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Chapter 8

Aang was sitting on the Outer Wall, tears still in his eyes. He couldn't believe Zuko and Katara kissed. He thought Katara loved him. He didn't care that the Earth Kingdom Guards were watching him, they were too afraid to approach him. Aang started a conversation with himself in his brain. There was one Aang sitting on one shoulder, and another sitting on his other shoulder.

"Katara wouldn't do this to me. Something happened, but what? This doesn't make any sense. Well, Zuko kissed her, maybe she didn't kiss back. But they were on the balcony during a sunset. That's one of the most romantic parts of the day. No, Zuko loves Mai and Katara loves me. There's got to be an explanation here."

Aang turned to Momo. "Do you really think that Katara would do this to me?" There was no response. "Yeah, you're right buddy. I'll wait here all night if that's what it takes to figure this out." Aang sat cross-legged and began emptying his mind of all thoughts.

Katara began to wake up. Her eyes started to open. She looked around and found herself and a cage and the others were trapped in cages too. The delegates and the Earth King were also down there. She realized she was back in the catacombs of Ba Sing Se.

"Katara, are you okay?" her brother called.

"Yeah, what happened? And where is Aang?" She asked him.

"We were captured," Zuko replied from the cage beneath.

"By who?" Katara responded to Zuko, crossing her arms, angry at him.

"The Dai Li, but I think there are others involved in this too," Sokka said

"What?!" Katara said surprised, dropping her anger at Zuko.

"Worse, Aang disappeared, no one knows where he went. The Dai Li can't seem to find him anywhere."

"Can you stop calling them the 'Dai Li'?" the Earth King chimed in. Katara had a surprised look on her face. "They were all fired and arrested for their loyalty to Long Feng and ex-Firelord Azula. I transferred some royal guardsmen into the new, reformed Dai Li."

"He's correct," Long Feng said, emerging from the shadows.

"Long Feng," the Earth King and Katara said in unison. They gritted their teeth.

"These people aren't the Dai Li anymore. This group is an elite group of agents, my agents. The Order of Long Feng. They are mostly Ozai loyalists, previous Dai Li, and those who stand against the Avatar. Sworn enemies of Earth King Kuei, Fire Lord Zuko, and Avatar Aang."

"Wait, but I thought you were killed by Azula?" Sokka said.

"No. I was held in a Fire Nation prison. I broke out with the help of Hama and Ozai loyalists. We ventured around the Earth Kingdom to find more members for our cause. We gained enough members for my plan around two months ago. We've been tracking you and finally found you. Right here in Ba Sing Se. Hama and my agents captured you."

"Wait, Hama?" Katara remembered when Aang ran away from Zuko kissing her. It had been Hama manipulating him, he had no self-control.

"How are you, my bloodbending apprentice?" Hama asked, coming from behind Long Feng.

"I'm not a bloodbender!" Katara yelled at her.

"But you used it again didn't you?" Katara didn't respond. She just turned away. Hama smiled at the sight and walked away laughing. Long Feng had an evil smirk on his face. He followed Hama a few seconds later.

"What's the escape plan?" she asked Sokka.

"Nothing except wait for Aang, but that's a bad idea because they are using us as bait," Sokka said.

"Why can't we just break ourselves out?" Katara asked.

"Zuko's arms are trapped between earth, Toph is in a wood cage, there aren't any sources of water down here, and Long Feng's agents took our weapons," he responded. Katara started moving her arms, trying to find any type of water source, but it was no use.

Long Feng walked back in. "We found the Avatar and we sent him a message."

"What kind of message?" Zuko asked.

"I wrote him a message that was posing as you," he said, pointing to Katara.

"I told him to 'meet me here' and that 'I wanted to tell him something important about our relationship'."

Katara's eyes widened. "He'll become emotional and unstable, which will make him more vulnerable!"

"Exactly. We'll have an easier time of killing him when he's in an emotional state."

Aang received the letter and when as finished reading it, his face fell and he started crying harder than before.

As Aang flew to the Ba Sing Se caverns, Long Feng's agents left that section of the cavern. They were hiding in the dark, waiting to pounce and slay the Avatar. Aang earthbended his way down, tears rolled down his cheeks. The noise of earthbending got louder and louder as he got closer to the cavern until he finally reached the cave. His expression changed from extremely sad to extremely confused.

"Katara? Sokka? Toph? Zu-"

"Aang, it's a trap, get out of here!" Katara yelled, cutting him off. His eyes widened and he looked back to see that his exit was closed off, so he jumped down into the cavern. Hundreds of Long Feng's agents appeared from the shadows. He fought but there were too many and they surrounded him. Aang used an airbending move which sent them flying all over the place. Long Feng was observing the fight from afar.

"RELEASE MY FRIENDS NOW!" Aang yelled at him angrily.

"Never," Long Feng told him.

Long Feng sent a basic earthbending move towards Aang. He jumped over it and sent two fire blasts at Long Feng, but it was easily blocked. Long Feng then made a thick wall, blocking any of Aang's attacks. He was stalling, waiting for back up to arrive. Aang started to generate a lightning bolt. He started rushing towards the thick wall and blasted it.

"What the-" Long Feng said. A giant dust cloud formed from the explosion. It blocked his vision.

Aang jumped through the dust cloud and blew Long Feng into the wall. The gang watched in amazement. Aang trapped Long Feng in some earth. Just then, Hama arrived with two other agents.

Hama started to bloodbend on Aang. His body twisted and turned in ways it wasn't supposed to. The Gaang watched as Aang shrieked in pain.

"Aang! Nonononono! Aang! Please, Aang!" she redirected her gaze to Hama. "Don't kill him!"

He screamed in pain as his body twisted and turned, he then went into the Avatar State. Hama's bloodbending became useless. He rose into the air and created huge gusts of wind that knocked Hama's guards back. Aang trapped Hama's hands in some earth.

He went over to Toph and freed her. "Thanks, Twinkletoes, I'm ready to kick some butt."

"Actually, I'm going to need you to metalbend the others out. I'll hold off the guards."

Toph stomped the ground, each cage broke apart at once.

"Done," she said.

Hordes of guards poured into the cavern. Aang rose into the air and used various types of bending to hold them off.

"Thanks, Toph," Zuko said before taking a defensive stance.

Mai pulled out some of her knives ready to fight.

Katara took the octopus stance as some of the guards started to attack her.

Toph earthbent crystal armor on herself.

The delegates and the Earth King started to flee from the cavern.

"Hey! Aren't you guys going to help us?" Sokka yelled as they fled.

It had been a few minutes and Team Avatar showed their stuff. Agents flew around. Suki and Sokka tag-teamed while Zuko and Mai were back-to-back using long-range attacks. Toph took on fifteen by herself pretty easily. Katara was defending Aang, while he was still floating above, still in the Avatar State. Team Avatar was holding their ground, but soon they would lose the advantage and Long Feng's agents would gain the upper hand.

"Aang, where's Long Feng?"

"I don't know, maybe he ran away," he said as he earthbent ten agents away.

Just then the roof came open and the Earth King's Royal Guards and the reformed Dai Li flowed into the room. They quickly overpowered Long Feng's agents and started arresting them one-by-one.

"Make sure you arrest Long Feng! We can't let him escape!" the Earth King yelled as more guards poured in.

Aang stood on the ground with Katara, holding off the last of Long Feng's agents. He was still in the Avatar State. Just then, he felt someone starting to generate lightning with his seismic sense. Toph felt it too.

"KATARA, WATCH OUT!" Toph yelled.

The lightning blast went towards Katara and Aang jumped in front of it, sending his own blast. The two lightning strikes collided and there was a big explosion.

Aang woke up, there was a ringing in Aang's ear. He was unconscious for a few seconds. He felt extremely weak and tired. Katara was looking over him. She grabbed his face.

"Aang, stay with me!" she yelled. It was quiet and muffled for Aang.

"Katara...?" he blacked out.