The Avatar Escapes

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After the encounter with the avatar and the fact that I had to go back to the fire nation had sent me into a stage of anxiety. I went to my room to rest and think over what my plan would be now that I had to return to the fire nation.

I lay face down on my pillows and sighed. If I went back to the fire nation it was back to living on the streets, if I stayed with Zuko he might be able to get me a job as a servant at the palace, but I didn't like the idea of having to wait on Azula. I might as well go live in the earth kingdom if I really wanted to avoid my father.

But honestly I sometimes wished that somehow I hadn't gone with Zuko on his ship, that I had found my father's ship, that I had ended him. I wanted nothing more than him to feel what I had felt and been put through.

A knock resounded on my door, "Can I come in?" it was Iroh, I sighed, got up and walked over to open the door.

Iroh smiled at me as I opened the door, "Hello Iroh, can I help you with something?" I asked.

I sat back down on my bed, Iroh followed suit and we sat together.

Iroh smiled wider, "Oh no, on the contrary, I am here to help you," Iroh said to me.

I frowned and tilted my head, "What do you mean? Help me with what?" I asked Iroh.

"Listen," said Iroh. "I know what you're going through, you don't know what is going to happen to you and what you're going to do, my nephew sometimes forgets that you too have gone through things like he has, once he remembers I know that he will come around and help you find a new home."

I shook my head, "Thank you Iroh but I... I don't think a new home is what I want, going back to the fire nation isn't what I want, but finding my father and getting revenge for my mother isn't what I want either."

"Then what is it that you want?" Iroh asked, looking me straight in the eye.

I blinked and turned away, uncertain if I could even answer the question.

"Well, I'll let you think about it," Iroh said, then he smiled. "In the meantime I'm going to take a nap, I'm tired out after all this avatar chasing business," he yawned and wandered off to his quarters.

I smiled as I watched him go, what did I want? I really didn't know. I wanted my mother back, and my old life back, but at the same time I never wanted to go back to that again. My old life may have been easier but it wasn't better.

I remembered the days when I had attended the royal fire nation academy with Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai, those had been good times at least, I had been more of their servant than anything else though, carrying books, walking behind them in class, and being their other playmate when a game called for four. I hadn't minded them, Azula was intense at times and not my favorite playmate but Mai and Ty Lee genuinely valued spending time with me.

I sighed and got up to shut the door which Iroh had left wide open on accident.

A gust of wind whizzed past me and I stared after it in surprise, but it wasn't a gust of wind, it was the avatar, he had escaped.

I rushed after him, running at top speed, if Aang escaped it wouldn't go well for Zuko, Zuko's whole world would crumble around him she knew.

But I had to stop to catch my breath and as I did so, I lost the avatar. I cursed myself and ran to the stairs that led up to the main deck. I knew it wouldn't be long before the avatar found his way there and would try to escape into the air.

I ran to one of the men and shouted to him, "The avatar has escaped!" The man alerted the rest of the crew and before long everyone was in position.

But instead of the avatar racing up the stairs and onto the deck a figure launched off the top of the ship and into the air, the avatar's staff was also a glider, he was airbending into it so it would fly.

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