Meet-n-Greet

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After being released from stasis, having the slime removed from their bodies and clothed in the creepy, pulsing leaf-suit that everyone wore, and being taken to the Weapons & Possessions lockers to collect their belongings, the new arrivals would find themselves standing in the Observation Deck. Round windows lined the fleshy walls, revealing the bright display of lights that was inter-dimensional travel. They would also discover that there were people--members of the command staff and crew that had woken earlier--waiting for them.

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Katara nodded. "Its like that in my world too: you have to be born with the abilities, or you just don't have them. You can be helpful in other ways too though. My brother has no bending abilities like me, and he usually just looked at it as freaky magic at first. For him, being the boy in the family while dad was gone meant he had to take care of me to the best of his ability, and he did. Eventually, he found someone to teach him how to fight better with a sword, and he was very good at figuring things out and being the level head in the group. In a way, him not having bending ability made him think more with his head, and that has helped us a lot in the long run."

Katara smiled sheepishly. "Not strange, different. But I think its something to be proud of. And I agree with you: people who are themselves are the strongest people I know."

Katara paused. "What is Polyjuice potion?"

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"Did Stacy pick him up, too? Oh... you probably don't know yet... Though I did meet someone who was wearing clothes similar to yours earlier. He had a very pretty boomerang. I've never seen a boomerang in real life, and this one was such a nice shade of blue..." She pauses. "What's your brother's name?" Though it's none of her business, she does rather want to know; their names are all so interesting. That, and she may well have met him earlier, if Sir Boomerang's clothes and hair color are any indication.

"It is something to be proud of, isn't it? Individual thought processes and all."

"Polyjuice potion... It... Well, it allows you to turn into another person for a short period of time. From what I hear, it's quite uncomfortable, and you only get an hour out of a single dose. Supposedly tastes horrid, too."

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"Actually, Stacy did," Katara replied, and then listened to the rest of what Luna was saying. "Oh, that's him all right. His name is Sokka. If you called his boomerang pretty, I'm guessing that either confused or bothered him. Sokka has this weird obsession with being a 'man's man' and sometimes it makes him forget that I can waterbend him to oblivion if he thinks I can't do something because I'm a girl!"

Katara huffed here, looking annoyed, than cleared her throat. "But other than that, my brother's a really nice person, and in time I think he'll be able to adjust to this place. He just really needs to step outside the bx where everything is simple and logical just because."

Katara nodded. She was sure Luna was that kind of person: she didn't feel sorry for herself because she was different, she just allowed herself to BE. Katara thought Luna was brave to do it.

She made a face upon the explanation of Polyjuice Potion was though. "Ugh, turn into another person? That doesn't sound pleasant. I mean, changing you around to begin with is probably pretty uncomfortable, right?"

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"Oh, well, that's good." She smiles detachedly. "Yes, he was rather confused by my observation. I had to explain myself, which I suppose was rather strange."

Katara's huffy moment has a giggle coming from Luna. "Siblings are designed to be annoying, you know. I do wish I had one. And anyway, he was rather nice."

"Oh, it isn't pleasant at all. People normally use it for forms of espionage, anyway. My Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher last year turned out to be using it for the entire year. He was actually an escaped convict from Azkaban out to turn Harry over to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. It was quite a shock." Though, really, she doesn't sound shocked at all. It seems that it takes a bit more than the memory of the story of Barty Crouch Jr. to upset her cool.

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"Well, he just sees himself in a certain way. That changed a lot from how he used to be. It was his girlfriend that helped with that. Her name is Suki, and she's a Kyoshi warrior." She could get into who they are and what they do, but that was a long story, and would just go on too long.

Katara nodded vigorously. "Oh believe me, it can get a lot worse when he's the only companion besides someone you just recently connected with. I can say its been annoying, but I've also seen Sokka grow a lot. I guess when you're about to get captured or possibly killed, you can still count on your sibling to have your back."

And was really the only reason she wouldn't mind how protective he'd be later on. She would make sure he was never in danger either. The same applied to Mai and Zuko.

Where was he anyway?

"WOW," Katara said, but remembered something all too similar: the day of the black sun. The attack that started out so well: ruined when they attempted to take the Fire Nation by surprise. Azula kidnapped Suki and donned the disguise of a Kyoshi warrior and learned of the attack. Katara couldn't imagine the danger of a potion that would make you looka nd sound like someone else.

"I can't see that kind of potion as a good thing," Katara said. "He have some pretty twisted people in our world."