Okay, I've got part two. Enjoy!

Episode 2

Book 1

The ship sharply shreaded through the ice to reach the small south pole village where Zuko believed that the avatar had been spotted. Sasha had dozed off a little, but had woken up just in time. She didn't want to miss a chance to see snow again.

Many thoughts raced through Sasha's head as she walked out on deck to catch the action. Thoughts of Dinner, thoughts of snow, thoughts of bacon, and thoughts of the avatar. What if Zuko had finally found the Avatar? This was the first time Sasha had ever heard of an airbender actually being sighted. Most of the time the places only held vague hints of the person's whereabouts. Zuko might be on to something...

Kaleb was the first person Sasha recognized as the front of the ship was being lowered down to land, creating a bridge between craft and land. "Right on time, Princess."

"I guess I haven't missed anything at all then?"

"Not at all."

Sasha waited for her brother to get off the ship first with a few soldiers. She followed a few yards behind, with light footsteps, remaining invisible. While she was walking down, a screaming man holding a stick-like thing came charging towards Zuko, bold and loud. Zuko quickly kicked the guy over to the side of the railing, sending him down on the soft snow beneath. There was a collective gasp from the residents.

Sasha giggled to herself when she saw this. Pathetic. If the Avatar was really hiding here, capturing him wouldn't be such a hard thing to do, judging by the resistance. She followed Zuko, accompanied by a few soldiers, onto the snowy land. The ground was layered by thick, hard snow, mostly ice, making it easy to walk without sinking. She watched quietly, taking a stand by Kaleb.

The locals were already conveniently gathered in one area.

"Where are you hiding him?" Zuko asked, eyeing every person carefully. He grabbed an elderly woman from the front row. "He would be about this age, master of all four elements." Zuko let go of the old lady, sending her back into the hands of the granddaughter (Katara). Then, released a fire whip. The locals screamed in terror as the orange flames curved above their heads. These people probably aren't used to seeing firebenders, Sasha thought. She'd seen bigger and better moves. What Zuko had done could be easily topped, but these ignorant peasents didn't know that. After all, firebenders in general were considered to be a threat anywhere, big or small, advanced or no. Those people had all the right in the world to be afraid of Zuko and his basic firebending.

Soon, Sasha heard the familiar "war-cry" from the same person Zuko had beaten a while back. Didn't that guy know when he'd been defeated? Not wanting to see Zuko fight the boy again, Sasha left. She decided to check the tents around the village. Most of the time, there would be kids hiding there—little kids. Sasha was hit by dozens of snowballs the minute she entered a small tent.

"Be careful. She's dangerous." It was a wide-eyed girl curled up in the corner who spoke. She couldn't be older than five years of age.

"I'll handle this!" A six year old boy approached Sasha, arms crossed, and a sheath at his side (it carried a small dagger). "State your business, ma'am."

Sasha looked up at boy towering over here. "My name is Sasha. I'm from that fire nation ship that's currently troubling your village. I'm here to tell you not to worry. We'll be out as soon as we get what we want."

The child's blue eyes narrowed. "That's news. I asked for business!"

"I just need some one to talk to to pass time. You know, small talk. I thought I could find some people to talk to in here, so I came."

"So you're not going to i-i-incinerate us?" The little girl in the corner was very worried.

"I don't have any orders to do that to you, and nobody's paying me for it...So, no."

"Who are you?"

"My name is Sasha. I already told you. That creep out there is my brother, and those men helping are members of our crew."

The kids inside the tent were suddenly interested. "That's your brother? Why is he here?"

"We're looking for the avatar-someone wearing orange and yellow."

"Oh, that was Aang!" the five year old said. "He left a while back though. I'm going to miss him. He was so much fun."

Sasha nodded. "Oh, good to know." Sasha liked talking to kids. For one, she didn't have to strain her neck as much to look up, and two, kids were so trusting and innocent, it was almost funny. They had just let a firebender into their tent."I guess I won't be staying here for long then."

The six year old boy stuck out his hand, trying to be polite. "Name's Bo. This is Serafina, my sister. Since your brother probably won't come back here, I guess we could have talk a little. It must be hard to live with your brother. He's so mean."

"Oh, believe me, he's a nice guy except he has anger issues and hates pretty much everything."

"Sasha! We're going!" Kaleb's familiar voice rang through the air.

"Bye, guys, I have to go!"

"What was that paint she had on her face?" Bo asked Serifina shortly after Sasha was out of sight.

"It's called make-up. Big girls wear it to look pretty. Mommy says I can wear it when I'm sixteen. I can't imagine why she'd be wearing make up. She had to be about my age."

"Maybe she's just spoiled. That's one big warship."

"You don't say."

And they left the conversation at that, and didn't give it much thought.

"Where were you, Sasha? You missed the whole thing!" Kaleb said, as she caught up to him.

"I was just in that little tent back there, talking to some kids. What did I miss? You sound kind of excited like something actually happened this time. Did you find him?"

"Yes, there was a fight going on for a while. First, between Prince Zuko and that Water Tribe kid. Then, between Zuko and the Avatar himself."

"Was it intense?" Sasha asked, regretting her actions.

"No, not really. The kid surrendered after Zuko sent a few flames his way."

"Kid?"

"Funny story. It turns out that the Avatar is just a child, and can only control air instead of all four elements."

"How is that possible?"

"I don't know Princess. Go see for yourself, Princess. It's almost like he's frozen in time."

Sasha and Kaleb were among the last to board the ship. Sasha was amazed when she found out that what Kaleb had told her about the avatar was true. The boy had to be over a century old, yet he didn't look a day above twelve.

"This staff should make an excellent gift for my father." Zuko said, holding the glider. "You probably don't know about fathers, being raised by monks."

"And you probably don't know about fathers, being sent away from home and disgraced by your own." Sasha muttered. No one had heard her.

"Take this to my quarters." Zuko handed the staff over to Uncle who handed it over to none other than Kaleb.

A tile was moved, revealing a staircase that led deep into the ship's hull. Aang was led down the steps, and taken to a special hallway for prisoners.

"I bet you guys have never fought an airbender before." Aang said, walking in between the two men.

"Silence." One soldier ordered, not wanting to deal with a child.

When they reached the door, Aang exhaled strongly, sending one soldier flying and leaving the other jammed up against the metal, and jumped out of the hole. "The Avatar's escaped!"

Aang entered a different part of the ship, looking for his staff. The crew had already been warned of his coming, and had wasted no time in posting guards on all four corners of the ship, ready and waiting.

"You haven't seen my glider around, have you?" He asked when he was approached by armed guards, prepared to fight, swords in hand. Using his feet to airbend, Aang soon left them. "Thanks anyway!"

While still running, he was confronted by another guard whom he easily avoided, and cut his ropes on the person's helmet, freeing his hands.

He started searching the rooms, opening doors one by one. Which one of these rooms were Zuko's quarters? He stopped for a brief period at one room that was a little different. Unlike all the other rooms, made from steel with the fire nation insignia sewn onto a sheet and draped on a the walls as a decoration, this room was bit girly. Drawings were painted on the wall—Flowers, trees, birds—all coming from a small island surrounded by a vast sea filled with whales and tiger-seals. The mattress on the floor was neatly lined with red and gold covers. A doll was slouched against the pillow. Surely this stuff couldn't belong to Zuko. It looked like it belonged to a child. It probably belonged to that little girl he'd seen a while back out on deck, but why would a person like Zuko keep a child on a warship? It seemed incredibly out of place. After zooming past a few more rooms down the corridor to no avail, he saw his staff inside a room, leaned against some furniture. There it was! Perfect! He went into the small room, and heard the heavy door shut with a thud.

"I guess I underestimated you." Zuko had been expecting him the whole time.

Crud, Aang thought. Quickly, he dodged all of Zuko's blows until he finally got a hold of his glider, using it as a tool to slam Zuko against the wall twice with his mattress. Zuko looked up from his spot to see Sasha's laughing face. "I saw the whole thing! You just got pwnd by your own mattress!"

"Where is he?!"

"I saw him go up to where the control area."

Sasha was brushed aside as Zuko rushed off to stop the avatar from escaping. He couldn't afford to lose his prize after they had come so far. Sasha, almost by instinct, bounded out on deck. Chances were the Avatar had already made it outside, and that Zuko was trying to hinder his escape. When she arrived, along with some other crew members, she saw Zuko ceaselessly spewing fireballs at his target.

"What are you doing?" She yelled. Zuko was supposed to capture the avatar, not kill him! Perhaps he was still resentful about being beaten by his mattress. "Stop!" But it was too late, Aang had already fallen overboard.

"Now, look what you did. You just ended the thing you've been after for three years."

Sasha had spoken far to soon however, for at that moment the Avatar emerged from the ocean, eyes and tatoos glowing boldly—the Avatar state. He was bending the sea around him, pushing himself upward in a large column of whirring water. Sasha's eyes bulged at this display of bending. What had Zuko done? Aang planted himself on the ship, and used the seawater to knock Zuko and the crew overboard. Sasha, luckily, managed to get dashed against the ship's railing instead. She sputtered as she coughed out the cold sea water that had made its way into her mouth. The large sky bison deposited itself onto the vessel. Aang's friends had come to help. Some soldiers who not been thrown overboard, suffering the same fate as Sasha, recovered, getting up on their feet, able to attack. They paused abruptly as the waterbender girl made a desperate move, unintentionally freezing her brother's feet.

"Katara!"Sokka whined, before hammering at his feet with a silver boomerang.

Katara turned around, and made the same move, successfully freezing the soldiers head to toe. Sasha went over to see where Zuko was. He had been hanging on a chain that ran across the side of the hull. Uncle had already assisted him.

"They're getting away."

"Shoot them down!" Zuko commanded.

Zuko and Uncle, accompanied by Sasha, sent a massive fire ball at the bison carrying the three companions, Aang countered with a blast of wind, redirecting the fiery substance into a nearby cliff. The resulting avalanche buried a good portion of the ship in ice and thick snow.

" Get this ship out and go After them!" Zuko shouted. He paused when he noticed that half the ship was stuck in a block of ice, and that most of his crew members were stuck in ice. The ones who weren't frozen were busy unfreezing those who were. "As soon as you're done with that..."

He was leaving to go inside and mark out a map showing where the avatar had been sighted and what his next moves might be when he noticed another minor detail. "Uncle, where's Sasha?"

"In here..." a weak voice cried out from under the lump of snow, muffled slightly. Startled, the crew members who were busy thawing the other soldiers made haste to dig Sasha out. "Did you just see what i just saw?"

"Good news for the Firelord: the Fire Nation's greatest threat is a child." Uncle stated.

"That child just did this. I won't underestimate him ever again." Zuko said, referring to the damage.

Sasha got up to her feet as calmly as she could. Shivering, she trudged to her room, and resolved to change into warm pjs, made from gold silk, hemmed with shades of hot pink. She sat down at her small, steal desk, got out an fat, plain-papered notebook. This was were she recorded the day's events. She dipped her quil into an ink pot, and began writing.

End of chapter

Hi! Sorry if I bored you guys a little. The next chapter will have a little more fizz. ;) Peace!