This is the chapter I was dying to write. I was going to make it much longer, but I feared you would all get board. So I toned it down drasticly cuting tons of dialoge.

Ok well time for you to read...

There was a knock at my door.

"Come in." I may have been crying but I wasn't going to snub a crew member that need something. I am a Priestess after all.

I sat and a clean my face as a soilder entered in to my room.

"Please pardon me." I told him as he removed his helmet.

"Don't cry anymore Mariah" I knew that voice.

I looked up and saw him.

"Zuko.."

Zuko watched Mariah look up at him, her eyes red and tear filled were locked on him.

Mariah jumped from the bed to Zuko jumping in to him.

Rapping her arms around his neck she kissed him full on the mouth.

Zuko was in plain shock.

Then Mariah let go and released Zuko.

"Oh my! Zuko I'm sorry! Please forgive me!" Mariah pleded.

Zuko looked down at her stepping closer.

He took hold of her shoulders which caused Mariah to look up.

"Not likely.." Zuko answered her as leaned towards her.

There mouths conected.

Mariah felt limp as she rapped her arms around Zuko as her held her close to him.

It was a deep kiss,a passion filled kiss.

As the two parted Mariah rested her hands on Zukos chest as he held her close.

The two just looked in to each others eyes.

Zuko and Mariah were togather for over an hour. Zuko comferted her as she continued to cry with no pain.

Mariah couldn't belive that Zuko had lived. She also forgave Uncle for not telling her. She knew why.

The two talked and kissed, not wanting to leave each other.

But it was time for Zuko to go.

He promised to visit her when it was safe, and she promised to keep quiet.

Zuko left with his helmet and mask on agian and walked off down the hall.

Time went by and Zhao's ship was cutting through the icy waters of the north, Zuko, still in his guard disguise, walked in a hallway towards each other.

"We'll be landing soon. Do you have a plan?" Iroh whispered as Zuko removed his mask.
"I'm working on it, Uncle." Zuko answered, replaces his mask and they split up once more.

Zuko needed to see Mariah once more.

The moon was up, and Zhao had stopped his attack on the North Water Tribe.

Zuko took this chance to see Mariah before he left.

He came to her door and knocked. The door opened slightly to a sad looking Mariah. But once Zuko lowered his mask she smilled and moved to let him in.

Zuko came in and shut the door. When he turned and remover the helmet, then he saw Mariah had put her hair up in a green ribbon.

"Your hair?" Zuko said askingly.

"Well I wanted to do something different to my hair for you. I mean I've worn it down for almost three years." She answered.

"No I like it up. You look beautiful." Zuko told her.

"Oh Zuko."

The two walked up to each other and kissed.

After a moment they parted and held each other.

"Your going soon aren't you?" Mariah asked.

"Yeah I am. After this things will be different and you and I can.." Zuko was cut off when Mariah placed her finger on his lips.

"Take this." Mariah removed her finger and took Zukos right hand. She tied a red ribbon on his rist.

"Just keep this with you. I'll always be with you Zuko."

Meantime down the hall someone was coming closer.

The man came to the hall way end and stopped. He watched a soilder leave Mariah's room,unable to see the soilders face.

Mariah kissed the soilder and he left down the hall. Mariah returned to her room.

Mariah sat at her dressing table looking at the bag which held the comb Zuko gave her.

When a shadow came from behind her.

Zuko, now out of uniform entirely dressed instead in plain grey clothes, preparing a canoe to be lowered into the water. Behind him a door opened to reveal Iroh entering. He shut the door behind him.

"If you're fishing for an octopus, my nephew, you need a tightly woven net or he will squeeze through the tiniest hole and escape." Iroh said.

"I don't need your wisdom right now, Uncle."

"I'm sorry, I just nag you because, well, ever since I lost my son?" Iroh said looking away, pain evident on his face.

"Uncle, you don't have to say it."

"I think of you as my own."Zuko turned to him, a genuine look of concern and understanding on his face.

"I know, Uncle."Zuko bowed and salutes him with his arm over chest.

"We'll meet again.." Iroh rushed forward and gave him a bear hug.

"...after I have the Avatar."Zuko said being released from his Uncle and walked over to the canoe.

Zuko got into the canoe and began to lower it to the water.

"Remember your Breathe of Fire! It could save your life out there!" Iroh shouted to him

"I will." Zuko replied

"And put your hood up, keep your ears warm!"

" I'll be fine."Zuko said now far below his uncle.

Iroh looked worried as he watched his nephew depart.

Time went on. Zuko found a way in to the North Water Tribe city.

After defeating Katara and another well dressed girl he took Aang, who at that time in the spirit world had know clue as to the happenings around him, they headed off deeper in to the north.

Freezing, Zuko and Aang took shelter in a cave.

Unkowningly back in the city,Zhao had restarted his attack and was winning.

As Zuko sat cold in the cave he waited to go on. But it would not be easy. Aang awoke and with a daring move tried escaping the cave rven though tied up.

With in moments Appa and appeared and Zuko was defeated and tied with the same rope as Aang had been.

But as the group was returning to the city the moon turned blood red.

It was Zhao. He had taken the moon spirit,a white fish, from its home. Killing the waterbenders powers.

When the group arrived they Aang pleded with Zhao to return the moon spirit, he was added by Iroh in his pled.

Zhao did just that, he returned the fish to it's pool.

But with only a moment of the white moon, Zhao blasted the fish with a ball of fire.

The moon was gone.

With that Iroh attack with force. So much that Zhao fled.

The group ran to the pool. A black fish, the ocean spirit swimming frantic.

There minds on the fish they did not see Zuko was gone.

Zhao ran over a foot bridge somewhere in the city. He exited onto a parapet an is was almost hit by a blast of fire that hits a wall in front of him. As the smoke clears, Zhao looks up to see Zuko on the wall on the tier up above him.

"You're alive?" Zhao said stunned.
"You tried to have me killed!" Zuko yelled and attacked launching a few fire blasts at Zhao with a cry of anguish, but his target dodges, rolling along the parapet wall.

"Yes, I did. You're the Blue Spirit ? and enemy of the Fire Nation!"Zhao said with much venom.

Between them was the panorama of the city.Out in the ocean was the Ocean Spirit's essence traveling down the main canal.

The blue, white veined creature a huge fish like being. At its center a blue white bubble in which we can see Aang.

"You freed the Avatar!" Zhao yelled.
"I had no choice!" Zuko returns.

Zuko continue his attack firing volley after volley at Zhao, who breaks them with his hands held together in a wedge in front of him. As the blasts subside, Zhao drops his smoking cloak to the ground.

"You should have chosen to accept your failure. Your disgrace! Then, at least you could have lived!" Zhao returns fire.

They trade volleys as the fight rages back and forth in the darkness. At one point Zuko is able to exploit a moment when Zhao leaves his chest unguarded.

Zuko blastred him and Zhao falls off the parapet wall onto the tier below.

Zuko followed hoping for another shot.

"Do you you realy think tou can defeat me? You, a piece of trash, who defilled my sweet Priestess!" Zhao stated.

"Never address Mariah like that again Zhao I'm warning you." Zuko replied in stance.

"I knew it! I knew it the moment I saw you in front of me it was you! The soilder I saw leave the Priestess's room!"

"What! Wheres Mariah?!" Zuko demanded.

"Where sadly all beautiful things end up once they have lost there luster." Zhao began as he pulled something from his armor and tossed it to Zuko.

Zuko's eyes went wide as he looked at the gold comb sticking out from the pouch on the ground.

"In the Trash is where she is!" Zhao finished.

"NO!!"

Zuko was in a rage and attacked Zhao with fury continuing there battle on a foot bridge over a canal.

They traded blows, but a series of direct hits from Zuko laied the Admiral flat. As Zhao tried to get up, he saw the moon over Zuko's shoulder.

"It can't be!"Zhao said in horror.
The essence of the Ocean Spirit ,with out Aang, approached fast and coalesces around the bridge. It grabbed Zhao and pull him off the bridge.

Zhao struggled, but the Ocean Spirit draged Zhao under the water and disappeared.

It was morning now. Among the sunken ships a small raft sailed.

"I'm surprised, Prince Zuko, surprised that you are not at this moment trying to capture the Avatar." Iroh said

"I'm tired." Zuko responded.

Iroh put his hand on his nephew's shoulder

"It is alright. I understand. Just rest for now."

Zuko laied down down on the raft. He look at the pouch in his hand and the red ribbon, a pained look on his face as he saw Mariah's face.

He closed his eyes and remembered.

"Just keep this with you. I'll always be with you Zuko."