Sara sighed in aggravation. They had been walking forever. Her eyes were half closed and dreary, a small laugh bubbling from her lips at the memory of how Sokka had taken to them joining the group when no longer under the affects of the cactus juice. It had been rather comical and even the quiet Tyana had begun to laugh outright at both Sara and Sokka's antics. Sara, feeling comfortable around them despite the fact that she didn't really know them, allowed her to react normally when provoked by the poor Water Tribe boy, and to everyone's shock, the new girls found something out about themselves they would never have imagined.
Flashback
Sara groaned, waking up on the sandy ground, great. She didn't even like the beach! Let alone a desert! She looked blearily around and saw Aang sitting with a sleeping Momo in his lap. She sat up and crawled over to him. "Hey." She said calmly, her voice soft but a bit gravelly from sleep. He looked up at her from his previous position of petting the sleeping lemur. He blinked and forced a small smile. Sara automatically knew it was fake.
"What are you doing up?" she asked and sat quietly next to him, unlike last night where she had just plopped down where ever she pleased. As Toph had said, it was a free desert. But in the state that the younger boy was currently in she found the need to be careful. She didn't want to make him more upset than he already was.
"I couldn't sleep." He answered briefly and she nodded, she was surprised that she could. But it was something about the wind and the comfort of the sand that lulled her into a quiet slumber, only waking every once in awhile when Sokka would talk in his sleep. Sara sighed and reached to touch the smaller animal in Aang's lap. He blushed but sat still.
"I know what you mean. I'm surprised any of us did. They seemed kinda upset you were gone," she murmured casting a look at the sleeping trio. "And I know me and Tyana sure would have had trouble sleeping. It's not everyday you wake up in a strange place and have no idea where you are." She said with a humorless laugh. Aang nodded knowing exactly how that felt.
"I know that ...what was it's name? Appa? " she waited for him to nod before continuing, still not wanting to let on that she knew more than Aang did about his own universe. "Anyways, we'll find him Aang." She said, certainty in her voice. After all, she did know the future. Aang nodded morosely, not seeming to take her words to heart.
"Thanks..uhmm...I'm sorry I didn't really hear your name last night. I was kinda outta it." He blushed and she giggled. "It's fine. I understand. And I'm Sara by the way." She said with a grin. Aang found he couldn't help but smile back. He looked at her strange clothes and frowned, having trouble reading the shirt because it was in a different languege but he knew what the picture was on it.
"Sokka is gonna love that." He said and Sara blushed. She had developed a small crush on the character, but it was manageable, unlike most Zuko fangirls that couldn't think the name without swooning. She was internally grateful her bestfriend was not one of them.
At the mention of the boy's name, Sokka sturred and looked up, squinting at Sara. "Ugh! Why do I feel like a platypus-bear just stepped on my head?" he groaned and she giggled. That was part of the show they hadn't shown. He groggily looked up at Sara once again and then realization hit and he jumped up, taking out his boomarang and Sara wisely stopped laughing. At hearing the struggle, Tyana woke up, her ice blue eyes widening and she stood shakily, her shirt scrunched over her mid-drift from sleeping.
"who are you?" he shouted and Sara tried very hard not to laugh.
"My name is Sara." She said simply and he frowned, he obviously had no memories of the day before. "And I'm Tyana.." the other girl inserted from behind him and he jumped, throwing his boomarang at her in shock. Tyana's eyes widened and a shrill shriek came from her mouth as her hands went up in shock to block her face from the weapon. Sara momentarily saw red, anger taking over her so she didn't notice that Tyana hadnt even been hit, water blocking the weapon from hitting her.
"What is wrong with you!" She cried, clenching her fist and prepared to hit him. He cringed. "I'm sorry, she startled me an- wait, why am I apologizing , youre the outsider!" He cried, his deep blue eyes widening. Sara had the urge to punch him. How dare he?
"Outsider? That's not what you called me last night when you were high off youre ass!" she cried and faintly felt a strange tingling in her hands, then a strange warm sensation spread through her and she found the need to punch something.
"See! You're a firebender! How can we trust you?" he voice was harsh and he flushed when she mentioned the night before, brief memories falling into his head. But Sara was distracted, looking down at her hand which surely did have flames coming from them. "Oh shit. Shit, shit." She muttered and quickly held her hands out from herself so her clothes wouldn't catch fire. "Sara stop!" she heard Aang yell at her, she looked over to Toph, Katara and Tyana. The two original girls went straight into action, Katara bending the water in front of Tyana to put out Sara's hands. It was akwardly silent for a few moments before Sara sighed in relief.
"wow..." she breathed and Tyana nodded, a grin on her face. That had been the most exciting thing to happen to her in years, maybe her whole life!
Sara was shaken out of her thoughts when Tyana nudged her side. Sara laughed and nudged back. It had taken some time to explain to Sokka that they meant no harm, hadn't known about the avatar and didn't even know Sara could bend at all! Sokka finally believed them when Sara was near tears of panic when her hands lit on fire again and she didn't know how to put them out.
Thats when the team decided that it was more crucial than ever that they find a teacher for both Aang and Sara. Sara sighed, running her hand through her bright blonde hair that the others kept staring at, never having seen someone with such light hair, except Yue and that was necessarily natural. And the tatoo on her forehead bothered everyone. Including her,considering she couldn't see it. She sypathized with Toph and looked ahead, a sudden though occuring to her.
"Hey Katara!" She cried, catching up with the dark haired girl. Katara looked back and gave her a small smile. "Yes?" she asked, a dark brow raising subtly. "I just wanted to thank you for saving Tyana, I mean, from the boomarang." Katara frowned. "wh...I didnt do that." she said and Sara frowned.
"But I saw the weapon stop infront of her because of a shield of water!" she cried and Katara shook her head and they both looked back at Tyana. Sara got an idea. "Hey nana!" Sara cried and the aforementioned girl looked up. Sara grinned and bent over, throwing a handful of sand at her. Tyana's eyes narrowed last minute and she hissed "no!" and before the sand could hit her wave of water seemed to block it. Sara grinned and looked at Katara. "Looks like we found out why the weapon stopped." The other girl nodded and Sara walked back to Tyana, her expression one of shock.
" You better close your mouth or you'll catch flies." She said with a grin. Tyana's mouth snapped shot and she nodded mutely and continued to play with the sphere of water as they walked. Sara laughed, thinking her friend looked like a child with her tounge slightly sticking out and eyebrows pulled up in frusteration as she molded the water into different things.
Sara sighed, wishing she could do the same but her element was too dangerous, she didnt want to hurt anyone. The rest of the way she followed slightly sullenly behind Aang and the others, ocationally pulling Tyana along when she would accidentally drop some water.
It continued that way until the group found their way trying to get a ticket to go through serpent's pass. Sara practically growled when they were reunited with Suki. She had been fond of the character. She was nice. But Sokka's obvious infatuation bothered her for some reason. Sighing she followed along, looked at the other couple traveling with them. She cringed as she knew what would happen. But in the end it would help pull Aang out of his funk so she figured it was all for the best, though she did choose to stay farther away from her than usual. Tyana seemed to realize the same thing and followed her lead on that.
It was all going as planned, she remained calm when Toph got caught in the water. Though her concern broke though when she was finally brought to land shivering. Sara moved to sit by her, wrapping her arms around the smaller girl, concerntrating on her body heat to warm her up.
"Th-thanks fire head" she muttered and sara couldnt help but let out a trill of laughter at the nickname. She rested her head on toph's and looked tiredly as Suki was praised for being a hero. She cringed as she heard the woman giving birth, sure she never wanted to do anything like that anytime soon. Ugh! The very thought made her shudder and Tyana looked slightly green. She looked at her friend with a sad sort of smile. It's not like she would get the chance to have kids with anyone here, unless she purposefully messed with the pairings. But she couldnt do that.
They had sucessfully made it, and Sara relaxed, sure she would faint from emotional exaution. Tyana was still smiling though. "Hey sara look!" she exclaimed And threw her hands up in the air, turning the water into snow. Sara laughed and hugged her friend. "I dunno what I'd do without you Nana!" she cried.
