Awaken

One Hundred Years Later...

"What an interesting place", said a spunky voice excitedly.

"It seems like a drag to me", said a placid voice.

"It was a victory for the Fire Nation from the looks of it", said a conceited voice.

Azula, Mei, and Ty Lee (I have no clue how to spell these girls names or if those are even their names so help me out a bit okay) stood at an entrance of a destroyed temple in a burned down forest. "Shall we search it?", asked Ty Lee down a cart wheel past Azula. "There's probably nothing but peasant crap there", said Azula wrinkling her nose at the thought of peasants. "Maybe Prince Zuko has been through here", said Mei with a bit of sparkles in her eyes. "Fine we'll search it", growled Azula stomping her way into the temple grounds.

The three girls poked and prodded around the temple but found nothing. Ty Lee started to walk around on her hands and suddenly stopped. "Hey Azula I think there's a door here", said Ty Lee excitedly. Azula walked over to Ty Lee and inspected the supposed stone entrance. Azula kicked it and it fell down to the ground with a loud thump.

"What do you know, there was a door here after all", said Azula with a smirk. "You think there's treasure", asked Ty Lee jumping up and down. "Or maybe nothing at all", said Mei glaring at Ty Lee who stopped jumping and frowned.

Azula stepped inside and looked around. Everything was dusty and all the windows were covered up. Ty Lee and Mei followed her in and looked around. Ty Lee then crashed in to Fire Nation's princess's back followed by Mei bumping into Ty Lee's. "What the hell is going on?", growled Mei. Azula stared at her and Mei bowed her head in forgiveness of her rudeness.

"Look over there", said Azula pointing to a small stone box.

"A treasure box maybe?ཀ?ཀ", said Ty Lee flipping over to the box and placing her hands on it.

"Look a lock made for a firebender", said Azula placing her hand on the lock. "Maybe the troop who destroyed this place left something of value behind", said Mei walking up beside Azula. "Then they wouldn't mind if I Azula princess of the Fire Nation took the liberty of looking into this box", said Azula proudly as she readied herself to open the lock. With a quick move Azula shot out a blue flame and the lock clicked announcing itself open.

Azula smiled and flipped the lid off easily. She was then caught in a puff of dust, "Quick open those damn windows", said Azula coughing a little. Ty Lee and Mei quickly opened the windows and the sunlight shot right to the stone box.

Ty Lee quickly made her way over to the side of the box and stuck her hand in. "Oh boyཀཀཀ I hope they left something pinkཀཀཀ", she then stuck her hand into the box that was still in shadow due to the dust.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHཀཀཀཀཀཀཀཀཀཀཀཀཀ", shrieked Ty Lee as a hand grabbed her own. She quickly shook it off and ran to hide behind Azula and Mei who were ready for an attack. Up from the shadows a figure sat up and stretched.

The figure looked over at the girls, "Lady Reika is that you?", asked the stranger.

"Who?", asked Azula lowering her hands and walking over to the stranger. The dust settled and there before the girls sat a girl with long dark purple hair and two colored eyes.

"Who are you?", asked Azula looking the girl up and down.

"I'm Ari", said the girl looking over at the other confused girls. "Are you a relative of Reika's cause you look awfully like her", said the girl with a smile.

Azula and the others were speechless and just stood and watched. The girl then wiggled her toes and moved her legs and slowly placed her feet on the floor. Ari was still wearing the chest bindings but they looked as if they were ready to pop off due to the change in her breast size. Ari took hold of other objects and made her way behind a dressing screen and changed into her old clothes. When she stepped out she noticed the shirt was being held up by her new appendages and it now revealed her abdomen but the skirt and shoes still fit her right. She then went over and grabbed her sword and tied it to her waist.

"So where's Reika?", asked Ari. "What? Where? Who?", said Azula still quite not grasping what was going on.

"Never mind I'll look myself", said Ari with a little laugh. Ari made her way past the girls then stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed the whole temple and forest were gone. "Wha... What happened", croaked Ari falling to her knees.

"The Fire Nation is what happened", said Azula finally taking hold of the situation and walking over and smiling at the destruction.

"Everyone's gone", whispered Ari tears falling down her face. "Looks like the Fire Nation took no prisoners", said Ty Lee with a smile as she rolled over to Ari's side. "Everyone you know is, I'm guessing dead", said Mei making her way to Azula's side.

"Who are you then?", asked Ari jumping back from the girls.

"I am Azula Princess of the Fire Nation", said Azula with a evil smirk.

"Then your people are the ones who destroyed everything", said Ari with a growl. "Exactly", said Azula liking the expression on Ari's tear stained face.

"Then you will have to do", said Ari with a sigh.

"Do? Do for what?", asked Azula.

"For my revenge", said Ari using airbending to knock the girls back inside the room and then using earth bending put the girls up to there necks in rock and quickly made a new rock door for the entrance.

Ari sighed and made her way over to a burned tree and placed her hand on it making it start to turn back to life slowly. "You'll be returned to your old self soon enough", said Ari with a smile. Her smile soon faded at the sight of her once home. She sat on her haunches and placed her hand on the ground and different colors of flowers appeared over the ground.

"Now I find the Avatar", said Ari unaware of where to look for him. "I shall start...um...there", said Ari making her way to a smoke line up in the air. "Must be people there", said Ari.

Aang snapped his head over to his left quickly, "Aang what's wrong?", asked Katara with a worried expression. "I don't know but I have this weird feeling", said Aang grasping Appa's reins tightly.

"You're just hungry. It'll pass", said Sokka laying down and putting his hands behind his head.

"It's not that", said Aang looking over to a village down below.

"Well if you want we could go check it out", said Katara while stroking Momo who made himself comfortable in her lap.

"I think that would be best", said Aang yanking Appa's reins to the left. They soon landed in the village and walked around. "Still feel anything?", asked Sokka crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"A little", said Aang. "What a beautiful statue", said Katara. Aang and Sokka followed her gaze to a statue of a woman. The stautue had the woman with her hands reaching out with a big wave behind her and at her feet were fish.

"You like the statue?", asked a male voice. The gang turned around to see a old hunched over man with a cane smiling at them. "Yes, it this a waterbender?", asked Katara pointing to the statue. "No, this is Aria of the Light", said the man proudly. "Who?", asked Aang, "Aria, she's a goddess that lived by this very town. You see many, many years ago our village was suffering from a shortage of fish. Then Lady Aria came down with Avatar Roku and made a huge wave full of fish. An the village ate for a long time, but now the fish seem to have stopped coming again and the goddess is dead", said the old man sadly.

"Oh, how sad", said Katara looking down at her feet. "Anyway, my name is Veni", said the old man extending his hand to the group. Everyone shook it. "So you kids hungry?", asked Veni. "You bet!", said Sokka excitedly, "Then let me treat you all to a bowl of soup", said Veni with a warm smile. Katara, Aang, and Sokka followed the old man towards a restaurant.

Somewhere on the other side of the village...

Ari walked into the fishing village and smiled. "Maybe I can find some clues to Aang's whereabouts here", said Ari walking up to a merchant woman. "Hello Ms., do you have any information about the Avatar?", asked Ari. The woman just stared at Ari, "Umm, I'll take that as a no", said Ari slowing backing away from the woman. "It's you! Aria reincarnated!", said the woman excitedly drawing other villagers attention. "Um... yes I am?", said Ari quizzically.

"She has Aria's tiara", said a male villager.

"You've come to rescue us from famine", said the woman grabbing Ari's hands and bowing.

"I...Uh...", said Ari afraid of what to say. "Help us, you have been gone for so long and suddenly you return", said another voice.

"FINE I'LL HELP!", said Aria balling her fists and feeling them heat up. She calmed herself and looked as the villagers laughed with joy.

Ari stood at the end of a dock and sighed. 'These people have no idea how bad I am at the four basic bending elements', thought Ari as she readied herself for some waterbending.

Ari stuck her arms out and bended a huge ball of water. She grinned and her hands shook fiercely. Inside the water looked like a school of many fish.

"I did it!", said Ari excitedly. The villagers laughed and talked excitedly. Then all gasped, there wasn't a school of fish in the ball of water but a huge coy fish.

"Oh drat", said Ari as her hands gave out and the huge fish landed on her. The villagers ran over quickly to check on her. Ari poked her head out from under the fish and smirked.

Later that afternoon the other side of the village was buzzing with excitement. "What's going on?", asked Veni to a passing boy.

"It's the Lady Aria reincarnated! She's brought us a feast!", said the boy excitedly then running off to the other side of the village.

"Well I'm game for another feast", said Sokka who was about to walk out but was stopped by Katara.

"Look", said Katara pointing to some firebending soldiers who were following the excited crowd.

"Let's follow them", said Katara.

Mean while Ari was sitting at the head of a long table as the fish dinner was being passed around.

"Eat my lady", said a woman.

"Sure", said Ari grabbing a piece of fish and slowly biting it.

"Well what do we have here?", asked a gruff voice.

Ari looked up to see five firebending soldiers staring at the feasting villagers.

"This food looks great and my friends and I are very hungry", said the man with a smirk.

"Find your own food", said a man from the crowd.

"Yeah or deal with Lady Ari reincarnation of Goddess Aria of the Light", said another.

Ari stared at the soldiers her eyes wide. "Really? The reincarnation of a goddess", said the man. Ari nodded slowly. "Aria was said to be very powerful in all bending skills. So let's see that power", said the man readying himself for attack.

"Oh my! What do I do? I stand no chance against these soldiers! An I dare not use holy, or dark bending, because it'll drain me completely", thought Ari as she stared at the soldier. He jumped on the table and ran at her full force, fists flaming. Ari felt helpless her body unable to move.

"Take this!", yelled a voice. Ari just saw a flash of orange and yellow and the man was thrown into the ocean a few yards away. "The Avatar!", said the remaining soldier and ran at the boy.

"Avatar", said Ari slowly as she turned to see Aang and Katara using waterbending to knock the soldiers into the ocean. "Than you Avatar", said Veni as he bowed to Aang. "Your welcome, and goodbye", said Aang as he and his friends walked into the forest.

"Where's the Lady?", asked the villagers as the looked around and saw Ari nowhere in sight. Aang and the rest of the gang sat around their camp fire and talked.

"What's that?", asked Sokka turning to the forest readying his knife. Katara and Aang also readied themselves.

Then out the shadows comes a girl.

"Aang.. It's been so long", said Ari with a smile.

"Huh!", said Aang, Katara, and Sokka in unison.

Sorry so short but I'm really tired from all the TAKS testing. And sorry if this story is starting to suck.

Please no flames...