A/N: Sorry for the long wait guys! I was gonna work on this this past weekend but I was busy with other stuff, and since I get home early this week, I decided to update! This isn't that long, but that's because I didn't want to start the next episode with this chapter, so this is the end of the Boiling Rock! Yay! lol. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar, just Serenity.

Zuko's POV...

I stared at Azula and Ty Lee, as they watched us for a second, before suddenly they moved. Azula grabbed handcuffs from a guard's belt, while Ty Lee jumped up and started running on the wires. Azula used her firebending like a rocket, shooting herself up, wrapping the handcuffs around the wire, before heading towards us.

"This is a rematch I've been waiting for." Suki said angrily.

"Me too." I said, before climbing up onto the top of the gondola, with Suka and Sokka following me. The three of us got into fighting stances as Ty Lee landed behind us, near Suki, and Azula landed in front of us, near me and Sokka.

We stood silent for a second, before she kicked out fire at me. I blocked with fire of my own, glaring at her. I wasn't going to let her stop us.

Azula continued shooting fire at me, as I stood in front of Sokka, blocking him from the attacks. When she stopped firing at us, Sokka took his chance. He ran out from behind me, swinging his sword at her, but she dodged it, and retaliated with fire. I blocked it, and shot back at her. She dodged it, smirking, but her eyes widened as she saw Sokka's sword in front of her face, quickly having to lean back to miss being hit with it.

Sokka moved back behind me again as I shot more fire at my sister, who ducked by going down to the ground. She glared at us, before kicking her legs out towards us and shooting fire at us again, making us both dodge it.

I shot fire back at her, but she blocked and shot fire again, which I blocked, before we all stumbled a little as the gondola began to rock back and forth. I glanced around, trying to figure out what was going on, before my eyes widened as I noticed Sokka start to fall off the side.

Quickly I ran over and grabbed his arm, as the gondola stopped rocking, and pulled him back up.

"They're about to cut the line!" Ty Lee yelled, and I looked over at the prison to realize she was right! What did they think they were doing? Didn't they remember we had the warden with us?

"Then its time to leave." Azula said smirking at us, as I noticed another gondola making its way towards us. She shot fire at the ground, propelling herself upwards as she looked at me. "Goodbye Zuko."

I watched as her and Ty Lee jumped over to the other gondola, heading back to the prison. However, we didn't have time to worry about them anymore. We had to figure out a way to not fall into the lava.

I jumped back inside the gondola, with Suki and Sokka following suit. "They're cutting the line! The gondola's about to go!"

"I hope this thing floats." Sokka's dad said, and a few seconds later, we started moving again.

My eyes widened, confused, as Sokka ran over to the window. "Who is that?" he asked, and when I looked out too, my eyes widened even more. Only this time in shock.

"Its Mai!" I couldn't believe she was helping us, after everything I did to her! I guess she really did love me. That made me feel even worse about playing with her heart like I did.

Finally we made it to the other side of the volcano, and we all ran out as the door opened. "Well, we made it out. Now what?" Suki said, as we ran farther from the docking area.

I stopped and stared back at the prison, wondering if Mai would be okay. Azula wouldn't be happy about her helping us, and I knew how sadistic my sister was, even when it came to her own friends.

"Zuko what are you doing?" Sokka asked.

"My sister was on that island." I said looking at him.

"Yes. And she's probably right behind us. So lets not stop!"

"What I mean is she must have come here somehow." I ran over to the edge of the cliff, and saw what I was hoping for. A war ship. "There. That's our way out of here."

We all made our way down to it, before entering it, as Sokka went to the controls, and I followed.

"Oh by the way, Zuko, this is my Dad. Dad, this is Zuko, the father of your grandchild." Sokka said casually, and my eyes widened shocked.

"What?" His dad, obviously thinking he heard wrong.

I glared at Sokka as he looked slightly amused. I guess he was getting back at me now or something.

"Yeah, remember when I said Serenity got to know him pretty well?"

Sokka's dad stared at him for a second before looking at me shocked, angry, and a little disbelieving. "You mean you….and my daughter…..but…."

I bowed quickly. "I'm so sorry, sir. I never meant for this to happen. At least not right now… But, I love her, more than anything." I saw Sokka roll his eyes, before turning back to the controls.

His dad's eyes narrowed slightly. "Well, we'll talk about this more later. Right now, lets just worry about getting out of here."

I sighed and nodded, before walking over to Sokka to help man the war balloon. I tried my best to ignore is newfound amusement, as we started the balloon, and began on our way back to the air temple.

Serenity's POV….

It was nighttime now, and I couldn't stop thinking about how long Zuko and Sokka had been gone. I mean, I knew they might be gone all day, but all this worrying made it seem like so much longer.

"Hey what's that?" Katara asked, looking up at the sky. I followed her gaze, and my eyes widened as a war ship headed towards us. Instantly we all became on guard as it landed, and the door opened.

Fortunately, it wasn't our enemies who walked out. It was Sokka and Zuko!

"You're okay!" I yelled, running over, and without thinking, hugging Zuko.

My eyes widened a second later, and I quickly pulled away, staring at the ground, knowing everyone was giving me shocked looks.

"Don't think anything of that! I…I thought you were Sokka!"

"Right." Zuko said, smiling slightly, and I glared at him.

"What are you doing in this thing?" Katara asked, coming out of her shocked state for a second. "What happened to the war balloon?"

"It kind of got destroyed." Zuko said.

"Sounds like a crazy fishing trip." Aang said. Yeah, some fishing trip. Which made me remember something, as I glanced behind them. So….did they succeed then?

"Did you at least get some good meat?" Toph asked.

"I did. The best meat of all." Sokka said smiling. "The meat of friendship and fatherhood."

My eyes widened as three people walked off the ship. A girl, a tall guy, and…..

"Dad!" I said happily, running over and hugging him.

"I'm new." The tall guy said. "What's up everybody?"

"Hi Serenity, Katara." Dad said, as my sister joined us, hugging him too.

"How are you here?" she asked. "What is going on? Where did you go?"

"We kind of went to a Fire Nation prison." Sokka said, as Zuko nodded.

Dad pulled Sokka over, as the four of us hugged, glad to be back together again. I glanced over at Zuko, seeing him watching us smiling, and I couldn't help but feel my anger at him start to fade. I know he hadn't done all of this for me, he was helping Sokka, but still, to know he would go to such a great risk to rescue my father from prison….. well, it made me really happy.

"Seriously, you guys didn't find any meat?" Toph asked, and we all laughed.

"We'll get some food for you." The new girl said smiling.

Katara, Sokka, and I pulled away from our dad, as everyone started walking away. However, my dad stopped me. "So when were you going to tell me I was going to be a grandfather?"

My eyes widened, as my head snapped to Sokka angrily. "You told him?"

Sokka shrugged, looking slightly amused. "What? He would have found out eventually."

I growled and turned to my dad apologetically. "I'm really sorry Dad! I….I was going to tell you….but I didn't think the invasion was the right time."

My dad smiled. "You don't have to apologize, Serenity. I just wish you would have told me. Especially since the father is the Prince of the Fire Nation. That's a little big."

Again, I glared at my idiot of a brother. "You told him that too?"

"I figured he should know who he was going to be traveling with." He said, smirking, as I glanced at Zuko. He looked really uncomfortable, and I couldn't blame him. It was weird to have everyone find out and talking about this, when we hadn't even had time to sit down and talk about it. Well, I guess we did, I've just been too angry at him to actually do it.

Dad laughed, placing his hand on my shoulder. "Serenity, relax. I'm really not mad. I'm happy for you. It's good you've found someone to share a family with. And I'll be happy to attend your wedding."

I noticed the tension around everyone get a little tighter as I looked away awkwardly. I guess Sokka didn't mention to my father that Zuko and I weren't together anymore, let alone getting married.

"Hey Dad! Let me show you around!" Katara said, coming over and taking our dad's hand.

He smiled at her. "Right."

I gave my sister a grateful smile, as they walked away. She did always know when I didn't want to talk about something. Everyone else started to follow, Zuko following lastly. I watched him a second, before deciding I should probably say something to him.

"Zuko?"

He stopped, and turned to me shocked. I hadn't willingly talked to him alone since the first day he joined us, when I told him I wasn't going to be with him anymore.

I took a deep breath and walked up to him, smiling slightly. "Thank you. For saving my dad, I mean."

"Oh...you're welcome." He said smiling, seeming glad I wasn't angry.

I watched him a second, before giving him a serious look. "This doesn't change anything. I'm still mad at you, and I still don't trust you."

He sighed. "Yeah….I figured that."

"Good." We stood there a moment, neither of us saying anything. "Well…..we should go then."

"Oh, right."

I glanced at him, before turning and walking off, back into the temple, a small smile coming to my face. It felt really good to talk to him like that again. I meant what I said to him, about still not trusting him, and still being angry with him, but it was nice to know we could still have moments that reminded me of how we used to be.

A/N: Well that's it for now! I hope you liked it! Yay! Serenity is starting to forgive Zuko! Just a little though lol. Anyway, I'll try to get the next one out soon, so please review and let me know what you think!