This scene opens up to when we are already at a village looking for replacment supplies that Aang washed away.


"Hey do you think I should get this?" Aang asked me while Katara and Sokka went into a store to replace the supplies we had lost. He held up a familiar looking whistle that was the shape of a flying bison.

"Why not, you seem to like it" I said as I looked down at his eager eyes, that were just begging me to say yes. Aang jumped up for joy as he walked over towards the store keeper and gave him one copper coin for the whistle. Brianna giggled at the sight of our young master getting all hyped up because of a small toy. "Man I really do feel like a mom when he's like this," I muttered under my breath.

"That's because," Brianna said as she leaned her head against my shoulder playfully "you would make a good mom." She snuggled into my shoulder but I quickly pushed her away with my hand.

"You don't make me feel any younger," I said as I took two steps away from her. "Damn, you and Aang are both the same. It's like taking care of two children." I heard the sound of Nyoko laughing from the charm causing my eyes to narrow. "Make that three," I said while sighing.

"I feel sorry for your husband," Nyoko said still laughing.

"Well I don't even know if I'll ever find one," I muttered to myself.

"Oh you hush," Brianna said to me angrily as she flapped her right hand at me.

"Can we not talk about marriage now? Rebecca's still too young for that," Gin said in a sharp tone. I raised an eyebrow as I looked down at my charm wondering why he was so upset.

"She's not that young, she's sixteen. It's not unusual in this world," Nyoko said disagreeing with him. I heard Gin growl at the cat, making her and Brianna freak out a bit.

"Whoa Gin, I never expected for you to be the overprotective type," I said surprised as I looked down at the charm. He didn't respond but I could tell that he was a bit embarrassed, which made me mentally laugh.

"We've got exactly three copper pieces left from the money that King Bumi gave us. Let's spend it wisely," Sokka said as he and Katara exited the store.

"Uh, make that two copper pieces, Sokka. I couldn't say no to this whistle!" Aang said as he held up the small toy to show the two. He took it in both hands and inhaled a large amount of air then blew it into the whistle which only let out a small sound of air escaping the gaps.

"It doesn't even work," Sokka yelled out as he uncovered his ears. Momo flew over to Aang as he chattered into his ear. "See, even Momo thinks it's a piece of junk," Sokka pointed out angered that Aang wasted their money for something useless.

"No offense, Aang, but I'll hold the money from now on" Katara said to Aang as she held out her hand. Aang slowly took out the remaining two copper coins and placed them in Katara's tan hands before we started walking around the market again. We walked through an area near the boat harbor where I stopped by a familiar looking ship owned by one of my least favorite characters.

"Earth Nation, Fire Nation, Water Nation! So long as bargains are your inclination, you're welcome here! Don't be shy, come on by!" I heard the voice that belonged to one of the pirates of that ship. "Oh you there," he said as he put him arm around Aang "I can see by your clothing that you're world traveling types. Perhaps I can interest you in some exotic curios?"

"Sure," Aang said indifferently. He then paused as he thought for a bit. "What are curios?" he asked not sure what he was agreeing to.

"Don't just say yes to something if you don't know what it's for," I muttered to myself as I let out a long sigh. The pirate looked at Aang with an eyebrow raised then shrugged his shoulders.

"I'm not entirely sure, but we got them!" he said as he began dragging Aang into the pirate ship. We followed them into the ship to a room that was completely filled with items that looked somewhat of value, but Brianna and I knew that they were all clearly stolen. Everyone began looking around the shelves for anything that looked interesting while I just stood in the middle of the room not that interested in stolen goods and looked from afar.

"Isn't there something they don't have in here?" I muttered to myself when I had completely scanned the room. "I wouldn't be surprised if they had a monkey's paw in stock," I said referring to something I had seen in an anime several months ago.

"In anime mode I see," I heard Gin say in an amused voice.

"Well it can't be helped," I said as I crossed my arms "I'm an anime freak after all."

"An anime freak and a romance-addict, what a deadly combo the both of you make," Gin said amused.

"Whoa when you think about it we really are a scary combo," I said as I chuckled to myself. "I'm even a bit scared." It was then that I heard footsteps coming from the door to my right side along with the sound of low screeching. I looked over and saw a man with a large pirate hat and a parrot-like creature on his shoulder, which made it clear that he was the captain.

"I've never seen such a fine specimen of lemur. That beast would fetch me a hefty sum, if you'd be interested in bartering," the captain of the pirates said as he walked out of the shadows with his ugly looking reptile bird that screeched at Momo, scaring the poor lemur, who could only wrap around himself around Aang and hiss back.

"Momo's not for sale," Aang said as he pulled Momo closer to him. Brianna quickly walked in front of Aang as she glared at the beastly bird.

"Back off," she barked at it which only made it screech more.

"Brianna, down girl" I ordered in a mocking tone. Although she clearly didn't want to back down she did as I said and left the bird alone. I noticed Katara go over towards a cabinet with several scrolls in them. One, however, had the Water Nation symbol on it which caught her eye. She opened the scroll as she looked inside to see rows of illustrations to show the reader how to perform a certain move.

"Look at this Aang, it's a water bending scroll. Check out these crazy moves!" Katara exclaimed excitedly as she looked at the pictures eager to test them out herself. I blew a strand of hair that was in my face as I watched her admiring the scroll.

"And so the trouble begins," I said as I let out a sigh.

"Where did you get a water bending scroll?" Aang asked the captain who took the scroll into his hands and rolled it back up.

"Let's just say I got it up north at a most reasonable price, free!" he said as he placed the scroll back into its proper place. I could see from the corner of my eye that Katara was still eyeing the useless piece of paper and I could tell it was going to cause us trouble later.

"Wait a minute," I heard Sokka say to my left as he pondered over something. "Sea loving traders with suspiciously acquired merchandise and pet reptile birds. You guys are pirates!" he screamed as he spat in the first pirate's face.

"Don't tell me you just realized this," I said in an emotionless tone as Sokka looked at me with a displeased face.

"We prefer to think of ourselves as high risk traders," the pirate said as he put an arm around both me and Sokka which I quickly slapped away.

"So how much for the uh, traded scroll," Katara asked after looking down at her two copper coins in her hand.

"More than what we got," I muttered to Brianna who just laughed.

"I've already got a buyer. A nobleman in the Earth Kingdom unless, of course, you kids have two hundred gold pieces on you right now?" The captain said looking down at the five of us with a greedy look in his eyes.

"Does he really think five kids would have two hundred gold pieces?" I muttered to Brianna who just shrugged her shoulders not knowing how to answer. I watched as Aang motioned Katara closer to him so that they could think of a plan.

"I know how to deal with these guys, Katara, pirates love to haggle," Aang said as he held out his right hand and received the two coins. "Watch and learn," he said as he made his way back to the captain.

"Hell no, I'm not watching" I said as I looked away from the scene.

"What say to the price of one copper piece?" I heard Aang ask in a pirate accent. The captain just burst out laughing, thinking Aang was just messing with him.

"The price is two hundred gold pieces. I don't haggle on items this rare," he said as he wiped a tear away from the corner of his eye.

"Okay two copper pieces!" Aang said still continuing to try and persuade the captain in his pathetic pirate accent.

"It's not as amusing the second time, boy" he said as he glared down at Aang with sharp dangerous eyes. I quickly stepped in front of Aang, in a protective way, as I glared back at him making him smirk. "How rare, a girl like yourself could pass for a proper lady and yet you have such a deadly glare like a warrior."

"I don't know if I should take that as I compliment or an insult," I said emotionless as I continued to glare at the man.

"On the contrary, I meant to compliment you."

"I'm sure you were," I said sarcastically as I looked around the room and saw more pirates coming inside.

"Aang, can we get out of here. I feel like we're getting weird looks," Katara said as she tugged at his sleeve.

"Aye, we be casting off now!" Aang said to the captain as he was dragged back out of the ship. As I followed Aang and the rest of the group out of the ship I spotted an odd looking bump on Katara's arm and realized something must have been up her sleeve.

"Oh it's that," I said not surprised. "She really should have hidden that better," I muttered to Gin as I looked down at the large lump in her sleeve that she tried to block with her hand.

"What was that all about, Katara?" Aang asked as we safely made it off the ship and down the path.

"Yeah, I was just starting to browse through their boomerang collection." Sokka said referring back to the large shelf near the scrolls.

"I'll just feel a lot better once we get away from here," Katara said as she hugged herself, hoping that no one would notice the scroll under her arm.

"Hey you, get back here!" I heard the pirate that had brought us into the ship cry out.

"Well, well, look who's come to their senses. Told you the haggling would pay off," Aang said completely misunderstanding the situation. I slowly reached my hand towards my neck.

"Brianna," I said as I signaled for her to prepare to attack.

"Right," she said as she reached for her arm. "Should we summon them?" she asked referring to our partners.

"We want to escape don't we," I said as the small group of pirates drew closer. "Plus we might need some help taking all these jackasses down," I said as I scanned the group of pirates, that seemed to have a larger number than I remembered. I turned around to the others after thinking of a quick plan. "You guys try and make a run for it. Brianna and I will try to hold them off. We'll meet up with you guys later."

"Alright," Katara said a little too eager to leave. I rolled my eyes as I touched the cool metal of my choker activating its abilities. I quickly summoned Gin while Brianna summoned Nyoko. We both took a fighting stance as the pirates looked at us astonished giving Aang and the others enough time to make a break for it.

"You idiots they're getting away with the scroll!" the captain screamed out from his ship snapping his men out of their daze. A third of the men came charging after Gin and I while another third charged towards Brianna and Nyoko. I effortlessly dodged all their attacks while tripping a couple of them in the process. Gin would block any attacker that tried to sneak up on me and would break his weapon in the process.

"How are you holding up?" I asked Brianna as I dodged an attack.

"Pretty good," she responded as she punched a man in the jaw making him fall unconscious. "Why aren't you attacking?" she asked as she noticed Gin was the only one who had done any damage to my attackers. I looked over towards Gin as I saw him break a sword in half with his teeth scaring the wielder so much that he passed out.

"I don't find it necessary," I said as I let out a small sigh. I saw from the corner of my eye a small group of pirates go down the path our three friends retreated from. I slowly straightened my back as I cracked my knuckles. "But I guess now would be a good time to start." I glared over towards all the pirates as I stroked Gin's snout. Gin realized that I wanted to scare the pirates away and began growling at them as he showed his teeth at them. "Now which one of you is first?" I asked as I gave them all an evil smile and Gin licked his lips. I could see them all shivering and they all backed away slowly then suddenly, in a panic, ran in retreat. I let out a small yawn as I got onto Gin's back. "That was easy enough."

"Aw," Brianna whined as she got onto Nyoko's back "you guys just had to go and ruin my fun."

"Yes it's our job, now help us find the others," I said as Gin took off to the sky. It didn't take me long to catch on to their trail after hearing a very familiar and annoying phrase.

"My cabbages," I heard the unfortunate cabbage seller yell.

"Found them," I said as Gin and I exchanged smiles. Gin flew over towards the cry as I searched nearby areas hoping to find the three. I quickly spotted their orange and blue outfits among the greenery of the village and motioned to Gin where they were. He dived down towards them without attracting any unwanted attention from our sea loving friends.

"Now who wants to taste the steel of my blade first," the one pirate said as he got into a strange looking stance with a dagger in each hand.

"No thanks," Aang said as he swung his staff towards them creating a large gust of wind strong enough to knock them over while also cutting off their view with the dust that was dragged along with the attack. Gin took that as a signal and quickly flew down towards Aang's side. "Good timing," Aang complimented the two of us as Brianna and Nyoko made it to the scene. I then heard footsteps coming towards which made it obvious that the pirates were coming back. Without much choice I grabbed Katara and pulled her up behind me. Luckily Gin wouldn't need to fly very far.

"Now would be a good time to escape," I told Gin who quickly flew into the air. We flew at a slow pace, giving the others a chance to catch up to us. Aang took out his glider and flew up beside us while Brianna helped Sokka up onto Nyoko.

"Okay let's go," Brianna shouted when Nyoko had taken to the sky. Aang followed Brianna while I followed closely behind him. Katara suddenly tightened her grip around my waist, surprising me. I looked over at her as she looked down below us terrified. It must have been the fact that Gin wasn't wearing a saddle and she was afraid that she would fall off. Brianna had already gotten used to it, while I never really minded it from the start.

We flew in silence for a while, which was a bit uncomfortable since I knew the silence wasn't helping her get rid of her fear. I let out a small sigh as I tried to think of something to say. To be honest I had never really talked to her all that much. She wasn't exactly my favorite person to talk to because we have different opinions, but I definetely did not hate her. Although I would find her rather annoying at times the same could be said about Sokka. I glanced back at Katara and saw that she was shifting herself trying to find a safe and comfortable position.

"Katara," I said after clearing my throat. I must have startled her because she immediately jumped and almost fell off. "You okay?" I asked her after I saved her from almost plummeting to her death.

"Yeah," she struggled to say as she clutched onto my robe.

"You need to work on being a better thief if you're going to steal," I told her. Katara stared at me in awe as she struggled to find her words again.

"How did you know?" she nearly shouted. I pointed to her arm that was still clinging onto my waist.

"It's hard not to notice," I said referring to how it was pressed up against my side.

"Oh," Katara said a bit embarrassed at her careless mistake.

"Not only that but I saw you trying to hide it when we were leaving the ship."

"Then why didn't you say anything?" Katara asked.

"Well there are many various reasons," I said not wanting to explain them, since most of them were about Brianna and her annoying romance addiction. I let out another sigh as the sun began to set.

"You really hate today don't you?" I heard Gin say to me. I couldn't help but smirk as we came to a clearing where Appa was.

"No shit."


Anime is the official name for Japanese Animations or cartoons. The one anime I was referring to that had a Monkey's Paw, a detached monkey's hand said to grant wishes, was called xxxHolic shown on episode 8 called "Contract".