[center][h3][color=steelblue]Tenkai[/color][/h3][/center]
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[color=steelblue]“I’m almost there.”[/color] Tenkai whispered to herself as she sat in a small canoe that she “borrowed”. As the canoe rocked from side to side she wondered how she’d be able to get through the Fire Nations ships that were hundreds of miles away from the island. They were there to protect the residents who reside on the island from intruders like her. In all respects she wasn’t going there to cause any type of harm to the people, but because she was a water bender on a canoe heading for that island those in the right mind wouldn’t even try to hear her out more or less let her step foot on it. How she was going to get through the blockade was beyond her due to the fact that she hadn’t even planned on stealing any type of “boat” in the first place. As a matter of fact, she didn’t even steal the canoe because she had left a bag of coins right where the canoe was, so they’d be able to buy themselves a new boat. In all honesty though one would say it was stealing since she made no verbal agreement on buying one in the first place, but it was about time to move on and let bygones be bygones. 

Tenkai could feel that she was losing speed, so instead of using a paddle, which wasn’t anywhere to be found when she had taken it, used her bending to be able to speed up the boat. It was crucial to make it to the island soon since she had no idea how long the Avatar was going to be staying there. Technically she had no idea if he was there at all, but if he was then because it was a vacation spot she’d assume the Avatar wouldn’t be there for long. 

As she got closer to the blockade Tenkai gathered all of her things to put in a small satchel she had bought. It would have been a better idea to buy a bigger satchel for multiple reasons, but she wouldn’t have had enough money to leave in exchange for the Canoe. Nonetheless, it wasn’t such a bad idea to travel light since a larger bag would possibly weigh her down; literally. She then grabbed a map she had under the wooden seat, and looked at it to make sure she was where she wanted to be. Navigation wasn’t her strong suit, but she was quite certain that up ahead would be Ember Island. 

Finally, after making sure everything was set she packed it all in the satchel, carefully stood up in the Canoe, and took one step into the water. Sadly, her other foot got stuck on the rim of the Canoe, so instead of falling straight in she flipped the Canoe over while slamming right onto the water. It felt as if someone had slapped her with ten thousand paddles, so she grabbed her face with her hands as she floated back up inside the upside down Canoe. A few seconds passed as she composed herself, and made sure there was no bleeding anywhere. [i]I'm never doing that again...[/i] 

Because there was no time to flip the canoe over Tenkai just left it as is while focusing back on her mission. She created a small water bubble around her head to be able to breath underwater since she'd be under for longer than a human can hold their breath. It wasn't an easy task to create something like a water bubble more or less have it steady when her whole surrounding would be water instead of air, but it was better than nothing. Once Tenkai had the bubble mostly stable she then ducked underwater where she kicked her feet, and wiggled her fingers to bend the water into creating thrust that would slowly begin to speed her swimming. Not only did she have to dive deep enough to stay off of the Fire Nations ships radar she also had to be quick since the oxygen in the water bubble was decreasing by the minute. 

[i]You'd better be there, Avatar.[/i]