Kyoshi Island

It was early in the morning, the horizon was a bright blue, the sun beyond the horizon, the clouds faded into the top of the sky, a deep navy blue.

Zuko´s ship had been reappeared and had left the Fire Nation base yesterday. They had also refilled their supplies. They didn´t know if they were catching up to the Avatar or going in the wrong direction.

Knowing that now the Fire Nation and the entire world knew about the Avatar and the Kitsune minimized his chances of ever capturing them and going home whit his honor.

Zuko was in his room and was sitting on a low bench before the meditation table, dressed in his formal robes, sitting on his knees. Breathing in through his nose made the flames of the candles shrink when he exhaled they grew.

The room was very dark, being so early in the morning, with nothing but the candles for light. He had turned the lamps off.

Meditation calmed him, his mind was blank and diverted so he didn't have to confront this new reality he was facing.

A quiet knock sounded on the door, the person entered. "The only reason you should be disrupting me is when you news on the Avatar and his friends" Zuko told in a calm voice.

"Well we have news concerning the Avatar and his friends but now try not to get angry", Iroh said waving his hands in front of him defensively, showing that he was holding a rolled up piece of paper in his hand.

"Uncle, you taught me that keeping a calm mind is the sign of a great leader. Now whatever you have to say, I'm sure I can handle it", Zuko said in a calm tone.

Iroh doubted what he heard, but continued anyway. "Well… we haven't been able to find the Avatar."

"WHAT!" Zuko yelled the small candle flames flaring up to the ceiling. He stood up, trying to calm down his temper.

Iroh removed the orange fan from his sleeves waving the smoke forming at the ceiling away from his face. "You should open the vents Zuko, smoke smells bad" Iroh stated but Zuko ignored him and took the map from him.

"There have been multiple sightings of the Avatar and his friends. But it´s impossible to track them down" Iroh began while he waved the fan and looked at his nephew. "How, am I going to find them? Uncle the Avatar is clearly a master of advancing maneuvering" Zuko asked while he looked at map.

Over the ocean

Aang and his friends were flying on Appa. Katara was sewing Sokka´s trousers, Naruto was polishing his dual knifes. "You have no idea where you're going, do you?" Sokka asked Aang while he looked at the map "I now it´s near water" Aang answered whit a smile while he looked at Sokka "I guess were getting close that" Sokka sighed.

Naruto had just finished polishing his knifes when he went over to Aang. "Hey Aang isn't Kyoshi island nearby? I always wanted to go there" Naruto asked while he looked at Aang "yeah you´re right Naruto then I could ride on a koi fish" Aang answered whit a huge smile and maneuvered Appa to a nearby island.

Kyoshi Island

Appa was now standing on the beach while Sokka, Katara and Naruto went off his saddle Aang had already jumped down from Appa´s head and was now looking over the sea. "Aang if we continue to make stops, we´ll never arrive to the north pole" Katara told Aang after she went down from Appa´s saddle.

"Katara! Appa´s clearly tired" Naruto began and looked over to Appa who didn´t look very tired "I said Appa´s clearly tired" Naruto tried again and this time Appa responded in form of a groan. "Wow that sounded convincing" Sokka said sarcastic.

Aang ran over to the sea and pointed at a big gold fish. "That the reason why we're here I always wanted to ride on an elephant koi fish…Katara you have to watch me" Aang told while he was undressing and looked over to Katara.

After Aang was undressed he jumped down in the cold water and began to swim over to the Koi fish. Katara and Sokka looked at each other, they both thought the same thing "he´s crazy". When Katara heard a sound of breaking tree behind them she saw that Appa was eating it.

"No Appa don't eat that" she told Appa while she tried to stop him. In the mean time Sokka saw something in the water and tried to warn Aang but it was too late, the fish Aang was riding on suddenly went under the water and Aang was shot forwards.

Aang saw the shadow over him, when he looked behind him and saw a giant fish fin he ran over the water as fast as he could. The giant fish was faster than him, but seconds before the fish got Aang he jumped out of the water right in too Sokka so hard that they flew in to a tree.

"Are you alright Aang?" Katara asked Aang who was now getting dressed "yeah I´m okay but where's Naruto?" Aang asked while he looked at Katara who just shrugged her shoulders. "I only saw that he went into the woods" Sokka told and stood up again.

Before any of them could react they were attacked by some warriors who used the element of surprise to catch them and track them to their village.

Whit Naruto

Naruto was looking over a village and saw that Aang, Katara, Sokka and Momo had been captured and were being interrogated by what looked like the village leader. "Kyoshi village. It´s bigger than I thought" Naruto said whit a smile, but the smile disappeared when felt something sharp against his neck.

"Who are you and what the hell, are you doing here?" the person behind Naruto asked "my name is Naruto Kitsune and the reason why I´m here, I always wanted to see a real Kyoshi warrior like you" Naruto answered whit out looking behind him.

"Well you´ll get the chance to see them close by, come on" the woman ordered and took Naruto to the village.

In the village

Aang, Katara and Sokka were trying to convince the leader that they don´t mean any harm. "How do we know that you're not fire nation spy? Kyoshi stayed out of the war so far" the leader asked while he looked angry at the group.

"Wait a moment this island is named after Kyoshi I knew her" Aang answered whit smile, but the leader didn´t seem to happy "HA how could you possibly know her. Avatar Kyoshi was born here 400 hundred years ago" the leader told.

"The reason I know her is because I´m the Avatar" Aang explained in calm voice, "that´s an lie everyone knows that last Avatar was a Air bender and they died a hundred years ago" the leader of the woman warrior told. "Suki I found another intruder" the woman told.

"Well done Zhalia, help us throw them to the Onagi" Suki ordered and together whit her sisters she took her battle fans and went down in a battle position. "Aang I think it´s time to show them some Air bending" Sokka Said a little nervous.

Aang inhaled and then he looked down. He blew himself straight up into the air above the top of the pole. He lightly descended back to the ground and lightly touched the ground. "So it true you really are the Avatar" the leader said amazed.

"Now see my newest trick" Aang said whit a smile and pulled out a marble, he then started to spin it between his fingers. The villagers cheered when they saw what Aang, there even were a villager who fainted.

In a other village

Words spread fast that the Avatar was on Kyoshi. On a Fire nation ship Zuko and Iroh were getting ready to get something to eat when a servant came in whit a fish and told them the rumor.

"WHAT! The Avatar is on Kyoshi that means the guardian must be whit him, Uncle prepare the rhinos I´ll get them this time" Zuko told. But before he walked out of the room Iroh asked "are you going to finish that?" and pointed at the fish "I was saving that for later!" Zuko answered after he took the fish.

When Zuko walked out of the room Iroh frowned because he didn´t get something to eat.

Back in Kyoshi village

The town was happy that they had the Avatar and his guardian on visit, they cleaned up the statue of Kyoshi, the former Avatar. Aang, Katara, Naruto and Sokka were now sitting in the main house of the village and where served something to eat. "This looks exquisite" Naruto said while he took a bite of the cake.

"Katara you have to try this" Aang said and gave Katara a cake while he was eating his one, "maybe only a bit" Katara responded and took the cake. "Hey Sokka you have to try the cakes" Aang told and looked over to Sokka who was brooding in the corner of the room.

"What´s wrong whit him?" Aang asked while he was eating his cake "he´s just upset that a bunch of girls kick his butt" Katara explained whit a smile. "Hey be fair it was a sneak attack in real fight they wouldn't beaten you so easy" Naruto said while he was eating something.

"Yeah in a fair match they wouldn't stand a chance" Sokka told and stood up "I´ll show them a thing or two" Sokka said again while he took some of the cakes, but before he walked out of the room they heard him say" Sokka grumbled.

Naruto sighed when he saw that Sokka walked out off the room. "I´ll make sure he doesn't do something stupid" Naruto said and went after Sokka. "How come Sokka´s so angry, it´s great here?" Aang asked whit a smile while he looked at Katara.

"Hey don´t get to comforted, you know that we can´t stay in one place to long" Katara told Aang who now looked a little disappointed "yeah I know but I´m sure everything will be fine and did you see how happy I made this town" Aang said and looked out off the window.

"They even cleaned the statue of Kyoshi in my honor" Aang said again while he looked over at Katara "well it´s good hear, but don´t let it get to your head Aang" Katara said. "Don´t worry Katara I´m just a simple monk" Aang told and went over to window where he saw a couple of village girls who cheered when they saw him.

Naruto was now standing in what looked like a training field for the Kyoshi warrior. "Where the heck am I? And where did Sokka go?" Naruto asked himself and nearly walked away, but stopped when he heard the sound of battle cries. He went to investigate what it was.

In a little field surrounded by trees stood a black haired young beauty, she was wearing the Kyoshi armor only whit out the makeup and instead of the traditional battle fans she used dual knifes, one of the blades where white, the other where black.

The girl was panting hard, you could clearly see that she had trained for hours, some of the trees had been cut clean. "You really did a number on the trees, Zhalia right?" Naruto said while he walked over to her and gave her a towel. "Yeah that´s right, but what are you doing here Naruto?" Zhalia asked.

"I looked for my friend but when heard your battle cries I went over to see what was happening and I found a fellow dual fighter" Naruto answered whit a smile and patted his dual knife, "you have some too? Can I see them?" she asked a little excited.

"Sure you can" Naruto answered white a kind smile and took out his blades. The blade in his left hand were golden, the other were silver "Zhalia meet Goddess of the sea" showed her the silver blade "and this is goddess of the sky" Naruto while he showed her the golden blade.

"Wow they a beautiful, my blades are called Salvation" showed him the white blade "and destruction" Zhalia said while she showed him her blades. "Why don´t we make a deal if you teach me how to fight whit battle fans I could teach you some tricks whit your dual knifes" Naruto proposed and saw that Zhalia thought about.

"I would love to Naruto, but now lets go back I think I know where your friend is" Zhalia said while she and Naruto stood up again "I´ll follow you everywhere my beauty" Naruto said while he bowed for her and walked back to the village.

Zhalia stood still for a second clearly surprised, "do he really like me, no one ever said something like that to me" Zhalia thought whit a blush and followed Naruto.

An hour earlier

Sokka had found the Kyoshi warrior's training hall and watched the girls go through what looked like dancing. "So what do you call that dance?" Sokka said sarcastically.

The leader of the Kyoshi warriors looked annoyed and told him what they were doing. "These are not dance moves they are fighting stances meant to improve our discipline and our fighting ability"

"Really it looked like dancing. I could use a warm up, what do you say to a spar?" Sokka asked whit a smile. "I don't know a strong man like you, I wouldn't stand chance" The girl teased, as the other girls giggled. "True I was the best fighter in our village" Sokka proudly told as he stretched his shoulders.

"Okay, but go easy on me. I am only a girl after all" the leader teased again.

Sokka got into a fighting stance and was eyeing every movement of the leader, who just stood still. When Sokka threw a punch at her, she raised her left hand and hit his shoulder hard. "Lucky block, I bet you can't do that again" Sokka said with a smile.

Sokka tried whit a surprise kick but the leader dodged the attack and sent him to ground. That of course angered Sokka so he tried again but the girl slid under his punch turned and threw him out of the dojo.

He stood up again and walked back into the dojo. He walked up to the leader and bowed deeply. "My name is Sokka. I am deeply sorry for insulting you and your ways. You are indeed a better fighter than me. Could you please teach me?" Sokka asked with deep reverence.

"Normally we don´t teach men but since you´re a friend of Avatar we could make exception" the leader told whit a smile. "First my name is Suki. You have to follow all of our traditions" the leader began "of course" Sokka responded while he looked up at the smiling leader.

"I mean all the rules and traditions of the Kyoshi" Suki said again with a smile. The girl looked back at the other girls who just giggled. Ten minutes later Sokka was in makeup and a green battle kimono. My name is Suki

"A dress? Why do I have to wear a dress?" Sokka whined but that only made Suki smile. "That is not a dress it is a battle kimono. And remember you agreed to the terms and that means you have to wear that kimono." Suki replied with her hands on her hips.

"You should be proud wearing that uniform, the golden in sigma shows the honor in the warrior's heart. Now come on lets start the training" Suki told and so they began the Kyoshi training.

After some hours Naruto and Zhalia were walking into the trainings hall. "Hey Sokka, I see your busy training" Naruto said whit smile when he saw Sokka train "hey Naruto, Suki was so nice to train me in the Kyoshi style" Sokka explained whit an equal smile.

"SOKKA! Get to work" Suki ordered whit stern look. When Sokka went back to his training she turned around looking at Naruto and Zhalia "Zhalia, Naruto what are you doing here?" Suki asked confused.

"I was looking for Sokka and found Zhalia training in the woods she was so kind to take here, but whit a trainer like you I know he wound do something stupid" Naruto explained whit a smile and walked away again.

"You like him don´t you?" Suki asked while she looked at Zhalia who was a bit unsure what she should answer, Suki show that and spoke again "you don´t have to answer now Zhalia, let me give you a friendly advice follow your heart" Suki told her friend whit a smile, who smiled back at her.

"I will Suki thanks" Zhalia said whit a smile and walked out of the dojo where she saw Naruto leaned against a tree. "Hey Zhalia, do you want something to eat?" Naruto asked, but before Zhalia could answer they heard her stomach rumble.

"I take that as a yes" Naruto chuckled and together whit Zhalia walked back to the main house to get something to eat.

Whit Aang

Aang had used the day to walk around the village followed by his fan girls, even when a painter should make a painting of the Avatar the girls wanted to be in the picture. Aang showed the girls many tricks one of was pushups whit two hands, one hand and whit no hands only using his air bending to make the pushup.

He wanted to impress the girls even more by riding on the Onagi. Aang waited in the water and saw the girls were getting tired of waiting, "I'm sure it´ll be here soon!" Aang yelled over to the girls. he even tried the marble trick but it didn´t help.

"Not that again boring" one of the girls said a little irritated, "where's the Onagi? It´s getting late" another girl asked and stood up like the other girls.

"Wait where you´re going? Don´t leave!" Aang yelled when he saw some of the girls where leaving "sorry Aang maybe next time!" the same girl yelled back and left whit the others.

When the girls were leaving Aang saw Katara coming, Aang hoped she would come, after he told her that he wanted to ride the Onagi. "Katara! You showed up" Aang said happy and whit a big smile "I had to make sure you were save" Katara told while she looked at the smiling Avatar.

"Back when I told you about this you seemed like you didn´t care" Aang told a little sad "I know, I´m sorry Aang" Katara said looking a bit sad "me too. I did let all that attention get to my head I was being a real jerk" Aang admitted looking away.

"Well get out of the water before you get a cold you big jerk" Katara said and saw that Aang were swimming over to her, but was shocked to see that the Onagi rose from the water behind Aang "Aang! Get out of the water" Katara yelled.

But it was too late the Onagi used his tail to fling Aang high up in the air. Before the Onagi could eat him Aang used air bending to hold onto one of its feelers near its gaping maw. As Aang continued to try to avoid being eaten he saw a ship pull into another cove of the island, it was a fire nation navy ship.

"Oh no" Aang whispered and jumped down on the water and used his air bending to run on the water to the shore where Katara waited for him. "Are you alright Aang?" Katara asked worriedly.

"I am fine but we need to get back to the village. The fire nation is here" Aang answered angrily and quickly took his clothes on again "I won't let the same thing happen to this people what happened to my" Aang thought while he together whit Katara went back to the village unnoticed by the fire nation.

By the navy ship

Zuko and his troops went down the bowsprit. Zuko was wearing his battle armor and together whit 10 of his best fire benders was he riding on some rhinos behind them walked 20 foot soldiers.

The only thing Zuko said to his men before they took off to the Kyoshi village was that he wanted the Avatar alive.

Back in the village

Suki and Sokka trained it was clearly to see that Sokka had improved. "Fire benders have landed on our shores hurry up girls" the village leader ordered and ran off again followed by Suki and Sokka who hadn't changed his clothes.

"Come out Avatar you can´t hide forever" Zuko demanded but when nothing happened he ordered his foot soldiers too find him. They split up in groups of 2 and searched every house in the village.

Zuko looked around the village, looking for sneak attacks he had the feeling that something wasn´t right. "Prince Zuko is everything alright?" asked a soldier beside him "yeah everything alright. How long does it take to search a house?" Zuko asked a bit annoyed.

"Don´t bother call for them Zuko they won't come" someone said "where are you? Come out coward" Zuko yelled and saw the Guardian "what´s up Zuko missed me" Naruto said smiling at him.

"I know he is here, now send him out!" Zuko demanded as he nodded to the others with him. They lit the mini catapults attached to their rhinos and fired them at close buildings causing the thatch in the roofs to catch fire.

"Do I have to burn every one of the houses down to get you do as I ask?" Zuko asked him and saw that he went down in an earth bending stance and punched the air that made the sand rise and extinguish the fire. Zuko saw that they were surrounded by the Kyoshi warrior.

"You will stop your attacks on our village!" Suki said to Zuko in a battle stance. "So all they can send after us are a bunch of girls?" Zuko provoked whit a smile.

Several of the rhino riders were dismounted by other Kyoshi warriors. "HA it seems like the girls are better than the big, bad Fire Nation soldiers" Naruto answered whit a smile that caused Zuko to anger.

Suki went straight for Zuko, he shoot some fireballs at her which she easily avoided. She jumped up in the air and wanted to attack Zuko directly, but was hit by the tail of his rhino so hard that it made her crash on the ground.

Zuko wanted to end it whit a final attack and sent a fireball at Suki, before it hit Sokka intervened by using his fan to dodge the fireball. Before he could attack again a Kyoshi warrior jumped down from a building and almost dismounted Zuko from his rhino.

"You will pay for that girl." Zuko said as he picked himself up off the ground. Zuko took a stance and was surrounded by Kyoshi warriors. Zuko easily took down or disabled several of the Kyoshi warriors with little effort.

His only opponent left were Suki and Sokka "to easy" he thought and attacked Suki.

By Naruto and Zhalia

They were fighting side by side the fire nation soldiers didn´t stand a chance. Zhalia had just disarmed a soldier but didn´t see another one coming behind her, he hid her hard at neck that made her loss conscious.

Naruto made a chunk of earth smash into the fire soldier so hard it send him through one of the buildings. "Hey Zhalia are you alright?" Naruto asked concerned when he saw that she was regaining conscious "yeah I´m only a little dizzy" Zhalia answered and stood up whit Narutos help.

"We´re losing this fight the Kyoshi warrior's weren´t trained to fight skilled fire benders" Naruto told observing the fight, while Zhalia leaned on him "maybe… but no one here in this village are willing to summit to the fire nation. We´ll fight to the end" Zhalia told while she stood on her one.

When Naruto saw the look in Zhalias eyes, he saw the will to fight even if you were half dead. "I know. That´s the reason why I´m going to take this more serious" Naruto told, turned around and looked over at Suki and Sokka who was fighting against Zuko but they were slowly losing.

"Zhalia… find Appa and make him ready if we leave then there shouldn't be a reason for them to stay, I´ll help Suki and Sokka" Naruto told and ran over to Suki and Sokka "be careful Naruto" Zhalia whispered and ran over to the stable.

Suki and Sokka were a great team, when one had attacked and was unprotected the other was there to defend. It annoyed Zuko how good Sukis and Sokkas teamwork were, he didn´t want to fight them he wanted to defeat the Avatar and bring him back to the fire nation.

Zuko wanted to end this he did a sweep kick that send a stream of fire at them. Sokka avoided the attack but Suki wasn´t so lucky she smashed hard against the wall of one of the buildings. Zuko looked around and his men were winning this fight.

"Nice try Avatar but those little girls can´t save you" Zuko said out loud while looked around "hey over here" someone said behind him. Zuko turned around and saw Aang in a ready fighting stance "finally" Zuko whispered and fired several fire balls at him.

Aang easily dodged the fire balls and used his staff to get into the air, but when he landed Zuko kicked the staff out off his hands. Aang jumped back and took two of the Kyoshi battle fans. Before he could attack, Zuko hit so hard by a chunk of earth that it send him trough a building.

"Aang we need to get out of here" Naruto told while he looked over to the building he had sent Zuko trough. "No! We can still win this fight" Aang said looking at Naruto "Aang look around. The Kyoshi warriors are losing the fight and if we fight Zuko now the village will get destroyed" Naruto explained still looking at the building.

Aang looked around and knew why Naruto wanted them to leave. The Kyoshi statue was on fire and so was some of the buildings, the fighting Kyoshi warriors were slowly losing the fight against Zuko´s fire bender. "Okay I´ll go get Katara" Aang said and ran over to Katara who was helping some of the villager's kids.

"Katara! We have to get out of here, if we continue to fight the village will be destroyed" Aang told while he looked at Katara "okay let´s go" Katara said and ran together whit Aang to the stables.

After the fight whit Zuko, Sokka and Suki had hidden themselves behind one of the buildings talking about how they would attack next."Let´s attack them from behind" Sokka suggested and saw Suki nodded "okay let´s do it" Suki agreed and stood up together whit Sokka.

But before they attacked, Naruto came behind them and scared Sokka a little. "Damn don´t scare me like that" Sokka said while he looked at sheepish looking Naruto "sorry about that Sokka but we have to get out of here" Naruto explained and saw that Sokka looked confused.

But before he could say something Suki interrupted him. "His right Sokka you have to leave. There's no time saying goodbye" Suki said while she looked at him "what about I´m sorry" Sokka said while he looked back at Suki "sorry about what?" Suki asked looking a little confused.

"That I treated you like a girl when I should have treated you like a warrior" Sokka confessed "I am girl" Suki simply said and kissed him on his cheek "but I´m also a warrior" Suki said again and saw that Sokka blushed while he touched his cheek.

"Now get out of here we´ll hold them off. Naruto could you please take Zhalia whit you?" Suki asked, when she saw that Naruto nodded she ran over to her sisters, so she could help them. Sokka and Naruto ran over to the stables to meet the others.

Over by the stables

When Sokka and Naruto came over to the stables they saw that Aang were sitting on Appa´s head while Katara were on his saddle. Sokka used Appa´s tail to quickly get in to his saddle.

"Come on Zhalia you can come whit us" Naruto told whit a comforting smile that made Zhalia blush a little, "but what about?" before Zhalia could say more Naruto laid his hand on her shoulder and said "don´t worry Suki knows that your coming whit us."

When Zhalia heard him say that she smiled and went together whit him on Appa´s saddle. When Zuko saw that the Avatar was escaping, he ordered his men "back to the ship don´t lose sight of him." Suki saw them fly away and thought "be careful Sokka."

By Aang and his friends

While they were flying away, Aang still sat on Appa´s head and looked sad. Katara noticed how sad he looked and decided to cheer him up. "I know it was hard to leave them like this, but Zuko would have destroyed the village if we hadn't left. Aang you did the right think."

Aang suddenly looked determined when he heard what Katara told him and jumped down from Appa, straight for the sea where the Onagi lived in. His friends were worried about what happened after he hit the water but sighed in relief when they saw him appear on the head of the Onagi a moment later.

The Onagi sent a stream of water at the village dowsing the last of the fires. This also woke the unconscious soldiers and soaked Zuko. "I´ll get you for that Avatar" Zuko frowned. The Fire Nation packed up and followed Appa as best as they could.

When the fires had all been extinguished Aang levitated back to Appa´s saddle and saw that Sokka, Katara and Zhalia looked at him. "Yeah I know it was dangerous and stupid" Aang said while he sat down "yeah it was" Katara said and hugged him.

"But I´m glad you did" she said again after she had hugged him.