Toru smiled. "It does doesn't it? I think it'd be a great place to go! We just have to figure out how to get in with our ship... We can make up a story I guess! Erm... We stole it from the Fire Navy when they attacked our village?"

Deri tapped her chin then said, "We are brining it to Ba Sing Se for the Earth King to decide how we can use their attack against them and their weaponary!" She took another drink of tea calmly and shrugged, "Or tell them we are just traveling theives."

Toru nodded at the first story and then shuddered at the second. "Yes of course, it's always good to start with someone by saying we're thieves. I like your first one though." He drank the last sips of his tea and put it on the table.

Deri grinned and curtsyed her thanks. She drank the rest of her tea in one huge gulp then smacked her lips and complimented, "You could do this for a living. Making tea I mean. That was a great batch." Deri grinned at Toru happily.

Toru smiled back and said "It's not that hard when you can waterbend the water into the pot and stuff. You have good tea leaves anyway." Toru sensed that this conversation was getting awkward.

Deri smiled and said to Toru, "Do you think you could fight without waterbending? Or do you perfer to fight using it?" She tucked her hair behind her ears and looked at Toru with her green eyes. A soft fur rubbed against her leg. She looked down and Tai was purring at her, Deri picked him up and set him on the counter. Tai instantly padded over to Toru purring.

Toru pet Tai and shrugged. "I prefer waterbending but I CAN if that is your question. I took a little Nan Pai Tang Lang when I was in Ba Sing Se." Toru picked up Tai and fed him some food. "I meant to ask you this before... where DID you find this cat?"

Deri couldn't help but smile, "When I was walking around the night you were waterbending. He was just wandering, I gave him some fish and let him sleep in my room." She snapped her fingers then added, "Speaking of Ba Sing Se, what were you saying that something weird was going on?"

((SPOILERS MAY APPLY TO EPISODE 214 and 217))

Toru continued playing with the cat and he almost dropped him when she mentioned Ba Sing Se. "It's just, the avatar arrived and well... you aren't allowed to talk about the war in Ba Sing Se. It's because they want it to be the perfect little place where the war no longer exists. After the Avatar figured out that the king was just a puppet, Long Feng the leader of the Dai Lee stole Appa, the Avatar's flying Bison. It's all gone wrong, people don't KNOW that there is a war behind the walls." Toru sighed.

Deri gasped and said, "Idoits! Those stupid idiots! What's gonna happen when they are invaded?!" She snapped her fingers and smirked, "Maybe we should go tell them about it? After the spa. I mean, being safe just doesn't sound like alot of fun anymore. So what do you say?"

Toru looked at Deri and said glumly. "No, we can't. The Dai Lee will get us and, well, I don't know what happens to people who talk about the war. I know it's not good." Toru angrily slammed his fist on the counter top. "There is nothing we can do! It's impossible."

Deri put her finger up and wagged it at him, "Please, what can they do to us? If they even try to touch you I'd kill them. Simple as that." Deri's thought raced, 'Did I just say that aloud? Oh, crap!' She bit her bottom lip and stuterd, "Uh, I mean.... Well...." Deri knew what she had said and she meant it but didn;t want to get embarrased like that.

Mihara walked into a bar and ordered a water for a copper coin. She sat down at a booth and thought stirring the tea with her finger, 'This is starting to get really annoying. Chasing her, why? Because she's loyal to her country?' Mihara sighed and didn't know what to do. She decided to go see her ship. Mihara walked over to a weird man and said, "Direct to to the ship under the name Mihara." The man looked confused and said, "The ship went out of port this morning. A girl and her friends took it." Mihara's eyes widened in shock then glared at the man. "HOW DARE YOU GIVE MY SHIP TO HER!" The man jumped back and Mihara shot a fireball at him. The man stumbled back into the water and made a splash. "Y-you're Mihara? I-I thought-" Mihara interupted, "Stupid man! You will give me another ship!" The man retorted,"Who's gonna make me?" Mihara brought another fireball and held it in her hand making it bigger every second. "Oh, he is. Yes ma'am. Twelve ships down it's empty." Mihara let the fireball go and went to look at her new ship angrilly.

Zekvax lept over the side of the ship, bringing a fair amount of water with him. He dodged to the left of a flying axe, then got into an offensive position. He quickly turned the ice dagger he made into an ice sword, then forming a javelin shaped icicle, impaled an enemy pirate on it. Pulling it out of the pirate, He looked to his left and noticed Shio with a chain wrapped around his foot and a man stadning near him. Putting two and two togheter, Zekvax launched the javelin at the man, then started moving over Shio, stabbing, slicing, and bludgeoning pirates along the way.

Toru looked at Deri amusingly. "If they touched ME YOU'D kill them?" Toru shook his head and got back on topic. Almost yelling now he said. "No, you CAN'T because the Dai Lee will KILL you... Trust me. You can't fight back. The Avatar himself follows the Dai Lee's orders."

Deri shrugged and said, "I'd fight all I could. You said that he has the Avatar's Bison. I'm positive that we couldn't help him get it back but, if we could at least make the people see what is really happening, maybe we could help the Avatar balance the world a little." She blushed a little and added, "And of course I would kill them if they'd touch you. And if that stupid moron thinks he can kill me after running from a nation for my life he has another thing coming."

Mihara marched onto her new ship, which was almost identical to her previous one. She ran into a control room and saw a bookcase. Her hands flew through it searching for a map. Once she found one she sat down and looked at it thinking of somewhere to go. 'The Fire Nation is out until Deri is dead. The Air Temples... Was she still going there? And why has she not gotten into a fight recently? Maybe she went home. I'll check there first.' Mihara ran down to the boiler room and started up the ship. 'Sorry Kia. You abandoned me.' Mihara ran back up to the control room and set the ship to the greatBa Sing Se, to make a new start.

Joufuma looked over at Shio, feeling the gist of the thoughts in his mind. Keilani, reading his mind, sent a narrow fireburst through the pirates and into the door. Joufuma followed Keilani's attack with a flying kick to the door, followed by a roundhouse kick to several of the pirates' faces.
WAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Thanks, Kei!!