Sorry this is a little late, I said it'd be up before Sunday, but now its Sunday morning...
Some of you are wondering why I'm not having the rest of the usual cast in Book 4.
I am here to assure you that they will be in the show, it'll just take a few episodes...
Okay, let's finish this!
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"So tell me again. Who are you?" Aang, Katara, and the boy all sat in a triangle around a fire that Aang restarted.
"Uh...my name is Samuel," The boy started. Katara looked at the boy. She decided that she was seventeen, Aang was fifteen, so this boy must be about fourteen. He looked like a really nice kid, but a little shy. In a way, a lot like Aang, and then not like him at all.
"Hi, Samuel," Katara finally said. She was going to continue, but then Appa made a noise.
Aang had been quiet for a while, but he listened intently to Appa.
"What? He was under you? Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Aang walked up to his friend and petted him.
Appa moaned again. Aang understood.
"Oh, I'm sorry, buddy. I didn't know you were that tired..." Now that Aang understood how Samuel got there, he started to talk to the boy a little more.
"So why'd you stow away on Appa?" Aang's personality almost forbade him from being mad or violent, but he was still a little ticked.
"I, uh, wanted to ask you something, but you were about to leave the Eastern Air Temple.."
"Whoah, whoah, whoah! Easter air temple? Man, I haven't been their in days! You've been following me for three days?" Aang was impressed.
"Uh...kinda?" Sam was quiet. He was in front of Aang and Katara! These two saved the world! He had heard stories and could barely speak when he heard about them. How was he supposed to even breath, now that they were in front of him?
"What did you want to ask Aang?" Katara was curious. This question must be really important...
Sam stood up. "Avatar, I think I'm an airbender..."
Both Aang and Katara were so shocked, they could hardly speak! Finally, Aang managed to say something.
"Why...how...what?" He was both extremely happy, and really confused...
"Let me show you..." Nervously, Samuel moved his hands as best as he could. First, he alternated his hands slowly. Then he turned them both left and right a few times. Then, spinning while maintaining the movement of his arms, he thrust the air toward Katara and Aang.
After all that, Aang and Katara only felt a slight breeze...
"Uh, sorry...Yeah, I mean...I think I'm an airbender...I'm probably not..." Sam sat down again.
"Are you kidding?" Aang jumped up via burst of air. "That was amazing!" Aang could tell that this kid had been watching him teach the other airbenders. Samuel blushed.
Katara was impressed too, but she wondered how in the world he could bend air.
"Um...Sam...Where are you from?"
Sam, a little more sure of himself, replied, "Eastern Earth Kingdom."
Aang stopped celebrating. "What? You're not from the air temples?"
"Aang, how could he be? All the air benders right now are the ones you made!"
Aang put his hand to his chin and thought, "Hey, you're right..."
Sam stood awkwardly, moving his feet about. He pushed some snow, which reminded Katara of something.
"Hey, how did you bend the snow before?" She pointed to where he was standing, behind the big rock.
"Uh, yeah. That I only found out about a little bit ago..."
"Then its not just airbending..." Aang thought. "You can bend more than one element!"
"Well, I, uh...I don't know about that..." Sam was so unsure of himself, it kind of annoyed Katara...Aang didn't think about it.
One of the fire benders that attacked them started to wake up. This is when Aang remembered the attack from earlier.
"Come on, we better take these guys back into town and tell your family..." He told Katara. They tied them up, put them on Appa, then started to walk back to the tribe.
Aang looked behind them. He called to Sam. "You coming?" Sam smiled, and ran to catch up.
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"There you are! Do you have any idea what time it is Kat-" Hakoda had been waiting for Katara and Aang to return, but stopped his rant when he saw Sam walk into the door. "Who is this?"
Katara hugged her father. "I'm sorry, Dad. This is Sam. He helped us tonight."
Sam and Aang both walked in, and Aang showed him where to stand as they talked.
"Helped you tonight? What are you-" Hakoda was really confused!
"We were attacked last night Sir," Aang paused as he looked at everyone in the room, then back at Hakoda. "Attacked by Fire benders."
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After the three teenagers explained all that had happened in the past couple of hours, Hakoda put in his two coins on the whole thing.
"Sound to me like a couple of people who wanted attention. They just wanted to attack the Avatar. If they killed him, they'd be famous forever. We'll keep them locked up until they've learned their lesson."
Being the leader of the warriors, Hakoda was kind of like the leader of the Southern Water Tribe. Although the Chief of the Northern Tribe also claimed authority of the Southern tribe, he left Hakoda in charge to live among his people.
"Yeah, I guess that's seems like what happened," Katara agreed. "Its still kind of strangs though. You'd think everyone would be grateful to the Avatar..."
"Not everyone's a good person, Katara. If the entire world was good, we wouldn't call it good..."
Everyone in the room looked at Aang. It was kind of weird to hear such wisdom from a fifteen-year-old goofball, but he was the Avatar after all...
Hakoda changed the subject, and turned to Sam. "...And who is this again?"
"This is Sam. He followed Aang from the Earth Kingdom for a few days now..."
"He's been following the Avatar half-way across the world for days?" Hakoda was impressed.
To his own horror, Sam cracked a joke! "Yeah, and I'm really hungry!" Sam didn't mean to be rude! What would happen?
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Sam ate hungrily in Hakoda's small kitchen, as Aang, Katara, and her father talked about the boy in the living room.
"...He's a water bender and an air bender? That's...that's unheard of!" Hakoda staggered as he tried to wrap his mind around it...
"Yeah, and I never taught him how to air bend!" Aang said. Everyone knew that the only way to become an airbender was to be born with it, which hadn't happened yet, or to have Aang revert your soul to be able to do so.
"And not only that, but he's not from either nation! He's from the Earth Kingdom!" Katara couldn't figure it out either.
"So what do we do with him?" Hakoda wasn't sure what to do in this situation, but he was sure Avatar Aang could.
Aang hesitated. One of the things he still couldn't believe he had to do was to make important choices. He always wondered how a goofball like him could do that...
"...I guess I could take him back to the Southern Air Temple. There, I'll try to contact Roku and see what he thinks..." Aang wasn't too sure about the idea, but Katara and her father seemed satisfied.
"Okay. That seems good," Hakoda smiled, and turned to look at the mysterious boy.
Katara suddenly got really excited! "Dad! Dad! Dad! Can I go with them?" She started to hug her daddy and made big eyes. "Please say yes! Please!"
Hakoda quietly laughed, and pushed his daughter away. "Alright, that's enough! Seriously, Katara, you're a big girl now. You shouldn't be acting like...well, like your brother," Hakoda sighed. He missed his son. Answering his question, he said, "Yes, you may go with Aang and Sam to the Southern Air Temple, but that's it. You come straight home after that!"
"Yes!" Aang and Katara said at the same time.
"What's going on?" Sam finished his food, and walked in to see why everyone was excited.
Before anyone could answer, someone barged in through the door!
"The town's on fire!"
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Outside, Aang, Katara, Hakoda, and Samuel all rushed to find the source of the fire. When they reached the heart of the town, they realized what it was.
The leader of the eight men confronted Aang. He ran past a burning hut, past a hut he lit as he was running, and approached Aang twenty feet away. He yelled, "Did you really think a rope in a cell made of igloo could hold eight firebenders?" The man lit his hands.
Aang grabbed his staff, which he had grabbed before they left, and jumped, bending the air around him. He quickly blew out the fresh fire on the hut the man had just lit, and got right into the man's face!
"No, but do you really want to be fighting the Avatar right now?" His eyes flashed.
The man hesitated. Then sneering, he whispered, "Only if you want this entire tribe to burn."
Aang's eyes grew big. He knew what was going on! Suddenly, he heard people scream in the hut closest to them! People were still inside!
Aang was just about to let the man go and rescue the family, but he saw Samuel: He had put out the fire bending the snow on the ground!
Aang was amazed when Samuel moved his hands back and forth and saw the snow drift grow bigger and bigger until the fire was out!
Aang turned back to the man. "Hm. You were saying?"
The man grunted, then retorted, "Well what about the rest of the tribe?"
Aang and the man looked behind him and saw the tribe burning yes, but they also saw Katara, Paku, who had also been warned of the fire, and the rest of the water benders working to put the fire out.
Aang chuckled. "I mean, what was your plan? Light a fire in a tribe full of water benders? With the Avatar there too! Seriously!"
"You forget something, Avatar! This distraction has given my comrades enough time to flee! We will fight another day!"
"Well, they will." Aang pointed out. Even when things were not always completely on the up and up, he felt he could crack a joke.
"...Yeah. They will."
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No one got sleep last night, but when Samuel, Katara, Hakoda, Aang, (And Appa and Momo!) reunited the next morning, there was a sense of revitilization in all of them.
"...Did you see that? I didn't even know I could even bend snow until a little bit ago! Now, its like I'm a pro!"
Aang told Samuel what he had decided.
"Samuel, Katara and I are taking you to the Southern Air Temple to try to figure out how you can do this."
Samuel calmed down. He went back to his shy ways, but he spoke a little louder... "Yeah, that seems like a good idea..."
There wasn't much left to be said. So Aang, Katara, Appa, Momo, and Samuel watched the sun rise before they started their new adventure...
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"A messenger hawk has arrived, bringing a message of the attack," A man working as a sort of butler entered a dark room.
He started to read it.
"Attacked around midnight...overthrown by Avatar...girl-friend and boy helped him...locked up in igloo...escaped, lit town on fire...seven escaped...hiding in small town in southern Earth Kingdom," The butler swallowed. He feared his mistress's reaction...
Azula came out of the shadows.
"Well then. Tell those seven to get their sorry rumps back to the Avatar and burn him to the ground!" She stood up, and walked toward the butler. He trembled, but she only grabbed the messaged.
She burned it within her hand. "I will not tolerate...failure..."
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So what'd you guys think?
Expect another chapter on Monday (or Tuesday)
Also, the first episode of my weekly vlog on youtube is now up!
You can watch it if you google my pen name, n4m4w45, and click on my channel.
So if you want to see what I look like in real life,
or if you want to see me time travel,
I suggest you do that.
So what'd you think?
Awesome beginning? Not enough action? The characters aren't exactly as they were in the show? (I'm working on that, it'll be better next time!) Samuel's a neat character?
I'm sure you guys have your thoughts too!
So why don't you go ahead and review?
Peace in Christ, and Imagine on!
