Winter Wonderland: Southern Tribe Style

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

She thought it would be impossible at first: the idea of keeping the area around the Outsider's hotel that cold, and keeping snow on the ground with just the use of water? It sounded crazy, and Katara had been wondered if she was skilled enough to do it. It was why she and Sokka hadn't had their Southern Water Tribe thing: it would have just been re-imagined in the Sensorium, and in a way that was almost cheating. The real experience, ice cold water and all, needed to be had, and there were certainly enough people on Trans 9 who could have used a little playtime.

That was, of course, before she had time to think. In time, she was beginning to see that where she had failed was really in her own confidence level: she could see her limitations, and didn't go further than what she could do. The longer she did that though, was more time she realized she had to be trained in other ways, if water wasn't available. It was hard to think about, but she had to be ruthless in her ability to be able to take down a person if she needed. This kind of fighting, though, felt much like murder. So after the Yeerk incident, she made a promise to never raise a hand against a person in that way, like her anger towards Jet or Zuko in the past. To do that would edge closer to that place, and she needed to remember the true goal: standing against the Ohm.

That said, she learned a great deal of other things, like how to super extend her breath, how to manipulate her body much more than she had before, and how to strengthen your feel of "wave" so much your arms were hardly ever tired. Now she found that this was possible, all that was needed was the water. With Stacey's approval, this happened.

And so Katara got to work, bobbing and weaving, guiding the water to solid water, using force to create that into powdered snow. It was work that would have severely diminished her in the past, but now it was simply a joy to be bending again, to have her element all around her instead of just contained in a small pouch, and she let loose. The snow was an interesting sensation, it was like shaping ice and then shaking it between her fingers: it littered the ground all around the Outsider's backspace, and she was glad that they had that backspace to begin with. She figured that once this was over, the water would bee used for the sauna, so she figured one last bit of fun would be a good thing.

"Okay!" She said after awhile, looking around her. "Now hopefully people will come!"

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[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I suppose that's true. I don't think anyone had the ability to foresee what the Ohm were able to do. If we had, they wouldn't have had to show us how the Ohm destroyed our worlds. I saw it myself: it was pretty brutal."

She shook her head, pretty bothered by that memory: it hadn't been pretty.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Never saw anything like that," Zetta said. After all, he'd only been out for a few months now. "Of course they didn't destroy my Netherworld. The damage to the Sacred Tome did THAT. Probably the smartest thing they ever did!"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara shook her head. "We weren't lucky to have something like that happen. Why was that sacred tome so important?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"The Sacred Tome records everything about my Netherworld... past, present, and future. Destroy it, and the Netherworld gets destroyed... Overlord along with it." Zetta scowled. "If not for that, I'd have cleaned up this whole damn mess before brunch. Even fifty billion Ohm are no match for me!"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry to hear that," Katara said, although she still had to wrap her mind around things a God that looked over a whole world, or something like a tome that's destruction had the ability to destroy one.

"So when we finally do come across the Ohm, what are you going to do? Is there a possibility that you can stop being a book and fight them head on?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I'd like to believe that." The book seemed unusually thoughtful as he imagined the scenario. But he was too familiar with the rules of narrative causality to honestly put any faith in the possibility. "But getting my body back? That's the good ending. Unless some wacky trick works out way better than it should, I won't get it back till I get my Netherworld back, and THAT won't happen till someone gets enough mana power to write that wish in the Sacred Tome."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"...And if you can't do it, than something like that will be pretty impossible," Katara finished, thinking about this. She was sure that the Overlord had thought long and hard about this himself. "Do you think anyone on this ship would have enough mana to do something like that?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Can't write a wish in the damn Sacred Tome without arms," Zetta grumbled. "No one's anywhere close to that level. Well, maybe they could write the wish, but it would probably kill them. That'd suck."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"That sounds complicated, and a little dangerous," Katara said, thinking of the people that were on the ship. It made her think of the one person that she'd heard of countless of times.

"What about a Time Lord?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Time Lord? The hell is that?" Somehow, in all his time here, Zetta had never heard of the Doctor in any of his forms.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Well, its kind of heard to explain, mostly because Jamie only told me about him a few times, but apparently a Time Lord travels worlds, helps people, that kind of thing. He greatly admires this Time Lord, calls him the Doctor. There've been a few incarnations of him on the ship. I don't know if he'd help, but he might. Ask around: I'm sure they'd tell you."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Somehow, it always works out that the people who travel worlds and help people never put demon Overlords on their 'nice' list," Zetta mused. Still, why not? Couldn't hurt to evaluate the guy, see if his mana power was anything.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"It couldn't hurt to ask though," Katara said, and she tried to look nonchalant as she said this. "I mean, if I were you I would try what I could to see about getting my own body back."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah, I wouldn't be much of an Overlord if I abandoned crazy unlikely schemes," Zetta admitted, reluctantly persuaded.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Exactly."

Then a smile came to her face. She picked up the book, and mounted a sled.

"We might as well have some fun of our own!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Uh, this thing is gonna start sliding if you're not careful," said the Overlord, who had never been sledding a day in his life.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"That's the plan!" She grinned, placing the book in front of her. "I'll cheat a little, of course: its not easy to steer with a book, and I don't want you to fly off."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"That's the PLAN?!" Zetta squirmed a little to get a better glimpse of where they were aimed.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"The plan is to have fun!" she said, grinning and holding the book with one hand while she steered with the other. Sure, they were likely to end up in a snow drift this way, but that was the fun!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The Overlord yelped as they shot across the snow, eyes wide. Why did humans have such weird pastimes?!

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Because they usually left you breathless and wet, that was why!

Hence the two did find themselves in a snowbank just as Katara had predicted. She was laughing, brushing the snow off the Overlord, starting to get to her feet.

"There, see? Was that so bad?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Why did you pull me out of the snow if you were just gonna put me back in?!" the Overlord protested.

After a moment, once he'd gotten his bearings back and the snow off him, the Overlord added a very subdued, "Yeah, that was okay."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Because this time we were having fun! The last time you were just abandoned for the fun! There's totally a difference!"

She couldn't help but smile a little: there were so few times she could actually unwind and do something she wanted. It made her think of those off times she had back home, or when they were traveling with Aang. Yes, they were still fighting to defeat the firelord, but they also got to be kids in some places, doing things they liked to do.

"I'm glad you liked it," she said. "You know, there are times you are allowed to relax. Take them when you can."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Katara," the Overlord said, with pained and unusual seriousness. "For one, my sort of relaxation is propping myself up on my fortress walls in the city and laughing at how awesome I am. For two, I still don't have any limbs! It's kind of hard to forget that!"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara looked confused. "But you laugh and talk about how awesome you are now. Wouldn't you want to do anything else?"

Unfortunately, that comes out of her mouth before she stops to think. There wasn't much he COULD do, not having limbs and all.