It was a very cold blue night when Appa and I finally flew to Katara and Sokka's hometown. As soon as I landed at the gates I was greeted by Katara.

"Gyawa!" She smiled while hugging me. I sighed in contentment it was awhile since I had actually friendly attention. "How did it go? We're you guys able to get the Spirits to settle down?" She asked taking my thoughts to the one thing I didn't want to remember.

"Don't remind me, they weren't spirits. It was Azula acting one and I think I might have ruined things with Zuko." I rambled but clearly Katara didn't get a word I said.

"Avatar Gyawa!" Hakoda said as we walked closer.

"Nice to see you chief Hakoda." I bowed.

"It's actually head chief Hakoda, now." Katara corrected me.

"Oh, congratulations." I smiled leaning on my staff.

"Thank you, Gyawa." Hakoda replied with the same bow.

I then remembered how small this town used to be compared to how big it was now. "I see you've rebuilt." I commented with a slight smile.

"Yes, with the help of North, I've really improved. Why don't you two go and enjoy the festival?" Hakoda stated, I nodded before following Katara.

"Thanks, dad." She waved.

As we walked in the town square I saw the streets lit up and people everywhere, even Toph, Aang, and Sokka. "Toph! Sokka! Aang!" I smiled as I ran up to them.

"Hey Twinkle Sparks." Toph smiled nudged my arm, and by nudging I mean hitting, I chuckled and hit her arm back.

It felt good, getting my mind off things with the Gaang, playing a ton of games and winning them all.

"Woohoo! Come one and all! Come marvel at Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe's manly, manly, beanbag-tossing skills!" Sokka announced after winning another game.

"I'm marveling, I'm marveling." Toph shook her head, holding all our prizes.

"Guys, I think someone's about to give a speech!" Aang tried to say but I could careless.

"I hear too many of those. I'm actually having fun for once." I waved a hand as I walked close to Sokka to make sure Aang got the point.

"Whatever. I only like speeches if they're by me." Toph grinned, pointing at herself through all the stuffed animals.

"Hold on. Let me claim my prize first!" Sokka said. "I'd like that giant polar bear dog, please." He smiled, as he pointed to the cute looking polar bear dog.

"Here's yer prize." The man said, handing Sokka a little stuffed rat making both of us shtick.

As we walked back to Toph, she seemed to be searching the ground for something. "What is... that?" She asked.

"I know right? What a rip-off." Sokka replied thinking she was talking about the toy.

"No, not that... underground... I feel something... someone coming towards us!" She stood up facing toward us.

"Your powers of perception are frightening." I shrugged, I did not want to get in yet another fight.

"Hey you copied what I said!" Sokka scoffed putting his hands on his hips.

"Would've felt it sooner if it weren't for these stupid things!" Toph said kneeling back down to feel the icy ground. "Heads up, team Avatar!" She yelled at Katara and Aang who were listening to the speech.

"Shhh! Some of us are trying to listen!" An old lady shushed at toph.

"Tonight, we're thrilled to announce a new partner in this venture: Earthen Fire industries! Representative Toph Beifong,"

"I think she prefers executive partner." The woman giving the speech began to say.

"Executive partner Toph Beifong where are you? Would you like to come up here and say a few words?" Her brother corrected her.

"Yeah, I'd like to say a few words! Everybody get out of here!" Toph yelled running through the crowd.

As she did a drilling sound was getting louder and louder, all the way till it cut to the surface. As it did water tribe men along with two older men on the top came up.

"Hear me, people of the southern water tribe! I am Gilak your true brother! Many of you know me! We came of age together! We've shared meals together! We've bled together in foreign lands! You know that I am of your blood and flesh of your flesh! So you must believe me when I tell you that these two scoundrels from our so called sister tribe are not here to help us! They are here to subjugate and humiliate us! They want to strip our land and destroy everything we are!" The man yelled pointing his sword at the woman giving the speech, I had no idea what's was going on. But I was getting a pretty good one from what he was saying.

"What are you talking about?!" The woman asked.

"Recently, they discovered oil beneath our homeland-"

"Oil that will bring prosperity to your people!" She interrupted him, there had to be a catch if he was this riled up.

"Oil they're going to claim for the north!"

"Wait. What?!" Toph asked, I really had no ideas what was going on.

"No! That's not true!" The woman defended.

"I have proof!" The man yelled showing a briefcase.

"My briefcase!" The woman's brother yelled.

"I've read through your documents! I know all about your plans to make the Southern Water Tribe a colony of the North!" The southern water tribe guy yelled.

"That's preposterous!" The woman declared.

"You want the Northern Water Tribe to decide how the oil's extracted, what it's used for, and where it's shipped! What would the South be then, if not a colony?"

"That is not our plan!... but it used to be. We never used the word colony... but we did worry that the South wasn't ready to handle such an important resource. We were wrong." The northern woman said, losing her head.

"No! We weren't! I tried to tell you, but you wouldn't listen, Malina! I never destroyed those documents! I never canceled the plans!" Her brother yelled, I looked over to see Katara and Sokka boiling.

"What?!" His sister gasped.

"You woulda've found out sooner or later. As would you all, so I may as well tell you now! The man in that... that ridiculous tribal getup speaks the truth!"

"Maliq! What are you doing?!"

"Once that oil is out of the ground it will be under northern control! It's what has to be done!" He explained with anger as he yelled every word.

"What he saying isn't true!" His sister tried to convince a crowd that was already taking sides.

"Can you believe the gall of these northerners?! During the war, our blood kept them safe! And if it wasn't enough, now they want our oil to make them rich!" The old man on top of the drill yelled pointing at them.

"You think this is about money?! You have no idea what this oil means, not just for your own backward society; but for the world!"

"Maliq!" She shouted at him.

"This oil changed everything!"

"Stop!"

"This oil is our pathway to a future of equality! And we can't trust the future to a culture so mired in the past!"

"Please..." she tried to plead to her brother.

"You southerns need the oversight of an actual civilization! You can't even come up with a cohesive set of laws-!"

"Stop talking!" She now yelled.

"People of the Southern Water Tribe, I deeply regret the hurt that my crew and I have caused. We are stepping down from the southern reconstruction project, effective immediately. We'll leave the South Pole first thing in the morning." She said trying to mend the situation, which wasn't good.

"Oh, no. After what you've done, you don't get to just leave. For the tribe!" The old man cheered and pointed his sword at the northerners for his men to charge

"Yeah I don't know what's going on here but I ain't gonna let them die!" I said with a shrug, no one had to die. "Aang and I will go get them somewhere safe-"

"-while Captain Boomerang and I will keep everyone else from pummeling each other!" Toph said, intrrputting me, but I'd let it pass, because she's Toph.

"'Captain Boomerang'?!" Sokka scoffed.

"Oh, don't act like you don't love it when I call you that, Captain Boomerang!" Toph grinned back before we ran to take the fight to the center of the city.

As I ran up to a group of men, I kicked a huge fire blast at them, a few of them fell, considering they aren't benders. As they tried to get back up I shot more fire at them, only a few got behind me and grabbed my arms.

"You can't bend if you can't move!" One growled as they held me tight. I then heard the drill coming near and turned to see if was heading for me.

I kicked Earth under both of them, making them fly. And turned around to metal bend the drill, which worked perfectly.

"Gyawa, come on!" I heard Aang yell as he and Katara ran by me. I immediately followed.

We ran as fast as we could to the outer gate, but apparently not fast enough. When we got there the old man from before had his sword in Hakoda's gut.

"Nooo!" The northern woman gasped in horror.

"Dad!" Katara also shouted.

I used fire bending to jump start my running even faster to get to the old man. But Katara already had it under control. "What did you do to him?!" She shouted as she froze him in a solid block of ice.

"It's that waterbender girl, again!" A brother and sister said, "Run!"

As they tried I shot fire at them before bending the snow under them and freezing them in place. When I turned around, Katara was already healing Hakoda. "I'm here, daddy. Stay with me. Stay with me." Katara said slightly crying, as Aang and I sat next to her.

As Aang, Toph and I waited outside Gran Gran's house, in the freezing cold, Aang explained everything. Yet another war stirring, I sighed, it never ended.

The next day, Katara told me about two southern water benders who didn't want to show that they were benders to anybody, so she figured I could help.

"Sura and Siku, I'd like you to meet the Avatar." Katara said as her, Aang, and I walked in Pakku's school to see the two little girls.

"Hey, but you can call me Gyawa." I waved with a smile.

"Whao! No way!"

"You're really the Avatar?!" They gasped in amazement.

"Oh yeah." I grinned, I didn't know why though, at the moment I was kinda wishing I wasn't the avatar.

"And you're her friend?!" They asked as Katara and I bended the water in a barrel.

"Katara taught me water bending and helped me end the war." I replied with smile.

"How come you didn't tell us that when we met you at the festival?" The oldest one asked Katara.

"Would it have made a difference?" She asks back.

"We would've been nicer."

"A lot nicer." The two hidden water benders stated.

"So now will you tell us the truth? Are you actually water benders?" Katara asked, kneeling to be eye level.

"Look, ever since we were little mommy gave us one super important rule we had to always follow!"

"Always!" The little one added.

"We couldn't ever let anybody know about the real us!"

"Ever!"

"If we did, monsters from the Fire Nation would take us away!" Even if the older one was older they were after all still kids.

"Or worse!" The little added again.

"It's not like that anymore, the war is over." I tried to said.

"But then three weeks ago, that cranky old man shows up in our village?" The older girl sighed.

"Hey! Who're calling cranky?!" Pakku mumbled.

"He does a few waterbending tricks and yammers on and on, and somehow that convinces mom to send us with him!" She said.

"I don't 'yammer'! Who says I 'yammer'?!" Pakhtuns was clearly annoyed.

"We don't care if you're the Avatar!"

"Or the Avatar's friends! You're not making us do anything we don't wanna do!" They said, as they ran out of the school. Back home if we did that we would be suspended.

"Well, that didn't go the way I thought I would." Aang commented, who I completely forgot was there.

"Maybe they're just not ready, Aang. This is a big change, and they're so young. Maybe we shouldn't be pushing all this into them." Katara shrugged but with concern.

"You're probably right." Aang replied.

"Teaching is hard. Take it from me. You should've seen how hard it was to teach proper boomerang techniques to Sokka." Hokoda said, walking in leaning on a cane and still bandaged.

"Dad!" Katara smiled.

"Probably just as hard as it was to teach a certain avatar to pay attention during his waterbending classes. Not to name any names." Pakku gave me a you know what I'm talking about look. I just shook my head as I kept my hands on my hips.

"Head chief Hakoda, welcome to master Pakku's waterbending school!" Pakku greeted him.

"Thank you for all that you're doing for the South Pole, Master Pakku." Hakoda bowed, I could tell he was still badly wounded.

"You mean, building an empty school and frustrating a couple of children? You're welcome." Pakku sighed with a smile.

"What are you doing here?" Katara asked.

"I was out on my morning walk. Wanted to see what you three were up to." Her father answered.

"But you're still in pain!" She sighed.

"Thank you for the help, Katara and Gyawa. Why don't you accompany head chief Hakoda the rest of the way? I'll keep trying with the kids." Pakku slightly smiled, thought I could tell he wasn't looking forward to it.

I slowly followed as Katara and Hakoda walked out to the street sidewalk.

"Dad, you should've waited till we got back at Gran Gran's." Katara said, with a worried tone as they walked side by side.

"I woke up this morning feeling good, stronger than I've felt in a long time. Figured I ought to try going out on my own." Hakoda smiled a smile of no concern.

I looked to my shoulder as I found Momo landing on it. "Hey Momo! you found Some breakfast?" Aang smiled as he showed us some nuts he found. Which I wasn't interested in eating.

"You've become quite the healer, Katara. I wouldn't be up on my feet if it weren't for you. Actually, without you and your friends, I'm not sure I'd be here at all. What is it that you call yourselves again?" Hakoda asked.

"Team Avatar." Katara answered.

"Sokka came up with the name." I smirked, he came up with all the names.

"Ha ha. Well that's right. Well, thank you for saving me, Team Avatar. Thank you for saving the city." He smiled in my direction.

"It was no problem chief Hakoda." I smiled back.

"After getting an up-close view of Team Avatar working together to defeat Gilak, I'm convinced more than ever that the Southern Water Tribe has to collaborate with the other nations to move forward. It took people from all four nations to save the world. It will take the same to reconstruct the South." He explained with confidence that reminded me of Sokka. I had to admit, I agreed with him though.

"Dad… don't you think you're being a little naive? Gyawa, Aang, and Toph half are friends. I know I can trust them. But there are people like Maliq out there, people who don't have our tribe's best interests at heart. Invite them in, and they'll make the South into a cheap imitation of themselves... or worse!" Katara said, like it was the worst idea of ideas

"Katara has a point, outside of the air nomads, the southern water tribe was probably hit the hardest by the war." Aang added, making me sigh.

"What are y'all talking about? The world is moving on, it's time the South did too." I directed at Katara, I had been noticing that she was holding onto the past, how Aang described things.

"The risk you describe is real, I must admit. But Katara, think about what you all were trying to do back in Master Pakku's school. A northerner, a southerner, and air nomads, all working together to recover a tradition that was almost lost. That's the kind of collaboration we need." I could see no matter how much Katara said this was an awful idea, If Hakoda had an idea he wasn't going to drop it.

"Well, maybe after we've recovered more fully on our own. Maybe after you've recovered more fully, dad." Katara said, clearly hating the idea, even if that was what was going on in Yu Dao.

"Katara, we can't wait on this. I've already sent invitations to the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom. We're having a conference this evening. I'd like you both to be there."

I sighed, I knew that meant Zuko. And I knew that meant stress, and that was all I needed.

Later, when I was training, I found my moves more aggressive than usual. I mean, they're always aggressive but I had heard that Zuko was in the same city I was in, a few weeks ago I would be so happy and run to him. Now... now I was just disappointed.

As I shot a huge blast of fire at nothing, I heard a familiar enchanting voice. "Gyawa?" I looked over my sweaty shoulder to see it really was Zuko standing at the door leaving it wide open.

He looked relatively happy to see me, I wanted to be the same, but I felt nothing. "Hi." I replied, going back to my training, I honestly just wanted him to go away.

"How are you?" He asked still leaning on the freezing door, it as like cold had no effect on him.

"Fine." I replied with no emotion, or at least trying not to.

"Gyawa?" He asked, making my earth boulder hit the wall in frustration.

"Yeah." I was starting to show my aggravation.

"Are you okay?" He was full of questions today, I on the other hand wanted him to go away, I turned my back to him.

"Never better." I answered throwing ten fire balls.

"It just seems like you're…" his silence automatically turned me around.

"What?" I snapped.

He sighed knowing what came next would infuriate me. "Ignoring, anger, I don't know, I can't really tell." I was about to shout at him, tell him what was really bothering me, but instead I took a deep breath and took my training stance again.

"Well I'm good, stop worrying." Gritting hidden teeth. "Not that you care." I whispered under my breath and a fire blast.

"What does that mean?" Zuko rose his voice, and I didn't whisper it turns out.

"Nothing. So Why are you here?" I asked, trying not to snap.

"I can't visit my girlfriend?" He said, becoming defensive, folding his arms and doing that thing he does with his head.

"That's not what I meant." I said trying not to make this a break up scene. He just scoffed and shook his head.

"What's up with you?!" He now rose his voice.

"What's up with me?! What's up with you!" I busted, pointing at him with narrow angry eyes. I could feel the anger in my throat and finger tips, I had to get it out.

Mommy just slapped daddy at the dinner table!

"Hey guys-" Katara stopped in her tracks walking in from the door seeing the tension.

"Hi, Zuko." She nervously smiled.

"Hi." He replied folding his arms again looking the other way from both of us.

"I was just going to say that, um- My dad is ready for the meeting." She said in an awkward tone.

"I was leaving anyways." Zuko hissed before stomping off.

"Are you two okay?" Katara asked with concern.

"What does it look like? We're great!" I mocked throwing my hands up like Sokka.

Katara sighed and sat on the door frame, motioning me to seat with her. "I got to admit, the first time I thought you might like Zuko I didn't like the idea of it." Katara confessed making me smile.

lWhen did you find out?" My curiosity got the best of me.

"That time you and him got separated from us in that cave." She smiled; "it's different now."

"And more difficult." I sighed, laying on the floor.

"Did you two fight?" She said laying next to me.

"Mm you could say that... and you couldn't." I shrugged putting my hands together.

"So you aren't on good terms?" Katara just had to stick her nose in this.

I didn't answer, only stared at the ceiling. "I know!" She gasped sitting up. "We can all go to dinner, a double date, after the council."

"I don't think-" I tried to protest.

"Oh come on Gyawa, it will be fun." She had a wide smile before getting up and almost running off.

"Yay." I rolled my eyes, I knew it would be far from 'fun.'

Later, at the council, I sat at the head of the table ahead from Hakoda, tapping my fingers on the wood.

"...A modernized harbor…world…tribe... tribe…world. Embassies." Was all I caught. I was too busy seeing how much Zuko loved this council.

"Here! Here! Here!" Sokka yelled knocking me out of my daze.

Only to go right back, now I was staring at the door, just imagine if I flew off to the Earth Kingdom and never came back. Made a cute little house and fell in love with a no drama, handsome loving fire bender.

"Gyawa, are you with us?" Hakoda asked, making me look up at his icy blue eyes.

"Yeah..." I flung my head up from the table, instead of oddly looking at him with my eyes barely gazing up.

"You can count the Fire Nation in, head chief Hakoda. Your people have suffered so much destruction at our hands. We are grateful for the opportunity to help you rebuild." Zuko said, with a smile, I silently sighed, I felt like a kid in school.

The Earth kind talked and then Katara but I still didn't pay attention, if it was important I would find out.

"Head Chieftain Hakoda, we've just received an alert from the prison! Gilak and his army--!" A guard yelled as he ran in, only to get knocked out by a boomerang right in front of us.

"--Are here." Gilak growled with a grin grabbing the boomerang.

I immediately stood up, this was something I could drown out, it looked like my unwanted date wasn't in the books.

"Look at you, 'head chieftain' Hakoda! So eager to sell out your tribe to foreign masters!" Gilak said.

"Officer Lirin?! You're with them?!" Hakoda asked the officer who charged in with Gilak.

"I'm sorry, but Gilak is right about our tribe. We're in terrible danger and you're too blind to see it!" She answered without hesitation.

"Don't you hear the cry of your people, Hakoda! Foreigners out!" Gilak shouted before charging with his men.

I immediately ran in front of the Earth King, Zuko would take care of himself.

Two big soldiers ran towards us, I kicked a fire blast and punched air at them. They both fell to the floor.

"Oh, dear!" The Earth kind gasped, hiding in the corner.

Since there was no one attacking me at the moment I looked around to make sure the Gaang got it. And sure enough they did.

"We need to get them somewhere safe!" I said, as I ran up to Hakoda while holding the Earth king's arm.

"I agree, get the Earth King and Malina someplace safe!" Hakoda ordered his men.

"Hakodo, I want to stay to help!" Malina gasped, grabbing his arm.

"No, Malina! You're one of Gilak's targets!" Hakoda yelled back before blocking a boomerang.

"The doorway's blocked!" A soldier shouted pointing to the doors.

"Then let's get them out through the windows!" Hakoda replied.

"Follow me." I ordered his men, still holding the Earth King's arm as he shivered.

As we began to walk, shattered glass splashed in front us, a whole new force of men now stood in front of us. "There's too many of them!" Soldiers gasped.

They soon began to hit the soldiers by chi blocking them. I shot a fire wall; "Chi blockers." I hissed, they were the worst. Except Ty Lee.

As I tried to keep them off, one snuck up behind me and chi blocked my arms, I kicked air at him. He dodged and chi blocked my legs. I immediately collapsed.

"If you want to get to them, you'll have to go through me!" I heard Hakoda yell, I couldn't turn to see anything, only the ceiling.

"You think I can for the foreigners? No, Hakoda. I'm here for the real enemy. You!" I heard Gilak hiss before hearing swords clashing.

"My stay in prison gave me time to ponder all that's happened, 'brother'! I realized that you are the root of our problems! You're too weak to lead us!" Gilak explained as they fought. "The southern water tribe needs a leader who won't betray his people —a leader like me!"

I then heard Hakoda groan in pain, and Katara and Malina scream out his name.

"Let's go! We got what we came for!" Gilak yelled.

"Stop him!" Katara gasped.

"For the tribe!" Gilak cheered.

"Monkey feathers! His moving too fast!" I heard Aang said as they began chasing them, leaving me there alone.

Literally no body payed any attention to me as I laid on the floor unable to move.

I soon heard foot steps quickly walking up near me.

"It wasn't the plan but if we take her they won't have the Avatar to help them." A kid about my age said to the other, it was clearly those two chi blockers.

I then felt big strong hands grab me and carry me like I was her bride. Oh you shouldn't have.

"For the love of-!" I yelled before they chi blocked, gagged me, and righted me up. They didn't leave anything to chance.

~Zuko POV~

After losing Gilak, we walked back with Head Chief Hakoda.

"Malina..." he smiled as we walked up to the courthouse.

"Thank heavens you're okay!" She gasped running to open the doors.

"Never thought… city police…would be so rough." He smiled as he hugged her.

But my mind went to the empty door way, where I would imagine Gyawa standing, she wasn't, and neither was the Earth King.

I ran in the hallway, frantically looking around for her pure face. "Where— no!" I gasped as I felt sweat reach my forehead to my cheek.

"What's wrong, Zuko?" Toph asked.

"Gyawa!" I tried to say, but it only came out as a mumble. "They took Earth King Kuei... and Gyawa!" I looked over to Toph and Aang, growing fear in my hands and eyes. I couldn't let anything happen to her.

~Gyawa POV~

They made the Earth King walk, gagged, while I had to be carried because they chi blocked me every hour or so. Wasn't the best day, all though look on the bright side, I didn't have to go on an awkward date.

They took us to a camp for a bit before moving again. When we got to the location, I could finally turn my head to see it was a rope bridge, I didn't know what they had planned but it looked like some serious Indiana Jones going on.

It wasn't to long before they lit the torches and chi blocked me, again. I could see the bridge, but only guess what was happening.

"You're up dirt King. Get moving." Gilak growled pushing on on the rope bridge.

"Ow." Kuei remarked to the shove. "Oh…heavens…!" I heard him gasp as he kept walking

"Don't look down, your majesty!" Hakoda reassured him.

"I-I don't know if I can do th-this!" The King shivered, they soon began to reach the level where I could hear, I only saw that they were getting closer.

"Let me go." I growled slightly looking up a Gilak from the snowy cold ground.

"Not a chance." He grinned like he had already won.

"They've reached the middle, Gilak." A soldier reminded him like he was blinded.

"Then it's time to say goodbye." He grumbled getting ready to cut the bridge. Like I said, Indiana Jones here.

I could only do one thing, there was one thing they didn't chi block, and that was my mouth.

As accurately as I could I shot a huge fire blast from my mouth with a loud roar. Just like how Zuko tried to teach Aang, ok cannon, only better.

"Get her!" Gilak ordered as he recovered.

"Gyawa!" I heard Zuko yell in fear.

"What--!?" Gilak gasped as his sword fell from his hand by ice.

"That's no way to treat your head chieftain, Gilak!" Malina said as she ran up.

"Malina!" Gilak hissed.

"I'm a builder, not a fighter so I don't really know how to use my bending for combat." Malina explained, why would she tell him that?

"Don't tell him that!" I squealed.

"Good thing my friends here do." She said, as the metal benders ran up, how and why there were there I don't know. But I was grateful.

"Who are you?!" Gilak asked them.

"Revealing to you the ephemeral labels laid upon us by society itself!— would be naught! They'd be rattled away by the impending battle, like so many marbles in an open hand!"

"Huh?" Me and Gilak asked, at the same time to the dark one's odd answer.

Gilak looked down at me, "Yeah I didn't get it either." I shrugged my not movable body.

"What the dark one's trying to say is, we'd tell you our names, but what's the point?"

"We're about to beat you senseless, so you'll probably forget." The other two metal bender said before they pummeled Gilak and his men.

"Take a cold hard look at yourself, Gilak. Your entire army's been taken down. Surrender and I'll ask the head chieftain to give you more mercy than you deserve!" Malina said, walking up to Gilak after completely knocking out his men.

"To scum like you?! Never! For the tribe!" He yelled before running on the bridge, with viscous eyes.

Meanwhile the dark one put me on a stone column so I could see.

"Gilak! What do you think you're doing?!" Malina gasped as it became obvious what he was doing.

"You won't win today, Hakoda! Even if I have to lose, you won't win!" Gilak spat as he put the torch in his hand to the rope bridge.

"What are you--?! Are you mad?!" Hakoda gasped, the Earth King watch in terror.

Before anyone realized it, Malina was grabbing on to Gilak's arm. "How dare you touch me, northerner scum!" He yelled as he tried to get free.

"Let go!" Malina gritted through her teeth trying to get the torch from him.

As they wrestled each other, the torch and flame suddenly when out.

"Just in time." Zuko sighed as he now stood on the bridge.

Only taking out the fire didn't seem like a good idea when we all heard a loud snap, and cracking.

Just like Indiana Jones the bridge split in half and quickly began to fall to the cliff sides.

"No!" The yell flew out of my mouth as I watch Zuko hold on for life. He couldn't die, yeah sure I was mad at him but he couldn't die like that.

When they now hung on the cliff side before grabbing the Earth King's hand and flew up using fire bending. I sighed, I didn't know why I got rilled up, he always survived.

When Zuko got back up, one of the bridge columns began to collapse, but luckily Toph was there and used Earth to keep it in place. Soon Katara made an ice bridge so Aang and her could climb down. I hated not being able to do anything.

Only when Aang got them all on his glider, Gilak began to swing at Malina. Soon what he was trying to do worked, and he free fell to his death.

As Aang tried to get Hakoda and Malina to the land, Malina let go, and was about to do the same as Gilak, when Katara made an ice bridge and grabbed her.

I sighed in relief, Katara and Aang got everyone safe, and they didn't even need my help, Aang wasn't even the Avatar.

Later, the Gaang and I was in Gran Gran's kitchen cooking dinner. Zuko was making something while me and Sokka watched.

I accidentally stood in Zuko's way as he tried to the throw away something. "Excuse me." He stated, I sighed moving away.

There was a long silence, very awkward if you ask me. I folded my arms and made sure not to look at Zuko, who was glaring me down like I owed him money. And I didn't.

"Why are you mad at me?" He suddenly asked.

"I'm not mad at you!" I defended. He just tilted his head and folded his arm knowing I was lying.

"It's just… it took a situation in your country just to get you to write me!" I loudly stated not about to hold the anger out of my voice. "And when I got there... you... you treated me like some official you could boss around!" I threw my hand up, showing my frustration.

"I didn't mean to-" Zuko tried to say.

"I know you didn't mean to, that's what bothers me! That you'll treat me like that again, when..." I didn't want to attempt I needed someone in my life, special not right now.

"What?" Zuko snapped almost in a growl.

"When I need you." I spat out, folding my arms and looking the other way at the fire. "I don't know how else to say it, but it seems like you just don't now how to treat me sometimes." I finished in a more soft tone.

"Look, I'm sorry." He apologized after rubbing his eyes in frustration.

"I know you are." I protested, I didn't want to hear apologies.

"Than why are you angry at me?" He asked with a scoff shooting out his arms with clenched fists.

"I'm more angry at myself really, I'm a fool, that's all there is to it." I replied once again looking at the fire.

"You're not a fool." Zuko tried to reassured me, but I was already mad at myself.

"Yes I am! You... I expected you to treat me like a girlfriend and when you didn't, I got hurt! I was a fool for letting myself think you wouldn't!" I rose my voice and I now had clenched fists, I seemed to always be mad at myself for everything.

"Okay, awkward. Feeling the tension, leaving the kitchen. Who's with me?" Sokka asked all the others, who I forgot was even there.

"Yep." Toph reports before they all left, me and Zuko waited to keep talking till they left.

"Well how do we work through this, Gyawa? I don't want us be like this!" Zuko asked, definitely annoyed or frustrated with me.

"I don't know okay, now's not the time!" I snapped louder holding my head, I was about to stomp off when I felt his soft warm hands grab my bare arm and fling me to him.

Our heavy breathing came closer and closer as I felt his hand slide down to my waist and his soft lips attack mine. I froze, I did not expect him to kiss me.

But I didn't do anything, even if Zuko was my boyfriend we didn't kiss a lot. And I got to say, you can't say no to Zuko kissing you.

His eyes sparkled as he slowly pulled away, I didn't do anything only stared in his galaxy of gold that he called eyes. He seemed concerned by me, but I ignored it and walked back out like I had planned.

I got my red coat and went out to cold night sky. I leaned against the house and took a deep breath and exhaled making it look like I was smoking.

Everything that was happening with Zuko, the promise, me almost killing him, us fighting, me angry at him, him kissing me out of nowhere, deep down I knew this would be part of the relationship. If this was a fan fiction I could enjoy it and say it was so romantic, but at the moment it felt far from that. I felt like an idiot.

Another victory, yet I felt like I was losing somehow, I had to set things right. But I didn't know how, I didn't know if Zuko could.