Okay! Next chapter! Thank you so much to those who reviewed. Everyone was so encouraging! Alright, I just want to clear up a quick typo I made. Jasmine lived on Half Shadow Island. The fight occurred on a different island. So oops! Okay, well here's the next chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar the Last Airbender. I do own Leiya and Jasmine! .

Leiya stared into the orange flames that lapped the night air. Appa had landed for the night, and they had set up camp. Sokka had insisted on starting the fire. Katara and Leiya exchanged glances, and Leiya waved a hand and helped him out. He didn't even realize.

Leiya's thoughts drifted to the idea of her sister turning against her. She had been upset by her mother's death. She had been upset of being separated from Leiya when her mother died. She was sick of Leiya getting more awards and attention.

Leiya also had more political power than Jasmine.

"Hey Leiya, why so upset?" Aang asked.

"Oh just thinking."

"About what?"

Katara gave him a 'stop it' glance, which he either ignored or was oblivious to.

"Do you know why Zuko follows you so much? I mean, what is his reason for stalking you half way around the world?"

"He said something to me about getting his honor back once. That time he and the pirates captured me." Katara replied.

"Oh." Though Leiya had been raised in a Crosswinds hospital, she had still belonged to the Firenation. She understood Zuko's predicament.

Leiya was lost in thought once more. She soon snapped out of it, and looked at the others with remorse in her eyes.

"Zuko probably did something wrong in the Firenation." Leiya started quietly. 'Yeah, like standing up for the lives of his people is wrong!' Leiya thought. She sighed, and began to speak again.

"If Zuko captures you, then he will have honor again, and then will definitely be the heir to thrown."

"Why capture me?" Aang asked.

"It was in the royal family to capture the avatar. At least Lord Ozai's family."

"That's firebenders for ya." Sokka said. "They're nothing but war machines! If you ask me, none of them have honor! They are all the same- cruel, evil, cold-blooded, killers!" Sokka didn't really believe his words, but he just needed to vent.

Leiya burned with anger. The Firenation may be cruel, but it was her roots, her family- no. Her old family. "Not all firebenders are like that." Leiya said, though frustration hid behind her words.

"There was a legend of a Queen far before Roku, before the war. Even before Zuko's family took the thrown. She led the country with a calm fire. It is said that her firebending was as quick as lightning, kind like water, but fierce like true fire. She prevented war. It was said that she held the world together with her power while the avatar fixed it for good. She was said to be the light in the fire. The world was a storm, and she was the light in it."

Sokka grunted. "She probably exaggerated." He mumbled.

Katara sighed and gave him a glare.

Leiya laughed a bit a Sokka's ignorance. Chances were it would take him a long time to understand.

"However, she died with a heir named from a different family. That is where Zuko's lineage takes up. Though there was a descendent from the Queen. There family is said to still exist. They must approve the new heir to the Firenation."

"Do you know who the descendents are?" Katara asked.

"No." Leiya said, with a wistful smile. "Lets get some sleep guys, it's been a hectic day." Leiya said with a smile.

"Yeah, goodnight everybody." Katara said.

"Night." Aang and Sokka said.

"Yeah, goodnight." Leiya said. But instead of drifting into sleep she drifted back into thought.

Meanwhile, on Zuko's Ship

Jasmine was meditating with a ball of shadows in her hands. Zuko walked in, his face shadowed in anger.

"You lost, you know that." Zuko said, icy and calm.

"I know."

"You lost to your sister."

"I will prove I'm better."

"But are you? I saw you falter- "

"I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!" Jasmine screeched. "I was there! I don't need help! I can help myself!" Zuko stared at her, shocked at her sudden outburst.

Zuko just stared know what a mistake he had made allowing this girl on the ship. 'I truly hope this is just hormones' Zuko thought. He could burn her to a crisp, but she could easily capture the Avatar.

Jasmine returned to her meditation. The nerve of that spoiled prince! However, some voice at the depths of her being knew that she did need help in order to master her power.

The sun had risen, and no one was awake yet. Sakura soared down and dropped a letter in her lap, a letter from an old friend of a Crosswind hospital. Crosswind hospitals helped all people, and were located in neutral water. She said that Leiya and her friends could take several days of rest there in return for help around the hospital.

Leiya told her friends of her plan to meet at the hospital up north. It was near the action of war, but still out of the way. Waterbending had to do with healing, so it would be good for Aang and Katara. Plus, there were warrior-training areas nearby for Sokka. The others agreed to fly nearly straight there, as it would take about three days. Katara and Aang could definitely practice Waterbending from the scroll there, too.

Soon the group was upon Appa. Leiya's golden eyes glowed with the amber morning sunlight. She was slightly worried though. Aurora, her friend from the hospital, might be in trouble. She would not send a message asking her to return to the hospital for no reason.

Leiya knew how to find cures and care for the sick. She was considered to be one of the best ever known. But that was her past. That chapter of her life was over. But…

Lately Leiya had dreamed of a new sickness. That would be dangerous. It would be up to her to stop it.

Well, now she and the Avatar were on to the next adventure, and hopefully a long way away from Zuko and his crazy dream of capturing the Avatar. Leiya's hopes were well founded, but hopes were never reality.

A/N Okay! This was more of a transition chapter. I am SO SORRY I didn't update before, I've been kind of busy with school…but now I'm less overloaded, so I'll update way more, and more often.