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Hey! Thanks for all the reviews! The reason I haven't been updating is because I've been out of school so I'm not constantly bored! I have joined Vic Mignogna's fan club the Risembool Rangers! I love Full Metal Alchemist! I think Roy is hot but I love the voice actor of Ed! I went to my first anime convention last week! I met him there, he was so nice! Anyways, I think you guys don't care about anime so I will get on with the story!

Chapter Three

"I think she is coming to, Prince Zuko." Melanie heard an unfamiliar voice say. "Good. Check her over quickly." Melanie felt somebody trying to pull her eyelids open.

"Mmmhh…Whats going on? Where am…I?" Melanie suddenly remembered the sandwich and fainting, Zuko being the last thing she saw. "Ahh! Its you! Let me go!" Melanie tried to stand up but she couldn't because she was to a chair.

"I think she is fine doctor, you may leave." Melanie opened her eyes to see a man in a white coat get up and walk out. "Prince Zuko, what are you doing?"

"Don't worry. I just want to get the truth from you." Zuko walked around the chair where she couldn't see him and put his hands on her shoulders. She could feel his hot breath on her ear. "Now tell me, who you are and where you come from." He said in her ear with a very low voice.

"My...my name is Melanie. I come from a different world than you. If I tell you where I really come from it might disrupt something in this world." Zuko tightened his grip on Melanie's shoulders.

"Tell me now." His voice was cold and sent a shiver down her spine.

"NO. It could destroy this world. Or at least that is a possibility." Melanie said with more confidence. Zuko made his grip even tighter on her shoulders. This time it hurt her.

"Please top! I'll tell you! Okay?" Zuko loosened his grip on her shoulders a little bit. "But before I tell you," his grip tightened again, "can you at least untie me?"

"No!" "Darn..." Melanie sighed. "Get over it." "I never will women hater." Melanie realized she could divert his attention while having fun.

"I don't care. Now tell the information." Melanie could tell Zuko was getting annoyed because he was making his grip tight on her again.

"Darn you. Darn you to heck." Melanie couldn't help but laugh at what she just said, one of her friends used to say that all the time.

"Stop laughing. Tell me the information I want to know." Melanie stopped laughing, his tone was starting to be really, really scary.

"Okay. My friends and I were watching a show. But then this earthquake happened and I was like 'Whoa!' 'Cause I was in my sleeping bag at that moment. The earthquake ended then the portal opened up and we were being sucked into int. My two other friends were able to grab a hold of each other. I couldn't reach them because I was stuck in my sleeping bag. I'm sorry I fell on you, but look at it this way. You are a hero!"

Melanie talking because she saw something like a twitch of a smile in the corner of his mouth. 'Aww…he looks so cute!'

"Maybe I am here for some special reason. To help somebody do something or stop something."

"Like what? You probably can't even bend. You are useless, just a weakling." Zuko said.

"Hey! That wasn't nice!" Melanie paused for a second with a serious look on her face then took a deep breath. "Maybe, maybe you could teach me. Please?" She gave him puppy dog eyes, it worked, sort of.

"How? You may not even be firebender." "Well, we can try can't we? Try? I'll prove to you that I can bend!"

"Fine. But you are to do what I tell you even if that means doing chores. You have to earn your keep on this ship. "How? I'm not going to be around any men that have been at sea for months without seeing any women. No way." Melanie's stomach growled.

"I know! I can cook! Yeah! Are you hungry? I can make something that you have never had before. I'm sure." Melanie said with a smile.

"How do I know you won't poison me?" Zuko said.

"Because, if I do I won't have a handsome young man to protect me from the horny old guys." Zuko turned a slight shade of pink but he covered it up quickly with a scowl.

'Score! I'm such a flirt at times. He is so cute when he is mad!' Melanie thought to herself.

"So, are you willing to obey commands and do as I tell you when we are training. It will be harsh."

"Yes sir! I will." Melanie said the first part in an over dramatic way.

"Good, now go make me lunch." Zuko started to walk out the door.

"Hey! I'm still tied up here! Aren't you going to untie me?" Melanie called out.

"no. First part of your training is to figure out how to use your resources to get free," Zuko pulled out a dagger and set it on the far opposite end of the table, "Here, I'll help."

"Great. That sure helps a lot." Melanie said sarcastically. "I know, doesn't it?" Zuko replied with a fake happy voice.

"Damn you! Maybe I will poison our food!" Melanie screamed.

"oh, so you want the 'horny old men' as you say to get you?" "No!" "Then don't poison my food." Zuko turned around and gave a mock bow to Melanie. "Good bye my fair lady." With that Zuko truned around and walked out the door.

"DAMN YOU ZUKO! DAMNY YOU!" Zuko heard this and started manically.

"What can I do to untie these ropes? Maybe I can fire bend!" Melanie closed her eyes and pictured a fireball in her hands. She kept doing that for a few minutes but nothing happened. "Grr."

"Maybe I'm an earth bender….Nahh..' Melanie looked around and saw the dagger at the other end of the table. She then looked around again to see a half full glass of water and a whole pitcher next to it.

"Maybe I ca water bend." Melanie tried copying from memory what Katara did to water bend. Nothing happened. "I could try airbending. But that shouldn't be possible. Oh well! Its worth a try." Melanie concentrated on seeing the dagger being picked up by a powerful gust of wind and being blown over to her.

Melanie opened her eyes still concentrating and felt a little gust of wind blow past her. She concentrated on directing the wind towards the knife adding more energy to it. The wind swept behind the knife and began to push it towards her.

'Yes!' Melanie added as much energy into concentrating to get it over to her. She felt a huge gust of wind come from behind her then she saw it push the dagger all the way down to where she was at.

"YES!" Melanie took a deep breath and rested for a few minutes. 'That was tiring; if this was hard I don't even want to think what training is going to be like!' Melanie's eyes grew big. 'Oh well. I'll just have to deal with it.' She thought trying to convince herself that it would be all right.

"How am I supposed to do this?" she said to herself suddenly getting back on track. Melanie scooted the chair closer to the table. "I can't pick it up! I know!" Melanie had a sudden idea.

Melanie took a deep breath then concentrated on pushing the knife closer to her. 'Okay. Now the dangerous part.' Melanie took one last deep breath then but her head over the table and picked the dagger up by the handle with her teeth.

'Careful Melanie. Careful.' Her conscience was telling her. Melanie bent down and began sawing at the ropse with the knife. 'Damn, the dagger is really blunt.' She had been sawing at the ropes for about ten minutes and was almost through. A minute later the ropes broke.

"Ye-ahh! My leg!" Melanie still had the knife when she let out her exclamation of victory over the stupid ropes. "Oww…I'm so stupid. NO. Zuko is stupid, he is the one who tied me up." Melanie started to move around in the chair. She felt the ropes fall off so she was able to untangle her hands.

Melanie looked at the dagger in her leg and figured that she would have to pull it out herself. "One..two..THREE! Aggh!" Melanie pulled the dagger out of her leg then put it on the table. "Okay, now for the ropoes."

Melanie bent over and untied the ropes around her legs. "Damn Zuko. Its probably his falult I'm even in this world." Melanie stood up slowly and grabbed the dagger, "Just for safe keeping. I'm sure he won't miss it." The she slowly limped towards the door.

"Where is he?" She made it out into the hallway to look for HIM. She started to loock at the doors, they had little signs on them. "No..no..No…Hmm?" Melanie came across a door without a name on it.

"Maybe this is a free room?" Melanie opened the door. "Woah! The room was huge. In the middle was a huge four poster bed with a red comforter and pillows. Agianst the wall beside it was a wardrobe. In the right corner were huge plush pillows in front of a meditation table with candles on it. On the left was another door.

"I wonder what that is." Melanie walked over to the door and opened it, the room was a bathroom. "Yay! I really need a bath." There was a claw foot tub in the bathroom with a chute heading down into it. ON the chute was a rope.

'Hmm..just like Spirited Away..haha. Funny.' Melanie pulled on the rope wand hot water came pouring out.

"Yes!" Melaine waited for the tub to fill up then stripped down and got in. "Ahh.." Melanie looked around and saw a wash cloth and soap on the side of the tub.

'Perfect!' Melanie took the soap and began to scrub hersef, when she got to her wound she gasp. The wound was not that deep, it already started to heal a big. Melanie started to was it gently. "Oww…Stupid soap." Melanie finished washing her wound then started shaving her legs with the razor she had stolen.

"Now, where is the shampoo," Melanie stopped looking for it and then figured out why there was no shampoo, "Wait. Bald people don't need shampoo." Melanie laughed for a minute. Because of this Melanie had to use the plain sopa to wash out her hair.

"Squeaky clean!" Melanie got out of the tub slowly. "Towels. Where are the towels?" Melanie looked around the small bathroom and saw a small table with a cupboard under it. Melanie walked over to it and opened it. 'Perfect.' Melanie took out two towels; she wrapped one around herself then in her hair.

"Now for the bandadges." Melanie found the bandages next to the pile of towels. Once she picked up the towels she walked over to the tub and sat down on the edge of it and wrapped her leg up. "That's better." 'I wonder what Zuko is doing right now? Oh well, I need clothes.' Melanie walked slowly out of the bathroom to the wardrobe. She slowly opened the wardrobe to find everything perfectly organized.

"Nerd." Melanie picked up a pair of boxers and on of his shirts and put them on. Te shirt was huge and the boxers where hardly staying up. "I bet I look funny." She said.

"Yaaa!" Melanie let out a huge yawn. She was really tired. "I bet he won't mind." Melanie went over to the huge bed and pulled back the covers. " A goose down blanket! He has one too! Everybody I know has one except me! That is no fair. This will go mysteriously." Melanie crawled into the bed.

"Man! His pillows are so fluffy!" Melanie closed her eyes and immediately fell asleep.

Elicia, Kayla, and Katara were down at the little stream that was by the camp site talking.

"So, Elicia, Kayla, do you guys think you could waterbend?" Katara asked. " I don't. Water has never been my thing, fire has always been better than water to me." Said Kayla. "That would be so cool if we could! Can you show me what you do to water bend?" Elicia said with excitement.

"Sure Elicia! I would love to teach you. I'll go get Aang, he can help you too." Katara got up and left.

"Sooo…Kayla. I saw you staring at Rayne. Do you like him?" Kayla turned a slight shade of red. "Oh, I like him all right. How can you not?"

"Yeah. Kayla's got a crush!" Elicia sang. "Shut up! I saw you making googly eyes at Sokka, and what was that hug about?" Kayla retorted.

"Nothing…Its just..Okay! I like him! H e was so hot on the show and now he is even hotter in real life!" Elicia said turnig a deep cherry red.

"Cool. Rayne is better though." Kayla said with a smirk. "Nuh Uh! Sokka!" "Rayne!" "Sokka!" "Rayne!" 'SOKKA!" "RAYNE!"

"What! What is wrong?" Sokka yeled. Sokka and Rayne had come running from the camp site to see what was wrong.

"Nothing…" Elicia said. "Yeah. Nothing." Said Kayla quickly. Both of them were starting to blush.

"But why were you yelling our names?" Rayne asked.

"Because…we felt like it." Kayla said blushing. Rayne noticed and said, "You can call for me any time." This made Kayla blush harder.

"So. Since you are here you might as well watch us learn how to bend! I'm going to learn how to water bend from Katara." Elicia said ending the awkwardness.

Once Elicia said that Katara and Aang came through the bushes. "Are you ready to learn Elicia?" Elicia nodded her head yes. "Okay! I'm going to teach you the most basic move first." Katara walked into the stream and motioned for Elicia to follow.

"Ready?" Katara asked. "Yes. Ready as I will ever be." Elicia replied. "Okay. Just copy my movements." Katara moved her hands in a motion that made the water come up like a small wall. "Now you try." Elicia copied her movements. A huge thick wall came up. Bigger than Katara's. "Wow! You are a powerful water bender! I want you to try this move." Katara moved her hands in another motion this time a whip of water came out and was circling around her body. She then moved her hands again and cracked it towards a tree.

"Wow. That looks hard." Elicia said quietly. "Don't worry, I know you can do." Katara said. "Yeah! You can do it!" said Sokka. Elicia blushed and found new confidence to do it. She did what Katara did and a whip of water was circling around her body too. "Cool! I did it!" Elicia then turned and tried to attack a random object but it went off course towards Sokka and almost hit him but he dodged.

"Sokka! Are you all right?" Elicia said with worry. "Yeah, I'm fine." He said. "Okay! I'm sorry. Katara I think I'm done with water bending now." Elicia walked out of the water and sat down on the bank.

"So, it looks like Elicia can water bend. Rayne could you test me?" Kayla asked.

"Yeah, come over and sit down in front of me." Elicia walked over to Rayne and sat down in front of him. "Now give me your hands," Kayla put her hands in his, "Now close your eyes and picture a flame within you, when you find the fire push forward towards your hands while picturing it in the middle of our hands." Kayla nodded and took a deep breath.

"Kayla was seeing inside herself, there was a blackness with a flame that was growing bigger every minute. 'That's it, I found it.' Kayla took another depp breath and focoused on seeing a red energy traveling through her torso and won her arms and to her hands. She then heard Rayne say, "Open your eyes, Kayla. You did it." Kayla opened her eyes to see a medium sized flame above Rayne and her hands.

"I did it! I actually did it!" Kayla exclaimed. "Yes, you did. But remember to concentrate. Look." Kayla looked at the flame that used to be fair size had shrunk only to a small flicker.

"Oh." Kayla closed her eyes and the flame grew larger than the last time. "That's better Kayla." Kayla smiled at Rayne. "Now close your eyes and picture the flame splitting in two." Rayne said. Kayla nodded and closed her eyes. In less than a minute there were two flames instead of one.

"Great job. We should stop now. We will start meditating tomorrow." Rayne said. "okay." Rayne was still holding Kayla's hands. Kayla really didn't' want to stop him but it was getting awkward because everybody was staring at them.

"Umm..hey, Rayne, you can let go of my hands now." Everyone snickered while Rayne turned a slight shade of pink. "Sorry." Rayne got up and offred Kayla his hand which she gladly took.

"Thanks." "You're welcome." Elicia again decided to break the awkwardness with more awkwardness. "Do any of you have an idea of how we are going to find Melanie?"

"We could go into town and start asking questions." Sokka suggested. "That would cause more questions and distrust if we couldn't answer those questions." Said Aang.

"Okay, but there aren't any other options I can think of." Sokka replied.

"Sokka is right. His idea is the best. Also Kayla and I need to get new clothes. Katara's clothes are too hot." "Yeah." Said Kayla agreeing with her friend.

"I guess we could go. Is that all right with everybody else?" asked Aang. Everybody mumbled something that resembled a yes.

"Okay, the next town is about a mile away. Does everybody want to walk or fly?" asked Aang.

"Fly!" Elicia said. "Okay. Flying it is." Everybody nodded and started to head back to camp to pick up all the supplies. About fifteen minutes later everybody was packed and ready to go.

Everybody boarded Aapa ready for a nice quiet ride, but that wasn't going to happen. About ten minutes into the flight Elicia started to get bored.

"Are we there yet?" "No, we will be there in about fifteen more minutes." Replied Aang.

"Ok." Five minutes later Elicia asked the same question. "No, ten more minutes." One minute later Elicia was going to ask the same question again. "Are—." She was cut off by Rayne. "Be quiet! We will get there. Just. Be. Quiet!" "Okay!" Elicia replied quickly.

"Its cold up here." "Get a blanket then." Kayla said to her friend. "Okay. I will." Elicia crawled over to Sokka and cuddled up next to him because he had a blanket.

"What are you doing?" Sokka said. "Its cold, you have a blanket. Duh." She replied.

"Can't you get your own blanket?" he said. "No, I'm lazy." Kayla put her hand up and gave Elicia a high five. "You can share can't you, Sokka?" Elicia said while giving him puppy dog eyes.

"Okay…but don't get too close." "Thank you!" Elicia reached up to him and gave him a big hug causing him to blush. She then closed her eyes and fell asleep. After she fell asleep it was quiet for the last ten minutes.

"I see the town. Be prepared for landing." Said Aang. "Did you hear that guys? We are about to land. Sokka, you better wake up Elicia." Said Katara. "Okay." Sokka started to gently shake Elicias shoulder.

"Hey, Elicia, wake up. We are about to land." "I don't wanna." Elicia mumbled while trying to burrow into Sokka for more warmth.

"You have to wake up. We have to buy clothes." Said Kayla knowing what would make her move.

"Oh yeah! I'm awake!" Elicia jumped up and swayed a little. "Whoa. Head rush." Kayla steadied her friend. "Better?" "Yeah, thanks."

"Guys, get ready to touch down! I would sit down if I were you. Aapa isn't feeling to good today." Aang said. Aang had Aapa by the edge of the forest they had just been in. Aang landed Aapa who touched down rather hard causing the ground to shake.

"Whoa!" Kayla exclaimed. She and Elicia were still standing up when he landed so they both started to fall. Luckily there were two young men there to catch them or too erm…land on.

"Oww…that hurt." Said Sokka who had Elicia land on him. "Sorry." Elicia immediately got up and offered her hand to Sokka to help him up. "It's okay."

Kayla didn't have such a hard fall. Rayne was already standing up when they landed and was able to catch her when she lost balance. They were still in each others arms just staring at each other. "Thank you." Kayla said while blushing furiously. "No problem." Rayne said smiling a pretty boy smile. They soon realized that everybody was staring at them, AGAIN, so they quickly split apart.

"So. Is everybody ready to shop!" Katara said happily.

"YEAH!" Kayla and Elicia exclaimed while looking kinda a crazy. "Oh no." said Sokka with a horrified look on his face.

"You got that right." Said Rayne.

So, I hope you guys like this! They are off on their little shopping adventure! Whee! Also I would like to say I don't care if it was Mary Sue. I like stories that way!

I would like to thank all my reviewers! I wouldn't keep writing if you guys didn't like it so much.

And for those for you that watch FMA(Full Metal Alchemist) I'm kinda making Rayne a mini Roy!

Thanks for reading! I will try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.

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