Note: I started this story a while ago after I read Hragon's SBAW. I'm not quite sure if her story is still called SBAW, but that's what it was called when the chapters were e-mailed to me. ;] Sora is obviously her character, just my view of hers, aaaand, of course, I would go check SBAW out as well. Her writing style is AMAZING!!! As always, R&R!

Chapter 3

Akira walked back from the town munching happily on Fire Flakes, her swords in a sheath slung over her back. Sora walked out to meet her, making sure there was no one following and then eyed the snack curiously.

"Where'd you get those?" She asked.

"In the town of course," Akira answered, handing over the bag for Sora to investigate. She stuck some in her mouth and rose an eyebrow, "they taste different, not as… burn your tongue out, and there's something else in there too."

"I know! Aren't they great? I even bought two more bags other than this one." She replied, taking the bag back and stuffing another handful in her mouth.

They walked back to camp, both now eating the Fire Flakes and trying to figure out what the secret ingredient was. There were still pondering over the mystery when Sokka rushed towards them.

"Get moving, we're going to leave really soon!" Sokka shouted, lighting up at the Fire Flakes in their hands. "Where'd you get those!"

"In town, you won't like them," Akira responded, walking smugly past him.

"Perfect timing, we're just about to leave," Katara said, smiling at Sora.

"So… um… how…" Zuko stammered, trying to find a way to ask the question he needed to ask.

"Don't worry, two seconds before you take off give us a shout," Sora answered, Akira trying to contain laughter at Zuko's stammering.

"Um… okay, sure." And with that Zuko quickly scuttled away, Sora now trying to suppress the laughter.

"We're leaving! Hurry up Zuko!" Aang shouted from atop the furry bison thing.

"Uh, Sora, what exactly is that thing?" Akira whispered, pointing at Appa.

"It's a flying bison, Aang's familiar, or so to say."

"Gotcha, wonder if it's scared of dragons?"

"Dunno, we'll soon find out though, won't we?"

"Sounds like!" Akira said, dropping the hushed tones.

The great white beast started pulling slowly into the air, the powerful air blasts buffeting the two girls still on the ground. At the same time they disappeared in twin infernos, gold, red, orange, and yellow ribbons licking up towards the sky.

Sokka just rolled his eyes, clearly not impressed, "They're probably changing into Fire Nation hawks or something."

But nope, they were thinking something a ton bigger, and not feathered. When the infernos disappeared, two large dragons stood, peering above them. Sokka's mouth dropped open as he looked down and stammered a few unintelligible words.

"What is it Sokka?" Aang asked before looking down and falling off of Appa, catching back onto the reins with seconds to spare. He bended himself back and then just stared.

'Well, that was entertaining, shall we go now?' asked the silver dragon, unfurling her wings and showing the deep blue undersides.

'Sounds good to me Akira.' Sora said, the golden dragon that had a much more complicated array of colors on her scales.

The two leapt into the air with a beat of their mighty wings, their metallic scales glinting as the sun caught them. Sora's scales lit up with all the colors of fire, Akira just swooping in the air, well aware of everything.

'I never noticed how boring my scales are compared to yours, Sora,' Akira said, swooping lower to be level with Sora.

'Yours are more shiny, correct?' Sora asked, concealing a grin as she sped forward.

'I suppose you're right, and that's good enough for me!'

The two tumbled through the air, performing acrobatics and creating fire to throw at each other, both easily dodging the flames. Akira stopped and looked at Zuko, who was simply staring, bug-eyed at them. She gave a giant dragon grin and flew straight up, Sora following her.

'What are you doing now?' Sora asked quizzically.

'We're playing a game!' Akira answered, flapping her wings and looking down through the clouds.

'Exactly what game is this?' Sora asked curiously.

Akira grinned, a glint in her eyes, 'catch.'

Sora got it right away and nodded, grinning also.

Akira folded her wings to her sides and plummeted downwards, moving her course right towards Appa, Zuko completely unawares. A couple seconds from Appa she heard Sora roar, and she did the same, opening her wings with a snap and snatching Zuko from his seat, climbing back up towards Sora, who had followed her down. The two dragons were now flying side by side, the rest of the Avatar Group looking up, Aang already grabbing his glider just in case. They didn't seem very concerned though, which made Akira let out a hoarse laugh.

'Poor unloved Zuko.' Akira cooed, grinning towards Sora who opened a claw; the signal.

'Catch!' Akira said, tossing Zuko through the air lightly towards Sora, who caught him with ease. A mighty yell bellowed from his mouth, eyes wide as he tumbled through the air.

"You wouldn't," Zuko glared; out of breath and knowing that Sora was most definitely the more sensible one.

'Normally, no' Sora said, feeling Zuko relax, 'But, this is for Akira, so yes, I will.' And with that she threw Zuko back over to Akira, who caught him and then spiraled, enjoying greatly Zuko's screams.

"Stop it, Kika! Stop it!!" Zuko yelled over the rush of the wind.

Akira glanced at the Avatar group, who were all dying of laughter, Sokka's being heard the loudest, and dorkiest.

'It's Akira! And for that!' She said, tossing him over her wing towards Sora, who flung a claw out, but then pulled it back in, saying,

'Oops, sorry Kira, would you go get him for me?' as innocently as she could. Akira only grumbled, but tucked her wings in and dove, Zuko trying to make fire boosters to push himself back upwards, but the oxygen levels changing so much, the fire kept burning itself out. She snapped open her wings and caught him as he fell on her back, careful not to impale him on a spike.

'So, what's my name?' Akira asked smugly.

"Akira." Zuko murmured, the words barely managing to escape from between his lips.

'Good Zukie!' Akira said, swooping low over Appa and flipping onto her back, making Zuko fall back into the saddle, an annoyed, embarrassed, and terrified etched across his face.

"By the sound of you guys, whatever just happened was really funny, too bad I couldn't see it." Toph grumbled, crossing her arms and leaning back against the edge of the saddle.

"Don't worry Toph, it was just Zuko flying through the air," Katara said, laughing.

"And I missed it! This sucks." Toph muttered.

'So, Avatar, where exactly are we going?' Akira asked, still flipped onto her back, flying in the air, Sora right side up next to her.

"It's Aang, and we're going to Kyoshi Island."

'Why would we go to Kyoshi Island? Sora asked, lighting touching the tip of Akira's wing to make her spiral, forcing her to fly right side up.

"Well, there's no specific reason, we just want to make sure the village is all right," Aang said, blushing slightly.

"Somebody also wants to see the girls and ride the Elephant Koi again," Sokka said, letting out an obnoxious laugh. Akira and Sora both raised an eye ridge, riding the air current up and above Appa, Akira now busy making shapes out of the fire she held in her claw.

'Sora, look!' Akira exclaimed, proudly holding out her claw. Sora looked and was pretty impressed. There was a picture of Aang's face, complete with the arrow, though slightly on the crude side, as the fire was moving.

'Check this out,' Sora said, turning away for a moment then extending her own claw. Akira's jaw dropped open, staring at the flickering fire dragon in Sora's hand.

'How did you get it that detailed Sora? It looks just like you!' Akira exclaimed, still looking at the magnificent piece of fire in her claw. Her eyes reflected the flickering flames, a twinkle sitting upon it, all on it's own.

'With claws it's quite easy, you just sort of draw with them. It's the second time I've ever actually been able to do it, so I'm pretty new at the concept.'

'New, but amazing!' Akira said, grabbing one of the horns on top of Sora's head.

'Owww! Stob it!' Sora growled, being towed towards Appa by Akira. She could have escaped from the hold, but wasn't going to, just for her friend's sake.

'Look what Sora made!' Akira said, releasing her grip on Sora's horn. Sora extended her claw and opened, the fire dragon still there and as detailed as ever.

"Whoa!" Sokka exclaimed, poking Zuko who was refusing to look.

'Zuko, you'd better look, or this time, we're going to play Zuko-ball!' Akira threatened, a giant smile on her maw.

Zuko turned around and glanced at the dragon, then did a double-take and stared at it, while Akira gently bumped Sora's claw with her own, who got the message and lightly tossed it to Zuko. He held up his hands to block it, but ended up catching it, and holding it in his own palm, the rest of Team Avatar huddling around.

"Great!" Toph exclaimed, "another thing I can't see!"

"Don't worry Toph, I can see Kyoshi Island right now, soon we'll be on the ground," Aang said, returning back to his driving spot. "Um, Sora, Akira, you might want to think about… not being a giant dragon when we land."

'Easy enough,' Sora said, promptly turning into a hawk with bright red plumage. Akira just grumbled and did the same, though her hawk form had shining silver feathers. They landed on the edge of Appa's saddle, when Sora spoke, 'I suppose we should become human though.' Akira sighed and followed suit, both turning back into their human forms.

"I know it's odd, but personally, I prefer being an animal or something like that," Akira said, talking to Sora.

Sora couldn't really say anything, sometimes Akira just talked to her, and she wouldn't answer, and then the speaker would answer herself. It was actually pretty useful, especially when she couldn't find the right word for her question, though Sora was always ready to fill in the blank.

"Um, Av-Aang, you might want to fly a teensy bit higher," Akira said, looking over the edge into the water.

"Why is that?" Katara asked, also looking over the edge. Akira turned to Katara, her eyes slitted and still looking like in her dragon form.

"There is this giant looking fish thing in the water, following us," Akira said, turning back to the water.

Katara rose an eyebrow, until Aang shouted out, "UNAGI!"

A large blue serpent/fish thing rose from the water, jaws gaping and snapping on air as Appa shot out of the way, coming closer and closer to the island. With a large splash it slid back into the water, followed by a blast of fire from Akira, who turned towards Sora with her eyes back to normal and a grin on her face, "just for show Sora, I didn't hit it."