(WARNING: Contains some Sukka, even madami Kataang, and Tokka. And this is where things get out of the shadows and you get even madami info than last chapter.)

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Azula Sozin knew better than to act upon her instincts the instant she saw the group in the classroom. Or madami appropriately, Aang White, Katara Waters, and Toph Bei Fong in the classroom. She had known - and hated - Katara Waters every taon since middle school began, loathing her with a fiery burning passion all throughout that time. But when Katara Waters stepped into the classroom with the cutest boy in school on her shoulder, she had no choice but to hate the girl more. But what was madami unnerving was that the 16 - almost 17 - year-old girl looked like the blood had been sucked clean out of her. Which, in this town, wasn't far off.

"Hey, Aang," Azula could hear Katara whisper to the boy, "try not to be so ominous. I know it's part of who you are, but just try to be social."

Azula saw Aang White halik Katara Waters on the cheek and that was the end of it, she walked away.

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Suki knew Sokka was cute and goofy and a technologically advanced and that he could hack into any website or break past any apoy wall, but when he walked into school that semester, he looked even cuter than before. He wore his hair up in the usual "Warriors lobo Tail" as he called it, and he wore blue - like his sister. But she could see he had changed in madami ways than one. Sokka's karamelo skin was now a light shade of caramel, like it has been mixed with a white coating and he wore black and navy blue instead of his usual Water Tribe Blue. That was all it took for him to change so much to her.

That was when a little raven haired girl who looked blind and had porcelain-like skin came up and kissed Sokka Waters - editor for the school newspaper, president of the Computer Science Club and captain of the football - on the cheek. Sokka returned the favor sa pamamagitan ng putting his arm around the small girl's shoulders and giving her a gentle squeeze. She left with a wave down the hall to her class.

Suki just stood there staring at Sokka Waters. Or, at lease, who she thought was Sokka Waters.
But she would never be able to tell now.

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Hakoda Waters spent 2 months searching for his missing kids. He had found the note, of course. It was written in black calligraphy - obviously Sokka's Pagsulat - and was sitting on the counter that he always sat at for breakfast. Even if the note sinabi not to come looking for them, he did. Because after all, they were his children and they were the only thing left of their mother who passed away when they were little. Katara had been five and Sokka six. But the tanong was; how would his life be in danger if his kids were around? He didn't know. And after 2 months of trying and failing to find the siblings, he gave up and went back to his regular work.

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Katara and Sokka Waters had tasted blood before. It was everywhere the araw Aang White and Toph Bei Fong found them. When Aang White had found her and Sokka along with Toph, he had no choice - even if he didn't want to - but to make her like she was at this very moment. Now, I'm going to let you in on a little secret that you have to promise to keep away from the humans; Katara, Sokka, Aang, and Toph are not normal teens. Although, you've probably heard that from your parents saying that you were not normal and that you were extraordinary. But you have to remember, Aang and Toph had no parents, so this couldn't be true.

Now, Katara was sitting at the kusina counter with some red crimson juice at the table. The juice was bitter, almost tasting like metal - but of course, that would always be the result if you taste blood. And yes, she was drinking blood. But it was blood mixed with cranberry juice and it was only animal blood; no harm done right? And the animal was dying of a broken leg. It needed her to save it.

"There you are," Aang sinabi as he made his way into the kitchen. "I've been looking for you. You weren't in bed, so I knew you'd be down here drinking your puso out. Is there something wrong?"

Katara nodded, slowly turning her head as she answered, "Do you ever regret turning me . . . and Sokka for that matter?"

Aang thought about this for a while. "I don't really," he finally answered. "You guys looked to helpless. You were bleeding to death slowly from that pack of werewolves. You guys looked just so helpless, and I knew I couldn't let you die. I think Toph and I did the right thing sa pamamagitan ng turning you."

Katara handed him the rest of her class of juice, watching as he chugged the rest of it down and slamming the glass down on the table. The force wasn't enough to break it, but just enough to see the glass visibly wobble.

"I think I have to agree," Katara sighed. "Plus, you and Toph got a pretty good meal out of us and you guys mariposa got new partners."

The couple both chuckled as Aang took her sa pamamagitan ng the hand and led her upstairs to her windowless room and placed her in her dark purple and lavender bed. He kissed her on the head. "Good night," he whispered.

"Oh silly," Katara giggled, "you know we don't sleep."

"Then just have a good night," Aang smiled, winking as he softly closed her door and headed toward his room to close his eyes.

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Zuko and Azula Sozin sat at their kusina counter, finishing up the meal the spent hours trying to find.

"I told you Zuzu," Azula started as she wiped her mouth with a cloth, "they’re just not normal."

"No one really ever is," Zuko answered in his usual depressed tone.

"I know," Azula continued with her face void of expression, "but I didn't have the urge to pounce on them and eat them like I want to do with any other student. It was like they were lifeless, and I know that that possibility is not far off in this town."

Zuko nodded as he noisily bit into his hapunan with the hungriness of three panda bears.

"I plan on exposing them," Azula went on, "and I'm gonna need your help."

Zuko looked at her for a segundo before going back to his pagkain and eating like the world was going to end. He didn't fully agree with his younger sister's plan, he just didn't fully resent the idea either. There was something off about the way Sokka Waters looked that afternoon, something mysterious. And like Azula said, he didn't want to pounce on the dude like he wanted with every other student. It was just . . . irregular.

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Suki was prepared to do all the research she could on this little Toph Bei Fong girl; the girl that estola her ex-boyfriend's heart. Sokka Waters and Suki Kyoshi had dated for some years, only to have him break up with her for reasons unknown to Suki herself. So in that time of two years that they had dated, Suki picked up a few computer hacking tricks from Sokka Waters himself.

sa pamamagitan ng hacking into the school security system - which took her hours and what might have taken Sokka minutos - she found out that the girl was an orphan at Ba Sing Se's Child Care House. The girl was also in bad accident with her best friend Aang White when she was fifteen. Suki also found out that the small girl - standing 4'5" - had no allergies and no mental health problems, but she was physically fit. After her research, Suki Kyoshi just had to find out madami about this porselana skinned, raven haired, ex-boyfriend stealing girl. And she knew only one person that could help her.

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When Katara and Sokka Waters walked into school
looking pale as a ghost, Ty Lee – peppy, pretty cheerleader and girl-with-no-last-name – could relate to them in a way. She was used to being ignored all the time because she was so pale. But these pale students looked nothing of her kind. Ty Lee had six sisters growing up. Her father and mother never paid much attention to as a child. So on her seventeenth birthday, she ran away. Along the way, she was hit sa pamamagitan ng a drunk driver and died. Days later, she woke up in a graveyard with no knowledge of what happened and a sudden decision to go back to school to learn things. To the students, she was there, yet, she wasn’t there. That was fine sa pamamagitan ng Ty Lee, she had never really minded. That was when she found Mai Black – emo chick and girlfriend of Zuko Sozin. Mai took a liking to her and decided that she should sumali their click for the fun of it. Mai was normal, that much Ty Lee could tell. But Zuko and Azula Sozin weren’t. Being a ghost had its advantages and disadvantages. Some were that she could see peoples’ auras. And sa pamamagitan ng telling their auras, she could tell who they really were. She did this the araw Katara and Sokka Waters came back to school. One semester their auras were normal, the next, they seemed almost, yet not totally, dead.

So in all, Ty Lee wanted to know what was up, and she wanted to know now. But then again, she knew everyone else in the school wanted to know what was up with the newbies and the Waters siblings.

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(I spent my sleepless night working on this! Hope you appreciate it!)

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