Blind chapter 1
(A/N): This is my first Avatar fanfic, so be merciful! It's supposed to take place after where Season 2 ended. I know there's a lot of Season 3 fics out there, but I guess I would call mine….different. Whether it's a good different or a bad different, that's for you to decide! R&R!
Disclaimer- I don't own, Avatar, its characters, its plot or anything else copyrighted with the name Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Ba Sing Se.
Three simple words. Three simple words that stood for everything Katara had been fighting for. Everything that Aang, Sokka, Toph, and hundreds of others had been fighting for.
All gone.
The thought of Omashu being captured still sometimes lingered in Katara's head as a dream, something that hadn't happened. Now Ba Sing Se. The only thing that was standing between the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom.
It was no question that Azula was the genius that everyone proclaimed her as. An outside attack on the Earth fortress was impossible; Iroh and the failed attempt with the Drill had proven that. So she tried something that no one else ever though of. An inside attack. A ploy. A coup d'etat. Whatever you call it, it succeeded.
Katara looked towards the sky, and as if a cruel joke, ominous black clouds started to cover the used-to-be clear blue sky.
Flying from Appa's back, Katara felt strangely numb, as if everything in the last few hours hadn't happened, all of it something she imagined.
Still staring up at the sky, the waterbender finially stopped thinking, and fell into the empty, thoughtless silence that everyone else was in.
Suddenly, the air bison swerved to a stop, and gently lowered itself onto a grassy clearing.
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Zuko stood unmoving as he felt the iron chains clasp his wrists. He stood deceptively calm, despite the inner turmoil inside of him. He heard Ty Lee's annoyingly cheerful voice in the background, and the sound of Mai twirling a dagger on top of a finger tip, but that all seemed unimportant, and he barely acknowledged that the 2 girls were even beside him.
His thoughts were focused on the decision he made just less than a few hours ago, deep inside the caves. The decision that would, undoubtedly, change the future of the whole world.
Regret was no stranger to him. Neither was shame or remorse. Yet the intensity of these feelings inside him was something he never felt before.
A hard kick to the knees brought him back to reality and away from his thoughts.
Zuko looked up and found himself looking into the bright brown eyes of Ty Lee.
"C'mon Zuko, Azula wants to see you; and you know how much she doesn't like waiting."
As Ty Lee started to rant about what Azula did to the last person to make her wait, Mai proceeded to kick Zuko from behind, and the scarred prince stumbled. The firebender turned around, and met eyes with the noblewoman.
As he stared into the black depths of Mai's eyes, Zuko caught Mai silently mouthing out an apology;
I'm sorry.
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The thumping of the steps and the vibrations of the slowly moving wheels that traveled through the ground and the pebbles to a blind girl's dirt-covered feet told her one thing.
They're here.
Her clouded eyes widened with fear as she realized exactly how many soldiers and tanks there were.
Oh shit.
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As she flew through the air on the back of the air bison, Katara made her decision.
As she thought about what the consequences were of doing what she was about to do, she bit her lower lip in an attempt to hide the sadness that was welling up Taking the cork off her water flask, the waterbender took one last look at her extended family, and then jumped.
As she flew through the air, she could hear her friend's cries of astonishment, and even Aang trying his best to airbend Katara back up to the bison.
Aang.
Just the thought of him reassured her that what she was doing was right, knowing that they could never escape the squadron of soldiers that were already preparing to fight. Aang almost died once, and Katara wasn't about to let that happen again.
No, she would go and distract their attackers, give her family a chance for survival.
Katara flew down towards the ground, to only what she could think of as her death.
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Author's Note- Hate it? Love it? Thought of carrots when you read it? Whatever it is, please review!
Future Notes-
I plan on making this as long as it can get, and I update rather…..slowly, so…..
I might make this a Zuko/Katara fic, but I don't know, need reader's opinions!
Oh, and the first chapter will be MUCH longer than this. There's a reason why this is called a prologue and not a chapter.