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Hey! Its chapter two! I made it really long! Well, really long on note book paper. Be happy. I wrote a lot of chapter three already.
I would like to thank my reviewers: sun&moon, AvatarRocks, Kayla, bender-babeEmotional-Break, Destiny, kendalltheanimefan, and JustPlainPeachy
ON WITH THE STORY!
Awake
"Hey, Elicia wake up!" Kayla had just woke up. Somehow they were on land lying by a fire.
"Mmmh..a few more minutes please!" "No! Wake up! We're in Avatar world!" Kayla could hardly keep her excitement to herself.
"WHAT!" Elicia yelled, clearly in shock.
"SHHH! We have to be quiet. We're alone right now and I don't know who or what wants us." "Ok!" "SHH! Remember to whisper!"
"Okay." Elicia said this time in a whisper. "Where are we?" Kayla repeated what she just said to Elicia. "Oh…Are you sure, Kayla?" "Yes I'm sure! I remember seeing Sokka and Katara before I fainted. I think Aang was there to because we landed on Aappa.
"You sure?" "Yeah, look over there," Kayla pointed to a big bison like animal, "see?"
"Whoa!" Elicia started to breathe heavily. "Calm down Elicia! This is no time for a spaz attack!" "Yeah," Elicia took a deep breath, "I think I'm better now."
"That's good. Are you hungry? I am, let's go find something to eat." "Good idea, Kayla. I see some bags over there by Aapa." "Okay, let's go." Kayla and Elicia quietly tip-toed towards Aapa to look through the bags.
They looked through the bags until, "Elicia! I found food!" "Yay!" Elicia walked over to Kayla.
"What do you think they are? Kayla?" "Crackers probably," Kayla took a bite, "they're good. Want some?"
Elicia took some of the crackers and began to eat. They were eating in silence until they heard some rustling in the bushes.
"What was that?" Kayla asked Elicia in a whisper.
"I don't know.."
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH OUR FOOD!" a boy dressed in blue shouted at them.
"Sokka! Don't you remember? They are the people that fell from the sky! What goes on in your brain?" A girl behind him scolded.
"But that's my foood!" Sokka whined. "Get over it. We will find more." The girl said.
"Hi, I'm Katara and this is my brother Sokka. We do have another friend around her somewhere. His name is Aang. May I ask what your names might be?"
"My name is Kayla. "Mine is Elicia." They answered. "Nice to meet you both," Katara elbowed Sokka, "Aren't we Sokka?"
"Y..yeah. Very nice." Sokka blurted out. "So. Where do you guys come from? You both are dressed in clothes I have never seen before and you both do sound different."
"Um…," Kayla turned to Elicia and whispered, "We can't tell them where we really come from! If we do they might freak out and not trust us."
"I think we should tell them Kayla," Elicia whispered back, "Lying and then having them find out the truth later could make them mad. Plus lying is just wrong."
"I guess you're right." Kayla turned back to Katara and Sokka. "It's a long story; we should probably wait until Aang gets back."
"Okay, we will wait." Katara said. Right after Katara replied Aang had jumped out behind some bushes.
"Guys I'm back, and I found somebody to help me learn fire bending!" he said happily.
"Aang! You can't trust a fire bender! Don't you remember that have tried to kill us multiple times! DO YOU!" Sokka yelled while becoming very red in the face.
"Do you remember the time Prince Zuko captured me! I thought I would never see you and Sokka again! Katara said with tears starting to fall down her face.
"Oh Katara, please don't cry! I remember it all, but I need to learn! I know I can trust this guy! I really do!" Aang took a deep breath preparing to keep on ranting.
"Okay! We understand! Just stop fighting." Elicia had had it with their fighting, it was useless, and people always get hurt.
"We're not fighting all three of them said at once.
"Who are you?" Aang asked because he had suddenly forgot all about the fight.
"My name is Elicia and this is my friend Kayla."
"Hey." Kayla couldn't really talk because the Avatar, THE AVATAR was standing right in front of her.
'Man…he is buff….' Aang's body had started to catch up to his real age. Now he looked about fifteen in stead of twelve.
"I guess if Aang says he is good he probably is. Aang you can bring him out." Katara said with a sigh.
"YEAH," Aang punched his fist in the air, "Rayne you can come on out!"
A tall boy that looked about sixteen or seventeen with pitch black hair and bright blue eyes walked out from behind the bushes Aang had previously jumped out of.
"It is true that you can trust me. I am opposed to the way the Fire Nation rules and their leaders. I wish to help your friend the, Avatar learn fire bending."
"Okay. But if he dares even look at my sister with a wrong look he will be dead." Sokka said.
Rayne just smirked. He was clearly capable of defeating Sokka any day, any time. "Sure. Your sister is safe with me.
'Wow…he is HOT! But I don't love him I love Aang. Maybe one day Aang will realize my feelings for him.' Katara thought with a sigh. Rayne smirked again; he clearly thought that sigh was for him.
"Hey! Don't forget about us! We need to tell our story now." Kayla said getting impatient.
"Yes, please. I think this is a great day for meeting new people." Katara said.
"Story time!" Elicia said in a little kid voice. People just stared.
"That…was weird." Sokka said. "You get used to it." Kayla said.
"DON'T INSULT ME PUNY HUMAN! I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!" Elicia said evilly then started laughing. Sokka gave her a scared look. Everybody laughed then, except Sokka of course.
"Aww. Sokka, don't be scared!" Elicia ran up to Sokka and gave him a big hug. 'Mmmm. He smells nice.' The hug seemed to last forever but it only lasted a minute because Sokka got embarrassed and pushed her away.
"Please don't do that again." he said while turning a brilliant shade of red.
"ELICIA!" "WHAT!" "STOP FLIRTING!" "Awww…" Sokka turned a darker shade of red.
"Enough. Tell us your story." Rayne said.
"I'm trying too. Katara is there any place we can sit down at?" Kayla asked.
"Yeah, over there." Katara pointed to some blankets by the fire.
"Okay," Everybody walked over to the blankets and sat down, "I don't know why we are here but I do know who everyone here except for Rayne is." There was silence.
"We come from a place called Kansas in the country America," More silence, "Elicia will you tell the story?"
"Okay, Kayla. What happened was my friends and I was watching this s how on T.V..."
Elicia was cut off by Aang asking a question, "What's a TV..?"
"That doesn't matter right now Aang. Let me finish my story! Anyways…everything was going fine until there was an earthquake. That was unusual because we don't get earthquakes, we get tornadoes, but we were fine. But suddenly this portal opened up and started to suck us into it. There was another friend with us but she couldn't reach us so she flew off into a different direction," Elicia paused, "I hope she is all right. Could you help us find her and help us get home?"
"Yes. I think we could." Aang said to answer her question.
"Oh thank you so much! Her name is Melanie, have any of you heard of were she could be?" Elicia asked.
"Hmm…Melanie. There was an incident of a girl falling from the sky and landing on the fire prince." Rayne said. Everybody but Rayne gasped.
"Then we must find her immediately! Anything could happen to her if she is with the prince!" cried Katara. She was starting to get a very worried look on her face.
"She will be all right. The prince wouldn't sink so low as to hurt a woman; he would only frighten her a little. She will be fine." Rayne said.
Aang came to Katara and gave her a hug, Sokka followed after. "You…you sure?" "Yes Katara, Rayne is sure and so am I." said Aang. Sokka squeezed his sister tighter, "Are you all right now?"
"Yeah." Katara said as Aang and Sokka let go of her. "So. Is anybody hungry?" everybody's hands went up. "Then let's find some fire wood to get this fire started." Katara said.
Suddenly Rayne threw in some twigs and branches in the fire pit and then used fire bending to start the fire. "Or you could just do that…"
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"Wake up! The prince wishes to interrogate you!" Melanie pretended to be asleep still. "WAKE UP NOW!"
"FINE! I'm awake!" Melanie yelled at the guard while trying to unzip her sleeping bag. She got out and continued with rolling up her sleeping bag while the guard watched her.
"Are you done yet?" the guard asked. "Yes. Take me to wherever."
The guard walked over the cell to open the door. As soon as the guard opened the door Melanie ran out as fast as she could. She saw stairs at the end of the all way so she ran up those to another level. She only got a couple feet until she ran into somebody who caught her right as she ran into him or her.
Melanie looked up at her captor slowly and thought, 'Crap.'
"Trying to get away are you? It was Prince Zuko. He was holding her by the shoulders a couple inches off the ground. "Nn...no," Melanie audibly gulped, "Just trying to get some fresh air."
"Right and I am a lowly peasant." Zuko said. "You're not?"
"No, I am not." Zuko set her down and quickly turned her around. Melanie felt something metal around her wrists. "Hey! You don't have to put hand cuffs on me! I promise I won't run away!" 'Who would want to? HE IS SO HOT! AGGH! NO! Don't think thoughts… he is the enemy!'
"I don't think I trust your word on that." Zuko wrapped a string of leather around her hand cuffs. "Follow me now," Zuko pulled on the string and started to walk away, "we are going to the conference room."
"Okay!" Melanie said. Zuko started to lead her up another level where it looked like the place the crew slept and ate, the last level looked like the place where food was kept with weapons and other things. The lowest level she guessed was for the prisoners and the animals. They reached the fourth level which was the deck. Zuko walked around until the found a short gray haired man.
"Uncle, I have the prisoner. Are you ready for interrogation?" 'Whoa! It's Iroh! I have always wanted to meet him!' Melanie thought with a smile. Iroh looked up and then Zuko looked at her.
"What are you smiling at? Is there a reason for you to be happy?"
"No, I am just smiling." Melanie replied this time with an even bigger smile.
"Zuko don't get mad. Let us go to the conference room now." Iroh turned around to go down the stairs they had just walked up. They walked down a hall and turned the corner to see a big door. Zuko opened the door to reveal a fair sized room with a big mahogany table and chairs and red walls.
Zuko walked to the table and pulled out a chair, "Sit." Melanie sat down.
"What is your name and who are you working for?" Zuko asked. "My name is Melanie and I work at Books-A-Million. I forgot my manager's name though…." 'Ha ha. I'm making him mad! Wait, I shouldn't do that, darn.'
"There is no such thing. Who are you working for?" Zuko said.
"Okay..okay! Sorry. I work for no one, okay? To make you feel better I'm no spy for any nation." Zuko looked liked his ego deflated a little.
Zuko asked another question, "Okay, what nation do you come from?"
"Umm…If I told you where I came from you probably wouldn't believe me. Plus you would think I'm crazy."
"Just answer my question." "Okay…but I really don't want t." Melanie said.
"TELL ME!" Zuko yelled. Melanie flinched, he was getting scary.
"Now Zuko you can't force her into telling you what you want. Stay calm."
"Your right, Uncle, but if a girl falls from the sky and lands on you would you stay calm!" Zuko took a deep breath while Iroh started at him.
"Do you feel better?" Zuko nodded his head.
"Good. Now maybe this girl has a good reason not to tell us where she is from," Iroh looked at Melanie, "Is there?"
"No. Not really. As I said you both wouldn't believe me and wouldn't understand what I would be saying. It also might make you go crazy. I will just say I am not from this world."
Iroh stared at Melanie with an angry look on his face. "Send her back to her cell." said Iroh.
'I thought he was nice! Guess not.' Melanie thought of a way to escape from going back to her cell for a while.
"Hey! I have to use the bathroom! There aren't any in the cell, unless you would want a woman to be degraded for using the corner!" Melanie yelled.
Iroh sighed. "Zuko, taker to the bathroom. But do not leave the door, she might try to escape."
"Yes, Uncle." Zuko got up and Melanie of course had to follow. Zuko and Melanie walked out of the conference room and down the hallway to find a bathroom.
Zuko knocked on the door. A muffled "Yes?" was heard through the door. "Well, we will have to wait. I don't know how pleasant it will be."
"But I have to go now!" Melanie said while thinking, 'Oh how I love to bother him.' She laughed evilly in her head.
"Too bad." Zuko said. "But I have to go really, REALLY bad. I don't know if I can hold it!" Zuko let out what sounded something like a growl.
"Aww…is the kitty getting mad?" Melanie reached up to pet his head but Zuko grabbed her hand.
"SHUT UP WOMAN! I have had enough of you! You will listen to me and do as I say. I am your master, do you understand that?" Zuko had become very angry.
"Y..yes sir." Melanie stuttered out. "Good."
Zuko and Melanie stood outside for a minute or more then a guy came out. "Good morning Prince Zuko." The soldier said then saluted him then walked away.
"Go." Melanie walked into the bathroom. Even though she didn't have to use the toilet she did anyways. Melanie then went to the sink to wash her hands. 'Hmm…is there anything useful in here for me?'
Melanie looked around and saw a cabinet in the corner so she walked over and opened it. 'Soap, comb, razor, toothbrushes, toilet paper, shaving cream stuff,' Melanie paused and thought for a second, 'I could take the soap, razor, comb, and t.p. Never know when he'll let me come back.'
Melanie took the items out of the cupboard and walked over to the mirror in front of the sink. 'Ahh! My hair is so messy!' Melanie's dark brown and came down past her shoulders a bit with bangs was all tangled and had hay in it. Melanie took the comb and ran it through her hair.
'Ahh..that's better. Do I have hair ties?' Melanie put her hands in her pajama pockets. She found one then put her hair up in a ponytail.
'Perfect.' Melanie then picked the soap up and ran it under the water to wash her face.
"Are you done yet!" Zuko was getting impatient. "Yeah, just one more minute!" Melanie yelled back. 'Men...'
Melanie then picked up some toilet paper and stuffed it in her pocket and took the shaving cream and wrote, 'MELANIE WAS HERE' with hearts and flowers around it on the mirror.
'That's a lot better.' She snickered evilly. "I'm done! I'm coming out!" Melanie opened the door to see Zuko staring strait at the spot where she was. Melanie walked over him and stuck her arms out; Zuko put the hand cuffs back on her.
"Let's go." Zuko pulled on the string hardly. "Ow! That hurt! I'm not a dog!"
"I know, dogs do what they are told and don't try to run away." "Oh…" They walked on.
"Zuko, how old are you? Is it all right if I ask?" "Sixteen. No more questions."
Zuko led Melanie down to her cell again, the same guard was there. "This time do not let her get away."
"Yes, sir." The guard said. "Good." Zuko then left. After Zuko left the guard handed Melanie a tray with a sandwich with jelly on it and a glass of water.
"I had the cook put a bit extra on for you because you are only a little girl." The guard said.
"Hey! I'm not a little girl!" the guard looked a little sad. "Oh, sorry, thank you for the food!" Melanie said with a smile.
The guard smiled back, he still looked a little sad though. Melanie took the tray over to where her sleeping bag was rolled up and sat down and took a few bites of the sandwich and drank some water.
"So, what is your name?" Melanie asked the guard. "Why?" he replied.
"Just though I'd make conversation, I'm really bored. Do you have anything I can—"
The guard stood up and left. 'That was rude.' Melanie shrugged it off and took a few more bites of her sandwich then started to feel dizzy and see black spots in front of her eyes.
'Whoa..What's going on?' Melanie felt like she was going to pass out. She heard somebody coming down the stairs; it was Prince Zuko with the guard behind him.
"What…what have you done to me?" was all she could get out before she fainted.
I don't know what Zuko's age is so if you know please tell me.
This was nine pages long! I hope you liked it! I already have most of chapter three written. I am going to wait a while before I post it though.
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