This chapter opens up to after Aang had split the Zhangs and the Gan Jins apart. It is late at night and we have stopped to rest until day break. While the two tribes are all sitting around their campfires, with an addition of Sokka and Katara, the rest of us are up at a cliff watching over the them.

The next point of view opens to after Katara and Sokka had learned of the reasoning behind the feud between the two tribes. Aang asks them if they think the two tribes can work together long enough in order to escape but it just starts an argument between the two siblings.


"Sure would be nice to be around one of those campfires, telling stories and laughing" Aang said as he looked down from the cliff we were resting on and at the several campfires that had just been made. Momo flew over toward his master as he rubbed his head against Aang's cheek. "It's okay Momo, we'll be out of here soon enough and then we can eat our weight in leachy nuts!" Aang said happily at the thought of food. Just then a fly passes by and caught the lemur's attention. Momo quickly jumped up and smacked the insect then begins to devour his pray. Having already eaten half of the insect Momo offered some of his catch to Aang, a kind offer but disgusted the young monk.

"Nah, I'll wait for the leachy nuts" Aang said passing the offer.

"It's lonely, isn't it, being impartial" the Canyon Guide said as he appeared behind us.

"I wish I could help these people get along, but it just seems impossible. Anyhow, I guess our biggest problem is getting out of here" Aang said as he looked over at our injured guide.

"I'm not so sure the two problems are unrelated," he said as he leaned against the rock wall and quickly fell asleep.

"Here," I said to get Aang's attention then patted my hand on my lap "you can use my knees as a pillow." He nodded his head as he walked over toward me and placed his head onto my lap. Gin then walked behind me and curled up around us trying to share his body heat.

"What about Brianna?" Aang asked me. I looked over at Brianna and her giant black cat companion both were snuggled up together looking very comfortable.

"I'm sure Nyoko will keep her warm," I said as I placed a hand on Aang's cheek and brushed it "and anyway Brianna's element is fire."

"Oh right," Aang said as he snuggled closer to me. Momo quickly joined Brianna who was his second favorite human, Aang obviously being his first. This honestly didn't matter to me since I liked Appa more than the hungry lemur even if I couldn't exactly hold Appa in my arms.

"You warm enough?" I asked while looking down at Aang.

"I'm good," he said with a cheery smile. He seemed to really enjoy the fact that I was treating him like my child. I really hope I'm not spoiling him. The last thing the world needed was a bratty Avatar, that would certainly be a nightmare. He snuggled his head into my robe as he let his eyes slowly close.

"Just like a toddler," I said as I formed a small smile on my face. "He really is too much like a kid." I slowly brushed my hand across his cheek as I warmed his cold face with my hand.

"It's understandable," Gin said to me as he watched our little family moment. "He's only had father figures most of his life."

"I know," I said as I stopped brushing Aang's face. I was about to put my hand on the ground, but Aang suddenly grabbed onto my hand with his own. I looked down at him wondering if something was the matter but then realized that he was still asleep. I let out a small chuckle as I looked down at Aang's sleeping face. Gin then placed his jaw onto my right shoulder. Without a word I leaned my head against his as we watched the innocent monk sleep. Another chuckle escaped my lips as I felt Aang grip at my hand tighter. Honestly, this boy always seemed to be able to make me laugh.

((OOOO))

"Okay, okay I get it!" Aang's shouting voice woke me from my slumber. From the look on Katara and Sokka's faces it seemed as though they were fighting about something, again. It didn't really surprise me but I had a feeling it involved the Gan Jins and the Zhangs. Aang took a deep breath, probably annoyed at the fact that not only did he had to prevent the two tribes from fighting but now had to keep an eye on the two Water Tribe siblings too. "Now I need your help. Let's get everyone together at the base of the canyon wall." Katara and Sokka walked off toward the crowd of people as we followed soon after.

"You look comfortable," Brianna said with a large smile. I rolled my body over while I tried to find a comfortable position in the thick black fur.

"Shut up," I muttered as I buried my head into Nyoko's fur. "Would you rather me faint from lack of sleep?" I asked as my eyes began to droop again.

"No," Brianna said in an angry voice. I let out a groan as I rolled over so that I was lying on my stomach.

"I can't sleep with all this noise," I said referring to the arguing crowd ahead of us. I tried focusing on something else but my mind began to wonder as my internal conflict came back to me. "Hey Brianna," I said in a low voice. She turned to me as I motioned her to come closer. "Can you handle the Canyon Crawlers on your own?"

"Yeah," she said in a confused voice not really following me.

"Sorry but I don't think I can help you today," I said in irritated voice.

"What's wrong, are you okay?" Brianna asked worryingly.

"I'm fine," I said in a stern tone "I just have something on my mind and it seems as though my energy level has suddenly decreased."

"Are you going to be okay?" Brianna asked me concerned.

"I just need some rest and to sort things out by myself." Knowing Brianna I knew she must have been curious and worried as to why I was backing away from a fight, but I couldn't tell her it was because I was testing her. I needed to see how she was able to summon that kind of power, and the only way to do that was to watch from afar. A part of me hated this plan and felt it was immoral to abandon my position and partner, but I needed to see it for myself if I was ever to surpass this feeling.

"Okay then," Brianna said as she heard Aang call her over. "I'll talk to you later than."

"Yeah" I said as I watched her run off, the feeling of guilt built more, "later."

((Brianna's P.O.V))

I wasn't sure what was going on with Rebecca but soon after she had told me she wouldn't be able to fight she walked off to the side and watched us from a distance. I had to admit that she was acting strangely since the unfortunate encounter with Jet. That and she had been giving me the cold shoulder lately, making me wonder if I had done something wrong. It really worried me that I might be annoying Rebecca but I knew now wasn't the time to think about it too much. I turned my attention back onto the wall where the two tribes bickered with Aang standing in the center of argument.

"Please everyone! As soon as we get out of here we can eat, and then go our separate ways, but I need you all to put your heads together and figure out a way up this cliff" Aang said trying to reason with them.

"Maybe the Zhang can climb the walls with their long, disgusting fingernails" the leader of the Gan Jin tribe shouted.

"Oh, sorry! I forgot that to the Gan Jin, unclipped fingernails is a crime punishable by twenty years in jail!" the female Zhang leader shouted back.

"Why you dirty thief!"

"You pompous fool!" Having the two leaders argue it caused a chain of events which caused everyone else to argue with one another. Even Sokka and Katara had been affected by it and were arguing, each on opposing sides.

"Guys focus" Aang shouted out silencing them all. "How many times do I have to say it? Harsh words won't solve problems, action will!"

"Perhaps the Avatar is right," the Zhang leader said as she glared at the Gan Jin tribe.

"Yes, perhaps he is" the older man said, both sides finally agreeing on something. Aang had a huge smile across his face, not realizing he had just made the situation much worse.

"Harsh words will never solve our problems..." the female warrior said glaring across to the other tribe.

"Action will!" the male leader shouted out as the two pulled out their swords and clashed with the other. "To the death! And let this be the end of this rivalry!"

"You know, I take it back! Harsh words aren't so bad," Aang said trying to take back his word, but the two just ignored him. The both lunged forward as the sound of their metal swords clashed. Both leaders were skilled enough to dodge the opponents attacks and were equal in strength as they both pushed off from their swords. When stepping back the man's long beard was shown to have been sliced in half while one of the woman's short pig tails was sliced off. Angered by their new appearance the two attempted to charge forward to attack the enemy but Aang didn't give them a chance. He leaped into the air and he smashed the ground with his staff sending a wind of air to both sides. The sudden gust of wind caused the two tribes to fly backwards as well as scatter the food that had been hidden in their clothing and bags, falling to the ground. When the wind finally died out I saw Aang angrily huffing to himself, looking really pissed off but that might have been because of the fact that he hadn't eaten in such a long time. Having to lead two feuding tribes plus on an empty stomach would made anyone snap.

"Is that... food?" Aang asked in disbelief as he saw the scattered food on the ground. "Everyone smuggled food down here! Unbelievable, you guys put our lives in danger because you couldn't go without a snack for a day!" he shouted angrily. "You're all...awful!" he shouted, trying to find the right word. His eyes suddenly widened as he spotted something on the ground, that wasn't mixed in with the pile of meat."So hungry," he muttered as he eyed the pastry "is that...egg custard in that tart?" Before anyone could answer him I saw a swarm of Canyon Crawlers appear from a crack in the canyon wall and began approaching us.

"Oh no, that's a lot of Canyon Crawlers!" Katara said in horror.

"We barely survived one," Sokka said as he took out his boomerang.

"They're coming back for me! They've had a taste, and they're coming back for me!" the Canyon Guide shouted as he backed away from the swarm.

"You still think you can handle this all on your own?" Nyoko asked me as I eyed the large numbers of giant bugs.

"No," I whimpered completely creeped out at the sight of them. "Rebecca," I shouted as I ran to her side. I saw her leaning against the canyon wall, completely unaffected by the presence of the giant bugs as if they weren't even there. "Are you kidding me?" I shouted as I saw a Canyon Crawler creep up beside her. It tried to bite down on her but remarkably Rebecca managed to dodge it by jumping into the air and landed on the bug's back. With no real emotion on her face Rebecca took a seat on top of the insect and looked over at me. "Rebecca, what the hell are you doing?" I shouted out from behind the bug. She gave me a blank expression then pointed down toward the crawlers mouth.

"I just gave it what it wanted," she said pointing down to the ham that the bug was consuming, which must have been next to her before Rebecca jumped away. "If you don't react it should leave you alone," she said still sitting on the thing.

"Aren't you going to try and fight it?" I asked her, shocked that she would actually sit there and doing nothing.

"What do you want me to do?" she asked with a sigh. "Even with my help, do you really think we can take all of them down?"

"Yes," I said without missing a beat. She gave me a unsatisfied look then shook her head.

"The problem you have is you think too highly of me, have some confidence in yourself" she told me. Something then caught her eyes from behind me as she gave out a small sigh. "Besides it looks like Aang's already got a plan," she said as she pointed over to Aang who was waving a bag in his hand, trying to get all of our attention.

"Everybody, watch me! Do what I do!" he shouted to us. He jumped over to a group of crawlers, that were busy consuming food, and threw a dumpling toward them. One of the giant bugs managed to catch it in its mouth, attracting the attention of the other bugs as one charged to him. Aang took the bag into both hands as he managed to slide it over the insect's snout and tightened the strings, enabling it to get its mouth free. I quickly ran off to the side and grabbed a nearby bag as I tossed it over to Rebecca who easily slipped it over the insects snout, without having to jump off its back. After seeing this everyone began doing the same thing and soon enough, all the Canyon Crawlers had muzzles as they each climbed aboard the bug.

"You coming?" I heard Rebecca ask, offering me a seat on the bug. I felt myself shiver as I shook my head. I hate bugs, even in mutant form!

"I'd rather ride on Nyoko," I said as I climbed aboard her back. Rebecca just shrugged her shoulders as she managed to steer the bug toward the canyon wall.

"Now, follow me!" Aang shouted out as he tied a bag of food to his staff and waved it for the Canyon Crawlers to see. "We're riding out of this hole!" Smelling the food the Canyon Crawlers all began climbing up the steep wall following the scent of the food and we managed to make it out of the Great Divide. "Everyone, get off!" Aang shouted out as we jumped off the Canyon Crawler and threw the bag of food back into the canyon with all the insects following behind it.

"I never thought a Gan Jin could get his hands dirty like that" the Zhang leader said complementing the Gan Jins.

"And I never knew you Zhangs were so reliable in a pinch," the Gan Jin leader said giving a complement back.

"Perhaps we're not so different after all," she said accepting the other tribe, just a bit, with a smile.

"Too bad we can't rewrite history," the Gan Jin leader said as he drew out his sword and pointed it to the female warrior. "You thieves stole our Sacred Orb from Jin Wei!"

"You tyrants unjustly imprisoned Wei Jin for twenty long years!" the Zhang leader shouted as she too took out her sword. Aang let out an annoyed groan, irritated at the fact that the two sides couldn't just get along with one another, that is until he came up with a way to solve the dispute.