Chapter 7 : Even Enemies Can Be Allies
"Uncle, what are you doing?" Zuko asked frantically.
"Drinking tea," he replied grinning, taking a sip from his cup thoughtfully. "And Nephew, what are you doing here?" He asked calmly.
"I am getting you off this ship."
He warned as an afterthought, "Uncle, don't drink that! You won't be able to bend."
Iroh looked up and smiled at his nephew from his cross legged position placing his cup on the ground softly. Zuko ignored his cheerful mood as he opened the door with the brass key. "Come on Uncle, we need to go, now!"
Iroh got up slowly and began to follow Zuko back to where Aang was hidden as they felt the ship lurch forward and come to a complete stand still.
Zuko looked at Aang's terrified, pale face and Zuko's face instantly fell at the sight of it. He peered over the staircase onto the deck where Toph, Katara and Sokka were tied to a pole. But Zuko's demeanor quickly changed again from a frown to a grief stricken face when he noticed Ozai, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee boarding the ship. Azula and Ozai wore smiles that could not be mistaken for smirks, while Mai kept her bored demeanor and Ty lee was grinning whilst standing on her hands.
"So you have the Avatar?" Ozai asked Zhao seriously.
"Yes, he's downstairs with your traitor son."
Ozai's smirked widened. "Two for one."
"So where's my end of the bargain?" Zhao asked pleased.
"Oh, well actually, this is the part where we double cross you and take the Avatar for ourselves. But thanks for the help," Ozai said mockingly.
Before Zhao had a chance to react Ty Lee had cart wheeled over to where he stood dumbfounded and jabbed him in his pressure points that left him to be unable to move; paralysed. She laughed happily and did another handstand.
"Azula go get the Avatar, we'll handle these amateurs," Ozai instructed. Azula nodded and headed off to the stairs where Zuko, Aang and Iroh were crouched. They quickly ran back down the stairs and into Zuko's old room. As she walked inside Aang caught her off guard and blew a strong gush of air at her that caused her to stumble backward and fall. Unfortunately, she stayed inches off the ground with the help of her lightning.
Azula jumped up and directed it at Aang whom Zuko jumped in front of and held it in his hands and body ready to redirect it. He targeted it back at her with all of his strength and she diverted it to the wall, which exploded, leaving a gaping hole. She narrowed her eyes and sent volleys of blue fire balls from her palms at Zuko.
Aang kicked out his leg and sent her flying backwards with his airbending. She hit the wall and slumped to the floor. Azula got back up determined to fight and stared at her three attackers that advanced on her and encircled her. Her eyes full of hatred she erected a fire wall and sent it outward toward the three. Iroh quickly stepped in and diverted it away from them. He had taken the handcuffs from Katsu who still laid on the floor unconscious and took Azula's wrists handcuffing them.
She struggled against her bonds and began to heat them up quickly. But the fight upstairs (or Toph, so Aang thought) caused the ceiling of the room to cave in and trapped Azula. Relieved, the three took one last look at her as they ran out of the collapsed room, her echoing screams of anger becoming faint background noises.
As they arrived on deck the gaang and Ozai, Mai and Ty Lee had just knocked out Zhao's men. Sokka was now occupied with Ty Lee and Toph with Mai. And finally Aang's grey eyes fell on the other pair fighting; Katara and Ozai. "Maybe I'll keep you too," Ozai said slyly as he hit Katara with a ball of fire that sent her flying backwards.
"Katara," Aang breathed.
Iroh and Zuko were swept of their feet by a sudden attack causing Aang to turn around and see Azula. He looked around at all his friends fighting with the enemy. His heart filled with rage, his iris' disappeared and were replaced by an ominous glow while his tattoos glowed the same in unison. Aang used the water that girt the ship to make a tunnel of water that spun that he aimed at Ozai. He then bent more water from the ocean and turned them into ice shards, which he aimed at Azula.
The gaang untied Appa and scrambled up his side as Sokka attempted to fly him above the ship. Aang floated up into the air, a ball of air surrounding him, and lifted the water from the ocean and unleashed a powerful wave that crashed onto the ship. The ship rocked to the side then tipped over. Aang's eyes began to return to his normal grey ones and his tattoos seized to glow and he fell limp.
Sokka flew Appa underneath Aang to catch him, and without a backward glance to the destroyed ship they flew as far away as they could from Ozai, from Zhao, from Azula, and most of all from the retched fire nation.
This is not what I intended (haha sounds like 'Fall for you' by Secondhand Serenade) to write, it wasn't going to have Azula etc in it, but I kind of just wrote it, so I hoped you liked it like this. So thanks for reading. And also everyone check out 'Opposites Attract, But Never Can Be Together' by Primuler, which may be changed to 'Choice of Peace, Result of Chaos'. It gets better as the chapters go on!
