"This is amazing to watch." Zuko whispered over to me as we were star gazing at falling stars.

"Kind of makes you realize how insignificant we are." Sokka said, as we were laying on a rock side.

"Ah you seen nothin once, you've seen it a thousand times." Toph shrugged, before a meteor came too close.

"Oh man, you've never not seen nothing like this." Sokka remarked before it hit, not too far away from us.

"That fire is going to destroy that town!" Katara stared as we flew up on Appa. "Not if we can stop it!"

"There's a creek over here, I'll bend the water over the fire." Katara took Appa, while Zuko started putting out a little fire.

I then noticed he was looking down at his hands like they were messed up. "Come on!" He growled, Fire Bending a little out.

"What's wrong?" I asked running up.

"Huh nothing." He quickly replied, scratching the back of his head.

"Toph, let's make a trench to stop the fire from coming any closer." Aang ordered before they started to do just that.

"What should I do?" Sokka asked.

"Keep an eye on Momo." Aang answered, before doing more earth bending.

"So what I'm just a Lemur sitter? There there. Feel better?" Sokka asked after petting Momo who was on top of his head.

"Sokka, get clear." Aang warned when Katara came back with water.

"Right, stand clear got it." Sokka dragged his feet and got all wet.

I don't remember how it happened, but out of the blue it started snowing.

"Good work everybody." Aang said with a smile, but Zuko's mind was somewhere else.

More then usual, he's listening when he's just in thought. But I could tell something was really bothering him.

—————

"These people have no idea how close they were to getting toasted last night." Aang said, after he had his food at a restaurant in the town.

"Yeah, the worst thing about being in disguise is that you don't get the hero worship anymore. I miss the love." Toph pouted, meanwhile Zuko still had his head in the clouds.

"Boohoo poor heroes." Sokka scoffed in a depressed tone.

"What's your problem? You haven't even touched your smoked sea slug."

I shivered at the thought of eating a slug.

"It's just all you guys can do this awesome bending stuff like putting out forest fires and flying around and making other stuff fly around. I can't fly around okay." Sokka said.

I could relate but I was happy to be there, so it didn't matter. "Sokka, I can't fly around, I'm not a bender." I chimed in, trying to make him feel better. He reminded me of Kyo, only Kyo was more slick about his humor.

"Yeah but you have awesome sword skills. I can't do anything." Sokka replied, I could already tell none of them knew what to say.

"That's not true, no one can read a map like you." Katara said.

"I can't read at all." Toph added, but that didn't help.

"You're the plan guy, and the boomerang guy." I said with a soft smile, I felt like Caitlin Snow holding my tea.

"Yeah, and who keeps us laughing with sarcastic comments all the time. I mean look at Katara's hair right? What's up with that?" Aang said, grabbing her hair and pointing at it.

"Yeah, I know, right?" Zuko tried to add, making Katara blush even harder.

"What? What's wrong with my hair?!" She asked holding it in panic.

"Nothing! We were just trying to-"

"I didn't mean it like that!" Aang and Zuko tried to reassure her.

"Look, I appreciate the effort but the fact is each of you is so amazing and so special and I'm... not. I'm just the guy in the group who's regular." Sokka said in a voice you rarely hear from him.

"And that's why we love you." I smiled, sitting next to him. "Without you we wouldn't have the invasion plan, without you I'm sure the gaang wouldn't have made it this far. None of us see you that way." I put a hand his shoulder but I got no reaction. "Look Sokka, I'm not a bender, but I don't feel out of place because I'm happy to be here. On the right side. I know something that could make you feel better."

He slowly looked over to me with sad eyes. "You do?"

"Shopping!" He excitedly clapped his hand as we stood at the door of a blacksmith's shop. "Maybe a little something to reinvigorate my battling." He smiled, as he started to look around.

I started to look at knives, I needed a little something more close and be able to throw them at the same time.

"What do you think?" We all turned to see Aang in a high fantasy looking suit of armor that look to much like Soul Calibur.

"Cool." I grinned.

"Pretty slick huh? All I need to complete the outfit is a wind sword." Aang said, barely able to stand in it.

"What's a wind sword?" Zuko scoffed, folding his arms.

"It's when I get a sword handle and then I just swing this around and bend air out the blade." He started making swishing sounds as he was barely able to move his arm around.

"....yeah, nice". Katara sarcastically said with a frown, Aang then lost control and fell straight down.

"I'll just stick to what I got."

"Hey, Sokka, look at this." I yelled with a grin looking back at Sokka picking his teeth with a sai.

"Wow, that's what Sokka's talking about." He said as he glided his hand over it and looked at it from the side.

"You have a good eye, that's an original from Piandoa the greatest sword master and sword maker in Fire Nation history. He lives in a big castle up the road from here." The owner said, before walking off.

"That's it! That's what you needed all along Sokka." Aang snapped with a smile.

"A sword?" Sokka asked still looking at it.

"Not the sword, a master. We've all had masters to help us get better, you should see if you can study with Piandoa."

"That's a great idea! I could have never got to where I am without Master Pakku. Everyone needs a teacher." Katara said, pointing at herself.

"It's true, I don't know where I'd be without my Uncle." Zuko added.

"I learned from badger moles, they don't talk, but they're still good teachers." Toph stated, as she faced a wall.

"My dad taught me and my brother everything we know." I grinned as I had my arms folded.

"It would be nice to be a master sword fighter. Alright, I'll talk to him."

——————

After I bought three knives and Sokka left for master Piandoa's, I found myself sitting on the ground as we all waited for Sokka to come back.

"What should we do today?"

"We're wasting time! We should be training." Zuko growled as we all laid across each other.

"That's a great idea! Let's go." Aang said, with excitement as he air bended himself up. The two walked off into the distance and left me with Katara, and Toph.

"So what should we do?" I asked, sitting up to look at them training.

"I'm tapped out, I already picked my toes, twice." Toph replied.

"Twice?" Katara asked.

"The first time is for cleaning, but the second time is just for the sweet picking sensation." Toph moved her toes around as she smiled at the thought.

"Sokka's been in charge of the schedule I'm not sure what we should be doing." Katara said, as I laid back down.

"Plus it's so hot today." Toph sighed.

"How hot is it?" Katara asked like she was about to say a joke.

"I don't know, real hot." She replied.

"It's so hot... it's so hot Momo is-is shedding like Appa. Huh? Huh?" Katara asked, trying to get any laugh before she only got silence.

"Jokes just don't run in the family." I shook my head before closing my eyes.

"Oh everyone's a critic."

"I'm going to go watch them train." I sighed getting up and walking over there.

"I know you're nervous, but remember fire bending in and of itself is not something to fear." Zuko explained, and Aang took a few deep breaths.

"Okay, not something to fear."

"But if you don't respect it, it will chew you up spit you out like a angry Komodo Rhino." Zuko yelled in Aang's face making him gasp in fear.

"Now show me what you've got. Any amount of fire you can make."

Aang took position and moved his fist out, but nothing came out. "Maybe I need a little more instruction. Perhaps a demonstration." Aang suggested.

"Good idea. You might want to take a couple steps back." Zuko took a deep breath before unleashing a crazy amount of fire.

Nope, you were wrong, there was nothing, just a small flash of fire. Aang clapped but Zuko tried to ignore it.

"Why is this happening?!" Zuko growled to himself, as he looked at his hands.

"Maybe it's the altitude." Aang suggested.

"Yeah, could be."

After awhile of watching Zuko try his best to fire bend, I went back to where Toph and Katara were. "So where are we going next? We're starting here." Katara said, pointing at the map.

"No we're here." I corrected her— pointing at a different island.

"You noodle brains don't know what you're doing, I miss Sokka." Toph sighed as she laid on the ground.

"Oh, I got one! If you miss him so much why don't you marry him?" Katara asked like it was a joke.

I laid back and tried to catch a nap.

"Sokka's coming!" Toph snapped in excitement, waking me up.

"Hey guys, what are you doing?" He asked as we all but Zuko ran up.

"Sokka!"

"You're back!"

"We missed you so much!" They all said over each other.

"Say something funny." Aang said as they all stepped back.

"Funny how?" He asked.

"What's they're deal?" He asked in me and Toph's direction.

"I don't know, they missed you or something. I didn't care." Toph turned around and started blushing, I just shook my head with a grin.

"Thanks, that warms my heart."

"Just breath and..." we heard Zuko say before trying to fire bend again.

"What's up with him?" Sokka asked.

"That one kind of felt hot." Aang tried to compliment.

"Don't patronize me! You know what it's supposed to look like!" Zuko snapped.

"Sorry, Sufi Hotmen." Aang bowed.

"And stop calling me that!" He yelled before trying to bend again.

"Aang, it's best to leave him alone in these situations." I suggested putting a hand on Aang's shoulder. "Zuko has a bit of a problem." I whispered over to Sokka.

"Ohhh, Anyways I need some help."

———Azula POV———

Once again I found myself going to Kyo's prison cell— I had been going there a lot, more than I'd like to. But there was something about him I couldn't explain yet. My father had just told me that I was going to leave to Ember Island and for some reason I wanted to tell Kyo.

I opened the prison door to see those beautiful ember eyes glimmering at me. "Hey, Princess." He softly smiled as he stood up to greet me.

"Hello, Kyo." I smiled back, one I tried to hide.

"What's tonight about? Couldn't sleep?" He asked almost in a whisper, leaning on the bars.

I stared down at his feet, it was hard for me to look him in the eyes, he had a look that read through me. I placed my hands on the bars and kept my eyes to the ground. "Kyo, I'm going to leave for the weekend. I just..."

"Wanted me to know?" He asked, finishing my sentence. I then felt warm, soft, fingers grab my chin and hold me to wear I looked him in the eyes. "Your eyes are so beautiful." He said out loud like he didn't mean to.

I then realized what I was doing and stepped back.

"So why did you want me to know?" He asked with a grin that said he won.

"I just thought maybe you would want to know is all." I stumbled, I didn't even know myself.

"Where are you going?"

"Why should I answer that? You're, after all on the Avatar's side." I said trying to sound intimidating, I don't know why it never worked with him.

"Princess, like that will matter." He grinned putting his hands in his pockets.

"Ember Island." I looked to the side, I couldn't believe he was getting it out of me.

"Sounds like a vacation. Can I go?" He asked putting his hands back on the bars.

"What, are you crazy?! Remember you are my prisoner." I narrowed my eyes, yet part of me wanted him to go. It was going to be the worst, but maybe with him there it would be better.

"I could escape or something terrible could happen to me while your away. Come on, Princess just this once. Besides it's an island there's no way I can escape."

I folded my arms and acted like I wasn't listening, but he wouldn't escape I could tell. And I was starting to really want him to go.

——Mia POV——

"Who's this?" Piandoa asked as he opened the gate after Sokka knocked on it like a kid.

"Oh these are my friends. Just other good fire nation folks." Sokka replied, making it obvious we weren't.

"Do you think we could make a sword out of a meteorite?" He asked pointing at the rock.

"We'll make a sword unlike any other in the world."

Sokka worked day in and day out, making that awesome space sword. And when it was done, he was ready. "Sokka when you first arrived you were so unsure. You even seemed down on yourself. But I saw something in you right away, I saw a heart as strong as a lion turtle and twice as big. And as we trained, it wasn't your skills that impressed me, no it certainly wasn't your skills. You showed something beyond that, creativity, versatility, intelligence. These are the traits that define a great swordsman, and these are the traits that define you. You told me you didn't know if you were worthy but I believe that you are more worthy than any man I have ever trained." Piandoa unsheathed the blade to reveal the beautiful black steel he had made.

I needed a new sword.

"I'm sorry Master, you're wrong. I am not worthy. I'm not who you think I am, I'm not from the Fire Nation in from the Southern Water Tribe."

Everyone (except me) froze, they were completely shocked he said that "I lied so that I could learn swordsmanship from you. I'm sorry." Sokka lowered his head.

"I'm sorry too." Piandoa said before throwing Sokka's sword and grabbing his own. We all got up to fight but Sokka signaled us to stop.

"No, this is my fight. Alone." The others were stunned, but we let him do it.

They fought vigorously, it was a fight to behold and when Sokka had some what won Piandoa got the better of him. Aang and the others immediately ran up to stop him. "Excellent work Sokka." He said letting Sokka get back up and his servant threw him his sheath from the balcony and it landed on the blade. "I think I'm a little old to be fighting the Avatar and the Prince."

They all stopped after hearing that he knew who they were. "How did you know?" Aang asked.

"Oh, I've been a around a while, you pick things up. Course, I knew from the beginning that Sokka was Water Tribe. You might want to think of a better fire nation cover name. Try 'Lee' there's a million Lee's." Piandoa suggested before drinking what I think was lemonade.

"But why would you agree to train someone from the water tribe?" Katara asked.

"The way of the sword doesn't belong to any one nation. Knowledge of the arts belongs to us all. Sokka you must continue on your own. If you stay on this path, I know that one day you will become an even greater sword master then I am." Piandoa and Sokka bowed before we were about to walk away.

"And if I'm not mistaken, you're Mia. Mando's daughter." Piandoa asked, making me stop in my tracks.

"Yes, how did you know?" I answered.

"I knew your father when we were both very young, he and I trained together. Till he went to the colonies that is. I'm sure he's proud of his daughter. Tell him I said hello." Piandoa gave off a slight smile, I remembered everything but I didn't remember him say he knew Piandoa.

"I will." I smiled, before bowing.

"Wait!" Piandoa's servant yelled as he ran up. "The master wanted you two to have this. As something to remember him by." He handed me and Sokka little red bags.

"It's a Pai Sho tile" I immediately grinned, I knew what it meant. "A white lotus." I liked over to see Zuko in thought.

"What does it mean?"

"I think it's a pass of some kind. My uncle mentioned something like this before." Zuko suggested.

"Oh, that reminds me, Toph, I thought you might like this since you probably never had a chance to bend space earth before." Sokka went in his pocket and handed the rock to Toph.

"Sweet! Check this out!" She said as she did several different shapes.

"You know I don't think there's such a thing as space earth if it's from space then it's not really earth." Katara said as we started to walk down the road.

"Must you ruin everything?" Sokka asked as he leaned on me and Toph, making both of us smirk.

"I can't believe I missed you."

——That Night——

"Listen everybody, I've got some pretty bad news. I've lost my stuff." Zuko's announced to us as we sat around a campfire.

"Don't look at me. I didn't touch your stuff." Toph quickly replied.

"I'm talking about my fire bending. It's gone."

As soon as Zuko finished Katara went "ahh" and hugged him. "How could you lose your bending?" She asked still hugging him, meanwhile I wanted to punch the living daylights out of her.

"Well it's not lost it's just weaker for some reason." Zuko responded, almost pushing her away. "I bet it's because I changed sides." Zuko thought out loud as he sat down with us, I immediately sat next to him.

"That's ridiculous." Katara said when I held on his left arm.

"I don't know maybe it isn't. Maybe your fire bending comes from rage. And you just don't have enough anger to fuel it the way you used to." Aang suggested.

"So all we need to do is make Zuko angry. Easy enough." Sokka said with a smirk before grabbing his sword and laughing as he poked Zuko everywhere.

"Okay, cut it out!" Zuko's yelled knocked him away, and making me back up.

"Even if you're right, I don't want to rely on hate and anger anymore. There has to be another way." I could hear the frustration in his voice as he looked at the ground.

"You're gonna need to draw your fire bending from a different source. I recommend, the original source." Toph explained.

"How's he suppose to do that? By jumping into a volcano." Sokka asked like it was a joke.

"No. Zuko needs to go back to what ever the original source of fire bending is."

"So is it jumping into a volcano?" Sokka asked again.

"I don't know, for earth bending the original earth benders were badger moles. One day when I was little I ran away and hid in a cave. That's where I met them, they were blind just like me. So we understood each other, I was able to learn earth bending not just as a martial art but as a extension of my senses. For them, the original earth benders, it wasn't just about fighting it was they're way of interacting with the world." Toph explained with a slight smile.

"That's amazing, Toph. I learned from the monks but the original air benders were the sky bison. Maybe you can give me a lesson sometime buddy." Aang leaned over for Appa to hear, and got a groan from him.

"Well this doesn't help me, the original fire benders were the dragons and they're extinct." Zuko's stated looking at the fire.

"What do you mean? Roku had a dragon and there were plenty of dragons when I was a kid." Aang asked.

"Well they aren't around anymore okay?!" Zuko's snapped.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry." Aang calmly apologized.

"But maybe there's another way. The first people to learn from the dragons were the ancient Sun Warriors." Zuko's explained.

"Sun Warriors? Well I know they weren't around when I was a kid." Aang commented.

"No, they died off thousands of years ago. And they're civilization is too far from here. But when we're closer we can learn something by picking around the ruins." Zuko said.

"It's like the monks use to tell me 'sometimes the shadows of the past can be filled by the present.'"

"So what maybe you'll pick up some super old sun warrior energy just by standing where they stood a thousand years ago?" Sokka asked with a slight scoff.

"More or less, either I find a new way to fire bend or the Avatar has to find a new teacher."

———Kyo POV———

"I'm so excited to go to ember island. It's going to be so much fun to hang out on the beach and do nothing." Ty Lee happily said as we were on a boat sailing to Ember Island.

"We're being forced to be here. There's nothing fun about it." Mai said, as she rolled her eyes at the water.

I was a bit stunned Azula actually let me come without chains. "Lighten up, so father wants to meet with his advisors alone. And doesn't want anyone else around don't take it personally." Azula replied, it sounded like it bothered her more than anyone.

"Doesn't your family have a house on Ember Island." Ty Lee asked.

"We used to come here every summer when we were kids." Azula replied, with a smile.

"That must have been fun." Ty Lee as happy as ever, replied.

"Welcome to Ember Island kids." Two old women said as we walked off the platform. We looked around to see we were going to stay in a small house, which made us all cringe.

Inside the house was worse, everything was pink and purple and it was tight. "It smells like old lady and cat shit had a make out." I scoffed, with a grin through the terrible smell.

"Ge I wonder why." Mai dragged.

"Who are these two beautiful women?" Ty Lee asked, she didn't seem to care about how terrible the house was.

"Don't you tell it's Lee and me." As they said this they made the same poses as in the painting.

I gaged a bit and wished I hadn't seen that, while the others just frowned (except Ty Lee.) "Ooh I love the sea shell bed spread." Ty Lee said jumping on the bed.

"Are you serious? it looks like the beach threw up all over it." Mai said, with one of her frowns.

"We know you were upset that you were forced to come here. But Ember Island is a magical place keep an open mind it can help you to understand yourself and each other. The beach has a special way of smoothing the most ragged edges. Time to hit the beach." As they said this they took off their coats to reveal swim suits.

Azula immediately covered my eyes.

"Believe me they're all ready closed." I remarked.

———Mia POV———

The next day we were hanging out at the a pool of water, Zuko couldn't show Aang fire bending so he didn't say anything. I found myself staring at Zuko's shirtless body, along with Katara. "Hey!" I growled, I was getting sick of this.

"I wasn't doing anything." She defended as she looked the complete other way as she was still blushing.

I groaned at that before walking in the pool of cool water with Zuko. "What's up?" I asked as I leaned on the stone.

"You know what's up. I can't fire bend!" He harshly replied.

"Zuko it will be okay. You'll figure out a way, heck you all ready have. If there's one thing I know about you is that you don't give up." I said, putting a hand on his shoulder making me side hug him. He looked to his side at me.

"But I'm no use to Aang. To anyone."

"Zuko that's not true. Just because you don't have fire bending doesn't mean you're useless. Me and Sokka don't have bending, and when you find out what's going on with your fire you can still teach Aang. Don't go saying it's the end." I said leaning on his shoulder, he looks down at me with a slight smile. "You got the best smile ever." I grinned as I kissed his cheek.

He moved in front of me and gently held my head as he put his lips on mine. As he pulled away I had the widest smile in my life, while he had a slight one but it was enough. I went in for another long kiss, too busy enjoying the moment to care about anything else.

——Kyo POV——

When we went to the beach it was the typical boring kind. Till Azula stepped right in two kid's sand castle. I got to admit I laughed at them run away from the most powerful woman in the world.

I followed her around as she looked for something to do. It didn't take us long before she saw a game going on. "Hey beach bums. We're playing next. Ty Lee get over here now!" She demanded like it was a fight.

We huddled around Azula who gave us the plan. "See that girl with the silly pig tails. When she rolls the ball there just the slightest hesitation on her left foot I'm willing to bet a childhood injury did that to her, keep serving the ball to her left and we'll destroy her and the rest of her team. Dismissed."

Azula kicked the ball with pro ball power and it went straight through the goal, they didn't even see it coming. The next round they kicked the ball near Me, who punched it right back. Ty Lee jumped on the net and hit the ball back right when they threw it. When it came near Azula she quickly threw it at the "girl with silly pig tails." And she wasn't fast enough for it, and the ball hit the goal. (Azula also added an unneeded fire bomb when it hit the ground.) "Yes we defeated you for all time. You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation. That was fun." Azula changed her voice from her intimating tone to her happy tone.

Making me shake my head with a grin.

"I'm having a party tonight you should come by." A beach boy told Ty Lee, as we all turned to see them.

"Sure, I love parties." Ty Lee gave them a content smile.

"Your friend can come to." The other added, talking about Mai.

"Uh what about me? Aren't you going to invite me?" Azula cut in, "You don't know who we are do you?" She asked, she had never met someone who didn't know her in the Fire Nation.

"Don't you know who we are? We're Chan and Ron Jon."

"Yeah," the other added, I grinned before putting my fists together. These beach bums won't know what hit them... but then my one and only Azula just held an arm out to stop me.

"Just for you, Princess." I whispered over to her.

She froze with a blush before going back to what we were doing.

"But fine, you're invited. Just so you know though some of the most important teenagers in the Fire Nation we'll be at this party so act normal."
"We'll do our best." Azula said, gaving them a smirk.

"Why didn't you tell those guys who we were?" Ty Lee asked as we sat at that house.

"I guess I was intrigued, I'm so use to people worshiping us."

"They should." Ty Lee added.

"Yes I know and I love it. But for once I just wanted to see how people would treat us if they didn't know who we were." Azula quickly replied, withholding the usual cunning tone.

"I like you royalty or no royalty." I said making her giggle for some reason.

"Like waves washing away the foot prints in the sand, Ember Island gives everyone a clean slate let ember island reveal the true you. To the party." The two old women stood up and clapped their hands.

"God damm I was in a happy mood!" I yelled before realizing I sounded like deadpool.

"Um you're a little early, no ones here yet." Chan said, opening the door a little.

"I heard you telling someone you'd be partying from dusk till dawn. It's dusk so we're here." Azula replied.

"But that just an expression."

"We are the perfect party guests we arrive right on time because we are very punctual." He nodded and let us walk in.

"All right listen my dad is an admiral he has no idea I'm having this party so don't mess up anything." He said, before turning back to Azula.

"That's a sharp outfit Chan, careful you could puncture the hull of an empire class fire nation battleship leaving thousands to drown at sea. Because it's so sharp." Azula awkwardly said pointing at his shirt.

"Um thanks." He replied, not knowing what to make of the compliment.

"Hey first ones here hi." Long Jon said to Mai while fixing his hair.

—————

"Do you even like it here?" I asked Azula as we leaned on the walls of the house.

"Do you?" She quickly asked back.

"To be honest, no. I just came because you. And I'm not allowed to go out of your beautiful sight." If I had said that to any girl from earth they would slap me, but she was dying for something like this.

"Oh I'm glad you're here." Ty Lee said, knocking us at of our stare, which I didn't know was happening.

"These boys won't leave me alone, I guess they all just like me too much." She finished as we tried to act like that didn't happen.

"Come on, Ty Lee, you can't be this ignorant." Azula said going back to usual self.

"What are you talking about?" Ty Lee asked tilting her head.

"Those boys only like you because you make it so easy for them. You're not a challenge, you're a tease. It's not like they actually care who you are." As soon as Azula finished Ty Lee started breaking down crying, and how could you not console that?!

"Wow, dark, Princess." I said as I hugged Ty Lee, she smiled before hugging me back.

"Okay, okay, calm down. I didn't mean what I said. Look maybe I just said it because I was a little..." Azula looked over to me while I was eagerly awaiting what came next. She then leaned into Ty Lee's ear and whispered. "Jealous."

"What?! You're j-" she quickly put a hand on her mouth to keep her quite.

"Kyo, can we have the room?" She asked.

"I get it, I'll be at the bar." I sighed, starting to walk off.

As I was getting food out of nowhere I heard Azula laugh out of literally nowhere. I had forgot about that stuff. When I went back it was only Ty Lee, Azula had left with Chan. "Hey Ty Lee, do you think Azula might like me?" I asked, knowing I could ask her anything as I bit into BBQ chicken.

"Are you kidding? She loves you. Last time I mentioned you she said she 'didn't want to speak of it!' And started blushing." Ty Lee said in her impression of Azula.

"You're not just pulling my leg?" I asked, with a huge smile.

"Nope." She smiled shaking her head.

"Where is she?" I asked, throwing all my food on the floor.

"She's out back." She pointed at the back with a chirpy tone as usual.

"Thank you, Ty Lee." I said giving her a huge hug before running outback.

"We will dominate the world!" I heard a woman demand as I walked down the hallway.

"Huh.... I got to go." Chan said as I slowly walked in.

"What was that about?" I asked with a smirk, I knew exactly what that was about.

"Oh nothing." She quickly replied, looking back at the beach. "Why are you here?" She asked not looking at me, walking next to her.

"Because I'm not suppose to leave your sight." I grinned, leaning on the rails.

"The real reason you're here. You could have stayed in that cell away from me." Even though she tried to keep a steady tone I could hear the frustration and disappointment.

"I don't want to be away from you." I simply stated.

"Oh stop pulling my leg. No one wants to be with me." She harshly snapped not looking at me as she held herself.

"That's not true. You're brave, strong, intelligent, beautiful, that's everything any man would dream of." I tried to keep my hands from shaking as I grabbed her hand. I knew what would happen if I was moving too fast.

"Really?" She asked, finally looking at me with interested eyes, like she wanted me to say more.

"Oh yeah, Princess I don't know quite how to put this... but I feel something I haven't ever felt for anyone. Azula, I lo-" I kept one hand on her and the other fixing my hair, I was being more nervous than I ever had in my life.

Out of the blew I felt soft warm lips against mine. They were so moist, passionate, and welcoming, I could stay there forever. I stood in shock for a few seconds before I embraced the Fire Nation princess.

She gasped for air before I grabbed her hair and pushed deeper in. I felt my hands slip down to her waist and her's up to my neck, I felt so many sparks. So many feelings wrapped up in that one moment I didn't want to end.

I suddenly felt her pulling away, I took a step back to see a stunned Azula. She looked me in the eyes like she was going to break down.

"Azula, it's okay. I'm sorry if I said too much." I stumbled, not really knowing what to say. But she didn't say anything, she breathed like she was gasping for air.

Before I knew it she was running out, "Azula I'm sorry!" I tried to apologize as I ran after her, I didn't know what just happened. Before I knew it a weak Blue blast was being sent at me, I broke threw it and stopped chasing her. She needed her space.

———Mia POV———

"Guys, you're all going to think I'm crazy but it feels like a metal man is coming." Toph said, waking me up as we were all half asleep. I slowly got up before I remembered who was after us.

Suddenly he shot a huge blast hitting the rock we were behind. Toph stood her ground and threw a land slide at him. He blasted threw it and shot another blast.

———Azula POV———

As I sat on the beach I could only think of one thing; Kyo. I couldn't believe I kissed him! What was I thinking?! Anyone but him, he was with the Avatar and he was definitely still loyal to them. And yet I didn't regret it, I had never kissed anyone, it was completely worth it. I never felt more alive, more thrilled.

Soon I heard foot steps, I turned to see them all there looking at me. I didn't want to talk to Kyo right then, I was too confused.

"Are ya'll cold?" He asked, sitting next to me, I quickly sat the other way.

"I'm freezing." Ty Lee suddenly replied holding her arms.

"Then let's make a fire." He suggested and an idea popped in my head.

"I know a place where we can get plenty of fire wood." I said, with my arms crossed at Mai and Ty Lee.

———Mia POV———

"This is crazy! How can you beat a guy who blows things up with his mind?!" Sokka yelled as we were pinned down.

"We can't, jump on Appa I'll try to distract him." Aang said before air bending at him and running the other way.

We all got on Appa as quick as we could and flew up. Only one problem as soon as we went in the air Combustion Man shot at us. Luckily Appa dodged it, we lost control. Appa tried to get back on track, he shot another shot at us.

"Okay it's time to end this." I thought out loud as I grabbed a knife. "Katara, Toph give me a clear shot." I ordered.

Toph threw another land slide, while Katara threw a massive water whip, where she got the water I don't know. When he was to busy shooting at that, I got the perfect shot. Luckily I had been practicing.

As soon as I threw it I watched with a Hail Mary. This has to work or we were all dead. When it hit, it barely hit his third eye, and with the hilt. All the same at least it hit, I sighed in relief before Aang flew up.

"I'm okay." He said before we all looked back to see combustion man's fire bending not working.

"Great job, Mia!" Sokka said, with a huge smile.

"Well, that was random." Toph stated.

"I don't think so, I think I know who that is and he knows who we are." Zuko's replied as we flew away to safety.

———Kyo POV———

"You're a fire bender?!" Azula asked as I lit the stuff she gathered.

"Yeah, so?" I asked.

"I just assumed." She quickly replied, we had grabbed stuff from her childhood house. She threw the family picture in there too.

"What are you doing?" Ty Lee asked, she wasn't smiling anymore.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Azula snapped, I could see she had her eyes fixed on her mother.

"But that's a painting of your family." She responded.

"You think I care?" Azula bickered as she sat down.

"I think you do." She softly stated, with her arms folded.

"You don't know the half of it, Ty Lee!" She snapped as she stood up.

"I know you." Ty Lee pouted before looking at the ground.

"No, you don't! You're stuck in your little pink and perfect world that you don't see reality!"

"Azula, leave her alone." Mai said, with her arms crossed.

"Look at me, I'm Ty Lee and so pretty. Circus Freak!" Azula mocked making an impression of her, I had to admit it was funny.

"Yes, I'm a circus freak! Go ahead and laugh all you want. You want to know why I joined the circus?" Ty Lee became unusually serious.

"Here we go." Azula sighed and flinched her hand.

"Do you have any idea what my home was like? Growing up with six sisters who look exactly like me? It was like I didn't even have my own name. I joined the circus because I was scared of spending the rest of my life as part of a matched set. At least I'm different now. 'Circus freak' is a compliment!" She shouted at Azula with tears in her eyes, and started to fall in the sand.

"Guess that explains why you need ten boyfriends too." Mai said.

"I'm sorry what?" Ty Lee perked her head up, and started to get mad.

"Attention issues. You couldn't get enough attention when you were a kid so your trying to make up for it now." Mai explained.

"Well, what's your excuse Mai. You were an only child for fifteen years but even with all that attention you aura is this dingy, pasty, gray.."

"I don't believe in aura's." Mai quickly yet slowly cut in.

"You don't believe in anything!" Ty Lee yelled throwing her arms out.

"Oh well, I'm sorry I can't be as high strung and crazy as the rest of you." Mai said, not looking at any of us.

"I'm sorry too. I wish you would be high strung and crazy for once instead of keeping all your feelings in a bottle. Like a... like you don't care!" Ty Lee yelled.

"What do you want from me? You want a testy confession about how hard my childhood was well it wasn't. I was a rich only child who got anything I wanted. As long as I behaved. And sat still and didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dads political career to think about." She looked out at the night sky as she explained why she was the way she was.

"Well, that's it then. You had a controlling mother who had certain expectations. And if you strayed from them you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything and why you can't express yourself." Azula explained, with her legs crossed and her arms folded.

"You want me to express myself? Leave me alone!" Mai stood up and shouted at Azula, she had enough of them picking on her.

"Calm down you guys, this much negative energy is bad for your skin. You'll totally break out." Ty Lee said returning back to her normal self.

"Is that all you worry about Ty Lee?" I asked with a scoff, I don't know why but it annoyed the heck out of me.

"No..." she tried to say.

"All you royal people don't get it. You're all complaining about how you were mistreated, or had no purpose. While the world is struggling to survive! My family was Fire Nation yet we had to work like dogs for our food just like the Earth Kingdom! Normal teenagers worry about bad skin, I had to worry the Fire Nation didn't find out I stole food for my family!" I shouted at Ty Lee, I was fed up with that, I didn't even know I was.

"Sorry, Kyo, I..." She tried to apologize.

"My family probably hates me now, they probably think I left for no reason. And I might never get to explain to them why I left. Why I completely disappeared, their only son just gone." I knelt on the sand. I was letting out feelings I didn't really know I had. I didn't know I was home sick, Azula had just rejected me and I was feeling home sick. Why did my feelings have to be like this?!

I didn't know but I had killed the camp fire.

"Well those were wonderful performances everyone." Azula said with a few claps.

"I guess you wouldn't understand would you Azula. Because your just so perfect." Mai said with a slight frown.

"Well, Yes I guess you're right. I don't have sob stories like all of you. I could sit here and complain how our mom loved Zuko more then me but I don't really care. My own mother thought I was a monster. She was right of course but it still hurt." Azula said looking at the dead fire, I didn't have to know what came later to know how much that meant to her.

"What Lo and Li said came true. The beach did help us learn about ourselves, I feel all smoothed. I'll always remember this." Ty Lee said holding a smooth rock.

"You know what will make this trip really memorable." Azula said with a smirk.

"We've got some bad news Chan." Azula said as he opened the door.

"The party's over." I cut in and Azula easily pushed Chan aside.

Mai threw ninja stars at all the tapestries hanging on the wall and they all fell cut in half on the floor. I walked up to the food table and did a drop kick, breaking it straight in half. Ty Lee swung her self on the chandeliers, breaking all of them in the process. We could hear screams and Chan crying as we watched the house go up in flames in delight.