Calypso-Avatar The Last Air bender (Being heavily edited! Finally right?)

2.16 Swamp bugs

"Hey, you takin' us down for some reason?" Sokka asks, watching as Appa slowly descends in the sky, his driver almost mesmerized by the swamp they were passing over. When he looks over, seeing Gumi and Asha  still in the sky looking down on them, he grows a little worried.

"Aang!" Sokka yells, said boy flinching and looking back. "Why are we going down?" 

"What?" Aang wipes at his forehead, looking to where Gumi still soared above them, his rider leaning over to look at them. "I didn't even notice." Looking around, he realizes that they are indeed descending. 

"Is something wrong?" Katara asks from behind them, looking to Asha who only shrugs as she steers Gumi to lower along with Appa.

"I know this is gonna sound weird, but I think...the swamp...is calling to me."

"Is it telling ya where we can get something to eat?" Sokka groans, holding his stomach.

"No, I... think it wants us to land there." 

"No offense to the swamp, but I don't see any land there to land on." Sokka pouts, looking to the swamp again.

"I don't know...Bumi said to learn earth bending I would have to wait and listen, and now I'm actually hearing the Earth. Do you want me to ignore it?" 

"No!"

"Yes!" Sokka and Asha glared at each other, their answers contradicting the other. The water tribe boy concedes first, breaking eye contact as Asha looks to the swamp herself. There was definitely a magnetic attribute to the swamp, but it was a slight pull if anything. If Aang felt if much stronger though, she wanted him to explore it!

"I don't know...There's something ominous about that place." Katara shudders as she looks over the saddle.

"Yea, but literally everywhere we've gone has looked a least a little ominous." Asha offers, looking to the swamp as well.  Zulu burrows deeper into Asha's lap as she does, shaking with a low whimper.

"See, even Appa and Momo don't like it here." Sokka gestures to the chittering lemur and groaning bison.

"Okay, since everyone feels so strongly about this...Bye swamp." Aang sounds defeated as he says it. "Yip! Yip!"  

Asha remains a second longer than they do, hovering over the swamp. Shaking her head, Asha tightens the reigns, Gumi going to follow Appa.  She looks back however as a loud noise shoots out. There, she's met with an oncoming tornado moving at terrifying speeds towards them.  Yanking Gumi's reigns she flies to Appa's level. 

"Guys!?" Asha yells turning back to the tornado, using her sash to wrap Zulu closer to herself. Craning his neck to look to Asha, Sokka's eyes bulge as he realizes what she's yelling about.

"You better throw in an extra 'yip'! We gotta move!" The two others turn, Aang quickly goes to manipulating Appa's reigns. As the tornado closes in, trying to suck the flying animals in. Sokka is first to fly off, Asha quickly using a water whip to bring him to Gumi, who struggles to remain in control. Passing Zulu to Sokka, Asha quickly jumps on top of the dragons head.   She looks to Aang whose currently creating a bubble of Air, using it to surround Appa. Quickly copying, Asha does the same.  

Keeping concentration, Asha holds her hands out, blocking the whirlwind around them. 

"Asha, look out!" Sokka yells. Asha looks to the side, watching as Aang loses concentration on the bubble. The tornado quickly spitting Katara and Aang out. 

"Aang!" Asha yells, her mind loosing the thought of the bubble, destroying their protective blister as well.   

And it's like it's in slow motion. Sokka is thrown off, Katara a little lower then he is, both headed into the same direction.  Aang flies off in a different direction. Appa and Momo are no where in sight. Asha tries to reach out to her dragon, who calls out with a soft roar. Barely missing, her fingers grazing the horn, before Asha is thrown even further.