New chapter, y'all! I got a good review last chapter and I practically jumped for joy. Keep it up, guys! If I have to write more fight scenes, I will do so gladly. Anyway, here's the newest chapter: The Ruins of Omashu. Enjoy!

Chapter 3: The Ruins of Omashu

"Tell me why we're walkin' through a sewer again," I said, trying to block out the pungent smell.

"We need to get into Omashu," Aang said. "We can't just walk in through the front gate anymore. There is no other way. Believe me, I've looked."

I simply shook my head while Aang led us through the dank sewer, Airbending the the water (even though I don't think I could call it that anymore) away from him while Katara Waterbent it towards me who bent it to Sokka who got a face full of the foul liquid.

When we reached the manhole opening, Sokka popped his head up to look for passing gaurds, then had gone up to the surface, gesturing at us to follow him. We all climbed out of the sewer, breathing in big gulps of clean air. Katara glanced at Sokka, and failed at suppressing a chuckle at what she saw.

"What?" Sokka asked, confused. "Do I have something on me?" He then noticed the suckers attached to his face and neck. "AAAGGHHH! Get 'em off of me!"

"Hold still, then," Aang said. He then tickled the little creatures until they got off of Sokka, leaving tiny red dots in their place.

"Ah, thanks," Sokka said relieved. "Damn critters. Something's always attaching to me."

"Maybe they just- hide Aang NOW!" I saw a trio of gaurds coming towards us. Putting a red cap on Aang, we hid him behind us just as the guards approached.

"What are you kids doing out past curfew?" one guard asked suspisciously.

"We're sorry, sir," Katara said. "We were just heading home." We started to walk away without any trouble, until the guard asked "What's wrong with that guy?"

Knowing they meant Sokka, Katara thought fast."He has Pentapox, sir. It's very contagious... and deadly!" The girl was smart, I'll give her that. I nudged Sokka a bit, and he started stumbling and drooling, acting really sick.

"Uugh, it huuuurrts. I feel like I'm dyiiing." He stumbled towards the guards and they backed up a couple of feet.

"W-we better get going!" the guards stammered. "We have to wash our hands... and burn our clothes!" With that, they ran off.

"Nice, Katara," Aang said. Katara blushed at the sudden praise.

I rolled my eyes at the scene in front of me, and broke them out of their trance. "Hey, shouldn't we be finding Bumi now?" I started walking. "Let's go."

For the next twenty minutes, we walked around Omashu looking for the Earth King. We had no idea where we were gong, and I don't think Aang did either. He finally stopped on a ledge overlooking the main road.

"Aang, it's alright," I said. "We just have to look harder."

Aang sighed. "Yeah, I know." Then he paused. "Hey, look down there." He pointed up at the ledge above us. Rocks, no, boulders were positioned on the edge while Earthbenders waited behind them. We looked towards the main road and watched, shocked, as a Fire Nation woman and her two children, a baby boy and a young woman, passed into the boulders' range. 'They're aiming for them,' I thought.

Suddenly, the boulders were blasted from their positions and they hurtled down towards the family, gaining momentum with each passing second.

"Aang..." I said slowly.

"I know!" he yelled, and he blasted the boulders off course with a giant gust of wind.

The mother looked up, saw us ,and screamed "The Resistance!". Three guards appeared from around the corner, ready to accost us. That wasn't gonna happen if I could help it. A whip of darkness formed at my fingertips, and I cracked the tip of it against the first guard's head, knocking him out. Turning to the other guard, I wrapped the whip around his neck, then threw him on the other guard, knocking them over the cliff. Just as I was about to turn around, a blade nicked my neck, and I hissed. I turned, and the young woman we saw earlier was right in front of us, knives in one hand and senbon needles in the other.

'What kind of fuckin' ninja is this?' I thought incredulously. But I had no time to think about an answer because a heartbeat later, we running through Omashu, her on our tails and dodging attacks as fast as we could. Suddenly, Aang stopped and turned around, facing our assailant. He whipped up agust of wind that knocked a nearby scaffold in her path, then raced back to catch up. So imagine my facial expression when she simply jumped over the mess like it was nothing and sent twice as many daggers our way.

"Split up!" I yelled, and ran down an alley while the others raced towards a side street. The girl paused for a minute, and I wondered which one of us she would follow. The answer came a second later when she raced down the alley I was in, trying to catch up.

"Alright, fuck this!" I said with venom. "I'm damn near tired of running!" I launched a shadowy ball at her, it slamming into her with enough force to propel her back a few feet.

"That was just a taste," I hissed. "Do ya want more?"

The girl smiled coldly. "Of course. I haven't had fun like this in a long time. What is your name? Mine is Mai."

"Loki. Now, let us begin." I took my hair out, letting it fall to my thighs. Its black and silver color glowed in the lamplight while my face took on a more sinister look. Shaking my hand three times, I produced three knives of shadow and threw them with tremendous force. It was difficult for her to dodge, as one sliced her cheek and another cut her arm. Nevertheless, she recovered from the assault and threw six knives of her own towards me, hoping to slice my face open.

I wasn't gonna let that happen. Going through a hand motion, I collected the shadows into a shield harder than steel. I couldn't raise it in time, so one sliced me down my cheek as I leaned back trying to avoid it. The others clattered to the floor as the shield stopped their advances, so I then threw my shield at Mai like a disk, speeding it up with a gust of wind. She hopped over it, the shield just barely grazing her ankle, and she peppered me with needles. But I still had something up my sleeve. A curse.

Bonebending.

My arm distorted and formed a shield, effectively blocking the hail of needles. It then returned to normal, leaving me unharmed and Mai with a bewildered look on her face.

"And I thought I had seen everything," Mai said in amazement. "What just happened?"

"It's called Bone Skin, an affliction very few people have, thankfully. It turns your skin pure white, and you gain the ability to contort your body to be whatever you want it to be. However, people shunned me for this, and that's why I also consider it a curse, as well as a blessing."

"Hmm, alright. I've had enough fun for tonight," Mai said, turning away. "Mother will be worried about me."

A tic mark appeared on my forehead. "So you attacked us for no apparent reason other than to have fun?" I cracked a smile. "I like your style, even though I feel like stranglin' you right now." Striking a thinking pose, I thought about something for a moment. "You do look like the masochist type, after all," I finally said, grinning widely.

Mai blushed a deep crimson. "Sh-shut up!" she said desperately. She started walking back the way she came, albeit a little quickly

I wasn't gonna let it go that easy, though. "Oh, you must be one of them masochistic ninjas!" I yelled at her retreating back.

She blushed a deeper crimson, and turned around just enough to give me a death glare. "Shut...up," Mai said, embarrassed. She then raced away, leaping over the low rooftops.

I grinned a shit-eating grin, and went to find somewhere to sleep. Finding a nice pile of hay in an alley, I curled up and went to sleep. My eyes were open the whole time, my grin still in place.

I woke up as soon as the sun hit my face, and I guessed it was noon by the position of it. Yawning and stretching, I popped my bones back into place, getting ready for another fight. It was then I heard the yelling and the explosions. 'Why do I feel like I'm gettin' someone else's deja vu?' I shook my head. It didn't matter. What matters now is finding that fight.

I jumped onto a roof and started running. I could see it now, dust and smoke at the construction site. Suddenly, I saw a burst of azure fire, and I grinned a mad grin. She was back.

I doubled my pace, which means I was there in about a couple of minutes. Appa had just blasted Mai and a girl wearing a sickening amount of pink (shudder) over the side. 'Air bison for the win!' I thought with a smile. I looked up and Katara was trying to get on Appa without much luck. I ran up to her.

"What happened to your arms?" I asked her.

"The girl in the pink, Ty Lee, jabbed at my arms and suddenly I couldn't bend anymore," She looked downwards, ashamed. "Now, I'm even having trouble moving them! I feel useless."

"Here," I said, lifting her into Appa's saddle with Sokka. "Take care of her, Sokka."

He smiled. "You don't have to tell me that. I can-."

"Go!"

Sokka grinned. "Oh, you must be one of them impatient-."

"GO!" I practically yelled.

"Alright, alright, don't get your hair in a knot," he said, holding his eardrums. "Yip, yip!" Appa took off.

And I went to search for Aang.

As soon as I reached the ground, I saw the two people I was looking for: Azula and Aang. Running down one of the ramps that twisted around Omashu, I chased Azula as she chased Aang and... what appeared to be a giant coffin. Weird.

Looking back on this, I'll say that this is the dumbest shit I've ever done. But now, it seemed like a good idea. "Azula!" I yelled, getting her attention. She tensed up at the sound of my voice, and turned her head slightly to glare at me, never losing sight of Aang.

"You," she hissed.

I grinned. "Yes. Me." And I leaped towards Azula, barreling into her and knocking us both over the edge of the ramp. She landed on a roof while I landed face-up on the ground.

Azula immediately jumped up and shot a bolt of lightning at me. "What do you want, Loki?" she yelled.

I dodged the lightning bolt and smiled at her. "Why, I just want to say hi again, lovely lady."

A light pink dusted her cheeks. 'Damn, she must not get enough of that.' I nearly laughed at my own comment, instead cracking a small smile.

"Shut up and fight!" Azula screamed, throwing several fireballs that actually managed to scorch me. As I was swatting out the flames, wincing at the severe burns, she blew a firestorm my way, incinerating everything in its path.

"Fine, let's play rough." I created a several dozen shadow arrows and launched them towards the inferno, thinning it down to a manegable size. Leaping backwards, shadows collected on my fingers, and I slashed downwards with both arms, creating two huge,shadowy claws that hurtled towards Azula at an amazing speed. It decimated the rest of the flames and struck Azula square in the chest, sending her a couple of yards back. She was breathing heavily, her clothes ripped and her heartbeat erratic. My wounds had started to bleed, but I didn't care.

"You want to end this? Fine,"she said, and she released the biggest lightning bolt I had ever seen towards my heart.

Now, I knew the basics of redirecting lightning, but I had never tried it. And it seems for good reason, too. It hurt like a bitch! I caught the lightning with my fingertips, directing it through my arm and down to my stomach, the source of my Chi. Iknew a mistake at this point would be fatal, because I didn't want it touching my heart. Azula watched in horrid fascination as I directed the lightning up my other arm and out of my other fingertips... straight at her.

"Impossible," she whispered before she was hit in the stomach with her own bolt of lightning. She slumped to the ground, semi-conscious. I walked up to her, sighing.

"Deja vu, eh, Azula?" I said. "Better, but still not good enough. Better luck next time." I perked up as I saw Appa flying overhead. "Well, looks like my ride is here," I said. "Get stronger, Azula. Then come face me." With that, I jumped up on top of Appa, and I was instantly subjected to hugs and a lot of scolding, courtesy of Katara. Aang just smiled at me, and I know that he found who he was looking for. Sokka was busy tying everything down, but he spared me a quick grin before he got back to work.

As we flew away, I looked back in time to see Mai and Ty Lee run up to Azula. Mai gave me a curious look, and I just shrugged. This is the way things were meant to be.

So? Like it? This chapter is based a lot off of the episode Return to Omashu, but I must say I did a pretty good job. BTW, the arrows Loki makes are just like Medusa's in Soul Eater. If you don't know what that is, look it up. Soul Eater is an anime, and a damn good one at that. If you want to know what the arrows look like, just type in medusa-vector arrow in youtube. You'll find it. Well, that's a wrap, and stay tuned for the next chapter: Earth Rumble. Remember, review y'all!

P.S.- Look at my other fanfic, Legend Hunters, a Pokemon fanfiction. It's pretty good, if I don't say so myself.