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Katara of the Southern Water Tribe (k_waterbender) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-06-06 23:51:00

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arrival, complete, day 2, katara, max evans

Day Two
Who: Katara and Max Evans
What: The Rape of ~~Persephone~~ Katara
When: Morning. Around 9:00am
Where: The lake
Status: Complete
Rating: PG

Katara walked along the water’s edge for a moment as the sun made a slow descent toward the horizon. It was so serene and beautiful here. Six years ago she would have been convinced that the Fire Nation could never be such a beautiful place, that it would have been filled with nothing other than flames and misery that threatened to overflow into the other three nations. Everywhere she had gone with Aang and her brother that the Fire Nation had desecrated in their hunt to take over every land had only reinforced that idea.

Here she was, though, admiring its beauty in a land that had been peaceful for almost five years. After Aang had defeated Fire Lord Ozai and the war ended they had helped families all over, in every nation, recover. Even now not everything had been healed of the devastation. The people would never fully heal from it. A war that lasted over one hundred years couldn’t exactly be undone in five, though.

They- Katara, Aang, Sokka, Suki, and Toph- had been in the Earth Kingdom helping many of the refugees still left in Ba Sing Se. Fire Lord Zuko had summoned them to the Fire Nation in order to gain a new list of supplies refugees might need to set up their recovering lives. Now that so many had already been working on their lives for half a decade the list was smaller than before and slightly different. Toph and Suki had stayed behind with Sokka while Aang and Katara rode on Appa to speak with Zuko.

Now she walked along a man-made lake made to look like the Fire Nation emblem, pondering the things they had all been through together. Casting her attention back from the past she looked out over the water, rippling beautifully as a small, cool breeze touched the surface. Unable to resist, Katara positioned herself, lifting her arms. The water immediately rose up in a stream, and, with the gentle swooping of her hands, swirled in a circular motion around itself until it formed an orb. She held it there for a moment, watching how it distorted and enlarged everything she viewed through it.

With a small sigh she formed it into a stream once more and, opening the water skin at her waist, moved her arms to allow the stream to slip inside. She would need that water at some point. Even if she could pull water from things around her, it was nice to have it readily available in a good amount should she need to act fast.

Having done this she turned her back on the water to make her way back.

Suddenly the world seemed to spin around her and she felt herself falling. She closed her eyes for a moment to get her bearings, but opened them as soon as her feet touched and slipped in soft, damp sand, so she collapsed to her knees. The air had changed drastically. It was suddenly a bit warmer with a warm wind tugging at her dark hair. The air felt drier, too.

Opening her large, blue eyes Katara’s breath caught in her throat. A small panic filled her, too. What was this place? Her gaze took in the dock and boats. The lake was a bit larger than the one she had just been at and was definitely not man-made. The water lapped gently at her knees and hands. Standing and wiping the sand from her hands and clothing, she then proceeded to bend the water out of her clothing and return it to the lake. Her eyes scanned the area to find something quite unlike the view where she had just been standing. Fields of grass and some buildings that looked nothing like the architecture from any place she had ever been.

Katara closed her eyes and shook her head, but when she reopened them everything was still the same. “Am I dreaming?” She asked aloud.

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alien_max
2008-06-10 06:38 pm UTC (link)

Max was somewhat in awe of this beautiful woman; she seemed so wise and so powerful. He imagined what a magical civilization she must have come from. Her clothing seemed so exotic and he wondered if all people from her world or 'kingdom' had her powers.

"All planets are alive", Max tried to explain, "...but not like this one", he bit his lip and tilted his head to the side, "This planet is alive like a person is alive...it's like one of those ancient gods or something. It thinks and feels and does things. It took me from Roswell, New Mexico...that's in the Earth Kingdom, as you call it. Where did it take you from? Where is your kingdom?" Max wanted to ask her so many more questions as he looked into her silvery-blue eyes; he almost felt as if he were being pulled to her. Closing his eyes and running his hands through his thick, dark hair he recovered himself and, after taking a deep breath, promised, "Of course I will take you to the tablet. I was told that all new arrivals must read what is writtn on the tablet".

When Katara took his hand in both of hers, Max could feel his entire body come alive. He wondered if she felt it too. When Max's people were...intimate...kissing...and more, they felt not only what they felt but what the other felt. They also shared memories, thoughts and feelings. Max had not been intimate with anyone excpt Liz...an Earth girl...and then only kissing. They had exchanged memories and feelings and it was an indescribable feeling. It left Liz 'woozy' she said. This woman...Katara...must have some...kind of power that somehow activated Max's feelings or something. With just her hands wrapped around his, he was getting feelings and images and his heart was racing...and he was feeling warm all over...

"Ohhhhhh...Ahhhhh...", Max stuttered in embarrassment as he gently removed his hand and tried to smile, with his face flaming red, "It's a pleasure to meet you Katara!", he pointed back towards the main complex, "The ummm, Tablet is this way...sooo...let's just go this way, okay?"

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