Coco (ATLA) (Book 1)- Major Editing Coming SOON

Into the Village

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"Can you believe it, Zuko? My mother could be down there. What if she's back with my father?" I babble on and on mindlessly.

The South Pole is pretty far from the Fire Nation. Not sure how my mom or dad would end up here, but look what happened to me. I'm not really sure how I ended up over on this side of the world either. I guess when you're running from a war, you tend to travel pretty far.

"How do I look?- It's been a long day, maybe I should've cleaned up a bit more?-"

Why am I asking him any of this? I know we just met, but I can't contain my excitement. Who else can I tell? If it's not clear, I don't have a long list of people waiting to hear what Kimi's been up to today. The last friend I had was two years ago. I stayed in his mother's back house. I remember the night the Fire Nation took him away and forced him to serve. He wrote me a letter and said things were not looking good for him, that was the last time I ever heard from him. The next letter was sent to his mother, it came from his partner, something about an accident... He didn't make it. So yeah, I don't have friends.

"You look fine, now shut up, I'm trying to think."

Zuko said I look fine, I wasn't expecting him to actually answer. That was a compliment, right? I mean, Zuko is really handsome, right? I won't call it a crush, but I'm trying to form something here. We can at least be acquaintances. So yeah, his opinion means something to me, it has to if we're going to be acquaintances. I'm not too keen on his personality, but showing him some kindness might change something. Also, I know he's a good person deep down, that's what the Spirit of Destiny told me, so I'm going to trust his word, and maybe I'm that special thing that can bring it out of Zuko.

I put my hair up, and I'm dressed in a shirt, red of course, and it doesn't fit at all. There aren't any women on board, so uncle gave me some of Zuko's old clothing from when he first started his search for the Avatar... I'm wearing kid clothes.

"Should I leave my hair up or down?"

"I said you look fine."

I didn't ask that.

"Yeah, but I put my hair up," I tell him.

He turned to face me.

"You're fine."

He turns on his heel and walks out onto the deck. Before completely disappearing, he turns back to me.

"You should wear your hair up."

Smiling like an idiot, I walk onto the deck getting ready to walk down the bridge. Maybe I got somewhere.

'What a cute little tribe!' I think while admiring the place.

They all have on these super fury, fluffy, blue, and white jackets that go down to their ankles. Wish I had one of those, I'm freezing! They all look terrified. Really? This is what we're doing to them- to the world, it isn't right. None of it is right.

There is a wall made of snow that surrounds their small village. Not very sturdy. They have no protection what so ever. They've been stripped of everything and left with barely anything!

In front stands a boy with a short ponytail. His face is decorated in gray and white paint, kinda like a wolf. His eyes are beautiful. Round and gray, filled with determination as he holds his battle ax. All the men of the tribe must be off fighting in the war, how sad.

Awwe, he's protecting his village... Zuko's going to destroy him..

The nose of the ship is coming in close, and if he doesn't move, it looks as though he'll be crushed.