Here's the next chapter. I want to apoligize for how unclear Ursa's death was as well as the structure of the island.

Okay for Ursa's death.....read the chapter.

For the island...It's a beach but like any beach, it fades into a forest/canyon. So thats why destert and rainforest animals can live in harmory there. More will be explained later.

Aiko looked warily at Zuko. "I had no idea" her expression softened. "She was a great woman. Should have been gone weeks ago but insisted on staying alive. Guess she was waiting for you"

Zuko scowled to himself. "I know"

Akio looked out the window. "I have some things to do" Zuko nodded as she left the room, leaving him alone with Chan.

Chan glared daggers at him. After a moment of silence the older man's head snapped up. "So you wanna stay here all day or get in a room" he barked.

Zuko mumbled something and weekly got up, grabbing the table leg to steady himself. Chan began walking up the steps, not considering to wait for the injured teen.

Zuko clenched his fist to keep from burning the man's head off.

He leaned painfully on the wall after stopping upstairs. "Boys room" he opened a door and slammed it behind Zuko.

A young boy's eyes widened. "You" his voice was not venomous but rather...exited. "Sensu it's him!"

Sensu smiled lightly. "I heard about your visit to my town" he commented. Zuko waited for yelling. "Thank you"

"Why?" Zuko started but Lee interrupted.

"I was confused." he stated

"The war isn't a black and white concept" Sensu said. "Well I thought it was but" he trailed off....

He gestured to the empty cot next to Zuko. The scarred teen gratefully accepted the seat. After an awkward silence the door was violently opened and the person who opened it was fuming.

Zuko laid down against the sheets, trying to stay invisible at the moment.

Sensu looked around awkwardly. "Shouldn't you be in the girls room, Tao?" he asked.

Lee groaned. "What did they do this time?"

"Those Kyoshi freaks were going to experiment make-up on me! Make-up?!?" Tao fumbled.

"Sounds better then when they braided your hair" Lee laughed

"They made thirty-five of those things" she pointed out

"Yeah. And you had us try to take them out" Sensu commented

"Not like it worked" she pointed to her dusty bronze hair, barely longer than Zuko's. She wore baggy brown pants and an oversized lighter tunic. Overall she could really pass as male, besides the fact there were hints of her amazingly curved body.

Tao dropped herself on the cot, Zuko rolling to the side just in time. She glared at him before turning to Sensu. There was another awkward pause. "Who's the new guy and why is he in my spot!?!" Tao exclaimed

"That's uh.." Lee stuttered

"Zuko" he introduced himself.

Tao gave a flirtatious smile. She was about to say something when there was a loud shattered and softer rain like sounds as glass shot randomly in dangerous paths around the small room.

"Get down!" Sensu yelled. They rolled off the cots; Lee ducking to the near table as Sensu pressed against the bed frame. Tao let out a soft yelp as glass pierced her arm but she rolled under the cot, Zuko landing next to her.

Crude voiced yelled for them to evacuate. They didn't respond, they wouldn't even blink the tension was so high.

"We'll burn this place with all of you in it!" one of them yelled. Sensu and Tao stood to leave. Zuko followed but they 'suggested' him staying with Lee.

One the sound of them on the steps silenced Lee and Zuko shared a mischievous glance. "Are you going to listen to them?" Lee asked

Zuko pretended to think a moment before leading Lee to the window. Noting that there were about twenty fire nation soldiers down there the two knew they we're no match.

Zuko motioned for Lee to quietly follow him down the stairs. The teen quickly checked to make sure his Dao swords were still secured on his back and he hid behind the door. "Ready" he mouthed to Lee.

The boy nodded. "Follow my lead and stay close" Zuko warned.

The two boys snuck out and stood with Sensu and Tao. "I told you to stay" Sensu hissed

"And I told myself you needed help" Zuko responded. They stood back to back, all ready to take on whatever was thrown at them.

Nobody moved in though. Twenty guards stood, ready to blow massive fire balls at the four. Why they didn't attack was beyond any of them. I mean, of what threat was a leader without a crew, a ten year old boy, and weapons master with no weapons, and a severely injured fire bender.

Finally, through an opening in the offence, Chan walked through, smirking evilly.

'You?" Tao questioned. "You betrayed me!" Zuko winced in déjà vu.

Chan said nothing, but turned to the fire benders. "There's the girl and as a bonus you can have the ex prince too"

Tao lunged forward but Sensu's hands pulled her back.

Suddenly fire shot at them from every angle. Zuko scrambled to create a shield around them.

They kept drawing the inferno around the four though and Zuko knew he couldn't keep the shield up forever.

Sensu noticed it to, being that Zuko was leaning more on him now. "Can we do anything?" he asked

Zuko thought a moment, biting down on his lip in concentration. "Yeah. Get down, if the shield is smaller it'll be stronger"

The four, agreeably went down, the shield shrinking around them. Zuko took a few sharp breaths, drawing the flames closer until they were inches away from them. Then, quickly as possible he shot them out, startling and sending all the soldiers back.

Tao and Sensu lashed out, closing in on some of the guards. About five of them surrounded Zuko. He pulled his swords but was easily weakened, throwing loose blows only to cover himself.

A hard punch to his injured shoulder knocked one of his swords away. Zuko struggled, as much as he refused to admit, in the fight, slashing random attacks. Another shove, and the second sword was gone.

One of the men grabbed Zuko tightly by the neck. His struggle caused the others to turn and be locked in similar positions.

Chan looked up. "Oh girls" he called, in a sickeningly sweet voice.

'Don't come down" Sensu mentally pleaded.

Zuko struggled to break free of the soldiers grasp, but it only landed him in a tighter choke. Right when the four were ready to admit defeat there was a rustle in the trees above.

Zuko sensed the distraction and launched him elbow into the unprotected part of the man's torso. He yelped in pain and released Zuko, the scarred teen dropped unexpectedly to him knee's coughing. Luckily the other three were able to mimic the attack and break free.

But it was to late, and the house was on fire. Faintly you could hear the girls scream. "Do something!" Lee yelled.

Sensu began to run into the house, Zuko using any power he could muster up held back the flames long enough for them to return.

Attacks were immediately launched by the remaining guards. Now, with five well warriors added, the had a chance.

One by one the guards went down, and Chan took a stance in front of Zuko. The scarred teen shook his head disapprovingly but repeated a few basic fire bending moves.

Surprisingly Chan blocked them, with fire bending. "What your sister is willing to pay me for your corpse"

Chan shot another whip of fire at him,. This one a dark blue, almost as strong as Azula's fire. Zuko quickly turned to see if anyone could join his battle but they were all caught up with their own opponents.

Zuko weakly blocked the flames, still being thrown back a good distance. "I killed her you know. Planed the whole thing" Chan smiled. "She really was a fighter though, held on for a few days longer than the poison would allow."

Suddenly the glint of sheer determination was back in Zuko's eyes. "You killed her!" he yelled striking much harder then his weak body should have allowed.

Chan blocked with fear in his eyes, maybe he should have waited to taunt the ex fire prince. Zuko wouldn't retreat though, and the fireballs grew in size each attack.

Finally Chan got an attack in, not at all strong, but well aimed, the burns tearing through the damage of the lightning wound.

Zuko dropped back, somewhat in reality again. Lee heard Zuko's muffed cry as he fell to the ground and the young boy quickly kicked his opponent in the groin.

He picked up one of the swords off the ground near him and charged at Chan, remembering what Zuko had taught him in his short visit.

Striking from behind, Chan had no way of seeing the sword thrash into his back.

The other soldiers saw and retreated while they had the chance. Zuko pulled himself up using a tree and smiled at the younger boy. "Thanks"

Lee shrugged. "I owed you" he gave a cheesy smile.

The others shortly joined them, and after a moment of recapping decided they had to move on. The house was still burning behind them and there was truly no point of waiting around. Sensu pulled Zuko off, draping his arm onto his shoulder.

Tao gave an angry glare and kicked Chan's body, still faintly alive. "Tao come on" Sensu encouraged.

She made a noise in disgust but followed. "You know everything was fine till accident magnet showed up" she pointed accusingly at Zuko.

"it's not his fault!" Lee snapped.

Tao walked into a tree. "Can you at least make a fire" she yelled.

Zuko nodded weakly and made a fire in his uninjured hand, okay it was more of a few sparks but it did enough.

"Great" she muttered. "Can anything else go wrong?"

And then it started raining, hard. And Zuko's small fire died out. She stomped her foot into the mud. "We're screwed"

No i can't make things easy for Zuko, or any of them for that matter.

I know i said the others would be in the chapter but after i wrote this part i thought it was too long already, and i liked the ending.

The Kyoshi Warriors, Tao, and Lee and Sensu wont be permanent parrts of the story. The Kyoshhi warroirs wil leavbe ones the groups meet. Lee and Sensu will leave shortly after that and Tao will stay a good part of the story but not enught to get seriously involved in the battle or anything/anyone.

I've got a little love/hate thing between Tao and Zuko right now. That was the whole deja vu thing. xD

Alright please leave a reply.