"Well that was an ordeal." Mai was yawning sweeping up the remains of a busy day.
Only two customers remained in the shop, to old men playing game of Pai Sho.
Zuko tried to forget the memory of his Uncle trying to teach him Pai Sho.
The door opened tinkling a bell.
A very pretty girl entered wearing a green dress, her hair in two braids on her shoulders.
"Lee!"
Mai turned to watch the girl run and hug Zuko.
Her voice was cold, "can I help you?"
She giggled, "Of course! I'm Jin, Lee's girlfriend."
The silence was amazing, Jin looked pleasant, Mai looked like she was going to strangle something, or someone for that matter and Zuko looked scared out of his mind.
"Well, Lee are you going to introduce us?"
He gulped avoiding Mai's gaze, "Jin this is Mai." he conveniently left out fiancée.
"Well I'm done for tonight." Mai carefully untied the apron and walked over slowly prolonging Zuko's anguish and placed the apron in his hand hesitating inches from his face, "See you tomorrow."
She swept out; "Lee." the door slammed shut causing a few paintings on the wall to fall.
Jin turned back to Zuko, "So Lee why didn't you tell me you came back?"
"Umm, well you see I'm here with the circus."
He dug himself deeper.
"Ahh here we are! Ba Sing Se!" Sokka stretched as he got off the plane. Toph wobbled along still trying to find her legs
"Meh it's not that great."
"You've been here before?"
She shrugged nonchalantly, "Once, I was like 5 or something."
"Oh I'm sorry Miss World Traveler forgive me but I am a mere country boy."
This earned him a punch in the shoulder.
Aang was pacing back and forth by his car, trying to not think of the worst possible situations.
"Hey! AANG!" He was engulfed in a hug Sokka all over him.
Toph also calmed slightly pulling Aang into a gentler hug.
Obviously her feminine instincts were taking over, "Are you going to be alright?"
"No."
She hugged him again, "it's going to be alright we'll find her."
Surprisingly coming from someone so rough and tumble it was comforting, the way she said it just made Aang believe her.
"Well let's get started." Sokka jumped in, "Let's find the guy that took my sister."
"Well it's not exactly going to be easy."
"Aw com'on Ba Sing Se can't be that big."
Oh Sokka, the Universe does love proving you wrong.
Mai was walking in the streets night ad fallen and she wasn't going home.
She wandered around her dark persona-keeping strangers away.
But not kidnappers.
A voice spoke from the darkness, "This is for last time." Someone cracked her wrist the pain caused her to faint.
She awoke in a dark room. The moonlight barely filtering in from the high windows. She glances around looking for anything or anybody.
She sees another figure tied to a chair blinking blue eyes at her.
"Mai? What are you doing here?"
"I should ask you the same."
Someone opens the door and Mai gasps, "But you..."
"But, but, but. Oh Mai I believe you have met Katara? She's quite nice you know, when she's not feisty."
The figure leans down to kiss a struggling Katara, she helpless and has to endure the kiss.
"No one will find you."
Katara is crying slightly as the man locks the door.
If you haven't seen the Awakening the line :Oh Sokka the Universe does hate you, won't make any sense.