Yay! here's chapter 11. sry it took so long to get out but im packing and stuff. as of two days im gone for a week!


Aang was standing uncertainly in front of his new fire bending teacher. They were standing in a huge circle, free of snow and ice.

"Are you ready to start?" Zuko asked

"Um sure." Aang mumbled. Sure he had had some training from Jeong Jeong but he had no idea what would happen with Zuko as his teacher. He turned as he heard someone call out his name, or his nick-name.

"Twinkle toes!" Toph appeared walking along the earth trail that was made. Behind her was Iroh, Katara and Sumey.

"What are you guy's doing here?" Aang asked.

"We're here to help." Iroh replied happily.

"And to make sure Princey here doesn't fry you to a crisp." Toph said with a smirk. Zuko rolled his eye's and went on talking.

"Before you learn to do anything with fire, you have to learn to completely control your breathing. Fire comes from the breath so before you can control fire, let alone make it, you have to master the basics." Zuko explained. "Fire is aggressive, expanding and extravagant and is a difficult element to control, because once it's out of your hands there's almost no stopping it."

Aang nodded, taking it all in. He got into the stance he learned from Jeong Jeong and made sure his legs were far enough apart before looking back at Zuko. His eyebrow was raised.

"You've had a master before." It was more of a statement than a question.

"Kinda." Aang said, shrugging. He continually took deep breaths, looking at Zuko as he continued to breathe. He merely nodded in approval.

"Keep your arms steady at your side and don't tremble in the slightest. Your legs have to stay in the same position for a long time now." Zuko said, circling Aang. Aang kept his focus straight ahead and continued breathing, tightening his arms. Zuko stopped circling and went to sit down next to everyone else as they watched Aang breath.

An hour and a half later. . .

"How long do I have to do this?" Aang asked, irritated by the coldness that had settled over his body.

"If you don't have patients then your never going to even master the basics." Zuko said from the side. Iroh, Zuko and Sumey were still watching intently but Toph and Katara had fallen asleep a half hour ago.

"That's what Jeong Jeong said!" Aang snapped back.

"Then he was smart. You have to learn to control everything. Your anger, emotions, breath, physical feeling, everything." Zuko said.

"Well you haven't even mastered all of that!" Aang said. He gulped as he realized what he had just said.

Zuko's eye's narrowed dangerously. "10 seconds." He growled. Aang immediately took off running. Zuko immediately stood up.

"Go a little easy on him. I still need an air bending teacher." Sumey said, smiling.


"You have to keep focused on your strong, balanced stances and your powerful strikes to the ground!" Toph yelled at the struggling avatar.

He was trying a new tecnic that wasn't really working out for him. He was supposed to keep the rocks and boulders circling around him in the air. As she said, this move needed a lot more concentration than he thought he would and keeping his stance and trying to keep the rocks in the air with only earth bending was a difficult task for him.

"Come on Twinkle toes! We've been at this for hours now!"

He gritted his teeth as he kept his arms raised and was about to lift his foot to slam into the ground to create more rocks. As soon as his foot left the ground the rocks fell to the floor with a loud thud.

Aang yelled out in frustration and fell to the ground. Sweat poured from his face despite how cold it was.

"You not concentrating!" Toph shouted as she stomped over to him. "If I can do it then so can you!"

"Not really! Your an earth bending master!"

"And your pretty close to one! Not to mention a water and air bending master! If you can master those elements and start to learn fire then you can at least do this tecnic." Toph replied stubbornly. Aang sighed and looked down at the ground.

"Your not going to go easy on me are you?" Aang mumbled.

Toph smiled "Not at all."

Aang sighed again and stood up. He got into the stance and swiftly started to move his arms up and around. Rocks slowly started to revolve around him as he stomped into the frozen ground. He smiled slightly as he thought of a way to make this work.

"No air bending!" Toph said abruptly. Aang made a face at her that ended with him face first in the dirt.

"Come on you can't even see!" Aang complained as he got up.

"Yes but I can tell. I'm smart that way." Toph laughed. She walked right up to him and said "Your not leaving until you get that move right."

"There's no way I'm going to get it!" Aang exclaimed, throwing his hands into the air.

Toph's lips curled into a smile before they were pressed up against his. He froze for a minute before closing his eye's and wrapping his arms around her waist. She pulled away with the same smile on her face and a goofy looking one on Aang's.

"Now can you do it?"

"Well I can always try."


"Since you have pretty much mastered water bending we're going to do something fun." Katara said with a smile as she led Aang to a large hill.

Aang looked down the steep slope. "And what are we going to do here?"

Katara merely smiled. "Watch."

She put her arms out in front of her and a large area of the hill was covered in ice. She jumped onto it and started sliding down on her feet. As she neared the end of the ice path she waved her arms again and another ice path appeared. But this one waved up and down, one part of it going high in the air and then upside down before straitening and leveling out. She slid through it all without falling once and Aang watched in amazement as she flew in the air and landed neatly on her feet.

"That was so cool!" Aang cheered. He could only see a faint figure of her and he wasn't even sure if she heard him.

"Make your own!" Came her faint voice from the bottom of the hill.

Aang smiled and thought of an idea for his ride. He started it the same as she did and as he reached the end he created a bigger loop-de-loop than Katara's. He made several, barely making it through some. When he came near enough to the end were he could see Katara he made the biggest ramp he could. He flew through the air and fell with a plop next to Katara.

"Wow that hurt like hell!" Aang smiled. Katara fell over laughing.

"Ok let's make some more." Katara said once she had calmed down.

"I have an idea!" Aang said, walking next to her.

"And what is that. Are we going to die if we try it?"

"Hopefully not. Let's try it on the penguins!"

Katara laughed. "That sounds fun. We should go get everyone else!"

"Yeah! Toph hasn't ever been penguin sledding before!"

"Speaking of Toph how are you two?"

Aang blushed slightly. "W-what do you mean?"

"Please Aang you don't have to hide it. We saw you guy's kiss earlier at your earth bending practice."

"We?"

"Me and Zuko."

Aang smiled slyly. "Speaking of Zuko how are you two?"

It was Katara's turn to blush. Aang's smile widened.

"We saw you guy's kiss." He said.

Katara gave an irritated sigh. "In front of my dieing grandmother too! How horrible is that!"

Aang laughed. "She's no doubt happy that you finally found the right guy."

Katara eyed Aang. "What do you mean by the right guy?"

Aang furrowed his brow thinking. "I don't know he just seems like the right guy for you."

"Hmph."

"What do you not like Zuko now?"

"No it's just that we were just enemies a few days ago."

"So?"

"I don't know it's just weird how much things are changing."

"Things are going to change. Even in the craziest ways. I mean things are already changing. There's another avatar other than me. Me and Toph are together, I guess. I'm guessing you and Zuko are together now too. The day of black sun is getting closer and closer and I know that that day is going to change everything. Things are changing all around us. It's just a part of life that we have to get used too." Aang said wisely.

By now they had made it to the top of the hill and were making their way back to the village to get the other's.


"I can't see on ice. Why one earth would I want to be speeding down a hill covered in ice?" Toph said as soon as she heard of where Aang was trying to get her to go. They were in the healers hut again. Sumey and Kuehm had been with Pang and Sokka and Suki had been to see Gran-Gran. Everyone else had followed because there was nothing else to do.

"Because it's fun!" Aang said with smile.

"There's nothing fun about not being able to see anything."

"We'll be sitting on the penguin's! I doubt they would run into anything."

"We?"

"Well unless you want to go alone. . ."

"Fine. God your annoying Twinkle toes."

Aang merely smiled and grabbed her hand, pulling her towards the others.

They heard Katara talking to the other's "We'll be sliding down these ice road things on our feet or on the penguin's. It's really fun, me and Aang have already tried some."

"Well I'm in." Sumey said, laughing softly.

"I'll do it but you know I'll fall off." Sokka mumbled.

"All the more reason for me to go." Suki said.

"I'll go if I get to make my own, too." Kuehm said.

"I'm not even sure if I'll be able to go on those things." Iroh said with a laugh.

"The least you can do is come with us. It would be fun to watch." Katara said.

"Well in that case I'll go with you."

Everyone then looked towards Zuko who hadn't said anything.

He looked around before saying "Fine. But I'll probably going to make a fool out of myself."

"So is Sokka but he's coming." Toph smiled. Sokka scowled at her and started walking.

It took a little longer to get there because Toph insisted on making an earth trail to the hill but as everyone got there they all smiled.

"Sweet." Sumey smiled.

"Where are the penguins?" Suki asked.

"We have to catch them." Katara said simply.

"And how do we do that?" Zuko asked.

"Fish." Aang answered, excitement clear in his voice. He pulled a small silver fish from his sash around his waist and ran away until he couldn't be seen anymore. With in the next minute he came running back with at least a dozen penguins at tow. He ran past them and Katara grabbed one of the penguins. She grabbed Zuko's hand and pulled him onto the penguin with her and they started down the path she had made.

Sokka looked after them in surprise before being pulled onto a penguin by Suki. Sure enough she picked Aang's crazy path and he landed face first in the snow.

Aang returned with one of the penguins and he pulled Toph onto it.

"Um Aang I'm not sure if I want to do this."

"What are you scared?"

"NO! I'm just-:

"Good." And with that Aang pushed off. Toph had her arms wrapped tightly around his neck but was cheering along with him the entire way down.

Kuehm had already made his own. This one seemed even more crazy then Aang's due to the fact that you had to climb 20 feet into the air to get to the top of it. He and Sumey raced down it. They laughed as they saw Aang and Toph speed past them. They laughed even harder when they saw Sokka try to go down Kuehm's path on his feet.


"Air is balanced. It is quick and swift. Since you already know the basics of air bending what we're going to work on is how to move and change direction without pausing or loosing momentum, as well as staying behind the opponents back." Aang said, trying to take on the strict teacher look but only succeeded in making himself look funny.

"Ok. . ." Sumey said sitting on her heels.

"Well first off how is your balance?"

"Fine I guess." Sumey shrugged. Aang walking over and pressed his thumb to her forehead causing her to tumble backwards.

"I can see that." Aang said with a smile.

"That wasn't fair! I wasn't ready." Sumey complained.

"Well a fire bender isn't going to wait until you say so to attack, Sumey." Aang was really starting to like being a teacher.

"Fine."

"And air bender's have to have a free spirit. Everything has to sort of be care free."

"So. . ."

"Let down your hair."

"No way!"

"Just do it! Everything has to be free. It isn't going to help if your hair is up in a tight knot."

"It's not up in a tight knot. Can you not see all the tiny strands of hair in my face. And I doubt putting my hair down will help with air bending." Sumey replied pulling some hair behind her ears.

"Just do it!"

Sumey glared at him before pulling her hair out of a pony tail so that it fell past her shoulders. There was a small indent in her hair from where the pony tail had been.

"There, happy?"

Aang rolled his eyes. He turned away from her and stomped into the ground creating a very thin pillar. He turned back to Sumey and said "Try balancing on that."

Sumey laughed through her nose before jumping up onto the pillar. She stood on one foot with her other one crossed behind her. Aang smiled and created another pillar before jumping onto that.

"Ok, now try moving around without falling." Aang said as he switched his position.

Sumey's face screwed up in concentration before bringing her other foot up from behind and placing it on the pillar instead of her other one. She stood stock still for a moment before she started waving her arms around. She let out a soft scream as she fell backwards into the snow below.

Aang watched the whole time. "This is going to be fun."


Yay! There's chapter 11. Liek i said im going to be gone soon so if you want a new chapter before then then REVIEW! even if you dont want a new chapter then REVEIW!