It only took one day to enter water tribe territory. Southern raiders have not entered inside the tribe before. They have experienced water tribe soldiers outside of their homes. We have no idea how they will act on our arrival.

They and even I thought we should arrive uncover. The plan was for me to act as escaping prisoner and disrupt their defenses at the key moment. This plan ended fast since this would not give a kind face which was our aim at least for this moment.

I should have planned this well beforehand. I doubt they would attack a child but there is always a chance. They might have a bad day. The smallest thing can change everything.

Southern raiders would not allow me to go alone and the water tribe would not trust any soldier. This problem would be way easier if we had woman soldiers. Especially since we are trying to make contact with a female.

They do not know this but I should have planned for in case of this.

(What if we just pierce into their village and just wait for to them calm down. I do not think they can penetrate our ship. We should be safe by staying inside.) Random soldier 1

(How can we leave if you are wrong?) Random soldier 2

Even that idea was refused. Should they have a plan for this? I do not think nine years old should be ready for all situations. I even needed to prosses our food. This is just child labor.

I finally managed to open up with my idea. (What if we just stay close to their home. This might cause them to be curious why we are here and not attacking. This way we even can leave if the water tribe spent time choosing what to do.)

Nobody said anything against it. I do not know if this is a good thing since no one else figured this out. They might have been ordered to entertain me by making sure I well myself being in control of this ship. If that is the case then it would make me sad and disappointed. Sadly, I do not think I can open about this if I am proved wrong and indirectly say they are incompetent.

I seriously will not even enter this vessel ever again and try to avoid other Fire Nation vessels at all cost.

12 hours later.

We have been floating in front of their tribe for few hours by now. There was a lot of action but it ended as suddenly as it started.

No signs of any water bender yet which makes sense to me but not to others.

(Do you have any idea why waterbenders have not made their move yet?) Oki

(I have a few. They might be with small numbers. They might be too young and experienced to fight. They might be away from the village. These were possibilities that would be good for us but I am worried they have no one or they are waiting for the moon to rise.) Shamo

(That makes sense. We get power from the sun but they get it from the moon.) Oki

(Yes. If this night would have been a full moon, then I would have been sure but we made sure that the full moon will not arrive in weeks. For that reason, the best time for us to make move is when the moon has just rose. This allows a small sense of ease to be with them. It will allow them to see firebending more easily and cover my bending best. I am interested in who will come with me to the deck.) Shamo

The rest of the crew were looking at Oki.

Seriously. Are they so incompetent to sent their only medic into the front line with kid earthbender? How have they managed to stay whole all this time?

It was about time to free winged lemur. It has not wanted to leave us so we took it with us. It has become a kind of mascot.

We needed to get the serpent out since it would have not survived in this coldness.

Winged lemur went to the water tribe. In beginning, the guard was up until children started to play around with it.

Looks like our plans were not needed at all.

I got to the boat alone and entered their tribe.

(What are you doing here.) Gilak

Suddenly there was a large man´s voice behind me. As I looked behind, I saw Gilak. He must have been the worst person I could meet at first.

(I came with fire nation vessel. I am not against you and I can prove it by doing this.) I bent earth below his leg. Not much since he could react suddenly which might harm me.

(Yes. I am an earthbender.) Shamo

Gilak knew he could not stay quiet about this.

Gilak brought me in front of Hakoda.

(What are you doing here?) Hakoda

(Finding who is the last waterbender in the southern water tribe.) Shamo

This statement made him worried. That is no surprise since fire nation has hunted everyone else.

(Why?) Hakoda

(Multiple reasons which would be best if the waterberder is to be present when talked. I was sent to prove that the waterbender will not be harmed or taken away. The plan is to let me talk with multiple people from your tribe but with waterbender being present. You do not have to reveal who it is but we very least hope she or he is in there. You can bring people from babies to grandfathers there. Gender does not matter. We hope you will take this offer.) Shamo

(What are they planning to do if we refuse?) Hakoda

(We have no orders as far as I know. It is up to you to decide.) Shamo

(I heard you are earthbender. What are you doing here?) Hakoda

(I am someone like a foreign exchange student. I am learning about fire nation in return they will learn about other nations. We are hoping to succeed with the same with water tribes. Our best bet is southern tribes. No matter who wins this war, we will need to leave together. This matters to you even more than us since two water tribes are separated by the war for nearly a hundred years. To my understanding one of your parents was from the northern tribe.) Shamo

I did not wait for his next words.

12-hour later at the next morning.

We are at water tribe´s meeting hall if it can be called like it. I am honestly surprised Katara was in this room. I was sure they were trying to keep her as far as they could.

Oki was chosen to be leading the talk for us.

(We are happy you allowed us to enter your tribe.) Oki did not sound upset even though he was chi blocked by Thod. Only I was left behind since chi blocking is highly harmful to those who are at a young age. I think this is the first time it is useful to be nine years old in this world. Even still we all were bound by the ropes.

(You were looking for the last water bender. She is in fact, my wife. She is sitting there.) Hakoda pointed to Kya. At least he told half the truth. I am surprised he could make this change.

Oki looked directly at me. I did shake my head. I did not do this because of series knowledge. I could well that she is not a waterbender since my earthbending is active. Untrained benders with substance benders have a bad habit of changing their body weight with the amount they carry. I could easily notice one person who showed these signs.

(Looks like she is not who we are looking for.) Oki

(Are you accusing us of being liars?!) Gilak

(Could you explain Shamo?) Oki

(I knew it because of my earthbending. Untrained earthbenders have a habit of rising their body weight by the amount they bend. I think this is the same with waterbending since both are the style of substance. Fire- and airbenders do not have this problem. The thing is no such since is with that woman. Naturally, that could mean she is trained by there is one person in this room this those signs. Do not worry though. I am not going to reveal who... Sorry. I almost said what genders waterbender is. I am going to stay quiet and close my eyes. No one wants me making eye contact which could reveal the identity of the waterbender.) Shamo

(Sorry. One more thing.) I could feel their eyes on me. (Waterbender is in this room so you can start talking. Sorry for the interruption.) Shamo

(Our plan is to make children of fire nation get used to waterbending to defend themselves from anyone who might attack us. We are intent to a sent students from all statues to field trips to the south. We are hoping you could let us stay here those times. We have no problems if you take some hostages in case you needed necessary. We are hoping at least we can trade them from time to time. From this group, I and this boy could be the first ones staying here. I naturally think he is going to stay since he knows who the waterbender is. This is all we wanted to say to you.) Oki

(You are staying at my house until we decide what we are going to do with you. Do you need to send any signals to them?) Hakoda

(There is no need to worry about that.) Oki

It seems we are staying a night in here.