Ok I don't own any of Avatar. This is my first post up on but not my first story. I've been writing on some for a while. Hopefully you'll like this one. It's not that great. My friend started it out but she gave it to me to work on when I made a suggestion she got really excited and then kept calling me for more things to write about. So I asked her if I could just work on it. Here it is...
Chapter 1 A Place to Hide
The sky was dark. Clouds served as a perfect disguise for the flying bison. He flew against the wind as carefully as he could. Two children sat on his head. One his master, the other a dear friend. He knew his master was in need of help, but he also knew that they couldn't land until they found a place to hide. Appa felt tears hit his fur knowing all to well that the girl holding his master couldn't heal him.
"Katara, we need to find a place to land," Sokka explained. He was starting to worry that if they stayed in the air to long that Aang wouldn't get the help he needed to survive the night.
"I know Sokka," the brunette answered, "But were would you have me go? There is no place to land." She peeked over the bison's head. After excaping from Azula and Zuko they had been flying for several hours. How could she even think that Zuko would change? He was just a cold hearted bastard. Aang moved his head to Katara's shoulder causing her attention to drift back to him.
"We also need to find a place to get the Earth King to," the blind earthbender announced. She shifted into a more comfortable position.
Sokka leaned against Appa's saddle. His eyes scanned across all the trees looking for anything that could possibly hide them. "Hey Katara I think I see a small villiage over there! Maybe they'll offer to help the Avatar and hide the Earth King."
Katara nodded. "Appa fly over towards the town."
The bison growled in response and flew lower to the ground. After circling around the town he landed gaining a lot of attention from the people of the villiage. "It's the Earth King and the Avatar!" someone yelled.
Several people came to aid them. "Please," Katara begged, "We need to get some help for Aang."
"This way I'll take you to Amora. She is the town wise woman," a tall man explained. He took Aang from Katara and carried him to a house near the center of the villiage.
Sokka, Toph, and Katara followed the villiager into the house. "Amora!" the man yelled, "Please help it looks like a firebender got a hold of him."
A woman of sixteen came from a back room. She looked as though she had been asleep but as soon as her eyes looked upon Aang she looked wide awake. "Oh my goodness lay him here!" Amora commanded.
She pulled a blanket back to reveal a bed where the villiager placed him. Katara was at Aang's side in an instant. "Who did this to him?" Amora asked. she was already pouring lotions and water on Aang's wounds. Katara looked a Sokka.
"Two firebenders," Sokka explained as he eyed Amora curiously. She seemed to already know that they were attacked by firebenders.
"By my own people yet again, how much longer is this going to keep happening?" Amora asked more to herself than the others.
"Wait?! Are you saying that you're part of the Fire Nation?" Toph asked.
Amora smiled sadly. "Yes, I am," she answered. Katara pulled Aang closer to her.
"Oh don't worry, I'm not going to hurt him. My own nation banished me because... well... because I... uh... I didn't agree with how everything was going. That and of course I was born a waterbender to a firebending family," Amora explained.
"How can a waterbender be born to a firebending family?" Sokka asked.
"Beats me..." Toph shrugged. She sat at the foot of Aang's bed. Sokka followed this silent movement and did the same.
"That's all I can do to help him," Amora said to the trio, "Are any of you hungry? I don't have much but you're welcome to go into the kitchen to find something. Your friend Aang needs to rest. Then tomorrow I'll help you move him to another location where my teacher can help him more. I'm not as talented as her."
Sokka and Toph went to the back leaving Katara and Amora alone with Aang. "You neet some rest to young one. Here I'll let you sleep next to him on this." She handed Katara a grey blanket. Katara took it with thanks and sat down next to Aang again.
"Where is it you're taking us tomorrow?" she asked.
Amora covered the young monk with another blanket. "It's on the outskirts of the Fire Nation. I know you and your friends don't want to go there but we have no choice if you want to help the Avatar we need to get him to Ursa."
Amora turned to go but was stopped suddenly by Katara. "Wait did you say Ursa?"
"Well yes. She is my teacher in several things. Why do you know her?" Amora asked.
"I've only heared of her. Isn't she Prince Zuko's mother?" Katara asked suddenly awake.
Amora looked taken aback. How could this person know about Ursa as Zuko's mother? "Umm... yes she is," Amora answered truthfully.
"Zuko said that she was dead," Katara explained, "He said that she left when he was young and that his father said she was dead."
"Well she would have been dead if I hadn't helped her excape the dungeon. And how do you know Zuko?"
Katara thought about the conversation she and Zuko had in the cavern. "He was locked away with me in Ba Sing Se."
Amora thought about what she had said. "You should get some rest. You have a long day tomorrow."
Katara fell asleep next to Aang without another word. Amora shut the door and walked to the kitchen with the other two. "Do you know who it was that attacked your friend?" she asked them.
"Yeah," Sokka said with his mouth full, "The crazy fire prince Zuko and his equally crazy sister Azula."
So Amora was right. Zuko was still alive. Her betrothed was still alive. She placed her hand around the necklace he had given her. What would he say if he went back to the Fire Nation and she wasn't there? A small voice in the back of her head answered her. He won't notice. He won't care. He never loved you. It was your friend Mai he loved.