Phoenix Fire (Avatar: The Last Airbender) #Wattys2016

IIChapter 6 - The Southern Raiders Part 1II

Lea's POV

I jolted awake when I heard an explosion. I got up from my sleeping bag to see Aang reacting quickly, he shut the shutters that surrounded the camp site with his Air Bending as more explosions sounded off around us. I looked up to see the roof starting to crumble, right on top of Katara and I

"Watch out!" Zuko yelled and pushed Katara out of the way. I gulped, freezing up before Shinya used his earth bending to stop the roof from falling on top of me, ushering me to get out of the way. I ran away and over to Shinya's side, him setting down the rubble that used to be the roof. I glanced over at Katara and Zuko to see Katara shove Zuko off of her and run towards her brother. So, Zuko saves Katara but doesn't save me? That's odd, more odd due to the fact that I was the only member in the family that is still around that actually cares about him, beside Uncle but Uncle wasn't around right now. Where was he actually anyway? I snapped out of my thoughts when Haru and Toph opened up an entryway, through the mountain it looked like

"Come on we can get out through here!" Toph stated pointing towards the entryway. We rushed into it until I noticed Zuko not coming

"What are you doing?" Aang asked him, trying his best to get Appa to go into the hole in the mountain

"Go ahead, I will hold them off! I think this is a family visit." My eyes widened and chased after Zuko

"Lea!" Shinya shouted at me but I ignored him and followed after my brother. We ran towards and out of the camp site to see a bomb landing on us. We jumped out of the way in the nic of time, now in the open. Zuko sent fire towards the warship while I looked around to see any openings. Until Azula came up from a rising platform. I gritted my teeth at the sight of her

"What are you doing here?" Zuko asked her, annoyed by her presence

"You mean it isn't obvious yet? I'm getting ready to celebrate becoming the oldest!" She jumped and swung before sending her blue flames towards us, more directly at Zuko than me. We ran away and tumbled from the impact. We ran towards her once again, scaling up a pillar that was falling. Zuko jumped and I followed after him. He sent more fire blasts towards her, Azula jumping down avoiding getting hit. I screamed when we missed the airship, mine and Zuko's bodies plummeting down to the endless abyss, only we hit something hard, me hissing in pain when I felt my ankle burning. I looked over at Zuko, only to see he was glaring at me

"Why didn't you go with the others?!" He asked me outraged

"No way am I losing the only family I have Zuko!" I yelled at him and his eyes widened at my outburst. He stood up and helped me up, swinging my arm around his neck. I searched through my satchel and sighed in relief when the book of forms was still there. We rose up to where Azula was and had a glaring match with her. I saw in the corner of my eye I saw Appa flying away. I mentally smiled when I saw they were alright.

"Will you be okay on your own for a little while?"

"Yes I will be fine, just go!" I told him and he nodded before running towards the end of the warship and jumped off. They started battling each other while I looked around, knowing I was unable to help Zuko from being unable to physically do anything in the art of combat, only self defence moves. A huge explosion suddenly went off and I looked over to see that their flames connected with each other. I looked down and saw Appa flying. I jumped from the war ship before it exploded into flames. I quickly grabbed onto Sokka's hand while Katara grabbed onto Zuko's. Zuko hugged me and I hugged him back, relieved that we both made it out alive. I looked over at Shinya who held a worried expression on his face. I nodded at him telling him I was okay. He sighed in relief before we looked behind us to see Azula still falling