Run in with the Avatar

Ed followed Suki out of the house and up the road through the village. The village intrigued Ed as he studied the surrounding houses and the clothing the people wore. He marked many similarities between the people here and with the things he had been told about the people of Xing.

While Ed was studying the people around him he saw more girls in their weird clothes and make up gather around him. All of them looked ready for a fight and were probably this place's military or something similar. This didn't bother him too much he had more been in more than his fair share of fights in his life but he thought it odd there wasn't any men with them not that he would be caught dead in their outfits.

The precession ended near the center of the village with a tall statue of some Woman who looks identical to the girls surrounding Ed but his attention was on the grey haired man standing in front of the statue. He wore a blue robe with white cloth around his shoulders most likely signifying him as the leader of the village.

"I see you have brought the trespasser Suki have you learned anything about why he is here?" the man said in a deep voice matching the one Ed predicted he would have. Typical old guy that's still in charge of something.

"He claims he didn't arrive here by choice or that he knows where he is Oyaji." The respectful tone in Suki's only confirmed his original guess at who the guy was. Ed saw Oyaji turn to look at him with a look of angry mistrust as the man thought through what Suki said.

"Do you honestly believe we would be fooled that easily you where Fire Nation colors and think to tell us you don't know where you are?" Oyaji glared at him for a little bit before turning to Suki.

"Perhaps a view of the Unagi will loosen his tongue, take him to the bay." Suki nodded and turned to the other girls and made a few hand signals and the girls reacted immediately.

Ed found himself surrounded and tied up again before he could say anything and was being dragged to the bay though he wasn't making it easy for them.

"The hell why did you tie me up I would have gone anyway just to get this stupid thing over with and be on my way."

Ed's words fell on deaf ears so he changed to a different tactic. Digging his heels into the ground Ed threw himself to the left pulling the rope out of the girls' hands that had just finished wrapping it around him. Wasting no time Ed took off running toward the forest but he could hear the other girls running after him but luck was on his side as he was able to get into the forest before them.

Now out of sight Ed transmuted a tree to extend in several directions just a few feet off the ground as he kept running. Shortly after wards Ed could hear several sudden cries of surprise and the girls chasing him suddenly fell over his little trick and he put more distance between him and his captors.

Ed's mad dash came to an abrupt end when he found himself on a beach of sorts and the bay spread out before him. Looking around Ed almost swore his heart had stopped when he say a huge chimera near the middle of the beach with three people standing next to it. One of them suddenly stripped down and ran into the bay reaching near the center when several huge fishes leaped out of the water nearby the swimmer.

"The hell do you think you're doing, you need to the hell out of their idiot!" Ed's voice rang around the bay and the two people still on land turned suddenly to where he was standing.

"Hay there who are you?" One of them yelled at Ed as he ran at them.

"The Hell 'huff huff' we have to get 'huff huff' that idiot out 'huff huff' of there before 'huff' he gets himself killed." Ed panted trying to get his breath back and talk at the same time.

"Who Aang? Nah he's fine he's the Avatar after all." The explanation made no sense to Ed as he watched the kid named Aang ride one of the giant fishes around the bay without a care when a gigantic sea monster came out of the water and attacked the fish Aang was on.

Ed was sure the kid was a goner when said kid literally ran on water over toward them and dresses before Ed could do more them blink in surprise.

That's impossible unless this kids an alchemist. Ed would have asked how he had done that when he heard something break behind him. Shit their back.

The Ed and the others were suddenly attacked by the same girls that had been chasing Ed earlier. The others went down caught completely by surprise but Ed was able to avoid the initial attack and found himself surrounded again.

"Damn I'll give you credit you don't give up easy." Ed said with a cocky smile but his eyes were watching for any advantage he could take in his current situation. He really didn't want to use alchemy unless he had to because he still didn't know how they would react to him being an alchemist.

"I won't allow you to drag are home into the war, not if I can do anything about it." Ed heard Suki say and felt a twinge of gilt. He recalled how he had helped start the Lior Riot back home and didn't want to drag anyone into any fight they didn't or couldn't fight.

Unfortunately Ed's hesitation was all the advantage Suki and her warriors needed to take down the alchemist but even then Ed still didn't go down quietly. As one of the girls brought down her fan to club him in the head Ed swung his right arm at her own head knocking her out in one blow as another one went to swing his legs out from under him. The kick connected with his left leg and staggered Ed but the girl cried out in pain as she rolled back nursing her broken leg. In the end Suki hit Ed with one of the rocks on the ground knocking him out but everyone had either a broken bone or was out cold.

"It seems there is more to you than meets the eye spy." Suki said as he rubbed her shoulder. It wasn't broken from what she could tell but it definitely hurt like mad and that was only from a glancing blow the boy had delivered. Waking the others the Suki and her warriors gathered their captives and made way to the village.