Kuiodio watched the group carefully through the mirror. She placed her hand on the glass as she watched Zuko mental run through his options. She smiled. That was absolutely wonderful. She couldn't have planned it better herself.

"Chose Zuko. Chose between the woman and the babies." She threw herself backwards on the floor laughing. She kicked her feet in the air as she giggled. It was so cruel and so painful that she couldn't have derived a better plan herself. She pushed herself up as a thought came to her. She ran her pointed nail down the side of her face as the wicked thoughts danced in her mind until she reached one that was just as menacing as the others.

"Ylidari....Jusiouin...come to me my children." The mirror shook as screams rang out from the mortal world as two demons ripped through the boundaries that separated the realms. She looked down at the bloody demons at her feet. They shivered in unison as the spirit wind rolled over their naked bodies. The taller one moved to stand up first. As he stood up his white hair fell down his back. Demonic blue eyes gleamed out at her as he looked down over himself. Kuiodio smiled and walked forward examining him closely.

"Ylidari, you are perfectly formed, ripped straight from you adult mortal body. Aix is no more... you lack the demonic signature of my creatures." She frowned as she walked around him. He looked down at her and frowned deeper. She looked up at him and shook her head. "Regardless you are here. But what of your mate?" She turned to see the shorter of the two male demons struggling to stand up. Ylidari moved over and helped the smaller of the two stand up lovingly. Kuiodio snarled at the small weak stature of Jusiouin. He brought his mismatched eyes up to look at her and the moment her eyes connected with his her head was thrown backwards.

Forceful hands threw her to the ground as hungry stern eyes looked over her. She tried to crawl away from the man, but he had grabbed her hair. She pleaded from him to stop. She was terrified. She was only ten. She had heard the stories of what the men do to the concubines. She had seen the blood from the 'new girls'. She tried to scream out but it didn't do any good. No one would help her. They would hear her screams and ignore them.

Kuiodio sat up from the floor as the breathing in her chest heaved violently She looked up at the smaller demon as fear covered eyes, although her lips smiled with excitement. She pushed her self to stand as she looked at him. She brought her hand up, bringing clothing for them from the mists. She ran her hand over Jusiouin's eyes, bringing a metal clamp over them so she wouldn't accidentally meet them again and be thrown into her memories. She turned to the demon that was a physician in his mortal life.

"And what do you do?" His blank face tilted to the side as he moved quicker then her eye could follow. She coughed at the impact, blood flying from her mouth. Ylidari blinked and jerked his arm out of her. She looked down at where his hand had passed completely through her. She brought her hand up and ran her fingers along the cold blood slick opening. She looked back up at him with a nod.

"That will work."

Katara blinked at Aang. She shook her head and took a step back.

"What?!" Aang frowned and looked to the ground.

"I'm sorry Katara."She shook her head again trying not to understand.

"You are asking me to chose between the life of my children and my own."

"Well if it helps, they really aren't your children, their the demon's." She looked at him hard. He nodded and took his cue to shut up. She turned around crossing her arms over her chest as she put her back to him. A heavy sigh escaped her as she fell to her knees. Her hands covered her face as her mind reeled.

"How can I choose that? It would be selfish of me to take away their lives in exchange for my own, or would it be more selfish of me to prolong their mortal lives knowing that they could be taken at any moment?!" Aang stared at her completely at a loss for word. What could he say to comfort her? She was being forced to make a horrible decision, one that could very easily affect her for the rest of her life or the children's lives.

Zuko watched as the demons held the two infants. He narrowed his eyes and turned his attention back to Aang's body. He couldn't help but notice the frown that overpowered the young avatar's face. Though, if he were in Aang's situation, he would probably be frowning too. How could you tell a mother she had to choose between the life of her children and her own? Though she would have to take into account that the quality of life the children would have would not be the best. They were demons first and then mortals. The three dark spirits even told them the children's mortal side hadn't taken over their bodies; that they were in fact, still tied to the spirit world.

Sokka looked over at Toph then to the babies. His eyes moved up to look at those haunting white eyes hidden inside the cloaks of the three demonic entities. The three turned to look at each other abruptly before looking at the floor. Siadon grabbed Toph and pulled her back as they stepped back still staring at the floor. Sokka cocked his eyebrow and looked at Zuko then back to the floor. The two took a step back and watched the wood planks. Sokka's eyes grew wide as the floor started to bulge. The bulge settled back flat and then violently sprung upwards. The wood splintered and shattered as two sets of hands flew out of the newly formed hole.

The group watched with wide eyes as two forms crawled from the hole. Zuko shook his head. He didn't think he could be surprised any more, until the two demons stood up. He stared at what used to be the doctor who had first helped Katara.

Sokka looked over the two his eyes widening as he took in the features. They were undoubtedly Ameik and Aix, but something was horribly wrong. The fact that they had sprung up from the floor could have been a clue. Aix's hand came up, his long blade like fingers pointing to the babies. He curled a finger a few times and Sokka suddenly knew what they were after.

"What the fuck is this?! Battle of the demons!? I swear I think I need some cactus juice." Sokka said grabbing his forhead. He was thrown back suddenly as Aix swung around, the tips of his fingers slashing across Sokka's face. The pale demon's chest heaved, as the blood dripped from his hand. Sokka pulled the boomerang to his hand and started to fling it, but was thrown back again as Aix caught him in the chest. Sokka fell to the floor, his head hitting harder than perhaps it should. Ameik turned his head, blind, towards Toph then to the three demons.

"Asd fijuka infatiles." Toph slammed her hands over her head as the words melted into a language she could understand. They were after the twins. She couldn't help but thing that they were playing on the obvious.

Zuko frowned and flung a fireball at the two before his better judgment took over. The fire spilled over the two with a steaming hiss as it dissolved into the air. Aix's ahnd lashed out at Zuko catching him in the leg as the fire bender jumped back. With a growl, Aix turned and jerked the metal clamp from his lover's eyes allowing that intense stare to meet Zuko's. Zuko trembled as his legs went out from under him.

An over whelming pain tore across his face, as the fire melted, scorched and destroyed the skin. Laughter ran in his ears as blood fogged his vision. He screamed and held his face, as the laughter seemed to beat into his skull falling into time with the throbbing nauseating pulsing of pain.

Toph heard Zuko scream out and she brought her arms up and was just about to send the earth up to devour the demons when Sliyar touched her shoulder.

"It will do no good, chaton." Sliyar moved over and glared at the two half demons. Ameik turned to glare at the wraith, then turned his dangerous eyes to Toph. He seemed confused when the girl didn't fall to the floor in a panic. Aix moved and struck, attempting to dive that dangerous pair of hands deep into the chest of Sliyar.

"That won't work. You are mere pawns of a pawn. You can't hurt me or my brothers." Sliyar stepped back as the taller demon snapped at him. He closed the distance between them once again and brought his gloved hand up to Aix's forehead. With a gentle tap the demon stood up straight and seemed to blink back a rash of hysteria.

Sliyar turned and did the same to the shorter of the two. Ameik frowned and turned to look at Aix with a frown. Sliyar turned to look at Toph with narrowed white eyes.

"If you would, send them home..."

"Wait..." Saidon spoke up and handed the small infant boy to Shurinere. He stepped forward and brought his hand up, pulling two small beads from the collar bones of the two demi-demons.

Toph lowered the two demons into the ground and shuddered as their energy vanished.

Zuko stood up after the paralyzing onslaught of memories ceased to haunt him. He looked over to see Sokka coming to. The wounds over his chest were shallow, and wouldn't even require stitching to heal. He glanced back at Aang's body as it was still in the same place untouched despite the chaos. His eyes looked over to the trio of demons and then to Toph.

Saidon turned to Toph and buried the blood beads into her hand.

"Kuiodio has lost most of her beads. When she calls her demon spawn to work for her, she has to embed a bead into them so that they don't drive themselves mad with human urges. I believe she is only down to around four...." He said and looked over his shoulders to his companions. "She will trouble us, nor them no longer, my brothers."

"One problem....we still need to know what Katara is going to choose."