Chapter Seven: The Desert
It wasn't too long after I learned how to Earthbend we all got vacations. Sokka chose "at the library!" We got the map and the date of the eclipse and got out of that weird owl place.
"We got it! There's a solar eclipse coming, the fire nation's in trouble now!" Sokka yelled, after the library sunk.
Outside of that nightmare, Aang and I turned around and looked for Appa a few times. "Where's Appa?" Aang's concerned voice asked, with a slight nervous smile.
Toph shook her head as she had her back toward us. Aang stood there almost in shock, I immediately remembered what was happening to Appa right now, he was so lost. I actually cried when I first watched the episode, it was just so sad.
"How would you let them take Appa?! Why didn't you stop them?!" Aang yelled, at Toph as she sat on the sand.
"I couldn't, the library was sinking you guys were still inside and..."
"You could have come to get us. I could have saved him!" Aang shouted, as he interrupted her.
"I can hardly feel any vibrations out here the sandbenders snuck up on me and there wasn't time-" Toph defended.
"You just didn't care! You never liked Appa you wanted him gone!" Aang snapped.
"Aang!" I said like a mother, he was out of line.
"You know Toph did all she could. She saved our lives." Katara added, as she put a hand on his shoulder.
"Who's going to save our lives now? We'll never make it out of here." Sokka said.
"That's all any of you guys care about, yourself! You don't care if Appa's okay or not!" Aang snarled, I tightly put my hand on his shoulder.
"Aang, I'm afraid for Appa too, but we need to focus on getting out of here so we can find him."
"I'm going after Appa." Aang opened his glider, not listening to a word I just said.
"Aang, wait!" I tried to stop him from going but he just took off.
"We better start walking. We're the only people who know about the solar eclipse. And get that information to Ba Sing Se." Katara told me, as I turned towards the already tired and unconfident people, except for Katara.
"You think if we dig up the giant owl he'll give us a ride?" Sokka teased, as we started walking.
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"Can't you watch where your-" Sokka stopped himself when he remembered who bumped into him.
"No!" Toph protested.
"Right, sorry." Sokka apologized as he scratched his head.
"Come on, guys we got to stick together." Katara said, as she and I were walking ahead.
"If I sweat anymore I don't think sticking together will be a problem." Sokka remarked, trying to get detached from Toph and their sweat.
"Katara could I have some more water?" Toph asked, after she pushed Sokka down.
"Okay, but we got to try and conserve it." Katara replied before bending it into little sections.
"Gyawa?" She asked, as she noticed I wasn't going to drink.
"I'm fine." I answered with my arms folded, I was going to get some cactus juice! What happened in Lost Days of Appa was sad and all, but I had some hallucinations to have!
"We're drinking your bending water?? You used this on the swamp guy!!" Sokka squealed.
"It does taste swampy." Toph added.
"I'm sorry it's all we have."
"Not anymore, look!" I yelled with a huge smile as I pointed at the cactus juice.
"Gyawa, Sokka, wait! You shouldn't be eating strange plants!" Katara warned, but she was way too late for that, we desperately split them open.
"There's water trapped inside these!" Sokka gushed as He, Momo, and I chugged it.
"I don't know."
"Suit yourself. It's very thirst quenching though." As Sokka finished, something clicked in me. I suddenly felt loose and moveable.
"Drink Cactus juice. It ta quench ya, nothing quenchier! It's the quenchest!" Sokka moved around like a cartoon, his arms looked like they were paper in the wind.
"Okay I think you've had enough." A far away distant Katara said.
I looked over to see that Toph was on fire like Scorpion. "Who lit Toph on fire?" Sokka asked.
"Can I get some of that cactus?"
"Yep, drink up!" I squealed, not able to control my voice.
"I don't think that's a good idea. Come on, we need to find Aang." Katara said, as we started walking in space.
"How did we get out here in the middle of the ocean?!" Sokka asked.
"No you fool! This is space. Why we have air is beyond me!" I yelled in the infinity of black and stars. "We might be using it all up! Toph hold your breath!" I ordered, as I stepped in front of her.
"I'm not holding my breath." She replied as she pushed me out of the way.
"Great! Now the awesomest one of us is going to die! Oh my god! I sound just like Varrick!" I threw my hands in the air, seeing all the space around us was getting very creepy.
"Oh well guess we better listen to good music before we go." I said, before grabbing my guitar. I started playing Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day's and they all looked at me like I needed to go to those depressed kids meetings, I on the other hand thought I sounded better then the original. Oh who am I kidding I was on cactus juice, those guys are just better than me.
"What is that?" Katara asked, as we turned to see a nuclear blast! People get ready, this is when mad max crossover happens!!
"What? What is what?" Toph asked, not being able to see.
"It's a giant mushroom. Maybe it's friendly!" Sokka yelled, as he waved his arms to it.
"Are you CRAZY?! This is judgement day! We're all going to die!" I screamed, shaking one of my only friends as hard as I could. I felt like I was in that dream awesome Sarah Conner had. And if you say she's not, I will destroy you!
"Let's just keep moving, I hope Aang's okay." Katara sighed, as we started walking again. Why I didn't know, we should be running.
"Friendly mushroom. Mushy giant friend." Sokka continued, I immediately slapped him.
"Or doom on the Conners and Arnold Schwarzenegger awesomeness in the 80s!" I yelled in his face. He didn't get a word.
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"I'm sorry, Aang. I know it's hard for you right now but we need to focus on getting out of here." Katara said, after Aang came back. To be honest I stopped listening and only listened to the song I was making.
"Hey, Hey, Hey." I sang in a deep voice.
"Gyawa? Sokka? An ideas how we can find Ba Sing Se?" Katara asked, turning towards us.
"Why don't we ask the circle birds." Sokka suggested looking up at what ever they were flying above us.
"Circle birds. Bird, Bird, B-B-b-" I started to sing when I realized they were like vultures.
"Those things are waiting for us to die, then they're gonna get us!" I gasped, as I threw gusts of wind at them.
"Gyawa, stop! We're getting out of this desert and we're gonna do it together. Aang get up, everybody hold hands. We can do this. We have to." As Katara finished Momoness walked by me with his head high.
"Aw you have graced me with your presence Momoness." I bowed, as he nodded I could hear Katara sigh before grabbing my arm.
~*~
"I think we should stop for the night." We all collapsed after Katara told us we could finally stop using our legs.
"Is there anymore water?"
"This is the last of it. Everyone can have a little drink." As Katara started to bend the water at all of us Momo jumped in it, trying to get all of it.
"MOMO NO! You killed us all!" Sokka screamed as he crawled to the water that was now mud.
"No he hasn't." Katara stated before bending it out.
"Oh right, bending." Sokka said, amazed as we started drinking it.
"Sokka let me see the things you got from the library." Katara said walking over.
"What?! No, I didn't steal anything. Who told you that? It was you two! You ratted me out!" Sokka shouted as he pointed at me and Momo. Momo started crying, while I was ready to defend myself, and began throwing sand at him.
"Sokka I was there. And Gyawa, stop it!" Katara orders as she grabbed my arm again. She was such a mother. I found Sokka putting a blanket on Momo.
"Aw." I sighed as I laid next to him.
"Just try to get some sleep, we'll start again in a few hours." I then started putting a blanket on Sokka and crawling into mine. It felt so good.
~*~
"Come on get up. We need to go."
I opened my eyes to see a man laying next to me. It was Sokka, but he looked good. He was muscled right, but his face was different. It finally found a jawline that was beautiful.
"Yesterday my mouth tasted like mud, now it just tastes like sand. I never thought I'd miss the taste of mud so much." Toph commented before I got up.
What happened to Sokka? WHY IS HE HOT NOW!!????!
"Appa!" Aang yelled in excitement when he saw him.
"Where?! Where?!" I asked, looking away from a hot Water Tribe dude.
"Appa? But why would Princess Yue need him? She's the moon, she flies by herself." Sokka commented, as I realized it was just a cloud. You ever wonder where iCloud keeps all it's storage. That's where, in actual clouds!
Aang flew up and completely destroyed the iCloud. "Hey! You just gone and destroyed everyone's storage!" I yelled in his face.
"Relax, Gyawa. If their any storage in the sky it's in the moon." Sokka said, gently grabbing my arm. I immediately embraced him and kept close. He smelt so good as all the books say.
"Okay." He shoved me away as he flashed those sexy blue eyes at me.
"What?! You're hot like Zayn or Kai!" I protested as I tried to get close again.
"Let's just get moving. We need to head in this direction." Katara said, after something Aang said.
"Ha ha ha one direction. Ha ha ha." I laughed after just mentioning a member of my childhood crushes.
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"Aw! Grudge! I am so sick of not feeling where I'm going! And what idiot buries a boat in the middle of the desert?!" Toph said as we kept walking. Before I knew it we were on a sail boat going somewhere.
"If I had my way, you would always stay. And I'd be your tiny dancer honey. I waited for you. In the spot you said to wait. In the city in the park bench. In the middle of the pouring rain. Cause I adored you, I just wanted it to be the same. You said to meet me up there tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. Tomorrow never came." I sang with my guitar in Sokka's direction, as I laid on his lap.
"The compass doesn't seem to be pointing north compared to my charts." Katara said, being overly concerned.
"Take it easy little lady, I'm sure the sand folks who built this baby know how to get around here."
~*~
Soon we got to a huge rock in the desert. "Ah, finally! Solid ground." Toph sighed as she made an earth angel.
I found myself in Sokka's arms as we walked, but only this time he went back to the age I knew him in.
I gasped and took a step back, he wasn't hot anymore. And what was I thinking?! I like Zuko! Not Sokka! And apparently I might have said that out loud. They all looked at me like I was insane.
"You like WHO?!" Toph and Sokka squeezed.
"Nothing!" I quickly replied.
"I think my head is starting to clear out the cactus juice. And look!" Sokka said as we walked in a tunnel. He ran over and put some type of goo in his mouth, only to spit it out again. "Tastes like rotten penguin meat! Oh I feel woozy." He held his head and stomach with a sigh.
"You've been hallucinating on Cactus juice all day and then you just lick something you find stuck to the wall of a cave?!" Katara yelled at him, he had a guilty look about him. "I have a natural curiosity."
"This isn't a normal cave. Look at all this." I said, pointing at the carvings.
"There something buzzing in here, something that's coming for us!" After Toph said this we all started running out. We were suddenly being attacked by those B-B-B-bird, bird is the word. Sorry.
"What are you doing?! That rock almost crushed me!" I heard Sokka say, to Toph as I shot fire at ten of them. I shot more and more fire, crushing all of them.
"Gyawa, Sokka there's nothing there." Katara Said in a motherly tone.
"Oh, okay." I replied as I realized she was right.
"I guess my head isn't as clear as I thought." Sokka said grabbing his head.
"We got to get out of here, I'm completely out of water to bend." Just then a bee went down and grabbed Momo.
"Momo!" I yelled as I grabbed my glider and flew after him. I flew as fast as I could, Aang was right next to me. When we caught up I grabbed Momo, and cast fire at the bee's head.
We held back and waited for the right moment to take it down for good. Aang then sent an air slash at it, and it was down.
When we got back Katara, Sokka, and Toph were surrounded by sand benders. Aang and I exchanged suspicious looks as we landed in between them.
"What are you doing in our land with a sand bender's sailer? From the looks of it you stole that from the humy tribe." A older man said.
"We found the sailer abandoned in the desert, we're traveling with the Avatar. Our bison was stolen and we have to get to Ba Sing Se." Katara explained trying not to pick a fight.
"You dare accuse our people of theft while you ride in on a stolen sand bender sailer?!" A young man asked, pointed at mainly me.
"Quiet, Gaswuin! No one accused our people of anything. If what they say is true, we must give them hospitality." The older man said to him.
"Sorry, Father." The boy replied.
"I recognized the son's voice, his the one that stole Appa." Toph whispered to us.
"Are you sure?" Katara asked.
"I never forget a voice." She quickly answered.
I immediately fixed my eyes on him, he was the one who would make Appa go through a hell of a mess.
"You stole Appa, where is he?! What did you do to him?!" Aang snarled, violently pointing his staff at him. I didn't blame him one bit, I felt the same.
"They're lying, there the thieves!" The boy tried to plead to his father.
"Enough! Where is the bison?!" I yelled before kicking fire at one sailer.
"You tell us where he is now!" Aang added.
"What did you do?!" The father asked his son in fear.
"It wasn't me." He tried to defend.
"You said to put a muzzle on him." Toph added as she pointed at him.
"You muzzled Appa?!" I hissed, I couldn't explain the anger I was feeling, I knew everything would be okay, yet I wanted to hurt the boy so he could feel the pain Appa would go through.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know it belonged to the avatar."
Before I knew it, I was in the avatar state. "Tell me where Appa is." I demanded with deep voices in mine.
"I traded him to some merchants, they're probably in Ba Sing Se by now. They were going to sell him there." When he finished I didn't back down. I only kept going, making wind around myself.
"Please we'll escort you out of the desert, we'll help how ever we can!" The boy tried to plead, but I was so angry, I couldn't control myself.
"Just get out of here, run!" I heard Sokka say.
I was getting higher and higher, and the wind I was making was getting stronger. I wanted to kill that prick.
Just as I gave up letting go I felt a hand grab my wrist. I looked down with growling, glowing eyes to see it was Sokka. He didn't say a thing, only fearlessly stared in my grey eyes, pleading for me to stop.
He was so brave to do something like that so carelessly, I always got the sense he had some sort of crush on me but this was more than that. He actually would go out of his way to help me. It was than I could say about a lot of people.
I didn't understand it, why would he try to pull me down. Yet, why was I doing this? I found myself in his arms, a tear managed to escape my dying glowing eyes and I held tight to Sokka's think waistline.
I couldn't control my feelings, it felt like it was placed there by something, yet with Sokka those feelings of something were mine.
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