Fire bending The next day they arrived at the small village Aang had been talking about. They each stepped off the bison and stretched, while Sokka did so, he looked over at Tara. He blushed slightly. "How old are you?" he asked. "About 16, almost." she said smiling.
An old Earth General came over to them. "Welcome, Avatar!" he said bowing. "It is great to be here, I would love training tomorrow." Aang said getting into a rush. "Don't worry, you will be training with Master Leo." said the old general smiling. Aang bowed.
"Well, I guess you need to stay in a place." the general then said and lead them all to a large house. "Go on inside and make yourselves at home, and there are only 3 beds, sorry." he said walking out.
"Well then who is sleeping with who?" asked Katara. "Well I guess we could pick pieces of hay and whoever two have the shortest sleep together." said Aang. They all nodded in agreement.
"Ah, I got a long one!" said Katara. "So did I!" said Aang then they looked over to Sokka and Tara. "I guess this means, well you know." said Sokka blushing slightly. "Yes I guess we loose, we can share a bed." said Tara blushing as well.
The dark was wrung in like a towel. They could hear the creatures and crickets outside making their noises. Sokka and Tara looked out the window together.
"Do you miss home?" asked Tara to Sokka. Sokka then thought a moment answering "Yeah, sometimes." he said staring back at the stars. "I mean I miss mine." said Tara sadly. "I shouldn't have been banned." "I don't think you should have either." said Sokka in his serious voice.
Tara nodded then left the window and sat down on her bed. Then she called up to Aang and Katara "How is the view from up there?" she asked emotively. "It is okay up here, nice view I guess." said Aang calling back to her. "That is nice." she answered. She walked into the kitchen and looked in the wooden cabinet and took out a melon.
"What are you doing Tara?" asked Sokka putting his hand on her shoulder. "Just cutting up a melon, want a piece?" she asked. She took out a concealed knife from under her belt and sliced it and stuck a piece in Sokka's mouth.
"Yum, tasty." he said in between bites of the melon. "I love food." Tara laughed a bit then said "You are acting like my brother, now I know what Katara has to deal with." she chuckled at her words. "What happened to your brother?" he asked.
Tara bent her head in shame. "He was killed, when I decided to fight some of these other fire benders that invaded our villages, I accidentally blasted him and then another fire bender did the same and then that was it." she said sadly.
Sokka looked at her emotionally. "Its going to be okay, your with the avatar now." Sokka said and walked away.
"I guess so." she mumbled under her breath. "I never thought I would be."