Hi guys. I know the last two chapters were kinda boring, so I hope this one makes up for it. I'm not good in writing fight scenes but I'm going to try the best that I can. Thanks. And please don't forget to write down some of the corniest jokes you can think of.

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar if I did Suki would come and beat up Sokka's butt for kissing Yue. Don't worry I like Yue though.

Let me get what I want

Chapter3:

As Zuko and Iroh continued walking in the sunset, Zuko heard a faint voice coming from the wind, well more like a faint yell, "and maybe Sokka will carry you!" Zuko froze he knew that voice, and the name Sokka belonged to that poor excuse of a warrior that traveled with the Avatar. Yes he knew all there names, they always yelled for each other.

Subconsciously Zuko's feet started to walk in the direction he heard the voice, but Iroh quickly grabbed Zuko's arm in an iron grip, before the teenager could do something foolish. "What do think you are doing prince Zuko?" Iroh questioned.

"Let go of me Uncle!" Zuko quietly yelled. He didn't want the Avatar to know he was here, and scare them away. "That was the Avatar and his two peasants."

"And what do suggest you do once you reach them? You do not have your ship, or any soldiers under your command, prince Zuko. You do honestly believe that you can fight them on your own? Especially when the Moon grows stronger. We need to rest," Iroh replied calmly.

As much as Zuko hated to admit it, his uncle was right. "Besides," his uncle continued, "they are probably headed to town, they need their rest too. They will not be leaving anytime soon." Iroh softened his grip and finally let go of Zuko's arm.

Zuko groaned, even with the Avatar within his grasp he still couldn't anything about it! He really hated how fate was playing with him. Was it so bad for wanting to return home, didn't he suffer enough? Apparently not, Zuko snorted. "Is anything wrong my nephew?" Iroh asked.

"Nothing uncle," Zuko replied. He didn't like opening up. "Let's just go to town, hopefully I'll come up with a plan by then."

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After finding a safe spot in the woods to leave Appa and Momo, Aang and his friends set off to town. The light of the moon grew stronger, and up ahead small candles lit the street, they finally reached a village. From the looks of it this town, it looked troublesome. Tumbleweeds blew softly by, some men looked around themselves with scared looks on their faces hoping not to get robbed, others were very suspicious looking, they carried weapons, and ranged from all sizes, large and gruff to the short and stalky. Some of them were looking at the three youngsters as if they were fresh meat, some licking their lips as Katara walked by. Sokka quickly grabbed his sister and squished her between Aang and himself. "Maybe you were right Katara," Sokka whispered to his sister, clutching his boomerang, "we probably should have come in the morning."

Aang clutched onto his glider, readying to fight just in case. "I guess we can go back if you want, Katara," Aang said somewhat solemnly, this was getting to be a pretty bad birthday.

Though Katara was wary of these suspicious looking men, she wanted her friend to have a good birthday. "It's okay guys," Katara smiled, "besides we're benders," she looked at Aang, "and Sokka's a warrior, we'll be fine,"she convinced the two boys, but also tried to convince herself as well.

"Alright as soon as we eat and get supplies, we're outta here," Sokka said nervously, he really didn't like this place. Sokka then looked at his sister and whispered, "look we can get supplies tomorrow lets just get something for Aang, right now okay?" Katara nodded her head. She looked ahead and saw a bakery, just what she was looking for.

"Keep Aang busy. I'm going to that bakery, wait for me outside," Sokka looked like he was about to protest but she cut in, "I have to get Aang his gift, I'll be fine, you guys are going to be right outside." Sokka only nodded. They'll be alright, right? Why couldn't he convince himself that? Maybe it was the way some of those men were looking at them, what he wouldn't give if that was that royal pain in the ass Zuko instead. At least with Zuko he knew what he was up against, but these men, they were a few yards away, and there were at least six of them, the one in the middle had a cloak and straw hat, he talking to the other five. He then looked at Aang, "you have the whistle with you right?" Aang only nodded staring at the six men clutching tightly to his glider.

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As soon as Zuko stepped into town he didn't like this place, something about the way the men walked, the way most of them looked scared, some just wanting to cause trouble. As he and his uncle were walking he noticed some were staring at his uncle, the fools, he thought, if they really thought his uncle Iroh was some pathetic weak old man they'd be surprised, but his uncle did give that look to them.

Zuko looked at his uncle across from him, staring at some of the trinkets as they passed by. He groaned inwardly, even when they were possibly in danger, and with no ship, his uncle was like some kid at a candy shop. He looked around hoping to spot the Avatar or one of his friends, but no luck yet. He turned back to his uncle, he wasn't next to him. Zuko quickly looked left to right and saw his uncle standing at a stand looking at some of the clothing. He sighed in relief. Some of the suspicious looking men were eyeing his uncle again. He looked at one large gruff man whispering to another while pointing to his uncle. Slowly, one of the men walked toward his uncle, and with top speed, Zuko ran toward the man, and punched him. The large man stumbled backwards a bit into the other large man, he ran his hand to his lip and saw the blood. The man spoke in a deep accent, "well, seems like we got ourselves a troublemaka." The other man nodded and smirked.

"Seems like we best be teaching ya a lesson boy," slowly the large man drew out a dagger, while the other cracked his knuckles. Iroh oblivious to what was going on behind him.

Zuko smirked back at the two men, "we'll see who'll be teaching whom a lesson." He took a fighting stance.

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Katara entered the small bakery, and small jingle rang as she open the door to enter. An elderly women stood in the counter, her back to Katara. "Look I ain't got your money today, Zheng," her voice sounded tired. She turned around with an angry looked on her face but quickly subsided when she noticed that it wasn't Zheng. "I'm terribly sorry my dear, I thought you were somebody else," she said politely.

Katara smiled at her, "it's alright, maybe this is a bad time?" Katara was about to turn and leave.

But the woman's voice stopped her, "Oh it ain't nuttin dear, it's always a bad time in these parts," she looked somewhat sadly at Katara. "Well what can I do ya for?" She smiled.

"Well, I was wondering if you had any egg custard tarts?" Katara asked. She hoped that the woman did.

"I don't have a lot of em, usually people round here just ask for the cheaper stuff, or steal it," woman said, she then looked at Katara, raising an eyebrow, "you ain't gonna steal from me when I go to the back to fetch them?"

"Oh no of course not," Katara said defensively. Katara wasn't a thief, well she did steal that waterbending scroll but that was different.

"Well alright," the woman said suspiciously, she had reason to be wary, after all this town was a town full of thieves and criminals. She went to the back. "If ya don't mind me askin," the woman raised her voice in the back room so Katara could hear her.

"What's that?" Katara raised her voice too.

"Is, what is a young woman as yourself doin in a town like this?" the old woman asked coming back, with the five... she had left.

"Today is my friend's birthday, I thought I'd do something nice," Katara replied. The old woman shook her head.

"Well this ain't the type of place you'd be celebratin' birthdays, dear. I suggest as soon as get out my shop, you best be leavin," the woman said as kindly as she could. "A young girl such as yourself, ain't safe round here."

Katara only nodded. "Well, that'll be ten copper pieces," the old woman said, putting the egg custard tarts in a bag. Katara handed her the money, and was about to leave, until she heard a jingle from behind her. She turned around a saw a slim tall man, enter, wearing a worn out cloak, and a straw hat. The man cocked his head to the side and tip hit hat back just a bit, and gave Katara an eerie smile. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?"

Katara only stood, she didn't like the look the man was giving her. He continued to smile at her. "You leave her alone Zheng, she ain't done nuttin," she heard the old woman say.

The man continued to stare at Katara when he spoke to the old woman, "I'm here to collect my payment, old woman," he finally let his eyes wander to the old woman.

"This here is all I got," The old woman said holding out the ten copper pieces Katara had just given her. "Now leave!"

"You ask me to watch your little shop, make sure there ain't no harm done to it, and this is the payment you give me?" He looked angrily at her.

"I hardly get any business done with you and your criminals standin right across my shop, you scare away costumers," she said matter-of-factly.

All Katara did was watch, she strapped the bag of egg custard tarts on her back, and slowly uncapped her water pouch.

"You asked for protection, and I'm givin it, just right now, two boys were standing right next to the shop,"Zheng then looked at Katara again. "They looked like they were about to cause trouble. Now you wouldn't know anything about that, would ya miss?" he stepped closer to Katara.

What did he do to Aang and Sokka? Katara thought uneasily. The beating of her chest started to rise.

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What was taking Katara so long? Sokka thought. He hoped to the gods she wasn't chitchatting. Women, Sokka groaned and shook his head. They always lead you into trouble. He looked up and noticed the man with the straw hat was missing.

"Sokka I think we should get Katara, I don't like the way, those guys are looking at us," Aang whispered to the warrior. Sokka was about to reach for the door, when a hand grabbed his wrist, it was the man with the straw hat.

"What's your business, with this here shop?" The man raised and eyebrow and grinned. With his other hand he motioned the five other men to get closer. "Take care of these two, I'll be inside." He threw Sokka onto the floor, and entered quickly.

"Sokka!" Aang quickly picked up the other boy, before the five large men started to attack. One of the men raised a club, about to strike, but Aang took a deep breath of air, and breathed out hard knocking the man down.

"That one there is a bender!" One man said pointing scared at Aang. People around the area started to flee, one of the five thugs fled as well. Another one spoke, walking towards Aang, "we don't take kindly to benders." Yup it was official, this was the worst birthday Aang had. He readied his staff and took a large swing, a huge gust of air came and threw the man across hitting a small shop with a thud. He ran up to Sokka who was fighting off another, and helped him. The large man swung at Sokka's head who quickly evaded the attacked a countered with a swing of his club to the man's gut. The man made an oof sound, doubled over and fell, face first to the ground. "Well that was kinda easy," Sokka said smugly. With the men out of the way Sokka quickly went back to the bakery. " I hope Katara's okay," he said to Aang. As he opened the door the man in the straw hat came tumbling out, clawing out what seemed to be ice out from his face.

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"Sokka!" Katara heard Aang yell outside. "What's going on out there!" Katara demanded from Zheng taking a step back.

"Oh don't worry your pretty little head about it, missy, you should be worrying about yourself," he went to reach for Katara's wrist but she quickly summoned a water whip from her pouch and struck Zheng's outstretched hand.

"A bender!" Zheng said in shock, this time he went to swing at her, but a metal plate struck him in the head. Before he had time to react Katara threw a water ball at his face and froze it. Ice surrounded his eyes and nose, but his mouth was free. "What did you do to me!" he screamed. He tumbled around the room, trying to pick the ice out of his face, and fell on the dirt pavement outside.

"Sokka! Aang you're okay!" Katara ran to the boys and gave them a hug. She turned to the old lady and smiled, "thank you for helping me."

"Oh it was nuttin," the old woman walked over picking up her metal plate. "There hasn't been a bender round these parts in quite some time," she laughed. "You best be goin before the other men come over," the old woman shooed them away.

Aang opened his glider, "alright guys hold on tight." All three ran holding on to the glider as it lifted them off into the air.

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Both large men charged at Zuko, the one with the dagger went to stab him, Zuko quickly grabbed the man's wrist, heating it up, the man yelped in pain letting go of the dagger. Zuko pushed the man back into the other. He was about to light a fireball, when he heard the people yell, "there are benders here!" He heard one man say. The avatar was here! The large man with the burnt wrist took Zuko's distraction to advantage and went to swing at him, Zuko at the last second saw it coming, ducked down and kicked the man's legs under. He hit his head on the ground. The other man coward away. "Look I ain't asking for trouble," he pleaded.

"Get out of my sight!" Zuko muttered. The man ran off. Zuko turned to his uncle, who now had a sack of clothing under his arm.

"Ah my nephew, look! I've gotten us some clothes at such great prices," Iroh gave a large grin. Zuko gave his uncle a deadpan look. "The avatar is here uncle," Zuko said as calmy as he could. He went to look around when something in the dark sky got his attention. The was the avatar flying in the sky and those two peasants, hanging on, flying toward the safety of the woods. "I'm going to follow them," he turned back to his uncle. "Meet me back at the beach, uncle, once I know they're plans I'll come back, I might not be back until morning." Iroh nodded.

"Be safe prince Zuko, I will wait for you," Iroh said. "If you do not return by morning, I will go and search for you myself."

Zuko smiled and said, "don't worry I'll be back." And he ran off in the direction he saw the Avatar take.

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A/N: So what do think? I know there hasn't been any Zutara interaction, and I'm not going to lie, Katara and the other's probably won't be aware of Zuko until probably chapter 5. Please review.