A/N: Hey everyone this is our first Fanfic. The first chapter is probally pretty boring but it will get better in later chapters.

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CHAPTER 1: The journey along the river

Wake up Aang!

Sleep. You need your rest!

Your friends need you!

Your friends will be just fine!

You can't stop the war when you're unconscious!

The world can wait a bit longer!

Aang wake up!!!

The morning sun blasted into Aang's eyes as he opened them for the first time in a week after the battle at Ba Sing Se. He noticed he was laying on Appa and his friend's backs were facing him. Every thing was blurry, even his memory. Why we were they on Appa? Where were Azula and Zuko? What happened? Still not knowing he was awake, Katara, Sokka, and Toph talked about what they were going to do about finding him a firebending teacher.

"How are we going to find a firbender to teach Aang", asked Katara.

"It's not like we can just walk into the fire nation", said Toph, "Someone would see us."

"Toph is right", said Katara.

"What do you think snoozes", said Toph?

"Wait, what", said Sokka rubbing his eyes and still thinking about Suki.

"Do you have any ideas on getting Aang to learn firebending", asked Toph very slowly.

"No", said Sokka, "Every time things seems to be going right for our little gang something unplanned happens and then it blows up in our face. Just face it, we have bad luck."

"I hate to say it, but Sokka's right. Things haven't exactly been heading in the right direction", said Toph . Then Katara saw out of the corner of her eye, Aang sitting up.

"Aang your awake", she cried.

"Twinkletoes is awake", asked Toph? Katara crawled over to kneel next to him and hugged him.

"Not so hard, said Aang." "My back hurts."

"Let me see", said Katara. Aang rolled over and Katara looked at his back. "You need a healing session." "Sokka, bring me some water."

While Sokka was looking for the water Aang asked, "Katara, what happened?"

"I'll tell you later. Right now you need to be taken care of."

"We don't have any water left", said Sokka. "Then we need to land somewhere close to water", stated Katara.

"Let's head down to Chameleon Bay", said Sokka.

After Katara told Aang everything that happened at Ba Sing Se everyone sat in silence listening to their own thoughts for the next hour and a half.

Toph sat and though about her parents. Were they hurt? Were they still mad at her? All these thoughts raced around in her head.

Sokka was no better. Suki was on his mind. Where was she? Could he still save her? Or had she given up on him? Sokka pictured himself saving Suki from a dark dungeon. He saw her face when she noticed he had saved her.

Aang was thinking about Azula. If he had opened his seventh chakra, could he have won at the battle of Ba Sing Se? Katara had one thing one her mind, Where was Zuko now? Was he still after the avatar? Did he think Aang was dead? Did his father welcome him home? Everyone was so engrossed in their own thoughts. They only noticed they were there when Appa landed roughly on Chameleon Bay.

"Wow, that went by fast," said Sokka.

"Really, I though it took a long time", commented Toph.

"It doesn't matter how long it took", said Katara, "I have to give Aang a healing season. Then she noticed a water tribe ship on the shore by the beach. "Dad", she yelled as she saw the water tribe men getting off the boat. She ran towards them with Sokka right behind her. Aang and Toph waited by Appa. As soon as Katara saw her Father she gave him a hug. He was shocked to see his kids again, but gave them both big hugs. It was a big deal, because Katara hadn't seen her dad in 2 years.

Zuko had been welcomed home. His father thought him a hero, but for some reason Zuko wasn't happy. He had finally regained his honor, but something inside of him told him that he was still a traitor to his nation. He knew that the only reason his father loved him now was because of a lie, the lie that Azula had told their Father. He had not killed the Avatar, she did. Now he wasn't even sure that the avatar was even dead. All his life Zuko thought the only way he could be loved and respected by his father was to capture the world's only hope for peace, the Avatar. Zuko lied down on his bed while these thoughts haunted his mind. Then, a new thought entered his head. His family was falling apart and nothing could fix it. His Dad would never truly love him, his Mom disappeared about 6 years ago, his Uncle was locked in a prison, his sister wanted to kill him, and his little sister ran away 4 years ago and he knew she was not coming back. Having been up for hours, he finally passed out from exhaustion.

While Katara was healing Aang, Sokka talked to Hakoda about the invasion. Hakoda agreed to rally up all their allies from the earth and water tribe.

As soon as Aang fell asleep, the group said goodbye to Hakoda and his men and got on to Appa and flew towards the ocean, which would take a day or two. Everyone fell asleep except for Katara, who was steering Appa. Just then, a messenger hawk landed on Appa's head. Katara, who looked confused, took the note that was attached to its leg. The first thing she noticed was that it defiantly wasn't for her, but she read it anyway. It was a wanted poster for Toph. Her parents were offering 2,000,000 gold coins for her return. She looked over at the sleeping earthbender and decided not to tell her. It would be better if she didn't know; it would only give her ideas.

Appa landed in a town called Chiang, which was located on a river, so there was plenty of water for another of Aang's healing seasons. As the group walked towards an inn, Katara noticed a board covered with wanted posters. She saw Toph's picture on one. Casually, Katara walked up and tore it down before Sokka or Aang saw. Aang saw this out of the corner of his eye, but decided to not mention it. If it was important he would find out sooner or later. The gang walked up to the inn.

"I don't like it here, said Sokka."

"Sokka is right," agreed Toph, "Let's just sleep on Appa."

" Well we can at least get some food?", said Sokka.

So, Sokka and Toph got some food from the market while Katara and Aang had a healing season. When Toph and Sokka came home with the food, Katara was telling Aang the details of what had happened in Ba Sing Se. The gang ate dinner then went to bed. So, as the sunset and moon raised high in the sky, they were all fast asleep.

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A/N: We already have about 6 chapter written so if you want to read more... Reveiw!!! We can handle your criticizism. (even if it's mean. Those are the ones that help us the most)