"So which one of you is The Legend?" the male guard asked circling the fifteen women that was in the invasion and captured. No one spoke up at all. "Really?" he asked. "Well, then. You wouldn't mind this!" he said taking the eldest woman by the arm named Ska and put fire up to her neck.
"No!" I yelled stepping forward.
"What are you doing?" Ska asked; she knew, everyone knew and said that if they had to would pretend to be The Legend.
"I'm The Legend." I hissed at them.
"But your just a kid!" one of the female guards got out of line.
"Your just an adult!" I come backed.
"Take her with the others going to the Boiling Rock!" the male guard told them taking me by the arms and dragged me outside and in to a gondola filled with pirates, thiefs and a water tribe chief.
"Dad!" I smiled tears running down my face. I ran to him and held onto his shirt with cuffs still on.
"What are you doing here, Ke Ke?" Dad said putting his cuffs over my head and on my back.
"They were about to kill Ska, one of the eldest woman. So I followed my instincts and told them." I whispered as I fell the room move.
"What's happening?" I asked.
"It's moving." Dad told me.
I watched till we got docked and many of them got off except me and Dad. "You two! Get off!" one of the guards told us. I walked off of the gondola with my head held high and Dad trailing behind me. I stood in line as a man with a crazy hat on came up to us. "Hello." he wickedly smiled at us. "Welcome to The Boiling Rock. I bet you've heard rumors about our little island." he said walking down the line of us. "I just want to tell you, they don't have to be true." he said standing in front of me. "Oh, and here's the little baby Legend. I told the Fire Lord and Princess Azula to put you in here, but no. They wanted to give you multiple chances to escape." he sneered at me as I looked his straight in the eyes.
"I can get my glow on." I hissed at him.
"What?" he asked bewildered he took a step back.
"You lay a finger on me, I'll kill you." I bluffed with a mono tone voice.
"Put her with her father. If she tries to get out, use all your force on her." He told the guards. "Now get these prisoners out of my sight." he hissed. I could tell he was a little shaken up by my remark. I was bluffing! I can't really kill a person. I may have hurt some but not kill.
I fell onto the flat mattress sleepy. But a guard came in. "Thank goodness you two are okay!" the guard smiled as I had him at a punching stance in a second.
"If you don't get out of our cell you'll see just how 'okay' we are!" I said.
"No." the guard smiled; taking his helmet off. "It's me. Sokka, the only one out of your children that's not a bender." he said funnily tossing his arms around as he was talking.
"Big Brother!" I giggle jumping up and hugging around his neck.
"My son." Dad said and you could hear the joyful tears in his voice as he joined the hug. "You should be more careful with that gaurd out fit on, Kiara almost punched you in the gut." Dad chuckled as I dropped down from Sokka and landed on the mattress on my butt.
"I ran into that problem earlier." Sokka sheepishly told us. "So where's, Bato? And the others?"
"They singled us out as Dad as that leaders and me as the Legend. Everyone else is at a prison by the fire nation palace." I sighed.
"Well, there was someone I remember of a group of warriors that know of you Sokka." Dad told him. "The Ocean Nama Fighters?"
"That was the Kyoshi Warriors." I corrected.
"Yeah, that's right."
"And their leader, Suki is here too." Sokka said. "And you know Prince Zuko?"
"Son of the Fire Lord?" Dad asked. "I don't know him, but I know of him."
"Well, he's here too."
"Sounds like trouble!" I sang laying down.
"No, he's on our side now." he told us. I raised my eye brow as I prompted myself up." Yes, I know, I had the same reaction."
"So..." Dad trailed off. "You have a plan?" he asked.
"I did, but some other prisoners ruined it." Sokka sighed.
"Well, not like three Southern Water Tribe's people can't fix that." Dad told him as I sighed. Thinking of something.
"Then we better find some." Sokka joked as I started giggling with Dad and Sokka joining in.
"I know what we can do!" I exclaimed. I started whispering to them about my plan. "But we need a riot to keep them from focusing on us. We'll go out, that easy." I smiled.
It was time to go outside and this one wasn't the plan. I was looking for a good place to put my clothes I kept in the bottom of my shoes and along my waist band. I saw a cubby hole, big enough for my clothes and a way to get out.
Soon, our door opened and I ran out with Dad trailing closely behind. "We have to move quickly!" I yelled. I looked around for Sokka but every guard looked the same to me. Except the guard towing in a woman who he held her hand and two men following closely behind. "Suki?" I asked.
"Kiara?" she smiled. "Nice to see you again!" she told me.
"Nice to see you too!" I smiled as I then kept a straight face. "Now all we need is a distraction and I know how to get over there. I can get there and make it into a hole big enough for us to escape." I smiled. I huffed lightly and yelled at the top of my lungs. "RIOT!" I followed hte movements of the guards and Iroh that I remember and made fire as it turned to an all right prison war. "Let's go!" I smiled blocking the fire trying to whip at us as we mad it to the little hole I found. "Here." I whispered mostly to myself as I picked up my clothes and held them to my chest as I kicked down the door easily.
"I love how you and Toph can metal bend!" Sokka said happily.
"Love you too, Sokka." I smiled as we ran out into the open of the water. "Well, that's warm." I sighed feeling the steam of the water. It's enough cover too, if I make a bridge or a boat it would work.
"Do your magic Kiara." Sokka told me as I was about to till someone came out of nowhere and kicked me down.
"Azula!" I hissed as I pounced one her. I kicked her in the stomach as fire came out of someone's foot. "Thanks." I hissed. not a big fan of Zuko anyways so yeah. I kicked Azula far away; about thirty feet away from me? "Get on!" I yelled making a block of ice and making it across the river.
"Aah!" I heard on of the men yell almost hitting the water. I put the ice larger and he stopped sliding probably from becoming a melting popscicle.
"Wait!" Zuko said stopping. "My sister was on that island." Zuko told us as I rolled my eyes looking away.
"We can take her war ship."he told us as we a boarded.
After a day's worth of traveling we finally made it... somewhere. I was right now raiding the larder (food pantry). "They have Jin-Su!" I yelled happily grabbing it off the shelf and started eating it as I poked my head out. I swallowed a very big piece of sea wed and looked behind everyone and smiled. "I ruined a special momment didn't I?" I asked as a big white blob came speeding towards me and pounced on me pinning my shoulders as I heard.
"Watch out! It's a polar bear dog! Don't you hunt those things?" Nuw asked; the new guy.
Aang and I seem... to be distant now and not really talking. I guess it was because of the kiss. I think at least. I was sleeping on Kalla with Aspra was in Toph's arms. I thing Toph and Aspra have really bonded over the weeks I was gone.
I woke up to birds... and grenades. I looked up to see the roof about to fall on me and Katara who was right by me. I felt someone grab my waist and throw me to the ground. "Thanks Aang." I breathed getting up and made a tunnel for everyone to get out. "We can go out this way!" I yelled as everyone started to file out I grabbed Kalla's leash. "Come on, Kalla!" I yelled trying to get her to go.
"Appa won't leave! He hates tunnels!" Aang yelled.
"Kalla too!" I agreed. "I know how to get out of here with out a tunnel, but it won't be easy!" I yelled as another grenade came whooshing by.
"How?" Katara asked.
" She's the best climber on this planet! Plus I can help her!" I yelled getting on Kalla's saddle. "Len Len!" I yelled as she started running to the door.
"You guys take the stolen airship!" I heard Sokka yell as I tried getting to the wall till I heard.
"Wait!" I heard Aang yell as I tugged on the reins and turned Kalla around. "She can fit on Appa!" he yelled as Kalla climbed up on to Appa from his tail to the saddle.
I jumped off and went to the door seeing that wild black hair and cackling laugh. "Azula." I sneered. "I'll give you guys time!" I yelled as I felt an arm grab mine.
"No, this is a family visit." Zuko said pulling me behind him and ran off. I felt someone grab me and carry me in their arms and next thing I knew I was sitting on Appa's head.
"Yip Yip!" Aang yelled; still keeping a hold of me.
"No!" I yelled trying to claw my way to her. "I want a re-match!" I yelled. "And one where my hands are not tied up!"
"Kiara! Stop!" Katara said pouring water on my head.
"Thanks." I spit out of the water. "Needed that."
Toph and Aang got a shield of earth as we flew out and watched Zuko fight. Wish that was me. I saw them fighting and then sent fire at each other at the same time used fire making them fall at the same time. We rode under the air ships as Katara grabbed Zuko and forced him down on Appa. We turned to see Azula still falling. "She's... not going to make it." Zuko said looking surprised. She then shot fire out of her hands and grabbed on to the side of the cliff. "Of course she did." Zuko sighed.
It has been a day and once we got to solid ground, Kalla and I started running and now we were out camping. "Camping!" Aang chuckled. "It really feels like old times again, doesn't it?" Aang asked.
"If you really want it to feel like old times again, I could uh, chase you around awhile and try to capture you." Zuko joked as everyone laughed, even Katara! I though she wouldn't trust him like me!
"Oh, ha ha." I faked a mono tone laugh taking a bite out of my roll.
"To Zuko! Who knew that before this he tried to snuff us out and saved us today!" Sokka raised his glass after he stopped laughing.
"Here Here!" everyone else agreed with him.
"I'm touched. I don't deserve this." Zuko admitted.
"No kidding." I sneered standing up and going to the ledge where Kalla was as I sat down on a rock and I started running her head behind her ear.
"This isn't fair." I heard a voice behind me. "Everybody seems to trust me now. I even saved you from prison. What's wrong with you?" he asked.
"Oh, everyone trusts you now?" I asked. "I was the first one to trust you! Back in Ba Sing Se!" I pointed to the ocean to the direction of Ba Sing Se. "But you turned around and betrayed me! Betrayed all of us!"
"What can I make it up to you?" he asked softly with a pained expression. Fake.
"Uh, I don't know." I said sarcastically. "You could take back the five years of torture! Re-conquer Ba Sing Se in the name of the Earth King! Or I know, bring my mother back!" I yelled at him brushing his shoulder and walking to my tent with Kalla following closely.
Zuko
After that little embarrassing part from Sokka I asked. "What does your sister hate me?" I asked.
"Katara doesn't hate you. If you asked me she has a crush on you but you didn't hear it from me-"
"No, Kiara." I sighed though this new information does help me with that feeling issue I've had with her.
"Kiara? She doesn't hate anyone. Well, except maybe some people in the fire nation." he then got what he said. "But not good people who used to be bad! But not good-"
"Stop." I told him. "I know this might be out of nowhere but what happened the night your mother died?"
"What?" Sokka asked. "Why would you want to know that?"
"Kiara mentioned it before in Ba Sing Se. And Again just now when she was yelling at me. I think her anger about that is connected to her anger at me." I sighed.
"It's a night no one from the Southern Water Tribe wants to speak of." Sokka told me. "Kiara was the closest to our mother. They made snow castles, snow men and a scroll that was passed down in our generations was used to help her. Some how she got all of it done in one week. She wanted- needed more. She was a fast learner and the youngest one in our family. Mom and Dad use to say she was a mix of personalities. Humor and sarcastic from me, strong and courageous from Katara, was loved by everyone, like Mom, and always wanted to help some how, like Dad. She helped everyone in the tribe, by leaving the tribe.
"It was a sunny and snowy day like everyday almost. But this day was different. It snowed black snow. Katara said she was going to gram gram and Kiara said she was going to go to mom. Many warriors have seen black snow, but no one else really has well, between me, Kiara, and Katara. The warriors knew what it meant. A raid. But they left as soon as they came, but the last guy who boarded, wasn't there yet. We went to see what we heard and a little girl's scream.
"We looked to see Kiara on the shoulder of one of the raiders. She was screaming 'help me help me'. Everyone ran, including the elderly. Everyone started crying. We then realized we haven't seen Mom. We went back home to see our whole house in ashes with a dead body. Which was my mom. Kiara has said to blamed herself everyday since that day saying she could have done something."
"Wait!" I asked. "Do you remember any details about who raided your village?"
"Yeah, their flag. It was Sea Ravens." he told me, whipping his eyes from the most likely worst time of his life. If I had a great sister like that too, I would have never forgave myself for not saving her when I did. And as for my mom, I still don't know if she's alive or not.
"The symbol of the Southern Raiders. Thanks Sokka." I said going out.
Kiara
I woke up after getting dressed and walking out of my tent to see Zuko. "You look horrible." I told him going to the water and getting some tea to warm up, but first my hair was all tangled so I grabbed a brush and started brushing.
"I waited for you to wake up all night." he told me.
"Well, isn't that smart?" I asked sarcastically. "What do you want?" I asked.
"I know who tortured you and killed your mother." he told me. My eyes widened. "And I'm going to help you find him."
I turned around knotting my eyebrows together in a questioning manner.
I walked to Kalla and put her blanket on her back to put the saddle on. "Me and Zuko are going on a little field trip." I told everyone as I put her harness on next.
"Where ya going?" Aang asked.
"To find the man who took my mother away from us. The one who had me tortured for over five years." I told them as I tightened the reins on, not to hurt her but to make sure they don't fall off.
"And how will this accomplish anything?" Aang asked sternly.
"Huh!" I sighed knowing this was going to happen. "I knew you wouldn't understand." I shook my head and grabbed Zuko's and my bag.
"I do understand! Don't you know how I felt when you stayed behind and got captured again! Do you know how I felt when I learned the fire benders killed the nomads?" he asked.
"This is for closure and justice."Zuko told us.
"No, O think it's for vengeance." Aang told us.
"Well, maybe that's what I need!" I turned around from Kalla. "Maybe that's what he deserves.
"Your starting to sound like the people who did this to you." Aang told me. Now that was low.
"I am nothing like them!" I yelled. "They attack the innocent! My mom was not a water bender! She was protecting Katara and I!
"Kiara!" Katara said grabbing my shoulders. "She's our mother too!" she told me, referring to her and Sokka.
"You didn't love her like the way I did!" I yelled at them the tears falling down now. "She was my best friend!"
"The monk's use to say that revenge is like a two headed vapor. As you watch your enemy fall down you just poisoned yourself." Aang told me.
"That's cute, Aang. But that's for preschoolers, this is the real world."
"Now that, I know who killed my mother and took me. I'm not a helpless little girl anymore like I was before. I could have gotten there quicker. So now I am going to do just that. Make him seem so little and helpless." I told Aang mounting Kalla and helped Zuko up.
"There's another way. Forgiveness." Aang told us.
"That's the same as doing nothing!" Zuko argued.
"NO it's not!" Aang argued back. "It's easy to do nothing but it's hard to forgive."
"It's not just hard. "I told them as they looked at me. I raised my head to meet their eyes. "It's impossible." I sighed. "Len Len!" I yelled as Kalla ran down the steep hill into the water.
After getting the map to where the Southern Raiders were we started heading there, to Whale Tail island. I stayed up all night as the waves took us to our location. "You should get some sleep." I heard someone say to me as I made the waves pick up their pace. "You need your strength."
"Don't worry about my strength. I'm not the helpless little girl I once was." I sighed remembering. "'
Got you Katara!' I yelled throwing a snowball with my water bending.
'I'm gonna get you Kiara!' she yelled running after me our crescent moon robes showing, showing that we're water benders. I was running till I got to Sokka and put a finger to my lips signaling to be quiet as we hid behind a snow bank. I managed to make a snowball with my gloves and threw it at my brother.
'Aha!' he turned around trying to get the, now, cold wet water off of his back. He turned around to see me laughing uncontrollably. 'Kiara! Your gonna get it!' he yelled coming at me and Katara as we ran. We were giggling, like any 7 and 9 year old girls would, but that was short lived. Black ashes fell from the sky as we stopped and looked up.
'I'm gonna see if Gram Gram is okay.' Katara said running off.
'And I'm going to see if Mommy's alright!' I exclaimed heading home as I ran, I watched as more black snow fell. It snows white, not black.
I got inside our home as I saw a flash as I blocked my face, but not before I saw the man kill Mommy, who was laying lifeless. "Mommy." I whimpered. I looked at the man as I got angrier and angrier. 'You...Hurt...My...Mommy!' yelled not really remembering anything else but flashes. I remember...bending and... fire. It makes me dizzy to think about it. But I didn't know anything else.
After that I remember the man whispered almost to low to hear, "I need to get you to the Fire Lord." he said. I remember he said and putting me on his shoulder. I remember...I was crying, crying for help. "Daddy! Sokka! Help!" I wailed as he sprinted making my stomach hurt from his shoulders puncturing my stomach.
'Kiara!' I saw my Dad yell fighting the bad guys off, who I now learned was fire nation. He was running with everyone, Uncle Bato, Gram Gram, and even Katara and Sokka were running towards the ship as the door started shutting. 'I love you guys!' I yelled.
But I was boarded on. And I didn't see them for five years." I sobbed into my black pants. "I was tortured with whips, burns, and cuts to me. The worst was Azula. She did this." I stood up on the ice and lifted up my shirt to see a scar that would never fade on my stomach. "That was the first day she met me. that wicked nine year old." I sighed shaking my head.
"You were brave. You protected your home by leaving." Zuko told me. "Your mother is one of the bravest woman I've ever heard of though."
"I know." I sobbed touching my necklace.
"It's the Southern Raiders!" Zuko told me as I looked at the flag.
"Let's do this." I told him as I made tentacles and grabbing a fire bender and dunking him in the water, before everyone came to the side I used Water bending to but an air bubble around Kalla, except her legs where she kicked to swim. As we went up I made a wave, making all the crew men fall off. Kalla jumped off of block of ice she was on and on to the boat as I grabbed some water from the ocean and made the last one fall off.
Zuko opened the door to the cabin and I ran inside with water still on my arms ready to find the killer of my mother and one of my many torturers that I will kill. We opened the door to see the man.
"This is it. You ready?" Zuko asked me as I put the cloth that covered my lips and my nostrils to talk.
"Let's do this..." I whispered as I got in a stance to make the water go through the doors. "Ah!" I yelled a battle scream. The door opened as I grabbed the water again though dropped it with another idea. I know I promised never to do this, but, this is the man who killed my mother and had me tortured.
I used blood bending to make him stop and made him go on his knees. "Think back!" Zuko yelled at the man. "Think back to the last raid of the Southern Water tribe!" Zuko yelled as I placed him up to see my face. I looked in to his eyes though.
"It's not him." I breathed. "It's not the man."
"What?!" Zuko asked. "What do you mean he's not! He's the leader of the Southern Raiders! He has to be the guy!" Zuko yelled at me.
"It's not him..." I told him again trailing again and walking out and mounting Kalla again waiting for Zuko to come out. He then came sprinting out and jumping onto Kalla holding the back of her saddle.
"Yon Ra! That's his name." Zuko told me as Kalla jumped off of the boat.
We soon found where Yon Ra, we followed till he threw fire at the bush. He then tripped over the wire I set up and Zuko blasted fire at him. "We weren't behind the bush." Zuko told him. "And I wouldn't try to fire bending again!"
"Take- Take my money! Take my food! Take anything you want!" he yelled. Scared of being mugged but doesn't care that he killed an innocent women who was a hero, to everyone.
I toke off my mask and looked him dead in the eye. It was him. "Do you know me?" I asked him as he looked at me.
"No... I don't know you." Yon Ra told me.
"Look at me! Look at my eyes!" I sneered at him.
"Your... your the little bouncy Water tribe girl that kept reflecting my attacks." he told me. "I... I killed your mother and... your eyes..." he trailed.
"Glowed?" I asked in a mono-tone voice.
"Yes... their, their was one water bender left. And we were told that the next one in line for the legend was in the water tribe. The woman told me she was the legend and their was no water bender."
"Well, she lied to you about being the legend!" I yelled at him.
"Then... then who is?" he asked, as I turned my head away.
"Me!" I yelled throwing fire at him making him more scared, make his hair go back with air bending, made the ground rumble and froze the rain to create a dome. I made the rain in to sharp iscecoles to kill him... I couldn't do it.
"What's wrong! Do it already!" I dropped the water as he begged like the rat he is.
"Please! I'll give you my mother instead!" He told me as I looked away.
"No. I always wondered what kind of man would do this. Now I know." I told him as I walked over to him. "And no that I see you, I understand. Your pathetic and sad. I will never be like you and take a life."
"Please spare me." he begged on his knees. Pig.
"Your lucky." I hissed. "But I will do one thing." I said putting my hand on his chin to look straight at me. "You are a monster." I left and grabbed Zuko's wrist pulling him behind as I whistled for Kalla as she came as quick as light and we jumped on.
I was waiting at Amber Island, right now I was swimming. "Kiara!" I heard soemone yell as I wanted to swim down deeper to get away, I came up. I shoot up and came swimming to Aang on the docks as I climbed up. "I heard what you did. Or what you didn't do." Aang told me as I wringed out my hair.
"You have no clue, how much I wanted to." I whispered as light as the air. Though Aang still heard. "I wanted to make him feel what I felt. I heard paws on the deck come up to me, though stopped. I geuss it's not wide enough. "I wanted to so badly. But I'm not him. As you said it's hard to forgive, though I will never forgive him.
"But," I said standing up getting the water out off of me and into the ocean and putting my robe on. "I'm ready to forgive you." I whispered hugging Zuko around the waist. I'm small remember! "YOur like another older brother." I told him as I felt him shrink as he bent down and hugged me closer.
"I'm still sorry." he told me letting me go as we both let go and took a step away.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because, I didn't help you. Azulon and Ozai tortured you along with my sister." he told me.
"Nothing to forgive." I smiled walking away.