Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the last air bender (I wish!) but Toeko is my own creation.

This starts right after the eclipse, and the gang is already at the WesternAirTemple. While she (keep reading to find out about her) is traveling, Zuko joins the gang, and goes on his adventure with Aang and Sokka. He also goes on his adventure with Katara, but Azula hasn't attacked them at the temple.

Toeko is a tall 17-year-old girl with brownish-blackish hair.

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I had to keep running. Faster and faster, I couldn't let them catch me. I couldn't go back to that horrible place. I took little with me, a knife, some rope, fruit, a small bag to hold it all and the skimpy clothes on my back. I knew I wasn't far from the Western Air Temple. I would try to get there as fast as I could and rest there a few days as I tried to figure out a plan to escape the Fire Nation.

I had escaped the prison at night, hoping the shadows would hide me. I doubt anyone even noticed my absence. Yet. Soon they would be out looking for me.

I slept a lot the day before my departure, so I was able to see the sun rise. I knew I would have to eat my food sparingly, because I probably wouldn't arrive until very early the next morning. Throughout the day I barely noticed the pain of hunger; I was used to it from everyday life at the prison. So I ate one of the two papayas that I brought with me as the sun set. I knew I was very close to the Western Air Temple and was exhausted, so I stopped to make camp. Well, not really camp, because it was just me, my bag and a small bundle of sticks. I quickly used an old fire bending technique to light the bundle. I kept the fire small so I didn't attract attention. But on the other hand, it had to be big enough to keep away animals. I drifted off to sleep peacefully.

The next thing I consciously recognized was a loud growl very, very close. I opened my eyes to see a bear-boar baring its teeth at me, my last papaya smashed at its feet. My small fire pit was still slightly smoking. I was frozen. The next thing I knew, its large body was on top of me, scratching and biting everything in reach. I couldn't hold back my scream of pain and fear. I tried to beat it off with my hands, and it retreated two steps back, only to lunge forward a step and grip my right foot securely in its jaws. It was trying to swing me around, but was only dragging me from side to side. I screeched again mostly out of pain this time. A fraction of a second later, I heard a yell close by. It wasn't in agony or fear like mine, and although I could not make out the words, I could tell it was in response to my yell. My only hope was not that whoever it was would find me and rescue me, but that it was not someone from the Fire Nation Army. They would surely turn me in. I would rather be mauled to death by a bear-boar then go back to that prison and the punishment that surely awaited there.

There was another yell very close this time. It sounded like a young girl. "Over there! She's over there!" They were coming for me. I felt no relief at the though, just dread. Finally the bear-boar achieved its goal and lifted me into the air for a split second, which felt much longer to me. But then gravity kicked back in, and I landed on the ground, except for my head which hit a boulder lying underneath me. Everything went black.