Chapter 2

The long trip I had with the Avatar and his friends was...less than tolerable. During the whole flight, I received subtle glares from the Water Tribe girl, Katara, annoying questions from the Avatar, and even more annoying comments from the peasant who dressed up like Suki. I never answered the Avatar's questions and as for Sokka's comments...I almost threw him off the flying bison. Speaking of the bison, for some reason, the animal known as Appa did not seem to have a problem with me unlike other animals I've encountered doing my years of exile. When I first hopped on, I thought he was going to throw me off, but to my surprise he didn't. The Avatar ended up taking us to a remote island that was nearby Kyoshi's. From what we saw, no people inhabited this island, but there was a lot of animals that would suffice as food for our stay.

As of right now, I'm sitting by myself next to Appa while the Avatar and his friends talk about me and my "firebending." Honestly, people associating my fire, the true fire, with that of those weaklings disgust me and irritates me to no end. I can here Katara stating the fact that I am an enemy because I use fire and that I am more than likely here just to kidnap the Avatar for the Fire Lord. Aang, gives me the benefit of the doubt and states that he senses good in me and believes that I am here to help, which technically is true. Sokka, however from what I can hear, is torn in between believing his sister and the Avatar as he is the only one who knows part of my backstory, but not all of it. While I don't blame the girl for not believing me, she should atleast give me the benefit of the doubt and let me prove myself to her, but I know she won't.

I let out a heavy sigh as I laid next to the bison. Honestly, I should've stayed on Kyoshi with Suki and the others. At least they were more tolerable than this bunch of idiots. I can't even imagine how this group is supposed to save the world from the Fire Nation. I was taken out of my thoughts however when a small, white animal jumped into my lap. I looked down to see the Avatar's lemur he dubbed as Momo. I reached out towards the lemur and scratched behind his ear, eliciting a growl of pleasure from the animal. I smiled down at the sight.

"See, even Momo likes him Katara." Aang argues.

"No offense Aang, but Momo and Appa don't count in this discussion." Katara argues back.

"You know instead of talking about me behind my back, you could just talk to me." I shouted at them. Katara and Aang flinched at realizing they had been caught.

I walked over with Momo on my shoulder towards the group. I turned to Katara.

"Listen up, I know you don't trust me and I don't really care. I am here simply to help the Avatar stop this war." I said coolly.

"Oh really? Why would a Fire Nation soldier care for ending this war?" Katara argued.

I growled at her, "I am not Fire Nation."

Aang raised his eyebrows and so did Sokka, "Then what are you?" Aang asked.

I turned towards him, "Something much different and much more powerful."

"And what is that, exactly?" Sokka asks with an annoyed tone.

"You'll find out eventually."

I turned my back towards them and began to walk away.

"I'm going to go get us some wood for a fire since it seems like we'll be staying here for the night. Since I already know most of you don't trust me, I suggest one of you follow me." I shouted. Turns out, those idiots did heed my advice. Katara was the one who ended up joining me in my little adventure. We walked in complete silence except for our feet crunching a couple branches. I could see out of the corner of my eye that she was still giving me glances and that she had her body tensed up in case I attacked.

"I know you dislike the Fire Nation girl, but I am not one of them."

Katara snorts, "Well sorry if I don't believe you."

I let out an irritated growl and picked up my pace before I ended up in front of some trees. Originally, I was going to use my magic, but I soon realized that I might end up starting a forest fire and that if I did, then I couldn't eat the fire since I can't each my own magic.

"How much water do you have?" I turned towards Katara.

"I have just enough. Why?" She questions.

I sighed, "Because, we need to cut some logs and I'd rather not start a forest fire."

Katara lets out a big "OHHHH" before turning towards the trees. She uses her waterbending and cuts the logs perfectly. I catch all of them before they hit the ground and carry them with one arm.

"Alright, let's go."

"Wait!" Katara yelled.

I let out an irritated growl, "What is it?"

"We don't have a lot of food at the moment. There might be some animals here we can cook." She states. I let out another sigh and began to sniff around. Katara stares at me weirdly, but I ignore her.

"There's nothing here except us and some bugs." I muttered.

"You got all that by sniffing?!" She asked curiously. I just shrugged at her and continued to walk back towards our little camp. She quickly followed up behind me. Once we made our way back to camp we noticed Sokka trying to fish and Aang was juggling rocks with his airbending.

"Hey Aang, we grabbed a ton of firewood to use." Katara said to the energetic Avatar.

"Nice job guys." Aang smiled. I simply stared at him and shrugged before I threw all of the wood into a pile and let out a Fire Dragon's roar, igniting our campfire for the night. I saw the shocked and amazed expressions on the two benders before me, but didn't say anything towards them.

"That was amazing!" Aang exclaimed.

"It was nothing, but a measly roar, Avatar." I shrugged.

"I've never seen a firebender do that before, not even Kuzon."

I was starting to get irritated.

"Stop calling me a Firebender."

"THEN WHAT ARE YOU!" Katara yelled back. "I AM TIRED OF YOU SAYING THAT YOU'RE NOT A FIREBENDER EVEN THOUGH YOU USE FIRE!"

"You want to know what I am, well let me show you."

"Fire Dragon...Roar!"

I roared out a very big stream of fire, shooting it over the ocean. My roar almost hit Sokka's head, but the idiotic fool dodged just in time. I stopped roaring out fire and turned back to glare at Katara.