Mai was surprised when Azula had her lead the way toward the group of what looked like preteens. Azula always liked to be in charge.
"Hi, everybody!" she had been informed that the king was crazy but it was getting a little ridiculous.
"You brought my brother?"
The kid in the lead at the other end of the platform stepped forward. He looked to be about eleven maybe twelve and was wearing an assortment of light orange and yellow with a turban on his head and a staff in his hand.
"He's here. We're ready to trade."
Suddenly Azula stepped up and looked towards Mai.
"I'm sorry, but a thought just occurred to me. Do you mind?"
"of course not, Princess Azula."
"we're trading a two year old for a king. A powerful, earth bending king? It just doesn't seem like a fair trade, does it?"
So this was what Azula was after. It was a test of loyalty. Mai considered the problem at hand , and realized that Azula was right. A two year old no matter who he was, was nowhere near as important as the King behind them. She would have to push her emotions aside the way she always had and just deal with the fact that she was about to give up her brother a brother she had never wanted ,but had gotten anyway.
"You're right. The deals off."
Mai lifted her left hand and signaled that the King was to be taken up.
"Whhhoa! See you all later!" the King shouted down towards them all. Mai heard the kid in yellow cry the Earth Kings name then he rushed towards the three girls. From the corner of her eye Mai watched Azula bend her strange blue fire towards the child. The young man jumped incredibly high to avoid it. He opens his glider and loses his hat exposing his tattoos'.
Mai, Azula , and Ty Lee looked on in surprise. Mai heard Azula shouting something about the avatar and being lucky, but Mai and Ty Lee barely had a chance to register what was happening before Azula was off chasing the avatar somewhere. The two other girl's took this as their sign to attack. Mai threw several blades. She saw the girl getting into a water bending stance while the water tribe boy started blowing a whistle.
"we've got to get the baby out of here!" The girl yelled.
"way ahead of ya!" The boy responded.
The two water tribe siblings began running, but the boy was tripped by Ty Lee who had somehow gotten under the platform. Mai watched as the girl in blue prepared to strike down her friend so she threw a few blades hopping to at least distract her, but the water bender used the whip she had been about to use on Ty Lee to raise up some boards to block Mai's blades.
She then she turned and caught Ty Lee's ankle with the whip. Ty Lee fell to the ground. The water tribe boy climbed down a ladder with Mai's brother while the girl whipped Mai away.
The girl in blue tried to use the whip on Mai again, but Mai leaned back affectively avoiding the stream of water at the same time she shot a blade from a holster on her ankle but the other girl blocked it with a wall of ice. Mai almost ground her teeth in frustration. Mai charged the other girl but ended up having her arm encased in ice. How delightful.
Suddenly Ty Lee came running and jabbed the water tribe girl in various places making the water whip fall to the ground useless. Ty Lee then jumped over to stand by Mai's side.
Mai couldn't help herself as she taunted the girl in front of her
"How are you gonna fight without your bending?"
Mai was about to throw another blade when something knocked it out of her hand. She looked over to find the boy in blue atop some flying creature.
"I seem to manage!" he shouted.
The creature used it's tail to knock both Mai and Ty Lee go flying backwards.
Mai sighed as she struggled to get up and held a hand down for Ty Lee.
"Azula isn't going to be happy is she" Asked Ty Lee looking as if she already knew the answer.
"No. She isn't" Mai sighed again as she led the back to her parents house to wait for Azula's return on the front steps.
Mai walked beside Ty Lee next to Azula's litter.
"So, we're tracking down your brother and Uncle, huh?"
Ty Lee grinned as she teased Mai.
"It'll be interesting seeing Zuko again, won't it, Mai?"
Mai smiled briefly. It would be interesting seeing the Prince again even under such unpleasant terms. Azula stared straight ahead as she spoke.
"It's not just Zuko and Iroh anymore. We now have a third target."
A/N: sorry this chapter is so short and for any grammar mistakes hopefully the next one will be longer. Also I wanted to tell you that avatar the last air bender does not belong to me. I got a lot of this from the transcripts on . Please review and bye.
