Okay, I know I said that the more reviews I got, the faster the chapter would come, well... It was a fluke this time! I swear!
Anyways, I'm redoing the ages! I recently learned that Aang of course is 12, Katara 14, Sokka 15, and Zuko 16. Their ages for this fanfic will be 16, 18, 19, and 20. Kiko will remain 18. Thank you for your patience.
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Element Girls: Liz and Marie, just think of the fact he was more uncomfortable with the shoes than the skirt. Down right disturbing... Hope you enjoy the rest of the story without that mental image fried into your brains.
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Well, enjoy the chapter!
"It's someone from the Fire Nation!" Yelled Sokka. He tripped over his own sleeping bag trying to reach for his boomerang. Kiko just watched him as he fell on his face, his fingers twitching for the boomerang just inches away from his reach. Katara stood up and got into a fighting pose as well as Aang, who got his staff and twirled it over his head for show.
"Oh, will you all calm down!" Kiko shouted. She kicked Sokka's boomerang towards him and he snatched it, attempting to get into a menacing pose. "Sokka, the so-called warrior," she said to herself as she looked at the group around her. "Katara, the water bender, and the Avatar, the last air bender." (yea I used the title!)
"How do you know that?" Aang asked quietly, slowly dropping his guard.
"It's a trick, Aang, everyone knows that by now," Katara said.
"Does everyone know you've flown before at the Northern Air Temple thanks to a disabled boy named Teo?" Kiko said in return. "Or what about Haru or Jet?" Katara blushes as most the cute boys she's met were named off.
"And Sokka, playing air ball with Aang when you visited the Southern Air Temple was kind of sweet, and I'm sorry about Yue." Sokka only snorted. "Aang," she said, looking towards his, her hands over her arms and bowing. "I'm sorry about Monk Gyatso." Aang suddenly looked at her with a realization and stood up straight, holding his staff to his side.
"Well, you know our names, what's yours?" He asked kindly.
"Kiko," she responded with a smile.
"Whoa, whoa, wait a second," said Sokka, running towards Katara and Aang. "We can't trust her, she's from the Fire Nation."
"Not you, too," she groaned.
"What do you mean?" Asked Katara.
"I just escaped a band of earth benders who captured me just because I'm from the Fire Nation. What is with the discrimination?" Kiko sighed.
"Yeah, well they were right not to trust you, you escaped didn't you?" Said Sokka heatedly.
"For my life, and besides I didn't want to hurt those men," She said then, whispered, "or at least one of them." Remembering the harsh treatment she received from the others, they could do with a little punishment.
"Lay off, Sokka," Aang said in her defense.
"What!" Sokka and Katara said together. "How do you know she can be trusted?"
"Because the way she bowed," Aang replied. "The Air Nomads always bowed that way to their elders, no one else could have known that."
"Aang, you're only 16 years old," said Sokka.
"Technically, he's 116 years old," said Katara. "Very much an elder to us."
"But how would she know how the Nomads greet their elders?" Sokka argued.
"Maybe you guys will believe me if I tell you the truth," Kiko said.
"Believe what, you came from space and that you're taking over the human race for your own?" Sokka said sarcastically.
"Actually, it's the future. I came from the future." Sokka and Katara could only stare in shock, but Aang smiled widely.
"Seriously?" He asked happily running up to her, nearly getting face to face with her. "How did you do it?"
"My mother, she's the avatar in the future, two hundreds years in a matter of fact. She's an air bender, that's how I know most of the traditions, and you guys. She would tell me stories about her different lives as the avatar."
"That's so cool, " replied Katara. "So you dad's a fire bender?"
"Yep," said Kiko proudly.
"Please," muttered Sokka, crossing his arms in frustration.
"Is he always like that?" Kiko whispered towards Aang and Katara.
"Pretty much," responded Katara. "So, where are you staying?"
"I was staying with Prince Zuko, but - " started Kiko, but Sokka interrupted.
"Aha!" He said with a triumphant smile. "You're in cahoots with Zuko so you can capture Aang!"
"Don't you think I would have tried something by now, seeing how I did catch you guys off guard?" Kiko asked, raising an eyebrow. "Anyways, I didn't know you guys were staying here."
"But why were you staying with Zuko?" Aang asked curiously.
"Well, I guess you can say he saved my life," Kiko said in sudden realization. The others looked at her intrigued, waiting for her to say more. She smiled and sat down, reliving the tale of how her mother had sent her away from one war to another by mistake and how Zuko, or at least his crew, fished her out of the water. She explained how she was waiting to return home, and the only reasonable plan was to wait on Zuko's ship. "I should go back to that village. They might be worried about me."
"By the sounds of it, Zuko would probably be happier without you tagging along," Sokka said. Katara and Aang noticed Kiko's sad expression and promptly elbowed him in the side.
"So now what?" Asked Katara.
"Hey, Kiko, why don't you travel with us for a bit?" Aang asked cheerfully.
"Seriously?" Asked Kiko and Sokka together, though Kiko said it out of excitement, and Sokka seemed appalled.
"Yeah," said Aang, jumping into the air happily. "You can see more from this century in the air, riding Appa. And maybe you can teach me fire bending. I still have a long ways to go on that one."
"You can consider that you're pay," Katara added.
"You're actually going to trust her to come along?" Sokka grunted.
"Don't worry, if I kill anyone, it'll be you," Kiko said with a smile. She ignored Sokka growling under his breath as she walked around their so called camp site. "So where is Appa?"
"Over here," Aang said as he walked through a brush of trees. Kiko and the others followed after him and Kiko gasped at what she saw. "Guess you don't have flying bison in the future, huh?"
Appa was twice the size of a komodo rhino and the horns weren't a welcoming sight. When he heard the arrival of his friends, he lifted his head and gave a big yawn.
"Whoa, Appa," Aang said, waving his hand in front of his face. "Bad morning breath. Well, you guys ready to go?"
"I guess," replied Sokka as he jumped onto Appa's back, in the giant saddle like seat.
"Now?" Moaned Kiko. She was tired and ached all over.
"You don't have to come with us, you know," Sokka commented. Katara climbed up after him and shoved her hand in his face.
"Come on, Kiko," she said. "You can rest while we find another island to get some food." Aang helped her up before jumping onto Appa's head, a white lemur suddenly jumped on his shoulder, purring. With the command of "yip, yip", Appa took to the skies with a single beat of his tail.
"This is soo cool," Kiko said looking over the edge, forgetting about how tired she was. "Hey, let's go over that village, just to let them know not to worry."
"Sure thing," Aang said, pulling ropes that were tied to Appa's horns and steering him towards the village.
Zuko had been searching all night for Kiko and he couldn't find a clue to follow. She's better than I give her credit for, he thought to himself. He began to return to the village, hoping that would be the first place she would think to go, seeing how nearly the entire crew was there, or maybe the ship.
The sun was past over the horizon and raising higher. He entered the gates of the village just as everyone was waking up and doing their chores. He saw a few of his crew, and amazingly his uncle.
"Zuko!" His uncle said as soon as he saw him. "Have you found her?"
"In a way," he said, getting off of his rhino. "She escaped from the earth benders, but I haven't been able to find her. So I take t she didn't return here." It wasn't a question. Iroh would have been the first people to tell him that Kiko had returned.
"You look awful," Iroh said. "Did you get any sleep at all?" Zuko shook his head and sighed, walking to on of the inns. "Oh, look, the avatar." Iroh said it so casually as though it was an everyday sigthing, but somehow this didn't spark anything in Zuko. He didn't want to follow the boy that escaped him so many times, home was the last the thing on his mind. "And Kiko!" Zuko turned when his uncle suddenly yelled this and saw the bison flying over the village. Kiko and Zuko met eye to eye before Appa flew off the east.
"Did Zuko look tired to you?" She heard Katara say. Kiko didn't know what to say, so she remained silent. Maybe her had been looking for her. Either way, she had to leave them, if just for a short while, for her own reasons.
"So she's with the avatar," Iroh stated as he turned to look at his nephew. Zuko just watched as the flying bison disappeared slowly.
"What island is in that direction?" Zuko asked suddenly.
"A neutral island, I don't remember the name," Iroh said, slightly confused. What was Zuko thinking?
"Get the men ready, we're going after them," he said, turning back to the inn.
"Kiko or the avatar?"
"Both" he said before disappearing behind the door.
Okay, so it was a little shorter than the last one and not as exciting. But it keeps the storyline moving. So, who will Zuko choose: Kiko or Aang? You tell me and you'll find out who's right! Or you can just wait...
And I want opinions, the things that seperate us from the apes... one of very few things. ANYWHO! I have a story plan for three different movies; Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Pirates of the Carribean.
PotC: You find out how Jack got the location of Isla de Muerta. A lovely treasure hunter who sells treasure locations for a reasonable price. For the deadly treasure of Cortez? Captain Jack Sparrow's heart. And how after he gets back the Pearl he goes back to her for a treasure called One Piece. (I know that's an anime but I have a good reason to use that name!)
HP: Aleha Black is the daughter of Sirius Black. (She's basically placed on the train first year and the story goes on)
LotR: Mixed with HP, you find out where Aleha was when her father was in prison and her mother was dead soon after her birth, in the world of LotR! Raided by Boromir and his family and was part of the Fellowship before called back to her own world by Albus Dumbeldor! (I think I spelled that right) Before Albus' death (sorry if you haven't read the book) she returns to stop the Death Eaters who found a way into that world after the Ring had been destroyed...
So should I do them? The Aleha story has been in my head for over a year and only expanded since. Please, is it a good idea to actually write them down? Tell me!