This chapter is where Azula and Zuko find out Mai and Ty Lee can fight. And I mean fight- like they usually do XD.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar or its characters. -Later- Nope. Still don't own them. -Later, again- Would you quit asking?!
Spoilers: No spoliers in this chapter...again.

Ages are the same; Zuko- 7, Azula/Mai/Ty Lee- 6

Chapter 5: The Market

"This is so cool! Mom gave us 200G! I can buy-" the young princess thought out loud. They were all walking through busy market, running errands for their busy mother. But they knew it would pay off somehow.

"Azula, we're only supposed to get what mom told us to get." Zuko interrupted her, sounding as if he says it all the time.

"Whatever," she glared at her brother. He had to ruin it. "Look, that's where they're selling the food." she pointed over to the stand with all kinds of fruits, vegetables, and meat.

"Okay, let's just get what we need and get out of here." Zuko felt uncomfortable. Everywhere he looked, peasants and and theives had their eye on the four kids. Or more likely, the money they had.

"Look at those kids," a tall man, with a bushy mustache turned to three other men by him. They looked like they didn't have much money, or food/water. And judging by what they said, it looks like they were going to rob them. Their clothes were torn and old, but still had the fire nation emblem on it. "They've got money! And a lot of it!"

"Alright Feng, you make sure everyone is out of sight. Lee, you take them out, and Lei, you take the money." the man told his allies. Feng was tall and muscular, while Lee and Lei, same height/weight, being twins, were shorter, but were still skilled in fighting.

"But what are you going to do?" Feng realized.

"I'm doing it- I tell you what to do," he pushed them out of the dark alley. "Now go!" As soon as they were in sight, the bigger man, Feng, took his broadswords out.

"Alright, I want everybody out of this market!" he showed off his weapons. Everyone, young and old started screaming and dashing out of the place as Feng smiled satisfied. As soon as everyone was gone, the shorter man, Lee, walked towards the kids along with Lei and their 'boss'.

"Give us the money and nobody gets hurt," he threatened.

"Dufus!" the mysterious man thumped the back of his head. "If you let them go, they'll tell on us!"

"Oh," he looked down. "Okay then..." with that, Lee tackled the prince to the ground as he took his 100G.

"Get...off...me!" Zuko struggled. "And give me my money back!" He stood up as well as Zuko did. As soon as he stood up, the man took out his swords and swung them at his mid-section. Zuko felt a small stinging pain afterwards, but ignored it after a while. And while this was happening, Lei moved over to Azula and pinned her to a wall snatching the gold from her hands.

"Hey!" she yelled trying to light her hands with fire.

As soon as Zuko got up, Lee raised his fists to punch the 7-year-old. Zuko closed his eyes and braced up for the pain to strike him in the face, when after a few seconds, there was nothing. Opening his eyes, he saw that the man was pinned to a wall of a building with what looked like daggers. From the other side, he saw Mai looking like she was the one who threw the knives.

"Y-you did that?" he asked, shocked.

"Yes, now get the money before someone else takes it!" she sounded a bit worried. For Mai, showing her emotions was a first. Zuko rushed to the man and grabbed the money from the pocket.

"Stop!" Azula struggled, now with her hands lit up with reddish-orangish fire. Lei shoved the gold in his pocket and prepared to punch the princess, when Ty Lee had delivered a few jabs and kicks to the man's arms, legs, and upper body as he was instantly on the ground. "Thanks!" she thanked her friend and took the money back.

"Are you two okay?" Ty Lee and Azula met up with Zuko and Mai.

"Yup," they confirmed. "Now let's get out of here!"

"Wait!" Zuko stopped them. He took the money from his pocket and his sister, set it on the counter, and took the food supplies his mother asked them to purchase. "Now we go." he said as they prepared to run. But before they could even start running, the man named Feng approached them with his weapons in hand- along with his boss, enraged. The two siblings looked at eachother, then back at the strangers.

"Here," they handed Ty Lee and Mai the stuff they had bought. "This won't take long." He said as they both ran towards the thieves.

"Ready?" she asked. "Go!" she signaled running up to them. At the same time, their hands flamed up a bright yellowish-orange color as a huge fire shot out of their hands hitting the targets. Screaming was heard as they continued to blast away. Once the screams died away, they stopped to see the men on the floor, unconcious.

The scene was pretty brutal; there was a temporarily-paralyzed man on the floor looking a bit traumatized, another man stuck on a wall with about 5 or so daggers, one with a burnt hat, and the other holding broadswords also unconcious.

"Phew!" Azula breathed a sigh of relief. "Now let's get out of here before there are anymore bad guys around."

Well, ya. This chapter was really to have Mai and Ty Lee show they can fight and defend themselves as well as their friends. They talk about that next chapter.

And once again, I used Tekken as a reference...If you saw that the people's names were Lee, Lei, and Feng? Those are some of the characters from Tekken 5. It doesn't mean that's them, though. I just needed names ;)

One more thing, please review! My record for reviews is 27 (sad...). If I can beat that record, I'll be happy :D. And it's up to you guys to help me with that XD (I know, I know, cheap- but it's all I got)

-Black5Belt