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What's Going On?

I head toward the kitchen to start paying back for the clothes I bought as I pass a man carrying a load of boxes.

"Do you need help?" I ask the man.

"Certainly not. I don't need a woman's help or an airbender's for that matter." he says smugly.

"Alright," I say feeling a little bit down and confused. I follow the hallway to the kitchen.

"Do you know how to cook?" asks the chef whose name is Cho.

"Do you count putting things in the microwave cooking?" I ask smiling and he just stares at me. "Um, I can cook a little bit"

"No problem, I'm sure you're a fast learner," he says as he starts to show me around the kitchen. Everything had a label on it but, unfortunately for me they were in Chinese.

"Um, I can't read your written language," I say to Cho.

"Alright, you can label things in your language," he says and we spend the next half hour translating things. "Your writing is so strange," he says and I just shrug. "Well, I think it would be very interesting for everyone if we cook something from your world."
"Alright," I say thinking about all of his ingredients he has in his kitchen. "How about cheeseburgers and fries?"

"Great, now let's get started." Once the meal was almost ready I started setting the table. The meal went well and everyone seemed to enjoy it except for that one man I met in the hallway. "Did I do something to make him hate me?"

After dinner I help clean up and wash the dishes. Once I'm done I go to my room. Studying the necklace I end up falling asleep holding the necklace in my hands. I dream about a black hair blue-eyed woman fighting. The dream follows the story that Zuko told me except for one thing he didn't know. It turns out that the two lovers were on opposite sides. One of the woman's friends caught her kissing her beloved, the enemy. Her friend told their boss and the boss ordered her extermination. Her beloved heard this and they fought side my side against the assassins until he fell. The woman killed everyone that she was fighting out of rage and then went to her beloved side. He told her to always do the right thing no matter how hard it might be as he gave her the necklace.

I wake up and realize that I am crying. I look outside as dry my eyes. The sun is just rising so I get dressed and head toward the kitchen.

"So you ready to learn how to make a dish from our world," inquires Cho as we put our aprons on.

"Yep," I say as I wash my hands. "So where do we start?" Cho points to things telling me to bring them to him. At the end of brewing over what I assume is the equivalent of a stove it looks like some type of soup.

"Smells delicious," Iroh says as I set his bowl down in front of him.

"Cho did a good job," I reply not knowing what the soup tasted like.

"So did you," Cho yells from the kitchen. I just roll my eyes as I finish handing out the soup to the crew. I head back toward the kitchen and Cho hands me a bowl. "So do you like it?" he asks as I take a taste.

"Very good," I lie. "Man, I hate soup." I finish the soup sitting on the counter as Cho keeps talking about food. I act like I'm really paying attention to him but I'm really thinking if there's a deadline to tell Zuko what his mom told me to tell him. "This is taking forever," I think as Cho stares at me.

"Are you even paying attention? I'm telling you important things about cooking."

"Sorry, I guess my mind is somewhere else," I respond looking at the door.

"Maybe you should get some air," Cho insists.

"But…," I start.

"When I said maybe I meant it as a command," Cho says ushering me out of the room. I'm about to decline but he shushes me. "I can take care of a few dishes. You're just a kid. You need to have more fun," he says as he pushes me past the empty dining hall and into the hall. "Maybe you could practice some airbending moves; no one has seen you do any since Jee caught you with that miniature tornado."

"Yeah, nothing sounds more like fun than practicing," I say sarcastically. Cho gives me a look.

"Fine," I say defeated. Cho smiles and shuts the door and I hear him walking back to the kitchen. I sigh as I turn around and head toward my room to get my scroll. I grab it from under the bed and head toward the deck. Seeing Zuko and his uncle at the deck I go to the other side of the boat. I sit down and open the scroll.

"Okay, the next one is flying without a glider. But, if the air nomads could fly without a glider why the hell do they need them?" I say quietly to myself as I look at the next set.

"I didn't realize that young ladies knew how to swear," Jee says making me jump.

"It's quite common where I come from," I retort.

"Really?" Jee asks and I nod.

"Besides there are worse words then saying 'hell'," I proclaim.

"Humph," Jee sighs as he crosses his arms. "Well, you shouldn't be saying such fowl language."

"Whatever," I say while thinking "Who does he think he is?"

"What do you have there?" Jee asks looking at the parchment.

"An airbending scroll."

"Can you do all of them?" Jee asks interested.

"Well, I can kind of do the first one but, I really want to learn the next one," I say pointing to the flying person.

"Would you like some help?" Jee asks.

"How could you help? I mean no offense or anything but, you're a firebender; what do you know about airbending?"

"My grandfather used to tell me stories. He had friends in the air nation and they showed each other their bending abilities. My grandfather told me in great detail on how they could bend air."
"In that case, I would love your help," I smile at him.

"Great, we'll start tomorrow." Jee says.

"What? Why?"

"Iroh believes that a storm is approaching," Jee announces.

"But the sky is totally clear," I say.

"Uhh, now you sound like Zuko. Iroh is a retired general and I trust his predictions on the weather. We'll start tomorrow," Jee remarks.

"Fine," I say.

"I'm going to the deck. Are you coming?"

"Naw, I'll stay here." I say stubbornly.

"Alright," Jee says heading back as I lean against the railing.

I stand there for awhile and start to get bored. I look at the scroll and sigh not wanting try this on my own. I head to the deck and see Jee, Zuko, and a few other soldiers standing around.

"Looks like your uncle was right about the storm, after all," Jee says to Zuko as he walks by.

"Lucky guess," Iroh says coming up and then sees me and starts walking toward to me.

"Lieutenant," Zuko begins angrily walking toward him, "you'd better learn some respect or I'll teach it to you." Zuko starts to walk away but stops without turning around once Jee starts talking.

"What do you know about respect?" Jee starts as Iroh and I try to signal for him to stop. Unfortunately his back was to us. "The way you talk to everyone around here; from your hard working crew to your esteemed uncle shows you know nothing about respect," he continues and I slap my forehead in frustration. "You even kept calling Haley, girl even after she escaped from her cell and disabled all the rest; which impressed us all. You don't care about anyone but yourself," he continues. "Then again what should I expect from a spoiled prince."

Zuko whips around and they both get ready to fight. "Easy now," Iroh says walking toward them. "Enough," he says as he breaks them up. "We all are a bit tired from being at sea so long. I'm sure after a bowl of noodles," Iroh continues eyeing Jee, "everyone will feel much better. Jee and Zuko glare at each other and Jee walks back inside as Zuko turns around.

"I don't need your help keeping order on my ship," Zuko declares. Iroh walks up behind him and puts his hand on Zuko's shoulder. Zuko shakes it off and walks toward the front of the ship.

"You okay?" I ask Iroh as I walk up beside him.

"He's just upset," he says more to himself than to me. Iroh smiles at me then walks back inside. Since I know where he's going; to tell the crew the story of Zuko's scar I stay where I am.

I look up at Zuko who is clutching his hands around the railing. I walk toward him and lean against the bars. We both stare at the ocean without saying anything for awhile.

"Who does he think he is? He should show me respect." Zuko declares out of the blue.

"He does have a point," I say and Zuko glares at me while I keep looking at the ocean. "I mean in order to get respect you have to earn it."

"What do you know? You're just a stupid peasant," Zuko says glaring at me.

I turn toward him with one hand on the railing and one hand on my hip. "I may be a peasant but I am far from stupid. You wouldn't last one day in my world. You don't know anything about science and math that my world has figured out. Not to mention our technology and thousand of languages."

"Right, a thousand languages" Zuko says disbelieving me.

Vous êtes une secousse impossible," I say in French as I walk away.

"I order you to stop," Zuko yells at me but, I just keep on walking. A fireball rockets past me making me jump a little but I just open the door to the ship and keep going. As I turn a corner I hear Zuko rushing toward me, "Stop now," he orders as I turn another corner. This starts to become a game of cat and mouse. Me being the unfortunate mouse.

As I turn another corner Zuko is right behind me so I use my airbending to speed up. As I zoom around another turn I look back and realize that Zuko isn't right behind me anymore but, I can still hear him coming. I open the nearest door and go inside. I close the door quietly and quickly look around. "I didn't know that there was a library on this ship." I hide beside a bookcase as Zuko slows down and stops.

"Now where did she go?" Zuko asks as he turns the doorknob to the library.

Suddenly there is a loud bang and I fall forward out of my hiding place landing on my hands. "What happened?" I ask as we look at each other.

"I think we were hit," Zuko says as he turns to head toward the deck. I follow running behind him. It's poring outside and I am completely drenched within seconds.

"Where were we hit?" Zuko asks Jee trying to keep his balance as the waves toss the ship around.

"I don't know," Jee answers.

"Look," Iroh points upward.

"The helmsmen," Zuko yells noticing a guy hanging to a part of the railing that was starting to fall off above the ship. Zuko starts to climb up the ladder to help retrieve the man with Lieutenant Jee behind him.

A lightening bolt comes straight toward the ship and Iroh deflects it making him smoke.

"Are you alright?" I ask Iroh.

"Certainly," Iroh replies smiling.

I look up at Zuko to see the man fall. I sigh once I see Zuko catch the guy then lower him down to Jee.

As soon as they get back to the deck Zuko looks out to sea and sees Appa. "The Avatar," Zuko shouts.

"What do you want to do, sir?" asks Jee.

"Let him go," Zuko says turning to Jee, "we need to get this ship to safety."

"Then we must head directly into the eye of the storm," Iroh says lightly grinning at Zuko.

As we reach the eye of the storm the waves begin to settle down and the rain begins to stop. Everything is still completely drenched.

"Uncle, I'm sorry," Zuko says looking down.

"Your apology is accepted," Iroh says putting a hand on Zuko's shoulder which makes Zuko look up and Iroh walks away.

Unexpectedly Appa comes up out of the water and Zuko and Aang stare at each other. Jackie and I wave at each other.

"What?" I ask as Zuko looks at me. Zuko just scoffs and walks inside. I follow Zuko down the hallway until we reach our rooms.

"What did you say this afternoon," Zuko asks with his back to me.

"Just for the record you deserved it. Um, I said you were an impossible jerk," I said looking down. "Goodnight," I said opening my door.

"Goodnight," Zuko replies.

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