I am so so so so so so so so so sorry that I did not upload. I wanted to upload after I came back but I was so busy with projects and exams that I couldn't. I will upload weekly and will countinue. Please enjoy the next chapter. Again SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY.
Chapter 4: The Waterbending Scroll
We are flying above the clouds over the horizon pass the mountains. I see Aang pacing back and forth on the saddle for the last few minutes while breathing heavily. Sokka is busy steering on Appa as I hear him speak. "Would you sit down? If we hit a bump you'll go flying off." He says to him. "What's bugging you anyway?" he asks. Aang looks at him with concern. "It's what Avatar Roku said. I'm supposed to master all four elements before that comet arrives." He says worrying. "Well let's see you pretty much mastered air bending and that took you a hundred and twelve years. I'm sure you can master three more elements by next summer." I hear him say with a hint of sarcasm making stress even more. "I haven't even started water bending and we're still weeks away from the North Pole. What are we going to do?" He says. I however can't understand how the world expects a twelve year old boy to save them from a powerful ruler of a nation? Katara grabs Aang's arm. "Calm down, it's going to be okay." She says to him as she pulls him down to let him kneel in front of her.
"If you want, I can teach you some of the stuff I know." She says as Aang's face lights up with joy. "You'd do that?" He asks her as she smiles and nods. She then looks over the edge of the saddle. "We'll have to find a good source of water first." "Maybe we can find a puddle for you to splash in" Sokka says. After a while we do find a good source of water if you by good source you mean a giant river with a waterfall. "Nice puddle." Sokka says with an annoyed look. Aang and Katara faces light up in awe which cause me to chuckle at how stupid their faces look.
Appa comes flying in and cannon balls into the river creating a wave which splashes on Momo as Appa drifts on the water feeling relaxed. Aang yells to Appa "Yeah don't start without me boy." I see him run towards the river only to be stopped by Katara. "Remember the reason we're here." She says to him. "Oh right, time to practice some waterbending." He says with a smile.
"Great. So what am I supposed to do?" Sokka asks us. Aang picks up a stick and hands it to Sokka. "You can clean the gunk out of Appa's toes." He says. Sokka crosses his arms. "So while you guys are playing in the water. I'm supposed to be hard at work picking mud out of a giant bison's feet?" "Mud and bugs." Aang says. Sokka looks at the stick and lifts his shoulders. "Ok" He says accepting it and walks over to Appa.
I rub my hands together. "Great while you guys are doing that I am going to rest and watch you guys practice." I say as I slam my foot on the ground and form stone chair and relax on it.
As Appa rests on his back while drifting through the river Sokka brushes the stick between the bison's toes. "Yeah don't get happy, you got to do me next." Sokka says as Appa feels relaxed. I observe as Katara teaches Aang who is sitting on the ground legs crossed. "This is a pretty basic move, but it still took me months to perfect." Katara says to Aang who is showing his full attention. "So don't be frustrated if you don't get it right away." She says as Aang nods in understanding.
As Katara faces herself towards the water I sit there thinking that this is going to be fun. Katara pushes both her hands back and forth simultaneously causing the water to create a small wave that sway with the rhythm of her movement. "Just push and pull the water like this. The key is getting the wrist movement right." She says.
Aang then stands up and stands next to Katara doing the same movement as she is doing. "Like this?" He asks her as she watches. "That's almost right, if you keep practising I'm sure eventually…" She says only for Aang to speak. "Hey I'm bending it already." He also creates a wave, but it is three times the size than Kataras. I see look of surprise and disappointment on her face. "Wow, I can't believe you got that so quickly. It took me two months to learn that move." She says.
"Well you had to figure that out all on your own. I'm lucky enough to have a great teacher." Aang says happily causing a smile to return to Katara's face. "Thanks." She says. I see eagerness on Aang face as he asks her. "So what's next?" "This is a more difficult move. I call it streaming the water." She says as she lifts her arms up causing a string of water to come to her as she moves her arms around in circles. "It's harder than it looks so don't be disappointed if…" She says only for her to be bested by Aang who does the same, but does all fancy types of movement with his water as moves around him. I see now a really annoyed on Katara as she just drops her hands causing her water to fall back into the river.
Aang then sends the string of water back into the river as it twirls around him and spirals into the water neatly. I then chuckle a little bit as I clap my hands quickly with a hint of sarcasm. "Nice work, though the over the head flare was unnecessary." Katara says after giving me a stern look only for me to smile. "Sorry" Aang says a little ashamed but the returns to his eager self. "Well don't stop now, keep them coming." He says. I see Katara turn her back to Aang as she starts thinking. "Well I kind of know this one other move, but it's pretty hard. I haven't even totally figured it out yet." She then turns back to the river. "The idea is to create a big powerful wave." She then lifts up her arms and a ball of water forms from the water. I can see her trying to concentrate on the move as she struggles with it, but untimely fails as she get tired and lets her drop resulting the ball to go back into the water.
With a curios look, Aang does the same by lifting his arms. "So like this?" He asks as he creates a giant wave that makes my jaw drop as I see it shadows over Sokka as he screams. "AANG!" before being completely washed off of Appa's stomach and into the river.
After that I am left there sitting before I laugh so hard that I fall from my seat. "HAHAHA. Oh that is gold. That was so funny." I say. I then stand up to see Sokka's head emerging from the water. "Looks like I got the hang of that move. What else you got?" I hear Aang say confidently and see him face Katara only for her to look away. "That's enough practicing for today." She says with a scorn look.
"Yeah I'll say, you just "practiced" our supplies down the river." Sokka says in irritation. I see Aang giving a weak smile. "Uh…sorry, I'm sure we can find some way to replace all this stuff." I give chuckle. "Yeah, that is if we actually have enough money." I say.
"Life was hard enough when you were just an airbender." Sokka says. I cross my arms and give smug grin. "Don't worry Sokka I'll help you out." I say as I stomp my heel on the ground causing a pillar to appear under him and sending him flying into a bush. He stands up with a face filled with anger I could swear I see fumes coming out of his ears. "I correct myself. Life was hard enough when there was only one bender." He says.
We travel to a small market place leaving Appa behind as to not cause any unwanted attention while searching for new supplies. As we walk we see tons of shops selling a variety of goods from food to weapons. We see pass through merchants and thugs who some of them give us shifty looks as if daring us to pick a fight with them. I see Katara and Sokka looking a bit scared, Aang giving a bright smile and me returning shifty looks back at the thugs.
We walk around until we come across a store that has food that doesn't look like it was regurgitated and left in the sun. Sokka goes in to buy the food as we wait for him. As he returns he faces to us. "We got exactly three copper pieces left from the money king Bumi gave us, let's spend it wisely." He says as I give a confused look. "Who?" I ask them only for me to be ignored. "Aah…make that two copper pieces Sokka. I couldn't say no to this whistle." Aang says as I see him take a whistle out from behind his back that looks like a miniature version of Appa. Aang blows on it and I hear a loud irritating sound that makes my ears hurt.
I cover my ears as hard as I can to block out the sound that's making my ears bleed. "WOULD YOU CUT IT OUT?" I shout at Aang who immediately stops. I look to see all three of them looking at me in shock. "What?" I ask them confused. "How could you hear that?" Sokka asks me. I point to my ears. "Hello." I say expecting him to get the answer. "No offense Aang, but all hold the money from now on." Katara says as Aang hands her the money with a regretful look.
We walk around the market place for a while until we come across a ship that has a guy with a high cackling voice standing in front of it making all sorts sayings to attract the people. "Earthnation! Firenation! Waternation! So long as bargains are your inclination, you're welcome here. Don't be shy come on by." He says as we pass him. When he sees us pass he quickly runs towards us to get our attention. "You there, I can see from your clothing that you're world traveling types. Perhaps I can interest you in some exotic curios?" He says grabbing Aang's attention. "Sure, what are curios?" He asks them curiously. The man starts to think. "I'm not entirely sure, but we got." He says with a bright smile while putting a shoulder over Aang and leading him to the ship. "Really you don't know what they are? Ooooh, is this going to be fun." I thought to myself as I follow the group.
As we enter I see different kinds of items resting on shelves or just lying around. I look around and see what appears to be a priceless vase, probably worth more than this entire ship. Something tells me that these guys didn't exactly get the goods legally. "I've never seen such a fine specimen of lemur." I hear a croaking voice say and turn towards the source. "That beast would fetch me a hefty sum if you'd be interest in bartering." I hear person say that is wearing a captain's outfit with a lizard parrot on his shoulder.
Aang quickly covers Momo to protect him. "Momo's not for sale." He says. I hear Katara gasp as me and Aang walk to what Katara is looking at. "Look at this Aang it's a waterbending scroll. Check out these crazy moves." She says. "Where did you get a waterbending scroll?" Aang asks the captian as he takes the scroll away from us. "Let's just say I got it up north at a most reasonable price…free." He says as he puts the back.
I look at him with a suspicious look. "And care to explain how you got it at such a said "reasonable price"?" I ask him curiously. He then looks at me sternly almost seemingly offended by my question. "How I get my items is of none of your concern boy." He says looking like he is about to lose his temper.
"Wait a minute? Sea loving traders? With suspiciously acquired merchandise? And pet reptile birds?" I hear Sokka say as I see he trying to connect the pieces together. He then turns to Oh (As I found out what his name was) and yells at him almost spitting in his face. "YOU GUYS ARE PIRATES." He says as I face palm myself. Oh puts an arm over Sokka. "We prefer to think of ourselves as…high risk traders." He says with a smirk. "I prefer to think of you guys as low class thugs." I say seriously. No matter how kind this guy was being you can never trust a pirate. They'll stab you in the back in an instant at the mere site of gold.
"So how much for the uh…"traded scroll"?" Katara asks sarcastically. "I already got a buyer. A noble of the earth kingdom." He then bends down looking at us with a smug look. "Unless of course you kids have…200 gold pieces on ya right now." He asks us as if expecting us to have that insane amount of money.
Aang turns to Katara. "I know how to deal with these guys Katara. Pirates love to haggle." He whispers to her opening his hand. She gives him the two copper pieces. "Watch and learn." He says confidently as he walks to the counter. "Oh, this IS going to be fun." I thought to myself.
I see Aang lean against the counter with a confident and smug look. "Let's say to the price of…" he then throws a piece over his head and catches it showing it to the captain. "…one copper piece." He says. The captain then laughs hardily. I won't lie I actually chuckled a bit. "The price is 200 gold pieces, I don't haggle on items this rare." He says. "Ok…two copper pieces." Aang says showing the two pieces. "It's as amusing the second time boy." The captain says sounding a bit irritated.
"There's a difference between Haggling and ripping someone off Aang and you're doing the opposite of your intention." I say to him. "Aang, Zian can we get out of here? I feel like we're getting weird looks." Katara says worryingly. "Ay, we be casting off now." Aang says in a pirate accent before I grab him. As we exit the ship I feel like something's not right. "What was that all about Katara?" Aang asks her. "Yeah, I was just starting to browse through there boomerang collection." Sokka says. "I'll just feel a lot better once we get away from here." Katara says rubbing her shoulder. I suddenly get suspicious. "What did you do Katara?" I ask her as she turns to me. "What do you mean, Zian?" She asks me.
Suddenly we hear Oh's voice shouting at us. "HEY YOU, GET BACK HERE." He yells. We all turn around to him. "Well, well looks who's come to their senses. Told you haggling would pay off." I hear Aang say. Suddenly a number of pirates jump out of the ship with weapons in there hand as one of them swings from a rope and lands in front of us drawing out his weapons. We all stands there in fear as the pirates mumble words of danger.
"I don't think these pirates are here to trade with us." Katara says frightened. I walk pass the group and stand in front of them facing the pirates. As much as I hate pirates I want try and reason with them. "Listen guys, we're not here to make any trouble. Whatever it is that's wrong maybe we can reason it…" I say before I see a knife coming straight towards me. I quickly move to the side evading the knife and look at the pirates. "Well so much for being reasonable." I then twist my feet and swiftly outstretch my hands causing a cloud of dust to appear between us and the pirates. I turn to gang and yell "RUN!" as we head of in the opposite direction. We run past the markets as quickly as we can trying to get away from the pirates. Katara bends a bowl of water onto the floor and turning it into ice causing some of the pirates to slip.
As we continue to run we see a cart filled with cabbages blocking the way Katara and Sokka run past it as I jump over the cart and look back to see Aang dive into the cart squeezing through as he airbends the cart back causing it to smash against the pirates. Maybe I'm wrong but I could've sworn I heard the owner scream. "MY CABBAGES!" Probably just me.
We continue to run until Oh and two other pirates Block our way so we head in another direction as they chase after us. "I hope that lemur of yours has nine lives." Oh shouts as we turn into a corner. As we run down the corner we come to dead end and turn around to see the pirates got us cornered. "Now, who gets to take the steel of my blade first?" Oh says. "No thanks." Aang says as he swings his staff creating a gush of wind that blasts against the pirates. We run towards the pirates as Aang opens his glider and yells at us to jump on which surprisingly can carry all three of us and we fly over the pirates and away from them.
We returned to river and as soon as we landed we all immediately took a breather. "I used to look up to pirates, but those guys are terrible." Aang says as he sits against a rock. I kneel down and cupped my hands into the river and washed my face a bit. "Well what can you expect from a bunch of people that lie, cheat and steal for a living." I say as I shake the water off. "I know that's why I took…this." I hear Katara say in a devious way. I turn around to see what she means and…are you serious? In her hand was the same exact waterbending scroll that was in the shop.
"No way." Aang says shockingly as he stands up. "Isn't it great?" Katara asks excitingly "No wonder they were trying to hack us up. You stole there waterbending scroll." Sokka says upset. "I prefer to think of it as high risk trading." Katara says with a smug expression. "Good one Katara." Aang says as he chuckles. "Sokka, where do you think they got it? They stole it from a waterbender." She says. "It doesn't matter. You put all of our lives endanger just so you can learn some stupid fancy water splashes." Sokka says. "These are real waterbending forms. You know how crucial it is for Aang to learn waterbending." She says defensibly. As she finishes I yank the scroll out of her hands. "Hey!" Katara says as she turns to me. "Sokka's right Katara. Teaching Aang is important, but not if it means putting the whole group at risk." I say and hand her back the scroll. "Remember that before you do something rash like that again." I say and walk to the river. "Well, what's done is done. We have it we might as well learn from it." Aang says.
I take off the bottom half of my robe as I walk into the river enjoying myself as I get my hair all wet. I turn around to see Katara in a stance as I raise an eyebrow in confusion. "What are you doing?" I ask her. "The single water whip looks doable." She says obviously ignoring me. She then raises her arms and brings them back and as she is about to snap her arms forward the water whips her in the head as she winces in pain.
Sokka sitting on a stump gives a quick chuckle as Katara look at him with a stern look. "What's so funny?" She asks him bitterly. "I'm sorry, but you deserve that." He says turning his to Aang. "You've been duped. She only interested in teaching herself." He says. "Aang will get his turn once I figure out the water whip." She says getting frustrated. She does the same thing, but this time the water goes back whipping Momo in the rear. "Ugh, why can't I get this stupid move?" Katara says getting really frustrated. "You'll get it." Aang says as he walks to the river. I then see a stern look form on Katara face. "Uh-oh." I say as my eyes widen. "You just got to shift your weight through the stances." Aang says as he does the same thing Katara does, but manages to have the water do a perfect whip as it goes back into the river.
"There, see the key to bending is…" He explains as he turns around only to have Katara tower over him as her face turn red in frustration. "WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT YOUR AIR HOLE?! BELIEVE IT OR NOT YOUR INFINITE WISEDOM GETS A LITTLE OLD SOMETIMES. WHY DON'T WE JUST THROW THE SCROLL AWAY SINCE YOU'RE SO NATURLY GIFTED!" She yells and then looks at Sokka and me as we both give her serious looks. "What?" she asks as she looks back at Aang to have him inch away from her with a look of fear.
"Not cool Katara." I say as I get out of the water and dry myself. "Oh my gosh Aang. I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me?" she says in full remorse as she picks up the scroll and gives it to Aang. "But you know what? It won't happen again. Here. This is yours. I don't want to have anything to do with it anymore." She says. "It's okay Katara." Aang says apologetic.
"What about Momo? He's the real victim here." Sokka says to Katara. Katara kneels next to Momo and rubs his head. "Sorry Momo." She says to the lemur. "And what about me? There's that time you…" "SOKKA! That's enough." I yell at him before I walk over to Aang and outstretch my open hand to him. "I think it would be best if I took the scroll." I say as Aang nods in understanding and hands me the scroll. I take it and walk away. "I'll get a fire started." I say as I walk to our campsite. I don't understand why we need this stupid scroll we're already going to the North Pole
The next day I can hear the birds chirping as I rub my eyes. I feel refreshed and relaxed…until I hear Sokka's voice. "Hey, where's Katara?" I hear him say and I turn to see that her sleeping bag was empty. My fears are confirmed when I quickly crawl over to my bag and look inside it to see…yip, she did. I throw the bag to the ground in frustration. "SHE TOOK THE SCROLL! UGH THE NEVRE OF HER!" I yell as I inhale and exhale deeply in rage. "I don't believe it. She's obsessed with that thing. It's only a matter of time before she gets us all in dan…WOAH!" I hear Sokka exclaim and turn to see him under attack by one of the pirates from yesterday.
The man was trying to hit Sokka with his rope he dodges it by rolling to the side. I try to fight him but before I could reach him I feel something cover me as it lunges me forward and I fall to the ground to see that I'm encased inside a net. "Come on, come on." I hear the pirate say as they drag me and Aang away followed by Sokka who complains about not being good enough to capture.
As soon as the pirates take us to where they want to take us they open the nets and tie us by the hands and our upper bodies. Idiots I don't need my hands, but all see what happens next. I look to see Katara tied up against a tree as she looks at us in guilt. I see firenation soldiers in their armour and what do know sunburn Zuko is also here. I see him standing there with the scroll in his hands. "Nice work." He says to the pirates. "Aang Zian, this is all my fault." Katara says to us. "No Katara, it isn't." Aang says to her. "Yeah, it kind of is." An old man with grey side burns and with his hands in his sleeves says to Katara blantly. "I don't know this guy but I completely agree with him. It is your fault Katara." I say to her with a grin as she returns with a stern look. The old man chuckles at my comment. "Shut your mouth you earth peasant." Zuko commands me. I merely give a grin. "Perfect know just say the magic words hothead." I thought to myself.
I see Zuko give a serious look to the pirates. "Give me the boy." He says to them. "You give us the scroll." I hear the captain say behind me. That's my queue. I step a bit forward and go to work. "Really? You're going to hand over the avatar for a piece of parchment?" I ask while raising an eyebrow. "Don't listen to him. He's trying to turn us against each other." Zuko says hoping to not lose his moment. "That's the point hothead." I thought to myself.
"Your friend is the Avatar?" The captain asks me curiously. I just grin as I continue to speak in a mild friendly manner. "Of course he is I mean the tattoos kind of give it away." "Shut up you peasant that's enough." Zuko says to me angrily but I just ignore him. "Yeah Zian you should really shut up." Aang says to me as I continue speaking. "Now I'm not here to judge on your trading skills, but it would seem that you would fetch a lot more heck even be set for life by handing him over to the firelord than trading that scroll." I say causing all of the pirates to smile with joy. "Keep the scroll. We can buy a hundred with the reward we'll get from the kid." The captain says to Zuko as he turns around and walks away with us.
"You'll regret breaking a deal with me." I hear Zuko say as I turn around to see fireballs coming towards us. I move to the side and look to see Oh running towards the pirates as he throws smoke pellets at them and jumps into the cloud. Three firenation soldiers emerge from the cloud and run towards us with their spears raised. Before they could reach us four pirates surround us and each throws a smoke pellet creating another cloud covering us. I stand up and outstretch my arms breaking the ropes binding me. "Let the fun begin." I thought as a grin forms on my face.
I close my eyes and follow the scent of my nose as I sniff out the enemy in the smoke. Smell a pirate to my right so I stomp my foot to the ground raising a boulder and punch it as I hear it make impact on him. I hear a soldier running in my direction with his spear raised so I move to the side swiftly evading his weapon as he passes me. I then swing my arms below and straighten them as I raise them making a small 45o pillar that hits the soldier in the back throwing him forward.
The battle continues as the clinging and clanging of swords are heard in the smoke and weapons that pass by me every now and then. As I fight the soldiers and pirates I hear Sokka's voice in the smoke. "Aang, Zian are you there?" I hear him call to us. "I'm over here follow my voice." Aang says as I am unable to see him. "I'm kind of busy here Sokka." I say to him. "Where are you guys? I can't find you." Sokka asks us. "I'M RIGHT HERE." I hear Aang scream as I suddenly see the smoke disperse revealing Aang to be the cause of it. I see him in the middle as do several soldiers and pirates who stand in confusion around him as they stop fighting. After a brief moment Aang raises his arms causing the smoke to return to its former self and sound of the battle continues. "Uh…never mind. We'll find you." I hear Aang say.
I run out of the smoke as I see Sokka crawling out and Aang jumping over us yelling. "RUN!" as we follow his lead. As we run away from the battle I look forward to see the pirate's ship that is docked on the shore and Katara who is trying (but failing) to push the ship into the river. "Katara, you're okay!" Aang exclaims as we run to Katara. "Help me get this boat back in the water so that we can get out of here." Katara says to us. We all push the boat as hard as we can, but to no avail it just doesn't want to budge. "We need a team of rhinos to budge this ship." Sokka says. "A team of rhinos…or two waterbenders." Aang says to Katara as she gets the idea.
Aang and Katara stand next to each other as I see them sway their arms back and forth in sync as their movements cause the tide to rise just enough for the ship to get into the river. When they finish, Katara tells everyone to get into the ship as we do and sail away from the battle down the stream.
As we're sailing I look at the back of the ship to see the firenation boat chasing us down the river except it's filled with the pirates. "Sokka, can't you make it go any faster?" Aang asks him. "I don't know how. This thing wasn't made by the water tribe." He answers him.
As we sail I see on the left side of the ship that the pirates have manage to catch up with us as they sail alongside us and jump across trying to board us. Two pirates walk towards me with their weapons drawn as I just smirk to them. One runs towards me as I then let out a lion like roar as I run to him. The pirate raises his weapon ready to strike as I just evade his attack by moving to the side and grab his arm and then throw him over board as he yells before hitting the water. I turn to the second pirate who just sneers at me before charging to me. Before he even gets close to me I sweep kick him to fall to the ground as I then grab both his legs as I spin him around and around before releasing my grip on him as he goes into the water.
I turn to see Katara doing a perfect water whip on a pirate as he topples over the side of the ship and lands into the water. "Hey you did the water whip." Aang exclaims in joy. "I couldn't have done it without your help." She says to Aang. "Will you two quit congratulating eachother and help me out." Sokka yells to us as I see him tangled up with Oh and a brute pirate. The brute picks up Sokka as he throws him against the mast. As Oh compliments him. Aang goes behind him and airbends him off the helm. As the brute tries to grab him, he moves away and spin the brute as he throws him off the ship.
"AANG LOOK!" I hear Katara yell as I look infront me to see at the end of the river is a waterfall that we are sailing towards to. I see Oh walking towards Aang as I sneak behind him. He takes out his dagger ready to fight Aang. I see Aang take out the bison whistle he bought and blows on it which causes my ears to pain. I cover my ears as I see Oh raising his dagger but then I punch his hand as he drops his dagger. I then side kick him in the back as he flails over the ship. "Have you lost your mind? This is no time for flute practice." Sokka says in anger to Aang who stops blowing as I let go of my ears.
We go infront of the boat to see that we have almost reached the waterfall. "We can stop the boat! Aang together, push and pull the water!" Katara screams as she and Aang stand next to each other and sway their arms back and forth in unison. I look and see that this creates a whirlpool that moves the bridge to the ship to the side halting its sailing.
"We're doing it!" Katara exclaims in joy. "But we have another problem." Sokka says as I look to see Zuko's boat coming towards us at a dangerous speed. It rams against us as our ship starts to tip to the side as it goes to the waterfall. We all start to scream as we are thrown out of the boat as we rapidly descend to our doom. However I see that Appa comes flying underneath us as we land on his back and we fly away to safety. I see the boat and ship falling into the water and disappearing into it as the pirates merge from the wreckage seeing them get smaller as we fly off.
We ascend above the clouds with me steering appa. "Aang I still owe you an apology. You were just so good at waterbending without trying. I got so competitive that I put us all in danger. I'm sorry." I hear Katara say sympathetically. "It's ok Katara." Aang says. I turn around to get involved in the conversation.
"Besides who needs that stupid scroll anyway." She says. "Is that really how you feel?" Sokka asks her as he reveals the scroll in his hand. Katara's eyes widen as she tries to take it from him. "The scroll." She exclaims only for Sokka to puul it away from her. "First what did you learn?" he asks her. "Stealing is wrong." She says as takes the scroll out of his hand. "…Unless it is from pirates." She says smiling. This cuases Aang to chuckle. "Good one Katara." He says.
I look out over the horizon wondering if we'll see Zuko again. To me he doesn't seem like a bad person even if he is a firebender.
SORRY!