Gyatso and Kara: Prodigies of an Avatar

Chapter 28- Surprises

When Iroh walked back to the group, holding "Gorgeous" in his arm, he had the weirdest feeling in the world. Where was this girl from? He definitely knew her from somewhere.

"Have you got a name?" Gyatso asked turned around purifying the swamp muck so that the group could drink it. He was so into his work that he didn't notice that his sister was right in front of her.

"Gorgeous." Iroh replied pointedly as her placed her on one of the makeshift beds that Bumi had given them when they left for the Swamp.

"What kind of name is Gorgeous?"

"A name that fits." Iroh chuckled taking a seat next to the now sleeping Kara-Gorgeous on the bed.

Rika scoffed and took some of the water that Gyatso had put into a large jug for when they really needed it as she rolled her eyes at her friend's comment.

"That's a stupid name." She mumbled placing the jug on the floor and taking a seat next to Roku.

"Where do you think she came from?" Roku said slyly moving closer to Rika on the bed.

Iroh looked at Kara, scrunching his brow as he tried to calculate how far she walked before she fell.

"Definitely a mile from where she fell, and to be falling that hard and fast would mean that she was running . . . her splash was quite huge as well, that means a mile and a half from here."

All eyes were on him. One thing that nobody expected when they saw the Fire Nation prince was the fact that he was one of the smartest teenagers in all of the 4 Nations. Math and science were his fortes.

"Approximately?" He whispered trying to sound dumber.

"Well, if she fell from a mile away from here, we should be able to find the people that she came wi-" Gyatso stopped midsentence looking at the girl on the bed.

"What is it?" Rika asked preparing for another comment along the lines of "she is so hot" to come out of his mouth. Gosh, the way that each of the boys looked at that girl sickened her. They had brought her up to the surface about an hour ago, and it was if they were all in love with her.

"That girl looks like an older version of my sister." He whispered rubbing his eyes.

"No way," Roku said shaking his head. "The girls are freezing at the South Pole, not prancing around the swamp."

"She does look familiar. . ." Iroh added looking at the girl besides him.

"Why don't we find out instead of staring at her pretty face all day?" Rika exclaimed as she started to shake the girl's shoulders violently.

"Rika, what are you doing?!" Gyatso yelled going to stop her shaking, but it was too late. Kara was awake and oh so confused.

"Hi, uh, Gorgeous. How's it going?" Iroh asked sheepishly.

Pinkness painted on Kara's cheeks and looked away from Iroh's golden eyes to collect herself. She shook her head and sat up with a start, looking around. Once she saw the rushing water from the falls and felt the water on her neck, everything came to her.

"I need to get back to everybody." Kara said thinking aloud as she jumped up and started to walk away from everybody.

"Gorgeous, wait! You might have a concussion; we'll have to help you before you can leave!" Iroh yelled following her along with the rest of the group.

Kara swiftly turned her heels to face everyone.

"Thanks and all, but I really don't know you all-why do you all keep calling me Gorgeous?"

"Kara!" Suddenly came from a voice traveling close to them.

Topaz, Li, and Kyoshi came running to her and almost jumped on her. They had been running for her ever since she had fallen down, and had finally found her.

"Kara?" Gyatso said, his voice trembling. "Is that really you?"

She turned around looking deep into his agonizing blue eyes. They were full of sadness, despair, but truth.

"Gyatso." She said almost breathlessly. Before she could blink, she was in her brother's arms, crying.

"You got so tall!" Gyatso cried squeezing his sister and kissing her head.

"No, you got tall! You're taller than me now!"

They didn't want to let go of each other. If they could freeze themselves in that moment forever, they would.

"Who is Kara?" Rika questioned interrupting their moment of happiness.

"Um . . . Gyatso's, uh, sister." Iroh answered absentmindedly as he walked to the siblings with his eyes locked on Kara.

The same girl's eyes crept up above her brother's shoulder and looked into Iroh's deep eyes.

"Flashback." They both whispered at the same time.

The brother and sister released each other and looked at each other's crew. Topaz and Kyoshi on Kara's half, Iroh and Roku on Gyatso's.

"Kyoshi . . . Topaz, you guys are just-just-just-"

"It is okay, Gyatso, we know we're hot." Topaz smiled, giving him an imaginary hug.

Kyoshi on the other hand, did in fact give her cousin a tight hug.

"You still smell like apples, cousin." Kyoshi laughed backing up from his hug.

"And you still smell like kiwis."

Kara stood staring at Iroh for a good minute. So many thought went through her head, but the short, three word sentence. Short sentences always tripped her up. In her eyes, the shortest sentences had the biggest meaning.

"You cut your hair." She said touching a little bit of his black hair awkwardly. It had been so long since their last meeting, and there was a lot of tension.

"Yeah, it was longer back then, huh?" He touched her hand softly before stroking his hair. The hand was just as soft as it was when he had last seen her. Like sheepskin.

Kara brought her hand down and clasped it with her other one. There was a thick sheet of cotton in between them that kept the two from just giving each other the hug from one another that was truly needed.

The girl's rain gray eyes looked over and saw Roku talking to Rika and felt that her escape from the tension.

"Is that Roku, over there?" She muttered going to run away to the little boy. All the pre-teen did was wave at her and turned back to Rika. Escape failed.

"Kara," Gyatso turned to his sister and took her arm. "How did you guys get here anyways?"

Her father's smile painted itself on her face, and she took her brother's arm to intertwine them together. She started to walk forward, but turned again.

"It's a surprise."

"Well I'm starting to get tired of all of these surprises!" Rika mumbled dryly as she followed the group in front of her.

A LOT of stuff going on in this chapter, though not as long as I thought it would be. Do you think that I used enough details?

God Bless,

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