Avatar: The New Era [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 4: The First Riddle

The gang stayed up all night to take turns and answer the riddle. They had hundreds of ideas but none of them was fit. Kurana was nervously shaking, thinking about how a defenseless child would be involved in this investigation. Time was ticking. They only have twenty hours left before something could happen.

"C'mon, guys!" The Avatar was forcing everyone to give out their ideas "Is that all?!"

The waterbender groaned "Alright, alright!" He stood up and held his chin, "The riddle says 'I do not have eyes, but I always sleep', and I think our guy is talking about something that doesn't breathe, like an object."

"The next line 'I do not have legs, but I am tall' it's as if he's saying that it is a large non-living thing."

Everyone inside the room was completely stunned. They had no idea how Tokku thought of those things. The waterbender stood up, walked around the room and kept thinking about the next line.

"Okay, this one's really hard." He stopped.

His sister spoke up, "Let's see, 'I can't go down if hit by something cheap' kinda sounds like the object is made of a hard material?"

"Yes...yes! You're right!" Tokku eagerly responded. His sister boasted to Syv for answering the question.

"What about the last one?" The non-bender pointed at the riddle.

"Wall!" An eager voice came from behind them, "It's a wall, guys!"

All of them turned around to see a battle-ready Avatar answering the riddle. This time, her personality changed. Her nervousness was overcome by excitement.

"It's an object, it's large, made of hard material, and it gets chipped off if hit again and again." Kurana packed her things, "We gotta hurry, Sassan's waiting for us!"

They all nodded and rushed to grab their equipment. Syv carefully placed her twin daggers at her back while Lu Mei gobbled up the last pieces of her snack. The waterbender wrapped his arms with cloth and helped Kurana with her's.

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It was night time and the people were already in their houses. The gang thought it would be best to travel at this time to attract fewer crowds. They were already close to the last wall that stood around Ba Sing Se when they realized that they were not alone.

"Hey!" Syv yelled, "Did you hear that?".

Tokku looked around, as did everyone, "Hear what?".

"Over there!" A shadow slid at the corner of Kurana's eye, "What was that?"

Out of nowhere, a blast of fire came straight from above. They spread out to dodge the flames. As the fire settled, a muscular woman emerged. Kurana noticed several similar stitches that Sassan also had on the woman. Her hair was black with touches of faded white.

"P-Please," The woman's eyes filled with pain, "Help...m-me."

Tokku slowly walked over towards the woman, trying to calm her down, "Okay, please settle down, we don't want anyone to get hurt."

The woman stayed completely still. Everyone was in a fighting stance; a single movement could make elements fly all over the place. Tokku was still creeping over and talking with the woman.

"What's your name? How can we help you?" The young waterbender asked.

The woman groaned and everybody was startled, "I'm sorry...please...it hurts."

Tokku circled the woman, trying to see if there were any injuries. Scars and stitches were the only marks that made her look different.

"Other than your stitches, there's nothing that should be hurting you right now." Tokku stood in front of her, "What happened?"