Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender.

WARNING: This chapter mentions past trauma but it is not really explicit.

Chapter 3: Omashu

{[(THIS IS FROM WIKIPEDIA)]}

Gate Guard: Halt! State your business here.

Aang: [elderly voice] My business is my business young man and none of yours! I've got a good mind to put you over my knee and paddle your backside!

Gate Guard: Settle down, old timer. Just tell me who you are.

Aang: Name's Bonzu... Pippenpaddle-Oppsocopolis... the Third, and these are my grandkids.

Katara [now smiling serenely]: Hi, June Pippenpaddle-Oppsocopolis. Nice to meet you.

END

As Aang and the water siblings pass by Kitty follows and says to the guard "Hi, I am Kitty and I had a quick question. What is the king's name I have not been around here for a while?"

The guard replied "The current king is King Bumi"

"Thank you I will be on my way"

I follow and as soon as they were on the top of the mail chutes I suggested "Let's have race girls vs. boys."

"Yeah that is a great idea" exclaimed both boys. Katara and I got in one bucket while Sokka and Aang got in the one next to it. "Three, two one go" and they were off. The boys were nearly skewered by the weapons heading down the chute and they crashed through a building then finally landing on a cabbage Katara and I walked up and looked at the boys with raised eyebrows. The guards surrounded the four of them and took them to the king but if one of the guards tried to grab me they ended up on the ground.

"I can walk on my own power don't touch me" I practically hissed.

They arrived at the palace and she smirked as she saw the king nodding to him letting him know she knew who he was. After he threw them a feast he had the guards take the others to the newly-refurbished-cell-that-was-once-bad. "Kitty, I know you know who I am but don't tell Aang I want to mess with his head." Bumi said as soon as the others were gone.

"Fine, but as a condition to do this you have to keep that guys family away from me. I know it is wrong to hold what THEY did against his decedents but I still have flashbacks whenever one of them gets close, the nightmares have eased but I don't want to lose control of my bending or my avatar spirit ever again." She said as she hugged Kali to her chest for once looking like the insecure girl she was.

"Okay, Kitty. Try not to fight with my guards." – Bumi

[The Next Morning]

"I thought you might refuse so I'll give them some special souvenirs" King Bumi said as his guards showed up with Aang's three friends and placed crystal-rings.

"Fine I'll do what you want"- Aang (the challenges progress the same way we are at the end of the duel between Aang and Bumi now)

"What is the point of tests if you don't learn anything? Answer this one question and ill set your friends free. From the look of things you don't have much time." –Bumi

As soon as he said that wind whipped up and I started thrashing in the red crystal that I was enclosed in. My eyes and tattoos started glowing and no one could really get near me. "No not again. Never again" was repeated as I struggled.

"Uh-oh I forgot about this reaction" said Bumi as the crystal exploded and Kali and Haki ran up to me and curled into each other. The wind died down and there was a spike of earth covering where she had been a few seconds before.

"Bumi?" asks Aang as he looks at the old king.

"Yes Aang. Before we talk we should calm Kitty down."

After about fifteen minutes they got me calmed down. Sokka and Katara were released from their rock prison and wondering what had happened with Kitty.

"Why did Kitty react like that when she was trapped in the crystal?" asked Sokka

"Go ahead you two. They should know what happened since we are traveling together. I am going to head to the roof" I said as I got up and walked up the stairs.

{[FLASHBACK]}

Kitty and Aang were 10 years old they wandered in the forest near their current camp. Kitty was learning some of the somewhat-difficult waterbending moves. They heard the cry of alarm from Kitty's current teacher. They ran back to where they had last saw him and saw three earth nation rogues. They were men who had been banished from the earth nation because of crimes against the king they were all from the Dasi* family. Their sensei was hurt so after ordering Aang to take him back towards the air temple she kept them away as long as she could but was eventually too tired to keep it up.

{[END FLASHBACK]}

"By the time she was saved by several fire nation soldiers her they had tortured her for almost a full week and her spirit was almost broken. That is why she was less wary around the fire soldiers they were the ones to save her from the hell-hole she was trapped in. She still won't talk about all the torture she endured. It took her nearly three months to let any man beside me and monk Gyatso near her but she still won't let anyone from the Dasi family near her and most earthbenders make her wary." Aang explained.

"It took her nearly eight months after her rescue for her to trust me again and we had been friends for four years before she was captured" said King Bumi as he ate some more of the rock candy.

Sokka and Katara sat stunned. "I had no idea she seemed fine around me when we were alone at the South Pole" said Sokka.

"I asked her about that after we left and she said it was because if you had attacked her she could have defended herself with either bending or her naginata. If you were wondering that is why she never leaves the naginata behind. It's her one way to make sure she is never defenseless" said Aang as he snagged a piece of the rock candy.

*Dasi is a made up family

I am going to skip the Episode Imprisoned in my story it ends up the same way