7: Laugh maniacally when the Generals in the War Room think of another plot. Say that Iroh was better then all of them and don't understand how they could have possibly let him go.

Guess what Lara was?

A) A Fire Nation Princess

B) Secretly a Water Bender

C) In love with Sokka

D) Appa's older sister

E) Annoyed and Annoying

F) The second Avatar who was born in our world and transported to theirs by a great power that even she, with all of her wisdom, doesn't understand, but when she landed on Zuko's ship and fell in love with him, he agreed to try to help her understand why she was sent to this world, but he doesn't know that she's the second Avatar.

G) All of the above.

That's right! E!

She was annoying because that's how she is. But she was annoyed for an actual reason, this time. She was annoyed because of a letter she had received.

And here is the letter.

Dear Lara,

I'm sorry to say that I won't be able to write to you this often any more. You see, we're going to be traveling much faster these days.

Prince Zuko found the Avatar. Believe it or not, he really is the last Air Bender. Unfortunately, he's also twelve years old.

This child is accompanied by two siblings from the Southern Water Tribe. The girl is a Water-Bender (although I doubt, from what we know of her people, that she has much training) and the boy is a warrior.

He also has a flying bison with an arrow on his head. Yes, you read right. A flying bison. Don't ask.

Anyway, Zuko has found this Avatar. He escaped us the first time, and we are pursuing him. That means no stops on land (even for tea or food) when the Avatar isn't there, and constantly being on the move in order to catch up to him.

So I doubt that I will be sending you any letters for quiet a while. I might not even receive yours, since our course will be unpredictable and you won't have a known place to send them.

On the plus side, Prince Zuko and I will probably be home soon, with the Avatar. You'd like him, Lara, from what I can tell.

Be nice to Ozai. You know how much stress he's under.

Your brother

Iroh.

And so Lara was annoyed. What right, she wondered, did Ozai have to send her favorite brother and only nephew off chasing after the Avatar? Besides him being the Fire Lord, that is.

Therefore, she was annoyed, which I already said. And so she decided to make someone else annoyed. Guess who. No, don't guess. It was Ozai.

Marching directly into the War room without permission from the Fire Lord is never a good idea. But the guards were cowering in fear of her awesomeness (aka, sleeping) and so they didn't stop her. What's with these guards?

Never mind. The guards aren't the point of this story. The point is what Lara did in order to annoy her oldest brother.

The generals in the War Room were all discussing another plot while watching the Fire Lord carefully in case he became angered with them and incinerated someone.

So they weren't paying attention to Lara as she marched into the room and sat down in an empty chair.

And Ozai was busy looking imposing. Which seemed to take up a lot of his time. And attention. Therefore he didn't notice his younger sister in the room until it was too late. I like that word. Therefore. Therefore. Forethere. Therefore…. sorry.

Anywho, Lara managed to get into the War Room and sit down without anyone noticing her. That was probably more because nobody was paying attention than because she was sneaky, but oh well.

"We already have a place to put Earth Benders without anything they can bend," General Vahe explained. "They are on a barge in the middle of the ocean. But what about Water Benders, should we find any?

"We could hide them underground, but then there is the problem of underground lakes or rivers and drippage. We could put them on top of a mountain, but then there is the problem of clouds and pre-cip-i-ta-tion. We could put them in a valley without any bodies of water, but what would they drink?

"We do not want to waste valuable resources on making or finding another sort of liquid that they could drink. Fruit juice is expensive. Even milk costs more than water.

"Therefore, I say, that we do not put them anywhere at all. That, should a Water Bender such as the one who travels with the Avatar be found, we should aim to kill rather than to capture. We should make no new place to keep these watery fools. We should kill them on sight, and thus strengthen our claim to the world."

This wasn't much of a plan. They had been doing exactly the same thing since Fire Benders first started to take over the world. Killing off Water, Air, and Earth Benders. The kidnapping rather than killing of Earth Benders was a new sort of thing.

So, General Vahe's new plan wasn't really a plan at all. But it was good enough for Lara.

"Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! BwahaHA!" laughed the evil Fire Nation person. (Lara).

Now the Generals noticed her. And they were completely flabbergasted.

"What are you doing?" demanded the General who had asked if she was alright during her last trip to the War Room.

"I'm laughing manically at your plot," explained Lara. "It must be done for every new plot that the Fire Nation comes up with. Especially the evil ones."

"It must?" asked General Vahe, obviously not really noticing how ridiculous this was.

"Yes, it must," Lara told him firmly. "Even the stupid ones like this."

"It wasn't stupid!"

"But we're doing it already! What's the point? It's hardly worth laughing manically about, but it's my job."

"No, your job is to go away before I kill you," snarled Ozai.

Lara laughed manically. "See? That's another evil plot. A very plain, simpleminded plot, but it's evil alright." She sighed softly. "I'll never understand how you ever let my brother Iroh leave. He was so much better than all of you put together!"

As the Generals muttered to one another in offense, Ozai snarled again. His sister was once again beginning to annoy him.

"LARA!"

Lara smiled sweetly. She had succeeded in her mission to bug her older brother.

"What?"