Ok, I know it took forever to post this chapter. But too be fair, I have so many other things going on in my life than fanfiction. That and this chapter is officially the longest chapter I have ever written!

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After the gang had shown Naomi her room and she'd settled in(actually she just threw her duffel bag on the bed), Naomi realized something that they had failed to portray on the show.

"This is boring!" she shouted at the sky.

The group looked up, but didn't do anything. They were used to Naomi's random conversations with the sky.

Why couldn't I have appeared in Season 1? She wondered. There they had constantly been traveling every day; it had to have been more interesting! Then again, they had been stuck sitting on a giant bison for hours on end. That part couldn't have been all that fascinating.

"What do you guys do for fun in the temple episodes? When do we get ambushed and forced to leave?" she asked.

"We're getting ambushed?" cried Aang.

Crap, Naomi realized. She wasn't supposed to know that.

"No, I'm just saying, it would be more interesting than this!" she stood up and motioned at the surrounding landscape of upside down buildings.

The group immediately calmed down when they realized they weren't actually going to be ambushed. Zuko wondered if this girl knew more than she was letting on. Yeah…maybe the sky told her, he thought to himself sarcastically as he realized how unlikely that was.

"If you're bored, why don't you just go explore or something?" Aang suggested.

"No Aang! She'll get a layout of the land and tell the Fire Nation how to sneak up on us! We'll be attacked before nightfall!" exclaimed Sokka. "OW!"

Sokka spun around to glower evilly at whoever had thrown the bowl at his head.

"Whoopsy, musta slipped," Naomi shrugged and looked away, whistling innocently.

Katara chuckled, but quickly covered her mouth when Sokka aimed his glare at her.

"Even though I don't want to do what would please Sokka, wouldn't it take too long to cover that much ground? I think I'd get bored pretty fast walking down stone hallways all day long."

"Then find a way to go faster," suggested Toph, wishing they could change the subject already. "I've heard running makes one speed up quite a bit."

"Naah, running's no fun either," said Naomi, unaware of Toph's intended sarcasm.

Naomi's thoughts went back to the contents of her duffel bag.

"That's it!" Naomi jumped up at ran out of the stone courtyard.

Everyone stared at the door she went through.

"We probably won't see her for a while," Zuko said.

And just as he said that Naomi came out rolling on top of a black board of wood with four wheels attached to the bottom. On her head sat a bulky round hat with straps that connected under her chin. Her elbows and knees were adorned with odd looking armor.

"See, I told you she's Fire Nation! She's already gotten into her battle armor!"

"Sokka, in case you didn't notice when you tried to invade my land…my nation doesn't dress that way!" shouted Zuko, insulted that such clothing was even considered to be part of his culture.

The new girl pushed herself forward and stopped her skateboard before the two.

"It's not armor, it's protective gear. Some people may think it's cool not to wear it, but after nearly ripping the skin off my arm I realized that it's a good idea to wear it."

Naomi pumped her fist in the air and grinned, showing off her pearly whites.

"Now this is how you explore abandoned upside down temples!" she cheered. She thrusted herself forward with her right foot and sped off down the nearest hallway.

"Can someone please tell me what just happened?" asked Toph. "Cause Naomi just gave off the world's weirdest vibrations just now."

"Not a clue," answered Aang, still staring dumbfoundedly at the hallway Naomi had rolled off into.

Long abandoned tunnels on foot? Boring. Long abandoned tunnels on a skateboard? AWESOME!

Naomi had no idea how long she'd been skating around these old topsey turvey temples, but she knew it was the coolest thing she had ever done in her life. Take an ancient ruin with endless beautiful architecture. Now back home Naomi knew that such a beautiful place would be streaming with tourists and scientists. The coolest place would be blocked off with fancy ropes and signs and the few things you could see you could NOT touch. Well, this place was deserted: no ropes, no people, nada! No restrictions. Just a skateboard and your voice.

"ECHOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Naomi shouted at the rock corridor(a nice change from the sky).

She giggled as she heard "echo echo echo" continue on around her. Why had they never shown these parts in the show? They were so huge and amazing. Naomi had earlier passed by what she was sure to be some old ballroom. It had been fun, but not nearly as much fun as the dining hall had been.

GROWL.

Naomi put her left foot to the ground and swiftly skidded to a stop. Bright green eyes looked down at her stomach. It emitted another loud growl.

"Looks like I've been sightseeing a bit longer than I thought," she said to herself.

It wasn't dark yet, but as Naomi peeked out a small window built in the stone she noticed the sun was starting to get pretty low in the sky. Had she really missed lunch? Naomi never missed a meal! Food was one of the most important things to her.

Growl.

Guess I should head back now huh? She asked her stomach. It rumbled in response. Alright, be patient will you? I'll go back now.

Naomi sighed and decided to put off any more exploring until tomorrow. She hoped she would be able to stay in the avatar world another day. Would she just wake up tomorrow back home? Maybe she was dreaming, and when she went back to sleep she would just wake up back home on the same day.

But I don't want to go home yet, the girl whined inwardly as she turned around and skateboard back the way she came. This is the coolest thing that's ever happen to me. I don't want it to end so soon.

A couple minutes passed before Naomi started to realize something very important.

"I'M LOST?" she shouted at the hallway. The sky was not visible at the moment, so she had to make due.

Yes, she was lost. Naomi had taken so many random turns in the past couple hours that she had no idea where she was. Not only that, but-

"THE TUNNELS ALL LOOK THE SAME!"

As beautiful as these old ruins were, to an outsider, they felt like a maze! Naomi had only failed to notice this earlier because she hadn't cared where she had been going. Now she was hungry and she wanted to go back!

*Thirty minutes later.*

"STUPID TUNNEL! I'M HUNGRY! JUST LET ME GO BACK ALREADY!" she yelled out, ignoring the echoes of her angry voice. "YOU'VE HAD YOUR FUN, NOW LET ME EEEEEEAAAT!"

I really should have thought about little detail sooner, Naomi thought to herself. It was probably going to get dark in less than half an hour and Naomi did not want to be stuck out here alone in the dark. These tunnels were cool, but at night they were probably dark and creepy!

"Naomi? Naomi!"

What was that? Could it be? A voice! A glorious voice! A savior!

"Didyoubringanyfood?" was the first thing that Naomi shouted at her savior as she glomped him.

The savior stood awkwardly stiff at her friendly glomp. She gazed up at the glompee and found Zuko staring at her wide eyed with his cheeks slightly pink. Aaawww! Just like when Toph glomped him later in the series!

Figures, she thought and unglomped the prince. He's too uptight for glomping. Then again, that makes it all the more fun. Naomi grinned evilly to herself and made a mental note to glomp Zuko more.

"Is that all you have to say?" Zuko asked.

"Did you bring any dessert?"

He sighed.

"Nevermind, let's just go back already. The others are going to eat soon and I don't feel like missing dinner," Zuko started walking off in the direction he had come from. The group had sent him off on the wild goose chase for the lost new girl, insisting how it was one of his duties as the new guy. He did not want to miss a meal over this.

"How did you find me in this maze?" inquired Naomi as she motioned dramatically at the stone architecture surrounding them. This caused her to lose her balance on the skateboard and quickly come to stop.

"Trust me; it wasn't too hard with you screaming 'STUPID TUNNEL!' every ten seconds," he answered. "You know, most people just call for help."

Naomi slapped her forehead. Why hadn't she thought of that?

Zuko smirked when she realized her stupidity.

"Come on, you've got wheels. Use them and move it," he ordered before resuming the long trek back to the gang's occupational area.

"How long did it take you to get here anyway?" Naomi's stomach was getting more impatient with every passing minute; she wasn't sure how much longer she could take it.

"About an hour or so, you wandered off pretty far. We're on the other side of the canyon."

"We are?"

"You didn't notice crossing on top of the upside down bridge?"

"Oh yeeaaaaaah…." She did vaguely recall passing over some sort of bridge. Had it been upside down too? She couldn't remember exactly, her mind had been on the welfare of the French Toast she left sitting on the counter at home before falling asleep. It's probably stale by now, she thought sadly to herself. Or eaten.

With Zuko walking at a leisurely pace and Naomi unable to go on ahead because she didn't know the way, this trip was taking way too long. And Naomi was already impatient as it was. As the two passed by one of the many tunnels branching of main corridor, she overheard something.

"Hey, Zuko, do you hear that?" Naomi asked as she approached the tunnel. The voices sounded familiar. "It sounds like Katara and Sokka! And they're arguing!"

Zuko came over and listened as well.

"Yeah, maybe this tunnel leads to them. Sure would save us a lot of time if it did."

"Not enough," Naomi mumbled to herself.

The gears in her head turned. This passage was different than the rest. The opening was round, unlike the other rectangular ones. Its walls were smoother and, from what little she could see of it since it was bathed in darkness, seemed to slope down gradually. Naomi grabbed Zuko's hand and held it half a foot above her head and told him to set a flame. Not sure what she had in mind, Zuko reluctantly created a small flame on the tip of his pointer finger above her head.

"I have an idea!" she cried the second it lit up.

Naomi jumped back on her skateboard and placed herself at the tunnel opening. She scooted her feet forward on the board and motioned to Zuko.

"Hop on."

The prince glanced down at what to him looked like a rolling deathtrap and realized what she had in mind.

"Ooooh no. There is no way in h—"

"Oh come on you party pooper. This will get us there in less than a minute!"

Naomi seized his hand and pulled him on. Skateboards were meant for only one person, so it was a very tight fit, with Naomi at the front and Zuko behind her.

"Are you sure this is safe?"

"Nope!"

"Well, then maybe we shoul—"

"Too late!" Naomi shouted. She pushed her left foot off the ground and into the dark tunnel.

The two were quickly engulfed in complete darkness as they raced down the tunnel. Naomi shrieked in delight while Zuko struggled not to scream in fear. The tunnel was long and didn't bother to offer them any light.

"Hey Zuko!" yelled Naomi over the air rushing loudly past them.

Zuko opened his mouth but only caught a mouthful of Naomi's hair. He turned away and spit it out.

"Yeah?"

"I just realized something. Didn't you say that we were on the other side of the canyon from the others?"

"What are you trying to say?" Zuko didn't like where this was going. And call him crazy, but he could swear that the tunnel had suddenly become steeper and they were going much faster.

"Well, doesn't this tunnel remind you of a garbage shute? You know, where people dump stuff?"

Zuko's eyes widened. But before he could reply the slope abruptly curve upwards.

Then ended.

The two and the skateboard were suddenly flying through the air over the middle of the canyon! Nothing lay below them except the seemingly bottomless abyss.

Naomi shifted her feet to take their normal stance on the entire skateboard, bent forward and balanced her arms out beside her. Zuko wrapped him arms desperately around her waist, his legs dangling in the air behind him, in an attempt to stay with the skateboard. If he let go, he would no doubt instantly fall like a dead weight into the canyon.

You know, I always believed that if I died it would be because my sister or my father shot me with lightning, or because Katara finally snapped and killed me for lighting a flame around Aang, Zuko thought to himself. Not because of some girl and a crazy stunt over a canyon!

Right across from the spot where the two teenagers had been launched was the stone courtyard where the gang was getting ready for dinner.

"Hey guys, do you hear something?" asked Sokka, looking around for the source of the noise.

It was faint, but it sounded like screaming. When he finally turned to the canyon he saw two shapes flying through the air.

"Aang! Aang!" Sokka jumped up and down and pointed frantically at the two figures soaring over the chasm.

Aang gasped as he immediately spotted them. He rushed forward and hastily assumed his earth bending stance.

Naomi screamed and laughed hysterically as they coasted through the air. Meanwhile Zuko, the one who was usually calm and rational in times of great crisis, was screaming for his life.

"We're going to die! WE'RE GOING TO FREAKING DIE!" he yelled hysterically at the top of his lungs.

Suddenly their soaring up came to an end and gravity affected the two projectiles as it did all objects. The skateboard started to separate itself from Naomi's feet and Zuko was practically upside down as he clung to Naomi's waist, the rest of his body dropping above him.

Just when Naomi thought that they really were going to die a giant block of stone jutted out from the temples and created a long curved slope below her. She smirked and prepared herself.

They landed hard on the stone, Naomi just barely able to stay on her skateboard. Had they not landed on a slope and continued moving the impact would not have treated them kindly. The prince dangled like a rag doll in the air as she skillfully rushed down the incline. The gradient was so long that by the time they reached flat ground Naomi's skateboard had slowed to a stop, Zuko somehow landing feet first on the board along the way.

The gang stared dumbfounded. Their jaws dropped as Naomi rolled to a stop right before them.

Naomi grinned widely, unable to stop smiling. That had been the biggest rush ever. She had never felt so much thrill and ecstasy. Never had she been so petrified and excited at the same time in her life. She was sweating and panting and just smiling like crazy. She stepped off her skateboard and raised both her hands in the air in rock out signs and emitted one last delighted shout.

"Yeeeaaaah!"

Naomi allowed her hands to dropped back down. She suddenly felt exhausted. That was when she felt something shaking. Whatever it was had a death grip on her waist.

When did he start hanging on to me? She thought. She hadn't been paying much attention to the firebender while airborne.

"Zuko? You can let go now you know. We're on the ground again," she informed him

But Zuko didn't let go; he didn't budge. Naomi was forced to pry him off. He didn't even seem to notice when she did. His face was as pale as a ghost and frozen in shock, his eyes wide and his mouth shut tight. He slowly stood up and blankly walked away.

The gang watched speechless as he ambled off in the direction of his room. Naomi turned to them.

"So is dinner ready yet?"

Alright, you have no idea how long it took to write this! Review please! I spent extra time on this tonight just to make sure I could post it for you guys! Also, feel free to point out any grammar or spelling mistakes. It would be a big help, since staring at the same seven pages of words for over a week can make it hard for the writer to notice any mistakes.

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