Chapter Two: Girl in the Iceberg
"My Grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days. A time of peace, when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked."
"Only the Avatar; master of all four elements, only she could stop the ruthless Firebenders."
"But when the world needed her most, she vanished. A hundred years have passed and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war."
"Two years ago, my Father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe."
"Some people believe that the Avatar died with all the other Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken but I haven't lost hope. I still believe that somehow the Avatar will return to save the world."
~*~
My eyes opened to see a boy, with baby blue eyes and a wolf tail aka ponytail looking down at me right next to a girl with the same features, only she had long hair in braids, with hair loopies.
Hard to believe, my mind had to be playing with me, or those two were Sokka and Katara!
I gasped realizing where I was, who I was.
"It's okay, we won't hurt you." The ponytail boy exclaimed. "I'm Sokka. This is my sister Katara." Sokka said pointing at himself and Katara.
"There's another one!" Katara gasped running inside the iceberg.
I tried to get back up but instead, I shook my head. I got up again with all my strength and stood a bit taller than Sokka.
I quickly touched my hair to find it was short and I had tattoos. Just wow, my mom would kill me.
I ran into the iceberg to see Katara trying to wake up Aang.
"Hey, where are you going?" Sokka asked as he followed me.
"I need to ask you something." Aang stumbled while I got on Appa.
"What?"
"Please, come closer." Aang said like he was dying.
"What is it?" Katara asked leaning in.
"Will you go penguin sliding with me?" The little Airbender asked with sudden energy.
"Uh, sure I guess." Katara replied in an unsure manner.
"Gyawa! What's going on here?" Aang asked as he got up with air bending.
I shrugged with a head tilt.
"You tell us, how'd you two get in the ice? And why aren't you frozen?" Sokka asked holding out his spear to poke Aang.
"Gyawa?" Aang asked looking at me and swiping Sokka's spear.
"I'm not sure. But I might have frozen us." I replied putting my hands threw my hair. Trying to play along.
Aang and everybody else there just looked at me like I was insane.
Aang then ran to Appa's face to wake him up. "Appa! Are you all alright? Wake up, buddy." Aang said opening his eye to only have him close it again then he tried to open his mouth, that didn't work too well either. "Haha, you're okay!" Appa groaned to Aang.
"What is that thing?" Sokka asked me rather than Aang.
"This is Appa, my flying bison." Aang replied.
"Right... and this is Katara, my flying sister," Sokka remarked with a tired face.
Just then Aang ducked to Appa sneezing, except for Sokka who got it all over himself.
"Don't worry it will wash out." Aang said as Sokka tried frantically to get it off.
"So do you guys live around here?-"
"Aang we-" I was still trying to figure out how the hell I got here.
"Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light? They're were probably trying to signal the Fire Navy!" Sokka said interrupting me who interrupted Aang.
"Signal? Why would Gyawa want to signal anyone, she's the Avatar!" Aang boasted with that "evil" grin of his.
"What?!" Sokka and Katara both gasped.
"Hey Aang you prob-" wait a minute a here...
"You're the Avatar?!" Sokka shouted.
"Yeah, I'm Gyawa and this is-" I was about to introduce Aang but he then sneezed up about ten feet in the air before coming back down.
"I'm Aang." He said before he sniffed.
"You just sneezed and flew ten feet in the air! And you're claiming to be the Avatar! Giant light beams, flying bison, airbenders. I think I got midnight sun madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense." Poor Sokka signed, walking away till he realized he was on an ice island.
"Well, if you guys are stuck, Appa, Gyawa and I can give you a lift." Aang offered as he hopped on Appa.
"We'd love a ride. Thanks." The Water Tribe girl smiled.
"Oh no, I am not getting on that fluffy snot monster." Sokka pouted.
"Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know, before you froze to death." Katara replied, being Katara, and Sokka couldn't argue.
"Okay, first-time flyers hold on tight. Appa, yip yip." Aang said after we were all on, however, Appa just walked and swam in the water.
"Come on Appa, yip yip." Aang repeated as I just sat back.
"Wow, that was truly amazing." Sokka mocked with his arms folded.
"He's probably just tired, we did a lot flying around before." I explained but he didn't believe a word.
"Why are you smiling at me like that?" Katara asked as she noticed Aang smiling at her.
"Oh, I was smiling?" Aang asked not realizing what he was doing.
I giggled while Sokka groaned and laid back.
~*~
After awhile of Appa swimming I had more and more memories of what happened to me, I remembered my most recent memory of when Aang and I got in the iceberg. The emotions, everything felt real. But how?
"Are you really the Avatar?" Katara asked with an eager voice, I just nodded my head.
"I was recently announced to the nations, you haven't heard?" I asked so it would seem like I was clueless of the hundred-year war.
For some reason I had no want to go back home, I knew I was going to have a blast here.
"But the Avatar disappeared over a hundred years ago!" Katara replied as the wheels in her mind went crazy.
"What?! That's impossible!" Aang remarked.
"How long were you in that iceberg?" Katara asked both of us.
"A day or two maybe. You're not saying-" I fake gasped.
"It's the only possible explanation, you two were in that iceberg for a hundred years!"
"Do we look like hundred, sixteen and twelve-year-olds to you?" Aang asked acting a little upset. And he was handling a nightmare of a situation pretty well.
"Think about it, the Avatar has been gone that long because you were in there the whole time." Katara explained and Aang definitely took it harder than me because I already knew this stuff.
"A hundred years, I can't believe it." Aang sighed as he sat back down on Appa's head.
"I'm sorry Aang, maybe somehow there's a bright side to all of this."
"I did get to meet you." Aang replied showing his smile again. Katara returned the smile but Sokka just sighed again after having his mind shook.
"Well, Goodnight." Katara said going to sleep.
"Sleep tight." Aang replied I climb near Aang, while he gave me an unsure face, he was afraid of what we might find when we go home.
~*~
Soon I found myself flying with Aang on Appa in a heavy storm.
Aang screamed as he couldn't control where Appa was going anymore. We dove right in the ocean and we were almost about to drown when a light flicked in me.
The Avatar State, I got back up and water bended us in the iceberg!
~*~
Just then I wake up to Katara nudging me. "Gyawa, Gyawa. Get up." I gasped from my dream before realized that was the past.
"It's okay, we're in the village now. Come on, get ready everyone's waiting to meet you!" Katara said walking out.
I put my coat on, grabbed my staff and I was ready to go.
Aang came out of another little hut, Katara grabbed his hand, he gaped not expecting it.
"Gyawa, Aang this is the entire village. Entire village, Gyawa, Aang." Katara said to a village made up of women and small children with caution in their eyes.
"Ah, why are they all looking at us like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?" Aang asked looking at himself.
"Well, we thought the Avatar cycle was broken until my granddaughter and grandson found you. Let alone the air benders are extinct." The old woman said walking up to me and looking at me head to toe.
"Extinct?!" Aang asked.
"Aang, Gyawa, this is my grandmother."
"Call me gran gran." She added, flatly.
"What is this a weapon? You can't stab anything with this." Sokka sounded aggravated, grabbing and looking at Aang's staff.
"It's not for stabbing. It's for air bending!" Aang scoffed as he turned it to a glider.
The kids all loved it with gasped and giggles.
"Not magic, air bending. It lets me control the air current--" Aang said to one of the little kids that said something about magic but this was the part I always stopped listening and I did the same thing in real life. Aang glided but then drove straight in Sokka's "watchtower."
"Aahhh my watchtower!" Sokka squealed as it got destroyed by Aang trying to get his head out, I couldn't help but chuckle.
"That was amazing. Can you do that Gyawa?" Katara asked me with a huge smile.
"Yeah." I quickly replied without a thought.
"Great. You're the Avatar, you're an Airbender, Katara's a Waterbender, together you can just waste time all day long." Sokka remarked, annoyed lacing his tone, climbing out of snow that I forgot how he got in.
"You're a Waterbender?!" Aang asked with a little boy's excitement.
"Well, sort of. Not yet." Katara replied it made me want to laugh knowing how good she would become.
"All right no more playing. Come on Katara you have chores." Gran Gran reminds her, grabbing her sleeve.
~*~
"Now men, it's important that you show no fear when you're facing a Firebender. In the Watertribe we fight to the last man standing, for without courage how can we call ourselves men." I watched Sokka say these courageous words to Three to Eight-year-olds.
"You know that speech wouldn't be that bad if you weren't saying it to a bunch of toddlers." I smirked, as I nudged my folded arms to Sokka's arm.
He seemed to be on the brink of blushing his cheeks out.
"I gotta pee." One kid said holding out his hand.
"Listen! Until your fathers return from the war they're counting on you to be the men of this tribe. And that means no potty breaks!" Sokka responded, obviously sick of it.
"But I really got to go!" The boy quickly replied.
"Argh, okay who else has to go?" as Sokka asked this all their hands rose and Sokka hit his own forehead, I couldn't help but chuckle, making my body wobble.
"Have you seen Aang? Gran Gran said he disappeared over an hour ago." Katara said looking around the place.
"Wow, everything freezes in there." We could hear Aang said as he came out of the restroom. All the kids laughed to his joke and out of nowhere they were playing games.
"Augh, Katara get him out of here, this lesson is warriors only!" Sokka ordered walking up to the mess of snow they were making.
Even Katara seemed to enjoy it.
"Stop, stop, stop it right now! What's wrong with you? We don't have time for fun and games with the war going on!" Sokka shouted as he broke it up.
"What war? What are you talking about?" Aang asking in his innocent way.
"Your kidding right?" Sokka replied but it didn't matter, Aang saw a penguin.
"Penguin!" He shouted as he used his Airbending to be the fastest man alive.
"He's kidding right?" Sokka asked again in Katara, and my direction.
Katara went to go follow Aang but I stayed behind.
"No, what war?" I asked and Sokka looked at me like I was the dumbest person in the world.
"I was stuck in an iceberg for a hundred years!" I scowled in my defense.
"Oh man, where do I start? Well, the Fire Nation attacked all the other nations on Sozin's Comet, and now they've almost won the war."
"The nuns told me Fire Lord Sozin was crossing lines, they told me I would have to face him if he did it one more time." I sighed, looking down as I sat.
"Well, they crossed lines alright. The Fire Nation killed my own mother, they're evil." Sokka clenched his fist, a voice of sorrow sitting next to me.
"I'm sorry. If I hadn't been so stupid maybe I could have stopped Sozin." I found myself really meaning the words that came out of my mouth, it was one of the weirdest feelings.
"Why? how did you get in that iceberg?" Sokka's curiosity showed, he seemed more interested then, than at the iceberg.
I didn't answer, I didn't want to admit to a guy who's mother was killed that me and Aang were just playing.
~*~
Later at sunset, we looked up to see that a flare had gone off not too far from the village. I couldn't help but be excited that soon, very soon I was going to see someone who I until this point could only dream of!
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