A/N: Well here's chapter Three! R&E!
Disclaimer: I own Dani and the plot. Nothing else.
Take my hand dear friend, and lead me from this place. Chase away my doubts and fears, Wipe the tears off of my face.
Chapter Three: The Weirdest Family
Dani yawned. They had been flying for two days straight. They were all tired, not to mention hungry.
"Guys when are we gonna land? I'm starving!" Sokka (naturally) said.
"Oh you'll live Meathead." Dani snapped getting more and more aggravated with the water tribe boy every minute.
"We're almost there anyway. Please just stop fighting." Aang said from his place on Appa's head.
"Aang, before we get there there's something we need to talk about." Katara said, trying to change the subject.
"What is it?"
"The Fire Nation is ruthless, they killed my mother, they could have done the same to your people.
"Just because no one's seen an Airbender for a hundred years doesn't mean the Fire Nation killed them all."
"You don't understand-" Katara began.
"No you don't understand. The only way to get to an Air temple is on a flying bison, and I doubt the Fire Nation has any flying bison."
"Well, I just want you to be prepared for what you might see."
Later…"There it is! The Southern Air Temple."
"Wow, Aang it's amazing!" Katara said, craning her neck to get a better view of the huge temple.
"Its beautiful." Dani said.
"Do you think there's any food there?"
Later…Appa landed at the Air Temple and Aang started running around everywhere, leaving Katara, Sokka, and Dani to unpack. Dani was walking past the giant fluffy monster carrying sleeping bags when the bison let out a giant sneeze, covering her with green goo.
"EWW!" She yelled, "That is GROSS! EWW, EWW EWWWW!"
"It'll come out." Aang said finally coming to help them. Then Sokka burst into laughter. Katara and Aang soon joined him and Dani, realizing how ridiculous she must look began to laugh as well.
Later…"You're one of the first outsiders to ever see an Air Temple and all you can think about is food?" Katara was saying to her pigheaded brother.
"Hey I'm just a simple guy with simple needs."
"And that's were me and my friends would play Air Ball, and over there is where the bison slept and…" Aang sighed.
"What's wrong Aang?"
"It's just that this place used to be filled with monks and lemurs and bison, now there's just a bunch of weeds.
"So, this Air Ball game, how do you play?"
Later…"Wow," Dani said to Katara, "This is the first nice thing I've ever seen Sokka do."
"Well, he is a nice guy once you get to know him, like I said, it will just take him a while to trust you. I would have thought he'd of learned his lesson with Aang, but he can be stubborn sometimes."
"Sometimes?" Dani laughed. She shook her head and looked around at the boys.
"Aang seven, Sokka zero." Aang said happily.
"Making him feel better is putting me in a world of hurt." Sokka groaned.
"Well that's what you do for you friends." Dani told him.
"Hey you guys, check this out." Sokka said, sounding much more serious now.
"Fire Nation." Dani whispered, staring at the mask half covered with snow. It had a sense of foreboding about it. Just looking at it there made them shiver.
"Hey Aang…there's something you need to see."
"What is it?" Aang asked, but before he could get close enough Katara took pity on him and cover the mask (as well as Dani and Sokka) with snow.
"Just a new waterbending move I learned."
"Nice one, but enough practice we have a whole temple to see."
Sokka and Dani were digging themselves out of the snow with looks that said 'why did you do that?'
"You know, you can't protect him forever."
Katara just followed Aang without saying another word. Sokka and Dani looked at each other as Katara's back was turned.
"What happens when Aang figures it out himself?" Dani asked hesitantly.
"I don't know, let's just hope we never find out."
They got up and followed the other two who were standing at a statue.
"Sokka, Dani, there's someone I want you to meet. Monk Gyatso. He was my teacher and guardian person." As Aang got a look of far away memory on his face Sokka went to snap him out of it, but Dani and Katara pulled him back.
"Just let him have a minute. Take some time to look around you, this place is incredible." Dani whispered to him.
Later…
"LEMUR!"
"Dinner!"
Katara and Dani smacked their foreheads as the guys both started chasing the little white lemur.
"Ten to One says Aang beats Sokka by a mile." Dani said
"Well, I don't know, Sokka's pretty hungry and he will do some extreme things to get food. Look at all these statues. I can't believe that Aang had all these past lives."
"Yeah," said Dani, getting up. "I wonder if he can remember anything from any of them, maybe that could help him learn the elements faster."
"I don't think so, I've read about this before, each life is like the other ones never happened." Katara explained.
"That is just so weird."
"Hey, look at Roku, his eyes are glowing!"
"Aang!" The two girls said together.
They ran out the way Sokka and Aang had and in a side room they found the two of them. Aang was glowing and Sokka looked scared to death.
"It's his Avatar Spirit! He must have triggered it!" Katara yelled over the wind that the Avatar was creating. "I'm going to try to calm him down."
"Well do it before he blows us off the mountain!"
Katara got as close as she could to the Airbender and started talking to him, "Aang! I know this is hard; I went through the same thing when I lost my mom. But you still have a family! Sokka, Dani, and I, we're your family now."
Aang lowered to the ground and stopped glowing. They ran to him as soon as they knew he was all right.
"We're not gonna let anything happen to you." Sokka said, putting his hand on the younger boys shoulder.
"Well, this is certainly one weird family." Dani said looking at all of them, "The Avatar, a Water Tribe girl, a Meathead, and-"
"And a Hippie from the Earth Kingdom." Sokka finished.
"And don't forget the flying bison." Katara added.
That was when the lemur came back holding a bunch of fruit which he put in front of Sokka like some kind of offering.
"Looks like you've made a new friend Sokka."
"Can't talk, must eat."
Later…"Well everyone, I'd like you to meet the newest member of our family." Aang said holding out the lemur.
"The family that just keeps getting weirder." Dani muttered.
"What are you gonna name him?" Katara asked. Just then the lemur jumped from Aang's arm to Sokka and back again, but this time he had Sokka's fruit. Everyone (except Sokka) laughed at this.
"Momo." Aang said.
So they all climbed on to Appa and set out again for much more adventure awaits them.
TBC
Quick Quote:
"My life will be calm and happy and joyful!" (Kicks rock, comes back and hits him) "OW! That doesn't prove anything!"
-Sokka (The Fortune Teller)
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Preview of Chapter Four:
"So do I. I cannot think of anything other than weapons that we have here that is of any value, but then again, weapons might be the worst thing to give them. But either way, she is a girl. No girl will steal from me and get away with it."
