Avatar the Last Air Bender: Alterations

Fiery fists on wings.

Aang sailed over the cloud like an arrow, the cloud bank he just burst through spat little pieces of itself after him in vain as he pierced it.

Summoning all the wind he could use to his disposal he rocketed himself forwards, he had to use the clouds to mask his escape, perhaps even if possible stow away in one of them and using an air orb, stay afloat inside until-

But no, it was too late, for he glided along the seemingly endless field of cloud in the heavens, something from hell spewed up, slowly. It was like seeing a Whale-Walrus rising slowly out of the water, and knowing that you could not swim away in time. Only this was no whale walrus, in fact it dwarfed it in size. It was a large…metal dirigible, a fire nation air ship. It had predicted his intentions…

Meanwhile bellow this scene many miles away in fact, Katara kept her gaze to the sky. The air was clear where they were, not a cloud in the sky. She squeezed her hair she had slung over her shoulder.

Aang was gone too long, it was far too long… "I think…" she started. "We should go after him…" she heard, cutting her off.

She turned annoyed to see Toph leaning against a rock, arms folded as usual, looking at space.

"I just think that Aang might be in ACTUAL danger…Okay!" Katara hissed. "Whether you care if the savior of the world is in trouble or not…"

"Hey hey! Easy sis!..." Sokka said siding between them without moving his feet it seemed, the grin on his face was huge, and his hands were out between them.

"I'm sure Aang has a perfectly good reason for checking out the west end thoroughly, he probably just found another way and is making sure it's safe, he's done this before…"

Katara glared over his shoulder at Toph who's face, nor posture hadn't change one inch. Her hair blew from in front of her face for a second, and Toph could see her eyes, glaring at nothing, so she was mad too, or concerned. Sokka saw them too before her hair moved back.

"Look…" he said putting his hands up between them again, "I know that tensions are high right now…but Aang agreed to go and make sure the path was okay for Appa to take us all so we wouldn't have to worry about being shot down agai- …."

That's what it sounded like Sokka was saying for he was lifted an hurled through the air by the patch of ground he was standing on by Toph who slammed her toes into the earth to cause it.

Katara had a brief expression of concern for her brother, who seemed to find himself in this situations hourly, then glanced away when she knew the thump wouldn't be that traumatic…as usual, honestly Sokka was like the invincible man…she'd grown up seeing him walk into things, off of things, through things, and still never have any permanent damage. Gran said he was blessed, ironically…

She turned her gaze to the blind girl who had vaulted him, she wasn't folded armed now…her shoulders were squared. Both her feet were planted on the ground, like little little trees. Her hands weren't in fists but they may as well have been.

"You got a problem? Princess?" Toph said, Katara glared down at Toph, WISHING she could see by whatever sensory way she perceived the world, the look on her face…

"You noticed?" she said overly sarcastic.

Toph ignored the comment, "Look I don't know why your blaming me for a dopey decision YOU two made…"

"It wasn't dopey!..." Katara said. "He wanted to ensure our safe passage, you just gave him an Additional errand!" she glared at her.

Toph made like she was yawning, or actually was, she never could tell..making it all the more annoying to see.

"Well sorry if I decided to make his little excursion more productive…" she said up at her without looking up.

"How is it productive if he's lost out there?" Katara asked shooting her open palm in the direction of the sky.

Toph smiled, "He isn't lost, twinkle toes knows better than to do that…" Katara was still red.

"And besides, if he's taking overly long it means he has more time." Katara glared at her still at hearing this.

"More time to what?" she said condescendingly. "Get an imaginary medal in the things you think he needs to be a great bender?"

She used quotation marks with her fingers saying the last part.

Toph began walking in the other direction to the side. Katara was about to let out an "UGH!"but it was gulped down when Toph cut her off

"I don't think he needs to be a great bender, I KNOW he does, and you do too, you've seen that fire nation B-witch we went up against, if it was 1 on 1 twinkle toes would've been deep fried, it took that fire nation what's-his–face and his uncle to help him before we even got there.

Katara sighed a little remembering him, the scar on his face, the anger in his eyes, or eye, she couldn't really make out the slit that was his scared eye. The disappointment on the elderly man's face, which was apparently his uncle.

No one it was clear had any love for that, (as Toph put called her), "BE-witch", not even her own soldiers it seemed. She was ruthless and kept ruthless company, that knife thrower with the cold eyes, and accuracy of a spitting spider mantis.

The little jumpy what's-it from the circus of crazy who had the ability to take your bending away with a touch. Toph was right to an extent, she knew that if it came down to it, Aang would have to find, kill or defeat the Fire Lord alone…it would not be their fight then but his own.

Aang soared over the clouds doing a spinning technique he used to make the clouds follow after him in a trail, and looped himself up and down as he spun.

The huge vehicle just continued to bare down on him, slowly, yet quick enough to keep up…like the bad dreams you have where even though you're running fast enough, and they're slow, the person coming after you is always a few paces behind you.

His hope was to confuse the air ship to air ship by the strands of cloud he trailed after him, make them have to ponder which way he went, like leaving multiple foot prints…it would have been much simpler, if only the clouds weren't as thin here in mass, there was not enough for him to dive under to lose them with.

Still they hadn't-…there we go…

Aang dived to the side to avoid a VOOSH from a fire ball sailing past his glider wing, he saw a portion of his other wing being eliminated by something behind him again, and let his glider fold back so as to free fall just in time to avoid the huge fire ball.

He quickly of course intended to unfold his glider and zoom away under the cloud bank after he fell through it. But as he fell through the grayish, puffy white mass, he could see something bellow him, a mountain top?

He quickly grabbed his robe portion of his tunic and made a gust of air catch it like a parachute, he stopped his fall just enough to not slam but hit with his feet whatever it was underneath the cloud range.

It was metal. Immediately…Aang's eyes grew in terror. The mass he was now standing on was not only metal, it was hollow. And it was moving, upwards, just as slowly as the air ship before, because it WAS an air ship, a second one. He'd been trapped.

The Fire nation ship rose out of the cloud bank, swiftly and ominously, Aang ran along the top of it looking for the part that looped downwards so he would know it was the other side of the ship, so he could jump off, but he noticed his feet were making too much of a clanging noise, they'd hear him, if they hadn't already. He couldn't see for the clouds that were in front of his face, he began using air to blow a path ahead of him so he could see where the end of the ship was so he could at least jump off.

Finally, he saw the tail fin of the back of the air ship. He dashed towards it as fast as he could, and jumped just in time before blue colored flame scorched where his feet where, he flipped and landed on the tail fin like a lemur monkey, looking down at where the fire had cut through the thick cloud they were in. He heard footsteps, but he already knew who it was, and he did a back flip off the tail fin of the ship to avoid several knives entering into the metal of the fin.

Oh great it was her too…that could only mean the third one wasn't far behind. The sinister sisters as Sokka had called them. "All they needed was a cauldron to stir…" this had made Aang laugh at a time, but now it was far from funny.

In back flipping completely off the tail fin he spun his glider staff around and around like a wind mill and just in time to deflect another blast of blue fire that singed his hand in the process. Aang swallowed back a yell. He let himself free fall again, now able to jump off the ship, and watched as the metal hull of the ship zoomed upwards passing him by, he saw the red portion of the fire nation emblem go by him, and then the he heard the gears of machinery, only it was on the outside…

He immediately stopped in his free fall to make his glider open and spun himself around still going down, and just in time for if he hadn't he'd of gone into an outer propeller of the ship. Now he was bellow the air ship, but he also knew that he was perhaps in more danger, that meant that he was in view of the bender gun man. True to his prediction, he saw glowing balls heading towards him in the cloud. He spun in mid air, diving and bending like Momo did to escape predators in the air, each flame just missing him, and he would've done it more skill fully if it weren't for the fact that his hand was burnt.

He had an air ship bellow him, and one above him in the cloud range, and one IN the cloud with him, this was not good. Suddenly he realized something that made him want to smack his own head; clouds carried rain, rain was water!

Focusing with his burnt hand, using his good one for steering, Aang brought some of the cloud with him as he flew toward where most of the fire balls were coming from. He could make out the shapes of men from the ships windows now, punching at him and each punch carried a fire ball at the end of their fists which soared at him. He dodged them best he could and kept zooming at them he could see now they were suspicious of his intentions, was he really going to ram them? YES!

He threw his hand forwards making a cloud umbrella in front of him and zoomed at them with all the speed he could muster from the wind. In that time he also remember Katara's training focused on the water in the cloud, making it get more condensed, then more thick…he could not see through the cloud which now a water umbrella, and finally, he made the droplets more solid. BAM! An Ice hard battering ram smashed into the side of the firing bay denting it, Aang kicked off of the shattered battering ram and zoomed downwards knowing that the impact had at least knocked the gun men off their feet enough for him to make his escape unfired upon.

Aang now made his way in a straight line knowing he'd be out of the huge cloud bank in a few seconds, hopefully it was on the side furthest from the air ships above and below. The fates were kind today, no air ships, he could- WHOA!

He spun in midair again to avoid a fire ball, he HATED Fire, why did he have to learn such a violent death bringing element? He looked over his shoulder to the air ship in the distance along with the cloud, but also what looked like birds growing bigger and bigger behind him.

Only they weren't birds, they were gliders, gliders developed by the Mechanist, oh why did that quack of a man and his son have to develop things that only HIS people were supposed to know how to do…? He usually didn't think in these words or insults but he was getting tired of this. Toph had said that he needed to take some more time away from the group to learn how to handle himself on his own with his 3 new bending abilities, she hadn't meant of him to run into fire nation ships or fall into a trap after all, though she'd probably call this good practice.

As they neared he could tell from over his shoulder they weren't like his glider at all other than the wing design, they were bigger, and had an area for the person to either lay down on it on the top, so as to steer and shoot fire, or a place to sit down like a toboggan, he guessed it was for non-benders, for it had sharp and blunt edges on the front he could only imagine were fore picking up their prey in the air, or latching onto another vehicle…in this case him.

He didn't like this, how come they were able to anticipate his every move? No doubt there was a ship waiting bellow in case there was a lake he tried to escape in. Who was he fooling, he knew who it was who was a step ahead of him.

It was that fire nation princess lady, the mean one , with the look in her eye like a tiger wolfs. The one who had also shot her uniquely colored BLUE fire ball at him, and scorched his hand. He knew he wasn't supposed to harm any living being, but he REALLY wished that his knocking into the ship had shaken her off of the roof of the blimp enough for her to fall and the Earth and gravity bellow take over, who did NOT have his vows.

Suddenly he turned upwards in time to avoid a glider plane coming up from under him in an attempt to capture him in its clawed front, it would hook around his upper torso, while the blunt part most likely either knocked the wind out of him or broke his back.

How could the fire nation invent such things of suffering and hell out of these beautiful machines his people had made to simply be that much closer to their element?

Aang realized now that he was going to have to deal with these ships himself, not out run them, and do it relatively fast before the air ships behind him were able to turn around fast enough to chase after him themselves, it was bad enough with these things buzzing around him and shooting like fire bending dragon flies. If the air ships joined the fray on top of that, he knew he wouldn't make it.

He knew what he'd have to do, but he'd have to use the clouds to do it, he remembered hearing Katara talking about the Lobster squid, and how it bent is ink to confuse its foes. He had to do the same with the clouds, it would take concentration he didn't know he had, but he knew he needed, and he was already too far off course. He spun his glider downwards like a drill under the gliders that were pursuing him from behind, and flew as fast as he could towards the large clouds that were like mountains that he'd just exited.

He could see one of the air ships coming out from under neither it, he noticed now that it was larger than the other two, slower as well, and from it were coming the small glider planes that were being such pests. It must be the mother ship, an air ship specifically designed to carry those little gliders inside of, a carrier blimp.

If he took it out, everyone would have to abandon ship, and not begin able to make wind like he could be forced to land, that would mean landing on the other fire nation ships, it would cause enough confusion for him to maybe escape. He could hear the rush of the gliders behind him, and the SHOOSH of flames soaring just out of reach of this feet.

He flew toward the large ship and immediately zoomed over the roof of it avoiding the tail fins and went to the back. He could see in the back of the blimp was an open door, or hatch, revealing a kind of hanger inside the massive ships, the gliders hung from the walls of the inside like bats, and when they were piloted, were detached and used the moment to zoom out the door before hitting the bottom.

He could tell the gliders behind him were wondering what he was doing and weren't firing to see, he quickly landed on the ledge of the opening of the hanger to face over 2 dozen fire nation pilots in their skeletal looking flight masks gawking at him, he smiled cheerily at them then with a gust of air sucked a massive portion of the cloud outside into the ship blinding everyone.

Everyone in a panic began shooting fire balls everywhere, which was what he was hoping for, he saw fire balls hit gliders, setting them a blaze, walls of the ship and their mechanics, he even heard a few yelps amidst the fog he'd created. And now for the Squid part, he was thrilled to be able to use it so soon. He yanked another portion of the cloud outside into the hanger and began stepping out until his feet were literally on the edge.

He then as hard as he could, blew a gust of CHILLING wind and used his water bending, it sent him backwards but the technique worked, a thick layer of ice now encompassed the hanger opening of the blimp, at least he had plugged up their hole. Now he only had to worry about the ones still in the air. He opened his glider again and zoomed past the shocked fire nation pilots who were doing circles in the air outside waiting for him to get away from the ship so they could get a shot at him.

He used the same technique from before dragging a cloud with him and slung it at one of the propellers of the ship, he then did the same to the other propeller, and immediately froze them both as hard as he could make them. Standing on the ice block now, he used the sharp end of his glider to actually puncture a small hole near where the propeller was now frozen, he could hear a low hissing and smiled to himself, then flew off to rejoin his rivals in the air. He could tell one of the Fire nation pilots with his mask visor off was as mad as hornet bee's. He zoomed at Aang who effortlessly avoided him.

Going even more according to Aangs plan, the young pilot smashed his fist in the air sending a large fire ball at the ice pack that now kept the propeller from turning. He heard someone yell NO from their plane glider…but it was too late, BAAAAAAAMMMMM! –the fire nation propeller was destroyed, along with that side of the blimp, the gas exploded at the touch of the fire ball, and now both propellers were free from the ice…and the blimp itself.

He grinned at his handy work but now noticed a shape eclipsing the sun light above him, the second blimp, with the fire princess on it if he remembered right, was now coming out of the heavy clouds above him. He was NOT eager to see what she had in store to retribute her air force.

He now used the rest of his squid plan, retreat. He dove into another thick portion of the cloud and zoomed out again, taking the massive cloud with him, it was the size of 10 Appa's, so maybe not THAT massive compared to his pursuers but it would have to do.

He could hear the sound of the glider planes pursuing him, but not all of them, he knew some of them had gotten it in their head that like anyone, their arms would get tired and they'd have to land to avoid falling out of their control. Aang looked behind him at his cloud trail, he clamped his toes tightly together, they weren't literally holding the cloud between them, but it was a good visual for bending the cloud, behind him.

He wasn't even really paying that much attention which direction he was going in, he was just focused on getting away from the blimps. The smaller they were, the safer he was, and as the airship awkwardly tried to stay level in the sky, he could see that indeed, it was encumbering the path of the other two, his plan had worked…the gliders behind him weren't finished yet.

He had to make them return to the ships to land, but how could he do so? He couldn't risk trying to out fly them, he'd been flying nearly the whole day and they'd only just started, he'd be the one tired before them. He had to lose them, pure and simple. He jetted towards another cloud range in the distance, behind him the blimps were the size of beetles so he would be well enough away. He noticed something else as well, no fire balls, the ones chasing him must not be benders, finally…no dodging in mid air.

When he reached the huge cloud layer he disappeared in it, leaving his own cloud behind to hopefully bind them from seeing which way he'd gone in. He turned around mid air to see if he was being pursued still on the top side of the cloud. No. Nothing.

He flipped his glider shut and made an air orb to sit on, holding it to his chest, he didn't want any motion to give away where he was. Nothing still…just sounds of them flapping by underneath…he even heard some to the side, but didn't see anyone…finally the flapping sounded distant. He waited still, straining to hear if any more of them lingered. Nothing…

Had his plan worked?

He heard a female voice go "GRRR" in front of him and immediately back flipped off of his orb grabbing his glider open to catch his fall. Over his head zoomed a single glider plane, and in the cock pit was long haired girl in a pink tunic.

He spun upwards to go further into the cloud, and could feel the tip of the claw on his foot, his eyes grew to immense size and dove downward again to be in the cloud as best he could to be at least a little less visible, but could hear his female pursuer still on his heels, literally. He decided to go on the offensive and fly upwards to try to stun his attacker and make her go off course. He could tell that it wasn't that Fire Nation princess, but she was fierce whoever she was. He turned around sharply, and looping, flew upwards as he did, the other flyer manned their glider to go upwards in the same motion not to be hit, in doing so he could now see her face more clearly, and she could see his.

It was the jumping girl, the cute one with the mean grin when she made you numb by hitting pressure points, but now she was mad. And so was he, she had hurt Katara once, maybe she didn't like him back the way he liked her, but she still mattered to him. He flew his glider higher, and she did likewise, he spun as to knock the side of his into her wing, she spun the same direction to avoid it, and to do the same to his much more fragile wing. The sup in the air like this a few times until they were like a cork screw, going round and round, he'd hoped that maybe the motion would make her ill, but he remembered also that she did acrobatics from amazing heights, so it was a lot to hope for.

Still he had flown longer then her, and by the make of hers, he knew it couldn't fold up like his. Which he did now, and freefell again. He shot downwards into the cloud bank, he looked behind him and did not see her pursuing. He grinned, then suddenly he felt a pain in his gut and was jolted to the right, and felt metal on his side. She had actually done a nose dive and flown ahead of him under him and now had him by the torso in her gliders claw trap. He looked across it at her smiling down at him, "Gotcha!" she said.

His staff, his staff was knocked out of his hand from the impact, he was trapped. No, he wouldn't let this be how it ended, he'd just have to hijack HER glider, he clapped his hands together and made a puff of cloud come down in front of her face. He had hoped she would release one of the handle bars to free her vision…but she did even better, or worse…..she used BOTH hands leaving the glider un-steered.

She pawed at her face making a horrible fuss. Aang actually yelled at his captor, "HEY keep your eyes on the sk-" He turned around and saw something on the other side of the cloud bank….and it wasn't another cloud. "LOOK OUT!" Just in time the girl got the cloud off her face and screamed in fright at the ROCK wall they were headed towards, and that Aang would hit first.

Aang yelled out to the girl to release him and NOT shut her eyes. This availed to nothing. Thinking fast, Aang edged as much as he could to get out of the claw trap, and gathered as much air into his lungs as he could, then blew out, hard. The wind howled out of his lips hitting the wings of the glider. At first it seemed like their momentum wasn't stalling. Then finally, he noticed they were slowing down, but still they were heading towards he sheer wall of rock and the girl who was covering her eyes still was not getting her hair he'd blown in her face out of her eyes. "HEY!" she said mid scream as if she hadn't been screaming in the first place.

Aang spun himself around, and it wasn't like doing so didn't hurt, he focused his chi and jetted his feet forward, and blew again, this time at the wall. Fortunately the plane had stopped enough in momentum for it not to break or damage anything to kick off the wall, but it still hurt up his legs through to his hip to do so. Aang yelped "YOUCH!"

The glider plane turned from the kick, but not enough for the wing of it to hurtle into the rock wall, and crunch against it, hard. They weren't shooting at a wall of rock any more, just the ground, where ever that was below them. Aang couldn't do much now, he was already too tired and winded, and encumbered from the tightness of that claw. He yelled above the wind out to the girl, "LET ME LOOSE!" She looked at him, "WHAT?" she said above the howl of their decline through the clouds. "Let me free and I'll Save us both!" He expected her to ask to be convinced why he wouldn't just let her die, but instead she actually said, "But I have to capture you." With a serious and seemingly innocent face.

"JUST LET ME OUT OF THIS CLAW LADY!" Aang yelled, he opened his eyes from the yell to see her eyes as big as saucers.

"Ok…." She said hardly above the wind, and pushed a control in front of her, and the claw released him. Just in time, for the middle part, nose of the plane between them snapped in half as it met with a rock spire. She screamed again waving her hands as her part of the glider plane hurtled downwards with no means of stopping, Aang looked at her growing smaller and glared. He turned his body in the air, and his feet met with the rock wall they were falling next to, he then began running down the rock wall as if it was race track, downwards, keeping her in site, he saw a wing portion of the glider turning in mid air and kicked off the wall to grab it, he got it, and then used it as best he could to glide a little.

When he realized it was durable enough he straightened his body head first, and shot downward like a rocket after the girl who was still screaming. He finally caught up with her, and grabbed her, she in reflex grabbed on to his body with her arms and legs still screaming into his chest. This made Aang cough, OOF! And he then held up the wing he'd had under his arm and blew on it, it caught his wind, and then finally the actual wind, and they glided down like a leaf eventually through the clouds.

Finally the girl's screams faded when she realized her hair wasn't shooting upwards from the fall, and the wind wasn't howling as much against her ears. She opened one big eye, than looked up at Aangs. He was still looking at the wing he was holding up like a parachute.

She was still straddling his body with her own as if she were part of him. Aang noticed it too, he was losing blood to his arms and mid-section, she had strong arms and strong thighs and it felt like he was in a vice.

"Why haven't we landed ye- " she said then with a THUMP, they both landed on something prickly but softer then the ground would be. The rolled off of this thing, which Aang could only guess was a tree, and fell through what he now knew to be branches. Out of the tree they fell down to the semi grassy ground…which was slanted downwards. Aang stood up, then felt the body of the Fire Nation girl smack against his from the tree out of a branch and they both rolled down the hill head over heels.

Finally they both stopped their momentum by landing face first, in very wet…puddles. Aang looked up from the puddle weary eyed from the whole event, at two looking back at him. The frog-newt in front of him croaked, and he plopped his face back in the puddle shutting his eyes.

Meanwhile back in the air, Fire Nation princess Azula looked out the window of her ship. "BLAST!" she cursed underneath her breath. The fire nation captain behind her ran up and saluted,

"Report…" she said in her hissing way. He was about to do just that when he was cut off, "Ty Lee didn't come back…" Mai said leaning on the door way of the room. Azula huffed, "Fool…" the captain finally spoke up,

"All but 1 of the 21 fire wings have returned…your majesty…" he said standing up straight. "I just heard her you numb skull…" Azula spat, "What I want to know, is why you let that brat get away, we HAD him he was in our grasp literally, he couldn't land anywhere without us knowing, we'd of tired him out!"

"We didn't count on him using water out of the air like that to stall our propellers…" The captain protested.

"Out…" she ordered, her back still to him. He bowed and marched out the room hurriedly, "And when that simpleton on springs gets back ask her WHY she hasn't come back with the Avatar…." She said still looking out the window. Mai's arms were still folded, "Not much for confidence are you…" she said in her monotone way of not caring. Azula just leaned on the ledge of the view port, "Those fools have something else coming if they think I'm forgiving them for letting him slip that close into our hands…"

Mai looked out in the same direction, "Think she'll be okay out there?" she said without letting on even a hint of concern.

"She had better be…" Azula said, "I want to tell her what I think of her failure myself….make speed ahead to the-"

Before she could make another call to the pilots of the blimp, she heard an alarm from the main deck, coming through the metal pipe. She picked it up and put it to her ear, "This had better be about the Avatar…" she said.

"No ma'am, another force of nature…look to the east your highness…" She glanced out the window to the east and saw something dark in the distance, it wasn't her blimps, although the color was the same, and it was further away, meaning it was much bigger to be blimp sized to her vision that far away.

"Storm clouds…" she said, "damn it…"

"Yes, Rang Kai ones too, short of a Hurricane and very erratic." The officer replied. "Our carrier ship has already sustained damage; it would be wise to regroup at a safer location in air space."

She barked at him, "If we go now we lose that Avatar!…"

The voice crackled over the tube in response: "Ma'am…frankly we won't endure a storm that size in the condition we're in…"

Mai leaned off the railing, looking at the look on Azula's face; it was her pondering face whenever she had a master plan of what to make of recent events.

"Then neither will he…." She said looking at the clouds.

"What?"Mai said not hiding her actual shock, although it wasn't very excited shock at that, she WAS Mai after all.

"Full steam back to a better point above the storm, and the carrier as far away as can be managed, we'll return to the lower ground area by tank and sweep the terrain…" she said into the cone.

"Yes your grace…" the voice said back then clicked off. Mai was now looking gawked at Azula.

"You can't just leave her out there!" Mai said crossly folding her arms. Azula looked out the window,

"You heard,…no one will be able to do anything until the storm has done its dirty work and passed…Ty will have to make it back before that. Captain, if we're to get all 3 ships out of the way in time we need move them above where the storm will be and fast…"

Mai's finger tapped on her arm, clanking against the metal knife that was concealed under her sleeve.

"I let my emotions get in the way just like her…one avatar we can always catch is not worth the this fleet being torn to bits and not find finding him further on."

"And Ty isn't either?" Mai said raising a brow… Azula didn't answer, she just gave her one of the looks she had that said You DARE question me…?

"Ty's a sturdy thing…" Azula said looking back, "She'll make it back…"

Mai was already leaving the room, the door hissed shut behind her, as she did she actually breathed a concerned sigh she didn't often let people hear… She and Azula both knew that Azula wasn't sure about her last statement.

She was focused and the Avatar being torn apart in that storm was apparently more important then making sure Ty Lee wasn't…