Blue Spirit // An ATLA AU

Chapter 6

We walked up to an information board, Sokka was standing off to the side, while Katara was speaking, "This should give us a good idea of what's around here."

Zuko moved over to stand next to Sokka, as he said, "See if you can find a menu. I'm starving."

Aang stood next to Katara, pointing at a poster about a local Fire Nation Colony town. "I bet we could find something to eat here. The Fire Days Festival. Fire Nation Cultural exhibits, juggles, benders, magicians... this would be a great place for me to study some real Firebender. Zuko too, and he could learn about some of the culture from his home nation."

"You might want to think about that. Look at this," Sokka said from where he had moved to the other side of the information board. Zuko moved next to him to see four wanted posters, one of Aang, two Fire Nation soldiers... and himself. Not him in the mask, a photo of him. The scar, golden eyes, and he even had his hood over his heed. "A wanted poster, for both of you." Aang pulled his poster off of the information board.

"This is bad," Zuko murmured, forcing himself to not pace. "They know how I actually look." The assassin looked at Aang saying, "As much as I want to learn Firebending, I think we should keep moving."

"Well, I'm going to have to learn Firebending at some point. So will you Zuko. And this could be our only chance to watch some Masters up close," Aang argued, his voice calm as he looked at Zuko.

Katara looked down at the ground, finally cracking as she said, "I guess we could go check it out."

"What?" Sokka exclaimed from behind the other three members of Team Avatar. "You want to walk into a Fire Nation town, when they're all fired up with their, y'know, fire?"

The three benders started walking in the direction of the town, with Zuko at the end, dragging Sokka along. "We'll wear disguises," Katara told her brother, "and if it looks like trouble, we'll leave."

"Yeah. Because we always leave before we get into trouble," a reluctant Sokka mumbled, crossing his arms after Zuko wrapped an arm around his neck, still forcing him in the direction of the Fire Nation Colony town.

***

Team Avatar walked onto a ledge, overlooking some land not too far away from the village. Appa came out from the cover of the trees, growling. Aang turned around, holding his hands out towards his animals. "You guys stay here, while we go to the festival."
Momo flew off of Appa's head, diving down into a bush next to the larger animal. Appa walked over to where the lemur went, laying down behind it. It covered some of his face, but since it was a small bush, you could still see the rest of him.

Aang looked over to Katara, saying, "Ready disguises."

Katara and Sokka flipped up the hoods of their cloaks, which where very similar to Zuko, except they were Water Tribe. He already had his hood up---like he almost always did. Aang then turned around with his shawl and his shirt pulled over his head.

Sokka looked at the Airbender sarcastically saying with a little arm gesture accompanying it, "It's like you're a whole different person."

"Let's go."

***

They entered the village, and there wasn't a single person they could see dressed like they where. Everyone was dressed in reds, oranges, and yellows, with most of them wearing masks. Zuko reached into his bag, pulling out his Blue Spirit mask, and quickly tied it around his head.

"I think we need some new disguises," Katara stated, as Zuko grabbed Sokka's arm right after the Water Tribe member asked, "Where are we gonna get masks like that?'