Ok, I don't own Avatar, BUT I WILL ONE DAY MUHAHAHAHA -cough cough- Eek don't sue me...

Anyway, I know this is a REALLY short chapter! I already have a band of, where-the-heck-it-the-zatura-moments people things attacking me, so please don't make a band of make-longer-chapters people things. The reason it is so short is one, I had to hurry, and two there is a big action scene in the next chapter and three avatar is coming on in four minutes! So yeah, enjoy!

"I don't see where he could have gone!" I sighed the next morning. "It's not like him to run away!"

Paige nodded her head, "I know there aren't any tracks or anything!"

I stared at the ground, "What if he didn't run away?"

"What do you mean?" Asked Paige, her eyes opening wide.

"I mean, what if he was kidnapped!" I kicked a stone that landed into a foot print. "Look at this!" I shouted pointed to the hole. "It's not Sokka; it's a type of boot. It's too large to be Zuko's, but it is a fire nation boot, I can tell." I walked over to another foot print. It was too far to be a normal step.

"Weird," Paige said shaking her head, "Wait, here is some footprints! Much smaller, they might be Sokka's!"

"This is strange, the bigger foot prints, they are spread pretty far out." I said studying a print, "It looks like they were hoping around!" I looked up to see Paige dashing into the woods.

"Yuri, come here, quickly!" She yelled.

I ran as fast as I could to where she was standing. She was looking at a piece of bark that had been burnt off.

"Fire nation," She sighed simply, "No doubt about it."

"Why would they want him?" I asked, "I mean he isn't the greatest warrior or anything! Do you what happened to Aang? Maybe they took him and Sokka went after them?"

"No, Aang went to visit Katara to see how she was doing. They probably thought Sokka would know where he is." Paige said shaking her head.

I sighed and looked around for more clues. Something shiny caught my eye. I jogged over to it and picked it up. It was Sokka's boomerang; he always had it with him. He was in trouble, I knew it. I examined it carefully, and then I noticed a stain on it.

"Blood…" I whispered to myself.

"What did you say Yuri?" Paige asked coming up behind me.

"I found his boomerang, and there's blood on it," I whispered, "It's still wet, so they are close. Be as quite as you can."

We walked in silence, being careful not to step on twigs. We came to a dead halt when we heard someone coming towards us. Suddenly Sokka came into view, holding his arm, cursing under his breath.

"Sokka!" Both Paige and I yelled at the same time.

He simply glared at us and sighed.

"What happened to you?" I asked looking at a burn on his arm.

"I dunno, some girl decided to take me on." He rolled his eyes, "I guess I went a little easy on her.

"Yeah, a little too easy by the looks of it." Paige added.

I grinned, "Who was it? Was she a firebender?"

"Yeah, she was a firebender. I can't remember her name. It began with a s or maybe a z…"

I was shocked, Please don't let it be her, no not…

"Kula? No, um Sula? No, that's not it…" Sokka continued, "Oh I remember! Her name was…

"ZULA!" I gasped.