Hello, sweethearts!

Havent heard if you liked last chapter or not, but anyways. I am in Europe now visiting some family and in a vacation tour so it will be pretty dificult for me to update at all. I had this chapter done before I traveled but did not have a PC to edit and submit it.

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Remember I don't own A:TLA, nor any of the characters used in this story. The plot its my creation though

Enjoy!

V

He was only enjoying the view of the South Pole from the front of his ship. The frozen beauty of its extreme weather bringing golden memories to his eyes from past days that felt like centuries ago. Beautiful days when he wasn't humiliated and banished, ordered to track down an old coward that hadn't been seen for a century. Treated like a bounty hunter and not like the crown prince. Beautiful days when there was no other war to worry about, but the one that he had with his sister.

Happier days.

But he was only watching the horizon in peaceful silence when it happened.

The sky suddenly changed, and it was glowing. A turquoise/white light that extended up to the infinite sky in the horizon, and he knew that his search had come to an end.

He had found the Avatar.

But he didn't know if he should feel thrilled or worried. This new discovery implied that he would have to face her blue, blue eyes again.

And he was afraid of her inferior gaze.

This thought made his body tremble in anger. He was the crown prince, for Agni's sake! He should not be afraid of a little girl that he has not seen in years. He shouldn't even care with whom her loyalties lied -with him or with her tribe-, but he knew in his heart what the answer was. He shouldn't care at all.

His mouth twisted to an arrogant smile when the news that he had finally found the Avatar, sank in his head. He could go home now. He could regain his honor.

"Finally, Uncle." His voice confident before he even started his journey toward the shining light that started to dissipate from the sky. "Do you know what this means?"

"That I won't be able to end my game" His uncle responded.

"This means that our long journey is coming to an end. Uncle, this is our ticket back home. We have finally found that old bastard" His eyes watched the concentrated face of his Uncle, whom was more preoccupied with his next move and his solitary game.

The old man's eyes looked at him a minute later.

"Prince Zuko" Iroh's eyes studied the prince's excitement "I don't want you get enthusiastic over nothing. Why don't you have a relaxing cup of Jasmine tea instead?"

"I don't need tea!" Zuko snapped "I need to find the Avatar" Iroh sighed in defeat "Helmsman!"

"Yes, sir?" the man responded, ready to obey any of the prince's commands.

"Follow the light." the prince voice was determined, his eyes furiously staring to the horizon for any other rare event.

"Your word is my command, your highness" and the helmsman obeyed.

There would be no fear and no mercy if needed. There were no way that any girl with cocoa skin and sea blue eyes would scare him or stop him from achieving his goals.

He would take the Avatar to the Fire Lord and prove his loyalty to the Fire Nation.

The boy was unbelievable energetic for someone that just got out of a freaking huge iceberg, Katara thought.

He would jump and float his way around the village playing with the tribes youngest people and 'showing off' his airbending skills. He would laugh and smile, never once looking puzzled or worried about what was he doing in this side of the world or why was he even there for that matter. Katara would only watch him carefully to solve the mystery of his optimistic behavior.

He could be the last one of his kind, if the background history of his people was indeed real –Which it indeed was, because the Fire Nation had been, after all, the ones who exterminated the whole community– which made everything harder for the tribe to understand his overjoyed attitude.

The bold, tattooed kid seemed so oblivious about the world's reality, like he had been trapped in that gigantic iceberg for years.

A hundred years, to be precise.

And Katara was really worried about that, because if he was he last airbender, and if he was the last of his kind in this god's forsaken world, then he must be the Avatar. The lost Air Nomad Avatar.

And if he didn't even know that the world was being dominated by fire, that it would've mean that he was indeed trapped in the iceberg this whole time.

Aang chuckled while a bunch of kids giggled sliding from Appa's tail that had been transformed to a slide. Sokka's voice interrupted the happy giggles of the kids

"Stop it! Stop it NOW!" Sokka seemed annoyed and disarmed the slide. "We don't have time to be wasting it on childish games when there's a war!"

Aang stopped chuckling and floated his way to the ground, his naïve expression watching at Sokka.

"Which war?" Katara's eyes went wide for a second.

"You're kidding, right?" Sokka wore a bored and unbelieving expression instead. Aang ignored his sarcastic comment and ran a ridiculous speed toward a penguin he just laid his eyes on.

Katara and Sokka watched him disappear in the distance.

"He's kidding, right?" Her brother's voice caught her attention. She shuddered in response.

They were in big trouble, Aang thought

They were running back to the tribe when they accidentally activated the fire nation battleship trap that sent a flare towards the sky.

No. She was in big, big trouble.

Aang. She had said in a careful, almost scared tone. Think about it… we have been in war with the fire nation for a hundred years by now… you don't know it because… because… somehow, you had been trapped in that iceberg for over a hundred years. He couldn't believe that. It was impossible.

It couldn't be real.

Over a hundred years!

It just couldn't be real at all.

He felt Katara's hurried steps behind her, running for their lives in fear. What if there were fire nation ships nearby? She thought. What if they saw the sign!

"Tui and La!" She whispered to herself in jagged breaths while running. Oh, Spirits, protect us all!

"The last airbender" He said in a triumphant tone, following two figures that just escaped from the old fire nation ship with a spyglass. "Pretty agile for his old age…" he commented. "Wake up my uncle" he commanded to the guards behind him, whom took off just as the prince gave the order. "Tell him that we found the Avatar…"

He returned his gaze to the spyglass, following their direction, he changed his objective and then, he found a small structure. The Southern Water Tribe.

His heart stopped and stung in his chest, and he intended to ignoring the feeling, whispering to himself, ending his thought. "…and where his is hiding"