Confusing Feelings

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Chapter 6

After Aang and Katara's embarrassing morning, they packed up camp and prepared to leave. After everything was in its bag, and all the bags were loaded onto Appa's back, and they were about to take off, a voice called out from the woods.

"Sokka!"

A girl in the traditional outfit of a warrior from the island of Kyoshi emerged from the early morning mist. She ran towards them and stopped to catch her breath before speaking.

"Suki!" Sokka exclaimed, wrapping his arms around the exhausted girl. "How did you get here? Why? What's going on?" After regaining her composure, Suki began to answer his questions.

"How I got here is not important! Zuko has returned to Kyoshi and enslaved all of the men, no matter their age or physical condition. The women and children have been either locked up or sent to the Fire Nation. My warriors and I were able to escape, but we have not found a way to free them, and we need the Avatar's help!"

She then passed out in Sokka's arms, causing him to blush despite the circumstances. Aang, Katara, and Sokka all looked at each other, unsure of what to do. Should they wait until Suki woke up, or should they head towards Kyoshi immediately? Finally Aang spoke up after a minute of thought.

"We have to go to Kyoshi, I'm not going to let Zuko enslave innocent people for no apparent reason." He said with and angered look on his face.

"But what if it's a trap and he's expecting you to do just that?" Katara asked.

"Don't you think I've thought about that? It doesn't matter if it's a trap; I have to free those people somehow! We'll just need to be extra careful, since we don't know what he's up to. Are you two with me or not?" Aang looked at them defiantly.

"Of course we are, Aang." Katara slid her fingers through his.

"Then let's get going!" Aang climbed on top of Appa, and Sokka carefully set Suki down on a blanket near the rear of the saddle (A/N: Is that what you'd call that thing?) and settled down next to her. Finally Katara climbed up, and they set off towards the rising sun.

As they approached the island of Kyoshi, it didn't seem as if anything was out of the ordinary. Villagers were walking around, bartering in front of food carts on the street, busily going about business as usual. Suki started to stir, and Sokka crawled over to her.

"Are you alright?" He asked, gently touching her forehead.

"Oh, I'm fine," she said with and evil smirk. "It's yourselves you should be worrying about right now."

Seemingly out of nowhere, a barrage of fire shot up towards them. Appa swerved this way and that to avoid the flames that now seemed to come from somewhere in the woods below them. As he swerved, Suki fell from the saddle, plummeting towards the earth below.

"Suki!" Sokka cried reaching for her. Aang and Katara held him back.

"That isn't Suki, is it?" he asked them, his face crestfallen (A/N: Love that word!). Katara shook her head.

"It must've been some sort of actress hired by Zuko to lure us here. She had me fooled too, don't take it too hard Sokka." She said, trying to comfort her brother.

Aang turned to face them. Seeing the look on Sokka's face at the discovery of Suki being a fake made him feel terrible that it was really him who caused it. Why should Sokka or Katara suffer for me? Maybe I should just go with Zuko and end their troubles. He mentally slapped himself. That would just cause everyone more trouble. Katara's scream brought him out of his thoughts. Fire was all around them and Appa was descending quickly towards the forest.

"Appa! Snap out of it, boy! Yip, yip! Yip, yip!" He cried in desperation. "We're going down!" He said, looking horrified at Katara's matching expression.

End Chapter 6

A/N: I'm SOOOOOOOO sorry for not updating in a while. I got sidetracked by summer school, and then high school! Yes, folks, I am a freshman now, and I turn 15 in on the 27th of October heck yes! I will TRY to keep up with this more, because I'm getting good reviews, but my English teachers doesn't think as highly of my writing as my lovely reviewers do :-\. Still, I'll try!

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