A/N thank you to all who reviewed STitchEd016 I know ventilation comes first but… I couldn't bring my self to do that to Toph your review was apriciated
Chapter 8
Aang was the first one awake, and he found that Appa had landed a short walk away from the village. He jumped up and started to set up camp. When that was done, he went out into the woods to collect some fruit and nuts, for breakfast. To his surprise he found a black berry bush, some wild straw berries, and some wild blue berries. He brought as much as he could carry back to camp. When he got there, he chopped the fruit up and divided it all into shares with Air bending. The moment he had finished almost as if on queue Katara woke up.
"Wow, Aang." She exclaimed, "You sure have done a lot of work, what is that you've got there?"
"I found straw berries, black berries, and blue berries." He answered showing Katara what he found.
"Mmm, that looks delicious, well lets wake the others." She said, and moved towards Iroh and shook him awake. Aang ran over and started shaking Sokka to wake up but he just grunted,
"Five more minuets Gran-gran." Then Aang got an evil look on his face and shouted in an old crusty voice,
"Sokka a polarleopard is in the house you have to get up now!" Sokka propelled himself out of bed and screamed. By this time Iroh and Toph were awake and they both stared and Sokka and started laughing. He looked around and glared at Aang.
"That wasn't funny." He said.
"Yes it was, nice one Twinkletoes." Toph stated. And Aang was much happier and thought this was the beginning of a great day. After breakfast they walked to Xui. When they arrived Katara said,
"You know, we might not have a chance to buy supplies, I say we should split up Iroh, Sokka, and Toph, you guys can go find Ty Lee, while Aang and I go do some shopping." They all agreed and they split up.
"So do you know where Ty Lee is?" Sokka asked Iroh.
"Yes." Iroh answered.
"Where is she?" Sokka demanded.
"Where is she at this moment?" Iroh asked.
"No, where she'll be in an hour!" Sokka screamed sarcasticly.
"In an hour I expect she'll be at home but now she's behind you putting up fliers." Iroh answered. And Sokka turned around and saw a girl in short pink shirt, pink pants, and she wore her hair in a braid. Sokka glared at Iroh then walked over to Ty Lee.
"Ty Lee, we need your help." He said quietly coming up behind the girl. She turned around an when she saw Sokka her eyes widened and she said,
"Hey I remember you; you're the one with the hard head!" She exclaimed.
"Yes," he answered dully, "That's me."
"Ty Lee, we have come for your assistance." Iroh interjected.
"Really what do you need me to do?" She asked.
"We'll tell you back at our camp, but right now we need you to come with us while we go get Katara and Aang." Sokka answered. Then Katara and Aang came running towards them with Aang pushing Katara so that she would go faster.
"Quick everybody, back to camp!" Aang screamed. Then he gave Katara a final push and ran back the way they had come. They all headed towards camp running as fast as they could.
"What happened?" Sokka asked when they finally reached camp.
"Zuko." Katara answered. Every one gasped except Toph.
"Who's Zuko?" She asked.
"He's my nephew; he betrayed me and has been chasing Aang ever since he came out of the iceberg in the South Pole." Iroh answered.
"Then why did we leave Aang to go fight him." Toph asked.
"Because, Aang wanted us safe, so he went to distract Zuko so we could get back to camp." Katara answered. Then they saw Aang walk into camp…followed by Zuko.
"Aang watch out he's right behind you!" Sokka yelled and he grabbed his Boomerang.
"No Sokka it's ok, he's with me." Aang said quickly.
"What do you mean, he's with Azula." Katara countered.
"He changed his mind; he wants to travel with us." Aang insisted.
"How do you know he's not lying?" Sokka questioned.
"He's gotten a new scar, but just incase I thought we'd have Toph see if he's lying."
"What new scar?" Asked Iroh, speaking up for the first time. And Zuko showed them a scar on starting on his forearm and going all the way to his shoulder.
"What happened?" Asked Katara aghast.
"Azula," he answered darkly, "Father said, I still needed a punishment if I were to return, and Azula gladly volunteered, she came in to my room while I was meditating, Fire bended my arm without warning. I left the next chance I got."
"That's awful, but I can't say you don't deserve it the way you betrayed Iroh." Katara reasoned. Zuko hung his head. Then Aang, (just because things felt a little tense.) said,
"Well it's a good thing Azula punished you before Katara, she was angrier than a vulturebee." Katara blushed and before she could respond Iroh asked,
"So Toph is he telling the truth?"
"Yes, don't you think I would have told you if he was lying?" Toph answered annoyed not sensing the tension. Then Ty Lee spoke up,
"Didn't you guys have something you wanted to ask me?" They had all completely forgotten about Ty Lee and Aang said,
"Yes, well you see, Toph has lost her memory and we were wondering if you could help, being a chi expert and such."
"Actually I do, but I've never done it before." She answered.
"What is it?" Toph asked.
"Well you see you have to…" Just then and arrow came flying out of the trees and hit Ty Lee in the shoulder.
"We're being ambushed!!" shouted Toph putting her hand on the ground."
"Quick we need to get on Appa, Sokka could you get her on Appa?" Aang yelled and they all jumped onto Appa, (Sokka handing Ty Lee to Zuko so he could get on) and took off into the night.
"Katara is she doing ok?" Sokka asked.
"She's loosing a lot of blood; I can't risk taking the arrow out until we're out of the air, other wise I could make it worse if we hit a bump." Katara explained.
"I'll get us down as soon as we can." Aang promised, just as an Arrow hit him in the arm.
A/N wow I wasn't planning on that, I hope you guys don't get mad. And if you do what better way to rant on how I could've done that better that in a review be happy
