One day Iroh and I were playing Pai Sho while Zuko looked out at the ice all around us.

"So, you've never played Pai Sho before?" Iroh asked. "Nah, how do you play?" Iroh smirked at my question and explained the game.

"Zuko, you want to play?" I asked.

"Why would I want to play Pai Sho?" He quickly snapped back.

"Just asking." I replied with an edgy smile.

Time went on as Iroh and I drank tea and played a very hard game. I turned to see Aangi's Avatar light.

"Finally. Uncle do you realize what this means?" Zuko asked, turning to face us.

"I won't get to finish my game." Iroh replied, moving a piece. I didn't want to ruin the moment, so I didn't say a thing.

"It means my search is about to come to an end." Zuko clenched his fist, thinking of home.

Of course Iroh just sighed.

"That light came from in an incredible powerful source it has to be him." Zuko said, with excitement in his voice. His hair flew in the wind, I just wanted to stare at him.

"Or it's just a sterol light, we've been down this road before prince Zuko. I don't want you to get too excited over nothing. Please sit, enjoy a cup of calming jasmine tea."

I prepared for what Zuko would say next. "I don't need any calming tea!! I need to capture the avatar. Helmsmen, set a course for the light."

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"Again." Iroh shouted as Zuko lunged fire at his two opponents. Zuko threwfire balls at both of them.

They both fought back but Zuko jumped and twirled threw them. He forced fire from his fisted as he landed.

"No! power in fire bending comes from the breath not the muscle. The breath becomes energy in the body, the energy extends passed your limbs and becomes fire!" When Iroh said 'Fire' he let out a small burst of it right in front of Zuko's face. The prince didn't move or twitch an inch. "Get it right this time." Iroh sat back down and I just watched in delight.

"Enough. I've been drilling this sequence all day teach me the next set. I'm more than ready." Zuko hissed, getting very close to his face in anger.

"No! You are inpatient. You have yet to master your basics. Drill it again!"

Zuko groaned and kicked fire at one of the soldiers, completely nocking him down. "The sages tell us that the Avatar is the last air bender, he must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements, I will need more than basic fire bending to defeat him. You will teach me the advanced set!!" Zuko rose his voice but of course Iroh didn't seem one bit intimated

"Very well. But first I must finish my roast duck." Iroh made yum yum sounds almost just to annoy Zuko, who hissed and put his hand on his forehead.

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"The last air bender. Quite agile for his old age. Wake my uncle. Tell him I found the avatar." Zuko said, as he looked threw a telescope.

"Zuko, over there." I said, pointing at the village.

"As well as his hiding place."

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We waited as we landed on the ice. I wondered how it would look, a Earth Kingdom colonist along side Prince Zuko.

We stepped out and Sokka charged us, Zuko just gave me a look and I stepped forward and kicked Sokka's sear, then kicked his back into the snow down below.

Sokka groaned as Zuko and the other soldiers kept walking. Zuko stood in front of the whole village (old women and children.) and looked at everyone of them.

"Where are you hiding him?!" He shouted, Katara held on to Gran Gran as Zuko grabbed her, everyone gasped and watched in horror. "He'd be about this age, master of all elements."

They replied nothing. They had no idea of what he was talking about. Zuko yelled before he threw a weak fire kick at them.

They all gasped and took a few steps back.

"I know you're hiding him!" He shouted at their clueless faces.

I could hear Sokka trying to lunge at us with the spear. I quickly grabbed it and threw him down with it's leverage. I looked down in the bone spear and broke it into fours. "That's just pathetically weak. You could do better than that." I said, throwing the pieces down.

Sokka threw his boomerang at me but I dodged it and it hit Zuko instead. He growled and clenched his fists, how I was doing all this I don't know.

As Sokka sat on the snowy ground a little boy threw him another spear. "Show no fear!" His cute little voice tried to chant.

I found myself with a warm smile, of course it seemed like I was just taunting them.

He got up and ran at me again. I sighed and kicked it to the side and then went for another in his face. He fell again as I stood in front of him with my arms crossed.

Then I remembered Aang was going to hit Zuko just about now. "Look out!" I calmly warned, trying to make it more dramatic, (to make it seem like I had no idea Aang was coming.) and pushed Zuko out of the way.

At first Zuko was mad but then he saw Aang and knew why I did what I did.

"Hey Katara, hey Sokka." Aang said, as he stood next to them.

"Hi, Aang, thanks for coming." Sokka replied, touching his bruised face.

All Zuko's men, including me backed up as Zuko took his fighting stance. Zuko threw a fire ball at him, Aang spun his staff to block but he seemed very unsure.

"Looking for me?" He asked with a frown.

"You're the air bender? You're the Avatar?!" Zuko gasped in his way.

"Aang?"

"No way!" Katara and Sokka said over each other.

"I spent years preparing for this encounter, training, meditating, you're just a child!" Zuko hissed. (That beautiful voice.)

"Well you're just a teenage."

Zuko groaned and threw another fire ball at him. Aang made the same block several times as Zuko punched fire balls at him. Aang looked over and saw that the fire was almost hitting the children. He didn't want any of them getting hurt so he stopped 'fighting.'

"If I go with you, will you promise to leave everyone alone?"

Zuko nodded and Aang walked towards us.

"No, Aang! don't do this." Katara pleaded.

"Don't worry, Katara, it we'll be okay. Take care of Appa for me until I get back." Aang waved as the soldiers took him to the ship.

"Head a course for the Fire Nation. I'm going home." As Zuko said this the ramp lifted up and we were ready to take off.          

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"This staff will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers, being raised by monks. Take the Avatar to the prison hold and take this to my quarters." Zuko handed me the staff, I couldn't help but smirk. I looked over to a soldier, he just shook his head. I was going to his quarters! Who am I kidding it wasn't that big a deal.

After I was about to leave Zuko's room, he came in and left the door wide open. "He's coming this way!"

We both hide behind the door and waited. Not to mention I loved how close we were, I actually was taller them him. At least for 'book one.'

"My staff!" We heard Aang say as he stepped into the room.

Zuko quickly closed the door behind him. "Looks like I underestimated you." Zuko threw a fire ball at Aang who made the same block from before.

I tried to run to his side but he was to observant and blew some air with his staff at me. Zuko threw a few more fire balls as I hit the wall and fell to the ground. Aang took deep breaths and could barely keep up. Zuko threw more as Aang dodged them and went behind his back.

Zuko tried to hit him but Aang kept staying behind his back. Zuko tried to shake him but Aang was too good when it came to evasive maneuvers. I got up and almost kicked Aang in the leg, he moved the second I hit.

I ended up in a very open position, but I quickly stepped back and went for a punch to the gut. Aang dodged but it was all Zuko needed and kicked fire at Aang.

He stepped back and blow air at the fire. He then grabbed the fire nation flag and before any of us could react, he wrapped Zuko in it. He tried to run to the door but I stepped in the way.

Zuko bursted out of it by burning the flag and fire kicked Aang as he was about to blow me away again. Aang quickly blocked with much effort and floated to the other side of the room. Zuko punched a fire blast at him, I stood behind him about to charge Aang.

Aang used his staff to make the bed we were standing on knock us on the wall and then on the floor, while he made his escape.

I found myself with Zuko on top of me. I couldn't help but start blushing, on a bed, with Zuko on Top of Me! What else could I think???

Zuko had the same reaction, I could see his cheeks turning red. "Umm, we need to go after him." Zuko muttered as he quickly got off me, he fixed his armor and made an edgy look at himself before he ran off to grab Aang's glider.

Mmmm.

As I ran off to the deck I couldn't stop thinking about how Zuko reacted, was it good? Was it bad? My mind was going in circles and I felt like I couldn't stop it. I was about to get in a fight with the Avatar, but it didn't matter. What did matter was that, WHAT IF ZUKO LIKES ME?!?!!

That was the bottom line of everything I was thinking.

I was so in thought that I almost ran into a door, then I noticed I was going the wrong way. I finally got to the fight when Aang had just fallen overboard.

"Aang, No!" I heard Katara yell from Appa. It wasn't long before the Avatar came out from the water with glowing eyes and tattoos.

Avatar Aang used the water to tower over the ship and hit the whole deck with flooding water, throwing everyone on the decks off the ship.

I made sure I was still behind the door so I didn't have to hold on for dear life.

Aang landed on the ship and fell almost unconscious. Katara and Sokka both got off Appa and stood beside him.

"Aang! Are you okay?"

"Hey Katara, hey Sokka. Thanks for coming." Aang almost muttered.

"Well I couldn't let you have all the glory." Sokka joked, I didn't know weather to go and fight them or just to do nothing.

"I dropped my staff." Aang pointed at it almost in the edge of the ship.

"Got it." Sokka walked over and grabbed it but Zuko was hanging on it.

Sokka gasped and shrugged to get him off of it. I ran up and kicked Sokka in the leg but Sokka turned and at the same time poked Zuko with the staff.

Zuko let go and caught the anchor while I looked down to see if Zuko was alright.

"That's from the Water Tribe!" Sokka mocked as he ran off.

"I'm fine! Don't let the Avatar escape!" Zuko hissed at me.

I started running up to Katara, who was trying to freeze me. She tried and instead froze Sokka's feet.

"Katara!" Sokka shouted at her. I didn't want to hurt Katara, but I didn't want Zuko to know I was with them.

She turned around and right when I was about to kick her she froze me in the kick position. Just the right timing.

"Hurry up, Sokka!" She yelled as he was still braking the ice off his feet.

"I'm just a guy with a boomerang. I didn't ask for any of this flying and magic. Yip yip!" Sokka almost yelled as he ran on Appa's tail.

Iroh came out and got Zuko off the side of the ship.

"Shoot them down!" Was the first thing he said.

He and Iroh made a huge fire ball and shot it at Appa.

With all his power Aang used his staff to blow the fire ball to the side of the cliffs. It hit and threw almost an avalanche of snow onto the ship.

Zuko looked at the bison getting away, but he knew he needed to follow them.

"Good news for the Fire Lord; the Fire Nation's greatest threat is just a little kid." Iroh mocked.

I was still frozen like a martial arts statue. Let it go if I could I would say the cold didn't bother me. But it did.

"That kid, uncle, just did this. I won't underestimate him again. Dig this ship out and follow them. As soon as you're done with that."