Kaze bubbled into the shop of colorful apparel and jewelry. The store was named 'Eternity'. Chase followed Kaze to the mannequin where she studies each piece of clothing. Chase stared blankly at the strange bender, and walked over to the jewelry section. A tall lady, maybe in her early twenties walked over to Kaze with a sincere smile on her face. "Can I help you?" She said sweetly. Kaze nodded vigorously and squealed in approval. "Can you get this outfit for me? Its just to cute. I'm a size 5 in pants and 7 ½ in shoes." The woman bowed her head and bustled off, her heels clicking as she went.

"Come here a minute, Kaze." called Chase. She was hovering over a jewelry case displaying earrings. "Look at those." She said pointing at a pair of hanging earrings that had a white feather hanging down. "It's just screaming you name, don't you think?" Chase said, admiring the handiwork. Kaze made a face of credit for such a find, and ushered a young girl in a purple floral sun dress, that had yellow daisy print from behind the counter. "Will you get me those earrings with the feather?" Kaze said pointing threw the glass. "That will be 400 Kiscos (about $45)." The girl said putting the earrings into a blue box with a gold ribbon. Kaze pulled the money out if her amber pack and placing it on the table. The girl took it and gave her the little box. It was inscribed with gold cursive letters that said 'Eternity Jewelry'. I wonder how they get all those letters on such a tiny box?

Then the woman from before came back with the box of clothes. "Here you are miss-" but the woman had been shot over by flames, along with the front of the store. "What was that?" yipped Kaze looking directly at Chase, but she was clutching the display table in stun. The girl in the floral dress coughed from the fumes from behind the desk. Kaze jumped over the table and helped her up. The two other girls and a few other customers had already began to recuperate. "What happened?" Kaze asked desperately. The girl looked at her with her eyes full of pain and anguish. She said "The fire nation, some people said they where coming back, but I didn't thin-cough" the girl was panting from the fumes she had inhaled. Kaze let her rest against the table side. She turned toward the recovering fire bender. "We need to talk, Chase."

"I didn't do anything, if that's what your thinking." Chase said brushing off debris from her shirt. "I know, I pretty sure I can trust you but," Kaze stopped recalling what the girl had said. "That was the fire nation army, wasn't it?" She asked, her gaze intense. Chase gave her a look of disapproval, and picked up the box of clothes. "I had heard rumors in the camp that another war was going to happen, but I thought it was just nothing." She handed the box the Kaze, who looked stunned and pleased. Chase continued. "Rieon knows more about it than me." Kaze made a slight nod and said "So lets go find him."

"Um, you might need to pay." inquired the woman in the high heels.

After paying, the 2 benders walked outside, but not to a colorful marketplace, but to burnt ruins. Chase clapped her hands over mouth, and light tears filled her eyes. Kaze stood dumbfounded at the destruction. She then heard someone's voice. 'The past is repeating itself.' She jolted her head left and right, but know one but Chase was around to speak. 'You must stop that from happening." Inside my mind? She thought, but shook her head. No way, I'm the only one in my head, right?

Chase began to walk to the front of the gift shop that her friends where in front of, and found Serena's water tribe necklace, broken from the leather. "No..." Chase mumbled. "The fire nation took them!" She cried, slamming a fiery fist into the ground. Kaze's eyes widened. "Kokori. They took...them all?" She asked Chase, her hands quivering. "We need to get them back." said Chase getting up from her current mourning position. "You're the avatar right?" Kaze nodded her head, her palms tightening on the clothes box. "Then we should be able to save everyone, but we need to find out if Rieon and Yutaka are safe."

Chase rushed over to a small outdoor restaurant. "Why here?" asked Kaze looking at the sign that said 'Corner café'. "THEY WERE TAKEN TOO!" wailed Chase, pounding her fists into the ground until her knuckles started to bleed. "So we'll save them." said Kaze staring over to the harbor. She put down the box of clothes and pulled Chase off the ground.

In side the fire naval ship

Rieon was screaming and trying to brake the cell walls down. He kept thrusting his fists into the walls or trying to burn them down. Yutaka was the only other person conscious. "Stop it, Rieon. Your only going to hurt yourself." She tied to say in a soothing voice, but she was to nervous, and it came out very shaky. "DAMMIT TO HELL!" Rieon yelled as he fell to his knees to defeat. His hands were covered in blood as was the wall.

In the harbor

Chase and Kaze were sneaking around over 20 fire nation guards at the harbor. They were currently behind a large pile of metal pieces trying to formulate a plan. "We need to get in unnoticed, so..." Chase gave a wicked smile to a weak looking naval guard strutting along. Chase pounced and ambushed him with a flurry of fire. They stripped him of his armor and dumped him on the bow of a tiny fishing boat. Chase suited herself up and took a rope and tied Kaze's hands together. "Um..." questioned Kaze, but she didn't get to say what she wanted to. "I'm going to be a guard, bringing you as a prisoner." Chase told her as finished the knot. "Oh." Kaze felt a little dumb not realizing this sooner.

Chase lead Kaze to the front of the naval ship, Chase trying to look as regal as possible. She tried remembering things from the army training. "Halt, how goes there?" said a burly man from the doorway. "I have caught this girl wandering the harbor. Thought that she could be of some informational use." Chase said her strongest voice. Kaze thought she seemed awfully calm even though they could be discovered.

"Okay, where in." yelped Chase, burning the ropes off of Kaze. Now it was Kaze's turn to make a plan. "I go right you go left, first one to find them starts to destroy the ship. The other gets out, and take anyone out that gets in your way." Kaze said, her fists clenched together. Chase nodded and ran to the left, and bright fires licked there way around the corridor. Wow, good thing she's on our side.

Yeah. Hey there people. Just for an after word, this story is something that just sorta popped into my head. I might change one of the categories to romance, but that's not til later. Anyways, peace out!

puppykid.