He's mocking me Katara I just know it.
Oh Sokka he's not doing anything, just look at him he's adorable.
Oh you think he's cute now Katara, but watch, one day he's going to betray you and you're going to be sorry for not listening to me. That's right, I know it's you that's been eating all of my jerky!" Sokka pointed a finger accusingly at the new addition of the group, the lemur the gang found at the southern air temple which Aang decided to name Momo.
"I'm on to you, you think you can just cute your way in here, but it won't work you here. You're lucky you got the airbender protecting you. But you listen here MOMO, one day the airbender won't be here to protect you, and that day, you're dinner." Sokka said as he got nose to nose with animal.
"Oh Sokka leave him alone, he hasn't done anything to you. Isn't that right Momo?" Katara said as Momo climbed onto her shoulders. Momo continued to stare at Sokka with his large eyes and lost expression while Sokka continued to glare at him.
"Relax Sokka, I bet we can get a lot more food at Kyoshi island." Aang said from Appa's head.
"Kyoshi, why are we going there?" Katara asked.
"Well, I'm pretty sure there are villages there where we can get some supplies, and since this is where Avatar Kyoshi lived, maybe it could help me connect with her or any past avatar and learn about my avatar state."
"hmm, makes sense to me," Sokka said.
" well, alright then, I guess we should. But I don't think we should stay too long, or Zuko may find us." Katara said.
The group continued their way to Kyoshi for a few more hours until Aang finally spoke up.
"There it is!"
A small island came into view. The gang landed on the beach and noticed the sun was already beginning to set.
"I think it'll be best if we just camp out here for the night and just go into town tomorrow." Sokka said.
"Alright then, I'll set the fire, Sokka you and Aang unpack our stuff and set up our tent."
"Whatever you say," The gang began setting up their things and Katara worked on the fire. However, Katara felt something wasn't right. She had a strange sense coming from around her. She took a quick look around her but everything looked normal.
"umm guys, do you feel that?"
"Feel what?" Aang replied
"I don't know, I have a strange feeling that someone is watching us." suddenly, a rope flew out from the bush behind her and wrapped itself around her wrists. Katara felt herself pulled to the ground as three people jumped out of the bush towards her.
"Katara!" Sokka yelled. He began to take a step towards her until a girl landed an inch away from his face. He was surprised by the girls sudden presence and stumbled a few steps back. How did she just show up in front of me like that, I didn't even see, hear or sense her? The girl was dressed the same way as the other girls that jumped out. They wore some kind of green robe with armor on the chest and arms. They had their faces painted white with red on the eyes and lips. In fact, Sokka had to say they each looked like that statue of Avatar Kyoshi he saw at the temple. The only difference between them was they each wore a different hairstyle. This girl in front of him had brown, chocolate hair that stopped at her shoulders. Sokka couldn't really see her curves because of her uniform.
"You made a mistake coming here. We don't put up with the likes of you." the girl told Sokka. She had a soft, but firm voice and had confidence in what she said.
"Wait you have it all wrong! We're not doing anything! We were just -"
"- sent here to destroy our peaceful village!" suddenly she lunged at Sokka.
Aang saw Katara go down then found himself surrounded by at least six girls dressed like Avatar Kyoshi.
"Listen we don't want any trouble." Aang tried to reason with the girls. The girls however paid no attention and attacked. With their fans, they each took turns lunging and attacking the airbender. Aang didn't want to fight back and hurt these girls so he just dodged every one of their attacks and tried to tell them to stop.
"Listen I'm the -" suddenly, he felt a rope wrap around his arm.
Sokka was having troubles of his own. This girl was no push over. She was moving around Sokka so gracefully he couldn't get his hands on her. In front, behind, over, under, to the side of Sokka she moved. He threw punches after punches, kicks after kicks, and whenever he thought he had a sure hit, he would only hit air or she would somehow counter it and successfully land a hit of her own. In fact, she wasn't even really attacking him.
"How is she doing this? It's like she's using my attacks against Me." the girl then stopped in front of Sokka and pulled out two gold fans.
"Time to end this." she said
"fans?" Sokka said surprised.
The girl lunged forward and the two engaged in hand to hand combat once again. Once again Sokka had trouble trying to even touch her. She wasn't faster than him, she wasn't stronger than him either, it was the way she fought. Her movements, so graceful, so smooth, it was her fighting style that made her so hard to catch. Suddenly, Sokka saw an opening, or so he thought. He sent a straight punch with his left hand, straight at her, however he fell right into her trap. Suddenly, in one quick motion, she spun to her right, brought out a bandana, and wrapped it around his wrist. Tugging on the bandana, she brought his arm down and behind his back, and dropped Sokka face first into the earth. Sokka was in complete shock at what just happened. One second he saw an opening, and now he is face down in the dirt.
"Hope you don't mind losing to a girl." the girl told Sokka smugly.
Aang felt the rope tie around his wrist and saw a girl holding it on the other end. Aang tugged on the rope and pulled the girl with it, throwing her through the air and rolling in the dirt.
"Ooh, sorry" Aang said.
The other girls continued their assault on the boy, trying to immobilize him. One girl threw both her fans straight at Aang. Aang dodged the fans and another girl jumped in front of him. Aang ducked under a punch, and sent a blast of air in the girls chest, throwing her back a couple of feet. All the girls stopped their attack for a few seconds for they could get back on their feet and surround the air bender.
"Alright, I didn't want to do this but you leave me no choice." Aang started. He pulled out his wooden staff and got into position to attack. However, before he could begin, the girl who Sokka was fighting spoke up. "Stop! Put down your weapon or ponytail here gets it!" she stood there supporting Sokka up, and holding the edge of her fans to his neck.
"Hahaha, Aang don't worry, it's a fan I'll be fine. I mean, what is she going to do, cool me down to death."
"What did you say? Do you think we're playing around? Here, let me give you a little demonstration." she pressed the edge of her fan against his arm. Slowly, she slides the fan down, creating a large cut down Sokka's arm. She presses the fan back against his neck.
"Still think these are just for cooling down?" she asked sarcastically.
"Not really" Sokka mumbled.
"Alright look, I'm putting it down see?" Aang said as he set his staff on the floor. As he set it down, a girl appeared behind him and used the butt of her fan to hit Aang on the back of his skull and knock him out.
"Aang!" Katara called to him.
"Hey! Why'd you have to do that he did what you said!" Sokka yelled
"Why don't you just shut your mouth!" the brown hair girl replied as she threw him down to the floor.
"Ugh, why don't you make me." Sokka snarled
"alright, tie up the bald one, and put a rope on their mouths, especially the loud one." she motioned to Sokka.
When they were finished tying Aang up and putting ropes on the siblings mouths, they led them into town. Two girls had to lift Aang and carry him since he was out cold. They led the teens to a large wooden pole where a carving of avatar Kyoshi stood. There, they tied the teens up.
"Good job girls, we'll just leave them here and decide on what to do with them in the morning." the brown hair girl spoke up. "For now we should get some sleep. That means you too tough guy." she said the last part teasingly at Sokka who was struggling furiously with his binds, but to no avail.
"Don't bother, there's no way you can get yourself out of that using brute strength." she walked up to Sokka and Katara and took off the ropes on their mouths.
"Agh, man this is messed up!" Sokka shouted as his rope came off.
"What is, that we captured you before you can destroy our village, or that you got your butt kicked by a girl," the girl said amused at the apparent anger on Sokka's face. Sokka was about to blow up on the girl when Katara spoke up.
"Listen, you have it all wrong, were not fire nation or anything like that. We only came here because -"
"look, we do whatever we can to make sure Kyoshi is always safe. And when three strangers showing up on our beach at night out of nowhere with weapons, you can't honestly expect us not to take action. I don't care what you came here for, but until were sure you aren't a threat, we will keep you here -"
"- he is the avatar!" Sokka burst out motioning to the unconscious Aang next to him.
"the avatar?" the girl said a little surprised by his claim, "now you don't honestly expect me to believe that, do you?" the girl finished with that then turned and walked away with the rest of the girls.
"If only Aang was awake he would have been able to convince them he is the avatar." Katara said.
"Man that is one pushy girl. I hope my wife someday is nothing like that." Sokka said.
The group was forced to spend their night tied to the pole. Morning rose and the three woke to see the same girl from last night, who they assumed was the leader, approaching them with a short, middle aged man with gray hair and a beard.
"You three are I a whole lot of trouble." the man said.
"You don't under...stand." Sokka said yawning in between his sentence as he was still waking up.
"For all we know, you three can be fire nation spies!" the man pointed to the group.
"No we're not fire nation, I'm the avatar!" Aang tried to reason with the two.
"Yes, Suki did mention your claim about being the avatar-"
"-which is crazy!" the girl now known as Suki interrupted, "the last avatar was an airbender and he disappeared 100 years ago."
"Yup, that's me," Aang replied.
The man was about to speak again when Aang broke his binds and jumped into the air, doing a back flip a gracefully floated down. Suki, the man, and most of the village that witnessed the scene stared in shock.
"You really are the avatar!" the man pointed to Aang.
"That's what I've been trying to tell you!" Sokka yelled struggling with his blinds, "now can you PLEASE untie us!" Suki walked up to the siblings and cut their binds. Katara, unlike her brother, knew the people here only cared for the safety of their village and held no hard feelings.
"Thank you" she told Suki
" listen, I'm really sorry for having my warriors attack you, we were just trying to protect our village." Suki told them.
" don't worry about it, I understand completely, and my brother does too." Katara said motioning to Sokka who scowled in return.
" I'm sure he does," Suki said
" avatar and friends, forgive me and the Kyoshi warriors. We were only looking out for the safety of our village." the man said.
" Really, it's fine, don't worry about it" Aang replied, he being the forgiving, loving airbender he was felt no hard feelings.
" my name is Oyaji and I am the leader of Kyoshi island. You see, we have managed to stay out of this 100 year war and we don't exactly plan on getting involved now."
" Well we mean no harm to Kyoshi or its people. In fact, we came here because I thought since this is where Kyoshi use to live, it might help me connect with her spiritually." Aang spoke
" and is there any chance we can find a place to eat, particularly meat." Sokka added with a wide grin.
"Of course avatar Aang, we have a shrine where we have kept prized artifacts of avatar Kyoshi that I'm sure will help you. And don't worry avatar and friends; we will prepare a feast of all kinds of food in honor of your arrival."
"That would be great!" Aang said about the shrine that can help him connect with Kyoshi.
" a feast?" Sokka said slowly with tears coming from his eyes.
Suki approached Aang and reached out to give him a small sack
"I believe he belongs to you, avatar" Aang opened the sack and Momo jumped out and onto Aang's head.
"Momo!" Aang said laughingly
"Where is Appa? You all didn't capture him too did you?" Sokka asked
"You mean your bison? No, he just put himself on one spot on the beach and has just lain there all night. We didn't want to disturb him and get him mad." Suki replied.
"Follow me avatar and friends and I'll take you to where you will be staying." Oyaji told the group.
They had a nice place to sleep. It was a nice wooden building with a medium sized living room, a medium kitchen, and four upstairs bedrooms. It was an average size, but still pretty big compared to the other houses. And much to Sokka's thrill, Oyaji came through with his promise and within an hour had managed to fill every inch of their large table with dishes of food.
"It's so...beautiful." Sokka said slowly holding back tears.
"Wow, I've never seen so much food since, well I've never seen this much food." Katara commented.
The group began to dig in and Katara noticed Aang wasn't touching any of the meat.
" what's wrong Aang? Do you not feel like eating meat right now or what?" Katara asked him.
" it's not that Katara, I don't eat meat. The monks taught me that all life is sacred." Aang replied.
" more for us, man if this is how you get treated for being the avatar; we should let everyone know who you are!" Sokka managed to say with his mouth full.
"Ewe Sokka, don't talk with your mouth so full, it's gross." Katara scolded her brother.
The three of them decided to stay in their little house for the day and relax. They all felt they could use some rest. The next day, Aang and Katara met with Oyaji so he can take them to the shrine of Avatar Kyoshi. He led them to a small, wooden shack in the back of the village.
"Here it is," Oyaji said as he led them in the room. Aang felt something in the room come over him, he couldn't explain it, but he felt some sort of connection.
"Wow, look at all this cool stuff Aang." inside was stuff that belonged to avatar Kyoshi or was important to her. There was the warriors' outfit that Kyoshi wore that was similar to the ones the Kyoshi warriors wear, and her own metal fans.
"Aang, how do you even plan on trying to make a connection with Kyoshi anyway?" Katara asked.
" I don't know, the monks always told me to meditate to connect with the spirits. I guess I'll try that." Aang went to the middle of the room and sat cross legged.
"Okay then, I'll just wait outside for you to finish." Katara said but Aang stopped her.
"Katara, umm this is probably going to take a long time so you don't have to wait up." Aang told her.
"Oh, ok then." Katara said as she left. Maybe this was a good time to practice waterbending she thought and went to the beach.