Yes, I know I haven't updated in a long while but I'm going to be honest. I've been busy with school since, sadly, I've come to my junior year in highschool. With clubs, homework, and overall school stuff it's become harder to find time for the story. However, when I do have time I always find things I'd rather do then continue or edit the story. I understand that might sound cruel or unreasonable, but I am honestly as I would like to call it "Avatared Out." Some of you may be thinking that I'm just being lazy and that I should force myself to do the story, but I have tried doing that and unfortunately the chapter turned out to be crap. I know, pretty bad excuses, and I understand that some of you may be angry with me but I just felt that I should share it with all of you so that you won't think that I have abandoned the story or my laptop crashed on me again (Alex: which happens often XD).
((Rebecca's P.O.V))
"Rebecca, do something about her! I can't take it anymore!" I let out a groan as I rolled myself toward the whining voice that belonged to Sokka.
"What the hell do you want me to do about it?" I asked him in a sleepy voice.
"You're the one who made her like this," Sokka shouted, pointing over to Brianna. I looked over at the usually happy and hyper brunette but only saw a zombie with a dark aura that surrounded her. I let out a sigh and scratched the back of my head.
"Well I would, but I have no idea what I did" I said being honest. "Hey Brianna," I yelled out to get her attention. She slowly turned her head to me, her eyes still as lifeless as ever. "What the hell did I do to make you so upset?" She just stared at me for a while, then finally came to the other side of the saddle, coming closer to me.
"You didn't," she began while she got closer to me "you didn't tell me what happened that day!" she said in a lifeless voice.
"That day," I repeated, not getting what she was saying. "That's a little too general," I said getting a bit irritated. I waited for her to add something to her explanation, but she refused to say anymore. Eventually I got tired of waiting. "Fine whatever I don't care. If you're not going to tell me then I'm not going to even bother." I jumped off of Appa to walk over to a small pond. I took a small amount of water with my palms and drank it. "That day," I said after I had gulped down my drink. "That could have been yesterday when I ate the last apple without telling you. Three days before when you woke up in the morning to find that Momo's tail was under your nose. Or it could have been a week ago when I did an experiment and discovered that our clothes reform when they get cut, burned, or dirtied but I didn't bother saying anything, since it wasn't important." I turned back to Brianna, who was still sulking for an unknown reason, making me even angrier. "What still sulking? If it's that much of a problem then just come on out and say it already!"
"You," Brianna suddenly shouted and glared up at me with teary eyes. "You never told me what happened the day when you met the Blue Spirit!"
"Huh," I said in a surprised voice. My anger drained out from me after hearing her words. I just stared at the girl as I tried to process her response, not matter how stupid it seemed. "That's it?" I asked with disbelief.
"What else could it have been?" Brianna asked me angrily. I let out a sigh as sat down in the sand. I scratched the back of my head, trying to get my brain to work again.
"What's there to tell?" I asked her. "You should already know what happened. Nothing changed, I told you that much."
"Oh course something different had to have happened!" Brianna shouted, still pouting. "You were there that's what was different!" I looked over toward the side to make sure there wasn't an audience watching us. Luckily they all seem busy with their own things. Aang was showing off his gift that he had made for Katara using Sokka's fishing line. Sokka was trying to kill a green fish while Appa and Momo just watched him struggle.
"Brianna," I said, trying to calm her down "nothing really happened, at least nothing worth telling. I don't get why you're so upset with this." My words seemed to frustrate her more with every sentence I spoke. I couldn't tell if she was angry at me or just angry with the fact that I didn't know what to say to make her calm down. Honestly, in my eyes there wasn't anything really to talk about and I didn't know why she couldn't just understand that. What was so important about that one day that Brianna is so obsessed over? That was something I think I would never understand.
((Brianna's P.O.V))
Why, why must Rebecca be so dense? There should be a limit to how dense someone can be! Why couldn't she understand that I wanted to know what happened with Zuko or if anything did happen with him? Did their relationship grow or was it the same? Anyone would have known what I meant, but no not Rebecca. I should already know this by now, she's just way too dense for things that matter with love. Which is why I'm always worried whenever Zuko comes into the subject! How is their relationship supposed to grow if she doesn't realize this herself? As if I didn't have enough problems already, I'm still not sure whether or not I wanted that to happen since I support the Katara and Zuko pairing.
"Someone's being attacked by a platypus bear!" Aang suddenly shouted out, snapping me out of my thoughts. Everyone ran over toward where Aang was pointing while Rebecca calmly walked after them.
"Come on Brianna," I heard Rebecca call over to me and motioned me to join them in watching an old man dodging a giant platypus bear's attacks. I slowly, and unwillingly, walked over still stressing over my previous thoughts.
"Well, hello there" the man said just as he dodged the animal's claw, completely calm despite the fact that he was being attacked. "Nice day, isn't it?"
"Make noise, it'll run off!" Aang shouted out, trying to help.
"No, play dead, he'll lose interest!" Sokka shouted out.
"Whoa close one," the man said laughing just as he barely dodged an attack.
"Run down hill, then climb a tree!" Katara shouted.
"No, punch him in the bill!" Sokka screamed out disagreeing with his sister.
"And then run in zigzags!" Aang added on.
"No need, it's going to be fine" the man said with a smile. I saw Rebecca let out a sigh at the man's unwillingness to listen and made her way towards the creature. The mutant creature struck his powerful claws toward the man but missed and broke a skin of bark from a tree behind him. Just as he was about to attack him once more Rebecca kicked the beast in the side of the face sending him to the ground.
"Rebecca, are you crazy?" Sokka yelled out in a panic as the beast got to his feet. Its head came closer to Rebecca's face as it let out a loud roar making her black hair fly backward. She didn't move and it looked like she was thinking of what to do, this was a bit too calm even for her. Irritated by her attitude the creature lifted up his sharp claws and was about to strike once more as it let out another threatening roar. I watched paralyzed as the strong claws were about to attack my best friend, who still stood there emotionlessly. She suddenly took a deep breath in through her nose and opened her mouth to let out a roar, sounding exactly like the platypus bear's only hers was about ten times louder than it. I could feel the earth shaking from the sound waves, patches of dirt jumped under my feet. The beast stopped, petrified from fear as a shiver ran up its spine. It was so afraid of Rebecca's outburst that it laid a huge egg before running off somewhere trying to escape.
"How'd you do that?" Katara asked Rebecca as we all ran over to her side. While Sokka grabbed the freshly laid egg and licked his lips, happy to have found something to satisfy his hunger.
"Sound," she said, as if it was obvious.
"Yeah, you might need to explain more" Aang said as he scratched his head.
"Oh well," she mumbled while thinking a bit. "It's like this, ever element has what I like to call a branch element. A branch element is something that is based off of a general based element and is more specific than the based element. Water has many branch elements like ice, steam, and snow. Earth has a lot too, like sand, metal, and mud. The other elements take a bit more thinking and are smaller in numbers. Fire is lighting, and finally Air is sound. Do you understand now?"
((Rebecca's P.O.V))
"I knew most of that, but never thought of sound for Air" Sokka said me, nodding his head in approval. He turned to the man, I had just saved who I honestly had forgotten was there "Lucky for you we came along" he told him, still holding the egg in his arms.
"Shouldn't you be thanking him for getting you lunch?" I asked sarcastically. Sokka pouted before giving me a soft glare, but I didn't pay any real mind to it.
"Thanks, but everything was already under control" the man said calmly. "Not to worry, Aunt Wu predicted I'd have a safe journey."
"Aunt who," Aang asked as he raised an eyebrow, unfamiliar with the name.
"No, Aunt Wu" the man corrected him. "She's the fortuneteller from my village. Awful nice knowing your future."
"Wow, it must be. That explains why you were so calm," Katara said, being completely optimistic about the whole thing.
"But the fortuneteller was wrong! You didn't have a safe journey, you were almost killed!" Sokka shouted from the top of his lungs.
"But I wasn't," he said with a smile. "All right, have a good one." He began to walk off down the road but suddenly turned back around, as if forgetting something. I saw him take out a package from his sleeve. "Oh, and Aunt Wu said if I met any travelers to give them this" he said, handing the wrapped package to Aang before walking off.
"Maybe we should go see Aunt Wu and learn our fortunes. It could be fun," Katara suggested, a bit too excited about the whole thing.
"Oh come on, fortunetelling is nonsense" Sokka said, making a displeased face. Ignoring Sokka's complaints, I watched Aang eagerly shred the package wrapping in mere seconds. When he had completely ridded off all the paper concealing the objects he stopped and looked down at the gift that we received from the stranger.
"What do you know umbrellas," Aang said as he opened the orange umbrella and placed it over his head. I looked down at the package and noticed another umbrella in his hands, only it was green. Aang tossed the umbrella over to Brianna, who quickly opened it up not wanting to get wet since she and I had only one pair of clothes. It was lucky for us that the clothes we received had magical properties in them. We didn't have to clean them since they automatically cleaned themselves. The only thing that our clothes don't clean off is water. Although it's probably because of the fact that water is a pure substance and isn't in anyway considered dirty unless mixed with other substances.
"Was she expecting us?" I muttered to myself in disbelief while looking over the green umbrella. I could not remember seeing a second umbrella, since I could recall Sokka being forced to walk in the rain while Katara and Aang stayed dry under Aunt Wu's gift. I couldn't take my eyes off the mint green umbrella even after I heard the soft tapping of rain drops.
"Hey Rebecca," Brianna shouted, breaking me from my train of thought. Strangely enough Sokka and Katara arguing with one another didn't seem to snap me out of it, guess it proved that Brianna was the loudest of the bunch. She motioned me to come under the umbrella so that I wouldn't get wet. I shook my head and started walking down the path following the others toward the village.
"You should know better than anyone that I like the rain," I told her with a smirk.
"Of course she predicted it was gonna rain. The sky's been gray all day!" Sokka told his sister, both still in their heated argument. I saw him wipe off yoke from his face, which must have meant that the egg had slipped through his fingers and landed on his face. I must have been really distracted if I didn't even notice something like that.
"Just admit you might be wrong and you can come under the umbrella," Katara said motioning toward Brianna who was walking beside me, dry under the green umbrella. Sokka let out a snort, not wanting to believe a word of it, and continued to try and persuade all of us that he was right.
"Look, I'm going to predict the future now. It's going to keep drizzling," he said in a mocking voice while making strange motions. The rain continued to fall and showed no sign of stopping, which pleased Sokka. "See," he said as he crossed his arms with a confident huff. Suddenly without any warning the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and the sound of birds chirping filled the air.
"Not everyone has the gift Sokka," Aang and Brianna shouted in unison, laughing together. By this time the clouds were no longer a shade of gray and were slowly starting to separate from each other. I felt strong currents of wind blow past me, the cold air and the scent of dew made me feel more in one with my elements. I heard the sound of Appa groaning as he came closer to me, leaving everyone else a bit behind. He nudged my back with his wet nose before shaking off the water from his fur which landed onto me. I let a small snicker escape my lips before I dried myself off with a wave of wind that transferred throughout all my body. It felt peaceful with the quiet atmosphere, but I knew very well that I had no time to stop and enjoy the scenery. With all that had happened I don't think I would be able to do anything else but try and solve the mystery of Hikaru. The strange spirit that occupies my mind, who has neither any memory of her past nor why she was inside of me. The only thing I was curtain of her gender, only after saw her transparent body. Her white long hair, small figure, and female voice made it easy to figure it out. No memory, no home, and mysterious conditions while living inside of me. All these things were enough to preoccupy me enough for a lifetime. I might not live long enough before I'm able to even figure it out.
"I can't help but feel irritated," I muttered in an annoyed tone. I hated not knowing what was going on, perhaps that was because I was raised to treasure knowledge. I placed a hand on my forehead and began rubbing it, feeling a headache coming on. I let out a sigh. To ask for help on the matter would only make me feel weak and fragile. However, I knew perfectly well that it was going to be much more difficult to solve the mystery of Hikaru on my own. I had become so engrossed in my thoughts that I didn't even realize that we had already made it to the village. We came into the entrance where the gates of the village stood proudly in the center of the path. Several geese were outside and were enjoying the remaining puddles of water and muddy path, wondering through the village happily. We continued to walk until we got to a large grand building and spotted a man with white hair standing in front of its doors. He noticed us right away and bowed before motioning us to come inside.
"Aunt Wu is expecting you," he said in a deep masculine voice. A large smile formed across Katara's face and her eyes began to shine with excitement.
"Really," she exclaimed, excited and amazed. I glanced over at the carefree Katara, seeing just how obsessed with the fortuneteller she has already become. I really felt sorry for the poor woman. She'd defiantly have her hands full with her. I gave the man a slight bow, which he returned, before opening the doors to the building. I walked past him and stepped inside the entrance room of the building. The room gave a very Asian feel to it, because the choice of furniture, decoration, and overall design of the building. There were several lanterns hanging from the ceiling in the corners of the room, detailed folding screens of mountains and rivers, and green and orange colored silk pillows that lay on the designer mats.
"Hmm fancy," Brianna said as she admired the well designed furnished room. I nodded my head, agreeing with her. My thoughts were quickly broken at the sound of footsteps. I felt a shiver run up my spine and my instincts took over. I protectively stepped in front of Aang, feeling danger approaching us. I could feel his eyes on me and I could tell that he was probably confused to my sudden course of actions, but I didn't have time to answer him. I turned to Brianna and motioned with my eyes to the hallway. I could hear the sound of footsteps growing closer. I knew who was about to come and what we were about to face. Brianna and I had faced Fire Nation soldiers, the Kyoshi warriors, Roku's Sages, spirits, and even Avatar fan girls, but now we were about to face an even scarier opponent, a creepy stalker.
If you have no idea who this is then you obviously don't know Avatar very well.
Yeah I know, only one chapter but that's honesly all i can do for now. That and Brianna had to go home earlier than we had planned and we barely finished editing this part of the episode. More excuses I know, I suck.
