Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Avatar: the last airbender, but I do own my character and ONLY my characters. Though in my dreams I go to the world I dream of some many times and visit my homeland of Fire. I am a Firebender lost in a new world. I have no clue why I just wrote that!

An American Firebender

Chapter 3:

The next couple of days were pretty boring, but May found it interesting learning Firebending. Iroh would teach Zuko and May at the same time. Iroh would try to teach Zuko a new move and have May try to block it. May was pretty good actually. Well she knew some of the moves, because she did some in karate. It was hard to block some of Zuko's fireballs though. May was catching on quickly. Iroh would tell her what to do and she would get it right. It annoyed Zuko sometimes to see her learn a move in a half an hour when it took him when he was 14 a week or two to learn.

Tonight was Music Night. May sat across from Zuko. May and Zuko would glare at each other occasionally. May was having a hard time trying to keep a straight face when some of them would sing. The out of no where, thunder roared and lighting ran across the sky. Rain poured down hard upon them. It all happened within a couple of seconds. Waves were crashing against the ship, knocking everything over. The crew scattered all around trying to picked everything up and bring it to the inside. May and Zuko were the last out on main deck. A huge 40 ft wall of water came crashing down on the smaller ship, sending May and Zuko over bored in the mad sea. May swam up to the surface. She was a very good swimmer. She was on the swimming team at her school. Zuko on the other hand was having problems just trying to swim with waves crushing down on him. Lighting hit the ship numerous times and thunder roared over and over again. Hail had started to come down along with rain. Then a couples miles ahead was a water spout forming over the water. ( for those of you who don't know what it is. It is a tornado over water) May swam over to Zuko seeing him go down under the water. She tried to pull him to the surface, but his armor only pulled him and May down into the Ocean's unforgivable depths. Waves collided with the ship, rocking it from side to side. The ocean's true power was showing. May's lungs screamed for air. Zuko was losing conscious fast. May opened her mouth under water. Water filled her lungs. She black out along with Zuko. The storm showing no mercy to the victims in its waters.

May woke up with the sun shining down on her brightly. She shielded her eyes, because of it being so bright. At first she thought she was home, but she was still in the bending world. She let her eyes get used to the sunlight before getting up. Getting up was a whole other story. Her whole body ached as she got up. She had a few cuts and scraps on her legs, but besides that she was fine. She groaned with pain.

"Where the hell am I?" she asked herself. She didn't swear unless she was in a lot of pain or she was tired of putting up with something. She went along the beach. She was shivering like crazy. The temperature was only 30 degrees F. She walked for about 5 minutes till she found Zuko. "Prince Zuko!" she said. "Please be alive!" she said checking for a pulse along his wrist. She felt a faint one. She took a sigh of relief. Hs brushed the sand off of him. "Prince Zuko, wake up." she said. "Wake up!" There was no response. The place seemed barren. "Man!" she said under her breath. She grabbed Zuko's arms and attempted to drag him, but instead he only woke up. HE opened his eyes to see May.

"WHY YOU!" he started before his headed started pounding like crazy.

"Sorry, but I was only trying to drag you to find a village." said May.

"You could've just try to wake me up!" yelled Zuko.

"whatever." said May. "Let's go try to find a village., Prince Zuko."

"Who gave you permission to order me around?" said Zuko.

"I'm only trying to survive here!" said May shivering.

Hours had passed since they last talked. Their feet ached and every part of their body. May was ready to collapse, but wouldn't unless Zuko wanted to stop. Zuko was trying to see when May would give up and ask to stop and rest. To his surprise she hadn't complain. May trudge on with it growing darker every minutes. The cold had become freezing. Zuko had a higher body temperature, so he could with stand the cold, but May was shivering like crazy. His head ache had stopped. Zuko could hear May's teeth chatter.

"Let's rest till morning." said Zuko. May nodded and sat down on the cold ground. She curled into a ball trying to keep warm. Zuko went into a meditating position. He fell asleep fast. May took a while to fall asleep. The cold nipped at her skin, her lungs hurt from the cold air, and her muscles ached. She finally fell asleep.

Zuko woke up at the crack of dawn. He looked over at May curled up who was still sleeping. Zuko pushed her. She groaned, but refused to get up. He sighed and shoved her this time. She just groaned.

"GET UP!" he yelled. She groaned as she got up. Her legs felt like jelly at first. Zuko started walking. May followed close behind. Every step hurt May's aching feet. May could make out dots at the horizon.

"You see that?" she asked. Zuko squinted. He saw dots.

"A village hopefully." he said moving right along. May stopped. She ran to catch up with him. She walked beside him. She and Zuko weren't the best of friends to say.

Please let me survive this, so that I may be able to see my parents again. thought May.

A/N: Yay! another chapter! This might of been a little boring i know. I do have some twist coming up though in the near future! Your starting to see what personality may has now.