~The Blind Water Bender~

Chapter Twenty Three

For the past two nights Katara and Cara have being helping the village, but there efforts were futile unless the factory goes away for good, so they destroyed it, but Aang found out they were pretending to be the Painted Ladies, Along with Sokka who was a little angry at the two.

"I know your both the Painted Ladies, I know you two have been sneaking out at night, and I know you've been lying about Appa and feeding him purple-izing-tongue berries" Sokka then pointed to Toph who stuck out her tongue, it was all purple "what you two did put our whole mission in jeopardy, we're leaving right now" he said crossing his arms.

"well excuse me for doing my Avatar duties and helping people" Cara said angrily and stormed off as Sokka stood there, his arms still crossed.

They began packing the camp away but some fire nation people were heard going towards the village "what's going on?" Toph asked

"fire nation soldiers are heading towards the village" Aang said and Sokka turned his head towards Cara and Katara "what did you do?" he said with a sturn voice looking at Cara and Katara.

"we sort of blew up the factory" Cara said hesitantly and Sokka's eyes widened "what!" he yelled

"it was your idea" Katara argued back "I was joking, I also said to use spirit magic and made funny noises" he then faced palmed and groaned "I used the Avatar State, does that count as spirit magic?" Cara asked lightly but Sokka still looked at her sturnly "did you even think this through? The army's gonna blame the villagers they're headed there right now to get revenge" he said crossing his arms.

"well what was we supposed to do?" Katara said in a harsh tone "leave, do nothing" he yelled back.

Cara then snapped and shouted at Sokka "no!, I will never turn my back on people who need me!" she shouted as she got up "I'm going back to the village, and will do what ever I can to help them" Cara said waking away along with Katara.

Sokka groaned as he chased after them and grabbed Cara by the shoulder "wait, I'm coming too" The two girls turned around "I thought you didn't want to help" Katara said

"you both need me, and I will never turn my back on you either of you" he said causing Cara to smile "awww, Skittles you do have a heart" she said hugging him "hey! Get your hands off my Girlfriend!" Toph shouted as she ran up to the two, Cara laughed as she was tackled by Toph "stop being jealous, I only have eyes for you" she said with a little giggle

Toph was about to say something Katara cut her off "look this is sweet but we need to save the village" she said, reminding them of he objective.

Cara quickly kissed Toph's lips making her blush as they got up and the gaang watched the fire nation army destroy the village "Kat, do you have any more painted ladie make up?" Cara asked and Katara said she does, so they made a plan to pretend to be the Painted Ladies and to amplify the effect, they made lots of fog, Toph made big loud bangs with a big rock while Appa growled.

The fog lifted a little to reveal Cara and Katara in full painted ladies costumes, they then ran full speed across the water and landed on the platforms, two fire nation soldiers looked at them, before getting there hats blown off by Aang, who was under the platforms, scaring them away.

"stand your ground!" the leader said and the soldiers got ready to attack, both girls then launched the boats the fire nation soldiers came in to a hill side, destroying them, the rest of the soldiers fled while the leader stayed "I'll take care of you myself" he said and got ready to fight, he sent a wave of fire at the two.

Aang saw this and then made a massive wave of air from below, sending the leader out into the water, both Katara and Cara then went closer to the man "leave this village" Katara said threatingly, Cara then went into the Avatar state to sound and look more scary "and never come back!" she said in a scary deep voice, making the man swim as fast as he could.

The two girls highfived before going back to the village, once they returned, they were met with cheering and clapping "thank you, Painted Ladies" Dock said walking up to them.

"me and my brothers really owe you a lot-hey, wait a minute, I know you two, you're not the Painted Ladies, you're those colonial girls" he said with a some what angry voice "yeah, they gave me a fish" a little child said.

Cara and Katara looked at each other before looking back anxiously at the crowd "you've been tricking us, you're both water benders" Dock said crossing his arms "you imitated our painted ladies" a man said before the crowd started coming closer, Sokka ran in front them "maybe they are water benders, but they was just trying to help you, because of them that factory won't be polluting your  and the army is gone, you should be down on your knees thanking her" Katara placed her hand on Sokka's shoulder stopping him from speaking.

The two girls stepped forward taking off their hats "we shouldn't of tricked you, but painted ladies or not, we wanted to help you, but you can't wait around for someone to help you, you need to help yourself" Cara said and crowd agreed, but didn't know where to start.

So Toph being sneaky, she suggested they clean the river, the gaang spent half a day cleaning it with help from the villagers, that night both Cara and Katara saw the Painted Ladies, the real ones, saying thank you to them, it gave them both a happy feeling knowing they did right.