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Honey, I shrunk the Avatar	By : morgman2 Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female Views: 9612 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The sky was black and peppered with stars, great rivers of multicolored points of light but brighter still, hanging near the horizon was a thumbnail sized blue and green orb. The landscape below this was dusty, brown and tan earth, an empty barren and blasted landscape. Soft rounded hills were all about the horizon but what dominated the landscape were the craters. Craters upon craters, from some that could have swallowed a house to multitudes of others almost too small to see and if an observer were standing here they would soon realize that the hills on the horizon were in fact the raised edges of a much larger crater, one hundreds of miles across. But there were no observers here to notice the two beautiful women sitting on glittering ornate chairs, sipping daintily at cups of tea.

One of the women had hair as dark as the sky, even with glimmering points of light like stars shining from the silken strands. Her long flowing dress was much the same but her most striking feature was her eyes. Eyes of pure silver.

The other woman was far more human in appearance although she appeared very young, only in her late teens and her hair was the opposite of her companions, shinning white and drifting lazily about her head as though caught in gentle currents of air. Her eyes were a deep blue and they were smiling with amusement as she looked to her companion.

“I’m telling you, Tui.” the girl with white hair was saying, a touch of laughter in her voice, “I got to know him very well in my mortal life. He’s not like that at all.”

“And I’m telling you, Yue. Both as your teacher and your friend, all men are like that.” Tui replied, her tone a little cold as she flipped her dark hair back behind her shoulders, “I have watched your kind since humanity’s conception. Besides, he didn’t tell you about his girlfriend when he was flirting with you. He didn’t tell her about you when they got back together, she had to learn it from some play. And now that other one who delights in flirting with him is traveling to their home with them, it’s only a matter of time before he gives in to temptation.”

“Sokka would never do that to Suki. His love for her would transcend any mere temptation.” Yue said adamantly, her smile fading only slightly, “There is no way you can convince me otherwise, Tui. Love conquers all.”

“Love conquers all? Oh, Yue. You have are still so young and I wasn’t the moon spirit for as long as I was without learning a few things myself.” Tui said, light, tinkling laughter rising from her before she turned to Yue with a sly grin, “I’ll tell you what, why don’t we make a game of this. A wager.”

“A wager?” Yue asked suspiciously, in her short time as the new moon spirit she had learned much from her mentor, Tui, the previous moon spirit. The first thing she had learned was that the spirits could be volatile and extremely dangerous even without malicious intent. Narrowing her own eyes as she gazed into Tui’s silver orbs, Yue continued, “What stakes did you have in mind? And remember, I don’t want anyone to get hurt.”

“Yue, to live life is not without risks and playing with mortal lives is what we spirits do. Without us, they would learn nothing and their lives would be dull to the point of insanity.” Tui said with a shake of her head, the spirit’s smile though was doing little to ease the other, younger woman’s concerns, “And the stakes shall be only to prove which of us is right. What means more to this mortal man you care so much for, love or lust? If you are right, then he and his lover will come through this unscathed and more in love than ever before. If I am right, well,”

Tui trailed off with another sly grin and although Yue was still highly suspicious, she was also intrigued. Sitting back in her chair that was formed purely from her thoughts, she looked over at Tui thoughtfully.

“What kind of game did you have in mind?” Yue asked.

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Avatar Aang and his friends were making their way south on a small but fast ship that their good friend and ruler of the firenation, Zuko had provided for them. Shortly after their brief get together to celebrate the end of the war at Iroh’s teashop in Ba Sing Se, Katara had wanted to travel home to see her family at the south pole and Aang would go wherever his heart’s desire wished to go. Her brother, Sokka was going in the same direction with his heart’s desire, Suki and her Warriors to Kyoshi Island. Since so many were traveling together and Aang’s flying bison companion, Appa certainly couldn’t carry them all, the ship had been the best option. Luckily Aang could communicate readily with the great white, shaggy haired animal who had been his closest companion since he had been a small boy and Appa (taking his small flying lemur friend, Momo with him) had been sent on ahead to meet them at the island.

Their other constant companion, Toph, a feisty thirteen year old girl and widely acknowledged as the greatest Earthbender alive, was traveling with them. While still small and born blind, the girl’s brashness was only slightly overshadowed by her abilities but even still, she was thankful to have the other girls from Kyoshi with them on this trip. Between Aang and Katara spending the trip almost constantly in each others arms with their lips pressed together and with Sokka and Suki doing much the same, Toph would have been quite bored and lonely without the others to keep her company. Still, the trip was to take many weeks since Ba Sing Se and Kyoshi Island were almost at opposite ends of the world and there were many times when Toph was sorely tempted to employ a Bending move of her own creation, Metalbending the iron ship they rode on to launch her constantly kissing friends overboard.

But Toph was finding she was enjoying the company of the Kyoshi Warrior’s newest addition the most, a rather pretty girl of about fourteen who until recently had been their enemy. Ty Lee, acrobatic, flexible and cheerful almost to a fault, was spending her days on the voyage learning the ways of the Kyoshi Warriors while at the same time teaching the other girls her own special brand of fighting. Ty Lee had a unique method of striking a person’s natural nerve points, rendering them unconscious or simply paralyzing them. She could even block a persons chi flow in such a way as to block their Bending abilities, something the other Warriors were eager to learn. Bored one day early into the trip, Toph had joined in with the other girls in their exercise routines and daily training and to her own surprise found she enjoyed the challenge immensely.

As they quickly became close friends, what both Ty Lee and Toph were careful to keep to themselves (only discovering the fact about each other by accident) was that they had something in common. They both had a serious crush on the Kyoshi Warrior Captain’s boyfriend. Everyone else, including Sokka, was completely unaware of the pair’s attraction to him. Their newfound closeness meant that during the quiet moments, usually at night while the others slept in their cabins, Toph and Ty Lee would sit together and talk about themselves, opening up to each other far more than they had even to their supposedly closer companions.

And so the long voyage went. Aang and Katara spending most of their time together as did Sokka and Suki. The Kyoshi Warriors with Ty Lee and Toph training or playing idle games to pass the time. The time Toph and Ty Lee spent together had them becoming the best of friends although both knew without their mutual attraction toward Sokka that would never have occurred.

While Aang had only recently turned thirteen and Katara still only fourteen, the pair had taken to sneaking into each other’s beds at night. They were still careful not to go too far in their amorous explorations and thanks to Aang being part Firebender, he was extra careful to be up with the dawn and gone from Katara’s side before her brother got up. But it happened very late one night, close to their final destination that the Avatar was visited by a strange vision in his sleep. Tossing and turning his head next to Katara’s, Aang was dreaming of someone he once knew.

“Yue?” Aang breathed in awe, looking at the young woman who seemed to float before him, “What’s going on Yue?”

Looking around, Aang could see nothing but darkness except for the young woman before him who glowed with a soft, pearly light. Yue offered Aang a small smile but her eyes conveyed a touch of sadness and worry.

“Aang. I have been allowed to come to you with this warning.” Yue said in a breathy, sultry voice, “A great and difficult challenge is to be put before the Avatar and his companions. To complete this challenge, she must return to her one true love and be recognized. Only then will true love prevail.”

“True love?” Aang asked, his face screwing up in confusion, “Who has to recognize who?”

“I’m sorry, Aang. I cannot say more.” Yue said, her face sad as she faded from his sight, “Remember. Tell her to hold fast to her love and it will all work out in the end.”

“Yue. Wait.” Aang called out in his vision but she was gone.

In Katara’s cabin, Aang’s head still tossed and turned, the young man moaning now in his sleep and Katara rolled over, unconsciously drawing him into her embrace. Although he settled into a more restful sleep, in the back of Aang’s subconscious he again heard Yue’s voice.

“Alright, Tui. I think that should be enough to help them.” came Yue’s voice, far less mysterious and sultry and more demanding, “Remember your promise, no one dies.”

“You truly are a spoilsport, Yue.” Aang heard another woman’s voice, tinkling laughter in her tones, “But not to worry. Tempus, the spirit of time has promised that he will reverse any true deaths. They will still be able to get hurt though and when the challenge is complete, whether they win or lose, they will remember all of it.”

“That will have to do I suppose. I know I haven’t known you long, Tui and I’d like to think we are becoming good friends.” Yue’s voice came, a hint of laughter in hers as well, “But girlfriend, sometimes you really are a bitch.”

“Yue.” Tui’s voice sounded shocked at first and then her high, tinkling laughter rose again, “I’m a woman.”

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The young man opened his eyes, a low timber ceiling above him coming slowly into focus. He wondered at first where he was and how he’d come to be there before something else fundamental occurred to him.

Who am I?

Sitting up quickly, the young man grabbed at his head as the room spun around him. When it had settled, he looked down at the bed he was in, cool crisp sheets pooled in his lap that was all that apparently covered his very naked body. He looked at his own darkly tanned skin, covering a youthful but tautly muscular frame and yet still none of what he saw sparked a memory. Turning his head to one side he looked out of a window next to his bed, seeing a few other small, wooden buildings, trees and distant green hills. It was as though his mind was blank and nothing at all seemed familiar.

“Err, hello.” came a quiet voice and the young man spun his head quickly about.

In a bed next to his own, a teenage girl looked back at him, holding the sheets on her bed up to her chin. His first thought was that she was very pretty.

Upon first opening her eyes and seeing the young man sitting up in the bed next to hers, the girl’s first thoughts had been ‘He’s so handsome.’

Although she appeared frightened, her large grey eyes seemed to appraise him as the pair looked at each other. She had long, dark brown hair almost the same color as his although his was cut much shorter and his eyes were a deep blue.

“Hello, um.” the young man began hesitantly, “Can you tell me where I am?”

“No.” the girl blurted out with a shake of her head, “I mean, I don’t know myself. I can’t…I mean, I don’t remember anything.”

With a bang, the door to the small room opened and the pair jumped as a short, rounded man with a large bushy grey beard hurried in. He only smiled briefly at them but otherwise seemed very concerned as he stood at the end of the young man’s bed.

“I’m glad to see you’re awake. When you were found floating in the bay this morning, we were frankly astounded you two had survived. It was only lucky the Unagi hadn’t got to you first.” the elderly gentleman moved around and sat on the edge of the young man’s bed, the teenager leaning away as the older man stared seriously into his eyes, “Sokka, what happened? Where are the Warriors and the Avatar. My niece? What’s happened to Suki?”

The young man swallowed, slightly intimidated by the old man’s hard gaze but his interest was captured by what the man had said.

“Sokka. Is that me? My name is Sokka?” the young man asked and the older man suddenly looked very confused, “And what’s the Unagi…or an Avatar? And who’s Suki?”

The old man’s eyes were wide and suddenly afraid as he reach out to put a hand to the young man’s forehead.

“Suki, my niece and Captain of the Kyoshi Warriors. She wrote to tell me she was coming home with the Warriors and the Avatar. That you and she had found love together.” the old man spoke quickly but saw no recognition in the young man’s blue eyes. Turning he looked to the girl in the next bed who still watched fearfully over the edge of her bed sheets, “And you my dear, Suki said you were coming to join the Warriors. Do neither of you remember anything?”

Both teenagers shook their heads slowly but the old man shot suddenly to his feet, his face draining of color as he raised a hand to his mouth.

“This is terrible. This is…I will fetch the healers immediately.” the old man turned and made for the door, pausing though as he pulled it open and turned back to the teenagers, “Forgive me. My name is Oyaji, chieftain of this village and you are Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe and Ty Lee of the Firenation. It would appear you are both suffering some form of memory loss but I will go now to bring healers to see what may be done. Please, remain here and I will be back soon.”

With that, Oyaji was out the door and gone. The young man and girl turned to each other with wide eyes.

“Well, that answers one question at least.” the young man said, offering what he hoped was a warm smile, “Hello, Ty Lee of the firenation.”

“Hello, Sokka, um, of the southern water tribe.” Ty Lee replied, lowering the sheet she hid behind to smile in return but tears were threatening to spill from her large grey eyes, “Uh, Sokka?”

“Yes, Ty Lee?” he answered, trying not to stare at the obvious curves of the girl beneath her thin sheet.

“I’m really scared.” Ty Lee said in a tiny voice.

“Yeah, me too.” Sokka replied quietly himself but offered her another warm smile.

Wrapping his own sheet about his waist, Sokka rose and pulled the two beds closer together then sat back down on his own and offered his hand. Hesitantly at first, Ty Lee reached out from beneath her sheet and took Sokka’s hand in her own.

“Thanks.” Ty Lee said with a brighter smile and then momentarily looked confused, “Uh, Sokka?”

“Yes, Ty Lee?” Sokka said again, laying back on his bed and for the moment simply enjoying the warm contact of her hand in his between the beds.

“What’s a Firenation?” Ty Lee asked, squeezing his hand and feeling an oddly guilty thrill when he squeezed hers in return.

“I have no idea.” Sokka replied quietly, his thumb absentmindedly rubbing the back of Ty Lee’s hand in his, “But at least it sounds warmer and dryer than whatever a Watertribe is.”

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Aang awoke slowly, not opening his eyes at first but enjoying the warmth of the sun on his skin yet even more than that, the warm body he was curled up against. Something was nagging at his thoughts but Aang only drew the one he slept with tighter against himself, his hand sliding over smooth thighs alongside his and eliciting a quiet moan.

“Mmm, Sokka.”

Aang’s eyes opened wide, the back of an auburn haired head next to his and he realized just who’s soft anatomy his hand was currently caressing. With a cry, Aang rolled away and shot up into a sitting position, staring aghast at Suki laying next to him. Suki awoke herself, rolling over to blink sleepily in confusion at Aang before her own eyes shot open wide but a moment later they both turned their heads to look around in even deeper confusion.

They were laying on a barren, tan and yellow landscape seemingly composed of strange irregular small blocks that stretched to the horizon in every direction. In one direction, through the haze of distance, greens and browns extended up into the skyline and behind them, amidst hollow sounding distant booms the skyline was white above a deep blue. But both Aang and Suki’s eyes were drawn to others who appeared to be sleeping as they had been on the strange landscape around them. The other half dozen Kyoshi Warriors were instantly recognizable by their distinctive green kimonos and leather armor but it was the sight of a smaller figure in lighter greens lying next to one in dark blue that had Aang instantly on his feet. Running carefully over the strangely shifting blocks that made up the ground, Aang dropped to his knees between Toph and Katara, reaching for his young love first.

“Katara. Katara.” Aang called out, shaking the girl’s shoulder.

Opening her eyes slowly, Katara first smiled warmly up at Aang but as her eyes turned to the blue sky above them she frowned in confusion.

“Did I fall asleep on deck again?” Katara asked as she sat up slowly and then taking in her surroundings her head snapped around to stare at Aang with wide eyes, “Where’s the boat?”

“I. I don’t know.” Aang said with a shrug, “I have no idea where we are or how we got here.”

“Would you two keep it down already.” Toph mumbled sleepily, rolling to her front and covering her head with her hands, “It’s bad enough with your heavy breathing vibrating the ship every night without you two going for it in the mornings as well.”

Their strange surroundings forgotten for a moment, Aang and Katara looked to each other and blushed deeply. Throughout the weeks long journey they had completely forgotten about their friend’s acute sense of touch and her ability to sense even the tiniest vibrations. But Toph seemed to have forgotten this herself as her hands explored the ground beside her head, lifting a few of the fist sized blocks before her hands reached out to explore further. Sitting up with a start, Toph blinked her pale, blind eyes with a deep frown.

“Ok, who’s pulling the prank. Where the hell am I?” Toph demanded angrily, “And how’d you get me off the damn boat without waking me up?”

“We don’t know how we got here either, Toph.” Aang replied, his and Katara’s frowns mirroring their friend’s, “Or what happen to our ship.”

Suki had arisen the same time as Aang had run to his friends, moving about to check on the other Warrior girls and getting them to their feet. Noticing a conspicuous absence of two others, Suki and the Warriors began to search around but there was no obvious sign of anyone or anything else on the seemingly endless plain of tan, brown blocks. Shortly, Suki with her Warriors, Aang, Katara and Toph had gathered together in a small group.

“Ok, this is just beyond weird. Not just this place but none of us remembering how we got here.” Suki said, then looked down at herself and plucked at her Warriors kimono, “The last thing I remember was being in bed and I definitely wasn’t wearing my uniform.”

Suki blushed slightly as some of the other Warriors giggled at her statement, most of them correctly guessing their Captain had been in bed beside Sokka and not wearing much of anything at all. Not only were the Warriors fully dressed with their swords and war fans but Aang had found his staff near to where he had awoken and Katara had her waterskins already attached to her waist. The humor passed quickly though from the seriousness of their strange predicament. Toph, who was having a little difficulty ‘seeing’ while standing on the ground composed of small blocks, frowned when she thought of Sokka and felt a touch of concern but when she thought of her new found friend, a stab of fear and something she couldn’t identify shot through her.

“But where’s Snoozles and Bubble Butt?” Toph said, adopting a harsh tone and resorting to her favorite nicknames to cover her concerns, “The rest of us are here. Where did they go?”

“They’re not the only ones missing. The whole ship and the crew are gone too.” Aang said thoughtfully and then looked up into the sky, “I’m going to fly up and try to see where we are. You guys wait here.”

“And we would go where exactly?” Katara asked dryly although she smiled cheekily at Aang when he blushed in embarrassment.

With a leap straight upward, followed by a quick Airbending boost, Aang snapped open the wings concealed in his staff and began gliding around in a tight circle above the others, slowly gaining height until he was lost from sight in the blue sky. Silence reined amongst the girls waiting below, each lost in their own worries and concerns and they were relieved a few minutes later when Katara pointed upwards at a spot in the sky, Aang quickly descending again to land before the group.

“You’re not going to believe this.” Aang started, his face almost drained of color as he pointed in one direction, “There’s an ocean over there but like nothing I’ve ever seen. The waves are enormous, like tidal waves hundreds of feet high and they wash up the shore for miles and over that way,” Aang pointed in the opposite direction, “It’s hard to see from the distance but it looks like there’s trees as tall as mountains. I don’t think we’re on our world anymore.”

“Do you mean,” Katara began, raising a hand to her mouth, “Are we in the spirit world?”

Most of the other girls tensed in fear at the implications of this but Aang shook his head adamantly.

“I don’t think so, I mean, I couldn’t Bend the other times I’ve been there.” to emphasis his point, Aang thrust out a hand and sent a blast of air shooting out over the ground, “But the really weird thing, when I flew really high up, I got a good look around. From up there it almost looks like we’re on a gigantic beach.”

Katara, Suki and the other girls sent incredulous or disbelieving looks at Aang but Toph frowned thoughtfully. She had been trying to focus her unique way of ‘seeing’ the world through the vibrations she could feel and although the ground composed of small blocks was making it difficult, the young Earthbender had her suspicions. Taking a few steps away from the others, Toph dropped into a low stance and thrust her own arms out, the small blocks before her suddenly rushing away and forming a long, deep trench in the ground. Then drawing her hands back together and pushing them down, the blocks she had pushed aside now rolled back, first refilling the trench before compressing together with a loud grating, crunching sound. Toph stepped out onto this hardened platform before she knelt down, tapping at it with her knuckles.

“I think he’s right. I can tell through my Earthbending.” Toph breathed in an awed tone, “This is sand. The earth here, these block things, they’re sand.”

Still not able to believe what she was seeing and hearing, Suki bent down and lifted one of the blocks in her hand. It certainly looked crystalline enough, almost see-through when she held it up to the sun but the rock was large enough that she could barely close her gloved fingers around it. Dropping the stone, Suki stepped onto the flattened patch of ground Toph had created.

“So what do we do?” Suki asked the others, “We can’t stay here, wherever here is. My vote is we make our way to these trees Aang saw and find shelter. We don’t know how long we could be stuck here.”

The other girls went into a huddle, Toph joining with them but Aang watched with confusion on his face.

“Kyoshi Warriors vote? I thought you were their Captain, Suki.” Aang asked and beside him Katara rolled her eyes.

“I am and the Captain has the final say,” Suki explained tolerantly, “But sometimes a Captain can be wrong. It’s best everyone make a contribution so the one in charge can weigh all the options.”

“Wow. No offence Suki, I just never realized that Kyoshi Island was so socially advanced.” Aang replied with a grin, “Even the monks at the air temples wouldn’t let anyone vote. Only the oldest had a say in what the other Air Nomads got to do.”

Katara shared a glance with Suki, the pair rolling their eyes again before the group huddle nearby broke up.

“We agree with Captain Suki.” said one of the girls, “We should find shelter and probably something to eat in case we are stuck here for a while.”

“Good point, Linka. I didn’t think of food.” Suki replied, nodding her thanks to the other Warriors.

“What if Katara and I scout on ahead?” Aang suggested, holding up his staff, “I can carry the both of us on my glider and with two sets of eyes watching, we can get a clearer picture of where we are.”

“Yeah right, Twinkletoes.” Toph piped up disparagingly, “You and Sweetness just want to sneak off together and get back to lip smackin’ and feeling each other up.”

Katara and Aang blushed guiltily at this, something along those lines had indeed occurred to both of them but luckily, Suki came to their rescue. Just not in the way they might have hoped.

“Actually, that’s not a bad idea. But if you can, take Manny with you, three sets of eyes will be even better. You guys scout what’s up ahead we’ll meet you up at the head of the…beach.” Suki felt strange calling the landscape of tan and yellow blocks a beach. Aang and Katara covered their disappointment by nodding quickly and Suki next turned to look at Toph, tapping one booted foot on the hardened surface she stood on, “Toph, do you think you could make the blocks…the sand go hard like this as we move? That would make it a lot quicker and easier than trying to run through the loose stuff.”

“Earthbending on the run? Pfft!” Toph made a rude noise and grinned at Suki, “Give me something hard next time. You little girls just make sure you can keep up.”

Suki frowned at this but Aang and Katara laughed as he opened his glider. Katara moved around to embrace Aang from the front while one of the Kyoshi Warrior’s, a serious looking girl with long dark hair and black eyes named Manny embraced Aang from behind. Even with this load, he confidently bent his legs, leaping up with another Airbending boost that soon carried the three of them away toward the hazy, green horizon.

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“Uh, Katara?” Aang moaned, desperation in his voice as her soft lips met his neck, “Not that I’m complaining or anything but we’re going to crash if you keep this up.”

Katara released a quiet girlish giggle and tightened her grip around Aang with both arms and legs. Again the glider wobbled alarmingly, Aang acutely aware of his girlfriend clinging to his front with another girl pressed against his back. Katara giggled again because of his reaction. Manny, keeping quiet for now, rolled her eyes with a frown from the display and kept a sharp look out around from Aang’s back, his glider pressed firmly into her back. It did not take long before her and Aang’s eyes went wide in shock.

“I’m sorry, Aang. You just bring out the bad girl in me.” Katara said with a small grin, twisting her head around to look up at him, “Hey, are you listening? Aang. Aang!”

“Katara, you have to see this.” Aang breathed in reply, “Look around.”

Doing as he’d said, Katara gaped at their surroundings. They had just reached the end of the desert sized beach and below them now stretching a green carpet of grass, the blades of which looked large enough for any of them to slide down or hide beneath. But it was as they passed a large, brown trunk that Katara almost lost her grip on Aang. They were flying amongst trees but trees with trunks almost three hundred yards around and as Katara twisted her head back around to look up, she guessed the trees had to be several miles high.

“How can this even be, Aang?” Katara breathed, “We’ve been all over the world in the last year but I’ve never heard of a place like this.”

“We’ve heard of this place, Katara.” Aang voice was oddly hollow, “In fact, we’ve been here before.”

“Home. This is my home.” Manny said in a quiet, wavering voice, “And that is…is our Chieftain.”

Aang was Airbending his glider higher and higher and as the landscape before them opened up, Katara was forced to tighten her grip again as she began trembling with uncontrollable fear. As unbelievably high as Aang had carried them so far, they were still only shoulder height to Oyaji as they flew past the old man talking to a young woman in blue robes.

“Kyoshi? We’re on Kyoshi?” Katara said in a shaking voice, “Aang, what’s happened to all of us?”

“I wish I knew.” Aang breathed, looking at the old man the size of a small mountain as they flew around him, “We’ve shrunk…I think…and there was something…last night…I thought it was a dream but,”

Aang frowned hard as he struggled to remember the dream he’d been having before he’d awoken on the island, Katara also frowning as she turned her head to ask him what he was talking about when the air they were flying through rumbled with something like distant thunder.

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“So, it’s definitely amnesia then?” Oyaji asked the young healer before him, concern and worry etching lines in his tired old face.

“It certainly appears that way although physically they’re both fine.” The young woman replied, “It’s odd that they’re both suffering the same symptoms but also not unheard of. Especially if they have both suffered some sort of intense emotional trauma.”

The old man blanch at the implications of this.

“Oh, Suki. My sweet little niece, where are you?” Oyaji moaned, twisting his hands together as tears filled his grey eyes, “We have boats out searching but there’s been no sign of them. No wreckage, nothing. And it’s bad enough if we’ve lost the Avatar and our Warriors but how do I explain that to those youngsters? They were their friends, their family too.”

“You don’t!” the young woman said loudly, making Oyaji jump, “I’m sorry, I just mean that we have to let their memories return at their own pace. If it was a traumatic event that caused the memory loss, then trying to force them to remember could have the opposite effect. It could make it worse.”

“I. I. Alright, I guess you’re right. We’ll let them rest for now but…those poor kids.” Oyaji let the tears flow now, sniffing loudly and taking a deep breath before he continued, “When they do remember, it’s going to be so much harder on them. Poor Sokka and that sweet girl, Ty Lee.”

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Aang, Katara and Manny were staring in awe, having heard these words booming in the air, looking first to each other with hopeful grins before Aang angled his glider upwards towards Oyaji’s face.

“Aang! They’ve seen Sokka and Ty Lee.” Katara stated the obvious with a wide smile and as they got closer to the old man’s enormous head she began yelling out at the top of her lungs, Manny joining in with her, “Oyaji! It’s us. Avatar Aang and Katara! It’s the Warriors, Oyaji! Oyaji!”

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“Do not give up hope, Oyaji.” the young lady said comfortingly, squeezing the old man’s shoulder warmly, “Kyoshi’s best fishermen are out searching as well as those Watertribe sailors who were in dock when the word went out. If there’s anything to be found, they’ll find it.”

“I know and thank you, Mygeri. But it’s what they might find that I’m afraid of.” The old man’s face was a mask of misery as he spoke and the young healer leant in, intending to embrace the old man comfortingly. But as she moved forward, Oyaji saw a drifting speck near the corner of his eye and from it came a tinny, high pitched buzzing sound.

“Damn bugs.” Oyaji said absently, waving his hand past his face before he accepted Mygeri’s embrace.

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Aang had no chance to maneuver or escape. The hand flying toward them was easily as large as the boat they had been riding on the night before and the breath was knocked from all three of them by an enormous impact. Dazed, Katara instantly lost her grip on Aang as she was sent flying, tumbling through the air with the ground and the sky flipping erratically around her. Katara shrieked in fear until her breath gave out and then filled her lungs to scream again when another impact jolted her. Immense relief flooded through her as she looked into Aang’s concerned eyes as he cradled her in his arms and she saw Manny still gripping his shoulders, the teenage girl’s eyes wide and Katara knew that if she wasn’t already wearing her Warrior face paints, Manny’s face would be deathly white.

“Don’t worry, Babe. I got you both.” Aang said breathlessly, sweat beaded his bald head as he concentrated, “I won’t let anything happen to you.”

She marveled at the sphere of whitish, compressed air that surrounded Aang, holding the three of them aloft with ease, grateful and yet excited by the sheer strength and Bending control displayed by her young boyfriend.

“Babe?” Katara said coyly, batting her blue eyes up at her savior, “I think I like that.”

“Baby.” Aang said, lowering his voice as he grinned at Katara, “You’re my forever girl.”

“Can we just find somewhere to land?” Manny said in a tiny voice, her eyes still huge with fear, “Please?”

Katara and Aang shared a laugh, relieving their tensions a little and looked around again. They had lost some height and seemed to have been knocked quite a distance from Oyaji. Bending the shell of air holding them up, Aang began rising and moving back toward the old man again when Katara spied something rising from the grass far below and she shrieked again. Over a dozen red, yellow and black striped bugs were buzzing their way up toward them, each appearing as large to Katara as a flying bison.

“Lady Wasps.” Aang cried at the sight, veering away from the oncoming flock of bugs.

The insects, with bulbous, twin segmented bodies were a bright yellow with black stripes at one end and at the other, their carapace was deep red with black spots. Their wings hummed in a blur as the creatures angled directly toward Aang and Katara.

“Hold onto me, Katara. You too, Manny.” Aang said firmly to both girls and Katara wrapped her arms about him and the girl at his back, feeling Manny’s arms grip hers in return.

Holding onto Aang tightly and with her legs entwined with Manny’s about his waist, Katara watched as he punched out with both fists, a super condensed blast of air erupting from the sphere holding them up and scattering the oncoming bugs. But while the Lady Wasps were knocked flying away by the blast, they quickly regrouped and came at them again.

“Smash them, Aang. Throw fire at them, anything.” Katara almost whimpered in terror as she hid her face in Aang’s shoulder, her and Manny then shouting at the same time, “Just kill the bugs. Kill the bugs. Kill the bugs.”

Aang hesitated. He was after all the Avatar, charged with preserving life and the balance of the world and while Aang was a formidable opponent to anyone who threatened him, he was a gentle soul. And while Aang felt hesitant about killing even bugs, the dozen or more colorful Lady Wasps rocketing up toward them, usually no bigger than his thumbnail, were each as big as Appa and truly hideous to behold.

“Hold tight, Ladies.” Aang called out.

Reaching back behind himself to grip Manny with one hand, Aang held Katara as best he could and took off, feeling both girl’s arms and legs squeeze him tightly as they accelerated away ahead of the swarm. Aang took the Lady Wasps on a merry chase, high into the branches of the trees above them, dodging and weaving around branches and twigs that to Aang were as large as trees themselves. Looking back over Aang and Manny’s shoulders and seeing the huge bugs close behind them, Katara tried a desperate ploy. She released Manny’s arm with one hand, adjusting her position before Aang as she opened one of the stoppers on her waterskins and summoned the water it contained to her hands. She flung her hand back in an attempt at a water whip but her face fell as the clear stream exploded into fine spray as soon as it came in contact with the shell of air Aang had surrounded them with.

“K. T. Ra.” Aang muffled voice came to her.

She looked down to see that when she had adjusted her position, Katara had raised herself up to better strike with her water whip and now Aang’s face was pressed firmly between her breasts. Katara quickly dropped back down and grinned with embarrassment although even with their current predicament, Aang’s face carried a small, dreamy smile.

“Sorry, Aang.” Katara called out, blushing furiously up at him, seeing Manny’s grin coming back at her from over his shoulder.

“So’K. I got a plan to lose them.” Aang replied. From where they flew high in the tree branches, Aang had spied the edge of the village and one small house in particular with an invitingly open window, “Just hold real tight girls. I’m going to give it some juice.”

The first thing Katara noticed was the blue arrow tattoo on Aang’s forehead, it first flickered and then burst into a soft, white glow, his eyes quickly following suit. Then the sphere of air he was Bending around them seemed to thicken, speeding up and both Katara and Manny tightened their grip yet again as they felt a huge burst of acceleration, glancing back once to see the bugs and the trees dropping back rapidly behind them. When she turned to look back over her shoulder, Katara saw they were racing toward an open window in the side of a small house. To them, the opening was enormous and the house itself like a square, hollowed out mountain but the moment they shot inside, Katara’s eyes went wide.

“Sokka.” she cried out with joy at the sight of her brother.

Half a heartbeat later something, long, wide and green smacked them out of the air.

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Sokka and Ty Lee sat facing each other on the beds where they had awoken. For now, plain white cotton robes had been given to them with the promise that proper clothing would arrive later. Since then a young lady had come with a tray of fresh fruits and water for them and Ty Lee sat watching wide eyed as Sokka devoured a half dozen apples and pears in less than a minute. He paused as he reached for the next when he saw the way Ty Lee was staring, grinning at her with a deep blush forming on his face.

“Sorry, it seems I’ve forgotten that I have a big appetite.” Sokka said, wiping juice from his chin, “Although for some reason, I could really go for some meat.”

“Err, that’s ok. I’m not really hungry so you can help yourself.” Ty Lee replied, blushing herself and looking quickly away, “So, you can’t remember anything either? Anything at all?”

As Ty Lee reached for a length of green ribbon that had been provided with her robes, she reached up and deftly began twisting her hair into a long braid with practiced ease.

“No…but I think we remember things that we’ve done before.” Sokka answered her thoughtfully, “Like what you’re doing with your hair.”

Ty Lee paused, pulling the end of her braid over her shoulder to look at it and realized he was right. She had hardly even been aware of what she had been doing, her hands automatically going through motions she must have done many times before. She was about to comment on it when Ty Lee spied something tiny fly in through the window behind Sokka, something round and glowing softly in it’s center. Automatically her hand holding the ribbon flashed out, the thin length of green material uncurling and flicking out like a whip, knocking the tiny thing from the air as it hovered above Sokka’s shoulder. He jumped in surprise at Ty Lee’s actions and looked questioningly too her.

“Sorry, it was a glow bug or something. I think I forgot I don’t like bugs.” Ty Lee explained, blushing slightly again. Sokka looked down at his shoulder, looking for the creature but neither he nor Ty Lee could see it anymore, “I didn’t see where it went. Here let me check if it’s on you somewhere in case it’s the kind that bites.”

Ty Lee stood up, holding her robe closed with one hand, she ran her fingers through Sokka’s brown hair with her other. Seeing nothing she lent forward to look over his shoulders and down his back, her eyes searching for the bug she was sure she had hit. Sokka’s eyes went wide and his breath caught in his throat. As Ty Lee unselfconsciously lent over him, he found himself looking directly into the opening in the neck of her robes, two large but perfectly formed pink globes each with raised, darker pink nubs were exposed to his view. When Ty Lee moved back and sat down on her bed again, Sokka’s face was a deep red and his breathing had grown heavy and erratic.

“Are you alright?” Ty Lee asked with concern and Sokka nodded his head jerkily, for some reason unable to look her in the eyes. Reaching out to the tray of fruit and drinks, Ty Lee grabbed a cup of water and held it out to Sokka, “Here, you look like you need this.”

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Katara surfaced, wondering at first just how she had come to be in a rounded deep lake of crystal clear water with high cliffs all around. Looking about desperately she saw Manny swimming quickly toward her from almost the other side of the lake but nearby, Aang was floating face down and unmoving, his tattoos now dark.

“Aang.” she cried out in shock.

Employing her Waterbending, Katara practically flew over to Aang, rolling him over in her arms and patting his cheeks desperately.

“Oh, please be ok. Aang.” Katara called out to him.

Working quickly, she reached out with her Bending again and drew what water she could sense in his lungs, up and out through his mouth and was rewarded by a weak cough. Aang opened his eyes halfway and gave Katara a small smile.

“Thanks, Tara. What happened?” Aang said in a quiet voice.

“I’m not sure. Something hit us.” Katara said, struggling to keep her emotions in check as deep relief flooded through her, “We just flew through the window and then,”

Katara paused as the lake they were floating in began to shudder, huge waves causing them to bob up and down as the light shifted across the sky. Something huge began to eclipse that sky and the lake suddenly began to tip up on it’s side. Katara watched in horror as her brother’s mouth opened above them, lips parting to reveal teeth taller than she was and a moment later the lake began to pour inside. Waterbending desperately, Katara reached for Manny but with a cry, the Warrior girl was carried away by the flowing water and into Sokka’s mouth. Then trying to propel herself in the other direction, Katara clutched Aang’s limp form to herself but as the last of the lake drained away, the two young lovers fell into darkness.

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Sokka coughed violently as he drained the last of his cup, Ty Lee jumping up again to pound him on the back. As he caught his breath, Sokka could not help but notice that Ty Lee’s robes had parted slightly, revealing again the curves of her breasts and a muscular but soft and slim figure. Feeling his own body’s reaction to the sight, Sokka turned quickly away.

“Th, thanks. I know what happened to that bug you swatted.” Sokka said hastily to cover his embarrassment, holding up his empty cup, “I think I just drank it.”

Giggling as she sat back down, Ty Lee noticed her robe for the first time and quickly closed it, blushing almost as deeply as Sokka. He gave her an embarrassed grin but paused when he saw her eyes looking strangely back at him. Following her gaze, he looked down. Sokka’s reaction to the sight of Ty Lee’s exposed flesh was painfully obvious beneath his own robe and he slapped his hands down to cover his lap. Looking back up at Ty Lee, mortified and trying desperately to think of an apology. But a moment later, Ty Lee giggled again, laughing harder until Sokka joined in and the two teenagers relieved their embarrassment at the absurdity of it all.

“It’s alright, Sokka. I must be a flirt or something because I swear I didn’t even realize what I was doing.” Ty Lee said with a grin, now holding her robes tightly closed. Sokka sat with both his hands pressed to his lap, covering his reaction from before but still sharing a grin with Ty Lee, “Listen, when they do bring us some clothes, do you want to go for a walk? That old man said we were on an island. Koshi or something. We could have a look around together and see if anything seems familiar.”

“Sure Ty.” Sokka said warmly, his face splitting into a huge smile, “I’d really like that.”

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“So, where the hell are they?” Toph said angrily for the tenth time in the last ten minutes, kicking her foot against a blade of grass twelve feet tall, “We’ve been here for hours and they’re probably off swapping spit somewhere.”

“They’ve got Manny supervising so I don’t think they’re going to have much time for making out. Just calm down, Toph.” Suki said calmly which was entirely the wrong thing to say as Toph spun to face her, her blind eyes somehow still giving the Kyoshi Warrior a hateful glare, “Look, we’ve set up camp here and here we’ll stay. At least for tonight. If Aang and Katara and Manny haven’t come back by morning, we’ll go find them, ok?”

“Fine. Fine.” Toph agreed grumpily, although the sour expression did not leave her face as she flung out an arm to point, “But I am not eating that.”

Suki grinned as she looked over to where Toph was pointing.

After managing to get off the beach, the Kyoshi Warriors had quickly set about making a comfortable camp, even Toph grudgingly admitting that the girls were efficient and creative. Since Aang was the only male and since he was not with them at this point, the girls had stripped their kimonos, converting them into hammocks strung between blades of grass. The Warriors still wore their white under wrappings and over these their leather armor but most of them had decided to go further. Using the paints they usually applied to their faces, the girls had decorated their exposed skin with colorful designs and markings and sitting around together they almost resembled some lost tribe in this most unusual of wildernesses. None of this Toph had any complaints about. It was what slowly turned on a spit above a smoldering lump of wood, the thing the girl’s had managed to capture for their dinner. An ant, almost as large as any one of the Warriors themselves and they waited eagerly as it’s tan carapace slowly turned bright red over the heat.

Toph was soon to learn, Kyoshi Warriors could cook and eat anything.

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Sokka and Ty Lee sat across from each other as before, chatting idly about nothing as they waited for their clothes but unheard by either of them, a conversation was taking place within Sokka just behind his rib cage.

“Uh, Katara?” came Aang’s voice shortly after consciousness had fully returned to him, “Are we…are we inside Sokka?”

“Yes, I…I don’t know where Manny is. I couldn’t get to her in time.” Katara replied in a saddened and resigned tone, “Sokka swallowed us. I think we’re ok for now but I don’t think we can go back out the way we came in.”

“Oh.” Aang said in a quiet voice and then as full realization of their predicament set in, he used the harshest word he’d ever spoken in his short life, “Shit.”

“Yes, Aang.” Katara said in the same resigned tone, “We probably will be.”
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