"Hey ZuZu why don't you come out of the tent and give your sister a proper welcome!"
"What are we going to do now?" Suki panicked.
"I don't know, but I'm sure we are cornered and it's only a matter of time until they break in." Zuko admitted, taking up his fighting stance, waiting for the moment they break in.
"Not if I can help it." Toph bends another wall around the five. They all lessen their stances and crouch down to discuss what to do next.
"We need a plan." At that everyone turns their heads to Sokka.
"Hey what are you guys looking at me for?!"
"Well you are the plan guy." Katara stated looking at her brother as a matter-of-factly.
"Who made me the plan guy?" He whined, just as they felt another jolt underneath them.
"Guys we don't have time for this!"
"You know ZuZu we could strike a deal. If you allow me to capture you…" Everyone's mouths drop wide open.
"Like we'll be dumb enough to do that!" Katara shouts at the crazed princess.
"Tut tut tut you should know peasant it's rude to interrupt while the princess is speaking," Katara jumps up ready to give Azula a piece of her mind, but is stopped by Zuko putting his hand on her arm and pulling her back down. His eyes saying 'Let's see what she has to say', she sighs and nods. "Anyway as I was saying, if you allow me to capture you with no hassle, I promise not to kill you or my prisoner, the Avatar." Everyone looks in dismay as the weight of what she said settled in. "Because I am such a nice princess I will allow you 5 minutes to confer between yourselves and if you don't give me an answer then I will kill all of you, including the Avatar." The group glance to the sides as the sound of silence fills the air.
"Soooo what are we going to do? Just hand ourselves over?" Sokka questions everyone, hoping someone has a better idea.
"No! That has got to be a death sentence!" Katara argues, outraged at the suggestion.
"In all my life I have always listened to this one statement, 'Azula always lies'." Everyone but Toph nods in agreement.
"Have you dunderheads forgotten one crucial thing? Aang has been ambushed, and as far as we know, no one is hunting for the Avatar except your crazy sister. You may have always believed she never lies, but trust me on this one I'm sure she does have Aang."
"And what if she doesn't? No one is going to come and save us." Suki insists, not feeling comfortable about being a prisoner again in such little time distance from the first time.
"And what if she does? No one is going to be able to save Aang either! We are all he's got. Sugar Queen have you forgotten that you are the one who taught him all he knows in water bending not to mention you guys are meant to be good friends?" Katara looks away from her 'she forgot to say was good friends…' "Have I not heard you all say that Aang is our last hope to put an end to this war?"
"Guys Toph is right, we have to find out if she has Aang." Zuko agrees. Toph grins,
"Well thank god for that, I hate giving these cheesy talks, they make me want to smash stuff up." The group just roll their eyes while Sokka starts shaking his head in shame.
"GUYS ARE WE CRAZY? I CAN'T BELIEVE WE ARE ACTUALLY DISCUSSING THIS! Aang is our buddy, our hope. Would Aang hesitate one second if he found out any of us may even be in the tiniest way in trouble? NO! Katara when he thought you were in trouble he even… erm left as soon as he could." Sokka falters 'phew that was a close one, I almost forgot I promised Aang that I wouldn't tell anyone especially Katara about preferring not to go into the avatar state but rather to see if Katara is ok'. Katara glares at him,
"Will you all stop trying to make me feel guilty because I'm NOT!" She shouts at them, 'if anyone is guilty it's Aang, if he didn't create such a fuss over who I spend my time with then none of this would have happened.' However everyone else are having slightly different thoughts 'if Katara realised just how much she means to Aang, he wouldn't have ran away and wouldn't have been captured, and we all wouldn't be in this mess' but they all knew better than to voice their thoughts aloud.
"Well ZuZu are we going to do this the hard way or the easy way?" The group gave each other a look with one determined nod, Zuko gets up and shouts,
"We accept your deal."
A/N: Hi guys hope you liked this chapter. Sorry about all the cliff-hangers and taking a while to update. I promise my next chapter will be more interesting and updated quicker! Thanks for reading. If anything you don't like let me know.