A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back with a brand new chapter for you! I would like to thank you all for the comments I have been recieving! Some people were responsive to the Azula one-shot sugguestion, so I think I will write that. It might not be very long, but it will clear up her thinking process. I saw some of you were confused about why she had suddenly joined the light side- so I will see what I can do about that. Anyway, here is the next chapter, please enjoy and let me know what you think! I think it turned out ok. Let me know!

DISCLAIMER: NOT MINE. ALL NICK'S. ARE THEY EVEN STILL A THING? IDK BUT THIS IS THEIR'S.

Chapter 12: The City of Sun (and a Couple Acrobats)

Another three hours, and the trio was flying over what looked like a city, but a really old one.

The Sun Worriors.

"Woah!" Aang and Zuko exclaimed, staring down at the ancient buildings.

Azula was asleep.

"Azula! Wake up! We're here!" Aang yelled over his shoulder at his female firebending sifu.

"Huh? Wh… Oh…Well."

The young girl's eyes widened as the city of her ancestors came closer.

Appa landed outside the entrance, dropping off his passangers with ease.

"Stay here bud. We should be back by sundown." Aang said as he gave the large Bison a hug.
Azula stared at the two, smiling slightly. She had never had a pet before, so she couldn't relate to the connection Aang had with his life-long friend. But at least there was a connection without a doubt.

Zuko glanced at them before turning his attention to the city ruins that lie before them.
"We should get moving. We need to get in and find these dragons." He stated grimly, drawing his sisters attention to him.

"If there are any. It's been 100 years… we should prepare for the worst." She said, facing the city herself.

"What was the average life-span of a dragon?" Aang asked as he joined his teachers.

The firebending duo looked to one another.

"We don't know. Maybe Roku does? You are in contact with him, right?" Zuko asked, turning to the small Avatar.

Aang looked away sheepishly. Zuko noticed that Azula did the same.

He raised an eyebrow. Was he missing something? Avatars could do that, right? Talk the last Avatar-or even ones before that- if they wanted too?

"Um… about that. You see, Azula hit me with lightning when I was still in the Avatar state. It locked one of my chakras, the energy points that help me go into the Avatar state. When one is locked, you have to find away to unlock it again before you are able to use the Avatar state again. I haven't been able to unlock it. That's one of the reasons I really need to learn firebending, so that when I go up against the Fire lord, I'm not at a total disadvantage." Aang said, explaining it as best he could n terms he believed Zuko whould understand. Not that he was stupid- It was just Aang himself was still having a hard time understanding it all. He was much less able to explain it.

However- Zuko was still stumped. They had nothing? All they had to go off of was a good-as-forgotten civilization and the nieve hope that there were still dragons to learn from. He turned to Azula.

"You knew about this?" He asked, affronted.

Azula crossed her arms. She still had a sheepish look on her face, but she held her ground.

"He explained it to me when you and Sokka went on your little 'fishing trip'." She said cooly, smirking as Zuko now looked sheepish.

"Well, we may as well try, since we're here. There's gotta be something that can help us." Aang said as he pushed past the two siblings.

Azula looked to Zuko. "He seems awfully hopeful." She said as the young airbender pranced through the broken down gates of the city.

"…he has to be. We all do." He moved past her to follow his young friend, leaving Azula to ponder his words.

She did for a moment, staring blankly at the dirt under her feet as she let her brother's word sink in. Then she realized the boys had vanished from sight, and hastened to catch up with them.

Upon entring the city, the three got to talking about the past being imprinted on the future.

"The building designs are definetly still being used today." Azula commented after Zuko noted how eerily framiliar the sructures were.

"But they don't use this material anymore. I've seen some of the fire nation cites and towns, back when you two hadn't joined our group… they look similar, but technology has definetly improved." Aang said as he stepped forward.

And right into a booby trap.

"WOAH!" The young airbender used his breath to flip himself over and forward into a wobbly standing position on the other side of the spike pit. He whipped around to face his two friends.

"Guys, I think the past is trying to kill me!" He said, his voice kicking up a notch.

Zuko leaned down and examined the trap.

"This booby trap is over a thousand years old and it still works." He said, picking up the rope.

"Maybe we shouldn't be here then." Aang said, worridly glancing between the building's in the distance and Zuko-who was now looking up at the buildings from his crouched position- and Azula- who had her finger pressed to her mouth in thought.

"Any place that has booby traps means that there's something worth protecting." Zuko said, standing straight again.

"However…the trap might be new, brothers." Azula thought out loud, still glowering in concentration at the nearly-new-looking trip wire.

Aang and Zuko did not miss how she adressed both of them when she mentioned her kin. Brothers, pluar.

Is she starting to think of me as family? Aang wondered thoughtfuly to himself.

Zuko-however- had different thoughts running through his head. "New? You think people still live here?" He asked, examining the rope some more, it did seem farily sturdy.

"Thriving really. What low life civilization would set a trap at the entrance of their home? A very effective trap at that. Proceed with caution, we might have natives on our hands."

"Do you really think the Sun Worriors still exist?" Aang asked excitedly, looking back to the rising structures in the distance.

"…It's a possibility." She answered, glancing around herself. Perhaps she had been wrong, maybe there really were people here.

People. Not dragons. But now she had a bit more…hope.

"Well, then the natives are trying to kill me." Aang-reminicent of Sokka- deadpanned, turning back to the threatning spikes that had been inches away from impaling him.

Zuko was done waiting. He dropped the rope, took a few steps back and broke into a run. Defying gravity itself, he ran horozontialy along one of the stone walls that linned the entry-way. He landed on his feet with a thud and dusted himeself off. "Where's that up-beat attitude you were talking about?" He asked the young air nomad.

Azula- who was still on the other side of the pit- rolled her eyes and broke into a run herself. However, rather then veering to the side, she jumped straight into the pit-headfirst- flipped in mid-air, grabbed one of the spikes by it's smooth outter surface-as to not slice her hand- used it as a spring-board of sorts and pushed off onto her feet at the other side.

Aang clapped as Zuko muttered "Show-off" Under his breath.

"Let's keep moving." The bald avatar said as they all turned to face the rest of the city.

"Be careful- we don't want any more accidents." Azula said distractedly as she followed the boys down the path.

Zuko glance back at her, amused. "You've been spending too much time with Katara- you're starting to sound like her."

Even though she was refusing to really acknowledge Zuko's general presence within the group, he had noted how she interacted with everyone else, including Azula at times. She had been motherly, caring. Making sure no one got hurt. A sort of attention he wished she would turn on him at times.

Ok, most the time.

Azula smirked. "And you've been watching her too much." She had to fight the urge to laugh as she saw not only Zuko, but Aang as well, stumble at her notion.

Aang didn't bother looking back, mostly due to his flushed face, and also partly because he had heard Zuko stop.

Was he not paying attention? Did Zuko really pay that much attention to Katara?

Aang shook his head. Nah, Azula was just joking. Zuko didn't like Katara, not like he did.

…Right?

Zuko, on the other hand, stoped and turned to his little sister.

"Th-I No! I…Don't watch Katara. Not like that!" Zuko spluttered very ungracefuly.

"Oh? But you admit to watching her then?"

"Wh-NO! I don't…I-"

Azula cut him off with a giggle-an actual giggle- and said, "Now you're starting to sound like Sokka."

Zuko stopped at that.

How would Azula know what Sokka sounded like? Granted, the boy was loud- but he had mostly been keeing his cool ever scince the Boiling rock.

Unless...

"Oh really. Has someone been watching him closely?"

Azula stopped smiling to give her brother a deadpan look.

"Let's keep moving."

"You didn't say no." Zuko chuckled as she walked past him, shoving his shoulder roughly.

She glanced back at him over her own shoulder.

"And neither did you, brother."

Aang had heard it all.

A/N: So what did you think? Were their reactions a bit much? I think I nailed Aang's, but I'm not sure, let me knowwwww, make me a better writer my dears! Ill catch you on the next one!

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