It is here, the first chapter of the final book. Let's make it a good one. For now enjoy
Chapter 1: The Sunrise
Fuzzines, Hazzines, Headaches. These are all the feelings that Aang is experiencing at this moment. His eyes open slowly as he sees blurriness. He straightens himself right as his chest and back starts to hurt. He looks down on the ground as the headaches and blurs starts to fade away as he can think more clearly. He shakes his head as he holds his side. "What happened?" Aang asks himself.
He lifts his head up as his face is completely surprised as he clearly around him. He is in a metal room that is dimly lit; there are fire barrels and explosives in one corner and weapon in the other. However what really makes him shocked above all else is that he sees a banner hanging on the wall with the fire nation insignia on it. "Oh no" He says as he quickly shuffles out of the bed.
He grabs his staff as he silently makes his way to the door of the room. He turns the valve on it as the door unlocks. He peers his head out to see if there are any soldiers. As he sees that the hall is clear he steps out as he walks through the hall while using his staff to support his weight. He tries to be silent but the grunting from his pain and sounds his staff is making causes this to be difficult.
As he comes to the end of the hall he sees a left and right hall as he presses on. He is about to turn left when. "Did you hear something?" Aang hears some say as he looks over the corner and sees two soldiers, one big and one short as Aang quickly retreats back. His back is against the wall. He looks serious as he lifts up his staff. He comes out as he a gust of wind that's not strong but still enough to hit them as he limp runs away.
"He's awake." The big soldier says as they both chase Aang. "Stop! Wait!" The soldier yells. Aang uses his left arm to support him as he tries to get away from them. Every step he takes is filled with pain. He finally sees some stairs leading to the exit as he runs to them. As he reaches the stairs and he gets to the top his ankle gets caught as this causes him to trip.
As he falls his staff flies out of his hand and slides on the deck. He sees his staff slide towards two soldiers and he is surprised to see what is happening. "Momo?" Aang says confused as he sees that one of the soldiers is petting Momo. The soldier stops as they both look at Aang and Momo runs over to Aang as he flies on Momo's shoulder and starts licking him.
Aang stands there shocked at what's happening. "Aang!" A soldier yells as he runs to the other soldiers. Three cloaked figures look over to Aang and smile. They take off they're cloaks as their faces are revealed as Katara, Toph and Mizu. "Twinkle toes that's gotta be you." Toph says as they run over to him. When the small and the big soldier comes in they all stand together looking at Aang. The big soldier is pipsqueak while the other is The Duke. The two ordinary soldiers is Bato and a middle aged man with a warriors wolf tail like Sokka's. There are also two masked soldiers who stand next to them.
Aang looks at them confused. "Are you sure? I feel like I'm dreaming." He says rubbing his eyes. Katara suddenly hugs him catching him by surprise. "You're not dreaming. You're finally awake." She says. A fire soldier comes up to him wearing a mask as he hugs Aang. "Welcome back to the land of the living buddy." He says as he lets go and looks at Aang. Aang recognises the voice as he looks at him curiously. "Zian?" He says.
Then something happens that catches them off guard. Aang starts to groan as he begins to lose balance. Toph notices this "Oh no somebody catch him, he's gonna…" Too late. Aang falls to the floor as Katara luckily catches him as his eyes closes. They stand there looking down at their unconscious friend.
Later
"Zian! Would you stop that?!" Mizu shouts at Zian who is busy lightly slapping Aang on his cheek. "Wakey wakey Aang, come one wake up. You had enough sleep." He says while smiling. He then starts to violently shake him. "Wake up! You can sleep when you're old!" He says. This causes the others to panic. "Stop! You're gonna hurt him!" Katara shouts. Aang's eyes start to slowly open up as he groans.
Zian smiles under the mask. "Finally our friend has awoken. Praise be, he's still breathing." Zian says overdramatically. Katara rolls her eyes as she pushes him aside as she sits in front of him. All of them decide to give the two of them some alone time as they get back to what they were doing.
The next morning
Everyone gathers around as they sit and have some breakfast as Sokka explains to Aang what happened during his long sleep as he and Zian takes off their masks. "After what happened in Ba Sing Se we had to get you to safety." He says as Mizu grins. "Well yeah and the rest of us." She says looking at Zian. Aang looks at Zian a little worried. "Aren't you upset that you won't get to accomplish your fathers dream?" He asks. Zian just smiles as he shrugs. "Eh, not really I mean my father did want that but not at the cost of my own life." He says sounding relaxed.
Sokka continues. "We flew back to chameleon bay where we found my father and the other water tribe men." He says as Mizu smiles. "Yep and after spending some time with him I can see where Sokka gets his humour from." She says giggling as Zian and Hakoda chuckles. Aang looks around and sees that someone or two someone's is not with them. "Where's the Earth King?" Aang asks Zian.
"Oh my uncle decided that he wanted to travel the world in disguise. So he kind of set off alone, and by kind of alone he took Bosco with him. I'm going to miss does two." He says sighing. "But what are you going to do? If they want to travel, let them." He says as Sokka nods. "Soon the whole bay was overrun by fire nation ships. Rather than fight them all we captured a single ship and made it our disguise." Sokka says. Mizu smiles. "Don't worry about the crew, we just knocked them out and left them on the bay." Mizu says as she glares at Sokka. "Zian and I made very sure of that." She says as Sokka looks at her a bit scared. Zian smiles. "And let me say that these clothing that fire nation army wear are sweeeeeeeet. They feel so comfortable. I can't believe I've never tried this on. It's like wearing a fluffy cloud. I'm really sorry that I hated your people Mizu." He says looking at Mizu who just smiles as she waves it off. "Ah don't worry, it's not the first time someone hated my nation." She says as she and Zian both chuckle.
Sokka looks at her hoping she won't hurt him as he takes out a map of the Earth Kingdom as shows it to Aang. "Since then we've been travelling west. We crossed through the serpents pass a few days ago. We've seen a few fire nation ships but none have bothered us." He says. Zian grins. "I'm surprised that we haven't run into old snakey along the way." He says.
Aang looks at them all wondering. "So what now?" He asks. Hakoda (The wolf's warrior tail guy who is also Sokka and Katara's father) looks at Aang. "We've been working on a modified version of the invasion plan." He says. "It's Sokka's invasion plan." Katara says sounding hostile. Hakoda looks at her. "Yes, it Sokka's plan." He says sounding sorry. Zian eyes looks at the situation. "oooo…awkward." He says jokingly as Katara glares at him as Zian holds his hands up in defence.
Hakoda looks back at Aang. "We won't be able to mount a massive invasion without the Earth King armies." He says. Zian nods at this. "Yep that ship has sunk…hopefully this one won't." He says looking all around at the ship. "Yes that is true but the Solar Eclipse will still leave the fire nation vulnerable." Hakoda says. Sokka looks at Aang. "So we're planning a smaller invasion. Just a small rag tag team of our friends and allies from around the Earth Kingdom. We already ran into Pipsqueak and The Duke." He says gesturing to the two. "Good to see you again Aang." Pipsqueak says while The Duke sits on his shoulder eating some food.
"Don't forget that we also have another advantage. Zian's transformation." Mizu says. Aang looks at her confused. "Are you saying Zian is able to transform at will?" He asks her. Zian nods. "Actually no. I still can't do that for some reason. At this point I can only transform if I'm angry, which isn't really going to work what with me not being so angry at the fire nation anymore, or if the full moon shows up. However Tui told me…" He says as Sokka looks at Aang.
"I'm starting to think he's losing it." Sokka says jokingly. Zian squints his eyes at him. "Watch it." He warns him as he looks back at Aang. "Anyway as I was saying. Tui told me that on the day I will be able to transform on the day of the Solar Eclipse seeing as how the moon will block the sun, kind of like a full moon. However he also says that when the sun is visible again I'll be forced to change back, but during that time I'll be able to cause some serious damage to the place." He says sounding excited.
"Aren't you afraid that the others will be scared of you?" Aang asks. Mizu shakes her head. "Don't worry about that. Zian transformed on a night when the moon was full while you were busy sleeping. Our friends and allies were scared of him and attacked him when they didn't know it was him. But after some time we convinced them that he's on our side and they got use to him and also started to like him." She says. Zian nods. "Yep and I have to say. It's going to be awesome when we bust open the front gates of the fire nation capital with the small numbers we have against an entire army. Oh man I'm so pumped!" He says filled with excitement.
Sokka smiles. "Yes but the best part is that Zian and the Eclipse isn't even our biggest advantage." He says as he leans closer to Aang and whispers. "We have a secret. You." He says. "Me?" Aang says not sure what he means by that. "Yep the whole world thinks you're dead. Isn't that great?!" Sokka asks.
Aang on the other hand just looks at them stunned at this news. He looks over the side of the ship looking at the water as he turns back to them filled with shock. "The world thinks I'm dead? How is that good news? That's terrible!" He says. Sokka walks over to him. "No it's great; it means the fire nation won't be hunting us anymore. And even better they won't be expecting you on the day of Black Sun." He says as Mizu agrees. "Yep they'll never expect him to show up. I bet it will throw them of guard or even completely paralyze them." She says sounding enthusiastic about this.
Aang looks at them very worried. "No no no no. you have no idea. This is so messed up." He says as Zian just smiles. "Well not really. It could be worse." He says as he looks over to his left and sees a fire nation ship heading towards them. He starts to look happy as he jumps a little while clapping his hands excitingly. "Ooo we have guests. I'll go get snacks." He says as he runs to the hold. "Zian!" Mizu shouts at him as he stops and looks at her. "Fine." He says as he walks back to them.
Aang looks at the ship with determined. "I'll handle this." He says as he opens his glider. "The Avatar is back." He adds as he suddenly clutches his ribs as he groans in pain. Zian crosses his arms. "Looks like the Avatar has some stomach problems." He says mockingly. Aang glares at him as he places the glider over his back as he looks like he is going to take off even though it hurts while he is doing it. "Aang wait! They don't know that we're not fire nation." Katara says stopping him. And if they do find out, we can always use Mizu as a fake hostage." He says as Mizu scowls at him. "Hey! There is no way I'm going to be used as a hostage." She says angrily. Zian looks at her as he holds his hands up in defence. "Ok ok we'll, or more like I'll, drop that plan." He says.
Aang looks at them as he sighs and closes his glider as he gives in. "Everyone, just stay calm. Bato and I will take care of this." Hakoda says as he and Bato places the fire nation helmets on their heads. Zian looks at them eagerly. "Can I also handle this?" He asks them. They look at him and shake their heads. Zian looks at them disappointed. "Awww." He says as he and the others walk over to their hiding places while he grumbles. Pipsqueak and The Duke cover Appa and everything that would look suspicious as they also hide.
"I hate not being able to do anything." Aang says bitterly as Zian grins. "Well there are always bad days." He says jokingly. When the two are parallel to one another they both stop as the other ships places a metal ramp between them as a fire nation general with a scowled on his face and with two soldiers behind him, with one on each side, walks across the plank and over to Bato and Hakoda who stands there.
Bato and Hakoda bow to the general. "Commander, why are you off course? All western fleet ships are supposed to be moving to Ba Sing Se to support the occupation." The general asks. "Actually we're from the…eastern fleet. We have orders to deliver some cargo." He says hoping the general would buy it. "Ah, eastern fleet." He says thinking as he looks at them. "Well it's nice of Admiral Chan to let us know that he was sending one of his ships our way." He says sarcastically.
"I'm sure Admiral Chan meant no disrespect sir." Bato says playing the part. "I mean how hard is it to write a message and send a hawk our way?" The General asks. "Next time we'll send two hawks to make sure you get the message." Hakoda assures him. The three of them bow respectfully to one another before Bato and Hakoda turn around and walk away.
As the walk one of the soldiers comes close to the General while listens from his hiding place. "Sir, Admiral Chan has been on leave for two months on Ember Island." The soldier says. The General is surprised by this. "What? Why doesn't anyone ever tell me anything?" The General asks as he becomes suspicious now. "Somethings not right, they should've known that." He says. "Uh-oh." Zian says as he feels that things could go south as he keeps listening. "I think this is a captured ship." The General says as he and his guards walk back to their ship.
Zian puts his mask on as he comes out of the hiding place. His friends look at him wide eyed. "Zian! What are you doing?!" Mizu whisper to him as he walks over to the general. "Just stay quiet until we're safely across. Then we'll sink this ship." The General says. Zian runs over to the General. "General!" Zian yells out to the man. The General hears him and he and his guards turn to him. "What is it soldier?" He asks showing no signs of suspicions. Zian stops in front of the General as he looks at him. "I just got a message from Admiral Chan." He says.
This makes the General look at him surprised. "And what is that message soldier?" He asks curiously. Zian grins under his mask. "Well, in the message…" He then extends his left foot back, lowers his upper body a bit down as his shoulder is facing the front, shifts his body a bit back and proceeds thrusts himself forward. This causes him to ram into the General as he rams into him hard enough that he is send flying to his guards who he slams into which in turn causes them to fly back unto their own ship.
As they land on the steel deck they look at Zian. "He says to get off our ship!" Zian yells as he looks at the others. "Time to go!" Zia shouts. Everyone comes out as they prepare to escape. Katara moves to the side of the side of the ship where the ramp is as she bends the water in the lake and forms a wave between the ships. She then thrusts her hand forward as this makes the wave slam into the enemy ship and pushes them away from their ship.
As both ships are far from enough from each other their ship starts to move as they get away. As the enemy ship recovers from the attack it then positions itself and gives chase to the ship. They pour oil on rocks that are on trebuchets and light them on fire. They then throw them at the ship as they try to hit them.
The Zian and the rest try to keep their balance from the boulders that are hitting them. Zian and Toph stand side by side to each other. "Give us some earth!" Zian yells to Pipsqueak and The Duke. They place slabs of earth in front of them as he and Toph bend the slabs and throw them at the ship. Zian and Toph hit on each as Zian cheers. "Whoo! Ten points!" He yells.
Suddenly the ship shakes as Zian almost loses his balance. "What was that?!" Zian asks looking at Katara. "The ship has a hole in it. I'll fix it." She says. Zian gives her a thumbs up as he gets back to shooting slabs. "I'm gonna try and give us some cover." Katara says. She then bends the water as she creates steam all around them as it creates a giant fog as their views blur. As they think they are safe they suddenly see a giant fireball flying in the fog and coming down towards them. They take cover as the boulder destroys there ammunition. "Well that helped us a treat." Mizu says sarcastically as she shoots fire balls at the enemy ship.
Another boulder is shot at them as it hits the engine. Mizu quickly runs over to the fire as she extinguishes it. "How are we doing?" Toph asks Sokka. "Things couldn't get much worse." Sokka says. Suddenly behind him on the side of the ship something suddenly shoots out the water. It makes a loud screeching noise as they all look. "Oh no, not you!" Zian exclaims with irritation as they see that it is the giant serpent that lives in serpents pass.
Sokka turns around and looks at the snake with a fearful look. "The universe just loves proving me wrong, doesn't it?!" Sokka shouts. "You make it too easy!" Toph yells. The serpent is about to strike when it unexpectedly stops upon seeing Zian. The serpent looks at him for a while as it remembers something. It then looks at the ship chasing them as the fire nation ship fires a boulder at the snake.
The serpent screeches as it dives into the water and towards the enemy ship. As it is close to the ship it comes out as it entangle itself around it as it stops it in its place as Zian and the others manage to get away. Sokka looks at the site with a smile. "Thank you the universe." He says with delight while Zian looks at the snake confused. "What just happened?" Zian asks himself.
They dock their ship near the harbour of some town as the group walk over to Aang's room. Zian opens the door as they see him lying on his bed. "Hey Aang. We're going into town to find some dinner." Toph says. Aang's stomach starts to growl as he holds it and looks at them. "Well I am pretty hungry. Maybe dinner is a good idea." He says. Sokka walks over to him as he holds out a bandanna. "Here tie this around your head; it will cover your arrow." He says. Aang looks at him angrily. "I'm not going out if I can't wear my arrow proudly." He says as he lays back on the bed.
"Aww come on, it's good to fashion rise every now and then. I mean just look at these cloaks we're wearing. Much better than showing your arrow openly." Zian says as he is suddenly nudged in the rib by Mizu. "Not helping." She whispers to him. "Aang come on be practical." Sokka advises him. Aang just lies there and ignores him.
Katara looks at the others. "You guys go ahead without us, we'll catch up." She says. "Ok" Zian says. They head out of the room and Sokka closes the door. After he closes it he looks at the others. "You think he'll be alright?" Sokka asks him. "I don't know. I just hope twinkle toes will see some sense." Toph says. "I hope he'll be fine." Mizu says. Zian agrees. "Yep, he just needs to see the bright side of this whole thing and it will be all fine. But enough talking let's go eat. I can't wait to test out some awesome food." He says as they all agree and they start walking to the ship exit.
A few hours later
After some time has passed and they all have their stomachs full. Zian is sitting on the railing of the deck as he looks up at the stars while he smiles and inhales the sweet air. "Seems like a peaceful night, isn't it?" Zian hears someone say as he turns around and sees that it is only Mizu. He smiles at her as he looks back up. "Yep very peaceful." He says. He hears her footsteps approaching him. "May I sit down next to you?" She asks. "Sure" He says. She smiles as she sits down and looks up at the stars. "You seem to have become more relaxed and happy since Ba Sing Se." She says. He nods. "Maybe it's because I find out that who really killed my parents." He says.
Mizu smiles turns into a frown. "That's actually what I want to talk to you about." She says as Zian looks at her curiously. "I don't really want to talk about it." He says. "Please tell me." She says. He looks at her. "You're going to nag me until I tell you aren't you?" He asks. She shakes her head. "No but sooner or later you're going to tell me." She says. Zian sighs at this. "Alright so what do you want to talk about the whole thing?" He asks her.
"Well it's about your anger towards Long Feng. Why were you so angry at him?" She says. Zian sighs at this. "You already know the story. He killed my parents and I wanted revenge." He says. Mizu looks at him not really believing him. "I know that, but what I saw down there in the Dai Lee Headquarters the way you got all savage and violent." She says. Zian is now curios. "What are you trying to say?" He asks her.
"I'm saying that I don't think you just got enraged at him and turned all ruthless because it was all for revenge. I think it was something more." She says. This makes Zian really focus. "You really want to know why?" He asks her. She nods at this. Zian sighs again. "It's…it's because Long Feng was…my godfather." He says. Mizu's eyes widen at this as she is filled with shock. "Zian…I-I'm sorry I asked." She says regretting her choice as she stands up and starts to walk away.
"Hey!" She suddenly hears him say as she turns around. She sees that he is smiling at her as she is confused at this. "Don't be sorry. In fact I should be thanking you for the second time." He says. She looks at him even more confused. "Why?" She asks him. He jumps off the railing as he walks to her. "Well one for now getting that painful feeling off of my chest." He says. "And the other one?" She asks. He smiles. "Well for saving me from becoming a cold blooded killer." He says.
She feels the guilt that she had before lift up as she looks up at him. For the first time since they met she sees the colour of his eyes as they are a darkish brown. Zian looks in her eyes and is surprised to see that… "Huh, never thought you had two different eye colours." He says as this makes Mizu feel embarrassed as she looks away. He smiles. "He don't worry, I like it." He says as she blushes and looks back at him. They stare into each other's eyes as they are unable to break away.
"Zian, Mizu!" They both hear someone call out as this breaks the moment and they shake their heads. They look over to their left as they see Katara running to them looking worried. Zian is curios at this. "What is it Katara?" He asks her. She looks at him and Mizu. "Aang's gone." She says. Mizu's eyes widen upon hearing that but Zian just sighs. "I sort of had a feeling he would do that." He says. He looks at her. "Can you get me his turned clothes?" He asks. She nods as she goes to get it. Zian looks at Mizu and smiles. "You know you're look cute when you blush he says as he follows Katara. Mizu looks at him annoyed. "I am not." She says as she follows them.
On a small volcanic rock
Aang is lying on the shores of an old burnt volcano island as the sun rises over this fire death island. He is unconscious until he is woken by the touch of saliva that is on his face by Momo. He gets up groaning as he is surprised to see his friends running up to him. "You're okay." Katara says as she is relieved to see that he is not hurt as she kneels down and hugs him. He is happy to see them but is then curios on something.
"How'd you find me?" He asks. Mizu smiles as she points to Zian. "Zian sniffed you out." She says. Zian nods as he pulls out the scorched and tattered clothes that he had worn. "Yep and I have to say that a bath every now and then would help a lot." He says jokingly as he gags at the clothes. Aang looks a little worried. "I have so much to do." He says as Katara smiles. "I know, but you'll have our help." She says.
"You didn't think you could get out of training just by coming to the fire nation, did you?" Toph says. Aang smiles at this as he realises something. "What about the invasion?" He asks them. "We'll join up with my dad and the invasion force on the day of the eclipse." Sokka assures him. Zian smiles at this as he looks at the water and sees something floating on it as it washes to the shore. "Hey what's…" He says as he picks up the thing.
His eyes widen when he realises that it is Aang's glider that he is holding which has been broken and smashed. Zian regrettably hands it to Aang. "Here's your glider. Sorry." He says. Aang takes it as he stands up. "That's ok." He says. He looks at all of them. "If someone saw it, it would give away my identity." He says realizing his error that he has neglected. "It's better now that no one knows that I am alive." He says as he turns to the island. He jumps up in the air and lands close enough to where the lava is flowing down.
Looking down at the spot with sadness he slams the glider down as it stands upright. He looks at the glider which was once a part of his old life burning from the heat as he jumps back to the others and they take off on Appa.
I've had a little problem with writing this and it took longer than it should have but be sure that this won't always happen and I plan to give it my best in writing this last book. But as always thank you all so much for reading I really as always truly appreciate it. Thank you so very much hope to see you all in the next chapter. Bye.