Greetings once again, loyal readers! First off, I'd like to begin by apologizing for the delayed update. Unfortunately, I've been too sick to write recently. Something has been going around in my house, and then having to babysit four children while sick didn't really help me get better. Fortunately, I had enough time today to finish the chapter for all of you. My updates might be a bit slower until I manage to get rid of whatever I'm sick with, so I ask that you forgive me for the delayed updates until then. Thanks as always for your patience, now go on ahead and read the next chapter, and don't forget to review too!

Aang looked up at the starry sky above as Katara and Sokka slept nearby, the group having landed on a natural stone patio to camp for the night hours ago. Katara and Sokka have been asleep for a while, but Kama was still up in the sky.

What was she doing? She's barely said two words to him since they left Kyoshi. Was she still mad at him about abusing the town's good nature?

He wished he still had that strong connection with his Vala. He used to be able to feel in himself how Kama was feeling, but since they met up, it was so much harder to connect back to her and feel what she was feeling. Could she still feel how he was feeling like they used to be able to do?

They used to make a game of it back at the Air Temple when bored. They'd try to force themselves to feel something, just to see if the other could tell what they were feeling. They got yelled at by the elder monks when they found out what they were up to, but Monk Gyatso praised them. He said that the more they do that, the stronger their connection to one another.

But their connection was as cold as ice since he himself had been released from the Ice Burg.

Sitting up from where he laid opposite Katara and Sokka, Aang looked back up at the sky to finally spy Kama, floating on her back a few hundred feet up in the air. What was she doing?

Kama twirled her staff above her as she watched Ryuu circle around her, the dragon spirit always attentive to her. Whenever her thoughts were troubled, or she felt out of place, he was there. He'd been there for her for a century. He was her Spirit Guardian, her companion when the Avatar was gone from the world for a century.

The Water Tribe siblings were asleep on the ground hundreds of feet below her. She knew the Avatar was not, his breathing wasn't steady and regulated. He was awake, and thinking about something. Probably about their friends.

Kama didn't sleep much. She hasn't slept much in the century that the war has been raging on. When others would sleep, she'd stay awake and think. Like now, she was awake and watching the stars in the sky above as she thought. About what? Basically anything that crossed her thoughts.

For the moment, the thing that was crossing her thoughts was her Avatar though. Like how he's barely noticed that she's still alive since the day that they left Omashu. It's still a foreign action to her, since back in the days of the Air Temple, Aang was always at her side. She was still used to those times with her Avatar, their days spent together because they had no one else to understand them.

But, now he had Katara to understand him too. And she, she was a hundred and twelve year old Vala who the Avatar thought not to be amusing enough anymore, as he put it. Even after corralling the Unagi to put out those fires, he was all eyes and ears for Katara, his new friend.

Her temper sparked a little at the idea, losing her ability to stay aloft within the sky as she hurriedly opened her glider, taking to the skies to mingle with the stars like she usually did when she needed some time to think and couldn't control her emotions enough to float.

She didn't get very far though when she sensed that familiar spirit that should be on the ground sleeping, twirling around as he flew above her, inches apart as he looked down at her, able to see even in the darkness of the night the troubled look in his gaze on her.

Twirling back around, she flew expertly below and then rocketed back up to fly above him as she remained silent. Words were not needed at times with Airbending, she knew that after a century of honing her abilities. Maybe, deep down, the Avatar knew that too.

Aang was about to speak, when Kama suddenly plummeted down past him, diving after her as she circled him once he got to her level, before leveling out, soaring over the canopy of the trees as he took off after her.

Every time he managed to catch up to her speed, she'd circle him momentarily before changing altitudes, as if she were testing him. They were on an upshot now, soaring towards the stars above, before she suddenly let go of her glider, plummeting past him faster than he could react to catch her.

Diving fast, Aang barely caught her before she could crash in to the canopy of the trees, her glider returning to her moments after he caught her. "Why would you do that?!" Aang questioned in a harsh whisper, since they were not that high above their sleeping friends.

"I wanted to see if you still cared enough to try to catch the Airbending Master that was once your best friend in the whole world." Kama said with a shrug before trying to pull from his grip, but he held steadfast, his grip almost as strong as Bumi's, and Bumi was an Earthbending Master.

"Once? I still am, Kama." Aang reminded firmly as Kama suddenly reached past him and shoved at his glider, yelping as it spun until it was upside down in the air, she now laid upon him like a blanket. As she expected, he released her to try to control his glider, giving her the chance for escape. "Kama!" Aang took off after her as Kama soared back off in to the sky above.

"You've barely noticed my existence since we've left Omashu, Avatar." Kama pointed out as they leveled out once again. "It's almost like nothing has changed since you've been back. The only difference is when I see you now, it's actually you and not the spirits." Kama said as she let go of her glider, wind currents beating around her legs as she watched Aang circle around her to keep leveled with her, since he didn't know the same techniques as her to be capable of staying still at such a height.

Aang looked confused at the comment about the spirits, but decided to ignore it for the moment. Has he really not been paying her much attention though since Omashu? Was she...wait...

This was like back at the Air Temple all over again. Right down to the look in her eyes when she was among him and the Water Tribe siblings. She was feeling left out, like she didn't belong again. She's been spending the last century fighting a war, and now she was trying to help him and Katara get to the North Pole instead. It's foreign territory for her, and he's been too blind to realize that and try to comfort her like he used to.

"I'm sorry, Kama." Aang apologized sincerely as he spun around to be in front of her. "I have noticed you though. Like the way you look when all four of us are together. Like you're out of place." Aang pointed out as he saw the surprised look dawn in her eyes at his examination of her. He hadn't been ignoring her as much as she thought. He always has an eye on her when they're close by. She's his Vala. "I know you exist. I just..." Aang cut short with a sigh as he tried to focus his abilities to perform Kama's technique to be able to stay in front of her.

Kama watched as Aang tried to focus currents of air around his legs to be at her level, moving down when he dropped down a bit at the difference of levitating with air currents instead of soaring with gliders.

He managed to get it, for only about a moment before he lost it and began to plummet with a yell, Kama sighing as she dove after him, managing to catch him with ease and level out, ignoring gravity again as she floated on air below him, Aang situated on her legs as he flushed with embarrassment.

She was so much stronger since last he'd seen her. She used to be klutzy back at the air temples. But, a century later and she was possibly the most experienced Air Bender he's ever met, and they knew the Temple Elders! "I don't understand how you do these things still." Aang commented as he motioned to how Kama always floated on air now a days.

"When you spend a century as the last Airbender, you learn a few new life changing skills." Kama said simply as Aang finally noticed the lonely look in her eyes that she must have been trying to hide from him in the last few days.

"I'm sorry, Kama." Aang murmured quietly as she looked away from him, handing him his glider so he could fly on his own once more. Once he was back on the air, he circled her slowly, watching, examining her almost. "You know...we used to have that...connection together." Aang muttered as he circled the girl now sitting cross legged mid air once more.

"Things change." Kama said simply as he sighed.

"I miss it." Aang said honestly, missing how close he used to be with Kama. How they knew each other better than they knew themselves at times. "I...I miss you, Kama. How you've been...this stone faced girl...I know it's not the real you, Kama." Aang reminded as he saw Kama's features stiffen at his words. He didn't need to have their connection to know her. Know that this silent warrior, deep down she was still a little mischievous Airbender who liked having fun.

"People change, Aang. After a century of war, this is me. I have to be this way." Kama said as she held a closed fist to her chest, eyes locking with his when he circled her once more. "The world needs someone strong, someone who can protect it and nurture it back to the way it was. Right now, the world doesn't need a little misfit Airbender." Kama said as Aang frowned at her words.

"But what if I miss that little misfit?" Aang asked, diving quickly when Kama suddenly plummeted, catching her in one of his arms.

"Aren't you having more fun with the Waterbender?" Kama asked as he smiled gently at her, realizing exactly what was going on now.

"You're jealous, Kama." Aang said with a small smile at her as he noticed annoyance flicker in her gaze on him. "Don't be though." Aang said quickly before Kama could do something to him like she did last time. "I'll always have time for you. If you want to go do something crazy like we used to, or just want to talk like right now." Aang said as he noticed Kama's gaze soften on him at his words.

Suddenly, the two plummeted through the canopy of the trees as Kama had tackled Aang, managing to make him lose his focus and cause the two to plummet back down to the ground with a loud crash through the trees.

"Ow!" Aang's voice was muffled as he landed face first on the ground, Kama on his back as he was reminded of their wrestling matches when they were younger, unable to be mad since she didn't really intend for that consequence. She tackled him for a hug, not to make them fall.

"Wha...what's going on?" Oops, they woke Sokka.

Looking up, the two watched as Sokka suddenly leaped up brandishing the nearest thing as a weapon, which just so happened to be Momo who had been sleeping.

"Stay back! I'm not afraid to use this!" Sokka threatened, before hearing the two Airbenders burst out laughing, just then spotting them now sprawled on the ground together nearby. "You two? Really? I thought you were Fire Nation!" Sokka protested as he dropped Momo back to the ground, the Lemur screeching in protest at being dropped as the Airbenders continued laughing.

"So you try to use Momo as a weapon?" Kama asked through her laughter as she laid on the ground beside Aang, almost crying from the laughter.

"What's going on?" Aang and Kama were still laughing even as Katara woke up, noticing the two rolling on the ground in their laughter and her obviously annoyed older brother.

"They woke me up with whatever they were up to this late at night. Go to sleep! I'm going back to bed." Sokka growled, and with a huff laid back down and pulled his sleeping back back up over his head.

"Guys, I have no idea what you're both up to, but it's really late. We all need our sleep for tomorrow." Katara reminded the Airbenders that were beginning to calm down now that Sokka was silent and trying to go back to sleep.

"Sorry, Katara." Aang apologized as he clambered back to his feet, sides hurting from the laughter as he reached down and helped Kama up. "We'll go to bed. Goodnight." Aang said before Katara laid back down herself to go to sleep.

"It's been a long while since I've laughed like that." Kama said as Aang grinned at her in the moon light, unable to deny that it felt amazing to be able to be like that with Kama again after a century. Maybe a good laugh was all they really needed.

"Well hey, we could have fun like that more often, if you'll agree to do crazy ideas with me again." Aang said with a devious smile that she matched with her own, giggling when he dawned his signature goofy grin over seeing her own devious smile after so long.

"Go to sleep." Sokka hissed from nearby as Aang and Kama looked his way, before back at one another.

"Sorry Sokka, we're coming to bed." Aang agreed before heading over to his sleeping bag near where their camp fire had been earlier in the night. When he noticed Kama about to go lay with Appa though, he jumped up and followed quickly, flopping down on the Sky Bison's tail after she did.

"Goodnight." Kama said with a yawn as Aang let loose his own yawn, feeling tired finally now that all the excitement was over.

"Goodnight. Sleep well." Aang murmured, before he was off to dream land once more.

"Tell me again, why exactly do we both need to be doing this?" Kama asked as she and Aang stood among a large pile of coal, Aang having closed off all vents on the Fire Nation Rig already so they could blast all the coal straight up to the deck.

"If we both do it, we'll get it done faster and be able to help sooner." Aang reminded as he noticed the annoyed glint in his best friends eyes. He knew by now after all they've gone through thus far to get Katara on to the prison rig to try to help the Earthbenders that she didn't like being stuck down below deck. She preferred to be on the front lines of the battle.

"I think it's about time." Kama reminded him as she got in to her stance. Aang quickly took his own, and they both sent a large blast of air from under the coal to send it right back up to the deck where Katara and Sokka would be waiting.

As the coal rose, the Airbenders followed, until finally they emerged on the deck covered in coal dust, Aang coughing off the dust on himself as Kama used controlled air currents to bend the dust off herself. Now they stood among a large pile of coal as Katara tried to rally the imprisoned Earthbenders to fight back against the Fire Nation Soldiers.

Unfortunately, some of the Earthbenders began to back away as Katara held a piece of Coal up in the air to try to convince them, some still unwilling to fight back. "Hahahahaha! Foolish girl! You thought a few inspirational words and some coal would change these people? Look at these blank, hopeless faces. Their spirits were broken a long time ago. Oh? But you still believe in them? They're a waste of your energy, little girl. You've failed." The Warden alerted the Waterbender as Katara lowered her head in disappointment at how the Earthbenders wouldn't fight back.

Suddenly, a lump of coal shot out and struck the Warden on the back of the head as he was beginning to walk away, turning to see Haru, the boy the Gang had come to help, had been the one to attack as he levitated lumps of coal in his hand with a severe gaze on the Warden.

Suddenly, the Warden sent a blast of fire at Haru, the boy flinching away, only for a wall of coal to rise and block the attack, turning to see his father had attacked.

"Show no mercy!" The Warden ordered furiously as Fire Nation Soldiers lined up to attacked the rebelling prisoners.

"For the Earth Kingdom, attack!" Tyro ordered back as the Earthbenders sent a wave of coal back at the attacking Fire Nation Soldiers.

After disarming most of the Guards of their spears, and Tyro and Haru managing to blast a hole in a wall with a large mass of coal, the Earthbenders began to head for the ship to escape.

"Get them back to the ship, I'll hold them off with Tyro!" Kama ordered the Water tribe siblings as she stood her ground with the Earthbenders, blasting loose coal in all directions with her Airbending to knock out stray attackers.

Once all soldiers and the Warden were downed, Tyro and two other Earthbenders lifted all the soldiers and the Warden up in to the air on a bed of coal, moving them so they could levitate above the water.

"No, please! I can't swim." The Warden begged as he was stuck in the middle of the bed of coal.

"Don't worry, I hear cowards float." Tyro advised, before releasing all control on the coal.

Before the Warden could fall, however, he was sent flying further out to sea by a strong blast of air by the Spirit Guardian, before all Earthbenders made their unhindered escape to the ships where their friends were waiting.

Kama watched as Aang's eyes followed Katara as she was on the ship with the Earthbenders, levitating a piece of coal with a spout of air from his hand as he tried to hide that he was in fact watching the Water Tribe girl.

He really was too obvious sometimes.

Deciding that a little punishment was in store for his making her aid with a job he could have done himself, Kama suddenly sent a powerful gust of wind forward from where she sat in the saddle, knocking the Avatar flying with a yelp in to the water that Appa had been swimming quickly through as Sokka laughed from where he watched in the saddle.

"Nice one!" Sokka praised as they watched Aang resurface, looking up at her with a scowl before leaping back up on to the saddle.

"You were covered in coal dust, now you're clean." Kama reasoned with a devious glint still obvious in her stormy gray eyes as Aang air dried himself quickly.

Without a word, he suddenly sent a strong gust of air Kama's way as well. Unfortunate for him, she was still a more highly trained Airbender, as she jumped out of the way of the attack with ease.

Before he could try again, he suddenly heard Katara's frantic voice from the ship nearest to where they were riding with Appa. "My mother's necklace! It's gone!" Katara cried out, and within seconds Aang was over on the deck of the ship to see if he could try to help Katara find the necklace, or at least calm her down a bit.

Kama floated back down in to Appa's saddle slowly as she watched the Avatar flee to the Waterbender's side, rolling her eyes at his eagerness.

He was always quick to Katara's side. He was like a little polar puppy dog, trotting right after the Waterbender wherever they've gone so far. And Katara was oblivious to it all.

Sometimes, she really had to wonder about her friend.

After a while, the Gang left the Earthbenders to continue on with their own journey, taking back to the sky with Kama at the reigns this time so Aang could comfort Katara about her mothers lost necklace.

"Don't worry, Katara. We'll find it." Aang assured Katara as Sokka moved to sit at the reigns with the laid back Spirit Guardian who was absentmindedly chewing on nuts she had found on their last foraging through the woods.

"What brings you out of the saddle?" Kama asked as Sokka clung to Appa's fur for life as he moved out to sit on Appa's head with her.

"Nothing I'm saying is helping her right now." Sokka grumbled as he gave a glance back at his distressed little sister, hating that he couldn't do more to help her. But they couldn't go back to that Fire Nation Rig to look and see if her necklace was possibly dropped there. It was too dangerous.

"So you're hoping to escape up here to the reigns with me?" Kama concluded, since while she never had siblings of her own, that she knew of at least, she knew how it felt to be unable to help the ones you care the most for, even with something as simple as a necklace. She had, unfortunately, been unable to help her people all those decades ago, so she knew what kind of a bind the Water Tribe Warrior was in being unable to help. "You know, it's nothing to put on your shoulders, Sokka. What you can do for her now is just be there for her." Kama summarized for the teen as she kept her gaze on the skies, still chewing on some of the nuts from her forage bag.

She could, however, feel the boys eyes on her, glancing his way after a brief moment of silence. The moment she spotted him, he looked away from her at last.

"I sometimes forget that while you look younger than all of us, you're actually a lot smarter." Sokka commented as he looked at the cloudy skies ahead of them.

"My appearance is deceiving, I know this. Sometimes, I do wish I were able to grow with the rest of the world in the past century. But, the spirits had a plan for all of this I suppose." Kama said with a shrug, since while she had a strong bond with the spirit world, at times she really didn't understand it. Especially with how she was entombed in the body of a twelve year old for a century while her best friend was entombed in ice.

"You even talk like you're over a hundred years old still." Sokka mused with a teasing smirk at her as she rolled her eyes at him.

"How would you prefer me to talk then? I mean, I've been alive through for over a century, and have been at the side of a crazy king for most of that. I was the smarter of the two of us, just like with Aang." Kama advised, before grinning deviously when she heard Aang's protest from the saddle, obviously having been listening in on their conversation.

Sokka was laughing now at Aang's reaction, the Avatar shooting an insulted look back at Kama who didn't even look back at him, already knowing his reaction through past experiences with the Avatar. At least she managed to break some of the tension that had built since they started off again after Katara lost her necklace.

"In case you forgot, you used to be the one who always got in trouble at the Air Temple. You broke more statues than anymore." Aang protested being referred to as the less intellectual of the Airbenders as Kama continued chewing on nuts.

"Because someone wanted to play a game that always ended in destruction. If I remember correctly, you were also the one who got charged by a heard of Sky Bison when we visited my temple together." Kama reminded as she turned to look back at the Avatar with a devious glint still obvious in her eyes as he scowled at the memory.

"That's because you put hay in my pants when my back was to you!" Aang complained as Sokka continued laughing at the stories that they still had plenty to tell of their time together before the war.

"Which goes to prove that I'm still the more intelligent of us here, now doesn't it? Because no matter how hard you try, you can't pull anything over on me anymore." Kama reminded the boy, since he had failed to send her flying just before they discovered that Katara had lost her necklace.

"Is that a challenge?" Aang asked, dawning his own devious look as the Water Tribe siblings looked between the two Airbenders with a mixture of amusement and curiosity as to what the two were capable of doing to one another.

"Isn't everything a challenge with you, Avatar?" Kama asked in turn, not breaking her devious gaze from her best friend. She only broke her gaze when Katara intervened, finally calm now after her panic induced by losing her childhood momentum of her mother.

"We need to get to the North Pole, you guys. Whatever you're both planning can wait until we get there and find Aang and I a Waterbending teacher." Katara reminded as Aang frowned, looking like a sulking child as Kama laughed at his reaction to hearing he couldn't do anything until after he begins his Waterbending training.

"You know that's not going to slide with him, right Katara?" Sokka asked as he motioned to the Avatar that was now glaring playfully at his Vala. "We've already made so many pit stops, we need to keep flying through. He might do something while we're flying." Sokka pointed out, spotting the devious smile that formed on the Avatar's face at the idea.

"Flying through then? Well, let's hope that actually lasts." Kama said before tugging on Appa's reigns to let him know to fly at a leisurely pace for the moment so he wouldn't tire out too fast.

On cue, a blast of air came from the saddle, but the Vala was smarter than she looked, easily manipulating the currents to flow around her and miss her. However, she forgot that Sokka wasn't a bender like the rest of them. "AANG!" Sokka's yell came seconds after the air hit him and sent him flying off the Bison's head.

"Sokka!" Kama leaped up and dove after Sokka as he fell towards the ocean below them.

"Oops." Aang murmured sheepishly as Katara glared at him for his prank. He meant to knock Kama off, since she could fly just fine on her own. He forgot though that Sokka wasn't able to hold on tight enough to keep from going flying by his attack on Kama.

A minute later, Kama reappeared in the air above as she set Sokka back down in the saddle, Sokka still holding a panicked look in his eyes over having a near death experience like falling from thousands of feet in the air towards the ocean below. "Nice job, Avatar." Kama commented as she floated just above them, having set Sokka down beside his sister so he could try to steady his nerves better.

"Aang, that was childish and dangerous!" Katara chastised as Aang shrunk down where he was sitting, having figured she would yell at him once Sokka was safe.

"I could have DIED!" Sokka yelled as Kama rolled her eyes at the display of the Water Tribe siblings being so angry at Aang for his failed prank on her.

"You wouldn't die from that, Sokka. I move faster than the Avatar here thanks to a century of training. I'll catch you before you even have a chance to pray to the spirits for help." Kama reminded as she floated on her back just behind Aang. "And Aang didn't mean to knock you off. He was trying to knock me off. He just forgot that you can't hold on too tight when sitting at the saddle." Kama pointed out as she slowly lowered herself back down on to the saddle beside her Avatar.

"Still, I just told both of you that we need to focus on getting to the North Pole more than these games you two play." Katara reminded as she looked to Kama now who just rolled her eyes at her.

"We're Airbenders, Katara. We're the most laid back people in the world. You can't expect us to take the fun out of a trip like this." Kama advised, since she figured Katara knew very little about the ways of Airbenders and how they used to be some of the most relaxed and fun loving people in the whole world.

Well, that is until the Elders got serious and started making even Airbending feel like it was a job that they were all required to take as seriously as possible.

Aang went silent as he watched Katara and Kama talk now, Kama always to his side even when he just tried to send her flying off of Appa with a gust of wind. She really was the peace keeper of them. She wasn't mad that he tried to send her flying, she just continued on like it was nothing and tried to calm the now agitated Water Tribe siblings.

Soon, the gang decided to make camp for the night, since Sokka didn't want to continue on for a night after being sent flying off of Appa's head so easily.

Sokka went off to search the forest for anything edible as Katara prepared the camp fire, letting Aang set out the sleeping bags as Kama floated a ways up, watching for any signs of Fire Nation soldiers nearby.

Kama looked back down at the ground where her friends were to see Aang had finished his task and was now helping Katara start the camp fire, figuring she would forgive him soon enough. She was mad for a little while that Aang had knocked Sokka off of Appa, but now they were down there laughing and back to normal as they tried to start the campfire up, Sokka off a ways in the woods.

From where she was watching, she could see him trying to sneak up on a herd of hogs with his boomerang held above his head. Did he really think that a boomerang could take down a hog?

Obviously, he did. A second later, he threw the boomerang and it smacked one of the hogs on the back of the head. She manipulated the air to try to hear what was going on down there, just in time to hear the hogs now squealing as they began to charge after their attacker, Sokka yelling as he fled from the herd of hogs with his boomerang back in his hand.

Well, that's what happens when you try to hunt animals. It's so much healthier to be a vegetarian anyways.

She watched as the hogs continued chasing Sokka until he quickly climbed a tree to escape, huffing and gasping for breath as the hogs circled the tree in their anger over being attacked.

She might as well help him.

Sokka had been looking through his bag in hopes of finding a knife when he heard a branch snap above him, looking up to see Kama now standing on a branch above him. "This is why you don't hunt animals. They don't like being hunted, and will fight back." Kama advised as she looked down at the circling herd of angry hogs.

"But I'm hungry for some real food." Sokka complained, his stomach growling as well as Kama rolled her eyes at his need for meat.

"You know, nuts and berries are real food too." Kama reminded as she held out her satchel that she usually kept hidden in her robes that always had nuts or berries in it.

"I mean meat." Sokka reminded as he pointed at the hogs that were beginning to leave them now that they realized they weren't going to get the boy that attacked them.

"Well, to begin with, you need the right tools to hunt, Sokka. Not just a boomerang or a club." Kama pointed out as she pointed to the boomerang he was now holding up to throw at the retreating hogs. He had left his club back at camp with Katara and Aang. "Second, hunting a herd of hogs alone is asking to be attacked by the rest of the herd. You're not going to get them, so until we can go to a town you're going to have to settle for nuts and berries." Kama advised as she opened her satchel and poured some of the nuts and berries out on to his free hand.

Sokka looked between the hogs and the nuts and berries in his hand before sighing in defeat. "Fine, but next time we see a town we're stopping so I can at least get some fish." Sokka grumbled before standing up to try to climb back down the tree to the ground. Before he could climb down even one branch, Kama lifted him with ease, jumping down from the tree like it was nothing before setting Sokka back down on the ground.

"Camp's back that way." Kama said as she pointed in the direction of camp, since you couldn't even see the smoke of the campfire with how thick the canopy of the trees was.

Aang and Katara finally managed to get the campfire going when Aang looked up to see Kama had gone off again, nowhere to be seen in the skies or anywhere near them on the ground. Where did she go now?

"There's Sokka finally." Katara commented as she heard footsteps in the distance. A second later, Sokka and Kama emerged from the bushes they had to trudge through to get back, deep in a conversation of their own as Katara continued fanning the fire to life.

Aang watched the way Kama talked openly with Sokka. When had this happened? She's usually silent among them unless they were alone, but now she was standing there laughing and having a one on one conversation with Sokka. Why did it make him a little annoyed to see her like that with someone else?

Oh, what have we here? We see a bit of bonding between Sokka and Kama, but what's this that Aang's feeling about it then? I guess we'll have to wait until next time to see, won't we? Sorry again for the delayed update though, I'll try to get the next chapter written out as fast as I can. It's hard to write though when you can barely breath from whatever your sick with. That, and four kids trying to get on the same computer I work on really delays my ability to write.

No excuses though, I'm going to try my hardest to get the next chapter written up and out to you as fast as I can. Thanks for your patience though! I hope you enjoyed the chapter as much as I do writing it for you! Now, why not do me a favor and scroll down and review so I have something to motivate me to write faster even though I'm sick. Thanks again for reading though!