This is my first fanfiction…wish me luck!

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender

"What-what did you do to me?" The firelord groaned, collapsing on the hard rock. Something was missing and it wasn't just his honor. He felt his like his energy was gone, forever.

"I took away your firebending," the Avatar said heroically. "You can't use it to hurt or threaten anyone ever again."

Ozai sneered at the memory. He was sitting on the cold, hard floor of his prison cell. He wrapped his arms around his knees, bringing them closer to his chest. His long hair was no longer tended to by his maids. Instead it was all over his face, making him look menacing.

He stared at bars of his cell a look of pure hatred in his ember eyes. Oh, how he could hear their insults.

"Well, look at you, buster. Now that your Firebending is gone, I guess we should call you the Loser Lord!" Sokka teased.

"I am the Phoenix King!" Ozai pointed dangerously, but failed when collapsing pathetically on the ground.

"Oh sorry, didn't mean to offend you, Phoenix King of getting his butt whooped." Toph said.

"Yeah, or how about King of the... guys who... don't win?" said a confused Suki.

"Leave the nicknames to us, honey" Toph pointed out.

Oh how humiliating that day was. The former-firelord would like nothing but revenge on them.

"If only there was a way out of this prison". He thought. Then he heard voices.

"Let me go! I am a waterbender! I do not belong here!" a very old lady's voice called out.

"Shut up! The Avatar personally told us to move you into this prison!" The guard's voice echoed across the hall.

Ozai looked up and saw an old lady struggling to get her hands free from two guards that opened up a glass prison cell case right across from his own cell. They threw her in and secured both her arms on metal handcuffs attached to the side of the glass case.

Then, they sealed the case and walked away.

"You can't leave me here! You are making a mistake! I am just a poor old woman! Please!" The old woman screamed, struggling against the metal handcuffs,

Ozai wondered what this woman did to have such security with the glass case and handcuffs and whatnot.

"Noooo!" The woman cried and gave up. Silence.

Ozai looked curiously at the woman across from his cell. She was extremely old and had very long fingernails. She wore a red robe and had snow white hair. She looked like a witch. She had ocean blue eyes, which is not what regular citizens of the fire nation have. Wait. What did she say she was again?

"A waterbender?" Ozai muttered quietly to himself.

The old lady's head snapped up and looked straight into the ex-firelord's eyes. She gasped.

"You." She said with horror in her eyes.

Ozai had to admit, even though ruling the fire nation, killing people, battling and being energybended by the avatar, he was scared of this woman.

"You have sent your…your stupid warriors and attacked my people." She slowly said, her horror turning into rage.

"Because of you, I was taken from my home and put in a prison to rot." She whispered.

"Because of you, I have such a hatred for firebenders. Because of you, I wouldn't have been defeated by that water tribe girl and her friend, the avatar. BECAUSE OF YOU, I AM STUCK IN HERE!" She shrieked. Ozai stood up and backed into his cell.

Silence fell among them.

"Um..look… I don't know who you are…but I am in prison now… so, don't blame me. Blame the avatar." Ozai held up his hands in a surrendering gesture.

The lady's eyes narrowed. Then she looked away.

"I suppose you're right. It is all his fault, isn't it?" She muttered.

"Um…I guess so…" Ozai replied.

Then, she slowly turned her head towards Ozai.

"Firelord Ozai. I hate you with such a burning passion that none of your firebending can even exceed it."

"Not anymore" Ozai snorted.

"What?" The lady said.

"Nothing." Ozai looked away.

"What? You do not have your firebending?" She questioned.

Ozai looked at her. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"No. The avatar took away my firebending. All of it. He…he defeated me…" Ozai closed his eyes and clenched his fists.

Silence fell again.

"Then both of us are in here for the same reason, I suppose. The Avatar." She revealed.

Ozai looked up curiously at her.

"Who are you?"

The old lady slowly fixed her gaze on Ozai.

"I am Hama."

Ozai continued to gaze upon her.

"And I can get you out of here."

Sokka was having a rather happy dream about eating at an all-you-can-eat meat buffet. He was just about to take a huge mouthwatering bite out of some possum-chicken when he woke up to the sound of a familiar, but rather annoying voice.

"Wake up! Sokka! Sokka wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" A certain airbender was shaking him from his bed.

"Alright, ALRIGHT! I'm awake." Sokka grumpily said, rubbing his eyes.

"You promised you would teach me sword fighting today, remember?" Aang notified.

"uhhhh…" Sokka was drifting back into his delicious meat-eating dream.

"Sokkaaaa! Wake uuuuupppp!" Aang complained and shoved harder, but the young water tribe warrior was determined to go back to his meat dream.

"It's funny how a fully-realized avatar who had just defeated the Firelord a month ago and learned energybending from the wisest creature ever known to the spirits….could still act like a kid." Zuko stated.

Aang glared at Zuko.

"Shut up, Sifu Hotman."

"Well, I think it's cute." Katara stated, placing breakfast in front of Aang, as he blushed.

The gang was staying at their original house in the upper ring of Ba Sing Se for the time. All of Team Avatar was there – Aang, Katara, Sokka (who was in his dream), Suki, Toph, Zuko, and Mai.

Iroh was running his restaurant, The Jasmine Dragon, where he, Zuko and Mai were staying for the time being.

Even though the Firelord and Firelady should be staying in their palace, Zuko requested a short break from his duties to spend time with his friends. After all, the world is at peace.

Sokka was snoring away at this point.

"What is he dreaming about so desperately?" Suki asked.

"Meat…you guys know I love meat more than anything in the world…." Sokka lazily said in his sleep.

"EXCUSE ME?" Suki roared.

"Okay then, Sokka. If you're not going to teach me swordfighting, I'll ask Zuko instead." Aang warned. "I think he'll do a way better job than you. At least he won't doze off when the Avatar himself is asking him a lesson at his own talent."

"Huh? No way!" Sokka got up. "I will do a much better job than Zuko. In fact, I am a better sword fighter." Sokka stated, proudly.

"Wanna bet?" Zuko grinned.

Sokka glared at him.

"Shut up, Sifu Hotman."

Everyone laughed as they chowed down on their breakfast. After a few minutes, Zuko spoke up.

"Uh.. guys.." They looked up.

"I was wondering if you wanted to come to the Fire Nation Prison...with me" He stated.

Silence fell among the gang.

"Why?" Toph asked.

"I have some unfinished business…with my father….about my mother…" his voice trailed off.

"Why do you need us to come?" Sokka asked.

"Well… I think it's about time we saw him since he was defeated… you know… get an idea of what's going on.. and to make sure he isn't planning something…" Zuko trailed off again.

"The vibrations that I'm picking up from you are telling me that that isn't the only reason." Toph remarked.

"Well, Hama was moved into the same room as him in the prison…. and… I'm not sure if it's safe for me to go alone…"

"Sure Zuko, we'll go with you." Aang said.

"Not me. I am not going anywhere near that bloodbending witch." Katara muttered with disgust.

"I'm scared of her, ever since that time she bloodbended me into almost killing Aang." Sokka stated.

"…and prisons are not really my thing…" Suki stated.

Zuko could start to sense the discomfort among his friends.

"It's okay guys, you don't have to come." Zuko said.

Uncomfortable glances were exchanged.

"No, I'll go with you." Aang said.

"You sure?"

"Yeah. When are we leaving?"

"Now"

"Okay, let's go."

And with that, the Firelord and Avatar set themselves up on Appa, ready to visit their enemies.

"Alright guys, see you in about six hours." Zuko said.

"Don't worry, it won't be long." Aang reassured his friends, but mostly saying it to Katara, who was concerned for him.

"Yip yip." Appa rose up into the air, circled his friends and flew.

Then they were gone.

"The Avatar is coming? Here? Right now?" Ozai questioned.

"Yes" Hama said.

"But… how do you know?"

Hama giggled an evil giggle…if that was possible.

"I am a witch, after all. I invented bloodbending. There are many more things I can do that you can't imagine." Hama said, almost cruelly.

"So… how do I get out?" Ozai asked.

"Simple. It's an old sorcerer's trick. Look straight into the avatar's eyes when he looks at you. Try to see his soul. Then, repeat the words, juzeng mai kai zi. Then, in a second, you are the avatar and the avatar is you."

The former-firelord gazed in awe.

"We switch bodies?" he whispered.

Hama nodded slowly with an evil smug.

"You will have all four elements in your power. You can be the most powerful being in the world, while the boy sits in prison and rots, like he sent you to do." Hama was filling her hypnotizing words in Ozai's mind.

"You can take revenge on your son and avenge your poor daughter. You can have control of the world again. Everything can be the way it was before." Hama paused.

"And the whole time, people will think it's an Avatar that has gone insane." She smiled with pure evil in her eyes.

Just then, they heard a guard's footsteps and two others.

"Here they are." The guard opened up the door leading into the room with Hama and Ozai.

The firelord and the Avatar walked in. Zuko approached the cage in which his father has been imprisoned in.

"You said you had some information about Mom." Zuko said sternly, looking at his father.

Ozai just laughed.

Aang glared at Hama, still incased in the glass prison with her handcuffs. She was smiling uncontrollably at him.

"Zuko..maybe we should just-"

"It's okay." Zuko stopped him. He glared at his father. "Tell me where she is."

Ozai sighed,.

"She is a refuge… in Ba Sing Se. She is hiding."

Silence.

"I need to look for her now!" Zuko rushed out of the room.

"Are you coming, Aang?" he called.

"I'll be there in a minute." Aang called back.

There was a silence in the room. Hama and Ozai glared at the young Avatar.

Aang looked at Ozai.

"Anything you have to say to me before I leave?" he asked.

This is it. Ozai thought.

"Yes. One day, I will be free and you will be left in here to rot, avatar…just warning you" he said.

The boy just laughed.

Ozai was puzzled.

"You don't even know my name do you?" Aang asked him.

Ozai stared at him.

"Its….ah…oh…its Andor! No no no… not that… wait… it's Ahoro! No… it's an A…. um…. Andy?" Ozai said helplessly.

" Ha ha. It actually makes sense since the whole time I was battling you, you kept calling me 'The Avatar'." Aang chuckled.

Ozai had enough. He looked straight into the boys grey eyes, and into his soul.

Aang just stared at him.

Hama started laughing.

"juzeng mai kai zi!" Ozai screamed with all his might.

There was a flash and the avatar fell.

Aw… it was horrible writing the last part… too evil… anyway… review! Suggestions are welcome.