Before you read, just know that private days are days when you exile yourself from other people for a day or something for meditation or fasting or whatever.
Gyatso and Kara: Prodigies of an Avatar
Chapter 18- To the Earth Kingdom Part 1
Kara knocked on her mothers' door softly the next morning. Her palms were sweaty and she could hear her own heart beating. Topaz and Kyoshi had helped her come up with a plan to persuade Katara into letting the girls travel to the Earth Kingdom, but she had to present it by herself. That would be almost a first in all of her fifteen years of life. Topaz and Kyoshi would be her "entourage" in situations like the one she was in, and would back her up when she got shaky. Since they were doing other activities (Kyoshi was on a date and Topaz was having a "private day") so Kara could not get to them.
"Come in!" Katara said lightly as usual.
Kara guessed that she was playing with Kuzon in there. So she placed her hand on the ice door and pushed it as slow as she could. Kara could not remember the last time she had been as nervous as she was now. Actually, she could- the day the kids were sent away to their separate poles. She was talking to Iroh, but that is another story.
She walked into the room and smiled her nervous smile. Her lips were smiling but the ends had a bit of a frown on them. Katara looked up and easily noticed, but decided not to push on that.
"What is it, Kara?" Her blue eyes wandered over her daughter reading her exact emotions as she put her son on her lap.
"Oh, um. . . I wanted to, um, ask you something."
Katara blinked as her daughters' voice almost screeched at the end of her sentence.
"What do you want to ask?" Katara frowned lightly. "No dates."
"Oh," Kara laughed lightly, relaxing a bit at her mothers' joke that was actually quite serious.
"No, Mom, I wanted to ask if Kyoshi, Topaz, and I could go somewhere."
Katara stroked Kuzon's dark brown hair softly. "As long as it has multiple mature adult supervisors, go ahead, just don't drink anything."
"Actually, where we want to go has no real adult supervision. We want to go to the. . . Earth Kingdom." Kara paused to look at her mother.
Katara had literally paused. Her blue eyes looked paler than usual, and she had a blank look on her face. She looked almost dead. Katara blinked quickly and looked up at her daughter.
"No, you cannot go to the Earth Kingdom on your own." Katara said almost as if giving a hint to the teen.
"Mom, we would be able to earn enough money and once we get to Kyoshi Island we could buy stuff. Topaz, Kyoshi, and I are intelligent and resourceful. Plus Kyoshi and I could protect the group."
Katara sighed and rolled her eyes in a way that only mothers could. "You still would not have any adult supervision and transportation."
"We were thinking that since Li might come too, we could use the ship that his dad gave to him."
"I won't let you go anywhere without adult supervision." Katara sat Kuzon on her lap when he started to run around in a bored manner.
"Umm, well . . . wait a second! You could be our adult supervisor and protector, plus you know more about the four nations than we do!"
A small smile tugged on Katara's lips as she put a lock of her hair behind her ear. She looked at her son and whispered in his ear so that Kara could not hear them. The boy smiled and life seemed to come back to him. He stood up and jumped up and down.
"Mama, are we really going to the Earth Kingdom?" He yelled.
"Yep, and we will get to visit your Uncle Bumi too."
Kara' mouth opened slightly and her lips curved into a smile as well. "We're going as far as Omashu?"
"Well," Katara chuckled "We might go to Ba Sing Sei also. You did say the Earth Kingdom, yes? That not only includes Kyoshi, but Ba Sing Sei and Omashu and more as well."
I finally got this done!!
I will get to the guys in the next chapter hopefully. I will tell you now that the start of pairing is very, very near!
God Bless,
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