I'm back! Sorry, I've had Harry/Ron Drabbles to write, it's been dragging me in :D I'm loving the fluff. Hai, so, reviewers –Hugs all Reviewers- You guys are what keep me going on this story
Shoy of the Fire Nation: Heh, thank you for staying tuned, and sorry it scared you a bit, but I'm not a novice yaoi writer, I can write really graphic stuff if I want to, but don't worry, it won't get much more graphic than kissing and that one little grope :D
Fire Kitten: Oh! Thank you for the lovely review, I love long reviews and yours was fun to read. And you brought up a good question that I kind of didn't explain. The reason that Zuko hasn't sent the SOS fire into the air is because he doesn't know if anyone will see it and he doesn't know how long they're going to be stuck down there. He's reserving it. And besides, it would take all the fun out of the story if it was a quick rescues, now wouldn't it :D
Hieiandkuramalover: :D Thanks HKL it's always good to hear from you, even in review spirit! –Goes into a dramatic pose, looking into the heavens, a golden light shining down upon her from the sky- -Sokka turns off the spot light that is shining on Usagi- Oh Poo, damn cheap set props. Love ya as always HKL.
Blue Autumn Sky: Yes, don't worry, that was probably as graphic as it will get, this fic is only rated T, anything more would be rated M. And thank you for liking the rest of it
Catc10: Nah, it wasn't a token review, a token review would be a quick 'I LURV YOUR STORY NOW UPDATE! –Spaz!-' :D thank you for your input. Yes the last chapter wasn't much, but it was a filler chapter, a bridge between the 1st and 3rd chapter, it also showed that they didn't fall madly in love after the first kiss. And you are right, I guess I really don't have any real plot, I don't even know how I'm going to end it. All I have are a few events that would get them closer together and admitting they like each other at least, but I have no idea how it should end. But of course this isn't one of my serious stories, its one of the rare stories that I finished the first chapter to and got posted, kinda surprising that I continued it really. And I do know stories without plots are annoying and I'm sorry if this is one of those to you, I'm not trying to make that way. And I am at least a semi-descent writer (Or at least that's what people tell me), I know the basics to a good story. Wow, this has to be one of the longest replies I've had to a reviewer that wasn't a flamer. :D Anyway I do hope you'll continue to read, and thank you for you're input again
Mi'Lethe: Er, thank you, I'm kind of wondering how you would hate it, and if you hated it, why would you keep reading, and then you tell me you love it. You're sending mixed messages here. But thank you for the review, I guess. And thank you for the complement on Zuko's character, but I think most people would be shocked after getting smacked, wouldn't you? Anyway thank you
Shinigami11: I know just what you're talking about, I've lost interest in long stories and short stories, and its rare to find that fic with the right consistency in love between the characters where it isn't hopeless and not cliché. I'm trying and I hope that most of my stories are like that, (I can only hope though, most of them STILL aren't posted, damn me) so I keep trying. Yeah, there will probably be no hard core (Damn it) it's only rated T, otherwise it would be rated M. Hehe, Nah, they won't be reduced to eating their baby juices, lol, Thought they've already run out of food... hehehe, aw-well, we can dream, right:D Thank you for the lovely review
Thank you everyone else and I hope to get more glorious reviews and your opinions about the story.
-Gnawing on Avatar Mary-Sue Fics- Grrr... So annoying -Gnaws on it some more and gets zapped- Ow! damn, so many Mary-Sue fics it just makes me wanna... -Starts gnawing again and get zapped again- OW! Alright alright :p
Anyway, now that my aggression is out back to the fic
A rumble echoed on the crevice, the sound bouncing off the walls making it louder than it really was.
Sokka groaned and looked at his tummy, which was still empty.
"So... Hungry..." he said sounding a little dramatic. Zuko rolled his eyes.
"Suck it up, you're whining isn't helping" the fire-bender said and Sokka 'humph'ed. He couldn't help it, he was a growing boy! He needed food!
Another growl echoed in the cave, and this time it wasn't Sokka's stomach.
Sokka turned his head to Zuko, bemused. Zuko blushed some from embarrassment and it was Sokka's turn to smirk.
"Heh, I'm not the only one that's hungry" the water village teen said and Zuko glared at him, pulling Sokka closer as he 'humph'ed. The other boy didn't even really notice, too hyped about Zuko actually having human traits instead of being the perfect prince he posed to be.
A third growl echoed and both teens froze, bewildered. It wasn't Sokka's stomach and it wasn't Zuko's stomach... Both looked up and to the side lowly to see a white face with a black nose and beady eyes. A Polar Bear.
"B-bear" Sokka stuttered and the animal opened its jaws, showing sharp teeth as it bellowed at them.
"No shit Sherlock" Zuko snapped as he swiftly got up, Pulling the other teen with him, though it didn't take long for Sokka to follow, though he almost tripped on the ice while he ran, he caught himself and both ran down the crack in the ice.
The bear was not discouraged though, a meal above the ice was a meal. It gave chase, claws digging into the ice to give it traction, surprising speed for such a big animal.
Both teens were running full out, sometimes having to jump over ice chunks and slip around corners into another branched off crevice. Sokka, being raised in the ice lands, could mostly control when he slipped on the ice, more agilely run through the crevice. Zuko wasn't too far behind, though he did slip a few more times than Sokka.
Sokka's eyes widened and he had to skid to a stop, coming to a slowly narrowing dead end. Zuko stopped right behind him, cursing quietly
"Damn it" the fire-bender said
"Um, maybe we lost it" Sokka said hopefully and started for the exit of that particular crevice to peek out for any sight of the polar bear. He immediately backed up when the bear bellowed at him again, spotting him. "O-or maybe not"
"I guess there's only one way out then" Zuko said and took a fighting pose, readying for a fire-bending technique. "Out of the way" Sokka's eyes widened
"What are you going to do?" the South Polar teen asked
"Defend my self" Zuko said in an annoyed tone like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Sokka didn't move for a minute, kind of smacked with the reminder that Zuko was a fire-bender. Then he heard two more roars from in the bigger crevice out there that connected to this dead end
"Wait, you don't have to hurt it" he said quickly "We can climb out" he hurried over to where the ice narrowed so much that he could barely move foreword anymore and Zuko gave him a bewildered look
"You're crazy" he stated "What is it with you and trying to climb. You nearly broke your back the first how ever many dozen times you tried" Sokka pretty much ignored him as he started climbing, again, though he used the other wall to support his body weight, ascending quickly
"Yeah, well that was then" Sokka said and Zuko watched him a minute, deciding the other had lost some marbles with every fall, and then he caught a glance at the large bear that was squeezing itself into the crack. He decided to not get eaten and follow Sokka, quickly catching up to him.
Nearing the halfway mark of their climb, Sokka took a minute to see the polar bear attempting to climb out like the humans, but its claws only shaved the ice when it tried. Zuko glanced down at the bear, but kept going, stopping would only train his muscles more than they needed to be.
He could have easily stopped the bear with a burst of flames and the bear would have most likely have turned away after getting a burn.
Zuko finally reached the top and pulled himself up, panting slightly; it was a high climb, but he was finally out. His arms burned slightly from the climb but he was other wise fine. He looked back down the crack in the ice; seeing Sokka wasn't too far behind him so he reached down to help the brunet. Sokka took the fire bender's hand and it gave him leverage to get the rest of the way out, some lose ice crumbling under his foot just as he made it out. The South Polar boy heaved a great sigh, flopping onto his back on the solid ice for some rest
"Ow..." Sokka murmured, his arms were sore on top of all the other times he'd tried to escape from the crevice. But they were finally out, so he could deal with a little bit of soreness.
"Not that's I'm complaining about being out of that place" Zuko began, looking down at the other teen "But I could have steered the bear away"
"Yeah, by scorching the thing" Sokka said with a trace of accusation in his voice. "Didn't you listen, that bear had cubs somewhere in the cave" he sat up "You hurt the mom the mom can't hunt, and if the mom can't hunt her cubs die" Zuko blinked at the other's logic and gazed down into the crack in the ice, seeing the polar bear giving up and leaving the place where her meal had escaped her; he saw two other white fur balls only half the size of their mother, tumbling around her and begging for food
Sokka didn't really expect any reply from the fire-bender and he looked around the open ice land. Around them it was windy and colder than below the ice, he immediately wrapped his arms around himself and stood up, determined to not use Zuko for warmth anymore, he wasn't stuck with Zuko in the crevice anymore and he was sure Aang would be searching for him from the sky. But he saw no flying bison and he heard no call for his name. He sighed and looked around the frozen ground. The ice hills rolled where the wind had blown snow and a large glacier was by them, giving something other to look at then the endless white plain.
Zuko was also disappointed when he didn't see his own group; his ship, his crew, and his crazy uncle. This really was no improvement from being trapped below the ice, at least then they were huddled together for warmth, the wind really nipped at his skin, even with his fire-bending skills; the wind would blow his subtle radiating heat away, leaving him to have as much ability to keep himself warm as Sokka did
"Well what now, Einstein?" Zuko asked, his own breath being blown into nothing by the wind
"I don't know" Sokka said "this is all I had on escaping the bear"
"Oh good, so now that we aren't going to be eaten we're going to freeze up here" Zuko said, lying on a thick layer of sarcasm. Sokka glared at him a minute then he thought he heard something and he fell quiet, listening
"Did you hear that?" he asked and Zuko stood still, listening. He did hear something, a quick almost mistaken sound for the wind again, but it was definitely the sound of heals digging for grip and other slight movements that gave off another persons' presence. They were both quiet, but there was just the whipping of the wind that made them both brace against to cold breeze. It was then that they were ambushed
Several people in winter coats with their hoods pulled up to hide their faces from the cold, they appeared unarmed, but then again so was Zuko. Both Sokka and Zuko braced themselves for a fight as did the people who had a came from their hiding places from the wind build hills.
Sokka's eyes glanced around at all of them, there were only a few of the people, 5 of them, and it didn't look as if they had been actually waiting for them... It struck him then of who they were, their fighting poses reminded him of Katara and Aang when they was practicing her water bending skills, a smooth movement of water. They had to be the northern water tribe, the ones Aang had to see to master his water bending. Sokka wanted to say something to Zuko, maybe somehow not fight them, they were practically his own people, but before any words were exchanged, the water tribe people moved, their arms sweeping like they were brushing something away, and the snow under the two teens shifted, making them loose their balance slightly. Zuko caught himself and stepped forward, throwing his arm forward, a burst of flames flaring out at one of the water-benders. The water-bender he'd aimed for stayed calm, waving their arms, a wall of snow blocking the way of the fire, melting it into water. Zuko was surprised as first by the quick defense, but he didn't have that time to be surprised because as soon at the water was melted the same water-bender waved the water around themselves before splashing their feet, the water immediately freezing their feet.
Two of the water-benders came forward and pinned Sokka's and Zuko's hands behind their backs, forcing the two to their knees so they couldn't struggle as much. The water-bender that had deflected Zuko's attack stepped forward to the two teens and spoke in a muffled voice through the hood
"Take them back to the village" the water-bender said "It looks like we have a fire-bender to deal with"
Sorry the ambush scene was so crappy, I hate action scenes, hard to write for me, but basic point is that they got away from the bear and were captured by the water tribe, leaving a cliffhanger for all you people :D Aren't I horrible? What will they do you the poor starving teens? I guess you'll just have to review, thank you and I'll write the next one when I get to it,Ok I'M GOING TO BED NOW! ITS 1:05 IN THE MORNING! THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU PEOPLE!
Detailed reviews are appreciated,
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