AN: NOO! THE UPDATE WAS LATE AGAIN! I am really really really sorry. Again. And I hope with all my heart that you can forgive me. Again.

Today, I am not going to keep you guys waiting with my babbling.

GlassEmotions - OMG! Your Psychic! No, seriously. You have got to be, if you actually guessed that correctly... or it's just a strange coincidence...

Oh one more thing - you finall y find out Jet's fate in the chapter! Yay!

Chapter Twelve: Shuin and Hua

Zula, Ruhuo, and Aang and the gang weren't the only ones who had felt it.

The entire world felt that something about that day was different, like a force that could not be stopped.

The forces of fate and destiny can never be stopped.

Yes, something happened that day, yet no one person would figure out exactly what it was, until a certain day that is.

The day, the battle, the nation, the Agni Kai, the person, that would decide the fate of the entire world...

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The sun was rising, and they had been watching the two carefully.

"Can we pull it off?"

"Have you forgotten who we are?

"Of course I haven't."

"Of course we can."

Two pairs of bright blue eyes bobbed in the darkness as the they each nodded.

"The question is how."

"Indeed. It will be difficult to bring them together - ,"

"Because of the fact that they're from completely different nations."

"But we're completely different."

"Not completely, but mostly."

"But we can do anything - ,"

"Because we're Yin and Yang."

"Water and Fire."

"Shui and Huo."

"Shuin and Hua."

The rising sun illuminated the smiles they both wore, and again they nodded. They knew what they were going to do, and they knew they were going to succeed...

After all, the fortune teller told them so...

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It had been two days since Katara and Zuko had gone missing, and Sokka could only imagine the worst. A sudden, and rather disturbing, thought occured to him.

"She won't be on the river." He said suddenly.

Aang turned around to stare at him from the bison's head. "But you said - "

"I know, I know, but forget what I said. Yes, Katara is smart enough to go to water, but she isn't stupid enough to stay in plain sight. Land Aapa over there, we're going to search the forest by the river."

Aang nodded, and Aapa quickly lost altitude.

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When Katara openned her eyes, she noticed Zuko leaning on a tree, watching the sky as if the giant, four-ton bison would just appear out of nowhere.

"They'll come today, I just know it."

Zuko seem rather started that she had awoken so early(although he didn't truly show it), after all, firebenders rise with the sun, not waterbenders.

"I'm used to waking up at sunrise." Zuko couldn't help but think that the girl could read minds. "We usually had to leave early to avoid capture."

"I see."

They were silent for a few minutes, then Katara stumbled to her feet, still half asleep, and practiced her waterbending to wake herself up.

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"Katara has to be around here somewhere."

Sokka was determined to find his sister, nothing could keep him from finding her. Iroh and Aang followed as he led led the way through the forest.

It seemed to them that they walked for an hour, when in truth it was only five minutes, when Sokka disappeared behind some brush. Aang and Iroh followed, only to slam into one another, as Sokka had stopped.

Aang's innocent eyes shouldn't have had to see the sight that lay before him.

Destruction. Blood. Death. It was all right there.

The scents of burnt wood and charred flesh clinged to the air. What was once the rebel hide-out, was now but an ash-covered clearing. Dead Freedom Fighters littered the ground everywhere you turned.

But the one at Sokka's feet is what caused Aang to silently lose his breakfast in the bushes behind them.

Jet's mangled body covered the ground in front of the trio. Most of the flesh and tissue had been burnt from his very bone, what was left was black with ash and brown with dried blood. His body was so disfigured that the only reason they knew it was truly Jet, was the hooked sword grasped in what had once been his hand.

Iroh turned his head away, but Sokka continued to stare. This man had hurt his sister - emotionally, and probably even physically - then spyed on her while she was bathing, then kidnapped her, and now she was nowhere to be found. He should have felt anger, hatred, and relief. Yet, he felt sorry for Jet.

"Come on. We have to keep moving."

Sokka stepped over the corpse and continued to walk on. As they walked, Iroh put a comforting arm around Aang, who leaned into him so as to not see the hooror that had been unleashed.

Katara escaped. I know she did. Please Katara, please be alright...

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"So, they are both benders."

"Like us."

"Fire and water."

"Like us."

"Waiting."

"Like us."

"Will you stop that?"

"Like - Oh sorry."

"Have any ideas yet?"

"I say we just go for little things - ,"

"And make sure they don't screw anything up."

They nodded in aggreement, as they so often do, and settled down to continue spying on the benders before them.

"Lichi nut?" One offered.

"Don't mind if I do."

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When Iroh and Aang again stumbled into Sokka as he pushed through the trees, they had prepared themselves for the worst.

What they received instead, was the best.

"Katara!" Sokka screamed as he ran to his sister.

"Sokka!" Katara screamed as she was trapped in her brother's embrace.

"Uncle?" Zuko questioned as he noticed a crimson blur coming at him.

"Zuko!" Iroh shouted as he pulled his nephew into a back-breaking bear hug.

"Aang!" Aang shouted as he threw his hands up into the air.

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"Look how he's hugging her!"

"So?"

"What if she already has a love!"

"Look at the way he's hugging her."

"The fortuneteller did mention a sibling..."

"Exactly."

"But whose the weird, bald kid?"

"How should I know?"

"Look at that!"

"Is that a giant buffalo?"

"No, it's a bison."

"What's the difference?"

"They're getting onto it!"

"How are we going to follow them?"

"Quick, come with me."

The two dashed out of their hiding place in the trees just as the bison (Buffalo) was preparing to lift off. The setting sun revealed the raven-black hair and light skin of the Fire Nation, yet their eyes remained a saphire blue of the Water Tribes.

One of the identical girls grabbed hold of the bison's thick fir.

"Come on." She whispered.

"Hua, the bison is going to fly!"

"Shuin, worry about that later and grab hold."

The girl called 'Shuin' grabbed hold of the bison's thick fur just in time, as the it now took a giant leap in the air. But it didn't come back down to the

ground - it soared away from the small forest.

"Hua! Hua, the bison is flying!"

'Hua' offered a glare to her sister.

"Really? I hadn't noticed." She whispered sarcastically.

They hadn't neccessarily chosen the best place to travel in - on the interior of the hind legs.

They each learned something that day:

Shuin : There are such things as flying bison.

Hua : Flying bison smell worse than four-hundred komodo rhinos combined.

They each gripped the fur tighter, afraid of falling. The increase in wind speed whipped their identical necklaces around their faces and necks.

'My four benders, I love you forever and always, Mother and Father '

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AN: Okie dokie for their names I just morphed the words for fire and water in Chinese(Shuin Shui Hua Huo). Yes they are two new OC's, and you will learn more about them in the next chapter.

About that next chapter ... unless I have freetime it's no coming 'til weekend. FROM NOW ON - I will no longer make promises because I don't want to break them...

GlassEmotions - Isn't that freaky (awesome-freaky that is) But I am wondering if you and your sister also have black hair. That would be seriously freaky if you did... all of these strange coincidences... As for the EEK, whether or not it's good or bad kinnda depends on your opinion...

Anywho! I hope you guys liked this chapter and like I said in the last one the next few are going to be strange/ interesting/ eek! but yeah.

Until Next I Happily Update,

- JAAF