Author's Note: Okay another one of my friends and advisors on here is worried I will kill/hurt Kaya. I am not going to harm Kaya except for a scratch or two. She is only ten right now! Thank you for staying with my story and reviewing. Please leave suggestions for Zuko's children's names. They will appear in the chapter after the next I think.

Chapter Ten: It's a Bender

Sokka's Point of View

I tore my gaze from my son, and looked around. Something didn't feel right. My instincts told me I shouldn't have left Kaya alone by the ocean. I stood up, resisting the urge to call for Suki, who was stilll weak from the twins' birth a month ago. Yoon rested, heavily bundled in my arms, as I struggled to shake off the feelings of fear and worry that had crept up on me.

I slowly stood up and handed Yoon off to Suki, who looked confused but took him without complaint.

I strained to hear something in the frosty sunlight of the South Pole. I grabbed my bommerang as a habit and stepped forward, Suki watching me and now listening too. Then I heard a sound and my mind started to buzz. I knew that cry, I had heard it the day she was born, and had heard it many times ever since. But I still had one question... why was my niece screaming?

Suki instantly placed Yoon gently on the fur rug and leapt into action. She was on top of the house, and already leaping forward, looking back to yell something to me. My protests died in my throat when I heard what she said.

"Someone is chasing her. A man. And he is gaining too." She called, and with my hand on my boomerang I followed quickly.

We saw her before we had even left the village. Kaya was fast, it must be the airbender in her, but so was the man. Suki was slowing down, and so was I. We stopped on the outskirts of our village, hoping she would make it. He seemed to sense we were there to help her, and sped up, but so did she.

"Aunt Suki!" She gasped as she hid behind her legs. "He. Take. Me. Ransom." She managed to get out after falling to the ground, breathless.

I looked at Suki, and saw the warrior inside her take its place, and she leaped at him. They were quite evenly matched at first but then he started to gain, her weariness shining through. So I ran forward to help. But he did not fall back, he only seemed to grow stronger.

Suki fell twice before she had to crawl to the side to take a break. He had knocked me on the ground and kicked my weapon away. He started to advance on Kaya, who was sitting in one of the meditation poses I remember seeing Aang in so many times back in the days of war.

She stood up, her face flushed, but her eyes burning. She looked so tiny and frail next to him. The wind blew back her dark hair and the snow billowed around her feet. She looked so much like Katara. She took a deep breath and looked at him, taking a stance. A bending stance?

"Leave." She commanded in a powerful voice, which would have seemed very intimidating if she hadn't been a ten year old. The man laughed and took a step closer, but she stayed.

"Leave? What power do you have? You are just a little girl, weak, useless?" He scoffed, his voice, or maybe it was his words, making her wince.

"I am not just some little helpless doll. I am the daughter of Avatar Aang and his lady, his master, Katara." She replied, her voice swelling with pride.

"Ha! What has being their daughter done for you? What do you gain? Have you any of their powers?" He asked, both interested and leading her into a trap.

She mumbled something so quietly it was inaudible. Her face was firm, set with a deep concentration.

"What was that?" He asked in a mocking tone. I grabbed my boomerang and turned aroound, still on the ground. I looked sideways as Suki and she gave the slightest shake of her head, telling me this was her battle and we would only intervene if needed.

She said it louder this time but I caught only one word 'bender'. Her face scrunched with determination. His face grew annoyed and his amused looked disappeared.

"One more chance to tell me what you said you worthless girl." He whispered, anger blazed on his face. His hand grasped the sword on his back. I saw Suki tense, ready to leap up. I angled my boomerang and readied myself.

Fury made her small form shake and she looked up, her eyes making me jump back. Anger leapt from them, burning, twisting, darting forward like flames. Her feet twisted firmly into the ground and she took a breath.

"I AM A BENDER!" She shouted, her usually small voice echoing, powerful and strong.

Suki and I froze and looked at her, confused. For a moment, the man looked taken back and astonished, but the next he started to laugh.

"Oh a bender! Even better! Well why don't you bend for me or even bend to stop me!" He teased her, now advancing with confidence.

She took a deep breath, and seemed to let the anger flow from her body. She then looked at him with cold eyes, worse than the ones that burned. She made a pushing motion with her arms and for a moment, nothing happened. Then a strong gust of wind knocked him onto his knees. It blew snow forward, so Suki and I were forced to shield our eyes.

I sighed, a little sadness twitching behind my pride. Oh how I had wanted an waterbender, so I could see my sister in her, even more. Then I let it go. I had an airbender for a niece. Aang was no longer the last airbender.

We looked at her amazed, but the man started to stumble up, onto his feet.

"You think a breeze can beat me? If you do then you are not as intellegent as you look!" He said, taunting her again.

Then she turned her icy eyes on him and closed her fists, with a small smile she watched. She watched as he shot across the ice, breaking it. She had been angry, very angry. He landed out towards the shore and he ran, not back towards us, but for a sub that had just surfaced to allow him entry. I turned my eyes back on her and saw her fall. Her eyes no longer flashing with anger, or her face set with concentration. She was drained as she should be using that sort of bending at her age.

We rushed to her, and I watched as Suki soothed her and complimented her. I was lost in memories of another waterbender's power and desruction.

Of course none of us had seen the dot before, or even recongized him until he landed in front of us.

Looking around, his eyes resting on Suki, then me, and than lingering on his daughter as she gazed back at him, as she had ten years before the first day, the first time. Then he surveyed the state of the land around him, the strange snow piles, and the cracked ice. He turned to us, confused, questioning, and amazed.

"What did you do, Kaya?" Aang asked.