Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender or any related characters. I will never own it, unless today billions of dollars fall in front of me and I decide to waste it on buying it. Amory, her father, her brother, and Kohaku are mine, though the name Kohaku is not.
Hey! Thanks for your continuing interest in my story, so welcome to chapter three!
Aquamoonluvr- Thanks a lot for your review! I'm still toying with the idea of doing a SokkaxOC or SokkaxSuki because some interest has been shown in it. However, I do think I'll do a ZukoxAmory.
The Violent Tomboy- Thanks again. I'm glad that you think it's better.
About the last scene in Chapter 2, I used a little bit of my creative license to allow them to semi-accept Amory so quickly. This is probably going to be a very short chapter, so, sorry. But I do think this is important enough to give it a full chapter to itself. This is also part of the "foundation", so if you think it's going a bit slowly, it'll become more exciting later. Also, right now it is a little more lighthearted, but the storyline will become darker On with the show, err fan fiction!
"This is Appa?" Amory asked, slightly incredulously.
"Yep. Isn't he great?" Aang said proudly. Amory eyed Appa. "If your definition of great is a ten ton, six- legged, flying bison with arrows, then yeah, he's great." She patted Appa on the head. He groaned in reply. "He likes you," Aang told her happily. "And if Appa trusts you, so can I! Right, Sokka?" Sokka grumbled. "Appa is a big bison. How would he know if someone is trustworthy?"
"Appa would know. He has a way with these things," Aang told him, undeterred. Sokka sighed and didn't continue the subject. There was an uncomfortable silence, broken by Sokka who exclaimed suddenly, "I'm starving!" Everyone looked at him. "What? I am," he answered defensively.
"Yeah. Me too. I have a bit of food in my pack but there isn't enough for all of us, and I think we should leave it as emergency rations. This means," Amory continued, with a glare at Momo, "that it is off limits unless it is an EMERGENCY. So why don't we go looking for some food?" she finished. Katara nodded. "How about Aang and Sokka staying here?" Katara suggested.
"What? Why me?" Sokka asked.
"Because, Sokka, all you can find are rock- shaped nuts," Katara told him, matter of factly.
"That's not true. I found several nuts along with those rocks. And-"
"You don't want your defenseless baby sister going alone in the forest with a firebender," Katara finished for him.
"Well, yeah," Sokka said, looking a little put out.
"Sokka, I'm a waterbender. And I trust Amory," she told Sokka, exasperated. Amory smiled at her, glad that someone besides a naive twelve-year-old thought her trustworthy. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get going. We can split up and cover more ground," Amory suggested. Katara nodded.
About an hour later Amory and Katara met back up at camp. Katara had a large amount of berries and nuts to show for her efforts; Amory produced some nuts, berries, and a fat rabbit. "What is that?" Aang asked her, horrified. Amory looked up, puzzled. "It's a rabbit. You know, fluffy tail, big ears?"
"I don't eat meat," Aang whispered, looking at the rabbit.
"You don't eat meat?" Amory exclaimed, looking scandalized. Aang shook his head. "I suppose you guys eat meat?" she asked, annoyed. Katara and Sokka nodded. "Good," Amory said, looking considerably happier. With that she started a small fire to cook her prize.
After they had all eaten and laid out their sleeping rolls (Amory had brought her own) Sokka asked her, none too happily, what her story was. "My story?" Amory mused. "It's not all that interesting." Sokka glared. "But anyway," she continued, "I was the second child of three. My father was a great Fire Nation general." Sokka hissed, Amory glared. "Anyway, my mother died after giving birth to me. Several years after my mother died, my father remarried. Another few years down the road and she had my little sister. I had an older brother who was four years my senior, who taught me how to control my firebending when I was first learning. When I was twelve, he joined up in the army."
"Wait a minute," Sokka interrupted. "I thought the age limit to join in your army was older than sixteen."
"It was. But they needed more soldiers so they let younger people join. My brother was one of the bravest and the best. But after one Earth Kingdom attack, my brother showed up missing in action and was presumed dead."
"How do you know your brother just didn't run away from the fight?" It was evident that Sokka had gone too far. None of them had seen Amory so angry. You could almost see her eyes glowing red. But when she spoke, it was with cold anger, quiet, but with suppressed rage. "My brother was very brave. He would never, never, ever run from a battle! For your information, many people saw him during the battle; and it was only after that they could not find his body among the dead. AND I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH BEFORE I SHUT IT FOR YOU!" Sokka blinked several times. "Uh, sorry." From the look that Amory gave him, it was apparent that she didn't think "Uh, sorry," was enough. And from the sympathetic looks Katara was giving her, she didn't either. "My younger sister is named Kohaku. We have a large age gap. She's nine, now. When I left she was seven. After my brother died my dad had me train under General Iroh. And one day I decided to go off and hone my skills. And I have been doing that for two years. End of story." But everyone looking at her did not believe that that was her full story, or the end of it.
"So what's your story," Amory asked them quickly. And so Aang started with his story, then Sokka and Katara told her theirs. Then they all told her how they all had met, and what they had been doing. When they were finally finished, it was very late, so after they extinguished the fire, they went to sleep.
Well, that was the very short chapter three. I did not make up the name of Amory's sister. My friend told me about it, and Kohaku means "amber" in Japanese or Chinese, so I thought it fitting. Even though I think it might be a male name. Oh well. Again, creative license.Ha ha. Also, I think Zuko will make his appearance in the next chapter and things will start speeding up. The next chapter will be longer then this one. Also, sorry about the pathetic last paragraph. I had writer's block, and didn't know any way to end it.