chapter 19

"This village was apparently attacked before the comet by some thugs, not fire nation. It was one of the ones that had fire nation soldiers in though, they cleared out so its just the earth villagers now" sokka was reading some information off of some papers.

"How was it damaged and how bad is it" aang asked from his seat on appas neck.

"It saids here, from flooding. Hm... thats odd... it also saids that they tried to fix up the buildings but recently they started to fall apart due to left over water damage"

"Thats not good for there health, maybe katara should have stayed with us. I can't heal others yet" I told them now feeling bad about letting her leave.

"Yet" toph razed an eyebrow towards me.

"Ya, the oracle before me told me that I could heal others after something happenes, but she didn't tell me what" aang seemed to slightly turn his head in my direction before facing forward again.

"No worries, it saids here that they have healers there because the people started getting really sick and coughing real bad"

"Black mold, thats what will do that. Its very deadly and attacks the lungs"

"Your so knowledgeable" suki prazed me.

"Well.... I try" I shrugged, I can't tell them too much about the other world. That would be worse then bad.

"I'm glad your with us now y/n, since they don't know what is wrong with them and you know. Even if you can't heal them, you can help the healers by sharing what you know" suki said as she went to pat my back but sokka grabbed her hand before she touched me.

"Remember hun, we can't touch her"

"Oh I forgot, I'm sorry y/n" I patted her foot that was covered by her shoe.

"Thats alright, there just as to be something between our skin" she smiled at me after I spoke. Appa landed and aang helped everyone down.

"Hey sokka... doesn't this place look familiar" aang said to him as we walked closer to the village as a few people were running up toward us.

"Now that I look around more... it kind of does but I can't put my finger on it"

"Well you should remember, after all katara did freeze jet to a tree for what he did" they both stopped because of my words.

"Oh my God, she's right"

"This is all my fault"

"OK what am I missing here" toph cut sokka and aang off as she pushed her arms out confused.

"This is the village jet flooded by destroying the damn" sokka responded.

"Ah hello avatar aang, sokka, mis. B-"

"Toph is fine" toph cut the man off with a wave of her hand.

"Hello toph, suki... and who are you miss" the man greeted then went to grab my hand but I took a step back from him.

"Hello I am the oracle" i said as i put my hands up and bent my legs slightly, the man and the other people with him gasped.

"That explains why your so beautiful" he went to grab my hand again but aang walked infront of me to him.

"Are you the one in charge here" the man ever so slightly frowned before he smiled again.

"I am avatar, you may call me Eric. I was expecting miss katara to help with our sick" we all started our walk. The people that came over with Eric led the way followed by aang and Eric, then sokka and suki, and behind everyone was me and toph.

"I dont like this Eric guy. I can tell anng doesn't either" toph mumbled to me.

"Thats because he was flirting with me and he kept trying to touch me. He seems harmless, if he wasn't I would get a feel for it, does that make sense" she bumped her hip with mine, I can tell that is her form of playful punch that she dose with others, just revised for me since I can't do skin on skin contact.

"Hey, your talking to the girl that sees things through the earth with her feet and vibrations. I think I understand more then anyone, well except for aang"

"Y/n, you said it was their lungs right" aang cut toph and I off from our conversation.

"May I see the home of one of the sick please" I wasn't paying attention to them talking before that, but I can guess what it was from aangs question to me.

"Of course, right this way" Eric said as he jestured with his hand. It was a very short walk till he opened a door to a house that looked much more intact then the others. The others houses were drooping from the water damage.

"At first we thought the sickness might have been from the houses being bad, but this house is so clean and sturdy. I'm beyond confused" Eric exclaimed. I walked over to one of the walls and got down on my knees. He's right the place dose look nice, however the mold might be on the other side of the wood.

"Someone give me something that can help me get this plank of wood off" toph bended her bracelet into what looked like a crowbar.

"Thats perfect toph, thank you" she tossed it to me.

"I called you all here to help rebuild our town, not tare it down" Erics voice was high showing he was upset when I pulled the bottom board off. Sure enough, there was black mold on the other side of the board.

"Well it looks like we are going to have to tear all the buildings down. You see this black stuff is black mold and it is very deadly if breathed in. This stuff here is why so many of your village is sick, and the people who aren't will be very soon. Get everyone to take their valuables out of their houses, but if it has this stuff on it leave it. You can't clean this stuff off. Have your people sleep in tents and sleeping bags. I will let the healers know how to treat everyone. Toph, aang, and myself can destroy and level out the town so we can start fresh. I'm sure everyone will hate to do this but, I'm afraid there is no other option"