Here's Chapter 7! I started this chap early so that I wouldn't take long to update, but I got into it and didn't stop writing until i finished the chapter. Woops! I tried very hard to write as much detail as I could in this chapter and I hope that it's good. In this chapter an event happens to Kyra that changes how she see's herself and not in a good way. well not really changes but OH you'll see in the story! Please Enjoy!

And one other thing, I'm sorry but I COMPLETELY forgot about Suki in this story. No worries, she'll appear later in the story, promise! :) I also wanted to point out that I'll be switching some events that happen near the end of season 3 to suite this story. There won't be any major changes, so no worry ^-^ Ugh I'm tired enough typing!

Disclamer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender *sobs* :'(


Aang and I used our air bending to run faster and soon enough we were at the village. But it was completely deserted. Appa, Momo, and even Shadow weren't there. And we couldn't see our friends anywhere. I began panicking, thinking they'd already taken them until I saw four figures on the ground. It was them! But their hands and feet were tied leaving them unable to move.

When they noticed us Katara cried out, "Aang, Kyra! Don't it's a trap!"

Aang none the less went to try and untie them as I stood in place realizing that this indeed was a trap. Suddenly fire nation soldiers jumped out of the trees, surrounding us. They had their fists pointed at us, ready to strike with fire if necessary.

As I expected, Ulgar walked out from the group of fire benders grinning proudly with his hands behind his back. They were trying to lure us in, using our friends as bait. And it worked.

Aang and I instantly got in our fighting stances, eyeing the soldiers angrily. Ulgar motioned some soldiers to tie Aang up, but he stepped forward ready to strike.

Ulgar shook his head, "If I were you I wouldn't struggle, we don't want your friends to get hurt now do we?" he threatened forming a fire ball in his hand as a warning.

Aang lowered his arms and the soldiers forced him to the ground, tying him. I glared at Ulgar, not moving an inch.

"So here we are again. I told you next time I wouldn't be so nice." He chided.

"Let them go. Or else . . ." I threatened.

He stepped closer, "Now I don't think you'd try anything. Knowing that I have your old pal Ulric, would you?"

One of the soldiers led a bound and gagged Ulric to my group of friends. Ulric struggled to get free when he saw me, but one of the soldiers kicked him sharply at his side making him crumple to the ground.

I lowered my hands slightly as I stared at my lifelong friend worriedly, "No . . ." I whispered.

"Yes! And I'm prepared to kill him if need be." He said, in a happy yet dark tone.

I snapped my head at his direction, bearing my teeth and breathing harshly, "You wouldn't."

He flashed a crooked smile, "I would. But I'll reconsider if you'd show me your true form, so that my friend may dub you worthy to be the fire nation's 'secret weapon'. "

"Then you'll let my friends go?" I questioned.

"Yes, except the Avatar of course."

"Then no. Besides, I don't have control over it yet." I said.

He looked at me with false pity, "Hm, well that's too bad. I guess I have no choice but to take it out on the Avatar and his friends."

Some soldiers began to kick Aang in the ribs and punch him while he was down. Unable to defend himself Aang could only grunt in pain as they continued the beatings. Other soldiers started after Ulric and Sokka, they began to beat them as well. Katara cried for her brother.

Infuriated, I yelled to Ulgar, "ENOUGH! Make them stop! I don't care what you do to me, but don't hurt them!"

Ulgar raised his hand up to the soldiers making them stop the beatings, "Very well then. Let's see if I can coax that animal in you to surface."

Two soldiers came from behind me and held my arms, pushing me to my knees. Then a girl who looked to be about 14 appeared from behind Ulgar. She wore fire nation armor, and had her hair tied up in a small bun; leaving one strand of hair hanging on each side of her head. She had an evil smile plastered on her face to match her piercing gold eyes that seemed to see everything. Although as calm and collected as she looked, I could tell there was something off about her. I glanced at my friends who gasped when they saw her. I suppose they encountered her before, which wasn't a good sign for me.

She bent down and inspected me, "This is the peasant who's been causing you trouble? Really, Ulgar I thought you were better than that, this is just a worthless piece of trash. How can she be valuable to the fire nation?" she huffed, as she straightened herself.

"I guess you haven't seen her in action, Azula." said Zuko, looking at the girl.

So Azula's her name.

A soldier hit Zuko in the head, making him grunt and lean forward. Azula's grin grew wider, "So Zuzu, you've finally been captured. Good, I can't wait to see what punishment father will put upon you."

Ulgar cleared his throat to get Azula's attention. She glared at him yelling, "What?"

He flinched and waved his hand at me, saying "Will you do the honors?"

Now Azula was staring at me with hunger in her eyes, a hunger to cause pain, "It'll be my pleasure."

While Azula walked behind me, I saw in the corner of my eye that my friends were moving around, wriggling. As Aang looked me in the eye, I finally caught on that they had untied themselves with the help of Momo and Shadow (who were hiding in the bushes now) and were just waiting for the right moment to strike. I silently mouthed, "Not yet" to him. He slowly nodded.

I turned my attention to Azula who had formed a fire whip in her right hand. It suddenly dawned on me that they were going to get me pissed off so that I would change.

Turning to Ulgar, I warned, "Don't! If you do this I'm going to kill everyone. I can't control this yet!"

Completely ignoring me he signaled Azula to begin. My friends looked away, closing their eyes. I braced myself for what's about to come.

"I'm going to enjoy this." I heard Azula say from behind.

Azula quickly lifted her hand and brought the flaming whip down onto my back, making a cracking noise. The whip burned into my flesh, as I desperately tried to keep from yelling out in pain not wanting to give her any satisfaction. Each time she brought the whip down on my back, I bit my bottom lip, muffling my cry. I cringed as she dug deeper into my back. The pain I felt as she repeatedly hit me with the fire whip was indescribable; it hurt so much I began to feel faint. My lip started to bleed, and I finally couldn't take it anymore.

As she brought down the whip for the fifth time, I yelled in pain. The smell of burning flesh filled the area along with my cries and the sound of the whip echoing throughout the village, making the atmosphere bleak and depressing. Now I no longer seemed like the strong willed, joke-loving, Guardian who was supposed to protect her friends, instead in my place was a young girl writhing underneath the fire whip which caused so much torment. The soldiers around me began to feel sorry for me, this little girl, screaming. The smell of blood and burned flesh became almost unbearable, but it didn't make any difference to Azula. It only encouraged her to hit harder and quicker.

Ulgar managed to get the cloth out of his mouth without letting anyone see, "No stop it! She's just a kid, she doesn't deserve this!" he yelled, while more tears formed at the corners of his eyes.

"Stop hurting her!" I heard Aang yell, who also had tears in his eyes along with Katara. Toph, Sokka and Zuko only had their eyes shut, turning away and wincing with every crack of the whip that met my wounds.

Even Ulgar looked at me with a tiny amount of sympathy. He knew Azula was getting carried away, but he didn't dare stop her, not now.

But their pleas were unheard by the evil Azula, who enjoyed every minute of my pain. I was beginning to feel the anger build up in me. I didn't want to change not when there's a possibility that I could hurt my friends. I resisted the urge, but it was harder than I thought.

Now Azula was putting more force behind her whip as she continued her inflictions. I arched my back, screaming out. I fell forward but the soldiers caught me, making my arms pull back making me cry out in anguish. The blood trickled from my wounds, forming a small puddle under me. The soldiers holding me were loosening their grip the more I cried in agony. My nose was now bleeding and I started to cough up blood; it tasted bitter in my mouth. The wounds were too much to heal on my own and I was tempted to give up and die, but I knew if I did that I'd be letting everyone down; I'd be letting my people down.

The insides of my body heated up like fire. I was losing control and I could tell that my eyes had changed color because Ulgar stepped back in fear. The soldiers let go of me as I dropped to the ground, shaking. Azula continued beating me as I struggled to get back up, but my arms failed me and I fell flat on the ground onto the puddle of blood. That was it if I held it in any longer then Azula would beat me to death, then how would I be able to help my friends? I let the anger out.

Azula, who thought she'd broken me, laughed in victory, "She is nothing but a pathetic peasant, like the rest of her people. Who would be afraid of her?"

I slowly turned to her, showing my bright golden eyes, "You should be." I growled menacingly.

Then, I groggily got on my knees again and yelled out to my friends as my change neared completion; "RUN!" the soldiers attacked me, not paying any attention that my friends were now free.

They hesitated, but Ulric pulled them along yelling something that I couldn't hear. I saw Aang struggle to come and help me, but Ulric took him by the arm and dragged him off.

I was a fully transformed werewolf, standing on two feet. My jet black fur glistened in the light as I roared at the oncoming fire benders. I had no control over myself now, I felt like I was outside of my body just watching me attack my enemies with ferocity not relenting even a little. I saw my friends run off into the woods, going to get Appa. Aang looked back at me for a second, pain in his eyes; he was sorry that I had to go through this. I was sorry too. Then they were gone.

Azula was shooting blue fire at me, trying to see where my weak spot was. Ulgar ran off, like the coward he is. As I fought I even used some air bending to blow the soldiers off of me. Two soldiers were kicking fire at me, and I grabbed one of them by the leg and threw him against the other knocking them unconscious. Seeing that they were crowding me I sliced one soldier in the chest, shocked; the soldier clutched his chest and fell to the ground dead. I jumped up into the air landing behind another soldier; I picked him up by the neck and slammed him into the ground, feeling his neck break under my hand he died instantly. One of the soldiers threw a fire ball at my back, making me roar in outrage.

As more and more soldiers were going on defense, I focused on Azula. She was using short but hard jabs at me which I successfully dodged with ease. And that pissed her off. She swiped the grown with her foot sending fire at my feet. I jumped at her and she side stepped, making me fall to the ground. I could have easily counter attacked her but I was driven by pure hate and anger, so I didn't have my usual fighting sense. Everyone was gathering around me now, and I knew I couldn't win; there were at least twenty of them and only one of me plus I was in a full blown rampage not paying attention to any of my surroundings and to add to that I was beaten and weak with blood still dripping from my wounds.

Azula shot fire at my face, and I shielded my eyes. While I was distracted one of the soldiers threw a huge net at me. I thrashed around, trying to get the net off; unsuccessfully. They dragged me away to their ship, while I growled at them.

The last thing I saw before Azula kicked me unconscious was Appa flying away with my friends. Aang was looking back at me teary eyed. And I was looking back at him; for the first time in my peoples' history a fully transformed werewolf cried. Then I blacked out.

Different pieces of my memory flashed in and out. I was with my father fishing. I was five years old. Ulric was there with me, he was seven. I saw myself put the fishing pole down and tackle Ulric. We were laughing joyfully as we wrestled on the ground. My father looked over and chuckled at our antics. Suddenly little Ulric and I tackled my dad to the ground. As we pinned him down, he pretended to yell out in defeat. The three of us laughed as we lay on the ground.

Then my vision flashed to when I was eight and I was watching my father cook in the kitchen. Sitting at the dinner table I talked with my Mentor Lupis as we waited for the food. We heard a loud BAM coming from the kitchen. The both of us rushed in to see what happened. My father turned around with exploded food all over his face and clothes. Lupis and I began to laugh hysterically; my father soon recovered from shock and joined in on the laughter.

Again my vision changed. Now I was ten and standing in front of the seven elders of our village. They were telling me that I'm a Guardian and that I needed to begin training immediately because they felt something horrible will happen in the upcoming future. I ran from them as they called for me to come back. I didn't want to be a monster. I wasn't ready for this; I was only ten after all. Every child in the village stayed away from me, they even called me an animal. Ulric was my only friend.

My vision changing, I saw I was thirteen before my village was attacked. I was carving my own design into the white arch in front of my village. The people of my village were watching me. As I finished, everyone clapped and I bowed in return. Ulric, now fifteen, and my father walked up to me and gave me a hug. I opened my eyes to find that I was now holding my dead father on the battle field and Ulric was taken away. My village was burning down all around me.

This time my vision changed to the present. It was what had just happened. I saw myself actually killing people; sure they were fire nation, but still people. I saw myself being dragged away to their ship. As they dragged me I saw all the carnage, blood all over the ground. I couldn't control myself it wasn't my fault! Azula pushed me over the edge! And yet I killed all those people, I was truly a monster.

ULRIC'S P.O.V

They hesitated, but I urged them along yelling, "We need to get out of here!"

"But we can't just leave her!" Toph hollered back.

"We have to, for our sake. And hers." I said, calmly.

They reluctantly ran to the north side of the island, where there were no fire nation ships, looking for their flying bison. I had a little trouble with Aang though. He didn't want to leave Kyra, he wanted to help.

"Come on we have to go!" I yelled grabbing his arm as he struggle against my force.

"I can't just leave her!" he yelled back, his eyes brimming with tears.

"You have to; if you get captured then her suffering will be in vain!"

He still seemed unsure as he looked at his feet; I sighed and calmly said, over the clamor of battle, "Look, I don't want to leave her any more than you do. But we have to if we want to get out of this alive and save her."

After a moment of silence he tugged his arm out of my grasp, finally deciding that we'd save her later, he ran to the others and I followed.

They introduced themselves to me while we were tied up. Not the best introduction I've had. Anyway, Aang had called Appa with some kind of whistle and we lifted off. Of course, with Momo and Shadow with us (Kyra's new pet, I've heard.) whom if without their help we'd be captured.

As we flew farther from the island, everyone looked back to see Kyra in her werewolf form being dragged away in a net. Everyone was angry and sad about what happened. But Aang seemed to be the one most grief stricken out of all of us. He kept staring at the island, crying silent tears.

Katara moved over to upset air bender and tried to comfort him by giving the boy a shoulder to cry on.

I was upset too; I mean I've known Kyra practically all my life. But I didn't cry; I was just plain pissed off. Kyra had gone through enough already; she didn't need be tortured like an animal. I silently cursed myself for even thinking that comment. I was feeling the brotherly instincts kick in, enough thought I'm not her blood brother.

"So what are we going to do now?" asked Toph, crossing her arms angrily.

"First, we need to find a place to land and rest." said Katara, still sitting next to Aang.

"Then, we make a plan to rescue Kyra." added Sokka, holding his chin and already mulling over some ideas.

I looked up, a bit alarmed, "But we don't even know where that ship is going; it could be heading straight for the fire nation capitol for all we know." I stated, worriedly.

Zuko finally piped up, "I know. They wouldn't head to the capitol in just one run. They'd have to stop for supplies and fuel, most likely at a small fortress. And I have a pretty good idea where that might be."

I nodded, feeling more at ease. Katara began to shift around in place, until Sokka finally asked, "What's wrong Katara?"

She sighed and said, "I just can't get what happened today out of my head. I keep hearing Kyra's yells in my head and I was thinking; why would anyone do that to a kid? I mean did you see how much pain she was causing Kyra? I knew Azula was evil but this is just . . . only a person with no soul would do that."

"I don't know Katara. Kyra is strong, she didn't let up. Azula is just twisted, I think she has no soul." he answered, lost in thought.

Everyone agreed, but Aang. He didn't make a sound since we left the island. He was just lying there, showing no emotion. Poor kid, he really is worried about Kyra.

In an hour we landed in a deserted area, no civilization for miles. I helped setting up camp and gathering some food. But as we ate, no one spoke. They were either deep in thought about what happened that day, or thinking about how to rescue Kyra. Everything seemed . . . empty.

That night I had a nightmare about Kyra. I could hear her screaming in pain like she did earlier that day, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't find her or help her.

I woke up with a start, sweat beading down my forehead. I desperately tried to catch my breath and calm down. Katara sat up in her sleeping bag a few feet away from me.

"I'm sorry, did I wake you?" I asked.

She shook her head, "No, I was already awake. Did you have a bad dream?" she asked sweetly.

I lay back down and rested my hands on my stomach, staring up at the sky, "Yeah, I had a nightmare about Kyra." I whispered, not wanting to wake anyone up.

"Do you want to talk about it?" she whispered, leaning on her elbow and resting her chin on her hand.

"Naw, it's ok." I said.

She lay back down, like I did and stared up at the sky as well.

"The stars are beautiful tonight." She said.

"Yeah . . . hey Katara, do you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you from up there?" I asked, interested.

"Sometimes, I feel like my mom is watching over me. Just making sure I'm alright." She said, sadly.

Thinking that I had somehow sprung up some bad memory I turned over to face her, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to- I mean, I didn't know-"

She smiled a little as she turned to me, "No it's ok. Don't feel bad."

We sat there in silence for a bit, until this annoying curiosity got the best of me, "If you don't mind me asking, what happened to your mom?"

She sighed and turned onto her back looking a bit distant, "She was killed in a fire nation raid in the Southern Water Tribe."

Turning onto my back I stared at the stars again, "I never knew my parents, I'm an orphan." Since she shared a bit about her past then I decided to share mine.

"Like you I sometimes feel like someone is watching over me. Maybe my real parents are up there somewhere protecting me wherever I go." I said, happy to get that off my chest.

She looked at me and smiled warmly, understanding how I felt. I returned the gesture, "Kyra's dad took me in and raised me since I was a little kid. We sort of grew up like brother and sister."

We continued to talk about how much our 'siblings' bugged us sometimes and the trouble we usually got into with them.

After talking we lay in comfortable silence until both of us fell asleep. We were going to have a long day tomorrow, since we'd be searching for the fortress and rescuing Kyra. I made a silent promise that I would show those fire nation soldiers just how much pain Kyra suffered; I'm not going to show mercy, not anymore.


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