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Zigzagdoublezee: True, emotionally it's not and she would be better off running off with Zuko. But the Fire Nation is the only home she's ever known and as she's a member of the nobility it offers a life far more comfortable, materially, than any Earth Kingdom exile would. She will cross that bridge when she comes to it, but she can now see the bridge in the distance...

RonaldM40196867: He serves to prove that not all Firebenders are evil and there are those who reject the war of conquest in the original.

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The Bison landed a few feet away, and Yue's heart leapt as she saw the yellow and orange attire of an Air Nomad riding it.

"Rinzen!" She bounded towards him happily. "You're safe! And you came back-"

She stopped dead.

The Nomad wasn't Rinzen.

This one was a lot older, and had a goatee beard adorning his chin. He also had the arrow tattoos, marks of airbending mastery among his people, running down his head and arms.

He grinned at her.

"Surprise!"

"Who are you?" Yue pointed at him. "How did you find me?"

Behind her, Jeong Jeong gasped and fell to his knees in shock when he saw the newcomer.

"I didn't find you," the airbender grinned. "I have always been with you, Avatar."

He paused.

"But also you did summon me."

Realisation hit Yue, and she gasped and pointed at him.

"You're Aang!" She said.

"Got it in one!" Aang said happily. "It is good to finally meet you, Yue. I am just sorry it wasn't under happier circumstances."

Hw gestured to her.

"Are you coming or not? I promise, Appa doesn't bite. Much."

Yue stepped onto the bison hesitantly.

"Where are we going?"

"You are going back to the mortal world," Aang told her. "I fear you are needed there very much at the moment."

Yue sighed. "I know. But how? And what about him?"

She gestured to the Fire Nation admiral.

Aang stared at him long and hard. Then he shook his head.

"I am not going to leave him here."

Yue looked at him, surprised.

"Even though-"

"Yes, even despite everything you're about to say. He doesn't deserve to be trapped here for all eternity."

Jeong Jeong scrambled gratefully into the saddle, and Aang snapped the reins. The ghostly form of Appa the sky-bison rose up into the air and began to fly away.

Aang glanced at the Fire Nation admiral and made a small movement with his hands. Yue saw the wind pick up around the admiral's head, his hair being buffeted to a much greater degree than her own.

"What did you do?" She asked.

"Just increased the wind speed around his head," Aang said. "Not enough to hurt him, but enough to make sure he can't hear us."

"You can still bend?"

"I don't know," Aang replied. "Is it airbending, or is it just exerting some small control over the spirit world?"

"Isn't that just what airbending is anyway?"

"Maybe," Aang said. "But I'm afraid I need to talk to you."

"You do?" Yue blinked. "What is it you need to say?"

"Not now," Aang shook his head. "Do you know what day it is today?"

"No?" Yue replied thoughtfully. She had begun to lose track of time since the North Pole.

"There are certain days in which the walls that separate your world and what is now mine are thinner," Aang said. "That's how that spirit was able to get through. But if you don't get home soon the gaps will be sealed, and you will be trapped here until the next time."

"So how do I get home?"

"Don't worry, I can do it," Aang said. "But listen. This is not the only way you can speak to me."

He looked around.

"Past Avatars can... manifest, when they want to, in places that were significant to them in life. Roku has a temple in the Fire Nation, and Kyoshi has an entire island in the southern sea where she can do it."

"So why didn't I see any in the North Pole?" Yue challenged him. "I can't be the first northern Avatar."

"You're not," Aang replied. "I think the last water Avatar, Kuruk, was a northerner too. But maybe the time just wasn't right. We can't tell you the future, only advise you on the best course of action."

Yue turned to him, intrigued.

"So where's your special place?" She asked. "Where would I have to go to speak to you again?"

"Well, I suppose once you know how, you speak to me any time, any place," Aang waved a hand. "But for now, the best place is the place I was born and grew up in. The Southern Air Temple. There you will be able to make the connection."

Yue perked up.

"Oh great, we're headed that way anyway!" She said brightly.

"Wonderful!" Aang grinned at her. "I love it when a plan works out like that."

Then he suddenly became more serious.

"Please be there," he said. "What I have to discuss with you could have serious implications for the balance of the world."

"I'll be there," Yue told him. "Now, the overwhelming time pressure?"

"Right," Aang stopped bending the air around Jeong Jeong's head. "You! Come here."

Jeong Jeong shuffled over, doing his best not to fall off.

"I do not know why you still choose to fight for Ozai," Aang told him. "You are not fighting for your country, you are fighting for one man's ego. Remember your oath, Admiral. And hold still."

"What?" Yue was confused, but Aang simply touched a finger to Jeong Jeong's forehead and the Fire Admiral vanished.

"What did you do with him?"

"Sent him back to the mortal realm," Aang said. "Like I said I would."

He smiled at her again.

"See you soon, Avatar Yue," he said.

"I look forward to it," Yue grinned back. Then Aang's finger touched her forehead and the world spun around her, dissolving and turning back into the forest, where she found herself a few feet in the air, where she had been when the spirit entered the mortal realm.

For the second time, she plummeted to earth with a bump.

"Ow!"

"Yue?" A voice came from the distance, and Yue saw two figures in blue rushing through the forest searching for her.

"I'm here!" She stood up and shouted, trying to get their attention. Then she stood up and went towards them, looking forward to reuniting with her friends again.