was beginning to talk to her again, (mainly because they shared a room, but Kila took it as a sign of progress) Jet would just shout out insults to her.
And Zuko still wasn't talking to Kila, which made her even more depressed, even though she had no idea why. Zuko had never treated her quite so bad before, but he never really treated her like a human either. So why was she so sad this time? Nothing was making sense to her, and so she sat in the corner of this music night, just watching the festivities.
These festivities mainly included the men drinking and singing. Apparently they could all hold their liquor, because a few hours went by, and none of them showed any sign of drunkenness. Kila was actually quite amazed; the way they were backing down these beers and meads, she expected them to be on the floor passed out in thirty minutes. But not Zuko's men, no sir.
She had been offered some alcohol as well, but she declined. Even though she could drink a large amount for her small body size, she preferred to drink none at all.
She wondered how long it was going to be before the men started badgering her to start singing. And soon enough, they began to ask her. She again declined, saying she wasn't going to sing anymore, because she wasn't in the mood. The men began to whine and complain that they hadn't heard her singing in awhile, and she whined and complained back saying that she didn't want to sing anyway.
"Sing." Zuko commanded. "I'm getting tired of them asking you to. So it's now an order."
"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request" Kila said, folding her arms.
"Sing, or the men are allowed to do whatever they want to you." Zuko said waving his hand.
"I've been waiting for him to say that!" screamed a soldier out of happiness. Kila grimaced.
"I've changed me mind." She said smiling. There was a depressed "aw" from someone in the crowd as Kila stood up.
And as she walked over to her platform, she thought to herself; She was going to be going home eventually, right? Why did she care if Zuko hated her? He always hated her! Why did she care if Jet and the others hated her too? They stayed down in the prison hold! She could go visit them occasionally. And Melia was beginning to like her again. So was the crew.
She stopped halfway to the podium and kept thinking. Why she was even put in this time period? Because she wanted to know why she had those special powers. Well, she leaned why she had them, because she was the avatar. The avatar was supposed to help people. She wasn't doing her job very well. She had to start doing her best; she had to help Aang end this war. But Aang was no where around right now, and she didn't know how to find him. So all she could do was get out of this depressed attitude and do her share. It all began to dawn on her again. And then she began to sing.
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!
Kila began walking again towards the podium, much quicker paced now. She finally understood what these words in the song meant. Sure she had sung them many a time before, but now they actually began to mean something.
It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!
Kila jumped up onto the podium and spread her arms out wide as she continued to sing. Her heart was fully into the song now, and she was lost within it.
Zuko raised his eyebrows. This was definitely a new song. She had a new flame behind her voice also, and it peaked his interest.
I'm through accepting limits
'Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
Losing love? When did she loose love? Zuko wondered to himself. But he really didn't care. Kila was standing up on her podium with such a smile on her face, he was quite lost. And he didn't know why. His fiancé was sitting right next to him, and he even forgot about that.
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down.
Melia was lost in her voice as well, but in a different way than Zuko. What was Kila saying?
if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Everyone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of us
Nobody that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!
Thus ended the days that Zuko thought she was crazy and began the days that he knew she was crazy. She belted out the last few lines with such a passion that he thought he saw her lift a little off the ground. She wouldn't have been using air bending in front of all these soldiers, would she? Oh, she has really gone off the deep end now.
OK, so it's kind of a weird place to end, but whatever. I'm tired of writing. Next chapter soon.
German translations
1. What is going on? I can't believe this is happening! I hate this!
2. I'm really very sorry.
So, yea. If you speak German, then I'm sorry if I butchered this. Because I don't know German, I know Spanish and Chinese. I used freetranslation dot com. which isn't really that reliable. So…if you want to correct me, go ahead.
And, also, if the arian thing offends you, I repeat again that I'm not racist. My background is mostly Polish and German, so I'm making fun of my own people really. And I'm fascinated with the holocaust…I love learning about it. I'm weird; I like to learn about tragedies. Titanic, holocaust, Pompeii, etc. The arian thing just kinda fit in…I dunno. Ok, I'm gonna stop now.
And I can actually drink LOTS of alcohol and not feel the effects for awhile, and I'm pretty skinny. So it's not a totally made up trait.
So, I hope your eyes don't burn from looking at a screen for such a long time.
Toodle Pip!
SeethingxShadows