Ylva

Chapter 7

2 years later.

       A ship was sailing in an Arctic tundra, and one of it's passengers was just waking up. It was a female of the age 13, and she went out to the deck to see where they were when she realized they were now in the South pole. 

AH CRAP WE'RE IN THEIR TERRITORY! NO, Calm down girl it'll be alright as long as we don't go to THAT part of the south pole we should be fine. She thought to herself before deciding to go back to her room and actually get ready for the day. When she finished she went to the deck again and found a male a few years older than her with a ponytail facing away from her looking out at the landscape. She walked up to him and looked at the scenery with him, when she saw some penguins. 

   "You know it's been forever since iv'e been penguin sledding. I kinda want to try it again." She said.

   "Penguin sledding? Are you serious? We need to capture the Avatar and you want to go Penguin Sledding!?" The boy responded, sounding annoyed. 

   "Well ya I mean it's only for a few hours. Besides it's not like we're actually finding anything that suggests the Avatar's alive anyway." She told him starting to get annoyed as well. "Maybe we should take a 3 hour break. So the crew can rest and we can have a teensy bit of fun. What do you say?"

   "Absolutely not, we are not stopping for anything. ESPECIALLY PENGUIN SLEDDING!"

    "I think Ylva's idea is a splendid one Prince Zuko, you could really do with a little bit of fun right now." An old man said joining the two teenagers.

  "Of course you do uncle, your always looking for a chance to be lazy!" Zuko snapped at the old man.

  "Zuko, don't worry a couple of hours isn't going to do much damage." Ylva said now trying to calm the prince down. The now angry prince looked at the girl trying to calm him down and, his uncle. He finally settled down and gave in. 

  "Fine but only 3 hours." He said and started yelling at his crew to stop and take a break.

  "YAY!" Ylva squealed jumping up and down in excitement. 

   "Zuko grab some fish and meet on land." Ylva ordered before going to her room to get in more proper attire for snow activities. 

   15 minutes later Ylva and Zuko finally found some penguins and started to try catching them.

  "Great we found the penguins now what." Zuko asked Ylva in an irritated tone.

  "Now we approach quietly and hold the fish in our hands like this." she said slowly moving towards the penguins before stopping a couple of feet away from them and pulling out her fish. All the penguins began to surround her Immediately,and she let out a laugh. 

   "Come on Zuko! Just walk slowly and then bring out your fish. Then pick a penguin give it the fish and grab it while its eating," she said as she gave a penguin to her left a fish and wrapping it in a bear hug when it was done swallowing the fish, "See? easy." 

   Zuko slowly walked over to the penguins and brought his fish out soon all the penguins except for the penguin ylva was holding began to swarm him. He quickly gave it to a penguin and grabbed it when it had swallowed the fish. 

   "Great now what." 

  "Now we lead it up the hill and slide down on top of it!" 

    The two lead their penguins up a hill close by to the ship that was very high and very steep, they mounted their penguins and Ylva counted them off.

    "Ready..."

    "You sure this is a good idea?"

    "Steady..."

   "Umm Ylva-"

   "GO!" And with that she speed off on her penguin making Zuko's penguin follow behind. 

   "WHOO HOOOOO!" 

   "AAARRRRGGGG!"

   The penguins were dodging trees and rocks and even used some ledges as ramps on the way down. Ylva was going handless, while Zuko was hanging on to his penguin with his life. When they reached the bottom Zuko rolled off the penguin and stood up in 2 seconds, while Ylva just jumped off of hers and watched the penguins go back to their group.

   "Well that was fun. Don't you think?" she asked looking at Zuko who looked ready to be sick. 

    "Never ever again." Is all he said. Ylva laughed 

    "Oh come on, it wasn't THAT bad." she said as they made their way back onto the ship.

   "Ya for you Ms. I-used-to-do-this-all-the-time." He said bitterly.

   "Hmm true." They were back on the ship and saw Uncle Iroh talking and laughing with the crew, when he noticed the two were back he turned to the group and told them that break time was most likely over and walked over to Ylva and Zuko. 

  "So how was your penguin sledding?" 

  "Just as much fun as I remember it being, although I don't think Zuko enjoyed it so much." she said amused looking over at Zuko.

   "It was a complete waste of time! No more stops from now on, we need to focus on finding the Avatar!" 

   "Alright! Alright! No more pit stops, I promise." Ylva told him crossing her heart with her left hand.

 A few days later the three were on deck. Iroh was playing a game of tiles, Ylva was throwing a small ball full of rice, up in the air and catching it multiple times, while Zuko was just standing there watching the other two and at the land in front of them, when suddenly there was a bright blue beam coming from a little ways away and lion seals started howling.

  "Finally!"

A/N: Next chapter we meet Aang, Katara and Sokka. I'M SO EXCITED!