MAYA [Book 1 - Water]

Chapter 1 - The Discovery of the Iceberg

-Maya's Point of View-

"Hey, Maya... Maya, wake up!"

"Ah!" I shouted as I quickly sat up on the bed. Sokka shouted as well and fell to the ground. 

"What is going on with you two? Why are you both shouting this early in the morning?" Katara who peeked inside my tent, suddenly asked.

"Well, she started it! She screamed in front of my face!" Sokka exclaimed with his shaky and cracking voice. "She should know when to wake up on her own," he mumbled as he stormed out of my tent.

I held my hand against my face, trying to catch my breath when I felt Katara's hand on my back.

"Are you okay?" 

I looked at her and sighed.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just that..." I stopped. 

I couldn't say it. It's hard to say it.

"A nightmare again? Of the past?" she asked. I sighed once more and looked away. 

Of course, it's a nightmare about that past— about what happened to Mom. It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life.

I sat there silently for a moment until Katara broke the ice.

"You know what you need? A little breather. Why don't you come join Sokka and I today?" she asked.

I looked at Katara's smiling face with a questioning look.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"We're going fishing!" she said excitingly.

———

The three of us rode a canoe and went to the sea to catch some fish for the village. 

We have been traversing the waters for hours now and Sokka, who proclaimed himself as a great 'fish catcher', still hasn't gotten a single catch.

"Sokka we've been out in the open for hours and the basket's still empty!" I yelled at him.

"SHH! SHH! SHH! I'm trying to focus here," he said while aiming his spear at the fish.

I rolled my eyes and looked at Katara. She was also aiming for another fish.

"Great, now both of you are busy," I mumbled to myself.

Silence filled the air for a short moment and I was left there in the middle while looking at the siblings fix their eyes on their prey.

"It's not getting away from me this time. Watch and learn girls, this is how you catch a fish," Sokka said.

"Yeah right," I mumbled.

Katara, on the other hand, removed one of her gloves and tried to waterbend the fish out of the sea. 

Apparently, this girl is a waterbender.

"Lucky..." I mumbled again. How I wish I could waterbend as well.

"Guys look!" Katara exclaimed as she tries to control the water where the fish was in.

Even if she was a waterbender, she's still a beginner, so her waterbending is still unstable.

"Woah! Easy there Katara!" I shouted, trying to guard myself against the unstable water.

"Shh... Both of you, you're going to scare it away... Hmm! I can already smell it cooking!" Sokka said without even giving us a glance.