Disclaimer: I don't own avatar, a laptop, or a cat.

Sorry it took so long to update! Like I said, I went on a father daughter trip up to Oregon. And let me tell you, Oregon and California is quite hot. Actually, very hot. Like, 100 degree's Fahrenheit hot. ….yea. Exactly.

Anyway, sorry if the last chapter didn't make any sense really…I was trying to get it out before I left. And I wanted the plot to start moving.

Shoulder Angel: you should feel ashamed that people didn't quite get it.

Me: Yes, yes, I do.

Shoulder Devil: ah screw them. This is your story. They can get over it.

Shoulder Angel: How can you say that?

Shoulder Devil: Hello. What part of "shoulder devil" don't you get?

Me: you know, she does have a point.

Anyway, I'll try and make this chapter clearer. The main reason I had Kila grabbed from the ship is cause the idea of her seeing Aang and then kind of prancing off with him was so overused. So…I thought of a better way of it happening.

8

All the firebenders seemed to freeze on the spot as they watched Kila being snatched from the bow of the ship. The main thought current between them was just confusion, befuddlement, and wonder.

Zuko narrowed his eyes, and waited. "What a stupid girl." He thought. "She should have done something. But no, for the first time, she decides to stand perfectly still and silent." Then he thought about it for another second, and came to the conclusion that maybe she had something up her sleeve. "Perhaps she figured out that the avatar was after her, and is going to take possession on him herself…turn that horrid bison around…yes. That's it. She knows how important it is to catch the avatar…even though she is one herself. Oh, that doesn't matter. If she wants to be treated fairly with a firebender again, she's going to turn that bison around and land on my ship, with the avatar in control. Ok…any minute now…any minute now…"

But the bison didn't turn around. It kept flying straight and continued to climb up higher. Zuko growled. "Fine then." He thought to himself and turned back around to the solider who was manning the catapult. "Ready the catapult!" he commanded. Iroh turned towards Zuko sharply, his eyes wide. The solider lingered for a couple seconds, and then began to load it up as the prince commanded.

"What are you thinking?" Iroh said quietly to his nephew. But Zuko just marched over to the catapult and set the bomb on fire himself, flames burning not only in his hands, but in his eyes as well.

Sokka dragged Kila up onto the saddle, then quickly pulled his boomerang and held it to her throat.

"Easy tiger" Kila said slowly.

"Shut it!" Sokka said harshly, trying to give the first impression of himself as a tough warrior. "Why were you on that firebending ship?"

"Oh Sokka, let her go. She can't explain anything with your boomerang on her throat." Katara exclaimed.

"She may be an enemy; I don't want to take any chances!" Sokka said, still holding the weapon close.

"Let me guess, your instincts are telling you this, right?" Aang joked from Appa's large head.

"Yes, they are. And I think they're right this time."

"This time?" Kila said, joining the conversation.

"Exactly what I was thinking." Katara said, letting a half smile creep on her face. "Let her go. She has a sense of humor."

"What?" Sokka almost dropped his boomerang from shock. "Sense of humor? That's no reason to let her go!"

"Listen to the girl…drop the knife…I'm a nice person." Kila said in a voice mimicking what one usually hears in the back of their head.

Sokka looked at Katara, and Aang, back to Katara, and then said "Oh fine." And with that, he dropped his knife and Kila slid quickly over to Katara, who seemed to be a tad more sane.

"But I would like to know if you are a firebender." Katara said carefully, scooting farther away from Kila.

"Nice to meet you too…" Kila said, raising an eyebrow. "To answer your question, yes, I can firebend. The reason I was on that ship is because I was their cook and maid. How I got on the ship was I was working as a slave to an earth bender and Prince Zuko and General Iroh found me and took me on their ship." Kila took a deep breath and continued. "That answers your questions?"

Aang turned around and starred at Kila. He tilted his head from side to side, as if trying to get a better idea of what he was looking at. Kila looked back at him and said "Nice to meet you."

"I've met you before…" Aang said slowly. "Or, at least I think I have…"

Kila blinked a couple times. She thought quickly about what Iroh has told her about avatars. "Lets see…when they die, their reincarnated in the next nation…air, earth, water, fire, air, earth…wait, was that even the cycle? Oh…lets see…can bend all elements…I knew that…oh…reincarnated…I was once this kid? Hmm. No wonder he knows me…or…thinks he does at least." Kila smiled at him and said kindly "I do think we've met once."

"Wait, when did you meet?" Sokka said suspiciously. "We've never seen you…and Aang has been with us sense he got out of the iceberg. You would have to be at least 112 years old."

"Oh Sokka, stop trying to make yourself look so smart." Katara said sharply, though she herself was quite curious in the matter as well. "What we still haven't covered is-" but she stopped in mid-sentence and began another. "Do you smell that?"

Kila looked over the side of the saddle. "GO TO THE RIGHT!" She screamed at Aang, who quickly obeyed as a large ball of fire whizzed past the group.

"He's still firing?" Aang asked quickly as he turned around to look at the ship. And it was true; Zuko was still firing at the bison. Kila had the feeling he would do so until he either had them falling towards the ocean, or out of sight.

"CLIMB QUICKER!" Kila commanded, and Aang obeyed with a loud "Yip yip!" and a flick of his reins.

"…well that answers my question, I think." Katara said shakily. Kila turned towards her questioningly. "I guess you're not really an enemy, if Zuko is still shooting at us."

Kila nodded and looked back over the side of the saddle. Why would Zuko keep firing? "Oh man, he must really be angry. I knew that he didn't like me…but to shoot me down along with the avatar? I thought he liked me a bit more than that. Guess not. Well…no more singing for the crew if he ever does see me again I guess..."

"So……you are a firebender…" Sokka said slowly, still trying to process everything.

"I can bend fire, yes." Kila answered. She wasn't too sure about saying she was the future avatar. Not yet anyways.

"And…if Zuko is firing at us still…" Sokka looked upwards as he tried to calculate it all in his head.

"It means that he really doesn't like me. Meaning, that we're in the same boat here." Kila said helpfully.

"Um…we're on a bison." Aang said turning around.

"It's an expression." Kila said rolling her eyes.

Zuko kept watching the bison as it sailed higher and higher into the sky, his anger growing stronger and stronger by the minute. Everything was going wrong! How could that girl do this to him! After he gave her a room, gave her food to eat? And then she turns around and betrays him! Nobody does that to Prince Zuko and gets away with it!

He had his men keep firing at the party until they disappeared behind a bunch of clouds. "Stupid clouds." Zuko thought to himself.

"Um…sir?" asked a timid man behind Zuko.

"WHAT?" he growled.

"…what are we going to do about dinner tonight?"

"I think we lost him" Katara said, looking down. "I can't see anything through these clouds."

"I just had an idea." Kila said slowly. Then she crawled over to Appa's large fuzzy head and told Aang "turn around."

Aang turned around and looked at Kila. She rolled her eyes and said "No, you don't turn around. Turn around your large flying woolly mammoth thing."

"Appa looks nothing like a woolly mammoth! Those things are so stupid." Sokka complained from the back of the saddle, where he was pouting.

Kila turned around and looked at Sokka. "What do you mean they're stupid? How could you have met one?"

Katara answered for her brother "They live in some parts of the Earth Kingdom. They kinda keep to themselves."

Kila's eyes widened in shock. "I thought they were extinct!"

"I wish." Sokka said glumly. Katara laughed.

"He's just sour about it because one sneezed on him." She explained.

"Ew." Kila said, and then turned back around to Aang. "So, turn…Appa was his name? Turn Appa around. Prince Zuko is probably expecting you to keep flying forward. If you turn around and stay above the clouds, you can probably loose him."

"Hey, that's a good idea." Aang said, his eyes brightening up. Kila smiled and sat down next to him.

Sokka watched Kila carefully. He still didn't really trust her, though all the signs pointed towards a nice person. Still, she was a firebender, and they can never really be trusted.

They flew in silent for the next few minutes, and then Kila broke it by asking "So, Aang. What elements can you bend?"

He looked a tad downtrodden. "I can only bend air and a bit of water. That's why we're going to the North Pole: so I can learn how to waterbend from a master."

"So, you can't fire or earthbend?" Kila asked. She looked away, thinking. "Well, I doubt you're gonna meet any firebenders around here willing to teach you." Aang hung his head at the fact. "So I will." He snapped it back up and looked at her, his eyes wide.

Katara moved forward in the saddle towards Kila and asked "You would really do that?"

Kila shrugged. "Yea. I'm pretty good at it. I can teach you the basic moves if you want." She said boasting. "But I'll only teach you on one condition."

"What?" Aang asked suspiciously.

"You have to show me some airbending moves, like you were teaching me." Kila said, wording her sentence carefully. "After I teach you of course. But I'm just curious how it works." This was of coarse half a lie. She really wanted to know how to airbend, but she was still wary about telling the group. She didn't think it was would be the best thing for them to pull her off a fire nation ship, then learn she was the future avatar. It just didn't really add up correctly in her head.

When the group was past the clouds, they looked behind them, and were quite pleased with themselves when they saw that Zuko's boat was continuing in the original direction.

"So…" Kila began. "Where should we land?"

They decided where to land when they saw a river beneath them. It seemed wise to land by a river, just incase of any fire mishaps, which were expected to happen.

Ok, sorry this was a short chapter, unlike my other ones…but I really don't want to explain how Kila teaches Aang firebending right now. It'll come out soon though.

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