Authors note: HELLO! My chapters aren't going to be as long as the past 2, I'm saving a really REALLY long one for May 11! So yeah. Zuko is back to his normal self.
"Well, want to get out of here?" asked Ayame.
"How?" asked Sokka. "Aang and Katara are in the Fire Nation and wont be back for long."
"But isn't that them there?" Ayame pointed to a dot in the sky.
"How can you see that far?"
"Oh no!" shouted Zuko. "You're not going anywhere! You're coming with me!"
"Do we have to?" asked Ayame. "I mean we're are kind of busy, right Sokka?"
"What?" Ayame elbowed him in the side. "Oh yeah! We were going to…" Sokka picked something out of his head. "We were going to pick flowers."
Ayame looked at him funny.
Sokka shrugged.
Finally Aang and Katara came above them on Appa.
"Hey Sokka!" yelled Aang. "Catch!" Aang threw a rope over Appa.
"EEK!" Ayame quickly moved behind Sokka to hide from the rope.
Sokka grabbed Ayame's waist and took hold of the rope. Aang quickly pulled them up and they were gone.
"Great thanks Ariel! You let the Avatar escape!" shouted Zuko.
"Technically you never had the Avatar," said Ariel. "You just Ayame and her boyfriend."
"Boyfriend?" asked Zuko. "How do you know?"
"I don't, but they sure do make a cute couple."
Zuko thought about this. He had fallen for Ayame, but not very much. What can he do? He loves Ariel, but likes Ayame.
Aang told Appa the directions and went back to talk with the others.
"So what did you guys do while we were gone?" asked Katara.
Sokka and Ayame both looked at each other.
"Oh nothing," said Ayame. "What did you guys do?"
"Oh we had the most best of times!" shouted Aang.
"Yeah, you two should have been there." Said Katara.
"Anyway off the subject," said Sokka irritated that he didn't go. "You only need to master earth and fire bending right?"
"Yeah," said Aang. "And the comet is in 5 months."
"We need to find you a firebender to teach you," said Ayame thinking. "Now where can we get a firebender?"
"Uh, Ayame," said Aang.
"No, don't tell me, let me think." Ayame scratched her head.
"Ayame you're a firebender."
"…Oh yeah! Aang I could teach you!" Ayame thought about it. "But we need to find a good source of water first."
"Why?" asked Aang.
"Well, I could start one of us on fire." Said Ayame. Katara shook her head with a smile on her face.
Ariel starred out into the sea. It was so beautiful. She lifted up her hand and started playing with the water, picking it up then dropping it, moving it back and forth, and splashing her face. She felt a hand go on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Zuko, he was also looking out into the sea. She looked back at it. There were dolphins following the boat. She found this amusing. She bended the water near them, they lost track of where they were swimming and swam right into the boat.
Zuko chuckled. "You haven't changed a bit."
"Neither have you," said Ariel dryly.
"I'm sorry about earlier," apologized Zuko.
Ariel was surprised. Out of her whole life, she never heard Zuko apologize before. "Yeah me to, it's just, I missed you so much that when I finally saw you, the Avatar got in the way."
Zuko stayed silent for a minute. Then he said, "I need to capture the Avatar to get back in the Fire Nation, it's important to me."
"Am I not important to?" asked Ariel.
"Yes you are," Zuko started playing with her hair. She stopped him.
"Is there anywhere for me to sleep?" asked Ariel.
"You can either bunk up with me, or with Uncle Iroh…choose wisely." Said Zuko giving a little smile.
"Well then I guess I'll bunk up with me favorite prince!" Ariel walked away smiling at him.
That night, Ayame couldn't sleep. For some reason, she kept thinking about that vision she had earlier in the market. What could it mean? Did it have to do with her past? Will it happen in the future? She didn't know. She just kept tossing and turning until she felt a hand on her back.
"What's the matter?" came Katara's voice.
"Nothing, it's just something's bothering me and I don't know what it means," Ayame tried to keep her voice down. Katara sat up next to Ayame.
"Yeah me to," Katara looked at the sky. "I'm afraid, I keep having these dreams, about Aang, and in them he seems hurt terribly. It is weird, I have them every night, but I didn't get them before until we met you," She looked at Ayame.
"There are so many thing's you don't know about me Katara," said Ayame in, for once, a serious tone. "It might be best not to ask questions."
Katara nodded her head.
Authors note: HEY! Yeah, you know the routine, PLEASE REVIEW!
What are these things that they don't know about Ayame.
How do Prince Zuko and Ariel know each other?
How can Ariel be bending air in one chapter, then water in the next?
It's all in the next chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!