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Chapter 7 – Kyoshi Island
After three to four days of travel, Keisha lost count; she could finally see Kyoshi Island in the distance. With a smile on her face, she sailed faster in that direction. She can only get very far before the Unagi knocks her boat over and she goes into the water. After she resurfaces, she swims towards shore. "You stupid beast, why is it me you always pick on, you're so much more lenient on everyone else?"
But, before she can get far, it swims up in front of her and blocks her path. So she water-bends the water around her and starts surfing around the great sea beast, now being able to go much faster, she makes it to shallow water and turns to see the Unagi retreating. "That's right, you run away," she yells then whispers to herself, "you big ugly sea monster."
She turns around and heads towards the village. She doesn't get very far before the Kyoshi Warriors bombard her and take her into the village blind-folded. Well it saves me from walking, Keisha thinks to herself.
Finally, she gets placed on the ground and tied to the pole that her parents and uncle were once tied to many years ago. Then they take off her blindfold, she looks around then says, "It's safe to assume you don't recognize me?"
"No, who are you?" asks one of the younger members she doesn't recognize.
"Well, it would seem you have new recruits, Aunt Sukie didn't tell me you had new recruits," Keisha points out.
"How do you know Sukie, and answer our first question?" asked another new recruit.
"Sukie is my aunt, her husband, Sokka is my mother's brother, and I am the daughter of Lady Katara and Avatar Aang."
"Keisha?" asks one of the older recruits who Keisha recognizes, but can't quite put her finger on the name.
"Yes, it's me, the new Avatar."
They quickly untie her. "I'm sorry Keisha, we didn't recognize you at first, and I thought it might be you when you mentioned Sukie, but… I'm so sorry," says the one she recognizes.
"Its okay, it's okay, as long as you recognize me now, and I'm fine with it. Besides, I don't think I've seen any of you guys since I was four anyway," reassures Keisha.
"Oh good, yes we haven't seen you since you were a toddler, you were a cute thing then and you're a cute thing now, with that black hair of yours and your mother's blue eyes. You're just so cute, I can't believe I didn't recognize you," says the one Keisha recognized, and remembers now that her name is Milly.
"Milly, please, calling a 10-year-old 'cute' is embarrassing, and I would like to go back to the beach and find my belongings that big ugly beast knocked out of my boat. I swear that thing is out to get me, either that Unagi is after me specifically or dad did something to it and it knows I'm the reincarnation," mutters Keisha.
"It could be that your dad actually managed to ride that thing, it was funny watching it, but it would appear Avatar Aang has done something that burdens his reincarnation, and his daughter too at that," replied Milly.
"Maybe, but it isn't a burden, it's just really annoying."
"Milly, who is this girl?" asks one of the new recruits.
"Eila, show your manners, this girl is the Avatar, you'd think that since you're 16-years-old, you'd have manners," retorts Milly.
"No, Milly, it's alright, she's just curious," replies Keisha.
"Geez, Keisha you're talking like an adult, you really are something, I can't believe you're only 10," mutters Milly. "So anyway, what brings you here?"
"Oh, Azula is chasing me, she took me from the South Pole, and I escaped after a few days when I found out she planned to kill me, and ended up on the southern most Earth Kingdom island. From there, the villagers helped me prepare for my trip, and for the past 3 or 4 days, I lost count, I was sailing here on my boat, until that damn Unagi capsized it. Stupid ugly brute," replies Keisha.
"Ha ha, it looks like you have it out for that thing as well… wait did you say Azula? But she's in prison and what does she want with you besides to kill you, what about Aang?" asks Milly.
"Uh, Milly, dad was killed 5 years ago, didn't you know that?" asks Keisha.
"WHAT…. Aang is dead, how come Sukie never told us?" yells Milly.
"No, Sukie sent you a message saying that dad was dead… unless someone intercepted the messages and sent back fake messages telling us our friends couldn't come but they would have memorial services for him in their home country. There must be something a lot more sinister behind dad's death, someone wanted only the Southern Water Tribe to know, but the thing is, the arrow that killed dad was meant for me, it was heading straight for me, but dad got between it and me, then boom, dad was gone. I think, because the wrong Avatar was killed, they don't want anyone to know," suggests Keisha.
"Maybe, but we'll worry about that later, how did Azula get out of prison?" asks Milly again.
"I'm not sure, she wouldn't tell me or mum, I'm heading for Ba Sing Se, but now it seems for more than learning earth-bending, I want to find out if Toph and Haru know about dad or if their messages didn't reach them either."
"That's a good idea, but it will take days, maybe weeks to get to Ba Sing Se, Azula might find you before you reach Ba Sing Se," says Milly.
"I don't care as long as I get to Ba Sing Se, that's all that matters now. After I spend some time there and learn a thing or two of earth-bending, I'll head to the Fire Nation and see if Zuko knows about dad. I want to talk to Korin as well, I need someone besides you guys and the Earth King and Queen that I can trust with this," contemplates Keisha.
"Yes, but I have a better idea, how about some of the Kyoshi Warriors go with you as a type of guard system, that way we can protect you and you can have company on your journey," suggests Milly.
"Thank-you, that would be a great idea, plus I have a big ugly beast that I want to talk to, I'll see you guys later, after I get my stuff back from that big ugly brute." I wonder how much fun it is to ride the Unagi, Keisha thinks to her self.
I know the chapter is shorter than the last, but I just couldn't think of anything else to put in the chapter without it becoming boring. Anyway, please review. You can obviously guess how to pronounce Milly, but Eila is pronounced 'Eye-la.' So yeah. I just had to thicken the plot with something else by adding the problem about how the letters about Aang's death didn't get to their target. I might add in later,later chapters the truth about Aang's death, meaning that Keisha notonly has to run from Azula, but she has to find out who killed Aang and why they want her dead.