The Great Divide

It was getting dark. Katara was gathering wood for a fire, Sokka was putting up the tent, and Aang was looking for some food.
"What about the tarp?" Katara asked Sokka, as he was getting done putting up the tent. "Oh, yah." Sokka said. He picked up the tarp that was rolled up and threw it into the tent. "Sokka, the tarp goes 'on' the tent." Katara said. "Ordinarily, you would be right. But seeing that it's the dry season, your not." Sokka said to katara enoyed. "But, what if it 'does' rain?" Katara said rolling her eyes. "Well what if it doesn't? And that tarp makes a pretty warm blanket." Sokka talked back. "Oh and katara? You really need to get some more firewood. That kenneling looking pretty sorry." Said Sokka. "FINE!" Katara yelled throwing all of the twigs at him. "Hey guys, I got the grub if you got the...." Said Aang. "Hey, wheres the tent, and the camp fire?" "I dont know, why dont you ask Katara, queen of the twigs." Sokka said. "Oh well, ask Sokka, king of the, the.......... tents!" Katara yelled. "Guys, guys. Harsh words wont solve problems, action will." Aang said. "Katara, you set up the tent. Sokka, you get the firewood." "Ok, yah, umhum." Katara and Sokka murmured. The next day, they came to the Great divide, a huge canyon in the earth kingdom. "Wow! Look at it! I could just stare at it all day." Katara said. 'Well, i have seen enough. Lets go." Said sokka turning to appa. "Ugh, Sokka, how could this not festinateing you?" Katara said. "Its a huge canyon, thousands of miles long!" "Well, im sure we will be able to see it fine from the air as we fly away." Sokka said jumping onto Appa. Just then a man came running up waving his arm in the air. "Whait! If your here waiting for the canyon guide, I was here first!" He yelled. He was dressed in a long white, elegant robe. "My tribes on there way!" He said. "Hey, calm down, were just gonna fly over." Sokka said. "Hey, is that your tribe?" Katara asked spotting a group or people coming toward them. They where all dressed in red and black, they looked very sloppy. 'That most sertently is not!" The man said. "They are the Zhangs, a tribe of dirty, steeling, lowlife thugs. They have been the enemy of my tribe for 100 years." "Hey Zhangs, dont eaven think about steeling the canyon guide!" Just then, the canyon guide bended his way thru a wall. He was dressed in a green outfit and a torn straw hat. "Ok! Who am I taking thru the canyon first?" The guide said in a low raspy voice. "Me, my tribe is on there way!" The man said. "Well, were all here, take us!" Said a man that looked to be the leader of the Zhangs. "Hey! Theres my tribe!" Said that man that they met first. The tribe that the man was with was the Gan Jins. They where all dressed like the man that they met, other than one, he was dressed in a gold robe, he looked like the leader. "Hey, you need to take us first, we have sick people that need doctors!" The leader of the Zhangs said. "Well we have old people that need to get across!" Said the leader of the Gan Jins. "SIck people get priority over old people!" Yelled the Zhang leader. "Ready to put your pice making skills to the test?" Katara whispered to Aang. "Ummm, sure." Said Aang "Hey!" Aang yelled. Everyone looked at him. "Listen, Appa here will fly your sick and elderly across. All of you Zhangs and Gan Jing are going to cross this canyon together!" He instructed them. "Ugh, fine sure, ok." Everyone murmured. "Ok, heres the bad news." Said the canyon guide. "No food in the canyon, it attracts canyon crawlers!" (Huge animals that eat people) "What!? No food?! No Way!" Everyone said. "Aww, yo babies can go a day without food cant ya? Would you rather be hungry, or dead?" Said the canyon guide. "So all food had better be in your gut, or in the garbage!" Everyone started eating. The Gan Jins eating small pieces of food with chop-sticks, and the Zhangs eating chicken legs very sloppily. THey finished eating, then took off into the canyon. "SO. do you know how this canyon was formed?" Katara asked the guide. "yes, most likely this canyon was formed by powerful earthbending spirits, that where mad at the farmers for planting on there land." Just then, a huge rock fell and was coming right for them! The canyon guide bended the rocks away from them. "Hahahahaha. and apparently there still angry!" The guide said. Every thing when rather well for a very long time. But then, out of nowhere, a huge canyon crawler appeared! "Oh no!" The canyon guide yelled, he was being picked up by the canyon crawler. The canyon crawler eld the guide from his mouth. "Oh no you dont!" Sokkka yelled. Then he threw his boomerang at the canyon crawler. It shook his head, and flung the guide in to a pile o rocks. "Oh no!" Said Katara running to the guide. "This is not good. His arms are broken!" Katara yelled. "And without my arms no bending, in other words....." The guide said. "Were stuck in this canyon" Said Aang interrupting. They walked a long time, the two tribes fighting the whole time. "THats it!" Yelled Aang. He jumped onto a long very tall rock in the middle of the path. "Zhangs! You travel on this side of the cliff. Gan Jins, you go on that side! I will go on top of this and keep an eye on you!" The two tribes split. "Katara, you go with the Gan Jins." Aang told her. "Sokka, you go with the Zhangs. See if you guys can find out why they hate each other so much." They both nodded. After a wile of walking, the two tribes set up camp. "Arnt you going to put up the tarp?" Sokka asked one of the Zhangs. "No, its the dry season, and besides, we like to use the tarps as blankets." He answered. "Finally, someone gets it!" Sokka said. "You really think that it will rain?" Katara asked the leader of the Gan Jins, as he was putting up the tarp. "No, but you can never be to careful right?" He answered her. Katara smiled. "So why is it that you and the Gan Jins are iname?" Sokka asked while they where setting around the fire. The leader of the Zhangs pulled out a bunch of food. "So it was you that brought food?" Sokka asked. "Listen, the Gan Jins think that were so bad, that they would bring food, because they thought we would bring food, so thats why we brought food. You follow?" He said. "Not really, but if threes food im happy." Sokka answered. And it was true, the Gan Jins Had brought food in. "Ok Sokka, this is why we hate the Gan Jins so much. One hundred years ago, a Zhang named Wei Jen when he saw that a member of the Gan Jins was collapsed just outside the village. He was carrying a sacred orb to there people, back to the village. Wei Gen stopped to help the man, but he just told him to take the orb to the Gan Gins village. He carried it all the way there but when Wei Gen got there, the Gan Jins accused him of stealing toe orb and put him in jail for 20 long years. TO this day the Gan Jins still do there redipsion ritual. You can never trust a Gan Jin." He told sokka. The Gan jins told Katara pretty much the same thing, but that Wei Gen stole the orb. The next day, Katara and Sokka met with Aang. "Did you find out?" Aang asked them. "Yes." Katara and Sokka both said at the same time. They told him what they had said. Then Katara and Sokka started fighting about which story was true. A little later, the tribes met up again. They di ok for a wile, no fighting. Bt all of the sudden, 8 canyon crawlers jumped out in front of them. "Not again!" they yelled, then Angs saw the food and had an idea. He took all of the food and threw it up the side of the canyon wall, they where now at the and of the canyon. They grabbed the bags tat the food was in, and put the bags over the canyon crawlers mouths. They jumped on top of them and rode them ou the side of the canyon wall! They got to the top and threw the food back down, the canyon crawlers when back down to get it. "WOw, I had no idea that you Zhang where so handy in a fight." said the leader of the Gan Jins. "ANd I had no idea you Gan Jind could kick some butt." Said the Zhang leader. "To bad you cant re-right history." said The Zhang leader. Te two leaders drew there swords, and started fighting, while talking about Jin Wei and Wei Jin. "Hey, Wei Jin and Jin wei?" Aang asked. "I know those guys! I may not look it, but im a hundred and twelve years old. Wei Jin and Jin Wei whernt enemies! THey where brothers, twins in fact, and they where 8! I was there on the day your talking about! They whernt fighting about an orb, they where fighting over a ball! A soccer ball! Jim Wei had the ball, but he tripped, and Wei Gen got it, he got to the west gate, which was a goal, and stepped out of bounds! The official put him in the penalty box for 2 short minutes, not 20 long years! Dont get me wrong, Wei Jin was a pig, and Jim Wei was a neat freak. But they respected each others differences." Said Aang. "Huh." said the Zhangs and Gan Jins. "Well, let us travel to Ba Sing Se together." Said the Zhang leader. Then they left. "Wow Aang, it was such a coincidence that you know them!" Said katara "Yah, you could say that,.... or you could call it lying." Said Aang. "I made it all up." He said smiling. "You are so bad." Said Katara. Thanks for reading!! Tell your friends!!! A big thanks to my BFF Dalila5595 ........claudia