The next day, we traveled to Ember Island. Katara, Toph, and I watched Zuko and Aang practice Fire Bending when Kairu, Sokka, and Suki suddenly ran into the courtyard.

"Guys! You won't believe this! There's a play about us!" Sokka yelled.

"We were just in town and we found this poster," Suki added.

"What? How is that possible?" Katara asked.

"Listen to this," Kairu said, taking the poster away from Sokka. "The Boy in the Iceberg is a new production from acclaimed playwright Pu Won Tim, who scoured the globe gathering information on the Avatar. From the icy South Pole, to the heart of Ba Sing Se, his sources include singing nomads, pirates, prisoners of war, and a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage."

"Brought to you by the Ember Island Players." Suki concluded.

"Ugh!" Zuko groaned. "My mother used to take us to see them all the time. They botched Love Amongst the Dragons every year..."

"Sokka, do you really think it's a good idea to attend a play about ourselves?" Katara asked.

"C'mon!" Sokka pleaded. "A day at the theater? This is the kind of wacky time-wasting nonsense I've been missing!"

"Are you sure this is going to be ok?" I asked Sokka as we filed into our top box. "They might notice us."

"We'll be ok." Sokka waved his hands. The curtain started rising. "SHHHHHHH." Sokka shushed my face.

A very busty girl in water nation clothing and a twiggy boy were onstage in a boat. Katara and Sokka started getting excited.

"Sokka, my only brother." Stage Katara said over-dramatically. "We constantly roam these South Pole Seas, yet never do we find anything fulfilling."

"All I want is a full filling in my stomach, I'm starving!" Stage Sokka joked.

The crowd laughed and I snorted as Sokka and Katara's faces soured.

"Is food the only thing on your mind?"

"Well, I'm trying to get it out of my mind and into my mouth! I'm starving!" Poor, poor Stage Sokka...

"This is pathetic!" Sokka hissed. "My jokes are way funnier than this!"

Toph started laughing. "I think he's got you pegged."

"Every day the world awaits a beacon to guide us, yet none appears. Still, we cannot give up hope. For hope, is all we have! And we must never release it, even to our dying breath." Stage Katara started crying.

Sokka, Suki, and Toph started laughing while Kairu and I grinned at each other. "Well that's just silly," Katara sniffed. "I don't sound like that!"

"Oh man!" Toph laughed again. "This writer's a genius!"

Suddenly bright lights appeared onstage. "It appears to be someone trapped in ice!" Stage Katara exclaimed. "Perhaps for a hundred years!"

"But who! Who is the boy in the iceberg?" Stage Sokka asked.

"Water Bend! Hyyyya!" Stage Katara chopped the iceberg.

It cracked open and a girl with a bald cap jumped out. "Who are you frozen boy?" Stage Katara asked Stage Aang.

"I'm the Avatar silly! Here to spread joy and fun!" Stage Aang said prancing around.

"Wait, is that a woman playing me!" Aang exclaimed, outraged.

Suddenly a fake Appa popped up and started flying around. "An air bender!" Stage Katara exclaimed dramatically, starting to cry again. "My heart is so full of hope, it's making me tear bend!"

"My stomach is so empty, it's making me tear bend!" Stage Sokka started crying also. "I need meat!"

"I don't talk like that! And I'm not a woman!" Aang exclaimed.

Suddenly the stage changed as a metal boat with Uncle and Zuko appeared. "Prince Zuko, you must try this cake!" Stage Iroh proclaimed.

"I don't have time to stuff my face with cake!" Stage Zuko growled. "I must capture the Avatar and regain my honor!"

"While you do that, maybe I'll capture another slice!" Stage Iroh started devouring the cake.

"You sicken me." Stage Zuko said, looking through his telescope.

"They make me look totally stiff and humorless." Zuko complained.

"Actually," Katara smiled. "I think that actor is spot on."

"How could you say that!" Zuko protested.

"Let's forget about the Avatar and get massages!" Stage Iroh proclaimed.

"How could you say that!"

"Shut up." Zuko told everyone sourly, to which we all laughed.

"So far the intermission is the best part of the play," Zuko griped.

Everyone started griping about his or her character's portrayal.

"Listen friends," Toph interrupted. "It's obvious that this playwright did his research. I know that it must hurt, but what you're seeing up on the stage is the truth."

Stage Toph appeared as a huge, muscular man, and Real Top was happy about that, to say in the least.

Kairu and I finally appeared after everyone had cornered Azula and she escaped.

"Who are you!" Stage Zuko demanded.

"I am Kairi!" Stage me proclaimed.

"And I am Kairu!" Stage Kairu proclaimed. "And I am here to help the avatar!"

"I'm not." Stage me shrugged. "Ciao bitches."

And they all ran off the stage. I'm pretty sure my mouth was hanging open because everyone was laughing at me.

"I'm not that rude!" I protested.

"Are you sure?" Zuko teased me.

"Shut up before I bash your face in." I growled before face palming.

Apparently I am that rude.

"You know Prince Zuko, I find you very attractive." Stage Katara, Zuko and me were in the crystal catacombs.

"That's too bad!" Stage Zuko scoffed, "Because I'm into Kairi!"

Zuko and I inched away from each other in the stands, both our faces bright red.

"I love you Zuko!" Stage me proclaimed.

"That's it," I muttered putting one foot on the railing. "I can't watch this, I'm jumping."

"Don't be dramatic, Ri." Kairu giggled pulling me back into my seat. "You'll survive."

"Well Zuko," Stage Azula was talking. "What is it going to be, your nation or a life of treachery?"

"Chose treachery! It's more fun!" Stage Iroh sang.

"Help me with the Avatar and my sister or I'll beat you up!" Stage me threatened.

Stage Zuko started walking towards us, and stopped in front of Stage Iroh and me before hitting me in the face and pushing Stage Iroh down.

Well this is going swimmingly. I thought sourly as intermission hit.

"Don't let the play get to you, Ri!" Kairu sang.

"At least they're portraying you nicely!" I complained. "They're making me off to be a total bitch that is Zuko's love interest!"

"Are you a total bitch that is Zuko's love interest?" Kairu asked me, raising her eyebrow.

"NO!" I protested.

"Then why are you so worried? They don't know you."

I paused. She had a point. "Thanks Ru. I'm just over reacting."

"I know," Kairu snorted. "Now get it together!"

So, the play pretty much ended like it did in the cartoon. Ozai won, the Avatar was defeated, Azula killed off everyone else, and everyone in the playhouse cheered sadistically at the end.

The End...

"That wasn't a good play." Zuko griped.

"I'll say."

"No kidding."

"Horrible."

"You said it."

"Complete flop."

"But the effects were decent."