"Vegetables again?!" A boy exclaimed with short black hair and green eyes wearing dark green clothes and strange goggles on his eyes. The earth-bender girl raised an eyebrow.
"Problem with that Tucker?" she inquired. The boy huffed.
"Yes! I hate vegetables. Don't we have any meat leftover?" Tucker asked. The girl shook her head.
"You want meat, you go find some. You know I don't carry dead animals on my back," the girl suggested stiffly. Tucker pouted.
"Oh come on Sam, just because you're a vegetarian doesn't mean that me and Danny have to be," Tucker pointed out. The girl, Sam glared at him.
"Fine, you can buy, carry and cook all the food from now on," she grumbled and folded her arms, taking a definite step away from the vegetables she had been preparing. Tucker paled.
"Let's not go crazy. You know I can't cook!" Tucker replied. Sam smirked smugly and returned to the vegetables.
"Then stop complaining and get the fire going and collect firewood," Sam ordered.
Tucker groaned and bent over the pile of sticks and dug out the flint from his pack.
"Why do I always have to get the firewood?" Tucker grumbled. Sam glared at him before grabbing the pot and dumping the vegetables into it. She uncorked her canteen and poured in the water.
"Because I do all the cooking and the last time Danny went, he got attacked," Sam answered. Tucker rolled his eyes and glanced at Danny meditating a few feet away.
"Reckon he'll finish communing with the spirits or whatever he's doing soon. He's always been better at lighting the fire," Tucker inquired. Sam shrugged.
"How should I know?" she retorted and put away the unprepared vegetables into her pack. Tucker yelped as he accidently hit his knuckle instead of the flint. Sam rolled her eyes. She dusted off her hands and got back to her feet and trudged over to him.
"You're so useless," she muttered. Tucker frowned at her.
"Hey not all of us are benders!" Tucker replied defensively. She snatched the flint from him and struck the stones together and a few sparks erupted onto the sticks. Sam handed the flint back to him and gave him a smug smile. Tucker scowled at her and put away the flint.
"Show off," he mumbled as Sam returned to her pot. Tucker then built up the fire and smiled proudly as it began to grow.
Sam picked up the pot of water and vegetables and plopped it down beside the fire. Tucker scowled distastefully at the pot and returned to his fire. Sam shook her head at her friend and glanced at Danny. She bit her lip.
"I wonder if we should try and bring him out of it. He's been like that for a while now," Sam mentioned. Tucker shrugged.
"You can try but you know that when he's like that it's impossible to snap him out of it unless he's ready to come out of it," Tucker replied and poked the fire with a spare stick. Sam nodded.
However when they heard a group of voices coming towards them, both of them leapt to their feet. They stood protectively near Danny and Sam stood firm, ready to earth-bend and Tucker grabbed his bow and quiver of arrows.
"Can we go back yet? We've been looking for that guy for ages," a male voice complained.
"No Sokka. I need to speak with him," another boy retorted firmly.
"But I'm hungry," the first voice moaned.
"Sokka, I think this is a little more important than your stomach," a girl sighed in an irritated tone.
"Hey, when I'm hungry, I gotta eat. It's that simple," Sokka replied.
"Guys, I can feel three people up ahead and I can smell a fire," a second girl informed the group.
Sam and Tucker glanced at each other and in unison over their shoulders at Danny. Sam bit her lip and focused on her breath. Tucker notched an arrow in his bow and aimed it at the trees towards the voices. They held their breath as the underbrush parted and the avatar and his friends stumbled into their campsite. Tucker accidently loosed an arrow. The avatar's eyes widened and a strong gust of wind blew the arrow off course.
"Sorry! Panicked," Tucker exclaimed. The older boy and girl scowled at him and marched forward.
"Firing an arrow at us was an accident?" the girl growled.
"For Tucker, yes. He's done stupider things," Sam retorted.
"Or maybe it wasn't an accident. I knew it! You're trying to take Aang's job!" the boy accused. Sam and Tucker blinked in surprise.
"Where did you get that from?!" Sam demanded. The avatar rushed forward.
"Guys, let's not argue. I believe that it was an accident," he interjected. The blind girl walked over to them.
"Yeah, they haven't lied to us once," she informed them. Sam and Tucker frowned at her.
"How?" Tucker began. The girl smiled at him.
"I'm a master earth-bender. I use my earth-bending to see. It also means that I can feel, by feeling your heartbeat, if you lie. Lying causes changes in the heartbeat and breathing," the girl explained.
"You're a master? But you're so young," Sam exclaimed. The girl smiled.
"I'm a prodigy. I also invented metal-bending," the girl replied. Sam's eyebrows raised in shock.
"But it's not possible to bend metal," she whispered.
The girl laughed and took off a bracelet on her arm.
"This is metal, right?" the girl announced and Sam nodded. The girl smirked and hovered a hand over it and with a twitch of her fingers, the metal bracelet morphed into a sphere of metal and then returned to its previous form. Sam gasped.
"Can you teach me?" she inquired. The girl frowned.
"Teach you?" the girl repeated. Sam nodded.
"I'm an earth-bender too. I'm not a master but I consider myself pretty good. Please," Sam replied.
The avatar cleared his throat.
"Sorry, but before you and Toph start bonding, can I talk with him?" the avatar interrupted before the girl, Toph could answer, nodding to Danny. Sam and Tucker shared a look before shrugging.
"I'm sure Danny won't mind talking with you avatar, except he's in the spirit world right now. You're welcome to try and get him out of it but when he's like this, you might as well be talking to a rock or something," Tucker answered. The avatar frowned.
"Well, why don't we wait here? I'm Katara, this is Sokka, my brother. That's Toph Beifong and this is Aang," the older girl introduced everyone, gesturing to each of her friends in turn.
"I'm Sam, and that's Tucker. He's Danny," Sam returned, pointed to Tucker and Danny in turn.
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