It was nearing the end of the summer and I had taught Aang all I knew about firebending with the help of Iroh and Zuko. The Prince could successfully create lightning and redirect it as well. He could also bend blue fire like his younger sister.

I had seen great changes in the Prince of this time with us. He'd become a good friend of Aang's and surprisingly Sokka's too. Katara and Toph liked him as a friend as well. We all got along like a family. Zuko actually smiled more often now and learned to let go of his past from what I saw. He learned to use the help of those who care about him instead of ignoring it, which made me proud. Everything that had happened made me proud because I knew I was the cause of it.

Now we were about to cross into the Fire Nation, where Zuko had bought new armor for our upcoming battle I thought. Or at least that's what I had thought.

Right before arriving in the palace grounds, Zuko called out to the guards who responded to him which was odd to me. The palace was a beautiful ivory color that seemed to gleam slightly gold in the light of the sun it was surrounded by forest on one side and by the town on the other.

Upon calling the guards, Zuko stared at the rest of us and smirked, "Arrest the Avatar and Mikomi of the Fire Nation and you can arrest their Earthbender and Water Tribe friends."

My mouth dropped open in surprise at Zuko's actions. He had just betrayed his teacher and friends. The only problem was we were in the town and surrounded by mass amounts of soldiers. Looking around, I dropped my bag and my spear on the ground and summoned lightning and fired it at the soldiers sending many of them flying, while Katara and Sokka were captured as was Aang. Toph they had to wrap in layers of chains to control.

Zuko crossed his arms over his newly armored chest and smirked at my struggling. Iroh just watched sadly and shook his head at his nephew's actions. I fought like a caged animal surrounded by the soldiers.

I shot lightning at many of them diminishing their numbers greatly as I pulled out some senbon and flung them at eight firebenders at once, killing them all with one hit. Then I felt something at my arm. One of the soldiers had thrown a chain lasso around my arm, but my arm erupted in flames and it disintegrated quickly.

Looking around me, I saw many firebenders with chain lassos in their hands so I engulfed my entire body in blue flames. My eyes from the outside looked like they were glowing blue and my fiery blue ponytail swung behind me as I attacked the ranks of firebenders, but one of them laid a hit on me, the fire disappearing in an instant. I pulled out more senbon and killed another ten firebenders. This is all I could do while Zuko watched smiling cruelly.

A chain lasso got around both of my arms from each side; the firebenders holding them pulled them tight as I felt myself caught. Then I shot blue flames out of my mouth at the firebenders in front of me, engulfing a few of them completely in flame, but I was stopped when a chain lasso was around my neck. Zuko walked out to the middle while the rest of our captured group watched from the side.

He smiled at me evilly and pulled my hands behind my back and wrapped iron wire to keep them together. Walking back in front of me, he said, "So, Mikomi-sensei, this is your destructive and murderous power you mentioned before."

As he said this he waved a hand around him and I looked to see over fifty firebenders dead on the streets of the Fire Nation capital. I panted and sweated as I looked up at Zuko with sad eyes. He looked down on me without pity at all in his golden eyes.

"Get away from me," I roared at him as my blue eyes turned gold again, panting heavily.

My head drooped to look at the street with my eyes closed. Then I felt Zuko's hand underneath my chin lifting it up to look up at him as I leaned my weight again the chains, except for at my neck.

"You should control your temper better sensei," he said, smirking. "Or that chain could leave a burn on your pretty neck."

I jerked my chin away from his hand as fire erupted from my mouth, but Zuko dodged it and slapped my cheek with the back of his hand. I felt the rage growing, but I couldn't hold it in, I fought against the firebenders holding the ends of the chains and rammed into Zuko knocking him to the ground.

Standing, Zuko signaled for the firebender holding the chain around my neck to come forward. The firebender handed the chain to Prince Zuko as I watched sadly. Zuko wrapped the chain tightly around his wrist and tugged on it making me gasp for air and my eyes widen.

Another firebender brought Aang forward and put a chain lasso around his neck, leaving the end in Zuko's hand. Zuko guided us in through the gates of the Fire Palace where people congregated as though this was all planned. I realized that it probably was. I held my head high as I walked behind Zuko. The crowds all looked at Aang mostly, but a lot of people stared at me. I heard them whispering about how such a small girl could cause so much trouble to them and then out of nowhere I heard someone yell, "Eat this traitor!"

The man threw an old cabbage at me, but I turned my head and opened my mouth and blue fire erupted from my mouth as the cabbage disintegrated in midair. After the fire disappeared, I glared dangerously at the man who threw it and snorted smoke from my nostrils.

"Try that again," I said viciously as he shrunk back into the crowd.

The crowd erupted with excitement after seeing my display of power. Zuko just walked placidly in front of us, occasionally tugging on our chains at our necks to show is control over us to the crowd. I was fed up with it though.

Fire erupted from my mouth as I disintegrated the middle of the leash holding on to me. Freeing myself, I ran forward and jumped in the air and roundhouse kicked Zuko's back. The guards flanked around me, but did a spinning fire kick as Aang dropped to the ground, but soon more guards came and grabbed him. Yeah, I did all this with my hands tied behind my back.

The people in the crowd were screaming as I finished off the rest of the guards, who were all knocked out cold on the ground. Looking in front of me, I saw Zuko get up and look at me with fury evident in his face. Then he charged me, but I sidestepped him and kicked his feet out from under him and lifted my flaming blue foot into the air and brought it down on the ground, where Zuko just laid. He had rolled out of the way to dodge it and jumped to his feet behind me. The Fire Prince charged my back, but I jumped up and flipped over top of him as he ran under me. Gathering a great force at the back of my throat, I shot a massive blue fire ball in his direction, but he merely sliced through it. The crowd watched in awe as I thrust my foot at the ground sending a snake of fire across the ground toward Zuko, who jumped over it, but sliding my foot across the ground, I headed it back in his direction. It disappeared as Zuko dodged it again and shot fire at me. I dodged all of them by disappearing with my speed and appearing behind Zuko. I was able to lift my leg high enough to kick his back after spinning to give it more power. He went flying in the opposite direction. Getting up he glared at me and shot a large amount of fire at me. I dodged it but found Zuko right behind me holding onto my arms.

"You'll stop if you know what's good for you," he hissed into my ear. I was about to retort when I felt something stab my bicep. Someone had stepped forward and had injected something into me. Zuko continued whispering into my ear, "That drug you were injected with will stop your bending for a week, so stop fighting."

Then suddenly everything fell silent, but there was only a single person clapping. Looking toward the open doors of the palace, I saw Fire Lord Ozai clapping and smirking down at Zuko and me. He began walking down until he arrived at the middle of the stairs, still wearing that smirk that I wanted to slap off of his face.

"Well done Zuko," he said. His voice almost sounded like a cruel hiss. "The Avatar and Mikomi." He walked closer to me as I drooped against Zuko's hold.

He stood directly in front of me and said, "You're quite the firebender, little girl." Then the Fire Lord began circling me like a hawk after Zuko had released me. "Is it true that you were taught by Sumiyaka Ryoku?"

Looking at the ground, I said, "Yes."

"And is it true that Sumiyaka Ryoku is dead?" he asked.

"Yes…"

"How did he die, little girl?"

I hesitated but then felt Ozai's hand sweep across my cheek and he roared, "HOW DID HE DIE!"

Looking up, I stared at him and yelled. "I KILLED HIM!"

Ozai smirked down at me and said, "You killed your own master. Why?"

I panted and said, "He challenged me. Either I was his slave for the rest of my life or I took his life."

Ozai smiled again and said, "My you've done a lot of damage in your young life. You've probably killed over 200 of my soldiers by now. I wonder then maybe how many you could take out of our enemy. So I will leave you with a choice."

"I will never kill the innocent people of other nations," I hissed at Ozai.

The Fire Lord paused and smiled at my discomfort and continued, "Well then. You're a pretty, young girl and Zuko doesn't have a concubine although he's already seventeen. So either you remain here as Zuko's concubine or you go off to war and fight for the Fire Nation."

I gasped and turned my head to look at Zuko who was staring at his father with an emotionless face. I wondered what he would think of my choice.

"I'll remain here," I said to Ozai, who grinned evilly. I looked over to my other four companions and saw them frowning sadly in my direction. I mumbled an apology to them, but I refused to kill members of the other nations.