Chapter 1

A New Beginning

The war ended three and a half years ago, Zuko with the help of Katara, Aang,Sokka, and Toph overthrew Fire lord Ozai and Azula fled, coward. Zuko didn't want to be Fire Lord so Iroh is now the Fire Lord. Katara and Zuko soon became friends after the war ended. Sokka and Ty Lee also became good friends, but a year ago Azula persuaded Ty Lee to join her again, but couldn't get Mai to join but Ty Lee did ,in hopes she will help Azula overthrow Iroh and destroy Zuko, the Avatar and his friends. Now, things have changed, Azula tried to kill Ty Lee so Ty Lee ran. Zuko left the Fire Nation and now is trying to find Katara. Katara has been separated from Aang, Sokka and Toph by a terrible storm. Azula is now trying to find Ty Lee and destroy her for good. Sokka split from the group to find Katara. Toph and Aang are traveling alone to the western Air Temple.

Ages- Katara and Ty Lee 18, Zuko 20, Sokka, Azula 19, Aang and Toph16

Yes this is in the future, 4 years in the future.

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'Walking through the woods at sunset can be so relaxing' thought Katara.

Katara had recently been separated from the rest of the group so the only company she had was the animals and the trees.

There was soon a rustling noise in the trees. It was probably a squirrel or something. There it is again. She then saw a figure running through the brush. "Who's there?!?!" She yelled.

"Who's there!?" She yelled again.

Then all of sudden there was a hand over her mouth keeping her silent, all she could think of was: Who is this? Why does this hand smell like flames?

Then the person moved their hand. "Zuko?" Katara asked. He then smiled at her a little. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I'm not here for the Avatar, if that's what you're thinkin'" he responded sarcastically (they're friends).

"Then why are you here?" she asked.

"I want to know if you want to join my group, I know you're with the Avatar-" he could not finish, Katara gave him a kiss on the cheek. "What was that for?"

"I never thought you would ask me that." she said sweetly. "I'm not traveling with Aang anymore we were separated."

"I'm sorry about that." said Zuko.

She gave him a hug as she said, "Thank you, I'll be back in alittle with my stuff!" as she was running off.

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"Sokka went to find Katara." Aang said to Toph as she was waking up.

"As usual." she sarcastically.

"I'm not sure if he's coming back, he took all of his stuff with him."

"..." there was no answer.

"Well, we better be going I want to get to the Western Air Temple by noon." he said eagerly.

"I'm hungry." Toph said.

"Here's some food." said Aang as he was handing the leaf to her.

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Sokka was walking down a dirt road when he saw a figure right ahead.

"Who is that?" he asked himself.

After a couple of minutes the person was face to face with him. "Ty Lee?"

"Hey." she said sounding sad.

"What are you doing out here all alone?" he asked concerned.

"Azula threatened to kill me." she said looking away.

"You need a hug." He gave her a hug, she wrapped her arms around him.

"As they pulled apart, "Thank you." she said brightly.

"Now that's the Ty Lee I know."

"Can I travel with you, a girl can't travel alone."

"Yeah, sure. I'm traveling alone anyways."

(Ty Lee and Sokka were friends too)

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"Finally you're back. I've been waiting for hours." Zuko said playfully.

"ha ha, I've only been gone for five minutes."

"I know. Come on let's go."

They started walking over to his camp, on the way there were lots of trees and noises that made Katara freak out and cling to Zuko arm.

"What are you doing?" he asked annoyed.

"Oh, nothing." she responded quickly.

"You're scared, aren't you?" he teased.

"No!" she lied.

"Yeah you were."

"Were not!"

"Yeah"

"Not"

"Okay." said Zuko sarcastically.

They continued walking, then Katara saw a fire glowing after about five minutes. "Is that your camp."

"Yup."

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"Breakfast was good." Toph said. "Did you make it."

"Yeah, nobody else is here except for you and me." Aang responded. "We better be leaving now."

"Okay."

Aang and Toph then got onto Appa, started to fly westward. On the way everyone was quiet, Toph was laying in the saddle staring at the sky although she is blind, Aang was enjoying the feel of the breeze. Toph sat up and started to redo her hair, she had a loose grip on her headband and then it slip right out of her hands through a strong blow of wind. "Oh No, My Headband!!"

"I'll be right back" Aang quickly said as he was grabbing his glider.

He jumped off of Appa and opened his glider and head down until he saw a dropping headband. He sped up until the headband was within his grasp. He stretched out his hand and caught the falling headband. He turned around and headed back to Appa. When he was in the saddle he came up to Toph and put the headband on her head.

"You got my headband!" Toph yelled in delight and gave Aang a giant hug.

"That headband must be very important to you?" Aang asked.

"It is, it was my Great-Great-Grandmother's." Toph said. "I found it while through one of her boxes. She used to tell me she wore it before the war even started, when she was sixteen."

"That must be a very old headband."

"Yeah, it was in bad shape when I found it, but I went and had it restored, now it's as good as new."

"That's good." Aang said as has heading over to grab the reigns.

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"You hungry?" Sokka asked Ty Lee.

"Yeah, I haven't eaten since two days ago."

"Come on lets stop and make breakfast."

"Okay."

'I'm happy that I'm away from Azula because Sokka is being really nice. Azula just wanted me for company and someone for her to push around, well no more cause I'm happy now... I wonder how I would look in blue.' Ty Lee thought.

"I'm going to go hunt or would you like berries or something?"

"No, just go hunt I'll stay here and start a fire."

"Be back in about half an hour."

"Alright."

Sokka went to hunt. He spotted a large bird in a tree in front of him. He threw his boomerang at it and down it fell. "I'm sorry birdy but that's the natural order of things big things eat smaller things." He then skinned, took out all of the feathers, and took it to the fire to cook.

"That wasn't long." Ty Lee said as sokka was walking up behind her.

"I know, it ws right in front of me."

"What was?"

"The bird."

"Okay." Ty Lee said. "Do you know where a hot springs is or something?"

"A river is right through the trees there."Sokka pointed toward the direction. "Why?"

"I need to take a quick bath, duh."

"Oh."

"See you in little." she while walking off.

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"What's for breakfast. I'm hungry." Katara complained.

"You're gonna have to make it if you don't want a burnt breakfast." Zuko said.

"Do you hunt?"

"What?"

"Do you hunt?"

"A little."

"Can you go hunt?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Then go hunt."

"Okay."

"I'm gonna go take a dip."

"Okay see you in a few."

Zuko headed into the woods and Katara followed until it was time to go a different direction. Katara wandered for a few more moments until she saw a river in the distance. She ran to the river and found someone else was in the water. She crept closer and saw that the person was a girl and Fire Nation by the clothes close by on a rock. She crept even closer and found out who was in the water. "Ty Lee, what are you doing here?"

"Taking a bath" turning her head slightly "What are you doing here?"

"I'm going to take a quick swim. Aren't you going to attack me or something?"

"No, I'm not traveling with Azula anymore." she said not looking at Katara. "Now if you don't mind, I'm trying to take a bath here."

"Well, I'm going to go farther so that I won't intrude you privacy."

"Thank you."

Katara walked downstream and found a spot about twenty yards from Ty Lee. She then stripped her clothing except her under garments and did a cannonball into the water. She stood up and dunked her head back to get all of her hair wet. She practiced some of her water bending while in the water. She froze the water around her making it really cold, then unfroze it. She made some ice daggers and shot them at a tree. It was time to practice her water whip, she did it in the air couple of times and then practiced it on the trees and left a big mark.

Ty Lee then walked over, fully clothed, and said "I was watching you water bend, you're really good."

"Thanks, that means alot to me."

"You're welcome. I wish I could bend."

"I'm sorry you can't bend, but you're really good with those jabs of yours."

"Thanks, I better be going, breakfast should be done by now."

"Okay, bye." Katara said and started to continue practicing her water bending.

After a few minutes, she got out and water bended the water out of her clothes, which got slashed on, and got dressed and headed to camp.

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Toph and Aang landed. They were at the Western Air Temple. "Finally, we're here." Toph said impatiently.

"You can wander if you like, I'm going to look around."

"Okay, whatever you say." Toph said sarcastically, but Aang was out of hearing distance.

Aang wandered to see if anyone was here . He wandered from room to room and found nothing. Then he heard something loud and shrill "AANG!!!!!"

He ran as fast as he could to find out what it was. It was just Toph being attacked by a shirshu. Wait Toph's being attacked!!!!!!

'How did that shirshu get up here' Aang thought to himself.

When Aang landed Toph was earth bending a rock at the shirshu whipped her with it's tongue and Toph was on the ground, paralyzed. I t was all up to Aang to get the shirshu away, he blasted it with a wave of air. 'how would it react if it got whipped with it's tongue' Aang thought and then quick flew over on to the shirshu's back and it tried to get Aang and paralyze him. Aang moved just in time and the shirshu hit itself and fell to the ground. Aang rushed over to Toph.

"Toph are you okay?"

"Yeah, well sorta. I can't move."

"That will wear off in an hour or two." Aang said while picking Toph up bridal style and carrying her over to Appa. "Come on , lets put this shirshu where it belongs."

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"Hey." Ty Lee said while walking to her camp.

"Hey."

"I've been wondering, why were you traveling alone?" Ty Lee asked. "I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just asking."

"You're not being rude. I'm traveling alone because my sister was separated from me about two weeks ago and I am trying to find her."

"Does she have like hair loops and a long braid and can water bend."

"Yeah, have you seen her?!?!" Sokka said very excitedly.

"Yeah she was in the river water bending a little bit ago."

"I'm going to go look around for her. Food's done." He said while walking off.

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'I knew that was going to happen if I told.' Ty Lee thought while Sokka walked off.

Ty Lee watched Sokka wander toward the river and she felt her heart drop.

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Katara was redoing her hair when Zuko arrived with three field-chickens.

"Like it, can you help skin them." Zuko asked when he saw Katara.

"Okay, let me finish doing my hair."

"Why don't you ever leave it down.?"

"Do you like it down?"

"Yeah." he said blushing. He sat down and got out a pocket knife and started skinning the field-chickens.

She took out the braid and started combing her hair with her fingers. "How's that?"

"Good. Very Pretty." Zuko said truthfully but his cheeks turned a bright crimson color.

Zuko handed Katara a knife to help skin and said to careful with it. When they were finished, Katara started cooking the three field-chickens over the fire. They cooked slowly, but it ws worth it. They tasted delicious. When they finished eating Zuko put the scraps of food in the woods. For the bears to eat.

"Come on we better be moving." Zuko said and he packed up his bag.

Katara picked up her bag and said, "Ready."

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