1So... apparantly DungBuFeng or whatever revealed that episode 3.13 will be either The Fire Lady, the White Lotus, and a few other things; so I guess including the White Lotus in my story is a good idea!

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Chapter 7: Working This Out

Over the next two weeks, Aang and his friends talked to random villagers and turned (or at least tried to turn) them against Ozai,. Zuko talked to a few, told them his story. Some where sympathetic, some weren't.

Sokka also planned with the White Lotus the breakout of all prisoners of war here in the Fuire Nation and in the Eartth Kingdom. Shang sent the White Lotus leader in the Earth Kingdom to let him know of the plan. In order to earn more money, Sokka, Haru, Zuko, and Katara all got jobs. Y got along with their co-workers and talked to them about the rebellion. If anyone betrays them, they'd lie.

Meanwhile, Aang was still learning firebending from Zuko. He mastered the basics after ten days of learning it. That was expected, since Aang's mastered firebending before.

"Damn, Aang!" Zuko exclaimed, impressed. "If Azula wasn't an evil bitch, I'd say you two would get along! You are a prodigy just like her."

"Well, I wouldn't say 'prodigy..." Aang said modestly.

Sokka walked in on them. "Aang, stop being modest. It took you like ten minutes to learn waterbending!"

"Well..." Aang blushed.

Changing the subject, Zuko sid, "So, how many people have we convinced?"

"A lot." Sokka answered. "Nearly half the towm. We're on a roll here!"

"That's great!" Aang exclaimed excitedly. "We should probably geta move on with other towns, though."

"Yeah." Sokka agreed. "Let's stay one more night, then tomorrow, we can quit our jobs and move on."

"Wait, quitting sounds suspicious." Zuko pointed out. "Why don't we just lave town. Or two of us can quit while the other two can just...play hooky. By which, I mean skip town."

So, thus, Haru and Katara quit their jobs while Sokka and Zuko just didn't go. All eight piled onto the bison and flew to the next town.

"Okay...so our plan is to go to a town and convince the people to rebel against Fire Lord Oldzai-"

Sokka interrupted Toph by cracking up. "Oldzai? Oh my spirits..."

Toph glared at Sokka. "As I was saying: our plan is to town-hop and tell people to rebel?"

Zuko nodded. Then he remembered Toph can't see. "Yeah, it is the plan."

"But how are we going to visit forty towns in five weeks?" Teo asked. "That's kind of cutting close, isn't it?"

"We're not visiting all forty towns." Explained sokka. "We're just going to every town we've been to ever since landing here in the Fire Nation."

"Ah." Teo nodded in understanding. "Where to first?"

Appa landed near a familiar cave.

"This," Katara addressed Zuko, Teo, the Duke, and Haru. "Is where Aang went undercover at a school. We already loosened up some of the kids by throwing them a dance party, so hopefully, they'll listen."

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The gang arrived at the school. Evryone was outside at recess. Aang spotted An Ji talking to some friends. The Avatar airbended An Ji's papers near him so she'll grab them. Sure enough, An Ji gasped then chased after her papers.

"Pssst! An Ji!" Aang whispered loudly. "Over here!"

"An Ji walked over to where Aang was. She was bewildered.

"Kuzon?" An Ji asked. "What...how...what are you doing here?"

Aang stepped into the light. "Okay, first of all; my name's not Kuzon. It's Aang. I'm the Avatar."

An Ji gasped and stepped back a few paces. "What?! Why didn't you tell me? Why are you here?"

"I got struck by lightning in the Earth Kingdom capital a few months ago by the Fire Nation princess." Aang explained. He explained why he was in hiding, the invasion, and the rebellion.

Not surprisingly, An Ji waas surprised and shocked. "So you and the Fire Nation prince are starting a rebellion against the Fire Lord?"

"Yes. We need all the help and support we can get." Aang replied. "Listen, are you a firebender?"

"Yeah."

"And how do you feel about every single firebender being forced to do some kind of work?" Asked Aang.

An Ji paused for a second. "It's...pretty unfair."

Aang nodded. "That's why we need to do something about it. Now...what do you say?"

"Ku...Aang, I don't know." An Ji replied, hesitantly. "I-I mean...we could be banished or worse for this!"

"Not if we have enough peasants for an uprising." Aang assured her. "By then, I'll be at the Fire Lord's palace taking him down! Please, trust me on this."

An Ji sighed. She was silent for a minute, then smiled. "Okay, count me in."

"Great!" Aang smiled. "Think you can convince your classmates to join?"

"I'll try." An ji replied. "Thanks, Aang. I won't let you down."

"No problem. Thank you." Aang answered. "I better go. We're on kind of a tight schedule."

"Eh, I should go, too." An Ji replied. "Bye. It was nice seeing you again."

"You too." Aang bowed politely and ran off.

"How'd it go?" Asked Katara as aang returned.

"It went great." Aang replied. "I talked to An Ji, and everything's good. She's going to talk some her classmates into joining up."

"Terriffic." Said Sokka. "Now, onto the fishing village!"

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"Iroh, seriously, where are we going?"

Ursa and Iroh have been traveling for tw weeks now. They were headed to some village. The same village our gang was in when they contacted the White Lotus society.

"The Order of the White Lotus." Iroh answered. "I've been a member for five years now."

"What is that, a Pai Sho club?"

"No, on the contrary, it's an anti-war club." Replied the retired general."You will see when we get there."

The two went into the resturant. Iroh played Pai Sho with the same guy Sokka played with and went into the meeting. Ursa waited patiently in the resturant.

"You've come just in time, Iroh." Shang said after he greeted him. "A couple of weeks ago, we had a new initiate. He thought up rebellion against Fire Lord Ozai. He's already convinced this town."

Iroh raised his eyebrows. A rebellion? Already? "Who was this new initiate?"

"His name is Sokka, I believe." Shang answered. "He's from the Southern Water Tribve."

Sokka? Why does that name sound so familiar? Thought Iroh. "What kind of rebellion? A peeasant uprising?"

Shang nodded. "Yes. We're also going to invade the palace and free all those who have been imprisoned."

"Sounds like a plan." Iroh mused. "When is the invasion?"

"In approximately two weeks."

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Well, we haven't seen Azula, Mai, or Ty Lee in a while. Let's check up with them!

Azula was pacing around her bedroom. Ty Lee was on her bed.

"It's ben three weeks, Ty Lee." Azula vented. "Still no letter from Zuko, and Mai hasn't said anything! It's like she doesn't trust me anymore!"

"Well, Zuko is her boyfriend." Ty Lee pointed out/.

"So?! I'm her best friend! I've been her best friend longer than Zuko has been her boyfriend!" Azula groaned in frustration. Then her wheels started turning. "If she won't talk to me...maybe...she'll talk to you!"

Ty Lee shrugged. "Maybe!"

"Great! So you'll talk to her?" Azula asked. Ty Lee knew very well that was not a request. She stood.

"I'm on my way."

Azula smiled. "Thanks, Ty Lee. Report back as soon as possible."

"Okayt!" The acrobat left the room.

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Ty Lee went over to Mai's. Mai was just getting ready cor lunch when Ty Lee came.

"Hey, Ty." Mai greeted. "Come in."

"Thanks." Ty Lee stepped into the house. "I was just over at Azula's, and I thought I'd come by."

"Oh." Mai responded. "Do you want something to eat? I was just having lunch."

"Sure!" Ty Lee said eagerly. The two sat down. Ty Lee remembered the reason she came over. "So, how have you been? You know, since Zuko left?"

Mai sighed. "Ty Lee, you asked me this last week, the week before that, and the week before that. I'm fine."

"Okay, sorry." Ty Lee put up her hands in surrender. "It's just that...we haven;'t heard anything from him, and we were wondering if you-"

"'We'?" Mi raised an eyebrow.

Ty Lee almost chocked on her food. "I mean me! Heh. Sorry."

Too late. Mai was already suspicious. "Did Azula put you up to this?"

"What? No!"

Mai grabbed Ty Lee's wrist and dragged her to the door. "You know what? You can just tell that psychotic princess I don't know shit, now get off my back!" With that, Mai slammed the door in Ty Lee's face.

Azula watched Mai's house from her room with a telescope. She could see Ty Lee stumbling out of the house. Mai slammed the door in Ty Lee's face. Azula stiffened. 'Crap, did she blow her cover?' She watched as ty Lee slumped her shoulder, threw her head back, then walked back toward the palace.

Azula groaned and smacked her frehead.

'Is Agni punishing me or something? Oh well. If you want something done right, you got to do it yourself.'

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Yeah...don't worry, I'm going somewhere with Ozai's Angels. ;;