Prompt Post 4!
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Gantu stutter for a moment before drawing himself up. “Grand Councilwoman. I was just disposing of a threat to the village.”
“That isn’t necessary. I do believe our Avatar has the matter well in hand.”
Lilo and Gantu both blink. Then the latter reels back.
“Who? Who is it!?”
The Grand Councilwoman approaches Lilo and Stitch. Stitch bristles up, but Lilo carefully pats him on the head with her elbow. The Grand Councilwoman kneels on the snow to be at eye-level.
“Child, do you know what the Avatar is?” she asks.
Lilo pauses and thinks for a moment. It’s hard with her head as fuzzy as it is. She feels like she knows, but the sensation isn’t anything that she can put to words.
“It’s important,” Lilo says eventually.
The Grand Councilwoman nods. “Very much so. The Avatar is the bridge between this world and the Spirit World. The Avatar also keeps the peace between the nations through their ability to bend all the elements.” The Grand Councilwoman pauses. “We don’t perform the test until the children are eight, and we don’t tell the Avatar their identity until they are sixteen. But you have made much of our normal procedures null and void.”
“Sorry,” Lilo says, mostly out of habit.
The Grand Councilwoman gives a small laugh, light and elegant.
“Well, all it means is that now you will have to bear with the knowledge, my dear.”
“What?” Lilo still feels like she’s missing something.
“You are the Avatar.”
Lilo blinks and tries to run everything she’s just heard through her head again to see if she’s understanding it right. She thinks maybe she’s missing something, because it doesn’t sound right. The Grand Councilwoman smiles.
“Avatar Lilo, you are young to have this burden revealed to you, but I have the utmost belief that you will be able to grow into the title admirably.” She looks over Lilo to Stitch. “Already you have saved a life before it was taken without cause. People fear what they do not understand.”
That at least, Lilo understands fully. She nods her head. After this, she’s going to ask Nani what all being the Avatar means, but right now she’s too tied to do much else. The draining adrenaline and burst of energy has sapped all her strength.
“Can I go to sleep now?” she asks in her most polite voice.
“Lilo!” Nani hisses from behind her. Lilo rolls her eyes and corrects herself.
“May I go to sleep now?”
The Grand Councilwoman smiles again before dipping her head and standing up.
“You may. We will discuss things tomorrow, Avatar Lilo.” With that, the Grand Councilwoman drifts away from her, towards the crowd.
“Are we the Northern Water Tribe or the Tribe of Simpering Gawkers?” she asks cooly. Their audience immediately disperses, still sending wide-eyed looks at Lilo as they do. Gantu stares at her for a moment before turning and heading away while shaking his head.
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Lilo sighs and sits down. Stitch copies and lays his head on Lilo’s shoulder. He’s still shaking, but he’s also much calmer and warmer to her than before.
“Lilo,” Nani says as she approaches. She kneels down with her back facing her sister so Lilo can crawl up her back. Lilo does and Nani slowly gets to her feet after hooking Lilo’s legs through her arms.
“Stitch…” Lilo mutters.
Nani sighs. “He’s coming with us.” David is following behind Lilo and her sister. Stitch is walking beside David, hissing whenever David looks his way. Lilo smiles at the freaked out expression, because she can tell from Stitch’s eyes that he’s just joking.
“Nobody gets left behind,” Lilo mutters as she turns her head forward again.
“Yeah,” Nani says softly.
Their party makes their way through the city without another disruption, though Lilo can hear the people on the street muttering something about her. She doesn’t care.
After they enter the igloo, Nani helps Lilo out of her coat in record time. David finishes healing the wounds on her hands, and after drinking some water, Lilo is wrapped up with three blankets and set near the fire. Stitch watches all of this curiously before he finally settles down next to Lilo, wrapping his tail around her little cocoon comfortingly. His eyes slowly lull closed and Lilo feels like something is beginning here, something big and scary and new and wonderful. Lilo knows David and Nani are both tense, but now she also knows that she has the power to protect things that matter to her, so she isn’t so worried anymore.
And with Stitch beside, she knows she isn’t alone anymore either.
Life isn’t perfect- hasn’t been perfect since Lilo and Nani’s parents died, but Lilo thinks it’s just a little more right now. She lets the feeling sink in before she falls asleep.
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Thanks for reading! I have some ideas for Mulan and Tangled queued up, but if anyone has suggestions I'm all ears.
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I love how her airbending comes out as the result of an argument with Myrtle, as well! It's a really nice touch, and it totally makes sense that it would be confused with waterbending at first. (Especially in a snowy environment!)
The whole situation with Stitch is so perfect. The line about her giving him a name cracked me up, it's so Lilo, and yes she would totally adopt a lost, angry little creature and want to keep it as a pet.
I have to take a moment to squee about the Grand Councilwoman and her HBIC moment as well, haha. Absolutely glorious, and I love how she and Lilo interacted.
Ohana means family. ♥ I totally have to bookmark this.
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Anyways, I am SO glad you liked this! I had a lot of fun trying to wind in parts of their personalities into canon with different explanations. That Lilo and Nani's interactions made sense is the biggest relief because it's that which is the backbone for the movie, yeah. ;)
Thanks for the awesome prompt and the wonderful reply!
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