Hey guys, I bet you already know what I'm going to say. Yeah~ school started and being a senior I've been busy. With college coming up and having to juggle club activities as well as actual school work, I don't know when I can find time for Avatar but I'll give it my all.

Oh also, I might need to pull back a bit so I don't overwork myself because I recently fainted. It was during school too. I definately kept that teacher on his toes for a good while. Anyway, I've kept you all waiting long enough. Here's the final part, enjoy~


"What happened after I ran off?" Brianna whispered into my ear as everyone gathered into the room to hear Sokka's battle plan.

"Nothing unusual; an awkward silence, an awkward conversation, and then an awkward walk here," I told her.

"Well that's a lot of awkward," Nyoko said shocked.

"Exactly," I said, sighing. "You better explain yourself Brianna. I explained as much as I could but I barely know the situation, so it's not like my talk with Teo will help you much."

"I know~" she whined. "But I know Teo likes you so…"

"What?" I burst out laughing.

"Guys it's starting," Katara shushed us before I could explain. We moved closer into the crowd to get a better view. I saw Brianna hesitate and then decided to stand behind me. I raised an eyebrow but then spotted her little Romeo sitting in front of me.

"We finally got the war balloon working, thanks to Sokka. This boy's a genius!" Teo's father complemented.

"Thank you, you're a genius" Sokka said complemented back.

"Thank you," the older man said accepting the complement.

"See, the problem with the old war balloon was you could get it airborne, but once you did, it just kept going" Sokka explained while demonstrating with a balloon model. "You could put a hole in the top, but then all the hot air would escape. So the question became, how do you keep a lid on hot air?"

"Ugh, if only we knew" Katara groaned making Aang and Teo laugh.

"A lid is actually the answer. If you control the hot air, you control the war balloon."

"Hmm, that's actually pretty smart" Katara said, impressed.

"Okay, we've got four kinds of bombs smoke, slime, fire and…."

"Stink" Teo's father added excitedly, "never underestimate the power of stink!"

"We're going to all come at them from the skies," Sokka said looking at the crowd. "But we're also going to attack them on the ground too. Thanks to our amazing body guards, we'll be able to attacks from all angles," he said, not failing to point us out to everyone.

"Since when did we become his bodyguards?" Brianna asked.

"Well we'll let that slide for now," I whispered to her. "They want a show, so let's give them one." She nodded at me and we both gave one another a high five before Brianna turned to the villagers.

"You'll hit them high..."

"And we'll hit them low," I said completing her sentence. "Now, do we have any objections?"

((OOOO))

"So what's our signal?" Nyoko asked, tired of waiting on the cliff and scratched the side of her cheek with her paw.

"How about when you see a bunch of kids on gliders," I said in an obvious tone while petting Gin's back. "Or when Fire Nation soldiers are coming up the mountain path?"

"Or both" Brianna added with a smile.

"Ah I wish they would just get here already," Nyoko whined. I rolled my eyes at the panther's childish behavior.

"Well you won't have to wait any longer" I said, getting up "they're here." They looked down the path where troops of soldiers and machines making their way towards us. "Brianna, you and Nyoko attack them head on. Gin and I will take them out in larger numbers. Think you two can handle it?"

"Are you kidding?"

"It would make my day!" Brianna exclaimed, completing Nyoko's sentence. I nodded and looked up gilders taking off to the sky. I easily spotted Aang's orange gilder leading the green gliders down towards the invaders. Without another word I jumped off cliff and dived into the thick fog, landing on top of two soldiers. While they were still caught off guard I took the chance to send several of the soldiers off the mountain by shooting them with a wind current from my hand. I heard a crunch noise from behind me and saw Brianna buried in a snow pile.

"Aw man," she whined as she pulled herself out of the snow. "And I thought I had enough competition as it is. At least save some soldiers for me."

"This isn't some video game Brianna," I said with a sigh. I looked down at the paths below us and saw soldiers that were either covered in slim, choking on smoke, or buried in snow.

"I think they got the soldiers handled," I told her as Gin and Nyoko flew down to our sides. "Now comes the challenge." I jumped onto Gin's back and scanned the area. "How do you feel about taking down Fire Nation like tanks?"

"Not as excited," Brianna said dully.

"Oh sorry for making you do boring work," I said sarcastically. "What do you expect we're at a higher level than the villagers. Or would you rather the kids handle the tanks? I'm sure the slim bombs will get break through the metal eventually."

"I didn't say I wouldn't. I was just being honest, God. It's not fun beat up machines."

"Just block their fire attacks for me then," I said rolling my eyes. "I'll slice them open, and then you and Nyoko can beat up the guys inside. Does that sound any better?"

"Yeah," they shouted in unison.

"It's like I'm talking to kindergarteners," I muttered to myself just as Gin took off back to the temple. Several of the tanks had already reached the temple grounds and I saw Aang struggle to hold them off.

"Gin, do you think you can break those things?" I asked him as he dived down toward the battle.

"Perhaps, if you will get me time" he told me confidently.

"Good I'll need all the help I can get," I said before jumping off his back and dove to the nearest tank. I spun my staff and covered the blades with a sheet of wind before smashing the surface of the tank. I repeatedly did this until I finally cracked the through it then jumped off so that Gin could take over. Gin smashed onto the tank and pulled the top off with his fangs. The soldiers tried blasting him with fire but Brianna can into the scene and shielded him.

"Oh this is going to be fun," she said and cracked her knuckles. Brianna gave the man an evil smile and pulled the two men out of the tank with her hooks around their necks, throwing them overboard where an eager panther waited for them. After Brianna went to join her partner, Gin took the opportunity to destroy the tank so it was nothing but scraps.

"I'm going onto the next one," I told him before sprinting to another tank. I smashed my staff against its wheel, slowing it down enough for me to jump on while dodging fire balls. After being able to make an opening on the lid I then move onto the next tank, leaving Gin to pull the top off for Brianna and Nyoko. By the third tank my arms were getting heavy and I was sweating a lot. I really needed to work on my strength and stamina. Not long after Katara appeared onto the battle field. By using her water bending to freeze the tanks and pull out the screws she left the machine completely useless. Somehow even with Aang and Katara's help we still weren't able to take down all the tanks. It made me wonder just how many did the Fire Nation bring with them!

"Brianna, I can't do this for much longer. There's too many and I'm running out of energy" I panted, "Gin's getting tired too."

"I know," she agreed while blocking a soldier's attack with a hook. "I don't think I can take much more either."

"God damn it," I cursed, kicking a soldier in the chest. "Where is that no good son of a…"

"There they are!" Nyoko shouted for joy. I looked up at the sky and saw the red hot air balloon flying over us with Sokka and Teo's father on board.

"Finally," I sighed and pushed away an unconscious soldier into the snow with my foot.

We gathered to the temple to watch as the balloon ready to drop the four giant slimmed filled bags. Surprisingly the soldiers didn't fire or even attempt to attack the balloon. It might have been because of the Fire Nation insignia imprinted on the balloon but something in my gut told me that it wasn't the reason.

I saw them release the bags of slim onto some of the remaining tanks but unfortunately there wasn't enough to cover all of them. The metal machines continued onward drawing nearer to the temple causing panic amongst the villagers. The adults quickly took out tools and tried attacking them or at least buy some more time. I gave an annoyed groan, not wanting to have to use up anymore of my energy on these stupid machines. However, before the tanks could reach us I felt rumbling from below before there was a giant explosion. The mountain shook and a thick brown smoke covered the area. I could hardly see and was preparing for the worst. Once the smoke cleared I saw chunks of the mountain missing but all the tanks had finally disappeared as well.

"Look, they're retreating!" Aang shouted, spotting soldiers running from the mountain. The villagers cheered, revealed and overjoyed with our victory. Too bad the celebration was short lived by Sokka.

"We're going down!" he screamed as the balloon was plummeting down the side of the mountain.

"No Sokka, hold on!" Katara cried out. Aang opened his glider and flew after him. I took a seat in the snow, completely exhausted. Brianna took a seat next to me while Gin and Nyoko retreated back into the charms.

"Shouldn't we help Aang?" Brianna asked.

"Too tired" I said lazily, "I don't want to move."

"Yeah me too, well at least we had fun." I blew a strand of hair from my face then threw some snow at her face.

"Speak for yourself!"

((OOOO))

"Come on let's go," Sokka complained trying to rush us to get on Appa. "We're almost to the North Pole. We can't waste anymore time!"

"Yeah we heard you Sokka," his younger sister shouted back. She quickly said her goodbye to Teo and the others before climbing onto Appa. The sun was setting and surprisingly Brianna was still wide awake.

"Not sleepy?" I asked. She didn't seem to hear my question and was waiting for her turn to say goodbye to Teo. You could really tell she was nervous from the way she hands were shaking. I hoped she wouldn't get tongue tied or chicken out when she finally does get a turn. After all who knows when the next time we'll see Teo again? I spotted Aang getting on Appa having finished saying his goodbyes, leaving Brianna to be the last one. "Your turn," I said impatiently and pushed her toward Teo. Her body tensed up after I gave her a shove. She stood there in front of Teo like a statue. There was a short silence between the two before Teo gave a sad smiled.

"Bye guys, it was great meeting you" he said politely and offered me his hand.

"It was nice meeting you too," I said, shaking his hand. I waited for Brianna to say something or at least shake his hand but she remained as she was, completely still and her eyes wide open. Honestly, she looked like a deer in the headlights. I lost my patients and smacked her arm to snap her out of it, or at least get a reaction out of her.

"Ouch, uh Teo," she said while rubbing her arm. "About what you heard before…well you see…it's…umm"

"Was it true?" Teo asked. Brianna's face quickly turned red from embarrassment and lost all ability to speak. "About you liking me?" he continued. I watched Brianna's face turn darker shades of red. She was as red as a tomato, if not more. It was so hard for me not to laugh. I had to bite my lip in order to control myself. I could have sworn I saw smoke rising up from her scalp. Finally Brianna found enough control to at least nod her head. "I see," Teo said with relief. I could see him blushing a bit but it was nothing compared to Brianna. Well I was just glad that the two finally talked it out. Now I wouldn't have Brianna crying on my shoulder the whole trip to the North Pole. "Brianna," Teo called to her and motioned her to come closer. She hesitated a moment but slowly bent down to his side, expecting him to whisper something. Boy was Brianna surprised when Teo planted a soft kiss on her cheek. I saw Sokka scream from shock in the background as his jaw dropped down to an abnormal length. Brianna's jumped back up and placed a hand over where Teo's lips touched her. She stared at him completely dumbfounded. It took only took a few seconds before her entire face burned up again. I was just thankful he didn't kiss her lips. She would have probably passed out from shock and or happiness. Teo laugh as a small blush across his cheeks. "I like you too, Brianna" he confessed shyly. His smile seemed to get wider as he stared up at her with hopeful eyes. "Will you come see me again?" Brianna finally stopped blushing, enough so that the blood wasn't rushing to her head anymore, and gave Teo a huge smile.

"Of course," she shouted with delight.

"Ah young love," I teased.

"Don't say that" Gin told me, "you sound like an old woman."

"Like I care, I have to act old if I'm Brianna and Aang's mom" I said with a shrug. "Besides, it should be okay once in a while."

"Just don't make a habit of it," he advised. I laughed but agreed before looking back that the newly born couple. "They do look pretty good together," I admitted. Of course the sun decided set just at that time creating a perfect romantic scene for the two. Brianna finally was able to say her goodbye to Teo. I knew it was supposed to be a bitter sweet moment but I don't think the two of them understood. It was like they were surrounded by a lovey-dovey aura that made me want to stay a good distance away from them. I mean, I was glad the two were content with being able to tell the other how they felt, but I could only take so much. Well, it was overall a cute romantic scene. The only thing that could have possibly made it any better was if Sokka wasn't still making that same goofy face in the background. Honestly, he was really killing the mood.