Trip to the Water Tribe

Alex POV

Music night. Again. Until Monkey Face had to interupt and I knew what would happen. And I was gonna make sure I was in on it. Zhao, Iroh and I were on our way to Zuko's room when Zhao Started talking to me.

"How is your firebending going Miss Lynn?" he questioned me, he called me Lynn because I would never give the creep my real name.

"Great," I reply with a smile, "Iroh is a wonderful teacher." and that was no bullshitting at all. Then I hear Iroh say something and I realize we have stopped outside of Zuko's room. Sparky looks furious! Like he could explode. Then Monkey Face gets him even more pissed by asking me, right in front of Zuko, if I would like to join him on his expedition to the North Pole. Before I can say anything, Zuko buts in.

"She will be staying with us." and with that Zhao leaves Iroh, Zuko and I alone. Iroh speaks.

"Will either of you like to join me on a walk?" he asks. Neither of us respond.

"Or sit and brood in the dark." he says and leaves.

I go to my room and pack my things. Then I do the hardest thing I have ever done. I leave the ship and run after Iroh. I'm almost to him when I hear the ship explode. He turns around and I can see the fear in his eyes. We both run back to the ship and see it in flames. I don't think. I drop my bag and dive into the water, trying to focus and feel Zuko with all my mind. Suddenly I can fell the smallest flame. He's just barely there, Clinging to life, drowning. I swim towards him and shoot the both of us towards Iroh who is kneeling down next to the water bawling. He hears us and looks up and his face lights up like he won the lottery. Iroh helps me lay Zuko down on the ground and I waterbend all the water out of his lungs. We both stare at him silent tears running down our faces when he starts coughing.

"Zuko!" we both exclaim and hug him.

"The pirates, I saw their bird. They did it." Zuko explains. An idea hits me like a flying sky bison.

"Guys, I want to go with Zhao to the North Pole," I start and am interupted.

"What!?" Zuko roars and Iroh questioned.

"Hear me out. Obviously Zhao payed the pirates to kill off Sparky over here. So Gramps and I accept his offer and you sneak on as a guard. Easy as pie! Well except for the fact that perv gives me the creeps," I explain with a shudder.

"How do you know that Zhao payed the pirates to kill Prince Zuko?" Iroh asks me. I ignore him.

"So is it a deal?" I ask. They look at each other and nod.

"Alright! You get a uniform while Iroh and I get all sad and shit so we think your dead!" I say cheerfully.

"I'm devastated to hear about Prince Zuko. Just devastated." Zhao said, obviously not very sorry by the pleased smile he wore.

"The fire lord will not be pleased when he learns who was responsible." Iroh said.

"You know who was behind the attack?" Zhao frowned.

"Yes." Iroh said calmly. Suddenly, he slammed his fist against the table. "Pirates! We had a run in with this a while back." Zhao smiled behind his cup of tea. "They wanted revenge." Iroh continued.

Zhao took a sip of his tea. "So, have you reconsidered my offer?"

"Yes, I accept it." Iroh bowed. "It will be an honor to serve as your general." Zhao looks at me.

"And do you accept, Miss Lynn?" he questions.

"I have a couple conditions. 1, I am allowed to sleep in the same room as Iroh, he agrees with me. 2, I shall be allowed to train with Iroh on deck. And 3," I pause for dramatic effect, "I get all the food I want." I finish. He looks at me as if to see if i'm serious and he nods. "Then why not?" I say with a smirk.

Iroh is showing me new forms and the breath of fire.

"It will save your life out here," he explains. A familiar looking guard comes on deck and speaks with Iroh. He nods and sends the guard off. He waves me over.

"You will be leaving tomorrow night. Prince Zuko has a small boat ready." I nod in response.

The next day, "This will truly be one for the history books, General Iroh." Zhao said on his ship. "Just think, centuries from now, people will study the great Admiral Zhao who destroyed the last of the water tribe civilization. You're lucky you're here to see it.

"Be careful what you wish for, Admiral." Iroh warned. "History is not always kind to its subjects."

"I suppose you speak from experience?" Zhao asked. "But rest assured, this will be nothing like your legendary failure at Ba-Sing-Se."

"I hope not, for your sake." Iroh said.

Later, I look at the sky and see Aang and my little brother Brenan taking out ships from Appa. I focus on Brenan, thinking 'look down, look down!' and he does. He frowns and a voice pops into my head 'What are you doing? I thought you were on our side?' It takes me a minute to realize It's Brenan's voice inside my head.

'No duh' Brenan says again. I think back to him, 'I AM, i'll meet you tonight, in the Spirit Oasis. We must let everything go as in the show and not disrupt it.' I can feel the torrent of emotions going on in his head and I see him visibly nod and look away from me to continue fighting. Then Zhao says something about how night is falling and all the ships stop attacking, knowing the waterbenders are stronger at night.

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

"I don't need your wisdom now, Uncle." Zuko said annoyed.

"I know but ever since my son died," he starts.

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

"I think of you as my own. And Alex I think of you as my daughter." Oh gosh! I can't deal with this! I feel my eyes water up and I look away.

"No, not a daughter, anything but a daughter." I choke out and jump into the boat angrily wiping away tears that managed to escape. Iroh looks sad at what I said and Zuko looks at me in confusion. He gets in the boat, lowers us down and softly starts to paddle us away from the ship and towards the tribe.

"Can I help at all?" I ask, trying to get my mind off of my own father. Zuko looks up and I see anger in his eyes.

"No." he says. I ignore him and start waterbending us faster towards the tribe. He looks at me angrily but I ignore him.

"I don't need your help, peasent." he snarls. I stop and look at him. I can see the hatred in his face.

"Yes you do. Or you will get tired easily and won't be able to do anything." I say matter of factly and that shuts him up.

We get into the city and I ditch him. I run through the streets.

"Sokka! Sokka!" I yell until some warriors see my fire nation clothes and attack me a shoot fire balls at them and then decide they might stop attcking if i bend more that one element. I use the water around me and freeze them against the wall.

"Where is Sokka of the Southeren Water Tribe? Or Katara, Aang or Brenan. He's my brother!" they look at me like i'm crazy and point to their right. I unfreeze them and start running.

"Thanks!" I yell and use airbending to speed up. I round the corner and run into none other that Sokka! I help him up.

"Sokka! Aang is in trouble! Where's Appa?" he doesn't even have time to comprehend that i'm here before I drag him towards the stables. We jump on Appa and fly towards the Spirit Oasis.

When we get there the only people there are Katara and Yue. One person runs through my mind. Brenan.

"Katara! Where is he!" I try not to yell but I can't just not yell. She looks up and notices i'm there and her face changes from shock to anger. She gets up, stomps over to me and slaps me. Yup SLAPS ME!

"It's all your fault Aang got captured by Zuko! You probably led him straight to us!" she cries.

"Do you really think i'd do that! The kids 12 for crying out loud! 12! I don't want him to get kidnapped! And my brother! Do you really think I want that bastard dead!? He's my damn brother for shits sake! He's all I have! So stop your little pity party, get on the damn bison, and lets go rescue the spirit world freaks!" I yell and smack her back. She looks at me like i'm there to freaking kill her. Then she looks at Yue, then Sokka, who both have identical looks of shock, and they all climb on Appa.

"Momo you can stay here incase Aang comes back," Katara says softly. We fly off and we see a blue and green light in a cave. 'Brenan, we're here' I think as hard as I can. We land outside the cave right as Aang falls in the snow and Brenan earthbends himself into the air to fall in the snow also. Katara jumps off Appa and gets into a stance.

"Here for a rematch?" Zuko asks.

"Trust me Zuko, it's not going to be much of a match." Katara says and waterwhips him into the earth wall to knocks him out. We untie Aang and Brenan and I give them both big hugs.

"I've missed you guys soo much!" I exclaim and squeeze them they wrighle away and we all climb on Appa. We are about to go when Aang jumps off and picks Zuko up and sets him on Appa.

"He'll die if we leave him here." he explains. On the way back, Yue tells us about how she was touched by the moon spirit as a baby.

When we get back to the Oasis we see Zhao about to kill the moon spirit.

"Zhao don't! Destroying the moon won't just hurt the water tribe." Aang explained. "It will hurt everyone, including you. Without the moon, everything would fall out of balance. You have no idea what kind of chaos that would unleash on the world!"

"He is right, Zhao!" someone yelled. Only then did they realize Iroh had come in while they were talking.

"General Iroh, why am I not surprised to discover your treachery." Zhao said bored and Iroh removed his hood.

"I'm no traitor, Zhao, the fire nation needs the moon too." Iroh insisted. "We all depend on the balance. Whatever you do to that spirit, I'll unleash it on you ten-fold! Let it go now!" he roared furiously. I have never seen Iroh so angry. It was scary.

Zhao flattered and lowered the bag, letting the fish back into the pond. The red moon vanished. Suddenly, Zhao fire blasted the fish and the moon faded away. Aang, Yue, and I all held our heads in pain. While Iroh shot fire at Zhao who got away. Iroh walks over and picks up the dead koi fish. Yue bursts into tears and says,

"There is no hope now, it's over!"Aang starts glowing and when I feel the overwhelming power, I know what is happening.

"No, it's not over," Aang and my's voices say together mixed with the voices of past Avatars. Then, it all fades to black.