I run towards the man and unleash icicles from the water fountain nearby. He melts them with a fire blast.

"Oki, what are you doing?!" Fire Lord Zuko bellows.

With a scream, I unleash a huge stream of air at the man. With surprise written on his face, he flies back and hits the wall. I rush up to him and unleash air attack after air attack at him. It doesn't even process in my head that I'm a water bender and that I'm bending air. All I can feel is my intense hatred for this murderer who killed my parents. I can feel tears streaming down my face. I can hear the sobs wrangling my throat. Hikitsu rushes up behind me and hugs me tightly.

"No, Oki. Stop." he gasps. "It's okay." Now that I stopped attacking him, the man scales up a wall and disappears.

"Hikitsu!" I sob. "Why did you do that?! Why didn't you let me kill him?! Why?!" I sob even harder. Through my rain of tears, I can see Fire Lord Zuko rush up to the both of us.

"Hikitsu, what's wrong with her?" he asks with authority in his voice.

"I don't know, she won't stop crying enough to tell me!"

Fire Lord Zuko leans down and crouches so we meet eye to eye.

"Oki. Why did you attack that man?"

My face scrunches up as I sob, "Because, that was the man that killed my parents!" I feel my hands reaching up to clutch the sides of my head. Suddenly, Hikitsu's hand grabs mine and clutches it, bringing it down to his side.

"Oki, how do you know that was him? You weren't even home the day it happened." Fire Lord Zuko argues.

"I had a vision two years ago. I know what his face looks like. And he got away..."

"No Oki. I don't think that was him." Fire Lord Zuko muses.

"Yeah Oki. I don't think that man was out to get you or anything." Hikitsu says calmly.

"No, you have to listen to me, please. It was him!" I say hysterically.

I hear a shuffle in the crowd and I hear a woman shouting. Auntie Mai.

"Let me through or I will seriously injure all of you!"

"Mai!" Fire Lord Zuko yells.

"A little help here, husband dearest?"

"Everybody move!"

Immediately, the crowd disperses to let her through. She reaches us in a huff.

"Oki. What's going on? I heard you tried to kill a man after your duel with Hikitsu? Is this true?"

I see Fire Lord Zuko pull her back and whisper something in her ear.

"What? She did what? Are you kidding me?"

Meanwhile, Hikitsu is just whispering to me:

"It's gonna be okay. It'll be alright. Everything is fine."

I feel everybody talking about me; whispering about the crown prince's girlfriend and how she finally fell off of her rocker. I feel as if a thousand bugs are just crawling all over my skin. Crawling, crawling. And something is just building up inside of me. I don't know what this feeling is, but I can't take it anymore. I have to explode. I raise both of my hands into the sky and shout, "STOP!" A hush falls over the crowd. They're all looking up at my hands. Confused, I glance up and look at my hands. Hikitsu laughs awkwardly.

"Oki. You're fire bending." he gasps.

Someone nearby shouts, "She's the new avatar!! She can water bend, fire bend, and air bend!" Everybody starts yelling in excitement.

With a cry, I rip my hands from the sky and run to the nearest water fountain. I plunge my hands into the cool water. The cold water clears my foggy mind and I come back to my senses with a loud gasp. I walk unevenly back to the royal family. Fire Lord Zuko looks so shocked. Auntie Mai has the same expression as usual on her face, except this time, she's scrutinizing me with the most interest. And Hikitsu...beautiful Hikitsu. His face is flooded with worry. Fire Lord Zuko comes up to me and takes me gently by the elbow.

"Let's all go somewhere where we can all talk privately."

As a group, we all walk silently to the family chambers. Auntie Mai and Fire Lord Zuko are ahead, holding hands, and talking quietly. Hikitsu and I are walking behind them. He has his arm comfortably around my waist, supporting my weight once again as I lean my body against his tiredly.

"Whatever happens Oki, I'll support you all the way."

I tilt my head up and look into his golden eyes, inherited from his father. I give him a quick kiss.

"I know. You've always been there for me. Thank you." I smile gently at him.

"Okay you two, get off of love mode. Time to talk." Auntie Mai interrupts. I look up and we're all standing in the family room. Hikitsu drops his arm from my waist and holds my hand instead.

"Fire Lord Zuko, I'm really sorry for attacking that man. I just couldn't control myself. I'm so sorry." I babble.

"Oki. How many time do I have to tell you to just call me Zuko? I feel much more comfortable with you calling me Zuko."

"Alright then...Zuko." I say, feeling the strange name with no title on my tongue. Mai quietly intervenes.

"Zuko, is she really the new avatar? I thought it didn't work that way. Aang was still alive when she was born. How could his soul be reincarnated through his daughter?" she says quietly. I look at Zuko's face and his brow is furrowed in confusion.

"I'm not sure how it's possible. But it's quite obvious that Oki is the new avatar. She's already shown her talents for air and fire bending today. We know she's a water bending master. All she needs to do next is send a rock after Hikitsu's head and that will confirm our questioning." "Funny, dad. Really." Hikitsu grumbles.

They continue talking amongst themselves and my grip on Hikitsu's hand slackens as my head starts to reel with panic. If I'm the new avatar, does that mean that my dad is part of my soul? Does that make me my dad? How could he be part of my soul if he died when I was six?

"Zuko...is my dad really...a part of me?" I whisper. Amazingly, he can hear me.

"Well Oki, being his child, you were already a part of him. He loved you very much."

"I know that." I snap back, instantly regretting it. "I mean, is he a part of...my soul?"