Chapter 3: On The Run
(Third POV) Takes place two days after the last chapter.
Sokka woke up in a very good mood compared to other days. He got out of his and Suki's room and saw Sei and Katara talking, as usual; Sokka rolled his eyes.
While Sokka made his way to get some meat, something else caught his attention.
"Why are you so happy?" he asked Toph in a lazy voice.
Toph hadn't even notice Sokka talking to her "Um, What?" she asked
"I said why you are so happy?" Sokka insisted.
"Don't you have something better to do?" she retorted like always.
"As a matter of fact, I do" he said while pointing a finger for no good reason, and he stormed of business like.
(Sokka's POV)
Suki and Katara were making my favorite sea prunes for lunch so I sat down with the rest of the team.
I really don't know what Zuko and Mei were talking to Aisuru about, I wasnt paying attention. I did see something bright fly towards the temple, that was what distracted me from my friends. Then a saw Jiko running to where Suki and Katara had been cooking.
"Suki!" I could see everyone else, except her. Where is she? Then there she was, laying on the ground with... wait is that...? "Jiko! What are you doing?" I ran up to him and yanked him off of my girlfriend. Who does he think he is?
"It's okay, Sokka. He save me." Suki said that with a bit of confusion in her voice. I hugged her quickly, actually checking to see if she was okay.
I looked over at Jiko and he had a stupid smirk on his face. Idiot... "We should leave. I'll go help katara and the other pack up." He said still grinning.
He ran over to help Mei undo the tent. Suki went after him. The Kyoshi warrior inside her seemed to kick in, ready to help.
I ran over to where Zuko and Aang were standing and, well, I tried to help as much as I could. But there wasn't much to do.
I looked over to see if Appa was ready, but apparently the others weren't done yet.
Sei yelled something, "Appa's ready! Lets go!" I could hardly Make out the words, as Aang blasted air and earth to another fire ball.
Zuko pulled me toward Appa while Aang gave us some quick cover, doing the twirly thingy with his glider. Katara held on tight to Appa's reins as the bison stomped his tail and took off. Aisuru triped as Appa soared through the air, Aang had to throw his glider and bend the air to catch her and fly her back to the saddle. Another fire ball came out of nowhere straight to Aang. He had to jump as high as his airbending could carry him, and Katara reached her hand out and pulled Aang onto Appa.
"That was a close one." Mei said in her tipical bored tone.
"Understatement!" I yelled.
Some hours later
(Third person POV)
The gang arrived at some sort of island and was all set up they were sitting around a fire and drinking the tea Zuko and his girlfriend made.
"So, we got out of that one." Jiko said and took another sip from his cup.
"Yeah, that was so cool!" Sei said, throwing his arms in the air.
"Well, I'm going to go get some rest." Katara got up and started walking towards her tent.
"Um…Katara?" She turned around and saw Aang.
"Oh, it's you, Aang. I got a little scared for a minute" she said with relief in her voice, "Is something wrong?"
"Oh, no. No, I just wanted to know if you want to come watch me, um... teach Sei airbending tomorrow?"
Aang was making nervous circles on the ground with his foot
"You're gonna teach me airbending?!" Sei jumped exitedly out of nowhere, coming towards Aang and Katara.
"What? Um, yeah. We start tomorrow." Aang smiled his goofy smile, totaly ignoring Sei.
"You are so sweet, Aang." Katara said. She extended her arms and walked towards Aang to give him a hug. He immediately froze, but hugged her back.
"Good night, Katara," Aang said and turned around.
"Good night Aang," and she went inside her tent.
(Aang's POV)
I was walking towards Appa and then Sei walks up to me and opened his mouth to talk. "Do you really want to teach me airbending?" he asked me skeptically.
"What? Oh, um... Yeah!" I didn't sound very convincing. Toph turned in my direction and snorted. Why does she have to be the one that knows when I'm lying?
"Do you like Katara?" Sei asked.
What?! Why is he asking me that? Everyone is asking me stuff about Katara!
"Well, Toph did say you kissed her at the invasion." Zuko pointed out.
How does everyone sneek up behind me? I looked over at Toph who was grinning evilly, as she drank her tea. "Um... I gotta go, bye" I sighed, that was a close one.
I sat down on my meditating position and tried to relax for a while and then I heard someone sit by me.
"So, did you really kiss her?" Zuko asked trying to hide the excitement.
"Yeah…"I was trying to concentrate really hard on clearing my mind. It was working; I felt detached.
"Hey, guys? What's that?" I heard Sokka ask a few paces behind us.
I look up to where he was pointing. there were fire nation airships, I could see a little bit of blue. I heard Azula call out Zuko's name, her voice was very far, but she was too close to us. We were being attacked by Azula... again!
I started shooting boulders at her. "Toph! Earthbend in the same direction as me!" It took her like two seconds to start throwing rock spikes towards the airships, five at a time. Two of them hit it, another two missed. The last one was headed straight for Azula, but she did some crazy lightningbending thing, blinding me for a second. The rock split in half and charged straight at me before I even noticed.
Zuko started shooting fire balls at her while Sokka, Sei, Aizuru, Mei, Suki and Katara draged all our stuff back on Appa's saddle, this time not bothering to pack. Toph had given up on trying to attack the airship she couldn't see, and was sitting next to Sei, ready to get out of here.
Jiko surprized us all as he threw a fireball at Azula. "Let's go!" he dragged Zuko up to the bison.
There was a pain on my side, probably a broken rib or something, nothing Katara couldn't fix. Sokka helped me get up on Appa.
"I know a place where they won't find us," Zuko said looking at me.
"Where?" I asked willing to go anyplace where Azula wouldn't find us.
"My house."
"Smart choice, Zuko. But I don't think the firelord wants us in his PALACE!" Sokka said or yelled.
"I'm not stupid!" he answered, "I meant or house on Ember Island."
"Now that makes more sence," Toph said sarcasticaly.
We all decided to ignore her comment, "Okay, Ember Island, let's go."
