Disclamer: Don't own Naruto or Avatar: The last Airbender.

AN: Sorry it's a bit late, had other things to do.

Aang was getting restless as he, Sokka and Katara flew through the skies. He could do most of his old ninja and airbending skill, but knew he needed to learn the other bending arts, and of course also start working some more with his doujutsu. He stood up and started pacing. After a little while Sokka, who was holding on to Appa's reins turned his head (where he balanced a leaf on his forehead) slightly towards Aang.

"Would you sit down? If we hit a bump you'll go flying off!" He said in an annoyed tone of voice "What's bugging you anyway?"

"I'm just frustrated that I can't start my training yet." Aang stated "I'm supposed to master all four elements before that comet arrives."

"Well, let's see, you've pretty much mastered airbending and that only took you 112 years…" Sokka stated jokingly "I'm sure you can master three more elements by next summer."

"Not helping" Aang stated before he went on "I haven't even started waterbending and we're still weeks away from the North Pole!"

Aang put his head in his hands in frustration, before lowering them again. Once his hands hang by his side Katara grabbed them and pulled him down so that he was sitting across from her before she took his hands in hers.

"Calm down. It's going to be okay." She said in a calming voice "If you want, I can try and teach you some of the stuff I know."

"You'd do that?" Aang asked.

Katara nodded her head in response and smiled at him. She and Aang then crawled over to the edge of the saddle to look down.

"We'll need to find a good source of water first." She stated.

"Maybe we can find a puddle for you to splash in." Sokka said Jokingly.

They soon find a lake that lies in a small canyon at the bottom of a waterfall. Both Katara and Aang are excited at finding such a prime waterbending spot, while Sokka looks slightly sour.

"Nice puddle." He stated.

At point Appa swooped in overhead grunting loudly as dropped himself into the water. Momo, who was sitting on a rock nearby gets splashed by the wave that the drop created. Appa rolled over onto its back in the water and relaxed. Aang who had removed everything but his underwear, was about to join the fun.

"Yehhh! Don't start without me, boy!" He yelled.

That proclamation didn't please Katara who immediately said "Remember the reason we're here."

Aang stopped from jumping in and looked back at her. "Oh right, time to practice waterbending." He said before putting his hands into the ram sign and created a clone who took a nearby branch of the ground. At Katara's look he stated "Appa needs to get his toes cleaned of gunk, so might as well do it now" He stated before he pulled his pants back up.

"So what am I supposed to do?" Sokka asked.

"Practice leaf balancing or you can try tree walking." Aang stated.

"I've gotten a hang of the leaf one, so show me this tree walking exercise." Sokka stated.

Aang just created another clone to go with Sokka and teach him.

Shortly thereafter Katara and Aang stood on the river bank and Katara began to explain while demonstrating at the same time.

"This is a pretty basic move, but it still took me months to perfect, so don't be frustrated if you don't get it right away." She stated as she momentarily stopped her moments "Just push and pull the water like this…" She than said as she once more started swaying back and forth, while moving her hands in a flowing motion, which in turn made the water follow her moments "The key is getting the wrist movement right."

Aang got up and started imitating her movements.

"Like this?" He asked.

"That's almost right, if you keep practicing, I'm sure eventually –" Katara began before noticing that Aang was already moving the water.

"Hey, I'm bending it already!" Aang stated before she could comment. She also noticed that the wave he was creating was bigger than her own.

"Wow, I can't believe you got that so quickly." Katara stated looking both surprised and a little unhappy "It took me two months to learn that move."

"Well, you had to figure it out on your own." Aang stated simply "I'm lucky enough to have a great teacher."

"Thanks." Katara said with a slight blush.

"So, what's next." Aang asked.

"This is a more difficult move." Katara said as she got into a pose for her next bending move "I call it 'streaming the water.'"

Katara moved her hands upward, pulling out a small amount of water that looked a little like a snake.

She then led it over to herself slowly and moved it around slightly while saying "It's harder than it looks so don't be disappointed if…" She was cut of when she looked at Aang who had just pulled out some water as well.

He started moving it in small circles before moving it in a rough version of the leaf villages sign, though Katara didn't recognize it as such. Katara at that point looked sour as she dropped her water stream. Aang moved his stream into the whirlpool symbol before leading it iback nto the water.

"Nice work, though the over-the-head flare was unnecessary." Katara stated sourly.

"Sorry." Aang said sincerely, before adding excitedly "Well, don't stop now, keep'em coming!"

"Well, I kinda know this one other move, but it's pretty hard. I haven't even totally figured it out yet." Katara stated as she got into another pose "The idea is to create a big, powerful wave…"

Katara concentrated as she lifted her hands, pulling up a blob of water, but it falls back upon itself when Katara's concentration lapsed. Aang copied her pose.

"So, like this?" he asked as he lifted his hands the same way she did.

As he did a huge wall of water shot up into the air. The clone who was cleaning Appa turned around when it got covered by the shadow that the water created. It then ran towards the shore (Where Sokka was also training) to avoid the water, however when it saw their supplies close by it realized that they might be picked up by the water and changed its course towards it. By the time it reached supplies the water had also reached it so all the clone could do was prevent some of it from washing away, but it still ended up being soaked.

"Looks like I got the hang of that move!" Aang stated, unaware of the trouble his wave had caused. "Should we train ninja skills for a bit" He added, as he didn't want to be the only one to get training done.

"Sound like a good idea "Katara said, a little cross at the speed he mastered those skills.

"Before that we should probably deal with the fact that you just practiced some of our supplies down the river and soaked the rest!" Sokka said as he walked up to them with Aang's clone following him. They where both carrying what was left of their supplies.

"Uhhh… sorry." Aang said with a crocked smile "I'm sure we can find somewhere to replace all this stuff."

"Ugh, it was hard enough when you were just an airbender." Sokka stated as he and the clone put down the supplies and started assessing how much of it was still useable and what needed to be replaced.

It didn't take long for them to find a nearby port village. It was filled with all kinds of merchants, both the normal and shady type. Sokka started looking around and whenever he found some good deals he would go to Aang and get the money he needed. Meanwhile Aang and Katara where looking around the different stands to see what interesting things they could find. While Katara was preoccupied looking at something Aang caught sight of a whistle that was formed like a byson and after a very brief haggle got it for one copper piece.

Soon thereafter Katara and Aang where waiting outside the last shop on Sokka's supply gathering trip.

He stepped out of the shop and said "We've got exactly 20 copper pieces left from the money that King Bumi gave us. Let's spend it wisely.

"Uhh, make that 19 copper pieces, Sokka." Aang cut in "I couldn't say no to this whistle!"

Aang then held out the white whistle that he bought earlier before drawing a deep breath and blowing into it. Sokka put his fingers in his ears to stop the sound he believed was coming, however no recognizable sound comes out if it, except for the sound of rushing air.

"It doesn't even work." Sokka stated as he removed the fingers from his ears. Momo chitters into Aang's ear and got him to stop blowing into the whistle "See, even Momo thinks it's a piece of junk."

Aang was about to comment that he might just be annoyed by a sound they couldn't hear but was stopped.

"No offense, Aang," Katara said slowly "but I'll hold the money from now on."

Knowing that even if he was right, he did waste money on something that might not have any practical use he just looked guilty and handed Katara the money.

They than continued looking through the stalls for anything else they could use, that wasn't as high priority as the things Sokka bought. Soon they reached they reached the peer and as they where walking down it they heard:

"Earth Nation! Fire Nation! Water Nation!" A seaman wearing green yelled "So long as bargains are your inclination, you're welcome here! Don't be shy, come one by!"

As they walked by the ship the sailor ran right up to them, but both Katara and Sokka ignored him complete. However Aang kept his attention on the man in case he attacked.

"Oh! You there! " the guy yelled "I can see by your clothing that you're world traveling types. Perhaps I can interest you in some exotic curios?"

"What are curios?" Aang asked with a slight frown.

This question caused the sailor to gain confused look "I'm not entirely sure, but we got'em!" He stated after a short pause.

The sailor then placed his right arm around Aangs shoulders and bustled him onto to the ship, with Katara and Sokka following along.

They arrived inside the hold of the ship where there was a lot of different wares stacked all over the place. The three started looking around and Katara got momentarily mesmerized by a stone monkey which was richly jeweled with large, blood red rubies.

"I've never seen such a fine specimen of lemur." A voice suddenly said, drawing their attention to a man that had just entered the room. He was wearing maroon clothing and a matching bicorne hat and had a iguana parrot on his shoulder. "That beast would fetch me a hefty sum, if you'd be interested in bartering."

The iguana parrot screamed several times when the man finished speaking. Momo, from his place on Aang shoulder responded with growls of its own.

"Momo's not for sale." Aang said in a defensive tone of voice as he took Momo into his arms.

By that time Katara had walked over to a scroll rack. One of the scrolls on the rack had caught her attention because it had a water symbol in it's end. She took it from the rack and opened it which allowed her to see that it contain instruction on how to perform various waterbending moves. Her eyes light up and she draws an intake of breath.

"Look at this, Aang!" She said excitedly causing Aang to come over to her "It's a waterbending scroll. Check out these crazy moves!"

"Where did you get a waterbending scroll?" Aang asked the captain, slightly suspicious.

The captain walked over to Katara and slammed his hand down on the open scroll that Katara had placed on the table. He picked it up and took a step back, placing himself between Aang and Katara.

He then started rolling it up as he said "Let's just say I got it up north at a most reasonable price. Free!" While he said that he had a creepy smile on his face.

He then placed the scroll back on the rack, with Katara eying it hungrily. Sokka, who was looking at some merchandise nearby, turned around in response to what the captain said.

"Waaait a minute…" He said with a thoughtful look on his face. "sea-loving traders…with suspiciously acquired merchandise...and pet reptile birds…You guys are pirates!"

The green-wearing pirate put his arm around Sokka's shoulders and smiled "We prefer to think of ourselves as high risk traders." He said with a smile.

Katara looked down at the poach which held the few copper pieces they had left "So, how much for the, uh, 'traded' scroll?" She asked carefully.

"I've already got a buyer, a nobleman in the Earth Kingdom." The captain answered simply "Unless, of course, you kids have 200 gold pieces on ya right now?" He added slyly.

Aand and Katara turned away and leaned towards each other.

"I know how to deal with these guys, Katara, pirates love to haggle." Aang said while holding out his hand. Katara looked a little doubtful but still handed him the poach with the copper coins. "Watch and learn." Aang said before turning back to the pirate captain. "What say to the price of… two copper pieces!" He said while fishing two copper pieces out of the poach.

The pirate captain gave a short laugh before stating. "The price is 200 gold pieces. I don't haggle on items this rare."

'Not going to work then, need to figure out how long the scroll will be here then' Aang thought, before asking. "Could you give us some time to gather the neccesary amount?"

"The nobleman's servant should be here by tomorrow to check the validity of the merchandise" The captain stated simply.

"Aang, can we get out of here, I feel like we're getting weird looks." Katara said as she returned to Aang side.

"Aye, we be castin' off now!" Aang said to the captain, having gotten the information they needed.

Aang grabbed his staff and followed Katara out, grabbing Sokka along the way.

"What was that all about, Katara." Aang asked as they left the ship.

"Yeh, I was just starting to browse through their boomerang collection." Sokka added.

"I'll just feel a lot better once we get away from here." Katara stated while hugging herself protectively.

As they were walking away they suddenly heard someone yell "Hey you, get back here!"

They turned and saw the green-wearing pirate standing on the deck of the ship.

"What do they want now" Aang stated "I doubt they suddenly want to haggle."

Suddenly a sudden pirates well armed and obviously angry start exiting the ship to come after Aang, Katara and Sokka,. The pirates crowd in front of them, yelling things like, "There they are!", "Get'em!" and "Nobody's goin' nowhere!"

"I…I don't think these pirates are here to trade with us!" Katara stated nerviously.

Aang, Sokka and Katara turned around and start running away from the pirates.

"Get back here!" one of the pirates yelled as the pirates all started to pursue them.

Aang and his friend ran away from the pier via an alley, with some of the pirates following right behind them.

"Whoa" Sokka yelled as they ran around another corner.

Meanwhile Katara saw a bowl of water on a nearby stall and bend the water onto the ground where she turned it to ice, which caused the lead pirate to slip and hit the ground, while the rest of them jumped over the ice and continued followed the group.

They then came across the cabbage dealer they had meet in Omashu who was pushing a wagon with cabbages. Sokka and Katara both ran around it while Aang jump through the opening between the the top and bottom part. After landing on the other side Aang quickly turned and used airbending to send the wagon at their pursuers. He also secretly enjoyed the fact that he got back at the guy that wanted their heads cut of for something as trivial as destroying cabbages.

"My cabbages!" Aang heard the guy yelling from behind him.

They turned another corner, however as they where running down the alley another group of the pirates, lead by the guy in green, came around a corner ahead of them, cutting them of. They quickly turned around and started running back the way they came with the pirates in pursuit.

"I hope that lemur of yours has nine lives!" one of the pirates yelled after them.

They turned another corner, however this turned out to be a bad choice as it was a dead end. While Aang knew he could jump it, he wasn't sure he could take the others with him. Since he was ahead of them he also didn't have any chance to grab them and keep running. Behind them the green-wearing pirate and his mates were blocking the entrance (and exit) to the alley.

"Now," The pirate said as he swung around his two blades "who gets to take the steel of my blade first?"

"No thanks!" Aang responded before sending a gust of wind at the pirates which kicked up the dirt causing them to become disoriented. Aang used the confusion to run forward, with Katara and Sokka behind him, and unfolding his staff as he ran. "Hold on tight" He yelled at the other two as he made a slight jump and started flying rather than running.

The other two quickly latch onto to Aang's legs.

"Aang, I thought we were running away from the pirates!" Katara said as they where flying straight towards the pirates.

"Just hang on!" Aang responded.

They had a little trouble gaining altitude at first, but Katara and Sokka used the heads of the pirates as spring boards to get into the air. After that Aang was able to use airbending to help them up even further, leaving the pirates behind.

They soon arribed back at the waterfall where they left Appa, though he wasn't there at that time.

"I used to kinda look up to pirates, but those guys are terrible."Aang said while folding up his glider and sitting down by a rock.

"I know," Katara said with a smile "that's why I took – this!" She continued, holding up the waterbending scroll

Aang got up with an unhappy look on his face.

"No way." He said in an annoyed tone.

"Isn't it great?" Katara asked happily, oblivious to Aangs tone.

"No wonder they were trying to hack us up." Sokka stated as he walked up to them "You stole their waterbending scroll."

"I prefer to think of it as 'high-risk trading.'" Katara stated in a self-satisfied tone of voice.

"Good one, Katara." Aang stated, "but it doesn't mean that you did the right thing.

"Where do you think they got it?" Katara stated "They stole it from a waterbender."

"It doesn't matter." Sokka responded "You put all of our lives in danger just so you could learn some stupid, fancy splashes!"

"These are real waterbending forms." Katara defended "You know how crucial it is for Aang to learn waterbending."

"And we still had time to find a better opportunity to take it" Aang stated before Sokka could say anything. "Why do you think I asked when the buyer was coming to get it? I agree that the scroll didn't belong to them, but taking it like that wasn't a smart move, unless you wanted to fight them." At that point Katara looked slightly ashamed so Aang stopped the lecture. "Well, what's done is done. We have it. We might as well learn from it."

Soon they found a stump that they could use as a table and placed the scroll upon it. Sokka was setting on a stone nearby.

Katara pointed at one of the pictures and said "I just want to try this one move first and then it's all yours."

Aang took the scroll and held it up so that Katara could see it. Katara backed away before she leaned backward, assuming the waterbending stance prescribed in the scroll.

"'The single water whip'…" Katara stated as she studied the drawings on the scroll "looks doable."

She raised a stream of water and whipped it around, but it hit her in the forehead, leaving a bruise. Sokka just laughed at his sisters trouble with the move.

"What's so funny?" Katara asked annoyed.

"I'm sorry, but you deserve that." Sokka stated before turning to Aang. "You've been duped. She's only interested in teaching herself."

Aang just shrugged, knowing that he would get his chance to learn when Katara trained ninja skills.

"Aang will get his turn once I figure out the water whip!" Katara stated without noticing Aang gesture.

She then tried to to do the move again, but the whip behaved erratically and unintentionally hit Momo butt, who screams at her in protest.

"Why can't I get this stupid move!" Katara yelled angrily.

"You'll get it." Aang stated as he walked to the river. Since Katara didn't need him to hold the scroll he might as well try the move alongside her.

Katara just looked displeased at this pronouncement, and seeing Aang move towards the river didn't help since she feared he would just show him up again.u

"You just gotta shift your weight through the stances…" He stated as he gracefully manipulated the whip for a few seconds and whips it forward. "There. See, the key to bending is…" he continued as he turned around only to come face to face with an angry Katara.

"Will you PLEASE shut your air hole!" She yelled, shaking her firsts at him "Believe it or not, your infinite wisdom gets a little old sometimes. Why don't we just throw the scroll away since you're so naturally gifted!" She skimmed over at Sokka who stood nearby looking unimpressed by her rant "What?" she yelled at him as she turned back to Aang.

Aang just looked on with a sad look in his eyes.

"Omigosh, Aang, I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me." Katara said with guilt in her voice "But, you know what, it won't happen again." She rolled up the scroll and handed it to Aang. "Here, this is yours. I don't want to have anything to do with it anymore."

"I don't have a problem with you wanting to train and get stronger" Aang stated "But in your current state of mind you won't be able to learn much anyway. Do the leaf balancing or tree climbing exercise for a bit and when you've calmed we'll go up the river and I'll teach you some bending basics that might help you. We can train some of the moves together tomorrow morning."

"Okay Aang" Katara said as she found a leaf and started the exercise with Aang sitting beside her to help if needed.

After she had relaxed a bit with the exercise a bit Aang started teaching her some of the basics of bending. They only managed to do it a short amount of time before they needed to return to Sokka to set up camp.

After the boys went to sleep however Katara got back up and took out the scroll, wanting to train so that she wouldn't be shown up again. She backed guiltily away from the camp, turning around only to be confronted by Momo's luminescent green eyes. He was perched on a tree trunk that allowed him to be at the same height as she was, which allowed him to chitter accusingly in her face.

"Shh!" She told him "Momo, go back to sleep." she continued as she walked by him. When Momo began to chitter again she just said "shh" again, which caused him to give it up.

"Shoot!" Katara said in an annoyed voice. "I almost had it" She tried bending the whip again but again it backlashed and hit herself "Aww" She exclamed loudly. She then took a deep breath to calm down. "Okay, Katara, shift your weight through the stances…" She stated.

When she had gotten halfway through the stances, however, she heard the noise of grinding metal. She ran over to a row of bushes on her left and parted them to reveal a fire nation cutter craft now beached on the river bank. She turned to run back and warn the others, but found her way blocked by a pirate who had managed to get right behind her.

"No, let go of me!" Katara yelled as the guy grabbed her arms.

She bended a water whip around and smacked the pirate in the face causing him to let her of go, but when she ran from him she instead ran straight into Zuko's arms.

"I'll save you from the pirates." Zuko stated.

He then handed her to a couple of his soldiers that had just joined him and had them tie her to a tree. Soon thereafter all of the pirates and firenation soldiers had gathered in front of the tree.

"Tell me where he is and I won't hurt you or your brother." Zuko stated honestly.

"Go jump in the river!" Katara responded angrily.

"Try to understand, I need to capture him to restore something I've lost. My honor." Zuko stated "Perhaps in exchange I can restore something you've lost."

At that point Zuko was behind Katara and held the necklace she lost on the prison platform up in front of her throat, causing Katara to gain a shocked look.

"My mother's necklace!" She said, her voice also displaying the shock she felt. At that point Zuko removed the necklace again as he walked back in front of her. "How did you get that?

"I didn't steal it, if that's what you're wondering." Zuko answered simply "Tell me where he is."

"No!" Katara responded stubbornly.

"Enough of this necklace garbage." The pirate captain stated as he walked forward "You promised the scroll!"

"I wonder how much money this is worth?" Zuka said as he pulled out the scroll an made a fire underneath it causing the pirates to either gasp or cry out a 'no!'. "A lot, apparently. Now you help me find what I want, you'll get this back and everyone goes home happy. Search the woods for the boy and meet back here."

"Fine." The pirate captain agreed sullenly as he turned and walked away.

Back at the campsite a short time later Sokka had just rolled over slightly as he started waking up. He noticed that Katara's sleeping bag was empty startling him fully awake.

"Huh? Where did she go?" Sokka said in a confused tone of voice as he crawled to Aangs back (which was laying at Sokka's sleeping spot) and started searching it. "I don't believe it." He states after a moment.

"What's wrong." Aang asked after a quick yawn,

"She took the scroll! She's obsessed with that thing." Sokka stated as he indicated towards the contents of the back, showing that the scroll wasn't there. "It's just a matter of time before she gets us all in deep –" He was cut of when a chain wrapped around his extended arms and pulled him forward onto the ground.

He looked up to see a pirate in blue getting ready to attack him again and quickly jumped to the side to avoid it. His roll came to a stop right next to his boomerang that he picked up before storming forward, using chakra to give him a speed boost. This boost took both pirates he was facing by surprise and allowed him to hit the one who was wearing green pant and no shirt at all. He hit him right in the stomach causing him to bend over to catch his breath, however before Sokka could take him out the other pirate swung his chain at Sokka, forcing him to retreat.

Meanwhile Aang was facing a huge beefy pirate hefting two crossbows with a net tied between them. The pirate aimed and fired at Aang, but he used chakra and airbending to propel himself above the net. This obviously took the pirate by surprise and made him just stare at Aang instead of reloading (he had expected him to try and jump to the sides, not over). Aang used the pirates confusion to land and grab his staff before running towards him. As he got closer the pirate snapped out of his stupor and tried to hit Aang with his crossbows (not really a good weapon, but he didn't have time to pull his sword). Aang just slid below his blows and through his legs before using airbending to stand back up, then jumped slightly to the right before turning and blasting the pirate straight into a tree with a powerful wind blow knocking him out.

He then turned to Sokka to see him try to fight of two other pirates, though he was only succeeding in dodging their attacks. Aang ran a couple of steps, however when he saw that the blue pirate once more was going to attack with his chain he sent a blast of air at it which changed the trajectory so that it hit the other pirate instead of Sokka.

"Ow" The pirate said as the end of the chain hit him in the eye "Why'd you do that"

"Aint something I did on purpose" The other stated annoyed at the misfire.

Aang used the argument to join up with Sokka.

"I'll take the one with the chain, you take the other one out" Aang stated as he ran past him and closed in on the one with the chain.

The pirate tried to use the chain to capture Aangs legs, but Aang blocked it with his staff while he continued running. Once in front of the pirate he swung his staff and used airbending to make the chain let go and start swinging around the pirate, effectively tying him in his own chain. Before the pirate could come up with a way to loosen the chain Aang had managed to properly tie it around him and stuffed his mouth with a piece of cloth he was carrying just in case. He threw the end of the chain over a branch, lifted the pirate into the air and tied it to the trunk of the tree before turning to Sokka.

Sokka wasn't nearly as effective as Aang, but thanks to the chakra that he used to augment his speed he was able to fight the pirate at an equal level. The pirate had slightly more skill then Sokka, but he couldn't keep up with the speed. Sokka had started out by trying a frontal assault again, but the pirate had seen it coming and blocked it with one of his nunchucks, before countering with the other by trying to hit Sokka in the head. Sokka managed to jump back in time to avoid it and then quickly ran to the left in a circle, hoping to flank the pirate. Once he reached the side of the pirate he changed direction and tried attacking again, his speed almost allowing him to succeed, but the pirate managed to roll forward in time, which left Sokka stumbling forward. The pirate took advantage of this and made a sweeping kick at Sokka legs, knocking him to the ground, but before the pirate could follow it up Aang turned up and used an air blast to send him into a tree.

After making sure that the pirate was knocked out he put him together with the burly pirate from earlier and used the net to tie them together.

Meanwhile Sokka had gotten back and walked over to the chain pirate and looked at him thoughtfully. Aang joined him once done with the pirates.

"We better find Katara" Aang stated "They may already have her."

"If they have her and the scroll, why bother coming after us" Sokka said thoughtfully "Could you do that bison transformation thing, just to make sure?"

"Okay" Aang stated before sitting down and starting to gather nature chakra. Soon the transformation took place, and merely a second later Aang jumped to his feet "Firebenders" He stated, confusing Sokka "Fire benders have Katara, though there are some there that I think are pirates, we've got to save her."

Before Aang could run of Sokka grabbed his arm "So right now Zuko has the pirate's doing his bedding." He stated mostly to himself "He probably has the scroll and has them hunting you to get it back. He hasn't told them who you are, or the pirate's would have turned on him. I think I've got a plan to save Katara."

Shortly thereafter Aang and Sokka found themselves bound and surrounded by pirates, standing on the riverbank not to far from Zuko and his men. Sligtly to the side of Zuko Katara was bound to a tree with Iroh standing guard.

Cut to a view of the pirate ship beached on the river bank, the pirates, Zuko and his men lined up facing each other. Katara is still bound to the tree, Iroh standing next to her. The pirates have Sokka and Aang tied up, Zuko holds the scroll.)

"Nice work." Zuko stated as he held up the scroll.

"Aang, this is all my fault." Katara stated sadly.

"No, Katara it isn't." Aang stated, because he couldn't think of anything else to say without giving away the plan and because he didn't really think it was her fault alone.

"Yeh, it kind of is." Iroh stated, negating the effect of Aang's words.

"Give me the boy." Zuko stated fiercely before the conversation could continue.

"You give us the scroll." The pirate captain countered.

"You're really gonna hand over the Avatar for a stupid piece of parchment!" Sokka asked.

"Don't listen to him!" Zuko stated while pointing at Sokka "He's trying to turn us against each other."

The pirate captain looked appraisingly at Aang "Your friend is the Avatar?" He asked Sokka.

"Sure is," Sokka stated as he went to the other side of the captain moving him closer to Aang "and I'll bet he'll fetch a lot more on the black market then that fancy scroll."

"Shut your mouth, you water tribe peasant!" Zuko stated angrily.

"Yeh, Sokka, you really should shut your mouth…" Aang stated in false concern, since him confirming the information would seem suspicious.

"I'm just sayin', it's bad business sense." Sokka stated as he took a small step back which placed him amongst the pirates "Just imagine how much the Fire Lord would pay for the Avatar. You guys would be set for life!"

"Keep the scroll!" The pirate captain stated while pointing at Zuko "We can buy a hundred with the reward we will get for the kid."

The pirates began to lead Aang and Sokka away from Zuko and his fire benders.

"You'll regret breaking a deal with me!" Zuko stated before he and some of his guards unleashed a torrent of flame, which bathed the ground underneath the pirates causing them to jump out the way.

The pirate in green quickly runs forward toward the fire benders throwing smoke pellets while dodging the fire blasts send at him before jumping into the smokescreen that the pellets created. Meanwhile fire nation soldiers ran out of the smokescreen towards the still bound Aang and Sokka. As the got near four pirates jump in front of them defend their captives. They drop smoke pellets and the battlefield instantly becomes impossible overview. At that point two of the pirates transform revealing them to be Aang's clones and they quickly freed Aang and Sokka from their bounds before dispelling.

In the meantime Momo was crawling down the three that Katara was bound to and quickly chews her ropes until they break.

"Thanks, Momo." Katara stated with a smile "I owe you a bushel of apples." She went on before she and Momo split up.

At that Point Aang and Sokka had managed to leave the smoke cloud together. They hadn't had any big trouble doing this because their hands were untied from the beginning and the number of fighters where reduced because of the pirates they had taken out beforehand. They split up, Sokka running to the boat to see if he could free it while Aang went to seach for both Katara and the water bending scroll, since he didn't want it in the hands of fire benders or pirates.

When he arrived at the place where Zuko and the pirate captain was fighting he saw his clone (still looking like one of the pirates) getting ready to use a chain to try and get the scroll from Zuko's belt. Knowing that using chains had never been his specialty he quickly got ready to airbend to make the chain hit it's target. He managed to time an airblast that pushed the chain to spin around the scroll and the clone tried to pull it free but didn't despite leaving Zuko's belt it was clear that it wouldn't get anywhere near the clone. Luckily Momo came to the rescue and grabbed the scroll before it could fall to the ground.

As Momo flew away it suddenly found itself pursued by the Pirate Captain's green parrot, but an airblast from Aang threw the bird of course and allowed Momo to fly over to him.

The two of them then started running back along the beach to where Katara and Sokka were trying the pirate ship of the beach and into the water.

"Katara! It's good to see that your unharmed" Aang yelled as he got closer.

"Help me get this boat back in the water so we can get out of here!" Katara said, to focused on getting away to respond to his statement.

All three began trying to push on the boat, but nothing happened which caused them to stop and look up at the prow.

"We need a team of rhinos to budge this ship." Sokka stated.

"A team of rhinos…" Aang agreed "or two waterbenders." He added while smiling at Katara

Katara looked at Aang and smiled.

Aang and Katara then got into water bending stances and started pulling the river back and forth up the beach, slowly raising the water level around the prow until it reached the point where the ship floated with the water into the river.

"Everybody in!" Katara stated and the three of them (along with Momo) jumped unto the boat.

While the fighting had been going on another group of Aangs clones had managed to drop the pirates that Sokka and Naruto had defeated earlier into the smokescreen so that it looked like they had been knocked out in the fight. Their fellow pirates had woken them up and lead them onto the firebenders small ship in order to follow Aang, but their confusion with what was going on slowed them down slightly, though unfortunately not enough to give Aang and his friends any meaningful lead.

"Sokka!" Aang yelled soon after when he noticed that the pirates gaining on them "Can't you make it go any faster?"

"I don't know how." Sokka yelled back from his position at the wheel of the ship "This thing wasn't made by the water tribe."

Meanwhile Aang watches as the pirates quickly pull up beside pirates began jumping onto the ship.

He looks down onto the deck as two of the pirates advance on Katara, and quickly waterbends a wave onto in an attempt to wash them overboard, though only succeeding with one of them.

Katara quickly looks down at the puddle Aangs attack left behind and used it to form a water whip to knock the other one overboard. She then smiled up at Aang.

"Hey, you did the water whip!" Aang congratulated.

"I couldn't have done it without your help!" Katara stated while still smiling.

"Will you two quit congratulating each other and help me out!" Sokka yelled as he jumped onto the helm to avoid an attack by a beefy pirate, before jumping down to the deck below to avoid the sales pirate. Said action also helped him avoid coliding with Momo who was once more pursuit by the Captain's parrot. Aang watched as Momo trapped the parrot by wrapping him in the pirate vessel's black flag.

Meanwhile the two pirates quickly close in on Sokka, however Aang jumps down in front of him and send an airblast at the Pirate Salesmen throwing him at the guard rail. Katara used a water whip from her vantage point to knock down the beefy pirate before he could attack either Aang or Sokka. Aang turns to the beefy pirate and lifts him into the air and spins him around using a whirlwind of air for a few seconds before ejecting him high into the air and over the side of the boat..

"Aang, look!" Katara yelled while looking and pointing ahead of the ship.

Aang and Sokka quickly followed her directions and saw that they where heading towards a waterfall

"Oh, no!" Aang stated before noticing a presence behind him and turning around.

Once turned he came face to face with the salesman who was drawing his blade, however knowing that fighting him right now wasn't really a priority he instead pulled out his bison whistle and blew into it with all his might.

The salesman who had hesitated when the whistle was pulled out started raising his sword to attack Aang but he was promptly round-kicked overboard by Sokka.

"Have you lost your mind!" Sokka asked while tapping the side of his head "This is no time for flute practice!"

Aang didn't really listen, instead running to join Katara at the front of the ship. The two of them watch as they approach the waterfall.

"We can stop the boat!" She said as she motioned him towards the fordeck "Aang, together, push and pull the water!"

The two of them quickly started making pushing and pulling motions, causing the boat to turn and slow down it's approach towards the waterfall

"It's working!" Katara stated "It's slowing down!" A moment later the ship had it's side to the waterfall and had stopped moving towards it. "We're doing it!"

"But we have another problem!" Sokka stated pointing at the other ship that was heading straight for them.

The cutter rammed the pirate ship right in center causing the ship to slowly capsize, which caused Aang and his friend to lose their balance. This in turn stopped Aang and Katara from continuing their bending which made both ships rapidly approach the waterfall. The kids where thrown overboard down the fall though the to ships where close behind them. Before the kids have fallen to far however Appa swooped in and made them land on his back before speeding away from the waterfall to avoid the falling ships.

Once away from the fall Aang and his friends got themselves better situated on Appa's back, Momo landing on Sokka's shoulder.

"I knew a bison whistle would come in handy." Aang stated "Thanks, Appa."

"Yeh, we owe ya one." Sokka stated earning a grunt from Appa.

"I told you this wasn't a waste of money, dattabayo" Aang said with a self-satisfied smile, before clasping his hands over his mouth.

"Dattabayo?" Sokka asked confused "What's that suppose to mean?"

"It's a speech tick, mostly used to put extra meaning into a sentence" Aang said "Thought it was gone with the merger, but it seems to have returned, though it isn't as bad as it used to be"

Katara, who had been quiet for a while, used the pause in the conversation to speak. "That aside, Aang, I still owe you an apology." She said while kneeling and looking down at the saddle. "You were just so good at waterbending without really trying. I got so competitive that I put us all in danger. I'm sorry."

"That's okay, Katara." Aang stated.

"Besides, who needs that stupid scroll anyway." Katara stated.

"Actually" Aang stated as he fished the scroll out of his clothing "I took this of Zuko before we left" Momo chatter interrupted him "With a lot of help from Momo" He amended "So while we might not need it, we still have it."

"That's great" Katara yelled as she embraced him happily.

Slow update:

I'm following The Legend of Korra to get insparation for moves or character (I know that the characters in the The Legend of Korra can't be directly used, but I might fit in ancestors who are similar to them)

Poll:

Only one person has mentioned the fact that they aren't allowed to vote again even though the choice they first voted on has been removed. I believe this will be a general problem since when I look on the vote statistic it doesn't add up. This leaves me with two choices: Disregard the people who voted for Toph in the first place, or make a new poll so everything is reset, meaning that the people who already voted for the others would need to recast their vote. I'm leaning towards the second, so unless good argumentation is given by the first of June the poll will be reset. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it seems like the only way to allow everyone to be heard.

Rasengan:

At this point I'm almost set with the different variations, though I am still open to suggestions. Name discussion for the water version is particularly pressing, as it is the one he will likely learn and use first of the three.

Fire rasengan:

Name: Rasendoragon

Looks: It looks like the spiraling ball is inside a dragons mouth and once throw the body of a dragon follows it, though if not throw hard enough the by user, the dragon tail will become irantic and so will the movements of the move itself.

When hurled it destroys the air along its path and sucks everything inwards in its trail before the entire path erupts into a huge explosion of flame and the point of impact is basically disintegrated like a direct hit from a Rasenshuriken, just with incredible heat that instantly sublimates everything it hits into a gas. Weakness': If it isn't hurled strongly enough its direction becomes unstable and it can start flying in random directions. It can also be rather fragile so it can explode before reaching it's target.

Water rasengan:

Name: Rasenuzumaki, Rasenmaki or Rasenuzu (Suppose to be spiraling whirlpool. I could see Naruto calling it Rasenuzumaki, but Aang's personallity might counteract it. Unless I hear good arguments against it I'll go with Rasenuzumaki)

Looks: looks similar to the rasenshuriken, only instead of four blades it had one continues line that goes in a circle around the center, similar to the symbol of Uzushiogakure.

When used it absorbs any water nearby, including from the user, once it hit something it crushes whatever is utterly, and then explodes like the Nidaime or Kisame just fired off their strongest water technique, releasing all the water it collected, including the water chakra used to create it. This would be the sort of thing which alters the entire terrain, adding like five feet of standing water until it drains away. It could wash away a whole army in a single blow. If used underwater or hurled into water, it'd hit, drill straight into the ocean or pond or lake or whatever, and then all the water in a huge area around it would start swirling and collapsing inward, creating a huge whirlpool almost instantly. Instant fleet-killer. Drag in a dozen ships in an area half a mile across and grind them into scrap. Weakness': If held to long it absorbs the liquid in the users body, making them useless, if not killing them outright. Changing the terrain might not be helpful for ones allies, making it a double edged sword, and the same is true for the whirlpool version

Earth rasengan:

Name: Rasendoriru or Rasenshuuren (Spiraling drill)

Looks: like the Water rasengan, only instead of the spiral going into the rasengan it moves upwards making it look like a drill is surrounding the rasengan.

Unlike the static form that most other rasengans have, this one is unstable and constantly vibrating at an incredible pace. Anything it touches has to follow it vibrations or it will grind them to dust. This means that if used on a person it turns their bones to dust and if used on the ground it creates an earthquake. It could potentially damage the person using it and if used on the ground it could potentially damage the tectonic plates, messing up the very makeup of a plan