[b][i]Siku - Response[/i][/b]

A butterfly didn't flap its wings hard enough, and thus Chief Hakoda's decision to take the remaining Southern Water Tribe warriors to aid the Earth Kingdom did not change. This was counterbalanced by Kya surviving the following years and even recovering a little, while keeping the peace between Sokka, Katara, and Siku, whom some elders began to consider might be the next Waterbending Master of the tribe, or maybe even the new Avatar.

It was then that the Impostor who had taken over Aang's body made his move. As his iceberg washed up on the shore, the Impostor didn't wait to be found, lest Siku pre-emptively warn the Southern Water Tribe of his true nature. Instead, he pushed against his icy prison, causing a lattice of cracks to cover the surface, each crack leaking out sickly purple-tinted light as they grew and shattered the iceberg into many gleaming snowflakes.

The column of light that rose up into the air, a column of that same purple-tinted light, was the signal that the game has begun; the various Reincarnates have a limited window of time before [i]he[/i] created a new spiritual age...

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Shortly after the column of light lit up the daytime sky, a stranger was seen walking towards the Southern Water Tribe village, radiating a sense of unnatural awe and calm. Sokka drew his boomerang-axe, his eyes fixed in suspicion, but found his mother putting a hand on his shoulder; Kya knew this stranger was suspicious, but saw that he was something that no one here can contest. And indeed this is true, for this stranger, a twelve-year-old in Air Nomad Robes, would bend air, water, and earth in circles in front of them all, before conjuring up a few token sparks of fire, and bow deeply, saying:

"Greetings; I am the Avatar, and I have returned from a long imprisonment - The reason for my disapperance was because I have been sealed in the Spirit World by those who thought nothing of the connection between Humans and Spirits. But now, thanks to the blessings of the Spirit World; I have returned much-enlightened, and seek to bring you all not just to victory against the Fire Nation, but to create an age of Harmony that would ensure no one harms us again!"

There was something unnatural in the Impostor's words that sunk into the minds of people, but Sokka, Katara, and Kya managed to resist it, all three launching a series of questions at 'The Avatar' at such a pace and pitch that even Siku cannot know which of them asked which question.

"Why didn't you escape earlier?!"

"Who imprisoned you in the first place?!"

"How did you even be trapped in the Spirit World and not age?!"

Then suddenly...

"QUIET!" Gran Gran Kanna's voice was filled with an uncharacteristic wrath and venom, venom so uncharacteristic that all three members of her family shut up. "Is this any way to talk to our savior?!"

She and the other remaining elders and women of the Southern Water Tribe began bowing to [i]The Impostor[/i], praising him and asking what his wishes were in an out of character manner, and Siku, if he wasn't shocked by his Gran Gran turning against them, would see Fake Aang, aka [i]Unalaq[/i], smirk sideways...

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