A/N: Welcome back to another exciting chapter of Life is an Adventure! So once again it's a pretty short story and I tried to move it forward without making it feel rushed but it might have ended up that way. Let me know what you think.

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Mazarine: You will have to read the chapter to see if you are a bender. And I don't think I could get everyone a cookie. :-P

PantherGhoul247: I will add you to the story but it most likely will be at the end of the story in the last or second to last chapter. Sorry but I will do my best to get you in there.

Cream-Pie13: PARIS! I am so freaking jealous! I want to go there so bad. Did you have an amazing time? And I put in a bit of the battle with Toph for ya.

Gazara: Ok I put things like asdasdas when I need to copy and paste a name in I don't know how to spell when I am on my ipad. Lol. So I went back and hopefully fixed it. Lol.

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Shadow'sAngel818: Yeah :-/ I didn't think I got them all. I put it on the list of things to change when I go back and re-edit the story. Thanks for letting me know. :-D And you will find out what happened with Toph this chapter. :-P

Patty Cake Rocks: Lol I am glad you liked it. And I am sorry I didn't get to anything this week. I had an interview for a different job on my day off. And the other day I got called into work. :-/ So yeah. But I will read it! :-D

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Mazarine stood there in front of Toph. "Umm. I don't think that I understand what is going on?"

Toph had done nothing more than twist her foot and the young woman was inches from her. "We are fighting. You brought this on yourself."

Mazarine looked confused at the small woman in front of her before she was suddenly thrown backwards towards a wall. Twisting in the air she landed on her feet. "What the hell?!" She yelled as earth came flying at her.

Jumping and dodging best she could.

"You should fight back before she kills you." Mika yelled from her spot.

Mazarine finally gave in. She had not wanted to do this but she had to. Jumping easily she dodged all the rocks flying at her. Slowly she began to jump off each rock.

Toph was confused she could no longer see the woman. It was as if she were flying like the monk. She strained herself to feel the woman's heart beat as she threw more rocks in the general area of where she had last felt her.

Mazarine was quickly making her way towards the earth bender jumping from rock to rock lightly.

Toph was starting to panic. The girl was a chi blocker. If she got too close Toph would not have a chance to block her in time.

Mazarine was less than five jumps away now. She was starting to look confident.

Mika and the others stared in awe from the sides.

"She is an airbender." Neikan said as he looked in awe.

Side stepping Toph tried again to feel the girl making her way towards her. But felt nothing. Until it was too late.

Sixteen steady hits later Toph could not move and fell to the ground.

"What the hell?! How did you do that?" Toph asked from her position on the ground.

The others began to walk up wanting to know as well.

"I am an airbender." Mazarine said quietly.

"Does Aang know?" Toph asked as Mika and Carmen helped her up.

"Yes. He is the one who trained me. When Ty Lee saw me move air one day she wrote to him." Mazarine said with a small smile. "Only Suki, Ty Lee, and Aang know. We are supposed to keep it a secret until needed. But there was no way I could beat you without it. So do you think you could pretend you don't know?"

Everyone looked at each other confused. "Why don't they want people to know?"

"They want to wait until we can all get together and tell everyone." Mazarine said looking around at the group in front of her.

"All get together?"

"There are more than just you?"

"Yeah. There seems to be a few. I have never met them but Aang said there are a lot more." Mazarine said slightly embarrassed.

"Toph did you know any of this?" Carmen asked.

Toph looked around at the group before sighing. "Yes and no. When we got married he told me he had been training some airbenders but he didn't tell me who or how many."

"Wait you married him? When?"

"We got married about two years ago now at an air temple. We have yet to tell my parents." Toph said in a voice that said if you tell anyone I will kill you.

"You have yet to tell anyone!" Mika spoke poking light fun at the woman.

"Well now that we know Mazarine is an airbender and Toph and Aang are married, can we get back to the task at hand," Sokka said as everyone turned to see him, Suki, and Iroh standing in the arch way as well.

Katara stood at the edge of the village. It had been over a week of looking for a needle in a haystack. Sighing she threw her head down in defeat.

"This is just ridiculous. Every village has a hawery. Who does this? They can't all send out this many messages." Katara whispered to herself sher chin hit her chest.

They had nearly checked every house. Sure the drawing Carmen had given them helped but it didn't make it much easier. The only defying feature was that the hawk had a silver feather in its tail. Not a single person had ever seen the bird much less owned it.

What was going on? How could this be so impossible?

"You ok?" Zuko asked as he walked up to Katara's slumped form.

Sighing Katara spoke. "I feel like we lost. Like we missed something. How could we have spent over a week here and found nothing."

"Well it is a big town." Zuko offered knowing that it sounded lame.

Katara glanced up from her slumped position. "Yeah I know."

The two walked slowly to a tree just inside the town wall and sat down. "What should we do?"

"Well I gave us two days to look before we should head home. And it's been two days." Zuko said as he let his head fall onto the tree.

Katara let her head sink to his shoulder. "I just don't understand. Carmen said she traced the hawk into this town. It left this town. How can we not find it?"

"It could just stop here and rest before it continues on its journey." Zuko offered.

"Someone should have seen it then." Katara countered.

"But we didn't question everyone we just asked a good majority of them." Zuko responded.

Katara sat there with her head on his shoulder making weird designs with her figure on his open hand. She was confused. She had never felt like this before. Sure she had hit a brick wall before but there was always something to help get her around it. At the moment they had nothing. This was all they had to go on. And they were needed back in the Fire Nation in case the invasion happened soon.

Zuko looked at the woman resting on his shoulder. He could tell she was becoming depressed. But what could he do. They had tried everything. What was left? He couldn't think of anything. He leaned in slightly and kissed her head before whispering "We will figure this out. Give it time."

Katara smiled lightly. When was the last time he had kissed her head? She couldn't remember. She missed it. She instantly felt re leaved. Sitting up slightly she turned to look at him. "Thank you."

Smiling he leaned in and gave her a small kiss. "Your welcome."

Katara smiled in return and went back to her position on his shoulder.

"How long till Samanya and Kom'rk will get here?" Zuko asked as he watched her draw randomly on his hand again.

"I was here for about 20 minutes before you came. So I have no idea." Katara said attempting to draw a flower on his palm.

"Not that long." Kom'rk said as he began to sit down across from Zuko.

"Anything?" Zuko asked as Katara pretended to erase the picture on his hand.

"No. No one had seen a hawk like that." Kom'rk said leaning back on his hands. "It seems like we went on a slight wild goose chase."

Zuko nodded as Katara sighed.

"Have we seen Samanya at all today?" Kom'rk asked as he looked up to the sky.

"Nope."

"No."

"I'm right here." She yelled from a ways off running towards them.

"Did you find anything?" Zuko asked as she neared them.

"Yes." She respond as she sat down.

The others looked at each other. "And?"

"Oh, and I had a sandwich that was amazing for lunch." Samanaya said as she crossed her legs.

Katara sighed and hung her head. Kom'rk looked at her confused. Zuko smacked his forehead.

"No what did you find out?" Kom'rk said as he shook his head.

"Oh. An old lady said that she takes food to a woman outside of town and had seen the hawk fly past her house from the north. And she believes there are only two houses up there." Samanaya said smiling.

"Which way does this woman live?" Katara asked suddenly not interested in Zuko's hand.

"She said she lives out the north entrance about a half days journey east towards the way we came from." Samanya responded as her stomach growled.

"There are no other entrances between there and here?" Kmo'rk asked as he pulled out a map of the city he had bought.

"She informed me that if you travel back through the city it takes longer to get through the crowds than if you walk outside of the town." Samanya spoke with a stomach growl.

"Where does she live on this map?" Zuko asked looking at the map.

"I would assume she would live somewhere in this general area." Samanya said after looking the map over.

"If we travel by roof top we could get there in less than half a day." Kom'rk offered.

All eyes landed on Samanya. They had all traveled by roof before bu they had no idea if she had. It was a little tricky because you had to keep your footing without being seen.

"I cn do it. But how long will it take us to find the other house?" She asked looking at the map. "There is a mountain up there and we have no idea how far north."

The three looked at each other. She had a point. It could be four or five days of wondering before they even found it.

"Then we should leave now." Kom'rk said rolling up the map. "We stop when we get to Gaiala Road."

And with a nod from the rest of the group they jumped to the roof and were off.

Less than 10 hours later they were all standing in front of a door.

"Well I think this is that woman's house. Let's ask here what she knows." Samanaya said as she looked around the area.

Zuko nodded and knocked on door.

"Hello. How may I help you?" An elderly woman asked as she opened the door.

"Yes we are looking for a hawk with a silver tail feather. Have you seen it?" Katara asked as she blinked her now brown eyes.

The old woman looked at them questionably. "Why?"

"He brought a threatening message to our master and we were sent to find out what happened?" Kom'rk quickly spoke being vague enough that she could fill in with what you wanted.

"Ahh. I have seen the hawk. He comes from North of here. I think there is a house about a day and a half up the mountain." The old woman said as she looked around the area. "But there is no way you can get there tonight. You can stay here tonight."

The group smiled and entered the house for the evening.

"I'm going to go with this is the house." Kom'rk said they stood at the top of cliff.

Below them sat what most would call a small castle. There was an outside wall surrounding a stone house. The house was large enough to fit at least 100 people comfortably.

"So ummm I am going to go with we might be out numbered." Samanaya said looking down at the people moving around inside the wall.

"No we are good. Zuko and I can easily take out that many people. But we have no idea how low the castle goes. There could be levels underground that hold even more soldiers." Katara spoke from experience. One of the people her and Toph went after had more than a small army hidden under his house. Toph could feel them so they waited until they had left before attacking. Here they were not so lucky.

"So then what are we going to do?" Kom'rk asked as he watched the people sparing.

Zuko looked at the group below as he ran plans in his head. He had no idea what Samanaya could do but guessing by the fact she had yet to run she could defend herself. If these were the only men they could easily defeat them and get to the man they wanted to reach. If there were more, he didn't know how they would fair. What should they do?

"Let's attack at dawn." Zuko finally spoke. "It is only a few hours from now and it will give us time to do some recon."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Katara you go north. Samanay you and Kom'rk go south and then Kom'rk go to the far side. I will stay here. Be back in two hours so we can get some sleep before dawn." Zuko spoke before they separated.

Two hours later everyone was back together. "What did you find out?"

"They seem to work in shifts that change every 30 minutes." Katara spoke. "They also seem to heavily guard the north corner tower."

"The west side did the same changing every 30 minutes. But I couldn't see the north tower. Nothing was heavily guarded on my end." Kom'rk added.

"They shift every 30 minutes. They seem to be guarding the north tower heavily. The fourth man in every group is not trained as well as the rest. He seems to be new. The head man holds himself as an assassin. The other two seem to be good with swords. Each group has a bender, most appeared to be Earth Benders. There were a few water benders. But they favor their swords over their bending as if they are not trained well in it." Samanaya spoke. "Their weakness seems to be in the southeast corner where there is a blind spot for about 5 minutes when they change positions."

Everyone sat there in slight shock. Had she really just said that?

"What did you use to do?" Kom'rk said shock plastered on his face.

"I have been a trader my entire life. The trades you learn along the way are just bonus." Samanaya spoke as if it were common knowledge.

They just stood there looking at her. "Why would you need those trades?"

"They are questionable places that you have to enter or people who come to visit you. For example. Zuko you favor the side of your bad eye. You try to over compensate for the fact that you can only see about 30% of the range you should. Katara you favor your left side because you're right shoulder is scared. It was town deeply and has yet to heal fully. Your range of motion is at about 70%. Kmo'rk you favor your sword because you have no bending abilities you try to always have a hand on i when traveling. Your reaction time is about 2 seconds." Samanaya spoke as she took a seat next to a tree.

Their mouths hung slightly open.

"So then we will go to the southeast corner and enter that way. Moving towards the north tower as quickly and quietly as possible. We find the man and get out as soon as we can." Zuko said as his shock wore off.

"Do we kill him?" Kom'rk asked.

"No we question him and then go from there. Capture if we have to and question him elsewhere." Zuko spoke. "We need to know if he already sent word to attack the Fire Nation."

"Agreed."

"I will wake everyone at sunrise." Zuko said as hey all took a seat to rest. Before finally falling asleep.

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