Alright, doing well so far…though I'm missing a couple regular reviewers here, Where ARE JOO!? (sob) Let's get going before I get off track!

Disclaimer: Gad I hate these things, egh. I don't own Avatar…eghhhh…

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She couldn't help but return for more.

No matter how much it hurt in the end she would try and try until she would make a dent. Fighting him had gotten harder, and defeating him was slowly becoming unreachable. But she still challenged him. She still strived to defeat him.

It came to the point where she would feel emotional pain when she fought him. A clench in her chest would occasionally distract her when she would catch his eyes, this would give him his opening and ended with her defeat.

She would get up again though, she wouldn't fall to him. She wouldn't.

She would through her arms towards him, her water sailing in his direction, but it was too obvious, too slow. With barely any effort he would evaporate her water with a bit of fire and just watch her as she struggled to retain her breath.

"Why?" He would ask, pain was clear in his voice. It made her believe for a moment that fighting with her was probably causing him pain too. She would grunt and force her weakened body into a weak stance.

"Not…yet." She let out, breathing deeply with her nose only, her eyes were getting heavy with exhaustion and it was getting harder to keep her feet firmly on the ground.

Her view suddenly swayed and tilted and she could feel herself falling into someone's arms. "Why don't you just stop?" He asked her, his voice was close to her now, yet she swore he had been several yards away.

She looked into his eyes again, his cold golden eyes and smiled before seeing black. 'What a Glutton I am.' She thought before drifting into the darkness of sleep.

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