When we got to back the whole village were waiting outside (so about twenty people), they all wore worried or angry expressions apart from the children. "Yaaaay! Aang's back!" The kids said. They all ran up and hugged Aang's legs. Sokka walked forward "I knew it! You just signalled the Fire Nation with that flare! You're leading them straight to us, aren't you!"

"Aang didn't do anything, it was an accident." Katara defended.

"yeah, we were on this ship and there was this booby trap, and well-um, we boobied right into it." Aang said, rubbing the back of his head.

"Katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship." Her grandmother said.

"That was my fault, I persuaded her, I'm sorry ." I said.

"We could all be in danger!" her grandmother said.

"I know, I'm sorry, but Katara's not to blame." I said.

"Yeah, it was our entire fault." Aang said.

"HAH! The traitor confesses!" Sokka pointed at us "Warriors away from the enemy, this foreigner is banished!" The kids walked away from Aang.

"Sokka, you're making a mistake." Katara said angrily.

"No, I'm keeping my promise to dad; I'm protecting you from threats like those two foolish kids." Sokka said.

"Neither of them are our enemies!" Katara pleaded "Don't you see, Aang has bought us something we haven't had in a long time…fun."

"Fun?! We can't fight fire benders with fun!" Sokka said loudly.

"You should try it some time!" Aang said happily.

"Get out of our village, NOW." Sokka said, growing even angrier with ever word.

"Grandmother, please," Katara said "Don't let Sokka do this."

"Katara, you knew going on that ship was forbidden, Sokka is right. I think that the air bender and the outsider should leave." her grandmother said.

"Fine! Then I'm banished too!" Katara said "Come on you two, let's go!" Katara grabbed our elbows and dragged up along.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Sokka asked.

"To find a water bender trainer, Aang is taking me to the North Pole." Katara retorted.

"I am?" Aang asked "Great!"

"Katara!" Sokka yelled "Would you really choose those two children over your own tribe, your own family?" Katara stopped.

"I'm sure I speak for the both of us when I say we don't want to come between you and your family. Family is the most important thing to everyone, I would know, I left mine." I said.

"You two are still leaving?" Katara asked. I nodded and walked with Aang to Oppa. Sadie hopped onto the saddle and I prepared to do the same. "This is goodbye?" Katara asked.

"Thank you for penguin sledding with us." Aang said.

"Where will you go?" Katara asked.

"I guess I'll go back home and look for the air benders, wow, I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years, not looking forward to that." He used air bending to get on top of Oppa. Sadie stretched her paw down and I grabbed it and was hauled up by her. I sat down and got ready to leave.

"It was nice meeting everyone." Aang said.

"Let's see your bison fly now air boy." Sokka mocked.

"Come on Oppa, you can do it!" Aang encouraged Oppa "Yip yip!" Oppa snorted and got stood up.

"Yeah! I didn't think so." Sokka said. One of the children ran over crying.

"Aang, don't go, I'll miss you." She said.

"I'll miss you too." Aang said very sadly. I looked over the edge.

"I thought I finally found a home." I said "I guess not." Sadie stuck her head over my shoulder and licked away a tear. I smiled sadly and buried my head in her fur.

"Come on boy." Aang said, finally looking away. Oppa started to walk away. We ended up stopping a little away from the village. I said "I liked it there, I felt like they were family."

"Yeah, me too." Aang said. We relaxed sadly for a while, moping around. Suddenly I heard a loud 'crash!'. I jumped up and said "We need to go and see if they're okay." Aang nodded. Aang got onto Oppa and I got onto Sadie. She was tired so wasn't going as fast. It was cold so I pulled up the hood on my coat. When we got near the village Aang hopped on a penguin with his staff and rode so I did the same thing. We rode to the village, when we got there we saw a ship had crashed into the village and there were fire nation soldiers. Aang and I rammed into the leader of them from behind with the penguins. He fell backwards and his helmet flew of, he went head first into the snow. We got off of the penguins. I waved and said "Hi Katara, hi Sokka."

"Hi Aang, Hotaru." Sokka said, sounding more than a little embarrassed.

"Wait, Hotaru?" The leader of the soldiers said. I looked around and gasped.

"Z-Zuko?" I stuttered. My brother nodded.

"Sister." Zuko said. I stood up and got into my fighting stance. He lunged first with a fist. I grabbed it and twisted; I shoved him down to the floor and bent his arm behind his back. He forced his arm down which caused me to tumble over the front of him. I got up and kicked at him, sending a powerful blast of fire at him. He fell back a little bit. "Brother? Sister?" Katara said angrily "You're a fire bender!" She yelled.

"Yes, but can we get these guys away from the village, then you can decided what to do with me!" I said. Sokka nodded. Aang then used air bending to send snow onto all of the soldiers. "Looking for me?" Aang said.

"You're the air bender? You're the avatar? I've spent years preparing for this encounter, training, meditating, and you even group up with my dishonourable sister. You are just a child!"Zuko fumed.

"Well you're just a teenager." Aang said, confused. Zuko punched a ball of fire towards Aang, I jumped in and stopped it before sending my own fire back at him. Zuko kept sending fire at Aang and I. "I see you haven't lost your touch." Zuko said to me.

"I see you're still an idiot." I retorted "Why, why go after the avatar, you say that it is to regain your honour, but you lost that yourself, father never took that from you." Zuko growled and started sending even more fire at Aang. The fire almost hit the villagers. Aang looked back and said "What if we go with you, will you leave the village alone." Aang said.

"What?!" I yelled. Zuko nodded and stood up, he gestured for his guards to take hold of us. Two guards walked over and grabbed my arms. I kicked the back of their knees and floored them "I can walk myself." I said angrily.

"Don't do this!" Katara yelled.

"Don't worry Katara, it will be okay." Aang said.

"Take care of Oppa and Sadie until we get back! Her favourite is salmon!" I yelled.

"Head a course to the Fire Nation. I'm going home." Zuko commanded. We walked inside, the door of the ship closed. I looked at Aang and said "It will be okay." He smiled sadly and nodded. Once we sailed up we were taken to the top deck where I saw someone familiar. I ran over and hugged him "Uncle Iroh!" I said happily.

"It's been a while." Iroh said. I nodded and was taken hold of by some guards again. I sighed and rolled my eyes. Zuko took hold of Aang's staff and said "This will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn't know a father, being raised by monks. Take the Avatar and sister to the prison hold; make sure they get separate cells."

We were taken below deck and marched down the hallways. "So, I guess you've never fought an air bender before. I bet I can take you both with my hands behind my back." Aang said. I laughed; he sure was a funny little lad. "Silence." The guard in front of us growled. As we came to a door Aang started to sneeze, I had to bite back a laugh. When he sneezed he slammed the guard in front into a door and the forced back the guard behind him. I ran out after him onto the top deck. I grabbed the knife in my boot and sliced the ropes binding my wrists. Aang blasted some wind into the door in front of us. We ran through the corridors, we knew that the whole ship would know soon. We took a left and saw three guards with swords. "You haven't seen my staff around have you?" Aang asked them. They got ready to attack. Aang ran past them and left me with them. One of them started to attack with a sword. I grabbed it off of him and took down the rest of the guards before running after Aang. When I got to him I grabbed his wrists and cut the rope with my sword. We looked in each room for Aang's staff. We finally got to my brother's room. We ran in, Aang went to grab his staff. The door closed behind us. I gripped the sword harder.

"Looks like I underestimated you two." Zuko said, he shot fireballs at us. We dodged them all. I grabbed a banner and threw it to Aang. Aang wrapped it around Zuko before grabbing his staff. Zuko broke out of the banner. Aang and I circled Zuko while he circled us. Aang used air bending to squish Zuko between a mattress and the wall, then the mattress between the ceiling. While Zuko was lying face down Aang and I legged it out of the door.

We got outside again. Aang ran off the platform on his glider and I sent fire down, keeping me up in the air. Suddenly I saw Aang go down to the deck, Zuko had grabbed his ankle. I stopped fire bending and let myself fall to the floor. I pulled Aang to his feet and prepared to fight. I heard a familiar grunt; I looked around "Oppa!" Aang exclaimed.

"What on Earth is that?" Zuko said. We defended against Zuko for a few moments before Aang's staff was wacked out of his hands and he was knocked off of the boat. I ran and grabbed the staff before jumping off the boat and diving into the freezing water myself. I saw a glowing light in the water and frowned. Suddenly I saw Aang, his arrow tattoos and his eyes were glowing white. He grabbed me and flew out of the water using water bending. We landed back on the boat; Aang took down everyone on board with water bending. He then fell to the floor "Aang!" I said worriedly. I bent down and slung his arm around my shoulder. Oppa landed and Katara and Sokka ran over as well. Aang woke up "Hey Katara, hey Sokka, thanks for coming." He said.

"Well I couldn't let you have all the fun." Sokka said. I passed Aang's staff to him. We all got onto Oppa. Sokka said "Yip yip!" Oppa flew away from the now awake fire nation soldiers. I saw Iroh. "Bye uncle!" I chirped before being licked by Sadie. I smiled and said "Yeah, I missed you too girl." Zuko and Iroh sent some fire at us, Aang jumped up and sent a wave of air to retaliate, it knocked the fire to the side, the fire hit some ice and the ice then covered the ship. I cheered and waved along with Aang, Sokka and Katara.

I sat against Sadie and docked into her fur. Katara said "Maybe you're not as bad as the rest of them."

"Thanks." I whispered sadly.

"What's wrong?" Sokka asked.

"I'm stuck as a damn fire bender! I hate being this, humans, benders, spirits! We should all just be squirrels or something." I complained. Katara nodded.

"Why didn't you tell us that you were the Avatar?" Katara asked.

"Because I never wanted to be." Aang said.

"But Aang, the world has been waiting for the avatar to return and finally put an end to this war." Katara said.

"And how am I meant to do that?" Aang said.

"According to legend, you need to first master water, then earth, then fire, right?" Katara asked.

"That's what the monks said." Aang answered.

"That's what the sprits told me." I said.

"If we go to the North pole then you can master water bending." Katara said.

"We can learn it together!" Aang exclaimed.

"And Sokka, I'm sure you'll be able to knock some fire bender heads on the way." Katara said to him.

"I'd like that." Sokka smiled lazily "I'd really like that."

"And Hotaru, you can help us defeat the fire nation." Katara said to me. I nodded and grinned.

"Then we're in this together." Katara said.

"Okay, but before I learn water bending, we have some serious business to attend to."Aang pulled out a map and pointed to different spots "Here, here and here."

"What's there." Katara asked.

"Here, we'll ride the hopping lamas. Then way over here we'll ride on the backs of giant coy fish, then back over here we'll ride the hog monkeys, they don't like people riding them, but that's what makes it fun!" Aang explained.

"Wait, earlier, you said 'that's what the spirits told me.'?" Katara said to me. I nodded.

"Yeah, the spirits, they've offered to let me control any element, can't you see them?" I said.

"No, nobody can." Katara said "So, if you wanted to you could control water?" she asked. I nodded.

"Can you go down to the water." I asked Aang, he nodded and took Oppa down to the water. I shrugged off my jacket. Katara gasped at my bare arm, covered in burns. I said "I'd rather not talk about it." I then proceeded to dive into the water and try and summon a water spirit. I finally saw one and asked it "Please bless me with the power of water."

"Are you prepared to take on the weight of another element, you have never asked this before." The spirit said. I nodded, I had no idea what that meant though. The spirit tapped my forehead with a tentacle. I felt burning in my already burnt arm. I screamed, air bubbles flew out of my mouth. I swam back up to the surface and hopped back onto Oppa. I held my arm and looked down "My arm, it's being burnt all over again." I said in complete pain. Katara wrapped some material around my arm and Sadie licked it. I smiled and tried not to move my arm so much. I said "I've been blessed with the element of water." I stood up and moved my non-burnt arm, I water bended, but I wasn't very good at it, at all. I sat down and winced from the pain in my arm. Katara said "This has been done before, there was a man in my village, he could talk to spirits, he controlled all the elements, but he only hurt innocent things with it, one day he went crazy and started talking about spirits that were out to get him, then, he died."

"Well, I better not misuse it." I said. I smiled at Aang and said "Maybe I can become half avatar?"

"That would be so cool!" Aang exclaimed. I sat down and put my fists together; I closed my eyes and let my mind clear.

"What are you doing?" Sokka asked.

"Meditating." I answered. Sokka went to go and speak again but I shushed him. How could someone other than the avatar bend all four elements, it seemed unfair, but it's also frickin cool!