I still don't own LoK.

~(Months Later)~

Iroh looked around the ship, searching for something that he didn't quite know just what. So, he instead had a few of his firebenders look while he waited for something to do. He sighed in boredom, as there was almost quite literally nothing to do.

The war against the Equalists had ended a few months ago, and Avatar Korra was still giving people back their bending. It seemed to be all that she had time for at the moment, and Mako had finally caved in to his offer and come on board the United Forces ship for some firebending training with his favorite general.

"Bored again, General Iroh?" Mako asked, and Iroh turned slightly and smirked knowingly.

"How is it that we never manage to have enough time to do what we want to do when we find it, but when we're done, we have too much time on our hands?" he asked curiously, and the Fire Ferret blinked in confusion.

"I don't know," Mako finally admitted before going to the ship's edge. "Hey, General, what is that?"

Iroh looked at where Mako was now pointing, his eyes firmly searching for anything out of the ordinary in the waters.

"I don't see it," Iroh said finally, and Mako growled in frustration.

"That! by the rocks!" he said pointing again, and Iroh finally pulled out a telescope and took a closer look.

"Agni…" he murmured, "that's a human, I think."

"You think?" Mako asked panicking, "We've got to do something! What if it's Amon or Tarlock?!"

"You're acting like Bolin again," Iroh said calmly as he walked to the leader of his waterbending group. "Waterbend me out of the water once I give you the signal."

The waterbender was confused, but the General knew just what he was doing. He used his firebending like jets to propel him to the area that Mako had been pointing at and confirmed his suspicions as he let himself plunge into the cold waters. He took hold of the young woman by her waist, holding her head above water and sent a blast of fire up with his other fist.

The water that he was in suddenly propelled him in a hurricane back to his ship, and he landed with all the grace of a badger mole. He quickly got up enough to kneel over the motionless form of the one that he rescued, and he took a closer look at her. She had chocolate brown hair that looked black whenever it was wet, a figure to rival that of Avatar Korra's and a skin tone to match, and her clothes were pure black.

But to his confusion, she didn't look like the kind of person to be a chi blocker. No, she didn't have the usual chi blocker garb on, or any of their favorite weapons, or what some people, like Lin, Bolin and Mako, would call toys. Within moments, water was coming up from everywhere, as though she were a humanization from the waters themselves. Confused at what was going on, the waterbenders that were on the ship were trying to calm the storm but to no avail.

"Sir, what should we do?" the leader of the waterbenders asked in a frenzy.

"Try to get us to shore! We'll have to wait this out! Just make sure that the water doesn't get too far into the ship!" he ordered as he slung the young woman over his shoulder quickly and made to run inside.

But right as he did, he was swept overboard, with the woman in tow. The water kept pushing them downwards, downwards, closer and closer to a black abyss. He could just faintly hear his men crying out to him, but he couldn't hear just what they were saying. After what felt like an eternity, he felt the waters suddenly surge upwards, as though they were going to puke him out.

The result of said force was what he noticed as Korra waterbending him out on the edge of a cliff after about a dozen or so waterbenders had gotten their bending back. Iroh realized that there were yellow splotches in his vision, almost as if fires were lit behind his eyes and sparks were flying.

One waterbender knelt over the female that Iroh had rescued and began skillfully waterbending until she was able to produce offending water from the lungs of the brunette, who coughed and turned her head with a weary moan. Iroh could tell that her breathing was extremely weary, as though she was barely clinging to being halfway conscious.

Just as he noticed this, the female turned her head back to the front and wearily opened her eyes, which he noticed were glassy and looked as though she had a fever. Knowing the cold waters, she did, Iroh mused to himself. But her eyes were what was the most striking – they were chocolate brown. He frowned as he realized that the girl looked like a combination between Avatar Korra and Fire Lord Zuko's friend and chi blocker, Ty lee.

Iroh sighed though his nose as he held out a hand to help her up, smiling softly to assure her that he was not a threat. The Waterbenders were slowly dispersing, as though Korra had told them to, and the Avatar gave Iroh a smug look that he knew simply screamed that she was up to something. A scream of alarm was heard, and Iroh looked up to find a female racing towards him, one who seemed to be a little closer to Mako's age than he was. She had the exact same features as the girl lying before him staring at him, only her eyes were the same blue as the waterbenders.

"Where have you been?!" the other girl yelled, "Do you realize how long it's been since Amon was defeated?!"

The brunette on the ground simply shifted so that she was on her side and curled up in a ball. Iroh frowned in the realization that this one was probably the one that Mako had kept talking about as the mute and nonbending person he'd rescued. She curled up tighter as the waterbender just kept yelling frantically at her, and Iroh finally saw what was going on: this waterbender knew the one that he had rescued, but the one that he'd rescued had no abilities.

"If you're quite finished," he said calmly to the waterbender, who now realized just who she was in the presence of, "Then I believe it was time you took your leave. Family should not be trying to control one another. Or has Fire Lord Ozai taught you nothing?"

The waterbender blinked and paled before another wave was sent crashing up, but this time Iroh was prepared for the onslaught of water. He grabbed the female by the waist, her lack of bending made perfectly clear, and used firebending with his other fist against the ground to propel him out of the water's path.

And right into a patch of ice that the waterbender had created. He of course was not used to the ice, and had slipped on it before he'd even realized it was there. Korra heard a sickening crack before a wave washed over the firebending General and encased him in ice.

Who's the new waterbender? Do you guys know, because I most certainly don't. I still haven't decided who I want her to be...

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