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Ten

Not long after Aang had been captured, Maya began hearing strange noises. Sounds of a struggle. She figured it was him trying to escape. She went into the hallway and listened. The ship was made almost entirely out of metal, so everything echoed. It was hard to pinpoint exactly where the kid was, but she knew it was him. His footsteps were lighter than the guards', and unnaturally quick. Suddenly, she saw him up ahead, coming flying down the hallway at lightning speed. When he saw her, he skidded to a stop and looked at her cautiously.

She smiled. "If you're going to try and escape, I'm not going to stop you."

Aang sighed with relief. "Have you seen my staff?" he asked.

"No, I'm sorry," Maya said.

"Oh well," Aang replied. "Thanks anyways!" he called, as he whizzed past her.

She knew that if Zuko found out she had let Aang go, he would be furious. She didn't care. She went back into her room, closed the door, and fell asleep on her cot. She was not asleep for long until she started hearing strange noises again. She heard a heavy thud somewhere above her, on the deck, and a strange growling sound. Like that of some sort of animal. Confused, she began walking down the hallway to the stairs to see what was going on.

By the time she got up on deck, all she saw was a giant flying furry creature in the sky, and Aang and his friends riding on it. She stared.

"Shoot them down!" she heard Zuko yell, and watched as he and Uncle shot a massive fireball at the fuzzy animal.

Aang suddenly stood up and swung his staff through the air with all his might, but he didn't do it anywhere near the fireball, so Maya wasn't sure what he expected to happen. Then she felt the gust of strong wind, and saw the fireball crash into the wall of ice beside the ship, and realized that he had just airbended.

She fell to the floor of the deck as an avalanche crashed into the ship, caused by the fireball, which had dislodged a part of the wall it had slammed into. She heard the distant laughter as Aang and his friends flew away on their giant fluff-monster. This has been the weirdest day ever, she thought to herself, as she picked herself up off the floor and made her way over to Zuko and Uncle.

Uncle made a comment about how the greatest threat to the Fire Nation was just a little kid. Zuko said, "That kid, Uncle, just did this." He spread his arm out in the direction of the part of the ship that was buried beneath ice. "I won't underestimate him again," he muttered. Turning to the crew, he yelled, "Dig this ship out and follow them!" He paused. "A-as soon as your done with that," he said.

She turned to look at the crew, wondering what he meant, and gasped. Three of them were completely encased in ice, and frozen in place! She ran over to them. There were three unfrozen crewmembers holding lanterns up to the ones who were frozen, trying to thaw out the ice. "Are they going to be okay?" she asked.

"I think so," one of them said. "They can still blink, which means they must have some amount of room in between their bodies and the ice. As long as we thaw them out soon, they'll be okay. The only problem I'm worried about is loss of air. That's why we're focusing on their heads first."

Maya stayed with them and helped try and thaw out the three men. Soon, they all could at least breathe and talk again. After that, she left to go find Zuko, who had disappeared below decks.

She went to his door and knocked on it. He yelled at her to "Go away, whoever you are!"

Sighing, she said, "Zuko, it's me. Let me in."

"No. I don't want to talk to you right now!"

"It's okay, Zuko," she coaxed, leaning against the door. "I know you feel like you failed. But you'll figure it out. I'll help you."

Silence, for a moment. And then she heard, just barely, "Maya, please go away."

The please was good enough for her. She left him and went back to her room.