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Chapter 7: The Great Divide and Blue Spirit

After a week of traveling they had reached the Great Divide. We admired the view for a little while when a man ran up claiming he was here first. The man was there to reserve a spot so his tribe, the Gann-gin, could reach the capitol city of Ba-Sing-Se. When another tribe, the Zhang, approached they got in an argument that lasted even after the canyon guide arrived. Aang told them to travel together and that Appa could take the sick and elderly across. When we reached the bottom of the canyon the guide trashed the bridge so that the fire nation couldn't follow.

Suddenly a giant bug picked up the guide and shook him back and forth. Sokka hit it with his boomerang and when the canyon-crawler released the guide I hit it with a water whip after being hit a few times it ran away. The guide had two broken arms and a sprained ankle.

The Gann-gin and Zhang refused to travel any farther together.

"Enough! Gann-gin on this side and Zhang on that side" yelled Aang as he sent them on different sides of the path. "Katara go with the Gann-gin, Sokka with the Zhang tribe and try to figure out what this feud is over."

"Katara you take Haki with you and Sokka take Kokurai with you; Kali will say with me. If anything happens they can help until either Aang or I get there. I'll stay with Aang and the guide to keep watch over both tribes." I say as I jump onto the rock in the middle of the two paths.

We walk until it gets too dark to travel safely then we set up camp. Later the next day we arrived at the base of the cliff on the other side of the canyon. After the two tribes push Aang over the edge he yells at them I realize the canyon crawlers are only after the food and not actually after us. "Aang" I say he nods and we both grab a bag. "Everybody follow our lead" we catch two canyon crawlers using the bags as muzzles. After everyone gets a canyon crawler steed Aang leads us out of the canyon. It was kind of awkward because Haki had to sit on my lap and Kali had hidden in my shirt. Kokurai flew beside us up the face of the cliff. When we reached the top and sent the bugs back down into the canyon the two tribes start to argue again. I had had enough and apparently so had Aang he lied to them about their ancestors and they decided to put the past behind them.

***Major Time Skip***

The group was resting in an old abandoned temple, Sokka had a high fever and cough, Aang was worried because Katara had started coughing too.

"Aang, I'll go to retrieve medicine from the herbalists institute on the mountain. You stay here and take care of Sokka and Katara." I say as I grab the map and turn to leave.

"Stay safe, Kitty" he replies.

[At Herbalists Institute]

After the old herbalist tells me what I need to help Sokka and Katara I head out of the building she lived in. Two arrows pierced through the sides of my boots limiting my movements. I tug the arrow in my right boot out and then airbend the volley of oncoming arrows away. I pull the left arrow out then run from where the arrows are coming from. As I ran through the river I grabbed the frozen frogs and stuck them in my shirt (Kitty is dressed like Aang but where he has yellow she has blue and where he has orange she has purple). Several arrows nearly hit me but then as I'm passing a tree, arrows dig into the sleeve of my right arm pinning that arm so I cannot escape. I use water bending and put up several ice-shields so that I can get the arrows out of my sleeve. The ice is cracking and I don't have much time I have three out of the five arrows out but then the last ice-barrier breaks I use my left arm to shield my eyes. I hear several arrows approaching and use airbending to alter their course but I see even more arrows heading towards me. Arrows pinned my left arm to the tree. I glare as the fire nation archers approached; I made one last ditch effort to escape. By using the arrows to hold my weight I pulled up my legs and sent a powerful blast of water and air at the archers. I smirked when several of them slipped and went underwater only to arise a few seconds later spluttering and angry. They bind my legs together and my arms behind my back.

I glare around the cell and at the fire nation admiral.

"How does it feel to be the last airbender?" I lower my head so he cannot see my eyes "don't worry you won't be killed like they were, if you die you'll be reborn and we will have to start our search all over again." I wait until he turns his back then blow him into the wall. "Blow all the wind you want there is no escape."

Later I hear him bragging about how there is no one to stand in the fire nations way. I smirk the majority of the soldiers are probably at that speech. I gather water in my mouth and use it to break the chains on my wrists and ankles, the cuffs are still there but I can move. I hear a commotion outside but I don't have enough time to get out of sight before a man in a creepy blue mask walks in. he pulls out two swords and breaks the cuffs off.

"Thank you. Let's get out of here before they raise the alarm" I say.

He nods and we start walking. We had made it to the innermost wall when the alarm sounded.

He points toward the gates with his sword and I nod. We were almost there when he was surrounded by guards I grab one of the guard's spears and breaking off the tip use airbending to throw the others away. I launch him onto the first wall then jump up.

Guards swarm the wall. I tell him to hang on and spin my stick (like a helicopter) we make it to the second wall. Guards used ladders to try and catch us but I blew them down to the ground and grabbed both ladders. "Hold this, jump on my back" I yell to the masked man as I hand him one ladder then jump on to the third ladder. He jumps on. I use the second ladder to get us closer to the outermost wall. "Hand me the other one." The guards seem to realize what I'm planning and as soon as the last ladder touches the ground they set it aflame. We hit the wall and tried to grab the top but our hands slipped. I use airbending to cushion our fall. The masked man gets in front but when I see that the fire benders are going to hit us with fire I switch places with him and use airbending to block the fire. I hear Zhao yelling at the men that they needed me alive.

After the fire died down I had two swords at my throat, I realize what the masked man had planned. As I act freaked out, not that they can tell, Zhao tells them to open the gate; we back towards the forest we were over ¾ of the way there when an arrow strikes the metal of the mask, knocking him out. I create a huge dust cloud to hide my movements. I grab the man and his dropped swords and dart into the forest.

I arrive at a clearing where I am sure they won't find us and set the man down on a pile of leaves. I sheathe his swords and remove his mask. It was Zuko. On his left temple there was a bruise that was already starting to form. I place his head in my lap and pull some water from the nearby stream. I surround my right hand with water and wait until it glows blue. I place my hand on his bruised temple and start to heal him. I was almost done healing him when I hear him groan and feel him tense up.

"Stay still you are almost healed" I say as he opens his eyes. I can tell he doesn't want to so I continue talking "if you move too quickly you'll get a headache. You know you kind of remind me of my old friend Kuzon he was a firebender too. We would get into the most hilarious situations. He and Aang used to practice their bending together and either one or both of them always came back hurt in one way or another. It sucks having been born over 100 years ago; almost everyone we use to know is dead." I smile sadly remembering the happy times with Aang and my friends. "If we had been born when there was no war going on do you think we could have been friends?"

I can feel his muscles tense and as soon as he moves to blast me with a fireball I'm up in the trees jumping from branch to branch.

I quickly gather half-a-dozen frozen frogs and head back to the old temple. I stick one in all three of their mouths, apparently Aang had caught whatever Sokka and Katara had. I walked to Appa's tail and curled up with Haki and Kali. I hear Sokka, Katara and Aang choke as they realize what they had been sucking on.