Face to Face

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On the war ship Zuko is being suited up in war armor, Amosa is sitting down looking at her nails before she looks up at him.

"I don't see why I can't go out there.... I find it incredulous." She says staring Zuko down, with a sigh he makes eye contact with her. "Father w-" Zuko can't finish as he is interrupted. "Fathers.... not here. I'm going out there rather you like it or not." Amosa stands and walks out of Zuko's chambers before going to her own.

After a while the servants are finished putting on Amosa's war armor, then there's a knock on her door. "You may enter." She says with a soft but eerie tone. In comes a guard. "We are here." He says, before leaving the room, with a sigh and a small smile a servant puts a helmet on Amosa's head. "You may go." She tells the servants who scurry away.

Amosa walks out of her chambers, where two guards are waiting to escort her. She follows the two guards to where Zuko is, he stands clearly not pleased with her coming along. "If the Avatar is her ZuZu, don't you think you'll need back up?" She asks him with a hand on his shoulder which is covered in armor. He stays silent, but relaxes to her touch.

"I just don't want nothing happening to you... that's all." He tells her honestly staring ahead as they feel the ship stop. "Oh, I know." She says right before the bow of the ship opens up. Mist appears as the bow lands flat against the ice, the villagers move back. "Time to shine ZuZu." Amosa tells him with a smirk as they move forward.

Amosa and Zuko are side by side with six guards behind them. Sokka is on his knees looking at the two, as they walk down the bow of the ship. The villagers look on in fear as they get closer, that's when Sokka lets out a battle cry and run towards them. Sokka completely ignores Amosa and goes straight for Zuko.

Zuko merely kicks the club to his left and, without ever resting his leg on the ground, kicks Sokka over to his right, sending him into the snow, where his head becomes trapped. Zuko and Amosa continue on towards the village, they make a stop and the only two who moves forward are Zuko and Amosa.

Amosa looks on as Zuko looks for the Avatar. "Where are you hiding him?" He asks looking towards Katara. Zuko clearly not having any patience grabs Kanna, Sokka and Katara's grams. "He'd be about this age, master of all elements?" He asks clearly annoyed.

He shoves Kanna forcefully back into the crowd. The elderly woman shudders in fear and embraces Katara, while Katara shoots an angry glare at Zuko. Amosa groans annoyed as she approaches Zuko. "Perhaps, we shall try a different approach." She tells him as she turns towards the group who now see the evil glint in her eyes.

Amosa swings her arm out and releases an arc of blue, but hot fire that passes just over the heads of the people, causing them to cover their heads and cry out in fear. "Speak! We know your hiding him!" Amosa yells angrily at the villagers.

Out of know where Sokka runs over and picks it up, most of his war paint having come off at this point. He lets out another battle cry as he charges toward Zuko. Zuko swiftly turns around just as Sokka approaches. He ducks under Sokka's wide swing and hurls the warrior forward. Sokka lands on his rear in the snow and is quickly forced to dart from his spot when Amosa and Zuko fires a blast at him.

He spins to the side and tosses his boomerang at the two who barely manages to miss getting hit by the weapon. Zuko growls and glares at Sokka in anger at the near hit; he follows the course of the weapon until it vanishes before looking back at Sokka in anger. Amosa actually smirks pleased with his attempt at trying to take her down, but she prepares herself for round two.

One of the village boys tosses Sokka a spear. "Show no fear!" The boy yells.


Sokka handily catches the weapon and charges at Zuko once more. Amosa with a sigh steps out of the way knowing Zuko can easily handle him. As Sokka reaches Zuko, Zuko breaks of pieces of the spear with his forearms, pulls the remains of the weapon out of Sokka's hands and pokes him three times in the head with the blunt end. Sokka falls to the ground as Zuko snaps the spear in two and tosses the pieces to the ground on both of his sides.

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