"Geez, everyone's getting so mad about their characters," Toph said to me. "Even you seem more down than usual, and that's saying something!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.

"Nothing," Toph said. "I'm just saying that you guys are upset about your characters."

"You don't get it," I said. "You get a muscly version of yourself who can take down ten guys at once and makes sassy remarks."

"Yeah!" Toph said.

"To me, it takes all the mistakes I made and shows them to my face," I finished. "My uncle, he's always been on my side, more so than my father, even when things were bad, for the both of us. He was more like a father to me than my actual father. He was there for me and taught me so much. How do I repay him?" I raised my arms out in front of me. "A knife to his back!" I lowered my arms. "It's my greatest regret and I may never be able to redeem myself. My uncle might hate me."

Toph sat down next to me. "You have redeemed yourself," she said. "You don't realize it, but you already have."

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I had a long conversation with the guy," she replied. "All he would talk about was you?"

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah, it was kind of annoying." It's good to hear that my uncle doesn't hate me, but, I just don't know how to make it up to him. I stabbed him in the back and I haven't been very nice to him. "Sorry," I said.

"It was also very sweet. All your uncle wanted was the best for you. He wanted you to find your own path, one that you created yourself. He wanted you to see the light. Now you're here with us. He'd be proud!" She punched my arm. Rather hard. "Ow! What was that for?"

"That's how I show affection," Toph replied. I rubbed my arm. It kinda hurt. But I smiled anyway. A boy ran up to me. "Your Zuko costume's pretty good but your scar is on the wrong side!" He ran away.

"The scar is not on the wrong side!" I yelled after the boy. I put my hood back up. The doors for the theater opened back up. The intermission is over now. We all walked back to our seats.

The curtains opened again. On the stage stood actress Katara and actress Aang, except she was lying down on Aapa's prop. "Oh, Aang! My brother! Wake up! You give me hope! You can't die now!" Actress Aang moved and smacked actress Katara in the face. "Oh, you're alive!" she cried. "Sokka, Toph! He's alive!" That would be impossible to survive a strike like what Azula did to him. Katara still had the Spirit Water from the Southern Water Tribe. I have a hunch she used that to help Aang.

"Katara," actress Aang said. "What happened?"

"Azula struck you with lightning, but you lived! Our hope, it lived!" Geez, these hope talks are getting annoying.

The scene changed to a small town with a Fire Nation factory painted in the background. Oh that's the town Zhao went to. An actress dressed in light clothes, being lifted above the floor, floated over to Zhao. She waved her arm and he threw himself off the stage. Then, she tore down the painting to reveal another without the factory on it. She landed on the floor and took of the hat. It was Katara's actress. "The Painted Lady was you?" actress Aang asked.

"Yes, I wanted to give these poor souls hope! They needed food, shelter, and hope! I became The Painted Lady to save these poor people!"

"I never would've guessed it would be you, Katara!" actress Aang exclaimed. "I thought you were an actual spirit!"

The scene changed again to Sokka's actor and another guy. Sokka grabbed a prop meteor, which looks like the one that landed near the Fire Nation, the one that Ty Lee begged me to see, and carried it over to the other actor. "There!" Sokka's actor said. He dropped the prop. "Now, make that sword. You must earn the right to hold it," the other actor said.

"Of course!" Sokka's actor said. He walked off stage and came back with a prop sword.

"Good job, Sokka. Now, get out," the other actor said, pointing off stage. The two actors walked off and the assassin came on stage, with Toph's actor. "I will defeat you, Combustion Man!" he said, pointing at him.

The assassin threw a streamer and Toph's actor moved. Toph's actor picked up a rock prop and threw it at the assassin. "Oh, you're back," Sokka said behind me. I turned to see Aang returning to his seat. "Here's what you missed...we went to the Fire Nation, you got better, Katara was the Painted Lady, I got a sword and I think Combustion Man just died. Oh! The invasion is about to start!"

Aang and Katara's actresses are standing on a prop submarine. "i just wanted to let you know, Aang," Katara's actress said, "that I will always love you. Like a brother."

"I wouldn't want it any other way!" actress Aang cheered. She opened her tiny glider and was lifted into the air.

"Hey, Toph," actor Sokka said. "Do you think that you and Aang have a..." he looked down at a card, "'rocky relationship?'" The crowd laughed.

"I told him to say that!" Sokka cheered.

"I hope everyone is ready for the invasion! Slap-a-pow!" actor Sokka said, punching the air. The crowd left again. Sokka did make it a little better but not by much.

The scene changed and actress Aang and Katara run on stage. Now they are inside the Royal Palace. "No one's home!" actress Aang said, landing.

Sokka's actor ran in with his prop boomerang up. "Actually I'm home and I want to join you," my actor said, walking on stage. Sokka's actor put his boomerang down. "I guess we have no choice."

I look at the program. There is another five minutes? What is going on? There's nothing left? It's all caught up. "I guess that's it," Sokka said. "The play's all caught up."

"Wait, it's not done yet," Suki said.

Father's actor walked onstage. Is Aang going to beat Father? "With the energy from the comet, no one can stop me!" he exclaimed. "No one can stop the Fire Nation!" Actress Azula walks on stage. "Father, Zuko and the Avatar are here," she said. "They're trying to stop you!"

"You take care of Zuko," Father's actor said. "I will face the Avatar myself!" He disappeared behind some smoke. My actor and Aang's actress jump on stage. "Aang, you find the Fire Lord! I'll hold off Azula!" my actor said. Actress Aang flew off stage. "You are no longer my brother!" Azula's actress said. "You are now an enemy!"

"I am the heir to the throne!" my actor replied.

"We'll see about that!"

Azula's actress threw a blue streamer at my actor but he ducked. My actor jumped over Azula and threw two red streamers at her. She jumped over them and then over my actor and raised her arms. Red paper rose from under my actor's feet. "Honor!" he called as he was lowered into the floor.

Did...I just...die? Did I see that right? I...died? The crowd cheered. They are celebrating my death? But why? Do I really seem like the bad guy to them? Do they really want to kill me? The scene changed to show Father's actor and Aang's actress on the stage, Father under a prop of Sozin's Comet. "So, you've mastered all four elements?" Father's actor asked.

"Yeah, I di!" actress Aang said, pointing at Father with her tiny glider. "Now you're going down!"

"No! It is you who are going down!" Father's actor returned. "You see? You are too late! The comet has already come! I am unstoppable!"

He grabbed two red streamers and throws them at Aang's actress. She opened her glider and two blue banners pop out this time. She twirled the tiny glider. Father's actor threw a large paper with fire painted on it at Aang's actress. "Noooo!" she cried as she hit the floor. "It's over Father. We defeated the Avatar," Azula's actress said, walking on stage.

"The dreams of my father and my father's father has come true! The Avatar is no more! The Fire Nation has won!" He raised his arms. "The world is mine!" The crowd cheered and stood. We just sat there.

I can't believe that they killed me and Aang. That isn't right. Aang is supposed to defeat my father, not the other way around. I can't believe the Fire Nation will kill their own prince. Can't they see the danger of this war? Can't they see the world hates us?

The crowd left. We were the last to leave. "That was not a good play," I said outside.

"I'll say," Suki said.

"No kidding," Katara said.

"Horrible," Aang said.

"You said it," Toph agreed.

"The effects were decent at least," Sokka said.

"No. They were not," I replied.