I am taking a leaf out of a fellow writer's book and revising some of my earlier stuff. I am not in love with what I wrote before and feel that at this point I have more time to dedicate to making something actually worth reading. So please review and let me know what you think of When Games Get Serious 2.0.

This story takes place when the group is at the Air Temple after the Eclipse. They have accepted Zuko into their group already and have yet to be attacked by Azula.

"I'm tired." Suki let out a yawn, stretching her arms. It was almost ten at night at the group was still sitting around the campfire. No one wanted to retreat to their rooms yet. The air temple was a beautiful place, but drafty and their rooms had a tendency to get very cold. The fire Zuko had started from some dry branches was blessed relief.

"I'm bored." Toph whined loudly, stomping her foot and sending pebbles scattering. She had been pacing back and forth by one of the many benches lining the room they were in. Despite being one of the laziest members of the group, rivaling Sokka in her ability to sleep, she was restless from boredom and the chill in the air.

"I'm Sokka!" Sokka leaped up from his laying position, holding his arms wide. A huge grin crossed his face as he waited for the never present laughter. "Huh huh! Get it?"

"Wow. That was bad even for you Sokka." Zuko lifted the hand that was covering his eyes, staring incredulously at Sokka. Even though he had only been with the group for a little while, Zuko was easy to integrate in with the original gang. He had been rather quiet and reserved until recently. This was in fact the first time he had joined them at night.

"Oh come one. You have to admit that was a little funny." Sokka flopped back onto the ground next to Suki, throwing an arm around her shoulders. He looked hopefully up at his girlfriend. Suki smiled weakly.

"No Sokka it really wasn't." Katara shook her head at her older brother, letting the water she had been bending fall back into the bowl. She had taken to practicing more offensive maneuvers as of late, going so far as to ask Zuko for a fuel every now and again. "But I have to agree with Toph. I am really bored too. Now that we aren't constantly being stalked by some crazy firebender, it's easy to get bored."

"Hey! I wasn't crazy. Was I?" Zuko sat up quickly, concern flashing in his eyes. He knew he had some family issues but Azula was the crazy one.

"She has a point there Zuko." Aang joined the conversation, moving Momo's ear off of his eyes. The flying lemur had sprawled himself stomach up on the Avatar's bald head, ears covering his eyes. "You were rather fanatical about catching me."

"Yeah well. You would have been too." Zuko threw his arm back over his face as he laid back on the ground, huffing in annoyance. He already knew it was pointless to try and explain himself to this group. He had tried and failed on multiple occasions. The Fire Lord was nothing but evil to them, but to Zuko he was a father.

"Hey! I have an idea! Let's play a card game!" Suki grabbed her pack and rummaged through it, eventually pulling out a stack of cards. "I won these in a poker game off of a traveler when me and the girls were stationed at the ferries. We should play poker now!"

Sokka grabbed the cards from the warrior, staring at them suspiciously. He flipped through the deck as if looking for something that shouldn't be there

"I don't know…"He mumbled as he examined a king of fire rather closely.

"What, afraid of losing to a girl again?" Suki playfully punched Sokka on the arm, clearly eager to get the game started. "So who wants to play?"

Sokka's protests were drown out by a chorus of cheers from the group.

"I'm in." Katara rolled onto her stomach, excitement dancing in her blue eyes.

"Sure." Zuko followed suit, nothing dancing in his eyes except slight boredom.

"I've never played poker before. As a monk, it is against my moral code to gamble." Aang folded his hands and closed his eyes solemnly. "But I guess the monks would make an exception just this once!" Aang immediately transformed back into the goofy twelve year old, a huge grin splitting his face. Momo grumbled angrily that his resting spot was moving and took off the sleep on Appa instead. The flying bison was resting near the group.

"Uh…I'm blind. So unless those cards have raised symbols or something, I'm out." Toph blew her bangs off her face, clearly frustrated that everyone had failed to remember this little fact.

"Don't worry Toph. When I joined the group I figured this would happen. I had Sokka customize the deck so you can play too!" Suki started to deal the cards out. "He raised the symbols on them so that you can feel the symbols instead of having to see them."

"Wait. We need to make this more interesting." Zuko held up a hand as he looked down at his cards. "We don't really have anything to trade since anything of value is shared. So…strip poker anyone?"

Silence greeted his suggestion. Five pairs of eyes stared widely back at him. Zuko swore he could hear a cricket-moth chirping somewhere in the temple.

"Or not." He mumbled, staring back down at his hand.

Immediately the entire group burst into heated arguments. It became clear everyone did want to play strip poker as the arguments dissolved into agreements and laughter. Aang was eyeing Katara, and Sokka already had a hand on Suki's shoulder. Toph just shrugged.

"Strip poker it is then." Zuko smirked. He was an ace at strip poker.

Let me know what you think and if I should continue with revisions. Thanks for the reviews! ;D