A short while later the group had stopped and parked down on a beach of a beautiful looking island.
"We just made a pit stop yesterday, shouldn't we do a little bit more flying before we camp out?" Sokka asked with a frown.
"I can't help but agree with chicken legs over here," Harry said as he gestured to Sokka, he continued speaking while ignoring Sokka's protest at the nickname. "why are we here?"
"Well, to be honest, I...look!" Aang said suddenly and pointed out to the sea where a giant elephant koi fish jumps out the water and back in, creating a giant splash. "That's why we're here!" Aang said with a grin before he started disrobing. "Elephant koi, and I'm gonna ride it. Katara, you've got to watch me!" He said before jumping into the sea. "Oh that's cold!" He immediately said once he entered. Appa grunted and walked off, uninterested in staying to watch. The other three exchanged glances as Aang began playing in the water.
"You've got to be kidding me." Harry said with disbelief, "we're stopping for this?" he asked.
"Well...I suppose it won't be too bad if we just let him stay here for a little bit." Katara replied, gesturing to Aang who was now riding on the back of a koi fish. She then turned around and looked at Appa. "No, don't eat that, Appa." Katara said before she ran off to Appa, not seeing Aang look disappointed when she was no longer looking at him.
"There's something in the water!" Sokka suddenly shouted in an alarmed voice. "Aang!"
"Oh crap! Aang!" Harry shouted as loud as he could. "Get your bald self back here now!"
"What's going on?!" Katara asked as she came back.
"Something's in the water but Aang can't hear us!" Harry said quickly before he and the two Water Tribe siblings began waving their arms in an attempt to signal Aang to come back, unfortunately it didn't seem to work as Aang looked like he was happy enough to continue, or at least he would have if not for the fact that the koi fish threw him off and swam away quickly.
Aang finally got the message when an incredibly large fin emerged from the water, Aang let out a scream before he started running away, using his airbending to help him run across of the surface of the water. The fin - and therefore the creature that it was attached to it - chased after Aang, only stopping when Aang escaped from the water and crashed into Sokka. The fin stayed still for a few moments before descending back down into the water.
"Well, that was fun." Harry said in a dry voice as he helped Aang up.
"What the heck was that?!" Sokka blurted out as he stood up.
"I'm not sure." Katara replied, she would have said more if not for the fact that a moment later several female warriors clad in green kimonos descend from the treetops. The girls quickly encircle the group and rush forwards to take them out, only to be stopped when Harry quickly waved his arms, creating a circle of fire around himself and the other three. The girls stopped, they clearly weren't able to bend elements since they now seemed unsure about what they should do now that a circle of fire had cut them off from their targets.
"Good try, but no." Harry said with a shake of his head as he looked at the girls who were all wearing white and red face paint, in their hands were gold fans.
"Green flames? That means you must be the Emerald Dragon!" One of them, a pretty girl with brown hair who was the apparent leader, spoke up. "You're all Fire Nation!"
"Part right." Harry said with a shrug. "I am the Emerald Dragon, and I am Fire Nation, these three with me are not."
"We want no part in your war!" Another girl shouted.
"Yes, we've kept out of it and we intend to do so for even longer!" The leader said in agreement.
"Excellent then." Harry said as he waved his arms and got rid of the flames, an action that clearly confused the girls. "We're not your enemies, at least until you attack. Then we'll be enemies."
"No, no, no!" Katara said quickly, "No enemies or anything like that!" she added just as quickly. "Let's start again, you know Harry, I'm Katara and this is my brother, Sokka. And this is Aang, he's the Avatar."
"Him?" One of the girls asked with disbelief as Aang gave them a small wave.
"Yeah, that's me." Aang said as he stood up. "Sorry, I really just wanted to come here to ride the koi fish."
"Why should we believe you?" The leader asked, raising an eyebrow. "The Avatar was an airbender and disappeared a long time ago, a hundred years ago, and even if you were the Avatar you wouldn't be hanging out with the Emerald Dragon!"
"He's actually not such a bad guy when you get to know him." Aang replied, Sokka scoffed slightly but didn't say more.
"Let's throw the imposters to the Unagi." One of the girls suggested. Harry didn't know what the 'Unagi' was but he didn't want to be eaten by whatever it is.
"Alright, this is getting out of hand, either you start airbending or I start firebending." Harry whispered to Aang.
"Got it." Aang said before he used airbending to shoot himself into the air before slowly descending down.
"You...you are the Avatar!" The leader gasped.
"Yep, check this out!" Aang said before Momo tossed him a couple of marbles, Aang caught them and grinned at the girls as he showed them his spinning marble trick.
"But...but why are you with him?" One of the girls asked as she gestured to Harry.
"He's an ally." Katara spoke up.
"But he's the Emerald Dragon!" The leader protested.
"Trust me, we know." Sokka said with a roll of his eyes. "But so far the jerk hasn't tried to kill us."
"Don't tempt me." Harry quietly replied before turning to the girls. "Look, I'm the dragon, I'm evil, blah blah. It turns out I'm not actually evil and was just forced to do what the Fire Nation told me to do. Right now, the Avatar's enemies and the Fire Lord are my enemies. There's pretty much nothing I can say to convince you all, so can we just skip that part and decide what we are going to do next?" Harry said in a bored tone.
"I think you could have said it in a better way than that." Katara sighed.
The girls exchanged looks before they all relaxed a little, though they still kept ready to fight just in case.
"Before anything else can be decided we will have you talk with our village leader." The leader of the girls said.
"That's fair." Harry shrugged.
"Let's hurry this up then." Sokka said impatiently as he began walking forwards, only to stop when Harry placed a hand on his shoulder.
"I wouldn't be so relaxed, they're clearly skilled warriors." Harry said as he gestured to the girls.
"Oh?" Sokka said in an amused voice as he brushed Harry's hand off of his shoulder and continued walking forward. "Relax, they're just a bunch of girls. They couldn't compete against an actual man in a fight, I..." Whatever Sokka was about to say was cut off by the leader of the girls grabbing him and throwing him harshly over her shoulder and onto the ground, Sokka let out a gasp as he landed on his back.
"How was that for a girl?" The leader asked in a mocking voice.
"Ha!" The tense situation was cut off by Harry's loud laugh.