So for the last week of my life i had been sick. For that week i watched seasons 1-3 of Avatar non stop. i realized that Zutara is pretty much the best thing ever since Dramione so...this is what happened.
This will start out at the end of season two in Ba Sing Se, in which all Zutara fans had hoped and prayed that our dreams would come true of our favorite people getting togehter...only to be crushed. So this story will be about how things would have been different had our dreams come true and will have what i like to call 'the missing moments of Zutara in Season Three'
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, settings, or plots you recongize throughout this story. I am merely having Non profitable fun.
Far below the city of Ba Sing Se there were catacombs filled with Crystals. In it sat a young water tribe girl, mature from the devastations of war that had been thrust upon her. She sat opposite of the boy behind her, trying to keep the tears of hopelessness from falling down.
Prince Zuko felt anger surge through him. His own sister had done this; had thrown him in this prison with the water tribe peasant.
As the minutes past the Water Tribe Girl's anger became too much.
"What are you even doing in here?" she demanded. "Is this some- some trap? Yeah, that's it. You've come in here so that when Aang comes to save me, you can keep him in your fiery greedy clutches."
She stared at him with anger and distrust. Zuko said or did nothing. He Just tried to block out the girl's annoying voice.
"That's all you care about isn't it? Destroying the Avatar; destroying the last piece of hope we have in this world." She threw her hands up angrily. "You don't even know anything about hope and peace, do you?"
She walked as far away from him as she possibly could. "The Fire Nation took away my mother." She fell to her knees and the tears she had tried so hard to keep in streamed down her face.
Zuko's unscarred eye widened in the slightest surprise. "Well I guess that's something we have in common." He saw her back go rigid and she slowly turned around.
She looked him in the eyes and he wondered what she saw in there. Did she see the arrogant Prince with a large temper and no patience? Or did she see the boy who had a terrible childhood, who wanted nothing in the world but his honor back.
He didn't know how long they sat like that. It was like she was trying to understand him and he was trying to figure out her.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you." She said, breaking the silence.
"It doesn't matter." He said blandly.
Katara took a few steps closer to him and said "It's just…for so long whenever I thought of the enemy I always pictured your face."
"My face. I see." He reached up to touch the scar that covered almost half of his face.
"No! it's just that you chased Aang and us for so long and-"
He cut her off. "I understand. For so long I always associated my scar with my banishment…with my failure. Something I would always have to live with."
Katara's bright blue eyes lit up. "Maybe you don't have to!"
"It's a scar, it can't be healed."
She pulled out a blue container and showed it to Zuko.
"This is special water from the Northern Water tribe. I've been saving it for something special." She walked up to him and gently touched his scar.
He jerked when she reached up to his face and when he felt her cool hands on his scar he closed his eyes and let out a deep breath.
She could heal him. Zuko didn't know what surprised him more. That someone actually possessed the power to heal it or that this girl who he had been- was- enemies with, was willing to heal his scar.
He couldn't help but notice how nice her hand felt on his scar. His skin was generally filled with heat, especially the scar- due to the element that was always flowing through him, and hers was the exact opposite and it felt nice.
He reached up to her own hand and pulled it down with his own.
"No." he told her.
Her eyes widened in surprise but before she could speak Zuko began talking again.
"My mother used to tell me to not forget who I was. And however much I hate it, this scar has become a part of me. It reminds me of what I have been through and who put me through it."
Katara was going to ask who had given him the scar but before she got the chance the wall next to them exploded.
Aang and Iroh and stepped out and both grinned in delight upon seeing those they loved.
As Aang grabbed Katara in a hug, Uncle Iroh couldn't help but smile to himself at what he had just seen. His nephew had been holding the water bender's hand, whether he had been aware of it or not.
Perhaps there was hope for him after all.
The sight Zuko found before him shocked him. Azula stood between Katara and the Avatar poised to strike. She looked at her brother expectantly while Katara stared at him with a pleading look in her eyes. That's when Zuko made his strike.
He shot fire out of his hand towards the young Avatar. He didn't look at Katara knowing that he would only find betrayal in her eyes.
Zuko continued to fight Aang; thoughts of Honor and acceptance keeping him going. These thoughts kept him strong and focused; they were working out great until the partners were switched.
Now Zuko had no choice but to look at the girl before him. Her eyes resembled a storm, there were so many emotions running inside of them.
Katara had her water ready to shoot at him and Zuko prepared himself with fire. He raised his arm to attack and…and he couldn't do it. He couldn't attack the girl who just a few minutes earlier offered to help him. She was the first person, besides his Uncle, to show him kindness with no ulterior motive.
He turned towards his sister and built the fire he was holding in his palms. He threw it with everything he had and watched it get closer and closer to her. He was filled with an odd combination of guilt and happiness at what he had just done.
He had surely caught her by surprise, but Azula was good. As a child she had always done better than him in dueling. She turned around seconds before the fire would have engulfed her and jumped up away from the flames.
Zuko looked into her eyes and saw that they were nearly on fire themselves. With a scream she turned on her brother. She started sending lighting strike after strike after him. He dodged them and in the corner of his eye he saw Katara running towards Aang.
The Avatar surrounded himself in rocks and Katara began fighting off the Dai Li. She was far outnumbered, but Zuko was impressed at how well she was holding up.
Suddenly the battle stopped when the crystals surrounding the Avatar glowed. He burst from them with his tattoos shining incredibly, eyes glowing blue. The Avatar rose in the air until he was above them all.
Zuko thought that maybe, with the Avatar in this state, they could make it out alive. But as soon as the thought came to him, it was scorched away.
Azula, with a maniacal laugh, zapped the Avatar with the biggest display of lightning Zuko had ever seen. His tattoos stopped glowing and he fell. Katara screamed in anguish and ran towards Azula in pure adrenaline filled anger.
She whipped the water that was surrounding her at Azula and actually managed to hit her. Azula grinned maliciously and moved towards her.
Zuko knew Katara was a master and had taken on the Dai Li, but she was no match for Azula.
Zuko called his element to him and did the first thing he could think of to stop them. He made a giant wall of fire appear between the two girls and both of the elements they were sending got lost in it.
Not a moment too soon, Uncle Iroh entered the battle and surrounded Azula in flames.
"Go!" he yelled.
"Not without you, uncle!" Zuko said fervently.
Azula was screeching from inside her flaming hot barrier and the Dai Li were surrounding Iroh.
"I'll catch up." He said calmly. "Now go!"
Zuko looked at his Uncle once more before turning towards his new life and what he was sure to be his destiny.
He grabbed Katara, who struggled against his grip; still wanting to get revenge for the Avatar, and told her to grab Aang.
Looking down at his still body made all the fight inside of her dissapear. She cradled him in her arms and stood up to leave. Zuko clutched her arm and together they used their elements to bring them out of the Crystal Catacombs of Ba Sing Se.
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