nothing to lose | zuko x oc

04

vada was seated with katara in an open field, talking about the gaang's travels.

"and then sokka kissed a-- wait." katara stopped herself, beginning to look around. "where is sokka?"

vada looked around as well, recalling that she hadn't seen him all day. "I dunno."

the two waterbenders got up and went to aang who was just meditating on a boulder.

"hey aang?" the younger of the two girls said, approaching closer. "meditating here." the boy said, not opening his eyes.

"sorry, but have you seen sokka? it's almost sundown and he isn't back yet." she said, pointing to the sun.

the airbender jumped to his feet, "we'll find him faster if we split up." he said and zipped off in one direction.

vada and katara then went in different ways, too, calling out sokka's name while searching.

~

just as the sun sunk under the horison, vada had bumped into katara during their search.

"i think we should get back to camp," the northern girl stated. "chances are that aang found him."

reluctantly, the southern girl nodded and they walked back to camp together.

just as they got there, they noticed aang and toph walking back to camp with sokka in tow.

katara happily ran closer to them, "you found him!"

vada slowly approached as well, waving to sokka as she got there.

"oh. hey, vada." he said calmly as she stared at his disheveled hair she bent up some water out of her pouch and made his hair stand up like a stick. "what happened to your hair?"

his face was in a frown and he sighed, shaking his head to make his hair fall back down to chin-length.

aang showed off his earthbending joyfully as they went back to camp.

~

as vada was making some food with the jangajji she had brought a few days ago, as well as some meat that koa had brought her, the children around her sat conversating. she had a seperate, smaller pot on for aang, only with jangajji, as he was a vegetarian.

"so, are you really joining us, vada?" sokka asked, watching the waterbender stir the food in the pots with both her hands.

"i am if all of you are okay with it." she replied, bending the the food into bowls, and bending aang's seperate ly just so she didn't have a mixup.

"heck yeah, we are." toph grinned, taking her bowl. "you might be a waterbender, but you're not a sourpuss like katara."

katara glared at the blind girl as vada let out a laugh. "don't worry, toph. I don't think I'm much of a sourpuss, either."

~

the next day, the group was gathered in an open desert field that had a bunch of little holes. koa was seated by appa, yawning boredly while the four other children watched aang play a fluite.

as he played the note, a gopher-mole came up and sang the note.

this grabbed koa's attention and he jumped over and stuck his nose into the hole, his tail wagging excitedly.

"wow, I didn't know gopher moles could sing." vada inquired as aang played another note, causing the rodent to pop out and copy the note.

koa jumped over to that hole and stuck his nose in it.