Avatar: The Last Airbender: Reawakening

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"Okay let's go," Sokka said once he was finished eating breakfast the next morning.

Suki rolled her eyes, sitting next to him at the dining table of the Earth King's palace, "Wait for the rest of us Sokka..."

Sokka looked around the table, seeing that everyone was still eating with Aang, Katara, and Mai across from him. Zuko was sitting to Mai's left at King Bumi's usual seat. However, since Bumi wasn't with them at the moment because he was being caught up on search reports from some of his advisors, Zuko decided that he would take the lead seat.

"Well hurry it up," Sokka said, "we don't have all day."

"Actually we do," Katara spoke up from across the table, "it's not like we have anything else to do except to look around the city."

"It'd probably be best if we just looked at the archives," Aang said, putting his fork down once he was finished eating.

"Why would you think that?" Suki said.

"Because that was where these guys went to," Sokka said before Aang could answer, knowing what the young Avatar was thinking.

"Right," Aang nodded, "Bumi has soldiers all over the city, and the archives aren't being looked at as much."

"You would think that would be the first place they would look," Katara murmured, tilting her head at him.

"Actually that is where they started," Zuko said, causing Katara to look at him in surprise since she didn't think he would hear her, "Nobody found anything, everything seemed untouched, so they just stopped the investigations there. Besides, after the break in, the politicians were a little uneasy about people being inside of the archives."

"We aren't going to have any trouble getting into them are we?" Sokka asked.

"No," Zuko shook his head, "They should let you guys go on through, after all, you guys are with the Avatar," he smiled at Aang a little.

"Let's just hope we can find something," Aang said, looking over at Katara to see that she was done eating.

"I'll be going with you," Mai said, speaking up for the first time, "I can help answer any question you guys may have since I was there during the attack."

"That'd be nice," Katara smiled at the older girl before looking at Zuko, "Are you coming too?"

Zuko sighed, "I wish I could but I am having a meeting with Bumi in an hour about what the next steps are going to be if we aren't able to find anything in the investigations, which at this point, I don't think we will. We can't let these guys get away though so we're not just going to give up."

"Well hopefully we will be able to find something in the archives," Suki said, pushing away her plate, "speaking of which, I'm ready to go when you guys are."

"Well lets go then," Aang said as he stood up and grabbed Katara's hand to lead her out of the room before he stopped and turned back around to look at Zuko, "Um, where are the archives?"

"That's what you have me for," Mai gave him a small smile as she stood up, "follow me."

Aang and Katara let Mai walk in front of them as the she led them out of the room with Sokka and Suki not far behind them. They walked out of the palace and through the winding streets of Omashu for several minutes before they finally saw the entrance and a pair of guards quickly stood up to meet them.

"You wish to enter the archives?" one of the guards asked.

"To help in the investigation," Mai responded, and pointed and Aang, "The Avatar's with me."