"Did someone loose something?" Katara asked, as we walked through the brush to see Aang and Sokka looking everywhere for something.

"No we found something!" Aang replied, making Katara more confused.

"It's burned, there was a battle." Sokka stated, as he found a burned arrow head. "Water Tribe warriors ambushed a group of Fire Benders, the Fire Benders fought back but the warriors got them down this hill." Sokka took us out of the forest, from following the tracks.

"So then what happened?" Aang asked, after we ran to the beach.

"I don't know, the trail ends here." Sokka said, as he stood alone in the sand.

"Wait look!" Katara shouted, as she pointed to a Water Tribe ship.

"It's one of our boats!" Sokka gasped.

"Is this dad's boat?" Katara asked, touching it like it was home.

"No, but it's from his fleet. Dad was here!"

That night we set up camp there, it was night when Sokka heard something. "Who's there?!" He warned at a man walking up.

"Sokka?"

"Bato?" Sokka and he said, to each other, as they recognized the other.

"Who the what now?" Aang asked, as he got up.

"Bato!"

"Sokka, Katara, it is so good to see you two! You've grown so much." Bato smiled, as they hugged him.

"Hi, I'm Aang." Aang waved, only to realize they worn't paying attention to him.

"Where's dad?"

"Is he here?" Katara and Sokka asked, over each other.

"No. He and the other warriors should be in the Eastern Earth Kingdom by now."

Aang looked back at me barely getting out of bed.

"This is no place for a reunion, let's get inside." Bato said, after a cold breeze rushed by.

"After I was wounded, your father carried me to this Abbey. The sisters have cared for me ever since." Bayou explained as we walked into an Abbey. "Superior, these are Hokoda's children. They've been traveling with the Avatar. I found them by my boat." Boto said, making a gesture to us.

"Young Avatar, it gives me great joy to be in your presence. Welcome to our Abbey." The superior nodded, and gentle smile.

"Thank you, it's nice to see someone still carry out traditions, if there's anything-"

"What smells so good, Bato?" Sokka as he sniffed the air, completely interrupting me.

"The sisters craft ointments and perfumes." Bato replied.

"Perfume. Maybe we could dump some on Appa, because he sticks so much. Am I right?" Sokka asked, holding his nose.

"You have your father's wit." Bato commented to Sakkasm.

"Bato, it looks like home." Katara gasped as we went in the room the sisters made for him.

"Everythings here, even the pelts." Sokka added, as they sat on the furs, around a fire.

"Yeah nothing better than dead animal skins." Aang said, looking around uneasy.

"Aang." I nudged.

"No way, stewed sea prunes?!" Katara gasped, as she opened the pot on the fire.

"Help yourself."

"Dad could eat a whole barrel of these things." Sokka commented.

Meanwhile Aang and I almost gagged at the taste of it.

"Bato, is it true you and dad lassoed an arctic hippo?"

"It was your father's idea. He just dragged me along. Well the hippo did the dragging." Bato replied.

"Hey I ride animals too. One time there was this giant eel and I-" Aang tried, to explain to only get cut off by Sokka. And animals aren't the only thing Aang will ride. If you know what I mean…

"So who was it that came up with the great blurb fiasco?"

"You knew about that?" Bato laughed.

"Everyone does." Katara smiled back.

"What's that story?" Aang asked, as I curled up in a corner

"It's a long one, Aang, some other time." Sokka waved, not even looking at him.

"You and dad had so many hilarious adventures."

"Not all of which were hilarious at the time, but everything's funny with hindsight. Hey Aang, please put that down. It's ceremonial and very fragile." Bato said, to Aang, who was messing with a wolf head skin.

"Was it you or dad that got the idea of putting a octopus on your head and convinced gran gran you were a water spirit?" Sokka asked, while Aang put the hat back as he felt out of place.

"Your dad wore the octopus, but I did the spooky voice."

Meanwhile, I didn't feel anything. Just when I would see Zuko again, it felt like that was all I thought about. I never expected to actually see him, and now that I did he was better than I could have imagined. He just had to be mine.

"There's something I should tell you kids, I'm expecting a message from your father." I heard Bato say as I came out of my thoughts.

"Really?!"

"When?!" Sokka and Katara asked over each other.

"Any day now, your father said; he'd send a message when they found a rendezvous point. If you wait here until the message arrives, you can come with me and see your father again." Bato's blue eyes shimmered from the fire.

"It's been over two years since we've seen dad. That would be so incredible! Katara?" Sokka looked over to his sister.

"I do really miss him. It would be great to see dad."

"It's been far too long hasn't it." Bato replied. "I'm not sure when word will arrive, but when it does we can go."

I looked over to see that Aang left. "It would be great, but we can't, we have to take Gyawa to the North Pole first." Sokka sighed, kicking back to why they left the South Pole in the first place.

"Even if we had time to wait for the message who knows how far we'd have to travel. We don't have time for a long detour." Katara added.

"I'm sure your father would understand, and be proud that his children are helping the Avatar." Bato smiled.

But then I remembered that they could just take Appa. Katara hadn't lost her necklace, so I doubted there would be any danger. "No, you can go. If you go with Aang and Appa, it will make it faster for you. Then once your done we can meet back at the North Pole. Everyone's happy." I suggested, sitting next to them.

"Yeah but what about you?" Katara asked.

"I'll just use my glider, it'll be fine." I whisked my hand.

"Aw Thank You, Gyawa!" Sokka gasped, as he gave me a huge, huge, hug, like his life depended on it.

"Hey everyone, sorry I was gone for so long." Aang said, as he came back in.

"Hey Aang, I didn't notice you left." Katara replied.

"Yup but now I'm back. Sure could go for some delicious sea prunes. Mmmm argh. Mmmm." Aang stuffed in a terrible food and almost spitting it out.

The rest of us all looked at each other like that walk he had did something to his brain.

The next day, when me and Aang were feeding Appa, right when I was about to tell him about our plans he dropped a piece of paper from his coat.

"Oha I caught you, you should be ashamed of yourself. Littering in the courtyard." A sister said, as she grabbed it.

"I'm sorry, I'll take care of this." Aang quickly replied, snatching it back.

"Yeah what is that Aang? What ya hiding?" I rose an eyebrow, with a huge smile as I snatched it from the snatcher.

"Gyawa wait- I." He muttered as I opened the wrinkled map.

"What?! This is the map, they've been waiting for! Aang?!" I asked, looking back down at puppy eyes.

Damn those puppy eyes!

"Gyawa, you have to understand! They are going to leave without us, Gyawa!" Aang pleaded.

"Aang, you didn't hear the whole thing. They weren't going to leave us. But I came up with a plan where we could all be happy. Ya'll go on Appa, while I go on my glider to the North Pole and we meet up there. Aang it will be fine." I put a hand on his shoulder.

"I don't know." His puppy eyes looked at the ground, twirling his fingers.

"Trust me on this."

"So your not mad I tried to keep that map from them?" Aang asked, looking back up at me.

"I'm going to forget you did that." I answered, as I as about to start running to find Katara and Sokka.

"Messenger came! It's for Bato." I shouted, as I jumped through the bushes, they were on the beach looking at the Water Tribe boat.

I handed it to Bato, Sokka and katara immediately leaned in to look. "This is the map to our father! Thanks Gyawa! Mwa." Sokka said, with excitement as he kissed me on the cheek.

"That's what I do it for." I replied, trying to pull away, letting out an awkward chuckle.

That evening we packed up and got on Appa.

"Be careful, Gyawa." Aang warned.

"I'll be okay. Bye Aang." I smiled, as I waved.

"Good luck." Katara waved along with Sokka.

"Appa yip yip." Aang said as they pulled away, I could tell Aang didn't like it one bit.

"Goodbye, superior." I said nodding to her. Man I was saying a lot of goodbyes.

"Goodbye, Avatar Gyawa." She replied, with the same nod.

I flew on my glider through the forest for sometime, before I landed to take a breath. Just when I was getting my strength back I heard a noise coming from the forest.

I turned my head to see the horror June's beast. I gasped and threw wind as fast as I could. But when my hand was out the beast licked me on the wrist.

I immediately collapsed and fell on the dirt. Helpless.

"So this is your girlfriend. No wonder she left, she's way too pretty for you." June remarked, as she held her pet down.

"Finally I have you." That beautiful face of treachery hissed, as he stepped down.

I had completely forgotten about how my necklace was gone. Zuko had to had taken it, and now I was all alone with poison in me.

As Zuko picked me up I yelled in frustration as I tried as hard as I could to move. It was like every muscle was asleep or frozen.

"Let me go! Zuko, please!" I shouted, as he put me on the saddle.

"I'm afraid I can't do that. Let's go." Zuko growled, as he put me in front of him, just in case.

I started to panic, when I wanted to see Zuko again I didn't mean like this. I started to breathe heavy, I hated how being defenseless felt.

"So where do we go?" June asked.

"Back to my ship, where you'll get your reward." Zuko replied, as I stared at him. June smirked before lashing near her pet's head to move faster.

"Zuko please, let me go." I pleaded.

"No! I have you now and I'm never going to let go!" Zuko hissed back, as he kept a hand on my ropes.

"You know Prince Zuko, if you keep this up people might start to think you have feelings for the Avatar." Iroh teased.

"What?!" Zuko snapped back, being completely caught off guard.

"Yeah, didn't your mother ever tell you how to treat girls?" June added, I looked back around to see Zuko actually blushing. Real red cheeks, a little really red. I felt like rubbing my eyes to make sure but I couldn't moved my arms.

"How did you find me in the first place?!" I asked.

"Your necklace lead us right to you." He answered, holding it up for me to see.

"Give me my necklace back!" I hissed.

"Why? You won't need it where you're going. Once I deliver you to my father, My honor will be restored while you sit in a cell the rest of your life. And don't bother to try and escape, you can't scream your way out of this." Zuko growled, as he put it back.

Just when he said "scream" I remembered that there was a way to make your voice heard over long distances. I remembered how to do it too, so I took a deep breath and exhaled to shout. "Aang! Appa! Aang!"

"Cry out all you want! Your fate is sealed." Zuko stated, to my helpless screaming. I could only hope he heard it, so I waited. It was all I could do.

Awhile later, when it was almost night. I could hear in the distance, a groan of a bison. "Aang over here!" I yelled, with my sound waves again.

"Shut your mouth!"

Just then Appa swiped down threw a wind blast with his tail. "Appa!" I ahouted with relief.

"Up!" June snapped, at the shurshu.

Aang threw a huge wind blast at Zuko, who threw a few fast fire balls back.

"Come on let's go!" Sokka shouted, as he cut my robes.

"Actually I can't move." I replied, with a scoff.

"Oh." He paused, before grabbing me and realizing there was no place to put me.

"Appa yip yip! Aang let's go!" I barked orders at them.

They all took my word. Aang blasted a swip at the beast for Appa to be able to take off.

"Yip yip!" Aang shouted as we all finally got on.

"What happened?" Katara asked as she saw I couldn't move.

"I uh, ran into Zuko who had a shurshu, which paralyzed me temporarily. I hope." I explained my sorry state.

"What can we do?" She asked.

"Nothing, I think. Hey where's Bato?" I questioned, still not able to move.

"We dropped him off, he'll be fine." Sokka replied.

"Hey I'm getting some feeling back." I smiled, as I could move my finger. They all looked at me like I was hopeless.

"So where do we go?" Aang asked.

"We're getting you to the North Pole." Katara replied, looking back at me.

"Yeah we've lost too much time as it is." Sokka added.

"Don't you want to see your dad?" I asked, as Katara sat me up. They didn't know how much I'd to see my father again.

"Of course we do, Gyawa. But your our family too. And right now you need us more." Sokka sat next to me, I couldn't move my head to him so I wobbled my head towards him.

"And we need you." Katara added.

"Thanks, sorry about that. I forgot about Zuko's honor." I smiled, always pull the honor jokes.

They all laughed, but it was a lie. I completely remembered about Zuko, I just didn't know he could track me down like that. How could I forget that face? I mean really? Zuko? He's ZUKO!