Chang Ai [ENG] [zukaang/ zuko x aang fanfic]

Chapter XV: The southern raiders

Several Fire Nation airships led by Azula, emerged from the fog and began to throw bombs at the temple. Aang closed the large temple doors to protect the others and Zuko pushed Katara out of the way just as some rocks fell, landing where she had previously been in the process; instead of thanking him, she demands him to step aside. Toph and Haru created a tunnel into the wall with their earthbending so that everyone could escape safely, Aang was trying to lead Appa into the tunnel, but stopped when he saw Zuko walk away, looking at the airships and starting to walk towards the gates.

"Wait, guys!" Aang told them and he walked towards the firebender "Zuko! what are you doing? we have to go now!"

"Go ahead, I'll distract them" Zuko said looking at Aang "I have a feeling it's a family visit"

"ZUKO NO!" the airbender cried going after him but Sokka and Katara stopped him "let me go, he can't go to fight them alone!"

"Let's go, we have to get out of here" Sokka said worried about the movements that were taking place on the ground. The three began to tug on Appa's reins as Aang watched the firebender disappear into the rubble, knowing in advance what was about to happen, Zuko reached the edge of the platform.

"What are you doing here?" the firebender asked to the sinister princess.

"Doesn't that seem obvious to you?" Azula asked, looking at the fleet of aircrafts and then at her brother with a wicked smile "I'm about to celebrate that soon I will be an only child!"

After saying that, the Fire Nation princess fired a blast of blue fire directly from his feet, Zuko tried to protect himself but failed in the attempt, the ground below him began to shake and crack so he got up and jumped towards the airship to start another battle with her sister.

Although he was extremely worried about Zuko, Aang tried to get out of there somehow but Appa did not seem to want to cooperate.

"I can't get him there, Appa hates tunnels" even pulling the flying bison reins, they could not manage him to move.

"Aang, there's no way to escape flying" Katara said as she held the reins with the help of her brother.

"We'll have to find a way.

"We need to break apart" Sokka sugested and managed to come up with a plan to save the others and themselves "go through the tunnel and get to the stolen aircraft"

"No" Katara said angrily "the Fire Nation will not separate our family again."

"I'll be fine. This won't last for long" Hakoda said placing his hands on her shoulders to calm her down, Katara accepted this and said goodbye to her father with a quick hug, the Southern Water Tribe chief also hugged his son who after that little farewell, he took Suki's hand and then, Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka and Suki climbed on top of Appa. The earthbender placed her hand on one of the nearly fallen walls.

"I can clear this path so we can get out of here" Toph told them as she ran towards Appa, she used her earthbending to create a pillar that she leapt through and climbed up on the flying bison saddle next to Sokka.

"Um, I don't want to alarm you but, there's a lot of fire in that direction in general" Suki said, again all the foundations started shaking.

"We'll get through anyway, let's go" Aang told them.

As they flew, they saw Zuko come out of the fog on another aircraft, he jumped towards Azula's ship and they began to fight. Aang and the others barely managed to evade the Fire Nation soldiers attacks that were in the other airships, Zuko and Azula seemed to have a balanced battle but their close range firebending caused an explosion that pushed them both out of the airship, Aang guided Appa down and Katara managed to catch Zuko and then put him inside the saddle, saving his life. Azula, on the other hand, used her firebending to propel herself towards the cliff and slid to stop herself using her hairclip.