A/N: Wow! This episose really reminds me of how bad my writing used to be. Or, at least not as good as it is now. Also, for some reason, I keep forgetting that Akira has her stuffed squirrel rabbit bun-bun, and it's kinda important for the story in later episodes, so I'll be adding little mentions of it whenever it feels appropriate. Also, happy early Halloween! I'm going as Katara :)

Response from chapter 9:

Vapor23: Thank you for your review and continued support. I geniunley don't think I would have as much done with this story as I do if it wasn't for your reviews. Yes, rewatching Book 1, you don't really notice how much Katara really cares for Aang. It's so bittersweet to rewatch because everyone is so happy and has no idea what's going to happen to them. That's kind of how I feel looking back at my written chapters, loll c: Now, your just gonna have to see how Akira reacts to Katara's antics ;)


We were flying on Appa, going across a beautiful landscape of mountains and trees. The sun was shining through the clouds. I was trying out different bows on bun-bun, trying to see which one fit her best. The only thing disrupting the peace and tranquility was my brother's heavy panting. Aang had been pacing back and forth on Appa's saddle for a good twenty minutes, and I was starting to get annoyed.

"Would you sit down?!" Sokka said, annoyance in his tone, "If we hit a bump, you'll go flying off, what's been bugging you, anyway?"

"You can't hit bumps in the sky," I thought.

"It's what Avatar Roku said," Aang replied to Sokka, "I'm supposed to master all four elements before that comet arrives,"

"Well, let's see," Sokka said, "you've pretty much mastered airbending, and that only took you 112 years, I'm sure you can master three more elements by next summer,"

"Yeah, and you're a fast learner," I added, "It only took you one day to learn how to pull air backwards, it took me weeks!"

"But I haven't even started waterbending, and we're still weeks away from the North Pole!" Aang argued, putting his hands on his head as he began to pace again, "What am I gonna do?!"

"Calm down, it's gonna be okay," Katara said, grabbing Aang's arm. She pulled him down next to her and took his other hand.

"If you want, I can try and teach you some of the stuff I know," she said.

"You'd do that?" Aang asked. Katara nodded.

"We'll need to find a good source of water first," she said, looking down from the saddle.

"Maybe we can find a puddle for you to splash in," Sokka said sarcastically.


When we arrived at our destination, I was taken aback by how beautiful the scenery was. We were at a waterfall, which had rocks and trees and looked like the perfect place to swim.

"Nice puddle," Sokka said. Appa landed in the water, making a big splash.

"Yeah!" Aang exclaimed, "Don't start without me,boy!"

"Remember the reason why we're here," Katara said.

"Oh,right," Aang replied, "Time to practice waterbending," He began to pull up his pants.

"Great," Sokka sighed, "So, what are Akira and I supposed to do?" The mention of my name coming from him made my heart flutter.

"You could clean the gunk out of Appa's toes," Aang suggested, picking up a stick and holding it towards Sokka and I. I stuck my tongue out and gagged.

"So, while you guys are playing in the water, we're supposed to be hard at work picking mud out of a giant bison's feet?" Sokka asked.

"Correction: you're going to be picking the mud out of Appa's feet," I said, "There is no way I'm doing that," I walked away before anyone could say anything else.

Later, I was sitting near the water, watching it flow. Sometimes when I was little, I would say I wished I was a waterbender, but now that I'm older, I've learned to appreciate my airbending.

"Yeah, don't get too happy, you've gotta do me next," I heard. I looked up to see that Sokka was cleaning Appa's feet. I felt kind of bad for making him do it all by himself, but I also didn't want to even see Appa's toe gunk. I looked back down, noticing a stick on the ground. I picked it up and began to draw a flower in the ground. I started hearing water rushing louder than normal, and looked up to see a giant wave looming over Sokka.

"Aang!" Sokka exclaimed worriedly. The wave poured down, and I laughed as Sokka's head popped out of the water. I looked over to Aang and Katara. Aang was looking happily at the water, while Katara was staring angrily into the distance.

"Looks like I got the hang of that move," Aang said, "What else you got?"

"That's enough practicing for today," Katara replied.

"Yeah, I'll say! You just practiced our supplies down the river!" Sokka exclaimed. My attention turned to our supplies, which were floating down the river.

"Uh, sorry," Aang said sheepishly, "I'm sure we can find some way to replace all this stuff,"

"My life was hard enough when you were just an airbender," Sokka sighed before dipping his head back under the water.

We arrived in a village not far from the waterfall. There was a man standing on top of a table with a crowd of people around him, a bag in his hand.


"See the wonder in this bag!" He exclaimed, "Who's brave enough to look into this bag?!"

"Woah," Aang and I said in unison. We were strolling a little far behind Katara and Sokka, taking in the wonder of modern shops.

Later, Sokka walked out of a shop looking down.

"We've got exactly three copper pieces left from the money that King Bumi gave us," He said, "Let's spend it wisely,"

"Uh, make that two copper pieces, Sokka," Aang said, "I couldn't say no to this whistle," He pulled out a whistle that looked like Appa. Aang took a deep breath in before blowing into the whistle. It made an awful hissing noise, which made me cover my ears.

"I think you got scammed," I said.

"It doesn't even work," Sokka added. Aang quit his whistle using and looked at Momo, who had squealed in response to the whistling.

"See, even Momo thinks it's a piece of junk," Sokka said.

"No offense, Aang, but i think somebody else should hold the money for now," I said. Aang reached into his belt and pulled out the two copper pieces, handing them to me. I gave the money to Katara.


We were walking near the boardwalk of the village, seeing if there was any other place where we could get supplies for cheap.

"Earth Nation! Fire Nation! Water Nation!" A man called out, "So long as bargains are your inclination, you're welcome here!" It slightly saddened me to not hear him say Air Nation, but I knew he obviously wouldn't because there were only two of us.

"Don't be shy, come on by!" The man continued.

"Oh, you there!" He said as our group was walking by, making us stop in our tracks, "I can see from your clothing that you're world traveling types, perhaps I can interest you in some exotic curios?"

"Sure!" Aang said, walking up to him, "What are curios?"

"I'm not entirely sure," The man admitted, "But we got 'em!" He pulled my brother forward, leading him into the ship that was apparently a shop. When I walked inside, I immediately noticed that the place had a whole bunch of random things, seemingly coming from different nations. My attention turned to a collection of porcelain dolls, one of them had a pretty blue ribbon in its hair. As a young child, I had one doll. She had that same ribbon. Her name was Miya, and I would take her everywhere with me. When I was six, I dropped her while on a ride on Appa, and I never saw her again. Aang and I searched for days, but we still couldn't find Miya. Suddenly, I was snapped back to reality but the sound of my brother's voice.

"That doll with the blue ribbon looks like Miya," He said. I turned to him with a smile.

"I just was thinking about that," I said.

"I've never seen such a fine specimen of lemur," A voice said from behind us. Aang and I turned around to see a man with a reptile-bird on his shoulder.

"That beast would fetch me a hefty sum if you'd be interested in bartering," he said. The parrot squawked and Momo hissed.

"Momo's not for sale," Aang said, holding the lemur close.

"Look at this, guys," Katara said breathily, "It's a waterbending scroll,"

"Check out these crazy moves," she continued.

"Where did you get a waterbending scroll from?" Aang asked. The reptile-bird guy put his hand on the scroll and began to roll it back up.

"Let's just say I got it up North at a most reasonable price-" He responded, "free,"

"So you stole it," I stated.

"I like to call it high-risk trading," the man replied.

"Wait a minute," Sokka said, "sea-loving traders with suspiciously acquired merchandise and pet reptile birds?"

"You guys are pirates!" He exclaimed.

"So, how much for the traded scroll?" Katara asked.

"I've already got a buyer- a nobleman in the Earth Kingdom," The man responded.

"What would a guy from the Earth Kingdom want with a waterbending scroll?" I thought.

"Unless, of course, you kids have two hundred gold pieces on you right now,"

"I know how to deal with these guys, Katara," Aang whispered, "Pirates love to haggle," Katara handed the money to him.

"Watch and learn," My brother said.

"What say ye to the price of…" Aang said in a pirate voice, "One copper piece?" The man began to laugh loudly. I smacked my forehead.

"The price is two hundred gold pieces," the man said, "I don't haggle on items this rare,"

"Okay, two copper pieces," Aang said in the pirate voice.

"It's not as amusing the second time, boy," He said, inching closer to Aang. My brother gave reptile bird guy a dirty look, but dropped it when Katara walked up to him.

"Aang, can we get out of here?" She asked, "I feel like we're getting weird looks,"

"Aye! We be casting off now!" Aang said in the pirate voice.


"What was that all about, Katara?" I asked once we had walked out of the ship.

"Yeah, I was just starting to browse through their boomerang collection," Sokka added.

"I'll just feel a lot better once we get away from here," Katara responded, hugging herself.

"Hey, you!" One of the guys from the boat shouted, "Get back here!"

"Well, well, look who's come to their senses," Aang said, "Told you the haggling would pay off," Suddenly, a bunch more pirates emerged from the ship, and it looked as though they were going to attack us.

"There they are!" One pirate exclaimed.

"Get 'em!" Another shouted.

"Nobody's going nowhere!" One more yelled.

"I don't think these guys wanna haggle," I said worriedly. We quickly began to run, hearing all sorts of shouts from behind us. When some of the pirates came behind us, Katara grabbed some water from a bucket and splashed it on to the ground. We came across a cabbage cart. Sokka and Katara both bumped into it but quickly continued running, while Aang and I both jumped through it. I used my staff to push the cart towards the pirates. As we were running down an alleyway, a group of pirates came up in front of us, and we quickly turned around.

"I hope lemur of yours has nine lives!" One of the pirates shouted. We ran into a dead end.

"Now, who gets to taste the steel of my blade first?" The pirate asked.

"No thanks," Aang said before using airbending to send debris their way. We quickly began running again.

"Sokka, you grab onto me, Katara, grab onto Kiri!" Aang exclaimed as he turned his staff into a glider. I did as well.

"Aang, I thought we were running away from the pirates," Katara said as she grabbed onto my feet. Sokka grabbed onto Aang's feet.

"Just hang on!" My brother exclaimed. As we lifted up into the sky, Katara and Sokka kicked the remaining pirates, and we soared off back to the waterfall.


"I used to kind of look up to pirates, but those guys are terrible," Aang said, once we got back to the waterfall.

"I know," Katara replied, "That's why I took this," she pulled the scroll from earlier out from behind her. I gasped in shock.

"No way!" Aang gasped.

"You didn't," I added.

"I did," Katara responded, "Isn't it great?"

"No wonder they were trying to hack us up, you stole their waterbending scroll," Sokka said.

"I prefer to think of it as high-risk trading," Katara replied slyly. Aang and I laughed, while Sokka frowned.

"Good one, Katara," My brother said.

"Sokka, where do you think they got it?" Katara asked, "They stole it from a waterbender,"

"It doesn't matter," Sokka replied angrily, "You put all of our lives in danger just so you could learn some stupid, fancy splashes,"

"These are real waterbending forms," Katara stated, anger in her tone, "You know how crucial it is for Aang to learn waterbending," Sokka scoffed.

"Whatever," He grumbled, walking away.

"Well, what's done is done, we have it," Aang said, "We might as well learn from it,"

"I just wanna try this one move first, and then it's all yours," Katara said. I was sitting and drawing on the ground with a stick again, bun-bun next to me.

"Here, hold it open for me," Katara continued, handing the scroll to Aang.

"The single water whip," Katara stated, "Looks doable," She then attempted to do the water whip, but accidentally smacked herself in the face with the water. Sokka laughed, earning him a glare from his sister.

"What's so funny?" Katara asked angrily.

"I'm sorry, but you deserved that," Sokka responded.

"Well, that was harsh," I thought.

"You've been duped, she's only interested in teaching herself," Sokka continued, turning to Aang.

"Aang will get his turn once I figure out the water whip," Katara stated. She attempted it once again, this time it hit Momo, causing the lemur to screech.

"Ugh! Why can't I get this stupid move?!" Katara angrily exclaimed.

"You'll get it," Aang said reassuringly, causing Katara to narrow her eyes at him. Knowing Aang literally my whole life, I figured out pretty early that my brother is an extremely fast learner. I sometimes would get jealous of him for how fast he learned things, and I could tell Katara was feeling that way.

"You've just gotta shift your weight through the stances," Aang said, performing the water whip perfectly, "There, see? The key to bending is-"

"Will you please shut your air hole!" Katara yelled, "Believe it or not, your infinite wisdom gets a little old sometimes! Why don't we just throw the scroll away since you're so naturally gifted?!" My mouth was open wide. Sure, I had been jealous of Aang many times in my life, I even have a little snappy with him about it, but I never flat out screamed at him for just being better than me! Anger and sadness boiled inside me as I saw Aang's eyes filled with tears.

"Katara!" I exclaimed, venom in my tone.

"What?!" She asked bitterly. She turned to see that Aang looked like he was on the verge of tears, and her expression softened.

"Oh my gosh, Aang," she started, "I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me," My anger faded as quickly as it came, I was glad the whole yell fest was over.

"But you know what?" Katara continued, picking up the scroll, "It won't happen again,"

"Here, this is yours," She said, handing Aang the scroll, "I don't want to have anything to do with it anymore,"

"It's okay, Katara," Aang replied.

"What about Momo? he's the real victim here," Sokka said. Katara walked over to Momo and pet him.

"I'm sorry, Momo," Katara said softly.

"And what about me?" Sokka asked, "There was that time where you-"

"No more apologies," Katara interrupted.


Many hours later…


I woke up to the sound of Sokka yelping. My head perked up, and I looked around to see what was going on. The pirates were surrounding us. I quickly hopped to my feet when I saw one behind me. The pirate shot a net that trapped Aang.

"Aang!" I exclaimed. I picked up my staff and swung it up at the pirate, sending him flying into a tree.

"I've got him, come on!" One of the pirates exclaimed as they dragged Aang away.

"Oh, what? I'm not good enough to kidnap?" Sokka asked. I looked around, checking to see if any of the pirates were nearby. Suddenly, I was put into a net. I screamed as they dragged me away.

"Nice work," Zuko said. Apparently, the pirates had been hired by Scarface to capture Aang. Sokka, Aang, and I all had rope around our arms, and Katara was tied to a tree. Zuko walked up to the pirates, waterbending scroll in hand.

"Did Katara take the scroll last night?" I thought, "Is that why she was already here?"

"Aang, this is all my fault," Katara said.

"No, Katara, it isn't," Aang replied reassuringly.

"Yeah, it kind of is," An old man who was standing next to Zuko said.

"Give me the boy," Cyclops ordered.

"You give us the scroll," One of the pirates responded.

"You're really gonna hand over the avatar for a stupid piece of parchment?" Sokka asked.

"Don't listen to him!" Zuko shouted, "He's trying to turn us against each other,"

"Your friend is the avatar?" A pirate asked.

"Sure is," Sokka replied, "And I'll bet he'll fetch a lot more on the black market than that fancy scroll," I turned to my brother, who did not look amused.

"Shut your mouth, you Water Tribe peasant!" Zuko yelled.

"That was harsh," I thought.

"Yeah, Sokka, you really should shut your mouth," Aang said.

"I'm just saying, it's bad business sense," Sokka stated, "Just imagine how much the Fire Lord would pay for the avatar, you guys would be set for-ow!" Sokka rubbed the place on his leg where I kicked him with his foot.

"Keep the scroll," A pirate said, "We can buy one hundred with the reward we'll get for the kid,"

"You'll regret breaking a deal with me," Zuko growled. He sent fire blasts at the pirates, to which they narrowly dodged. This broke out a fight between Zuko, and his soldiers, versus the pirates. Aang, Sokka, and I were trying to cut off our ropes, but we were stopped by Zuko's soldiers charging at us. Suddenly, a group of pirates came in front of us and dropped smoke bombs onto the ground. I could only hear the clanging of weapons and my own coughs. I couldn't see anything. Suddenly, I started hearing coughs that weren't mine, and followed them. I quickly ducked under a spear that was trying to impale me, and heard a yelp that sounded a lot like Aang. I walked only about two steps before I bumped into something. Or someone.

"Aang?" I asked.

"Kiri?" My brother responded. Using airbending, I moved some of the smoke out of the way, revealing Aang's face.

"We need to find Sokka," I said. Aang nodded. Suddenly, another spear came towards us, and we both narrowly avoided it. The spear luckily cut my ropes off, or at least the ones on my wrists. There were still ropes on my upper arms that needed to be cut.

"I need to cut the ropes off your arms," Aang stated, "Come here," we knelt down and with a swift air slice, the ropes were cut.

"Thanks," I said with a smile.

"Aang, Akira, are you guys there?" I heard Sokka call out.

"We're over here! Follow my voice!" Aang shouted, jumping up above the smoke cloud.

"Where? I can't find you!" Sokka exclaimed.

"I'm right here!" Aang yelled, clearing all of the smoke. The cleared smoke revealed that the soldiers and pirates were both pointing their weapons at us.

"Aang," I said, "Bring the smoke back!" He quickly brought back the smoke.

"Uh never mind," Aang said, "We'll find you!" My brother grabbed me by the arm and lifted off into the air, making us jump over the dust cloud.

"Run!" Aang yelled. All three of us quickly began to run towards the pirates' boat. I saw that Katara was there, trying to push the boat into the water.

"Katara, you're okay!" Aang exclaimed.

"Help me get this boat back into the water so we can get out of here," Katara said. We all began to attempt to push the boat back into the water.

"We need a team of rhinos to budge this ship," Sokka said.

"A team of rhinos…" Aang started, "Or two waterbenders," He turned to Katara, who smiled. Aang and Katara quickly began pushing the water so the ship would move.

"Everybody in!" Katara exclaimed. We all rushed over to the boat and hopped on. Suddenly, I noticed that a ship behind ours was filled with pirates, and gasped in surprise.

"Pirates!" I said, pointing to the ship. Aang turned his attention to the ship and gasped.

"Sokka, can't you make it go any faster?" He asked.

"I don't know how," Sokka admitted, "This thing wasn't made by the Water Tribe," Then, the pirate ship began to inch towards us, coming up next to our boat.

"Well, you'd better learn!" I exclaimed. The pirates began to jump from their ship to ours. A few of them were making their way towards Katara. Aang quickly bent the water in the river, pushing the pirates off of our ship. One still stayed, though. Katara did a water whip, smacking the pirate off of the boat.

"Hey, you did the water whip," Aang said happily.

"I couldn't have done it without your help," Katara replied.

"This is great and all, but we still have the pirate problem," I said, pointing to Sokka, who was being held up by two pirates. One of the pirates threw him. I quickly jumped down, using a large gust of wind to push the pirate who threw Sokka off the boat. Aang came behind the other one and basically did the same thing, just with a bit more flare. We both jumped down to Sokka, who was pretty okay for a person who had just gotten thrown.

"Aang, look!" Katara exclaimed. We looked up to see that we were approaching the waterfall.

"Oh, no," Aang said.

"What are we gonna do?" I asked. Suddenly, a pirate came behind Aang. But instead of defending himself, my brother pulled out the stupid whistle and blew in it. The pirate looked confused. Sokka kicked him multiple times, causing the pirate to fall off of the ship.

"Have you lost your mind?" Sokka exclaimed, "This is no time for flute practice!"

"We can stop the boat," Katara said, "Aang, together," the two began to push and pull the water, turning the ship so we wouldn't go into the waterfall.

"It's working! It's slowing down!" Katara exclaimed, "We're doing it!"

"But we have another problem," Sokka said. I looked over to see that the empty pirate boat was racing towards us. I screamed and clung to Aang when the boat crashed into our ship. We all fell to the edge of the ship, screaming as we made our descent.

"Jump!" Aang yelled. We held hands, me in between Aang and Sokka, and began to fall into the water below. There was no way we could survive that fall, even if we had two waterbenders. Suddenly, Appa appeared and scooped us up. We all landed in his saddle.

"I knew a bison whistle would come in handy," Aang said, "Thanks, Appa,"

"Yeah, we owe you one," Sokka added. The bison grunted in response.


"Aang, I still owe you an apology," Katara said as we flew over the clouds, "You were just so good at water bending without really trying, I got so competitive that I put us all in danger, I'm sorry,"

"That's okay, Katara," Aang replied.

"Besides, who needs that stupid scroll, anyway?" Katara asked.

"Is that how you really feel?" Sokka asked, holding the scroll up.

"The scroll!" Katara exclaimed.

"First, what did you learn?" Sokka asked, holding the scroll above his head.

"Stealing is wrong," Katara replied. Sokka smiled and handed the scroll to his sister.

"Unless it's from pirates," Katara added, making Aang and I laugh.

"Good one, Katara," Aang said.

"You keep saying that," I stated as we rode off into the sunset.