A/N: thanks for the advice. I'm not too sure if it was any good… oh well, here's next the next chapter. Oh that's right! Be ready because I've got some great ideas for the near end, and I'll possibly work on the sequel. Still open to ANY ideas.

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Chapter 3

Karr suddenly awoke with a fright, sweat engulfed his forehead and upper lip, he whipped it away looking around cautiously,

"hey he's awake!" shouted Toph; they looked up from their daily jobs to look at the boy.

"What… what happened?" he asked shaking his head to relieve the shock and memory loss,

"well you sort of… err… how do I put it? You sort of completely obliterated Azula, she's still alive… I think" Sokka explained before turning back to sharpening his boomerang,

Karr stepped out from his sleeping bag before stumbling, "arghh!" he cried clenching his back,

"the scar must sting a little still, but I managed to heal most of it" Katara explained, "I'm surprised you didn't die from that attack!" she exclaimed,

"oh yeah…" pondered Karr, he managed to coupe with the pain and slip on his shirt again, "look I have to go" he said turning to the forest,

"why?" Aang asked a little nervous,

"I'm going home, my mother has cancer and my little sister… well I don't think she'd be able to coupe with it" he replied staring towards the ground;

Toph kicked the ground and the earth softened under Karr's feet and he sank up to his knees, "oh no, you aren't going anywhere" she snapped,

Karr gave a grin before creating a barrier of blue fire around him, the earth crumbled when the fire expanded, Karr stepped out triumphantly before turning to Toph who was completely shocked,

"let's see you try that again" he shouted furiously,

"you really wanna' see what I can do hothead?" she replied angrily raising a fist,

"bring it!" he shouted,

"anywhere, anytime!" she shouted,

"should be fun" Karr replied,

they both scowled and stormed in different directions, leaving Sokka, Katara and Aang to ponder in their thoughts,

"this can't be good" said Aang shaking his head,

"Aang, you have to give him time" she said trying to comfort her friends,

Aang blushed slightly, "I guess" he said walking into the forest to tail after Karr.

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Karr found a wide open plain before sitting quietly, listening, waiting for anything, Aang walked through eventually coming out from his hiding place,

"ahhh… I knew someone was there, spying on me" he said standing,

"I have a question" said Aang, Karr stood silent focusing,

"fire away" he said eventually,

"I…" but Aang was cut off "hold that thought" he said beginning to sprint with all haste in the direction Toph stormed off to, Aang quickly followed him, "what's so important!" puffed Aang,

Karr ignored as he saw the beach, the soft creamy sand, and the glistening cerulean blue ocean,

he burst through the bush, Aang realised what was so important, Toph was screaming and splashing for breath struggling with the water, and at the edge of the beach stood a boy, long black hair, wearing a blue male robe with white outlining, "he's a water bender" said Karr,

Aang hesitated, Karr rushed forward, slapping away a batter of water with a reply of fire, he could see Toph sinking into the depths below, the water bender lunged forward with a water whip,

'weakness… electricity' thought Karr hurriedly, lashing out with a burst of lightning, the boy screamed as he fell unconscious with shock, Karr immediately jumped into the water diving down leaving Aang to nervously and anxiously wait for his friends,

suddenly with one breath Karr had found Toph near the bottom and began to drag her to the shore, she was unconscious still, Aang swiftly water bended the water inside her and threw it back out into the ocean, as she choked and coughed before opening her colourless eyes,

"you… you saved me" she coughed, blushing slightly at the same time,

"yeah, yeah enough with the mushy stuff" he said,

"but I thought you were mad at me?" she asked still coughing hard,

"if it's one thing I learnt from my mother, it's always forgive… especially you're friends" he said smiling,

"Aang… what was that question?" Karr asked immediately,

"oh! Um… I was wondering if you'd be my fire bending teacher?" he asked, "sure" he replied shrugging,

"great, but we should start training as soon as possible" said Aang,

Karr nodded in agreement, "right now… I'm just hungry" said Karr beginning to walk back to camp, Toph and Aang followed after him.

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Location: Ba Sing Se…

Zuko sat there awaiting the arrival of a shipping.

A messenger walked into the room, "what news do we have?" asked Zuko in his bitter state,

"we have her sir" he said bowing in respect,

"excellent, that insolent peasant will pay for what he did to my sister!" he said,

suddenly a cart pulling a little girl entered through,

"so you know where my big brother is? She asked, her little voice echoed through the chamber,

"yes Kari Shima, we know where you're brother is" he said evilly and bitterly.