A/N: ok so chapter one is still under revision, and nits going great.. Did ya'll like the last Chapter? Well heres the next one. Also its kinda fast-paced so beware!

~4 weeks later~

"Would you stop pacing? If we hit a bump you'll go flying. What's with you anyways?" Sokka said irritably as Aang paced around the crowded saddle.

"It's was Avatar Roku said at the temple Sokka. He says I have to master the other three elements by the time the comet arrives. Two years isn't enough. We're still 2 months away from the North Pole. What am I gonna do?" Aang said as he tried to calm down.

"Aang," Katara said as she grabbed his wrist. "I could try to teach you what I know. We just need to find an area that has plenty of water near."

"Maybe we could find you a puddle to splash in," Sokka said sarcastically from the saddle.

~1 hour later~

"Nice puddle," Sokka said in shock with his mouth agape, and Aang, Katara, and Zuko grinning like mad fools. Appa leaped over to the waterfall and sighed contently.

"Hey!" Katara, Sokka, and Zuko yelled as Appa drenched them.

"So, when you three are helping Aang, I have to sit here and watch you splash around in water all day?" Sokka whined.

"No, you could clean the gunk from Appa's toes for me," Aang said while grinning.

"Aw man," Sokka whined. "Why do I have the most disgusting job for?"

"Come on, let's go,"Aang said as he started walking towards the waterfall.

"So, all you have to do is push the water back and forth like this," Katara said as she demonstrated the move with Zuko watching her intently.

"Like this?" Aang asked.

"Yeah. If you practice it, you should be able to get it." Katara said as she watched him.

"Look, I'm bending it already," Aang exclaimed joyfully.

"How are you able to bend so quickly?" Katara questioned as she narrowed her gaze at the pre-teen. "It took me almost three months to master that move."

"Well, you did it by yourself; I have a teacher here to help me." Aang said to Katara.

"Well, let's get to the harder stuff. This is what I call a water stream. Don't get mad if you don't get it the first time—" Katara said but stopped talking as she glared at the boy who mastered the move quickly once again.

"Nice work," Katara said while glaring at him, "but the water tricks were unnecessary."

"Sorry," Aang said sheepishly. "Do you have any other moves you could teach me?"

"Yeah. All you have to do is create a huge wave a-"

"You mean like this?" Aang said as a 40 foot wave crashed over Sokka. Katara glared at him.

"That's it for today," Katara seethed as stalked off into the other direction into the forest.

"I'll get her," Zuko said as he got up from the bank and sprinted to catch up to her.

"Katara," Sokka whined, "he also washed our supplies down the river."

"So?" Katara yelled, "we'll find somewhere to get some more later." She said angrily.

"Hey, What's wrong 'Tara?" Zuko asked as they ignored Sokka's pleas to come back.

"I can't believe he did those so quickly," Katara muttered angrily. "He mastered moves that took me months to master in minutes."

"'Tara have you ever thought of it this way. Why don't you incorporate your Fire bending into your Water bending? Some of those moves you were doing looked like some that you could do with Fire bending." Zuko said as Katara looked at him with disbeilf.

"You're a Genius!" Katara exclaimed as she hugged him tightly for a moment then let go. Zuko grinned at seeing the happy sight of his best friend again instead of the jealous bender.

"Come on," Zuko said as he dragged her to a different pond in the forest, "Lets practice here, but let's practice some Fire bending and see which moves we can incorporate into Water bending, ok?"

"Ok, but can we just practice Fire bending right now, and practice Water bending tonight where I'm stronger at night?"

"Earth Nation, Fire Nation, Water nation," a slimy, filthy, old pirate started "Come on in, if you want a bargain, this is the place to do it."

"You," he said as he pointed at Aang, "Would you like a curio?"

"What's a curio?" Aang asked.

"Well come on in and find out." The pirate said as he wrapped his arms around Aang's shoulders and led him in.

"Whoa," Katara said as she walked in. "Where do you get all this stuff?"

"We've found it along our travels," the captain said answering for his crew mate.

"Katara look what I found" Zuko exclaimed quietly as he was looking as some scrolls. She walked over and gasped at what she saw.

"Zuko look at these moves, you were right about them being similar to Fire bending." Katara said as she praised Zuko's idea from earlier in the day.

"Hey, Captain, where did you get a Water bending scroll?" Zuko questioned.

"Let's just say we got it up North at the most reasonable price," The captain said as he rolled up the scroll.

"How much is it?" Zuko asked gruffly.

"Someone's already buying it, an earth kingdom noble, unless of course you have 200 gold pieces on you."

Zuko sighed, "Here," as he handed him a small pouch filled with gold pieces. The pirates eyes widened in shock.

"There's Two-hundred and twenty gold pieces in there. I want the scroll now," He demanded coldly.

"Here," the captain said surprised.

"Come on guys," Katara called over her shoulder as she and Zuko started to run out the front of the pirate ship. "Let's go,"

"Hey," the captain said as he ran after them. "Come back here," they exclaimed.

"So they came to their senses?" Aang said hopefully; referring to the air nomad scroll he saw, and tried to haggle for.

"No Aang," Katara and Zuko said simultaneously as pirates with all sorts of weapons surrounding them. They looked at each other knowing the look preparing for a fight.

"This outta be fun," Katara said grinning as she slipped into a Fire bending stance.

"Guys, go back to camp, we can handle them," as she looked at the 'supposed' opponents and looked at Zuko.

"You ready?" Katara asked.

"Of course I'm ready, hell I've been waiting for a decent fight. On the ship they can't fight worth shit,"

"So, two teenagers think they can beat us," the pirate captain mused. "Well let's see what they got."

Zuko charged first flinging fireballs at many, which the most of the pirates were able to avoid. Katara came in and made dozens of fire whips and grabbed all the pirates at once.

"Aw man," Katara whined, "That was no fun. I thought they were going to be a challenge. What should I do now Zu?"

"Throw them in the ocean for all I care and freeze them too." Zuko said shrugging.

"Hey, how'd you do that kid?" a pirate asked. Katara pointed to herself and asked if he was referring to her.

"What do you mean, how did I do that?" Katara asked stupidly knowing full and well what they were talking about.

"How did you fire bend? We saw you and that boy looking at a Water bending scroll."

"Yea and so what," she asked avoiding their actual question.

"Why'd you get it for?" the captain asked.

"I, unlike most Fire benders don't destroy and hate everything. I value life as much as other people do. I decided to incorporate Water bending in my Fire bending to throw off my components and just because I felt like it."

"Come on lets go," Zuko said as he got her attention again.

"Wait, lemme do something first." Katara said as she threw the pirates over into the ocean and froze the top to make it especially harder to get out.

"Ok, now let's go," Katara said grinning as she started to run away from the pirate ship with Zuko chasing her.

"'Tara!" Zuko shouted while grinning as he tried to catch up with her.

"You can't catch me," Katara exclaimed happily as she rushed through the small town, rushing through stalls.

"You sure about that?" Zuko said as he grabbed her wrists grinning playfully.

"Gotcha," Zuko said as he pecked her cheek.

"We should go catch up with Aang and Sokka," Katara said as they walked together, hand in hand.

"Ok." Zuko sighed.

"What took you guys so long?" Aang asked as the two older teens, who were still holding hands, ignored him until Sokka asked the same thing to them.

"We fought them off. Aang what were you talking about when you said 'they must of came to their senses'? Katara asked, making the boy shrink back a little.

"Ehh, about that, I kinda took a scroll that they had. It was an air bending scroll from the Eastern air temple."

"Why didn't you just ask Zuko to buy it for you?" She said as if it were obvious.

"Well he didn't have any money on him so I th-" Aang was cut off by Zuko as he walked over with the scroll he bought for Katar.

"What do you mean I don't have money? I'm a prince; of course I'll have money. Did you ask them how much is it?"

"Yea, but it was too expensive. They wanted 10,000 gold pieces for it. It was one of the scrolls I used when I studied Air bending at the Air Temples." Aang explained.

"10,000 gold pieces?" Zuko said with shock in his voice and eyes widened in shock.

"Yup," Aang said bluntly.

"So you decided to steal it?" Zuko asked incredulously.

"Yup," Aang said once again.

"Good job kid," Zuko said surprising the young avatar and the two siblings.

"It's a piece of your culture that some thieving pirates stole. If you used that specific scroll used to be yours you should have it. Plus, stealing is bad, unless it's from pirates," Zuko said while chuckling.

Down below you can see a unit of Yu Yan archers practicing below. One archer shot three arrows dead center in the target.

"I'm sorry Commander Zhao, your request is denied. The Yu Yan archers must stay here."

"Kernel Zinough please reconsider." Zhao started and in a more disgustingly confident smile he kept going "Their precision is legendary. The Yu Yan can pin a fly from 100 yards away without even killing it. You're wasting their talents using them as mere security guards."

"I can do whatever I want to with their talents. They're my archers, and what I say goes." Kernel Zinough said defending his archers.

"But my search for the avatar I-"

"It's nothing but vanity project!" Zinough yelled as he got into Zhao's face. "We're fighting a real war here and I need every man I've got."

"But-"

"Commander that's final. I don't want to hear another word about the Avatar," Zinough ordered.

Screeeeechhhhhhhhhh

"What is that Kernel?" Zhao asked as he walked over to the Kernel holding the messenger hawk. The Kernel's face drained of all color as he handed the message to Zhao.

"Looks like I've been promoted to Admiral. My request is now an order," Zhao said grinning like a mad fool.

~Back to the Avatar Gaang.~

"Guys, I went to the docks and it turns out that Zhao's been promoted to Admiral. Sokka, Katara?" Zuko asked confused. He looked around the temple that they've been staying at.

"Zuko," Katara said quietly as she cough ripped through the air. Zuko was by her side instantly.

"Aang went to get us medicine. He left a couple hours ago. Zuko find him. Then after you find him take us to Uncle, he should know what to do." With this, Zuko went off and left Sokka and Katara to themselves. After an hour of flying through the air, he found Aang running at top speeds.

"AANG!," Zuko bellowed as he rushed to catch up with him. The young avatar crashed into a tree surprised.

"Zuko?" Aang asked confused.

"Come on, we're going back. We're taking Sokka and Katara to Uncle Iroh. He's been trained in this sorta thing. Now come on," Zuko said as he picked the boy up from the back of his shirt and got ready for his small flight again. After another hour of flying they saw the temple in view.

"Come on," Zuko said as he rushed up the stairs of the temple.

"Katara I'm going to carry you up to the top of Appa ok? Aang," Zuko ordered "Do the same thing with Sokka and lay them both back onto their sleeping bags."

"Appa Yip-Yip," Aang said as they flew off into the sky. Zuko gave him directions to get to his ship to get his uncle. After hours and hours of flying they saw a ship that had Zuko's flag on it. Many of the crew members on the deck moved out of the way so Appa could land in the water beside the ocean.

"What's the mean-" Iroh started.

"Nephew," Iroh said happily. He saw Zuko's urgency and asked what the matter is.

"Uncle," Zuko said worried, "Katara and Sokka are sick, help them please," Zuko said quietly begging the older man to help him.

"How did they get sick?" Iroh questioned.

"We were in a storm a couple of days ago and I think that's what's wrong. When I came back from looking for food, Katara was barely conscious and she said Aang went off to get some medicine or at least someone that could help them. I caught up to him and we came here as quickly as we could." Zuko explained all in one breathe.

"I'll have the ship's doctor look at them." Iroh said as he rushed off to find the medic.

"Aang," Zuko said as he turned to looked at the young boy. "How long have they been like this?"

"They started doing that this morning. Sokka had a cough yesterday and Katara started hacking today because she was looking after Sokka yesterday and last night. She must have caught it from him." Aang explained worried.

"Where were you last night?" Aang asked curious to where the scarred prince was that night.

"I was checking in on something I've been questioning for a long time." Zuko said dismissing the questioning.

"Oh," Aang said knowing that the conversation was already over. Iroh rushed in with a middle-aged man that had a stethoscope around his neck and a medic bag.

"They got really sick yesterday." Aang told the doctor as he checked their breathing.

"Have they eaten anything, or been out in the rain in the past week?" the doctor questioned.

"Yeah, we all got caught in a storm 3 days ago. Sokka started coughing, or more like hacking yesterday and Katara started to take care of him and then this morning she started hacking like Sokka was and-" Aang was cut off by the doctor.

"They'll be fine. They just have the flu. It'll last a couple of days. They need to take medicine twice a day. By the time next week, they'll be up and going around." The doctor said as Zuko and Aang sighed in relief.

"Thank you Shin Le," Zuko said gratefully.

"General Iroh you have a scroll from Admiral Zhao." A solider said hurriedly as he went off as quickly as he came in, giving the scroll to Iroh. Opening the scroll, Iroh's eyes widened in shock.

"Prince Zuko," Iroh said quietly. "I need to speak with you privately."

A/N: so did you like it? Its sorta of a cliffy isn't it? Eh ill work for me.. expect next chapter up within a week.

~PCR~