Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. All of the rights belong to Nickelodean and the creators of the show.

I've finally decided to continue this story. In this one, I'm finally introducing my new character (All of her rights go to me!). We share a name, but by all means, I am not as cool as her, lol

Aang has never recalled any other time when he has been so startled in his life. He checked the whole road before they had landed, and he swore that the place was empty.

His first instinct that came to his mind was that this person was an enemy. There were too many occasions where he has gave people chances when they really couldn't be trusted. Too many times, his friends or himself has gotten hurt from strangers. Of course, his first guess was that this person was from the fire nation, or at least on their side. This person had a certain look on her face that confused his judgment.

"You need to get away from him!" Katara threatened. Water was encasing both of her arms, ready to strike at any move this person had made. The last time she tried to trust somebody that looked like her, he turned his back on her and betrayed all of them. He was part of the reason that Aang got struck with lightning only a couple of months ago. She didn't ever want to make that same mistake again.

Aang took another look at this person. It was a girl, but by no means did she look like any normal one. She was shorter then he was. She was about the size of Toph. But her height did not excuse the fact that she had one eerie appearance.

One thing that really stood out was her hair. It was a color that they have never seen before. It was a few shades lighter then Katara's hair. Under the sun's rays, it reflected the color white. And the style of it was hard to take in. She had no literal part anywhere on her head, at least, not from what Aang could see. There were numerous, long, yet thin pieces of hair that hung all down the side of her face. The length of the hair got shorter if you traced from her chin to her forehead. On the other side of her face, some parts of her hair would be completely straight, and others would flip out in the same direction that the rest of her hair was. All of her remaining hair came just an inch or so below her shoulders.

Part of her eyes were hidden underneath that hair, but Aang could still see that it wasn't an ordinary color. Under the bright sun, he couldn't tell what it was, exactly, though, he could tell that they were partly squinted, and they were looking straight into the direction of where Katara was.

"You're jumping to the conclusion that I'm just gonna attack this guy? I don't think that's very wise," she commented. Her voice had an extra low tone to it for being female. "But if you were actually going to be smart about your judgment, I would like to point out that I'm wearing the attire of a prisoner, which would probably mean that that was where I was previously. Therefore, I must have escaped - so if I were you, I wouldn't mess with someone like me. You might get yourself hurt." She talked very quickly, trying to jump to the conclusion. Aang could have mistaken her as a lawyer when she spoke. She didn't blink once and kept her eye contact with Katara. Even with the look Katara was giving her, she still showed no fear. It was like she didn't realize that she was angry.

"What do you want from us?" Toph asked.

"What do I want from you? Unless I'm going mad, I think your little friend here is the one who ran into me."

Toph had no response. Even though she tried to, she was beaten. She didn't realize how they bumped into her since her feet weren't touching the ground. She felt like she was week and stupid compared to her.

"Ohh, I see. I guess you didn't notice," she said. "My apologies. You even almost fooled me with that hair covering your eyes. I like to do that sort of thing, as well. . ." she trailed off when she referenced her very different styled hair. She flicked her head to the side. Even more strands of hair were flown against her face, and even some covered her own eyes.

"Leave us alone," Katara bluntly repeated, approaching the side of the saddle to get off of Appa.

"Even if I'd like to, there's a flying bison blocking my path," she stated. None of them had a clue how she knew what kind of animal Appa was. His species haven't been around for a hundred years. Aang hasn't met anyone that has recodnized him kind since he walked out of that iceburg.

"How do you know it's a flying bison?" Sokka asked, joining into the conversation.

"Well; seeing that he's a bison, and he flies, I only figured-"

Katara was already fed up with her. She jumped in between her and Aang, gathering even more water in her grasp.

"Katara: Stop."

Aang managed himself to pass Katara. He became face-to-face with the strange girl. None of her expression changed, even with an engraged waterbender right in front of her that was dangerously close to attacking her. She merely folded her arms after the conclusion that she didn't have to do any battling. It followed with a sigh, and Aang couldn't help but stare. Smoke puffed out of her nostrils, but it was barely visible. The smoke was pure white.

He slowly returned his narrowed eyes to meet hers.

"Who are you?"

"Well, well, well! Finally, you ask a more productive question," she said sarcastically, yet placidly with absolutely no enthusiasm. "I'm Holly Wilson, but I prefer if you just call me Holly."

It was a name that none of them have heard of before. To them, it was extraordinary.

"Are you from the fire nation?" Sokka asked. He was the most racist when it came to firebenders. If she had anything to do with the fire nation, then he knew that he was not going to put up with her.

"If I was from the fire nation, don't you think you would be captured by now?"

Katara was fuming behind Aang. Holly examined her anger from fifteen feet away. From Aang's perspective, it appeared to be that she had no trouble seeing Katara as clearly as he would if he turned around. She looked like she was confused, or maybe debating about something.

"I am from the fire nation, yes, I was born and raised in the fire nation. But by all means, I am not on their side." She let out a smirk. That smirk made them slide under the impression that she was lying.

"And how do you expect us to believe that?" Toph asked, taken aback. She crossed her arms in a pouting-manner.

"Again, if I was under the control of the fire nation, then I wouldn't be wasting my time answering all of your questions."

Katara was making her way towards her again, but Aang held her back. It was extra hard to when her arms were covered in active water. He had to use his own waterbending to keep her in place. He almost lost his balance at one instant.

"Will you believe me if I give you a place to stay for the night? I highly doubt your bison's in a comfortable spot at the moment."

At that, the gaang froze. They started to believe that it was a trap and they all knew they were thinking the same thing.

"We don't need your help finding a place to stay." She finally bent the water back into her gorges.

"It takes about three weeks to get to the next nearest city by ostritch-horse. I'd say it'd be about one week on a flying bison. The least I can do is help you make it out," she offered.

"Thanks, but no thanks," Sokka told her. Aang and Katara climbed back on Appa: one sat in the saddle and the other on his head. Holly had a sick look on her face to their decision. After her own stare, she shook her head in shame and mumbled something under her smoking breath.

"Chicken shits."

SMACK!

Katara whipped small, but still very sharp water across Holly's face.

Holly snarled, followed by a series of white smoke bursting out of the gaps in between her teeth. Aang would usually break it up in a situation like this, but he was too mesmorized by the color. Holly had to be a firebender, but he didn't recodnize any fire that she made. All he has seen is smoke. And that was even hard to see under the sun's bright light.

Katara was making a big mistake, but Aang didn't have the strength to end it.

Chaos was erupting by the dozen. The general has expelled over half of his crew on the island. His own job was spiralling out of control. His reputation was going down the drain. The fact that someone has escaped The Boiling Rock has spread throughout half of fire nation's population in a matter of one night. Some of the higher officials have been speculating wether the general is fit for the job or not, and if that was true, then who would take his place? There is no one willing to run the most highly gaurded prison in the world.

This gaurd was one of the very lucky ones. He managed to wriggle out of getting busted for knowing of the escape before the general did. There was a very good chance that he could of gotten tortured, neglected, banished, or maybe even worse. . . He didn't want to even think of the probable chances that he had just slipped out of. He hasn't been any more nervous in his life when he was standing with all of the rest of the employees, right in front of the general. One by one, individuals were called up to be sentenced for their "crimes". It was a terrible thing to watch. He still got sick to his stomach whenever it crossed his mind when he was filling in for all of the jobs the previous workers had.

Some of the other lucky workers' only punishment was to cleanup Holly's jail cell to the point where it would look like nothing has ever occupied the room. It was difficult, he would admit, to replace an entire wall of metal in the back of the cell. None of them had a clue how to get the remaining metal stuck to the frame of the room off. Their tools for the job were limited. But some of them were just glad that they were still alive.

The prisoners that were still in The Boiling Rock claim that they knew Holly - some claimed that they knew her on a personal level. Frankly, the gaurd doesn't remember seeing her at all. All of the corruption has been causing rumors to buzz around the hallways and courtyards. Some of them were interesting, some came to the point where it was terrifying to think about the possible power that this girl has, and a few of them that had just recently been passed around sounded unnatural for a human being to control. He wasn't even aware of that "small electric pulse in your heartbeat". One prisoner that he was watching over this morning said that she could, "control the true fire in one's heart to the point where the heart will stop beating." Yes, he didn't look like he was all with it in the head, but that doesn't excuse the fact that a rumor like this could actually be true.

There was something that he couldn't figure out after hearing all of this mess. If Holly is even half as powerful as she is played out to be, then how did she get captured in the first place? How did they manage to throw her in a prison if she could simply stop their hearts from beating for throw some white fire in their faces? If that fire could burn down a pure-metal wall, then he wouldn't doubt that someone would be killed if they got too close to its heat.

It was break time for the fellow lucky employees. The number of staff members has greatly decreased. In the staff room, people were greatly spread out due to the emptiness. Much commotion was building up on the only topic that has been active for the past few days. He was sure that it wasn't going to go away soon, either.

"You know what I heard today?" one of the gaurds asked. He was much younger then the rest of them, but that meant he was one of the healthiest. He was one of the last young men on duty. The rest were blamed for the incident. "I heard that she was the leader of a mob. That means she's a full blown gangster!"

"Maybe that's what she got busted for," he suggested.

"Why would she get busted for something like that?" one asked. "We're in the middle of a war, here! The thing that she fire nation is least worried about are gangs in the country. Those will all be taken care of once the fire lord rules all four of the nations, right? I mean, it's not like they would be the only gang. These days, you can find one in about every city you go to!"

"Well, considering the kind of power that she holds as an individual, I could only imagine what she had control of being a leader of a mob!"

"She might of been interfering with the fire lord."

"A gangster? Interfering with Fire Lord Ozai? I don't see how that's possible," one of the women asked. He had recodnized her from the day previous. She was one of the first people to hear about the escape and lived to tell the tale. He believed that them two were the only ones left. The gaurd that was talking with her the other day got busted. It wasn't surprising, now that he thought about it. He wouldn't keep his mouth shut about it that whole night.

"Man, this girl's more of a threat to him then the avatar. . ."

The battle was obvious to them that Katara didn't stand a stand, once she pissed her off. Katara jumped over her head, sending jets of water below her. Somehow, she managed to keep herself bone-dry under the jets. A hand was raised above her head, but none of them could tell what she was doing with it. All that Aang could see was a flash of light for only as long as the water covered her.

Katara was being flown off of her feet. She landed a good ten feet into the dark alleyway, landing on her shoulder blades. It was bizarre, he didn't see what caused the fall. It was like something was sent from the ground, rather from the palms of her hands.

Holly's feet were shifted.

"Aang, do something!" Sokka yelled.

But he couldn't. There was another flash. It was so bright, that it gave him temporary blindness. He rubbed his eyes impatiently, trying to go after Katara. He clumsily jumped off of Appa and stumbled down the other street.

He was too late. She was gone.

He didn't want to take it in for too long. He didn't her to get too far.

From where he was standing, he used his airbending to jump into Appa's saddle. He tearred through numerous packs, boxes, sleeping bags and other supplies that were strapped to the back, until. . .

"Got it!"

A blue glider came out of the now-messy pile of items.

"This isn't what I had in mind!" he complained.

"I'm going after her," he announced. "Take care of Katara for me."

He opened up the wings of his glider. He shot up into the sky vertically, causing all of the loose supplies to fly everywhere.

He was not going to let her get away with that.

Expect an epic battle for next chapter :D

And pay attention to The Boiling Rock scenes, if you're really interested. There's a good reason why I'm putting those in. I put a lot of foreshadowing in those scenes, so I highly recommend to pay attention.

So let me know what you think about Holly. I'm keeping the ships simple with the series for now, but I'm not gonna worry about the romance until I get the plot across efficiently. Soo yeah, thanks for reading!