Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender. Cry Not even Azula. MEGA CRY Oh well. Figured I'd let you know.

Ty Lee sat on her beast with a huge frown on her face. "When a normal person thinks of "direct attack" they don't generally think of quietly pursuing their prey for 2 weeks! Sheeh!"

Azula gave her a sharp look. "I agree. I think we've followed them far enough. They feel comfortable enough now. We'll strike by the end of the day. You'll have your fun Ty Lee. Don't you worry." She began to laugh a bit.

Katara, Aang, Sokka, and Toph were all riding on Appa's back. Everything was quiet and had been for the past few weeks.

"So…what is the North Pole like guys?" asked Toph in her typical high pitched voice.

Sokka began to reply. "Well it's reall"

He was cut off by the sound of three arrows flying directly towards Appa.

"Woah!" cried out Aang.

Katara stood up on top of Appa. "Those arrows are a little too familiar! Appa! Set us down!" She placed her hand in front of her small container of water, getting ready for battle. Suddenly, she spotted a river off in the distance. "Wait, Appa, get us closer to that river!" Appa grunted and set his course towards the medium sized river off in the distance.

Three more arrows came flying towards them before Aang and his friends were able to spot their attackers. Just as they had thought, Azula and her two friends, Ty Lee and Mai, were their pursuers. Within seconds they were less then 50 meters from each other. Azula dismounted from her lizard beast.

"Well hello Avatar" said Azula with a large grin. "It's nice to see you again. You didn't actually think I had given up on my pursuit did you? That would have been funny."

"Azula!" cried out Aang. "I don't want to have to fight you! Just…leave!"

Azula shook her head. "That would be counter productive if I left, but I never said anything about fighting you. That would just be a waste of my time."

Azula snapped her fingers twice. Suddenly, Ty Lee jumped out from a nearby tree and landed directly behind Aang.

"Hello!" Ty Lee screamed. She made a point with her index and middle fingers. Quickly, she jabbed them into Aang's right shoulder. A split second later, her fingers jabbed into his left shoulder blade as well. With each jab of Ty Lee's fingers, Aang let out an ear-piercing scream.

"See?" Azula asked. "There is no need for me to fight with you. I have already won."

"Oh no you haven't!" screamed Katara letting out a large shot of water that she had been gathering strait at her. "I'll be your opponent! Ryaa!" Katara scooped her right hand from almost ground level and hurled another shot of water directly at Azula. "Sokka! Get Aang out of her! Now! Keep heading north! I'll meet you!"

Sokka quickly did as he was told and remounted Appa's back with Aang in his arm.

"Be safe alright?" Sokka screamed to Katara while Appa was taking off.

"Of course I will!" Katara replied getting into her fighting stance.

Azula still had a smile on her face. "I think that Mai and Ty Lee will make quick work of you little girl. I have no time to waste on peasants like you when I have the Avatar to chase!"

Toph interjected. "Well I think I would rather Mai and Ty Lee be MY opponents." She looked at Katara. "Seeya later!" The ground underneath Mai, Ty Lee, and Toph began moving away from the area where Azula and Katara were about to fight.

Katara used both hands to gather water for another shot. "Looks like you have no other choice but to fight me!"

Azula just stared at her with anger filling her eyes. "I don't have time to waste with a little girl like you!" She punctuated her sentence with a shot of fire aimed directly for Katara. A disc of water shot up from the nearby river and intercepted the shot of fire before it could do any damage.

"If you really think one shot will take me down you have another thing coming!" Katara made large backward circles with her hands sending spikes of water shooting up from the ground towards Azula.

"Well this may at least be semi interesting. You're not as completely incompetent as I had thought!" Azula offset each of the water spikes with moving pillars of fire of her own. "Let's see how you like this!" Azula made points out of her index and middle fingers on both hands, and moved them in a circular motion. Suddenly they came together producing a spark. When she let one side go, a shot of lightning went flying toward Katara.

Katara just stood there and smiled. "I was waiting for you to do that!" She guided a small strip of water directly at the lightning. She redirected the water back around her body and shot it right back at Azula. "My water can absorb ANY electricity you throw at me!"

Azula attempted to block the lightning by creating a shield of fire around her, but it could only offset so much of the damage. She was sent flying backwards. Slowly she stood up off the ground. "You damned brat! You'll pay for scarring my perfect face!" Three blue-hot disks were sent flying towards Katara.

"Why don't we make this a bit more interesting, eh?" Katara jumped into, rather on top of, the nearby river. As soon as her feet touched the water, ice began to form. The ice became almost like a pair of skates. Katara began sliding across the water as if she were flying.

Azula stayed stationary and held out both of her arms strait with her palms facing directly towards Katara. "Let's see how many you can dodge!" Suddenly, bursts of fire were shooting out of Azula's hands rapidly. There was no control, and no stopping.

Instead of trying to dodge, or intercept the balls of fire with water, Katara erected a large shield of ice where the river met land. After several shots of fire were successful extinguished, Katara made a pushing motion with her hands causing the wall of ice to turn into a tidal wave that was on a direct course of Azula.

Azula closed her eyes and relaxed. She inhaled slowly, moving her hands upwards from by her sides towards her chest. As she exhaled, she pushed her hands outwards towards the gigantic wall of water heading towards her. Fire burst forth from her hands and with each successive breath became stronger and stronger.

The shear force behind Katara's wall was deflecting the fire, yet Azula stayed relaxed. After several more relaxed breaths, the fire coming from Azula's hands had grown just as powerful as Katara's wall. Just as suddenly as Katara had transformed the wall from ice to water, she changed it back again. Now Azula's fire barrage was melting a wall of solid ice.

"Now's my chance…" Katara whispered to herself. She quickly began to coast along the river towards Toph.

Author's Note: Well, I was going to include the battle between Toph and Ty Lee and Mai in this chapter, but that's going to wait . I hope that you liked this chappie. Remember, the more reviews I get, the more inspired I am to write! Next chapter will include as follows: Toph + Katara vs. Ty Lee + Mai (pretty brief, only about 1 page or so) and a trip to see Master Pakku at The Northern Water Tribe. Seeya Lata!