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Yue settled into a bending stance, and extended a hand towards her opponent. Then she struck; water reared out of the pool and rushed down towards her enemy in a big wave, but she was faster, and by pointing both hands at the rush of liquid and bringing them apart was able to create a gap in the wall of water so it passed around her harmlessly. Then she spun her arms; the water stopped just before it would have slammed into the sand and began spinning around her, before she extended her right arm rapidly and it swung around in a wide arc towards Yue.

The Avatar's eyes widened as it came crashing towards her, and she did the only thing she could think of to avoid it: she jumped into the pool.

The cool water swallowed her, the change in temperature almost knocking the breath out of her, but as she sank into the depths she knew the water whip was passing harmlessly overhead. She tensed her arms and moved them, spinning the water around her. This turned her body around with it and formed a current which propelled her upwards and launched her back out of the water on the top of a waterspout which sputtered out almost immediately. She opened her eyes again in time to see the look of shock on her opponent's face and quickly extended a hand, sending a stream of water which knocked her down.

Then the force holding her up disappeared entirely and with a yelp of surprise she plunged back into the rock pool.

A moment later she surfaced, kicking and spluttering, to find Katara standing up, smirking.

"Impressive," she said. "That thing with the waterspout is apparently a very high-level technique."

She helped Yue out of the water and grinned at her.

"You were good too," Yue told her gratefully. "That water whip was great!"

She looked down at her sodden clothes.

"Now, I think I need a lie down."

They were standing at the side of the largest of a number of rock pools, with the blazing sun beating down upon white sand and brilliantly clear water. In the distance, beyond the furthest pool, Yue could see the ocean. They had been here for a full day now, and Yue had been very grateful for both the training and relaxation that she had been able to indulge in.

The boys had retreated with Gembul to a safe distance when Yue and Katara had announced they were going to start waterbending; Sokka had decided that he tended to get more than he bargained for if he stuck around.

Jet and Longshot were gone; after saying their goodbyes, they had vanished into the forest, headed inland on their way to set up a guerrilla band for the Governor. Yue didn't know why they specifically had been chosen for that task, but she was not a military thinker. Maybe the governor had some special insight.

Yue sat down and stretched herself out under the sun, hoping to dry herself off. Katara, though, remained standing.

"Oh, there's a much faster way of doing it!" She said brightly. "Hold still!"

Yue didn't even have time to ask what she was doing before she felt something incredibly strange. As Katara raised her arms slowly, all the water in Yue's clothes lifted itself off her and coalesced into a big ball hovering over her head. She was completely dry again in seconds.

For a moment, Yue wondered if Katara was going to drop the water back down onto her, but instead she threw it back into the water. Sokka looked up suspiciously from where he was sat on the other side of the pool, wondering if she was about to splash him, and then went back to his sunbathing.

"How did you do that?" Yue asked in wonder.

"I'm a trained healer, remember?" Katara said. "A big part of that is treating people who have fallen into freezing water and stopping them from getting hypothermia. Getting them dry fast is very important."

Yue nodded. She knew Katara resented not being trained for combat, but that didn't mean the Southern Princess didn't have other incredibly useful skills.

Katara sat down next to her.

"I..." she began, awkwardly. Yue braced herself, knowing the coming discussion was unlikely to be comfortable with such an opening.

"I wanted to thank you," Katara said. "For what you did. It was... brave."

Yue was taken aback.

"Really?"

"Of course!" Katara said. "It was still stupid, self-destructive and very drastic to do it for just a minor fort, but I know you were just doing it to help people. To help us."

She smiled.

"Isn't that what the Avatar is supposed to do?"

Yue nodded.

"Believe me, I didn't want to," she said. "If there was any other way out I would gladly have taken it."

"Still!" Katara suddenly seemed breezier. "Everything worked out well in the end."

"Thank you for that," Yue nodded. "Maybe I could have escaped on my own, but I wouldn't have liked my chances. Not unless I could trigger the Avatar State again."

"So Kaito knew about it?"

"He did. He knew what it did to those riverboats, but he didn't seem to mind too much, strangely."

Katara nodded.

"I guess he was just pleased you were cooperating."

"That and he didn't like Zhao."

"Didn't he?"

"No," Yue smirked. "He called him a prat and everything."

"The Fire Nation doesn't like the Fire Nation either?" Katara laughed. "Well, at least they're right about something."

Yue's attention was distracted by Sokka, who had stood up and had his back to them. He appeared to be staring out to sea.

Then he turned to them.

"Hey!" He shouted.

"What?" Katara yelled back.

"There's something you should see here!"

The Princesses stood up quickly.

"What is it?" Yue began to shout, but her words died in her throat when she saw.

Big grey shapes were clearly visible in the distance, what looked like an entire fleet of ships sailing past on their way... somewhere. As they stood there ash began to rain down from the sky, landing in the clear pools and floating on the surface. Sokka ran towards them, while Rinzen was some distance away, still transfixed by the sight.

"What are they doing here?" He groaned. Yue felt similarly.

"I think the fun's over," she said. "We need to get going."

"Actually, I don't think you're going anywhere," a familiar voice said from behind them. They whipped around to find two men in red uniforms stood at the edge of the forest. One was very familiar; the other was older, with a fancier uniform but also very messy hair for a military commander.

"Pleased to finally make your acquaintance, Avatar Yue,"Commodore Zhao smirked. "Turns out you're not just an ordinary Princess at all, are you? It doesn't matter, you're under arrest."

Tui and La, Yue thought angrily. Not again.