Just a note: In this story, Aang is 13. I decided to do an Avatar story, becuase my Beyblade stories were getting emotionally stressful.
It was getting dark outside. The air was crisp and cold. There was snowing falling down harshly. Even the fire burning in the cave didn't bring much warmth. A pair of jade eyes sparkled in the light. The eyes belonged to a shivering, thin body. Waist long brown hair surrounded a tan body.
The girl was clothed in a jade skirt that matched her eyes. She wore a golden yellow wife beater. Her boots were a combination of the two colors. She had owned a jacket that went with that outfit, but had been lost in the battle she had fought. She was in the water tribe's territory.
She looked angrily down at the fire tribe symbol that had been forcibly tattooed on the top of her right arm. She looked at the empty food sack by her side and cursed out loud. Struggled to get up and wobbled over to the mouth of the cave.
By her judgment, the blizzard was only going to get worse. She needed to find a cave near some source of food. She walked back over to her food sack, picking it up. She put the fire out and set into the blizzard. Once she was a good bit into the storm she cursed again. She probably shouldn't have left the cave.
She was too far into it then to turn back. She struggled to pull her feet through the snow as it got waist deep. She hit a large rock that was buried under the snow and fell face first into the bone freezing snow.
She got up on her knees when she realized that her food sack had been dropped. A look of panic washed over her face. There was something very important to her in that sack! She began to desperately search for it.
The snow was beginning to fall even harder than before. She couldn't even see an inch in front of her. She was beginning to grow numb. She let out a groan. She tried to get back up onto her feet, but fell right back down.
Everything began to get blurry. She blinked multiple times, trying to clear everything back up. Soon she felt like her mind was slipping. Soon everything was black.
If you had been able to look up into the sky that day, you would be able to see a flying bison. Three teenagers rode on the strange animal. (You know these three, I imagine.)
Katara was asleep, and Sokka was rambling through a sack. Aang looked down at the ground. It had been snowing really hard about thirty minutes earlier, but it had cleared up. That's when Aang spotted something that caught his eye.
"Um…Sokka?" Aang asked look down at the ground, squinting.
"What?" Sokka asked without looking up from what he was doing.
"Is that a body down there?"
That got Sokka's attention. He crawled over to Aang and looked in the same direction Aang was looking. His eyes got wide, "It is! Aang, we have to go help them."
Aang nodded, "Appa, yip yip!" He pulled on the rope that was connected to his flying bison. It let out a loud grunt and landed carefully on the snowy ground. Aang and Sokka climbed off of Appa and rushed over to the body in the snow. He gently picked it up, carrying it over to the bison. Sokka climbed up first and had Aang hand up the body.
Once they were all up on the animal, they were up in they sky again. The girl was shivering in her sleeping state. Sokka removed his own coat and put it over the girl like a blanket. "Should we wake up Katara?"
"Nah. She'll find out when she wakes up," Aang said. He tilted his head to the side and studied the girl, "Do you suppose she's a bender?"
Sokka shrugged. He was about to answer when the girl groaned. Her eyes fluttered open. Everything was blurry at first. Once she could see clearly she let out a gasp. Jumping to her feet, she ran. She didn't know she was on a flying animal, so she fell off the top of Appa. She had to grab onto his leg.
Sokka reached down and grabbed her wrist, pulling her back up. She was obviously scared. He gave her a sincere smile.
"Who are you?" Her eyes got filled with tears.
"We're here to help you. I'm Sokka. We found you asleep in the snow. Are you okay?" He handed her the coat from before.
She pulled the coat on and gave herself a hug. "I'm fine, thank you." The words 'We're here to help you,' rang inside of her head. Then she did something unlike her. She smiled. It felt awkward because she hadn't done that in a long time.
Sokka smiled back. He felt his heart skip a beat. She's really pretty, he thought, blushing. "Uh…you can keep the jacket," he offered, pointing to what she was wearing.
"Thank you…Sokka," she looked out at the sky. "Where are we going to?" She ran a hand through her hair as she looked at the ground that seemed so far away.
"We're not really sure," Sokka said with a small laugh. When she looked at him with a confused he blushed again. "Well…we're just trying to find somewhere to hide out for a while.
"Hide…out?" She blinked a few more times. "I do not understand."
"Well, Aang over here is very 'popular'. I guess that would be the only words to describe it." He pointed over at his bald friend. "Oh, I never got your name? What is it?" He bowed his head in apology for not asking that question sooner.
"Oh… I am Kaki." She decided not to mention that her name was 'Fire.' If Sokka figured that out, then that was fine, but she decided it was better not to just give that information out.
"Wow, Kaki! That's a beautiful name. Isn't it, Aang?" He turned back to the boy with his back to them.
Aang turned his face so that he could see them. "Yeah…"
Kaki saw the boy and gasped. That arrow on his head… "You're the avatar, aren't you?" She felt a tight feeling in her chest. If that was true, then he might not accept her. He might resent that he would have even been around a girl from the fire nation. She wondered whether he had seen the tattoo on her arm.
"Yeah, I'm the Avatar. Where are you from, anyway?" He looked at her. She reminded him of a group of people. She seemed so sweet, but reminded him of people who were dark. He couldn't quite place it.
"I would rather not talk about it." She hugged her knees to her chest, avoiding eye contact from the others.
Aang was about to ask why, but Sokka glared at him. "Leave her alone. When she says she doesn't want to talk about it, then you shouldn't ask." Aang just shrugged and looed back down at the vast land below them.
Just then there was a loud crackling noise that Kaki knew too well. A fireball flew past them. "Come down here, Avatar, or I'll burn your bison alive!"