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Chapter 2
3 years later, at the South Pole
"Oh common Zuko, Iroh is right, we won't find him here" I said irritated as we were drifting over the same waters as before.
"I am the commander of this ship" he said, Zuko had changed much in three years, but so had I. I had perfected my bending to the max and I had been inventing a style of my own, I had studied Zuko's fierbending trainings for the last three years and had come up with a style of Waterbending that was sort of a mix between fire and water.
Zuko still had his scar and I still had mine, we had not found a trace of the Avatar though Zuko was as determent as always. I still had my long dark hair and was usually sitting with Iroh and playing Pai Sho while Zuko was going on and on about training and not wasting time. He was different from the Zuko I knew in the Firenation; he used to be calm, nice. Now he was angry and stressed, no matter what I said, he just snapped back. I looked over the empty land of ice and water as I wondered; as I had for the last three times that we had been here. Out there, was my mother´s birthplace, maybe some of her old friends still lived there; she often spoke of an Amaya and Kaya. Amaya, I had always liked that name, mum once told me that she wanted to name me Amaya Kaya Shan, but father said that Feonwe was better, and a true Firenation name. Feonwe Shan, child of general Lee Shan and Malena Shan, mother, I miss her.
All of a sudden, a flash of bright light shoot trough the sky, I looked over at it as Zuko gazed up at it and as it slowly finished.
"Finally" Zuko said, more to himself as he turned to Iroh.
"Did you see that? It must be him" I left them alone and walked in to my room on the ship, I sat down on my bed looking up at the Firenation insignia on the wall, I got up walked over to it and pulled the curtain down and turned away from the wall. I missed home, my mother and father so badly, more now than ever, for the last five days I had been crying myself to sleep, thinking about my mother, how we used to train and her kind voice and gentle kiss she would always give me when I would go to sleep. My father would tell her that I was too old, she would say that no matter how old you got, you always needed your mother. My door opened and Zuko walked in, he saw that a tear on my check and hesitated before sitting down next to me and gently whipping my tears as he gave me a quick kiss.
"I am sorry" he said, he pulled my hair back behind my ears before giving me one more kiss.
"It´s not you, I miss home" I said smiling at him, I loved this, these few moments when we were alone, when he would comfort me, hold me.
"That's why we need to find him, so we can go home" he said, I shook my head.
"So you can go home, I am banished for life remember"
"I can change his mind, I told you I am not giving up on you, on us" he said taking my hand, I knew in my heart that I would never come home as a free person, I would go home in nothing but chains. But I smiled and nodded.
"You are right, we will go home together" I said, he smiled, his eyes looked in to mine and for a moment Azula woke in my mind and I looked away.
"I know where he is hiding, I would like you help" I nodded and got up grabbed my cloak and put it one before following Zuko out in to the cold again. I shivered as a cold breeze grabbed hold of me, I stopped and soon felt Zuko´s arms around me, and he took a deep breath and started to heat me up.
"What do you need me for?" I asked as I gazed down on the one man who seemed to stand ready to defend his home.
"Just watch my back" he said and let go of me, I walked close behind him as the man, or boy attacked him, Zuko easily fought him off and I didn´t do anything, as he came around again I made a simple but quick movement and the ice beneath his feet grabbed him and he fell over.
"I could have handled it" Zuko said, I shrugged, but he did give me a small smile before turning to the others again.
"Where is he" he said, no one moved, no one spoke and old woman was looking at me with intense as if I was a ghost. Zuko grabbed her and dragged her out of the line, a young girl grabbed after her.
"He is about this age, master of all elements" nothing, not a word, Zuko let her go as he created a thin wave of fire against them. I moved quickly and moved my hands up and the ice in front of them created a wall between them and the fire. Zuko turned to me as I let the wall turn in to water.
"I won´t let you hurt children" Zuko seemed first now see the children standing there as he looked over at me.
"Then why don´t you make them talk" I shook my head, I knew he was talking about what I did to his father, he didn´t get it, I can´t make people talk, only move the way I want. I did walk over to them, I looked at them as I made ice rice and form in to a chair and sat down.
"We seek the Avatar; the prince believes he is hiding here"
"Malena?" I looked over, someone had said my mother's name, it was the old woman, she had tears in her eyes.
"I have dreamed, of seeing you here again, but how?" she moved over to me, I got up and moved away from her, she stopped.
"I am not Malena, my name if Feonwe" I said, she stopped and looked at my face, the girl from earlier, walked up to her.
"Please grandma, don´t"
"Is she alive? Is my Malena alive?" She asked, I nodded how many named Malena had been taken away from here; it must be my mother she speaks off. She smiled, she gave out a cry of happiness, Zuko moved over to me, he seemed confused.
"We need to find him" he said, I nodded and walked over to the old lady.
"Malena is my mother, she is alive, she lives in the firenation, she is married" I said to her, she took my face in her hands.
"Then, I am your grandmother, my daughter Malena was taken from me when she was only fifteen, oh and my son…your uncle will be so happy to know that she lives" I have a grandmother, and an uncle, I moved away again. The girl who had been standing close to the old woman this whole time was looking at me.
"Oh and this is you cousins, Sokka and Katara" she pointed at the boy who had attacked Zuko and the girl next to her. I moved away from them and walked over to Zuko.
"This is prince Zuko, my…" I stopped, and looked away.
"I am her fiancé" he said and then he turned to me.
"We need to find him"
"I know, I said and looked up at him, and as I did he was knocked over by a kid on a penguin.
"Aang!" the girl Katara yelled of happiness, I looked over at him as Zuko got up. He hid the ground with his staff sending snow flying at us; I moved my left hand and the snow that would come on me ended up on the man behind me.
"Looking for me?" he asked, Zuko looked over at him as he slowly said.
"You're the airbender? You're the Avatar?" I froze, the little kid bald with an arrow on his head, the avatar? Before I knew it he and Zuko was fighting, I pulled my cloak off to help when suddenly Katara was in my way, she made an clumpy movement and soon water came flying at me, I moved easily aside and used the water she send at me to through it at her but changing it at the last moment and send it flying toward the Avatar. It hit him and he fell to the ground as Zuko´s fire flew at him, he just got up in time to use his staff to deflect the fire, the kids behind him screamed and I could see fear shooting across his face.
"If I go with you, do you promise to leave everyone ells alone?" Zuko nodded and some of his men grabbed him and got him walking towards the ship, I saw as I picked up my cloak that one of the kids had been burned, I walked over to her as she was crying and digging her hand down in the snow. I took her hand and moved water up with my other one, Katara seemed to have seen my own burn mark as I healed the girls hand and got up.
"Why help him!" I stopped and turned.
"You have family here" Katara said, I shook my head.
"No, my family is suffering from my choice, I can´t change my mind now" I said walking over to Zuko who had been waiting for me, he took my hand and we walked aboard.
It was too easy to capture him, it was just too easy. And the thing was, I needed to get away from this ship before we got back, I was not allowed to return even if I would return the Avatar myself. As I was about to close the door to my room I saw from the corner of my eye the Avatar running by my door, I turned around I followed him.
"Stop!" I shouted and the Avatar did stop and turn around, but as he saw me he turned around again and started running. He was running way faster than me and I didn´t see where he went, I walked out on deck and looked around for him, as I heard Zuko screaming as he jumped out and grabbed the flying avatar by the ankle and both of them fell towards the deck, I bended the water from the ocean around us and got ready as I froze the avatars feet and hands to the deck. He started fighting to get loose as I wondered why he didn´t use fierbending or something to get lose.
"Nice work" Zuko said as he grabbed he avatar by his clothes as he nodded to me and I let his hands go and he grabbed him tightly before I let his feet go. The second I did the Avatar moved quickly out of his grip as Zuko got distracted by something behind me, I turned and saw…A Sky Bison. I had seen painting of them as we visited the eastern Air Temple and well at all the other temples as well, but I never thought I would see one with my own eyes. As I got out of the way as the Bison came flying down as I saw the Avatar falling off the side of the ship.
"No Aang!" I looked over as the girl Katara was flying towards us and as I turned over to look at Zuko as out of the water, the Avatar was flying up in the air using the water to carry him up on the ship, his eyes and tattoos glowing as he pushed the water against us as I was to slow to react and hit the rail of the ship and blacked out.
When I woke up I was in my bed, Zuko was sitting next to it, he didn´t react when I sat up, I let a hand fall on his shoulder, he didn´t turn around he just said.
"Sorry" I was about to ask for what but he got up and walked out of the room, my arm was hurting, badly. I lay back on the bed and closed my eyes, I didn´t sleep much, with my acing arm I couldn´t find any comfortable way to lie. It wasn´t broken, I knew how that felt, I broke my arm after falling down from a tree when I was a kid, that hut way more then this, I could move my fingers so I wasn't that worried.
Iroh came in and told me that the Avatar got away and that my arm ended up behind me as I hit the railing, I sighed as a Waterbender my arms and hands was my tools of fighting, he seemed to have read my mind as he said.
"I don´t think it will be hurting for long, you were still training with and broken arm am I right?" I nodded, I had been training in secret from my mum when my arm was broken, I developed a way of benign the water with my feet during that time.
"Where are we going?" I said, as the Avatar was missing I was not sure if Zuko had any idea of where he was now.
"We have stopped in the firenation to fix the ship, right now Zuko is heading towards an Earth kingdom, to Kyoshi Island"
"Why would the Avatar go there, isn´t that a big obvious" I said, Iroh smiled and left me alone again, I got up and walked up to the dock were Zuko was training on his own, Iroh didn´t like it when he did so, but he had given up on telling him.
I sat down and looked at him, he was moving fast fighting of the men he was training with, he had improved a lot but because he was a Fierbender he didn´t studied fighting in any other way when he was young, well Azula did that too but for her Fierbending was as natural as walking. I had on the other hand been training with Ty Lee and Mai every day after school and it still took me about a year in banishment before Zuko allowed me to teach him some basics. He had improved, but when Azula decided to not keep me waiting anymore, he would not stand a chance, considering that she was better than him at the age of eleven. And I thought I could take her on my own, so if Zuko wanted to help, he needed to improve.
As the night came over us I walked over to Zuko who was about to order the men to keep on, I took his hand and looked at him, and he sighed and told the others to go to bed.
"Zuko, why don´t we just go away" I said, Zuko looked at me.
"What?"
"Forget about the Firenation, The Avatar and the so called honor you feel to have lost, let's leave, just you and me"
"We can´t" he said, I shook my head.
"No, I think he need to bring Iroh along too" Zuko smiled, he bent down and gave me a kiss before saying.
"You know we can´t, we need to fix this"
"Fix what?" I asked, he backed away a bit and let go off my hand.
"You don´t understand" he said; "I have lost everything"
"No, I am here, as is Iroh and about the whole thing of not understanding you, I lost everything too, for you" I said, he looked away and gazed over at the moon.
"I know, I must make sure that you can go home, so we can go home"
"I can never go home, only in chains" I said, he looked over at me again.
"You should rest" he said I shook my head.
"It´s full moon, I need to train" he just let out a sigh and left me alone under the moon light.
