"What??" All three asked in unison, and Y/N traced the messy little symbols engraved into the bottom, almost invisible. It read waterbender scum. She couldn't help but chuckle, turning it over in her hands before reattaching it to her belt.

          "What are you laughing at? You're kidding right? Where did you actually get these?" Sokka gestured frantically at the containers, Y/N snatching the other from his hand and putting it on as well.

          "Wonder how I got to the mainland?" She asked, too lazy to try coming up with a lie to cover it up. What was the point, anyways?

          "You made a deal with ZUKO?!" Katara asked, her voice rising. Y/N frowned at her, flicking her forehead lightly.

          "What was I meant to do?" She asked, smiling. "Frantically paddle after in a canoe?" 

          "She's got a point." Aang told Katara, who still didn't look happy. 

          "It went fine until he knocked me out. Anyways, that's not important. You guys are trying to get somewhere, and have Mr. Angry Fireball on your tail, plus pirates thanks to Katara, so we have to get moving." Y/N prompted, gesturing to pack up.

          "No! We're tired, and they don't know where our camp is, so we'll leave tomorrow morning." Sokka huffed, plopping down next to the flying bison, leaning against him. Y/N bit her lip.

          "If you're sure they won't find us..." She said hesitantly. "But I better not see any of you near the main river. Stay. At. Camp." Everyone nodded, and went off to do their own thing. 

          Y/N sat down, scratching at her rough Earth Kingdom clothes. Moments later, a flying lemur swooped down, landing on her shoulder. 

          "Well, hello there." She smiled brightly. "Aren't you an exotic one?" Sokka opened one eye, interrupting his nap.

          "Oh yeah. You haven't met our friends. That's Momo, and this is Appa." Momo picked at her bag, and she opened it, allowing him to choose a fruit.

          "I truly thought your kind was extinct, my friend." Y/N wondered as he sat on her shoulder to eat. "I guess you can't trust all books." 

                             —|〰️〰️〰️|—

          Y/N knew something was off the moment she woke up. She quickly sat up from Appa's saddle, her temporary sleeping arrangement until she got a sleeping bag. A quick look around, and she sighed in frustration. Katara was gone, and if she was right, the scroll was too.

          "Sokka!" Y/N hissed quietly, jumping off of Appa and lightly landing in the grass, shaking her twin brother. "Wake up!" He jolted upright, and immediately read his sister's mind, digging through his bag. 

          "It's gone." He confirmed, showing her his bag that the scroll was missing. Y/N facepalmed, standing up. 

          "Hey, Aang." Y/N called softly, and the Avatar woke, slowly sitting up with a yawn.

          "Yeah?" He asked sleepily, then his eyes went wide. "Look out!" He yelled, and Sokka and Y/N rolled to either side without question. A weighted net fell where they had been moments before, some kind of mechanism causing it to curl in on itself.

          "Pirates!" Sokka yelled, grabbing his bag and whipping out his boomerang. Y/N drew water from the nearby pool, circling it around herself and watching the advancing pirates carefully. 

          "Agh! Help!" Aang yelled, tangled up in a net. Y/N lashed out with a sharp edge of water, but it clanked harshly against the net. It's made of metal filaments! She turned as a net was flying her way, attempting to block it, but underestimating the weight and speed. 

          The net cut through the water, and she couldn't dodge in time, the net pinning her to the ground before wrapping around her. 

          "Really?! C'mon, you guys." Sokka complained, dodging another net and fighting back a few pirates. 

          "Shut up, Sokka." Y/N spat, carefully bending a tiny bit of water towards her. She could barley move, so even a small amount was difficult, but it was enough. She and Aang were being dragged away, the private's just leaving Sokka at the camp.

          "Hey! Am I not good enough to be kidnapped? Agh!" A net wrapped around him as well.

                             —|〰️〰️〰️|—

          The pirates had attempted to tie all of them up, but Y/N's aggressive thrashing and spitting just led them to tie her net to a tree, leaving her a little ways behind them to bring Aang forward.

          She was coming close to breaking free anyways, the tiny bit of water wrapped around the pieces keeping the net together. She concentrated, breathing slowly and making the ice colder and colder, weakening the metal.

          "Alright. Give him to me, and I'll give you the scroll." Y/N looked up to see Zuko standing there, gesturing for the pirates to give Aang to him. Jerk.

          "No, you give us the scroll, and we'll hand over the prisoner." The lead pirate countered. Zuko growled in irritation, clutching onto the scroll.

          "You guys are seriously gonna trade the Avatar for a piece of parchment?" Sokka asked with a smirk. "You could get so much more money from the Fire Lord than some high ranking customer for a scroll." Sokka, you're a genius.

          "This is the Avatar?" The pirates asked, sounding astounded. Y/N snorted quietly at their disbelief. 

          "Nevermind. You can keep the scroll. We'll be on our way." The lead pirate smirked at Zuko, attempting to walk past him, and all hell broke loose, pirates against Fire Nation soldiers. 

          Y/N quickly strained against her frozen bonds, the metal shattering. She ran towards Aang and Sokka, slicing off their ropes.

          "Thanks. Time to split!" Sokka yelled, coming with Y/N as she sliced off Katara's bonds.

          "You're an idiot." Y/N told her sister, who gave her a guilty look. At least she's not arguing with me on that.

          "Hey!" A pirate lunged at them, and suddenly they were in the fray, dodging random weapons and coughing from the clouds of dust and smoke around them.

          Y/N was thrown to the ground, the world spinning, with no reference point as to where she was. She saw Fire Nation boots and immediately kicked their feet out from under them, but she misjudged it, and unfortunately that meant they fell on top of her.

          "Y/N." Y/N got the breath knocked out of her, and so did the person on top, but whenever she quickly recovered, and looked up, her nose was inches from a certain prince's.

          "Hello there." She said smoothly with a sour undertone. "Come here often?"

          "Stop messing around, do you know what's going on around you?"

          "I can't move until you get off, you dope. Or do you want to just knock me out and almost leave me to drown again?"

          "Look, about that..." Y/N cut Zuko off by roughly pushing him off her.

          "It's a game of cat and mouse now, fireboy. You'll have to do better than this to catch us." Y/N smirked, diving into the crowd of warring sides, popping out on the other side.

          "Time to leave!" Sokka yelled, grabbing her arm and yanking her upright, both running towards the pirates' boat. They got onboard, and between Y/N, Aang, and Katara, they easily waterbent the boat from shore in seconds, setting off down the river.

          Everything seemed fine, the pirates and Fire Nation soldiers took a bit to notice, so they had a big head start, not to mention three waterbenders, but the pirates quickly got on the Fire Nation ship, chasing after, and then....

          "Guys! Stop the boat! Stop the boat!" Sokka panicked. 

          "Why?" Y/N turned around, and almost screamed, immediately bending the water back, stopping them from going over the ginormous waterfall.

          "We're stopped!" Aang said, blowing on the useless Bison whistle. Y/N looked back at him just in time for the Fire Nation ship to hit their boat, hard. Wood splintered, and Y/N stumbled forwards, barely able to keep bending, but Aang and Katara lost their footing, and one inexperienced waterbender was not enough to stop it completely.

          They tumbled over the edge, Appa swooping in to catch them at the last moment. Y/N was a little too far to the left, reaching out to Sokka, who already sat in the saddle. She grabbed his hand, but her heart dropped as his fingers slipped away again.

           She was falling. She didn't even feel herself hit the water.