Mizumi (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Chapter 5: The Moon

Sokka consoled his sister, while Yue attempted to rouse Mizumi.

"Come on Zumi... Wake up." The Fire Nation had hurt her home and her best friend.

"Zumi..."

Just as suddenly as Katara, Mizumi woke up and sat up quickly, "Where's Aang? What happened?", she asked, not missing a beat.

"Woah, you just woke up, calm down." said Sokka, his attention had been drawn away from his sister due to Zumi's outburst.

"He took him, didn't he?" she let her head fall into her hands covering her face, "I'm so sorry..."

"It's ok, Zumi. You did your best." said Yue; she hated seeing Zumi like this, the usually tenacious girl looked so broken.

"Yue's right, Zumi." said Katara, tears still in her eyes, "I'm the one who was supposed to protect Aang. I'm the one who failed."

Mizumi didn't agree with her, but she knew arguing with Katara would get her nowhere.

"You both did everything you could, and now we need to do everything we can to get him back." said Sokka, "Zuko can't have gotten far. We'll find him. Aang's gonna be fine."

They all got on Appa and Katara told Momo to stay incase Aang came back.

"Yip, yip."

And with that they were off.

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"Don't worry. Prince Zuko can't be getting too far in this weather." said Yue as they flew on Appa towards the snow storm.

"I'm not worried they'll get away in the blizzard. I'm worried they won't." said Katara.

"They're not going to die in this blizzard. If we know anything, it's that Zuko never gives up. They'll survive, and we'll find them." said Sokka.

"And when we do find them, I owe someone a punch," added Mizumi, punching her palm for emphasis, "a really painful punch..." she finished holding her head with her hand.

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After a while they finally found them. Aang was struggling to get away, though it was clearly not working out for him.

As soon as they landed Katara and Sokka got off; and while her brother ran to untie Aang, Katara faced off against Zuko.

"Here for a rematch?" said Zuko, getting ready to fight once more.

"Trust me Zuko, it's not going to be much of a match."

Katara launched Zuko up in the air and smashed him back down by bending the snow beneath him.

And just like that, Zuko was down for the count.

"Woo, yeah! Go, Katara!" exclaimed Mizumi, there was no point in giving in to her dour feelings.

"Hey, this is some quality rope!" said Sokka excitedly after untying Aang.

"We need to get to the oasis; the spirits are in trouble!" said Aang quickly airbending himself onto Appa. He then looked at Zuko, lying unconscious on the snow, "Wait, we can't just leave him here."

"Sure we can" answered Sokka. "Let's go."

"No Sokka, as much as it pains me to say it, we can't just leave him here, he'll die." said Mizumi, though it seemed to pain her a bit to do so. Her words prompted Aang to go get him.

Sokka looked at Mizumi he still wasn't convinced.

"We need to be better than them." she added. As painful as it was, she knew it was true.