"Kiki, can you hear me?" I recognized the voice as Katara's and slowly opened my eyes,
"K-Katara…is that you?" I asked, still half asleep, she nodded "Can you do me a favor Katara?"
"Yeah, sure anything" she replied quickly,
"M-My back…can you heal it?" she nodded and removed the compress that was on my back and she gasped.
"D-Did Zuko do this to you?" asked Aang looking worried but I shook my head,
"No, it was his guard…when I seen you, he thought I was with you and shot me in the back, Zuko stripped him of his Fire Nation rank" I explained finally becoming fully awake.
"Let's go…we have to get you out of here," Said Sokka wrapping his arm around my waist and helping me up, I shook my head quickly,
"No, not yet I have to…nngh get something" I said quickly.
"Are you nuts? We have to go while the getting's good" said Sokka,
"Look Sokka, I have to get my blade it's the last thing I have from my father," I said. "I know the ship I've been on it for awhile okay, you go to Appa and I'll meet you by the Stern" I dashed off heading towards Prince Zuko's corridor and entered the room I slipped in and closed the door behind me, then I eased my way to the sleeping Zuko and shook him slightly.
"K-Kiki?" he asked,
"Yeah it's me, look Zuko…Aang and the others are here to… "Save me" but don't do anything, remember they still think I'm with them, I came in here to ask for my dagger" he nodded and handed me my dagger.
"Be careful okay?" he said, "Once they find out…if they find out they won't go easy on you I should know" he said I nodded and hugged him,
"Thanks for everything Zuko, I'll see you when you catch onto our trail" I gave him one last look before slipping back out to the deck and racing to the stern I spotted a guard and smirked I jumped up and landed next to him I kicked him and sent him flying head first into the wall he hit it and slid to the floor knocked out.
"Kiki here" said Katara, I spotted the sky bison and jumped up catching a hold of Katara and Sokka's hands they pulled me up and I held on as we flew off and away from Zuko who was sleeping peacefully in his bed by now. I laid down on the saddle and rested my head on my arms closing my eyes as Katara healed my back for me I thanked her with a silent sleepy nod as I closed my eyes again. I let sleep take me and there was only but one image in my dreams the rest of that night the image of a godly like figure with sharp golden eyes, dark brown hair, a muscular body, and a scar over his left eye. Yes, Zuko the Prince of the Fire Nation was now and possibly for ever imprinted into my mind, I awoke early the next morning I'm assuming because I heard birds chirping and I believe I could see the sun starting to rise through my eyelids. I laid there with my eyes closed listening to 3 other people sleeping, 3 different snores I slowly opened one of my eyes and glanced around seeing Katara sleeping soundly hers was the more quieter snore the kind you could pass off as only heavy breathing. Aang wasn't far from her curled up with one of his hands an inch from Katara his was the quietest snore I was surprised by this but then again he is the avatar master of all four elements and an air bender. Then I looked my eye falling on the last and the loudest of the three sleepers, Sokka was sleeping on his back legs and arms sprawled out with his mouth gaping open snoring like someone was taking a chainsaw to rock. I watched as the flying lemur whose name is Momo slept on Sokka's chest, Poor Momo, how can he sleep with all that snoring so loud in his ear, I can't go back to sleep even if I tried It was then that I noticed something casting a shadow over me I glanced up and noticed Aang was staring down at me.
"Can I sit with you?" he asked quietly so as to not wake the others I nodded my head and he sat beside me, "Earlier…you had said that Zuko didn't burn you that in fact he had stripped the guard of his ranking's…do you know why he would do that?" asked Aang his blue eyes burning into my brown one's.
"I…" Damn I knew it was coming just not this soon…what can I say that I tricked Zuko and made him believe that I was with him by showing him that I could be a fire bender? "I don't know…I think it was because Zuko released me trying to see if I would lead him to you guys and that when the guard attacked me that it could of killed me and blown his only chance to getting you back at that village." I explained quickly I watched his face as he thought this over and then shrugged,
"Yeah, you're probably right…anyways welcome to team Avatar Kiki" he smiled at me a warm smile. I smiled back
"So how old are you?" I asked him trying to get to know him a little better, he sort of blushed,
"I'm 12" he said when he said that my eyes went big,
"What? Twelve years old…you're only a kid" I said absently,
"Yeah well you're only a…teenager?" I nodded my head,
"Yeah I'm 16 but still…your 12... You're like half the age of my…I guess you could call him my brother figure" I stopped as the mentioning of Rouki it suddenly made me feel home sick. I wonder how Mema and Rouki are doing…I hope they're doing okay Aang noticed that I was in deep thought and decided to leave me to my thoughts. I was in a daze for the rest of the morning until we started lowering down to land, "Hmm…what are we doing?" I asked waking from my daze; it was Sokka that had come to answer me,
"Oh, we're going so that we could cook something to eat, and possibly look for somewhere to get some fresh water" I nodded in silence and then almost gasped. Stopping…what if Zuko caught up to us? What if he yanks me away and starts asking me questions and someone finds out about me? The warning words of Zuko returned to me as I thought of this about how they wouldn't go easy on me. We landed and climbed off, Sokka offered to help me down but I shook my head and jumped down landing on my feet,
"You know…I still owe you for the first time we met" he said smirking at me I glanced at him. "I was having an off day that's why you got me down so easily like that" I thought about what he was saying and then realized what he was talking about.
"Sokka…I don't really feel like sparring you right now" I said walking slowly after him,
"Are you feeling okay?" asked Katara looking at me I nodded my head.
"I bet you she's only chicken…she knows a female has no place battling with a man" he said Katara whipped around glaring at him,
"SOKKA THAT'S ENOUGH! How can you even say something like that when I'm standing right here? You know mom wouldn't have let you go around talking like that" hollered Katara.