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American Firebender's Promise

A/N: IcedemonKaira004, I like having the constructive criticism. So I'm not angry at all. Go ahead and criticize me! I NEED it! NH20, Zuko aint going to die! I'm a HUGE ZUKO FAN! Where I live, all the girls I know who watch Avatar are ZUKO fans! And if Zuko dies, we start angry mob! Zuko is NOT going to die! takes Zuko plushie and gives it a big hug I do think that Iroh might die though. He's the oldest, (counting by number of years lived.) Well, while I'm waiting to watch the season premiere, you read this next Chapter. THANK YOUS to all who have reviewed! Sorry took a longtime, but had to make movie of book for school.

Chapter 3:

May was waiting for when the Freedom Fighters would burse into their tent. Zuko took his hand away from May's mouth. May could see his face from the dim light that the lightening gave off that Zuko was ready to strike out like a deadly cobra. A low growl echoed from the forest. They could feel the vibrations from the powerful beast.

"Secure the avatar's bison!" yelled Jet.

Zuko had the fire in his eyes to kill. He could feel his heart rate go up as adrenaline was being bumped into his muscles. The Fire Nation Prince would strike out at the first thing that should its ugly face in his presence. Thunder roared as the rain started beating down harder like a drum. Zuko clenched his fist. May had a serious face on. Her kind face didn't seem kind anymore. The American Firebender had that primordial look in her eyes to defend what was hers. Zuko got up on his feet crouching. The Prince ran out of the tent and tackled the first guy outside to the ground with a thump! The rain hurt and it came hurtling towards the ground. May ran out and ran in Pipsqueak. May was stunned to see how huge he was; to her he was giant. Her mouth opened at the site of him. Her eyes staring at the log that was coming down to her. Her feet were glued to the ground. Her hair drenched and cloths soaked to the bone. The rain rolled down her face and pounded on it. Zuko pushed her out of the way, feeling the wind from the log coming down.

"Watch what your doing, MAY!" yelled Zuko, but the rain drowned out most of the words. Suddenly a boomerang whizzed right passed May's head. She turned around to see Sokka fighting Smellerbee. May came back to reality when an arrow narrowly missed her head. May turned around with a small fire burning in her hand. The fire quickly lost the battle with the rain and died out. May looked up in a tree to see Longshot. May dropped to the ground; landing on her stomach. Arrows were flying threw the air at speed. Up in the tree more and more archers appeared.

"Aang! Archers at 12 o'clock!" screamed threw the fierce rain. Aang never heard a word of it. May got up with her hair falling in her face. She didn't care about it at this point. The female firebender charged into the closest thing moving to her. The firebender dressed in blue tackled the leader of the Freedom Fighters to the ground, but she had chosen the wrong opponent. Jet pulled out his hook swords. May rolled out of the way and into the mud. May's face was covered with mud and her hair. Her ponytail was no more. All of her hair down and soaking wet. May gritted her teeth. A hook sword came down, catching on her upper shoulder and just barely missing her skin. May struggled to release her shoulder, but the sword came down on her other shoulder with full speed. It nipped at her shoulder this time. Blood dripped down onto the muddy ground. May was out raged, and was going to kill Jet even if it was the last thing she did in her life. Jet put a dagger filled with poison next to her neck. May stopped struggling and went silent. Jet looked down at the firebender dressed as someone from the Water Tribe. He had an evil smile upon his dirty face.

"You know what!" shouted May. "Your as screwed up in the head as the Fire Lord! You are a piece of shit!" The cold blade touched May's neck with it gently sliding across her throat.

"You've lost, firebender!" yelled Jet through the pounding rain. The blade seemed to be begging its owner to cut open May's neck. The rain stopped as silence fell onto the battle field. May turned to see Aang's eyes and arrows glowing a blue color. Air and water were swirling around him. The Avatar was going to end the fight as he sent everyone flying backwards. Water froze all the Freedom Fighters in their place. The knife was dropped by Jet and hit the ground. Aang fell to the ground. May knocked the sword from her shoulder. She grabbed the other one and pulled it out with all of her strength. She got up in a sitting position panting. She looked around in the darkness. Most Freedom Fighters were out cold. May took her hand and wiped the mud off her face. Her hair was drenched along with her clothes. Katara was over with Aang. Zuko was next to Sokka checking to make sure all of the Freedom Fighters were out cold. Then came vibrations of what was a ten-ton giant flying monster. May and everyone turned their heads to see Appa coming out from the forest. Appa came into the clearing, stopped, and shook off the water like a dog. Momo was sitting on top of Appa's head licking himself clean.

"Let's get out of here before they thaw out!" said May getting up.

May was leaning against the saddle with a pillow under her head. She had her eyes closed and trying to block out all noise possible. They had been flying since they left the came which was about 6 hours ago. May was annoyed to death by Zuko's and Sokka's stupid arguing.

"NO!" yelled the Zuko with his fist catching on fire. He had short patience even with a good night's sleep, but without a good sleep he had no patience at all. Zuko was exhausted and not in a good mood.

"YES!" shouted Sokka pulling out his boomerang. The Water Tribe warrior got into a fighting position with his boomerang raised. The Prince raised his hands up to shoulder height, and moved his feet into position like he was getting ready for agni kai.

"Will you guys quit it!" said Katara getting tired of the two teenage boys always fighting.

"Yeah, save that stuff for later!" groaned May. "I'm trying to sleep here!"

"Why don't you call a truce?" asked Aang. Zuko looked over at Boomerang Boy in disgust. Sokka looked over at the Scar Face with hatred written all over his face.

"Fine!" said Zuko reluctantly through gritted teeth. He sat down into a meditating position. Sokka turned his back to Zuko and sat down next to the food bag.

A/N: I know a shoarter chapter, but i've been really busy with school and sports! YAY! first snow of the season! So happy even though it was 2 inches! That's a record for here in central illinios! Hope ya liked this chapter!