Polar Opposites

* :( Surprises and Visitor

It had been about three months since Elodie and Hakoda had made their relationship official (And no. Nothing happened in the boat that night, you nasties). Everything had been going great for them too. All of the men were accepting of them being together, although they were very shocked when the two first announced it.

Those three months had been pretty uneventful, except for the occasional Fire Nation ship passing by that the men had to go defeat. Elodie never joined in on the fighting because 1) she really had no fight skills and 2) she really didn't want to fight and possibly take someone else's life. Konoye and Petak had been teaching her some self-defense tactics, but she was definitely not anywhere ready to face trained soldiers. Though, she hadn't been lounging around and slacking off. She helped Zokkik and the other healers with the injured crew members and she did lots of chores like fishing and fixing weapons. The crew had tried to just give her the chores of cooking, sewing, and cleaning up, but she had called that misogynistic crap out as soon as they said it. She did help out with those things, but she made it clear that she wasn't going to do only those things because she was a woman and that she could help with many other things.

Other than that little hiccup, things had been going smoothly. But alas, things never stay easy.

Elodie was out with Konoye, Petak, and two other middle-aged men named Natan and Norlem. They were having a good day and were catching more fish than normal, so the youngsters were goofing off a bit. Konoye had a bucket that was used to get water out of the boat if it got in it, and was playing as if he was going to pour water on Elodie. Elodie growled at him, "If you get me wet Konoye, I'm pushing you in the ocean."

Konoye decided he had messed with Elodie enough, so he went to toss the water from the bucket back into the ocean. As luck would have it, he slipped and the water came right towards Elodie. Said female let out a shriek and held up her arms to shield her face from the salty water, but none of the liquid fell on her. She opened her eyes when she heard gasps and a shocked noise came from her when she saw a blob of water floating in front of her. She dropped her hands out of surprise and the water came crashing down onto her lap.

Elodie faced the men and asked shakily, "Was that perhaps one of y'all?" Petak was the one to break the silence, "You're a-" Konoye butted in as Petak froze, "You're a waterbender!" Elodie stuttered out, "Wha- That was me?" Natan and Norlem made the executive decision to immediately head back to camp to share the news as Konoye and Petak bombarded Elodie with questions. Norlem put a halt to that, "Let her think, boys. This is probably a lot to take in." That was an understatement. Elodie knew the bare minimum about waterbenders, so she didn't even know where to start thinking.

When they made it back to the camp, Elodie was practically carried out of the boat and to the tents from how fast Konoye and Petak were moving her. No one was out doing stuff, which was strange, but they were moving too fast to notice. Konoye called out for Zokkik, Hakoda, and Bato, and the three men ran out of the tent in a panicked state. Hakoda saw Elodie being moved by the men and his heart dropped, "What is it? Is someone hurt?" Zokkik immediately snatched Elodie from Konoye and Petak, thinking that she was injured, and the shocked look on her face didn't help their suspicions that there was something wrong. Elodie was obviously not talking, so Konoye spoke for her, "She's a waterbender!" The three men huddled around them, plus the ones that had come out of the main tent because of the commotion, froze and Bato asked, "What?" Petak nodded, "She is! She stopped water mid-air when we were fishing!" Norlem and Natan backed them up.