Chapter 1: The meeting
"Katara! Are you done yet?!" Yue shouted from her bathroom.
"Soon, lady Yue!" I shouted back and closed her bag. I looked back at my brother who stood guard at the door. He gave me a soft smile so I smiled back and looked at the door when princess Yue came out with the rest of her servants. Her blue, warm dress was on put. And so was mine.
Today is a very big day. Princess Yue has been asked to marry the fire lord's son, prince Zuko, in order to bring our nations together. She is very excited about it and I guess I should be to. I'm the only servant except from the guards who are coming with her to the fire nation.
"Are your bag packet, Katara?" She asked me when an old servant named Hama fixed her hair.
"Yes it is, lady Yue. My fathers and my brothers bag to." She smiled.
"I envy you, Katara. You always have your brother and father around you. Even if they guard me, their heart is with you." I could feel how my face became red by her words. The smile on her face became even bigger when she saw my reaction. Both of us looked at the door when my father came in. He did a very gentle bow, as always, and kept his eyes in the floor when he said:
"Princes Yue. Queen Ursa from fire nation has arrived." Yue rise and I straightened up. Yue had a huge smile at her lips when dad came with the news.
"Katara." She suddenly says.
"Yes, lady Yue?" I looked at her.
"Take my bag, please." Without saying anything more she drags on her blue cloak and leaves the room with my father. Fast I took the bags and followed her with Sokka behind me.
"How do you think the queen is, Katara?" Sokka ask gently.
"I have only heard thinks from the princess but she sounds like a very lovely queen and women." I answer with a smile. Sokka smiles back and after a short promenade we arrived at the bay where the royal ship was laying. It's huge and in black metal and with a lots of golden details. The tip opens and out comes the queen, queen Ursa. She had long, black hair. Golden eyes, a thick coat in red and gold and of course the queen's crown.
We all bow but she was pretty fast stopping us from it.
"Pleas, there is no need for that." She smiles. "I don't come as a queen, I come as a friend." I look back at Sokka that smiled like an idiot. Jag sigh and look back to the queen. She and Yue are greeting each other with big smiles and just like that the queen turn and look straight at me with her soft, golden eyes.
"You must be lady Katara." She says with a gentle smile.
"Yes, Your highness." A little laugh come out from her throat.
"There is no need to be politic, dear. You will come with lady Yue as her friend, not her servant." Chocked I look at the princess. She smiled big and warmly.
"It was a surprise for you, Katara." She says. "You are my best friend even if you are my servant." My lips break up in I smile and a warm feeling was spreading through my chest.
"Thank you, lady Yue." Two guards came to me and gently took the bags from me and walked onboard. Yue and Ursa start to talks again about the wedding. Me, my brother and my father walks after them, I was still in shock.
"Oh, and I'm so sorry." Ursa suddenly said. "My son, prince Zuko, needed to go on a mission straight before this so he isn't with me but are deeply begging for your forgives, princess Yue." Yue smiled back at her. They were already like a family.
"It's okay. I understand that he has work to do. The fire nation is big and need there prince." Ursa sighs of relief and then show us to our rooms.
"We put you and your family together, general Hakoda." My father puts his fist on his cheats.
"I'm very thankful for that, lady Ursa." She smiles to him and open the door.
"Feel free to call for a servant if you miss something."
"We will, my lady." With a little snigger she and Yue keep on walking. Me and Sokka was fast in the room and both gasped when we saw the room.
"This fits a royalty!" Sokka nobs. Dad laugh a little bit to our reaction.
"Well, it's royalties who own the ship after all."
"That's true." Says Sokka and nobs for himself again. I smiled and sat down at the bed.
"So this is the surprise you two were talking about. You know that this was going to happen, didn't you?" My father smiled his warm smile to me.
"We did. The princess asked us personally to not tell you about it. She wanted to surprise you."
"And she sure did." We felt when the ship started to move and Sokka run into the bathroom.
"Is he still seasick?" Dad asked.
"It seems like it. But it will pass, as always." He nods and start to packing up our things.
"It will take almost two days to the fire nation so we can make ourselves at home." I nob, rise from the bed help him pack up everything.
Two days pasted, I had really hard to drop the servant thing in the start but the more Ursa helped me to lock them up it became easier and easier for each time. But that I wore a simple, blue dress with long arms was something she couldn't help me with. That was a habit.
"Katara! Katara!" I heard Sokka call my name. Both I and Ursa looked at the door.
"It's okay, go find him." She smiled. I smiled, nods and raise from the chair.
"Thank you, lady Ursa." I bow and then start to search for Sokka. It wasn't that hard to find him, the guards pointed which direction he had run.
"Sokka?!" I called and before I know it I had him over me.
"Katara! We can see the fire nation!" He screamed.
"Sokka! Calm down! We are in the bedchamber section." I hissed.
"Oh, right." He whispered and helped me up and dragged me up on deck and pointed. I search for land and smiled when I saw it. We wasn't so close but not far away either.
"No more seasickness!" He exclaimed happily and I burst out laughing. So that's why he's so hyper. He wants to be free the seasickness.
"And you call yourself a member of the water tribe." I smiled. He looked at me a long time and then smiled big.
"Yes I do. I don't have your metal stomach."
"I don't have a metal stomach!" I exclaimed and hit him at his arm.
"Ouch!"
"That's serves you right, soft stomach." I smiled and he muttered something. After a few hours we reach the bay. Of course, the royal guards and the prince were already there and wait for us. Or rather princess Yue and queen Ursa.
"Dad, shall I help you?" I wonder.
"No no, I'm fine. Your brother helps me." He smiled. I smiled back but looked at the crowed when I felt someone stare at me. The only one that looked my way was he prince. He had really golden eyes and a scar at his left side and dark, messy hair. I smiled softly and he responded to it. Ursa looked between us with a smile before she shows Yue of the ship.
"My dear prince Zuko." She starts. "This is princess Yue." She shows Yue to him and they starts talk. I run to dad and catch a bag he almost dropt followed them both down. The prince turns his golden eyes toward us.
"And this is general Hakoda and his son Sokka and his daughter Katara." I bow for both my dad and father, and myself of course, because they obviously couldn't right now.
"An honor to meet you, Your highness." I said softly.
"The honor is on my side, lady Katara." Yue's gaze went between us before she bit her lip. I know that sign, I steal his attention away from her a little bit too much. Fast I bow again and follow my family but I felt the prince's eyes at my back.
This was their first meeting and I stole his eyes! This can't be good! They are supposed to marry each other in order to bring the water nation and the fire nation to peace. I'm not a princess, just a simple servant, so this is the worst thing that can happen right know. But I can't hold my feelings back. Those golden eyes have already stolen my heart.
