Chapter 11

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 Zuko, Katara, and I briskly flew on Appa through the orange colored sky. I stared with mixed feelings some of them was of wonder at how the sky could turn bright orange, but other is of terror. What will be the outcome? Will Aang be safe? And if not, how am I going to defeat him. I stared blankly at the medallion the Sun Warrior chief gave me. If I truly am the Sansar, I must do my very best. That's what Aang would've wanted. 

What am I saying? Aang is not dead, he's out there. Somewhere beyond, but where? 

"Something the matter?" Katara asked, snapping me back into reality. 

"Oh, I was just thinking." I replied, I looked to see Zuko was also drifting in thought.

"You okay Zuko?" I asked, "If it's about Azula don't worry about it."

" It's not her I'm worried about. I'm worried about Aang. What if he doesn't have the guts to take out my father? What if he loses?" Zuko asked, the same questions that stirred within my mind.

"Aang won't lose. He's gonna come back. "Katara said, somewhat confidently, "He has to."

Maybe Katara was right. Maybe Aang will come back, and maybe win the war against the Fire Lord. I exhaled nervously as my eye caught a glimpse of the Fire Nation city a few miles away. The strange part is no airships, not even fire balls shooting at us. 

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AT BA SING SE 

Tariqq along with the other Lotus members stood facing the inner wall of the city. The flag of the fire nation waving proudly into the twilight sky. 

"Ba Sing Se, the Order of the White Lotus is here." Bumi spoke up.

"Here to set you free." joined Pakku.

"Only once every hundred years can a firebender experience this kind of power." Iroh said, in front of the men.

 Iroh inhales deeply, then exhales creating a ring of fire surrounding the group. The flames grew larger each time Iroh breathes deeply, until finally he opens his eyes and raises his arms; summoning the flames to collect itself and fires it towards the city walls.  Bumi jumps forward and stomps the ground. The three stone blocks that the Order's members were standing on begin to quickly move toward Ba Sing Se. 

Behind the wall, large fire blasts were shot at the Order members. With swift accuracy, Iroh deflected the attacks. One by one, the Order members leap and go toward the city. Pakku bends a giant wave of water over the building and down toward the Fire Nation soldiers, Piandao and Tariqq jumps over it. Tariqq then turns the wave into ice, freezing the soldier's feet. Piandao slides down the frozen wave and slashes the ends of the soldier's weapons, and slides into another street. Pakku unfreezes the water, but freezes it again in front of Tariqq to block an incoming fire blast. The ice barrier is short lived however, and when another fire blast is about to hit the two men, a giant wall of fire erupts, made by Jeong Jeong, in front of him, stopping the attack.  

Jeong Jeong, floating in the air using firebending to create fire jets beneath his feet. Jeong Jeong turns to another street. A line of tanks fire on him, but he blocks the attacks with another giant wall of fire and thrusts the wall knocking the tanks. More tanks begin to fire on him from another street, but Jeong Jeong repeats his actions, creating a wall of flame and attacking the tanks with it. The tanks knock over themselves creating a large pile as the wall of fire pushes another tank into the pile.

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"There, I see her." Zuko said, pointing to what appears to be Azula along with Fire Sages. It looked like they were performing some kind of ceremony. A coronation maybe. The sage suddenly pauses and looks ahead seeing Appa.

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