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Korra's Point of View

"So you are like some futuristic-Avatar?" Katara asked. I sighed and nodded.

"I don't think it is that simple. Right now, I'm not the Avatar, Aang is, and I can't even bend." I hung my head between my legs, squeezing it with my knees. We were on Appa again, and were flying towards the Northern Tribe; they were still an independent nation, not a member of the Union; that still managed to baffle me, there are four nations here. The others had been pestering me for answers, futuristic predictions. I moaned. "I wish I'd payed more attention to my history classes…"

"What do you mean?" Aang's small, smiling face jumped into view.

"I can't, for the life of me remember how this ends. I can't give you strategies, I can't tell you what works and where to avoid, I can't even tell you if you do end up defeating the Fire Lord!" I exclaimed. "For all I know, you could have been imprisoned and busted out when Ozai died." I couldn't remember… anything. Not anything of the time after.

"It's probably an Avatar trick, so you can let me do this on my own…" Aang broke off. He'd counted on getting some valuable tactical information from me, I suppose.

"Whatever it is, you and Katara need to learn waterbending." I smiled as best as I could. "So we need to go someplace with water."

"Well, that river over there might work!" Katara cried out, trying to get on with it, she was a really eager learner.

"That it will," I turned then yelled out to Appa, "Take us to the river, Appa." Appa and Ammo were so much alike, they were both sweet and really nice souls. I swear, the only good thing about airbending is the sky-bison.

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"Katara. Don't get frustrated." Aang cheerfully called, "You just have to twist your wrists like this." He demonstrated the wave perfectly, snapping his wrists.

Katara opened her mouth to speak, she was fuming and her face had turned the color of a gushy tomato. "Katara." I said totally calm. She turned towards me, ready to pour out her rage. "Katara, cool down. I knew you, and I knew what you could accomplish." She looked at me funny, I really didn't know what I was saying. I could remember nothing about Katara's life. "Now, try taking a waterbending lesson from a girl who can't bend." I walked up to her and grabbed her hands. "Flick your wrists upwards." I pulled her hands back. "Now you try." She was looking at me like I was the devil himself, stopping her from lashing out with all her anger on Aang, but she did it anyway. Her wrists snapped upwards in a perfect flick, and a rushing wall of water came up to meet her astonished eyes. It was roaring overhead when she couldn't hold it any longer, and dropped it, a full ton of water, all over me and her.

She giggled gleefully, soaked to the bone. "Thanks." I sighed.

"Thanks not!" Sokka came clambering up, he too had been his with the resulting wave. "You just practiced all our supplies down the river." And with a glare he pulled himself out of the water and up to Aang. "Dry me off." Aang responded with a blast of airbending that made all Sokka's hair stand on end. I giggled, and so did Katara. Soon, we were both on the ground, laughing hard.

"I haven't laughed this hard since… Well since I got here!" I'd laughed like this with someone… Mikki? Mack? Those stupid Avatars, taking away my memory! And he had a friend, Boko? Or was it Moko and Bilin? I can't even remember the names of my friends!

Katara and I were laughing the entire way to town, sharing funny water-bending jokes and giggling at the stupidest things. It was just like having a real friend, someone I could remember. I hate those idiotic Avatars, what do they think? I'm just going to come back and say, 'Yay for the Avatars who took my memory away and sent me years and years back in time' because I guarantee that won't happen. Suddenly, being the Avatar isn't so appealing. I hate to think that in five hundred years, I will be doing this to some poor soul.

Once we got to the market place, Katara suggested we split up, as we only had three copper pieces left and we all had to make the best of it, Sokka and Aang would look for the food and stuff like that, while Katara and I searched for soap. That was the plan, until Aang revealed he had spent a copper piece on a bison whistle.

"No offense, Aang, but I'll carry the money from now on." Katara sighed. This was barely enough to get food, and we still needed soap, no way were we just going to go without… gross!

"Earth-Nation! Water-Nation! As long as bargains are your in-clination, stop on by; don't be shy!" There was a rough looking man standing beside a ship, trying to sell his wares. He obviously had ran out of soap. I could feel the dirt on his arm as he wrapped it around my shoulder. "You look like the world-traveling types! Can I interest you in some fascinatingly exotic curios?" He gave Katara a sickening smile.

Leave it up to Aang to encourage the creepy pirate. "Sure!" He paused, and the smile faded into confusion, "What are curios?"

The dirty guy's eyebrows scrunched together, and he finally settled on an answer, "I really don't know, but we got 'em!" and Aang skipped happily off with the grungy man, leaving the rest of us to sigh and follow them up into the ship.

Even I have to admit, they had some pretty good stuff. There were swords and boomerangs, and blunt cudgels and axes; I was going to have to get myself a weapon if I was stuck without bending. There was a pretty good looking broadsword hanging on the wall, and right beside it was a pair of dual swords.

"You guys are pirates!" I heard Sokka's voice call up out of the mountains of stuff.

"We prefer to call ourselves 'high-risk traders'." It was the sleazy guy again. I sighed, and grabbed the dao blades off the wall. These were going to cost a pretty penny. Swinging them experimentally, I attempted to feel the way they moved. They were graceful, and flowed together like Yue and La, the moon and the ocean. They were made to be separate, but together, like the bending of the Avatar.

"Korra! Over here!" Katara called out gently, and I meandered over to her. Her eyes opened wide when she saw the swords, but she shook her head. "Korra, look what I found!" She shoved a scroll in my hands. A water-bending scroll.

"Sweet!" I smiled. "We should get this." She nodded enthusiastically, but then frowned.

"We don't have enough money, do we?" She pouted.

"I'll barter with something." I gave her a wry smile. I had some mother-of-pearl bracelets and some silver armbands, those had to count for something. I wouldn't be able to trade them for food, merchants who sold that wanted money, but for greedy pirates, that should be enough. I walked up to the big tall guy with the lizard-parrot on his shoulder, hoping he was the captain.

"Hey." I caught his attention, then plunked the blades and the scroll on the table in front of him. "I don't have money." His eyes narrowed, and he opened his mouth to shout. "I have stuff to trade, though." He stopped his almost-shouting to look at what I had. I pulled off two of the three bracelets, and put them on the table.

He shook his head. "Not enough for both the scroll and the swords. The swords alone, sure. But I already have a buyer in the Earth Kingdom for the scroll, one hundred gold pieces.

"Fine. We don't have that kind of money." I sighed. "I'll just take the swords." I could feel Katara glaring at the back of my head.

"We have a deal!" the pirate captain smiled and snatched up my bracelets. "And I will give you the sheath for these fine swords for the other bracelet." He smiled, I was getting cheated.

"Fine." I slipped off the other bracelet and handed it to him. His smile grew wider, and he reached under the table to draw out a simple cow-pig leather sheath that could be strapped around the waist or across the back.

"Bye." I grabbed the swords and the scroll, and walked over to where the stack of scrolls were; I was smiling as I slipped it under my belt.

"Come on, guys. We still have to get food." Everyone but Katara looked disappointed. Katara looked angry.

"Why couldn't –" I shook my head at her comment as we stepped off the ship's gangplank.

"Don't say anything." I took a deep breath. "One. Two."

"Hey! You!"

"Bingo." I smiled and turned around. "Katara. Get ready to run." I whispered to my friend under my breath. I also passed her the scroll, no use in me getting caught with it.

"You're a thief!" The dirty pirate was joined by four others, all of them just as dirty as he was.

"I prefer to call it 'high-risk trading'!" I called back to the seriously angry pirates, all of whom were jumping off the boat and readying their weapons.

"Go, guys. I've got this." Aang's eyes went wide, but he and the others turned and ran down an alleyway. I watched them out of the corner of my eye until they got far enough away not to be pursued. By that time all those gross pirates were almost on top of me. So I ran.

I'm built like a runner, and have been running forever and ever, it's just a part of being physically fit; those fat buckets of lard were no match for me. I was running until it felt like my lungs would split, straight out of town. I had a clear shot; the woods were just a few shops away... And I ran straight into a very fat man dressed in reds and browns, and wearing a tough armor. My chest connected with his body armor, knocking the wind out of my aching lungs, and before I could stop it, my head thunked into his shoulder armor with a nasty sound.

Ouch.


Oooooh! I love throwing a kink in the story :) Review or PM me with any suggestions about anything :) (ex. Pairings? Someone dies viciously? Korra learns dao blades from an angry Zuko?) I'm attempting to at least a little follow the episode line all the way to the end, but with some funness in there that makes it different enough...