Katara breathed in the salty water and slowly breathed out. She had to swim faster, she kicked her fist-like tale, and began to swim forward. She swam down wards into the deep abyss of the ocean. She wanted to see him again. The fire nation boy, he was kind in a way that none of his family was. She hoped deep in her heart that he would never change, and that he would love her. She was young for a mermaid, only 10 years old, but she was stronger than the others were. She broke out of the water and smiled when she saw the beach that he came with his family every summer. It was why she loved the summer. She hid behind a rock and waited for him to appear.
Zuko rolled up his pants to keep them from getting wet, he found as many shells as he could. He wanted to make his mom a beautiful necklace, but he had trouble finding shells with holes to but string through. He wandered further and further away from his family who was chatting happily. He climbed onto a rock and jumped from rock to rock. He paused on top of a really flat one. It was a perfect place to sit on. He smiled and began to work on his mother's necklace.
"Finished!" Zuko stated after twenty minutes. He put it over the ocean looking at it happily.
"Zuko!" Azula shouted from behind him, in his shock he dropped the hard worked necklace into the blue-green water.
"NO!" he shouted pouting.
Azula laughed and began to tease him until their mother called out for them. She went skipping down the rock ways.
"Give me a second mom!" Zuko shouted.
He looked disparately for the woven necklace. But after a few minutes he felt like it was gone forever. Despair began to fill him as he searched more franticly, tears began to role down his face 'Why does Azula always ruin everything?' he thought. Suddenly a brown haired head appeared beside his hand and he jumped back in shock.
"Don't leave! This is yours right." A sweet voice asked, he immediately felt drawn to this voice, who was it?
He warily looked over the edge and saw his mother's necklace in the girls hands she only had her head out of the water. Her dark brown hair flowed freely around her. She smiled her crystal blue eyes lighting up.
"Thank you!" Zuko said before gently taking the necklace.
"No problem, just one thing…"
"What?"
"Don't tell anyone you met me… okay? Can you do that for me?"
Zuko smiled and swore he would never tell a soul. After that she smiled and bent a small flower of water, then freezing it.
"Here.. it will melt and when it does met me here." She smiled and left leaving a dazed Zuko as he starred at where her tail had appeared. He shook his head then ran to his mom hiding the flower before shoving the necklace into her hands with a big grin.
For six years Zuko and Katara met together.
This is their story…