Ai sat atop boulder, meditating and gathering her chakra for the day ahead of them. The sound of Katara and Suki's makeshift bokken clashing got her to open an eye.

Its has been about a week since there training has started, and they were improving at a damn good rate. The bokkens cracked again as they hit each other, both Katara and Suki slide across the ground as they circled each other.

Suki jumped back, holding up a hand sigh… she pressed down on the ground, getting it to shake. Katara stumbled a bit from the quake focusing on her, she swung her bokken out to block an incoming strike.

Katara pushed back, landing in the nearby stream… she calmed her breathing, letting the water slowly move up her body, raising her into the air. She swung her sword out, unleashing a wave of chakra and water. Suki put her arms up, taking the full attack, and getting blasted into the mud.

Katara smiled, pleased with her victory, and how far her water bending has grown… however. Suki stood up, just finishing her jutsu.

"Earth Style: Unagi's Bullets" said Suki, swing her arm out and pointing.

The massive mud puddle Suki was in shifted form, taking the shape of the Unagi's head… it let out a roar, then launched dozens of mudballs. Katara gasped in surprise, she put up her arms to shield herself… but was overcome by the massive number of mudballs.

The mud forced Katara out of her water armor, letting it fall to back into the stream. Katara stood up, shaking her head, slinging the mud from her head… she pushed chakra into her feet, and blasted across the stream.

Suki brought up her arm, blocking the strike… thus the two started to fight hand to hand. Ai smiled at the progress of both of them, her eyes glanced over, then flicked to the group and back, then back again.

Suki and Katara pushed away, getting ready to strike… suddenly Sokka slammed between them, throwing out his fist and drilling them both. Getting both get to gasp in pain at the sudden attack.

"Here comes a new challenger" said Sokka, with a smile

Suki and Katara scowled slightly, and charged at the intruder. Sokka blocked both strikes, holding them back with relative ease… then pushed back slightly. The girls jumped back as well, and steadied their breaths.

"So, what you find to eat?" asked Ai, coming up from behind

"Some nuts" said Sokka, digging in his bag "And not that many… this, might be a rock"

Sokka tossed the rock to the side, Momo quickly reacting and checking it out.

"That's it? Seriously?" asked Katara

"There's literally no wild game in the area" said Sokka "And not a single damn fish in the river"

The ground suddenly shook, getting the group to stumble, and Momo to shriek. Ai looked over at Momo, watching as he pawed at the rock.

"No frickin way" said Ai in awe, the other could only wonder too.

Momo picked up the rock again, and let it fall to the ground. Upon impact the ground shook again, much harder. Momo jumped back and flew to Appa, shrieking the whole way, this time Ai was looked in the other direction.

"It came from that direction" said Ai, pointing westwards, taking lead "Diamond Formation"

The group moved through the forest, quickly, but steadily. Ai, being the Jonin stayed at point… and gave the signals when it was clear to go. They followed the sounds and shaking of the earth, eye peeked out from behind a tree.

There, in a small ravine, stood a young boy… earthbending. Ai held up her hand, and signaled it was safe. They gathered around and on looked the young earthbender, Suki paying the closest.

"An Earthbender" said Suki, quickly taking note of everything he did

The young earthbender, moved his foot across the ground, lifting the boulder into the air. He swung his arm to the side, throwing the boulder into the side of the wall… he exhaled slowly, then repeated the motions.

The group watched in silence for a few moments, Suki especially excited to see a earthbender in action, she lend forward slightly over the edge. The boulder slamming into the ravine wall shook hard, almost sending Suki over the edge.

Suki let out a small yelp as Ai grabbed her robes and jerked her back, the noise caused the young boy to look up, flinch, and flea. Ai scanned up as he flead, to see a small village.

"Well, guess we don't have to eat nuts" said Ai, jumping off the edge.

"Hey, i worked hard finding those" said Sokka with a grunt, as Katara and Suki followed.

Momo landed on his shoulder, nibbling away on a nut, breaking its shell and eating it. Only for his surge of unpleasantness, and throw it away.

"Ah what do you know" said Sokka

=== Village ===

While they did lose track of the boy, they did find something interesting… something that made Ai's mouth water. An old japanese style restaurant, Ai could tell from the kanji outside. Ai clapped her hands in exitment, some of her favorite dishes (other than ramen) might have survived all these years.

Ai rushed in leaving her Genin alone, nothing else to do they entering the restaurant. There noses were hit with a plethora of delightful smells. Mouth began to water, they glanced looked around and spotted Ai… already cramming her mouth full of rice, Soba, Tempura and all those other dishes from her past.

"Hmm" hummed Ai, wiggling in place "So crunchy, and flavorful"

The teens soon joined Ai, each looking at the foods questionably. After gathering some courage, Katara took a bite out of some Tempura Squid-Tuna with a hint a soy sauce and slightly cover in rice. She shiver in delight, this stuff… was incredible, unspeakable.

"This… this is amazing" said Katara, sipping on some tea. "Oh wow… i've never had tea this good"

Sokka, once learning it was meat was pigging out on Yakitori. Sokka stabbed a large vary of meats and enjoyed the flavorful taste. Suki was looking over the list of ingredients for a dish called Okonomiyaki, as Ai and Katara partially destroyed the first one.

As the teens feasted and complemented the food, the cook could only smile as she has yet again, satisfied her customers… all those years of cooking for her late husband has payed off.

"God rest his soul" said the cook

"But mom, Dad's still alive" said a young boy, helping his mother Chi-Chi wait table

"I know what i said Goten" said Chi-Chi

"More sweets please" said Ai, with a full mouth

"Ai" scowled Katara "Don't talk with your mouth full"

"It's alright" laughed Chi-Chi, waving with a smile "I don't mind… warms my heart to see someone with such a voracious appetite… reminds me of my late husband"

Goten rolled his eyes as he prepped the sweets, once mom said something… she meant it, only way she'd let dad back in is if he came in crawling on his hand and feet.

After hours of eating, Ai went to pay… before Chi-Chi could even figure a price, Ai placed a large lump of gold on the counter.

"That should cover it" said Ai

Chi-Chi's eyes could only widened at the large nugget on her counter… thing had to at least be 7lbs. With there server now jumping for joy with the payment, Ai and the gang left. From there they went shopping for much needed supplies.

As per Ai's suggestion, they weren't going to buy any fresh meats, as it would spoil before they could use it… and they didn't have a good place to store it. With that being brought up, they also didn't buy many foods that would require cold storage.

Bread, fruits and vegetable were there main foods, with promises that Ai could make many delightful treats from it later. One buy, getting Sokka to let out a small laugh, was a large jar of assorted nuts and berries.

Aside from other important tools, and supplies for camping, shopping was done. Ai smiling at her personal purchase, a red rubber ball. Ai happily tosses it up and down, getting the teens to smile and laugh.

"Once again, I'm reminded of your 'true' age" said Suki, scratching her nose

"I know right" said Sokka "I mean, on offence to you, or Katara… but she's the seems the most mature of all of us. On top of that, she the most level headed"

"No offence taken" said Katara

Ai tossed the ball up again, her eye caught movement… she caught the ball again.

"There's that boy we saw" said Ai, pointing

"What?" said Suki, looking over to see him enter a building

"Should we pursue?" asked Sokka

"Suki would benefit from practicing with another earthbender" said Ai "We should seize this opportunity"

The group moved towards the building, entering the small shop. The young boy in question was getting a chewing from his mother.

"Haru, you're late… go do your chores" said the mother

"Yes mother" said Haru, turning away to do as she said… by chance glancing over and seeing the group

"Hey, why did you run earlier?" asked Suki

"You, you must have me confused for someone else" said Haru

"No… we saw you earthbending" said Katara

In an instant both the boy and his mother started to run around the shop, closing all the windows and the door as tight they could. Haru's mother turned towards his, pointing the parental finger of disappointment.

"They saw you doing WHAT?" growled the mother.

"Mom, they're crazy… are you seriously going to take their word over mine" said Haru

"I don't care, what if you were caught by the fire nation" said his mother "Do you want to end up in prison like your father"

Suddenly there was a large knocking at the door.

"Open up" came a voice

Sokka moved up to the window near the door, peeking out the blinds without alerting the soldiers he saw, he looked over.

"Its fire nation" said Sokka quietly

"Let them in please" said Haru's Mother, going to her counter

Sokka opened the door, letting the soldier in. The soldier glanced around with a scow. Suki was holding herself up proud, Katara was over in a corner acting like she was buying something… while Ai was playing with her ball. The soldier walked up to the counter.

"What do you want?" said Haru's Mother "I've paid my taxes"

"Yeah… but you see, they just doubled" said the soldier

"Thats Tiger-Bull shit" yelled Haru

The soldier smiled, he held up his hand… letting a flame blaze in it.

"You're free to do as you want… but it would be a shame for a fire to happen, and you didn't pay your taxes" said the Soldier "Anything could happen with fire, it's very dangerous"

He glanced over to see Ai, happily tossing her ball up in the air, balancing it on her head or nose. She tossed it up in the air again… and a fireball hit it, causing it to explode. Ai looked down at her dead ball… watching the flame on the smothering rubber slowly die.

"You see… what if that had been your shop" said the soldier

Haru's mother bite her lip, she went to pay him the taxes so he'd leave. Counting the peice he picked a few out and placed them back on the table.

"You can keep the copper" said the soldier, turning to walk away.

He bumped into Ai, whom bore an angry look, in her hands was the smoldering remains of her toy.

"This was the reddest, most bounciest ball i had ever played with" said Ai

"Out of the way brat" said the soldier

Ai held out her hand, still boring a angry look. She held up open hand.

"5 gold pieces" said Ai, her eyes narrowed "Or else"

The soldier grinned a twisted grin, placing his hand on a sword.

"You threatening me brat? That's a punishable offence around here" grinned the soldier

"Ai" cried out Katara, rushing over and kneeling at her

The soldier looked over at Katara, getting her blood to run cold. The look in his eye… it terrified her.

"You know this girl?" asked the soldier

Katara trembled… she swallowed a lump, and nodded.

"Y-Yes… she's my sister" said Katara, grunting quietly at her own lie

"Your sister?" said the soldier "You… a water tribe girl is this… hmm"

The fire nation soldier bent… getting a better look at Ai.

"Is… this girl, fire nation?" asked the soldier aloud

'You could say that' thought Ai

The soldier straightened back up, and waved the whole thing off.

"Doesn't matter" said the soldier, pointing "I'll overlook it this time, but next time i won't be so nice"

With that the soldier nudge Ai out of the way, and left. With him gone Katara let out a breath.

"Ai, i get that you're upset that he burnt your new toy… but holy shit, you almost got us busted over that" said Sokka

Ai didn't say anything, she sighed and nodded.

"Ahhhh, did you slip up and lose your composer" snicker Yin Kurama "And to think, just moments ago they were say how mature you where… but take away your mask and your just a child"

Ai grit her teeth… so that's why she got so upset, damn fox.

'Bastard' growled Ai

"MOMMY" came a scream

Ai jolted slightly, she rushed out the door and into the streets. The restaurant was ablaze, spectators watched as the local cook Chi-Chi was fighting the soldier in anger. Blood trickled down her face from a wound inflicted on her. Behind her was her son trembling in fear.

"Bastard" panted Chi-Chi "He's just a child"

"Who assaulted me" sneered the soldier

"It was an accident" growled Chi-Chi "He tripped"

"And spilt that icy cream stuff you serve all over me" said the soldier "I've already be more than lenient today with children… your kid just lucked out" his sneer grew "and with you assaulting me as well… you both get to die"

The soldier thrusted his fist forward, unleashing the massive fireball. Chi-Chi spun around quickly, grab Goten, using her own body as a shield for what was to come. Everything happened so fast no one knew what had happened, they just saw an fire explode outward after making contact.

The soldier threw back his head and laughed, he turned to the crowd, many flinching in fear.

"Let this remind you all… your living on borrowed time. If you behave and pay us, your time increases. Step out of line… and well" said the soldier, gesturing back… to see a stone wall "What?"

Chi-Chi opened her eyes, glancing around… was she dead? Was she in heaven. She didn't feel anything… was it instantaneous, was Goten ok?

"Mom… you're crushing me" gasped Goten

Chi-Chi looked down at her son, loosing the grip on her hug… she turned around to see Ai, hands together in a hand-sigh. The earth wall rumbled and sank back into the ground. The had a bewildered look on his face as Ai straightened up.

"Wait? You're an earthbender?" said the soldier

"Yeah, so what?" said Ai

"But your sister is from the water tribe" said the soldier

"She is, so am i, as are we both waterbenders" said Ai

"How is that possible" said the soldier, not grasping what Ai was saying

"It just is… i can also bend fire, and air" said Ai

People from the village started to whisper with excitement and joy, Chi-Chi could only smile and cry silently at her savor.

"The avatar" choked Chi-Chi

The moment the soldier heard that, he panicked and went into a defence position as Ai launched herself towards him.

Mile out in the ocean, away from any land for the earthbender to use lay the prison ship. For years the ship stay staion in its location, ensuring escape was impossible. Guards patrolled the ship, its large open metal courtyard filled with hundreds of earth nation prisoners from all over.

With cruelty the captain did nothing to protect the prisoners from the scorching sun, unless of course they earn it, by working for her. With sick enjoyment and twisted irony she had them help in crafting their armor and weapons… and even then, that only let stay in the shade for a few hours, forcing them to work for her indefinitely.

Despite her young age, and petite body… this girl was a force to be reckoned with. Graduation from the military academy to foot soldier at age nine, then to Admiral shortly after her 10th birthday.

A title she wears proud, and as this day as lived up to with a perfect record… every order from the fire lord with completed, no matter what it was. Within the year, if it hasn't happened yet… she plans to take Ba Sing Se… and retire early in fame.

"Sir… we have a problem" yelled the soldier, approaching

The admiral turned her head, a defining glare in her eye.

"Problem? You must be mistaken… my battalion doesn't know the meaning" said the admiral

The soldier gulped, he knelt.

"My apologize, Admiral Tanya" said the soldier "But sadly… an issue has accord"

Tanya's eyes flared, in her rage she threw him of the scaffolding… killing him on impact with a broken neck. Tanya moved from her stand, to the lower deck… seeing a crowd of soldiers.

"Get back to work" snapped Tanya

The soldiers turned to Tanya, breaking up for her to see what what had their attention. One of there boats, drifting towards them… with a crucified soldier. Above him, flapping in the wind… a sigh.

'Release your prisoners, or face the wrath of the Avatar'

Tanya felt a tingle in her chest, her nostril flare with excitement. Screw taking Ba Sing Se, if she could bring the avatar's head on a platter… she would be reward beyond her wildest dreams.

"Prepare the crew" said Tanya "We leave at tomorrow, at first light"

"SIR" yelled the soldier, saluting

=== Next Day, early morning ===

Ai watched as the boats came to shore, the village had long since been evacuated. Admiral Tanya looked around, no one to watch her kill the Avatar… shame, she'd have loved to see their dreams crushed.

Ai could tell this girl meant business, due to level of her murderous intent that she was the kind of demon... that could devour the devil himself. Ai and the others, stood in place as the soldiers came up, soon stopping about 100 feet away. Tanya was dressed strangely and for some reason she was standing on the backs of one of her men like a stool.

"Wait… you mean there's more" asked Sokka.

Katara looks over at Ai.

"She looks like she's about your age" said Katara.

Ai didn't respond as she merely put her hand out in front of Katara to shield her, this surprised her as well as Suki and Sokka. Katara noticed that Ai's hand started to generate lightning. At this point, Katara was able to tell what Ai felt towards people… and she didn't like this Admiral, not one bite.

"A-Ai is she bad news?" asked Katara.

"Leave her to me." said Ai "None of you are a match for her"

The little girl then points at the group which caused the hairs on all their bodies to stand on end, execpt for Ai… whom was use to this level of action

"W-What the hell." uttered Sokka. "All she did was point at me… yet"

"It's like she threatened to kill you" finished Suki

Katara gulped.

"Sh-She's scaring me?" uttered Katara.

Ai nodded.

"It's ok to be afraid, just don't let it consume you" said Ai.

"You four, where is the avatar?" asked Tanya

Ai composed every bone in her body and prepared for what might come next.

"Who are you?" asked Ai.

The little girl then spread her arms out,

"I am Admiral Tanya" said Tanya, she steps off of her soldier causing her to stand up straight revealing she was no bigger then Ai "of the Fire Nation, here to capture the Avatar, an airbender if i'm correct."

"Tanya, what a weird name." said Sokka.

Ai shook her head.

"It might be foreign, but that's not important said Ai.

The others nodded in agreement.

"Please be aware, that we now have you outnumbered" said Tanya, she grinned "And now surrounded"

The group looked around, soldiers behind them… holding their position.

"if you surrender the avatar to us then I promise that you will be taken as prisoners of war with all the rights as such." said Tanya with an evil grin

"Prisoners of war, hell no." uttered Sokka.

Katara prepared to bend water out of her pouch, Ai put her hand out causing her to calm down a little.

"I am the avatar" said Ai.

Tanya snapped her fingers and her soldiers got into a fighting stance, in the blink of an eye the fighters that were behind them fired streams of flame from their fists aiming at Sokka and Suki. Both jump back to try and avoid, quickly Katara acts and bends all of the water out of her pouch and creates an arc of water behind them protecting them and knocking back the soldiers, Ai however didn't look away from Tanya.

Katara, seeing that Tanya was the leader decided to try and take her out herself, she bent the water into a torrent heading straight for Tanya, Ai eye's widend, she tried to stop her but to know avail.

"Katara no!" yelled Ai

"Take this!" yelled Katara as she launched her water at Tanya.

The moment that it reached her Tanya thrusts her fist forward, firing a snow white flame with animosity tearing through Katara's attack like paper aiming straight for her. Katara could only stand in fear, it wasn't just the fire that scared her or its color... it was the immense killing intent that came with it like a heat wave in the summer, all Katara had to do was look at Tanya's devilish smile as she launched her flame and she was a statute.

Ai forms hand signs jumps out in front of Katara and places her hands on the ground and an earth wall rose up blocking the attack, but Tanya's attack seemed to powerful that it will carve through her shield in a matter of moment. Katara at the moment was still stunned by Tanya's demonic aura and power. Ai put her hand on her's and she snapped out of it.

"Katara fight!" yelled Ai.

Katara turned back to Suki and Sokka who were already fighting the soldiers.

"O-Okay!" yelled Katara.

Katara was just about to join them when a stream of white flame rained down from the stone wall causing Ai and Katara to jump back, avoiding it, they looked up and say Tanya looking down at them.

Katara was about to try and attack Tanya but Ai stopped her.

"No, you years away from fighting her, go and help Sokka and Suki" advised Ai.

Katara nodded.

"Please be careful!" said Katara.

She ran over to Suki and Sokka, she formed hand signs and pointed her finger at some of the soldiers like guns.

"Water Style: Water Pistols!" she yelled

She fired water pressure shots from her finger and hit two soldiers that Suki and Sokka were fighting and run past them.

"Let's go, leave the little girl for Ai!" said Katara.

Suki and Sokka then follow her.

"Right!" yelled Suki.

"Show off." said Sokka.

Tanya pointed at the retreating group.

"Chase them down, kill them" ordered Tanya, she looks at her female foot stool, her most loyal soldier "Viktoriya, lead the chase"

"Yes ma'am!" yelled Viktoriya.

She and the other soldiers chase after the others but not before Ai swiftly knocks 6 of them out, decreasing their number, though the others did not stop and continued the chase. As Ai would have preferred to go after the ones that she had missed she knew that Tanya was too dangerous of an enemy to allow her unchecked. Ai looked back to see Tanya frowning slightly, letting out an annoyed 'tsk'.

"To think some of my soldiers were knocked so easily." said Tanya "You didn't even bend… once this is all done, i'm demoting them back to the fucking acedemy"

"You don't seem to worried about the lost of numbers" asked Ai.

Tanya wore a straight face.

"Numbers mean nothing is half of them are canon fodder" said Tanya. "A unit is only as powerful has its weakest link… and i'll be damned if any in my troop"

Tanya held her hand out and formed a white flame in her palm, the heat reached over to Ai who immediately had her guard up.

"I think we've talked enough… it's time for you to die" said Tanya, she then closed her palm causing her flame to dissipate.

Ai didn't say another word, she merely got into a fighting stance and prepared. Tanya launches a stream of flame more powerful that what she tried to hit Katara with. Ai dodges out of the way and tries to form hand signs but notices that Tanya had disappeared the moment that she did.

'She's gone!?' through Ai

She looked up and saw Tanya right above her with flames shooting out of her boots like rockets, Tanya shot flames from her fists and tried to hit Ai. Ai evades the attack and fires a water jutsu at Tanya… but her flames evaporates it quickly.

'White flames, the 2nd hottest on earth' thought Ai. 'I've dealt with Uncle Sasuke's Amaterasu before… but i never figured out how to snuff it out'

Tanya dashes at Ai using her firebending through her feet like an android with rocket boots. Ai took some shuriken and threw them at Tanya, they were dodged but Ai made another mud wall. Tanya seeing the wall quickly goes around it but the moment that she did Ai fired a water bullet at Tanya, it hits her and knocks her away but she moves both of her arms and creates fire to disperse the attack.

Ai takes the opportunity and escapes out of her wall and tries to think up a strategy to counterattack, defeat Tanya, make it back to the others as fast as she could, and escape the Fire Nation's troops. Tanya chases after Ai and flies past the trees and catching up to her at a terrifying pace.

"She's keeping up with me, her flying, is that her boots her flame on its own!?" asked Ai to herself.

Ai jumped to onto a tree and began running up it, her first step was to analyze Tanya and see what she should do, normally this would be a quick, but Tanya didn't seem like any of the Fire Nation soldiers that she had faces so far, she was far more dangerous.

"Okay here we go, will she go up the Tree to get me or destroy it?" thought Ai.

Tanya watched as Ai was walking up the tree and was surprised to see what she was doing.

"S-She's walking up the tree, h-how… where did she learn that?" asked Tanya.

She scowled having her own realization at what she was doing.

"It doesn't matter, she's more than likely trying to bait me!" said Tanya.

She flew at the tree and spun around and cut the tree down using her flames and causing it to catch fire as well. Ai noticed this and before she could escape Tanya rushed to where she was as the tree fell and tried to attack her. Ai jumped at her and stops her fists before she could firebend.

"What now!" said Ai.

Tanya, just smiled, she breathed through her nose and breathed out a fire ball hitting Ai in the stomach, burning her, but in a few seconds she poofs into smoke revealing her to be a copy.

"What?" uttered Tanya

Realizing she was tricked, and most likly about to be flanked she jets out of her position evading multiple Kunai encased in water nature chakra.

When the tree falls to the ground the white flame begins spreading into a forest fire. As this occurred Ai jumped from tree to tree heading away from Tanya. Tanya sees this and chases after Ai as fast as possible. Ai tried thinking up a strategy that would work to defeat her.

"She makes up for her small reach with her fire with extra power, and she seems to own intuition of battle, she may have fought and killed as much as I have." thought Ai

"Stop in the name of the Fire Nation, and your death will be swift" yelled Tanya

"Who the hell would stop for that!" yelled Ai.

"You won't escape, my white flame is better than any fire bender by anyone you've face until now, its more powerful and destructive!" yelled Tanya, she shots her flame at several trees in Ai's path and burn them into cinders causing Ai to change directions.

"She'll box me at this rate." said Ai,

She jumped down on the ground and prepares for Tanya to attack her.

"I may have to take her on in a straight up fight, trapping her won't work, but since she's after me I can lead her further away from the other." thought Ai

===

Katara, Suki and Sokka were currently fighting off Tanya's elite soldiers, they had gotten as far away from Ai and Tanya, but the best course of action at this point was to fight off the soldiers. This was as good a time as any to put their training to good use and see if they were enough to keep them alive in this situation and win.

One of the soldiers tries to attack Sokka but he quickly dodges it which surprises him.

"W-Wow, guess that training is working." said Sokka.

He grabs the soldier's arm and threw him back at the other soldiers as they were about to firebend, knocking them down.

"Alright!" yelled Sokka.

He took out his boomerang and swung it hard at one of the soldiers who ducked the attack and shot flames at Sokka. Sokka moved out of the way though when he did he knocked into one of the soldiers who grabbed him.

"H-Hey let me go!" yelled Sokka

Soldiers started gathered and prepared to hit Sokka with their firebending prepared to hit even their comrade. However before they could hit him Sokka's boomerang flies back and hit one in the head, causing him to turn and accidentally attack… barbecuing most of comrades.

"Wow." said the remain soldier.

Sokka nodded.

"I know right." said Sokka just as shocked.

Sokka then quickly maneuvers his wrists and escapes from his captors grip and knocks him out. He is quickly attacked by more soldiers only to defend himself as the others did.

As multiple Soldiers approached Suki, she quickly opened her fans, when one of the Soldiers tried to attack her she gracefully moved around dodging his attack and sweep his legs causing him to fall. She dashed at one of the oncoming soldiers and tried to kick her only for her attack to be blocked but Suki uses her momentum to flip over him and strike him in the back of the head, she then feels oncoming heat and dodges out of the way of an oncoming attack.

"That training has helped increase my reaction time." said Suki.

As the soldiers attacked Suki, she continued to dodge their attacks and strike them from behind with her fans. One of them tried to use a sweeping attack with flame but Suki jumps over it and throws her fans hitting him in the face, she rushes over and strikes him in the neck and takes her weapons back.

"How many are there, I wonder if Ai is okay." said Suki as more soldiers ran her way

Just then 3 Fire Nation's Soldiers flew in Suki's direction causing her to duck the soldiers as if they were flying debris knocking back and out the men that were trying to attack her.

"Whoa." uttered Suki.

Suki looked over and saw that Katara was using her waterbending to take out the soldiers left and right without any rest or prisoner, however Suki decided not to get distracted by this and got back to fighting.

Katara's only focus at the moment was to find to defeat the soldiers, and get back to Ai as soon as possible. As each soldier tried to put Katara down she knocked them back as much as humanly possible. A soldier tries to kick her but she bends backwards like an acrobat and bends some leftover water from her pouch whipping it at his eyes blinding him, she sweeps his leg.

Someone tries to attack her from behind but she bends the water to catch the fist, she then flips her opponent sending him flying. Several of them tried to launch their flames like mortars that nearly hit Sokka and Suki, but Katara bends her water so that it would be a large shield that blocks the attacks but splatters the water leaving Katara without much to bend.

"Damn it, I-I have to get it back!" said Katara.

Just then Tanya's second in command, Viktoriya tries to strike Katara up close with firebending and nearly singeing her face off. Katara dodges the attack before it could it her, she jumps backs and away. Viktoriya chases after her and tries to strike her with her firebending.

"You will not escape me waterbender." said Viktoriya.

Viktoriya kicks Katara whose first thought was to dodge out of the way but the moment that she did the flame caught some of her clothes and nearly burned her. Katara dashes back at her opponent who tries to kick flames at her again, seeing this Katara tries to evade the attack this time but it was a feint leading to Viktoriya striking her across the face and sending her back several feet.

"Surrender, your no match for me" said Viktoriya

"The hell i will" said Katara

Katara bends waters as best as she could and gathers it to strike Viktoriya but the attack is dodged. Seeing his sister in peril Sokka tries to save her but is unable to due to the number of Soldiers.

"Katara!" yelled Sokka as he tried to fight through the myriad of soldiers that surrounded them, though their numbers were dwindling each one proved difficult to defeat.

Suki kicks a Soldier in the face but her attack is caught, she quickly swung her leg spinning her own body and making the ones who grabbed her fall over, she then threw her fans tripping the remaining soldiers so to get some breathing room.

"I hope that Ai is almost done with that little girl, we need to get finished her and fast before more of them show up to end us." said Suki.

Katara dodges an attack from Viktoriya and strikes her in the stomach but is counterattacked with a kick to her leg, Katara lost her footing and rolled out of the way of an oncoming attack.

'I can't focus on Ai, i need to focus on my fight' thought Katara as she prepared to fight Viktoriya.

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The Battle between Ai and Tanya raged on, Tanya, the firebender who lacked anything but pure evil and madness to slaughter anyone that stood before her and Ai who was a bit unbalanced facing an opponent who had a new power, the best thing the thought to do was to create a strategy to defeat her.

She decided against fire style because that would be useless, taijutsu wouldn't be as effective since Tanya's flying ability would allow her to slip away, wind and water were not good due to the effects that her fire. Her best chances at the moment where using Earth or Lightning style and to increase her water style's power.

"Earth Style: Mud Dragon!" yelled Ai as she touched the ground,

A dragon formed from ground with yellow eyes and chased Tanya like a serpent, Tanya flew around to escape it and the attack followed with gaining speed, Tanya took in some air and burst faster. Ai follows her and cloaks her body in Lightning Release chakra and tries to flank Tanya.

"I have the advantage, I've trained in forests but she doesn't seem to be off put by that, I need to stop her power." said Ai to herself

Ai jumped through the trees at lightning speed and tried to hit Tanya with her lightning imbued shuriken but Ai notices something, before striking again she notices something subtle with Tanya; her breathing changed before she attacked. Just then Tanya fired a large attack that acted like a bomb destroying anything in her range, thankfully Ai's Lightning Cloak protected her and gave her the speed to move away but her earth dragon was destroyed.

"So that's it, Firebenders need to control their breathing." thought Ai.

Ai dropped down to the forest floor and saw that Tanya was chasing after her again. Ai then began to dash away as fast as she could.

"DIE!" yelled Tanya as Ai ran.

"So that's it, I never noticed, Zuko and her must be trained to do it subtly, they don't need much air for basic attack but they need large amounts of air for big ones, either way I have to find a way to stop her breathing for me to win." thought AI.

Tanya fires another large attack prompting Ai to dodge out of the way leading to another large fire.

'How do I stop her breathing, she's not dumb enough for me lead her anywhere close to water' thought Ai, she then thought back to how Katara saved her from Asura 'That's it, but how close are we to the ocean?'

*Sqreee-rrrreoow*

Ai looked up to see a seagull-cat, then realized they were closer than she had expected, she was able to formulate a plan. Forming quick hand signs she dashes at the ground and slams her hand on it and creates multiple Earth clones to assist her in the fight.

"My my, what an ability… Creating an army of rock and dirt to help you. A base way to try and overwhelm me, shame that they'll will burn to ASH!" yelled Tanya.

She breathed in and sent streams of flames at the copies who evaded the attack.

Ai made some hand signs fired water at Tanya and the other clones followed suit, Tanya quickly breathed in a large amount of air through her nose and fired a large attack that evaporates the water and burned to clones and Ai.

When the flame subsides the clones are all but destroyed and Ai is laying on the ground with some of her body burned. Tanya flew down to Ai but only close enough so that a blow could be fired at her head, killing her.

"I wonder what the fire lord would prefer, delivering you in one piece, just your head or maybe with that blown off." uttered Tanya with a sickening smile.

As Ai laid there Tanya was the victor and Ai could only say one thing.

"Thirsty." uttered Ai.

Tanya turned her ear to Ai to better hear what she had said.

"What did you say?" asked Tanya.

"I said I'm thirsty." said Ai.

Her body poofed into smoke revealing the Ai that Tanya defeated to be a fake.

"What" yelled Tanya looked around in a desperate fashion "When… How? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS"

Just the ground began to crack and move a little, then it began to rumble much to Tanya's surprise and before she could do a thing about it water shot from the ground like a geyser and took the form of a dragon that ate Tanya drowning her water.

'W-Where did this come from, is she doing this?!' thought Tanya.

Ai appeared from the hole and put her hand on the water that was drowning Tanya and performed the water prison jutsu. Converting the water into a sphere that held Tanya in place and prevented firebending.

"Try and breath now." said Ai.

Ai saw how Tanya was glaring at her, enraged. Ai looked of the where the ocean was.

"I was able to route some of the water from the ocean to the forest, it was closer than I thought it was." thought Ai.

She watched as Tanya continued to struggled for breath in her prison but would not let her out.

"I"m not letting you go, you can drown for all I care." said Ai.

Tanya continued to move and shake in panic... then she smiled, much to Ai's confusion, Tanya began to do some strange movements causing the water around her to act strangely. Ai didn't know what this meant until black electrical sparks occurred.

"NO!" said Ai

The sparks the grew into electricity, no lighting even and it was colored black as the night, Ai could not do a thing to counted Tanya's trump card. Then in the final movement Tanya points her finger at Ai shooting from her prison at Ai's chest and electrocuting her and damaging her body.

This causing Ai to fall to the ground, breaking her water prison jutsu, freeing Tanya, who was also damaged by her attack, however unlike Ai she could still stand.

"You didn't know firebenders could create lighting, did you?" asked Tanya as her body was bleeding from her own injuries.

She looked down at Ai like a lioness would her prey.

"Now" started Tanya, she raised her hand "die!"

Ai sprang forward, just as Tanya brought down her hand to attack… her own palm shrouded in lighting.

"CHIDORI" yelled Ai

Tanya's stopped mid attack, lightning coursed over her. She looked down at her chest… to see Ai's hand imbedded in it. Blood pooled from her mouth, she looked up at Ai… her eyes flustered. She looked up at Ai, and gave her a bloody grin.

At that moment, the access lightning burst from her back. It ripped through the forest, taking out many tree's in the process. Ai ripped out her arm with easy… letting Tanya drop to the ground. She was still breathing… but barely, it'd be a miracle if she could walk after this… after what Ai did.

"Admiral" came a voice

Ai looked over to see Viktoriya, battle and bruised… much less than her captain, but she still took a beating. Ai put her foot under Tanya, then with a strong swing of her leg… kicked her towards Viktoriya.

In a panic, Viktoriya acted and caught her… she glanced down at her young captain, she looked back up, Ai was there.

"You have until tonight to release the prisoners" said Ai, walking past her "Don't comply… i'll track you down and kill you"

Victoriya gulped in fear… she nodded her head.

"Y-You have my word" said Victoriya

"Your word means nothing to me and the people of this nation" said Ai

Once Ai meet up with her friend, they returned to camp, and prepared for their departure. As they packed away their tents, and sleeping bags, Katara looked up suddenly.

"Where the hell is Aang?" said Katara

Ai looked over at her, then around the camp, Sokka and Suki just shrugged.

Hanging upside down from a tangle mess of vine, hang Aang… he's been there since yesterday afternoon.

"Guys… somebody, anybody?" cried Aang "This stopped being funny about… 14 hours ago"

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I am soooo sorry for the wait, i just can't seem to get into the spirit of writing. Any help from anyone with be greatly appreciated, same for Wolf Style.