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Chapter 4

Near Camp (Authors point of the view)

The new comer was walking beside Katara, who was bending the water out of flowers that they passed. Zuko, on the other hand, was far behind the two girls. He was watching the Dusk Lilies dying one by one after having the life sucked out of them by Katara.

"So Katara, can you bend steam?"

"Of course Haylin. I am a Master." Katara looked over to the flowers that she had killed. She sighed then, using the water she had obtained from the flowers, created a huge steam cloud. She waited for a second then froze the steam.

"See, told you," she looked over to Haylin "whoops." Haylin had ice up to her neck and all over her mask.

"Next time you play with magic water could you try to avoid freezing me because I don't exactly like water, it's so….wet!"

"Sorry, I'll just melt the ice now."

"No need, it will melt in a few seconds."

"But it's a cold night, it will take hours if I don't do anything." Suddenly, the ice began to glow red then turned to a puddle, her clothes had no remnants of ice or any sign of water showing that she had been covered in ice.

"How did you do that?"

"I'm a firebender, you'll know who I am when we get back to camp."

"WHAT! How can I trust you! Your one of THEM!" Katara pointed at Zuko.

He didn't like her calling him a 'them'. "HEY! I thought I was supposed to be forgiven. Last time I checked, I stopped being one of them when I joined your group!"

"I will never forgive you for what you've put m-us through! You are still one of them and that will never change. You are still a heartless jerk that doesn't care about anyone!" Haylin was staring at the feuding teens with awe. 'How can they do this in public? Seriously, I'm still here people! I better intrude before they kill each other.'

"Okay, okay. Break it up. We don't need blood stains in Katara's parka." She walked in between them and pushed Zuko away.

"Hey!" He fell on the floor with a thump. "What was that for?" "I didn't want your pretty face to be harmed" "Then why didn't you push Katara away from me?"

"Because I cant touch her."

"Oh yeah, girls stick together. What happened to nations stick together?"

"It died when our people tortured my mother."

"Huh? How was she tortured?" He looked from Katara down to his mask. It seemed that he could see straight through the mask and was staring at Haylin's actual face. He had a look of curiosity and anxiety written right across his face.

"I'd rather not talk about it. Lets keep going, we're almost there, I can smell the bison."

The Camp (Sokka's point of view)

'If Zuko has done anything to my sister I sware I'm going to kill him!'

Everyone except for me was asleep. Toph was in her rock tent, Haru, The Duke and Tao were in their rooms, Aang was sleeping with Appa and I'm in Katara's room, waiting for her to return.

"Snoozles, you know if your in here when Katara comes back she'll kill you."

Okay, Toph wasn't in her rock tent, she was standing in the doorway. She was wearing a parka that Katara had given her. It was really big on her but she looked warm. I turned and looked out at the moon, it was half full and was surrounded by clouds.

"I'm going to make sure Zuko hasn't done anything to her."

"He's changed Sokka, your exactly like your sister, you're both paranoid."

"Well if yo-" "Shut up! I can feel a group of people coming."

"How many are there?"

"There are three, and didn't I say shut up?"

"HELLOOO! SOKKA, AANG, GUYS? IS ANYONE THERE, WE'RE BACK!"

The Camp (Katara's point of view)

Zuko kept looking over at the other firebender, I don't know why but it annoyed me.

"Okay Haylin, you promised now spill!" I walked towards the fire pit and sat down right next to it. Everyone was awake by now, by my yelling no doubt, and were sitting in a circle around the fire that Zuko started.

"My name is Haylin and I am a Half breed, my father is fire nation and my mother was earth kingdom. As Katara and Prince Zuko have already found out, I am of both bending disciplines. Up until I was three my mother, father and I had lived together in the palace but my mother was forced to leave by the firelord because she couldn't learn the fire nation oath. I left with my mother and we travelled to the southern water tribe." Sokka and I looked at her like she was some sort of strange creature. Then she realised that she still had the mask on. Haylin slowly untied the ribbon that held the mask to her head and let the mask fall into her lap.

She has pale skin and black hair like any other fire nation resident but her eyes don't represent those of any nation. They are red like a ruby but have the kindness of a water tribes eyes. Her extremely long hair is tied into two plaits that are placed individually over both shoulders. She looked about fifteen, I looked at her quizzically trying to figure out how old she was. She must have noticed because she answered my question as if I was thinking aloud.

"I'm 16 years old and as for the rest of my life I would like to keep to my self as long as it doesn't bother any.." "I remember you now!" Sokka just had to interrupt the firebender, I know that's not a very good thing to do. "Your Nini's daughter! We haven't seen you for seven years! Where did you go after the snow storm killed your mum?" Everyone looked at Haylin, including me, waiting for an answer.

"I..I- don't fell like talking about it." She got up and started off towards the temple.

"If you don't mind it has been a long day and I really need some rest."

I needed to let her know that she wasn't alone in this.

"Um, ok. Just remember that I'm always here to help."

The Temple (Haylins point of view)

"UH! I cant wait to watch the firelord and my father die! The PIGS! I hate them both!" I'm walking down the hallway flailing my arms in the air and screaming at the top of my lungs. "How dare he deface me! I am his only child and what does he do?"

"I don't know what does he do?" "Aaahhh!" I tripped over and hit my head on an earth bench. "AH! SHIT!" I reached up and grabbed the back of my head.

"ZUKO! DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN SCARE PEOPLE!"

"I didn't know you were going to fall over. I don't think it'll help but sorry."

"Your wrong." He looked down at me with a raised eyebrow.

"How exactly am I wrong?" I stood up and looked him in the eyes. "You said you don't think saying sorry would help. Your wrong. It helped heaps. No one says it anymore, thankyou." I gave a slight bow at the waist then walked into the closest room.

It was carved out of a greenish-brown marble. In the far right corner was a bed that had three bags to the side of the bed, each had the fire nation emblem upon it.

I walked to the far left corner of the room that was currently empty. I slammed my foot on the ground and pushed my arms up above my head. Suddenly, a slab of rock, about half the size of the bed, came out of the ground.

"This is it? I practice earthbending for two years and this is what I get! I can't sleep on this piece of junk, I might as well sleep on the floor! I'll find a better bed in the morning but right now…..I'm drained." I climbed onto the bed that had already been organised then fell asleep.