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RonaldM40196867: I think it would probably be water. I think it fits my personality the best.

Zigzagdoublezee: Mai does love Zuko, but she's from the Fire Nation and so takes following orders from her Fire Lord incredibly seriously. There is also the fact that she can't go home without Zuko.

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The spirit loped along, Yue grunting as she was thrown around, until it finally stopped and dropped her. She landed painfully, Jeong Jeong collapsing next to her, and then it was off, galloping into the distance.

"Ow," Yue complained, struggling to sit up. "That was uncalled for."

She looked around at her surroundings. It was obvious that she was not in the same forest she had been. The trees were different, their branches bare, and they were wreathed in constant, creeping fog. The sight made Yue uneasy, and the fog seemed to close in around them in response.

Jeong Jeong groaned and stirred feebly. She looked down at him, and then stood up, noting with irritation that her white clothes had been stained with mud. Fortunately she had a backup with Gembul, but she needed to get out of here first.

Where is here, anyway?

Yue suspected she could guess, and it wasn't an answer she liked. She was a very, very long way away from her friends now, with only a half-conscious Fire Nation admiral for company.

"What..." Jeong Jeong said feebly. "Where am I?"

Yue looked down at him.

"Somewhere you can't hurt anyone else," she scowled.

"If you'll permit me, that doesn't really narrow it down," Jeong Jeong said politely.

Yue sighed.

"The Spirit World," she admitted.

"Really?" Jeong Jeong sat up and rubbed his head. "Fascinating. I'm sure Zhao will have a lot of questions for me later, he has a keen interest in the spirits you understand."

"I don't care about his hobbies," Yue told him coldly. "I care more about what he does when he's on duty."

"Like what?"

"Like burning a forest and enraging a spirit," Yue said. "That must have been what happened; that spirit must be tied to the land somehow."

"So it took us to the spirit world?"

"Yes," Yue confirmed.

"So where is it?" Jeong Jeong looked around. "I imagine we're not here for a holiday. Why has it left us here?"

"Where else can we go?" Yue asked pointedly. "I don't know if there's any way back to the mortal world."

"Great," Jeong Jeong stood up.

"This is your fault," Yue told him.

"Why?" Jeong Jeong shrugged. "You ran into the forest."

"Because you were trying to catch us! You were the ones firebending all over the place! We were just trying to have a nice time at the beach!"

She paused.

"Why are you doing this?" She asked. "Nobody I've asked has been able to give me a straight answer. And don't just say orders, why were those orders given?"

"Why?" Jeong Jeong looked around. "Does it matter why?"

"Of course it matters!" Yue pointed at him. "You want to fight for a good cause, don't you?"

"I fight for my country. That's a good enough cause for me."

"Why do you need to though?" Yue asked. "Was the Fire Nation under any threat?"

"What do you mean?"

"You had no quarrel with the North," Yue said. "I'm the Princess of the North, I would have thought I'd know if you did. You were on good enough terms with us to be invited as honoured guests for the ceremony where I was unveiled as the Avatar."

Jeong Jeong looked uncomfortable.

"Look, I know that was unpleasant-"

"Unpleasant?!" Yue repeated with outrage in her voice.

"Yes, unpleasant, but it was judged to be a strategic necessity. The example of Roku convinced the high command that the Avatar could never be won round by ideological concerns, and so they needed to be eliminated as soon as the world knew who they were."

"That's why it was scheduled for then?"

"Exactly. Killing one teenager is going to be easier than wiping out the entire tribe."

He said this in a matter of fact way.

"So your problem with killing my entire tribe is not morality, but practicality?" Yue was by now seething with barely-contained fury.

"Ah," Jeong Jeong raised a hand. "It wasn't like that-"

"How? How wasn't it like that?"

"We didn't do it, did we?" The Admiral defended himself. "We only-"

"Tried to murder me, launched a surprise attack upon my home, have done something to my father, and are now chasing me all over the world to either kill me or deliver me in chains to your homeland and then kill me."

Yue folded her arms.

"Yes, Admiral, how very considerate of you. I'm touched you cared enough about my feelings to do that."

Jeong Jeong stared at her.

"And what about the Earth Kingdom?" She continued. "Had the Fire Lord fallen out with the Earth King at all, or was that just as unprovoked as the North?"

Jeong Jeong finally looked like he had had enough.

"Look, I don't have to justify myself to you!" He said. "My loyalty is to Fire Lord Ozai, not to a random girl."

"But I'm not some random girl am I?" Yue pointed out. "If I were, neither of us would be here. I am the Avatar, and I have a duty to the world."

"You see, statements like that are why we attacked the North in the first place," Jeong Jeong said. But Yue narrowed her eyes.

Had that been uncertainty in his voice?

"I've had enough of this," Jeong Jeong stepped away. "If you're the Avatar, go on. Get us out of here, so I do not have to put up with your preaching any longer."

"So you don't want to tell me what this is all for," Yue stated.

"No I do not! Now stop asking!"

"Alright," Yue shrugged. "But do you know what you're fighting for yourself?"

Then she walked a few steps away and surveyed her surroundings. Jeong Jeong said nothing as she looked around.

Come on, she thought. How do I get out of here? What would my past lives do in this situation?

She had another thought.

Hey, what would Aang do?

Almost immediately there was an animal growl in the fog.

"What was that?" Jeong Jeong asked from behind her.

"I don't know," Yue told him. She spun around, seeing nothing, until a movement in the distance caught her eye and dragged her gaze skyward. Something big was descending towards them rapidly, growing larger every second as the unmistakeable form of a sky-bison took shape in the fog.

Yue's heart leapt. She didn't know how, but Gembul was here. Her friends had come to get her!