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Yue plunged towards the surface of the ocean. For a moment, she panicked, expecting the cold shock of impact, but then her training kicked in. She moved her arms, and felt the water respond to command, rising up to gently catch her. Instead of crashing into the sea, she touched the surface gently, forming a ramp that she surfed down until she was skimming across the surface towards the shore. Beside her, Katara matched her movements.

Fire Nation soldiers saw them coming and rushed towards the shore, but the stink-bombs fired from the ships were doing their jobs. Soldiers were dropping their weapons and staggering away, falling to their knees, and looking very like they were going to be sick. Even the ones who had maintained formation, and who now stood on the shoreline waiting to recieve them, looked distinctly green. Yue continued sliding towards them, spray being thrown up in her wake, and then just before she hit the shore abruptly changed direction, throwing up a wave of water which slammed into the hapless firebenders, knocking them to the ground. Then she ran out of water and hit the beach, managing to style out the sudden loss of momentum by turning it into a roll.

She came up standing, and nodded, satisfied with how it had all turned out.

A moment later, Katara was next to her, as a figure in red appeared from between the houses in front of them. The soldier, an officer from the look of him, saw them and looked startled. Then he shouted.

"The Avatar's here!" He screeched, drawing a long, slightly curved sword. "Attack!"

He came charging down the beach towards them, holding his sword aloft, followed by a few dozen other Firebenders who must have been under his command. They no longer seemed to be affected by the stinkbombs, which must have lost their potency in the tsunami Yue had created. Yue turned to the sea and pulled it towards her, the water rearing up over her head, a hole opening up for her and Katara to pass through neatly, and then crashing down on the charging firebenders. Half of them were knocked down, but some of the others were simply drenched, and looked more annoyed than hurt as they continued to advance. Katara stepped forwards and extended a hand, causing her water-skins to burst open and the water within to come floating out, coalescing into a large ball which floated in the air in front of her.

Then she began to punch the air, and a hail of ice-shards shot out from the ball, causing it to get gradually smaller as she saturated the beach in front of her with flying ice. More firebenders fell, Katara's icy projectiles slamming into their helmets and breastplates and knocking them down as they advanced up the beach.

Behind them, there was a crashing sound, and Yue turned to see one of the wooden sailing ships deliberately run itself aground. A moment later, Water Tribe marines began jumping down into the surf, and following them up the beach, brandishing their heavy war-clubs.

Katara's ball of water grew smaller and smaller until it vanished entirely, the last shard of ice embedding itself in the side of a house, as they reached the edge of the sand. Yue paused, and experimentally took the mask off. The smell had mostly dissipated, and so she put it away, unclipped one of her own water-skins, passed it to Katara, and continued into the town.

For a moment, the main square looked deserted, the statue of Kyoshi gazing down imperiously at them from the far end. Yue advanced slowly, cautiously, towards it, Katara and the marines just behind her. The town looked like it was suddenly deserted, as if the people had just vanished so quickly that they hadn't had time to tidy the place up before they went. Personal possessions were strewn across the ground, and open doors swung gently in the breeze.

"... Was that it?" Katara asked. "Have we done it?"

Yue turned to look at her, and just then fire nation soldiers piled out of the houses and charged them, screaming.

Yue sighed as she took the cap of her remaining waterskins off.

The first soldier to reach them was sent flying by a marine's club crunching into his helmet, and Yue extended her hand, causing the water she was carrying to fly out of its skin and slam into the chest of the man just behind him, sending him to the floor too. But more came, brandishing weapons or trying to shoot jets of flame at them. Yue jumped backwards to avoid one fireball, before stepping behind a marine, out the other side, and directing her water into the side of that firebender's head. He crumpled, but another fireball managed to just graze her arm slightly. Yue hissed in pain, but did her best to push on through it.

For a moment, though, sheer weight of numbers forced them back. Every Firebender on the island looked like they were here, and had made it their personal mission to target Yue.

And then there was movement behind the soldiers. New figures raced into the square, familiar ones, wearing green. Now it was the turn of the Firebenders to be encircled, as the Kyoshi Warriors slammed into the rear of their formation and began hacking away with swords and fans. Their attack was so sudden that in a moment the Firebenders broke and began to run, their morale shattered. This was not the confident, invincible fighting force that was ravaging the Earth Kingdom, but one which had already suffered plenty of setbacks. The stream of defeats they had suffered in the past few weeks was finally too much for them. All that was left was one older man in a general's uniform, clearly too proud to run, now stood alone between the Kyoshi Warriors and the Water Tribe marines. For a moment, he glared furiously at their group.

He sighed, and drew his sword. Then he offered it to Yue. She took it without a word.

Just like that, it was over. The few firebenders remaining in Yue's eyeline stopped fighting once they saw their commander had surrendered, and either tried to run or threw down their weapons. For the first time since their little fleet had departed the South Pole, Yue allowed herself to relax a little. All that stress had been in anticipation of about three minutes of actual fighting.

Kyoshi Island was free. Sokka's promise had been kept.

Now there was just the question of what came next.