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Chapter 5: Kyoshi

:Red's POV:

When we arrived (finally!) at Kyoshi, I couldn't wait to see the Unagi and the Giant Koi fish, but the thing I looked forward to seeing the most was the crazy foaming guy!

(A.N.: Though you may not know who this is, it is easy to find him in episode four after the villagers find our Aang is the Avatar.)

But my time was running our, and I don't like running short on anything.

Silently, I watched the scene unfold before my eyes from the beach, keeping my laughter to myself.

When the island's warriors arrived, I knew before the others and was ready. Up I went into the branches of the highest tree using only my airbending. My hair was a tangled mess when I landed, but it was a sacrifice I was willing to take, but Faithful's claws digging into my shoulder was not!

"Ouch!" I yowled up into the sky, "Let me go! Let me go you vile creature!" Gritting my teeth, I eased her off my shoulder without flinging her to the ground. I'm not that mean.

When I looked down I noticed everyone was staring at me as if I had sprouted a second head.

At the time I think I was crazy enough to believe it.

"What are you looking at?" I shouted haughtedly at the ant sized group below, "Oh and if you want me you'll have to come up and get me! So ha!"

Whispers instantly erupted from the now much larger group below. Apparently my screams of intense pain caught more than just a few passerby's ears.

'Oh darn! What am I going to do now? If only Leah could see me now!' I knew exactly what she would do. She would curl up in a ball and laugh until milk shot out of her nose and she wouldn't even have to have to drink milk to do it! All at my expense of course.

Carefully, I sat down on the side of the branch closest to the trunk for stability then set Faithful in my lap. The little monster pranced around my thighs before laying down for a nap. A minute later she was fast asleep and purring.

Meanwhile, I watched the whole "villagers find out the Avatar" thing unfold and got to see the crazy foaming guy from a bird's eye point of view. It was interesting to say the least.

Then my stomach grumbled and I realized I hadn't eaten anything. Sokka hogged all the extra fruit yesterday and I saved my portion for my escape.

'Bummer' I thought and then the thought quickly changed to ...'How the hell am I supposed to get down from this tree?' Instantly my fear turned my face paper white and my fingers grasped at the branch. I am guessing Faithful sensed my sudden change in emotion and awoke, meowing softly up at me as if trying to calm me.

I doubted anything was going to calm me down completely at the time, but I swallowed my fear. Needing both of my hands to climb down, I placed Faithful inside of my hood and started my slow, ungraceful decent. When I climbed down to about five feet from the ground I ran out of branches. As a last minute thought, I set Faithful free from the hood and then I fell down on to the earth. That's right, fell, how is one going to jump down from a tree when you're giving it a bear hug with all of your limbs?

The dirt and the several scratches that covered my person added to my lovely appearance. Also, let's not forget the tangled hair now filled with a variety of twigs and leaves. I'd bet I looked like a true crazy.

Faithful didn't even let me try to reign in the mess before she was back on my right shoulder. A shame. I really wanted to get the one poking into the sensitive area between my shoulder blades. I only need one word to describe it.

OUCH!

By now everyone had forgotten me in their excitement at seeing the Avatar, so I was left to find my own way to the village.

After a long trek of 200 yards, I found the village entrance. Young girls were swarming around like a horde of hungry bees. In a way I guess they were hungry, but more like hungry for attention.

A pity.

When I walked in about four feet from the statue, my crazy look and all, everyone stopped to stare at me. I could read the curiosity and apprehension in their eyes.

'Great now I have to answer a bunch of questions and I hate being the center of attention!'

Feeling much like cornered prey, I took a step back and another as they continued to approach.

"Ahh! Someone help me!" I screamed towards the heavens, but knowing no one would answer. My necklace glowed a faint gray when true fear clouded my other thoughts. Tension made my body like a coiled spring, ready to burst when set free. It was just my luck though that they crowded around me in a circle.

Then my savior pushed through the edge of the crowd.

:Leah's POV:

I'd woken up from a fitful sleep(nap) and was walking around the ship. The sky was a crystalline blue, and a few fluffy clouds were scattered across it.

"Damn," I muttered as I realized that Jessica would get to see the crazy foaming guy and I wouldn't.

"She's so lucky, but I actually have stuff with me!" I grinned and took out my ipod from one of the many pockets on my pants.

Slipping the ear pieces in, I turned on the song 'Imaginary' by Evanescence. I hummed the tune while I listened, but I grimaced when Zuko came out from below deck yelling.

"Set course fro Kyoshi Island!" he ordered.

I took out my earphones with a sigh and put my ipod up, "Sheesh. Do ya have to be so loud?"

He noticed me for the first time since he'd came outside, "You knew about this!"

I blinked a few times, "Yah...your pint is?"

He glared at me, "Why didn't you tell us?"

"Because I don't want to screw with any of the balance left in this world," I replied, my glare matching his own.

Uncle Iroh came up to us, "Now, now you two..stop bickering."

I raised my hands in my defense, "Hey, he started it."

Zuko started to say something but was cut off by a crew member yelling, "The Island of Kyoshi is in view!"

"We'll finish this later," he said to me, not as a suggestion, but a promise.

"Baka," I grumbled childishly, "And to think I thought you were cute!"

At this Uncle Iroh began to laugh, "You really know how to irk my nephew's nerves."

"Practice makes perfect," I grinned back.

"Of course," Iroh acknowledged, "Now what was that device you were using a few moments ago?"

"How do you know about...? Oh nevermind, it was an ipod," I say with a shake of my head.

"After we come back form Kyoshi you will have to demonstrate the use of this...ipod," Uncle Iroh said before walking below deck.

"Man this sucks," I complained a short while later as we pulled up at Kyoshi.

"Why?" Iroh asked from behind me, for he had an uncanny ability to sneak up on people.

"Jess got to see the crazy foaming guy and I didn't," I explained.

Uncle Iroh just stared at me, "Okay I suppose...Leah, Prince Zuko requested that you stay on the ship while he went out to capture the Avatar."

"By requested you mean ordered, right?" I rolled my eyes.

Iroh sighed, "Yes, but you don't mind do you?"

"Nah, I'll be a good girl and stay put," I laughed, "Girlscout's honor."

Uncle nodded his head in thanks before he joined his nephew.

Once he left I took out a hairbow and pulled my dark brown hair into a low ponytail, "Pssh...like I've ever been a girlscout."

I waited until they were out of view before heading out onto the island. It looked just as it had in the episode.

My necklace began to shine with a soft gray light, "Hmmm..."

I heard the beginnings of the fight and realized that Zuko would be back soon. I gathered up a few rocks and some sand to show my science teacher, Dr. A, if and when I went home.

I went back to the ship as quickly as I possibly could, and sighed heavily as I collapsed on the deck. I reached back and pulled the hairbow out, my hair falling loose. The sound of voiced came closer, so I headed below deck to my room.

It looked the same as before; the only difference being that several of my possessions were scattered about.

For some reason they'd been kind enough to give me a bathing area, "Thank God."

I had put the sand and rocks into a bad, and I now set them beside the bed before beginning to heat the bath water with my firebending.

:Red's POV:

Sokka quickly fended off the villagers from eating me alive, not literally of course, but my pounding heart could have fooled anyone.

I gasped for breath to control my sudden, unexplainable panic. Then my eyes teared up and pain gripped my empty stomach, forcing me to my knees beside Sokka. The pain felt like a thousand sharp needles poking the inside of my stomach.

My cat meowed in my ear and licked my cheek. The last thing I saw before I passed out was Sokka's face filled with fear, hovering over mine.

'Is he afraid for me or of me...' then all of my thoughts disappeared as I slipped into the dark void of unconsciousness.

When I awoke, after who knows how long, I was leaning against a tree trunk, the rough bark poking the twin in my shirt painfully deeper into the area between my shoulder blades.

'Why do things like this keep happening to me?' I angrily thought as I roughly pulled the twig from my shirt, unintentionally waking my cat who, as always, was sitting on my shoulder.

She meowed into my ear, but the sound was nearly consumed by a loud boom a short distance away. I didn't have time to think, all I could do was race toward the sound while my mind instinctively said no. I t turned out my body was to weak to actually perform an act even close to running.

That is just a nice way of saying I collapsed after moving about 100 feet.

Dust flew everywhere when I landed and, to add to the enormous amount of luck I was having, a rock sat right beneath my bellybutton.

Faithful cried out when I fell, but being a perfectly balanced cat, she landed on all four feet.

The fur ball paced infront of my line of vision from the Earth's floor, obviously worried for me. There wasn't much she could do though; it wasn't like she could bring me fruit.

I lay there in dirt for a moment, trying to find a way to save my butt, and nothing came to mind.

I didn't have much time to wonder what I was going to do next because a second later I saw Zuko ring toward me on his "Rhinothingy."

Looking nothing like my saving grace.

:Leah's POV:

I, of course, realized after I'd already heated the water, I had absolutely no clean clothes. Sighing, I stood up and headed back onto the deck.

What I saw then shocked me; Zuko had Jessica with her hands bound behind her back.

"Jess!" I ran up to her and shoved Zuko away, "Get away, you baka!"

I untied her hands and hugged her, "Jess! So...did you really see the crazy foaming guy?"

Jessica laughed and nodded, "Yeah I did. I've got tons to tell you."

This all spanned over the course of a few seconds before Zuko shot a fireball at us.

"What was that for you dickhead?" I yelled at him angrily.

Zuko's temper flared up; I eeped and dragged Jessica below deck as quickly as I could mangae.

:In my room:

"Eerie," Jessica murmured as she looked around the room.

"What happened to you?" I asked as I took in the disgruntled way she looked, carefully masking my laughter.

"Long story actually," she began and petted Faithful, "It all began when I got stuck in a tree."

I couldn't help it, I fell over into a fit of laughter, but I stopped when I heard the sound of a door opening.

A.N.: Who beith it? Well..you'll see I suppose...