A.N Happy late thanksgiving! Here is the next chapter of the story and hopefully I will be able to finish the next one soon. I do not have too much say so please review and have fun reading.

After I answered the crewman I just watch the avatar. He was small and carried a staff with him. I could tell he was bald and it seemed that he had a tattoo on his head. I was amazed how the Avatar just stood his ground as he was being surrounded by six firebenders and Zuko and when the group was closer to the Avatar he sent snow flying in all directions taking out all of soldiers and only leaving Zuko standing. I could tell Zuko was not amused by the snow since he had steam coming off of him to get rid of the snow. Zuko then went into an attack stance and circled with the Avatar who was also in a fighting stance. Zuko seemed to be pushing the Avatar's back towards the ship and that is when I figured out what Zuko wanted. It was time for my part of the plan so I stood up on the edge of the ship wrapped the scarf that I had around my face and jumped off towards the two fighters.

The ship was tall enough where I had to use a quick jet of fire in front of me to slow down enough not to injure myself. When I was about to hit the ground I tucked and rolled forward then faced the Avatar who surprised at what was happening. Zuko made a slight movement which caused the Avatar to react and the Avatar sent an air blast that knocked Zuko back. I then proceeded to start my fire ball attacks to try and unbalance the Avatar but he just jumped over me and sent an air blast meant to trip me up. I jumped over it then sprinted at the avatar but again the Avatar jumped over me but this time I shot a quick fireball where he was going to land and it caused him to trip up. I was about to send a fireball that would stun the avatar enough to catch but I heard a scream from beyond where the Avatar.

"No, Aang!" It came from a girl in the crowd of villagers. It was then that I really noticed that the village was all women and children all scared of me and the other firebenders. When I looked at the girl who yelled out I saw she was the oldest girl here and that she was exactly what Water Tribe girls strived to look like. She had brown hair in hair loopies and had the browned skin of the Water Tribe. Her eyes were a deep blue and they reminded me of my mother's. It was then I felt guilt for my actions. I didn't realize that I had become a part of the people I feared as a child. I became the thing that my tribe said I would be and I just let it happened.

I was just frozen with this thought and did not even see the air ball the Avatar sent at me. I just flew back and landed on the ship's ramp. When I got up I saw Zuko was now fighting with the Avatar and it was not going well. Zuko was letting his rage go and it made his attacks be less accurate and I thought some would hit the villagers but the Avatar stopped them. I didn't want any of the kids to be hurt or scared anymore so I decided I would end this now without bending. When the Avatar, or Aang I guess, knocks Zuko away I was sprinting at him. Luckily I was close enough and fast enough to actually be able to get to Aang before he noticed me. I quickly place him in a hold where he could not move his hands and I quickly said, "Please come with us so no one else gets hurt."

Aang told me, "I will come but you better promise me you will leave the village alone."

"I can promise that." This response came from Zuko who got back up. After that we proceeded to take Aang on board the ship and I felt terrible when I heard the girl protest this. I felt like I have shamed mother and Uncle. I walked straight to my room to go and think about what I did. I knew Zuko wanted me to come as he presented the Avatar to his Iroh on the ship's deck but I just couldn't stand what I had done.

When I first got to the Fire Nation I hated it since it was my Tribe's enemy. I don't know what happened to the belief but after the years of being part of the Fire Nation I think I lost some of myself and I didn't realize this until now. How could I ever stand on the side of the Fire Nation? I never believed in what they said about the war and I always wanted to leave the place. Now that I think about it being exiled was a great thing since I was not part of the Fire Nation. The problem with believing this is that there is part of me that likes the Fire Nation and hates the water tribe. My tribe caused all my problems with my family. They made it so my parents felt that it was better for me to leave. The tribe made it so my brother ran away and made it so my father had to go back to the Fire Nation which killed.

Tears of anger began to run down my cheeks. I was angry with both nations but I also loved them. My childhood was in the Water Nation which was good until right before I left yet now most of my friends were in the Fire Nation or at least fought for the Fire Nation. I knew that I had to fight for a side but neither one seemed better. I could not make a decision so I decided to not make one. I was just confusing myself so I thought that I would just push aside and just go with the flow and right now the flow was bring me back to the Fire Nation with Zuko and the Avatar. Zuko was my best friend and he wanted so badly to return to his home.

I had a weird ping in my stomach but I ignored it and decided I would go find Zuko or Iroh. I did not get far away from my room when I heard a siren go off signaling a prisoner was escaping. I ran as fast as I could to get to the deck to see if I can catch the Avatar. It took a few minutes and by the time I reached the deck I saw the Avatar bending an impressive display of water. He pulled water from the ocean, made it into a large circle around him then blasted into all directions knocking over all the soldiers.

The Avatar fell from exhaustion and a large flying creature landed behind him. Even though part off me said I should not run towards the giant beast I knew that losing the Avatar would crush Zuko so I charged in. Two people jumped off of the beast, one was the girl who distracted me earlier and the other was the boy Zuko fought with. He saw me charging so he came at me and I had no problem grabbing his arm and tossing him away from me.

I got closer and the girl now noticed what happened to the boy so she stood and prepared to fight. I saw her trying to waterbend so I paused to stop the attack but her sloppy bending shoot the water backwards. I smirked remembering when I did that. I began approaching towards her knowing she could not do much but that's when I remember the beast in front of me who looked right at me. Before I could do anything the thing blew at me which caused an air blast launching me into a wall then everything turned black.

P.S Thank you to everyone who has been reading this story.