Chapter 15: The Deserter

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"This should give us a good idea of what's around here", Katara Walking toward a poster on the kiosk, present in the middle of a crossroad.

"See if you can find a menu, I'm starving!", Sokka exclaims. He flips a small pouch to find it empty aside from a few crumbs.

"I bet we'll find something to eat here— the fire days feastival. Fire nation cultural exhibits, jugglers, benders, and magicians... " Aang begins reading-out the poster. "This would be a great place for me to study some real firebenders!"

"You might wanna rethink that. Look at this." Sokka looking at another poster on the other side of the kiosk; seriously.

"Hey, a poster of me!"

"A wanted poster? This isn't good." Kenshin removes the poster from the wall and starts reading it. "I think we better keep moving, that we should."

Aang turns to Kenshin. "I have to learn firebending at some point and this could be my only chance to watch a master's up close."

"I guess we could go check it out."  Katara says.

Aang begins rejoicing. Sokka moves in front of Katara; in an opposing tone. "What? You wanna walk into a Fire Nation town where they're all fired-up with their ... you know, fire?"

Kenshin starts walking toward Appa and is followed by Aang. "We'll wear disguises and if it looks like trouble, we'll leave."

Sokka not convinced; sarcastically. "Yeah! Because we always leave before we get into trouble."

"You guys stay in here out of trouble while we go to the festival", Aang instructs to Appa and Momo. "Ready disguises."

Kenshin, Sokka, and Katara all put on their cloaks. Aang, on the other hand, looks kind of funny in his "cloak". Aang pulls his orange shawl over his head with a smile on his face making him look ridiculous.

"It's like you're a whole different person ..." Sokka sarcastically at Aang's goofy disguise. 

Kenshin chuckles. "Let's go." he beckons.

The festival is spectacular! Fireworks, pretty displays, all the good stuff.  Their disguises didn't really blend in.

"I think we need some new disguises."  Katara suggests.

"Where are we gonna get masks like that?"  Sokka asks.

"Get your genuine fire-feastival masks here", a man shouts as if on cue.

"That was surprisingly easy."

The gang chooses  four masks. Katara chooses a lady with makeup, Sokka a blue smiling mask with petals around the rim, Kenshin chooses a dragon with fangs, and Aang who chooses a red mask with a frown on it. Katara removes Sokka's mask, revealing him to be frowning, and Aang's mask, revealing him to be the one smiling. She places Sokka's original mask over Aang's face and Aang's over Sokka.

"Hey, there's some food." Kenshin points at a stand..

"Finally!". Sokka runs toward the stand, too. "What do you have?"  he asks the man.

"Flaming Fire flakes. Best in town", the man exclaims, handing Sokka a bag.

"I'll take em!". Sokka immediately starts eating them but instantly regrets it. "Aaahhh! HOT! HOT!".

"Flaming Fire flakes, hot. What do ya know?", Katara sarcastically says.

"Hey! Look at this". Aang points to a puppet show.

The puppet show itself was a pretty sinister sight, depicting Fire Lord Ozai as the "lord and savior". Aang starts walking off.

"Aang, hold on! Where are we going!" Kenshin calls.

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