Ty Lee woke with a start. It was the middle of the afternoon, and Ty Lee had been napping in her red fire nation sleeping bag. She wished she could go back to sleep, it was such a warm, nice sleeping bag, and she was having such a nice dream. She sighed, and looked around, tracing the little fire insignia on her sleeping bag. There was Azula, staring at her map, writing something on it. And on the opposite end of the small forest clearing, was Mai, folding up her own sleeping bag, with a vacant expression plastered on her pale face. Aside from the three girls, and the three-komodo rhinos, they were all alone.

Azula, a couple of days ago, had decided that Ty Lee, Mai, and herself should travel during the night, and sleep during most of the day, to confuse the Avatar. Also, Azula had sent all of her body guards to the other side of the forest, so this way; they'd be able to trap the Avatar. Azula seemed to know what she was doing, but Ty Lee was lost. All Ty Lee knew was that the Avatar was in the same forest, and they were, somehow, catching up to him.

Ty Lee didn't argue, or complain about the wild goose chase they were on, she just, reluctantly followed orders, because, what choice did she have, after Azula almost had her killed in the circus, when her safety net was 'Mysteriously' engulfed in flames, and all the circus's dangerous animals walked underneath? Ty Lee had pretended to not know Azula did this, and humored Azula, because Ty Lee knew exactly what Azula was capable of.

So, she had reluctantly left the circus to travel with her old 'friends' Mai, and Azula, to capture the Avatar. Ty Lee didn't really care what would happen to the Avatar, she was just trying to stay on Azula's good side for now.

Also, thought Ty Lee, blushing a little, the Avatar had a really cute friend.

Ty Lee thought for a moment 'why did I wake up?'

Then she felt it….or heard it. A low grumbling vibration was coming from the earth. She really didn't know if she felt it or heard it, it was very soft, but she thought she heard something. Of course, it could just be some earth bending machine, somewhere in the city, or not, it could be the rhinos. Ty Lee glanced at them. Nope, they seemed just as confused as she was.

Whether she heard the thing or not, she didn't know, but she knew one thing, something was coming. The grumbling was staring to shake the earth, so Ty Lee turned to her two friends.

"I th-think there's sa-sa-something coming!" she shouted over the steadily increasing roar.

"N-n-no, rr-really?" came Mai's shaking sarcastic reply. Ty Lee leapt out of her sleeping bag, and tried to walk over to Mai, falling over, clumsily.

"m-m-mai! Az-zuula.. I am hav-v-ing t-trouble walking… gaH!" Ty Lee yelled, as she fell over again.

"Ty Lee! Mai! Get over here!" yelled Azula, managing to keep her voice level. There was a hint of panic in her voice.

Ty Lee leapt into the air, and landed with a dull shaky thud on the left of Azula, and Mai, scooted closer to Azula's right. The trembling stopped almost instantly. The three-komodo rhinos were shifting around uncomfortably, letting out grunts of confusion. Ty Lee had a pretty good guess at what the noise had been, but she decided to ask Azula anyway.

"What is it?" she said, readying herself for attack.

"Earth benders" Azula said.

Suddenly, 9 earth benders jumped out of the forest from all different directions, surrounding the girls. The girls each had their backs to each other, and each was facing 3 earth benders.

Azula smirked, and under her breath murmured, "1…2…3", loud enough for only Ty Lee and Mai to hear.

And with that, the girls leapt out towards their opponents. Ty Lee jumped into the air, her agile body thrust forward, and landed in a perfect crouch in front of the nearest earth bender, scattering some of the mud from the previous night's rain. Ty Lee quickly pointed her fingers into the earth bender's pressure points on each arm, and then his legs. Surprised, he fell, and she leapt over his body and poked his neck, causing him to become unconscious. Altogether, that had taken a mere 8 seconds. She grinned, and proceeded to the next earth bender. He was a bit trickier, he had seen what Ty Lee had done to the other earth bender, and was fighting like crazy to protect his arms and legs from her chi blocking. Also, the second earth bender had figured out what was happening, and was fighting alongside his fellow earth bender. Ty Lee saw two large rocks being hurtled at her by both earth benders. She leapt up into the air, straight toward one of the earth benders. She flipped so that her face was upside-down in front of him, her long braid, falling past his waist, and she poked his neck's pressure point. He was unconscious before Ty Lee hit the ground in another crouch. Two down, one to go she thought.

"Yay!" she yelled happily.

Proud of her quick fighting, she turned to the other girls. Azula was also on her third earth bender, and shooting the blue lightening out to him. Two unmoving, badly burned earth benders were lying by her feet. Mai was also on her last earth bender, and shooting tranquilizer darts out to him. The other two were slumped on the ground, still moving, but quickly losing energy. After finally hitting her opponent, in the arm, Mai glanced over at Ty Lee, and smiled. Ty Lee smiled cheekily back to Mai. Mai's red brown eyes skimmed over Ty Lee and at the earth bender. Her eyes opened wide in fear.

"Ugh Ty Lee, WATCH YOUR OPPONENT!" Mai screamed,angrily.

Azula, who had just finished the last earth bender, turned to the noise.

Ty Lee suddenly twisted around and saw the earth bender hurtling a very sharp rock directly at Ty Lee's chest. Without thinking, Ty Lee closed her gray eyes and pushed her hands out in front of her, to block the earth bender and his attack. Not that this would do much good, seeing that she was barely 100 pounds, facing a maybe one ton rock. To her surprise, all that happened to her was that she had slid back a couple feet. Her eyes slowly opened, and she saw what she had done. More than 20 feet away from her, was her opponent, crashed into a tree. Beneath him, the sharp rock had deeply penetrated the same tree. Ty Lee looked at her hands, trembling. She had just blown a full-grown man, and a giant rock, more than 20 feet away from her, with her hands.

Mai and Azula just stood there, dumbstruck. Azula stared hard at Ty Lee. Ty Lee, her friend since they were kids, was a dirty filthy air bender. Azula, though thoroughly shocked, forced herself to calm down.

"Well, well, well. Ty Lee finally decided to show her colours! Ty Lee, I am afraid being an air bender doesn't quite suit you." Azula shook her head, smiling slightly.

"Wha-what? N-n-n- no, I had no idea, please, Azula I – I didn't know, honestly… Mai! Mai, please, I didn't…she isn't… I was.." Ty Lee looked pleadingly at Mai, who quickly glanced away, unable to say anything.

Azula sighed, feigning sadness.

"… and you were such a good help, trying to catch the avatar."

Azula felt heat rising out to her fingertips. She smirked at her friend, still standing there, looking her hands to the earth bender, and shaking her head.

"won't daddy be surprised when he finds out I've captured another air bender?"

Blue lightening shot out of her left hand, which was carelessly aimed at Ty Lee.

Before the lightning hit Ty Lee, though, she had jumped over Azula, and poked her quickly in the arms. Azula's arms fell at her side, powerless. Azula stared at her friend in shock.

"Why you little traitor! I will capture you, dear friend. You, and your comrade, the Avatar."

Ty Lee gave a solemn look at Mai, who was still standing dumbstruck. Ty Lee ran off, away from their camp, straight into the woods.

Azula stared at Ty Lee's disappearing pink clad figure, and swiftly turned to Mai, Azula's arms swaying humorously by her side.

"What are you doing? You let the air bender get away! Chase her, or do something! Don't just stand there!"

These words were unnoticed by Mai, who was still staring at the point where Ty Lee had leapt into the dense forest. She stood there, unmoving, just making out Ty Lee's pink clothes.

"An-an air bender?" she said in disbelief. Her best friend was an air bender.

(A/N: Egad! An air bender?

Ok ummm I hope you enjoyed that... I really 3 Ty Lee, she is awesome, and I really hope she is an air bender. Or part air bender. It makes sense when you think about it. Gray eyes, quick and agile, very fast, can't seem to fire bend, she even looks like Aang... well that be a great plot twist don't you think?

Ta!)