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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Book 2: Earth

THE COMPANION

Chapter 10: Ghosts

Ananda woke up and groaned. She HATED having visions. Some were okay, but the severe ones left her tired and worn out. She usually had a headache afterward too. Then the feeling struck her. Something wasn't quite right. But as she was looking around the room, she couldn't find anything out of place. Then she looked down. "OH!" she exclaimed. She was floating above her body. She was a spirit looking at herself sleeping peacefully on a bed. It's funny, she didn't even remember being moved. "It must have been those nice guards." She smiled and tried to focus on returning to her body. However, there was some sort of sheild preventing her from entering. "That's weird." she said to herself. This hardly ever happened and whenever it did, she was always able to return. Instead of panicing though, she just shrugged and went exploring.

The first place she went was to check on Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Hachi. She needed to know if they were okay or not. As soon as she thought of them, her spirit or whatever was suddenly in the world of mirrors with them. "Aang are you okay?" she heard Katara ask.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just another memory." he told her. "But you know, the thing that bugs me the most is, she played such a big part in my life, and I can't even remember her. Why can't I remember her?" He asked Katara, looking strait into her eyes.

"I don't know Aang. You'll get you're answers once we find her again." She told him. Ananda smiled at the two. She always knew Aang liked this girl. He could never hide anything from her. She had always been able to read him like an open book. At first she was sad, but then she was happy for him, for both of them. Katara didn't like him back yet, but she didn't need a vision to tell her that in time, she would.

"We all come to love Aang eventually." She said to herself kind of sadly. Then Hachi came up to her. She should have known Hachi would be able to sense her. She is a dog after all. She smiled and knelt down to stroke her dear friend. "Hey girl," she said in a gentle, soothing voice. "Are you lost?" The dog whimpered in reply. Ananda smiled at her and reassured her. "Don't worry girl, I'll get you all out. You did so good." Then she kissed the dog's head, and that set the dog off. She barked, whimpered, then laid down and began rolling around.

"Uh, guys? Something's wrong with Hachi." Sokka told them.

The two came running over to see what was wrong. "Sokka, what did you do?" Katara accused.

"Nothing! Why do you always blame me?" He yelled at his sister.

Aang just knelt down next to the creature and pet her. Then when he looked up, he saw Ananda! He was so relieved, he wanted to just run and hug her. But she just looked at him with a sly grin on her face and put a finger up to her lips, signaling him to keep quiet. Then she winked at him and knelt down next to Hachi.

"She'll be alright. Just give her a minute." Aang told his friends. Sure enough, Hachi recovered within a few seconds. "See? All better."

"Good. Now lead us outta here!" Sokka told her. The dog just growled at him and he backed down. "Sorry, sorry! Can you please lead us outta her?" He asked kind of sarcastically.

"Come on Hachi," Ananda told her, "let's lead them out of here." She smiled at her dear friend. Then they began walking.

As it turns out, they weren't that far from the exit. They only walked about five more minutes until they came to a mirror that showed them a small town in one of the earth kingdoms.

"Go on Hachi, keep them company until I can join you. Can you do that?" The dog tried to lick her, but she was just a spirit so it didn't work out too well.

Once everyone was out safely, Aang turned around and looked through the mirror. "Thank you Ananda." He saw an image of her smiling but it only lasted a second until it was gone. He just hoped she was okay. Then he and his friends turned to continue on their journey.

*knock knock knock*

"Come on in." Ananda called in a sweet, welcoming voice. She was sitting at a mirror brushing her hair when Iroh walked in.

"Uncle Iroh!" She exclaimed and jumped up to give the old man a hug.

"I came to make sure you were alright. You gave us quite a fright before." His concern was very touching, but Ananda just shrugged it off.

"Oh of course I'm alright. I always am." But something about the smile she gave him told him she was hiding something, something sad.

"So, what exatly was that before?" He asked her.

She looked at him, completely serious. "Do you really want to know? Are you absolutely sure? Because even you are smart enough to know that a pain like that always means something bad."

He gazed back at her unsure at first, then certain. "Yes. What happened?" He asked concern still clearly present in his voice.

She smiled, then gestured for him to sit down. "Very well, sit down and I'll tell you." They both took a seat and she began.

Author's Note:

I'm sorry, I know this isn't my best chapter, but I'll make the next one better. At least I'll try. Reviews and stuff are appreciated, so a very big thank you to everyone who has:-) Also, let me know what you want to see happen in the story. I'm not completely sure where in season 2 I should have this pick up, so if you could give me some ideas that would be great:-)