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Chapter 13: Shall we dance? (Alternative Title: Zuko Put That Down!)

A trek throught the so far seemingly abandonded city led the three teenagers to a building with a red sphere in the door.

Aang tried opening the golden doors.

"They're locked up!" He exclamied, looking back at his friends.

Zuko thought for a moment, rubbing the back of his head as he looked around.

Azula pursed her lips, searching as well.

Both her and Zuko's eyes landed on the identical sphere located on the top of a pole at the entrance of the courtyard, facing the other sphere.

"It's a calander." Zuko explained.

"According to it, this door should open on the next solstiace." Azula observed, tapping her chin in concentration.

Aang groaned. "We don't HAVE that long!"

Zuko glanced around some more. "Maybe not," He started, taking one of his dual swords out from behind his back, "But we can speed time up…" He said, knealing down and angling his sword in such a way that it caught the light from one sphere and cast it onto the other.

For a moment, nothing happened.

"Come on…" Zuko muttered, holding the sword steady.

Finaly, the doors made a loud grinding noise and split apart.

"Yeah!" Aang said turning to Zuko, "You know Zuko, I don't care what everyone else says about you, You're pretty smart!" He said elbowing Zuko in the ribs, his earlier suspicions slightly forgotten.

Azula, who got the jab before Zuko did, started to snicker into her hand.

Zuko smiled, until he got the underlying meaning too. That little…

Aang walked into the dark room.

Only to meet an angry looking face.

"AH!" He yelped, holding his arms up in defence.

"Relax," Zuko said, walking in along with his sister, "They're just statues."

"Old one's too." Azula said, walking into the middle of the semi-circle the statues were set up in.

Zuko followed, looking up at the pieces of stone.

Aang approached the first statue, reading the inscription.

"It says… This is something called the Dancing Dragon."

Azula nodded, only veguly aware of what her new young friend was saying as she stepped into the center of the room… there was an indent in the floor…

Aang set down his staff and examined the statue before him, arms behind his back.

After a moments consideraton, he imitated the pose the statue was set in. Beneath him, the ground sank with a soft "Thunk".

Aang hopped out of the little hole and bent down, examining it.

Zuko was looking at one of the statues with mild interest when a bald, blue, blur rushed at him, latching onto his arm.

"Zuko! Get over here, I want you to dance with me!" The smaller boy said, tugging on his Sifu's arm towards the front of the room.

"WHAT?!" Zuko exclaimed, pulling out of the younger boy's grasp.

Azula finaly looked up from where she was sitting on the floor- examining the dent still- And laughed lightly.

"Oh please do Zuzu, this should be entertaining!" She said, grining as she watched her brother shoot her a glare before reluctantly following the youngest of the trhee.

Aang took his position back in front of the first statue and watched out of the corner of his eye as Zuko did the same.

From there, the two moved in sync, matching each position until they met in the middle, fist connected with each others-arms outstreached and raised above their heads.

Azula looked on thoughtfully, studying the form, when the ground directly in front of her- the one she had been inspecting- called her attention as it moved.

Two slabs of stone pulled apart, and a podium rose up from the darkness.

A top of it sat…a giant golden egg?

Azula stumbled back, eyes wide, as her brother moved forward, an intruged look gracing his features.

Without thinking, he reached forward and grabbed onto it.

"Zuko! Put that down! We don't know what it is!" Aang hissed quietly, afraid that if he spoke to loud something else would come out of hiding.

"Yes, I don't know about you, but I would rather not loose my life over a breaking and entering." Azula said harshly, her tone matching Aang's

"It feels almost…alive…" He muttered, weighing it in his hands.

Brfore his two siblings got a chance to respond, a scream ripped from Zuko's mouth as a dark, glue-like substance blasted him into the air.

"Wh-ZUKO!" Azula and Aang shouted, the former running forward, seeing as the glue was now begining to rise all around them.

"Hold on!" Aang shouted as he forecfully tried to airbend them out of their perdiciment.

Eventually this only made things worse and the three teens were stuck sandwhich-style to a grate, facing skyward with no way out.

"Ugh! Great job, really brother!" Azula said sarcastically- and rather forcefully, which was realy impressive actually, considering her lungs were being crushed by the glue- after they had stopped moving.

"If I had my bending back, I could burn us out of here." Zuko said, struggling a little.

"Tried already, the glue's too thick." Aang said as he wiggled around a bit.

"Let's just figure out how to get out of here- and quickly." Azula said, trying to get a feel for where all her limbs were.

"Any ideas?..." Zuko asked, only to receive the silence of two people trying to free themselves from a trap he had put them in.

Looks like they'd be stuck for a while.

"I can barely feel the rest of my body- let alone move." Azula said as she continued to try and move.

"Don't try to, it might make it worse." Aang said as he tried his hardest not to wiggle around. It was hard, given that he was squished between his two teachers, his face pressed against the grate. His right arm was bent at an odd angle-he was sure he could feel the fabric of Azula's outter tunic near his fingers- his left arm was pressed snuggly against his body and his legs were splayed out- one bent and the other straight out.

Zuko and Azula were not off much better- Azula could swear the Avatar was touching her left butt-cheek and she couldn't even decipher where her limbs were.

Zuko was just stuck with no feeling anywhere.

Except that his left arm was starting to tingle.

Was that bad?

"So…what now?" Aang asked awkwardly, staring up at the sky.

"Uh…pretty clouds?" Zuko answered, calling to memory the painfully akward conversation he and Sokka had on their way to the Boiling Rock.

"Yes. Giant lumps of visble air-how gorgeous." Azula snapped back sarcastically.

"Actually, they're made of water." Aang said, smiling slightly.

"Wait…really?" Zuko asked, as he tried his hardest to look at Aang from the corner of his eye. When he found he couldn't he looked back up at the clouds with new curiosity.

"How exactly do you know that?" Azula asked, wondering what a person would have to go through to find that out.

"Sokka, Katara and I were travling on Appa one day. We were bored and the topic of clouds came up. We wanted to know what they were made of, so I jumped off Appa-"

"Of course you did" Azula said dryly

"-And fell through one. I came back up sopping wet." He giggled.

Zuko assumed the subject of clouds came up thanks to Sokka, but Aang said nothing on the matter of how it was brought up.

Aang sighed, wondering if it would be safe to take a nap while trapped in this stuff- but decided against it when Azula started to talk again.

"You do realize, we could be trapped here forever?" She said, quite disinterested for someone who just brought up the topic of potential death.

"Well. There are worse ways to go?" Zuko said unsurly. How was he supposed to make light of that?

"Yes, death by glue. We shall be remembered as ledgends." Azula smirked at her own quip.

"You know, you guys are really bad at looking on the bright side of things." Aang said with slight annoyance. Seriously, did these two always have to go dark?

"It's in our nature. As Toph likes to say, we are Angsty firebenders." Azula said, remembering what the small earthbender had said when they figured out Sokka and Zuko had snuck off to prison.

"She never said that." Zuko said.

"Yes she did." Aang and Azula answered in unison, surprising the both of them.

"About you actually." Azula amended, chuckling when Zuko groaned.

"I'm not angsty." He said hotly.

"Yes you are. Katara told me all about your honor speech you gave her when you tied her to a tree." Aang blabbed, making the prince turn red.

"She told you about that?!"

"You tied her to a tree?!" Azula said, obviously amused.

"I-she I was- Pirates! UGH!"

"What about pirates?" His sister seriously wished she could see him.

"Apparently Zuko-haha, apparently he grabbed Katara and said 'I'll save you from the pirates.'" Aang said through his laughter, Azula joining in as well. "Then he tied her to a tree and wouldn't shut up about regaining his honor."

"Oh, brother, you always wanted to be the heroic type when it came to romance." She said, breaking down in laughter again.

Zuko was glad Katara had not disclosed how intimate that ordeal was for the both of them.

Aang-though slightly uncomfortable with what Azula said- laughed some more.

Zuko just turned a shade redder and was thankful they couldn't see his face. He was sure that his face was hot enough to burn through the glue.

Then a memory came to surface.

"At least I never dreamt of being a damsel in distress." He muttered under his breath- but the two next to him heard.

Aang stopped laughing and looked confusedly at the darkening sky.

Azula blanched.

"We promised to never speak of that!" She said too quickly for her own liking.

Zuko grinned.

"Or treating my lovers to-"

"SHUT UP ZUZU!" Azula yelped, not wishing to re-live her confessions. She had only ever disclosed her fantisies regarding anything of that sort with her closest friends, that being Mai and Ty-Lee.

Wait.

"How do you even know about that?"

Zuko stopped laughing in favor of blanching himself.

Oh crap.

He had only gotten that information from spying on the three girls when they were all younger- back when he was a child and curios as to what girls prattled about when alone. He was not ready to hear his sistser's scaring hopes for the future.

"Um… Mai told me?"

"Oh my Fire Lord! Zuko, were you peeping on us!?"

"NO!"

"Um… what's going on?"

The two siblings seemed to remember that the -extreamly young- Avatar was still between them.

"You'll understand when you're older." Zuko choked out.

Aang just shook his head.

If someone didn't come for them soon, he might not get to be any older.

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