Maybe everyone was right... maybe Mia was right. If I had listened for just once I would still be alive!

                         ———Earlier———

It was the day, the red sky day everything went down. This was it. This was the end where I had to change Azula. I couldn't fight my own friends, my own sister.

I knew she was going with Zuko, I guess I knew her too well.

Azula had Ty Lee, Mai and I all go to her coronation, so we obviously did.

There she knelt, ready to be Fire Lord, her hair done, her clothes perfect. She looked perfect.

"By decree of Phoenix King Ozai I now crown you Fire Lord-" the Sage leader hesitated as he saw Appa in the distance.

"What are you waiting for?! Do it!" Azula hissed, furious eyes.

Appa moaned, letting everyone know that the Gaang had just arrived.

"Sorry, but you're not going to become Fire Lord today." Zuko said, getting down. "I am."

"Ha ha you're hilarious." Azula mockingly laughed, standing up. All four of us before her.

"And you're going down!" Katara snarled standing next to Zuko. So was Mia.

She looked at me with a smile. She always knew when I needed one.

"Mai, Ty Lee, it's time to take them out." Azula ordered, turning back to us.

"Azula..." Ty Lee spoke softly, I could barely hear her.

"Maybe we should just give up." Mai finished. No emotions.

Azula's eyes went wide. "What did you just say?!" She snarled.

"I said, you should stop this! Before you get yourself killed!" Mai snapped back.

"Ty Lee?" Azula turned to the shivering circus girl.

She only looked down, not wanting to speak against Azula.

"I should lock you all away!" Azula shouted at them. "And you?!" She suddenly turned to me.

I flinched, but there was no way I was fighting on her side this time. "I'm not fighting my own sister!" I replied.

"You're betraying me?!" She gasped, like she was in shock.

"No! I'm just saying that this battle is already lost..." I looked at Mia, who could hear everything.

"You fool!" Princess hissed, tiring off her royal robes to her armor. "Fine! You want to be Fire Lord, let's settle this, just you and me brother! The showdown that was always meant to be! Agni Kai!" She snarled at Zuko.

"You're on!"

Ty Lee looked at me in fear, those eyes saying everything. To be honest I was afraid too— of what was about to happen.

But she was still sane.

The two facing each other, ready to fight to Agni Kai.

"I'm sorry it has to end this way, brother." Azula hissed as she let her robe fall. Going in a straight, fighting stance.

"No... you're not." Zuko's voice was soft, taking stance as well.

Azula threw the first blow. Massive blue Fire everywhere. And for once her brother's spark was just as powerful.

I could barely see what the fight took from them, all I saw was harmonic blasts and waves of beautiful blue and orange.

Soon the Princess stopped, kneeling down, breathing heavy, only to growl as she got back up.

Zuko and Azula were at that time equal, he had the power of Sozin's Comet, Azula had her sanity.

But the beautiful train reck crashed hard on the ground, moving some distance from Zuko.

"No lightning today? What's the matter? Afraid I'll redirect it?!" The Prince mocked Princess.

"Oh, I'll show you lightning!" Azula snarled, preparing to make the bolts.

I couldn't let that happen, I knew I had a chance, that only I could take. One that would only matter if I took it.

"Azula, no!" I yelled, running as fast as my feet carried me, hoping I wasn't already too late to stop her.

I stood there, it happening too fast for me to react. Azula already made the blue lightning, sparking every which way, her hand directing the power.

I knew she didn't mean it, if this went terribly wrong.

Princess's face was indescribable, shock overflowing her ember eyes, it was too late.

The blue light, shooting away from her finger tips, at the one person she never wanted to hurt.

"No!!!" My baby sister shouted in horror with all her lungs.

As my eyes closed from the unbearable pain, Azula's eyes were laced with fear. I hadn't physically seen that before. In the show sure, but as the pain went through me like a million burns and sparks, I didn't know what to feel.

My eyes closed, and blackness was where I wanted to stay. The Princess's beautiful voice stayed in my ears.

"Kyo...?"

"Kyo!"

                        ———Mia POV———

That monster!

My brother laid on the palace grounds, shot with lightning.

Azula was a monster.

I had to see if he was alive. I didn't care if that monster would attack me. I immediately fell to my knees next to Kyo's limp body, he couldn't be dead. What would I do?! Without my brother!?

Checking his pulse frantically, praying there was a heartbeat of some kind.

There was. He was alive.

I could careless about the tears making my sight blurry, Katara had to heal him immediately.

"Katara!" I called out, not moving my brother.

Katara had to heal him, I couldn't do anything. All I could do was hurt the one that did this to him.

I didn't give a shit if he loved her.

"You did this to him!" I snarled, placing my shaking hands on the grip of my blade.

Azula's eyes of horror went from Kyo to me, taking steps back.

I wasn't going to fall into her mind manipulation, I was going to make her suffer!

I ran at Azula, she shot a huge fire blast the size of a massive balloon at me. It was exactly what I wanted, jumping to the side. She didn't see me from all the fire, which gave me an advantage.

I came from her side, immediately ready to hit her. As I swung at her, three knives flew straight by my face. Cutting some of my hair in the wind.

"That was a warning!" Mai yelled, pulling at three more throwing knives.

"I got Azula, you give Katara time to heal Kyo!" Zuko yelled at me. I nodded even if I wanted to kill Azula.

I ran at Mai and Ty Lee, then process dodging one of Azula's fire blasts. I immediately ducked some of Mai's knives and dodged back from Ty Lee, ending up closer to Mai.

I backed away ready to fight Ty Lee and Mai, standing against me. The fire light was bright, almost daylight.

We all fought, me mostly blocking Mai's knives, Ty Lee getting all handsy, I must say I was barely surviving.

Soon I stepped back from Ty Lee's attack, only for my back to meet Azula's. I immediately stepped forward, swinging behind me at the same time.

She turned, keeping her stance. "Mia, the Earth Ki-" she began.

"No! No! No!" I yelled on the top of my lungs, I couldn't let that happen. Not then. I charged her, to get her to shut up!

Only to stop when a massive fire blast strike her. Zuko walked next to me, ready to shoot again.

"It won't work this time, you bitch!" I snarled as attacked Azula, getting to her feet.

———Kyo———

"Do you wish to go back?" A voice asked, my eye fluttered, it was hazy, the voice faint.

"Wha?" I groaned, trying to open my eyes, covering them at the same time.

"Do you wish to return?" I recognized that voice finally. It was Roku's.

My eyes were still adjusting, however once they cleared I saw that where I laid was in a white endless room. There were no walls, the whiteness going on forever.

I stood to my feet, realizing I was in my world's clothes. Black jeans, blue t-shirt, why was I dressed like that?

I turned, to see Roku as he always stood, standing there not too far from me.

"Roku? Where am I?" I asked, trying to get my head on. My memory was like a fog. Why was I here?

"You are at your crossroads." Wha? "Your place to choose."

I began to remember. Remember everything. Azula. "Azula!" I gasped. "She killed me?" My voice broke, confusion was beginning to set.

"Yes..."

My eyes widened, I died?! Why!? What did I do?!

Azula killed me! But Zuko survived! Why not me?

I saw the immediate regret in her eyes, yet how could I forgive someone who has brought me nothing but pain? She captured me, threw me in jail, toyed with me, saved my life, captured me again, made me crazy, and now... out of stupidity I let her kill me.

Maybe everyone was right... maybe Mia was right. If I had listened for just once I would still be alive!

Was I in some kind of heaven? "What do you mean 'crossroads?'" I questioned.

"You have a choice, Kyo..." I love choices. "Go to your world. Or go back."

"I want to go back." I answered, without hesitation.

"But you will forget." Roku's tone was flat.

"Forget? Forget what?" I was already making suspicions.

"You must pick two people you want to remember, you will remember what you have done, but you will only remember those who you pick now as I stand before you." I let my mouth drop, if I went back I wouldn't remember people?

Yet it was still better. Better than going back there.

"I still want to go back." I shifted my eyes from the white unending floor, that I would normally be fascinated by, but right then I could think of was my situation, to Avatar Roku.

"Than you must choose." His voice and face utterly serious.

"I want to remember my sister."

"And the other?" That question stunning me. I wanted to say Azula. Yet... I could imagine a life without her. Where I never knew her, where I never fell in love with that dangerous beauty.

"I want to remember Azula." But I couldn't. I just couldn't.

"Very well. Goodbye, Kyo."

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I opened my eyes to see a red sky, to my relief. But there sat someone I had never seen before next to me. She had brown hair, olive skin, and the brightest blue eyes you'll ever see.

They were filled with worry, was she afraid for me? I didn't know her. Why?

"Kyo?" She asked, in a gasp.

"Who are you?" I questioned, rising to my feet.

"...Kyo?" She asked, again in disbelief.

That was when I felt the pain in my chest. A sharp tight burning sensation suddenly overwhelmed me. I groaned, hold the wound, where was the woman who did this to me?

I turned to see my sister. Fear mixed with anger filled her green eyes, as she ducked under a blue fire blast made by the one and only heartbreaker. The one who killed me.

I had to put an end.

"Stop!" I shouted, still holding my wound.

Azula immediately did, looking at me with relief. I tried to smile through the vibrating pain.

"Stop all this, stupid ass fighting!"

They all dropped their stances, but I could tell they weren't going to stop fighting.

"It's pointless, princess." She squinted, trying not to look at me. "Just give up."

"No! I will never just give up!" Azula snarled, suddenly throwing a fire blast at a boy with a scar on the left side of his face, he went flying to the closest wall.

The water tribe girl and Mia charged her, I didn't know what to do. Neither did the two girls that fought with her. We just stood there silent, watching the Water Tribe girl and Mia fight Azula.

Soon the scarred boy got back up, joining the fight. Azula made a swipe of fire all around herself in a last attempt, stepping back to the walkway.

She stepped on to a grated duct of water, the waterbender immediately freezing it up, making Azula a statue.

"Mia, get those chains!" The waterbender ordered.

"Gladly." My sister almost growled, walking over sheathing her blade, and grabbing the chains.

The water bender immediately grabbed them and unfroze where she stood and where to chain Azula. The Princess could only watch with wide eyes.

The waterbender let the water fall back to the floor, Azula also fell the chains keeping her down.

The princess looked at me, broken eyes that I wish I could help. She was soaking wet, staring at me.

"It didn't have to be this way. You could have come with me!" I lament, still holding my wound.

Through the water I knew tears when I saw them. They were falling like a drizzle.

Azula suddenly screeched, sobbing, growling, spitting fire, like an angry animal. Only to remember they was no escape, reality set in as she began to cry out, breathing heavy. Breaking right before my eyes.

I had to look away, I only wanted what was best for her, make her happy, I had no clue if I had made it worst.

I didn't know if I had just hurt her.

A tear found its way to my cheek, it wasn't the searing pain in my chest, that she killed me, but because Azula was painful to love.

Yet I still want her.

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[A/N: hi everyone! That's the end! THANK YOU For reading! :) I'm going to make an epilogue which is the real end. THANK U!]