I was sitting on a rock next to Sokka looking at the scrolls, he was filling me on on what they are doing as we look at them.
"WATER BENDING BOMB!" I heard Katara yell from somewhere. Making both me and Sokka look her way. She laughed before hitting the water and creating a huge splash.
"Sure, 5000 year old maps from the secret library just splash some water on them." Sokka said frustrated making me laugh a little.
"Sorry," Katara apologized before water bending the water out of it.
"Thank you, so," He said lifting up the scrolls and moving over to the dirt. We quickly walked over to him. "Okay, so we just got out of the desert, so were around here, and we need to get to Ba Sing Se, which is here. It looks like the only pass that connects the south and the north is this slither of land called the Serpent's Pass."
"You sure that's the best way to go?" Toph asked crossing her arms.
"It's the only way, it's not like we have Appa to fly us there."
"Shh, shush up about Appa. Can you at least try to be sensitive?" Katara whispered to him but loud enough for us to hear.
"Look I'm fine, I just want to get to Ba Sing Se to tell the earth king about the solar eclipse. " Aang said hugging his knees.
I frowned at him, he's in one of the stages of sadness.
"Okay, good no more distractions," Sokka said rolling up the maps.
"Hello fellow refugees." A male voice came out of nowhere. The three people dressed in what looked like earth kingdom outfits walked over to us.
"So you guys heading to Ba Sing Se too?" Aang asked them.
"Sure are, we're trying to get there before my wife Ying has her baby." He said.
"Great we can travel through the Serpent's pass together." Katara said back.
The refugees faces filled with horror, "The Serpent's pass, only the truly desperate take that deadly rout." The pregnant lady mentioned.
"Deadly rout huh? Nice pick Sokka." Toph said sarcastically while hitting his shoulder with her fist.
"Well we are desperate," Sokka mentioned while rubbing his shoulder with his hand.
"You should come with us to Full Moon Bay. Faries take refugees across the lake, it's the fastest way." The guy refugee said with a slight smile on his face.
"It's hidden so the fire nation can't find it." The pregnant refugee added in.
"Hm, peaceful fairy ride or deadly pass?" Katara asked herself sarcastically while Sokka glared at her.
We followed them through this earth carved tunnel. When it opened it showed about a hundred refugees.
"I can't believe how many people's lives have been ruined by the fire nation." Katara said in shock. It truly didn't shock me at all. When I was little I lived in a small earth colony but the fire nation buried it down and killed my parents.
"They are all looking for a better life safe behind the walls. The guy refugee we met earlier said. You could see the boats slightly over the wall. When we got in line we saw some guy freaking over the loss of his cabbages. Once the guards to away Aang stepped foward.
"Um, five tickets to Ba Sing Se please." Aaang said nervously.
"Passports?" The grumpy old lady asked.
"Um nobody told me we needed passports." Aang mumbled.
"Don't you know who this is?" Sokka started.
"Sokka..." I whispered to him trying to get him to shut up.
"He's the avatar." Sokka exclaimed. I mentally face palmed myself.
"Well I see fifty avatars a day and by the way very unimpressive costume." She spat at them. Aang looked over to see the fake avatars when he looked back at the lady the flying bat thing they call Momo climbed onto his shoulder. "Also no pet's allowed,"
Does she have a stick up her ass? I asked myself.
"Should I call security?" She asked with a creepy looking smile.
"Uh, that won't be necessary." Aang said backing up.
"I'll take care of this tinkle toes." Toph said Aang as she walked in front of them.
"My name is Toph Be Fong and I need five tickets." She said putting the passport on the desk in front of the lady. She looked at it and awe before giving Toph the tickets.
We were walking away, "Yeah, she just got scammed." He proclaimed when suddenly one of the guards pulled him by the shirt to the side.
"Ticket's and passport's please." She said to him.
"Um do I know you?" Sokka pondered.
"Oh so you don't remember me?" She asked before kissing his cheek.
Once she pulled away from he he smiled and exclaimed, "SUKI!" I guessed that was the girls name as they hugged each other.
"Sokka it's good to see you." She said smiling. We walked up to the booth place on the wall to sit.
"You look so different without your makeup." Katara said.
"Um, sorry but not to be rude, but who is she?" I asked interrupting the conversation.
"Oh, she once of the Kyoshi worriers." Katara informed me.
"I'm Suki," She said.
"Shelya," I said uninterestedly.
Suddenly Momo went up to Suki and she petted Momo, "Hi Momo, good to see you too. So why are you guys taking the fairies? Can't you just fly across on Appa?" She asked making me look at Aang. I could tell he was still sad about it.
"Appa's missing, we hope to find him in Ba Sing Se." Katara said some sadness coming through.
"I'm so sorry to here that." Suki said looking over at Aang, "You doing okay?"
Aang looked at all us before saying, "I'm doing fine, will everyone stop worrying about me?"
When suddenly we hear the pregnant refugee's voice call out to Aang. "You gotta help us, someone took all our belongings. Our passports, our tickets, everything is gone." She said crying, a little dramatic don't you think?
"I'll talk to the lady for you," Aang said.
Once we went back to the grumpy lady she yelled in Aang's face. "No passports, no tickets!" She stamped something on Aang's forehead. Aang kept trying but as grumpy as she was she kept saying no.
Aang sighed and walked over to us. "Don't worry I'll get there safely. I'll lead your through the Serpent's pass."
We passed by people walking towards the earth bended tunnel we came in through.
"I can't believe we gave up or tickets and we're going through the Serpent's Pass." Sokka complained.
"I can't believe your complaining about it." I replied earning a glare from him.
"I'm coming too!" I heard Suki yell running over to us, she was wearing makeup and some kind of dress. I'm guessing that is what the were talking about earlier.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Sokka asked her making me look at him like he was crazy. Kyoshi warriors are like pure awesome I've seen them before in action it was pretty cool. I think she will be fine,
"Sokka, I thought you would want me to come." She said a hint of disappointment in her voice.
"It's just-" Sokka started but quickly interrupted by Suki.
"Just what?" She asked curiously.
"Nothing, I'm glad your coming." He lied, I knew he was lying but I didn't bother him about it.
We walked till we reached the gate of the Serpent's Pass. "Look at this awful writing," Ying said kinda sadly.
"It says abandon hope," Katara read out loud.
"How can we abandon it when it is all we have." She said before she started crying again. She is a major drama queen, I thought to myself.
"I don't know, the monks told me that hope is just a distraction. So maybe we do need to abandon it." Aang said with no emotion. We were all shocked by what he said.
"What do you mean?" Katara asked confused.
"Hope isn't gonna get us to Ba Sing Se and find Appa. We need to focus on what we are doing right now, and it is crossing this pass." He said no emotion on his face or in his voice.
"Okay if you say so," Katara said sadness in voice while looking down.
We started walking, the paths were slim. "The Fire Nation controls the west side of the lake. Rumor has it is that there making some big weapon on the other side and don't want anyone to know what it is." Suki informed us while walking.
The husband of Ying stepped on a weak rock making him fall but Toph quickly earth bended out a platform for him and pushed him back up. "I'm okay," He said. Ugh I'm so tired of only air bending I mean fire is my best and it's calling me the most, but so are the other one's, well except water. Still need to figure that out.
"THEY SPOTED US LET'S GO!" Sokka yelled interrupting my thoughts. Aang quickly jumped and pushed the fireball at the ship using air bending. Soon came another one hitting the side of the land, rocks were about to fall on Suki but Sokka pushed her out of the way and took her spot. Toph made a slide for the rocks to go on instead of crushing Sokka. I felt useless in this situation.
"Suki you okay? You got to be more careful." Sokka yelled at her while helping her up on her feet grabbing her hand and running.
"Thanks for saving my life Toph. Eh no problem Sokka." She said sarcastically before following behind Sokka. I took out my glider and started to quickly glide behind them.
That night when were setting up camp I just sat against the rocks. I didn't really plan on going with them this far so I didn't bring any cots or anything like that.
I decided to go to sleep, being asleep is the only way to get away from the wanting to bend.
I screamed I yelled at the burning house as two soldiers held me back. I watched the house I called home burn to ashes. I tried to earth bend at them but that only made their grip tighter. I could smell the burn't flesh in the air.
"YOU MONSTERS!" I yelled at them tears rapidly falling down my face. They finally let me go when the house and everyone that was in it was burned to ashes.
I sat straight up I felt tears on my face. I must have been crying in my sleep. I quickly wiped away all the tears of my face. That wasn't a nightmare that was a memory, the memory of when my parents died. The sun was just barely rising in the sky.
I stayed awake till everyone woke up. Once we got are stuff together we headed on the pass. We reached a point were the pass was covered with water.
"Everyone single file," Katara said as she bended the water around us making a kind of bubble. Momo went outside the bubble but came back frightened. We looked outside the bubble to see some huge creature.
"What is that thing?" Katara asked a little scared.
When suddenly it came rushing through our water bended bubble making everyone scream. Toph quickly earth bended a section of the rock path up and out of the water.
Suddenly the monster came out of the water and screeched at us. "I think I now know why the call it the Serpent's Pass." Sokka yelled over the noise.
"No Duh!" I yelled back before the green snake like creature screeched again.
I could see Sokka and Suki yelling at each other but the screech of the monster made it unable to hear it. Sokka suddenly held Momo to the serpent and yelled. "OH GREAT AND POWERFUL SEE SERPENT, PLEASE EXCEPT THIS HUMBLE AND TASTEY OFFERING. THANK YOU!" He yelled.
"Sokka!" Katara said with attitude.
The serpent went towards us but Aang quickly swung at it. "I'll distract it Katara get everyone across." Aang said before taking out his glider and flying away.
"Katara, I'm gonna go help Aang." I said taking out my glider she just nodded before making an ice trail. "Here goes nothing," I mumbled to myself before taking off. I flew towards the thing and for a second turned my glider back into a staff and whacked at it with air. Once it hit him i quickly turned my staff back into a glider and started circling the thing. The monster seem lost of which one of us to follow. It suddenly went into the water apart of it was still on the surface and out of nowhere came katara as she froze part of the monster. It's head came out of the water and it screeched again breaking free from the ice. The serpent turned around and chased after Katara. I hit the serpent again and this time he fell onto the little island Toph made. I heard a scream when I saw Toph fall into the water. I saw Suki dive in so I ignored it. Aang started circling it, quickly both me and Katara caught on and helped him. The monster suddenly spin out of control and hit the rock form of the pass I guess it just didn't want to take chances with us so it swam away. I glided myself to where everyone was at.
We walked for a little while longer till we saw the wall. "There's the wall!" Sokka exclaimed. "Now there is nothing but smooth sailing to Ba Sing Se." Sokka said before Ying screamed out in pain. "What's wrong?" Sokka asked.
"The baby's coming!" She exclaimed huddling over.
"Good way to jinx it Sokka," I muttered.
"WHAT? NOW? CAN'T YOU JUST HOLD IT IN OR SOMETHING?" He yelled.
"Sokka, calm down I help Gran Gran deliver lots of baby's at home." Katara said trying to calm him down.
"THIS ISN'T THE SAME AS DELIVERING AN ARTIC SEAL! THIS IS A REAL HUMAN THING!" He yelled freaking out.
Katara put her hands on her hips, "It's called a baby, and I helped her deliver a bunch of those too. Aang get some rags, Sokka water. Toph I need you to make an earth tent, a big one." Toph quickly made one over the people we were traveling with. "Suki come with me." She said before rushing in with Suki behind her.
"Oh and I end up doing nothing of course." I said with attitude before sitting against the tent crossing my arms.
I ignored what was happening around me and played with the dirt. Suddenly Aang sat next to me looking troubled but I ignored him. After a few minutes I suddenly heard a baby's crying.
"So you wanna go see the baby, or are you gonna faint like an old lady again?" Toph asked Sokka.
"No, no I'm good this time." Sokka said before getting up and following Toph inside.
Suddenly katara appeared at the opening of the tent. "Aang, Shelya, you got to come see this." She said kinda whisper like. I just nodded and followed in behind Aang. They were all surrounding the baby and Ying.
"Let's name her Hope," Ying said to her husband.
I saw Aang wipe his tears from the corner of my eye. "I've been going through a rough time lately, and now you guys made my hopeful again." Aang said slightly smiling.
Afterwards we went outside the tent we quickly walked over to Aang and Katara. "I promise I'll find Appa as fast as I can I just really need to do this." Aang said to us.
"Wait," I said coming forward. "I'll come with you, I wanna meet this fur ball." i said smiling. Aang nodded,
"See you in the big city," Sokka said to Aang.
"Say hi to that big fuzz ball for me." Toph said hitting my arm. I quickly rubbed it since it hurt.
"Let's get going!" I said to Aang. We both took out are gliders and started gliding toward the wall.
After a few minutes we reached the wall we both landed making our gliders into staffs again. I saw Aang turn the opposite direction and freak out. "Whatcha freaking out about-, Woah," I said seeing the huge fire nation drill heading towards the wall with steel kind of cars beside it.
"Sorry, it looks like Appa will have to wait." Aang said to Momo.
Yay I finally got this out! Sorry it took so long to get this out, but as you can tell it is really long lol. Please review, the more you review the faster I post. :) I'll try to post each chapter at least one every week.