CH4

Prince Zuko approached the site slowly as if awaiting something. He glanced to his right and continued to walk toward the site. Yroki tried the hardest she could to keep breathing as the soldier did not loosen his grip.

"Put the girl down," he said to the soldier.

The soldier dropped Yroki to the ground and she trembled, gasping for breath. She stood up, brushed the dirt off of her clothes and left the site.

"I don't believe it!" Katara shouted. "She just left us!"

"I know!" Sokka agreed. "And you would think that you could trust someone like her!"

"You guys," Aang said. "What's done is done. She's gone, there's nothing we can do and-"

"We'll never see her again," Sokka said sadly.

Aang listened closely to the conversation between Zuko and one of the soldiers.

"We were sent here by Zhao to look for the pendant," the soldier said.

"What made him think that it would be here?"

"I don't know, but he said that the pendant's power can be controlled by two people and we only know who one of them is."

"Well?" Zuko asked. "Who is it?"

"The avatar."

"The avatar?"

They both looked at Aang.

"That's me!" he said.

"I don't have time for this!" Zuko shouted. "I have to go."

"All you have to do," the soldier said. "Is pick a tree, any tree."

Zuko glared at him.

"Well, we need the pendant! Zhao will be furious if we return without it!"

"Then let him be furious," Zuko said.

He turned around to leave and as he did he looked at Aang for a moment. Then he entered the forest and walked deeper into the forest, and the shadows of the trees hid him until he was gone. The Fire Nation soldiers; however, did not leave.

Aang sensed that someone was watching him and looked around. An acorn fell on his head, and he looked up. Yroki was in the tree.

"Hey!" Aang shouted. He was a little mad at her for leaving them. She pressed her finger to her lips.

Two Fire Nation soldiers turned around and looked at Aang.

"Stupid squirrel!" Aang shouted. "Threw an acorn at me!"

The soldiers returned to their seats by the fire. Yroki descended from the treetop and landed on the ground behind the tree. She pressed her finger to her lips again and untied Aang, Katara, and Sokka. Yroki mouthed the words 'Follow me' and they followed her into a pit. She stuck her head out and looked around.

"Okay," she said. "I know you guys are mad because you think that I left you, but-"

"Mad?" Sokka exclaimed. "Mad? You left us for Fire Nation soldiers and you think we're mad? Of course we were mad and another thing-"

She put her finger to his mouth and said, "Sokka, I'm here now and you guys are fine. Just control your temper for now. Our lives are at risk. I don't want anybody hurt."

She stuck her head out once more.

"Here's the plan." She whispered her plan quietly for you never know who could be listening.

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