A/N: Hey it's Summer again! You might have read another of my fics That Was Then. I hope you enjoy this one!
It is set when Aang is on Zuko's Ship for the first time. When he is escaping to be exact. Just so you don't get confused.
R&E!( Read & Enjoy)
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender, Nick does. I do however own this plot line and my OC.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Chapter One: The 'Individualist'
"What is that?" The confused prince of the Fire Nation asked as he looked up to see something big and furry flying directly towards his ship. All of his men were currently busy trying to re-capture the escaped prisoner – the Avatar.
But Aang was not the only prisoner to escape in that few minutes of chaos. As Appa landed on the deck of the ship Sokka saw a girl of about fifteen run out from below deck. She looked as though she could be from the Earth Kingdom, she had the tan skin and straight black hair, but she was not dressed like an Earth Kingdom girl. She wore baggy blue pants, a bright yellow tight fitting shirt, a green jacket that didn't cover her stomach but had long sleeves, a purple bandana was tied around her head, and a very fat orange belt hung across her hips though her pants had no belt loops. She also had on a couple beaded necklaces and bangles on her wrists. He also noticed a pair of Dao Broadswords strapped across her back. There was no time to worry about her however, there was some Fire Nation heads to knock.
Later…The three of them were flying away from the somewhat destroyed Fire Navy Shipwhen Sokka suddenly remembered the girl he had seen earlier.
"Aang, was there an Earth Kingdom girl in the prison hold while you were down there?"
"Well, I never actually got down there, why?" Aang answered with a raised eyebrow.
"I saw a girl running out from below deck as we landed. She looked like she didn't belonged there, like she was a captive or something."
"So she was Earth Kingdom?" Katara asked.
"Well, I couldn't tell. She had the same skin tone and hair, but she didn't dress like Earth Kingdom. She had a bandana around her head and some weird necklaces and lots of bracelets."
"Maybe she was an individualist." Katara said defensively.
"Finally someone gets it!" Said a voice out of nowhere.
"Ahhh! Who was that?" Sokka said, grabbing his boomerang.
"The 'Individualist'." A girl said, poking her head up through their pile of stuff.
"Where did you come from?" Sokka said, looking rather ridiculous with his boomerang still in mid-throw.
"From the Fire Navy ship. You saw me apparently. They raided my village looking for the Avatar. When I told him that the Avatar was dead and to leave our village alone, he kidnapped me and said he could use another servant on his ship. But luckily your friend there caused enough commotion that I was able to sneak out and onto Fluffy here." The green-eyed girl answered.
"So where are you heading?" Aang asked the strange girl.
"Anywhere. I don't care as long as it's away from those creeps."
"Can we take you back to your village?"
"I don't think so, besides I wouldn't want to slow you down."
"Hey, do you wanna travel with us? It would be nice to have another girl." Katara asked hopefully.
"Sure. Where are we going?"
"Well Aang needs to master water, then earth, then fire right?" Katara asked in Aang's direction.
"That's what the monks told me."
"Well, if we go to the North Pole you could master waterbending!"
"We could learn it together!"
"And Sokka, I'm sure you'll get to knock a few Firebender heads on the way."
"I would like that, I would really like that."
"Then we're in this together."
Later…"Oh yeah, what's your name anyway?" Aang asked the up-til-now nameless girl.
"Danielle, but you can call me Dani for short, who are you're friends?"
"This is Katara, and that's Sokka."
"Howdy." Dani said in their direction. All she got back though was a small smile from Katara.
"Please excuse my brother," She said, gesturing at Sokka, "It takes him awhile to trust new people."
"No worries. I know people like that too. So anyway, do we know how to get to the North Pole?"
"Sure." Said Aang coming over with a map. "But before we learn waterbending, we have some serious business to attend to here, here, and here…"
TBC
Quick Quote:
"The only thing better than finding something you were looking for is finding something you weren't looking for at a great bargain."
-Iroh (The Waterbending Scroll)
A/N: I hope you like it so far! Please review they are always greatly appreciated even if they are flames. More to come soon!
Preview of Chapter Two:
On the ship she went by Auralee, but everywhere else she was know as The Pirate Princess. No one but her ship mates new her real name, and she didn't plan on letting anyone else in on the secret. Names were a powerful thing. She had learned that the hard way.
