A/N I hope you liked my first chappie. This is, after all, my very first Fan Fic, so, plz review! Here we go with Chappie numero dos!
"I'll protect you." Aang whispered.
Katara blushed. She followed Aang, keeping close to him as they made their way toward the fire. Sokka was just a few feet behind them. As they drew nearer to the fire they saw a shape appearing through the darkness.
"What is that?" Sokka asked, breaking the silence.
"It looks kind of like, a tent…" Aang replied, trailing off.
They walked closer and saw that it was, in fact, a tent. It was rather small, appearing to only hold about one or two people. All was silent yet again.
"I wonder who's inside." Katara whispered. She sounded frightened.
Aang picked up the fear in her voice. "Don't be scared Katara." He whispered in her ear. "I'll protect you."
Katara smiled again. "Thanks, Aang."
Sokka noticed the two huddled together whispering back and forth. "Come on, lovebirds. We have a tent to investigate." He grinned his big Sokka grin again. Both Aang and Katara blushed bright red; Sokka could see it even through the darkness. He smiled.
Aang took the first step towards the tent's entrance, which was a small slit in the fabric where people could walk in and out. He cautiously looked around before taking a few more steps, then, deciding it was safe, motioned for the others to follow. Sokka walked forward, but stepped on a branch that was most likely going to be used for more firewood. It made a very loud cracking sound. Sokka mouthed the word "SORRY" to Aang and Katara, who had looked behind them to see what made the sound.
Suddenly, there was movement inside the tent. Aang and Katara looked at each other, and then threw dirty looks to Sokka, who was holding his foot, stretching his mouth open in pain.
"It was full of thorns!" He whispered hoarsely.
Aang and Katara rolled their eyes.
Aang held up his hand for his friends to stop, and they obeyed. Aang continued on to the front of the tent, where he heard very familiar voices. He ran back around to the back of the tent only to hear a hushed fight break out between Sokka and Katara.
"You know, you always do this!" Katara whispered.
"Do what?" Sokka asked, his voice cracking on the word "what".
"We can't be secretive with you around! You blow it every time!"
"Hm... I don't know, you and Aang were pretty secretive on the way ov- OW! Why did you hit me?"
"Stop talking about me and Aang! You're the real problem here!"
Aang figured this was a good time to come in. "I know who's in the tent!"
"Really? Who?" Katara asked, forgetting about her argument with Sokka.
"Zuko and Iroh!" Aang exclaimed.
"Isn't that a bad thing? They're Fire Benders." Sokka asked, confused at the smile spread wide across Aang's face.
"No!" Aang replied happily. "They can teach me to Fire Bend!"
"But they're Fire Benders! Fire + Bender + us BAD NEWS!" Sokka repeated.
"Yes, we know, you've already said that. Now be quiet and listen to Aang. Go on." Katara said with a smile.
"Don't you guys see? They've been cast out of the Fire Nation by Azula!" Aang said.
"How do you know?" Sokka asked.
"Who's Azula?" Katara asked over top of Sokka.
"I heard them talking about it. Azula is Zuko's sister." Aang replied. "So? Let's go guys!"
"Go where?" Sokka asked.
"Zuko has a sister?" Katara asked over top of Sokka again.
"To talk to them, of course. And, yes, Zuko has had a sister for his whole life. Come on!" And with that, Aang was off to the front of the tent again. Sokka had his mouth wide open, thinking, Man that kid really needs to listen more. He looked at Katara. She shrugged and followed Aang. Sokka had no choice but to follow Katara.
A/N Yea, I know, this one was kind of boring and.. But I promise in the next chapter, they will meet up with Zuko and Iroh and all that jazz… plz review! I beg of you! ;p; jk but seriously, review...
