Okay everyone, the story starts somewhere around when the Gaang was hunted by Azula and stop for the night in the mountains. Remember, this is my first story, so please go easy on me in the reviews. Please feel free to tell me your thoughts and so on, I'd love to hear 'em. Reviews make the chapters update faster. :P

I don't own ATLA, or any of the characters, they belong to Nicelodeon/ Mike and Bryan (thanks for the best TV series in my life!) Anyhow, enjoy!

"Quickly, get on Appa!" Aang shouted, as the blue fire was shooting through the air, trying to incinerate them all. Toph and Sokka were stuck on a ledge, dodging the sharp knifes that flew through the smoke and dust. Aang deflected another fiery attack with a spinning shield of air as Katara made it onto Appa's back.

"Yip-yip!" Appa quickly climed into the air, desperately trying to avoid the burning blue flames that wanted to set his fur on fire. Toph and Sokka, however, were having troubles getting by. As the happy circus girl danced around in the heat of battle she hit Sokka in the back with a few quick jabs. He fell to the ground and lay there like a very content, very sleeping seal.

Aang and Katara could only watch as their friends got from a bad situation to a worse, as the arrogant looking girl in the fire-nation armour was cooly firing fireball after fireball to keep them separated from their friends. As they watched with increasing dread they noticed a small glimmer of steel heading towards Toph, who was trying to get Sokka of the ground. A spot of crimson red appeared as the knife cut through her upper arm. She cried out in shock, and Sokka shouted to Katara, "GO! We'll be alright!"

Katara was just about ready to jump the 7 metres from Appa down to the ground when she saw the arrogant girl send a massive wall of fire towards Sokka and Toph, who disappeared as their ledge fell down into the abyss below. A large plume of dust and rocks rose into the sky as half the Gaang fell towards a stony fate.

"Sokka! SOKKA!" Katara yelled at the top of her voice, desperately wanting to go down and save her brother who was right now falling down a cliff. A bolt of cracking lightning fired from that arrogant BITCH forced her to rethink; Appa was nudged by the lightning and lost control as his fur started burning. The huge creature sped into the sky not listening to Aang's shouts and Katara could only watch as the mountains disappeared from beneath them and were replaced by dark clouds.

Back on the mountain Azula looked into the sky were the flying bison had disappeared. Ty Lee and Mai looked over the edge of the cliff into the ravine below. They couldn't see a thing except for the think stone dust that stung their eyes. There certainly wasn't any movement down there. They came over to Azula, Mai offering only a disinterested "Is that everything?", Azula stood still for a while, then silently nodded and they left. In her mind however, she was already calculating how she would find her prey again...

Up in the sky, the thin air eventually put out the fire in Appas fur and the shaken boy and girl's flight evened out. Aang silently pulled the reins, not knowing what else to do, bringing them down to earth by a small cave. They slid down Appa, taking care not to touch the charred flesh and went into the cave silently. As the rain began to fall outside, they sat by the entrance of the cave, huddled against Appa in the cold night air.

Aang hugged Katara as she held on to him and the tears streamed down her face. Neither of them spoke a word. In the distance they heard the rumbling of thunder, natural thunder this time, and they fell asleep in each other's arms that night without the usual warmth of a campfire.

Far away, at the bottom of a stony ravine, a young blind girl noisily smashed her way out of a recent landslide and dragged a lazy older boy by his ponytail with her. His only comment when they got out was, "Sheesh, wthat was some rockalide!" while her only sarcastic thought was: Oh great. I'm stuck with Snoozles.