Alone, five simple little words that can take the words out of your breath and make you believe that nothing and nobody is going to be there for you. Alone was the first feeling I felt after my parents died and my older brother Sokka left and get be married to Suki, I mean I'm happy for them don't get me wrong, but it is my older brother and I feel that now he married, he is not going to able to have anymore quality time for me because of Suki. Everyone in the water tribe always asks me, when am I going to be next? When will I be like my older brother and bring home a strong and courageous warrior like Suki? The answer is always the same and that is I don't know, I mean I am twenty years old and at this time the women in the water tribe are bound to get married, but not me. I know deep down in my heart that I am not ready for marriage and I know that I need to find myself and know more about myself, before I commit myself to someone for the rest of my life and change into something that I am not.

Today is the day I change and today is the day when everything in the world changes.

Today is the day I take down the fire nation and the fire lord.

Two days before the big leave.

I remember the look on Sokka's face when I told him that I was going to take down the fire nation, it was look of anger and disgust. "Katara, are you crazy? How you can you take down the entire fire nation? And most of all how can you take down Zuko? You know he is the strongest fire bender in the world, right? I will not allow you to go to the fire nation and get yourself killed."

Him saying that to me, I was not only in shock but also angry and upset. I mean he has seen how far I have come with my water bending, and he knows how hard I worked to be one of the best. Not only do I feel that he is degrading me as a water bender but as his sister as well. I look up into his eyes and feel the tears starting to rise out of my eyes, I feel like screaming because our lives should not be like this, our world should not be full of so much war, and most of all families should not be fighting, but it's getting to that point where war and fighting with family is the only way to get your point across. And war and fighting with family should never be the answer to any problem at all.

"Sokka, I know that you are trying to protect me, but this is what I have been training for all of my life." I scream so loud so that everyone can hear me. "But, don't you remember who killed our family and most of all our tribe? It is was the fire nation. I don't only want to get revenge for mom and dad, but for our entire tribe that has been mistreated for so many decades.

I knew at that very moment I should've just bit my tongue and not say anything at all, because I'm not the only one that has been affected by our parents death, but Sokka was as well. Seeing the look on his face is the worst feeling in the world and seeing that look on his face is making me feel horrible and in pain. I love my brother and never want to hurt him, but when it comes to this, I know what I must do

I take seven steps toward my brother and put my arms around him and feel my brothers tears stain my blue shirt and feel his pain drain away like the dark clouds falling away. I whisper so that only he can hear, "you know that I have to do this, I know you want to protect me, and I love you for that, but you know deep down that I have to do this and I have to do it on my own." I feel Sokka start to shake and cry even more. "I know that you probably want to come with me, but you have to stay here and be here for Suki because if you are not here for her, no one else will." I look up into the sky and see the dark clouds and know that danger will be arising and will arrive in the water tribe soon. "Listen to me, Sokka you are an amazing husband and an amazing brother, but killing Zuko is something that needs to be done by me, and I hope you can understand, I love you big brother and you know that is not going to change."

Sokka starts to let go of me and looks me in the eyes with fierceness in his eyes. "You better kick his ass and make sure that he remembers what he and his family have done to the water tribe." With the tears in his eye and a smile on his face I knew at that point that I had his approval and would be ready to take on the world.

End of flashback

Its been two months and I haven't seen or heard from Sokka or any of the members of the water tribe. So many thoughts and feelings are running throughout my head, what if I don't achieve my mission? What if I fail? So many thoughts and I don't think the space in my head will be able to keep up with all of these cluttering thoughts.

I have finally arrived at the fire nation and one part of me is scared and another part of me is thriving on revenge. Its funny because I never thought this day would come where I would be walking into the fire nation with my head held up high ready to kill with my fire nation clothing covering up the fact that I am a water bender and not a fire bender. Walking through the fire nation land, all I see is women outside sewing to their hearts content and little children running around like they have no care in the world. Those kids are very lucky because they have not had their entire village destroyed and do not have to deal with all the sadness and anger of their parents being killed.

I feel a small tug at the bottom of my shirt and look to see a small child, maybe about seven or eight years old, looking into my eyes like I am their savoir. "Hi miss, sorry to bother you, but you wouldn't have any money or food on you possibly?" I looked down at the young girl and knew that my next move was not the right move at all, but I knew that I had to help.

"Whats your name sweety? Where are your parents?" I asked her.

"My names Lilith and my parents are not around anymore." She said with a sad look on her face.

I only have one piece of bread left and only a couple of coins on me, but I knew that at this moment the child needed it more than I did. I reached into my knapsack and pulled my only piece of salvation and gave it to the young girl. "You need it more than I do and I believe that you will enjoy this piece of bread more than I would."

"Really miss? Thank you so much." She says to me with a huge smile on her face.

I look down to here and pass the bread down to her and walk away with tears running down my face knowing that the little girl might not be able to survive the war once it reaches the fire nation, once I defeat the fire lord, I hope change will forego once one person is destroyed.

Walking for another half an hour I see the same landscape and different children running around and different women sewing to their hearts content, but one thing that was different was there was a huge mansion like building that is standing right in front of her eyes and I knew at that moment I had arrived at the fire lords home front and knew the plan of action would finally begin.

Walking into the building, I am not going to lie I was in shock, everything I see is absolutely beautiful. Beautiful paintings and artwork that can make anyone stop and stare and feel like the world has stopped moving because the beauty of the artwork has captured you and you cannot escape. The furniture was so exquisite that you would never be able to find any of these items in the water tribe. And most of all the artwork that is standing right front of me is one of the most beautiful but horrible paintings I have ever seen, and that is a painting of Zuko himself, his eyes are enticing and forcing me to see the beauty of the painting and not the horrible and disgusting parts of the painting itself. What is going on with me? Why am I seeing the beauty of something that is so disgusting?

"Excuse me, do you have an appointment with Lord Zuko?" A man asks me.

Crap, what do I do now? Think Katara think, and just make something up and everything will be okay, hopefully. Who am I kidding? Knowing my luck this is going to fail, but might as well go along with it.

"Um…..yes I do actually, you see mister, I am an old good friend of Lord Zuko, we go way back to the days where him and I would hang out in the backyard and talk about what life was going to be like when we get older. Do you know what I mean?" I saw murmuring and feeling like the biggest idiot to ever be alive.

"Oh I see, you are the old friend that Lord Zuko keeps talking about, its Joy, isn't?" He asks me with a mysterious wonder on his face.

"Yup, that's me, Joy."

"Well, follow me then, young madam"

Out of all the thoughts and lies I could have come up with in the world, I had to say I was old friend. You know what? Whatever, this is will work because it will get me one step closer to saving the world and destroying the so called, Lord Zuko.

As the solider shows me around, I start to wonder what to say to Zuko and how to act, of course I cannot act irrational, and walk in there and say, "hey you, you burned down my village and know I am going to burn you." I need to walk in there and have a plan, and I know the perfect plan that even Lord Zuko would never think would occur.

"Lord Zuko, Miss Joy has arrived." The solider says to the Lord standing five feet away.

Zuko turns around and looks at me and takes me all in and stares into my blue ocean eyes. His arms are crossed and a smirk lies across his face, and acts like he is the ruler of the world.

"Lazard, you may go now, thank you for your service and bringing Joy here to me."

Lazard does a small bow and leaves the asshole and me alone. This is going to be the most awkward and interesting conversation I have probably had in a very long time. Zuko starts to walk towards me and I feel that trouble is going to be ensured. Zuko look me into my eyes, and once again his eyes are sucking me into the beauty and not making me look at the disgust. Zuko opens his mouth and quickly shuts it and I have so many thoughts, what is he going to say? Does he know that I am not actually this girl called Joy?

"Joy, it has been such a long time." He speaks with a smirk on his face. "How long has it been? Five, ten years, if I am correct."

"Um….I believe it's been seven years." I say, so that he can only hear"

Zuko looks at me and once again and starts to laugh. "Do you really think that I would fall for your little trick? The real Joy is not some timid and shy girl but a strong and courageous warrior, and when I look at you, you are not a strong and courageous warrior at all…Katara."

He knows, he remembers who I am. I have to get out of here, but where do I go? What do I do? Where do I go from here? The only answer to all of these questions is to figh and see who is the last one standing.