Sky's POV
As soon as Zuko saw that flare we were heading towards the water tribe village where I we would find HIM. I thought I would have more time to convince Zuko to stop hunting him, but it looked like I will have to do it will he knows he is really, out there and is just a goofy little kid. Just like we were once. We were happier then. All we had to worry about was Azula picking on use for being in love.
I walked over to Zuko. We were about to start cutting through the ice to get to the village, I started to cling to him, as the boat shook, putting my head into his chest and by doing that he draped his arms around me in return. "Why do we have to terrorist this village. It might not be him. It could be some secret waterbender messing around." I said. "Even if that is true we have to investigate it. It's most likely not true. There is no waterbenders left in the southern water tribe." He replied. I just sighed and snuggled my head deeper into his chest. Then he let go of me to put on his armour with some help of some attendants. He girds himself with a breastplate, shoulder guard and helmet. He then took my hand and lead me to the exit of the ship at it opens. The exit open and all we could see was the ground and steam. Me, Zuko and a host of Fire Nation soldiers leave the ship. I looked around the village as I stood beside Zuko only to be cut off by Sokka charging at Zuko with an adolescent war cry. As he ran up the steps to Zuko, he casually and expertly kicks his weapon out of his hand and then kicked him in the face, sending him sprawling on the ice to the planks right. His head got stuck in the snow and he struggled comically to free himself. The villagers drew back in fright and the ease with which their only warrior has been dispatched by the invaders. Zuko walked forward to address the village. He looked over the crowd, then walked over to Katara her Gran Gran. I ran just behind him.
"Where are you hiding him?" Zuko asked. He looked around the crowd as there was no immediate response. He grabbed Katara's Gran Gran and showed her to the villagers. " He'd be about this age? Master of all elements?" He said. Again no one responded. After a brief pause, he threw Katara's Gran Gran roughly back to Katara. With a cry of frustration, he launched a gout of flame over the villager's heads. They cowered in fear. "I know you're hiding him!" He screamed. Behind Zuko, Sokka got up, his face paint was largely gone. He retrieved his weapon and charged Zuko with another cry. Zuko turned to him in annoyance. He dodged Sokka's charges and flipped him over his head. Zuko fired a blast of flame at Sokka, but Sokka rolled out of the way, throwing his boomerang at Zuko as he did. Caught by surprise, Zuko barely avoided the boomerang. He turned to look back in anger at Sokka over the near miss. A little boy in the crowd threw him a spear. The little boy shout "show no fear!" Sokka caught the spear and charged at Zuko, who, as Sokka reached him, broke off pieces of the spear shaft with his wrist guards. After the head of the spear has been shorn off, Zuko grabbed the spear, bonked Sokka on the forehead with it several times, then he broke it in half and drop's the pieces on the ground. Sokka, after getting bonked on the head, had also sunk to the ground, rubbing his head. Zuko stood sternly over Sokka. In the sky in the background the boomerang reappeared. It slammed Zuko in the back of the head, knocking his helmet off kilter. I just burst out laughing! Furious, Zuko began to spit fire out of his hands as he hovered menacingly over Sokka.
Aang then appeared into view. He flies right under Zuko, sweeping his legs out from under him. Zuko landed butt up. The helmet landed on his behind in a most suggestive manner. I laughed. I was just crying with laughter. The children cheered as Aang reached the villagers. As he and the penguin bank, they dumped a lot of snow on the cheering kids. They stop cheering for a moment, but then take up the cheering again anyway. The penguin slid to a halt and it pushed Aang off. The penguin got up, looked at Aang, and then turned and waddling away.
Aang said, "Hey Katara. Hey Sokka." Sokka replied dryly, " Hi...Aang. Thanks for comin'." Aang looked over at the Firebenders. Zuko got to his feet and assumed a firebending stance, Aang was at the ready with his staff, surrounded by Zuko and his men. They began to close in, but Aang blew the men on either side of him backwards with blasts of air. He blasted Zuko as well, but he held his ground, shielding his face from the wind. Aang said "Looking for me?" Zuko incredulous said "You're the airbender? You're the Avatar?" "Aang?" Katara asked. "No way." Sokka said in shock. " I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training. Meditating. You're just a child!" Zuko screamed. " Well, you're just a teenager." Aang replied. I giggled at that and said, "He's got a point," then I continued to giggle making Zuko anger. Zuko fired blast after blast. Aang cried out. He is hard pressed, fear showing on his face. Aang dissipated each blast as it strikes by twirling his staff in front of him like a helicopter blade. The dissipation doesn't block the fire from reaching the villagers, though, and they cried out. Aang looked behind to them and realised he can't protect them all. "If I go with you, will you promise to leave everyone alone?" Aang asked. Zuko was still in a firebending stance. After a brief pauses he straightened up and nodded stiffly. A soldier took his staff and lead him to the ship. Katara rushed forward. " No, Aang! Don't do this!" She shouted. "Don't worry, Katara, it'll be okay." He said as they pushed him forward roughly. "Take care of Appa for me until I get back." "Head a course to the Fire Nation. I'm going home." Zuko said. "No, you mean we are going home." I said. "Of course, my love. We will finally be home." Head did as he stroked my cheek as we boarded the ship. Aang looked back hopefully at his new friend as the ship closed. Katara's eyes watered as the prison closed around Aang. His smile dropped as he saw her pain. The shadow of the closing bowsprit closed over him.
"This staff will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers, being raised by monks. Take the Avatar to the prison hold. And, " Zuko said as he shoved the staff in Iroh's direction, "take this to our quarters."Iroh took the staff as Zuko walked away. Iroh immediately turned to the guard on his left. "Hey, you mind taking this to his quarters for me?" Iroh asked. The guard took the staff as Aang is escorted down some stairs into the ship. I then turned to follow the direction Zuko took to talk to him. When I found him he was on deck. I walked quietly behind him. Once I reached him I reaped my arms around his middle, only for him to turn to me. "We can finally go home! Start a family together like we have always dreamed!" He exclaimed excitedly. I just decide to live in the moment will it lasted. "Maybe we should go to our quarters and start making that family," I asked seductively. "Yes let's" Zuko said as he picks me up bridle style. He then rushes to our room. We to close the door and Zuko put me down only for him to push me against the wall beside the door.
We suddenly stopped when we heard Aang running down the hall, opening and closing doors. He then opens our door and screamed, "My staff!" He entered and then the door shut behind him. Zuko was hiding in wait for him with me behind him in a protective manner." Looks like I underestimated you." He said. After a brief pause, Zuko began blasting fire at Aang, who barely dodged. He is terrified, and he gasped and panted to catch his breath. After dodging a few more shots, Aang rolled underneath Zuko to get behind him, I moved out of the way. By staying behind, him, Zuko was unable to blast him with fire. The long window of the room where Aang and Zuko were fighting lit up every other second and each time Zuko released a blast. Aang now faced Zuko. He dissipated each fireball with a small air ball he formed with his hands. Aang created an air scooter and ride around the walls and ceiling of the room, all the time getting licked by the gouts of flame Zuko unleashed at him.
Aang terminated the airball and grabbed a tapestry off the wall. He wrapped Zuko up in it as he passed. While Zuko struggled against the tapestry (I tried to help him), Aang could grab his staff. Zuko broke his bonds and they once again squared off against each other. After a few seconds of manoeuvring, Aang airbends the mattress up off the floor and slammed it into Zuko. The mattress propelled Zuko into the opposite wall. He is smashed into it and he fell to the ground, onto the mattress. Aang then airbends the mattress up to the Zuko, smashing Zuko into that. Both fall back down to the ground. Zuko looks up in anger to find Aang gone. I ran over to Zuko and bent down to help him up. "Are you okay my love?" I asked. He just grunted in response and got up and ran out of the room to try to catch up with Aang.
I followed him to an opened a deck hatch on the floor begins to spin. Zuko has jumped after Aang in pursuit. With a fierce cry of desperation, he grabbed Aang's foot. They both got up and squared off yet again. Aang's look of trepidation is tempered as he turned over his left shoulder to see Appa up in the sky gaining on Zuko's ship. "What is that?" He asked as he saw Appa for the first time. "Appa!" Aang shouted. Aang turned just in time to use his staff to block a fire blast from Zuko. He used his staff as a helicopter to escape the blasts and came back down on the edge of the deck, almost falling overboard. He regained his balance and blew three more fireballs before his staff is knocked away from him. He dodged a few more blasts before he is finally knocked overboard. Aang falls into the water below. Katara hysterically screamed, "Aang! No!" After a brief pause she shouted, "Aang! Aang! AANG!" Aang, at the centre of a now monstrous, inverted tornado of water is propelled toward the surface at amazing speed. He broke to the surface in front of the ship, towering high over the bridge atop his swirling maelstrom of water. Zuko, who looked up at the swirling column of water and the Avatar at its pinnacle with dismay and fear. Aang landed on the deck, his eyes were still aglow, and bent the water from the column around him in circle. He released it and it expanded outward in a shock wave that blasted Zuko and his men overboard. I just got pushed beside the rail. Sokka and Katara witnessing the scene from Appa's back above. Katara incredulously ask, "Did you see what he just did?"To which Sokka replied with, "Now that was some waterbending!"
Aang was now on his knees, wobbling after the huge energy expenditure. He fell forward, the white energy was fading from his eyes and tattoos. Appa landed and Katara and Sokka jumped off to retrieve him. Katara worriedly asked, "Aang! Are you okay?" As she Katara knelt beside him, holding Aang with Sokka beside her. Aang replied drained, "Hey Katara. Hey Sokka. Thanks for coming." To which Sokka said, "Well, I couldn't let you have all the glory." Aang the exclaimed, "dropped my staff." Sokka shout, "Got it!" Sokka runs over to pick up the staff. As he picked it up, Sokka is shocked to see that Zuko held the other end of it. Zuko was washed overboard, but held onto the part of Aang's staff that was hanging out over the deck. Sokka butted Zuko in the head with the staff three times to the same way Zuko did to him, which made me laugh. Zuko lets go and began to fall to the water below, but grabbed the anchor chain in time. He hung by one hand. Sokka then screamed, "Ha! That's from the Water Tribe!" I ran to where Zuko went overboard to see if he was alright. "Are you alright down there my love?" I asked. He just started to climb back up to the deck.
Appa got up, shakes off some water. Some of the guards who had been washed way down the deck by Aang's waterbending. They got up, preparing for combat. Katara picked up a stream of water from the deck and the guards pulled back slightly in fear. She tried to whip the guards with the water, but instead freezes the water on the deck, including the water around Sokka's feet in the background. Sokka shouted, "Katara!" Sokka then started to chip away at the ice holding his feet with his boomerang while the soldiers move forward once again. Katara picked up another stream of water and threw it at the soldiers without looking. They were now frozen in a thin sheet of ice. She turned and climbed back up on Appa. Katara screamed, "Hurry up, Sokka!" Sokka then said to himself, "I'm just a guy with a boomerang; I didn't ask for all this flying and magic." He had finally freed himself and ran up Appa's tail. Then started to scream, "Yip yip! Yip yip!" Once he was on board, Appa rumbled and took off. Iroh who has just emerged onto the deck after his nap, looked up to the sky. He was rubbing his eyes will he said, "Huh?" As Appa was rapidly flying away from the ship, then Iroh and I started helping Zuko back up onto the ship. Once up Zuko screamed, "Shoot them down!" As Appa gained altitude, Zuko and Iroh in unison launched a massive bolt of fire at Appa. Katara and Sokka look behind them in horror at the approaching fireball. Aang jumped to the back of the saddle and, using his staff like a baseball bat, airbends a gale that sent the fireball at a right angle away from Appa and into the ice cliff nearby. The fireball exploded, releasing a huge amount of ice from the cliff wall which fell into the narrow channel that Zuko's ship is navigating. Zuko gasped in horror as the bow of the ship and indeed the entire channel is blocked up under an avalanche of ice. Aang, Katara and Sokka laughed as they fly away. Iroh and Zuko on the fore deck of the heavily damaged ship. "Good news for the Fire Lord. The nation's greatest threat is just a little kid." Iroh said. Zuko replied with, "That kid, Uncle, just did this." Shot widens to show the prow buried in ice, "I won't underestimate him again. Dig this ship out and follow them!" In the background, some soldiers are using controlled firebending to thaw out their compatriots frozen by Katara, "As soon as you're done with that."
I just sighed and said, "I guess getting back to what we were doing before we were very rudely interrupted?" Zuko looked over his shoulder to look at me only to see my gaze was downwards. When I didn't hear an answer I started to leave, only to be stopped by Zuko who had a wicked smirk on his face. He lifted me up and put me over his should. Then He ran to our room, locking the door, and that night we made love just like we did on our wedding night. The night was filled with pleasure and moaning. I then knew for a fact I would be sore in the morning.
A/N: Please call me out if there are any mistakes. I'm dyslexic so I need all the help I can get.
