Chance Meeting-An Avatar Story

~Aleks~ (I ish trying something new. )

Man...this was just...great. I mean, Summer was back! I...we hadn't seen her in years! It was so weird seeing her again...She seemed...different. But I guess people change after seven years.

The group she was travelling with was a really odd one. There was some kid with arrows on his head, two people that looked like they were from the Water Tribe or something, some little blind girl, some guy who had kind of given me a glare, and that girl who had been acting kind of strange.

Anyway, we started to head back to the village. I really had no idea how Ema planned on sneaking these people into our village.

~Star~

Aleks and Ema lead the way back to the village, and everyone else followed suite. Except for Summer, who was standing by Ema and Aleks, talking to them. I'm sure she was catching up. How long had she said it had been since she'd been to this village? I'm sure it had been a while.

After a few moments of walking, Ema notified us that we were nearing the village. So she started explaining the plan- how she would get us all into the village.


(Sorry that was short-ish. I couldn't think of anything else...again...'^^)

~Summer~

We had been walking only for a few moments, when Ema and Aleks suddenly "trapped" me. They each came up on either side of me, obviously wanting to talk. Let me tell you...I've done many dangerous and freaky things. But I can honestly say I was the most afraid I'd ever been right then. I was really wishing that Sorin wasn't behind me, talking to Sokka.

"So...how've you been?" Ema asked, cheerfully trying to start a conversation.

"Uh...okay, I guess," Not exactly sure what to say. I was still trying to gather up the courage to say those two words.

"What's with the weirdos?" Aleks asked.

"Aleks!" Ema scolded, looking at him with as much of a "stern" face as she could pull off. He just laughed.

After a few minutes of walking in silence, I spoke.

"Listen, Ema...I'm sor-"

"Now's not the most appropriate time, is it?" She asked, looking straight ahead, a small smile still on her face.

"But-"

"We're here," She said to everyone else, obviously trying to stop me.

I looked up, and there it was. The village.

"Okay, so, it should be pretty easy to sneak you guys in," She began. "The guards never really stay still. They're always patrolling, making sure that we...well, they're patrolling. We just have to wait until they're far enough away from the entrance, and avoid any soldiers until we can get to my house. It isn't that far from the entrance, so this shouldn't be hard."

~Star~

I had been following silently behind everyone else on the way to the village. When Ema and Aleks stopped, Ema started explaining how we were going to sneak into the village. I listened to the plan, taking everything in.

Once everyone knew what we were going to do, we started towards the entrance. I looked at the village in front of us. I saw a few soldiers walking around here and there, but not too many were by the entrance. As Ema had said, they were busy patrolling.


(Sorry I keep making my posts so short. I can't think of much else to put; I'm just following along with whatever you put. '^^)

(It's okay...I don't mind. By the way, I had mentioned before in the "Characters" thread about Ema's little brother's name, but I changed it to something I like better. Soo...yeah.)

~Aleks~

After any of the immeidately noticeable soldiers passed by, we snuck back into the village. We started to sneak behind some houses, which was kind of hard with such a big group.

Anyway, after a few moments of sneaking around, we got to Ema's house. We were immediately met by Jak, Ema's little brother.

"Hi!" He said, waving happily at this group of new people.

(Alright. ^^)

~Star~

The large group headed towards the back of some of the houses, quietly sneaking past the soldiers.

After only moments of sneaking behind houses, we were met by a young boy. He said hi, waving happily.

"Well, hello there." I answered, smiling. "And who might you be?" I asked politely, still smiling warmly.

~Summer~

"Jak!" Jak said happily, smiling at Star.

Woah. I thought to myself. Kid got big.

"Hey, Jak," I said quietly. I doubted he'd remember me, seeing as though he was only one when I left.

"Hi!" He said.

~Star~

"You two obviously know each other," I told Summer, laughing. Then I turned my attention back to the kid, apperantly named Jak.

"How old are you, Jak?" I asked warmly, smiling. I loved kids.
And Jak reminded me of one of the kids back at my old Earth Kingdom village. His name was Kichirou, and he was three years old. His father was out fighting in the war, and his mother had become ill and passed away when he was three. The poor child had no one to take care of him. Even though he usually stayed with a family friend, he spent alot of time with me. I was kind of like the babysitter or something to him.
He had been the sweetest child I had ever met. He always thought of others before himself, no matter who that 'other' was. And he was very smart.
I spent three years 'babysitting' him, and we grew close. It was like having a little brother, although I was an only child.
Besides my own parents, he was the one I had the hardest time leaving when I ran away. I always wondered where he was now. Maybe he was in the Fire Nation, working as a slave? Or maybe he managed to escape, and ran to a nearby village to seek refuge. I couldn't even bring myself to think about the third place he could be.

I was brought back to reality when someone else started talking. I managed to get lost in my thoughts alot.


(Sorry that was kinda...random-ish. I just figured I should put a not-so-short post this time. And I couldn't really think of much else to put. '^^)

(That's okay. ^^)

"Eight," He replied happily, his smile as wide as his sister's.

"What's your name?" He asked Star.

(...That was really short. Sorry. ^^')

(That's okay. Mine's probably gonna be really short, too. '^^)

~Star~

Jak told me he was eight years old, then asked what my name was.

"My name is Star," I answered simply.

I kept looking around, examining what I could see of the village. I could see a few soldiers walking around, patrolling, but I didn't think any of them could see me. If they could, I'm sure they didn't suspect anything.


(Yep, like I said, that was short. And kinda filler-ish. Man, I've been writing alot of filler-ish chapters lately. '^^)

(I was thinking they were in the house now. ^^' Or maybe Jak came outside to greet them...yeah, that sounds good...)

~Summer~

"Hi, Star!"

"Let's..uh..let's get inside," Aleks said, shooting a glare at one of the soldiers, and trying to get us inside the small house.

(Oohh, okay. Sorry 'bout that. '^^)

~Star~

"Right," I answered Aleks, following everyone in to the house. I looked around again as everyone else was silent. It seemed as if no one could come up with something to say.

"So...now what?" I asked akwardly. I could'nt think of anything else to say. So I laughed nervously, realized the pain in my stomach, and stopped laughing.


(Wow, I really hate this. I've been having this Writer's Block-type thingy lately, and I can't think of anything good to write. - -')

~Summer~

"I'll go get you guys some food," Ema chirped(That sounds...weird) up, starting to walk to their little kitchen-thing.

I let out a sigh. Why were we even there?! All I had really wanted to do was see the village again, find out what was going on. I mean, sure, I guess some part of me had really wanted to see Ema and Aleks again, but I hadn't really planned on it.

(Yay!)

~Summer~

Suddenly, Star came up behind me, then spoke.

"Oh..uh...yeah," I answered, lost in thought.

"This is where I lived when I was little..."