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"I can't believe he's got the nerve to just waltz in on us like that!" Katara growled angrily as she strutted around to gather their belongings. Their camping location had proved to be safe no longer from the moment Zuko showed up. The grassy clearing which they had decided to let Appa take a rest in now spotted a large circular black burn mark that stood out vividly against the green background, and thin trails of smoke were still rising from the charred wood of the tree to which the Prince of the Fire Nation was bound to-the result of Zuko's retaliation-as proof of the sudden encounter. He had disappeared as abruptly as he came and-to be honest-hadn't done any real damage. Still, the fact that he was probably lurking around somewhere in the wood, waiting to strike was enough for them to leave the area immediately. It was unnerving for all three of them to receive the unexpected house call from the firebender, but Katara's mood in particular was the foulest. Her two companions could practically see a sinister aura emanating from her and decided that it was wise to just left her to her own device. The waterbender was angry. She was currently shoving all her anger onto the head of their adversary-Zuko-who was of course absence from the scene at the moment and making use of her greatly improved vocabulary to curse him with everything she could think of. However, it only served to frustrate her more and more as deep down, she knew she was just being angry at herself. She had had Zuko pinned against a tree, bound and even frozen. Yet with just a blast of his fire, Zuko had completely thrown her off. After that, even with Aang and Sokka at her side, she was completely unable to touch the firebender. How come she was so weak? Had her training in the North Pole been futile then? Katara frowned as another thought occurred to her: Was Zuko always this powerful? The last time they faced, she had managed to fight him on par. Sure, he bested her in the end, but she had at least kept him at bay for a while, and that was one-on-one. The result of this match should have turned out differently. Yet, Zuko had won even when he was outnumbered three to one. Katara held no illusion that they had been victorious just because their enemy ran away. She knew that if it wasn't for some unfathomable reason for which Zuko hadn't tried to take Aang this time, they would have been totally powerless to stop him.
Standing near her and loading their stuffs into Appa's saddle, Aang's mind was following a different trail of thought. Why didn't Zuko attack them? Now that Aang had time to recall the event properly, he realized that not once had the fire prince tried to launch an attack on them. The last explosion was more of a defensive one and Aang noticed that Zuko was even careful not to hit any of them. This struck him as odd. Looking back at their past encounter, any time Zuko was near him, his presence was always announced by fire blasts coming their way before they could even see who was attacking. But this time, he had actually let Katara knock him out without even getting into a fighting stance, and that was just plain weird. Zuko of all people had never lowered his guard. It was almost as if he didn't expect an attack to come from them, but that just made no sense. Aang shook his head, which was starting to hurt from all the thinking. He decided to push that nagging feeling he had about Zuko's strange behaviors to the back of his mind. Right now, they had to get to the Earth Kingdom. The avatar didn't know, however, as he was sitting on Appa who was flying five minutes later, that if he had just steered the bison a little more to the west and looked down, he would find the subject of his newfound worry who was in an even greater turmoil than his own.
Zuko looked up and watched as Appa and the people he knew would be riding it disappear from sight. The Firelord-was he even Firelord here?-turned and started to bang his head on a tree, hoping to somehow wake up from this nightmare. The act, of course, did nothing other than giving Zuko a bruise that was beginning to form on his forehead. Finally forced to admit that he was not going anywhere from this reality, Zuko pressed his back against the tree trunk and slid down until he was sitting on the ground, his head between his knees. What was he supposed to do now if this wasn't just a horrible dream? The panic that he had somehow quenched down up until now was coming back with a vengeance and he found himself becoming more and more hysteric by the second. If Katara had been truthful-and he saw no reason that she should lie-then he had actually gone back to the past. His stunned brain was still trying to process the ridiculous notion. Was a thing such as time traveling even possible? No, scratch that part. If he really was back in the past, then he was in very, very deep trouble. The war was still going on, his father was still in power. Those thought made him shudder. Was this even the past as he knew it? Would thing still go the same way? If this was indeed the very same past he had lived through, then he had just made an enormous mistake by meeting up with Aang and the others. Would that change their next course? What would happen to his time if something from this period went a different way? Could his appearance possibly have changed the outcome of the war? He hope not. But either way, change or no change, he was in deep trouble. Even if he hadn't damaged this past beyond repair-which he seriously doubted, considering his luck-he still had no idea what he was supposed to do. Stay hidden until Aang defeated Ozai? What would happen to him after that?
The animals in the forest that noon were startled by a loud cry of frustration that escaped the throat of a confused firebender as his many question went unheeded and unanswered.
Hope this was okay. Anyways, can anyone give me a list of the events that happened since The Siege of the North?