Here it is! The fourth chapter! I'm surprised I made it this far, considering the fact that the first chapter was meant to be a one-shot! Thanks for all your support so far, it's what motivates me to keep going. Well, enjoy!

Zuko

"I'll pay you double to stop!" I try to reason with Combustion Man, but it's useless. I'm thrown almost to my death, but I climb back up. He continues his assault. I throw myself in front of one of the shots, using fire to protect myself, and am blasted down to the others, somehow unharmed.

I get up and shoot fire from my fist, but Combustion Man's blast pierces it and blows up yet another pillar. The power from the blast knocks us all down. I hear Toph yell, "We need to get to another platform, this one's going down!" We all get up and run to the next platform. I swipe Toph off her feet and carry her there. "What the heck are you doing, sparky?" I ignore her question and run as fast as I can.

We're almost there when the hanging temple that we were on breaks from the cliff and plummets to its demise. Suddenly, another explosion shakes the tunnel we're taking to another temple and Toph falls out of my hands. She falls through the hole created by the explosion and grabs the edge, hanging on with her life. I grab her hand and try to pull her up, but she starts slipping. "Hang on," I shout.

"I'm…trying!" she responds. Then another explosion hits and we both plummet to the bottom, falling quickly. She is screaming loudly, but I'm silent. Instead, my mind is racing faster than my heart. I'll never get to marry her; I'll never get to even tell her how I feel…why must fate be so cruel? Why? WHY? Suddenly, a blur swoops down and rescues Toph. It flies back up, and I can see that it's Aang. I can feel time slowing down. Aang whispers something in Toph's ear. He moves to her cheek and kisses her there. He looks down at me falling and gives me a cruel grin, like he's happy I'll be dead.

Looks like he just wanted Toph to himself. That bas—

My eyes snap open suddenly. Memory floods my mind, and I realize that I just had a nightmare. I look around and I see that I'm the last one to wake up. Toph and Aang were probably talking for a while, and are in the middle of a conversation. I rub my eyes and the back of my neck, and Toph sees that I'm awake. "Morning, lazybones. It looks like it's already noon. We were worried something was wrong with you," she says. Aang turned his head and smiled. I just noticed that he had some peach fuzz growing in on his upper lip.

"I'm fine," I replied.

Aang adds in, "You didn't look like you were sleeping very well. Nightmare?"

I nod in response, then remembering that Toph can't see me, I say, "Yeah." Suddenly, Toph throws some food at me and it hits my head. "Ow! What's that for?"

"It's food, dummy. You eat it," She responded.

"I know what it is, why'd you throw it at me?"

"So you can eat it."

"Yeah, thanks a lot." I pick up an apple and take a bit out of it. The juices flow into my mouth and down my throat.

Aang says, "Sorry I didn't have more, I didn't want our tip to Ba Sing Se interrupted. We might be delayed as is."

"You know, with our luck, we'll probably be delayed anyway," Toph interrupts.

Aang and I both say, "Good point." We all finish off our food and I look over the edge of the saddle. Looks like we're still flying over Fire Nation territory. Then, I see a burst of flame light a few trees. Odd. Then more and more bursts of flames light more trees. I shout, "Aang, down there! Fly down, I want to see what's going on!" We land near the burnt area and all three of us jump down. We hear shouts and clashes of metal. "Sounds like a fight," I say. We run to the area and see three Fire Nation soldiers fighting off five teenagers in rags. Three of the teenagers can firebend, and it seems that none of the soldiers can.

By the time we get there, two of the soldiers are lying on the ground. One of the teenagers sees us and flees, the others following him. Aang and I check the soldiers on the ground. "Dead," we confirm. I go to the third man.

"They call themselves the Loyalists," he stuttered. "They fight for the old ways of the Fire Nation, for Ozai himself. They're insane! Five teenagers plan to take over the entire Fire Nation. They saw us soldiers and attacked us."

We stood in silence for a while. Eventually, Aang said, "Someone needs to bring them down.

"I'll go."

All right, I think that's a good ending for the chapter. Did you like it? I was going to apologize for something, but I forgot what :P. I decided that if I was going to make a fanfic, it wouldn't hurt to add in my own characters. Now, I can see this story going further.

I was bored and thought that giving you guys a bit of an image for the Loyalists, so I used a scene maker to create just that. It's not exact, but I thought it was still pretty cool. Here's the deviantart URL: [ .com/art/The-Loyalists-224598055] (copy the stuff in the brackets and delete the space)

Reviews are greatly appreciated, and I'll see you with another fanfic or chapter real soon.