1Here it is, as promised. -winks- This chapter will be long, so sit tight!

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Chapter 16: Fight Face

Everyone stood still for a minute. Aang sent an air blast at Ozai at the same time Toph sent a shockwave at Azula. Sokka and Suki ran to free Iroh and Ursa, while Katara and Mai ran to Zuko's side.

Azula smirked at Sokka and Suki. "Well, looks like you found your girlfriend after all."

"Hey, Ice Princess! You and me ain't done." Toph took a fighting stance. Azula did the same.

"Avatar. We finally meet." Ozai said as he entered a battle stance. Aang glared at him.

"Your days of tyranny are over." Aang declared. He sent a fireball at Ozai.

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Katara knelt down at Zuko's side. He wasn't dead. Just unconscious. She slowly pulled the knife out of his flesh. Blood poured out everywhere.

"Damn it!" Katara ripped off part of her kimono, folded it and held it to the wound. She looked over at Iroh and Ursa, who were wearing shocked and worried expressions.

"Z-Zuko?" Ursa 's voice shook. She gently stroke her son's hair, then broke down in sobs. She hugged Zuko's shoulders. Katara glanced at Iroh.

"What's her name? Zuko's mother?" She asked.

"Ursa."

"Okay." Katara reached for Ursa's shoulder to address her. "Hey, Ursa? He's going to be okay. I have healing abilities. I've healed worse wounds than this. He's gonna be fine."

Ursa looked up at Katara. There was something familiar about her facial features that reminded her of Hakoda. "Th-thanks." Ursa managed to say.

Katara turned back to Mai. "Mai, I'm gonna need you to hold this for a second while I bend up some water. Lift the pressure off when I say, okay?"

"Okay." Mai held down the pressure while Katara pulled water out of her puch.

"Lift." Katara instructed. Mai took the pressure off and Katara began the healing process. Zuko didn't respond to the pain, which made Katara slightly worried. "This might take a while."

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Ozai sent another fireball at Aang, who controlled it away. "I see my traitorous son has taught you well."

Aang wanted to test Ozai's self-control. "Yes, he did. Who taught you? A five year old?"

Ozai growled and sent a huge fdireball at Aang, who dodged. The fireball hit a few of Ozai's guards. Aang sighed in relief of avoiding a deadly hit.

"Not bad! But seriously, I thought you be better than Zuko." 'Sorry, Zuko' He thought. Aang bended up a boulder and threw it at Ozai who dived out of the way. "Oh, right, I forgot! You don't want to injure your hips any more than they already are!"

"Enough! I will not be spoken to like that!" Ozai sent a plume of fire towards Aang. He bended up a rock pillar to block the blow.

'Ok, so he has plenty of self-control...'

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Katara and Mai ducked as a fireball flew past them.

"We need to move Zuko to another room." Katara noted. "There's a room across the hall, right?"

"There is." Replied Iroh. He, Ursa, Katara, and Mai lifted Zuko up and moved him to an empty room.

"Let me know if he wakes up." Mai said., "I'm gonna say a few things to Azula." She left. Katara continued the healing process. The blood was gone, but the wound was still deep.

Katara's pouch felt lighter. "Crap, I'm running out of water." She looked around. Katara saw a big plant in a big vase. Standing up, she bended the water out of the plant and froze it on the ground next to her.

Iroh was impressed. "Where did you learn that?"

"Met a waterbender over the summer." Katara replied. "This might not be enough. I need you to find any source of water. Plants, food, stuff like that."

"All right." Iroh stood up and ran to comply.

Ursa held one of Zuko's hands and sighed. With her other hand, she lightly touched Zuko's scar. A lump rose in Ursa's throat.

"I Should've taken him with me..." She said quietly.

Katara looked at Ursa. "What?"

"When I was banished...my husband was going to kill Zuko as punishment." Ursa began to explain. "I didn't want him to have a life on the run, so...I left him behind. I can't express how much I regret that, now..."

Katara looked at Ursa with sympathy. "I can't say I know how you feel. In Ba Sing Se, Azula and Aang were fighting. Azula had Dai Li agents on her side, so Aang was outnumbered, so he went into the Avatar State. I was so hopeful and relieved. I thought we were finally going to win that fight. I was so focused on Aang, that I didn't see Azula shoot him down with lightning. I let her take him." Katara's eyes brimmed with tears from that memory.

Ursa sighed and shook her head. 'Agni, Azula, you really are a monster.' "I can't believe my own little girl became such a...a monster."

"What on earth happened that made Azula like this?" Katara asked.

"Ursa shrugged. "She looked up to her father, I guess. She was inspired by him. Zuko was more inspired by me, but he still loved his father for some reason."

"But you didn't." Katara guessed.

"I was young, naive, and lovesick." Ursa expressed. "When I was a little girl, I used to imagine myself marrying the man I love. He would tell me I'm beautiful, and he would cherish me, and spoil me with jewelery. He would love me ad our children. Over the years of our marriage, I realized that Ozai was only interested in being the Fire Lord. Iroh was supposed to be next in line-"

Katara dropped her water. "What?! I...I mean, I knew they were brothers, but I had no idea...Ozai basically stole Iroh's birthright!"

"Right after Iroh's son died, too." Ursa nodded. "Sometimes I wonder if Ozai actually had Lu Ten killed. He knew Lu Ten was Iroh's pride and joy, and that he would fall apart if something were to happen to him."

Katara sighed as she took this information in. 'And I wanted to kill Zuko...'

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Mai ran into the war room, which was starting to live up to it's name. Locating Azula, Mai threw a few daggers in Azula's direction. Azula turned around.

"How's your boyfriend?" Azula asked.

"Like you care." Mai snarled.

"Hey. I said I wanted Zuko captured. I never said I wanted him dead!" Azula shot back at Mai. She shot a fireball at her. Mai dodged. She threw another few daggers at Azula.

"You just couldn't stand to see me happy, could you?" Mai accused Azula. "Interrupted my dates with Zuko while he was here, sending some idiots after me and Ty Lee, putting me under house arrest?"

"What did you expect me to do?" Azula argued. "I freaking don't care about other people's happiness, and I certainly don't care about you or Ty Lee or Zuko!"

"Really? Because I wasn't so sure!" Mai shot back sarcastically. "Then why did you freak out when you accidentally stabbed Zuko?"

"Because I failed to stab my mother. Now my father's gonna be pissed at me when he's through with the Avatar!" Azula answered.

They heard someone yell out behind them and turned around. Aang slid along the wall, unconscious. Ozai smirked in satisfaction. He knew the Avatar wasn't dead yet. He needed something to do until he woke up. Ozai walked towards Azula.

"You failed me for the last time, Princess Azula." Ozai generated lightning and struck Azula.

Azula tried to bend it away, but couldn't. She stumbled, then fell to the ground, dead. Mai gasped silently..

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Katara panted in exhaustion. She wiped her sweaty forehead and kept working on Zuko. Zuko finally gave out a grunt of pain. Ursa and Katara gasped.

"Zuko?" Ursa stroked Zuko's hair again. "Zuko, my love, can you hear me?"

"Mom...?" Zuko said weakly. He groaned in more pain.

Iroh ran in with another plant. "Is he awake?"

"Yeah. He is." Katara smiled.

Iroh laughed in relief. He knelt down next to Zuko.

"Uncle?" Zuko said wearily. "I'm sorry for everything I put you through."

Iroh sniffed. "It's okay. I forgive you."

Ursa began crying. "Thank Agni" She hugged Zuko's shoulders again.

Zuko gasped in surprise. He slowly sat up, Ursa still hugging him tightly. "Mom..." He burst into tears himself, and hugged his mother back tightly.

Katara smiled at the two hugging. Her eyes brimmed with tears. She sniffed and stood up. "I'll-I'll leave you three alone in private."

Katara left the roonm, took deep breath and headed to the war room. Mai rushed out of it.

"What happened in there?" Katara asked, worried.

"Ozai shot and killed Azula with lightning." Mai answered. "How's Zuko?"

"He's okay. He's with his mother and Iroh now."

Mai sighed in relief. "Thanks. Listen, I never got the chance to apologize for basically almost killing you. I'm sorry. I was only doing it because Azula...well, you've met her."

"No hard feelings." Katara smiled. "Just choose your friends better next time, okay?"

Mai chuckled. "No problem."

Mai and Katara went their separate ways. Katara braced herself for what she would see when she stepped into the room. She almost tripped over Azula's dead body. Sokka and Suki were fighting a couple of soldiers. Toph was fighting a group of soldiers at once.

Katara saw Aang slowly rise from the ground.

"Aang!" Katara started towards Aang when all of a sudden, Ozai bended a ring of fire around Katara. She gasped. Katara didn't have any water on her. Katara pulled up her shirt collar around her nose and mouth.

"Katara!" She heard four different voices shout. There was no way out of this without water. Toph couldn't earthbend her out. Air would only make it worse. Before Aang could do anything, Ozai firebended at him.

"Surrender or she gets it!" Ozai threatened.

Sokka racked his brain for ideas. Then he ran out of the room to look for...

"Iroh!" Sokka exclaimed. "Ozai has Katara trapped in a circle of fire thing. You have to help!"

Iroh pushed past Sokka. He took one look at the ring of fire and separated the circle. Katara was soaked with sweat from the heat. Sokka ran forwrd as Katara collasped in his arms. Katara breathed heavily and coughed.

"Katara, are you okay?" Sokka asekd.

"I'm...I'm fine." Katara breathed heavily and coughed some more. "How's Aang doing?"

Aang stood up and took a deep breath. Enough was enough. He had to finish Ozai off now. Ozai smirked and entered his fighting stance. He was about to generate lightning when he froze. Aang looked confused, then looked over st his friends. Katara was in a stance, her hands aimed at Ozai. She bloodbended him still.

"Get him, Aang!" Katara encouraged.

Aang smiled and nodded. He opened his water pouch, formed the water around his left hand, formed a fireball in his right hand, lifted his foot and took a deep breath. Toph noticed, and her eyes widened.

"Wait a minute...he's gonna use all four elements!" The blind earthbender exclaimed.

Katara looked slightly apprehensive. Using all four elements in one attack move cannot be good. "Aang.,.."

Aang thrust the water, earth, fire, and air at Ozai.Using all four elements with so much force, caused a huge explosion.. Sokka, Katara, Toph, Suki, and Iroh were all thrown backward from the impact. The ceiling and wall exploded off, and the fire in the fire pit blew, but didn't spread.

Ursa, Zuko, and Mai ran into what remained of the war room and stared in shock. After a few minutes, the dust and smoke cleared. Katara, Sokka, and Toph rushed forward through the rubble.

"Aang!" Katara exclaimed. She and Sokka removed the debris that was covering Aang. The Avatar groaned in pain and slowly opened his eyes. Katara hugged Aang tightly.

Aang gasped in pain and hugged Katara back. Sokka and Toph joined the hug. Iroh headed over to where Ozai was shot. Ozai was laying sprawled on his back unmoving. Iroh bent down to check his pulse and heartbeat. He stood up and smiled.

A crowd was beginning to form. Kids from the rebellion including Jin and On Ji; and the now released invasion force gathered around from the outside and inside the palace. Everyone looked on in anticipation.

"We're going to need a new Fire Lord." Iroh announced.

The crowd burst into cheers and applause. Aang closed his eyes, smiled, and sighed in relief. Katara kissed Aang on the cheek, Sokka picked Aang up in a bear hug.

"You did it! You actually friggin' did it!" Sokka exclaimed.

Toph punched Aang in the arm. "You rock, Twinkletoes!"

Aang didn't say anything. Instead, he wept in relief. Finally the Fire Lord was beat. The war was now over. Everything would be back to the way things were before the war started.

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Now...the war may be over, but this story isn't! There's still around ten more chapters I'm planning on doing! And don't think I've forgotten about the comet.