Chapter 3

Aang and Katara ran up a hill back to the village but Aang suddenly stopped running and started to sniff the air.

"What's that awful smell?" aang asked covering his nose.

Katara covered her nose and looked at to see a cloud of thick black smoke moving above a high hill, "it's a Fire Nation ship." she stated full of anger and fear. "Come on we need to get back to the village." katara stated grabbing Aang's wrist and dragging him down the hill towards the village.

Sokka, their Gran Gran and the rest of the village were waiting for them by the entrance to the village.

"What did you do?! Now we're all in danger!" Sokka shouted.

"Well kind of went on the old Fire Nation ship and there was this boogie trap and, well we boogied right into it." katara informed the village.

"Katara you knew going onto that ship was forbidden." her gran gran said disappointed.

"Don't blame Katara, am the one who told her to come with me." Aang confessed.

"This proves that he is nothing but trouble, I suggest he leaves. " Sokka said angrily.

"What you can't just kick him out, you're not the boss around here." katara replied angrily.

"I am, dad left me in charge so I will protect the village from threats like him." Sokka stated.

"Aang is not a threat and you need to stop treating him one!" katara yelled at her brother.

"The Fire Nation is coming here because of him, Katara!" Sokka yelled back. "So am going to do what I think is best for the village...the airhead is banished from our tribe." Sokka declared.

"You can't do that...Gran gran please don't let Sokka do this." katara begged.

"Katara you knew going onto that ship was forbidden, Sokka is right I think it is best the air bender leaves." Gran gran replied seriously.

"Fine then I am banished too!" katara declared grabbing Aang and pulling him towards Appa's. "Come on let's go."

"Where are you going?!" Sokka demanded.

"To find a water bending master; Aang is taking me to the North Pole." katara called back.

Aang just let Katara pull him, with a confused expression; "I am...?" he suddenly smiled slightly, "Great."

"Katara, are you really choose him over your own family?" Sokka questioned.

Katara instantly stopped walking, standing in the middle in between Appa's and her village. Aang looked at her with a sad face and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Katara, I don't want to come in between you and your family. I'll go." Aang said sadly walking towards Appa.

"So you're leaving?" katara said watching Aang walk away. "This...this is good bye?" she asked sadly.

"I guess so," aang said sadly, "and thanks for taking me penguin sledding." he added trying to lighten the mood.

"Where you going to go?" katara asked.

"Back to the air temple to look for the airbenders" aang replied. "Wow I haven't cleaned my room in the hundred years...not looking forward to that." Aang added smiling.

He jumped onto Appa's head using airbending; he took hold of the reins and turned to everyone. "It was nice meeting all of you."

"Let's see your bison fly now air head." Sokka mocked crossing his arms.

Aang flicked on the reins, "Come on Appa, yip yip."

But Appa just roared softly and stayed glued to the ground. "Yeah I thought so!" Sokka mocked rudely.

Aang looked down sadly at Katara, who returned the same look. "Come on buddy let's go." Aang said to Appa. Appa turned and walked away into the distance.

Katara watched as Aang and Appa disappeared into the distance. Her gran gran came up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Katara you'll feel better after..." she reassured.

"Are you happy now, there goes my one chance of becoming a waterbender!" katara interrupted her grandmother, stomping back to the village.

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Tyro was lying with his head on Comet's neck, fast asleep and snoring softly. Jiro was inside the satchel twiddled his thumbs.

"Hey Tyro, are we there yet!" he called impatiently.

No response.

Jiro huffed and started climbing out the satchel. "Oy! Tyro I asked you a question and don't pretend you can't hear me because..." he paused seeing tyro fast asleep. Jiro raised an eyebrow, "unbelievable."

He carefully made his way towards Tyro, taking care not to fall off Comet. He jumped onto Tyro's back and grabbed his hear, "Hey wake up!" he yelled into Tyro's ear.

"Ahh!" Tyro exclaimed in shock and pain, bolting up straight.

"Whoa...watch it!" Jiro shouted almost falling off Comet, but he quickly managed to grab onto the saddle.

"What was that for?" Tyro questioned rubbing his ear.

"You were asleep." Jiro stated.

"So." Tyro said a bit annoyed

"You were asleep when you should be concentrating on what Comet is doing." Jiro answered.

Tyro huffed heavily, "I don't need to concentrate on what he is doing, he is more than capable of flying without me telling him what to do." Tyro said lying his head back down on Comet's neck.

"Really...so then can I ask you a question? Is it just me or those clouds getting closer." Jiro said looking down at the clouds as they got closer.

"What?!" Tyro said sitting back up and looking down, he noticed the clouds getting closer and closer and he could feel the wind get stronger as Comet went down, snoring.

"Comet, Wake up buddy this is now time for sleeping!" Tyro shouted lifting the dragon's eyelid and waving his hand frantically in front of it.

"I told you falling asleep was a bad idea!" Jiro yelled clinging onto comet's saddle.

"Oh shut up Jiro!" Tyro yelled, still trying to wake Comet up as they plummeted to the earth.

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Sokka was in their hut preparing to fight the Fire Nation soldiers. He put on his warrior uniform and painted his face with black, white and grey paint. The later hanging above his head blew around, signaling the arrival or the Fir Nation. He picked up his club and ran outside the hut. On The Fire Nation ship Prince Zuko was preparing for his encounter with the Avatar. A soldier strapped on his armor and placed his helmet on his head

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Aang was lying in a hole in a big chunk of ice while Appa lay down below. He held is staff close to him with a sad expression on his face. Appa gave a depressed moan, "I know buddy, I miss her too." Aang agreed laying his head down and looked out onto the sea.

Suddenly a Fire Nation ship came into his view, Aang's eyes widened. "Oh on." he said jumping out the hole with his staff. "Stay here buddy, am coming back." Aang said to Appa flying off with his glider.

...

Sokka was standing on the snow wall that stood between the sea and the village, waiting for the arrival of the Fire Nation. The other villagers went about their daily activities fearing the arrival of the enemy. Suddenly a large dark shape came towards the village, the people all gasped in fear and started hurrying away from the wall but Sokka just stood there, he raised his club into a fighting stance. The ship got closer and closer, breaking the ice laying between the sea and the ice wall Sokka stood on.

"Oh man." he said trembling slightly.

The people quickly started running more away from the wall, some disappeared into their huts. A young boy trip, and a large crack was making its way towards him at a fast pace, Katara quickly ran up to the icing him up and carrying him safety. She turned to see Sokka still standing on the snow wall, not moving.

"Sokka, get out of the way!" Katara yelled at her brother as the ship crashed into the snow wall causing it to collapse. The wall slide down to the ground as the ship ground to a halt, and surprisingly Sokka was still standing.

A burst of steam erupted from the front of the ship,the villagers gasped as the front fell down. Sokka screamed and jumped out if the way just as the door of the ship came down.

Zuko, followed by six soldiers walked down the ramp towards the village, the villagers back away in fear and mothers clutched their children closer to them.

Sokka glared at the prince, gritting his teeth he grabbed his club and charged at Zuko.

Not even bothered by Sokka's attack, Zuko effortlessly kicked the club out of Sokka's hand and kicked him off the ramp into a pile of snow, face first. Zuko continued his March towards the villagers with a determined look on his face. He halted in front of them and frowned, he looked at every single person, silently causing them all to become very nervous.

"Where is he?" Zuko demanded.

The villagers didn't respond, not knowing who he was talking about.

Zuko gritted his teeth and grabbed Kanna from the crowd, "He'd be about this age...master of all the elements!" he said getting irritated.

Still the villagers didn't respond, Zuko pushed Kanna back into the crowd and blast a fire ball over their heads. "I know he is here!" Zuko yelled.

Sokka yelled a battle cry and charged Zuko with his club grasped in both hands. Zuko quickly dodged Sokka and tripped him causing him to tumble to the floor. Zuko blasted a fire ball at Sokka who managed to just kiss getting roasted, he quickly grabbed his boomerang from its pouch on his back and chucked it at Zuko but Zuko dodged it and watched it fly away. He turned back to Sokka and smirked.

"Oh come on." Sokka whined crawling away from Zuko.

Suddenly there was a glimmer behind Zuko and the boomerang came back and hit Zuko on the back of the head and landed next to Sokka. Zuko glared at Sokka angrily, he formed fire knifes and walked up to him.

Suddenly Aang came zooming towards Zuko on an otter penguin and knocked him off his feet into the snow head first, his helmet ending up landing on his butt. Aang came to a halt beside Katara and Sokka and got off the otter penguin.

"Hey guys." He greeted happily.

"Hey Aang," Sokka replied, sounding a bit disappointed that Aang had rescued them.

Aang stood up and turned to Zuko who was already up and in his fighting stance, while his men started to circle Aang. Aang got into a fighting stance, his hands gripping firmly around his staff; his eyes watching the Fire Nation soldiers that were flanking him. He took a deep breath and used his staff to airbend a whole lot of snow at the soldiers, sending them backwards onto the ground. He then slammed his staff to the ground in front of him, sending a wave of snow towards Zuko.

Zuko put his arms in front of his chest and was able to stay upright; he looked up and glared at Aang as the snow slowly melted off his armor.

"Looking for me?" Aang questioned frowning slightly,

Zuko looked at the boy in shock and confusion, "You're the Avatar?!"

The entire village gasped. "No way." Sokka said, shocked that this goofy kid was the Avatar.

Zuko and Aang stared at each other intently and began to circle one another.

"I've spent years preparing for this moment. Training. Meditating. Only to find out you're just a child!" Zuko stated in frustration.

"You're one to talk since you're only a teenager." Aang shot back, relaxing his stance a bit.

Zuko growled and blasted two fire balls at Aang. Aang quickly span his staff around in a circle, stopping the fire balls instantly. But Zuko kept on firing at him and Aang kept on defending himself, but the flames started to get closer and closer to the villagers. Some screamed as the flames came too close for comfort, Aang looked at them with sad eyes. He then looked at Zuko and frowned, as he extinguished a fire ball he threw down his staff.

"I'll go with you, but only if you promise to leave this village alone." Aang bargained.

Zuko nodded in agreement, he signaled for two soldiers to seize Aang, who put up no fight and walked towards the ship.

"Aang, no!" Katara pleaded, breaking out from the crowd.

Aang turned and gave her a reassuring look, "It's alright Katara. I'll be fine." He smiled at her before a soldier roughly pushed him forward.

Katara watched hopelessly as the door to the ship rose up and slammed shut.

Tyro was clinging to the front of Comet's saddle for dear life; half flying above Comet, and Jiro was inside of Tyro's jacket almost trembling in fear.

"We're going to die!" Jiro cried dramatically.

If Tyro could roll his eyes he would but it was really hard to make any sort of expression if all the powerful air blasting him in the face. Besides he was also trying to think of a way to wake Comet up before they were all transformed into pancakes.

He was thinking really hard, the clogs in his brain were spinning around uncontrollable but still he could not think of anything. Suddenly a thought came to mind, but he knew Comet wouldn't like it. He let go of the saddle with one hand and using his other arm, pulled himself close to Comet's shoulder. He placed two fingers close to Comet's shoulder and took a deep breath, and a small stream of lightning shocked Comet.

Comet's eyes flew open and he roared in both shock and pain, but he quickly realized what happening. He spread his large wings just as they were about to hit the ground and shot forward. Tyro came down onto to the saddle, squashing Jiro.

Comet managed to stay a flight for a few minutes before crashing into the ground. Tyro flew forward and landed in front of Comet, once again he landed on his stomach; crushing poor Jiro. He groaned and slowly got up onto his feet.

"Woah, that wasn't so bad." He said reaching into his jacket and pulling out Jiro.

Jiro shook his head, "'Wasn't that bad'? 'Wasn't that bad'?" he questioned glaring at Tyro. "We almost became bloody pancakes!" he yelled. "Oh wait I am ALREADY ONE!"

Tyro scrunched up his face in pain "Oww." He complained, dropping Jiro to the ground.

Jiro sat on the floor, blinking in shock. He shook his head and stood up, glaring at Tyro even harder. "Wasn't crushing me enough for you?!" he questioned dramatically.

"Hey you shouted in my ear, and you know my ears are sensitive." Tyro defended himself, "And it wasn't my fault you hid in my jacket." He shot back.

Jiro started grumbling and crossed his arms, "Well it's not my fault I was scared because mister thunder head couldn't stay awake until we got to the Southern Air Temple." He said turning to Comet who was shaking the dirt off himself.

Comet heard Jiro's remark and frowned. He shot a small stream off lightning at Jiro's feet. Jiro screamed and jumped back just in time. "Hey!" he complained.

Tyro burst out laughing but was quickly silenced when a small stream of lighting almost hit his feet, "Woah!" he exclaimed jumping out the way.

Comet laughed at the two, who just glared at him.

The people of the Southern water tribe were cleaning up the mess the Fire Nation had left, their facial expressions full of sadness and hopelessness. Katara was standing outside the village at the shore, looking at sadly onto the horizon.

"We have to go after them, Sokka." She said determinedly to her brother who was carrying something behind her. "Aang saved our tribe." She added.

Sokka came up behind her, "Katara i-"

Katara wouldn't listen to him, since she though he was about to argue with her, "Why can't you realize that he is on our side?" she questioned angrily. "I mean I know you don't like Aang but we owe him and-"

"Katara!" Sokka yelled, getting her attention. "Are you going to give me a lecture all day or are you coming with me?"

Katara gasped in excitement, "Sokka!" she exclaimed hugging him tightly.

She let go of him and gave him a big smile, "Get in, we're going to save your boyfriend." He teased.

Katara frowned in irritation, "He's not my boyfriend."

Sokka shrugged, "Whatever."

"What do you two think you're doing?" an elderly voice said.

The two turned in fright to see their grandma standing behind them, not looking too pleased. They quickly gave her their innocent 'nothing' smiles. Kanna suddenly gave them a warm smile and handed them warm sleeping bags, "You'll need these."

Katara and Sokka looked at each other in confusion, but still accepted the bags.

"It's been so long since I've had hope and you bought it back my little waterbender." She said hugging katara who embraced her grandmother.

Kanna them turned to Sokka, "And as for you my brave warrior…be nice to your sister." She said sternly but with a smile on her face. She hugged him; he blushed a bit in embarrassment, "Yeah okay Gran." He said.

"Aang is the Avatar and the world needs him and he needs you. Your destinies are now intertwined with his." She told them.

Katara though for a minute and turned to the canoe, "There is now way we will be able to catch a warship with this."

Suddenly a familiar roar filled the air and Appa appeared over a hill. "Appa!" Katara exclaimed as she ran towards him.

Sokka sighed, "You just love taking me out of my comfort zone don't you?"

….

The Fire Nation ship sailed through the path in the ocean that was walled by the icy landscape of the Southern Water Tribe, it was sailing towards the open ocean.

Two soldiers were marching towards the prison cells, Aang had his arms tied behind his back with rope; he looked at both guards, plotting on how to get away. A thought suddenly came to mind, as they reached the prison door Aang took in a deep breath and blew out a gust of air at the soldier in front of him; sending the soldier into the cell door, knocking him out. The second soldier quickly got into a fighting stance and blasted a stream of fire at Aang. Aang dodged the attack and used his legs to airbend the soldier into the ship of the ship, knocking him out. Aang ran down the hallways of the ship, searching for his staff.

He turned a corner into a hallway that was full of soldiers, blocking its path. "Um…you guys haven't seen my staff anywhere have you?" he inquired.

The men didn't answer, they charged at Aang with flaming fists. Aang ran start towards them and did a loopy loop to avoid them. "Guess not!" he yelled.

He ran into a corridor with doors are each side, he looked at the doors hopelessly, "Oh come one." He complained silently.

He ran from door to door, opening each one looking inside the rooms for any sign of his glider…but he was unsuccessful. He ran past an open door, but something caught his eye he skidded back to the door. His staff was resting in the corner of the room, Aang grinned and stepped into the room checking to see if the coast was clear, and it was. He sprinted into the room and grabbed his staff and sprinted back out.

Zuko turned a corner to see his soldiers knocked out cold, he gritted his teeth. He turned and sprinted back around the corner.

Aang ran up a ladder, bursting through the hole into the helm; surprising the helmsman who almost jumped out of his skin. Aang spotted the open door at the front of the helm; he smiled happily and sprinted towards the door with his glider at the ready. But as he leapt off the balcony of the helm Zuko leapt off after him, just managing to grab Aang's ankle.

Aang grunted trying to keep himself in the air but the weight was too much and both fell to the ground, landing on their feet on the metal surface of the ship. Zuko gritted his teeth and ignited his fist, and punched a stream of fire at Aang. Aang yelled in surprise and ducked out of the way in a nick of time as the stream of fire went over his head.

Zuko growled and blasted a series of fire balls at Aang. Aang used his glider and spun it around at lighting speed, fanning the fireballs into nothing. Each blasted was causing Aang to walk closer and closer towards the edge of the ship. He walked right into the railings almost falling into the icy water below.

A roar suddenly echoed through the air. Aang looked up to see his fury buddy flying towards him with Katara and Sokka in his saddle. Aang smiled up at them.

Zuko blasted another fireball at Aang. Unfortunately Aang didn't manage to stop it; his glider was knocked out of his hand and landed on the metal floor of the ship. Taking advantage of the situation, Zuko kicked a powerful stream of fire at Aang, knocking him over board into the icy water.

"Aang!" Katara screamed in horror, watching Aang sink.

Zuko smirked triumphantly as he turned away from the railing.

Suddenly Aang burst out the water, using waterbending. His eyes and tattoos were glowing and he had an angry look on his face. Zuko watched in shock as Aang landed on the ship and sent an enormous stream of water at Zuko and his men knocking them all off the deck of the ship.

Sokka and Katara looked down on the ship in awe and disbelief, "Wow, now that was waterbending." Sokka exclaimed as Appa landed on the warship.

Aang's tattoos faded and his knees buckled beneath him causing him to fall to the hard metal floor of the ship's deck. Katara quickly got off Appa and ran up to Aang; she knelt next to him and pulled him up onto his knees.

"Aang, are you okay?" Katara asked.

Aang looked up Katara slowly; his body was drained from being in the avatar state. "Katara…Sokka, you guys came." He said quietly.

Katara smiled, "Of course, you didn't think we would let the Fire Nation get away with you."

Aang smiled weakly.

"Come on lets go, you can have your reunion once we are far away from here." Sokka said in a commanding and urgent tone.

"Okay mister bossy pants." Katara said rolling her eyes. She helped Aang up onto his feet and started towards Appa.

"Wait my staff." Aang said weakly, stopping Katara in her tracks.

"I'll get it." Sokka said running over to the staff which was lying rather a bit too close to the edge of the ship, almost half way off the deck of the ship.

Katara managed to get Aang up onto Appa but just has she was about to get on Appa herself, a fire ball zoomed past her head so close she could feel the heat radiating off it. Zuko stood across from her in a fighting stance with an angry expression on his face.

Katara frowned and got into a fighting stance, she bent the water lying on the deck of the ship and directed it towards Zuko but instead it went the other way and froze Sokka's feet to the ground.

"Katara!" Sokka yelled.

Zuko smirked, "Not much of a master are you, peasant." He mocked, firing another stream of fire towards Katara.

She quickly dodged the attack, she turned her back to Zuko; which probably wasn't such a good idea, and repeated her last move. And as she hoped the ice froze Zuko to the floor just has he was about attack again.

Katara smirked seeing her handy work, "Come on Sokka let's go!" She shouted climbing onto Appa.

Sokka was madly chipping away at the ice, "What did I ever do to deserve this." He mumbled under his breath. He finally managed to free himself and sprinted towards Appa. "Come on let's go, yip yip." He said frantically.

Appa flew up into the air and away from the war ship. Zuko watched the bison fly away, he growled in frustration. "Shot them down!" he ordered his remaining soldiers.

The soldiers obeyed and shot a huge fire ball at Appa. Sokka and Katara gasped, seeing the giant ball of fire coming straight towards them. Aang, quick as lightning grabbed his staff and used it to great a powerful gust of air that redirected the fire ball into a glacier causing an avalanche which covered the whole front of the ship, trapping it beneath a mountain of snow.

Zuko watched them fly away out of his sight; he sighed and hung his head. He had underestimated the Avatar and now he no longer had him in custody. Iroh walked out onto the deck, he gave a big yawn and stretched. "Ahh, that was a good rest." He said cheerfully, he looked around at the devastation in front of him. "What happened here?" he asked, a little confused.

Zuko growled, "You're telling me you slept through that."

Iroh shrugged. "And why are covered in ice nephew?" he asked curiously.

Zuko huffed and steam came out through his nostrils. "Just help me get out of here."

Okay I am a terrible person. So sorry about the long wait, life was a bit busy and I kept getting distracted.

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