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RonaldM40196867: It's too difficult to choose a funniest moment, maybe when he and Aang are doing nearly anything together. As for least funny, then when he was leading the invasion, when he was just being cool instead.

Zigzagdoublezee: She lost, but she did put up a good fight, which considering where she's at with her development right now (this is indeed her first ever physical fight) is very impressive. And they're on speaking terms, Ozai and Iroh, but not necessarily on especially good terms.

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The sky-bison soared high over the mountains and valleys of the northern Earth Kingdom, setting off on the long journey south.

Yue sat in the saddle next to Sokka and Katara, and marvelled at the tapestry of landscapes underneath her. It was quite unlike anything she had ever seen before. Huge forests and rivers, alien to the Northern Princess and the ice and snow she had grown up in, passed underneath them, dotted with tiny settlements whose people resembled ants or tiny insects from where Yue was sitting as they went about their day to day lives.

She leaned back in the saddle and looked at her friends. Sokka was perusing his tourist guide, while Katara was staring contemplatively into the distance. Rinzen was sat at the front, directing Gembul the bison towards the south.

"What's that?" Katara asked.

Yue rushed to look where she was pointing. "What?"

Katara gestured downwards, and Yue saw a road winding its way through the mountains, cutting a line through forests and fields as it made its way into the distance.

There looked like there were hundreds of people trudging down the road, many of them with carts and pack animals.

"Refugees," Katara said simply.

Yue craned her neck to get a better look.

"Can you bring us lower?" Katara shouted to Rinzen and Gembul began to dive.

It soon became clear, as they approached, that the column of refugees was in a state of panic, and were not moving. The reason why soon became clear; a river blocked their path, with the remains of a collapsed bridge connecting the roads on opposite banks.

"Tui and La..." Yue breathed. "They're trapped!"

"Is there another way round?" Sokka asked.

Yue shrugged. "I don't know. They may not have time."

Rinzen was already bringing the bison in to land. People were pointing at them, and shouting things that Yue could not really here. She stood up in the saddle, and leapt down.

A hush fell over the crowd as they took in her deliberately slightly ethereal (if a bit windswept) appearance.

"I'm here to help," she said, awkwardly.

"Who are you?" Someone demanded.

"I," Yue replied proudly, "Am the Avatar."

It felt good to say it out loud to a crowd, and this one seemed more credulous than the Air Nomads had been. A gasp passed through the crowd and then someone was rushing towards her, an old man with long white hair and green robes.

"Oh what luck!" He said. "You have to help us, Avatar! We've been attacked!"

"I know," Yue said. "I'm sorry for what the Fire Nation did."

"They attacked our village!" The man said. "We had no choice but to flee, I don't know how far they are behind us, we have women and children with us!"

"Do you have any earthbenders with you?" Yue asked.

But the Mayor shook his head.

"Please, you have to help us cross-"

"Alright!" Yue nodded quickly. "I'll do what I can. Just let me, ah, consult with my friends."

She turned and walked back to the bison, feeling their eyes on her the whole time.

Katara and Sokka looked down at her.

"What's the situation?" Sokka asked.

"They need to cross the river," Yue explained. "Their mayor seems pretty panicked so I think the Fire Nation must be close. Oh, and they have no Earthbenders with them."

"I see," Sokka dismounted, stroking his chin. "And how do we do that?"

"Make our own bridge?" Rinzen suggested.

"Out of ice or earth?" Yue asked. "Not that I could do either. Katara, how good are you at icebending?"

Katara looked embarrassed.

"Not great," she whispered.

Yue frowned.

"Could we make boats?" Sokka asked. "Or build a bridge out of wood?"

"We may not have time for that," Yue pointed out. "If the Fire Nation could be right behind us."

"I could lift people over on Gembul," Rinzen offered.

"There are hundreds of them," Katara said. "If there's no other choice, but otherwise it will take too long."

Yue turned to look back at the water. It was fast flowing, and the river was wide, but the banks looked like they were not steep at all.

"Could we... part the river?" She asked hesitantly.

Katara looked at her.

"I don't know " she said. "Do you think you could?"

"It's worth a go," Yue decided. She turned and walked back towards the mayor.

"I'm going to try something," she promised him, and then looked to see which direction the river was flowing from.

She then positioned herself beside the river so she was facing downstream, very conscious of everyone's eyes on her. She closed her eyes, and concentrated. She was favoured by the moon spirit, she could do this. Breathe.

She remembered Katara's stance that she had been taught in the air temple and dropped down into it. She visualised the water, extended her arms, and made a pulling motion. A moment later, she did it again. Back and forth, back and forth. Push and pull.

She felt the water respond to her commands, but did not know exactly what she had done until she opened her eyes, still making back and forth motions with her arms.

She hadn't parted the river exactly, but she had drastically slowed a portion of it down. Even as she watched, the flow of the water slowed to a trickle, and the surface began to drop, lower and lower until at last it was possible to wade across it with the water just lapping at your ankles.

There was a stunned silence.

"What are you waiting for?" Sokka bellowed. "Get moving!"

Yue felt the river raging against her control as the first villagers, stunned, began to descend down the banks and take their first tentative steps into the water. She breathed in and out slowly, trying not to lose control. Come on, she thought. You're the Avatar. These people are counting on you. Keep it going.

And then she heard a noise that made her blood run cold. She looked straight ahead, and could see it clearly; a fleet of metal riverboats giving into view around the bend of the river ahead of them. Ash and smoke belched from their funnels.

They were all flying the red flag of the Fire Nation.