Sokka stared at Nyla who was now pacing the room. Aang was curiously wondering who she was and why wasn't this girl with Zuko and his army. Of course none of it really matter especially if they weren't able to make it out alive at all. Sokka shook that feeling from his head. He was a warrior from the water tribe of the South Pole. He was to stay brave through everything, protect the weak and innocent, help the Avatar, and most importantly protect Katara. For a seventeen year old that is a lot to do before the week was over. And he let his father down and more importantly he let Katara down by not being there to protect her from Zuko. He looked down at the ground and only imagined what the fire nation's prince would be doing to her at this very moment.

Sokka dared to look back up at the female fire bender. He wanted to ask questions like who she was and who in the world was her brother. But he knew that it would be best if he just kept his mouth shut and did what he was told. Aang on the other hand was a completely different story and didn't shut up into Nyla had threatened him with his life.

"Ok you two you must know something about my brother?" Nyla said finally turning around to face the two boys.

Sokka smiled, maybe if he pulled his smart-ass moves she'd let him go. He knew that there maybe consequences for that action but at the moment he only cared about Aang's and his safety.

"Nope not until you tell us where is my sister you…" He paused to check Nyla out to see what he was about to say. He noticed he that Nyla had a great body and she must have been a warrior to carry all that armor on her back.

"You're sister?" Nyla asked with a laugh. "You must be confused. You don't have a sister. If you did she would have been with you when you got captured." Nyla began a slow pace around her victims. She knew that they were hiding something. Now she only had to get it out of them.

"Yeah my sister!" Sokka yelled wanting to get to his feet. "The one Prince Zuko has in his clutches."

Nyla turned him around so he was facing him directly. She searched his face to see if he was telling the truth about Zuko being in the area or at least close at sea. Sokka's face showed no falter and she knew that he was telling the truth.

"You do know my brother!" She could have kissed him if it wasn't for the fact that they were her prisoners.

Returning to her pace across the room Nyla looked at the boys once again. She was getting somewhere. Figuring that this must have been the Avatar that her brother was searching for. He must have been weaker than before because he and his moronic friend just happened to wander into her campsite.

"Let us go!" Sokka yelled.

She smiled and cut their ropes. Both boys were dumbstruck by her actions. But both way they were free and it was greatly appreciated. Sokka took off towards the entrance of the tent but was cut off by Nyla herself. Sokka knew better than to challenge a fire bender especially if she was a princess to the fire nation. Lord Ozai's daughter was not one to be messed with. And even Sokka knew that if he pissed Nyla it could end in like death.

"Okay boys now that I set you free and gave you what you want." Nyla was about an inch away from his face. "Now tell me about my brother."

With Zuko and Katara

Tag you're it? Zuko thought to himself. That's the dumbest line I've used yet. Maybe I should do something else.

"Katara, I'd like to know something about the Avatar." Zuko asked walking and was being pretty blunt right then. Not even giving Katara to get settled in and stuff.

Katara raised an eyebrow and decided to play it cautiously.

"What do you want to know?" She asked shrugging.

Zuko stared at her dumbstruck for a couple of seconds. He didn't expect her to fall so easily into tell him what in the world was going on. He decided that he wouldn't tell her what he wanted to know. After all she already knew that he'd just ask the same questions. Falling back onto the bed he sighed. It had been a long week for him, chasing down the girl, training and wondering where the Avatar was. Plus there were his dreams at night that left him in a cold wet sticky sweat, but that was a different story that he didn't even want to think about at all.

"Anything about him." Smiling he tested his luck. "Lets start out with his weakness."

Katara shook her head and turned to the window watching the waves crash against the boat. She wasn't ready to tell him. In fact she was lucky enough to even talk to him without yelling. What was she thinking? This guy was the enemy someone who had chased after him day in and day out trying to kill them to get his honor back. She knew nothing about the young prince himself and stuff. It really didn't mean anything, shrugging the thought off Katara laid across the bed yawning. Walking around on her ankle wasted a lot of energy. Giving information about Aang was dangerous; she didn't know much about it herself but what she did know she wasn't going to tell.

"His weakness?" She gulped. Zuko nodded. Think Katara, she told herself, and he won't know if you're lying about his weakness. She was getting nervous around the fire prince. Finally she came up with the first word that came to mind. "Lemurs."

Zuko raised an eyebrow. "Lemurs?" He asked. They had been destroyed when the Fire Nation took over the air nomads. It looked like she hardly knew anything after all it was that or she just didn't want to tell him. It was like his uncle's stupid proverbs…

"Trust takes forever to build up but only seconds to shatter." Iroh said as Zuko slammed the door in his face.

Zuko began to pace back and forth. It seemed that Katara lacked his trust; maybe he should try something to win that trust. The question was what in the world would he do to gain the trust.

With Sokka and Aang

Sokka began to pace back and forth. It was tell all he knew about the Prince or let his freedom be sucked right out of the air… ok that thought didn't make sense so it made him stop pacing. Looking over at Aang who was still tied up at the moment gave Sokka a thought of what might happen if he didn't tell Nyla what in the world was going on. This girl seemed to be different from Zuko himself. After all Sokka had reason to believe that she was out to kill the young prince. If that was so Aang may not be able to learn fire bending. It was Katara's job to figure out a little bit about fire bending and convince Zuko to join their side. But since both seemed to be kidnapped at the time it looked like that wasn't going to happen any time soon.

Nyla walked in followed in by Commander Zhao. Sokka never really did like that guy after all he tried to kill the Avatar on many accounts plus he tried for Zuko as well. For some reason that fried Sokka's head more than anything.

"SO about the prince of the Fire Nation." Nyla said kneeling down to Aang. "What do you know about him?"

"Nothing that I would tell you about." Aang snapped, which surprised Sokka at first but he quickly got over that shock.

Nyla turned to Sokka and almost like a reaction he backed up away from the girl. She smiled a calming smile too good for herself. "So Sokka is?" He nodded. "What's it like traveling with the Avatar constantly on the run from my brother and most of the fire nation?" She asked as Sokka fell to the ground.

"It's ok I mean since I'm traveling with two different benders I get jealous and homesick at the same time." Sokka couldn't believe what he was saying to this girl. It was like she understood; almost.

Smiling again she said, "Look at me boy. Tell me the last location were you saw Zuko and I let you out with your freedom and your life." Sokka knew it was too good to be true. There was a catch; there was still the safety of Katara as well. If she was still on Zuko's ship there might be trouble.

"No I wont let you get in the way of our plan!" Sokka yelled. He quickly covered his mouth. It was a big mistake to mention his plan. Okay it was more their plan but who was counting?

"Plan?" Nyla sat down in front of him. "Oh do tell."

Sokka knew that it went against everything we was for but he did it anyway; he spat in her face. This caused the fire princess to launch an attack at water warrior. Sokka rolled out of the way just in time. Her attack had left a whole where the boy had just been sitting. Just thinking about what would have left more than just a little burn mark on him.

"Sokka run, find Katara." Aang tried to warn. Sokka was sent flying onto the ground Nyla pinned him down with her left knee. She tied him up and placed him on a chair next to Aang and tied him again this time to the chair.

"Fine you guys won't tell me where in the world my brother is than you guys can sit here and rot." Nyla smiled and turned on her heal heading towards the door. "Sokka you have real Fire bending material."

Sokka scoffed at the girl. "Momo!" He said spotting the little lemur. After the lemur untied Aang's ropes he worked on Sokka's.

Nyla watched as the lemur had crawled into the tent were the Avatar was staying. It wasn't like they could get out or anything. After all it had a special fire bender bond on it. Something that not even Lord Ozai could break through. While Zuko went under training from both his mother and uncle, she went under training by the Fire Lord himself. He taught the young warrior princess everything she knew today, even some extras that nobody else knew. It was something she was proud of.

She began to pace back and forth herself. She was nervous what if this didn't bring her brother in. What if the Avatar wasn't worth his time anymore? Maybe he had figured out that during the whole thing that his father wasn't really going to let him back in. His honor was destroyed with the Fire duel. Nyla leaned her ear up to the tent listening to their conversation.

"You wanna know something strange Sokka?" Aang asked sitting down petting Momo behind the ears slightly.

"Shoot Aang."

"You know how I told you and Katara that I was captured by Zhao?" Sokka nodded. "Well the masked guy that saved me turned out to be Zuko."

Sokka fell down from the shock. "You mean Mr. Spoiled-Brat-Prince?" It was Aang's turn to nod. "He actually cares about someone else besides himself. That's amazing."

Aang nodded and looked away from Sokka. He was really hoping that day Zuko would give up his life of chasing him and join the right side. Not that there was a right or wrong side anyway it was just a saying that Aang had thought of right that moment.
Nyla smiled. Zuko was getting weak for someone who claimed that he wanted his honor back. If that was what he really wanted than he was going to die along side the boy himself.

With Zuko

Zuko paced around the deck wondering if he should go off and search for the Avatar like had done last time. He still wonder if the Avatar had told the two water nation people that it was him who saved the young boy. Probably not, if the boy had any respect he'd keep it a secret. Now there was a question that was if should join the Avatar's team or not. Finally deciding that he would answer that question later he resumed training for both his speed and accuracy for when he came up against his sister and Admiral Zhao.

Katara walked out onto the deck and saw Zuko going under some immense training. She sat up against the wall and wondered to herself what was really going to happen if her plan failed. She had no time to think about that. When she took up the job of persuading Zuko to join the team there was nowhere in it saying that she had time to doubt herself.

"Katara, did the Avatar ever teach you the art of stealth?" Zuko asked not turning around to face her.

"No why it's not like you were the one who saved him from Zhao." Katara laughed but when she received no answer from the Fire bending prince she gasped. "No way. You can't be him, you're a selfish spoiled brat."

Zuko turned around and faced her. "Surprises come from every directions. Do you know if there were fire benders camped out nearby you?"

"Of course we thought they were you and your men." Katara turned her head to the side. "If they're not you then who can they be?"

"Would you believe me if I said that your brother and the Avatar might be in bigger trouble than anyone believes?"

K15: Okay guys a question came up wondering if that this girl, Nyla, is the same as Zuko's sister in confusing fire. I'd have to say no. Confusing fire was made before the episode 'The Storm' I had reason to believe when I saw that episode (like six to ten different times.) that the girl all smiling about Zuko getting banished is his sister. You've gotta watch it to see what I'm talking about. Shrugs Okay any other questions? I'll try my best to answer them. Anyway this one is looking more promising than Confusing Fire. But don't stop reviewing that because this one's more realistic. Oh and I'm sorry if any of the characters seem a little OOC. It's just so hard for me to get it down like that. Okay I'll try to update by the next new Avatar or next friday which ever comes first. Later. K15.