Avatar: The Earthbending Revolution

Chapter 5: Preparation

(A/N Ok, so I'm going to try and say what she's doing, but I will warn you, with it will get a little confusing. It'll get harder to understand and corporate the Earthbending with the physical movements, but I will try my best.)

I breath in, then out. I lift my hands, my palms up. With them comes 2 rocks the size of square kick balls. I push them to either side of me, both of them 3/4 of a meter away from my body. I front kick another square boulder into the air and catch it with my mind. Immediately I can feel my mind start to strain from the weight of the rock. The mind-bending technique was never a favorite of mine.

I toss both of the rocks at my side on top of the one I'm holding with my mind, and my mind starts to strain even more to keep them all aloft. I know my face is red with concentration. I punch the air with my right hand, pushing the rock on top into my invisible opponent. I punch the air again, this time with my left hand, pushing the next rock into my opponent again. I turn around, the third rock still being held by my mind. I flip into a backhand spring, transferring the rock from my mind to my foot, slamming the rock into my invisible opponent.

I end the form with my palms up, but with no rocks. I drop my hands and look over at my small audience. Chen is giving me a thumbs up, Bolin is clapping with a smug smile on his face, while Mako, Zen Whi, and Miro are staring at me in awe. Vashmu has his arms crossed.

"That was AMAZING!!" Bolin sung. "You have got to teach me the mind-bending trick you did!" I frowned.

"You mean.....you can't do that?" Mako laughed.

"I'm assuming there's a lot of things people in your village can do that other earthbenders can't."

"We'll worry about that later," Miro said. Turning to everyone else, he continued. "I believe her earthbending doesn't need any work, am I right?" Everyone nodded in agreement, even Vashmu.

"So, what exactly is the plan to get Luna into the Southern Pole?" Chen asked.

"Well," Mako ventured, "there is a certain daughter of mine that does travel bewteen the poles that might be able to help."

****************************************************

"Welcome aboard!" a woman with long brown hair said. "I'm Katara, and thank you for choosing The Avatar as your way of traveling!" The Avatar was a boat that was big enough to hold a large amount of people, but that amount was probably only about 15 or 20. It had a huge deck with rooms underneath. It looked like any normal boat would.

Katara looked like she belonged on a boat. Her plastic blue jacket went down to the middle of her thighs, helping to keep the wind out, and yet was very fashionable. She had on black pants with knee high brown snow boots. Hanging from a belt loop were removable ice straps.

(A/N: for those of you who don't know what ice straps are, that probably means you live someplace warm and don't need them. Ice straps are things that you attach to your shoes. They have these metal spikes at the bottom. The spikes aren't sharp, but they keep you from slipping on the ice. Think about the things on the bottom of soccer or football cleats)

Her hair was down, with a blue bandana wrapping from her forehead all the way to the back of her head. Even though she had tan skin, her face and hands looked like they had a lot more sun.

The Avatar was docked at the Southern tip of the Earth Kingdom, right above the outer islands. I could see the ocean for miles ahead. In the distance, some water spirits were chasing each other, jumping up from the water and back into it. They would pick some of the water up and splash it into each other.

"Have you ever seen spirits before?" Zen Whi asked, walking up to me. I nodded.

"I saw some on the drive to Mako's house, but that was the first time," I replied. Zen Whi was asleep the entire time, so he wasn't awake to see the orange and green spirits flying in the air.