AZURE MEMORIES

Katara grabbed for the blue box sitting by the fire place with her withered hands. It seemed like it took an eternity just to reach it.

She was aging, and a slightly wrinkled face and grey strands of hair, showed it.

She was living in the South Pole, everything in her destiny seemed to be fulfilled.

Aang beat the firenation, with the help of, the now, Fire Lord Zuko. Aang and Toph began to fall for each other shortly after and their love escalated from there. Sokka and Suki were married with two children and during Katara's stay at Kyoshi Island she would even catch Sokka sneak out at night to gaze at the moon. Of course in memory of Yue she concluded.

However Katara felt empty…when she arrived back to the South Pole there was everything she needed- Her father, brother, Aang and the gang-including Zuko arrived back with her. It was good at first, but soon after things went amiss. The climate didn't agree with Zuko and Toph, causing sickness and tempers among them. Sokka had a lover awaiting his return in Kyoshi and her father was constantly out trying to improve the South Pole's economic system, she never saw him.

Soon after many arguments and fighting, mostly between Zuko and Sokka, they realized it was time to part ways. Katara was 18, Aang and Toph were 16, Sokka 19, and Zuko was 20 surpassing them all in age. During winter solstice, they all left the South Pole with the exception of Katara. Even her father left, he ventured to their sister tribe for trade. She hadn't heard from him in two years.

Katara was slowly approaching death, and not growing any younger. She just spent her days in the newly built markets of the pole. She, however, visited the gang every once in a while, but she was still felt alone,

'Sure,' she thought to herself, 'there were many young water tribe men when she returned, handsome too, but none caught her eye.'

Katara laughed to herself breaking her silence, only one boy, now a man, ever caught her eye, a firebender.

As Katara finally reached the box she pulled off the lid slowly, anxiously awaiting to find out what was inside. The package had just arrived this morning.

She studied the contents inside, there was a blue glass ball. She picked up the ball and eyed it mysteriously.

It was merely a glass ball. She looked in the box for more items and found none.

She slowly placed the ball back into the box and began to close it, but before she could, a blue cloud erupted from the box and spread through the entire hut. Blue lights began to flicker in between and ear piercing squeak noises reverberated.

She then heard a faint voice echoing, "Do you want a second chance?"

She stood and gasped, shocked, then Katara thought for a second. Her life was going nowhere…of course she wanted a second chance.

The voice sounded again, "Do you want a second chance?"

It sounded like thunder sounding through the small hut, the clouds swirled and Katara gaped at it entranced.

"Do you want a second chance?" It repeated

Katara finally nodded her head frantically, "Yes, yes I do!" A tear fell from her eye and landed onto the blue glass ball.

The blue cloud abruptly dissipated and the thunder with it. A swift breeze past her and she felt the warmness of sun on her neck. She felt her clothes and realized she wasn't wearing her overused blue parka anymore.

Katara looked around. She was somewhere else…she stared at the upside down stone buildings, she was at the west air temple. She gasped. She could vaguely remember the place.

She looked around to find Toph and Sokka sitting around appa throwing stones into nowhere.

She furrowed her chocolate eyebrows and looked at her hands and saw that they were smooth. She then tapped her face, there wasn't a single wrinkle on it.

Aangs boyish voice sounded in the distance, breaking her stupor, "Zuko! Go long!" it said.

She then began to turn around to see his face, and as she did she saw a blurred figure rush at her knocking her to the ground.

Her vision jumbled, "Ugh," She held her head to regain her senses.

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry…me and A-aang were, uh, just…" Zuko stood hovering above her with an outreached hand. Katara grabbed hold of it and pulled herself up.

She began to dust herself off and Aang hastily ran over, "Katara we were just playing fire football, there is no need to blow up at Zuko."

Katara looked stunned, "What…I wasn't going t-" Katara started, but Aang interrupted, "You didn't yet, you've been harassing Zuko ever sense he joined the team."

"No…me and Zuko are friends…" she scratched her head.

"After what happened in those crystal caves, I don't think so," Aang pushed on

Zuko nudged him, "I thought we agreed not to bring that up," he mumbled through closed teeth.

"Zuko and I talked about it, we are okay now."

"Since when?" Aang laughed, "You haven't said anything to Zuko unless it was a threat!"

"I haven't?" Katara began to think back, even though the events were happening now, it's been so long since it really happened. She couldn't recall.

"No," Aang began to grow serious and worried.

Katara decided to play along for a while. Just for a little more fun, besides she was getting a second chance. She huffed her breath and furrowed her eyebrows.

"I remember!" she pointed a finger at the firebender, "Zuko!" She giggled inside, she stuck out her bottom lip and huffed some more, "Watch where your going! You pathetic form of a man!" she smiled behind her face, she never came up with an insult like that.

Her predictable yet sporadic response bewildered everyone.

Zuko and Katara looked around the camp and everyone including Haru, Teo and Longshot were staring openly at them.

Zuko's cheeks grew red from anger, which he tried his best to contain, but couldn't hold it any longer. His pale fist clentched and they left nail prints in his palms.

"Ugh!" he threw his hands in the air, as in submission, "I give up! I tried to show you I was a good guy! You-you…guh!"

Zuko marched away into his stone walled room, and thrashed in his belongings to pull out a small painting of his mother. He wiped dust off of it and gripped it tight causing crinkles on the page to appear.

Katara stood astonished, was she that bad back then…or should she say, now?

"I'll go talk to him." She began to walk after him but Aang gently grabbed her arm.

"I don't think he's up for more taunting right now." Katara wiggled her arm free and continued to advance. Aang watched her retreating figure and prayed that she wouldn't test him. Zuko was a good guy now, but still had a slight temper.

A/N: ...we'll see how this chapter turned out lol