Tora Hates Pirates

Sorry for the wait. I'm really getting into my other fanfic, so I haven't written anything for Blue lately.

Disclaimer: Does anyone even read this anymore?

The village we found was... rough, to say the least. I had to constantly keep a hand on my sword hilt to let the violent looking men know that if we were provoked, I would give them several new scars. And not all of them would be in places you'd want them to be.

"Okay, we've got three copper coins left from the money King Bumi left us." Sokka said, coming out of a store that sold fruits and vegetables. "We should spend it wisely."

"Better make that two copper coins, Sokka." Aang said, smiling innocently. "I couldn't say no to this whistle!" He produced a white whistle from behind his back. It was shaped a lot like Appa, which I found odd. He blew into it, and I raised an eyebrow when there was only a high pitched noise. Momo's fur stood up, and he hissed violently.

"You're not allowed to hold the money anymore." I grumbled, snatching the bag of money away from him.

"Yeah, you wasted one coin on some stupid whistle that doesn't even work!" Sokka said in annoyance. "Even Momo agrees with me."

We were both pretty annoyed from the wave incident earlier.

~~Water~~

We walked along the dock, pretty much ignoring all of the vendors that were calling out to us. At least, until one guy with weird lips, greasy looking long hair, and earrings called after us. "Earth Nation! Fire Nation! Water Nation! So long as bargains are your inclination, you're welcome here! Don't be shy, come on buy!"

I let out a groan when he ran over to us. He told us that from our clothing, he could tell we were "world travelling types". He told us that the ship he was working at had an assortment of exotic curio's.

"Sure!" Aang said cheerfully, then confused. "What's a 'curio'?"

The man paused for a moment. "I'm not sure, but we got 'em!"

I groaned again. We don't have time for this.

"Come on, guys! It'll be fun!" Aang called, already walking toward the ship.

"Might as well." Katara shrugged, following him.

"They might have a boomerang collection." Sokka said thoughtfully, then followed. I sighed, then ran after them.

Inside the ship were several weird objects. Aang was looking at a variety of knick-knacks, Katara was practically being hypnotized by a creepy monkey with ruby eyes and necklace, Sokka was inspecting some weird looking weapons. I, on the other hand, was not looking at anything. I was standing in the middle of the room, just glancing around at everything. There was something about this ship that set me on edge. I don't know what it was, but I didn't like it. Trying to ignore it, I walked over to Sokka.

"Do you even know how to use that?" I asked him when he picked up a bola.

"No."

"Then what's the point at looking at it?"

"Ever heard of 'practice makes perfect'?"

Then he tried to throw it, before one end of the bola caught his ankle, and he tripped right on his face. I shook my head and laughed, before a male's voice intruded.

"That's a good sword. Very well crafted. I could give you a good price for it, if you're interested in a trade?" I turned around and saw an old guy, dressed in purple with a large feathered pirate hat, and a green reptile bird on his shoulder. He was staring at the sword at my waist with a hungry look in his eye.

"It's not for sale." I said coldly, placing a hand over the scabbard.

"You sure?"

"Absolutely."

He smirked, before turning to Aang and eyeing Momo. "I've never seen such a specimen of lemur. The beast would-"

"Momo's not for sale either." I interrupted, walking over to the Avatar and shielding him from the man. We had an intense staredown, before Katara called Aang over.

"Look at this, Aang! It's a waterbending scroll!" I made this an excuse to break the stare-down and follow Aang as he walked over to Katara. Peering over their shoulders, I saw that it was, indeed, a waterbending scroll. It was painted with a bunch of fancy looking moves, along with characters on the sides. It said "First form, second form, third form" and so on.

"Check out all these crazy waterbending moves!" Katara exclaimed, her eyes shining.

"Nice find!" I commented, grinning at it.

"Where'd you get a waterbending scroll?" Aang asked the man with the hat.

He snatched it from Katara's hand and rolled it up, smirking. "Let's just say I got it from up North, for a fair price - free!" He put the scroll back in the rack, and I saw Katara staring at it desperately.

"Wait a minute... sea loving traders... with suspiciously acquired merchandise... and pet reptile birds! You guys are pirates!" Sokka yelled, pointing accusingly at the weird lips guy. Only, he did it like he had accused the guys of some huge crime, like he was at a trial. It was kind of ridiculous.

The weird lips guy put an arm around Sokka's shoulders. "We prefer to think of ourselves as high-risk traders." He corrected.

I rolled my eyes. When Katara asked how much the 'traded' scroll was, the Pirate guy said the price was two-hundred gold coins. Then Aang started 'haggling', if that's what it could be called, because he was offering two copper coins in exchange for a scroll that was two hundred gold coins.

I turned around, ready to leave, when I caught Katara red-handed.

She was stuffing the waterbending scroll into her sleeve, glancing around while she did it. Katara is not a good thief.

When she saw me staring at her, her eye's widened in panic. We stared at each other for a moment or two, before I walked toward the door, whispering in her ear quickly as I passed by her. "Be quick." Out loud, I said, "I'll wait back at the campsite for you guys, alright?"

"Hey, girl, come back if you decide to trade in that sword of yours!" That annoying weird lipped guy yelled at me as I left.

"Not likely!" I yelled back.

I was only a few metres away from the ship, and my uneasy feeling was starting to fade when I heard the sound of yelling. I spun around, and saw the others sprinting away from a bunch of pirates, all of whom had exotic looking weapons.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?" I yelled, starting to run as well. "WHAT DID AANG BREAK?"

"HEY!" Aang yelled defensively.

As we ran, I heard them yelling at us to "get back there"- which we obviously ignored. We turned down an alley, and when I glanced over my shoulder, I saw that there were less pirates than before. As we turned a corner, Katara waterbended some water from a stall nearby onto the ground and froze it, making an ice sheet. Some of the pirates slipped and stopped following us, while most of them kept in pursuit. We passed a cabbage cart (and, I swear, it was the same guy from Omashu) which Aang sent flying with airbending. As we ran off, I heard the guy yell, "MY CABBAGES! This place is worse than Omashu!"

Huh. So it was the guy from Omashu.

"SORRY!" I yelled at him, but kept running. The cabbage cart had taken out a lot of the pirates, but there were still some very persistent ones that followed. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" I screamed at the pirates.

We turned down another alley, only to find the rest of the pirates blocking our path. "I hope that lemur of yours has nine lives, boy!" The pirate captain yelled.

We spun around quickly and ran down the other way, only to find it was a dead end. Damn.

"Who wants to taste my blades first?" The weird lips guy asked, wielding the double swords.

"No thank you!" I said sweetly, before I firebended a tunnel of sorts at them, then leapt toward them over the fire, fists covered with the element. While they backed away, I firebended blasts at them. As they kept backing up, I yelled, "Come on, go! While they're distracted!"

He nodded, before opening his glider. As he started running forward, gathering momentum, the Water Tribe siblings ran after him. When Aang passed me, I started running as soon as I was next to Katara and Sokka. When Aang jumped, Katara and Sokka jumped as well, but I kept running.

"Tora, get on! What are you waiting for?" Sokka yelled at me.

I flapped my hand at him, not taking my eyes off the pirates. "Just keep going! I'll take care of 'em"

Aang nodded, and sucked in a breath, before letting out a huge gust of air down at the ground, sending them into the sky. I kept running across the ground toward the pirates. The weird lips guy, after he organized himself, readied a sword. As I neared him, he held it like he was going to swing it. When I was right in front of him, he swung it at my legs.

I jumped, high into the sky, to avoid it. Then when I came back down, I grinned evilly at him with narrowed eyes. As I plummeted down, they all stared up at me, and I used this to my advantage when the weird lips guy looked up as well. I landed directly on his face, and used it as a platform, and jumped into the sky again. Hitting his face gave me enough momentum to leap over the rest of the pirates, all of whom watched me leap over them in amazement.

As soon as I hit the ground, I kept running, with the others flying above me. "Tora, get on!" Katara yelled down at me, sounding panicked.

"I'll lead them off! Don't worry about it!" I yelled at them. "Just head back to the camp!"

I stopped as soon as I hit the end of the alley, and I looked down the alleys on either side. Thankfully, none of the other pirates had caught up to me yet. I turned around, held my hands up in the air, and yelled, at the top of my lungs, "I HAVE A THOUSAND GOLD COIN BOUNTY ON MY HEAD!"

It wasn't true, of course, but none of the pirates needed to know that. Besides, if I got caught by the Fire Nation, I would have a bounty put on my head. Traitors to the Fire Nation always have a huge amount of prize money if their captured.

And anyway, it got the pirates to forget about the others. Instantly, they were chasing after me, and I sprinted away.

~~Water~~

About half an hour later:

Breathing heavily, I leaned over, trying to catch my breath as I hid from the pirates. Damn, those guys didn't give up. They managed to avoid all the fire I had thrown at them, not to mention outsmarted all the waterbending tricks I threw at them.

I heard them run past the place where I was hiding. As soon as I was sure they had gone, I slowly got up, looked both ways, and then ran off, hoping to Spirits that none of them saw me. And that they hadn't caught the others. That wouldn't be good.

Hopefully, Katara hadn't gotten into too much trouble when Sokka found out she had stolen the scroll.

~~Water~~

Zuko stood in the street, his arms crossed over his chest, a scowl on his face. He was waiting for Iroh to come back from his hunt for his Lotus Tile. I hate that lotus tile so much right now.

He was so busy stewing angrily in his thoughts he didn't notice his uncle come up to him until he spoke. "I've checked all the stalls on this dock. Not a single White Lotus tile in the entire marketplace."

"It's good to know this whole trip has been a waste of time for everyone!" Zuko almost yelled in frustration.

"Actually, I always say the only thing better than finding something you were searching for," Iroh began, and Zuko saw the crew members walking back to the ship, all of them carrying some sort of merchandise. Zuko considered it junk. "Is finding something that you weren't searching for - for a great bargain!"

Zuko saw one of the crew members carrying a brass instrument. "You bought a Tsungi horn?"

"For music night on the ship!" Iroh explained. He started wandering off somewhere, with Zuko following after a moment. A second later, Iroh had discovered a ship with a sign on the front that said, Earth Nation! Fire Nation! Water Nation! So long as bargains are your inclination, you're welcome here! Don't be shy, come on buy!

Oh, Spirits, no. Zuko thought in a panic when he saw his uncle's face light up when he saw the ship.

Sure enough, Iroh suddenly yelled, "This place looks promising!" and ran over to the ship like an excited little kid... that wasn't so little anymore.

Zuko raised an eyebrow when he saw his uncle smile when they were faced with a monkey statue with ruby eyes and ruby necklace. If he was being honest, it was a little disturbing. Iroh instantly picked it up and began to inspect it carefully, looking like he had found the answer to world peace.

Right as Zuko was about to walk out, he heard one of the staff members say, "We lost the Water Tribe girl, and that little bald monk she was travelling with. And that damn girl with the sword nearly broke my nose!"

As if he hadn't heard the last part, he walked over to the men. "The monk, did he have an arrow on his head?"

Behind him, Iroh imitated the monkey's face almost perfectly, and made the sound a monkey would make.

~~Water~~

After about another half hour of walking and running, I managed to find the campsite. Thankfully, none of the others looked like they had been cut apart with a pirate sword. Katara was standing on the river bank, Aang was holding the waterbending scroll up for her to see, and Sokka was sharpening his boomerang.

As I got closer, I heard katara was yelling something. "WHY CAN'T I GET THIS STUPID MOVE?!"

Aang said something I couldn't hear, and did a waterbending move perfectly. Then, as he was saying something else that I couldn't hear, Katara started yelling at him again. When I was finally got close enough to hear, all I heard was, "- since you're so naturally gifted!"

"Hey, everybody!" I called cheerfully. "What's going on?"

No answer. Not even from Aang. Who, now that I was looking at him, I realized what staring at Katara with a tearful eyes and a scared expression. Suddenly, as Katara looked at him, she started apologizing, and ended up handing the waterbending scroll to him.

"It's okay, Katara." Aang said. And it sounded like he meant it, though his face was still a little upset.

"What just happened?" I asked, turning around as I looked for someone to give me answers.

It seemed like everyone had just now realized that I was there. "Tora!" Aang exclaimed, throwing his arms around me in a hug. "You got away!"

"Yep, I did!" I said cheerfully, hugging him back and smiling. "So, someone care to explain what just happened?" I looked up at Katara, who was now looking a little guilty, and Sokka who looked relieved that I was okay.

"Nothing. Just some tensions running high." Katara said, glancing around.

"Alright." I said, not believing her in the slightest. "So!" I clapped my hands together as Aang released me. "What's for dinner?"

~~Water~~

Zuko stood on the deck of the pirate ship, with the pirate captain standing next to him. Both of them were staring intently at the river in front of them. His crew was on a smaller riverboat behind them.

"Shouldn't we check the forest?" The captain asked.

Zuko nearly sighed at the man's question. "They stole a waterbending scroll, correct?"

The captain nodded and made a noise, confirming Zuko's question.

"Then they'll be near water."

The captain nodded and disappeared into the part of the ship that held all the stolen goods.

Iroh appeared on the deck a moment later. "Do you think the Avatar has found my lotus tile?"

"UNCLE!"

~~Water~~

Katara slowly slipped out of her sleeping bag, and pulled the waterbending scroll out of Aang's bag. She glanced guiltily at Aang's sleeping form, then backed away and turned around. Only to be met with a pair of golden eyes.

"Tora?" Katara gasped. She glanced at Tora's sleeping bag, only to find it empty.

"What are you doing Katara?" Tora asked, sounding tired.

"I- I was just-"

"Sneaking off with the scroll so you could practice waterbending, even though you told Aang it was his and you said you didn't want anything to do with it anymore." Tora finished for her.

Katara struggled to say something, before she finally sighed and her shoulders slumped. "Yeah."

"I know why you're doing it." Tora said, crossing her arms. "You're jealous. You're frustrated that Aang is better at waterbending than you, when you've been struggling along with it for your entire life."

"How do you know that?" Katara demanded, looking defiantly at the fifteen year old.

"Because that's exactly how I felt when I started teaching you when I first came to the Water Tribe." Tora admitted, shrugging her shoulders. Katara's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open a fraction. "Remember how I taught you a few moves I had made up myself?" She nodded. "Well, you figured them out so fast. Faster than I did. It made me feel... pretty bad." Tora rubbed her arms.

"Really?" Katara asked in surprise. When Tora nodded, Katara glanced at Aang's sleeping form. "I guess what frustrates me is that Aang hasn't ever tried waterbending before, but he's so good at it. Why is that?"

"He's the Avatar. He's mastered waterbending thousands of times before. And he'll do it again. But there will be an element he struggles with." Tora said. She smiled at the younger girl. "Go practice. I won't stop you. I just wanted to tell you that."

Katara smiled at the firebender. "Alright."

Tora watched her friend walk off toward the river, and got back into her sleeping bag, feeling a lot better than she had earlier.

~~Water~~

My eyes shot open, and I sat up straight. I glanced over at Katara's sleeping bag, only to find it empty. After a moment of panic, I remembered she had been practicing with it.

She probably just lost track of time. I promised myself. I turned toward Sokka and Aang, only to find their sleeping bags empty as well.

Can I panic now? I asked myself.

Yes.

"Where'd you guys go?!" I yelled, but only so loud that it echoed for a moment around the campsite. The silence was unnerving. Then, a familiar chittering filled the air, and I saw Momo flying in circles above me.

"Hey, Momo. D'you know where they are?" I asked him. The lemur flew down and perched on the ground in front of me. He tilted his head to the left, then flew off in that direction. I stood still for a moment, before following. What do I got to lose?

I pushed back several branches, walked between several trees, and nearly got hit with an acorn dropping from the trees before I found where everyone was.

Katara was tied to a tree, with Zuko, Iroh, and the rest of Zuko's crew standing in front of her.

Aang and Sokka were tied up and standing in the centre of a group of... pirates.

Damn them to hell. I thought, growling.

"This is all my fault, Aang. I'm sorry." Katara apologized.

"No it isn't, Katara." Aang said immediately.

"Yeah, it kind of is." Iroh commented, making Katara give him a weird look.

Well played, old man. I thought, smiling. It seems Iroh hadn't lost his sense of humor, even with being around his nephew, the most depressing guy I had ever met.

"Give me the boy." Zuko ordered, bringing my attention back to Prince Downer.

"You give us the scroll first." The Pirate guy said. I nearly scoffed in annoyance.

"You're really gonna hand over the Avatar for that stupid scroll?" Sokka demanded, making it sound like the idea was insane. Which it was.

Zuko pointed at Sokka furiously. "Don't listen to him! He's trying to turn us against each other."

I decided to watch and wait for everything to play out. Hopefully, a fight would start soon.

"Your friend is the Avatar?" Pirate guy asked Sokka.

"Sure is, and I'll bet he'll be worth a lot more on the black market than some piece of parchment." Sokka answered. I smirked. I could see what he was doing. Smart move, buddy boy...

"Shut up, you water peasant!" Zuko yelled furiously. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, Sokka, you should really shut up..." Aang sort of sang, looking at Sokka like he was insane.

Sokka continued, ignoring the other two completely. "I'm just saying, it's bad business. The Fire Lord would pay a thousand sacks of gold coins for the Avatar. You guys would be set for life!"

The Pirate guy stepped forward and pointed at Zuko. He said that Zuko could keep the scroll, 'cause Aang would be worth a lot more than the scroll. They turned around and started walking off.

"You'll regret breaking a deal with me!" Zuko snarled. I watched in amusement as a battle started, and I used the distraction to slip across the ground and over to where Katara was tied up. She gasped when she saw me, and nearly shouted my name, but I put a finger against my lips to let her know to be quiet. Then I used firebending to burn her ropes off.

"Thanks. I owe you one." She smiled at me.

"Yeah, you totally do." I agreed, before unsheathing my sword and running into the dust cloud that Aang had formed around the battle between the pirates and Zuko's firebenders. To be honest, I don't remember most of the fighting. Mostly because it seemed like there was none, because we couldn't see anything. I'll bet you anything, most of the time those guys were fighting, they were fighting their allies instead of their enemies.

Over the noise of the fighting, I heard Sokka yelling. "Aang, where are you?"

"I'm over here! Follow my voice!" Aang yelled. He sounded really close.

"Where? I can't see you!"

"I'm over here!" Aang yelled (his voice even louder than before) , before airbending the dust cloud away, revealing the fact that I had my sword against his throat and the pirates and firebenders were surrounding us. Aang quickly airbended the dust cloud back, before yelling, "Never mind! Tora and I'll find you!"

"Sorry 'bout that." I apologized, before running out of the dust cloud as fast as I could.

Aang followed, jumping out and sprinting across the ground. "GANGWAY!"

We sprinted toward one of the boats, I think it was the pirates, and found Katara trying to push it into the water.

"Katara! You're okay!" Aang yelled. Katara ordered us to help her get the boat back in the water so we could escape. We all tried pushing on the boat, but nothing happened. Nothing at all.

"This impossible!" Sokka yelled in frustration.

"We'd need a herd of elephant-rhino's to move this stupid thing!" I yelled, kicking the boat in frustration.

"A team of rhino's..." Aang's eyes lit up. "Or two waterbenders."

"Three! Does everyone forget that?" I demanded, huffing in annoyance, but getting into a stance all the same.

"Right. Sorry, Tora." Aang apologized immediately.

We started pulling on the water, making it swarm around the front of the ship. It raised the water level, and the boat was set afloat.

"Everyone in!" I ordered, and everyone quickly found a way into the ship.

Nearby, Zuko and the Pirate Captain had found themselves in combat with each other. Iroh suddenly intruded, stopping the two of them.

"Are you two so engaged in fighting that you can't see your own ship has set sail?" Iroh demanded.

"Uncle, we don't have any time for your proverb!" Zuko said in annoyance.

"It isn't a proverb." Iroh said, pointing down the river, showing the Captain that his boat had been captured by the very people he had been trying to catch.

"Bleedin' hog-monkey's!" He cried, before chasing after them.

Zuko laughed at the captains misfortune, before noticing that his own ship had been stolen by the rest of the crew. "Hey! That's my boat!" He ran after it, leaving Iroh alone.

"Maybe it should be a proverb..." Iroh wondered to himself.

"Come on, Uncle!"

"SOKKA, CAN'T YOU MAKE THIS THING GO ANY FASTER?!" I screamed at him, watching in panic as the pirate's got closer to us.

"Don't yell at me! This thing wasn't made by the Water Tribe!" Sokka yelled back defensively.

I continued panicking internally when some of the pirates managed to get on board the ship. Aang managed to wash one of them overboard with a huge wave, while Katara finally figured out the water whip and knocked another one over.

And I? I waterbended some of the water from the river, held it in my hand for a moment, before throwing it at the pirate and froze it, freezing his head inside a chunk of ice. The weight made him fall overboard, and I quickly made sure I melted the ice as soon as he hit the water. I didn't want to kill anyone, after all.

"WILL YOU TWO STOP CONGRATULATING EACH OTHER AND HELP ME OUT?!" Sokka yelled in a panic, probably because he was being attacked by that weird lips guy and a really beefy guy. What is with these pirates and the weird features?

Anyway, the beefy guy threw Sokka into the sail, and Sokka slid to the ground. Aang attacked them with airbending, and Katara and I helped Sokka get up. I heard something, and I looked up to see the edge of a waterfall that was upstream of us.

"Katara?" I asked nervously.

"Yeah?" She looked at what I was staring at, and her eyes widened. "Aang, look!" She yelled, pointing forward.

When Aang turned to look at the waterfall, that weird lips guy raised his sword behind him. My eyes widened, and on instinct I raised my hand, fire exploding from my fingers. "DON'T TOUCH HIM!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I manipulated the fire, and sent it right at him at full speed. It knocked him overboard.

And to thank me for my saving his life, Aang pulled out the whistle shaped like Appa and blew into it as hard as he could.

"'Gee, thanks for saving my life, Tora!' Hey, no problem, Aang." I muttered sarcastically.

"Are you crazy? This is no time for you to practice the flute!" Sokka yelled in annoyance.

"Aang, Tora! All of us, push and pull the water!" Katara yelled, already starting the push and pull motions. Aang and I joined her, and soon the boat turned sideways, just two metres away from falling over the waterfall. Katara let out a cheer.

"We've got another thing to worry about." Sokka said nervously, pointing past us. We looked and saw Zuko's ship, still covered in pirates, heading straight for us.

The Spirits hate us. That's it. They just hate us. We're eternally damned. I finally realized.

As the ship rammed into us, it made our ship start to tilt on its portside, and we were standing on the railing.

"Everyone hold on!" I yelled, grabbing Katara and Aang's hands. Katara grabbed Sokka's hand. And we jumped right off the boat into the waterfall.

We're falling, we're falling, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're falling, ohmyspiritswe'regonnadie, I don't want to die, not like this, someone hates us, the Spirits hate us, we're falling, we're falling, why are we falling, I hate this, I hate this so much, I hate this, the Spirits hate us, I hate this, we're falling, we're gonna die, we're gonna die so hard...

That was pretty much all I was thinking while we were falling. When you're falling off a cliff, or in this case a waterfall, you're brain works much faster than normal. It's kind of a rush, really. It feels weird.

Then I suddenly heard a THUMP and I fell onto something hard. When I finally had the courage to open my eyes, I saw that we were sitting in the centre of Appa's saddle.

"APPA!" I exclaimed, crawling onto his head and stroking it fondly. "I have never been more happy to see you than right now!"

He groaned in approval.

~~Water~~

"My boat!" Zuko yelled, staring as his riverboat fell over the waterfall and crashed into the rocks below. His uncle ran up next to him, trying to catch his breath.

"Hey, Prince Zuko. This is a really funny thing..." Iroh grinned. Zuko stared at his Uncle, trying to figure out if he had finally lost his mind. Iroh suddenly pulled his arm out of his sleeve, holding in his hand... a lotus tile.

"The missing tile was in my sleeve this whole time!" He grinned cheerfully. Zuko stared at his uncle for a moment, before snatching the damn tile from his fingers and chucking it over the side of the cliff. Then he stormed off, leaving Iroh alone to mourn the loss of his tile.

~~Water~~

I curled up in a ball in a corner of Appa's saddle, trying to relax - again - after the long day we had. And it wasn't even noon yet.

"You know, when this war is over, I'm going to need therapy. Probably for the rest of my life." I said, rubbing my face in exhaustion. Despite the good nights sleep I had last night, I was exhausted.

"Aang, I still owe you an apology." Katara said, rudely interrupting my sleep. She started saying how she was so jealous that Aang was so good at waterbending, she put us all in danger. My friend looked down, obviously ashamed of her actions. Aang forgave her instantly. Of course.

"Besides, who needs that stupid scroll anyway?" Katara asked.

"Is that really how you feel?" Sokka asked, pulling out the scroll from where it was hidden in his belt. "Then I guess you won't be needing this anymore." He said teasingly.

"The scroll!" Katara exclaimed, making a grab for it. Sokka pulled it out of her reach.

"What have you learned?" He asked sternly.

"Stealing is wrong." Katara answered, sounding both like she meant it and she was being sarcastic at the same time. Sokka nodded, and his sister snatched the scroll from his hand. "Unless it's from pirates!"

Edit: So how'd you guys like this new version? I liked it better than the old version – and I'm not just saying that because the old version could help in getting the story deleted.

Also, you guys – don't worry. If this story is deleted (and I'm working hard to make sure it isn't) I'll change some things around and repost it. So don't you guys worry, alright?

So my plan is to work on a chapter a day. First I'll work on this story, and then I'll move onto my other stories – but I'm going to work on working on both stories very fast.

Edit for my Edit: Unfortunately, my family is going on vacation for the rest of the weekend, to a place that has no wi-fi. So that means I won't be able to rewrite any chapters until like…. Monday or Tuesday. And school starts on Tuesday… so I won't be able to keep my promise to update before school starts.