Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar and the Last Bender or its characters
Pointers: 'italics' means that the character is thinking
Summary: Nothing more than a princess then turned vigilante. Now she's a prisoner to Zuko as bait for the Avatar. Will she be able to escape or will she choose the darker side? Maybe it might make her discover what it means to be touched by the dragonspirit. Zuko x OC
Book 1: Water
The Blue Spirit & Imprisonment & The Seige of the North
"This should bring your fever down." Katara told her brother as she wiped his forehead with a wet cloth.
Sokka, feverishly, beings to talk and says some rather nonsensical things. "You know what I love about Appa the most? His sense of humor."
"That's nice. I'll tell him." Katara said unfazed while Enyo arched a brow, looking at him with a confused expression.
"M'kay," Enyo said, "I definitely don't wanna catch that so we have to fix things."
Appa grunts at Sokka's response, "Haha! Classic Appa."
"Real soon." Katara agreed with Enyo.
Aang had walked over to them, "How's Sokka doing?" he asks.
"Not so good. Being out in that storm really did a number on him." Katara explained as Sokka began to shiver in his sleeping bag and snorting back his runny nose.
Enyo had looked up at Aang, "He's losing his mind. He's saying some really weird things."
"Like how weird?" Aang asked, worried.
The Princess placed her forefinger against her cheek, thinking of some of the crazy things that he said earlier. "He said that he wants to become a nomad and travel the world because evil is just weighing him down. So down that he feels the need to take off his clothes because they are just too superficial."
"Alright, he definitely needs the medicine. I couldn't find any ginger root though, but I found a map!" He produces a scroll and spreads it out on the ground. "There's an herbalist institute on the top of that mountain. We could probably find a cure for Sokka there."
Enyo shook her head immediately, "Sokka shouldn't be moving no time soon, Aang. His fever is only going to get worse."
"She's right," Katara sighed, "he's in no condition to travel. Sokka just needs more rest. I'm sure he'll be better by tomorrow." Katara then broke out into a cough.
Enyo and Aang had immediately scoot away from her in fear of getting sick, "Not you too!" Aang frowned.
"Relax, it was just a little cough. I'm fin-" She cuts herself off with more coughing. Aang had shielded him and Enyo from her violent coughing, fearing that they would catch the cold.
"That's how Sokka started yesterday. Now look at him, he thinks he's an earthbender." Enyo pointed at him as Aang now witnessed the crazy himself.
The watertribe warrior began swinging at something that isn't there, "Take that, you rock!"
"A few more hours and you'll be talking nonsense too. " Aang says while getting up and grabbing his staff, "Enyo, we're going to have to go find some medicine."
The Princess stretched her arms over her head and placed her katana belt around her waist. "Alright, let's go!" She said, pumped as Aang opened his glider and walked to the edge of the temple. "You sure you want to use the glider?" Enyo asked as she pointed at the glider.
"Why not?" A huge flash of lighting illuminates Aang and the exterior of the temple. He twirls his glider shut and leans it against the wall of the temple, "Uh, maybe it's safer if I go on foot." He laughs nervously before looking at Appa and Momo, "Keep an eye on 'em guys."
Appa grunts in reply. Sokka, deliriously says, "Haha! You guys are killin' me!" Aang turns and launches himself into the air, landing far down the hill of the temple and Enyo jumps, her hands grabbing onto a branch and she swings from branch to branch.
"I guess being in the forest gave you the strength to be so acrobatic?" Aang said as he was now running on foot, "You're really fast."
"Thanks but I'm far from how fast you can go, you're an airbender after all." She said with a slight smile as she landed onto a branch and began to jump from branch to branch.
At a Fire Nation lookout post, one of the lookouts is looking out with a telescope, another is reading Aang's wanted poster. The Reading lookout speaks up, "Says here that the Avatar can create tornados and run faster than the wind. Pretty amazing."
The telescope lookout looks back at his colleague, "Ehh, that's just a bunch of Fire Lord Propaganda. There's no way that's true. "
The telescope lookout returns to his instrument. He has a view of three bends in the mountain pass. In a flash a cloud of dust rockets, appear and the rush of wind and dust is tremendous. The lookouts blink their eyes and then the telescope lookout blows his horn to the sky.
Enyo and Aang reached a building which is filled with trees, bushes, and flowers. It was the herbalist institute.
Aang, speaking very fast, says, "Hello! I'm sorry we had to barge in like this, but I need some medicine for my friends. They have fevers and they've been coughing and-"
The herbalist, who was mixing something in a bowl on the table in front of her cuts him off, "Settle down, young man. Your friends are going to be fine." She walks over to another table where the cat is sitting. "I've been up here for over forty years you know, used to be others, but they all left years ago." She pets the cat that begins to purr. "Now it's just me and Miyuki."
"Okay," Enyo began with a confused expression, "but what does that have to do with our crazy talking, sick friends?"
"Wounded Earth Kingdom troops still come by now and again, brave boys, and thanks to my remedies they always leave in better shape than when they arrive." the herbalist said.
"Your still not answering our question." The look on the girls face went from confused to annoyed. Aang patted her shoulders.
"Well, that's nice, Mrs. Herbalist Lady." Aang tried to cheer the woman.
"Hold on, I just need to add one last ingredient." Walking amongst the shrubbery, looking around and muttering to herself, "Oh, sandalwood oh, er, uh, that won't do. Banana leaf? Ah, nope, uh, ginger root, uh uh, oh where is that pesky little plant?" She moves another shrug, "Here's what I was looking for! Plum blossom!"
"Finally!" Enyo and Aang shout in a unison, exasperated.
Aang grabbed the bowl from the woman's hands, "Thanks for all your help!"
The old woman hit Aang on the wrist and knocked loose his grip on the bowl, "Hands off! What do you think you're doing?"
"We're taking the cure to our friends. That's the whole reason why we're here, don't tell me you just forgot?" Enyo's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Ahaha! This isn't a cure, it's Miyuki's dinner." The old woman with a grin as she placed the bowl on the the table in front of Miyuki. She pets the cat who begins to eat and purr. "Plum blossom is her favorite." the Herbalist said.
"What the…" Enyo buried her face in her palm, "You were supposed to hell us with our friends, we could care less about Miyuki! That damn cat ain't gonna help us!"
Aang and the herbalist cringed at Enyo's voice. "Well, I didn't know you could be that harsh."
The Princess looked at him, "Eh…" She shrugged her shoulders, unable to respond. "I get angry easily, very easily."
"Well, if you want to heal your friends, all they need is some frozen wood frogs. There are plenty of them down in the valley swamp." The herbalist told them.
"What are we supposed to do with frozen frogs?" Aang asked incredulous.
"Why, suck on them of course!" the old woman explained.
"Suck on them!" Aang and Enyo said in shock.
"Ugh…" Enyo groaned with her hand over her mouth as Aang rubbed the girl's back.
Aang than tried to comfort, "At least its not us."
"I can't imagine." She suppressed her vomit.
"The frog's skin excretes a substance that'll cure your friends, but make sure you get plenty. Once those little critters thaw out, they're useless!" she explained.
Aang began to rub Enyo's back, trying to comfort her and not let her throw up on him. A few moments pass in silence. "You're insane aren't you?" He asked the old woman.
"Thaaat's right." she turns back to her work, then back to Aang and Enyo. "Well don't stand there all day." She whips her spoon at Aang, who ends up with a bunch of black gunk on his face. "Go!"
Aang had ran out the building, wiping his face from the black gunk while Enyo in the trees above him as they tried to make their way to the valley swamp. All of the sudden, arrows flew through the air at him. Two landed to his immediate right and love. Above, a huge numbers of arrows had arched toward them, Aang had airbend a shell of wind around knocking all the arrows aide while Enyo used her katana to cut most of them in half. Aang had then stopped and pulled one of the arrows out of the ground and offers it to someone. Enyo, before she could notice, had bumped into someone and ended up falling from the trees, landing on a bush. She had rubbed her head before blacking out.
Aang had ran over to her, "Enyo!" He cried as he picked her up, carrying her on his back as he ran. An arrow had flown and hit his shoe, holding his foot in place. He releases it just in time as the archers fire another volley, but as he runs out of the way, two groups of four arrows each plow into the ground near him as he runs. He runs towards the gate he entered through, but it is blocked by archers. They fire, but he dodges and runs in the opposite direction. Dodging hails of arrows, he jumps off the cliff at the back of the institute. The Avatar was now hurtling down the cliff. Up above, the archers jump off the cliff after him as he held onto the girl tightly that was on his back. Aang fell off the cliff face on his left. He slid Enyo a little back to let his hood billow a bit to slow him down until he hits the tree canopy beneath. Aang's face gets beaten repeatedly by the brush rapidly flying by, Enyo falling through them as well. The archers who fire in mid-flight, sending anchor ropes into the nearby trees as they fall so they can swing tarzan-like after Aang. However, they were cut off by half conscious Enyo who cuts the ropes. Eventually Aang comes out of the forest in the swamp. He lands in the water and emerges with a white, frozen frog.
"A frog! Enyo, the frogs are here!" Aang said excitedly, but he was worried all at the same time. The frog is knocked out of his hand by an arrow. He stands up and tries to run through the water, looking for frogs along the way. Arrows falling all around. He gets to a log rising out of the water, and an arrow pins his right arm to it. It is soon joined by several more. The archers fire another volley, but Aang waterbends a wall of ice in front of him. The arrows shatter the ice. They fire another volley, pinning his left arm, followed by a net that covers his upper body. His face in terror.
Enyo had her wrist pinned to her back along with a foot holding her down so she couldn't fight. They were caught and there was nothing else they could do to stop them.
Aang arms were stretched out, his face downcast. The room is dark, but there is fire in the room that sheds some illumination. The Avatar's eyes show defiance as he is a prisoner of a large room with two stone pillars that the Fire Nation insignia's on their crests. Aang is shackled to them from his arms. He struggles against his bonds and looks up as the door opens. Zhao walks into the room towards Aang, hands behind his back.
"So this is the great Avatar? Master of all the elements. I don't know how you've managed to elude the Fire Nation for a hundred years, but your little game of hide and seek is over."
"I've never hidden from you. Untie me and I'll fight you right now! Wait, where's my friend? What did you do with her?" He asked them, showing his teeth to show his anger.
"Like I have an obligation to tell you any of those things. Why don't you tell me, how does it feel to be the only airbender left?" Putting his face up to the twelve-year olds, "Do you miss your people?" Aang's look of defiance melts and he drops his head. "Oh, don't worry, you won't be killed like they were." he said as the Avatar looks up again in anger. "See, if you die you'll just be reborn and the Fire Nation will have to being its search for the Avatar all over again. So, I'll keep you alive but just barely."
Aang snarls, "Where is she?"
The man looked at him, "She's going to be with me for a while. I enjoy her feisty spirit, how she attempts to attack me every chance he gets."
"You're sick!" Aang shouted as Zhao turned to leave, still smirking. Aang blows a gale force wind, knocking Zhao until into the wall where he collapses in a heap. He shakes his head to clear his vision and stands up.
"Blow all the wind you want! Your situation is futile. There is no escaping this fortress and no one is coming to rescue you or her!" Zhao yelled, pointing his finger at Aang.
Enyo had swung her chain bindings against the wall repeatedly, trying to figure out a way that she could somehow break them. Never in her life had she seen such a metal contraption that could keep one binded through whatever. Still, she was persistent and she was determined to break out of here and take Aang with her. Next time she saw that old man, she was going to hit him with everything she got. Then again, he was a strong firebender, so how could she stop him? They even took her sword, so how could she even have a fighting chance? "Dammit." Just then she heard a pair of footsteps behind her became loud enough for her to hear, on the defensive, she leaps into the air and attacks the person. She automatically assumed it was Zhao, "You bastard I swear I'm gonna- Oh, uh… who are you?" She asked the blue mask wielder. There was a moment of silence between them until her pushed her off of him. "Ow!" she cried, as she hit her head on the floor. He quickly placed her over his shoulder, carrying her like a sack of rice. "What the hell are you doing? All you could of done was ask me d-" he placed his hand over her mouth, she began kicking and screaming in his hand as they moved quickly into the shadows.
"We are the sons and daughters of fire! The superior element! Until today, only one thing stood in our path to victory. The Avatar! I am here to tell you that he is now my prisoner!" The soldiers cheer three times. "This is the year Sozin's comet returns to grant us its power!" Another cheer is heard. "This is the year the Fire Nation breaks through the walls of Ba-Sing-Se and burns the city to the ground!" Zhao told the Fire Nation soldiers that filled the innermost courtyard, standing at attention. As he spoke, the Blue Spirit steadily and stealthily infiltrates the fortress.
Aang, who was still struggling fruitlessly against his chains had finally stopped, breathing heavily. Suddenly, frogs start leaping out of his shirt and hood. "What? No! Don't leave frogs! My friends are sick and they need you! Please go back to being frozen! He begins to struggle again as the frogs hop away towards the door. The four guards standing outside the chamber. They begin to look confused when they frog noises. They look down to see a few frogs coming from underneath the door. Suddenly they look up as a Fire Nation soldier's helmet comes bouncing down the corridor towards them. One of the guards walks up the corridor and turns right at the first junction, disappearing from view from the other soldiers. A gout of flame erupts from the cross hallway as well as the sound of a brief scuffle. Two more guards go up to the junction and turn right, Firebending stances at the ready. The first guard who went is hanging from the ceiling, tied up. The Blue Spirit is now on the ceiling and he drops down and the melee begins, but it is over quickly.
Enyo, was now free of her bindings and sword in hand, had swung her sheathed sword at one of the lone guard who grabs the alarm horn next to him. The Blue Spirit had looked back in surprised, but the guard lets loose a gout of flame but Enyo quickly extinguishes with a bucket of water before she sweeps the guards from under their feet with the empty bucket.
Aang stops and looks at the noises of violence coming from the door. These stop abruptly and replaced by the sound of the lock turning in the door. The door opens and the Blue Spirit enters. He brandishes two curved swords and runs forward to Aang, who screams in fear.
"It's alright Aang, stop screaming." Enyo said as the Blue Spirit approaches and the cuts the chains that held the Avatar.
Aang pulls his arms back in surprise the Blue Spirit freed him. He looks at him in wonder before running to Enyo, embracing her. "I'm glad you're okay. Zhao is so sick!"
"Huh? Did he try to do something to you?" Enyo nervously asked while returning the hug. The masked boy then opens the door and motions for them to follow.
Aang looked at her confused, "No, but he said about some-Nevermind." Aang and Enyo had followed the Blue Spirit out past the gagged and tied guard at the door to his chamber. He hears frog noises and turns to see his frogs on the floor. "My frogs! Come back! And stop thawing out!" The Blue Spirit comes back, picks him up by the collar and carries him out. "Wait! My friends need to suck on those frogs!" While he is worried about them, Enyo picked some of them up and then followed after them.
Aang, Enyo, and the Blue Spirit were walking silently in the sewer system underneath the fortress. Soldiers walk back and forth above them. They hope out of a grate and into one of the courtyards. Zhao was walking in one of the torch-lit corridors of the fortress, followed by some sort of scribe.
"I want a full transcription of my speech sent to the Fire Lord, along with glowing testimonials from all of the ranking officers present, and-"
He cuts himself off as he hears moans. Zhao's right, where the soldiers that the Blue Spirit tied still lie. The man, upset, slams open the door to Aang's prison cell. It is empty, except for a frog which ribbits at him from the floor. Zhao turns in anger and leaves, the scribe in tow.
"Sir, should I hold off sending that speech to the Fire Lord?" asked the scribe.
The three would-be escapees are now scaling a rope on the innermost wall of the fortress. They are spotted as one of the guards shouts.
"There, on the wall!" A soldier appears at the top of the wall they are climbing. He cuts the rope and the trio fall down the wall, Aang screaming. Aang airbends them to a soft landing. When the dust clears, the Blue Spirit unsheathes his swords and they run.
Zhao shouting from the ornate balcony, "The Avatar has escaped! Close all the gates immediately!"
Aang passes both of them, "Stay close to me!"
The third gate is closing in front of them, as are the two beyond it, and it is blocked by many soldiers. Aang airbends a blast of air that blows them out of the way. Aang makes the gate, but the Blue Spirit and Enyo gets involved in the melee and has to stop which makes Aang turn to see his liberator and friend in trouble. He grabs a spear from a guard near him, airbends him out of the way, breaks the head off the spear and launches back into battle to save his new friend. The gate closes behind him. The Blue Spirit and Enyo are surrounded, but Aang airbends them all out of the way. With a mighty effort he then catapults his liberator to the top of the third wall. He is instantly surrounded, but Aang appears using his staff as a helicopter blade. He plucks the Blue Spirit and Enyo off the wall and heads into the next courtyard.
Aang is struggling to keep them aloft. The Blue Spirit uses his swords to knock the spears sent up at them by the guards. They barely next the top of the next wall as they crash unceremoniously onto the battlement. Aang's staff goes spinning away as guards instantly rush them. Aang runs for his staff, but a guard stops him, taking several swings at Aang with his sword. Enyo throws the guard over the wall with her sword as Aang then airbends the other guards off the wall. At the second wall, where more soldiers are brings scaling ladders. Aang, Enyo, and the Blue Spirit knock off the soldiers as they reach the top. With two mighty blasts, Aang depopulates the two scaling ladders nearest him as the Blue Spirit knocks the one final soldier off his. Aang brings over his two scaling ladders and steps onto the one his liberator has just emptied. He hands one ladder to the masked man and the female.
"Here, take this. Both of you jump on my back!" Enyo and the Blue Spirit comply and Aang begins to use the ladders as massive stilts, shedding one each time a step is taken. The first ladder shed still had some Fire Nation soldiers on it, but it falls in the dust. "Gimme the next one!" The Blue Spirit again complies. At the bottom of their final stilt where a Fire Nation soldier sends a gout of flame up the ladder. It is too late though, as Aang, Enyo and the masked man jump from the last stilt and just manage to grab the edge of the final wall. They are unable to hold on, however, and fall to the ground. The Blue Spirit draws his swords. Four firebenders unleash their flame on them, but Aang puts the masked man behind him along with Enyo and airbends the flames away.
"Hold your fire! The Avatar must be captured alive!" Zhao tells the Blue Spirit instantly comes up behind Aang and Enyo and crosses his swords in front of their throat. Through gritted teeth, Zhao tells them, "Open the gate."
The officer looks at the admiral, "Admiral, what are you doing?"
"Let them out, now!" Zhao snapped. The gate is opened and the Blue Spirit backs out with his captives, swords still at his throat. The officer questioning Zhao still visible over his left shoulder.
"How could you let them go?" asked the officer.
"A situation like this requires precision." The Blue Spirit continues backing away from the fortress. Zhao now looks on from the top of the main gate. Arrow had been strung on a bow by an unseen soldier, "Do you have a clear shot?" The Yu Yan archer, who doesn't respond, but lowers his head in preparation for his shot. "Knock out the thief. I'll deliver him to the Fire Lord along with the Avatar. The archer releases his arrow, it hits the Blue Spirit and the masked man collapses backward. The duo turns in horror. Aang recovers, turns around and airbends up a huge cloud of dust around him and the Blue Spirit. "Quick! Recover the Avatar!"
The main gate opens and a crowd Fire Nation soldiers emerged and ran towards the dust the dust cloud, Aang removes the Blue Spirit's mask to reveal Prince Zuko. Aang starts back in horror; he falls backward on the ground. He jumps up and Enyo runs along behind him, but she feels a sense of guilt and looks back. Aang does the same, his eyes huge and full of compassion. He sees the Fire Nation shoulders getting close through the smoke. He still hesitates but he puts him over his shoulder and the three get away. When the dust clears, the soldiers find nothing.
It is morning and Zuko wakes up, still a bit dazed. "You know what the worst part about being born over a hundred years ago is? I miss all the friends I used to hang out with. Before the war started" Aang said, still looking down at the ground, "I used to always my friend Kuzan. The two of us, we'd get in and out of so much trouble together. He was one of the best friends I ever had," he turns to face Zuko, "and he was from the Fire Nation, just like you. If we knew each other back then, do you think we could have been friends too?" Zuko let loose a huge gout of flame at him, but Aang dodges and sees Enyo comes from behind Zuko, kicking him at his side. "Let's get out of here!" She screams, but Zuko grabs her by her collar. "Get off of me!" She attempts to kick him, but then a flame appeared in front of her, scaring her.
"We're not finished, Avatar." The Prince had said, glaring at the bald-headed monk with his gold eyes.
Enyo was in a tight spot, there was no way she could get out. "Aang, you have to go." She said as the boy looked at her with wide eyes.
"I can-"
"GET OUT!" Enyo shouted, "Sokka and Katara need you and you have some training to do. So get outta here!"
The boy looked torn, his eyes brewing with tears as he contemplates on what he should do. He gives her a weak nod before flying all as she gets thrown on the ground by Zuko and then her hands bound behind her. "You're coming with me."
"What? Okay, first you save me and now you're keeping me hostage? Is everyone in the Fire Nation kidnappers?" The Princess shouted.
Zuko glared at her menacingly, "If you want, I can take you back to Zhao."
Enyo stopped her struggling. "Oh, nevermind then."
Everyone on the ship looked in shocked to see the Prince and the girl with him, bindings behind her as she walked with her held high and her eyes closed. "Prince Zuko, why do you have a girl as a hostage?" Iroh asked, bewildered by the whole situation.
"She's an accomplice for the Avatar. More along the lines, she is bait." Zuko informed him as he pushed her toward a few guards.
She quickly turned around, baring her teeth almost like a wild animal. "I swear I'll beat the-" Iroh had covered her mouth, trying to help her.
"A young lady shouldn't swear." He said with a warm smile, she bit the man's hand.
"Don't touch me!" She snapped as he pulled his hand away, rubbing his fingers.
Iroh looked at his nephew who looked back at him in shock, "She's a very feisty one. Can't imagine what she would be doing with the Avatar." He managed to say, a shocked expression still on his face.
Enyo had walked towards Zuko, but the soldiers he had threw her two had held her back. "I'm not going to tell you anything, you hear me? Nothin'! I'd rather starve than to tell you anything, you hear? Go fall in a ditch and die!"
"Take her to the cells!" Zuko ordered, growing agitated every minute he was near the girl. She had struggled as her feet were dragged against the deck as they fought tooth and nail to bring her down the cells.
Iroh then smiled, "I supposed you have a plan for making her talk." He said as Zuko stared off in the direction she was taken.
"Actually I don't. I think she meant everything she said, I'll come up with something in the morning." He stormed off to his room, leaving his Uncle by himself. The former General merely sighed.
Enyo had been sitting in the cell unable to sleep as she had her knees pressed against her chest. It was cold and unbearable but she had stuck to her word. She wasn't going tell Zuko anything, not even the old man. She wouldn't say a word. Occasionally, Zuko would come there and bribe her with food and some comfortable bedding but she hadn't said anything and he would throw his tantrums. He didn't know how to control his anger well from what she could see, so it was easy to make him angry by not talking pr not even saying an insult to him. All she did was give him cold eyes and then turn away from him, he would wait until he got fed up with it. He was stubborn, almost as stubborn as she was, but she refused to give in and he had done the same.
Now the old man came down, probably trying to ask the same questions that the Prince asked. It didn't matter because she wouldn't speak, she wouldn't give in. No matter how much he interrogated her because they weren't cruel enough to actually torture her, so what was the point? He had sat down and put down a tray of tea before her. She gave him her cold stare, but he responded back to her with a warm, kind smile. She appeared unfazed as he filled the tea cups with warm tea and placed it on a small tea plate and slid it into her cell. "You should try some, it helps you rest when you are worried or it keeps you up all night. I can't remember the effect, but its soothing and tastes really good!" He ended up laughing, but Enyo didn't say anything but continue to stare at him. Iroh had acted like it was nothing but normal. "Tea is usually good when its hot, but sometimes cold tea is best for when its Summer. We're in the Winter season, a time where tea tastes even better and warms the body."
Enyo looked away from, almost tempted to drink the tea. She hadn't drunk tea before and so she was curious as to how it taste. Still, she refused to take his offer and show any signs of giving in. She was helping Aang and she was hell-bent to continue to do so. "Well, I have to go but I'll leave this here." Iroh had said as he left the cup of tea and walked out of the room with the tray. Enyo had looked to see the metal door close and then looked down at the cup. The caramel colored liquid was inviting, the smell intoxicating, she had let out a sigh of frustration. She had moved away from it to see if it would stop her, but all it did was make her want it all the more. 'You can do this Enyo. You can fight this! There might be some drug in there anyway, you shouldn't drink it. After all, the Fire Nation is a bunch of ruthless killers.' She thought as she brought her hand to her head, feeling a headache.
She lied down on her side at the far end of the cell, shivering as the cold air from the window had touched against her stomach and face. She didn't know how much long she could last in here.
Aang had put the frogs in his friends' mouths. "Suck on these. They'll make you feel better." Aang had collapsed backwards onto Appa's beaver-like tail with a sigh.
"Aang, how was your trip? Did you make any new friends?" Sokka asked him.
"No, I don't think I did." He rolls over, feeling sad about the situation Enyo was in.
"Mmmm! This is tasty! Mmm!" Sokka said as the frog thaws out and begins moving around and croaking. Sokka realize what it is and spits it out in disgust. Katara, her frog has also thawed. She cries out and it hops out of her mouth. Both Katara and Sokka begin spitting and coughing.
"Hey," Katara looked around to see Enyo was missing, "Where's Enyo?"
The Avatar frowned and let out another sigh, "Zuko is holding her hostage."
"What?" Both siblings said in unison.
"We have to hurry and find her! We can't let him use her as bait!" Sokka struggled out of his sleeping back.
Aang stood up, "How are we going to find her? Zuko is on his ship and could be anywhere? I wanted to save her, but I couldn't leave you guys here and she kept insisting that I go. I didn't know what to do."
"We understand, Aang. We'll find her soon." Katara tried to comfort him, "Besides, Zuko is bound to go wherever we go and we're bound to meet up with her at some point."
"Then we'll take her back and we'll kick Zuko right in the butt to show he can't mess with us!" Sokka tried to be enthusiastic but he was still weak from his sickness and so when he kicked, he ended up falling leaving Aang and Katara laughing at him.
A week had gone by and Iroh's attempt for the girl to open up was futile. She refused to eat or drink anything that he had tried to secretly offer her, she was very stubborn and it only angered Zuko more than she wasn't willing to talk.
"Prince Zuko, she's not going to talk no matter what you do." Iroh had said, "She even refuses anything I try to offer her and I'm showing general concern. Its not healthy, Zuko. We have to let her go."
"No!" The teenager threw his arms in the air, "She'll get so fed up and she'll speak. She can't last like that forever." And with that said, he turned and made his way back to the cell.
He opened the door and walked down the short hallway and saw her laying there, her eyes staring at the ceiling. "I always wanted to sail in a ship." Zuko's eyes widened, surprised that the girl had actually spoke but he didn't say anything as she continued. "The smell of the ocean air, to be surrounded by nothing but blue waters sounded really nice to me, but I always wanted to sail with my mom and dad. All three of us on a boat sailing in the deep blue sea, we would be going somewhere and have an adventure as a family." She raised her hand to the ceiling, "but I haven't seen them since I was a child because I was different. I couldn't stay home." She closed her hand tightly in a fist, her arm slightly trembling from her anger and because she was feeling weak, "Now all my dreams have been taken from me. I can't be with my mom finding lying a dead body here. Satisfied?"
The Prince hadn't said anything, no words he could think of at the moment. Instead, he took out a key and unlock the cell door and picked her up by slinging her over his shoulders. She had fought, but he had took her out and brought her to the large eating area that was reserved for him and his father. He made her sit down at the table, Iroh eating there with wide eyes. "Eat something." He told her as her eyes stared down at the chair under in a lazy stare. "I said eat something."
"First I'm your bait and now I'm your slave? You Fire Nation people are something else I tell you." She said as she leaned closed her eyes halfway, "Just let me rot."
Zuko took a chopstick and picked up a piece of the poached salmon and shoved it in her mouth. "I'm not letting you die and I'm not letting you leave, so eat and cooperate and everything will be fine, you hear?" There was some hint of concern in his voice, but the concern was mainly focused on her actually killing herself and leaving him with nothing but her body to take care of. Other than that, did he actually care? Who knows for sure when it comes to Zuko's feelings.
Enyo was about to open her mouth and drop the piece of the fish, but her tastebuds tingled. They enjoyed the taste and she couldn't suppress her hunger any longer. Slowly, she chewed and Iroh had watched in shock. Enyo raised her hand began to pick up her chopsticks and began to eat more of the fish, literally stuffing her mouth. Both the Prince and the former General looked at each other in shock as she became a wild animal, eating almost everything that was on the plates before her. She drunk two glasses of water and let out a burp, showing no type of etiquette at all as she attacked more of the food around her. "Well, this is progress." Iroh said with a smile, "I never met someone who had an appetite that could compete with mine. Prince Zuko, you better hurry up and eat before she eats everything." Iroh than followed suit, eating his food like a maniac, leaving Zuko to stand there with a dumbfound expression.
When the food was gone, the table nothing but empty, except for the full cups of tea. Enyo had brought the cup to her lips and took a sip. She winced at first, not realizing how hot it was but then smiled at the warm, fresh tingle that greeted her tastebuds. The tea was warm and inviting, almost making her feel that she was in a nice hot bath. "What do you think?" Iroh asked her as she turned to look at him.
"Its… really good." Enyo answered as she took another sip. "This is my first time drinking tea."
"WHAT? You never drank tea before? Where have you been, my child?" He asked her incredulously.
The girl looked at him curiously, "In the Earth Kingdom."
"So, you're an Earthbender? You were going to teach the Avatar Earthbending?" Zuko asked, now actually interested in the conversation.
Enyo shook her head. "No, I'm a Firebender, I think.." She looked up at the ceiling, "I never actually tried Firebending, so I don't know.
"A Firebender? Oh, so you are from the colonies?" Iroh asked.
"No." Enyo answered as Zuko creased his brow and Iroh stroke his beard.
"There's something you're not telling us." Zuko took a sip of his tea, his eyes sent on her.
She gave him a rather dull expression, "Does my past really concern you? All you need to worry about is why the Avatar needed me right? And what do I know about what he plans to do? Where I'm from is really none of your business."
Zuko's grip on his cup had tightened. "Fine, what do you know about the Avatar's next move?"
"I'm not telling you." She quickly answered as the boy slammed his hands on the table and it caused to look up at him, unflinching. "What? Did you really think I was going to tell you? Look, I have honor and loyalty to Aang just like you have for the Fire Nation. I'm sure if you were in my shoes and this was your Father, the Fire Lord, you would be doing the same! Just take me back to my damn cell!" Enyo shouted as she finished the last of her tea. The minutes of silence irritated her, she stood up and slammed her hands on the table as well. "TAKE ME BACK!"
"I'M NOT TAKING YOU BACK UNTIL YOU TELL ME WHAT I WANT!" Zuko hollered back at her.
Enyo then gripped the sides of the table, ready to flip it over but Iroh had stood up. "That is enough out of the both of you!" They both looked each other than, staring at each other angrily. "You both are too old to be behaving like children." Enyo was the first to look down a shame, Zuko only looking away. "Enyo, I'll escort you back to your cell."
"No, she's not going back there!" Zuko argued with his uncle.
"Why can't I go back? I'm not going to tell you anything, so what's the point of me staying here?" She argued as Iroh let out a sigh.
"Listen you two, you both need a break from each other." He said as he placed a comforting hand on his nephew's shoulder, "You should take a rest and let Enyo go back in her cell."
The Prince stormed out of the room and slammed the metal door behind him, leaving Iroh and Enyo by themselves. She was staring back down at the table, flipping it over finally. "I just want to kill him!"
"What will that solve? Is that how you resort to everything? Violence?" Iroh asked her as she was breathing heavily.
Enyo turned to look at him, about to say something but then stopping herself from becoming too harsh. "Violence is the only thing I know that stops me from getting hurt, alright? Stop trying to be nice to me because all you're going to do is use me and then throw me away. Just take me back to my cell, I don't want to talk to anyone."
"Understood." He opened the metal door and led her back to her cell, she had went and sat down as he closed and locked the door. "I'm sorry that dinner had turned out the way it did." And with that said he had left her alone in her cell. She sat there with her back against the bars and her face buried in her hands. This was true torture.
Enyo had woken up at sunrise as usual and looked around the cell; she had noticed a cup of tea and a Prince with his eyes closed and his legs crossed across the cell. "You had a point yesterday about if I were in your situation." He said, his eyes remaining closed. Enyo had sat up and crossed her legs, listening to what he had to say. "I would imprison myself for my Father and not tell a word about his whereabouts. I wouldn't allow anyone to get what they wanted out of me because I would protect my home and my Father with my life. But you see, me and my Father aren't on good terms. He has banished me and I am looking to restore my honor and that's why I am trying to capture the Avatar. If I capture him, I can go back home and be the Crown Prince again. I just want things to go back to how they were, I hate sailing on this ship looking for some kid. I just want to life my life where I'm supposed to be." He opened his eyes and stared at the cup of tea. "I know that what I said might not change your mind, how can it really? This is all my problem, not yours. I don't want you to feel bad for me because I brought this upon myself, what I want you to know is that I understand how we're both fighting hard for someone."
The girl had looked at him with first a look of anger, because she actually felt sorry for her own behavior, but then she had given the look of understanding. What could she really say? "How did you lose your honor?" She asked subconsciously, causing the air between them to thicken. It was an inappropriate question but she couldn't help but ask it.
"I insulted my Father." He quickly answered.
Enyo had stared at the cup of team, steam still rising in the air. "Don't you think it is harsh for someone to send out their teenage son to find the Avatar who was missing for a hundred years?
"What are you trying to insinuate? That my father doesn't care about me?" Enyo cringed at his angry voice slightly, but she kept her poker face strong. She watched his fists bawled up at his knees, where they were resting, and his knuckles turning pure white.
"That's not what I said." She said as she watched the tea cup, "Don't you think that it's harsh? Couldn't he punish you in a smaller way?"
"I told you, I insulted him." He retorted, the air growing hotter between them due to his rising anger.
"Alright, I won't ask anymore." Enyo sighed, knowing that this conversation was going to lead to a path of words flying and destruction. "Aang is trying to strengthen is waterbending since Katara isn't a master of it herself. So, they are heading to the North Pole."
"The North Pole?" Zuko soaked it all in and nodded his head, "how do I know I can believe you?"
"What can I really gain by lying to you? If I told you the wrong direction, you'll go there and I'll still be held hostage." Enyo answered, "so, what do you think sounds beneficial to me? Anyway, they are heading towards the Earth Kingdom some point afterwards to find an Earthbending Master."
Zuko hadn't said anything but stood up. "You should drink your tea before it gets cold. A servant will come and bring you some food."
Enyo watched as he left and picked up her cup of tea, blowing atop of it and drinking it. In a way, she felt defeated. That she had resorted to telling him where the Avatar was, but did she really want to die by playing that game? It was better just to tell him because there was a greater chance of her escaping. Aang and them would help her, wouldn't they?
The door had opened and Iroh came walking in with a smile on his face and a tray of rice and roast duck. "How are you feeling today?" He asked her as she watched the tray touch the floor as he opened the food slot and slid her portion of the food inside.
"I'm okay." She answered him and picked her bowl of rice and chopsticks, slowly eating. "Thank you for all your kindness. I know I treated you wrong and... I'm sorry." She mumbled the apology, having a hard time actually doing it.
"Apology accepted. I understand that you were angry because you are being held against your will. Anybody in your situation would be angry." Iroh said as he ate some more of the duck.
The Princess smiled slightly, "I don't know how you got him to stay so calm like that, but good work."
Iroh blinked twice and then laughed, "So you knew I talked him into this?"
"Of course, there's no way he could just up and be calm like that. You obviously must have done something." She said after chewing some of the rice and picking up some of the duck and placed it in her mouth. "I know you must love having such a chef like this. I never had food that tasted this good before."
"You proved that yesterday." Iroh joked which made the girl freeze, now embarrassed all of a sudden. "But yes, he makes the best of food. "
Enyo then found herself poking her rice, "What did Zuko say to his father that was such a great insult?"
The man had frozen, not believing her words. "So, he told you that much? I suppose I might as well tell you the whole story. You see, it was Zuko's first time to enter the war room. Actually, he wasn't supposed to go in but he kept insisting that he did."
"Well, he's the future Fire Lord. Shouldn't he be allowed in? I mean when Fire Lord Ozai kicks the bucket, Zuko rises into power since he is the Crown Prince." The female said in a matter-of-factly tone.
"Exactly, but Zuko did not understand the rules in being the war room. A general spoke of using an entire division, full of new recruits, as a sacrifice against an Earth Kingdom battalion, which was powerful at that time." Enyo frowned, her mouth opening to say something but she continued to listen, "Zuko had spoke against it knowing that it was wrong, but he insulted his father at the same time which led him to the scar he has now."
"His Father did that to him?" Her hand was placed over her mouth out of disgust and disbelief.
"Yes, he was challenged to an Agni Kai and Prince Zuko thought he was going to face the General he spoke out again, but he actually was supposed to fight his father. He didn't want to do it and as a sign of weakness, my brother burned him and banished him. The only way he could come back home was to find the Avatar." Iroh sighed, "It hurts to relive the memory and tell the story."
"I'm sorry. I just feel really bad for him." Enyo looked down at her bowl of rice before placing another lump of rice in her mouth. "Still," she said with her mouth full and rice flying out of it as she talked, "it doesn't give him a right to be a jerk!" She started to stuff her mouth with food again with an angry expression, leaving Iroh to give her a rather large smile. "I won't be nice to him and he won't be nice to me, we're natural enemies."
"You sure do eat a lot for a girl." Iroh commented as Enyo blinked twice, first embarrassed but then giving him a toothy grin. "I'm sure you don't have to be enemies."
"Well, when you live with a bunch of boys and do a whole bunch of missions and live in trees, you have quite the appetite. Besides, I never had food this tasty!" Enyo stuffed some more duck in her mouth, "I might as well enjoy it while I can and yeah, we do. Period."
"So you plan to escape when you see the Avatar, don't you?" The man asked as he took a sip of his tea, finished both bowls.
Enyo noticed that the food was gone, her eyes widened, "How did you finish that fast?" She asked but then shook her head, growing serious. "Yeah, isn't that obvious? Why would I just stay here? I'm sure they will help me out anyway!" Her voice wavered a bit, her confidence rattling. What if they didn't try to save her? What if they thought it would be fruitless?"
"Don't worry, I'm not going to tell my nephew. I really don't like keeping a young lady as a prisoner anyway, especially when you have done nothing wrong."
Finally, Enyo was allowed to take a bath and have her clothes washed and ready. She had sat in the tub, one she had never seen before, and it was filled with warm water. There was liquid soap used to put over her body made out many fruits. Enyo was able to wash her dirty, tangled hair. As she sat in the tub, letting the water slip through her fingers each time she cupped it in her hands, she had decided to try something. Firebending. Holding her hand out in front of her, she tried to concentrate on making a flame. She sat there for a few minutes, feeling as though her chi should be leveled enough for her to conjure up something, but when she opened one of her eyes, she had saw nothing. Maybe she couldn't Firebend, she hadn't done it before. She was a Sun Warrior, daughter of a Chieftain, she should be a Firebender! How could this be? She slammed her hand against the water, making a splash and the water had hit her eye. "Ow!" She hissed, placing her hand over eye.
She pulled the cork and watched it drain all the water from the tub before getting out tub and taking a towel to dry herself off. She had noticed that the water on her skin seemed to dry away all on its own, which had never happened before. She noticed that her skin was fully dry, her hair the only thing dripping with water. Firebenders could change the temperature in their body, that much was true. So, she didn't conjure up a flame but she raised her body temperature. It was a new discovery, but not as entertaining as actually making a flame. She changed into her clothes and dried off her hair as much as she could, but when she finally was able to leave the bathroom. She heard a loud crash and it made the ship tremble.
Enyo had made her way toward the noise and saw nothing but dust. "Get back! We're after a stowaway." A woman tells them.
"There are no stowaways on my ship." said Zuko as the monster, a Shirshu, proceeds to rip out a chunk of deck plating and hurls it aft. It sticks its head into the gaping hole. The stowaway's odor shows up as a smoky green trail. Nearby a barrel falls over and a man crawls out, whimpering. The man crawls out onto the foredeck where the Shirshu quickly whips the back of his neck with its tongue. He falls instantly onto the deck, conscious but paralyzed, with Iroh and Zuko looking on in the background.
The Princess had walked over to Iroh as all three of them look at the criminal that the Bounty Hunter was looking for, "He's paralyzed." Zuko broke the short silence.
The woman, picking the man up, responds to him. "Only temporarily. The toxins will wear off in about an hour. But by then he'll be in jail and I'll have my money."
"Wait a minute," Enyo stopped the woman, causing everyone to look at her direction, "How did you find him in the ship?" Asking the question that seemed to be on everyone's mind.
The woman pets her Shirshu and gets back on the saddle, "My Shirshu can smell a rat a continent away."
Iroh, who was admiring the woman, finally speaks, "Well, I'm impressed." She cracks her whip and the Shirshu bolts off the ship and down the dock. Iroh strokes his chin, "Very impressed."
"What are you doing here?" Zuko asked Enyo as she looked at the Prince, her arms akimbo.
"I finished my bath and then I heard this ruckus so I came over to see what it was." The girl explained, shrugging her shoulders. "Can I at least walk around?"
"No, you can't. Your a prisoner." The boy said with a rather dull expression adorning his face. Enyo let out an uncouth snort and turned her back toward him. "Don't you make that noise at me!"
"Or what? Gonna burn me because I'm not kissin' your ass?" She quickly turned around, pointing at him accusingly. "What's your problem with me? I told you what you needed to know, I deserve a little freedom!"
"Freedom? Your a prisoner! They don't get freedom!" Zuko argued back with her.
Enyo threw her hands in the air, frustrated. "They get to go out side, but all I'm askin' is to walk around the ship which every move of mine is monitored. What the hell are you talkin' about?"
Iroh shook his head, knowing that they were going to get going back and forth. He split the two up, "Prince Zuko, you can't let her stay in that cell forever. She deserves some fresh air and she's right, she can't do anything on the ship because there are too many people watching her. Enyo, you do know this is a Prince, don't you? You have to show him some respect even if he does not return it to you."
"No, I refuse to be spoken down to like that! I'm a Princess too!" She snapped, throwing her arm in a "no way" gesture.
Both of them look at her in shock. "Princess?"
Enyo froze, knowing she had said too much. Could she really trust them not to tell? Wait, how could she trust Zuko? He did reveal something important to her, the relationship between him and his father. Still, did that give him the right to know about her family? After all, they were alike. Both wanting to go home, to see their fathers again, to be where they were supposed to be. Her eyes lowered, a sigh releasing itself from her lips, "I'm... I'm the Princess of the Sun Warrior tribe."
Iroh's eyes had widened, Zuko shaking his head. "They died off a long time ago, that can't be true."
"It is!" Her eyes glowing with much intensity, "We kept our civilization a secret bec-"
"To protect the Dragons." Iroh cut in, causing both of them to look at her. "I apologize, Princess for treating you in such a way." He bowed deeply, pushing his nephew's head down to make him bow.
The Princess looked in shock, "How.. How did you know?"
"Because I had fought a dragon in your home a long time ago." Iroh said as both teenagers looked at him in shock. "I was the last."
"Uncle... Why didn't you tell me?" Zuko asked, curious.
"Because, like she had said, they had made themselves a secret and I told everyone I killed the last dragon." Iroh turned to give Enyo a small smile. "Now, she deserves room and more respect because is a Princess, Prince Zuko."
The boy glared at her, "Fine." He forced himself, angered by the whole situation and confused at the same time.
"Anyway, weren't you going to go after that woman?" Enyo asked, trying to change the subject from off herself and her family to the situation at hand.
Iroh looked at his nephew, wondering what his answer will be, "Yes, she can find the Avatar with her Shirshu."
There is a building packed with people. June's Shirshu is outside. A few other patrons of the establishment can be seen from the window which Enyo was peeking through before inside with the rest of them. Suddenly someone gets thrown through the wall above the door, landing on the ground and crying out painfully upon impact. June, the woman they were looking for, is arm-wrestling a beefy man. They are in a tavern that is filled to capacity with revelers. The beefy man is sweating in his attempt to best the beautiful bounty hunter. She does not even appear to be trying. Suddenly, Zuko appears, forcing his way through the crowd.
"Out of my way! Step aside, filth!" Zuko yelled at the people.
Iroh appearing in Zuko's wake with a smile, addressing the people his new has just thrust aside. "He means no offense! I'm sure you bathe regularly."
"No he doesn't." Enyo folded her arms, looking at the strange, muscled up man. "Yeah, I said it, got a problem?" She snapped as the man looked at her and then creased her brows.
He rolled up his sleeves, "You better apologize, little girl."
"Sure, my fist loves to talk to beefheads like you!" She shook her fist at him, "I'll give you one good hook and you won't be seeing straight again, got me?"
Iroh pulled the girl away, who fought trying to get out of his grasp, "I apologize, she didn't sleep enough. She's just grumpy."
They headed their way toward the table where June is arm-wrestling. During the conversation the beefy man continues to grunt and struggle against June's grip. "I need to talk to you."
"Well, if it isn't my new friends, Angry Boy, Angry Girl, and Uncle Lazy." June snickered as Zuko and Enyo gave her a irritated expression while Iroh laughs heartily for a moment. June then ends the contest with one swift movement. The crow erupts and a lot of money changes hand, much of it ended up in a big pile in front of June.
"Look bi-" Zuko covered her mouth, refusing to let her ruin this opportunity. June raised her eyebrow at the girl, wondering or even knowing what the girl was going to say.
"Your beast trashed my ship. You have to pay me back." Zuko told her, his eyes looking rather dangerous.
June, who was ranking in the pile of coins, responded, "Aww, I'd love to help you out, but I'm a little short on money." To the crowd she says, "Drinks on me!"
The crowd shouts, "YEHHH!"
The Prince grabbed her hand as she raised her cup to her lips, "Money isn't what I had in mind. I need you to find someone." Zuko said while holding Katara's necklace.
"What happened? Girlfriend left you?" June asked playfully, making Zuko give her an irked expression.
"Its not the girl I'm after, it's the bald monk she's traveling with." He corrected her.
"Whatever you say." June replied.
"If you find them, I'll consider the damage to my ship paid for."
"Heh! Forget it." She turns and begins to climb into her saddle.
"Plus we'll pay your weight in gold." Iroh added.
June smiled, gets down and walks over to Iroh, "Make it your weight and we got a deal."
Iroh laughed, "You got it!"
The woman grabbed the necklace from Zuko's hand, "Get on." She walks over to the Shirshu and lets it smell the necklace. The necklace, for the Shirshu, reeked a purple stench. It scanned the area and finds the waterbender's trail. The trio hopped on as June jumped onto the saddle in front of them as they take off.
"We're getting close." June announced as she whips the Shirshu again and it bounds out of the gate and up the road Katara, Sokka, and Bato used. The Shirshu jumps behind them and they run, the monster and its riders are in pursuit.
"So this is your girlfriend," June said as Zuko hops down and approaches her, "She's way too pretty for you."
Enyo jumped down, her face lighting up when she saw Sokka as he had done the same. "We split up! He's long gone!" Sokka said confidently, grabbing Enyo hand.
"How stupid do you think I am?" Zuko asked, seriously.
"Pretty stupid." Sokka said as Enyo stuck her tongue out at Zuko as they attempted to run along with Katara, "Run!" He shouts, but the Shirshu paralyzes all three of them with its tongue.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Zuko asked as his eyes went towards Enyo as she had a pissed off expression her face. Some reason, she knew that she wasn't going to make it far.
"Its seeking a different scent perhaps something that the Avatar held." June explained as the Shirshu moves forward and starts sniffing the paralyzed pair. The map scroll falls out of Sokka's backpack and rolls onto the ground. The Shirshu sniffs it as it is covered by a blue scent. The trail leads back into the woods. The monster had blown through the abbey and its hastily repaid gate, sending sisters running away screaming in all directions. The Shirshu begins walking around, sniffing.
"What's it doing? Its just going around in a circle!" Zuko said as the Shirshu follows the blue scent around. Finally it looks up into the air to see the scent spiraling around. Suddenly, Aang appears on his glider. He flies up to the monster, which jumps up to snap at him. He misses, but does manage to dump his riders onto the floor of the courtyard. The Shirshu also falls flat on his back.
"Aang!" Katara cried as June gets up and whips the ground. The Shirshu gets up and roars, June jumping onto its back. They charge after Aang. Aang and the pair bear down on him. Right before impact, Appa comes from the right and plows right into the Shirshu, pushing him and his rider out the left side of the frame. They plow into the wall of building, knocking a whole through it. Appa, has a fiery grin on his face. He breathes heavily out his nostrils.
Aang, whose smile turns to alarm as he turns away from Appa to face Zuko, whose hands are alight with fire as he advances on the Avatar. He fires a huge gout of flame at Aang, who blocks it by twirling his staff to break it up. They trade several rounds of blows, all of which miss or are blocked. Finally the two fire volleys simultaneously and both are blown backwards onto the roofs behind them.
June next to the Shirshu, both unconscious. Iroh rushes up to the bounty hunter and pats the side of her face. She wakes up, rises to her feet. She cracks her whips and says something unintelligible. Then Shirshu rises to its feet, she jumps in the saddle and they head back into battle. They charge Appa who is on the other side of the courtyard. Appa soars into the air as they reach him, but the Shirshu lashes Appa's tail with his tongue. Appa lands on the other side of the courtyard. He struggles to stay standing, but fails. He collapses in a cloud of dust. The monsters charge each other after June whips the Shirshu again, and they have a head on collision, throwing June over Appa's head, whom she whips as she passes. She lands on the ground and rolls away just as Appa's foot plants itself deep into the ground where she had just been.
Aang, who gets up groggily from where he'd fallen on the roof. His eyes go wide as Zuko is charging him down the spine of the roof. He throws a blast of the fire at the Avatar who flips over Zuko's head to land behind him. They exchange blows with Aang eventually knocking Zuko off the roof. He is instantly replaced, however, when June and the Shirshu jump onto the roof and pursue him. Appa turns down in the courtyard and uses his tail to create a gale that blows tiles off the roof as the Shirshu passes.
"I'm starting to get some feeling back!" 'Sokka said as a bunch of tiles fall on them, "Ow!"
"Dammit! I really thought we could get away." Enyo huffed, looking around the area, "We need a plan."
"What are we going to do?" Katara asked as they looked at her with hopeful eyes.
She looked around and then saw those jars. "I'm assuming there is perfume in those jars, right?"
"Yeah, what of it? Look, smelling good won't save us." Sokka said with a deadpanned expression.
Enyo's right eye twitched but she had let out a small sigh, "The Shirshu smells with its nose. So if we knock 'em down,"
"It'll make it go crazy!" Sokka finally understood her plan.
Iroh was testing out perfumes nearby. He finds one he likes, looks from side to side to make sure no one is looking and then tucks the bottle into his robe, a mischievous smile on his face.
"You've got something I want!" Aang shouted as they trade volleys again with Zuko, soon destroying the well's covering. They dance around on the lip of the well, neither one able to gain decisive advantage over the other. Aang keeps trying to grab the necklace, but fails. Then Zuko lunges after Aang and misses. As he passes, Aang puts his foot through the loop of the necklace, catching it. He then disappears down the well with Zuko firing a huge gout of flame after him in frustration. Zuko is launched into the air as Aang reappears atop a huge jet of water and lands on the ground. Rain from the huge jet of water begins to fall around him, quickly followed by Zuko hitting the ground.
Zuko gets up and the duel begins anew, but this time Appa advances threateningly on Zuko. Before Appa can strike him, however, the Shirshu lashes him three times in a row with his tongue. Appa tries to stay up, but can't. He keels over, paralyzed.
Sokka and Enyo began moving huge white pots of perfume out into the courtyard. Aang dodged Zuko's fire blasts and the Shirshu's tongue on the opposite wall. Meanwhile, Enyo and Sokka dumped the perfume onto the ground. Katara waterbends the perfume into a huge sheet, moves it over the Shirshu, and drops it. The monster shakes off the liquid, now terribly confused. Zuko ends up getting tongue lashed by the monster, followed by June.
"June! Noooo!" Iroh shouts as he catches the falling bounty hunter. The rampaging Shirshu breaks open a few more jars, paws the tiles of the roof of one of the buildings, then jumps over the wall and disappears. Aang picked up his staff, Katara, Enyo and Sokka approaching him from behind. Zuko and Iroh are laying flat on the ground. Iroh has June draped across his chest, his arm around her.
"Uncle? I didn't see you get hit with the tongue." The fire prince said.
"Shh!" Iroh shushed him as June eyes open, clearly displeased.
Enyo had looked at Iroh and then at Zuko, feeling a sense of sadness leaving them. Even though the Prince had grated her nerves, she felt as though she was going to miss him, a little. Looking at Sokka and Katara, who are ready to leave, she feels her obligation to them thinning. "You guys on without me."
"What?" Sokka frowned, "Why?"
A sigh escaped her, "I don't know!"
Aang had walked over to her, "But we're supposed to learn Firebending together."
Enyo looked at him, "But how? Where are we going to find a teacher? When every Firebender is crazy! If I go with them, I'm sure Iroh will teach me and then I can find you again and we'll learn from there on."
"I don't want you to leave." Sokka said, furrowing his brows. "We could really use you with us."
The Princess smiled and then gave him a rough punch to the shoulder, "Sokka, I'm gonna miss you and your lame jokes. I have a feeling that I need to be with these guys for a while, alright?"
"Becareful Enyo," Katara gave the girl a hug, Enyo was frozen for a few minutes but then returned it. "I just hope next time we see each other, we won't be fighting."
Enyo frowned before parting with the other girl, "No. I promised Aang we will learn firebending together I won't ever fight my friends. Now go ahead and go save the world." Enyo gave them a big smile, "I'm rootin' for ya."
Aang and Katara found themselves crying almost, tears falling from the corner of their eyes. Sokka just stood there with a look of anger on his face, glaring back at Zuko but Enyo gave him a big, warm hug. "Sokka, don't let me down, alright?" Hesitantly, he returned her embrace with a tight one of his own and they all got into a group hug. "Now go before you guys make me cry! Go on!" She told them, shooing them off.
They all aboard Appa, looking at her with sad eyes as she continued to wave with a smile on her face. The bison was in a far distance, Enyo looked down at the ground, tears falling from the corner of her eyes. Iroh had walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, "I'll teach everything I know."
Enyo quickly wiped her tears away and then looked up at Iroh with a small smile, "Thank you. I know you would understand."
Zuko had watched from afar, his arms folded as he clenched his teeth. What did he really get himself into.
They were back on the ship in the ocean, Enyo on deck as the night had fallen. She leaned against the rail with her eyes staring at the stars above them. It was the first time she had ever looked up at the stars since she had left home, never finding the time to actually do it. Maybe it wasn't really the time, it was because she never felt safe to do it. Now here she was, in the ocean with some freedom now. The roaring ocean water was comforting as she continued to wonder why was it that she felt the need to stay with Zuko and Iroh, only coming up with the idea of learning firebending that moment Aang had brought it up. Something just made her feel wrong about leaving, she really didn't know what it was and it bothered her to no end that she couldn't put her finger on it. "Why didn't you leave with the Avatar?" Zuko asked her as he walked toward her, his eyes nothing more than giving her a wary look.
"I don't know." She answered with a shrug, "I just didn't feel that I should of left."
"That's stupid," Zuko said blankly as she turned to him, her eyes nearly narrowing to slits. "Every action has a reason behind it, but your so worried about your feelings that your not thinking with your head."
Before she could slap him with a sassy remark, she soaked in his words and then looked down at the ocean under them. "I think its because in a way, I feel closer to you two than I feel than the Avatar."
"What makes you come up with a ridiculous idea like that?" Zuko questioned, looking at the ocean as well.
"Because you are both Firebenders," Enyo softly said with a confused look etching across her face, "and you guys are the only key I have into understanding myself. I have more of an ancestral trait to you both than I have with an airbender, waterbender, and a nonbender from the South Pole."
The Prince merely closed his eyes, "I should put you back in the cell for helping the Avatar escape. You are an enemy of the Fire Nation."
"Right," Enyo looked at him from the corner of her eyes, "Why haven't you done it? You got every chance to."
"Because your more annoying when your in your cell than when your out of it," He quickly answered as she gave him a deadpanned expression, "but not only that, I'm a banished Prince, so what right do I have to say anyone is an enemy of the Fire Nation?"
The girl gave him a rather deep frown but she didn't say another word about it, not wanting to talk about something so depressing like that. "How does it feel?"
"How does what feel?" He asked.
"To Firebend?" Enyo then got rather excited, "I bet it feels so fun and relieving."
Zuko rolled his eyes at her childish thinking, "It takes all my anger and put it into fire instead of words. It gives me power and confidence. That's how I feel when I firebend."
"That's wrong." She quickly said but the Prince got angry, as usual.
"You asked me how I felt and that's how I feel!" He snapped, "How can you tell me what I feel is wrong?"
Enyo cringed slightly but then let out a long sigh. "I meant that your feeling the wrong things."
"That doesn't make it better." Zuko pinched the bridge of his nose, growing further agitated.
She climbed up the rail halfway, so that she was able to stand. She spread her arms open, closing her eyes as the night's air breeze had touched her skin, "My father always told me that Firebending is not destruction, but life." She placed both her hands over her heart, "Anger should never be the source of true firebending. Harmony should be the true source."
She opened her eyes and then when the ship had tilted slightly, she lost footing and fell backwards but the Prince caught her in time. They looked at each other for a brief second, silence fallen between them. "...You touched me." With that said, he dropped her and walked off. "Hey! What the hell was that for? I have you know, I am a Princess!"
"Good night." He said, leaving her all alone. She rubbed her backside since that's where she landed. Zuko had a miniscule smile on his face as he looked back at her and then went to his cabin.
The next day, Prince Zuko, in a dark cabin on his ship, had his arms are folded across his chest. The door at the far end of the cabin opens and Iroh leans in. Zuko does not look at him. "For the last time, I'm not playing the sumki horn."
"No, it's about our plans. There's a bit of a problem." Iroh said as Zhao enters the room behind Iroh.
"I'm taking your crew," the admiral said as Zuko turned around to face him.
"What!" he shouted.
"I've recruited them for a little expedition to the North Pole." he explained.
"Uncle, is that true?" Zuko asked, disappointed.
"I'm afraid so. He's taking everyone." putting his arm over his face in woe, "Even the cook!" Iroh answered.
"Sorry you won't be there to watch me capture the Avatar. But I can't have you getting in my way again." Zuko charges him in anger, but Iroh prevents him from tackling Zhao, who walks over to inspect the curved broadswords on the wall used the same used by the Blue Spirit to free the Avatar. Zhao's face, swollen in anger as he recognizes the blades.. He takes one off the wall, Zuko's eyes wide and mouth open, clearly recognizing the danger he is in. Iroh, visible over Zuko's shoulder, does not. Zuko, who begins practicing with the sword he has removed from the wall. "I didn't know you were skilled with broadswords, Prince Zuko."
"I'm not. They're antiques. Just decorative." Zuko replied.
"Have you heard of the Blue Spirit, General Iroh?" The admiral asked.
"Just rumors. I don't think he is real." Iroh responded.
"He's real all right. He's a criminal, an enemy of the Fire Nation." He hands the broad sword to Iroh, "But I have a feeling that justice will catch up with him soon." Zhao moves to exit the cabin. "General Iroh, the offer to join my mission still stands if you change your mind." Zhao closes the door behind him.
The door opens to Zuko's cabin, Iroh sticks his head in. "The crew wanted me to wish you safe travels."
"Good riddance to those traitors!" He snapped, "Where's the Princess?" He asked with his eyes still on the floor.
Iroh shrugged. "I actually don't know but I believe she's fine. It's a lovely night for a walk. Why don't you join me? It would clear your head." Iroh's smiles falls away as Zuko refuses to respond. "Or, just stay in your room and sit in the dark. Whatever makes you happy." Iroh leaves, closing the door behind him.
As soon as Iroh left, the door opened again and Enyo had stuck her head in. "Yo!" She greeted him before walking in closing the door behind her. "I hid because I didn't want Zhao to figure out you were the Blue Spirit." She said as she folded her arms.
"It seems he already has a good hunch that I am." Zuko said, "So, what are you going to do?"
"I'm staying with you." Enyo answered, her eyebrow raising in confusion. "What do you think?"
The boy looked at her, "Because if you go with Zhao, you'll run into Aang."
"And he'll hold me hostage, but I don't put it past him when it comes to torturing. No thanks!" She quickly informed him, closing her eyes. "You don't think its going to be safe here now, do you?"
"Why not?" Zuko asked, "Do you know something?"
She shook her head, "I just figured that you know, an Admiral that hates your guts wouldn't try to kill you off because you might stand in his way. You know, logical things like that."
"I am the Prince of the Fire Nation, I doubt he would be as stupid as to try to kill me." Zuko stood up and walked toward his window.
Enyo opened one of her eyes, "But your the Prince of the Fire Nation and he took your ship."
"Look, if your going to try to piss me off all day, you might as well go with Zhao!" He snapped as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Fine, I won't say anything smart anymore. Excuse me for sharing my intelligence, Prince Zuko." Enyo said sarcastically as a large noise was heard, both of them being alarmed.
Zuko walked toward the door to look out in the corridor, "Uncle?" He jumps into the hallway in a fighting stance, Enyo walked out with him and catching her sword in one room and strapping the belt around her wrist once more. She joined him the to the bridge as they both looked around every corner.
"Zuko, something doesn't feel right." Enyo looked around out fear, inching closer to him. Zuko moved her behind him as they walked around the bridge, he turned turns and look out one of the bridge windows to see the Pirate Captain's green parrot. It croaks at him and then takes off as the Prince as a realization of what the bird's appearance means.
He grabbed Enyo, attempted to get them out the through the bridge window, but the blast was what sent them out of their and intot he ocean as he shielded her. Another explosion rips the vessel completely open mid ship. Iroh who was walking down a dirt road, the explosion in full bloom behind him. He has turned to look. His face contorted with surprise and fear. "Zuko!" he begins to run back to the ship. Iroh reaches the dock, burning debris falling all around him. He is dwarfed by the massive fireball that was Zuko's ship. His face was well lit by the conflagration. He lowered his face in sadness, "Zuko..."
In the water, Zuko's head had rised from the water as Enyo is slightly in and out of consciousness, her eyes halfway closed and her breathing heavy from swimming hard out of panic and fear. He looked over to see the girl struggling to stay afloat, he swam toward her. "Enyo, you have to wake up!" She dipped her head back, looking at him.
"I am awake, idiot." She whispered jokingly, "but I told you that Zhao might try to kill us."
Zuko glared at her but he couldn't be mad at her since he could tell she was only trying to be humorous in this serious situation. "Hold onto me." He said as she moved herself onto his back, her arms wrapped around his back and her legs around his waist as he swam in the cold ocean water.
Iroh walked down a corridor in Zhao's ship, a guard walked in the other direction. They stop when abreast of each other and begin to whisper, "Our plan is working perfectly. Zhao doesn't suspect a thing."
Zuko removed his guard mask to reveal his marked face of burns and scratches, "You didn't have to do this."
"No nephew of mine is going to stow away on a ship without some backup!" he said.
"Thank you, Uncle." he thanked Iroh.
The older man then heard a sound, "Someone's coming!" Zuko replaces his mask, "Stay hidden until we get to the North Pole and the Avatar will be yours! Good luck!"
"Your healing well, aren't you?" Zhao asked Enyo as she was in the infirmary, trying to move her leg but it was still in a tight cramp. He snapped his fingers to send someone at her side as they begun to rub her leg, trying to relax the muscles and sooth them.
Enyo looked at him, "What do you want from me, Admiral?" She asked him, her amber eyes staring so aloofly at his.
"I like to know how you know General Iroh and why you aren't with the Avatar. Simple questions." He told her as she let out a long yawn.
She told the servant to stop in a kind gesture and left the two of them alone, "General Iroh is someone I met a long time ago back when he invaded Ba Sing Se," That was a lie, but she knew he was there and she was there when she was a child. It was a good alibi in her case, "And I separated from Aang because I was trying to look for a Firebending teacher while he went to study Waterbending."
"Leaving a young girl like you all alone? That doesn't sound right to me." Zhao placed his hand on her shoulder, "Let's be honest. You're no Firebender."
"Yes, I am." Enyo's brow creased, "Can you please stop interrogating me!" She finally started to show her anger, moving her shoulder away from his hand.
Zhao began to become angry himself, "You should show some respect to an Admiral."
Before Enyo could say another word, Iroh came in. "Oh hello, Admiral. The healers did an excellent job on your wounds, Enyo. I'm glad to see you look better, come with me and let's talk about what happened." Iroh said as he escorted the girl out the room.
"Thanks, I was really going to let him have and I would of been in a lot trouble." The Princess said as Iroh nodded his head.
"I got a feeling you would, but Zuko is well prepared." Iroh explained to her as they walked into a room. Zuko stood there, waiting patiently for his uncle. He was out of uniform, entirely dressed instead in plain grey clothes. He wondered why his Uncle left.
Enyo had walked up to him, inspecting him somewhat. "What are you doing?" Zuko asked, irritated.
"Nothing, just making sure your not badly injured." She said, "I... I, uh, wanted to thank you for sending me to the infirmary. You didn't have to do that." Enyo looked down at the floor, her face red from embarrassment and an angry expression plastered over her face. "Don't say anything mean, I just thanked you."
"Your welcome." Zuko said which made both Iroh and the Princess look at him in shock. That was the last thing he said about that conversation and then they moved forward.
"Zuko is going after the Avatar, do you wish to follow?" Iroh asked her, she looked at Zuko and then at the canoe. He didn't say anything and he didn't even look at her general direction. There was nothing but silence.
Enyo looked at Iroh and then at Zuko, "Sure. I owe him."
The Prince gave her a look of somewhat shock, but he didn't say a word. Iroh merely smiled as the two locked eyes for a minute, "Well, if you're fishing for an octopus, my nephew, you need a tightly woven net or he will squeeze through the tiniest hole and escape." he said, as Enyo walked next to Zuko.
"I don't need your wisdom right now, Uncle." the Fire Nation prince responded.
"I'm sorry, I just nag you because, well, ever since I lost my son-" Iroh looks away, pain evident on his face.
"Uncle, you don't have to say it." Zuko said to his Uncle.
"I think of you as my own." Iroh slightly smiled.
Zuko turns to him, a genuine look of concern and understanding on his face. "I know, Uncle." He bows and salutes him with his arm over chest. "We'll meet again." Iroh rushes forward and gives him a bear hug. Zuko released his Uncle and walking over to the canoe "after I have the Avatar."
He gets into the canoe with Enyo and begins to lower it to the water. "Remember Zuko, your Breathe of Fire! It could save your life out there!"
"I will," Zuko said as he looked at Enyo as she was frozen still.
"And put your hood up, to keep your ears warm!" Iroh shouted again, "Oh and holding each other helps with body warmth too!"
"UNCLE!" Zuko shouted, Enyo shook her head.
"I rather die!" Enyo shouted, waving back at Iroh as he gave her a silly smile while Zuko rolled his eyes.
Zuko had made it his duty to row the canoe through the ice flow near the city. Enyo could tell that he was indeed cold because she was as well. Despite being wrapped up and using her Firebending to keep herself warm. She began to shake, shivering as she held onto her own grey garb tightly. Zuko looked at her, seeing her not even complaining once despite her teeth chattering. Taking off his own garb, he had handed her his own.
"Take it," he said, his voice soft. "I'm tired of hearing your teeth chatter, its annoying."
Enyo looked at him and took it, wrapped herself up with it. At first she was going to reject but she did it anyway. Moving closer to him, she wrapped the two garbs around them both. "You're going to get sick and I don't want to be to blame.
He stopped rowing as he realized what she did, he looked at her and then back out at the water. "I can take care of myself."
"Just row the canoe, I don't feel like arguing with you." Enyo rolled her eyes, looking at the water as they continued on.
The Prince looked at her and decided he didn't want to argue with her either, he knew it would just keep going on and on. Nearby, turtle seals could be hearing making noise. They floated slightly near the damaged city wall, unseen by the sentries patrolling atop the damaged barrier. He beached the craft on the ice near the wall and spies on the turtle seals disappearing into a whole in the ice. "Where are they going? They're coming from somewhere..." he mumbled, "Enyo, we're going to swim."
"You must be crazy! We'll die in that icy water!" Enyo pointed out, but either way, he was going to make them do it.
He took off his veil, takes a deep breath and plunged into the icy water. Enyo sighed and followed suit, she couldn't stay here. They swam to another water hole, they quickly broke it and were out of breath. Zuko flopped first onto the ice floor of the cave and Enyo. They laid there, breath making clouds of water vapor around them. Enyo moved to her side, shivering, and watched Zuko blow fire into his hands to warm him up. "Be quiet!" he shouted at the turtle seals.
Enyo looked around, she could feel herself growing colder and colder. She couldn't keep it up. She couldn't use her bending to keep her warm anymore. Zuko looked at her. She was pale, her lips a slight tint of blue. The Prince then realized this was her first time going to this cold region, she hadn't much experience needing to warm up her body and didn't know how to keep it going. He wrapped his arms around her, trying to let the warmth from his body warm her and it was working. Slowly, her shivers began to die down except for a few shaking hear and there. They could stay in this spot, but they had to leave soon.
He lifted her up in his arms and approached a waterfall at the back of the cave. He enters the tunnel where the water is coming out. He forced himself up the tunnel. He slips once, but keeps on moving with the girl in his arms. Finally, he exits the tunnel into the bottom of a large pool of water. He swam quickly, not wanting the girl to drown. He breaks the surface, gasping for air.
Zuko forcing himself up the tunnel. He slips once, but keeps on moving. Finally he exits the tunnel into the bottom of a large pool of water. He swims up and breaks the surface, gasping for air. The top of the chamber is inches above his head. He regains his breath, then looks just underneath the water line to scan for exits. He sees one, dives and enters another tunnel. Going around one bend and then up reveals what looks like an exit into open air, but when he reaches it, it proves to be just thinner, lighter colored ice. Running out of breath, he concentrates and superheats his one hand, since he needed to keep holding the girl in his arms, turned a red hot and he placed them on the thin ice. He burns through it and emerges into an ice tunnel within the Water Tribe City. He lies down for a moment to regain his strength, Enyo on top of him.
"Z uko," she called out for him.
"What?" he asked, slightly annoyed and tired.
Enyo groaned and rolled off of him, "I'm better now." she stood up, her legs shaking a bit as she looked at him with a forced smile. "Thanks."
The Prince stood up and looked at her, he was actually surprised that she thanked him for a second time. He nodded his head as then heard a noise. The voice was familiar, it was of the Waterbender.
"No, he's my friend. I'm perfectly capable of protecting him." Katara told Yue, confident that nothing would happen to Aang in the Avatar State as long as she was still here.
"Well, aren't you a big girl now?" Zuko said, his voice echoing slightly int he chamber.
Katara turned to the voice, "No!"
Zuko and Enyo walked over the footbridge towards them, "Yes! Hand him over, and I won't hurt you." said the Fire Nation prince.
Katara looked at Enyo and then at Zuko, now realizing that Enyo wasn't going to fight her.
Zuko launched forward, firing several blasts of fire. Katara blocks all three with water from the pond. He fires several more as he advances, but on the last one she uses enough water to not only douse his fire, but hurl him backward and lay him flat on the ground. Zuko, who was getting up, spoke. "I see you've learned a new trick. But I didn't come this far to lose to you." he fires another blast which she blocks. Katara then launches another stream of water at him, hurling him backwards again. He barely retains his balance, but Katara freezes the water beneath him. His feet are frozen in the ice. Then, with a massive output of effort, Katara raises a churning sphere of water from the main pool behind Zuko, encases him in it, and freezes him entirely.
The waterbender had a look of satisfaction written all over her face. "You little peasant. You've found a master, haven't you?" Zuko said, despite being muffled by the ice. As Zuko ended his comment, the ground begins to shake and the ice begins to glow yellow and orange. With an explosion of fire, the shell of ice shatters, releasing Zuko who promptly charges Katara. They trade shots which miss. Zuko gets behind Katara and almost grabs Aang's collar, but Katara blasts him out of the way with a jet of water. He gets blown over to the right ledge. While he tries to recover, Katara raises a huge wave of water that raises him to ten or more feet up the wall. She freezes him in place once again.
The Prince's head droops in defeat. As the sunlight reaches him, though, his head snaps up with a look of determination. He breathes steam, melting the ice holding him in place. He slides down and charges Katara again. He fires a huge blast of fire. Katara, caught off guard while she walking back to Aang, blocks it only partially. She is thrown back into the post of the paifang gate and is knocked out. When the smoke clears, Zuko looks over her, his hand on Aang's collar, the sun shining bright in the background. "You rise with the moon. I rise with the sun."
"Zuko, where are we going to take him?" Enyo spoke up, checking Katara to see if she had any wounds in which she didn't.
The Prince looked at her, his eyes narrowing by her display of affection to the waterbender, "To the valley."
"Its a blizzard out there!" She snapped, "It'll be worse then where we were before! We will surely die, Zuko!"
"Its the chance we take," He responded, "are you coming or not?"
Zuko and Enyo's feet tramped through the drifting snow, Aang's feet dragging behind Zuko. After a few shots of Zuko dragging him through the blizzard, the shot cuts to a close up of Aang's face. They finally found shelter, both of them blowing fire into their hands to keep warm. Enyo watched over Aang as his eyes and tattoos glowed white, still in the Avatar state.
"I finally have you. But I can't get you home because of this blizzard." Zuko walked over to the cave entrance to look out at the falling snow, "There's always something. Not that you would understand. You're like my sister. Everything always came easy to her. She's a firebending prodigy and everyone adores her. My father says she was born lucky. He says I was lucky to be born.I don't need luck though, I don't want it. I've always had to struggle and fight and that's made me strong. It's made me who I am."
Enyo looked at Zuko, realizing he was speaking to the Avatar. "If you don't have to prove to your father that you're strong then why are you giving him the Avatar?" she asked him, "You don't need the Avatar to prove anything. You know who you are."
"Its the only way I can go back home!" Zuko snapped at her, walking toward her, their face inches apart. "My father banished me because I wasn't strong! I wouldn't fight my dad, I was weak! I didn't want to fight him even though what I did was wrong!"
Aang from the corner had stopped glowing and woke up, struggling briefly against the bonds he was in. He sits up to face Zuko.
"Welcome back." The Prince said standing.
"Good to be back," Aang said threateningly. With a mighty break, he blows Zuko against the wall while simultaneous propelling himself out of the cave and into the open. He begins to grunt as he moves forward, caterpillar style, along the ground. Zuko grabs him by the collar and lifts him up.
"That won't be enough to escape." Appa then appears over their heads. Enyo ran out as Zuko dropped Aang in the snow. Katara dismounts the bison to face him again.
"Here for a rematch?" he asked after assuming a firebending stance.
"Trust me, Zuko, it's not going to be much of a match," Katara said but Enyo jumped in the middle.
"QUIT IT!" she snapped at all of them, "I'm cold as hell! We have to get out of here before we all die, let's just go!" She said as everyone looked at her
"She's right. We need to get to the oasis! The spirits are in trouble!" He said as Sokka, Katara, and Yue got onboard, Aang at the reigns. "Enyo, Zuko are you guys coming?"
Enyo looked at Zuko, seeing a look of anger on his face. She knew that he didn't want to let Aang go but what was worse? Dying or failing again? Enyo grabbed his arm and led him to the bison.
"Yeh, this makes a lot of sense. Let's bring the guy who's constantly trying to kill us!" Sokka said as Appa took off once the two firebenders got on.
As Yue was telling the story of how the Moon Spirit gave her life. Zuko had walked off, obviously angry about the whole thing. Enyo followed behind him as they were in the deserted city. Everyone was either fighting or hiding.
"You did the right thing," Enyo told him, knowing he wouldn't like what she said.
Zuko turned around to look at her, "If you feel so obligated to save the Avatar then why are you with me?"
"I already to old you why and I guess you could say, we're friends."
"We're not friends and I don't need any friends," he reminded her, "and I have my uncle."
"So what am I to you, Zuko? You opened up to me about some things and that's because you kind of trust me, right? That's what friends do. You even saved my life, twice."
He gave her a strange look, like he was defeated yet confused.
Enyo looked at him from the corner of her eyes and nudged him, "Just forget about it."
Zhao was running over a foot bridge in the city, which they were near. Zuko follows after him and tries to hit him with a blast of fire that hits the wall in front of the admiral. As the smoke clears, Zhao looks up to see Zuko on the wall on the tier up above him. "You're still alive?" Zhao said incredulously.
"You tried to have me killed!" Zuko launched a few fire blasts at Zhao with a cry of anguish, but Zhao dodges, rolling along the parapet wall.
Zhao spoke with much venom in his voice, "Yes, I did. You're the Blue Spirit and enemy of the Fire Nation!"
Between them is the panorama of the city. The Ocean Spirit's essence travels down the main canal. "You freed the Avatar!"
"I had no choice!" Zuko continued his attack firing volley after volley at Zhao, who breaks them with his hands held together in a wedge in front of him. As the blasts subside, Zhao drops his smoking cloak to the ground.
"You should have chosen to accept your failure your disgrace! Then, at least you could have lived!" Zhao said, returning fire. They trade volleys as the fight rages back and forth in the darkness. At one point Zuko is able to exploit a moment when Zhao leaves his chest unguarded. Zuko blasts him and Zhao falls off the parapet wall onto the tier below. They trade blows, but a series of direct hits from Zuko lays the Admiral flat. As Zhao tries to get up, he sees the moon over Zuko's shoulder.
"It can't be!" Zhao yelled in horror.
The essence of the Ocean Spirit approaches fast and coalesces around the bridge. It grabs Zhao and begins to pull him off the bridge. Zhao struggles and Zuko reaches out for him. "Take my hand!
Zhao tries to reach for it for a moment, but then draws back, an expression of hate on his face. The Ocean Spirit drags Zhao under the water and disappears.
Looking up at the moon, still visible in the morning sky. Among the sunken shifts of the Fire Nation ships, a small raft sales. Zuko, Enyo, and Iroh are on the small raft.
"I'm surprised, Prince Zuko, surprised that you are not at this moment trying to capture the Avatar." Iroh said as Zuko had a weary look on his face.
"I'm tired." he said as Iroh placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Then you should rest. A man needs his rest." Iroh explained as Zuko laid down.
Enyo looked up at the sky, "Iroh, what happened with the moon?"
"Zhao destroyed the fish with the Moon's life. The Princess with the white hair was given life from the Moon, and she gave it back so the world will be at balance again."
"I see," Enyo sighed, feeling as though she had lost a chance. She was a girl touched by a spirit like she was and yet she would never know how that came to be or anything because the chance was taken from her just like the girl's life.
What does Enyo mean? Here's the definition:
It is the Greek counterpart of Roman Latin Bellona, meaning "warlike." In mythology, this is the name of a goddess of war known as the "waster of cities," depicted as being covered in blood and carrying weapons. She was a companion of Ares and is sometimes said to be his sister or mother.
I wanted to get these chapters out of the way and I already had it done. Should be the last Chapter of the week.