Here's Chapter 6!

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Chapter 6: Of Unexpected Meetings and Egg Custard

Katara never liked fire bending, but since Aang was giving her sad puppy face again, and was struggling with fire bending, she decided to go to one of his lessons for moral support. Aang's account of his progress was inaccurate in her opinion. He said he was terrible, he wasn't... he was great for someone just starting, and the teacher was impressed too. Then Katara realized it was probably because Aang had learned all of the other elements with such ease. In fact, he had surpassed Haru in the first 3 days of training... but still, Aang wasn't satisfied.

As Katara watched the teacher was trying to show him the right stances to do a tricky move Katara had once seen Zuko pull off. He'd arch the fire and lashed it out, almost reminding Katara of the water whip, with different moves. She decided she would try it out with water later. Then she started thinking of a dream she had: She was standing on Appa with a cloaked man and Kuro was there. Kuro started taunting the mystery man and then pulled off the man's cloak to reveal-- and then as soon as the cloak had come off, she fell off of Appa and onto a pile of hay. At the end of Aang's lesson, the teacher told him that as soon as he learned fire breath, he'd be better than Kuro. That made Katara happy. Finally, someone to make him shut up...

"Taang, you did really well!" She said and hugged him. He blushed and thanked her, she continued, "I'm gonna take you out for some egg custard!" At that comment Aang's face lit up.

"Thanks!" he winked at her and smiled because to him it was fun to go around town with an alias. They had decided that Sokka and Katara were brother and sister which was true, here comes the not truth and that Aang, who they switched to Taang, was their half-brother. This was decided on the first night. So, Katara walked with Aang down the road after saying good bye to his teacher.

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Zuko was hungry and wanted food, he had tried nuts and berries from the woods, but they disgusted him. He put on his cloak and walked to the market sulking. When he got there he saw the water peasant with some strange boy. He had spiky dark hair, light brown eyes, and a goofy look about him. He looked familiar, but Zuko couldn't quite figure out who the boy was. Then he noticed how the boys in the village looked at Katara and felt jealous as she walked to the pastry stand holding hands with the mystery boy who was, apparently, enjoying the attention greatly. Zuko slapped himself yet again, his face had become sore by then, and inadvertently walked over to the pastry stand. He overheard Katara talking to the boy.

"Well, Taang, which one would ya like?" The boy pointed to a large egg custard and the woman at the stand gave him the custard and Katara paid her. Feh, Zuko thought... disgusting. Katara and the so-called Taang walked off, but not before Katara saw the man in the cloak that was standing in line.

Oh crap... that guy is here! She thought as she quickened her pace looking concerned and walked off with Aang and the custard. Zuko was sure he had blown his cover from the look on her face, but didn't know how. He swore under his breath and got out of line. Wait... Taang! Last time I remember, the girl called the Avatar Aang! That's the Avatar! He grew hair? Then he remembered the smug happy look on the Avatar's face as the girl held his hand and walked him through town. Of course! I'll capture the girl and use her as bait! He thought, and then a feeble thought in the back of his mind popped up, and you'll get to meet her too! He would've slapped himself yet again, but didn't want to look weird, instead he swore under his breath.

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"Well, since he's the avatar," she began, "and happens to be learning the last element needed... yeah, I did." Sokka glared as he tried to think of a comeback , but couldn't, so he hmphed and sniffed.

Aang and Katara laughed, but deep down, Katara couldn't help feeling worried about the presence of the cloaked man. It was getting close to sun down and she decided to start making dinner from the food left over. I'll have to do more food shopping tomorrow... I should've remembered when I took Aang out for his custard. She sighed and fixed a salad. Figuring Sokka would probably bug her for some meat she heated up the meat from last night, set it out, and called Sokka and Aang.

"Guys, I made some dinner," she said tiredly, "I'm not hungry, just sleepy, so I think I'm gonna hit the hay." She walked off to her sleeping bag while Aang, Sokka, and even Momo fought over the food.

Then Aang looked up, "Hay, oh no! I forgot to feed Appa today!" He ran outside, blew his bison whistle and Appa popped flew out of the forest. And he began to get some hay for Appa to eat. He then ran back in to find a tiny amount of food left and a Sokka with cheeks bigger than a chipmunk's. Aang sighed and finished the rest of the food off.

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Aaaaw, poor Sokka...

-Vanilla Swirls Of Doom