Author's Note:

Dear Reader/ Guest that is reading these chapters daily,

You make me interested. I don't know who you are, but you seem to have quite an interesting sense for literature. Why don't you write your e-mail address in the next review so we can communicate in private and not my part "on stage". Nothing against you, but you know, I also would find a discussion or something with you interesting, but I can only contact you via this. This is a little in-useful. Also I don't want to bother other readers with my private communications. In case you were a fanfiction member, we could simply use private messaging, but since you're not… Anyway I think I like you nevertheless writing me reviews daily *imagine me kissing you lightly on the cheek*.

The Fire Nation ship was bigger than Toreth had thought. She imagined the little ones she saw earlier in her life, but this one was at least as twice as big as these. She wondered how the little Water Tribe ships wanted to manage to sink it. And suddenly she was afraid until she remembered, he had done so a lot of times earlier in his life without her. He would manage this time too, would he not?

She wanted to be as concentrated as she could when they approached the ship.

The bombs she and Hakoda invented together were thrown towards back of the fiendish ship. She was some kind of proud about them inventing together. It had a nice ring to it. He had asked a few evenings before, he had an idea and wanted to try it out. It turned out he found wild pumpkins and wanted her to make some kind of slime out of plants or whatever she wanted that stung really, really awful and fill it in the pumpkins. First she wondered what he would want with that, but when he explained she understood, it would make it easier for them. The bombs were like glue in the propellers of the other ship and like stink bombs to the men on board. She had not even known that there were propellers…

A few minutes afterward she saw the other ship shivering and finally stopping, the men ran up on deck and now jumped into smaller boats before the big one sunk. She remembered wolfs hunting like the Water Tribe ships waited for the smaller boats to come. When they met one terrible battle started. At last her ship was also in combat. Toreth tried to stay out of it, just healing the wounded Water Tribe men and not getting hurt, but as she saw a soldier ramming a big sword through Hakoda's chest she felt hatred glow inside her. She stormed across the ship towards him and grabbed the roots in her pocket.

The Fire Nation soldier only laughed about this seemingly unarmed woman in her rage. Then she sprung and her feet hit his chest. He was thrown to the bottom and she towered above him. He looked into her eyes and suddenly he was afraid, he had heard about woman like these. Wood witches, seducing men and killing them if they had what they wanted, but this one did not seem to want seducing him. She stood above him, pure hatred in her eyes and face, but quiet. She knelt down to him and removed his mask. She laid a hand wide spread about his face in an absolutely calm movement. Then he saw something green next to her hand moving, it was too near to his eyes to see it right.

When he felt something bore threw his skin into his cheek he screamed in terror. Slowly something moved through his body. He screamed even louder. The screaming endured several minutes. All the other fighting stopped. They all looked at her, her hatred visible for everybody, the man beyond her crying out of pain.

Then she removed her hand. The screaming stopped. He was all quiet now. Fire Nation and Water Tribe felt both the same shiver run down their spine.

Toreth ran up to Hakoda's side and knelt beside him. She stroked the hair out of his face, and smiled at him being conscious, he smiled back. As she laid her hand on his body the green light emerged and soon he was all well again. She still smiled at his now sleeping form.

Meanwhile one of the other Fire Nation soldiers walked over to the one she unmasked. When he got near to him he brought his face up close and suddenly shrieked back screaming. He knelt down in front of Bato and hastily stuttered, "We surrender.", he even held out his wrenches. The others hastily mimicked him when they saw what happened to their comrade. Out of his skin perked little roots, the eyeballs were completely gone, there were just roots back in the holes and the mouth, opened to a last scream was full of clover.

The Water Tribe men were not so shocked, they knew about her power as well as her emotionality and her love for Hakoda. It was a logical result, all in all. Bato commented, "Well, maybe we should exhibit him at the entrance to the bay, then we would have here no Fire Nation ships at all in case she stays here. It would be like,… Serpent's Pass.", but Toreth herself was not happy at all about this comment.

Silent she just went off the ship when they landed and sat next to the sleeping Hakoda in his tent.