Saving The Southern Tribe

Day 3- Home (part 1)

Warning! Contains: Blood, Swearing, Cramps, Crying, 

Thursday, June 12th, 6:00 am right now. 

3RD PERSON:

"Fuck!" Katara snapped, curling up into a ball next to Aang. He flinched from the Spirit World as he heard her groan. 

Katara bolted upright and into the bathroom just to be greeted by blood. She groaned. "Great. Not only is my boyfriend dead, I'm on my period. Just perfect. Oh, and don't forget the backwards Invasion in barely 3 days. My life's going awesome, this is amazing,"  she thought. 

She quickly changed and went to get some water. And then the process started with Katora. She groaned and gagged. "Worst life ever." 

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"Well, we have 2 sick girls, a dead Avatar, two girls with bullets in their legs, one with a bullet in her hand, a woman pregnant with twins, the dad who's having a panic attack, and another adult. Can we please dock?" 

The warrior took one look at the tired expression on Zuko's face and nodded. He opened the doors of the Southern Tribe and Zuko was let in, along with the others who weren't sick. 

"Where are we?" Mai asked. Sokka stayed back with his dad, Sukaya, the twins, and Aang. El and Al shrugged. "I don't know." 

"This isn't the Southern Tribe..." Igloo trailed off. The place was enormous.  There were buildings everywhere, high to the sky. Kids playing in the street. A river flowing throughout the whole thing. Bridges, tunnels, rivers, but the biggest thing, was the giant castle in the middle of it all. 

"We were gone for barely a month. How much could it have changed?" Toph asked. "Toph, if you wore your thin shoes, you'd see for yourself," Tylee said. She helped Toph change into her thin shoes and Toph stood there. "It's... it's big, alright." Tylee giggled. 

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"Come on, Kat," Sokka urged, pulling the waterbender out of bed. "Wait! Get me a wheelchair I can strap Aang into," she ordered. Sokka groaned and went to get it. 

Katara put Aang in the wheelchair and went to the front dock to find Sukaya, Hakoda, and Katora waiting for her. "Let's go." They all walked to the front gates. 

"Can you help us?" Katara turned down to see a little girl on the brink of tears, holding a stuffed penguin in her hands. Katara forced herself not to look at Aang as she saw her dad and Sukaya had left her alone with her sister and brother. 

"Yeah, sweetie, what's up?" she asked. The little girl let a tear slip down her cheek. "We're lost and we need to get back home, but no one will let us in because we're not old enough," she cried, sniffling every other word. 

"Of course, dear. Do you live in the village? Who're your parents?" Katora asked. "You mean the city?" another girl asked, holding a matching stuffed penguin and also crying next to her sister. She looked noticeably smaller. 

"The what?" Sokka asked, pulling out a map from his backpack. "The city. Where's the village? Is it big?" the second girl asked. 

"Sokka, this isn't...?" Katara trailed, turning Aang's wheelchair around to look at Sokka's map over his shoulder. "It is," Katora gasped. Sokka looked up from his map to see the giant gates still open, his dad and his dad's girlfriend walking through it. 

"The map says this is home." 

They stood in shock, watching the people in the boats and on the bridges, walking to school with their backpacks on and playing in the snow.