Well, hmm. This is kinda funny. True story. Okay I have had this chapter finished for a while, but I broke my leg. So I haven't been on the computer at all for the last little bit. Today I get on and look at my e-mail and see all of my beautiful loyal reviewers that are still loving my story and then I get the shock of a lifetime. MY first true flame for this story. Any other negative commets have been constructive critisim but wow. This one takes the cake and the cow. The nice little person wasn't brave enough to leave a name or e-mail. Here I put it up so you don't have to peek over into the reviews.
"Okay first of all WTF. This plot line is impossible and childish. You don't getavatar do you? This really sucks, and I thought you should know it.You have terrible grammar, a bad sense of humor, and your OC must reflect on personal actions.YOu need to grow up and if you are going to do a fanfic try to base it more on the series then on some fucking fantasy.
I mean really.If anyone at all thought this was possible it would have been in the series. Try to keep to the series okay."
Hmm. I love you too. Okay if I was going to stick to the series what then would be the point of fanfiction? I need to grow up? wait wait back up. You called this plot childish? Howcould a teenage father adapting to a new lifestyle with a baby, be childish?BAH! I don't care if you don't like my sense of humor, and if it sucked so bad why did you read all 33 CHAPTERS! So what if my OC had reflected me? Alot of people do that, in this case I didn't, I'm not that pyschotic. It sucks, huh? You know what sucks? Halfwit critics like you that think that they are so much better then everyone else. And if my leg was completly plastered I would...do something very naughty with my foot. But until then if you are reading this you can suck a cookie on a stick and choke.
But on to the story. .; I got carried away, but enjoy.
Zuko stood up and stretched they had been on the flying bison, that he learned had a name, for almost three hours, and it was starting to get very late. Aang and Sokka had decided to go a little further then they normally would before they landed to sleep, because of their new guests. Zuko turned and looked at Katara who was patting Riyo trying to get him to sleep. He shook his head and sat back down. He leaned over Appa and looked at the water below them. What a sight. He would have never imagined running like this, but here he was.
"Careful we don't want you falling off." Sokka said as he walked by to sit by his sister. Zuko squinted his eyes.
"IS that supposed to mean something?"
"Do you want it to?" Sokka retorted in a manner just as snippy as Zuko's. Katara sigh and shook her head.
"If you two are going to argue all the time, I'm gonna throw both of you off." She smiled and looked down at Riyo.
"Yes I am. I will throw Daddy and Uncle Sokka off. Won't I? Yes I will." She cooed.
"UNCLE SOKKA!" Both boys yelled and jumped up. Sokka pointed at Zuko.
"Their is no way that I will even be considered any kin to that!" Zuko scoffed and crossed his arms over his chest.
"I wouldn't want to be related to you either!"Katara rolled her eyes and looked at Iroh.
"Can I please throw them over board?" Aang looked back at her with a huge smimle and nodded. He had found a place to camp and it was right on the edge of a lake. He dropped Appa down so that if she did decide to push them off they wouldn't have very far to fall before they hit the water. Katara grinned and handed Riyo to Iroh. She didn't think she could push either of the big oofs, so she decided on the next best thing. She got on the opposite side of Appa's saddle and watched the two as they bickered back and forth, both completely enveloped in their arguments and oblivious to the rest of the world. She looked down at her stomach. It was only going to be a little water, maybe she could even use that to her advantages. Aw what the hell She pushed off and ran tackling both of them, sending the three of them flying into the water below.
Aang cackled loudly as he turned Appa and readied him to land. There was no way he was going to pass up this. After all this time of fighting, they could have some fun!
Sokka came up spitting and sputtering, and cusses flying every which way from his mouth.
"I am gonna kill him." Zuko was next to surface, but the water steamed off of him as he looked around for the water peasant if the fall didn't kill him he was going to . HOW dare he knock him into the water. Then the two seen each other, but before they got any closerto drown each other, Katara surfaced between the two. She looked back and forth and sunk down into the water where just her eyes were peeking the surface.
Zuko started to say somthing but as soon as he opened his mouth she popped up and spit a stream of water into it. He started sputtering and looked at her.
"Oh now you are gonna get it!" Katara grinned and turned to her brother splashing him. He shook his head and started her way as well. Katara giggled and dissapeared under the water. Sokka looked at Zuko with wide eyes.
"Swim for the shore as fast as you can!Or she's gonna get ya" Sokka said and started off like a jet. Zuko stared after the boy for a moment before something jerked his leg. He tried to pull it away but it was no use he went under.
He didn't like being underwater,and it felt like hands were grabbign at him pulling him fruther under.
Katara smiled and pulled him down to her level, she had to do it quick or he might panic. She smiled and grabbed ahold of his neck. She brought her thumbs up to caress his cheeks coaxing him to open his eyes and look at her.
His body calmed seeing eyes that melted into the water around him. She was smiling. She was happy. She was getting closer! But just as she started to kiss him a jerk came at his collar, and pulled him top water.
"Are you okay! I know that fire benders don't swim that good and you were under for a while." Zuko narrowed his eyes at Aang. It was starting to seem to him that the avatar has a six sense as to when it was a bad time. Katara surfaced seeing Aang with a hand full of Zuko's collar. She covered her mouth as she started to laugh, and threw a handful of water to cover Aang.
Iroh sat on the bank watching the four splashing in the water. Sokka had come up long enough to unpack everthing, then could resist going back in. Iroh didn't know if it was for the fun or keeping an eye on his sister. Iroh sat down next to the fire that he had taken himself upon to start.
He had set up a small baundle of blankets next to him and he set the sleeping Riyo down. He watched his nephew. He hadn't seen Zuko so happy in a very long time. He hadn't seen him have fun either, it was good to see him that way. With the news of the prince's full and complete exile, one would have thought that Zuko would have went into a very deep and dark mencing depression, but he didn't. Instead here he was playign in the water, acting like he was sixteen. Zuko hadn't lost much in comparison to what he had gained. He gained the freedom to be withthe woman that he loved without having to duck and cover at the sign of regality. He also gained two partners, they might all like each other at the moment but Iroh knew that they would grow on each other.
Iroh took a deep breath, all this he knew but there was one other thing that instead of brightening up the situation just set a dark and looming cloud over all of their heads. Now that they were traveling with the Avatar, and the fact that they were exiles, put both parties in more serious danger. Not only was Zuko, Riyo, and himself in danger, but sense they were 'traitors' to the throne the people after them would be out to kill, and that means any obstacles that may fall in the way, including the avatar and his companions.
Iroh shook his head free of the macabre thoughts and smiled as the four soaked kids came ashore. He scolded himself mentally, they weren't kids anymore, well at least three of them weren't.
"I am so tired!" Aang said and popped down in front of the fire. Sokka followed suit and quickly grabbed up a stick with some kind of meat on it from the fire.
"Food! Oh it's delicous. What is it?"
"Gopher." Sokka stopped mid-bite and stared at the old firebender. He wasn't joking. Sokka looked back down at the blackened rodent.
"Oh well." He said and continued to munch.
Katara was last out of the water with Zuko only a few paces in front of her. She smiled and jumped forward grabbed his hand. Zuko turned and looked at her with a startled look in his eyes.
"What are you doing?"
"What can't I hold your hand?"
"Your brother has already tried to kill me once, I would ratehr skip another episode." Katara grinned and stopped putting her hands on her hips.
"Don't tell me you are scared of my brother!" Zuko frowned.
"Of corse NOT!" He said and grabbed her hands. She burst into a fit of giggles. "What is the matter with you?"
"I just figured out how to get what I want!" Zuko frowned, but shook it off as Katara rested her head on his shoulder as they walked.
Azula tapped her foot as she sat on her makeshift throne watching the schitz pace the floor. Since they had left the miserable Earth Kingdom village the wretch had been pacing the floor. Azula had to keep a steady head about her or she was goign to fry the girl where she stood. She had a friend that had liked her brother, but this was ridiculous, and past obsession.
"Would you stop!"
"He's north by north east. Water lots of water." Malana mumbled as she bit her nails.
"You have no idea do you?" Malana's eyes jerked up to look at the princess. She glared and stuck her finger at her.
"DON'T MOCK ME!" Azula snarled.
"WENCH!" Azula said and spran like lightening out of her seat and pinned the girl to the ground.
"You do not disrespect me or my throne. YOU little bottom feeder I could turn you into ashes beforee you could even count to two. So mind your place." The princess said standing up and turning her back on the girl. Calm. Composure. Vicousness and venom in words. No blood yet. I can't kill her yet.
Malana stood up dusting her self off. Something was weird. She looked around.
"We see something."
"I can see a forest."
"No water.
"No there's both. More people. Unfamiliar. Fuzzy. I can't" Malana fell to her knees clutchign her head.
"We don't want to see it!"
"It hurts us!"
"I'LL KILL HER!"
Sokka turned and looked at the couple as they came walking up. He scolwed even though his cheeks were puffed out stuffed with food.
"Oh aren't we comfortable." Katara shook her head.
"Shut up Sokka." Katara stretched and yawned, she had been asleep for a little while earlier but the entire situation just pulled the energy from her. She let go of Zuko's hand and walked over inspecting the ground around the fire. She found the spot that she thought would be soft enough and unrolled a blanket. She didn't think the three of them could fit in her sleeping bag, but then again that wasn't the only thing she didn't think about.
Iroh nodded.
"That's a good idea. I say we all get some sleep and get started early in the morning." The rest nodded each showing their own forms of exhaustion.
Sokka and Aang each unrolled their sleeping bags, as Iroh set up some blankets. The doctor had been very generous. Sokka looked up out of curiousity, and his eyes almost bulged out of his head. Zuko was going to sleep beside his sister. Not if I have anything to say about it.
Sokka huffed and walked over to the couple where Katara was settling Riyo in to sleep between her and the prince. Sokka sat down next to the sleeping baby and smiled.
"This is good spot."
"Sokka what are you doing?"
"I'm not letting this ruffian sleep next to my sister." Katara smiled coyly and glanced at Zuko, she pulled the stone out from under her collar.
"Y'know Sokka, this little stone.." Zuko smiled and took up where Katara left off.
"Means that we are married." Sokka 's eyes almost fell out of his head this time.
"WHA..." Katara grinned and shook her head.
"Get real Sokka. We aren't married.." Zuko turned to look at Katara with smoldering eyes.
"Yet."
Well. I feel better now. I got that out of my system. Some people just really piss me off. I think I might leave the story with this...but I might go on. I'm still kinda bothered about that stupidness. Funny thing, that message was posted about twenty minutes before I got on here.