𝑯𝑰𝑫𝑫𝑬𝑵 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑶𝑵, 𝒂: 𝒕𝒍𝒂

➳ 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦: 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨

AFTER TRAVELLING FOR A FEW DAYS, the gAang decides to stop just outside a small fishing village so that Appa can rest for a night or two.

"Do you see that group of stars over there?" Kida asks, pointing to the sky. As Appa sleeps, Kida snuggles against the flying bison's tail, looking up at the stars.

Aang, who lies down next to Kida, follows her gaze. "Yep."

Kida starts telling Aang some story about a boy and a girl who were forbidden to fall in love, but did anyway. Having gone against their destinies, they were cursed: the boy would turn into a wolf at night while the girl became a dragon during the day. They died, never having seen each other again, but were reunited in the stars.

"You get all of that from a bunch of dots in the sky?"

Kida chuckles. "Yeah. You should see what I can read from the clouds, too."

"That's awesome! You got any more stories?"

Nearby, Katara and Sokka sit around the fire. The group had made, and eaten, dinner a while ago, so the flames were dying down.

"Katara, I'm telling you, something's off about her," Sokka whispers. He pokes at the fire with a stick, watching as the embers fly into the air. "For all we know, she's a Fire Nation spy."

"That's not true, Sokka," Katara groans. It's been about a week since Kida joined the team, but her and Sokka still weren't getting along.

After the Jet incident, they seemed to be warming up to each other, but that pretty much lasted a few hours.

They argued all through the next morning about the group's travel plans.

"No, I say we go this way. We'd cut our travel time in half so if Appa needs more time to rest, we could stop and still get to the North Pole on time."

"What do you know? You just got here!"

"I'm sorry, between the two of us, who has lived in the South Pole his whole life, and who has actual experience using maps and travelling around?"

They disagreed so much that they accidentally ripped the map in half; thankfully Kida had an extra that she pulled out, but not before Sokka muttered something about girls ruining everything. Later that night, Katara had to stop Kida from cutting off Sokka's ponytail - sorry wolf tail - while he slept.

The pointless arguments and unnecessary competitiveness between Kida and Sokka had only increased as the days went by.

One afternoon, during their rest stop, Kida claimed that she could climb a tree faster than Sokka, who then almost sprained his ankle when they decided to determine a winner.

Another time, Sokka accused Kida of stealing his boomerang, so he threw her bow off of Appa.

"Spirits, Sokka! I told you it wasn't me! Why would I want your stupid boomerang, anyways?"

"It's not stupid, a boomerang is a warrior's -"

"Hey, Sokka," Aang interrupted, leaning over into the saddle where Kida and Sokka sat. "Here's your boomerang back. Thanks for letting me borrow it!"

When Aang went back to his conversation with Katara, Kida scowled at Sokka.

"Right..." Sokka said sheepishly. "It's not hard to make one of those bow things, right?"

Katara thought that Kida would strangle Sokka then and there.

The worst was, earlier today, when the group went into town, Kida and Sokka were supposed to be in charge of the money, which, looking back, probably wasn't the best idea.