It seemed like Aang had no hurry to reach the north-pole at all. They stopped often and unnecessarily. For example, Aang would stop at the Earth-Kingdom Omashu, to visit an old friend of him… It made no difference to point out to him, that this guy would be over a hundred years by now, if he was still alive. Aang wouldn't listen to any of their wisdom. And once the siblings saw the city from afar, they were simply baffled. It seemed like they had never seen a real city before in their lives. Kuzon was not sure if he had ever seen a real city before, but the Kingdom looked just like the Airtemple, just not so high up. Well, and maybe with some sort of different architecture, but what a difference did that make now?

Aang was really eager to show them the city, but Katara pointed out that it might be dangerous, if people discovered that he was the Avatar, now that they had the Firenation on their toes. So they decided that Aang needed a disguise. Good thing was that they had a furry beast with them that had enough fur to cover all of them with ease, if they needed it. But right now they just needed a bit of that fur. Sokka and Katara seemed to find it very funny to make Aang a moustache and a wig out of Appa's white fur, making him look like a very tiny, wired old guy. "This will never work…" Kuzon murmured to himself. "Have a better idea, Goldeye?" Katara hissed at him, causing Kuzon to shut up quickly. He knew he was not in a good position with the siblings right now, since they found out he was indeed a Firebender. Only Aang had kept him in the group. So he had to cope as good was he could, until he could proof himself worthy again. Katara was easy to change moods, and Sokka used to follow her opinion on people. So, one time she could be pissed and gloomy, and the next moment she could be nice and caretaking, just because you did something she liked…

Aang used his glider as a cane and changed his voice in what he believed sounded like an old man. He also started to walk like that, so the others shrugged and followed. They had to pass a long stone-bridge over a deep canyon. Luckily the bridge was wide enough for three Sky-Bisons to walk next to each other, without being in danger to fall. They still tried to keep themselves in the middle of the road, just to be on the safe side. On closer sight the city did differ from the Temple quite a bit… It looked as if it was made of sand, building different-sized pyramids. And it wasn't all that cold any longer. Aang was telling them that they would love Omashu and that people there would be oh so friendly, when they finally reached the entrance. As right in front of their eyes three guards were shouting at a salesman and were earthbending his cart down the canyon. Kuzon wanted to interfere, but Katara caught his arm and held him back, signalling to shut the hell up. They didn't need more attention right now. "Just keep smiling!" Aang told them, put on a huge smile and went on.

Kuzon soon was sure that there had to be cities with friendlier people than that ones. They bended a rock out of the bridge and held it over Aang's head with bending. "State your business." They snarled. Though Aang slipped away from the threatening stone and was in front of the guy before Kuzon could even think to tell that so called guard his opinion. "My business is my business, young man!" Aang told the guard, causing the guy to drop the rock, causing a quake strong enough to cause Kuzon to fall. Aang went on insulting the guy, as if he was a grumpy old guy with a lot of selfesteem. It made the trick of letting the guard take a step back, and just asked for their names. Aang claimed to be Bong-Su something, which sounded really complicated and called the bunch behind him his grand-kids. Kuzon was sure no one would fall for that, since they obviously looked so different, but Katara went forward and greeted the guard nicely, making a name up herself, stating the same complicated surname like Aang had. To Kuzon's surprise the guard decided that Karata looked like a responsible young lady and tasked her with making sure Aang stood out of trouble and let them pass. Kuzon wondered if all earthbenders were this dumb. As the guard stated "Wait a minute!" he though suddenly feared they could read his thoughts, but they simply caught Sokka by the shoulder and lessoned him to show respect for the elderly and carry Aang's bag. Aang smiled and threw his bag at unhappy looking Sokka. As all of them stood before the wall that blocked the entrence, the guards earthbended it apart in three layers, making the siblings and Kuzon stare in awe.

They entered the city after Aang and the walls closed again behind them. They now were able to see some sort of slides going through the whole city. Carts filled with goods rushed by them on the slides. Aang explained that this was the Omashu-delivery-system. It worked with earthbending bringing the stuff up, and the slides bringing them down using gravity. Sokka seemed not too impressed by that, until Aang told them about another use, his friend Bumi had invented for the slides: Going down in a cart themselves! And again they found out why Aang had brought them here, as they had finally reached the top and Aang had found an empty cart to use as a gondola for sliding. "One slide, then we are off to the North-Pole." He promised. Kuzon sighed. This was so not going to be fun. He knew. He wasn't good in daring things… Also Katara suddenly got second thoughts about the whole thing, as she saw the angle of that thing going down, but Aang wouldn't even let her finish her sentence and start kicked the cart on its way by leaning forward. They all reacted far too late to stop it.

They shot down in breath-taking speed, causing the siblings to clinch to the wall of the cart and Katara screaming. Only Aang was laughing merrily, while Kuzon was sending prayers to the sky. He didn't want to die yet. Not while he did not even know who he was! He didn't even notice his hands clinging to Sokka's clothes, who sat right before him. Suddenly Aang's laughter stopped, and as Kuzon opened an eye to see why, he nearly was sure they were doomed for good now. On the slide right next to them was a cart with spears on it, tips facing down. "We won't end on the same slide as them, right?" he tried to say, but found himself unable to speak. And exactly that did happen. And even worse, the spears landed exactly behind them, only inches from Kuzon's back, closing in fast. He ducked, and Sokka did so too, but there was not enough room in the cart for both of them to hide. Kuzon felt as one of the blades ripped the skin on his back head. "I'm on it!" Aang cried back to them and somehow he threw the chart out of line, causing it to fall down from the slides. Kuzon didn't think that any better, and judging by the cries of the siblings they thought so neither.

The cart harshly landed on the roof of a house, bawling them heavily, pressing the air out of their lungs, and causing Kuzon to bet he now had some broken bones for sure. They bounced off the ground, on to another slide, leaving a lot of damage behind, and giving them a lot more of bruises. Katara finally asked Aang to use Airbending to slow them down, but Aang completely misunderstood and made them even go faster. Kuzon now pittied sitting in the rear, for now he couldn't hit Aang, without crawling over Sokka and Katara on the way, and he really preferred not moving too much right now. It got even worse, as the cart before them came to a sudden halt, and so Kuzon decided to close his eyes, so he at least wouldn't see them all die. Impact made them all being catapulted away, and Kuzon found himself, like all the others, falling. Luckily Aang caught them all with airbending and put them safely back in the cart. Still the impact on just another roof was really painful. "Please, stop…" Kuzon whimpered. But they wouldn't stop. So Kuzon closed his eyes again and clung onto Sokka and hoped that they would somehow survive. They ended up on the streets of the city. Kuzon coughed with pain, since all of them were lying on top of him. Now he really hated this city.

Worse, they got arrested for it. The soldiers ignored their begging and whining and dragged them to a huge building, into a dark hall. There they guided them before an odd looking old guy on a throne, and made them kneel before him. A guard called the guy "Your majesty" and named him a list of crimes they had been arrested for. Never again would he let Aang land anywhere else than they had to. This kid would kill them all with his reckless behaviour. Or get them thrown into jail or something! The guy who they had seen in front of the gates losing his goods was there also, asking the king to cut off their heads for destroying his cabbages. Luckily he was not to decide on their fate. And the surprisingly stupid judgement of this guy was to throw them a feast. Kuzon simply stared at the guy in disbelieve and so did all the others in the room.

So soon later they were provided with all kind of stuff to eat and drink, and Kuzon would have happily dug in, for they hadn't really had a real meal since they had left Kyoshi, if he hadn't felt so sick and nauseous from their suicidal ride down the delivery-system. It also didn't help the wired king skirting them and telling them that the people of his city had gone fat with too many feasts. Katara noticed, as the guy left for the other side of the table, that this guy was kind of crazy. "No kidding…" Kuzon murmured.

As the king sat down on his place on the other side of the table, he asked Aang where he was from, and Aang decided to lie and named his homeland "kangaroo-island", causing the king to state that this place was really "hoppy". Sokka started to laugh about that, but Kuzon guessed it was only from politeness. Pretending to be tired, the king seemed to stand up to leave, but instead he suddenly pulled a chicken leg out of his clothes and threw it at Aang, who had stated before to be vegetarian. Aang caught the meat with airbending right before his face. Kuzon knew this was going to be trouble.

Of course the king revealed Aang as the Avatar right on the spot. Aang let the chickenleg drop at once, but it was too late now anyways. As he noticed that, he got up and announced that indeed he was the Avatar, doing his Avatar-thing, keeping the world safe. Kuzon nearly laughed out aloud on that. Keeping the world safe? Quite the opposite, wasn't it? "Everything checks out, no firebenders here." Aang continued, taking a look under the table. Kuzon tensed again. "Soo good work, everybody…" Aang smiled, hugging Katara and Sokka who were seated at his sides. Babbling on he pulled them all backwards towards the door, but of course the guards wouldn't let them pass. "It really didn't help that Katara went all "You can't keep us here" on the king. For making another word-joke the king stated that the Avatar would face three deadly challenges tomorrow, and made the guards "show them to their chamber".

They were shoved into a room that was all walls and some furniture bit neither had windows nor a door… if you were no earthbender that was. And as fate had it, none of them was. Katara noticed that the room looked nice, and in fact the green-linend beds looked quite comfortable. But still they were looked in, and Kuzon really didn't like being locked in. They didn't even had a candle in here… "I wonder what this challenges are gonna be…" Aang muttered, examining his glider. "We are not sticking around to find that out." Katara decided "There's gotta be some way out of here…" That was when Aang discovered the Air-vents. "I can't speak for you, but my head does not fit in there…" Kuzon murmured. "Momo can fit in there!" Aang explained. Kuzon highly doubted that though. The Lemur had gained quite some weight at the feast and was looking more like a pregnant cat right now.

It turned out that Kuzon was right again. Momo's head fitted in, but his tummy was far too full. He got stuck. So the plan of getting Appa to bust them out, which Sokka agreed with Kuzon was highly unlikely anyways, failed by getting out the message. Katara gave up pretty quickly and decided they should get some rest. She crawled into one of the beds. "We can't wait until this nuthead feeds Aang to some monsters, can we?" Kuzon complained. "Do you have any better ideas, Goldeye?" Katara hissed at him, causing Kuzon to send a Fireblast against the next wall with a cry of desperation. "Oh, great! Let them find out you are a firebender, will you?" Katara snapped "Then they will kill all of us! Nicely done!" "There is no one here, is there?!" Kuzon hit back "And I'm not willing to wait until they decide to look for us again, in some years!" Another fireblast followed, and then another, but the walls were unimpressed by his effort, and he went out of breath quickly too. So there was no other thing to do than finally give up and crawl into bed like the others. Although every muscle in his body hurt like hell, he quickly fell asleep, once he had closed his eyes.