We were on our way back to my apartment so I could grab some more clothes when the sirenes rushed passed us. No less then three fire trucks sped past us as they rushed to whataver emerency they had.

"It must be pretty bad if there's three of them."

"Yeah now lets get you home. The sooner you grab your clothes the sooner we can get back to the hotel and get you out of them." Ever since we got our tattoos Azula had extremly happy.

Can't say I blame her. It's like having a permanent reminder wherever I go. Although she probably just sees it as a mark that I belong to her.

My thoughts were interupted as I saw the massive plume of smoke rising into the sky.

"Looks like quite the blaze."

as I tried to get a better look of where the smoke was comming from my phone began to ring like crazy, once I picked it up and answered Toph began to scream into my ear.

"Katara where are you!"

"I'm with Azula why?"

"Why! How could you possibly not know that your own house is on fire! I've been trying to get in touch since I found out."

The car came to a screeching halt as Azula slammed on the breaks nearly causing us to crash. "Azula what the hell?" I asked as she ripped the phone from my hand.

"Toph tell me everything that happaned right now!"

" All I know is that Ty lee suddenly rushed into my bar screaming about how Katara's house was on fire. By the time we got there most of the building was on fire."

"Do they know how the fire started?" her eyes were focused and her knuckles were white with rage.

This is not going to end well.

"She talked with a few officers and said something about a bomb placed near a gas line. Please tell me you two are fine and somplace safe."

" Yeah we're in a car on our way there now." but as I said that Azula suddenly started up the car and pulled it in the other direction. "Wait Azula where are you going?"

"I'm taking you to Toph's bar. Toph we'll be there in five minutes make sure the place is safe."

I heard Toph mutter yes before she tossed the phone back to me. From my window I could now see the massive amount of smoke rising into the sky and could only wonder just how much the fire had destroyed.

One look at her told me that wasn't about to talk, no she'd completly shifted into her protective mode and nothing I said was going to sway her.

All I could do was sit back and pray to the the spirits that things didn't get any worse.

Once we were at Toph's bar things began moving pretty quickly. Ty lee and Toph were both waiting for us outside when we got there. Ty lee barely waited for me to get out of the car before she pulled me into a massive hug her eyes brimming with tears no doubt from worry.

Azula quickly rushed is inside and town into the cellar, once the door was locked she slammed her hand into a nearby barrel spilling whataver was inside into the floor.

"Damn it all! I should have known something like this would have happaned. If you had been there you'd be..."

"No Azula don't think that."

"But"

"No buts! I've seen to many people destroy themselves thinking about what ifs. So right now just take a breath and focus on the now alright."

She was still fumming with rage as she took a few deep breaths turning her panic and rage into determintion. "Ty lee how long before we could get everyone here and ready?"

"About on hour."

"They have fourty minutes to get here, Toph how secure is this bar?"

"Most of my regulars here are strong earthbenders and they're more then willing to defend this place if I offer them free drinks for a while."

"Good because the next few hours will probably be rough for the city and I want to make sure Katara is somplace safe while all this is happaning."

"Azula don't you dare think that you can just leave me here!"

When she looked me in the eye I expected her to scream and argue that I wasn't to be put in danger. Instaed she pulled me in for a kiss, out of the corner of my eye I saw Ty lee nod her head and sneak behind me. Once I knew what was about to happen I tried to pull away but she was holding me to tightly.

Her quick jabs came seconds later and I felt my body slowely shutting down. I colasped into her arms and she carried me over to the cot. "I'm sorry Katara, truely I am. But I love you to much to drag you any further into the mess I'm about to make. When I come back you can yell at me as much as you want but right now you just rest here."

Yelling is the least of what I'm going to do when you get back! I thought unable to sleep as the effect of Ty lee's attack on key spots started working.

" Ty lee I want you to stay here and make sure Katara doesn't leave the building."

"But you need me with you."

"I need you here, you're the one person I can trust to make sure she's safe." I saw Toph make her way back upstairs while something about it being to emotional under my breath and Azula start up the stairs. Just as my eyes started to shut she gave one last apologetic glance before I fell asleep.

It was hard to say how long I was out for but I do know that when I finally did manage to wake up my body felt like I'd run two marathons.

I shot up out of the cot and ran up the stares nearly breaking the door off of it's hinges to get to the bar. One quick glance around the room was all I needed to find Ty lee sitting at the bar keeping one eye on the door.

"Where is she!?" When she saw me she jumped out of her seat and carefully made her way over.

"Katara before you start"

"Don't you even start, now I'm going to ask this once. Where..Is...Azula?" This was the first time I've ever seen her scared and a part of me felt ashamed for doing this but I was far to enraged to care.

"I don't know. She left as soon as everyone got here. That was about four hours ago."

My adrenline was pumping and an idea was forming in my mind. "Then you're going to help me find her."

"What?!" It was a stupied idea and I had no idea where to start but I wan't about to stay here and wait. "She told you to keep me safe and I'm going to find her. So either you come with me and protect me while we find her or you try and knock me out again. But we both know I'm skilled enough to break your arm if you try."

She stood there for few moments trying to way her options but I wasn't about to wait on her so I started toward the door. "Katara wait up." she screamed catching up to me as I walked outside.

"Alright Ty lee where would Azula go?"

"Well there are a lot of building used by the royal flames, the docks, a few buildings in the slums. But if she wanted to go after her father then our best guess would be the museum of heros."

"The what?" I'd heard the name before but couldn't quite place it.

"It's a musuem that honors the heros and royalty of the fire nation. It's in the older more historic part of the city. What people don't know is that ther's a massive underground bunker beneath a few buildings. Her grandfather had it secretly renovated during his regin and if Ozai was anywere it would be there."

That's on the other side of the city. Ty lee doesn't have a car and mines still parked near the loft.

As I tried to think of how we were going to get there I heard a familer noise and just down the street smoking a cigeratte was a young man leaning agaisnt a motercycle. She walked straight up to him and started talking to him. As ususal after a few seconds of talking and he started to blush and fumble with his words, a quick kiss on cheek and a gesture toward his motercycle and he could't hand over the keys fast enough.

"Come on Katara I got us a ride." As I slid in behind her I could't help but admire how easily she did this.

It was rocky start as she drove somewhere between speed demon and panicked citizen but soon the building started getting older as we got deeper and deeper into the historic section.

It wasn't hand to find the museum, it stood out like a tomb with two massive stone dragons near the entrance. I knew we were getting close when we say the people lying on the ground and the scorch marks on the grass and buildings.

"Katara from here on out please stay behind me. Ozai is a coward that always surronds himself with his men. Not to mention his right hand man Zhou."

"Is he really that bad?"

" He's not as strong or smart as Ozai but he's far more power hungry. He had no self control with his firebending so he's likely to burn the entire neighborhood to the ground when threatned."

Once inside we began carefully searching from room to room hopeing to find any trace of Azula but the only thing we could find were signs that a battle had taken place recently. Rooms were covered in burn marks and broken statues.

"I take this place has seen better days." From what I could see every tapastry was torn and nearly every statue had been smashed to pieces. I couldn't tell if all this had happaned because of the fight or if was caused by the royal flames.

"They're not here but I do see a trail of destruction leading to one of the exits."

"Well then let's go and find out."

we heard the fighting as soon as we got close to the door. Firebenders were fighting all around us. "Those are our men but I don't see Azula."

Once they took notice of us one ran over narely avoiding a stray fire bolt. "Azula ran off after Ozai into that alley. We tried to go after her but he sent his men after us."

Hearing that the two of us took off toward the alley. Two people tried to stop us but with a quick side step and a blow to the stomach and neck I sent mine toward the ground. Ty lee easily dealt with hers with a quick chi blocking blows. Once the alley was in sight we saw a bolt of lighting shoot into the sky followed by the sound of Azula's voice.

My already panic filled heart went into overdrive as I rounded the corner just in time to see a injured Azula throw a dagger into a man I assumed was Ozai. It soared threw the air before hitting him square in the chest, in a moment of panic he pulled it out only to reget it moments later when blood began pouring from his wound. He let out a pain filled shreik before falling to the floor.

I rushed to Azula just in time to see her collaspe to her knees clutching her shoulder.

"Katara what are you doing here?"

"Shut up, I'm taking you to a hosptial and as soon as you're better I'm going to yell at you into you go deaf." With a bit of help we mananged to drag her out of the alley as the battles died down, some cheered others ran but I just kept worrying about how badly she was hurt. Just from a quick glance I could see burns on her arms along with what I'm guessing was a grazed shoulder. But even as we got her into a nearby car and started toward the hospital I couldn't help but feel like we were being watched.