Book One: Rain

Chapter Four - The Three Thread Benders

Hong-Gao City, May 16, 302 AG

Kenny lit a small flame at the tips of his index fingers and placed them a couple centimeters away from Marzie and Evine's face. "Wakey, wakey!" They both woke up screaming, extinguishing the small flame.

"Kenny! Why... What? Can you explain, please?" Marzie cried out, but Kenny just laughed.

"I tried to wake you guys up with a bucket of water but you guys still didn't wake up so I resorted to some extreme measures." Marzie and Evine looked down at their clothes. Evine took a deep breath in, and out. He placed his hands on his chest and raised them up, along with all the water that soaked it as well. He poured it on Marzie.

"Why is it always me?" She asked but Kenny just laughed some more.

"Where's breakfast? It's too early to deal with you," Evine said. Kenny looked over at him and threw a single sushi roll.

"Leftovers from yesterday, you can have it until we find a decent place to eat."

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 "How about here? Looks nice, doesn't it?" Kenny noted, but once his eyes caught wind of the muffins he stormed into the store with his wallet in his hand. "One blueberry muffin and green tea to go, please."

 "See, I thought I'd have a choice in the matter of which place we would eat, guess not." Evine scowled at Kenny. "I'll have a loaf of cornbread."

 Kenny burst out into laughter, "Cornbread? A loaf of it?" Marzie chuckled. They sat near the window. Kenny stopped laughing and looked at her with  "Do you think we'll make it to Republic City by July? I mean, you guys haven't seen my fire bending but it's horrible. Really, really bad."

 "Definitely!" Marzie replied.

 "Definitely not. With you two seaweed brains we might as well drop out right now. We won't be there until August." replied Evine with a serious tone. His eye twitched a little, "Where is my god damn cornbread?"

 "Evine, in complete honesty you're the only seaweed brain here," Marzie replied.

 "I mean, at least I'm not dumb enough to jump into a river while fighting a water bender."

 "Okay settle down, guys. I get where you're coming from, honestly, Marzie. Sometimes those little hair loopies make it hard to differentiate Evine from a little Water Tribe school girl." They both laughed in unison, but Evine just sat there with a serious face awaiting his cornbread. "Oh, cmon Evine! No need to get your hair loopies in a twist!" Kenny joked. 

   "You couldn't have picked a place with better service?!" He jumped out of his chair, Evine looked at the front desk and barked, "Thanks, but no thanks. I bet your corn bread would've been burnt and repulsive, anyways." He stormed out of the store and across the sidewalk.

   "Can we go after him after I get my muffin? I'm really hungry." He said.

   "Sure, don't take too long because if he gets too far some people might mistake his loopies for, for, uh..." Marzie sat there and thought, but nothing came to her.

   "Stop, just stop," Kenny replied.

   "A muffin and a tea to go. Also, the cornbread your friend ordered. We finished it as he stormed out." Kenny took a large bite out of his muffin at looked at the cornbread.