Chapter 2

Authoress note: Yay! My friend finally told me how to update! Yay! So here's Chappie 2! Yay! OK then, now that all the yays are over, here it is! Yay! (sorry, couldn't help myself).

After a lot of walking, they finally reached the hideout. Nothing much happened (except for Sokka's little incident with the rope thing, but that was in the eppie). Eventually they started talking, and the conversation strayed to family lost thanks to the Fire Nation. Jet shared his story about his parents being killed. Whips was able to stay out of the talk until Aang looked over at her.

"Hey, Whips," he said, "I just noticed that you haven't said anything. What happened to your parents?" Whips answered, "Well, they aren't dead,as far as I know, but they might as well be. My village was occupied by the Fire Nation. It was awful. There were soldiers all over the place. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore. I ran away. I was able to stow away on various trade ships. Then I came here and met Jet. I was 7; he was 8. We started this little group. Then, he got all the credit. Oh, well. At least I'm 2nd in command here." Jet smiled slightly, "Whips is strange. She's the only person here who didn't lose anyone because of the Fire Nation, and yet she hates them more than anyone else."

Oh yeah, thought Whips, I didn't lose anyone. Only my cousin, who was halfway decent when my uncle wasn't around. Only my father, if he even cared about me. I lost them, all right. Just not that way. Not the important way. These thoughts were going around her head for a while, until she heard Jet complementing Aang and Katara on their bending. Bending? she thought, He's been talking about bending a lot recently. Wondering if a bender could... I'd better let one of them know. I won't tell Aang or Katara, they're already fawning over him. No, I had better tell Sokka. He might just listen to me.

That night, she found Sokka. She tapped him on the shoulder. He abruptly turned around.

"What?" he asked.

"I need to tell you something," she sounded a little urgent.

"Well, OK then. Go ahead."

"Well, that girl, the one you're traveling with..."

"You mean my sister?"

"Yeah, her. She's a Waterbender, right?"

"Yeah."

"And that other kid, he's a bender too?"

"Yeah, he's the Avatar. Why do you want to know?"

"Listen, Sokka, be careful around Jet. He's been talking about recruiting a bender for a while now. I don't even wanna think about why."

"Do you know why?"

"Yes, and that's why I don't wanna think about it. Listen, if you know what's good for you, you'll take my advice."

"Why are you telling me this? I mean, you're his second in command."

"Do you know why I'm that instead of the co-leader? And yes, there is a difference."

"No, why?"

"I don't like seeing innocent people get hurt. That's why."

"Well, thanks for the advice."

"You're welcome. Goodbye."

And with that, Whips went to her room, leaving Sokka to think about that strange advice.

End of Chapter 2

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