This story takes place after Azula, Mei, and Tai Li were defeated by Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph. And possibly Zuko and Uncle Iroh, whom I hope is alive.

"I can't believe we got beaten by two kids and their big smelly ox," Mei said angrily.

"Yeah, but wasn't that guy kind of-"

"Give it a rest, Tai Li! That's what you've been saying for the past hour!" Mei yelled. She growled and folded her arms. " 'He's so cute'… 'He's so SPECIAL'… it's driving me BANANAS!"

"Yeah, but you've had a crush on Zuko since we were little kids!" Tai Li teased. "I bet you wish right now you could be fighting with Azula because Zuko's probably there!"

"WHO SAYS I'D LIKE TO BE THERE!"

"No need to be grouchy," Tai Li said, waggling her finger. "Besides, at least I don't keep my obvious crush a secret like SOME PEOPLE."

"… I wonder what Azula's up to," Mei asked nobody in particular.

"Maybe she's fighting Zuko!"

"Will you PLEASE shut up!" Mei yelled. She took out her arrows and pinned Tai Li to a tree by her clothes. "I could go find some hungry platypus-bear RIGHT NOW and then would you be sorry! Would you shut up then!"

Tai Li blinked.

"I THOUGHT SO!" Mei shouted, scaring off some birds.

"You should calm down, Mei… you're scaring our lizard… things…" Tai Li said. "What did Azula call them again? Because nobody's really sure of what their name is until somebody says it…"

Mei sighed. "Okay, I'm SORRY, Tai Li. Are you happy now?"

"Um… could you get me down?" Tai Li asked. Mei took away the arrows and Tai Li grinned.

"Yay! You don't hate me!" She hugged Mei tightly.

"Can't… breathe…" Mei managed to say.

"Oh. Sorry."

Mei and Tai Li looked around.

"Do you recognize anything…?" Mei asked, staring at the trees.

"Hmm. Well, I know on the way here there was… a dandelion field!" Tai Li said.

"I don't see any dandelions."

"I don't even see our lizard thingies anymore." Tai Li glanced around nervously. "Here, Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie! We love you!"

"I wouldn't answer to that if you paid me."

"At least I'm trying," Tai Li said. "Hmph. You're not FUN, Mei. I remember when we used to play games together, you would just sit there and feed the turtle ducks."

"Hey, I didn't throw rocks at the turtle ducks."

"Neither did I, meanie!" Tai Li argued. "That was Azula... come to think of it, Azula was always kind of mean… she pushed me over when I did that cartwheel thing."

"Yeah and she almost burned my head off…" Mei said.

"Thank goodness for Prince Charming!" Tai Li gleefully added. Then she sat down. "Let's wait for Azula. I bet she'll be here soon and then we won't be so lost anymore!"

- At Dusk -

"She's not coming," Tai Li mumbled, her eyes wide as she rocked herself back and forth. "What are we going to do, Mei? She's not coming… we're going to die… we're going to eat each other or worse, we'll be eaten by platypus bears… not like the TAME ones that were at the circus either…" She grinned. "I wish HE was here. He was such a good fighter. If he was here, I wouldn't be scared anymore."

"Are you talking about that guy again?" Mei growled, poking a fire they'd made with a stick.

"Uh-huh," Tai Li said, swooning over her imaginary image of her crush in her brain.

"Well, then obviously you forgot that you easily defeated him. He was no match for us, so stop saying how much of a fearless warrior he was."

Tai Li cocked her head to one side. "But I didn't defeat him, Mei."

"Yeah, you did. I saw you do it with my own two eyes," Mei replied. "I'm so hungry… anything to eat?"

"I could go looking for some food," Tai Li offered. "I could just close my eyes and pretend like he was here… What was his name anyway? Yip-yip?"

"Eh? No, that's what they said to get their stupid bison in the air-"

Suddenly, Tai Li had attacked Mei and pinned her to a tree.

"TAI LI! What the heck are you doing!" Tai Li yelled, surprised.

"Back off, girlfriend! I could stand smelly, but when you call him stupid, that's when I really get angry!" Tai Li shouted, glaring at her friend menacingly.

"Okay, I know you love animals, but now you're creeping me out," Mei said, holding up her hands.

"At least I don't call Zuko stupid!"

"Yeah but this is different!"

"How so?" Tai Li asked, folding her arms angrily.

"Because Zuko is my crush and that ox thing… its just an…" Suddenly, Mei realized something and slapped her forehead. "Oh, man… you're IN LOVE with the ox?"

"Yeah, duh," Tai Li said, rolling her eyes. "Who did you think I was talking about?"

"That other guy."

"EEK, no!" Tai Li shouted, then laughed. "Ew, ew, ew! That guy had a ponytail and no skills whatsoever! He was too easy to beat! But the bison…" She grinned. "He was ADORABLE! And such power! If I had a bison like that, I'd love him, I wouldn't use him for travel!"

"Okay, now you're just freaking me out," Mei said. She blinked. "Ugh… we're still lost, though."

"Panic, panic, panic, panic-"

Mei wacked her across the head.

"Thanks. I needed that."

"No problem."

Suddenly, Azula came out of the forest riding her lizard thingy.

"Azula?" Mei said.

"Yeah! Azula's here!" Tai Lin hugged her. "You missed you, Azula! So, did you get to see Zuko?"

"Tai Li-"

"Yes. And I had fun defeating him too." Azula smirked that smirky smirk she always smirks.

"Oooh! Ouch, Mei!" Tai Li giggled. "Let's dance!"

So the three of them started dancing to nothing in particular.

"By the way… how are we supposed to get out of here?" Mei asked.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"… just keep dancing! Maybe HE'LL come and save us!"

CLUNK.

"Ow! I wasn't hyperventilating, Mei!"

"I know."

"MEANIE!"

"I'll show you meanie."

"Waaaaaah! Azula! Mei's being mean!"

"I'm only giving you what you deserve."

"If he were here, he'd knock you flat!"

"Who's 'he'?"

"Tai Lin's crush: a smelly, stupid, bison!"

CLUNK.

"That's it! Get over here! I'm gonna smack you silly!"

"I'm not coming!"

"Chicken! Get out of that tree!"

"Guys, we still need to get out of here…"

That was kind of weird. But I have no life and I just felt like writing this. Please drop a review.

Edit: I wrote this story back in middle school, so I thought that Tai Li falling in love with a bison was funny because I didn't know there was such a thing as humans actually having a thing for animals; I thought I made it up. So sorry if it weirded anyone else out a lot. I know it has weirded out me four years later upon rereading it.